THE BIG STORY

NEWS & MORE FROM YOUR PREEMINENT UNIVERSITY

•  SEPTEMBER 12, 2016 •

FSU researchers discover possible Zika treatment, make headlines

A team of researchers from Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health has found existing drug compounds that can both stop Zika from replicating in the body and from damaging the crucial fetal brain cells that lead to birth defects in newborns. Read more ...

More coverage: Miami Herald | CNN |  Yahoo! | Voice of America
U.S. News & World Report | Wall Street Journal | Huffington Post

In case you missed it on national television last week, here's Florida State's new institutional message starring a few of our outstanding students! Recognize anyone? Watch!

Florida State's first Gap Year Fellows are traveling the globe

More than 6,200 new freshmen enrolled at Florida State University this fall, but a group of students who could’ve joined them will instead be embarking on different journeys, mostly overseas and some with financial support from FSU. Read more ...

The aging of America in all its variety — from work and retirement to dating and divorce, from older adults’ involvement in politics and elections to end-of-life choices — that’s NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe’s beat. And now the nationally renowned journalist is coming to Florida State University at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, for a presentation sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in honor of the 25th anniversary of lifelong learning at FSU. 

Tickets are $15 and available online at tickets.fsu.edu, by phone at (850) 644-6500 or at the Ticket Office, 540 W. Call St. on the FSU campus.

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