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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

What does it take to be an entrepreneur, critically acclaimed author, celebrity makeup artist and mother of three? Just ask Florida A&M alumna Brandi Mitchell, who has done all of this and more since her days on the “Hill.” Mitchell’s book, “The Blended Family Survival Guide,” was coined “Book of […]

Over 200 of Leon County children of all ages, along with their parents and athletes came to help bring awareness to type-two diabetes, on a sunny Saturday morning at Tom Brown Park. “I am very excited about the event,” said Executive Director of Leon County Schools Foundation Sheila Costigan. “I’m […]

At the rate that red-light cameras are being installed in Tallahassee, there might be a traffic camera at every major intersection in the next few years. As of Friday, a third traffic camera has gone into use at the Apalachee Parkway and Magnolia Drive intersection, which will be monitoring its […]