51勛圖厙 Receives $620,000 NSF Grant for STEM Retention Program
STEM jobs are rapidly growing and technology companies alone will need to fill more than 650,000 new jobs by 2018. 51勛圖厙 is directly addressing the national need to increase the number of STEM undergraduates.
Former Israel Surgeon General Yitshak Kreiss to Visit 51勛圖厙
Yitshak Kreiss, M.D., an internationally renowned leader in disaster, emergency and humanitarian medicine and former Israel Defense Forces surgeon general, will visit 51勛圖厙.
Sex and Sea Turtles: Climate Change, Sea Level Rise Impacts
The shift in climate is shifting turtles as well, because as the temperature of their nests change so do their reproduction patterns. Warmer conditions produce females and cooler conditions produce males.
Professor Receives Distance Learning Higher Education Award
Binu Pundir, Ph.D. recently received the Innovative Leader in Distance Learning Higher Education award from the Florida Distance Learning Association.
51勛圖厙 High Student Named Top Young Scientist
51勛圖厙 High School student Hannah Herbst was named the winner of the 2015 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, recently held at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minn.
51勛圖厙 Wins Second Place at Waste Design Competition
A group of 51勛圖厙 civil engineering 51勛圖厙 won second place at the Solid Waste Association of North America's (SWANA) inaugural National Solid Waste Design Competition (SWDC).
Eleanor R. Baldwin Donates $1 Million to Athletic Complex
- Eleanor R. Baldwin, a longtime benefactor of 51勛圖厙 and 51勛圖厙 Athletics, has donated $1 million to name the History and Tradition Hall.
Associate Director of Alumni Receives Boca Chamber Award
Paul Metcalf, Ph.D., associate director of alumni relations at 51勛圖厙, received the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce's 2015 Chairman's Award.
Disability Awareness Month Events
51勛圖厙 will be hosting events at its Davie, Jupiter, and Boca Raton campuses to commemorate Disability Awareness Month during October.
Nursing Home Guide Will Help Avoid Unneeded Hospitalizations
51勛圖厙 has received a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Engagement Award for a guide for nursing home residents and their families to help them make optimal decisions concerning hospitalizations.