Research

Department of Geography Hosts December 2025 Colloquium

Published: | 11:16 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research, Students

FSU’s Geography Department hosted their monthly Colloquium on Friday, December 5, 2025. The event, titled, “Estimating the Impact of Drone Strikes on Civilians using Call Detail Records” was a lecture based event hosted by Aidan Milliff, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at FSU. The Colloquium was followed by a social […]

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COSSPP Professor Helps Unveil Innovative Tool to Measure Healthy Aging

Published: | 4:16 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research

A Florida State University College of Social Sciences and Public Policy researcher is part of a pioneering team that has developed a new measure to understand and support healthy aging, with the potential to change how health care workers, employers, and policymakers assist older adults in remaining active and engaged.

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ISS Assistant Teaching Professor Receives American Sociological Association Award

Published: | 11:00 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research

FSU Interdisciplinary Social Science Assistant Teaching Professor Maria Cristina Ramos, Ph.D., was awarded the Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Social Psychology Section.

Her first-author article, titled “Identity Networks as a New Frontier: Conceptualizing, Mapping, and Analyzing Identity Structures and Their Impact on Well-Being,” offers a cohesive approach to addressing sociology’s fragmented efforts to conceptualize, measure, and examine identity structures as networks. In this article, Dr. Ramos takes a network-based approach to capture identity structures.

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Research Spotlight: Ready for the Next Storm? An Analysis of Florida’s Hurricane Preparedness for its Residents with Disabilities

Published: | 10:37 am | Posted in: Alumni News, Faculty/Staff, News, Research

Anne Barrett, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar, co-authored “Ready for the next storm? An analysis of Florida’s hurricane preparedness for its residents with disabilities,” alongside fellow FSU researchers: sociology doctoral candidate Hope Mimbs, sociology doctoral student Brianna Soulie, and postdoctoral scholar Jessica Noblitt. The team also collaborated with independent researcher Cherish Michael. Their study was published in the Journal of Elder Policy (2024). The following summary was written by Kharisma Langston (M.S. Integrated Marketing and Management Communication ’26).

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Research Spotlight: The Protective Efforts of Psychological Resilience on Fall Risk

Published: | 9:55 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research

Dawn Carr, Ph.D., was the lead author of a recently published article titled “The Protective Effects of Psychological Resilience on Fall Risk.” The study was a collaborative effort with Shekhar Chauhan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow; Miles G. Taylor, Ph.D., director of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and professor of sociology; Matthew Lohman, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina; and Amanda Sonnega, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan.

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Department of Geography Hosts November 2025 Colloquium

Published: | 9:54 am | Posted in: Alumni News, Faculty/Staff, News, Research, Students

FSU’s Geography Department hosted their monthly Colloquium last Friday, November 7, 2025.

The event, titled, “GeoAI and Human Mobility: Paving the Way for an Intelligent Geospatial Future” was an lecture based event hosted by Xiao Huang, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor from Emory University.

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FSU Claude Pepper Center, AARP Florida Unite Caregivers, Leaders Through Inaugural Florida Caregiving Summit

Published: | 1:08 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research, Students

More than 4.4 million adults in Florida are family caregivers  who primarily provide unpaid and unsupported care to older parents, spouses and other relatives. As Florida’s population ages, with one in five residents expected to be 65 or older by 2030, caregivers and families continue to need access to essential resources and information for support more than […]

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Department of Geography Hosts Roundtable with Bridge USA Ukraine Scholars

Published: | 2:03 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research, Students

On October 10, 2025, the Department of Geography hosted a roundtable discussion with two scholars from Ukraine, Kostyantyn Mezentsev, Ph.D. and Sofia Doskich, Ph.D., who are visiting Florida State University as part of the Bridge USA Ukraine Program for Resilience and Reconstruction.   Dr. Mezentsev, the Chair of the Department of Economic and Social Geography at […]

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