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Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Scientific Excellence and Discovery
Through its academic departments and research centers, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science provides outstanding opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate science majors.
In addition to the eight academic departments in the College, there is a group of strong interdisciplinary and sub-disciplinary research centers engaged in cutting-edge research.
The education and research programs of our College span the sciences and mathematics with major efforts in many fields ranging from biotechnology, bioinformatics, and brain science to cryptology, developmental systems, dynamical systems, environmental sciences, exercise sciences, geo-information science, marine science, and space-time physics. The College's programs are offered at FAU's campuses in Boca Raton, Davie, Jupiter, and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.
Spotlight Stories
Navigating FAU’s Environmental School into a New Era of Impact
It’s here in Florida Atlantic University’s backyard, where the wild lands and waters meet sprawling metropolitan landscapes, creating distinct environmental pressures that present a different kind of attraction for Steven Vollmer, Ph.D., a distinguished evolutionary and ecological genomicist.
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NIST Selects FAU for a New Generation of Encryption Standards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science’s Hamming Quasi-Cyclic (HQC) for standardization in its Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) project.
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Photobomb: Shark Cam Captures Ocean Encounter With a Great White
In an unprecedented underwater encounter, a nurse shark equipped with a camera tag had a “shark’s eye view” of a great white shark off the coast of Boynton Beach. This stunning find has delighted marine biologists from the Schmidt College of Science, marking what they believe to be the first-ever photobomb unknowingly documenting a great white shark in South Florida waters.
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FAU Secures $1.4 Million Grant to Save Wildlife in Florida Everglades
The project is led by Michelle L. Petersen, Ph.D., assistant research professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and director of the Environmental Science Program in the School...
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FAU Science’s Biotech Hackathon Nationally Recognized by UEDA
The Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology’s Biotech Hackathon initiative was named one of three 2025 University Economic Development Association Awards of Excellence Talent finalists.
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FAU Science Faculty Named Among World’s Top 2% of Scientists
Nearly 70 faculty members from Florida Atlantic University have been recognized among the world’s top 2% of scientists, including 17 experts from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science whose research spans psychology,...
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Four Fantastic Cryptography Faculty Are Leading the Way to the Cyber Future
The college’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics is home to the largest cryptography team in the nation devoted exclusively to the mathematical exploration of post-quantum cryptographic solutions
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Jumpstart Postdoc Qiaoyin Pan, Ph.D., Invited Lecturer at Internationally Acclaimed Les Houches Summer School
Jumpstart Postdoctoral researcher Qiaoyin Pan, Ph.D., had the rare honor to lecture at the prestigious Les Houches School of Physics in France, and two Florida Atlantic Physics graduate students and one alumnus were invited...
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Fins, Feeds and Algorithms: How Jumpstart Postdoc Darien Satterfield Is Using AI to Track Blacktip Sharks
Learn how Jumpstart Postdoctoral associate Darien Satterfield, Ph.D., is leveraging drone videography and machine learning to track the swimming paths of blacktip sharks.
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Mathematics
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Physics
No. 124
Psychology
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Biology
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