<p>Florida State University's department of physics can boast of a new achievement that will serve to showcase it as one of the top programs in the nation for the study of nuclear physics. </p>
<p>The department has been selected as the host site for the National Nuclear Physics Summer School in 2007. The summer school, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington, has become something of an institution in the field of nuclear physics in the United States. It is designed for advanced graduate students and beginning postdoctoral researchers in experimental or theoretical nuclear physics; the primary aim is to provide future researchers with a broad perspective in current research in the field. (Read more about it at <a href="http://www.int.washington.edu/NNPSS/%5B/url%5D.">www.int.washington.edu/NNPSS/.</a>)</p>
<p>Following the selection of FSU to host the Nuclear Physics Summer School, the university's physics department received a subsequent vote of confidence from the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), which awarded the department a $5,315 grant to help offset the costs of hosting the summer school. SURA is a consortium of more than 60 universities located in the southeastern United States that seeks to foster collaboration among its member institutions in science and engineering.</p>
<p>Kirby Kemper, FSU's vice president for Research and a nuclear physicist himself, said the selection of FSU to host the National Nuclear Physics Summer School cements the university's reputation as a premier research university that attracts some of the top scholars in the United States.</p>
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