State University System of Florida
Public university system in Florida
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| 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. |
| 2018 | Conducted low-velocity impact experiments studying regolith behavior under asteroid-level gravity conditions, published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. |
| 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% |
| 2012 | Florida Polytechnic University established in Lakeland. |
| 2010 | State University System of Florida experienced significant student enrollment growth of 12% compared to previous years |
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