FAU Jupiter News
FAU Wilkes Honors College Receives $1 Million Donation to Endow the Kenan Social Engagement Program
Florida Atlantic University’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College met the “Kenan Challenge,” raising $1 million to match a $1 million gift from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. This gift creates a permanent endowment for the Kenan Social Engagement Program, which provides scholarships...
A Path of Helping Others
Matt Gross is a key member of the FAU Brain Institute, facilitating work that takes place in the laboratory to gain greater understanding of the way the brain functions, disorders that can affect it and how those disorders might be addressed. Based on the Jupiter campus, the institute was founded...
TERJE HOIM, PH.D. Named Interim Associate Dean of Wilkes Honors College
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...
FAU Scientists Awarded 2019 Early-Career Research Fellowships by National Academies' Gulf Research Program
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...
FAU Brain Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded NARSAD Young Investigator Grant
The Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation (BBRF) awarded the prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator Grant to Adele Stewart, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., executive director of the FAU Brain Institute and a professor of biomedical science in FAU's Charles E....
OctoGirl
As part of her recent Ph.D. research, Chelsea Bennice studied how two different octopus species co-exist. She developed a 24-hour camera to monitor the animals under the Blue Heron Bridge at Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach, Fla., an area of the Lake Worth Lagoon, that is home to the two species...
Examining Sleep Plasticity
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...
Over the Finish Line
Generosity helps Wilkes Honors College Senior graduate on time.