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Matt Gross is a key member of the FAU Brain Institute, facilitating work that takes place in the laboratory to gain greater understanding of the way the brain functions, disorders that can affect it and how those disorders might be addressed.
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An Answer to Less Traffic: Carpool
Louis A. Merlin, Ph.D., published a research in the
Journal of the American Planning Association, that found the solution to reducing traffic congestion is to implement more pooled-ride services like car-pooling or public transit.
Merlin, author and an assistant professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning in FAU's College for Design and Social Inquiry, uncovered that the potential for two-passenger ride pooling is close to 100 percent of trips in most cities.
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DOR Launches Audacious Initiative
The Division of Research has set an ambitious goal: to become thee best research support unit in the country.
To get there, this week the division started a series of lunch-hour workshops to seek faculty input and ideas for improvement. Nearly 30 faculty members attended workshops on the Boca and Davie campuses.
Division leaders are scheduling more workshops, seeking input from faculty on all FAU campuses. Be on the lookout for a future workshop coming to your campus soon. If you're interested in attending a workshop on your campus, click
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Young Investigator Award
Adele Stewart, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., executive director of the FAU Brain Institute, earned a Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD). This prestigious award is for young neuroscientists and is only the second to be awarded to a postdoc at FAU.
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Lights, Camera, Research!
The DOR is hosting an Art in Science photo contest open to all members of the FAU community - students, faculty and staff.
Help us highlight the cutting-edge research across the colleges, while engaging and educating others in all the unique research taking place at FAU.
As a bonus, you could win great prizes and a chance to be published in an upcoming issue of Owl Research and Innovation magazine.
Read contest guidelines and submit your photos
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Hybridization of Monkeys
Listen to a recent
Ask a Scientist podcast, as Kate Detwiler, Ph.D., associate professor and primatologist in Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, talks about the hybridization of monkeys.
Ask a Scientist is hosting by Ata Sarajedini, Ph.D., dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and professor of physics.
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In Conversation
with Research
In Conversation is a podcast that features faculty from FAU's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, with host Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D., about research and creative activity that spans art, humanities and the social sciences.
To listen to a recent podcast with Chris "Topher" Maraffi, MFA, an assistant professor about emerging technologies,
click here.
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Featured Book of the Week
Michael P. Brady, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Exceptional Student Education, and Katie M. Miller, Ph.D., assistant professor, both
in
College of Education, recently authored the book, "Curriculum-based VAM: An alternative to traditional VAM in clinically-rich teacher education, a chapter in Outcomes of High-Quality Clinical Practice in Teacher Education." The book was published by
Information Age Publishing
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Have You Recently Published a Book?
The research communications team wants to hear about your recently published (after June 2019) book, book chapter or co-authored book or book chapter, for possible inclusion in the upcoming
Owl Research & Innovation
magazine and/or newsletter. Submit your information
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Countdown: Nine Days
Be sure to reserve your spot at the 2019 FAU Research Showcase, slated for Sept. 26 and 27, set to highlight FAU's best of the best research, academics and innovation.
This year's event begins with a panel of experts discussing artificial intelligence or AI. The event continues with researchers from across the university talking about how their research impacts our community - both in our region and around the world.
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Unlock the Power of FAU's Research Hub
Connect, collaborate and find research funding by joining the hundreds of faculty and students who have signed up for the FAU Research Hub.
The hub is a new web and mobile platform that connects researchers with students, collaborators and funding opportunities. Investigators are encouraged to post projects in just minutes.
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Recent Sponsored Research Awards
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Investigator Name and Project
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Sponsor Name and Total Anticipated Funding
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Zhong Ziangnan
CRII: CPS: A Self-Learning Intelligent Control Framework for Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$
174,365
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Zhong Ziangnan
Collaborative Research: Autonomous Hierarchical Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Decision Making in Complex
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$
237,297
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Michael DeGiorgio
SG: Inferring phylogenies under ancestral population structure
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$
163,097
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Fred Bloetscher
Watershed Master Planning Initiative Pilot Program, Phase One
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Florida Disaster Emergency Management (FDEM)
$1,288,955
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Reza Azarderakhsh
Quantum-Safe Hardware Solutions for Embedded Devices
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Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Indian Head
$79,000
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Jason Hallstrom
IUSE: HER: Collaborative Research: Level 1: Overcoming Impediments to Successful Code Understanding: Scaling Up Automated Methods and Broadening Participation
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$
162,491
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Recent Sponsored Research Awards
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2 to 3 p.m., Sept. 19, Boca Raton Public Library
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9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sept. 24, University of Central Florida, Orlando
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Sept. 24, 4 p.m., Room 119, Research Facility MC-17, Jupiter Campus
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6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Sept. 25, The Addison, Boca Raton Campus
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4 to 5 p.m., Sept. 26, GELB Auditorium, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
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3:30 p.m. Sept. 23, EE 106, Engineering East, Boca Raton Campus
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8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Nov 2, FAU's Office Depot Center
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SAVE THE DATE
: Nov. 7, FAU Tech Runway
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SAVE THE DATE
: Nov. 15, Boca Raton Campus
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Important NIH Change Effective October
Don’t forget to link your ORCID identifier to your eRA Commons profile
From graduate students to senior scientists, everyone is encouraged to register for an ORCID account and link it to their eRA Commons personal profile. Starting Oct. 1, ORCID identifiers will be required for individuals supported by institutional research training, career development and other research education awards.
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