Florida State University is a public research university in Tallahassee,Florida,United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Chartered in 1851,it is located on Florida's oldest continuous site of higher education.
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. is an American aerospace engineer,retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and fighter pilot,and former NASA astronaut,in which capacity he became the first African American to go to space. While assigned to NASA,he remained a USAF officer rising to the rank of colonel. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983,as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8,he became the first African American in space as well as the second black person in space,after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a US nonprofit consortium of more than 100 colleges and universities providing research and training in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and provides additional services to strengthen and support research and education through its community programs. Its headquarters,in Boulder,Colorado,include NCAR's Mesa Laboratory,designed by I.M. Pei.
The Pennsylvania State University,commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU,is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania,Penn State was named the state's first land-grant university eight years later,in 1863. Its primary campus,known as Penn State University Park,is located in State College and College Township.
Onward State is a student-run news website geared toward members of the Penn State community in Pennsylvania. The website provides news,features,and commentary on issues impacting Penn State and State College. Onward State has published more than 34,000 stories since its founding in November 2008. It was voted the "Best Alternative Media Outlet" in a February 2009 online contest by U.S. News &World Report. Onward State has been cited in the New York Times,USA TODAY,ESPN,The Washington Post, and many other national news outlets. The Associated Press has described Onward State as "one of Penn State's smarter,if sometimes-snarky blogs."
Warren Morton Washington is an American atmospheric scientist,a former chair of the National Science Board,and currently a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder,Colorado.
John E. Thrasher is a former state legislator,businessman,lawyer and lobbyist who served as the 15th president of Florida State University. He was approved by the Florida Board of Governors on November 6,2014 and took office on November 10,2014. On September 11,2020,Thrasher and the university board of trustees announced his retirement in a joint statement. In May 2021,Richard McCullough was chosen by Florida State University’s board of trustees to succeed Thrasher.
Rodney Allen Erickson is an American academic administrator who served as the 17th president of Pennsylvania State University from 2011 to 2014. Formerly executive vice president and provost,he was named interim president of Penn State on November 9,2011,after previous president Graham Spanier was forced to resign in the wake of the Penn State sex abuse scandal,after which the "interim" tag was removed later that month. The Food Science Building at Penn State,which houses the Berkey Creamery,is named after Erickson.
J. Stanley Marshall was an American physicist,science educator,administrator and college president.
The Penn State Board of Trustees is the 38-member governing body for Pennsylvania State University. Its members include the university's president,the Governor of the Commonwealth,and the state Secretaries of Agriculture,Conservation and Natural Resources,and Education,as well as a representative for the Governor. The other members include six trustees appointed by the Governor,nine elected by alumni,six elected by Pennsylvania agricultural societies,six by a board representing business and industry enterprises,3 at-large,1 student,and 1 academic trustee. Undergraduate students do not elect any trustees;the court case Benner v. Oswald ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not require the undergraduate students be allowed to participate in the selection of trustees.
James Marshall Shepherd is an American meteorologist,professor at the University of Georgia's Department of Geography,director of the university's atmospheric sciences program,and 2013 president of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). In 2020 he was awarded the AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science. In 2021,he was elected to the U. S. National Academy of Engineering.
Timothy Laurence Killeen is a British and American geophysicist,space physicist,professor,and university administrator. Killeen took office as the president of the University of Illinois system in 2015. He has been the principal investigator on research projects for NASA and the National Science Foundation. Killeen has authored more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as more than 300 other publications and papers. He has served on various White House committees and task forces and is a past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.
Nancy Helen Marcus was an American biologist and oceanographer. During her graduate studies,Marcus became known as an expert on copepod ecology and evolutionary biology. She began her career as a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she studied copepod dormancy and its implications for marine aquaculture. She continued her field research as a professor of oceanography and later as the director of the Florida State University Marine Laboratory (FSU). During this time,Marcus was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as the president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. As the president,she led efforts to increase education activities and increase the endowment fund.
Neeli Bendapudi is an Indian-American academic administrator who is the 19th president of Pennsylvania State University. From 2018 until 2021,she served as the 18th president of the University of Louisville. In December 2021,Penn State announced Bendapudi as the university's president;she succeeded Eric J. Barron following his retirement. She assumed office in May 2022 and is the first woman and the first non-white person to serve as Penn State's president.
Anne Mee Thompson is an American scientist,who specializes in atmospheric chemistry and climate change. Her work focuses on how human activities have changed the chemistry of the atmosphere,climate forcing,and the Earth's oxidizing capacity. Thompson is an elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society,American Geophysical Union,and AAAS.
Everette Joseph is an American atmospheric scientist who serves as the director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder,Colorado.
Makenzie Lystrup is an American planetary scientist and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of SPIE,best known as a prominent voice in civil space projects and science policy. Lystrup is the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center. She has previously served as the vice president and general manager for civil space at Ball Aerospace.
