Research
Research
College of Arts & Letters
Center for the Future of AI, Mind & Society
A multi-disciplinary hub where thought leaders in philosophy, complex systems, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, political science, and other fields come together to analyze vital scientific, societal, and ethical issues.
Center for Body, Mind, Culture
The Center for Body, Mind and Culture, which is situated in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and associated with the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities, is an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to promoting research, programming, and teaching of topics concerning the body-mind-culture nexus.
School for Architecture Labs
The Microbial Assemblies Lab is an interdisciplinary research space focused on the development of engineered living materials (ELMs) through the integration of microbial systems with architectural substrates.
Florida Public Archaeology Network
Founded in 2005 through the cooperative efforts of the Florida Department of State and the University of West Florida (UWF), the Florida Public Archaeology Network's (FPAN) mission is to promote and facilitate the conservation, study and public understanding of Florida's archaeological heritage throughout the state.
Ecuador Field School
The Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Department of Anthropology’s Ecuador Field Program has provided anthropological and archaeological field training for all levels of students: undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral.
NeuroArts Network
Florida Atlantic University
has joined the newly launched Neuroarts Academic Network (NAN), recently announced by the
NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative
.
Ethnography Lab
Founded in 2024, the Ethnography Lab at Florida Atlantic's (ELFA) mission is to support a creative collaborative of qualitative and mixed methods social scientists.
Americas Initiative
With a fully hemispherical focus, the Study of the Americas Initiative supports interdisciplinary research engaging in comparative analysis of culture, history, society, politics, music, art, media, language and literature of the Americas as it explores the interconnections between North, South, Central America and the Caribbean.
Podcasts
Dean Daniel Gropper
has spent his career at the intersection of economics, finance, and business education, and he knows where the real conversations are happening. In this podcast, he sits down with the economists, scholars, and leaders worth listening to, digging into the questions that don't always have easy answers.
Political Communication and Public Opinion Research
The Florida Atlantic University Department of Political Science and the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies in collaboration with Mainstreet Research established the PolCom Lab in 2023 to investigate and analyze public opinion and political trends across the nation, and particularly in the state of Florida.
Research Journals
The School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University is home to a multitude of communication related journal.
Peace, Justice and Human Rights
Peace, Justice and Human Rights at Florida Atlantic University is about understanding and addressing the challenges of conflict, inequality and human rights in our world.
Research Highlights
September 2026
Two Faculty Members Receive Fulbrights
Stacie Rossow, Department of Music, and Nick Underwood, Department of History, are among the six faculty members at FAU who have received prestigious Fulbright awards for the 2026-27 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
June 2026
Diplomacy Program Places Second at Model UN in New York City
Florida Atlantic University’s Leon Charney Diplomacy Program received the Distinguished Delegation Award at the recent National Model United Nations in New York City. This is the second highest award out of 235 schools that participated. The University also won multiple individual awards for academic excellence.
April 2026
Philosophy of Video Games Conference
The Fourth Annual Philosophy of Video Games Conference was hosted by the Department of Philosophy and sponsored by the Center for Peace, Justice and Human Rights, and the Center for the Future of Mind, AI, & Society. Held over two days, the conference brought together more than 70 attendees and more than 20 presenters from across the country to examine the ethical, aesthetic, metaphysical, social, and political dimensions of games and play.
December 2025
Arts and Letters Professors Rank Among World’s Top 2 Percent of Scientists
Nearly 70 Florida Atlantic faculty members, including Richard Shusterman, Ph.D., and Ali Farazmand, Ph.D., have been recognized among the world’s top 2 percent of scientists.
October 2025
FAU Professors Receive Latin Grammy Nomination for Album Recording and Production
Alejandro Sánchez-Samper and Matt Baltrucki of the Department of Music have received their fifth Latin Grammy nomination for the album “Milonguín,” a project featuring the Giovanni Parra Quinteto with original works by Colombian bandoneonist and composer Giovanni Parra.
September 2025
Jeffrey Huber Featured in Architectural Record
Jeffrey E. Huber, FAIA, School of Architecture, was recently featured in Architectural Record magazine for a Ft. Lauderdale park he designed with Lawrence Scarpa, his partner at Brooks and Scarpa Architects, that addresses coastal resiliency.
May / June 2025
Opening of the Alan B. and Charna Larkin American Presidential Study
The 1,500-square-foot space in the library at FAU’s Boca Raton campus displays personally signed letters from every U.S. president dating back to George Washington.
April 2025
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters School of Public Administration, ranked No. 72 in the U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” for 2024-25.
February 2025
Top Story: Florida Atlantic Designated an R1: Very High Research Spending and Doctorate Production University The R1 Classification in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is a highly coveted achievement in the collegiate world, symbolizing the pinnacle of research excellence.
November 2024
Top Story: MediaLab@FAU , a community journalism initiative in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Press Forward, a national initiative aimed at revitalizing local news and strengthening communities. MediaLab@FAU was launched in September 2023 by Ilene Prusher, senior instructor of multimedia journalism. It’s been estimated that MediaLab’s articles reached upward of 25 million people based on potential online exposure of its articles in its first year.