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Florida State University

Florida State University



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Florida State University, also commonly referred to as "FSU" or "Florida State", is a comprehensive, graduate-national research university founded and located in Tallahassee, Florida in 1851. Its president is Dr. T. K. Wetherell. The university is composed of 17 colleges and institutes that offer more than 300 programs of study. FSU's more notable programs include Business, Creative Writing, Criminal Justice, Evolutionary Biology, Dance, Film, Music, Hospitality, Information Studies, and Meteorology.

Campus

The Westcott Building, located at College Avenue and Copeland Street, is home to Ruby Diamond Auditorium, the Office of the President and other administrative offices.

Florida State's main campus is located at 30.44077° N 84.29141° W in Tallahassee near the Florida State Capitol building. The campus is bordered by Tennessee Street (U.S. Highway 90) to the north, Gaines Street to the south, Stadium Drive to the west, and Macomb Street to the east. TalTran provides free transportation for students to and from the university.

Florida State also maintains two additional campuses in Panama City and Sarasota. Additionally, Florida State operates an overseas branch campus with degree programs in the Republic of Panama.

In addition to the branch campuses, the university offers a variety of overseas study opportunities for students during the regular academic year, as well as in special summer programs. FSU operates study centers for overseas study oppare located in Florence, Italy; Republic of Panama; Valencia, Spain; and London, England.

The university is home to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation. Other research centers, such as the Center for Advanced Power Systems, supported by the Office of Naval Research, place the university at the cutting edge of research and its application to industry. Beginning January, 2006 the Applied Superconductivity Center, formerly located at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will be located at the university. The Center is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and other government agencies.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota is affiliated with the university, and is the largest museum/university complex in the U.S. and houses one of the most significant collections of fine art in North America. It is recognized as the official State Art Museum of Florida.

History

The Legislature of the State of Florida in a Legislative Act of January 24, 1851 provided for the establishment of two seminaries of learning, one to be located east and the other west of the Suwannee River. By 1854, the City of Tallahassee had established a school for boys called the Florida Institute. The city's hope was that the State would take it over as one of the seminaries. After an unsuccessful attempt by the city to make this happen in 1854, Mayor Francis Eppes in 1857, again made the offer which was accepted by the Florida Legislature.

In 1857 first meeting of the Board of Education of the State Seminary West of the Suwannee River was held. The school became co-education the following year, when it absorbed the Tallahassee Female Academy, begun in 1843 as the Misses Bates School. The school existed as the West Florida Seminary from 1857 until 1863, when the state legislature changed the name to The Florida Military and Collegiate Institute, reflecting the addition of a military section which trained cadets. On March 6, 1865 Institute cadets and other men of Tallahassee successfully prevented Federal troops from taking Tallahassee at the Battle of Natural Bridge. This battle participation enables the current ROTC unit at FSU to display a battle streamer titled "Natural Bridge 1865". FSU is one of three universities to have this distinction, apart from US Service Academies, the others being the Citadel and the Virginia Military Institute.

In 1901, the school was renamed Florida State College, and was a four-year institution organized in four departments: the College, the School for Teachers, the School of Music, and the College Academy. In 1905, Florida's educational system was reorganized by the state Legislature, and six state institutions of higher learning were consolidated into two when the University of Florida in Gainesville was established and designated a men's school and the Florida State College became a women's school called the Florida Female College. In 1909 the name of the college was changed to Florida State College for Women. Demand by returning World War II veterans had brought men back to the campus in 1946 with the establishment of the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida.

On May 15, 1947, the Governor of Florida signed an act of the Legislature returning Florida State College for Women to coeducational status and naming it The Florida State University. Today, the student population is almost 40,000. Florida State is also the home of the first chapter (Alpha) of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in the state of Florida, and is home to one of the oldest schools of public administration in the country. Florida State is presently is comprised of seventeen independent schools and colleges.

The Westcott Building at Florida State University is located on the hill where the West Florida Seminary once stood, which has been the site of an institution of higher education longer than any other site in Florida.

Academics

Florida State University has leading graduate, undergraduate, and professional programs that include Law and Medicine.

In the 2006 U.S. News & World Report of Best Colleges, Florida State was ranked 51st (from 54th in 2005) among all public research universities in the U.S, and is ranked 109th (up from 111 in 2005) among all national universities. Florida State was ranked higher than any Florida University except the University of Florida.

The fully accredited College of Medicine is the first new M.D. program to be established in the United States since 1982. It is charting a new course for medical education with an emphasis on the use of interdisciplinary teams and emerging new technology. Created in June of 2000 by the Florida Legislature, its mission is educating physicians to serve the state's rural, geriatric, minority and other medically underserved populations. The medical school's regional campuses are in Tallahassee, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Orlando, Sarasota, and Ft. Myers.

The Florida State University College of Law has jumped 11 slots to 56th in the latest edition of the influential national rankings of law schools by U.S. News & World Report. The magazine's 2006 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools also ranks the College of Law as one of the most diverse in the country. Environmental Law Program Ranks 14th in Nation. Hispanic Business Magazine has ranked the College of Law among the top 10 law schools in the nation for Hispanics for the second consecutive year. Hispanics made up 9 percent of the school's 748-member student body and received 11 percent of the 205 law degrees awarded to the class of 2004.

The College of Business has consistently been ranked one of the Top 40 undergraduate business schools by U.S. News & World Report at 38th. Among public universitities it is in the Top 25. and the program has grown to be one of the nation's ten largest. The college is a recognized leader in graduating minority doctoral candidates. The college earned a fourth-place spot in the Black Issues' Top 100, for its success in awarding the doctorate in business to African Americans. In the Academy of Management Journal [1] the college's programs in Management Information Systems was ranked 15th and is the highest ranked MIS program in the State of Florida. The college also offers online MBA programs.

The Dedman School of Hospitality is in the College of Business at FSU, and is located at Doak Campbell Stadium. Based on input from industry representatives, the hospitality management major's business component is what attracts companies to FSU students; as a result the school boasts a consistent 100% job placement record. The Dedman School of Hospitality also offers a major in Professional Golf Management, one of seventeen programs nationwide accredited by The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA), to prepare students to meet the challenges found in the world of professional golf. The state of Florida has more golf courses than any other state in the country and is the headquarters for the PGA, LPGA, PGA Tour, and National Golf Foundation and FSU has a long, distinguished history of graduating professional golfers and educating students for business and hospitality operations.

FSU's Computer Science program is the only Florida school that is a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) by the National Security Agency. Its peers includes schools such as the nation's first computer science school at Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This designation is attained through a competitive process that evaluates the school's ability to meet rigorous standards for information assurance education.

The College of Information's programs in Information Studies/Technology is one of the most respected and consistantly top-ranked programs in the nation and has held such rankings for many years in the U.S. News & World Report. The program tied for 12th, the School Library Media program ranked 2nd and the Services for Children and Youth specialization program tied for 2nd. The college has the largest online MLS program in the nation. According to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, the undergraduate program in Information Technology is sprouting in popularity.

The School of Theatre is one of the leading comprehensive theatre training programs in the United States. U.S. News and World Report has consistently included FSU's graduate theatre programs in its top-tier rankings in the top-10, one of the few public university programs thus honored. The School is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and is a founding member of the University/Resident Theatre Association.

Many of FSU's other academic programs consistently rank among the nation’s top twenty-five public universities, including programs in Chemistry, Creative Writing, Criminology, Dance, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Film, Meteorology, Music, Oceanography, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Statistics, and Sociology. [2]

The Taxol Story

A signifigant achievement at the university was chemistry professsor and synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Robert A. Holton's synthesizing of Taxol on Dec. 9, 1993. The chemical has been used as an effective breast and ovarian cancer treatment.

Holton's and his Organic Chemistry team finished a race to develop a cheaper semisynthetic version. In 1993 Bristol Myers Squibb began marketing it. Just like other chemotherapy drugs, it had side effects. But it also prolonged lives and in many cases defeated cancer.

Before the drug company's exclusive license expired, Florida State made $350 million in royalties, vaulting the school into the ranks of Columbia University and California's state universities in research profits. By comparision, Taxol has earned Florida State three times the amount the University of Florida earned from the popular beverage Gatorade.

Enrollment

Fall 2005 enrollment is 39,218 students. Women account for 56.7% of FSU's enrollment. Minorities made up 24.2% percent of total enrollment. 47.8% of the minority enrollment was Black, 38.6% Hispanic, 12.0% Asian, and 1.6% was American Indian.

The Fall 2005 class had an SAT average of 1187. [3]

Departments

Bachelors, master's, specialist's, doctoral, and professional degree programs are offered through the College of Arts & Sciences; the College of Business; the College of Communication; the College of Education; the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, jointly administered with Florida A&M University; the College of Human Sciences; the College of Law; the College of Medicine; the College of Social Sciences; the School of Criminology & Criminal Justice; the School of Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts (Film School); the College of Information; the College of Music; the School of Nursing; the College of Social Work; and the School of Theatre, Visual Arts & Dance. The School of Computational Science will begin admitting doctoral students in the Fall of 2006.

Traditions

The school's colors are garnet and gold and the symbols of the athletic teams are Chief Osceola and Renegade. School songs include the alma mater, "High Over Towering Pines" along with the "Hymn to the Garnet and Gold" and the "FSU Fight Song".

Florida State's school colors of garnet and gold are a merging of the University's past. In 1904 and 1905 the Florida State College won football championships wearing purple and gold uniforms. When FSC became Florida State College for Women in 1905, the football team was forced to attend an all male school in Gainesville. The following year, the FSCW student body selected crimson as the official school color. The administration in 1905 took crimson and combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship football teams to achieve the color garnet. The now famous garnet and gold colors were first used on an FSU uniform in a 14-6 loss to Stetson on October 18, 1947. [4]

FSU is also the home of the Marching Chiefs, one of the largest collegiate marching bands in the country and the only marching band to ever be featured in Sports Illustrated. The Marching Chiefs are the force behind the famous War Chant.

School Athletics

The school has an athletic department with programs for men and for women. The men's program consists of as baseball, basketball, cross country running, football, golf, swimming, tennis, and track & field. The women's program consists of basketball, cross country running, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.

The school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles. This Native American name is used with official sanction of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. They participate in the NCAA's Division I (Division I-A for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Their traditional rivals include the Gators of the University of Florida and the Hurricanes of the University of Miami.

Under head coach Bobby Bowden, currently in his 30th year, the Seminole football team became one of the nation's perennial powers, greatly expanding the tradition that had been virtually non-existent for the 30 years of football before Bowden. The Seminoles played in five national championship games between 1993 and 2001, and have claimed the championship twice, in 1993 and 1999. The FSU football team was one of the most successful teams in college football during the 1990s, boasting an 89% winning percentage. FSU also set an NCAA record for most consecutive Top 5 finishes in the AP football poll - the Seminoles received placement 14 years in a row, from 1987 to 2000. The Seminoles were the first college football team in history to have gone wire-to-wire (ranked first place from preseason to postseason since the AP began releasing preseason rankings in 1950).

In 2005, FSU's men's football team won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship, earning them a berth in the 2006 FedEx Orange Bowl, in which the #22 ranked Seminoles lost 26-23 in triple overtime against #3 ranked Penn State University. FSU head coach Bobby Bowden is the winningest college football coach in the NCAA with 359 career wins, followed by Penn State's Joe Paterno with 354. FSU football is well-known for introducing great talent into the NFL, including Deion Sanders, Derrick Brooks, Warrick Dunn, and Peter Boulware in recent history.

Facilities

  • Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium
  • Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium
  • Donald L. Tucker Center
  • JoAnne Graf Field
  • Seminole Golf Course
  • Scott Speicher Tennis Center
  • Mike Long Track
  • Bobby E. Leach Recreation Center
  • Tully Gymnasium
  • Westcott Building
  • WVFS
  • FSU is home to a pair of cutting edge nuclear resonance magnets that are used for theoretical physics research as well as for developing cures for cancer and neurological disorders. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), or "Mag Lab", is one of only nine such facilities in the world.
  • Also notable is FSU's Antarctic Research Facility, the largest repository of Antarctic sedimentary core samples in the world.

Notable alumni

Athletics

  • Derrick Alexander, professional NFL football player
  • Paul Azinger, professional golfer
  • Alex Barron, professional NFL football player St. Louis Rams
  • Edgar Bennett, professsional NFL football player (retired)
  • Fred Biletnikoff, NFL Hall of Fame player
  • Anquan Boldin, professional NFL football player, Arizona Cardinals
  • Michael Boulware, professional NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
  • Peter Boulware, professional NFL football player, Baltimore Ravens
  • Derrick Brooks, professional NFL football player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • Mack Brown, Head Football Coach, Texas Longhorns
  • Terrell Buckley, professional NFL football player
  • LeRoy Butler, former professional NFL football player, (retired), now coachGreen Bay Packers
  • Sam Cowart, professional NFL football player, Minnesota Vikings
  • Dave Cowens, professional NBA basketball player, (retired)
  • Zack Crockett, professional NFL football player, Oakland Raiders
  • Lawrence Dawsey, professional NFL football player (retired)
  • Darnell Dockett, professional NFL football player, Arizona Cardinals
  • J.D. Drew, professional MLB baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Warrick Dunn, professional NFL football player, Atlanta Falcons
  • William Floyd, professional NFL football player, nicknamed 'Bar None' San Francisco 49ers (Retired)
  • Dick Howser, professional MLB baseball player
  • Brad Johnson, professional NFL football player, Minnesota Vikings
  • Greg Jones, professional NFL football player, Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Marvin Jones, professional NFL football player, nicknamed 'Shade Tree'
  • Walter Jones, professional NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
  • Danny Kanell, professional NFL football player
  • Rafael A. Lecuona, gymnast
  • Tony La Russa (J.D.), MLB manager, St. Louis Cardinals
  • Amp Lee, professional NFL football player Green Bay Packers
  • Doug Mientkiewicz, professional MLB baseball player, New York Mets
  • Travis Minor, professional NFL football player, Miami Dolphins
  • Zeke Mowatt, professional NFL football player
  • Scott Proctor, professional MLB baseball player, New York Yankees
  • Gabrielle Reece, professional volleyball player, model
  • Deion Sanders, professional NFL football player, Baltimore Ravens
  • Ron Sellers, professional NFL football player
  • Corey Simon, professional NFL football player, Indianapolis Colts
  • Ron Simmons, professional USFL football player, former WCW professional wrestling world champion {retired}
  • Sammie Smith, professional NFL football player (retired)
  • Greg Spires, professional NFL football player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • Rohn Stark, professional NFL football player
  • Bob Sura, NBA basketball player, Houston Rockets
  • Javon Walker, professional NFL football player, Green Bay Packers
  • Charlie Ward, Heisman Trophy winner, professional NBA basketball player (retired)
  • Peter Warrick, professional NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
  • Chris Weinke, Heisman Trophy winner, professional NFL football player, Carolina Panthers
  • Peter Tom Willis, professional NFL football player, current FSU football radio analyst
  • Tamarick Vanover, professional NFL football player

Education

  • T. K. Wetherell, President of Florida State University
  • Mark S. Wrighton (Ph.D.), Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis

Entertainment

  • Alan Ball, screenwriter, director, Six Feet Under, American Beauty
  • Sam Beam - sole member of Iron & Wine
  • Matt Chapman, co-creator of Homestar Runner
  • Tara Dawn Holland Christensen, Miss America (1997), singer
  • Rita Coolidge, singer
  • Tiffany Fallon, Playmate, 2004 Playmate of the Year
  • Davis Gaines, stage actor, The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
  • Paul Gleason, actor
  • Traylor Howard, actress
  • Nancy Kulp, actress
  • Christine Lahti, actress
  • Doug Marlette, cartoonist
  • Drew McWeeny, screenwriter, internet columnist
  • Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter
  • Henry Polic, actor
  • Burt Reynolds, actor
  • Marcus Roberts, jazz pianist
  • Sonny Shroyer, actor
  • Richard Simmons, fitness expert
  • Scott Stapp, musician
  • Tonea Stewart, actress
  • Mark Tremonti, musician
  • David Ward-Steinman, composer
  • Robert Urich, actor
  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer, 1st woman to win Pulitzer prize in music

Government

  • Reubin O'Donovan Askew, former Governor of Florida
  • Allen Boyd Jr., congressman (Democrat)
  • Paris N. Glendening, former Governor of Maryland (1995 - 2003)
  • Mel Martinez (J.D.), former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and current Florida Senator (Republican),

Media

  • Terry Bowden, television commentator/football analyst, ABC Sports
  • Lee Corso, sports broadcaster, ESPN

Meteorology

  • Stephanie Abrams, meteorologist, The Weather Channel
  • Janice Huff, meteorologist, WNBC, Today Show
  • Rich Johnson, meteorologist, The Weather Channel
  • Jennifer Lopez, The Weather Channel
  • Max Mayfield, Director of the National Hurricane Center

Military

  • General Jay Garner, United States Army, ret. defense consultant
  • Capt. Scott Speicher, pilot, missing in action after the Gulf War.

Social Sciences

  • Marc H. Ellis, theologian, philosopher

Space Exploration

  • Winston Scott, astronaut
  • Norman Thagard, NASA astronaut


More distinguished/notable alumni can be found at the FSU Alumni Association, [5].

Nobel Laureates on Staff

  • Paul Dirac, 1933 Physics
  • Konrad E. Bloch, 1964 Medicine
  • Robert Sanderson Mulliken, 1966 Chemistry
  • J. Robert Schrieffer, 1972 Physics (currently on staff)
  • James M. Buchanan Jr., 1986 Economics
  • Sir Harold W. Kroto, 1996 Chemistry (currently on staff)

Pulitzer Prize Winners on Staff

  • Robert Olen Butler, Fiction (currently on staff)
  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer, 1st woman to win Pulitzer prize in music (currently on staff)

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More distinguished/notable alumni can be found at the FSU Alumni Association, [5]. She survived, married, and lives in Canada. FSU football is well-known for introducing great talent into the NFL, including Deion Sanders, Derrick Brooks, Warrick Dunn, and Peter Boulware in recent history. One of the most famous photographs of the Vietnam War shows a girl, Kim Phuc Phan Thi, whose clothes were burned off by napalm; she was taken to the hospital by the photographer and received medical care. FSU head coach Bobby Bowden is the winningest college football coach in the NCAA with 359 career wins, followed by Penn State's Joe Paterno with 354. Much of today's popular music centers around girls, typically in the context of romantic or sexual interest by young men. In 2005, FSU's men's football team won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship, earning them a berth in the 2006 FedEx Orange Bowl, in which the #22 ranked Seminoles lost 26-23 in triple overtime against #3 ranked Penn State University. the Extra-Terrestrial.

The Seminoles were the first college football team in history to have gone wire-to-wire (ranked first place from preseason to postseason since the AP began releasing preseason rankings in 1950). A nonsexualized portrayal of a girl is the character played by Drew Barrymore in E.T. FSU also set an NCAA record for most consecutive Top 5 finishes in the AP football poll - the Seminoles received placement 14 years in a row, from 1987 to 2000. Hollywood movies also tend to sexualize girls, as in Taxi Driver and The Blue Lagoon. The FSU football team was one of the most successful teams in college football during the 1990s, boasting an 89% winning percentage. Other genres of manga and anime often feature sexualized and objectified portrayals of girls. The Seminoles played in five national championship games between 1993 and 2001, and have claimed the championship twice, in 1993 and 1999. Examples include The Wallflower, Ceres, Celestial Legend, and Full Moon o Sagashite.

Under head coach Bobby Bowden, currently in his 30th year, the Seminole football team became one of the nation's perennial powers, greatly expanding the tradition that had been virtually non-existent for the 30 years of football before Bowden. There are many other stories with girls as protagonists in the Shōjo style of manga, which is targeted to girls as an audience. Their traditional rivals include the Gators of the University of Florida and the Hurricanes of the University of Miami. Most of the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki feature a young girl as the hero, as in Majo no takkyūbin (Kiki's Delivery Service). They participate in the NCAA's Division I (Division I-A for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. In Japanese manga and anime, girls are often protagonists. This Native American name is used with official sanction of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. Franco-Belgian comics with girls in a central role include Isabelle (by Will) and Sophie (by Jidéhem).

The school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles. The most famous Flemish comic strip is Spike and Suzy (Suske and Wiske), about the adventures of a boy and a girl (each about 10 years old); it was translated from Flemish into French and English. The women's program consists of basketball, cross country running, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. In the Peanuts series (by Charles Schulz), girl characters include Peppermint Patty, Lucy van Pelt, and Sally Brown. The men's program consists of as baseball, basketball, cross country running, football, golf, swimming, tennis, and track & field. In superhero comic books, an early girl character was Etta Candy, one of Wonder Woman's sidekicks. The school has an athletic department with programs for men and for women. There have been many American comic books and comic strips featuring a girl as the main character, such as Little Lulu, Little Orphan Annie, Girl Genius, and Amelia Rules.

The Marching Chiefs are the force behind the famous War Chant. Books which have both boy and girl protagonists tend to focus on the boys, but important girl characters appear in Knight's Castle, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Book of Three, and the Harry Potter series (by Book 6, Harry Potter's social circle includes 1 boy and 2 girls, although newcomer Ginny still isn't let into secrets like Ron and Hermione are). FSU is also the home of the Marching Chiefs, one of the largest collegiate marching bands in the country and the only marching band to ever be featured in Sports Illustrated. Children's books about girls include Little House on the Prairie, Eloise, Pippi Longstocking, Dragonsong, and A Wrinkle in Time. [4]. European fairy tales include some memorable stories about girls, including Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, and The Princess and the Pea; the Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood; and others. The now famous garnet and gold colors were first used on an FSU uniform in a 14-6 loss to Stetson on October 18, 1947. Most early children's stories focused on boys, with the notable exception of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, whose photographs of little girls are part of the history of photographic art.
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The administration in 1905 took crimson and combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship football teams to achieve the color garnet. Other novels include Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which has a young girl as protagonist; and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, about a girl subjected to sexual abuse. The following year, the FSCW student body selected crimson as the official school color. Examples include Jane Eyre, who suffers ill treatment; and Natasha in War and Peace, who is sentimentalized. When FSC became Florida State College for Women in 1905, the football team was forced to attend an all male school in Gainesville. Many novels begin with the childhood of their heroine. In 1904 and 1905 the Florida State College won football championships wearing purple and gold uniforms. As in art, portrayals of girls in literature can reflect the social norms of the time at which they were written.

Florida State's school colors of garnet and gold are a merging of the University's past. In American art, paintings that feature girls include Mary Cassatt's 1884 Children on the Beach and Whistler's Harmony in Gray and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander and The White Girl (shown at right). School songs include the alma mater, "High Over Towering Pines" along with the "Hymn to the Garnet and Gold" and the "FSU Fight Song". Later paintings of girls include Albert Anker's portrait of a Girl with a Domino Tower and Camille Pissarro's 1883 Portrait of a Felix Daughter. The school's colors are garnet and gold and the symbols of the athletic teams are Chief Osceola and Renegade. Nicolas, circa 1660; and Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. The School of Computational Science will begin admitting doctoral students in the Fall of 2006. In European art, some early paintings to feature girls are Juan de Flandes' Portrait of a Young Girl, circa 1500–1510 (shown at left); Frans Hals' Die Amme mit dem Kind in 1620; Diego Velázquez' Las Meninas in 1656; Jan Steen's The Feast of St.

Bachelors, master's, specialist's, doctoral, and professional degree programs are offered through the College of Arts & Sciences; the College of Business; the College of Communication; the College of Education; the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, jointly administered with Florida A&M University; the College of Human Sciences; the College of Law; the College of Medicine; the College of Social Sciences; the School of Criminology & Criminal Justice; the School of Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts (Film School); the College of Information; the College of Music; the School of Nursing; the College of Social Work; and the School of Theatre, Visual Arts & Dance. Only Sappho's poetry includes love poems addressed to girls. [3]. Ancient Greek classical art and literature paid scant attention to female children, though there are many poems about boys. The Fall 2005 class had an SAT average of 1187. Egyptian murals included sympathetic portraits of young girls of royal descent. 47.8% of the minority enrollment was Black, 38.6% Hispanic, 12.0% Asian, and 1.6% was American Indian. Portrayals of girls may reflect their standing in the artists' culture, and a brief overview of different views of girls in different art periods gives a sense of girls' roles in societies around the world and at different points in time.

Minorities made up 24.2% percent of total enrollment. The slang word "gal", as in "Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight", is a variant pronunciation of girl. Women account for 56.7% of FSU's enrollment. The word girl has many synonyms, including "belle", "chick", "doll", "gal", "lass" or "lassie", "maiden", and "miss". Fall 2005 enrollment is 39,218 students. While outsiders might use "girl" or "girly" as a pejorative to refer to a gay male, within the gay community it is used as a term of endearment. By comparision, Taxol has earned Florida State three times the amount the University of Florida earned from the popular beverage Gatorade. Calling a male a girl often serves as a provocation to fight (see fighting words).

Before the drug company's exclusive license expired, Florida State made $350 million in royalties, vaulting the school into the ranks of Columbia University and California's state universities in research profits. The more insulting "girly-boy", which originated in 1589 as "girle-boy", is used to indicate a weak or "sissy" male. But it also prolonged lives and in many cases defeated cancer. Using the word "girl" to refer to a male is usually meant as insulting, such as "You throw like a girl". Just like other chemotherapy drugs, it had side effects. The term "young woman" is sometimes used in the period between childhood and full adulthood. In 1993 Bristol Myers Squibb began marketing it. In modern usage, "girl" is properly restricted to mean a human female who has not reached adulthood, and some would restrict the usage to prepubescent girls.

Holton's and his Organic Chemistry team finished a race to develop a cheaper semisynthetic version. There is a parallel objection to use of the word "boy" to describe a male over the age of puberty. The chemical has been used as an effective breast and ovarian cancer treatment. With the rise of feminism, the use of "girl" applied to any adult female became offensive to many, especially given the fact that the word was so often used to indicate low social status, low morals, weakness, or homosexuality. 9, 1993. But social shifts generally permit only the female gender group themselves to use such terminology without giving offence. Holton's synthesizing of Taxol on Dec. Adult women will sometimes refer to themselves as "girls", as in "We're having a girls' night out" or "It's a girl thing".

Robert A. A woman of a certain age might be called a girl to suggest that she looked younger than she was, or a group of women might speak of themselves as "us girls", though all were well over the age of maidenhood. A signifigant achievement at the university was chemistry professsor and synthetic organic chemist, Dr. In America today, the word "girl" is often used as an intended compliment or used humorously. [2]. In England, the word "girl" was also used as a euphemism for "prostitute", as for example by Richard Steele in The Spectator. Many of FSU's other academic programs consistently rank among the nation’s top twenty-five public universities, including programs in Chemistry, Creative Writing, Criminology, Dance, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Film, Meteorology, Music, Oceanography, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Statistics, and Sociology. In England, a "girl" was often a serving girl, while in America a "girl" was often a sweetheart or "girlfriend", for example, in the lyrics of the popular song "The Girl I Left Behind Me".

The School is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and is a founding member of the University/Resident Theatre Association. By the 1700s, there was a difference in some uses of the word between England and the Americas. News and World Report has consistently included FSU's graduate theatre programs in its top-tier rankings in the top-10, one of the few public university programs thus honored. Note the parallel shift in the meaning of the word "maid". U.S. In 1668, in his Diary, Samuel Pepys uses the word to mean a female servant of any age: "girl" = "serving girl". The School of Theatre is one of the leading comprehensive theatre training programs in the United States. Within little more than a century, however, the word began to take on implications of social class.

According to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, the undergraduate program in Information Technology is sprouting in popularity. There are manuscripts dating from 1530 in which the word "girl" is used to mean "maiden" (also originally applied to both genders), or any unmarried human female. The college has the largest online MLS program in the nation. Like many other words that originally were not gender specific, "girl" gradually came to be used primarily and then exclusively for one gender. The program tied for 12th, the School Library Media program ranked 2nd and the Services for Children and Youth specialization program tied for 2nd. A male child was called a "Knave girl"; a female child was called a "gay girl". News & World Report. While there is no general agreement about the etymology of "girl", it is found in manuscripts dating from 1290 with the meaning "a child" (of either gender).

The College of Information's programs in Information Studies/Technology is one of the most respected and consistantly top-ranked programs in the nation and has held such rankings for many years in the U.S. The Anglo-Saxon word gyrela = "ornament" may have given rise to the modern pronunciation of "girl", if the change in meaning can be explained. This designation is attained through a competitive process that evaluates the school's ability to meet rigorous standards for information assurance education. The word "girl" first appears during the Middle Ages. Its peers includes schools such as the nation's first computer science school at Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Relatively few girls become engineers, though in the USA, more do become doctors. FSU's Computer Science program is the only Florida school that is a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) by the National Security Agency. However, their choices afterwards in postsecondary school are often very different and lead them to less socially recognized professions.

The state of Florida has more golf courses than any other state in the country and is the headquarters for the PGA, LPGA, PGA Tour, and National Golf Foundation and FSU has a long, distinguished history of graduating professional golfers and educating students for business and hospitality operations. Several studies, such as the Programme for International Student Assessment of the OECD, have shown that, in developed countries, girls usually obtain better scores than boys do in secondary schools in Literature and Language, boys on the other hand tend to score higher in mathematics. The Dedman School of Hospitality also offers a major in Professional Golf Management, one of seventeen programs nationwide accredited by The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA), to prepare students to meet the challenges found in the world of professional golf. This conflict is often called nature versus nurture. Based on input from industry representatives, the hospitality management major's business component is what attracts companies to FSU students; as a result the school boasts a consistent 100% job placement record. Some feminists deny this, but many feminists agree that both biology and upbringing have an influence on gender roles, with the question being the relative importance of each. The Dedman School of Hospitality is in the College of Business at FSU, and is located at Doak Campbell Stadium. The biological viewpoint of gender roles is not that all gender distinctions result from biology, but rather that biology has an influence.

The college also offers online MBA programs. Due to the influence of (among others) Simone de Beauvoir's feminist works and Michel Foucault's reflections on sexuality, the idea that gender was unrelated to sex gained ground during the 1980s, especially in sociology and cultural anthropology. In the Academy of Management Journal [1] the college's programs in Management Information Systems was ranked 15th and is the highest ranked MIS program in the State of Florida. On the other hand, feminists have argued that gender roles are the result of stereotypes and socialization rather than any innate biological differences. The college earned a fourth-place spot in the Black Issues' Top 100, for its success in awarding the doctorate in business to African Americans. Simon Baron-Cohen, a Cambridge University professor of psychology and psychiatry, argues that "the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, while the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.". The college is a recognized leader in graduating minority doctoral candidates. For example, the need to take care of offspring may have limited the females' freedom to hunt and to assume positions of power.

and the program has grown to be one of the nation's ten largest. The idea that differences in gender roles originate in differences in biology originates from 19th-century anthropology; more recently, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have turned to this problem to explain those differences by treating them as evolutionary adaptations to a lifestyle of Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies. Among public universitities it is in the Top 25. The reasons for this perceived difference in the behavior of girls and boys are a controversial topic in both public debate and the sciences. News & World Report at 38th. Girls, as a group, may be perceived as being more docile than boys, and as being less capable of rational decision making and more governed by emotional responses. The College of Business has consistently been ranked one of the Top 40 undergraduate business schools by U.S. Sometimes boys are presumed to be more responsible than girls, except in the cases of caring for younger children, which is sometimes thought to be instinctual in girls.

Hispanics made up 9 percent of the school's 748-member student body and received 11 percent of the 205 law degrees awarded to the class of 2004. Girls are less often encouraged to pursue sports, with the exception of those that might be considered "feminine," such as figure skating or gymnastics; or those considered "gender-neutral," such as tennis.[1] They may be prevented from participating in many of the same activities that boys participate in at the same age, as a matter of protecting them from perceived outside dangers, such as boys and men, or anything that may cause physical injury. Hispanic Business Magazine has ranked the College of Law among the top 10 law schools in the nation for Hispanics for the second consecutive year. Girls have traditionally been associated with playing with dolls and toy cooking and cleaning equipment, while boys have been associated with toys and games that require more physical activity or simulated violence, such as toy trucks, balls, and toy guns. Environmental Law Program Ranks 14th in Nation. In almost all cultures, girls have been socialized into gender roles. The magazine's 2006 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools also ranks the College of Law as one of the most diverse in the country. This disparity is targeted to end under the Millennium Development Goals and has closed substantially since 1990.^ .

News & World Report. 65%). The Florida State University College of Law has jumped 11 slots to 56th in the latest edition of the influential national rankings of law schools by U.S. 74% for boys) or secondary education (59% vs. Myers. Although the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights specifies that "primary education shall be compulsory and available free to all", girls are slightly less likely to be enrolled as students in primary (70% enrollment vs. The medical school's regional campuses are in Tallahassee, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Orlando, Sarasota, and Ft. From birth, girls are a slight minority due to both natural factors (the human sex ratio has been observed since the 1700s as approximately 1,050 boys for every 1,000 girls) and due to sex selection on the part of parents.

Created in June of 2000 by the Florida Legislature, its mission is educating physicians to serve the state's rural, geriatric, minority and other medically underserved populations. UNICEF, 2004) aged 18 or under in the world, for a total of more than one billion living girls. It is charting a new course for medical education with an emphasis on the use of interdisciplinary teams and emerging new technology. There are 2.18 billion people (est. program to be established in the United States since 1982. . The fully accredited College of Medicine is the first new M.D. Images of girls in art, literature, and popular culture often demonstrate assumptions about gender roles.

Florida State was ranked higher than any Florida University except the University of Florida. An ongoing debate about the influences of nature versus nurture in shaping the behavior of girls and boys raises questions about whether the roles played by girls are the result of inborn differences or socialization. News & World Report of Best Colleges, Florida State was ranked 51st (from 54th in 2005) among all public research universities in the U.S, and is ranked 109th (up from 111 in 2005) among all national universities. Historically, girls faced discrimination and limitations on the roles they were expected to play in their societies, and the United Nations targeted discrimination in schooling to end by 2010. In the 2006 U.S. Usage in the sense of (romantic) "sweetheart" arose in the 17th century. Florida State University has leading graduate, undergraduate, and professional programs that include Law and Medicine. Subsequently, it was extended to refer also to mature but unmarried young women since the 1530s.

The Westcott Building at Florida State University is located on the hill where the West Florida Seminary once stood, which has been the site of an institution of higher education longer than any other site in Florida. During the 14th century its sense was narrowed to specifically female children. Florida State is presently is comprised of seventeen independent schools and colleges. The English word from 1290 designated a child of either sex. Florida State is also the home of the first chapter (Alpha) of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in the state of Florida, and is home to one of the oldest schools of public administration in the country. The age at which a female person transitions from girl to woman varies in different societies, typically the transition from adolescence to maturity is taken to occur in the late teens. Today, the student population is almost 40,000. A girl is a young female human, as opposed to a boy, a young male human.

On May 15, 1947, the Governor of Florida signed an act of the Legislature returning Florida State College for Women to coeducational status and naming it The Florida State University. Demand by returning World War II veterans had brought men back to the campus in 1946 with the establishment of the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida. In 1909 the name of the college was changed to Florida State College for Women. In 1905, Florida's educational system was reorganized by the state Legislature, and six state institutions of higher learning were consolidated into two when the University of Florida in Gainesville was established and designated a men's school and the Florida State College became a women's school called the Florida Female College.

In 1901, the school was renamed Florida State College, and was a four-year institution organized in four departments: the College, the School for Teachers, the School of Music, and the College Academy. FSU is one of three universities to have this distinction, apart from US Service Academies, the others being the Citadel and the Virginia Military Institute. This battle participation enables the current ROTC unit at FSU to display a battle streamer titled "Natural Bridge 1865". On March 6, 1865 Institute cadets and other men of Tallahassee successfully prevented Federal troops from taking Tallahassee at the Battle of Natural Bridge.

The school existed as the West Florida Seminary from 1857 until 1863, when the state legislature changed the name to The Florida Military and Collegiate Institute, reflecting the addition of a military section which trained cadets. The school became co-education the following year, when it absorbed the Tallahassee Female Academy, begun in 1843 as the Misses Bates School. In 1857 first meeting of the Board of Education of the State Seminary West of the Suwannee River was held. After an unsuccessful attempt by the city to make this happen in 1854, Mayor Francis Eppes in 1857, again made the offer which was accepted by the Florida Legislature.

The city's hope was that the State would take it over as one of the seminaries. By 1854, the City of Tallahassee had established a school for boys called the Florida Institute. The Legislature of the State of Florida in a Legislative Act of January 24, 1851 provided for the establishment of two seminaries of learning, one to be located east and the other west of the Suwannee River. It is recognized as the official State Art Museum of Florida.

and houses one of the most significant collections of fine art in North America. The John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota is affiliated with the university, and is the largest museum/university complex in the U.S. Department of Energy and other government agencies. The Center is funded by the U.S.

Beginning January, 2006 the Applied Superconductivity Center, formerly located at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will be located at the university. Other research centers, such as the Center for Advanced Power Systems, supported by the Office of Naval Research, place the university at the cutting edge of research and its application to industry. The university is home to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation. FSU operates study centers for overseas study oppare located in Florence, Italy; Republic of Panama; Valencia, Spain; and London, England.

In addition to the branch campuses, the university offers a variety of overseas study opportunities for students during the regular academic year, as well as in special summer programs. Additionally, Florida State operates an overseas branch campus with degree programs in the Republic of Panama. Florida State also maintains two additional campuses in Panama City and Sarasota. TalTran provides free transportation for students to and from the university.

Highway 90) to the north, Gaines Street to the south, Stadium Drive to the west, and Macomb Street to the east. The campus is bordered by Tennessee Street (U.S. Florida State's main campus is located at 30.44077° N 84.29141° W in Tallahassee near the Florida State Capitol building. .

FSU's more notable programs include Business, Creative Writing, Criminal Justice, Evolutionary Biology, Dance, Film, Music, Hospitality, Information Studies, and Meteorology. The university is composed of 17 colleges and institutes that offer more than 300 programs of study. Wetherell. K.

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Sir Harold W. Buchanan Jr., 1986 Economics. James M. Robert Schrieffer, 1972 Physics (currently on staff).

J. Robert Sanderson Mulliken, 1966 Chemistry. Bloch, 1964 Medicine. Konrad E.

Paul Dirac, 1933 Physics. Norman Thagard, NASA astronaut. Winston Scott, astronaut. Ellis, theologian, philosopher.

Marc H. Scott Speicher, pilot, missing in action after the Gulf War. Capt. defense consultant.

General Jay Garner, United States Army, ret. Max Mayfield, Director of the National Hurricane Center. Jennifer Lopez, The Weather Channel. Rich Johnson, meteorologist, The Weather Channel.

Janice Huff, meteorologist, WNBC, Today Show. Stephanie Abrams, meteorologist, The Weather Channel. Lee Corso, sports broadcaster, ESPN. Terry Bowden, television commentator/football analyst, ABC Sports.

Mel Martinez (J.D.), former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and current Florida Senator (Republican),. Glendening, former Governor of Maryland (1995 - 2003). Paris N. Allen Boyd Jr., congressman (Democrat).

Reubin O'Donovan Askew, former Governor of Florida. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer, 1st woman to win Pulitzer prize in music. Robert Urich, actor. David Ward-Steinman, composer.

Mark Tremonti, musician. Tonea Stewart, actress. Scott Stapp, musician. Richard Simmons, fitness expert.

Sonny Shroyer, actor. Marcus Roberts, jazz pianist. Burt Reynolds, actor. Henry Polic, actor.

Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter. Drew McWeeny, screenwriter, internet columnist. Doug Marlette, cartoonist. Christine Lahti, actress.

Nancy Kulp, actress. Traylor Howard, actress. Paul Gleason, actor. Davis Gaines, stage actor, The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical).

Tiffany Fallon, Playmate, 2004 Playmate of the Year. Rita Coolidge, singer. Tara Dawn Holland Christensen, Miss America (1997), singer. Matt Chapman, co-creator of Homestar Runner.

Sam Beam - sole member of Iron & Wine. Alan Ball, screenwriter, director, Six Feet Under, American Beauty. Louis. Wrighton (Ph.D.), Chancellor of Washington University in St.

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Tamarick Vanover, professional NFL football player. Peter Tom Willis, professional NFL football player, current FSU football radio analyst. Chris Weinke, Heisman Trophy winner, professional NFL football player, Carolina Panthers. Peter Warrick, professional NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks.

Charlie Ward, Heisman Trophy winner, professional NBA basketball player (retired). Javon Walker, professional NFL football player, Green Bay Packers. Bob Sura, NBA basketball player, Houston Rockets. Rohn Stark, professional NFL football player.

Greg Spires, professional NFL football player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Sammie Smith, professional NFL football player (retired). Ron Simmons, professional USFL football player, former WCW professional wrestling world champion {retired}. Corey Simon, professional NFL football player, Indianapolis Colts.

Ron Sellers, professional NFL football player. Deion Sanders, professional NFL football player, Baltimore Ravens. Gabrielle Reece, professional volleyball player, model. Scott Proctor, professional MLB baseball player, New York Yankees.

Zeke Mowatt, professional NFL football player. Travis Minor, professional NFL football player, Miami Dolphins. Doug Mientkiewicz, professional MLB baseball player, New York Mets. Amp Lee, professional NFL football player Green Bay Packers.

Louis Cardinals. Tony La Russa (J.D.), MLB manager, St. Lecuona, gymnast. Rafael A.

Danny Kanell, professional NFL football player. Walter Jones, professional NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks. Marvin Jones, professional NFL football player, nicknamed 'Shade Tree'. Greg Jones, professional NFL football player, Jacksonville Jaguars.

Brad Johnson, professional NFL football player, Minnesota Vikings. Dick Howser, professional MLB baseball player. William Floyd, professional NFL football player, nicknamed 'Bar None' San Francisco 49ers (Retired). Warrick Dunn, professional NFL football player, Atlanta Falcons.

Drew, professional MLB baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers. J.D. Darnell Dockett, professional NFL football player, Arizona Cardinals. Lawrence Dawsey, professional NFL football player (retired).

Zack Crockett, professional NFL football player, Oakland Raiders. Dave Cowens, professional NBA basketball player, (retired). Sam Cowart, professional NFL football player, Minnesota Vikings. LeRoy Butler, former professional NFL football player, (retired), now coachGreen Bay Packers.

Terrell Buckley, professional NFL football player. Mack Brown, Head Football Coach, Texas Longhorns. Derrick Brooks, professional NFL football player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Peter Boulware, professional NFL football player, Baltimore Ravens.

Michael Boulware, professional NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks. Anquan Boldin, professional NFL football player, Arizona Cardinals. Fred Biletnikoff, NFL Hall of Fame player. Edgar Bennett, professsional NFL football player (retired).

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Also notable is FSU's Antarctic Research Facility, the largest repository of Antarctic sedimentary core samples in the world. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), or "Mag Lab", is one of only nine such facilities in the world. FSU is home to a pair of cutting edge nuclear resonance magnets that are used for theoretical physics research as well as for developing cures for cancer and neurological disorders. WVFS.

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Mike Long Track. Scott Speicher Tennis Center. Seminole Golf Course. JoAnne Graf Field.

Tucker Center. Donald L. Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium. Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium.