Success Stories

Say It In 6

Could you tell your story in just six words? In our Say It In 6 series, FSU graduate students do just that, sharing their graduate school and fellowship experiences in a half dozen words.

McKnight Doctoral and Dissertation Fellows

 

The McKnight Fellowship Program is a state-wide program administered through the Florida Education Fund (FEF). The program is designed to address the under-representation of African American and Hispanic faculty at colleges and universities in the state of Florida by increasing the pool of citizens qualified with Ph.D. degrees to teach at the college and university level.

FAMU Graduate Feeder Scholars Program

 

The FAMU Graduate Feeder program is an official partnership agreement between Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and more than 40 Feeder Institutions around the country to increase the number of African Americans participating in advanced graduate education.

In The News

Retired dean Nancy Marcus receives stellar send off
It was a standing-room-only crowd at the Honors, Scholars and Fellows House Wednesday, Sept. 6, as students, faculty and staff gathered to celebrate the retirement of Nancy Marcus.

FSU graduate students to attend international Nobel laureate meeting
Two Florida State University graduate students are among 400 student-scientists worldwide invited to attend the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, an annual meeting that includes 30 Nobel laureates.

Five FSU graduates to spend year abroad with Fulbright awards
Five exceptional Florida State University graduate students and recent alumni will spend the 2017-2018 academic year teaching English or conducting research projects abroad as a part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

National Science Foundation awards FSU graduate students prestigious fellowships
A record number of Florida State University students have received the highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

Advanced excellence: Graduate students honored at annual celebration
The annual event acknowledges the achievement of graduate students in areas such as leadership, instruction and research.

FSU promotes diversity through largest cohort of McKnight fellows in recent history
Florida State University is helping cultivate some of FSU’s best and brightest minority doctoral students in partnership with the Florida Education Fund’s McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program.

FSU boasts its largest cohort of P.E.O. scholars
A shark-studying doctoral candidate is finishing up her final year at Florida State University with assistance from a unique organization dedicated to helping women succeed in their post-secondary endeavors.