• Gold Medal Awards & Membership Social

    Each fall, the Society invites members to attend a free get-together that features catered food and a social hour that serves as a prelude to the presentation by the Society’s Gold Medal Honoree.  This award, established in 2004, is annually bestowed by the Society on a scientist or scholar selected from the Tallahassee community whose career achievements in science or science education and outreach are deemed exemplary. This year’s nominee is Dr. Harrison Prosper, the Kirby Kemper Professor of Physics at FSU.  He is a high-energy physics researcher and played a significant role in the discovery of the Higgs boson.  His research interests include high-energy physics, cosmology, advanced analysis methods…