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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

November 2024

Top Story: MediaLab@FAU , a community journalism initiative in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Press Forward, a national initiative aimed at revitalizing local news and strengthening communities. MediaLab@FAU was launched in September 2023 by Ilene Prusher, senior instructor of multimedia journalism. It’s been estimated that MediaLab’s articles reached upward of 25 million people based on potential online exposure of its articles in its first year. More...

Research Thursdays Archive

Research Thursdays - New Research on the Link Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Social Connectedness by Will McConnell

November 04, 2021

McConnell, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and member of the FAU I-HEALTH Human Health and Dementia Research Focus Group.

Research Thursdays - Adrian Finucane Receives NEH Award for Summer Institute

October 14, 2021

The “Revolution in Books” draws on the strengths of the FAU Libraries by introducing the rich resources of the Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts...

Image: The 21 teachers who lost their positions for their refusal to comply with the anti-NAACP oath standing in front of the Elloree Training School in Elloree, South Carolina, on May 15, 1956. This photograph appeared in Jet magazine on June 7, 1956. (Image courtesy of photographer Cecil Williams, Cecil Williams Civil Rights Museum, Orangeburg, South Carolina.)

Research Thursdays - Article by Candace Cunningham Highlights Activism by Black Teachers in the 1950s

September 30, 2021

The article is titled “Hell Is Popping Here in South Carolina: Orangeburg County Black Teachers and Their Community in the Immediate Post-Brown Era.”...

Richard Shusterman, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and English, and Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture

Research Thursdays - New book by the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities

September 15, 2021

"Ars Erotica" offers a critical, comparative analysis of the erotic theories proposed by the most influential premodern cultural traditions...

Stacey Balkan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities in the Department of English, FAU

Stacey Balkan, Department of English, Will Publish Two Books This Term

September 02, 2021

"Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy" in India will be available in January 2022...

Detail from an original in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

Research Thursdays - Adrian Finucane Receives NEH Summer Stipend

May 27, 2021

Finucane’s Book addresses themes of warfare and incarceration as well as empire and cultural contact in the 18th-century Atlantic world...

Research Thursdays - Daniel Bolojan exhibits AI and Architecture research in Biennale Architettura 2021

May 20, 2021

Bolojan is one of the leading voices in the implementation of deep learning strategies in architecture and the architectural design process...

Research Thursdays - New Book of Poems by Becka McKay

May 13, 2021

McKay’s Poems investigate the power and failure of language to name what matters to us...

Research Thursdays - Tomás Olivier’s Research Focuses on Water Governance in Northeastern Patagonia

April 21, 2021

Olivier’s work focuses on how organizations, governments and individuals interact and create rules to govern shared water resources...

Research Thursdays - Marquese McFerguson Analyzes Hip Hop Culture

April 08, 2021

McFerguson’s research examines hip-hop culture, black masculinity and contemporary black popular culture...