Page 20 - Southern Exposure - February '21

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WHAT’S
WHAT’S

NEW
NEW

FEBRUARY 2021 John D. MacArthur Campus
at Jupiter
Sponsored report Florida Atlantic University

Wilkes Honors College

Multiplier Challenge Success
Thanks to the generous support of Florida
Atlantic University’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors
College donors during its 20th anniversary
year, the college raised more than $400,000
for the Community Engagement Scholarship
Program. Thanks to tremendous support and
an anonymous $100,000 Multiplier Challenge,
the college is on the way to nearly doubling the
number of Community Engagement Scholars
in less than two years. And, based on student
interest and available funds, they anticipate
achieving the goal of supporting 50 Community
Engagement Scholarships per semester by
Spring 2022.

NAI Members from FAU

NEUROSCIENCE BUILDING Highlighted for Research
Success
CONSTRUCTION Three FAU researchers were recently featured
in the 2020 National Academy of Inventors’
Construction of the new Neuroscience Building on (NAI) annual activities report for their research-
FAU’s Jupiter Campus is underway. This expanding related innovations. Herbert Weissbach, Ph.D.,

FAU campus is the only place in the world where the professor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of
Science, Megan Davis, Ph.D., professor in the
Scripps Research and the Max Planck Institute for FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute,
Neuroscience sit side-by-side and collaborate with and Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., professor in the
university researchers and students. The building Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and

will expand research and collaborations among the executive director of the FAU Brain Institute.
three institutes in the concentrations of neuroscience,
biotechnology, bioengineering, data science, and Gene Therapy Research
chemistry. Propels First Graduate of
Joint M.D./Ph.D. Program
Next Generation training in science on FAU’s Jupiter Cody Jackson, Ph.D., the first FAU student
Campus: to complete a doctorate through the joint
• Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College medical and doctorate program with FAU

• Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Jupiter and Scripps Research, collaborated on gene
therapy research published in the open access
• FAU Brain Institute journal Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical
• I-HEALTH Development.
• STEM Training Hub

• FAU High School in Partnership Nicole Baganz Joins NAMI
with Max Planck Academy Board of Directors
• FAU-Max Planck Joint Programs The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• College of Education Teacher Training Palm Beach County elected Nicole Baganz,
Ph.D., director of community engagement and
For more information, visit programming at FAU’s Brain Institute as a new
https://fau.edu/jupiter/neuro-building/ board member during their annual meeting on
Nov. 17.

STAY CONNECTED @FAUJUPITER

www.fau.edu/jupiter

5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458 | phone: 561.799.8500

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