Jing Wang, dean of the Florida State University College of Nursing and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been named to the board of trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Wang is the first administrator from an institution within the State University System of Florida to serve on the board in at least 30 years.
Winners of the ISL Planning Grants for 2022, from left: Brad Schmidt, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology, Geraldine Martorella, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the College of Nursing, and Zhe He, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Program Chair of MSIT in the School of Information.
Shayok Chakraborty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been honored by the National Science Foundation with its CAREER Award.
The NSF CAREER Award is considered a leading honor for early career researchers.
In a new study, a research team of Institute for Successful Longevity Faculty Affiliates and other scientists explores the challenges of recruiting and retaining older adults to participate in research.
The study also marks the first step of a broad, interdisciplinary FSU effort to increasingly use artificial intelligence in research.
The Claude Pepper Center at Florida State University has a new director.
Dawn C. Carr, a professor in Florida State University’s Sociology Department and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity and a faculty associate for the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, will now oversee the Pepper Center, which has one of FSU’s largest endowments.
Yan Li is Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity
The National Institutes of Health is funding a $1.8-million project led by Yan Li, a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity and a researcher at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, that will use artificially grown, simplified mini-organs to create medicine that targets brain cells damaged by stroke.
Matthew “Jake” Martenson has won the Institute for Successful Longevity’s 2022 Student Poster Day competition.
Martenson is a student of Dr. Judy Delp of the College of Medicine and Dr. Lynn Panton of the College of Health and Human Sciences.
Martenson’s presentation was titled “Stretching with Ankle Dorsiflexion Splint Improves Measures of Microvascular Reactivity and Oxygen Extraction in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease.”
Amy Mullins, a doctoral candidate in Nutrition and Integrative Physiology and winner of the Esther & Del Grosser Scholarship, with her major professor, Bahram H. Arjmandi
You are invited to join university researchers and community experts in a workshop on “Bridging Resilience Divides: Technology, Transportation, and Communications,” April 14-16 at Florida State University’s Turnbull Center.
