Albert Paley - master of public art
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The definitive turning point in Albert Paley's career-from metalsmithing on the intimate scale to fabrication on the monumental scale of public artworks-came in 1973, when he won the commission for the gates of the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
OCTOBER 2001
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Pulitzer winner to write online
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He's a former military intelligence officer, a Pulitzer Prize
winning writer and a professor at Florida State University.
And you're about to spend an intimate moment with him.
Online, beginning Oct. 30, Robert Olen Butler will pluck an old
picture postcard at random from his collection, and then use
it to inspire a short story.
FSU brings Taxol lab to Tallahassee
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The war against cancer is moving to a new battleground that
should bring world attention to Florida State.
FSU, in partnership with Taxalog Inc., a New Jersey research
company, and MDS Research Foundation, is building a laboratory
in Tallahassee to develop cancer-fighting drugs.
You can count on one thing - they will be back
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Some people's aspirations are higher than others'. For FSU
professor Tonya Toole, the dream involves reaching a plane 17,158
feet above sea level-the base camp of Mount Everest.
She recently came close when she and another FSU professor, Rochelle
Marrinan, trekked within 1,000 feet of Toole's goal.
Vacation can be a lot more fun if some professors go with you
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Every year, on the edge of London, aficionados gather to ooh
and ahh over one of the most famous of all floral displays, the
Chelsea Flower Show.
In 1997, Richard Henry (B.S. '72, M.A. '75) and his wife, Kathleen
Williams Henry (B.S. '75), wanted to be among them.
But, how to get there?
Class gifts become part of campus
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FSU students can't miss some of the class gifts on campus. Two good examples are the Westcott fountain, given by the classes of 1915 and 1917, and the iron arch leading to it, given by the classes of 1916 and 1918.
New theatre dean
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Nancy Smith Fichter is interim dean of the School of Theatre.
Degree for deaf student has been hard work but worth it
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In Diana Carraway's world, sound comes through movement: hands,
fingers and lips curve into words, sentences, and meaning.
Deaf since birth, Carraway is poised to earn her FSU bachelor's
degree in management of information systems this spring, setting
a milestone not only for herself and other deaf students, but
for the College of Business.
Want something to read?
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New books by Florida State graduates and faculty
New dean of nursing
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Florida State has a new dean of the School of Nursing.
Katherine Mason, who was director of Public Health Nursing in
the Florida Department of Health, became dean this summer.
At 107 she's the oldest alum
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Mabel Maxwell Van Landingham never really stopped teaching.
Although the elementary school children she once instructed have
long since graduated, had children of their own, grandchildren,
and indeed, even great-grandchildren, Van Landingham continues
her lessons, this time about life.