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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A research center led by Eren Erman Ozguven, Associate Professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, is among three institutes
featured in a new Florida State University initiative designed to amplify centers and institutes that are doing high-profile, public-impact research and connect them with donors interested in pursuing big questions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The initiative, <a href="https://www.research.fsu.edu/big-bets" target="_blank" title="Big Bets">Big Bets</a>, is being led by interim Vice President for Research Laurel Fulkerson.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Big Bets requires faculty to look several years, perhaps even a decade, into the future and articulate the major impacts their research can achieve with the infusion of a multimillion-dollar
world-changing gift,” Fulkerson said. “We recognize the delta that exists between our excellent research centers and the resources needed to make a colossal impact. This initiative is an attempt to bridge that gap and connect our centers to big thinkers with
big ideas about changing the world.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fulkerson chose three centers to work with for the initial pilot phase of the initiative – Ozguven’s Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center, the Florida Center for Reading
Research, and the Institute for Justice Research and Development.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Read more at <a href="https://isl.fsu.edu/article/research-center-led-isl-faculty-affiliate-eren-ozguven-part-fsus-new-big-bets-initiative">
https://isl.fsu.edu/article/research-center-led-isl-faculty-affiliate-eren-ozguven-part-fsus-new-big-bets-initiative</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bill Edmonds, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#782F40">Institute for Successful Longevity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#782F40">Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">850-933-7960<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:btedmond@fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">btedmond@fsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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