News
March 8, 2024
In February, LSI Graduate Research Assistant Shelby McCrackin was one of 24 Florida State University doctoral students who were celebrated for receiving the McKnight Doctoral or Dissertation Fellowship at the 38th Annual McKnight Fellows Meeting and Research & Writing Conference in Tampa.
February 22, 2024
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has selected Florida State University’s Dr. Amanda Tazaz as one of five early-career research fellows.
February 8, 2024
As part of the USAID STEP Activity, the 1st National Foundation Literacy Symposium was held in Malawi in September. LSI was honored to take part in this groundbreaking effort.
February 2, 2024
LSI's Kate Schell Accepted to the 2024 David L. Clark Graduate Seminar in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
January 24, 2024
The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University is in its fourth year of leading the Transforming Teacher Education (TTE) activity in Zambia, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). One of the opportunities extended by the program is a semester-long residency at FSU for select Zambian teacher educators. This past fall, LSI hosted Senior Lecturers Namushi Situtu and Sandra Mulesu.
November 30, 2023
In 1969, the Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University was founded to improve learning and human performance globally. More than 50 years later, LSI at FSU remains at the forefront of developing innovative solutions that bridge theory and practice in education. In 2023, the institute continued to lead the way in learning and human performance, specifically in Malawi, Egypt, the Philippines, Uzbekistan, Rwanda and Zambia.
November 29, 2023
Florida State graduate and Learning System Institute research faculty, Dr. Amanda Tazaz, is an oceanographer on a mission to increase the diversity in the field of geoscience.
October 27, 2023
After a lifetime of living in their hometown of Tallahassee, Madeline Leaman graduated from Florida State and immediately prepared for a new life as an English teacher in Ukraine. The root of this decision tracked all the way back to seventh grade when a recruiter introduced them to the opportunities provided by the Peace Corps.
October 16, 2023
Starting in the summer of 2024 and continuing into the summer of 2025, Principal Investigator Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D., will lead a partnership of geoscience agencies in the state and several departments at FSU and Florida A&M University to develop four geoscience summer camp programs that will be implemented with pre-college students attending summer camp at the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Bend.