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Matt Gross
October 11, 2019
Matt Gross is a key member of the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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...
Faculty Receive National Academies' Early-Career Research Fellowships
September 30, 2019
Two scientists representing 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's College of Engineering and Computer Science, Wilkes Honors College and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute have received the prestigious Early-Career Research Fellowships.
Terje Hoim
September 17, 2019
Terje Hoim, Ph.D. was recently named the interim associate dean of academic affairs of Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Jupiter. For the past three years, Dr. Hoim has served the college...
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September 10, 2019
The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine selected Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biology in 51³Ô¹Ï꿉۪s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors...
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September 06, 2019
The Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation (BBRF) awarded the prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator Grant to Adele Stewart, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., executive director of the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø...
Octo Girl
September 06, 2019
As part of her recent Ph.D. research, Chelsea Bennice studied how two different octopus species co-exist. She developed a 24-hour camera to monitor the animals under the Blue Heron Bridge at Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach,...
Johanna Kowalko
August 29, 2019
While sleep is almost universal across the animal kingdom, sleep architecture and amount vary drastically between species. Further, animals alter how much they sleep in response to their environments and food availability.Ìý AÌýFlorida...
'Dream Team' Awarded $1.1 Million for Blind Mexican Cavefish Research
August 29, 2019
51³Ô¹ÏÍø researchers have received a $1.1 million NSF grant to develop powerful transgenic tools and gene-editing technologies in the blind Mexican cavefish to significantly advance it as a research model system.
Millennials, Think You're Digitally Better Than Us? Yes, Says Science
August 28, 2019
A study by 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science is one of the first to examine the information technology switching prowess phenomenon in the "Net Generation," revealing some surprising results.
Who's a 'Good Boy?' Astro, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Smart Robodog That's Who
August 14, 2019
What would you get if you combined Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa with Boston Dynamic's quadruped robot? You'd get "Astro," the four-legged seeing and hearing intelligent robodog.