FAU Awarded $1.68 Million from Florida Division of Emergency Management
FAU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science and Florida Division of Emergency Management project will create a framework for flood risk management.
FAU Professor Appointed Member of Prestigious Academia Europaea
Borivoje "Borko" Furht, Ph.D., a professor in FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science was recently appointed as a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea founded in 1988.
FAU Receives University of Distinction Approval
FAU's "University of Distinction" plan for applied artificial intelligence and big data analytics was officially approved today by the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the State University System.
Scientists First to Develop Rapid Cell Division in Marine Sponges
FAU Harbor Branch scientists and collaborators have developed a breakthrough in marine invertebrate (sponge) cell culture that impacts marine biotechnology, early animal evolution and climate change.
FAU Launches Genomics and Predictive Health Certificate
The Schmidt College of Medicine program is one of only two in Florida's State University System to train future clinicians and scientists in this emerging field to understand and improve human health.
Faith Community Events for Children: Good for the Soul, Lack Nutrition
A pilot study by researchers in FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing is the first to examine foods served in faith community settings related to child health.
Regular Use of Pain, Sleep Prescriptions Linked to High Frailty Risk
A novel study by FAU and the Oregon Research Institute is the first to show that regular use of prescription drugs for pain and sleep increases frailty risk in older adults by 95 percent.
U.S. HHS Secretary Names María Ordóñez to Alzheimer's Council
Alex M. Azar II, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, recently named FAU's María de los Ángeles Ordóñez, DNP, APRN to the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services.
Study Reveals How 98 Percent of Plastics at Sea Go Missing Each Year
A study helps to solve the mystery of missing plastic fragments at sea by using simulated sunlight to explore removal mechanisms, microbial impacts and lifetimes of select microplastics on the ocean surface.
Study Reveals Indigenous People's Choice of Medicinal Plants
Researchers discovered a novel way to find the intracultural heterogeneity of traditional knowledge while testing the non-random selection of medicinal plants in the Ecuadorian Amazon.