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 and seed funding to Wilkes Honors College students who learn about social entrepreneurship and write business plans to start their ventures. The program is designed to educate students in the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship; help them develop plans for addressing a pressing social need and assist them in partnering with nonprofit organizations.
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“The reason that the public has lost trust and confidence in science is multifaceted and complicated,” said Janet Robishaw, Ph.D., senior author, senior associate dean for research, and chair of the Department of Biomedical Science in FAU’s Schmidt College of Medicine, and a member of the Florida Atlantic University Brain Institute, one of the University’s four research pillars. “One of the main reasons is anecdotal stories, which can be very powerful, and are being given too much weight. There’s so much news coming out from so many sources including social media. That’s why it’s imperative for the public to discern an anecdote from scientific results in a peer-reviewed journal. This is how the premise that vaccinations cause autism evolved along with fabricated results that pushed the anti-vaccination movement.”
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Alyssa R. Gonzalez-DeHass, Ph.D., a professor of educational psychology in the College of Education at Florida Atlantic University’s Jupiter campus recently published
Parent Involvement for Motivated Learners: Encouraging Self-Directed and Resilient Students.
Parent Involvement for Motivated Learners provides pre-service teachers and researchers with guidance on how to foster mindful, healthy school-family partnerships that empower students to become resilient, self-directed learners. Given the intense academic pressures on students to succeed-and on parents and teachers to help them do so-it is important to develop learners who can weather increased standards and demands.
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Faculty & Staff Spotlight
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After a national search, FAU selected Bethany Stanhope, Ph.D., as the Executive Director for Academic Operations of the Jupiter campus effective October 19, 2019.
Dr. Stanhope received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Alex Keene, Ph.D., of FAU’s Department of Biological Sciences and taught Evolution on the FAU Jupiter campus for the past two years.
Rod Murphey, Ph.D., associate vice president for academic affairs of FAU's John D. MacArthur Campus, highlighted her strong background in the life sciences and her training as a geneticist.
"Dr. Stanhope will work closely with FAU faculty and institute partners to develop a training and conference facility on the John D. MacArthur campus. She will work with FAU faculty to establish laboratory teaching facilities to support several life science labs, two NSF grants that focus on inquiry-based experiences, the FAU-Max Planck Academy high school, and a variety of other workshops," said Dr. Murphey.
"Among her initial efforts, she will work with Wilkes Honors College faculty member Johanna Kowalko, Ph.D., to establish a laboratory course in genetics and with Ken Dawson-Scully, Ph.D., as he develops inquiry-based labs for the FAU-Max Planck Academy."
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Anne Gambardella, M.S.M. is the new Assistant Director of Administrative Operations for FAU’s Brain Institute on the John D. MacArthur Campus in Jupiter. Gambardella brings a wealth of experience in research financial management. She served as the Senior Scientific Administrator and Grants and Contract Manager at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI), Grants Manager at FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Grants Management in FAU Sponsored Programs, and most recently as the Assistant Director for Sponsored Programs at Nova Southeastern University. Gambardella graduated from Emmanuel College with a Master’s degree in Science Management and from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing.
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In case you missed it, here are highlights from this year’s “CarnivOwl!” The annual free event for our owl family and friends is part of Florida Atlantic University Homecoming!
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Healthier Jupiter, a community initiative founded to address health and quality of life issues, awarded Florida Atlantic University Brain Institute's Ascend Program $2500. The grant will be used to fund "Brain Blitz Jupiter - Exercise Your Mind," an educational program for children and adults.
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Please join us for a special Jupiter Campus Faculty and Staff Open House on Friday, Oct. 18, at 11:00 a.m., in the FAU-Max Planck Academy Building. We are excited to showcase the first-of-its-kind, STEM/R Academy program, and the new facilities, where Education is Reimagined for today’s most talented young students.
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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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