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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Media Lab Grant

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

Images (l/r): Alka Sapat, Ph.D.; Book cover of “Coming Home After Disaster: Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery,” edited by Alka Sapat; Ann-Margaret Esnard
Research Thursdays - Investigating the Implications of COVID-19 for Hurricane-Prone Areas
July 02, 2020
Alka Sapat, Ph.D., director of theSchool of Public Administration, is the lead Principal Investigator on this NSF Rapid Response Research Study
Images (l/r): Kelly J. Shannon; Book cover of “U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights” (2018);
Research Thursdays - Promoting Equity and Understanding of Diverse Cultures
June 25, 2020
Kelly J. Shannon, Associate Professor of History has been appointed the new director of FAU’s Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative (PJHR)
Images (l/r): Book cover of “Jewfish;” Andrew Furman
Research Thursdays - “Jewfish,” a new novel by English Professor Andrew Furman
June 18, 2020
This new novel shines a light on the environmental issues facing south Florida and the planet
Image (L/R): (book cover detail) “Unstable Masks Whiteness and American Superhero Comics,” edited by Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, The Ohio State University Press, January 2020; Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins; Eric L. Berlatsky; (book cover detail) “Ms. Marvel’s America No Normal,” Edited by Jessica Baldanzi & Hussein Rashid, University of Mississippi Press, February 2020
Research Thursdays - Department of English faculty members have co-authored two articles on the intersection of superheroes and racial politics
June 11, 2020
The intersection of superheroes in comic books, racial politics, the politics of racial mixing and racial mixedness
Image: 2019 Summer Band Camp performance
Research Thursdays - ‘Keep the Music Playing!’ Initiative for Youth
June 04, 2020
The Department of Music received the Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant.
Images (l/r): Book cover of “The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence,” Oxford University Press; Marina Banchetti, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy.
Research Thursdays - The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence
May 28, 2020
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that each of its faculty members has a book to be released or under contract to be completed this year.
Images (l/r): European Union Flag; La Pietra di Ca’Vendramin book cover; Ilaria Serra with Italian American writer Adriana Trigiani, whose novels are the topic of a forthcoming book chapter by Serra
Research Thursdays - Ilaria Serra (LLCL) receives a faculty curriculum development grant for “European Movement: Films of Immigration”
May 21, 2020
Ilaria Serra, the 2020 FAU Associate Professor Scholar of the Year, recently received a faculty curriculum development grant from the EU-Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Florida International University (FIU)
Tangled Roots: Florida’s Revolving Empires and the Opportunities of Changing Borders, 1760-1830
RESEARCH THURSDAYS - JASON SHARPLES, Associate PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, RECEIVED THE PECKHAM LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIP ON REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
May 14, 2020
The grant will support archival research for his project “Tangled Roots: Florida’s Revolving Empires and the Opportunities of Changing Borders, 1760-1830.”
Florence Arquin Slides
Research Thursdays - Visual Arts and Art History Faculty Emily Fenichel and Camila Afanador-Llach Receive National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
May 07, 2020
Emily Fenichel and Camila Afanador-Llach, faculty in FAU’s Department of Visual Arts and Art History, recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $231,588.
Image(l/r): Graham Greene; Ian Fleming; From Russia With Love (1st edition, 1957); Helen MacInnes
Research Thursdays - Counterfeit Spies: The Arts of Deception in Wartime Espionage and Post-war Spy Fiction
April 30, 2020
English Professor Oliver Buckton recently received a Fulbright Fellowship for his research and teaching project titled “Counterfeit Spies: The Arts ofDeception in Wartime Espionage and Post-war Spy Fiction.”