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FSU Planning Team Win Award for Innovative Work on Hillsborough County Land Use Plan

Published: | 10:00 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works, Students

Florida State University students and faculty from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning’s (DURP) The Mark & Marianne Barnebey Planning & Development Lab won a 2025 Florida Planning and Zoning Association (FPZA) award in the Education category: Plans or efforts that effectively promote planning and zoning best practices.

“The Barnebey Lab worked alongside Plan Hillsborough to deliver innovative, context-specific recommendations for updating Hillsborough County’s Future Land Use Map,” said Dennis Smith, AICP, Planner-in-Residence & Director of the Barnebey Lab. “Through research, engagement with planning practitioners, and scenario planning across four key urban areas, the Lab helped advance a more connected, inclusive, and sustainable vision for the County’s future growth.”

Department of Geography Hosts September 2025 Colloquium

Published: | 1:01 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Students

FSU’s Geography Department hosted their monthly Colloquium last Friday, September 5, 2025. Rebecca Lave, Ph.D., the Associate Dean for the Social & Historical Sciences at Indiana University and former President of the American Association of Geographers led the event, titled, “Critical Interdisciplinarity: Our depth perception improves when we combine biophysical and social lenses.” The Colloquium […]

Student Spotlight: Alaina Babb

Published: | 12:08 pm | Posted in: News, Students

Alaina Babb – a third-year dual-degree student in political science and media communication studies – secured a prestigious externship traditionally reserved for law students.

Apply to COSSPP’s Prestigious Social Science Scholar Program

Published: | 1:35 pm | Posted in: News, Students

Apply for the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy’s prestigious Social Science Scholars program by Sunday, October 5, online at bit.ly/2026sssp.  The Social Science Scholars Program provides career-accelerating leadership training and experiences to 18 outstanding COSSPP undergraduate students with a major in the College, a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher, graduating no sooner […]