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Note to oyster-lovers: Florida State is doing what it can for you.
Dr. Robert H. Reeves, an associate professor of biology, helping make oysters
safe to eat.Gold Key, an FSU leadership honorary society, gave Reeves its 1996 Ross Oas
won a prize for helping make oysters safe to eat.Gold Key, an FSU leadership honorary society, gave Reeves its 1996 Ross
Oglesby Award for his work with others in developing a probe to locate harmful or
fatal bacteria in raw oysters. The probe was developed in 1992, after a
bacteria-tainted oyster harvest, and received a U.S. patent in 1995. Reeves, who has also won teaching awards, came to FSU in 1979 and directed
FSUšs Program in Medical Sciences from 1979 to 1992.Honorary doctorate
Researchers from around the world came to the FSU campus last fall to attend a symposium o the FSU campus last fall to attend a symposium celebrating the honorary doctorate of Sir James Lighthill of the University College London department of mathematics.
Lighthill, one of the great mathematicians and fluid physicists of the 20th
century, was in Tallahassee on Nov. 6 to receive the doctorate from FSU President
Sandy DšAlemberte. Researchers from England, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Portugal, Japan, and
Germany, joined American researchers from Princeton, Brown, and NASA Langley
Research Center for the three-day symposium. The topics included aeronautics,
astrophysics, and oceanographic sciences.Law students win mock trial
Florida State University took first place in the Southeastern Invitational Mock Trial Competition in Atlanta in November.
The FSU Mock Trial Team, coached by Clinical Professor Ruth Ezell, was first
among twelve teams from Georgia and other southeastern states.The team was composed of eight students from FSUšs College of Law. The trial
was based on a real Georgia murder case, involving a police officer accused of
killing an elderly woman and stealing money from her.Four of the students took the place of the law advocates, while the other
four were witnesses. Gift to Smithsonian
Dr. Norman Thagard, the first American to ride with Russians aboard thet cancer, only about 1 percent are males.
Dr. Norman Thagard, the first American to ride with Russians aboard theeorman
Thagard, the first American to ride with Russians aboard the space station Mir,
has given the spacesuit he wore on that mission to the Smithsonian Institution.Thagard, a veteran of five space missions, was on the Mir from March 14 to
July 7, 1995.
He resigned from the astronaut corps in January 1996 to become a visiting
professor and director of external relations for the Florida A&M / Florida State
College of Engineering.
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