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Exploring How Income, Race and Design Affect Pedestrian Casualties
·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥researchers examined the environmental factors associated with crash incidence in lower-income and more affluent areas in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
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·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥Engineering Professor Achieves Highly Cited Google Scholar Ranking
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Ph.D., the Motorola Endowed Chair Professor and director of the Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab has garnered more than 63,000 citations during his distinguished career at FAU.
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Banning Friendships Can Backfire: Moms' 'Meddling' Worsens Behavior
A study by ·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥on maternal disapproval of children's friends reveals unforeseen consequences of this well-intended interference, resulting in worsening bad behavior instead of improving it.
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$1.8M NIH Grant to ·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥Engineering Will Fuel Decoding Human Evolution
A grant from the NIH awarded to ·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥engineering will help to further research and develop cutting-edge tools to help unravel the genetic mechanisms behind disease resistance and defense.
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NSF Grant Empowers ·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥to Explore Caribbean Climate Crisis
Using ethnography, FAU's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, will study the experiences of vulnerable communities in the area known as "Hurricane Alley."
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Rain or Shine? How Rainfall Impacts Size of Sea Turtle Hatchlings
An internationally collaborative study reveals how local weather influences hatchling development across 37 beaches worldwide, showing that it has a more profound effect than changes in air temperature.
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FAU/Mainstreet USA Poll: Harris Gains Momentum in Wake of DNC
A new poll from the ·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥ Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab ( PolCom Lab ) and Mainstreet Research USA reveals significant shifts in the 2024 U.S. presidential race.
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·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥Ranks Among 'Washington Monthly' Top Public, Private Universities
·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥ has been ranked No. 41 overall among the nation's best public and private universities by Washington Monthly.
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·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥Engineering to Lead $1.3M Collaborative Conservation Project
·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥engineering will lead a project designed to cost-effectively identify and track wildlife using artificial intelligence, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
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·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥and Mainstreet Launch Innovative 2024 Election Dashboard
·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥'s PolCom Lab and Mainstreet Research USA developed a unique dashboard that provides an unprecedented understanding of what polling data is showing during the 2024 general election.