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July 22, 2020
FAU I-SENSE Collaboration Helps Accuracy of Hurricane Predictions

FAU's Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) provides advanced sensing technology to a network of weather monitoring stations throughout Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Puerto Rico that NOAA uses to increase the accuracy of weather forecasts. READ MORE.

Watch the video here.
Protecting U.S. Biomedical Intellectual Innovation

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the biomedical research enterprise have a long history of international collaborations that allow science to advance while also protecting intellectual capital and proprietary information of the participating countries.

In an effort to continue building important and successful relationships with foreign scientists around the world while also protecting the nation's biomedical innov ations and intellectual property, here's a look at actions the NIH, institutions and researchers can take to protect U.S. biomedical intellectual innovation.
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Due to Covid-19, the newest edition of  Owl Research & Innovation  will be mailed directly to you — even if you're working at home .

The upcoming issue covers all FAU’s colleges, including a behind-the-scenes look at continuing research, scholarship and creative activity during the global pandemic.

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NEXT: The Role of Artificial Intelligence Creativity in Architecture Design

More than 150 people tuned in to last week's virtual Research in Action as Daniel Meeroff, Ph.D., an associate chair and professor, in the department of civil, environmental and geomatics engineering, talked about COVID-19 impacts and the protection of our environment. Watch previous Research in Action presentations here.

Join us this week as Shermeen Yousif, Ph.D., discusses the role of creativity in architecture design through artificial intelligence. Yousif is an assistant professor in the department of architecture in the College of Design and Social Inquiry. Register here.
COVID-19 Change Challenge Update

Elena McLaughlin, a doctoral student in the College of Education, was one of the Division of Research winners of the COVID-19 Change Challenge, an opportunity for FAU students to earn up to $2,000 to help implement their ideas on combatting COVID-19 related issues.

Her project supports children with autism by sending them supplies to enhance their fine motor skills. Supplies include putty to train finger movement, ergonomic pencils, Play-Doh and more.

To read more about the progress of McLaughlin’s project, click here .
Jane Caputi, Ph.D., professor in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, recently authored the book “Call Your Mutha:' A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene.”

The book was published by Routledge.

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The Research Communications team wants to hear about your recently published (after January 2020) book, chapter or co-authored book or chapter, for possible inclusion in an upcoming issue of Owl Research & Innovation  magazine and/or newsletter.

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Call for Presentations

The Charles E. Schmidt College of Science invites researchers to submit presentation proposals for the third annual Data Science, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Conference.

The thirty-minute presentations should be original research, or conversation topics, that help users of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) in south Florida. (Student poster presentations are also accepted for consideration.)

The deadline to submit is Aug. 17. Submit your presentations, here.

The virtual conference, which will address challenges and issues local leaders face with big data, is slated for Nov. 14. To register, click here.
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1 to 5 p.m., Aug. 4, Zoom
Due to COVID-19, most FAU events are canceled, postponed or moved to an online platform.
Marguerite Koch-Rose, Ph.D.
FY 20 Sav Assessment-Hydrogen Sulfide and Hyproxia implications in Florida Bay
$40,000
South Florida Water Management District
Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D.
Understanding interactions between on-bottom bivalve culture and suspected large mobile predators
$80,000
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Aqua SLP
Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D.
Early-Career Research Fellowship
$76,000
National Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine
Heather Howards, Ph.D
An Empowerment Model for the Mother-Infant dyad impacted by trauma
$50,000
Florida Atlantic University Foundation
Funding Opportunity Announcements

National Institutes of Health
Integrative Research to Understand the Impact of Sex Differences on the Molecular Determinants of AD Risk and Responsiveness to Treatment  


Limited Submissions

For details on these opportunities and to access a full list of limited submission funding opportunities, click here.  

Questions about the limited submissions process? Email  limited@fau.edu  
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