Join fellow students and College faculty and staff to kick-off your FSU studies in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. We’re celebrating your opportunities to learn from world-class faculty in a challenging and supportive environment that will help you achieve your personal goals.

Ph.D, Master’s, and even undergraduate students conduct research with faculty that leads to publications. Many of these papers are published in top criminology journals, making our graduates very attractive as professors and researchers at institutions across the country. Here’s a collection of publications that feature faculty collaborations with our current students and alumni: * Students, both current and alumni, are highlighted in bold.

http://criminology.fsu.edu/p/mailer-undergrad-031508.php?view=1

Thursday, March 20, 3:30 p.m. Claude Pepper Auditorium, 636 West Call Street

New scholarships prepare law enforcement officers for service in small departments.

CCJ 6065 Professional Development in Criminology provides Ph.D. students with the key skills for engaging in professional activities that lead to successful scholarly work. The primary focus of the class is on the strategies and proficiencies needed to translate students substantive research agenda into a successful career one that advances both the students goals and the body of knowledge in their chosen area of study.

FSU’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Department of Computer Science have teamed up to offer a new Computer Criminology Degree. Computer criminology includes both how to use computers to facilitate the study of crime and the study of how crimes are accomplished through the use of computers.

There are a lot of variables that factor in to deciding what university and city are a good fit for a graduate’s first faculty position: size of the city and university, proximity to family, the institution’s financial resources, recreational opportunities, departmental research focus. Congratulations to our PhD students who have secured faculty positions for next fall and found the place that was the right fit for them.

Undergraduate criminology student Mary Delina Wright has been awarded a 2006 University Honors Thesis Grant. The grant will support her research leading to an honors thesis, specifically focusing on the public controversy that arose about the book Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil and its author, Hannah Arendt.

Gordon P. Waldo Fellowship Provides $16,500 a year plus out-of-state tuition waivers. Awarded to highly motivated FSU criminology doctoral students with the intellectual curiosity necessary to challenge popular ideas about the causes, consequences, and control of crime. Partners Waldo Fellow with College faculty who are leading researchers in a field the fellow is interested in pursuing. Criminology and Public Policy and Social Problems Fellowships