Tiffany McLeod stands quietly by the café, staring at a trash can with its top awkwardly leaning to the left side. Her posture exudes professional elegance, and her light cream skirt suit is stylishly accented by soft make up and flowing hair.   However, the reason she is standing so […]

Florida A&M professor and coordinator for the chemistry labs Richard A. Ford succumbed to prostate cancer and passed away Feb. 23 at 2 a.m. Professor and Chairperson of the department of chemistry Ngozi Ugochukwu said only a handful of people knew of Ford’s condition. “Mostly faculty and staff knew,” said […]

After serving this year as student body vice president, Breyon Love, a junior accounting student from Conyers, Ga., will reign as Florida A&M University’s 2011-2012 student body president and university trustee. Love and his administration want to bring much needed change to the FAMU community by enhancing student services, providing […]

The Tallahassee/St. Marks Historic Railroad, first constructed in the early 1900s, is being resurfaced. In 2006, the Florida legislature funded $5 million to the Office of Greenways and Trails, an entity within the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Roughly $3.5 million of those funds are going toward the resurfacing and […]

Unemployed Floridians are going to notice several changes to their benefits under a bill passed by the House Finance and Tax committee on Feb. 17. Recipients will no longer get 26 weeks of payouts while looking for a job and newly out-of-work people will have a harder time qualifying for […]

Ching-Jen Chen has formally announced his retirement as Dean of the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering after 19 years of service. Chen came to the College in 1992 to become the third dean of the joint university college since its creation in 1982. Dean Chen noted in […]

The Office of Financial Aid is going paperless. In an effort to be more sustainable, OFA will no longer send out paper notifications regarding student financial aid by the next school year. Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Marcia Boyd said that over 17,000 notifications are mailed to students each […]

It’s the week before spring break and while students are planning to have a good time, many are leaving their personal belongings behind. For many students, once classes are over this week they will be heading to another destination. Whether it be back home to spend time with their families […]

A number of Florida’s costly inmates may be released from Florida prisons, if a proposed senate bill is passed. On Dec. 1, 2010, Sen. Christopher Smith (D-Fort Lauderdale), filed Senate Bill 144. The bill would create an Elderly Rehabilitated Inmate Program to provide a means for the release of inmates […]

On a mid-February afternoon in Thomasville, Ga., Jack Hadley woos Girl Scout Troop # 450 with, surprisingly, a history lecture. At first, the group of girls appeared exhausted, because according to Hadley and their troop leader, Teresa Harris, they had been touring the 5000-square-foot Jack Hadley Black History Museum for […]