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Research Highlights

(l-R) Stacie Rossow, conducting, and Nick Underwood, smiling

September 2026

Two Faculty Members Receive Fulbrights Stacie Rossow, Department of Music, and Nick Underwood, Department of History, are among the six faculty members at FAU who have received prestigious Fulbright awards for the 2026-27 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
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A diverse group of diplomacy students at the United Nations in New York.

June 2026

Diplomacy Program Places Second at Model UN in New York City Florida Atlantic University’s Leon Charney Diplomacy Program received the Distinguished Delegation Award at the recent National Model United Nations in New York City. This is the second highest award out of 235 schools that participated. The University also won multiple individual awards for academic excellence.
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The Fourth Annual Philosophy of Video Games Conference Organizer Nicholas Baima with Keynote Speaker Christopher Bartel and co-organizer Sarah Malanowski

April 2026

Philosophy of Video Games Conference The Fourth Annual Philosophy of Video Games Conference was hosted by the Department of Philosophy and sponsored by the Center for Peace, Justice and Human Rights, and the Center for the Future of Mind, AI, & Society. Held over two days, the conference brought together more than 70 attendees and more than 20 presenters from across the country to examine the ethical, aesthetic, metaphysical, social, and political dimensions of games and play.
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World’s Top 2 Percent of Scientists

December 2025

Arts and Letters Professors Rank Among World’s Top 2 Percent of Scientists Nearly 70 Florida Atlantic faculty members, including Richard Shusterman, Ph.D., and Ali Farazmand, Ph.D., have been recognized among the world’s top 2 percent of scientists.
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Matt Baltrucki and Alejandro Sánchez-Samper

October 2025

FAU Professors Receive Latin Grammy Nomination for Album Recording and Production Alejandro Sánchez-Samper and Matt Baltrucki of the Department of Music have received their fifth Latin Grammy nomination for the album “Milonguín,” a project featuring the Giovanni Parra Quinteto with original works by Colombian bandoneonist and composer Giovanni Parra.
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DC Alexander Park in Fort Lauderdale

September 2025

Jeffrey Huber Featured in Architectural Record Jeffrey E. Huber, FAIA, School of Architecture, was recently featured in Architectural Record magazine for a Ft. Lauderdale park he designed with Lawrence Scarpa, his partner at Brooks and Scarpa Architects, that addresses coastal resiliency.
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Cutting Ribbon at the Opening of the Alan B. and Charna Larkin American Presidential Study

May / June 2025

Opening of the Alan B. and Charna Larkin American Presidential Study The 1,500-square-foot space in the library at FAU’s Boca Raton campus displays personally signed letters from every U.S. president dating back to George Washington.
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Best Grad Schools US News & World Report

April 2025

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters School of Public Administration, ranked No. 72 in the U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” for 2024-25.
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Create the possibilities

February 2025

Top Story: Florida Atlantic Designated an R1: Very High Research Spending and Doctorate Production University The R1 Classification in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is a highly coveted achievement in the collegiate world, symbolizing the pinnacle of research excellence.
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Media Lab Grant

November 2024

Top Story: MediaLab@FAU , a community journalism initiative in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Press Forward, a national initiative aimed at revitalizing local news and strengthening communities. MediaLab@FAU was launched in September 2023 by Ilene Prusher, senior instructor of multimedia journalism. It’s been estimated that MediaLab’s articles reached upward of 25 million people based on potential online exposure of its articles in its first year.
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