Robin Sussingham
Robin is Senior Editor at WUSF, spearheading the station's podcasting initiatives and helping to guide the vision for special reporting projects and creative storytelling. She hosts the weekly current affairs program, Florida Matters, on WUSF and also created The Zest, the station's podcast that's all about food, which she continues to host and serve as senior producer.
Robin has earned multiple awards for reporting on science, health, the environment, culture and education. She’s hosted a daily call-in show in Salt Lake City; reported at a newspaper in north Texas; and covered many national stories for NPR, as well as publications like Newsday, the Times of London, the Tampa Bay Times, epicurious and others. She has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Duke University and a Masters Degree in Journalism from New York University. Robin thinks Florida is the most fascinating place to tell stories – and has reported on things like giant invasive lizards, how to run from an alligator (do not serpentine!), and the best wood for smoking mullet.
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The Florida House of Representatives last week wrestled with key education proposals.
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Like many parents of high school juniors, I'm getting anxious about upcoming college applications and what it'll take to get in, such as doing well on t...
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The push to bring back recess to the state's public schools got another boost Tuesday. A bill that would require 20 minutes of recess every day for...
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Physics is the most fundamental of sciences; it's an essential stepping stone for careers in engineering or science. But around the country, fewer than...
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State Sen. John Legg heads the education committee in the Florida Senate. StateImpact Florida's Robin Sussingham sat down with Legg recently, and asked...
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It's been just days since President Obama signed into law the new Every Child Succeeds Act, doing away with No Child Left Behind. State lawmakers likely...
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Remember recess? When you knew that if you just sat still for a couple more hours, you and your friends could go racing out to the merry-go-round or the...
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Representatives of those in Florida who want to opt out of standardized testing in public schools were out in force at Wednesday's Board of Education...
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It sounded like a story guaranteed to irritate taxpayers: a national study out of Rutgers university says more and more public high school students are...
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There's growing concern about the risks of concussions in young athletes. For years, high school coaches have had to take courses on the dangers of...