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FAU Celebrates Spring 2021 Graduates
April 29, 2021
Florida Atlantic University will confer more than 3,200 degrees today for the spring 2021 semester during two in-person commencement ceremonies at FAU Stadium.
Wilkes Honors College building
April 20, 2021
The Kenan Social Engagement Program at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University is pleased to announce the selection of two 2021 scholarship recipients, or Kenan Scholars.
Kia Taylor Riccio
April 19, 2021
Congratulations to Kia Taylor Riccio, a doctoral student, and Wilkes Honors College Alumni, for winning a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF).
FAU Researchers Receive Grants to Combat Alzheimer's Disease
April 15, 2021
Four researchers from FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine and Charles E. Schmidt College of Science have received grants totaling $641,818 from the Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer's Disease Research Program.
Image of book Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas image
April 14, 2021
A new book edited by Jacqueline H. Fewkes, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College and Megan Adamson Sijapati, Ph.D. titled "Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas," is now available...
How Did 500 of a Species Form in a Lake? Very Different Body Clocks
April 08, 2021
How fish exploit different times of day has not been studied systematically. FAU scientists have discovered the first nocturnal cichlid species from Lake Malawi, offering clues into the evolution of sleep.
FAU owl head logo
April 06, 2021
The Leon Charney Diplomacy Program at Florida Atlantic University recently competed in the virtual National Model United Nations competition and finished second overall out of 100 competing universities.
woman looking in a microscope
March 30, 2021
The last fiscal year ended showing excellent growth for the FAU research enterprise, with more money coming in to support it. When the new fiscal year started, metrics for the first quarter showed that the university was...
Jeffrey Morton, Ph.D.
March 25, 2021
The Comforts recently made a gift to establish the Pierrepont Comfort Chair in Political Science at Florida Atlantic University's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College.
technological future
March 25, 2021
If you could upload a microchip to your brain to give you savant-level mathematical abilities, would you do it? And if you kept enhancing your brain with this artificial intelligence (AI), at what point do you diminish your...