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FAU Expert Answers Questions about COVID-19 Vaccines

By | March 31, 2021

The Schmidt College of Medicine's Joanna Drowos, D.O., M.P.H., M.B.A., provides answers to some of the most frequently asked questions regarding COVID-19 vaccines.

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Research on the Rise

By | 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 not just continuing that streak, but shattering all previous quarterly records.

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FAU Engineering Professor Receives Prestigious 'Blaise Pascal Medal'

By | March 29, 2021

Isaac Elishakoff, Ph.D., in FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received the coveted "Blaise Pascal Medal" for engineering from the European Academy of Sciences.

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FAU Teams Win at Florida Food Future Hackathon

By | March 26, 2021

Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science students recently competed in Florida Food Future Hackathon.

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Gift Establishes First Endowed Chair of Wilkes Honors College

By | 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.

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THE TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE

By | 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 entire conscious being and no longer exist?

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Honors College Professor Selected as HOPE Visiting Scholar at Duke University

By | March 25, 2021

Keith Jakee, Ph.D., associate professor of economics at the Harriett L. Wilkes Honors College, has won a prestigious appointment in his field, being recently selected as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar at Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy (HOPE).

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Researchers Urge Starting Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients

By | March 25, 2021

FAU Schmidt College of Medicine researchers and collaborators say that starting smoking cessation in hospitalized patients would reduce many premature deaths.

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FAU High Earns Perfect Graduation Rate Five Years Straight

By | March 25, 2021

The FL Department of Education recently released FL's High School Cohort 2019-20 Graduation Rate and FAU Lab School is the only district in the state with 100 percent graduation rate for five years straight.

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These Baby Great White Sharks Love to Hang Out Near New York

By | March 23, 2021

FAU Harbor Branch scientists and collaborators provide the first-ever glimpse into 3D movements of young great white sharks in the New York Bight using cutting-edge satellite technology.