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Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will present a lecture by Gibor Basri, Ph.D., as part of the 2013 Frontiers in Science public lecture series, titled “NASA’s Hunt for Earth2: Kepler’s Shower of Planets!” The lecture will take place on Friday, Feb. 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, room 126, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.

Thanks to a generous gift from the Morgan Pressel Foundation, Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute has created the Morgan Pressel Center for Cancer Genetics, a program designed to

BB&T has made a $10,000 donation to the Max Planck Florida Foundation to support the operations and programming of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFIN). The research center recently opened its new 100,000 sq. ft. facility with nine distinct research groups focused on investigating the many remaining mysteries of the brain in order to better understand human behavior and offer ways to treat a host of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases more effectively.

Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will present a lecture by Lisa McElwee-White, Ph.D. as part of the 2013 Frontiers in Science public lecture series, titled “The Chemistry of New Materials for

JUPITER, Fla. (January 16, 2013) – Registration is now open for the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience’s (MPFIN) 2013 Brain Bee Challenge on Saturday, February 9.  This will be the second year for the annual event, which brings together Palm Beach and Martin County students in grades 9-12 for a 

Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine has announced a $3 million gift to endow medical student scholarships. The endowment will be named the “Dr. Morton and Cynthia Levitt Endowed Scholarship for Medical Education,” and the announcement was made during the Schmidt College of Medicine’s inaugural “Your Medical School” celebration honoring Dick and Barbara Schmidt. 

FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute announces the featured speakers for the 2013 Ocean Science Lecture Series, a free educational forum for the community which will begin Wednesday, Jan. 16. Lectures will take place each Wednesday thereafter through April 3, at 4 and 7 p.m. in the Harbor Branch Johnson Education Center, 5600 U.S. 1 North, in Fort Pierce. Admission is free.

Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will launch its Frontiers in Science 2013 public lecture series with a presentation by Edward Petuch, Ph.D., titled “Mollusks of the Tropical Western Atlantic: New Perspectives on Biogeography and Biodiversity.” The lecture will take place on Friday, Jan. 11 at 3:30 p.m. in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Room 126, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.