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Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Scientific Excellence and Discovery
Through its academic departments and research centers, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science provides outstanding opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate science majors.
In addition to the eight academic departments in the College, there is a group of strong interdisciplinary and sub-disciplinary research centers engaged in cutting-edge research.
The education and research programs of our College span the sciences and mathematics with major efforts in many fields ranging from biotechnology, bioinformatics, and brain science to cryptology, developmental systems, dynamical systems, environmental sciences, exercise sciences, geo-information science, marine science, and space-time physics. The College's programs are offered at FAU's campuses in Boca Raton, Davie, Jupiter, and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.
Spotlight Stories
NIST Selects FAU for a New Generation of Encryption Standards
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science alumna Sadelyn De The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science’s Hamming Quasi-Cyclic (HQC) for standardization in its Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) project.
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Photobomb: Shark Cam Captures Ocean Encounter With a Great White
In an unprecedented underwater encounter, a nurse shark equipped with a camera tag had a “shark’s eye view” of a great white shark off the coast of Boynton Beach. This stunning find has delighted marine biologists from the Schmidt College of Science, marking what they believe to be the first-ever photobomb unknowingly documenting a great white shark in South Florida waters.
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Alumna Jennifer Chastant, Ph.D., Is Working to Preserve ‘Wild’ Florida and Its Waterways
Two-time Charles E. Schmidt College of Science alumna Jennifer Chastant, Ph.D. ’16, M.S. ‘15, has always been curious about how biological systems work. Her father nurtured her love for water from early childhood.
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Training for Success: ESHP Graduate Student Alexandre Hamaïde
Meet Alexandre Hamaïde, a first-year graduate student and graduate teaching assistant in the ESHP master’s degree program, and a dedicated personal trainer who is studying the impact of exercise on vascular health.
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Connecting Science to Conservation: Meet 2025 Florida Atlantic 3MT® Second Runner-up, Ph.D. Student Ray Pressman
Learn how Integrative Biology-Environmental Science Ph.D. student Ray Pressman is researching how climate change affects the behavioral and developmental responses of birds to changing environments.
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New Tool May Unlock Gravity, Quantum Mechanics Link
Warner A. Miller, Ph.D., co-author and a professor in the Department of Physics at Ģtvҳ’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and collaborators, found that light’s polarization – the direction...
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Announcing the new director of the FAU School of Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sustainability
Dr. Steven Vollmer will be joining Ģtvҳ as the next director of our School of Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sustainability (ECOS) and professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.
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Fewer Parasites in Indian River Lagoon Signal Big Ecosystem Problems
Researchers from Ģtvҳ’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and Charles E. Schmidt College of Science suspected that parasite levels in the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) would be affected by environmental...
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SEEDS BioBlitz Event Brings Students, Citizen Scientists Together to Document Local Species
During BioBlitz—a high-energy nature scavenger hunt—students, scientists and nature lovers from the community teamed up on April 8 to find and identify as many plant and animal species as possible in just a few hours.
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