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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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FAU Awarded $1 Million Grant to Help Prevent Injury, Death from Falls
Schmidt College of Medicine researchers will investigate several emergency department-based prevention strategies in older patients at high risk for recurrent falls and injury to improve patient outcomes.
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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.
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FAU Experts for the 2022 Hurricane Season
With an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season forecast for 2022, several FAU faculty experts are available to discuss various issues surrounding hurricane preparedness, evacuation and aftermath.