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Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments. Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

For nearly fifteen years, Bhushan Dahal has been a key figure in education reform in his home country of Nepal through his work with the nonprofit organization Kids of Kathmandu. In that time, the organization has built 11 schools housing 6,000 students, which include ten computer labs, and nine libraries, furniture, and water purification system.

Hack Disaster - The International Hackathon to Rebuild Cities is the first-ever online hackathon that partners Ukrainian Students with US Students to help solve the world’s most urgent and critical challenges.

Florida State’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI) is leading the USAID Tunoze Gusoma (Schools and Systems) activity in Rwanda. The activity supports the Ministry of Education in ensuring that the Kinyarwanda literacy environment is of high quality and welcoming.

The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University has received its first-ever grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments. Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

The Florida Philanthropic Network (FPN) has awarded Florida State University’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI) a grant to implement the “Afterschool Math Success: Developing the Vision and Support” project. The grant will be implemented by LSI’s Florida Center for Research in STEM (FCR-STEM), with Carrie Meyers, LSI’s Director of STEM Outreach, serving as the Principal Investigator.

Our teams at LSI, FCR-STEM, and CPALMS were busy #InnovatingLearning this summer‼️ Take two minutes and check out everything we were up to.

The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University staff featured in FSU's August Faculty and Staff Briefs

Bhushan Dahal, a graduate research assistant at the Learning Systems Institute and Ph.D. student at the FSU College of Education, Health and Human Science, has been selected by the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) as a 2024-26 Jackson Scholar.