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August 2022
2022 National Postdoc Appreciation Week
Mark your calendars, Sept. 19 to 23 is National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week.

FAU recognizes the valuable contributions that postdoctoral fellows make to research and scholarly activities. 

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs asks campuses, colleges, departments and units to share how they plan to celebrate their postdocs during the upcoming National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Email postdocaffairs@fau.edu.
TeamSparX Refresh

The Division of Research announces an upgrade to TeamSparX, a Florida Atlantic research collaboration platform.

Here's a look at the new features:

  • Redesign for the user profile and associated onboarding sequence

  • Updated way to select skills and interests

  • Project application page to help track progress of finding research opportunities
on-campus

  • Simplified navigation, search, notifications and support. 

Create an account today and start collaborating.
FAU Wave Student Competition Now Open
Learn more about the FAU Wave competition by watching Brandon Feinstein's journey, here.
Networking Opportunities
Meet Your Neighbor

Meet Your Neighbor is a networking event that provides an opportunity to meet others with similar research-related interests and talk about your current work and path. Engage and learn from peers and discover future collaboration.
Research Meet-ups

Continue the research conversation on designated topics every week with Research Meet-Ups.

No formal presentations - this is where collaboration begins.
Online Early Career Academy
Calling all assistant professors, with less than three years at Florida Atlantic, sign up for the Early Career Academy, a dedicated, cohort-based, asynchronous semester-long course, to put your career on track now. Email proposaldevelopment@fau.edu for more information.
Research in Action:
1 - 2 p.m., Sept. 8, Zoom

Sept. 13 - Dec. 6

5 - 7:30 p.m., Sept. 13
Boynton Beach City Hall

5:30 p.m., Sept. 14
Accepting Applications for New Cohort
Sept. 21 - Oct. 27

11 a.m. - noon, Sept. 27
LA 201, FAU Davie Campus

Oct.1, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 | 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Deadline: Oct. 28
Save the Date:
Nov. 15
We Heard You

Thank you for participating in last month's poll. Fifty percent of voters chose the correct answer. See below:

What's the largest grant that FAU received in the fiscal year of 2020 (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020):

$15 million
$2.5 million
$11 million - correct answer
$5 million

* Be Heard is a poll that gives Research Link readers an opportunity to interact with the Division of Research (DoR). If you have an idea for a poll question, email Janell Carroll at jwildgooseca2016@fau.edu.
Tell us about your research, book publications and other news, here.
Division of Research