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2011 SPRING HOUSING GUIDE
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HOUSING | 19 MONDAY FEBRUARY 21-23, 2011
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New mural painted on Gaines Street Community art project commemorates Seven Days of Opening Nights
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Contributing Writer FSU and Tallahassee community members have turned the blank canvas of a building wall into a community mural celebrating the arts on the corner of Gaines Street and Railroad Avenue, corresponding the mural’s painting with Seven Days of Opening Nights festival. Steve MacQueen, Executive Director for the Seven Days of Opening Nights, came up with the idea for a community mural and approached Dave Gussak, Chair of Art Education Department at FSU, last year for help on the project. Gussak in turn, helped get the art education department involved. “I hope to create a project that the community can be involved in and get excited about, and I hope to help make
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Many local artists, students and faculty help paint the mural on Gaines Street and Railroad Avenue.
Two-day conference aims to spread knowledge of cutting-edge field and showcase potential benefits
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the city look nicer,” said MacQueen. After collaborating with Gussak, MacQueen approached the Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) last summer with the project idea, and the CRA provided an $8,000 grant to fund the project. The mural is located on the south side of Gaines Street, in what’s known as the Greater Frenchtown/Southside Community Redevelopment Area. Rick McCraw, community redevelopment coordinator with the CRA, said this mural is one of many efforts to redevelop and physically improve the Gaines Street area. “The revitalization and creation of a sense of place and a sense of destination is part of our redevelopment
Evolutionary medicine experts to gather at FSU
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A handful of some of the most recognized men and women in evolutionary medicine will be speaking at Florida State University’s two day conference on Feb. 25 and 26 entitled “Evolutionary Medicine: Contributions to the Study of Disease and Immunity.” Keynote speakers include one of the founders of the evolutionary medical field, Dr. Randolph Nesse of the University of Michigan, and co-author of the field’s first textbook, Sir Peter Gluckman of the University of Auckland (New Zealand). Also scheduled to pres-
ent are Kathleen Barnes from the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health; Paul Ewald, director of the Evolutionary Medicine Program at the University of Louisville; and Michael Ruse, the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. “We are having some of the world’s leading experts on evolutionary medicine come to speak,” said Joseph Gabriel, an assistant professor in the FSU College of Medicine and a member of the conference’s organizing committee. “It is tremendously exciting.” Evolutionary medicine is the application of evolutionary knowledge to the understanding and
treatment of health and disease. Nesse, who is a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, director of the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program at the university and the author of Why We Get Sick, described the field as scientists’ way of understanding why natural selection has left the body with vulnerabilities. David Houle, a professor in the FSU Department of Biological Science, said the organizational committee chose evolutionary medicine as the topic of their symposium because the medical community currently lacks education in evolutionary matters.
“For students who are interested in working in health-related fields, just getting a sense of evolutionary knowledge can be helpful in understanding disease and health in human beings,” said Houle. The first day of the conference will take place at the auditorium of the FSU College of Medicine from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It will continue Saturday in room 1024 at the King Life Sciences Building from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Speakers will be presenting throughout both conference days with coffee and lunch breaks in between. Registration for the conference is free and open to the public.
To register and to find a complete schedule, visit www.bio. f s u . e d u / Fo w l e r I I / . “This is a rare opportunity for students to learn about an important direction that medical science is taking,” said Gabriel. “Anyone in interested in medicine or the biomedical sciences should attend.” Conference cosponsors include FSU’s College of Medicine, Department of Biological Science, and History and Philosophy of Science Program. Support for the event comes from the Frank and Yolande Fowler Endowment in Modern Molecular Biology and the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Endowment Fund. *Delivery Extra
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