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11 unusual facts about Florida State University


Dallas Raines

He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University where he studied broadcast journalism and earth science with emphasis on meteorology.

Florida State College

Florida State University, previously known as Florida State College and Florida State College for Women

Gene Cox

He received his bachelor's degree from Florida State University in 1956 after having played on the 1954 and 1955 Florida State Seminole football teams.

Henry Fillmore

His arrangement of the 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is the traditional arrangement performed by the Florida State University Marching Chiefs.

Jimbo Fisher

Jimbo Fisher's official introduction as head coach took place at a Florida State University press conference on 7 January 2010.

Kasey Carlson

Her mother is a former national level swimmer who competed for Florida State.

Mack Brown

Brown attended Vanderbilt University and later graduated from Florida State University in 1974, starting his coaching career as a student coach after a vicious hit in practice from Scott Meseroll prematurely ended his playing career.

Meg Crofton

She attended Rollins College before transferring to Florida State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in marketing and an MBA.

Regional theater in the United States

For example, the Asolo Repertory Theatre is a member of LORT and partners with Florida State University in operating the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training.

Sarah Horick

She earned a Master of Music in Composition and a Master of Arts in Music Theory at Florida State University where she studied with Mark Wingate and Ladislav Kubik.

W. W. Hughes

He was the first person to coach a collegiate football at Florida State University, then known as Florida State College.


Ben Habern

Habern was heavily recruited starting early in his junior year across the country receiving scholarships from Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida State, Miami (FL), Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech).

Bernhard Schrader

In 1966 Schrader worked as a post-doc at Florida State University in Tallahassee, in the research group of Earle K. Plyler, at that time one of the leading molecular spectroscopists in the USA.

Brotherhood of Hope

In 1993, the Brotherhood was invited by Bishop John Mortimer Smith to the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida where they began to serve in campus ministry at Florida State University.

Ciudad del Saber

Among the members of the academic section are the Balboa Academy, ILISA (a Spanish language school), Isthmus University (architecture), and international programs of McGill University, University of Pennsylvania, Florida State University, Saint Louis University, Iowa State University, and SIT Study Abroad (School for International Training).

Deborah Mash

After obtaining her B.A. from Florida State University, she received her Ph.D from the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami.

Don Suggs

Suggs taught drawing, painting, sculpture and color theory from 1972-1984 at Florida State University at Tallahassee, Franconia College in New Hampshire, University of Southern California, and Otis Art Institute.

Education in Florida

During Florida's 2007 legislative session, Governor Charlie Crist signed into law SB-1710, which allowed the Board of Governors to allow a tuition differential for the University of Florida, Florida State University, and the University of South Florida.

Florida State-Georgia Tech football rivalry

The Florida State-Georgia Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Florida State Seminoles football team of Florida State University and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team of Georgia Tech.

Friedmann Valley

It was named in 1992 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after E. Imre Friedmann, a biologist at the Polar Desert Research Center, Florida State University, who in virtually every austral summer, 1976–87, led United States Antarctic Research Program field parties in the study of microorganisms in rocks of the McMurdo Dry Valleys.

Gayle Sierens

She joined the Tampa NBC affiliate in 1977 as a weekend sports anchor and reporter after working with WFSU in Tallahassee while she was attending Florida State University.

Guy Fulton

Beginning in 1945, Fulton served as Architect to the Florida Board of Control, designing and supervising construction of University of Florida buildings, as well as those at Florida State University and Florida A&M University.

Harry Dahms

Previously, he taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee (starting in 1993), and as a visiting professor at University of Göttingen, Germany (1999/2000) and at University of Innsbruck, Austria (2011, 2012) .

Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting model

The model was developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Rhode Island, and Florida State University.

John H. Hickey

John H. (Jack) Hickey graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in the top 2 percent of his class and received his B.A. from Florida State University in 1976 Phi Beta Kappa; Magna Cum Laude).

Jose Ceballos

Ceballos graduated from Florida State University in 1991, and ran campaign operations for vice-presidential nominee John Edwards.

K. C. Collins

He attended Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, on a baseball scholarship, choosing this rather than options of The University Of Hawaii and Florida State University to stay close to his grandmother who raised him from the age of 6.

Kyle Long

He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 23rd round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft, but did not sign and attended Florida State University.

Lela E. Buis

She graduated from Florida State University and the Florida Institute of Technology, and worked in engineering for a number of years at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.

Lisa Cole

2005-2006 Florida State University, Women's Soccer Assistant Coach, under Head Coach Mark Krikorian 2005 - NCAA FINAL FOUR - ACC Playoffs

M. Yousuff Hussaini

He is the Sir James Lighthill Professor of Mathematics and Computational Science & Engineering at the Florida State University, United States.

Maclay School

Former Florida State University and Detroit Lions wide receiver Kez McCorvey was hired in March 2009 to be the Head Football Coach.

Michael G. Foster

Beginning in 1967, he established accredited Yoshukai Karate programs in Florida colleges and universities at St. Leo College, Florida State University, University of South Florida, University of Tampa and Florida Atlantic University.

Peter Kurau

He received his formal education at the Eastman School of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal College of Music, University of Connecticut, and Florida State University, where his principal teachers were Verne Reynolds, David Cripps, and William Capps.

Randy Campbell

Some of the individuals Randy worked with included Coach Bobby Bowden of Florida State University, Dominique Wilkins of the University of Georgia and Atlanta Hawks and defensive great Ted Roof from Georgia Tech who now is the Defensive Coordinator at Randy's alma mater.

Reede-drum

New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, Florida State University and California State University have featured the reede-drum as the primary instrument of percussion majors.

S. E. Gontarski

He is presently Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University and edits the Journal of Beckett Studies.

Terry Bowden

Bowden is a son of former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden and a brother of Tommy Bowden, former head football coach at Clemson University, and Jeff Bowden, the former offensive coordinator at Florida State who serves as Terry's special teams coordinator at Akron.

Tom Nissalke

Nissalke, who is a graduate of Florida State University, first got his start in coaching on the high school-prep level at the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Ty Ty, Georgia

Ty Ty is the birthplace and home of Darby Cottle Veazey, a two-time All-American softball player and the only female athlete to have her number retired at Florida State University.