Florida State University

More distinguished/notable alumni can be found at the FSU Alumni Association, [5]. Gingerbread is also an architectural term for highly decorated Victorian houses. 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. Pain d'épices is a French pastry also made with honey and spices, but not crispy. 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. Gingerbread is often translated into French as pain d'épices. 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. Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger, then to a confection made with honey and spices.

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). Some recipes add mustard, pepper, raisins, nuts, and/or other spices/ingredients to the batter. 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 cake form tends to be a dense, treaclely (molasses-based) spice cake. The FSU football team was one of the most successful teams in college football during the 1990s, boasting an 89% winning percentage. Substantial mould collections are held at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, Poland and the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany. The Seminoles played in five national championship games between 1993 and 2001, and have claimed the championship twice, in 1993 and 1999. Gingerbread moulds often displayed the "news", showing carved portraits of new kings, emperors, and queens, for example.

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. A significant form of popular art in Europe, major centers of gingerbread mould carving included Lyon, Nürnberg, Pest, Prague, Ulm, and Toruń. Their traditional rivals include the Gators of the University of Florida and the Hurricanes of the University of Miami. Another variant uses a boiled dough that can be molded like clay to form inedible statuettes or other decorations. They participate in the NCAA's Division I (Division I-A for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. These, covered with a variety of candies and icing, are a common Christmas decoration. This Native American name is used with official sanction of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. A variant dough is used to make gingerbread houses à la the "witch's house" encountered by Hansel and Gretel.

The school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles. Gingerbread cookies are often cut into shapes, particularly gingerbread men. The women's program consists of basketball, cross country running, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. As a cookie, gingerbread can be made into a thin, crisp cookie (often called a ginger snap) or a softer cookie similar to the German Lebkuchen. The men's program consists of as baseball, basketball, cross country running, football, golf, swimming, tennis, and track & field. Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavor is ginger. The school has an athletic department with programs for men and for women.

The Marching Chiefs are the force behind the famous War Chant. 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. [4]. 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.

The administration in 1905 took crimson and combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship football teams to achieve the color garnet. The following year, the FSCW student body selected crimson as the official school color. When FSC became Florida State College for Women in 1905, the football team was forced to attend an all male school in Gainesville. In 1904 and 1905 the Florida State College won football championships wearing purple and gold uniforms.

Florida State's school colors of garnet and gold are a merging of the University's past. School songs include the alma mater, "High Over Towering Pines" along with the "Hymn to the Garnet and Gold" and the "FSU Fight Song". The school's colors are garnet and gold and the symbols of the athletic teams are Chief Osceola and Renegade. The School of Computational Science will begin admitting doctoral students in the Fall of 2006.

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. [3]. The Fall 2005 class had an SAT average of 1187. 47.8% of the minority enrollment was Black, 38.6% Hispanic, 12.0% Asian, and 1.6% was American Indian.

Minorities made up 24.2% percent of total enrollment. Women account for 56.7% of FSU's enrollment. Fall 2005 enrollment is 39,218 students. By comparision, Taxol has earned Florida State three times the amount the University of Florida earned from the popular beverage Gatorade.

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. But it also prolonged lives and in many cases defeated cancer. Just like other chemotherapy drugs, it had side effects. In 1993 Bristol Myers Squibb began marketing it.

Holton's and his Organic Chemistry team finished a race to develop a cheaper semisynthetic version. The chemical has been used as an effective breast and ovarian cancer treatment. 9, 1993. Holton's synthesizing of Taxol on Dec.

Robert A. A signifigant achievement at the university was chemistry professsor and synthetic organic chemist, Dr. [2]. 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.

The School is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and is a founding member of the University/Resident Theatre Association. 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. U.S. The School of Theatre is one of the leading comprehensive theatre training programs in the United States.

According to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, the undergraduate program in Information Technology is sprouting in popularity. The college has the largest online MLS program in the nation. The program tied for 12th, the School Library Media program ranked 2nd and the Services for Children and Youth specialization program tied for 2nd. News & World Report.

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. This designation is attained through a competitive process that evaluates the school's ability to meet rigorous standards for information assurance education. Its peers includes schools such as the nation's first computer science school at Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 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.

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. 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. 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 is in the College of Business at FSU, and is located at Doak Campbell Stadium.

The college also offers online MBA programs. 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 earned a fourth-place spot in the Black Issues' Top 100, for its success in awarding the doctorate in business to African Americans. The college is a recognized leader in graduating minority doctoral candidates.

and the program has grown to be one of the nation's ten largest. Among public universitities it is in the Top 25. News & World Report at 38th. The College of Business has consistently been ranked one of the Top 40 undergraduate business schools by U.S.

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. 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. Environmental Law Program Ranks 14th in Nation. 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.

News & World Report. 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. Myers. The medical school's regional campuses are in Tallahassee, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Orlando, Sarasota, and Ft.

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. It is charting a new course for medical education with an emphasis on the use of interdisciplinary teams and emerging new technology. program to be established in the United States since 1982. The fully accredited College of Medicine is the first new M.D.

Florida State was ranked higher than any Florida University except the University of Florida. 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. In the 2006 U.S. Florida State University has leading graduate, undergraduate, and professional programs that include Law and Medicine.

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. Florida State is presently is comprised of seventeen independent schools and colleges. 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. Today, the student population is almost 40,000.

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).

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Westcott Building. Tully Gymnasium. Leach Recreation Center. Bobby E.

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.