TWIE | This Week in Engineering |
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Plan to Attend our Biggest Networking Event!
Celebrate our 40th Anniversary with our returning alumni and their families, fellow engineering students, faculty and staff. Save the date and plan to attend the fourth annual Green & Gold Tailgate here at the college.
Friday, September 23
New facilities tours, alumni, faculty and student events during the day + Green & Gold Tailgate party in the early evening. Bring your family!
Saturday, September 24
Home games for both FAMU and FSU football:
FAMU vs Alabama A&M
FSU vs Boston College
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Interested in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work at Engineering?
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Everyone in our FAMU-FSU Engineering community is invited to join our diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the college. This past year, our Let’s Start Here (LSH) Leadership Committee began this work in earnest for our faculty, students and staff. We are currently accepting volunteer interest in serving on the newly-formed Engineering DEI Advisory Council, which will pick up where the LSH committee left off.
In addition to the DEI Advisory Council, there are myriad other ways to get involved in creating a college culture that is more inclusive, offers equal opportunities for all and celebrates the diversity on our campus. There’s something for anyone who is interested in this important work. Please take a moment to complete this form if you are interested in joining us.
Thank you!
Tisha Keller, M.A.
Marketing + Communications Director
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University and College News |
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Researchers Use 3D Culture Techniques to Develop Improved Therapy for Neurological Diseases |
Yan Li, associate professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, pulls stem cell cultures from the incubator in her lab. (M Wallheisier/FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) |
Researchers led by Yan Li in the Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering have developed a promising strategy for producing therapeutic particles in stem cells, work that could help patients with neurological diseases such as stroke or multiple sclerosis. The technique developed by researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and FSU College of Medicine combines three-dimensional growing platforms with a wave motion. The research was published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.
The particles released by cells — known as extracellular vesicles — are chemical messengers that affect the behavior of cells. They can be used to carry medicine to target organs within the body. Improving the production and effectiveness of these particles is a major field of research.
The FSU researchers combined two techniques for producing these particles. The first was to grow stem cells within a 3D culture rather than a two-dimensional one. The second was to suspend the growing cells on the platform that was rocked back and forth in a gentle motion, producing small waves that helped deliver oxygen, glucose and other nutrients to the cells. Their combined method led the stem cells to produce twice as many particles as those grown in a 2D platform.
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Opportunities for Undergraduates |
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Audubon Florida's Conservation Leadership Initiative |
We would like to extend an invitation to your student body to apply for Audubon Florida’s Conservation Leadership Initiative (CLI) program.
CLI is a year-long co-mentoring program that provides networking and learning opportunities to students at Florida’s colleges and universities that are interested in a career in environmental conservation. From October 2022 to May 2023, students in the CLI Cohort are immersed in Audubon Florida, learning more about our grassroots conservation efforts while developing valuable professional skills.
CLI students have access to one-on-one mentorship by an Audubon leader, leadership skill-building, professional development, field trips, project-planning opportunities, and more.
Please pass along this opportunity to your undergraduate students that may have an interest in the program.
Interested students are invited to join us for an optional Zoom info session Wednesday, 8/31 at 6:30pm ET.
Applications are open until Monday, September 12th at midnight. Flyers and social graphics with the program information are attached to this email for ease of sharing.
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Federal Work Study Jobs at Engineering for Approved Students! |
Click the graphic above to access online portal to apply for FWS at Engineering: Job ID 52603
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SELB wants you! Accepting Applications now. |
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The Student Engineering Leadership Board was created to assist the engineering student body as a whole, to be attentive to students' needs and be the advocated for students' issues. SELB members serve as liaison between students and the college's administration, faculty and staff.
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Student Peer Mentors Needed | Apply Now! |
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"One of the greatest values of mentors is their ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination."
– John C. Maxwell
"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself." – Oprah Winfrey
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"A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future and believe it can be obtained." – Shawn Hitchcock |
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Events
August 2022
Fall Classes Begin, August 22
Welcome Back Students Week, Monday, August 22- Friday, 26 | FAMU-FSU Engineering
Registered Student Organization (RSO) Week, Monday, August 29-Friday, Sept. 2 | FAMU-FSU Engineering
September 2022
Labor Day Holiday, September 5 | No classes, College closed
STEM Resume Cafe, Wednesday, September 14, 9:00am-1:00pm | FAMU-FSU Engineering
STEM Career & Internship Fair, Tuesday, September 20, 9:00am-3:00pm | FAMU-FSU Engineering
Green & Gold Tailgate, Friday, September 23, 2;00-7:00pm | FAMU-FSU Engineering
FSU Family Weekend, Friday, Sept. 23-25
FSU Homecoming, Sept. 26-30
FAMU Family Weekend, Oct. 1-3
FAMU Homecoming, October 25-29
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FAMU Official University Academic Calendar
https://www.famu.edu/academics/registrars-office/pdf/Fall-Calendar-2022-02-21-2022.pdf
FSU Academic Calendar:
FAMU-FSU Engineering Academic Calendar & Deadlines: https://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/students/academic-deadlines
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Challenger Learning Center Info
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Now Hiring: Guest Services Staff
Learn about the periodic table of elements and which ones can create a bang! Some age-appropriate activities may include: experiment with exploding elements such as alkali metals in water, diet coke and mentos, baking soda and vinegar, elephant toothpaste, bottle rockets, and discover what elements make the different colors in fireworks.
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Apollo 11: First Steps Edition
Timed to the 50th anniversary of NASA’s celebrated Apollo 11 mission, Apollo 11: First Steps Edition is a thrilling cinematic experience that showcases the real-life moments of humankind’s first steps on the Moon. In this special giant-screen edition of Todd Douglas Miller’s critically acclaimed Apollo 11 documentary, created exclusively for science centers and museum theaters, the filmmakers reconstruct the exhilarating final moments of preparation, liftoff, landing and return of this historic mission—one of humanity’s greatest achievements and the first to put men on the Moon. Starts Wednesday, July 20.
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Top Gun: Maverick is BACK!
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
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