Pathways of Excellence

FRESH TALENT TO BLAZE NEW PATHS

From Berkeley to Princeton to the Institut de France in Paris, more than a dozen researchers from prestigious institutions around the country and the world have moved to Tallahassee to join FSU’s growing faculty ranks under its ambitious Pathways of Excellence initiative, launched by President T.K. Wetherell in 2005.

The Pathways initiative outlines a hiring strategy to further boost the university’s growing research portfolio by recruiting new faculty, often nationally recognized in their fields, in clusters that are multidisciplinary but gel around a unified theme.

Below is a list of the latest talent that Pathways has so far brought to campus, along with their previous academic posts and areas of expertise:

ADVANCED MATERIALS

• Ongi Englander (U. California, Berkeley), assistant professor of mechanical engineering: expertise in silicon nanowires
• Mei Zhang (U. Texas, Dallas), associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering: expertise in nano-fabrication

EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCES

• David Cooper (Case Western Reserve U.), professor of economics: expertise in game theory and experimental economics
• Jens Grosser (Princeton U.), assistant professor of political science: expertise in voting and political systems

EXTREME EVENTS IN CLIMATE

• Philip Sura (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory), assistant professor of meteorology: expertise in stochastic climate modeling

HISTORY OF TEXT TECHNOLOGIES

• Anne Coldiron (Louisiana State U.), associate professor of English: expertise in late-medieval and Renaissance literature of England and France
• Elaine Treharne (U. of Leicester, England), professor of English: expertise in Old English and early Middle English manuscripts
• David Gants (U. of New Brunswick, Canada), associate professor of English: expertise in humanities computing
• Elizabeth Spiller (Texas Christian U.), associate professor of English: expertise in early modern literature and culture
• François Dupuigrenet Desrousilles (Institut de France, Paris), professor of interdisciplinary humanities: expertise in the literary and visual cultures of France and Italy
• Ilaria Andreoli (Ecole Normale Supérieure des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliothèques, France), assistant in English, and history of text technologies program coordinator: expertise in early modern and Renaissance book illustrations

NEUROSCIENCE

• Alan Spector (U. of Florida), professor of psychology and neuroscience: expertise in chemical sensing
• Sanjay Kumar (Stanford U.), assistant professor of biomedical sciences and neuroscience: expertise in cellular physiology of the brain
• Lisa Lyons (U. of Houston), assistant professor of biological science and neuroscience: expertise in signaling and circadian influence on memory
• Yi Zhou (U. of Alabama, Birmingham), associate professor of biomedical sciences and neuroscience: expertise in the function and regulation of neuronal ion channels

For more updates on the Pathways of Excellence initiative, please visit pathways.fsu.edu.