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FAMU law reaches Destination Accreditation
Once again the Rattler spirit has prevailed over misleading headlines, vicious internet rumor-mongering, and the damage inflicted by FAMU’s previous interim administration.
Yesterday, the American Bar Association’s Council on Legal Education Opportunity granted full accreditation to FAMU’s law school. With the decision, the ABA confirmed that the FAMU College of Law [...]
Alumnus Receives National RXPortfolio Award
July 28, 2009
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Michael Bandy, a 2009 Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate from Winter Haven, Fla. is the selected as a recipient of the 2009 Pharmacy (RX) Portfolio National Achievement Award.
According to RX Insider, winners are carefully selected by a RXportfolio Selection Committee [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Rattler Academic Summer Institute in partnership with Smith-Williams Foundation, Inc. is not your average summer camp.
“The goal of the program is to provide the inspiration for students to seek careers in fields they may have once thought to be unattainable,” said Kirk Gavin director of the Rattler [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Huan Chen, a doctoral graduate student at the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Environmental Sciences Institute (ESI), has been selected by an international panel of experts to attend an international course on Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis.
Bioinformatics applies computer and information technology to manage and analyze organism genomes and other biological data. It [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Region has scheduled its annual conference for Saturday, July 25, on Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) campus. The theme for the one-day conference is Florida Region Game Day in the Summertime.
The conference will include a morning-prayer service at the eternal flame on FAMU’s campus at 8:30 a.m. followed by workshops beginning [...]
Former FAMU trustee nominated as U.S. Surgeon General
Dr. Regina Benjamin, former FAMU trustee, has been nominated as U.S. Surgeon General by President Barack Obama.
By Angeline J. Taylor
Democrat Staff Writer
Rev. R.B. Holmes Jr., couldn’t deny the excitement in his voice this afternoon after hearing about U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee for surgeon general.
Obama’s pick, Dr. Regina [...]
A temporary gig turns into a career fortrombonist Wycliffe Gordon
By JOE KLOPUS
The Kansas City Star
Wynton Marsalis thought he heard something in trombonist Wycliffe Gordon.
And Gordon has proved him right.
Gordon, who leads a band at the Blue Room on Saturday, was still in school when Marsalis thrust him into the spotlight. They’d met when Gordon was [...]