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A diverse body of high-achieving students moved into the
FAU Jupiter campus this week. With the dorms at capacity, about 30 students are being accommodated at the Courtyard by Marriott. The incoming FAU
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College Fall class of 2019 includes 11 National Merit Finalists. Since 2000, 28 National Merit Finalists have attended the College. The average GPA for the incoming 2019 class is 4.16. The average SAT score is 1300, and the average ACT score is 28.8. Approximately 25% are the first in their family to attend college, and 62% are from underrepresented groups.
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The Accelerated Induction into Teaching (AIT) program is beginning its 17th year at FAU. AIT is a unique student teaching opportunity in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education. AIT is a collaboration between FAU and local school districts where AIT Student Teachers serve as full-time teachers during their final semester.
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“The Department of Teaching and Learning is proud to continue to serve our partner counties with 18 AIT Student Teachers hired in for fall 2019 in Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie Counties,” said Ernest Brewer, Ed.D., an assistant professor in FAU's Department of Teaching and Learning.
AIT student teachers have complete responsibility for their classrooms and are supported by a university supervisor and a retired educator who serves as a master mentor.
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Scientific research often tweaks existing theories in small ways. Occasionally, research reveals something entirely new and ignites a theoretical revolution in its field. Ning Quan, Ph.D., who recently joined FAU as a professor of biomedical science in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and member of the FAU Brain Institute works at the forefront of just such a revolution; his world-renowned studies of inflammation are helping to change how scientists understand the relationship between the central nervous system and the immune system.
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Florida Atlantic University’s
Schmidt College of Medicine celebrated its ninth White Coat Ceremony to welcome its newest medical students during this symbolic event officially. Abhimanyu Ahuja, Jamshed Desai, and Sravya Gurivireddygari are the newest Wilkes Medical Scholars, FAU’s competitive early admission program, which offers conditional admission to medical school as well as an enriched education at Wilkes Honors College. The White Coat Ceremony is a symbolic rite of passage celebrated at medical schools across the nation, which welcomes new students to the practice of medicine while elevating the value of humanism as the core of healthcare.
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2019 Summer Science Scholarship
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FAU Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College students Heather Butler, Karla Holt, and Pierce Herrmann presented their research at Scripps Research Institute, Friday, Aug. 9th, during the annual summer research program poster session. These students are among the ten recipients of the 2019 Summer Science Scholarship. This summer $22,000 in scholarships were awarded to ten students in support of student research on the Jupiter campus.
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FAU
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) awardees Gabrielle Byrd, Hope Wiersma, Claudia Villasmil and Alyssa Payne presented their projects during the FAU Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (OURI) 7th Annual Summer Retreat on August 15. SURF projects are ten-week, intensive summer immersion research experiences for FAU undergraduate students. Each SURF award allocates $4,000 in support of each chosen project.
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Students in FAU's
Academy for Community Inclusion recently hosted their 3rd annual summer picnic. Students utilized the skills they learned during the Residential Experience course to plan this event. Thank you to all of the students, staff and faculty who participated.
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On August 6th, four
Academy for Community Inclusion (ACI) ACI students graduated alongside their peers from the College of Education. ACI is a higher education program for students with intellectual disabilities. Congratulations to Deanna, Jeremy, Marina, Robyn and service dogs Roxy and Clay.
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Join the FAU Brain Institute for a Sinatra Salute
Saturday, August 17
7:30-10 p.m.
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Saturday, August 17
4:30 p.m.
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Sunday, August 18
1 p.m.
FAU will welcome the incoming class of 2023 at the Fall Freshman Convocation in the Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium on the Boca Raton campus. The event is free and open to all freshman students and FAU faculty and staff only. No registration is required to attend.
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Tuesday, August 20
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Stop by the Campus Life table in the Dining Hall to learn more about Campus Life upcoming events, including Lead and Serve programs and Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education, and Advocacy (IDEAs) programs!
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Join us for
Weeks of Welcome (WOW) events as we kick off the Fall semester! Ready to take flight? Weeks of Welcome at Florida Atlantic University will help students begin to paint their Owl story.
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Saturday, August 24
10 a.m.-1 p.m.
STEM Studio, Abacoa
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Zhen Yan, Ph.D.
Hosted by Ning Quan, Ph.D.
Tuesday, September 10 at 4 p.m.
Room 119, Research Facility MC-1
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The John D. MacArthur Campus presently enrolls more than 1,500 students and offers groundbreaking programs in research and education. Two of the world’s leading research organizations, the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Scripps Research Institute are located on the campus and offer high school, undergraduate and graduate students transformational experiences not found anywhere else in the world. The campus is home to the nationally-ranked Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College which provides 440 students with a live-in, all-honors educational experience and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the largest membership program of its kind in the nation. Recognized as a center of scientific activity, the campus also serves as the headquarters for two of FAU’s primary research organizations, the Brain Institute and the Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention (I-HEALTH).
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