2008 in the FSU Biological Science History project
In the spring of 2008, the Department of Biological Science vacated Conradi Building and moved into the James E. "Jim" King Jr. Life Sciences Building, at 319 Stadium Drive, immediately south of the College of Medicine. The department still doesn't all fit into one building—it still occupies all of Biology Unit I, part of Carothers, part of the Kasha Laboratory Building, and part of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, but all of the department's administration has been brought together in one place.
On March 4, Dr. Joel C. Trexler, who received his Ph.D. at FSU in 1986 (Advisor, Joseph Travis), delivered the third Yerger Lecture, the first event to be held in the new King Building auditorium.
More news and events of 2008
Administration
Faculty roster
Arrivals
Departures
Awards to faculty, students, staff
Publications
Obituaries
Administration
Chair: Timothy S. Moerland, then P. Bryant Chase
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies: George W. Bates
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies: Robert H. Reeves, then Laura R. Keller
Associate Chair for Curriculum Development: Lloyd M. Epstein
Arrivals
Departures
- Professor Robert H. Reeves retired.
- Professors Peter Beerli and Gavin J. P. Naylor left Biological Science to join FSU's newly formed Department of Scientific Computing. Postdoctoral investigators Jun Inoue and Koffi Sampson left with them.
- Professor and chairman Timothy S. Moerland left FSU to become Dean of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University.
- Professor David L. Swofford left to accept a faculty position at Duke University.
A number of postdoctoral researchers finished their work at FSU and moved to other institutions: Marco Bonora (Fajer lab), Cheri Hampton (Taylor lab), Joshua King (Tschinkel lab), Cecily E. Oakley (Fajerlab), Janusz Pyka (Fajer lab), Brenda Shofstall (Fajer lab), Fayi Wu (Zhu Lab), and Xiaohui Wu Xiaohui (Deng lab).
Awards
Faculty Awards
- Associate professor Hank W. Bass was named the 2007-08 Honorary Professor of the Year by the FSU chapter of the Beta Beta Beta Honorary Society.
- Dr. Felicia C. Coleman (Ph.D. 1991), Director of the Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory, received the third annual Dr. S.-Y. Hong Award for Outstanding Article in the journal Marine Resource Economics for her article (with Martin D. Smith and Junjie Zhang) entitled “Structural modeling of marine reserves with Bayesian estimation.”
- Professor Don R. Levitan received the Office of Graduate Studies Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award.
- J. Herbert Taylor Professor David M. Gilbert was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Professor Joseph Travis, a Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and FSU's Dean of Arts and Sciences, was named president-elect of the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS).
Student Awards
Staff Awards
Obituaries
This page is part of the Departmental History Project of the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University. Can you help us fill in the blanks? If you were once a student here, or a member of our faculty or staff, we'd love to hear from you. Send an e-mail to thistle@bio.fsu.edu, a fax to (850) 645-8447, or snail-mail to Dr. Anne B. Thistle, Editor, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295. And thanks!