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FAU Tech Runway® Reveals its Largest Class
FAU Tech Runway® held its 2018 Launch Competition and Demo Day, revealing its sixth and largest class. The top seven winners each received a $15,000 check, totaling $105,000 in cash investments.
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FAU Student Wins CFGS 3MT Competition
Florida Atlantic University student Keith Murphy recently won the Conference of Florida Graduate Schools (CFGS) 3MT Competition with his presentation, "Using Light to Control Meal Size."
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FAU Graduate Finding New Ways to Study Sea Level Rise
Mosquitoes, alligators, crocodiles and pythons haven't stopped Hannah Cooper from collecting important data on the impacts of sea level rise deep within the Florida Everglades.
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FAU Graduate Leading the Way for Women in Tech
Océane Boulais, a self-described "theater geek," took one engineering class during her freshman year at FAU and became hooked.
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Bio-inspired Robotics Lands Professor $500,000 NSF Award
Using the knifefish for inspiration, a researcher from FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science has developed bio-inspired flexible structures for underwater vehicles and robotic systems.
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Engineering Colleges Showcase High-Tech Talent Pipeline
The deans of 10 engineering colleges throughout Florida have formed a first-of-its-kind partnership in an effort to demonstrate the impact their colleges have on the state's and the nation's innovation economy.
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FAU High Student Places First at 2018 State Science Fair
Vithulan Suthakaran, 17, a junior at Florida Atlantic University High School, recently placed first in the environmental engineering category at the 2018 State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida.
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FAU Wave Competition Celebrates Innovative Student Research
Florida Atlantic University has announced the winners of the annual Wave Competition, an undergraduate research competition organized by FAU Tech Runway and the Division of Research.
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FAU Creating Culture of Undergraduate Research
More than 250 undergraduate students recently participated in Florida Atlantic University's eighth annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at FAU's Student Union.
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They're Back! Shark Migration Season Begins in S.E. Florida
Blacktip sharks are headed south in the largest migration in U.S. coastal waters. Researchers estimate the population of these "snowbirds of the sea" to be one-third of what they have seen in previous years.