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May 6, 2020

Students Accept the Challenge

FAU students from across the university came through submitting nearly 100 ideas for how to address the ongoing pandemic in the COVID-19 Change Challenge. Judges narrowed down the list to a few select proposals in two categories that had an opportunity to earn up to $2,000 to help implement those ideas and bring change to the community. The winners are:

Clinical/research winners:

Steven Shiba, medical student from Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

Sean Paz, postdoctoral student from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.

Social Science/education winners:

Elena McLaughlin from the College of Education

Team "Keep Moving," featuring Christy LaFlamme from the Harriet Wilkes Honors College, Alexia Betances from the College of Design and Social Inquiry, Michelle Cunningham from the College of Education and Toluleke Famuyiwa from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.

Check out their ideas HERE .

International Soft Landings

The Research Park at FAU has launched a new international soft landings and second-stage company development initiative, Global Ventures.

This initiative will assist second-stage companies from around the world and United States scale-up into profitable and sustainable ventures that can impact and grow South Florida’s economy. READ MORE.

Capturing a Moving Virus

Researchers from the Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering and the College of Engineering and Computer Science recently retooled their Mobility Intelligence Project to enable the simulation of virus transmission based on realistic, contextualized models – models that rely on how people actually move and interact within the city.

The simulations illustrate viral spread and progression from healthy individuals to active infection to recovery, and in some cases, mortality from the disease. READ MORE.

Racial Inequalities in Liver Cancer

In a recent study, Charles H. Hennekens, DrPH., senior academic advisor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, explored racial inequalities in mortality from liver cancer before and after the introduction of lifesaving drugs for hepatitis C virus in the U.S. The result from the study show racial inequalities in mortality decreasing for major risk factors for liver cancer, including alcohol, obesity and diabetes. READ MORE.

The Action Continues: Global Pandemic Creates Ethical Challenges

Nearly 300 attendees tuned in to Michael DeDonno, Ph.D., last week, as he took a fun dive into the male and female brains . WATCH .

DeDonno, research psychologist and an assistant professor in the College of Education and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine , answered audience questions, HERE.

NEXT UP: Join Katherine Heinze, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing , tomorrow, as she discusses ethical challenges created by COVID-19. Pre-register, HERE .

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