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Jie Chen  Jie Chen earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Florida State University. Biography Jie Chen is from a small village in central China with only a few hundred people. He was a curious child, always asking questions about how things work and why things are the way they are. He spent a…

DR. DOUGLAS STORACE Doug Storace earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at Florida State University Biography Dr. Douglas Storace didn’t think he was particularly curious as a child. He grew up in Connecticut in what he describes as an average family. He developed an interest in music and studied piano with a classically trained…

Dr. Stephen Beesley  Dr. Beesley earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2021 at Florida State University College of Medicine. Biography Stephen Beesley was born in Bolton, a city in the northwest part of England near Manchester. He attended the University of Leeds, where he studied biochemistry and molecular biology. From a young age, Stephen felt…