Findings from a groundbreaking study will help scientists and clinicians to develop more tailored treatments and therapies for people who struggle with psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression.
Ning Quan, Ph.D., a professor of biomedical science in FAU’s
Schmidt College of Medicine, and a member of the FAU Brain Institute (
I-BRAIN) led the study published in the journal
Molecular Psychiatry...
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FAU's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College is proud to partner with
Path to College to bring science to high school students and guide them on independent projects.
Erik Duboué, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biology in the Honors College provided guidance to the students in his research lab during the year long program. The students presented the results on their work during Education Fest 2020 on June 4.
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State Representative David Silvers, District 87 is hosting a virtual town hall at FAU featuring Laura Vernon, Ph.D., professor of psychology at FAU’s Wilkes Honors College and FAU provost fellow of student mental health, Kathryn Kominars, Ph.D., director of FAU Counseling and Psychological Services, and Kathleen Moore, Ph.D., research professor in mental health, law, and policy at USF. The town hall will be hosted live on Zoom, Thursday, June 11, at 2 p.m. This is a chance to learn more about mental health issues and resources during COVID-19 and to raise awareness of mental health needs to FAU administration and a state representative.
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Keep Moving, a team of students including a Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College grad that recently won the Division of Research's COVID-19 Change Challenge, are moving their winning proposal forward. They took their idea of an online platform that engages the community and students with at-home challenges, virtual volunteer hours, motivational segments and mental health check-ins and collaborated with FAU Thrive to provide motivational podcasts...
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Before graduation, Makenna King, a student at FAU's
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, worked for FAU's Florida Center for Environmental Studies as an arboretum assistant on FAU's
John D. MacArthur Campus at Jupiter . Makenna chose to write her senior thesis on Florida's endangered burrowing four o'clock, Okenia hypogaea, a rare vine-like dune plant found only in Mexico and five counties on Florida's southeast coast from St. Lucie to Miami-Dade County.
Makenna surveyed the rare plants at John D. MacArthur Beach State Park, both pre- and post-Hurricane Dorian. Due to the quality of her thesis and the extensive surveys that she completed, Makenna was chosen as one of eleven students in the college to receive the "Outstanding Thesis" award...
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Brandy Garcia Velasquez, valedictorian of Palm Beach Lakes High School in West Palm Beach, is the first in her family to go to college. She will be starting classes at Florida Atlantic University’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College in Jupiter this fall...
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Laura Vernon, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, provost fellow of student mental health, and founder of FAU Thrive, hosts Robin Rubin, MSW, instructor in the Phyllis and Harvey Sandler School of Social Work and founder of the Robin Rubin Center for Happiness and Life Enhancement. They discuss tips for increasing happiness and talk about Rubin’s center dedicated to helping students, faculty, staff and community members to enrich, nurture, and improve their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. You can learn more in Robin Rubin’s Thrive Thursday blog on how to think like an optimist and can reach Robin Rubin
here.
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As OLLI Jupiter staff and faculty continue to work remotely from home during this time, while striving to provide quality online programs during the summer semester. The online format allows physically challenged students more freedom to participate in class, and it is also accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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In this new installment in the phone book series, Taylor Hagood will bring alive one of the most graceful cities of the United States. Few places in the country can match the history and panache of Charleston, South Carolina. From important battle sites to haunted gardens, from great eateries to clothing stores that have made this city the best-dressed, and, with interesting citizens both famous and obscure, real and imagined, this one-time event will present this beautiful and magical place.
$30/members; $35/non-members
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Feeding South Florida will be hosting a food distribution drive-thru on the Jupiter Campus in and around Lot 73 on Friday’s throughout June, from 9 a.m. to approximately 11 a.m...
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