David Lawrence Jr. reappointed to FAMU Board of Trustees
Gov. Ron DeSantis last week announced the appointment of David Lawrence Jr. to the Florida A&M University Board of Trustees.
Lawrence Jr., of Coral Gables, is Chair of The Children’s Movement of Florida.
Previously, he was publisher of The Miami Herald, publisher and executive director of the Detroit Free Press and editor of the Charlotte Observer.
Lawrence Jr., who has served on the FAMU Board of Trustees since 2015, is Director Emeritus on The Everglades Foundation Board of Directors and is a former Chairman of both the Children’s Trust of Miami-Dade County and the Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade/Monroe.
Two FSU faculty earn Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor honor
Two Florida State University faculty members, one a scholar of Shakespeare and the other a nuclear astrophysicist, will be given the highest honor that the faculty bestow upon their own – they will each be named a Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor.
Professor of Physics Jorge Piekarewicz and Professor of English Gary Taylor have been selected to receive the honor for 2021-2022. Both professors are from the College of Arts and Sciences, FSU’s largest and most academically diverse college.
The Lawton Distinguished Professor Award was first presented in 1957 as the Distinguished Professor Award. It was renamed in honor of the late Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert O. Lawton in 1981.