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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 [...]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Board of Trustees (BOT) voted to approve the preliminary operational budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, which includes a $16.2 million reduction.
“It has been a painful two years with the severe and permanent cuts the university has had to sustain,” said Daryl D. Parks, member of the [...]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Walter Smith, Ph.D., Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) seventh president, is the first African-American recipient of the National Education Association’s (NEA) 2009 Applegate-Dorros Peace and International Understanding Award.
“The Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner is a product of the merger of the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Teachers Association (ATA),” said [...]

FAMU Students Win the 2009 Ford HBCU Business Classic Competition
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida A&M University (FAMU) students Emerson Naylor, School of Business and Industry (SBI), and Evan Anderson, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, won the 2009 Ford HBCU Business Classic Competition.  As the grand prize winner, the student team won $35,000 in personal scholarships and $15,000 [...]