Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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w : fi in facts • • • through the institute on Napo- leon and the French Revolution is the pre-eminent university in the nation for the study of the French Revolution and Napoleonic history. • • • each February produces Seven Days of Opening Nights, a community festival of the fine and performing arts that brings globally known artists and performers to Tallahassee. • • • has one of the nation ' s oldest and largest schools of music, ranked fifth among public institutions, holds hundreds of concerts annually, and has over a dozen world music ensem- bles. The College of Music graduated Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in music, who was named 1999 Music Composer of the Year by Musical America and now teaches at her alma mater. • • • has an overall impact on the state ' s economy of $3.3 billion each year. • • • has the world ' s premier tropical meteorology program, whose faculty includes Professor T.N. Krishnamurti, one of the few American scientists ever honored with the world ' s top meteorology award, the International Meteorological Organization Prize. • • • has a law school ranked as one of the Top 10 in the nation for Hispan- ics. • • • opened, in March 2001, the Center for the Advancement of Hu- man Rights that trains undergraduate students from nine FSU colleges and schools to be human rights advocates and be placed with international hu- man rights organizations. • • • was ranked third nationally in the June 2003 issue of Black Issues in High- er Education magazine for number of baccalaureate degrees earned by African Americans among traditionally white universities and 10th among all U.S. universities. • • • generates nearly $1 billion in state spending power each year based on research contracts and grants alone. • • • created the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to save the memory of those who saved the world, by collecting let- ters, diaries, memoirs and photos from participants in the war effort, in order to preserve the materials for class- room teaching, scholarly research and public viewing. • • • established one of the first crimi- nology schools in the United States and is home to the oldest Ph.D. pro- gram in criminology. The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is consistently ranked among the top five nationally. • • • has an outstanding College of Motion Picture, Television and Record- ing Arts with state-of-the-art film pro- duction facilities and students who win prestigious national and international film awards. Its graduate film program is ranked in the top 10 in the nation. • • • gives students an opportunity to perform with the Flying High Circus, born in 1947, the same year as FSU. • • • is the first school in Florida to of- fer a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, • • • has a special program that fo- cuses on marketing to Hispanics.

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distinguished ctluffl. Academy award nominee and Golden Globe winner, Burt Reynolds has enjoyed enormous success as an actor and director in feature films, televi- sion, and stage productions. Reynolds is a former running back for FSU, playing for the ' 54, ' 55, and ' 57 teams. He received an honorary doctorate from FSU in 1981. tu4 £JW 58 Artistic director of the internationally acclaimed dance company, Urban Bush Women, founded in 1984 and member of the FSU dance faculty. Zollar ' s work with Urban Bush Women has earned five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. MFA 79, School of Visual Arts and Dance Zwillich became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Other honors include an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship and four Grammy nominations. She holds a Francis Eppes Distinguished Professorship at FSU ' s College of Music. Sen Tift BM ' 60, MM ' 62, College of Music BS ' 51, College of Social Sciences Askew served two consecutive terms as Governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979. He is currently a member of FSU ' s faculty and has taught at most of the state ' s public universities. BS ' 36, College of Arts and Sciences A faculty member in Chemistry, she served as the university ' s last dean of women from 1967-70. She received FSU ' s Coyle E Moore, Jr., Award for excellence in Teaching in 1964 and the 1978 Ross Oglesby Award for service and leadership. The Hoffman Teaching Laboratory bears her name. TfatftrJL BS ' 65, MS ' 66, FAMU FSU School of Engineering A former NASA astronaut, Thagard now serves on the faculty of the FAMU FSU College of Engineering. His impressive list of accomplishments includes being the first American on the Russian MIR station, the record holder for an American astronaut in space, and being the first American launched into space from other than U.S. soil. He was instrumental in establishing a challenger center in Tallahassee. Florida State Univw- rtv»- -