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Terje Hoim

TERJE HOIM, PH.D. Named Interim Associate Dean of Wilkes Honors College

By | September 17, 2019

Terje Hoim, Ph.D. was recently named the interim associate dean of academic affairs of Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University at Jupiter. For the past three years, Dr. Hoim has served the college as chair of math and sciences. Originally from Estonia, Dr. Hoim received her...

Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Ph.D

FAU SCIENTISTS AWARDED 2019 EARLY-CAREER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS BY NATIONAL ACADEMIES' GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM

By | September 13, 2019

The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine selected Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biology in Florida Atlantic University’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute as a recipient of its...

Johanna Kowalko

Examining Sleep Plasticity 

By | August 29, 2019

While sleep is almost universal across the animal kingdom, sleep architecture and amount vary drastically between species. Further, animals alter how much they sleep in response to their environments and food availability.  A Florida Atlantic University researcher and collaborators received...

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'Dream Team' Awarded $1.1 Million for Blind Mexican Cavefish Research

By | August 29, 2019

FAU researchers have received a $1.1 million NSF grant to develop powerful transgenic tools and gene-editing technologies in the blind Mexican cavefish to significantly advance it as a research model system.

National Merit Scholars

FAU Attracts Record Number of National Merit Scholars

By | August 28, 2019

Florida Atlantic University has welcomed a record number of National Merit Scholars for the fall 2019 semester.

Christy Laflamme

Big Ideas, Big Winners

By | June 27, 2019

Christy LaFlamme, a Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College student just won the FAU Division of Research (DoR) "Big Idea Contest," which was designed to solicit ideas on how to communicate the importance of research to broad audiences.

I-HEALTH, Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention, Gregg B. Fields, Ph.D., Research Pillar, Research, Health, Research Pillars, Executive Director

Gregg B. Fields Named Executive Director of FAU's I-HEALTH

By | June 10, 2019

Gregg B. Fields, Ph.D., has been named as executive director of FAU's Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention (I-HEALTH), one of the university's four research pillars.

Bebeto Amazan

OVER THE FINISH LINE: GENEROSITY HELPS WILKES HONORS COLLEGE SENIOR GRADUATE ON TIME

By | May 1, 2019

As a first-generation college student, graduation means more than attaining a degree for Bebeto Amazan — it means all the extra shifts, late nights and financial struggle were worth it, as he takes one step closer toward his dream of becoming an orthopedic surgeon.

FAU Diplomacy Program

DIPLOMACY TEAM AWARDED 2019 DISTINGUISHED DELEGATION

By | April 26, 2019

The Leon Charney Diplomacy Program at Florida Atlantic University recently received the Distinguished Delegation Award at the National Model United Nations competition in New York City.

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WHC John Hope Franklin Research Center Travel Grant Award

By | April 22, 2019

Jacqueline H. Fewkes, Ph.D., associate professor of Anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University was recently awarded a John Hope Franklin Research Center Travel Grant Award from the Duke University Rubenstein Library.