Developing Scholar Award goes to Blessing

Associate Professor Susan Blessing. winner of FSU's Developing Scholar Award for 2001

Associate Professor Susan Blessing received the FSU Developing Scholar Award at the university faculty awards ceremony on April 9. The Developing Scholar program is intended to identify the university's future leaders in research, and provides the awardees with $6,000 in research funding.

Blessing is a member of the D0/ Collaboration at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She is particularly well known for her work searching for phenomena which cannot be explained by the Standard Model of particle physics. Blessing's search for leptoquarks helped to resolve an international controversy.