2021-10-20 12:33
The FAMU Men’s Basketball team entering their first season in the SWAC has been predicted to finish sixth in the conference’s preseason poll by coaches and media. Texas Southern… Read More
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2021-10-19 10:03
FAMU grad Will Packer has been named Producer of the 94th Annual Academy Awards. The show is scheduled to air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, Marc… Read More
2021-10-18 11:42
An NCAA task force has recommended that standardized test scores no longer be required of high school applicants intending to play a Division I or Division II sport in college, the… Read More
2021-10-17 13:20
The FAMU Rattler football team got its first road win of the season with a 35-31 victory over Alabama A&M, Saturday, in Normal, AL. Tailing by a score of 28-10 with 8:21 … Read More
2021-10-16 12:06
After a year of waiting, Keishon Smith finally got to walk—in person—for his 2020 graduation ceremony at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He like, so many 2020 graduates, had… Read More
2021-10-15 12:24
Since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020, marketers have been looking for ways to link their clients’ brands with underserved communities… Read More
2021-10-14 14:37
Michée A. Lachaud, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the agribusiness program in the College of Agriculture and Food Sciences (CAFS), has received a two-year $400,000 research grant to… Read More
2021-10-13 19:22
After a one year hiatus because of the pandemic, FAMU is preparing for an "epic return" of homecoming on October 23-30, 2021.Hollywood movie producer Will Packer, is coming to town with a gr… Read More
2021-10-12 04:40
For close to 50 years, students from low-income and moderate-income families have benefited from receiving Pell Grants.Depending on their individual circumstances, they received up to $6,495… Read More
2021-10-11 12:36
The Lady Rattlers volleyball team swept Alcorn State and Prairie View A&M blanking both teams 3 sets to 0 Sunday (Oct. 10) in a home doubleheader to improve to 12-5 overall on the season… Read More
2021-10-10 10:58
The FAMU Rattler football team snapped former MEAC foe SC State's eight game Bragg Stadium winning streak Saturday night with a 30-7 win over the Bulldogs, before 14,892 fans.The win improve… Read More
2021-10-08 04:03
Nolan McCaskill, a 2014 FAMU journalism graduate, has joined the Los Angeles Times as its new congressional writer in Washington, D.C. He started Sept. 20. McCaskill joins The Times fr… Read More
2021-10-07 04:03
The FAMU Rattler Football will be front and center on the national stage as the subject of an eight episode ESPN+ docuseries Why Not Us: FAMU Football. Why Not Us: FAMU… Read More
2021-10-06 04:25
When FAMU begins construction on the second phase of Bragg Stadium’s major health and safety improvements (renovations), it will move forward with a new construction contractor and des… Read More
2021-10-05 13:05
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. donated $50,000 to the Florida A&M University Foundation Endowment. The money was raised as part of the sorority’s efforts to boost the size of endo… Read More
2021-10-03 19:38
Scoreboard was a sore spot on otherwise nice game day.For the most part, the lines to get into FAMU football game were down by a long shot, getting in and out of the Bragg Stadium parking lo… Read More
2021-10-03 14:19
Rasean McKay connected on 12 of 24 passes for 149 yards and one touchdown as the Rattler offense used a big first half to score 21 points to coast to a 28-0 victory over the  &hell…Read More
2021-10-03 06:15
2021-10-02 16:04
FAMUly,We are experiencing some issues with our primary Twitter account, so we had to create a back up account @RattlerNationFL. If you would, please go follow us on… Read More
2021-10-02 14:20
The FAMU volleyball team picked up their second straight SWAC win of the season, last night, defeating Bethune-Cookman 3-0 in Daytona. The decision propelled FAMU to a 10-5 overall record, 2… Read More
2021-10-01 12:12
Alcorn State University athletics director Derek Horne, who served as FAMU AD from September 2010 toJune 2013, announced resignation effective immediately, yesterday.The resig… Read More
2021-09-30 11:33
Willis Lyons, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of the Environment, is one of several FAMU students supported by the NOAA grant. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA… Read More
2021-09-29 12:37
On Monday, the FAMU football helped create new memories for a group of 25 kids from the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Bend by taking them on a $100 shopping spree to Academy Sports.“T… Read More
2021-09-28 11:58
The FAMU Lady Rattlers volleyball team picked up its first SWAC conference win of the season, last Saturday, by beating Mississippi Valley State 3 sets to 0 in Itta Bena, Ms. The Lady… Read More
2021-09-27 04:01
Work is nearing completion on the FAMU Marching 100’s new state-of-the-art synthetic turn practice field. Workers began installing the new surface late last week and work on… Read More
2021-09-26 04:03
When the Florida Legislature passed a law that created the modern Florida medical marijuana industry in 2017, it set steep barriers to entry. It limited the number of licenses the state coul… Read More
2021-09-25 10:19
The Lady Rattlers volleyball team dropped its SWAC opener 3-0 to Jackson State University last night, in Jackson.The Rattlers forced extra points in each of the first two sets, 28-26 and 26… Read More
2021-09-24 10:49
Three FAMU engineering students --Alleana Jacobs, Aaron Smith and Sierra Smith-- have been awarded $15,000 scholarships from Apple, as a part of the Apple HBCU Scholars progra… Read More
2021-09-23 13:16
Publix Supermarkets has made a $5,000 contribution to the FAMU Food Pantry. The food pantry is located inside of Student Health Services is open Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m… Read More
2021-09-22 15:21
U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) recognized FAMU as the No. 1 public HBCU in the country for the third year in a row. FAMU ranked No. 7 among all HBCUs in USNWR’s HBCU rankings, an… Read More
2021-09-21 04:31
The FAMU men’s basketball team will host the Oregon Ducks in the Lawson Center in November 2023. The game is a part of an “basketball educational and scheduling partne… Read More
2021-09-20 13:10
Dominique Washington, Jessa Long, and Irem Ucra, three members of the FAMU volleyball team were were named SWAC players of the week for the third straight week in a row."We ar… Read More
2021-09-19 13:35
The Lady Rattlers volleyball had their best weekend of the season winning all three games at the Auburn Invitational, including the enormous win over then-undefeated Auburn.Yesterday, the La… Read More
2021-09-18 13:45
(click on photos to enlarge)While the FAMU Lady Rattlers volleyball team had a perfect first day yesterday at the Auburn University Invitational Tournament knocking off the host team 3… Read More
2021-09-17 04:04
FAMU Board of Trustee members decided to reelect Board Chair Kelvin Lawson to a third term as chairman. Lawson’s reelection didn’t come without some maneuver… Read More
2021-09-16 05:52
Those long lines FAMU football fans experienced trying to get into Bragg Stadium on Saturday should be shorter when the Rattlers play their next home game, athletic director Kortne Gosh… Read More
2021-09-15 04:05
FAMU’s preliminary enrollment for fall 2021 is down by 496 students from fall 2020. The fall 2021 total headcount is 8,683 students, down from 9,179 in 2020.According to numbers suppli… Read More
2021-09-14 04:02
FAMU's president and the Board of Trustees will meet tomorrow and Thursday to agree upon a set of goals, along with metrics to measure success in achieving those outcomes for the 2021-22 sch… Read More
2021-09-13 05:23
FAMU rose 13 spots to No. 104 in the latest undergraduate ranking of national universities from U.S. News & World Report, and No. 13 on the social mobility index.Among HBCUs, FAMU ranks… Read More
2021-09-12 12:07
The FAMU Rattlers used a big second half to put away the Division II Ft. Valley State Wildcats in the first home football game in Bragg Stadium in two-years due to the COVID-19 pandemic by a… Read More
2021-09-11 15:55
FAMU installed 14 individuals into its 2021 Sports Hall of Fame (SHOF) Class last night at ceremonies in the Al Lawson Center. The university also formally inducted members of the… Read More
2021-09-10 12:57
FAMU volleyball team members Dominique Washington, Jessa Long, and Irem Ucra were named SWAC players of the week for the second straight week. "We are happy to see our players get… Read More
2021-09-09 14:05
Alumni members of the Alpha Xi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity this year have awarded nine FAMU students $30,000 in scholarship support for the 2021-22 academic year, the group announc… Read More
2021-09-08 04:27
At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a n… Read More
2021-09-07 04:01
The FAMU Board of Trustees will consider a proposal from the Hospital Corporation of American – Florida to name the Sim Lab with in the School of Allied Health Sciences the HCA Florida… Read More
2021-09-05 11:37
After an extended weekend of concerts, parties, pool parties, cookouts, A-list celeberaties, and spades games galore in one of the most glamorus settings in the world – Miami-Dade Coun… Read More
2021-09-04 15:16
US Reps. Al Lawson (FL) and Bennie Thompson (MS) have placed a friendly wager on Sunday’s football game between Jackson State University (JSU) and Florida A&am&hell…Read More
2021-09-03 15:39
The FAMU Marching 100 and the FAMU Concert Choir will perform as part of the pregame festivities for the NFL’s 2021 Kickoff game featuring the Dallas Cowboys and reigning Super Bo… Read More
2021-09-02 14:57
Fresh off his collaboration with New Era to deliver baseball-inspired caps, former FAMU baseball player Jerry Lorenzo’s Fear of God Essentials released his Fall ‘21 col… Read More
2021-09-01 14:08
For the first time in nearly two years its game week for the FAMU Rattler football team. This isn’t any game. It’s a nationally televised date against Jackson State Un… Read More
2021-08-31 13:21
The US Department of Education on Monday opened civil rights investigations into five states that have banned or limited mask requirements in (public K-12) schools, saying the policies could… Read More
2021-08-30 13:12
In anticipation of the start of the football season, the FAMU COVID-19 testing site has moved from Bragg Memorial Stadium to new testing site at 2507 Wahnish Way. The new site opened t… Read More
2021-08-29 15:09
Friday, public school districts throughout Florida won a crucial victory in court against Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban against mask mandates as his executive order barrin… Read More
2021-08-28 14:56
Rana CashRana Cash, a 1992 graduate of the FAMU School of Journalism and Graphic Communications has been named executive editor of The Charlotte Observer.Cash, is currently executive editor… Read More
2021-08-27 08:18
Florida is now reporting an average of 227 COVID-19 deaths each day — a state record and by far the highest count in the nation. The state’s daily death count, is fuele… Read More
2021-08-26 04:05
Mira Lowe, assistant dean for the University of Florida College of Journalism has been named Dean of the FAMU School of Journalism & Graphic Communication, both universities announc… Read More
2021-08-25 12:16
Meredith Clark, Ph.D., a FAMU grad, has been named the founding director of the Center for Communications, Media Innovation and Social Change at Northeastern University. The … Read More
2021-08-24 13:03
The Rattler Sports Network will shift to an online platform this fall, as FAMU football contest will be ditching long-time terrestrial (over-the-air) radio partner WHBX-FM (96.1 Jamz) a… Read More
2021-08-22 18:46
FAMU is one of five Historically Black Colleges and Universities collaborating with Bristol Myers Squibb on the launch the company’s Tomorrow’s Innovators project, a five-year, m… Read More
2021-08-21 12:43
The Tallahassee-based Black News Channel, the country’s first cable news network is considering moving its headquarters to Atlanta, GA., according to a story in the Atlanta Journa… Read More
2021-08-19 12:11
Boxtorow sports has the FAMU Rattler football team ranked at No. 3 in both its preseason coaches and media HBCU football polls. The Rattlers come in behind No. 1 ranked Alabama A… Read More
2021-08-18 13:19
Will PackerSix FAMU alumni are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the professional honorary organization with the state goal of advancing the and sciences of motion… Read More
2021-08-17 12:23
Maxim Dulebenets, Ph.D.Maxim Dulebenets, Ph.D., an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering for the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, recently received the 2021 FAMU junior… Read More
2021-08-16 12:38
FAMU grad Mareena Robinson Snowden made headlines in 2017 when she became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech… Read More
2021-08-15 13:37
At this year's summer commencement ceremony, a few weeks ago, FAMU hooded 18 new Ph.D.’s, one of the university’s largest classes of doctoral graduates in recent years. &nbs&hell…Read More
2021-08-14 12:28
Journey Magazine, a student publication in the FAMU School of Journalism, bought home five awards, including three first place awards, in the college division at the 2021 Society of Professi… Read More
2021-08-13 10:44
FAMU President Larry Robinson, Ph.D., yesterday, said in the face of the threat posed by the COVID-19 delta variant, the University expects students, faculty, and staff to get vaccinate… Read More
2021-08-12 04:37
The FAMU men's basketball team was traveled over 1,400 miles to Puerto Rico last week for what they are calling their "inaugural foreign tour" under head coach Robert McCullum. &nb&hell…Read More
2021-08-10 14:10
The FAMU Essential Theatre will be the recipient of a compilation of 15 plays by prominent Black writers including Slave Play, which have received a historic 12 Tony Award nominations… Read More
2021-08-09 04:02
DeSantis’ rush to reopen created a mess. His anti-mask rhetoric is extending the pandemicThroughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant metric used to judge how we’re doing has… Read More
2021-08-08 13:34
Sterling Bright, a 2020 FAMU graduate with a degree in broadcast journalism, has been named one of two inaugural Henry Aaron Fellows with the Atlanta Braves MLB team.The Braves, announced th… Read More
2021-08-06 11:50
The entire State of Florida is now a COVID hotspot.Florida reported 50,997 new cases of COVID-19 on over the last three days, an average of 17,000 new cases per day as the pandemic gains mom… Read More
2021-08-05 11:48
Two FAMU students ---Stephen Brown of Philadelphia, PA, and Kerra Kelly of McDonough, GA --- have been selected for the 2021 White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Univers… Read More
2021-08-04 04:03
The US Department of Education announced last Thursday that it will be sending historically Black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions an additional $3.2&nb&hell…Read More
2021-08-03 12:30
FAMU College of Law Professor Jennifer Smith has been selected to serve on a committee for the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). Smith has joined the Content Scope Committee… Read More
2021-08-02 15:19
With college football just over a month away, teams are busy preparing and fans are getting excited. However, there are still a few questions about how conferences and schools are handling t… Read More
2021-08-01 04:03
In a surprise move, FAMU President Larry Robinson told graduates of the Class of 2020 that would forgive more than $16 million in unpaid tuition, fees, and student account balances owed… Read More
2021-07-31 11:41
FAMU awarded honorary doctorates Friday to retired radio personality and philanthropist Tom Joyner and Adora Obi Nweze, president of the Florida State Conference of… Read More
2021-07-29 12:24
Demolition on the 57-year-old Paddyfote Housing Complex located on the corner of Gable Street and Wannish Way kicked into high gear this week. The dorm was built in 1967 and had a capac… Read More
2021-07-27 11:56
Brittany Collins, a 2015 graduate of the FAMU School of Journalism and Graphic Communications, who currently works at Huntsville, AL, TV station WAAY, as a multi-media journalist recently ha… Read More
2021-07-26 12:41
Atlanta Rattlers donate $74,225 to FAMU athletics.FAMU athletics’ eleven city “Strike Tour 21” raised $502,066 for athletic scholarships, academic support, enhanced sp… Read More
2021-07-25 17:00
Former FAMU football great and Ken Riley, who went on to have a stellar career as a cornerback with the Cincinnati Bengals, will receive a long-deserved recognition. The Bengals announc… Read More
2021-07-24 13:25
FAMU included among 27 HBCUs that will benefit from a 10-year partnership with international pharmaceutical company Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation to work towards eliminating health… Read More
2021-07-23 13:05
Florida on Wednesday reported 12,647 new cases of COVID-19, the highest daily number of cases since late January, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent… Read More
2021-07-22 12:23
FAMU has launched a campaign to encourage students, faculty and employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 by offering up to $1 million in prizes.Any employee or student who gets one of the th… Read More
2021-07-21 15:08
FAMU is making a bit of noise as a SWAC newcomer by garnering 109 points at its first SWAC Media Day, which was good enough to earn a second-place ranking in the East Division predicted orde… Read More
2021-07-20 12:14
More than 100,000 fewer high school seniors have completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms than in 2020, according to new, “disheartening” data released by the… Read More
2021-07-18 11:47
The FAMU Medical Marijuana Education and Research Initiative (MMERI) will host a virtual forum on “Cannabis for Veterans” at noon, Thursday, July 22.The episode will be streamed… Read More
2021-07-17 10:29
The FAMU Meek-Eaton Black Archives has created a memorial exhibit to celebrate highlights of former President Frederick S. Humphries’, Sr., Ph.D., tenure. The exhibit includes his… Read More
2021-07-16 14:48
Francine Huff, the Knight Chair for Student Achievement in the FAMU School of Journalism and Graphic Communications will be leaving her post to join the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) as… Read More
2021-07-15 12:34
Alan Robertson, Ed.D, who has served as FAMU Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance and Administration since January 1, 2020, has resigned effective July 31.Upon his appointm… Read More
2021-07-14 04:04
Tallahassee Strike TourFAMU alumni and supporters from Tallahassee and Orlando contributed a total of $148,800 to the Rattler Athletic Fund during recent stops of the "Strike Tour 21" c… Read More
2021-07-12 18:18
In the days before he died former FAMU President Frederick Humphries, told family members and Tennessee State President Glenda Glover, that he’d like for FAMU and Tennessee S… Read More
2021-07-11 19:45
Former FAMU President Dr. Frederick S. Humphries, Sr. was remembered as a mentor, recruiter, leader, visionary, and innovator whose legacy impacted not only Florida A&M and Tennesse… Read More
2021-07-10 16:00
The Orange Blossom Classic Committee pitting FAMU and Jackson State in a football showdown in Miami on September 5, 2021, is racking up a host of sponsors and ancillary events befitting a co… Read More
2021-07-09 05:01
According data from the US Department of Education, women currently make up 55% of the undergraduate student population at most U.S. colleges and universities and 60% of the graduate school… Read More
2021-07-08 11:58
FAMU and FSU researchers have partnered on a $1.5 million federal grant renewal to support the recruitment and academic success of research fellows from underrepresented populations. T… Read More
FAMU Awarded $1.5 Million In Performance Funds To 775 Students To Help Them Continue Their Education
2021-07-07 04:01
During the 2020-21 school year, FAMU awarded $1.5 million, from its performance-based funding allocation, to 775 students to help them continue their education. The University des… Read More
2021-07-06 04:02
Melvin Jordan, a student in the FAMU College of Agriculture and Food Sciences (CAFS) majoring biological systems engineering (BSE), was recently named the Outstanding Student of th… Read More
2021-07-04 14:17
As we celebrate the founding of our great nation ---built on the principles of freedom, equality, and democracy--- let's remember that we are still fighting to live up to the promise of thes… Read More
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