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Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP)
Real research. Any major. Any year.
The VIP Program at Florida Atlantic University engages students in large-scale, long-term, multidisciplinary research alongside faculty and graduate students. Through sustained collaboration, students develop research expertise, build professional skills, and contribute to solving real-world challenges while advancing faculty research and innovation
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No experience needed. We’re here to help you grow into an expert.
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Submit the interest form and tell us what excites you for Spring 2027. Faculty review applications and select students for each team.
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VIP Teams at Florida Atlantic
Hidden Life in Burrows and Reefs
Multimodal Wearable Sensing of Behavioral and Linguistic Signatures of Self-Regulation in Preschool Classrooms
Quantum-Accelerated Therapeutics: Disrupting Oncogenic Mitochondrial microRNAs in Cancer
Mitochondrial Damage by Amyloid-Beta in Alzheimer's Disease
Resilience, Innovation, Science, and Expression (RISE): From Story to Stage
Generative and Vision-Language AI for Disaster Intelligence
Nervous System Aging and Glia: Modeling with Experimental Insights
Smart Sensors and AI for Coastal Destination Resilience
Enhancing Child Welfare Research and Translation through AI
Research across every discipline
Open To All. Designed For You.
Join a VIP Team and collaborate with faculty on long-term, innovative research with real-world impact.
We're not looking for experts. We're here to help you grow into one.
Please submit the VIP interest form if you are interested in joining a VIP team starting Spring 2027 semester. Our website is being updated, so some information may not be current yet. For the latest news and updates, follow VIP on LinkedIn. If you have any questions, please reach out to vip@fau.edu.
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