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2022-08-07 12:30
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLA new study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine in July found that Black medical students at historical… Read More
2022-08-06 15:15
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLRattler football players continue to rack up preseason honors. This week linebacker Isaiah Land, wide receiver X… Read More
2022-08-05 11:12
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLAtty. Ben Crump who has been dubbed "Black America's attorney general" by the public for his work helping families in high-profile ci… Read More
2022-08-04 12:31
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLFAMU expects to expand its campus footprint with the purchase four parcels of land that include 118 beds student housing that border… Read More
2022-08-03 15:04
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLFAMU will participation in the Grow with Google HBCU Career Readiness Program. The initiative helps students at over 30 Historically… Read More
2022-08-02 12:22
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLThe FAMU Cheerleaders, yesterday, placed first in the 45 Second Gameday in the All Girls Division and won the Most Collegiate award a… Read More
2022-08-01 04:05
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLStudent debt remains a stubborn obstacle that prevents Black Americans from securing financial stability in the short term and financ… Read More
2022-07-31 20:23
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLIndelible Business Solutions, one of the nation’s fastest-growing management consulting firms, founded by FAMU School of Busine… Read More
2022-07-30 14:01
2022-07-29 16:54
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLToday, Damilola E. Ologunagba will be one of more than a dozen FAMU students graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree, and one o… Read More
2022-07-28 15:00
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLA new report from the United Negro College Fund calls on Congress to invest an additional $6.5 billion in to the nation&rsq&hell…Read More
2022-07-27 11:47
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLTwo FAMU College of Agriculture and Food Sciences (CAFS) professors have been named members of National Academy of Invento… Read More
2022-07-26 13:04
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLFAMU President Larry Robinson was one of six HBCU presidents to visit Tel Aviv earlier this month for an inaugural HBCU leaders&rsquo&hell…Read More
2022-07-25 12:49
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLA team of 10 graduate and 12 undergraduate students from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering were selected by NASA to compete in the… Read More
2022-07-24 16:49
Bragg Stadium's new press box. photo by Vaughn WilsonStay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLOn Friday, Bragg Stadium's new press box, a major pi… Read More
2022-07-23 16:20
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLFAMU home football games against Albany State and Arkansas Pine-Bluff (homecoming) will be televised on HBCU-GO network. The ha… Read More
2022-07-22 14:55
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLSix large trucks carrying Bragg Stadium's new press box arrived late yesterday afternoon accompanied by truck escort vehicles as requ… Read More
2022-07-21 12:24
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLFAMU, and other HBCU football fans, looking to catch football games on ESPN+ this fall will have shell out a bit more money this year… Read More
2022-07-20 11:53
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLFAMU men’s golf coach Mike Rice has accepted a similar position at SWAC foe Prarie View A&M University. Rice who headed the… Read More
2022-07-19 12:03
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLThe FAMU volleyball team added two transfers to its roster in the form of Jada Taylor from Grambling State and N… Read More
2022-07-18 11:24
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLLast week over 600 middle and high school students from as far away from as far away as California, Maryland, Michigan, Wy… Read More
2022-07-17 13:56
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) championed a state law limits what schools and workplaces can teach about race and identity.Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLThe University of C… Read More
2022-07-16 13:22
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLYesterday, FAMU announced its intention to assist students who are unable to secure housing in one of the university's on-campus resi… Read More
2022-07-15 12:17
FAMU Head Football Coach Willie Simmons has been recognized as one of the top 45 minority coaches under 45 to watch for future Division I head-coaching jobs by ESPN."Other than&nbs&hell…Read More
2022-07-13 12:51
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLSeveral hundred frustrated parents of incoming FAMU freshmen unsure of where their students are going to live and unsure of how much… Read More
2022-07-12 12:23
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLFAMU will receive $500,000 from the National Park Service (NPS) to assist with preserving the historic parts of the Samuel H. Co… Read More
2022-07-11 13:20
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLTimothy A. Barber, a FAMU alumnus and long-time executive director of the Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South F… Read More
2022-07-10 13:08
Stay up to date follow us on Twitte @RattlerNationFLCandace Harris, who was the fifth black woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from FAMU in 2018, is an experimental physicist in the Weapo… Read More
2022-07-09 15:02
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLBragg Stadium ranks as the 3rd toughest places for a visiting opponent to play, according to The Clarion Ledger &hell…Read More
2022-07-08 12:43
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLShortly after being thrust in to the interim AD role for the third time in April, AD Michael Smith quickly announced the postponemen… Read More
2022-07-07 08:47
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLAfter coming off a 3-25 season, their worst in 20 years, the FAMU women’s basketball program has taken advanta… Read More
2022-07-05 23:52
Exactly what the new press box at Bragg Memorial Stadium will look like has been a closely guarded secret. The FAMU Division of Facilities Planning, which has been managing the $12 mil… Read More
2022-07-05 14:33
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLAlan Hanstein has been appointed as the executive director for the Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee (CLCTLH), an outreach a… Read More
2022-07-04 15:05
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLHappy Fourth of July to you and your families!Holidays are for families!The Rattler Nation Team hope that all of you have a won… Read More
2022-07-03 04:01
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLJames Aaron Turk Sr. and Rosemarie "Rose" King Turk celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary last Saturday in Gainesville, FL… Read More
2022-07-01 04:21
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLFlorida Board of Governors, yesterday, announced the State University Systems’ Performance-Based Funding allocations for 2022… Read More
2022-06-30 11:36
Andrew ChinStay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLAndrew Chin, the long-time associate dean of the School of Architecture and Engineering Technology (SA+ET) has been named… Read More
2022-06-29 04:02
FAMU School of Allied Health Dean Cynthia “Cindy” Hughes-Harris and School of Architecture and Engineering Technology Dean Rodner Wright have both decided to retire at the end of… Read More
2022-06-28 13:30
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe FAMU School of Allied Health Sciences’ (SOAHS) respiratory care program received the Distinguished RRT (Registered Respira… Read More
2022-06-27 11:46
2022-06-26 04:01
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLInterim AD Michael Smith, along with Football Coach Willie Simmons and Volleyball Coach Gokhan Yilmaz took to the road Friday f… Read More
2022-06-25 16:09
Two members of the FAMU Rattler football team --- Isaiah Land and Jah'Marae Sheread were named to Athlon Sports’ 2022 FCS Preseason All-American Team.L… Read More
2022-06-24 06:57
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe FAMU Marching 100 added another noteworthy performance to their already lengthy resume yesterday as members of the band performe… Read More
2022-06-22 15:40
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLPamela Rentz, a senior broadcast journalism major with a minor in African American Studies., has been admitted to the Rhoden Fe… Read More
2022-06-21 15:17
Three FAMU students received Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to finance their studies overseas. Bryana Pittman, Laila J. Spinner, and Haley Wilson will be studyi… Read More
2022-06-20 18:51
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLMississippi’s three public HBCU’s -- Jackson State University, Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley Stat… Read More
2022-06-19 04:02
FAMU grad Aubrey Perry, receives $75,000 in venture capital funding for his Orlando-based technology company, Revoix LLC, which recently launched the Crackem app a contactless… Read More
2022-06-18 14:13
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLOur friends at Mega Ace Media provided this latest 360 degree aerial view of Bragg Memorial Stadium's West side reconstruction. The… Read More
2022-06-17 04:02
FAMU has received $495,000 from the Florida Department of State to begin renovations to the “Sunshine Manor” which served as the campus home to three FAMU presidents John Robert… Read More
2022-06-16 04:02
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe Biden-Harris administration has tapped FAMU grad and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to serve as senior advisor to the… Read More
2022-06-15 04:13
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLWhen the fall college sports season begins in a few month, thousands of athletes, trainers, and coaches will be on the road each wee… Read More
2022-06-15 01:47
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Report (APR) on Tuesday, and FAMU football team’s multi-year APR sco… Read More
2022-06-14 04:02
FAMU is on par to have a record-breaking year in research funding for 2021-22. So far this year, the university has taken in more than $72 million in grants.With the cu… Read More
2022-06-13 04:01
FAMU’s 4-year graduation rate for first time in college, full-time students, entering in 2017-21 was 27%, a 7.6 % decline from the 34.6% for the 2016-20 cohort. The 27%… Read More
2022-06-12 04:02
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with a plan to the ban sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes in the United States. The ban would most likely have the de… Read More
2022-06-11 09:20
Hiram Powell, Bethune-Cookman University's interim president abruptly retired, the university announced late Wednesday. Powell had worked at B-CU in various capacities for more tha… Read More
2022-06-09 21:46
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLAdditional details have emerged about the FAMU’s Incomparable Marching “100” Band invitation to appear at the… Read More
2022-06-09 13:36
New Gaither Gym floor 2022Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLFAMU basketball coach Robert McCollum expressed his disdain that the new floor in Gaither Gym did not incl… Read More
2022-06-08 12:48
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLSierra Leone Ambassador Waleed Shamsid-Deen, a 1994 graduate of FAMU, visited campus last week to discuss strategic partnership oppo… Read More
2022-06-07 11:47
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe number of new COVID cases in Leon County are the highest they’ve been in about three months, more than triple last month… Read More
2022-06-05 12:49
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLAnosh Gill, a FAMU professor who serves as the interim division director of the Division of Graphic Communications in the School of… Read More
2022-06-04 16:00
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe number of U.S. College students who leave college without a degree or any credential has risen to in the past two years, accordi… Read More
2022-06-03 12:09
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe FAMU Golf team is one of six HBCU teams selected to compete in the inaugural Charlie Sifford Centennial Cup golf tournament set… Read More
2022-06-02 12:17
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLAs of May 23rd, FAMU had raised more than $23 million during FY 21-22, exceeding its goal of raising $12 million by $11million dolla… Read More
2022-06-01 12:07
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLRevenue for FAMU’s football/basketball season ticket sales were off by 39.5% for the FY 21/22 year, according to the most rece… Read More
2022-05-31 14:14
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLBLACK ENTERPRISE Magazine recently visited the FAMU campus to experience its one-of-a-kind tradition “Set Fridays,”… Read More
2022-05-29 07:16
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLFAMU baseball's season came to an end Saturday evening after a 10-2 loss to Southern University in the semi-final game of the SWAC T… Read More
2022-05-28 15:49
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLFAMU will kick off its 2022 football season with back-to-back nationally televised games. The Rattlers first game of the… Read More
2022-05-27 19:53
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLNew data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center provide a final tally on enrollment for the spring of 2022 &md&hell…Read More
2022-05-26 11:29
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe FAMU baseball team defeated Prairie View A&M Panthers 5-4 in a thrilling ten inning contest in the 2022 SWAC Base… Read More
2022-05-25 16:29
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLWhen it was built in the 1920’s, FAMU’s hospital was the only one that treated African Americans in North Florida… Read More
2022-05-24 16:28
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLSuvranu De, Ph.D., has been named the next dean of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His first day is July 15.De currently serves… Read More
2022-05-23 12:55
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLCarlos A. Reyes Ortiz, M.D., Ph.D., an associate public health professor in the FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences… Read More
2022-05-22 12:28
The FAMU baseball team (26-28, 19-11 SWAC) got back on track yesterday and defeated Bethune-Cookman (24-28, 19-11 SWAC) 6-1 to close out the regular season. The victory halted the Rattl… Read More
2022-05-21 19:08
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe FAMU Dining Hall in the Student Services Center has received a major renovation and upgrade in 2021 that brings a modern feel to… Read More
2022-05-20 14:39
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLThe FAMU (25-27, 18-10 SWAC) baseball team dropped game one of its three game home series against the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats (24-2… Read More
2022-05-19 16:36
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLYesterday, FAMU interim Athletic Director Michael Smith visited with the FAMU 220 Quarterback Club at their weekly luncheon to discu… Read More
2022-05-18 14:18
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLFAMU is one of a handful of HBCUs that will receive a share of a $60 million gift from Blue Meridian Partners designed to … Read More
2022-05-17 14:03
Black med school students pose at former slave quarters.Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLTwo HBCUs --- Morgan State University and Xavier University o… Read More
2022-05-16 12:29
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLGallop Franklin II, a Tallahassee pharmacist and FAMU pharmacy professor, is the first candidate to file for the now vacant FL House… Read More
2022-05-15 10:58
FAMU baseball (25-24, 18-7 SWAC) dropped both games in its doubleheader with Jackson State Saturday yesterday in Jackson, MS, losing 4-3 and 9-2. The losses dropped the Rattl… Read More
2022-05-14 14:43
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLFAMU baseball (25-23, 18-6 SWAC) will travel to Jackson, Mississippi, for their final road series against Jackson State (23-25, 10-1… Read More
2022-05-12 15:00
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLSierra Lyons, a FAMU Broadcast Journalism major from Pensacola, FL, has been selected as an Ida B. Wells Society – NPR (Nation… Read More
2022-05-12 04:16
FAMU has joined forces with Adobe Inc. and has been named an Adobe Creative Campus. As part of the partnership FAMU students, faculty and staff will have full access to Adobe Crea… Read More
2022-05-10 11:37
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLFAMU has been awarded a seven-figure gift from Frank and Laura Baker to help students graduate in four years. Recipients of these gr… Read More
2022-05-09 15:41
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLWork on Bragg Stadium's westside is progressing ahead of schedule, according to an early May update by Mega Ace Media. After 10… Read More
2022-05-08 16:07
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLFAMU baseball (24-23, 17-6 SWAC) won both games in a Saturday doubleheader against Alabama State at Moore-Kittles Field in Tallahass… Read More
2022-05-07 13:38
Just 16 days after resigning as FAMU Athletic Director Kortne Gosha has landed a new job at Tulane University in New Orleans, La. According to news reports… Read More
2022-05-06 15:13
The FAMU Rattler baseball team (22-23, 15-6 SWAC) will host a weekend series with SWAC East leaders Alabama State (24-18, 15-4 SWAC) beginning this afternoon with first pitch scheduled for 5… Read More
2022-05-05 13:27
The FAMU baseball team (22-23, 15-6 SWAC) picked up its first non-conference win of the season defeating the Jacksonville U 5-0 (23-19) at Sessions Stadium in Jacksonville, FL. The… Read More
2022-05-04 12:25
FAMU won a $20,000 grant from the 13th annual Home Depot Retool Your School program. FAMU came in 10th place in the large school category (cluster 1). Alabama… Read More
2022-05-03 13:47
Shawnta Friday-Stroud, Ph.D., vice president for University Advancement and executive director of the FAMU Foundation and Dean of the School of Business & Industry, has been named chair… Read More
2022-05-02 04:02
FAMU, President Larry Robinson congratulated more than 1,300 new graduates during ceremonies at the Al Lawson Center over the weekend. Keynote speakers were Kenneth T. Welch, mayor of S… Read More
2022-05-01 07:23
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLTwo former FAMU Rattler football players had their NFL dreams come true Saturday as both Savion Williams and Ma… Read More
2022-04-29 11:12
FAMU will confer honorary degrees on retired educator Otis A. Mason and entrepreneur and philanthropist William F. Pickard, Ph.D. during the Friday, April 29 commencement ceremony. Both men… Read More
2022-04-27 11:08
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLTwenty-eight FAMU students athletes will participate in spring commencement exercises this weekend.Football leads all sports with te… Read More
2022-04-26 11:27
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLYesterday, FAMU’s COVID-19 Testing site marked its second. What began as a short-term initiative to slow the spread of CO… Read More
2022-04-26 00:25
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLNew details have emerged around the circumstances which may have led to former FAMU Athletics Director Kortne Gosha's sudden resigna… Read More
2022-04-25 11:38
Stay up to date follow us on Twitter @RattlerNationFLCollege Consensus, a unique college rating website that aggregates publisher rankings and student reviews, recently ranked FAMU… Read More
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