Florida State University System

Chapters three to five revisit the Florida State University System engineering programs and institutions presented in brief ethnographies in chapter two and build upon analyses of culture, climate, and curriculum to identify primary and secondary obstacles students face and, most importantly, the strategies used by students, faculty, staff, and administrators to cope with and overcome them. 

STEM Production in Florida State University System... 

Using information obtained from secondary sources and from related literature, this section describes STEM production in the Florida State University System (SUS), specifically comparing and contrasting Florida four-year public universities with national norms. These comparisons underscore the fact that the Florida SUS is a rich field site representing a microcosm of U.S. public universities. 

Although toxicology reports showed ephedrine in Wheeler s system at the time of his death, the Cook County coroner claimed ephedrine did not cause Wheeler s death. The Northwestern incident is not the first time that a college football player who was using ephedra supplements died. In February 2001, Florida State University football player Devaugn Darling collapsed and died after a workout. Darling s autopsy also showed that he had taken an ephedrine supplement prior to his death. The presence of ephedrine in his system, however, does not prove that it caused his death. 

Solo-Gabriele, H., Sakura-Lemessy, D. M., Townsend, T., Dubey, B., and Jembeck, J. (2003). Quantities of arsenic within the State of Florida Report 03-06, State University System of Florida. 

Hans Wolfgang Spiess received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, with H. Hartmann in 1968. After a two year s postdoctoral stay at Florida State University with R. K. Sheline, he returned to Germany and joined the staff of the Max-Planck-lnstitute, Department of Molecular Physics at Heidelberg, under the direction of K. H. Hausser. In 1975, he changed to the Chemistry Department of the University at Mainz, where he became a Professor in 1978. After professorships at the Universities of Munster (1981-82) and Bayreuth (1983-84), he was appointed as a director at the newly founded Max-Planck-lnstitute for Polymer Research in Mainz. His main research interests are development of solid-state NMR and pulsed ESR techniques for the study of structure and dynamics of synthetic polymers and supramolecular systems. 

We are grateful to the National Science Foundation for financial support, the NERDC of the State University System of Florida for use of their facilities, and to E. Buck and T. Krolikowski—Buck for helpful discussions. 

G.R. Choppin (Florida State University) is investigating the synergistic reaction of actinide-TTA complexes with brown ether adducts in benzene solutions and interaction of plutonium and other transuranic elements with the components of marine sediments under different conditions. The interaction of plutonium-238 dioxide heat source with the marine environment is also under investigation by H.V. Weiss (Naval Coastal Systems Center). 

Florida has formal articulation agreements between schools that traditionally feed students into the state university system, (feeder schools) and state universities. Despite formalized agreements, evidence shows that many students do not make the transition smoothly. In order to assess community college transfer student success when compared with those students who attend four-year institutions only, most research to date has used... 

Townsend, Timothy G. Characterization of Lead Leachability from Cathode Ray Tubes Using the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure State University System of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, December 1999. 

The Research Laboratory of the University of Central Florida (Cocoa), in addition to researching PV materials, conducts solar thermal systems testing. Other U.S. research programs are found at Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, and the Universities of Wisconsin, Texas, Delaware, Oregon, and Arizona. 

Rebekah S. Heppner is an applied cultural anthropologist and postdoctoral research scholar in the department of anthropology at the University of South Florida. Dr. Heppner holds an MBA from the University of Tampa and a B.S. from Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida in 2007. Her dissertation research comprised life history interviews of women executives in corporate environments. She is currently involved in qualitative research in the secondary education system in Florida. 

ZINDO/S is an modified INDO method parameterized to reproduce UV visible spectroscopic transitions when used with the Cl singles methods. It was developed in the research group of Michael Zerner of the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida. As with the other semi-empirical methods, HyperChem s implementation of ZINDO/S is restricted to spin multiplicities of up to a quartet state. Higher spin systems may not be done using HyperChem. 

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