Understanding Sleep through the Insomniac Cavefish
A study recently published in
eLife by neuroscientists in the College of Science is providing new insight into the evolution of sleep and how we might build a brain that does not need to sleep by studying the eyeless, tiny, and blind Mexican cavefish.
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Business Development Group Names Regional Director
Rafael Cruz was recently named the regional director of the Florida Small Business Development Center at FAU. He will provide strategy and oversight of business development efforts in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
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New Tech Soaring In
A team at the Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering will soon be releasing a new version of a highly adaptable, low-power, low-cost data logger and telemetry instrument. Called the Soar, it comes with an extensive set of data storage, analysis and presentation tools.
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Hundreds Gather at FAU Tech Runway to Meet 'Angels'
Meet the Angels, an FAU Tech Runway signature event, recently drew more than 300 people to the Boca Raton hub for an inspirational evening that was created to give entrepreneurs and startups a forum to meet some of the region’s major angel groups, early-stage investors and investment funds.
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Recent Sponsored Research Awards
Investigator Name and Project
Sponsor Name and Total Anticipated Funding
Ata Sarajedini
Opening the Window on Galaxy Assembly: Ages and Structural Parameters of Globular Clusters Towards the Galactic Bulge
Space Telescope Science Institute
$50,833
Ata Sarajedini
Exploring the Nature and Synchronicity of Early Cluster Formation in the Local Group
Space Telescope Science Institute
$48,852
Sudhagar Nagarajan
3D Mobile Laser Scanning of Indian River Lagoon around JILONA
Palm Beach County
$1,600
To see more recent awards, scroll down in the digital magazine
here.
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