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FAU Teacher Prep Program Ranked No. 1 in the State
Florida Atlantic University's Elementary Education/ESOL/Reading program shares the No. 1 ranking for teacher prep programs in the state of Florida.
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FAU Expert Answers Questions about COVID-19 Vaccines
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.