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While microplastics are rapidly becoming a major issue, Schmidt College of Science faculty and students are working to understand their abundance and distribution across South Florida’s coastlines – both important steps...

Drastic flooding from King Tides in recent years has given many South Floridians a glimpse of what the future could look like as sea levels continue to rise. Learn how the Schmidt College of Science is working to educate...

Although there aren’t any sharks in Colorado where alumna Mikki McComb-Kobza, Ph.D. ’09, now resides, that doesn’t stop her from sharing her elasmo-enthusiasm through the nonprofit organization she helped co-found,...

Researchers from Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, have spent the last five years studying the relationships between songbird gut microbiomes and traits that relate to a bird’s health...

For over 10 years, Marianne Porter, Ph.D., has been leading the way in biological sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. In her lab, the Florida Atlantic Biomechanics Laboratory (the FAB Lab), Porter and her...

Â鶹ŮÀÉ has been named as a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Leader for 2024. Schmidt College of Science student Allison Centeno Chaves from Heredia, Costa Rica, is one of the university’s...

Weibo Liu, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences, was named a recipient of the School of Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sustainability’s (ECOS) 2024 Publication Grant. He received $2,000 to support...

A majority of Floridians expressed support for political candidates who fight climate change in a new Â鶹ŮÀÉ survey. The survey found that nearly 52% of respondents agreed that a candidate with a record...

Results of the study, published in the journal Heredity and featured on the cover, revealed four distinct genetic lineages of blushing star coral. At the sites sampled, the two main genetic lineages of the blushing star coral...

Congratulations to Vivian Merk, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and College of Engineering and Computer Science. Merk was named the recipient of the School of Environmental, Coastal,...