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ONLINE SCHOLAR CHALLENGE
IT'S TIME FOR THE ONLINE SCHOLARS CHALLENGE
FSU's Online Scholar Challenge is like an Internet scavenger hunt. The challenge pits high school students from across the nation against each other in the quest for information on the Internet. They must also answer tough questions on a wide variety of topics using the LEXIS®-NEXIS® service.
Qualifying rounds will be conducted on the world wide web in May. The top-scoring four teams will receive an all-expense paid trip to Florida State University in Tallahassee June 3 - 5, for the FSU Scholar Challenge finals. Juniors and seniors can win four-year full-paid tuition scholarships to Florida State University and other great prizes.
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PREPARING FOR PR
Florida State's communication department is "one of the best of the small programs in the country," according to a new directory of public relations programs written by a professor emeritus at Marquette University. The department was rated 23rd of the 110 undergraduate programs in the directory, "Preparing for a Career in Public Relations."
The department is headed by Jay Rayburn, and the publication calls him "one of PR's top educators."
THIS RETIREMENT HURTS
It's been 31 years, and Evelyn Ashley has finally said goodbye to FSU's College of Education. She packed up her desk, and along with it an institutional memory many of her co-workers called invaluable.
"You can't buy what she knows," said Senior Accountant Norm Pickett.
Ashley was the secretary at the College of Education. Often called "Dean Ashley," because she'd been there longer than the dean, her retirement, said Pickett, comes as a serious blow.
"We are very happy that she is remaining in Tallahassee where she will no doubt be called upon periodically to find something or recollect something," Pickett said.
NEW MICROSCOPE
Florida State Biologist Ken Taylor is taking a closer look at the structure of proteins and large molecules in muscle tissue and the cyto-skeleton.
He gets the closer look with a new $1.3 million high-resolution electron microscope in the structural biology program.
Money for the microscope came from two $400,000 grants, one from the National Institutes of Health, and the other from the National Science Foundation. Matching money came from the Markey Foundation and FSU.
Taylor's research can help scientists understand the biological connections of drugs.
SHARING A LAWYER
Florida's first solicitor general is also FSU's newest part-time law professor. State Rep. Tom Warner (R- Stuart) will leave the Legislature after the upcoming lawmaking session to assume his new duties. The solicitor general argues for Florida in cases important. Most of the cases are argued before the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.
Half of Warner's $150,000 salary will be paid by FSU, the other from the attorney general's office. At FSU, he will lead a seminar in appellate advocacy and will use law students to help do research for the solicitor general's office.
LEGEND COMING HERE
Students are ready for their closeups with Paramount Pictures' executive and film-making legend A.C. Lyles.
Lyles has been appointed "Distinguished Visiting Filmmaker at Large" at the Florida State film school. For 70 of Paramount Pictures 86 years, he has worked as everything from office boy to one of the studio's senior producers.
He is the longest continuously employed person in the history of the Hollywood film industry.