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April 1, 2025
A Fulbright Visiting Scholar grant brought Dr. Ely Djulia Katmadihardja to Florida State University, but this wasn't her first time at FSU. This fellowship represents a full circle moment for Dr. Djulia, who began working with the Learning Systems Institute at FSU in 2006. Working at FSU and with LSI has perfectly fit Dr. Djulia's goals of integrating culturally responsive pedagogy into STEM education. Dr. Djulia is home in Indonesia but has shared some highlights of her time as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.
March 21, 2025
Dr. Michelle Aguilar-Ong, an alumnus of Florida State University's Learning Systems Institute (LSI) Community College Administrators Program (CCAP) and was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at LSI, has been sworn in as the new special adviser for Local Colleges and Universities by the Commission on Higher Education in the Philippines.
March 7, 2025
LSI staff featured in February's FSU Faculty and Staff Briefs
March 4, 2025
More than 20,000 Florida educators have completed the Florida Department of Education's Civics Seal of Excellence course, which is hosted on a portal developed by LSI and FCR-STEM and built on the CPALMS platform.
February 28, 2025
After two weeks to submit proposals and an evaluation process, Dr. Celia Reddick, Julie Twomey and Dr. Brenda Wawire were selected for funding for their proposal “Strengthening school experiences for refugee young people, families, and their teachers in Tallahassee.”
February 20, 2025
The Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University was honored with the Multilingual Education Leadership Award at a ceremony in Nigeria this morning. The University of Maiduguri Language Centre presented the award in collaboration with UNICEF.
February 19, 2025
The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University has been nominated for the Multilingual Education Leadership Award by the University of Maiduguri Language Centre in Nigeria. The award will be presented in collaboration with UNICEF.
February 17, 2025
The photo exhibition Ukraine: War and Resistance is a traveling project by Fulbright Ukraine & Institute of International Education (IIE) Kyiv Office, in partnership with various co-organizers in the U.S. and Europe. The authors of the photographs are almost all Fulbright Alumni who are either from Ukraine, or American Fulbrighters to Ukraine who have lived and worked for several years or more within the country.
February 11, 2025
After 20 hours of virtual instruction, teachers from Florida’s panhandle counties are returning to their classrooms with cutting-edge skills in AI Prompt Engineering. The AIENGIN102 course, "Leveraging AI Prompt Engineering for Engineering Design Pedagogy," is part of FSU’s InSPIRE activity and was administered by staff at Florida State University’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI).
February 4, 2025
Oleksandra Matviichuk, one of the most prominent human rights defenders in Ukraine and head of the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), will be presenting at Florida State University. CCL is the first Ukrainian organization to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, which it won in 2022.