Two years after the BP oil spill hit the Gulf of Mexico, environmental students and faculty at Florida A&M continue to research the coast. Diana Johnson, a second-year graduate student at the Environmental Sciences Institute, is writing her thesis on the effects of oil compounds on almost 500 species of […]

Florida A&M students planned to rally for Trayvon Martin last week but were unable to acquire buses to travel from the university to Sanford, Fla. Martin, 17, was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on Feb. 26. Martin was unarmed, and a month later, Zimmerman still has not been […]

  As media attention intensifies over the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, students are refusing to keep quite and sparking a number of initiatives so the community’s voice will be heard. “Whatcha know about Trayvon” will be held on The Set at 10:30 am. Students from Florida A&M, Florida State […]

Nokia announces vibrating tattoos and senior broadcast journalism student Shanica Johnson has the story. Watch the video here.  

  “Challenge your perspective.” That was the message that Virgil Miller, chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Cedric L. Richmond (D-La) spread in Lee Hall Auditorium Thursday, at Florida A&M’s annual Honors Convocation.   Honors Convocation is hosted once each semester to honor the academically outstanding students in each school […]

  Students in Tallahassee will come together Monday to support a cause that is near and dear to many of their hearts. Students from Florida A&M and Florida State will be meeting at 8:30 a.m. to march along Gaines Street to the Capitol in honor of Trayvon Martin. Monday is […]

#8220;Justice for Trayvon!” was all that could be heard as about 100 Tallahassee citizens marched through the Capitol to Governor Rick Scott’s office yesterday at 2 p.m.  “Our main objective is to get to the governor and voice our concerns about how biased this investigation is,” said Mutaqee Akbar, an […]

ESPN will air another installment of its investigative series “Outside the Lines” Sunday. The topic: Florida A&M and the death of Robert Champion. The program airs at 9 a.m. on ESPN and 10 a.m. on ESPN 2. After having worked on the project since January, ESPN Tuesday published an in-depth […]

Students at Florida A&M are not taking advantage of the E2 Campus emergency alert system. The system has been at FAMU since 2005, two years before the Virginia Tech massacre. Although the service is licensed for 10,000 users, fewer than 3,000 of the 13,000 enrolled students are active users are […]

A regional accrediting body is returning to Florida A&M next month to review financial aid, student records and general procedures. A special team from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools will conduct the “special visit” from April 12 to 15 according to Maurice Edington, director of the FAMU Quality […]