Cover Illustration: Robert Celander In 1997, Florida State University will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a coeducational university.

A Talk with Bob Johnson - In 1997, Florida State University will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a coeducational university. But the progress wrought by the most recent 25 years best tells the story of the university's remarkable emergence as a major center for research and graduate training.

Turning 25 - Surely one of the things it takes is a great research magazine. At least that was Johnson's thinking, when he started this one. Research in Review turns 25.

The Changing Face of Age - It may be the most subtle revolution in American history. We're living longer than ever, and the profound consequences of that fact are only now beginning to dawn on government, if not you and me.

A Mission in Magnets - Four years ago, FSU seized a scientific dream of an opportunity. Today, the world's most ambitious assault on the frontier of knowledge in high-field magnetics is officially underway in Tallahassee.

Bringing Up Baby - Is America throwing its children away? A Florida State Child Development expert offers an old-fashioned antidote for what he describes as a poison that is killing our kids' futures.

Race to the Top - They haven't found it yet, but physicists are convinced that there's an exceedingly rare breed of elementary particle abuzz at the core of matter. A team of FSU quark-hunters is hot on the trail.