National attraction: FSU doubles number of National Academy members on faculty

With recent hires in the College of Medicine and the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Florida State University has doubled the number of its faculty who are members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a prestigious organization that unites leading researchers from around the country.

“Florida State University is a leading research university and an excellent place to grow an academic career,” said FSU President Richard McCullough. “Our ability to attract these esteemed faculty members is a testament to that commitment.”

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, or NASEM, are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Their work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion and advance the pursuit of science, engineering and medicine.

The university now counts 12 NASEM members among its faculty, an increase from six in 2024.

“These National Academy members want to be a part of FSU because the administration, faculty and students value their contributions and the opportunity to collaborate,” said Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Jim Clark.

This year, FSU added National Academy members A. Stewart Fotheringham to the Department of Geography, Regan Bailey to the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, and Patrick Stover to the Department of Biomedical Sciences.

Fotheringham is the Krafft Professor of Spatial Data Science and the director of the Spatial Data Science Center. His research focuses on the analysis of spatial data sets using statistical, mathematical and computational methods, which he applies to topics such as health data, crime patterns, migration and more.

Bailey is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine and co-director of the Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health. She is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research is focused on promoting health through nutrition across the lifespan. Her research program uses best practices for characterizing nutritional status, improvement of dietary assessment and chronic disease risk using a life course approach.

Stover is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and co-director of the Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health. He is known for his research on folate metabolism and its crucial role in human health. His work has helped uncover how folate, a B-vitamin, affects critical biological processes such as DNA synthesis, repair and methylation, and it has shown how folate deficiencies could lead to severe health consequences such as neuropathies, cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

The number of National Academy members on the faculty is an important factor for institutional membership in the Association of American Universities, or AAU, a group of leading research universities.

National Academy members at FSU are working on game-changing research across campus:

National Academy of Sciences
Greg Boebinger, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences; director emeritus of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Laura Greene, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences; chief scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Steven Stanley, Department of Biological Science, College of Arts and Sciences
A. Stewart Fotheringham, Department of Geography, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy
Patrick Stover, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine

National Academy of Medicine
Regan Bailey, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine
Barbara J. Culliton, College of Communication and Information
Susan B. Hassmiller, College of Nursing
Jill Quadagno, Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy

National Academy of Engineering
David C. Larbalestier, Department of Mechanical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; chief materials scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Manoj Shah, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Longya Xu, Office of the Dean, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

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