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Nov. 27, 2019

Photo by Alex Dolce

From left, FAU President John Kelly, Robert J. Stilley, FAU Board of Trustees member, The Honorable MaryLynn Magar, Florida State House of Representatives, Distrcit 82, Nancy Torres Kaufman, executive chairman of the board of Beacon Pharmaceutical, Christy LaFlamme, student from Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Anthony Barbar, chair of FAU's Board of Trustees, Abdol Moabery, vice chair of FAU's Board of Trustees, and Stewart Martin, chair of FAU Foundation.

Groundbreaking for New Neuroscience Building

Faculty, staff and students came together with local officials and community partners last week to celebrate the 20th anniversary of FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus at Jupiter with a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new FAU neuroscience building and a new residence hall.

The 58,000-square-foot neuroscience building will enhance the university’s collaborative research with Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Scripps Research. The $17.1 million, 165-bed residence hall will provide a total of 435 beds for the Jupiter campus that is currently at max capacity . VIEW PHOTOS or WATCH EVENT

Nutrient-Poor Foods Served to Children at Faith Community Events

Researchers from Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing are the first to examine the nutrition databases of more than 100,000 foods served within faith communities in South Florida who serve food to children.

Their findings show that the determining factor of choosing food to serve was based on "preparation time" and "taste preference of the children," because they can operate independently without dietary requirements that adhere to the U.S. Department of Agriculture food guidelines, which can cause childhood obesity. READ MORE.

Research in Action

More than 60 community members gathered at the Boca Raton Public Library last week to listen to Oge Marques, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, present "Human Augmentation: Technology, Applications and Implications."

The talk was part of the Research in Action series. Next month's Research in Action is slated for Dec. 19, and Jim Sullivan, Ph.D., executive director at FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, will discuss "The Health of Our Oceans: Why You Should Care."

To view the upcoming Research in Action schedule or read previous speakers' blogs about their experience with the community, click here.

Human Mission to Mars Class Research Symposium

Join us at the Human Mission to Mars Class Research Symposium at 1 to 3 p.m., on Dec. 11. Where student-led teams from the Human Mission to Mars course will present their research on Mars exploration at a research symposium. Also come to learn about this first-of-its-kind course and the findings from its crew of students and faculty for the University's inaugural mission to Mars. RSVP here.

Mars photo by NASA.

Book of the Week

Isaac Elishakoff, Ph.D., a distinguished research professor in the Department of Ocean and Mechanical from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, recently authored the book, "Handbook on Timoshenko-Ehrenfest Beam and Uflyand-Mindlin Plate Theories." The book was published by World Scientific, Singapore.

This is Elishakoff's 30th book. His first book was published in 1983 by John Wiley and Sons.

Have You Recently Published a Book?

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