College of Science News
February
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February 09, 2016
A multi-million dollar state of the art Waste to Energy plant is bringing Palm Beach County lots of garbage and lots of money.
February
9
February 09, 2016
Florida Atlantic University recently received a $1 million gift from Dr. Walter and Lalita Janke to establish the Walter and Lalita Janke Innovations in Sustainability Science Research Fund, which will support faculty research...
February
9
February 09, 2016
Cyber attacks or criminal attacks and security breaches put millions of people across the world at risk for having their sensitive information in the wrong hands," said Daniel Flynn, vice president for research at FAU.
February
9
February 09, 2016
Dr. Xavier Comas’ graduate students, William Wright and Matt McClellan from the Environmental Geophysics Lab in the Department of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University are measuring methane and carbon dioxide gas...
February
9
February 09, 2016
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Tens of thousands of blacktip sharks have been spotted in South Florida’s water as they search for warmer waters and food.
February
9
February 09, 2016
The National Save the Sea Turtle Foundation recently funded renovations in the FAU Research Laboratory at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
February
9
February 09, 2016
Not many middle school students spend their free time at the local public library teaching children how to read, but then again, John Sousa wasn't your typical sixth grader.
November
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November 19, 2015
On Saturday, November 14th, 2015, the Women’s Foundation of Palm Beach County hosted their 6th annual Girls Leadership Institute (GLI) with a focus on STEM at The Scripps Research Institute.
July
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July 20, 2015
Researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University sought to answer this question with a study examining whether adolescent friendships end because of undesirable characteristics of friends,...
June
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June 26, 2015
They’re pesky and annoying when they get into your fruit, but Drosophila melanogaster, more affectionately known as the “fruit fly,” are helping researchers at Florida Atlantic University to discover novel genes that...