NEWS ARCHIVE


College of Engineering and Computer Science Receives $1 Million Gift

By | February 14, 2023

FAU and Florida Power & Light Company have agreed to a four-year collaboration to establish the FPL Center for Intelligent Energy Technologies (InETech).

FAU's Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Ph.D., Lands Coveted NSF CAREER Award

By | February 13, 2023

With a five-year, $974,100 NSF grant, Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Ph.D., will develop fundamental ecological research to understand the functional ecology and biodiversity patterns in sponge-dominated coral reefs.

Study Resolves 50-Year Dispute of Teleost Fishes Ancestral Lineage

By | February 10, 2023

FAU Harbor Branch's Sahar Mejri, Ph.D., is among a team of scientists to use genome mapping to demonstrate sister groups from a common evolutionary ancestor.

FAU Study First to Show Statewide Cannabis-related Deaths in Florida

By | February 9, 2023

Using data from 2014 to 2020, researchers from FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing analyzed deaths in Florida associated with cannabis and synthetic cannabis use.

Copy-cat? Study Explores Conformity in Children with Few Friends

By | February 7, 2023

What gives one friend influence over another and why? FAU researchers tested the theory that children with few friends protect these friendships through conformity to stay in a friend's "good graces."

U.S. Rents Moderating, but Affordability Issues Linger

By | February 6, 2023

December 2022 rents fell in 71 of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas even as markets in Florida remain overvalued and unaffordable for many consumers

Interplay Between Sleep, Pain and Spinal Cord Stimulation

By | January 30, 2023

Researchers from the Schmidt College of Medicine have unraveled the interplay between chronic pain, sleep and spinal cord stimulation, a treatment that uses low levels of electricity to relieve pain.

FAU, Broward Health to Partner on Academic Medicine

By | January 24, 2023

FAU and Broward Health have announced a partnership to provide academic medicine to Broward County, and to collaborate on education, clinical training and practice, health services administration, and research.

FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute Opens in Jupiter

By | January 19, 2023

FAU celebrated the opening of the FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at FAU's John D. MacArthur Campus in Jupiter, heralding a new era in neuroscience and education.

Hate Crime Legislation Vague and Inconsistent Among 50 U.S. States

By | January 18, 2023

FAU researchers analyzed 271 statutes from all 50 U.S. states and found that every state legislates hate crimes differently, resulting in differential justice in these cases.