State University System of Florida
Public university system in Florida
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| 2024 | The $40 million Healthspan, Resilience, and Performance complex opened on IHMC's downtown Pensacola campus, aimed at becoming a hub for biomedically focused research in the region, funded in part by a Triumph Gulf Coast grant. |
| 2022 | The National Science Foundation announced that the Arecibo Observatory would not be rebuilt, and plans were made to establish an educational facility on the site. |
| 2021 | Student enrollment stabilized with 0% growth, suggesting a potential plateau in the university system's expansion |
| 2020 | Published a research paper on thermal extraction of water ice from the lunar surface using a 3D numerical model in Planetary and Space Science journal, contributing to lunar exploration research. |
| 2020 | Enrollment growth further slowed to 2%, potentially reflecting challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic |
| December 1 2020 | The Arecibo Observatory sustained a catastrophic collapse, effectively ending its decades of scientific operations. |
| November 6 2020 | Second support cable broke at the Arecibo Observatory, further compromising the telescope's structural integrity. |
| August 10 2020 | First support cable broke at the Arecibo Observatory, signaling the beginning of structural issues. |
| 2019 | STEM-Talk podcast won the Skeptics Guide to Science & Medicine award from the People's Choice Podcast Awards and was nominated for the Science & Education Webby Award. |
| 2018 | Conducted low-velocity impact experiments studying regolith behavior under asteroid-level gravity conditions, published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. |
| 2017 | STEM-Talk podcast won the Skeptics Guide to Science & Medicine award from the People's Choice Podcast Awards. |
| 2016 | IHMC completed construction of the award-winning Levin Center for IHMC Research, a 30,000-square-foot building with expanded laboratories, research areas, and offices. |
| 2016 | IHMC's paraplegic mobility research team participated in the inaugural Cybathlon, the world's first international competition for cyber-assisted athletes, with exoskeleton pilot Mark Daniel using the MinaV2 mobility device. |
| 2016 | Performed experimental study of a multi-particle system on a suborbital rocket, examining submillimetre-sized dust aggregate collision and growth properties, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. |
| July 2016 | Arecibo Observatory was surpassed as the world's largest single-aperture telescope by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China. |
| 2015 | Student enrollment continued to grow, though at a slower rate of 8% |
| June 8 2015 | IHMC Robotics team earned second place in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, overcoming significant robot damage from falls on the first day of competition. |
| 2012 | Florida Polytechnic University established in Lakeland. |
| December 2012 | The IHMC Robotics team placed second overall in phase two of the DARPA Robotics Trials, securing funding to compete in the final leg of the competition. |
| 2011 | IHMC's Evening Lecture Series was recognized by STEMflorida Inc. for promoting science, technology, engineering, and math education. |
| 2010 | State University System of Florida experienced significant student enrollment growth of 12% compared to previous years |
| January 2010 | IHMC opened a 28,000 square foot research site in Ocala, Florida, strategically located near major university research partners and the central Florida technology corridor. |
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