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Please join us in congratulating Jesse Colvin, Director of Development in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), who is retiring at the end of July 2016 after 19 years of service to the FSU Foundation, the last 10 of which were in COSSPP. Upon Jesse’s retirement, current Assistant Director of Development Cindy […]

Associate Professor William Butler of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning attended the National Collaborative Forest Restoration Workshop hosted by the U.S. Forest Service in Denver, April 26-28, 2016. He spoke on two panels to deliver research on the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), established by Congress in 2010 to fund 10 years […]

A Florida State University psychology and sociology major studying the causes of suicide, particularly in the military community, has been named a 2015 Truman Scholar, a prestigious national award given to college juniors who seek to improve their communities through public service. Daniel Hubbard, 27, a junior from Tallahassee who spent five years as an […]

Shawn Kantor, a prize-winning author and former head of the Department of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has joined the faculty of Florida State University as the L. Charles Hilton Jr. Distinguished Professor of Economic Prosperity and Individual Opportunity. Kantor’s distinguished professorship was established by the Florida Legislature in 2014 to honor prominent Panama City […]

A number of graduate students from the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy were recognized for their achievements at the 2015 Celebration of Graduate Student Excellence, April 8, 2015, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Kimberly Wiley (Public Administration), Keith Richard (Sociology) Graduate Student Leadership Award – Holly Widen (Geography) Preparing Future Faculty/Preparing Future Professionals […]

The annual University Teaching and Advising Awards will be presented on April 27, 2015. A number of faculty members from the college are being honored for their excellence: Graduate Teaching Awards:– Deana Rohlinger (Sociology)– Miles Taylor (Sociology)– Kaifeng Yang (Askew School of Public Administration and Policy) Undergraduate Teaching Awards:– Irene Padavic (Sociology)– Kathryn Tillman (Sociology)

We’re very proud of our outstanding undergraduate and graduate students here at the college, and it’s gratifying to see that they are recognized beyond the walls of the Bellamy Building! At the university’s annual Leadership Awards Night, April 5, the following students were honored by the Division of Student Affairs: Nikki Bhavsar (Political Science), Daniela […]

The DeVoe Moore Center has launched a crowdfunding project through the university’s Spark FSU site that will support experiential learning for students and social entrepreneurship projects that tackle pressing problems throughout the world. The center’s goal is to raise $20,000 to fund evaluation site visits to four projects supported by the Diehl Family Social Enterprise […]

International Affairs and Social Entrepreneurship major Charles Wilson and his partner James Dillmore (Accounting) won the Innovation Award at Digitech, April 1, for AgroSky, a social entrepreneurship start-up with the goal of helping small-scale farms achieve maximized growth yields through environmentally friendly commercial autonomous robotics. AgroSky places the power of technology in the hands of […]

Two graduate students in the Department of Sociology have been recognized with awards from the university and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The FSU Program for Instructional Excellence has selected Lacey Ritter to receive an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for her work during the 2015-2016 academic year. In addition to a certificate of recognition, Ritter […]