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January 23, 2025
Discover how graduate student Allison Centeno finds Mother Nature to be an endless source of curiosity, as well as how she's using satellite imagery to study how oceanographic conditions affect the foraging behavior and movement...

January 21, 2025
The vaquita, which means 鈥渓ittle cow鈥 in Spanish, is the world鈥檚 smallest porpoise and most endangered marine mammal. They also have the smallest range of any marine mammal; about 1,500 square miles within the northern...

January 13, 2025
While microplastics are rapidly becoming a major issue, Schmidt College of Science faculty and students are working to understand their abundance and distribution across South Florida鈥檚 coastlines 鈥 both important steps...

January 06, 2025
Drastic flooding from King Tides in recent years has given many South Floridians a glimpse of what the future could look like as sea levels continue to rise. Learn how the Schmidt College of Science is working to educate...

December 17, 2024
Although there aren鈥檛 any sharks in Colorado where alumna Mikki McComb-Kobza, Ph.D. 鈥09, now resides, that doesn鈥檛 stop her from sharing her elasmo-enthusiasm through the nonprofit organization she helped co-found,...
December 10, 2024
The 22 undergraduate scholarships that the gift establishes are open to all majors at Florida Atlantic for students with financial need and strong interest in environmental science. Four additional scholarships are earmarked...

December 10, 2024
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University鈥檚 Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, have spent the last five years studying the relationships between songbird gut microbiomes and traits that relate to a bird鈥檚 health...

November 22, 2024
For over 10 years, Marianne Porter, Ph.D., has been leading the way in biological sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. In her lab, the Florida Atlantic Biomechanics Laboratory (the FAB Lab), Porter and her...

November 15, 2024
Florida Atlantic University has been named as a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Leader for 2024. Schmidt College of Science student Allison Centeno Chaves from Heredia, Costa Rica, is one of the university鈥檚...
