College of Science News

Zariah Walker Named 2024 Student Talon Award Winner
November 19, 2024
Congratulations to senior health sciences major Zariah Walker! She received the Student Talon Award during Florida Atlantic’s Alumni and Community Engagement Talon Leadership Awards ceremony as part of Homecoming 2024.
FAU Named 2024 Fulbright HSI Leader by the US Department of State
November 15, 2024
Florida Atlantic University has been named as a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Leader for 2024. Schmidt College of Science student Allison Centeno Chaves from Heredia, Costa Rica, is one of the university’s...
Is AI Learning Biology? New York Times Columnist Carl Zimmer to Speak at Florida Atlantic Community Science Lecture Series
November 07, 2024
Join award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer for a riveting journey into the not-so-distant future, when computers and artificial intelligence (AI) can discover how to make new kinds of cells, and maybe...
Ph.D. Student Spotlight: Ananya Adhikari Department of Physics
November 04, 2024
Ananya Adhikari, M.S. '18, is working toward his second Florida Atlantic degree as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics. His dissertation spans the topics of computational general relativity, gravitational wave physics,...
Prime Planet Viewing at FAU Observatory’s Nov. 8 Public Event
November 04, 2024
There are many special sights in store at the next public viewing at Florida Atlantic’s Observatory on Friday, Nov. 8, starting at 7:00 p.m. Come gaze at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and don’t miss the chance to...
New Minor in Health Humanities Available in Spring 2025
October 29, 2024
The University’s new Health Humanities minor is an interdisciplinary program designed to help students better understand humanistic and social issues related to health and medicine across cultures, places, and times.
Science Undergraduate, New Alumna Achieve Distinguished ‘Mastery’ Rank on ASBMB Exam
October 29, 2024
Schmidt College of Science senior Gustavo Mundim and alumna Alexis Crowder ’24 were recognized by the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for their “mastery” level achievements on the organization’s...
Set to Soar: Senior Vanessa Belizaire
October 29, 2024
Senior Medical Biology major Vanessa Belizaire is poised to graduate from Florida Atlantic in December 2024. While her undergraduate days will soon come to a close, she’s eager to continue her educational journey and hopes...
New Faculty Spotlight: Simon Pieraut, Ph.D.
October 25, 2024
The Schmidt College of Science is pleased to welcome Simon Pieraut, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute. Learn more about Pieraut in the following Q&A.
New Parasite Revealed Amid Decline of California’s Channel Island Fox
October 24, 2024
Results of the study, published in the International Journal for Parasitology, identify the parasite as Pachysentis canicola, a common acanthocephalan in multiple carnivore species in mainland North America. The parasite...
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