College of Science News

It has long been known that most children report that most of their friends are in the same classroom. We now know that they are probably seated nearby.

Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Charles E. Schmidt College of Science graduate programs were ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Programs” for 2023 .

The National Save The Sea Turtle Foundation (NSTSTF) recently gifted $60,000 to FAU’s Marine Science Lab at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.

Congratulations to Satviki Singh on receiving the 2022 “Undergraduate Researcher of the Year” award for the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science!

Alumna Deborah Santos de Azevedo, a marine biologist and multicultural shark researcher, works as a research assistant for the American Shark Conservancy and is the project manager for their Shark Surveys project.

Please meet the new Career Liaison to the Schmidt College of Science, Kelly Nielsen.

Popularity is important to children and adolescents. Some think it is more important to be popular than to have friends, because popularity is a marker of prestige, dominance and social status.

Two FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Science students were winners in the 58th annual Florida Society of Geographers Awards. Department of Geosciences Ph.D. candidates Asha Paudel won the “Outstanding Oral Presenter, Ph.D.”...

The ability to perceive that a 2D picture of an object corresponds to its 3D physical form or “picture-to-object equivalence” is a cognitive function thought to be exclusive to higher-order species such as primates, until...

Nwadiuto Esiobu, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, oversees the Esiobu Microbial Biotech Laboratory, which seeks to power discovery, create solutions and produce competent workers for global economi...