Tuesday, August 11, 2020
U.S. Rep. Al Lawson hosted the “Say Their Names: A Conversation on Racial Injustice in America” virtual community forum on Monday to discuss the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. The forum also focused on possible solutions to racial injustice. The FAMU graduate was accompanied by nationally prominent civil […]
The beginning of this week marked 100 days until Election Day on Nov. 3. What has always been a highly anticipated day for Americans, is particularly exciting for many college students who may be first-time voters or who may have really started to pay attention to politics in the past […]
Leon County Schools was set to start operating in-person classes on Monday, Aug. 24, but due to the drastic increase in positive coronavirus cases locally and across Florida, LCS has shifted the start date to Aug. 31. District officials said they pushed the start date back to ensure better safety guidelines […]
The football season may have been canceled, but the Galimore-Powell Field House is getting a facelift. This summer FAMU Athletics launched its ALL IN campaign, an extension of the Rattler Athletic Fund, designed to make improvements to the football operations center. The first step was giving the field house a […]
HBCU Change put out a press release on July 15 regarding its new app to assist with donations to HBCUs. HBCU Change was founded by entrepreneur Xavier Peoples as one of his latest projects. The HBCU Change app is similar to Acorns or Stash. Unlike those apps that take spare […]
July has been a decidedly violent month for the Tallahassee community. According to data maintained by the Tallahassee Democrat, there have been seven reported shootings in July, and three of the shootings happened within the span of only four days. These recent events have prompted the Tallahassee Police Department to […]
Many historically black colleges and universities fail to generate significant research grant funding. But it is an important source of revenue at Florida A&M University, and this past fiscal year was a banner 12 months for FAMU. The university received 167 research grant awards totaling $60.8 million for 2019-2020, setting […]
On July 8, Florida A&M University sent out an email informing students, staff and faculty about Adetosoye Oladokun, a FAMU graduate who was reported missing in the Washington area. This email and the all-out blitz on Twitter and other social media possibly helped find Oladokun, because he was located just […]
Mogus D. Mochena, a physics professor at Florida A&M University, recently was awarded a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant. The award is based on his project, “EIR: First Principles Defect Engineering of Plasmonic Diluted Magnetic Semiconducting Oxide Nanocrystals.” Mochena’s research focuses on semiconductor nanostructures. The electronics industry is built on […]
Students, parents, faculty and staff tuned into FAMU Housing’s virtual town hall on Wednesday as they got details on revised move-in procedures for the fall 2020 semester amidst the coronavirus outbreak. University housing staff told new Rattlers about changes they will see in the residence halls this school year. Associate […]