College of Science News

The Charles E. Schmidt College of Science is pleased to welcome 14 new tenure-track faculty, ten new instructors and non-tenure track faculty, and seven new postdoctoral fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Starting this Fall 2023 semester, Florida Atlantic University alumnus Jorge Gonzalez, ’20, is returning to the Boca Raton campus as a postdoctoral fellow.

A Florida Atlantic University study reveals groundbreaking insight into the origins of agency using an unusual and largely untapped source – human babies. The FAU research team used young infants as a test field to understand...

The Schmidt College of Science’s 2023 Nat and Dorothy Hyman Science Lecture Series presents Sarah Hobbie, Ph.D., Regents Professor, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, who will discuss “Managing Pollution...

New Schmidt College of Science graduate Nicole Gutierrez, B.A. ’23, has already landed a scent-sational job with COSMO International Fragrances in the research and development (R&D) department.

A Florida Atlantic University study is the first to examine the effects of incubation temperature on leatherback hatchling performance in the United States. Results, published in the journal Endangered Species Research, showed...

The Schmidt College of Science is pleased to announce that a new Neuroeconomics Graduate Certificate Program was launched at the beginning of the Fall 2023 semester.

Michael Ostroff, a physics Ph.D. student in FAU’s Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory and the Rubin and Cindy Gruber Sandbox, landed a coveted position at the Wolfram Summer School this year.

the past few years, Yijie Zhu, Ph.D., the department’s new assistant professor of climate science, has been actively studying the spatial and temporal patterns of tropical cyclone post-landfall intensity decay process.

I began my path in Earth Sciences in New Zealand, where the highly geologically-diverse landscape permitted a very hands-on approach to learning a broad range of disciplines.