FAU Jupiter News
FAU’s Kenan Social Engagement Program Announces Scholarship Winners for 2021
The Kenan Social Engagement Program at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University is pleased to announce the selection of two 2021 scholarship recipients, or Kenan Scholars.
Wilkes Honors College Alumni Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Kia Taylor Riccio, a doctoral student, and Wilkes Honors College Alumni, for winning a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF).
Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas
A new book edited by Jacqueline H. Fewkes, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College and Megan Adamson Sijapati, Ph.D. titled "Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas," is now available from Routledge.
FAU DIPLOMACY TEAM PLACES SECOND AT NATIONAL MODEL U.N.
The Leon Charney Diplomacy Program at Florida Atlantic University recently competed in the virtual National Model United Nations competition and finished second overall out of 100 competing universities.
Research on the Rise
The last fiscal year ended showing excellent growth for the FAU research enterprise, with more money coming in to support it. When the new fiscal year started, metrics for the first quarter showed that the university was not just continuing that streak, but shattering all previous quarterly records.
Gift Establishes First Endowed Chair of Wilkes Honors College
The Comforts recently made a gift to establish the Pierrepont Comfort Chair in Political Science at Florida Atlantic University's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College.
THE TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE
If you could upload a microchip to your brain to give you savant-level mathematical abilities, would you do it? And if you kept enhancing your brain with this artificial intelligence (AI), at what point do you diminish your entire conscious being and no longer exist?
Honors College Professor Selected as HOPE Visiting Scholar at Duke University
Keith Jakee, Ph.D., associate professor of economics at the Harriett L. Wilkes Honors College, has won a prestigious appointment in his field, being recently selected as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar at Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy (HOPE).
Leading with a Vision for the Future
As a scientist and counseling psychologist, Justin Perry, Ph.D., has dedicated his career to advocating for youth, their mental health and education.
JUPITER NEUROSCIENCE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY
Construction is underway on a building on the John D. MacArthur Campus in Jupiter that will create new jobs, accommodate more students in the STEM fields, and increase opportunities for funded research.