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FSU researchers to study effects of climate change in Minnesota peatlands
William T. Cooper, a professor of analytical and environmental chemistry in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, and oceanography Professor Jeff Chanton, have received a research grant in the amount of $493,448 from the National Science Foundation to study the carbon balance in Minnesota's peatlands -- a possible indicator of climate changes brought on by global warming. The grant to FSU is part of a larger $3-million grant that also includes the University of Minnesota, Syracuse University, the University of Maine and the U.S. Geologic Survey. [More][View All]

American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship Award
George M. Bou-Assaf, a Ph.D. candidate in Alan Marshall's group, has been awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, for "research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems." The fellowship provides a stipend of $21,770/year for two years, and will support George's research on the solution-phase structure of troponin, a key element for muscle contraction. [View All]

New era dawns for FSU science community
"The dawn of a new era for the university's science community." That's how Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell described the opening of the university's new, state-of-the-art Chemical Sciences Laboratory this spring. Located along Chieftan Way on the campus's west side, the 168,000-square-foot, five story building is, according to Joe Schlenoff, chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, "the best in the country." [More][View All]