NEWS ARCHIVE


FAU Seeks Participants for Online Heart Failure and Fatigue Study

By | September 28, 2023

FAU researchers are conducting a "Heart Failure and Fatigue" study to prove that an easy-to-use survey is a reliable method to assist health care providers to evaluate fatigue in patients with heart failure.

FAU Seeks Sponsors, Walkers for Annual 'Keep Memories Alive' Walk

By | September 22, 2023

FAU's Louis and Anne Green Memory and Wellness Center is hosting the 17th annual "Keep Memories Alive" Walk-in-the-Mall on Sunday, Nov. 5 at 9 a.m. at the Town Center at Boca Raton, 6000 Glades Road.

FAU Receives $1.3 Million Grant for Alzheimer's Outreach in Broward

By | September 20, 2023

FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing has received a $1.3 million grant from the Administration for Community Living's Alzheimer's Disease Program Initiative to advance health equity and quality of life.

FAU Makes Large Jump in 'U.S. News' 2024 List of Top Universities

By | September 18, 2023

Florida Atlantic University made considerable gains in the U.S. News & World Report list of "Top Public Schools," moving up to No. 112 from No. 131 in this year's ranking of the nation's best universities.

FAU Receives $750,000 Philanthropic Grant for Alzheimer's Disease

By | September 18, 2023

FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine has received a grant from the Carl Angus DeSantis Foundation, which will transform the care of neurodegenerative diseases.

Eureka! Groundbreaking Study Uncovers Origin of 'Conscious Awareness'

By | September 18, 2023

FAU researchers provide the first quantified observations of the "birth" of purpose in human infants, as they recognize their causal powers and transition from spontaneous to intentional behavior.

U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths More Than Quadrupled from 1999 to 2020

By | September 12, 2023

Regardless of race, age, geography or urbanization, a new study by FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine shows U.S. drug overdose deaths more than quadrupled from 1999 to 2020, causing 1,013,852 deaths.

FAU Researcher Receives U.S. Patent for Underwater Imaging Device

By | September 11, 2023

FAU Harbor Branch's Bing Ouyang, Ph.D., has received a patent for a new invention about the size of a soda can, which is a potential gamechanger in advanced underwater imaging technology.

Study First to Show Impacts of Heat on U.S. Leatherback Hatchlings

By | September 7, 2023

FAU researchers have uncovered the correlation between nest temperatures on leatherback hatchling shape, performance and hatching success in the United States.

Gene Discovery Nets FAU Researchers U.S. Patent to Treat Addiction

By | September 7, 2023

An invention in the fields of pharmacology, medicine, neuroscience and psychiatry using a molecular approach to treat addiction has earned Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., and Maureen Hahn, Ph.D., a U.S. patent.