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FAU's Hari Kalva, Ph.D., Inducted into National Academy of Inventors®
Hari Kalva, Ph.D., an associate chair and professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been recognized for his innovation in video compression and communication.
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Study Shows Hydrology Impacts on West Florida's Continental Shelf
FAU Harbor Branch researcher and collaborator demonstrate the impacts of climate warming and water management on West Florida's Continental Shelf using a high-resolution simulation model.
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Data Transparency and Health Equity Study in U.S. COVID-19 Response
FAU researchers conducted a study examining data transparency and compared how state responses varied in their COVID-19 reporting of health metrics and ethnicity metrics.
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Seat Assignments Drive Friendships Among Elementary School Children
A new study is the first to show that classroom seat assignments have important implications for children's friendships and the enormous influence that teachers wield over the interpersonal lives of children.
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New Tool Will Assess Water Discharge Impacts from Florida's Everglades
Researchers from FAU Harbor Branch have received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study the connectivity between the Everglades and Florida Keys via the Florida Bay.
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Phillip A. Hough, Ph.D., Selected for Fulbright Global Scholar Award
Phillip A. Hough, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, received a Fulbright Global Scholar Award based on his important sociological research in rural Colombia.
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FAU Receives $1 Million Grant for Equity in Instructional Performance
FAU's College of Education School Leaders Program has been awarded a three-year, $1,039,041 grant from Broward County Public Schools to support two graduate degree programs.
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FAU Tech Runway® Reveals its 10th Venture Class
FAU Tech Runway® recently hosted its annual Launch Competition, revealing its 10th class, "Venture Class 10."
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Alarming Increases in Deaths from Alcoholic Cirrhosis in the U.S.
FAU Schmidt College of Medicine researchers conducted an original research study comparing trends in mortality from alcoholic cirrhosis in the U.S. in 1999 with those 20 years later in 2019.
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NSF Tags FAU Scientist for Post-quantum Cryptography in NextG Networks
FAU's Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D., was picked by the NSF for "Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems" for his project, which is the only one taking post-quantum cryptography to next generation systems.