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Sockwell wins award at LANL

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Created: Wednesday, 12 September 2018 14:23
Last Updated: Sunday, 16 September 2018 10:11

Chad Sockwell, a Scientific Computing doctoral student, recently won the outstanding poster award at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s student research symposium; his poster was recognized in a meeting that had over 300 entries. Sockwell received the outstanding poster award for his research and presentation in the Earth and Space Sciences category. His research entitled, Exponential Integrator - Krylov Methods for Mimetic Ocean Models, is part of a one year project Sockwell is completing at the lab.

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FSU’s Center for Anchored Phylogenomics changes the way we study evolution

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Created: Monday, 23 July 2018 11:45
Last Updated: Friday, 17 August 2018 11:51

by Zachary Boehm

Alan & Emily Lemmon

Thanks to the development of a specialized gene sampling technique by center co-directors and husband-and-wife Alan and Emily Lemmon, FSU researchers have finally begun to chip away at this conundrum — and in doing so, they just might have helped to change the way that we study evolutionary biology forever.

For decades, the process of generating phylogenies (sprawling evolutionary trees) had been tiresome, time consuming and often prohibitively expensive, with hundreds of thousands of dollars being poured into relatively narrow individual studies.

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Chen Huang helps set record number of prestigious NSF awards at FSU

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Created: Friday, 25 May 2018 15:55
Last Updated: Friday, 25 May 2018 16:07

A record number of Florida State University faculty members have received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award this year for researchers in the early stages of their careers.

Five Florida State University assistant professors have received the award that carries funding for their lab as well as the opportunity to work closely with the NSF in refining the direction of their research.

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