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François Bucher, in Trivium of the Nautilus Foundation.
Gift of art, architecture, hope
In the hamlet of Lloyd, just east of Tallahassee, a yellow, early -Victorian couch sits in the hallway of a unique castle-like building.
For its current owner, retired FSU Professor François Bucher, it's a cozy reminder of Princeton University - where he sometimes sat on the same couch in Albert Einstein's home and chatted with the physicist about the "nonsense of nuclear weapons, the speed of light and Gregorian Chants vs. Jewish music.
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Jerome Stern in Florence, Italy.
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The short, short story, a legacy from FSU's Jerry Stern
Before he died of cancer in March, Jerome Stern edited MicroFiction, a little book of short, short stories. Each was 300 words or less.
Ten years before, Stern, director of the writing program at Florida State, had started the "Worlds Best Short Short Story Contest".
The contest caught on: NPR broadcast the winners; literary magazines began to publish "lack of length" stories; entries poured in; and W.W. Norton accepted the book for publication.
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FSU grad Hansel Tookes III, at right, and U.S.Air Force Col. Michael Mushala examine the F119 engine by Pratt & Whitney
Black alumns are distinct but loyal
Segregation didn't create the need for the Black Alumni Association at FSU; integration did it's members say.
The first wave of blacks integrating FSU in the mid 1960s, the process, while peaceful compared to other Southern white colleges, was far from easy.
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How scientists are taught:
Nobel winner urges change
Can education in the sciences keep up with science itself?
"Not unless it changes," says Dr. Robert Schrieffer, chief scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
A Nobel Prize winner, Schrieffer believes the traditional rigid division of study into disciplines - chemistry, biology, physics - may need revision.
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