I-SENSE Distinguished Speaker: Durable by Design: The “Tamper-Proof” Wristband as Technology of the Wrist

Please join I-SENSE for our first Distinguished Speaker of 2026, Rachel Plotnick, Ph.D., associate professor at The Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. In-person attendees may join us in Engineering East Conference Room 405 on Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11 am. There will also be an option to attend via Zoom.

Learn more here.

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OCR9 Spring Semester Lunch ~N~ Learn Webinar Series

Please join OCR9 on February 18th for the February Spring Semester Lunch ~N~ Learn Webinar.

February 18, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Topic is “Title VI: Hostile Environment Harassment.”
Online: 
https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/85110136076?pwd=bVtASkIUwLBKthYxTktKOAVXO0F3hq.1

Meeting ID: 851 1013 6076

Passcode: P4ggi3

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Capturing the Presidency with New York Times Photographer Doug Mills

On Thursday, Feb. 26 at 4 pm in the University Theatre, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Doug Mills will share stories from his four decades of covering Presidents and Presidential campaigns. He recently earned his third Pulitzer Prize for his photographic coverage of the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. His first Pulitzer was in 1993 with the Associated Press for team coverage of the Clinton/Gore campaign and he won a second Pulitzer for the A.P.’s team investigative coverage of the Monica Lewinsky affair.

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Choose Florida Atlantic

Monday, Feb. 16, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Monday, Feb. 23, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. and Friday, March 20, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Boca Raton campus. Click here for more information. 

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America at 250: Florida in the American Revolution

4 pm, Thursday, February 19 @ 5th Floor, Wimberly Library

Florida was a battlefront in the American Revolutionary War when Spain, a U.S. ally, invaded Britain’s loyal “fourteenth colony.” Dr. Judith Bense shares this forgotten story with historical and archaeological expertise. Recipient of multiple lifetime achievement awards. Presented by the Department of History and Florida Atlantic Libraries, sponsored by FAU’s Study of the Americas Initiative, and co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.

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SEED Funding Opportunity

The Colleges of Engineering and Computer Science, Nursing, Medicine, and Social Work & Criminal Justice, through their collaborative Center for SMART Health, are delighted to announce the third SEED Funding initiative open to the entire Florida Atlantic faculty research community.

This initiative focuses on health and in particular, the following areas: (1) cancer, (2) neurodegenerative diseases, (3) social and behavioral health with a focus on substance abuse and addiction, (4) applications of artificial intelligence and data science, (5) leveraging the TriNetX database for clinical and translational research, and (6) strategies for data collection and the development of clean, high-quality analytics pipelines.

Learn more here.

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World Anthropology Day Celebration

Please join us for World Anthropology Day on Thursday, February 19!

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Activities, Conversations, and Treats under the SO Rotunda

5 – 6 p.m. – Open house, research talks with faculty, and reception SO 190

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CONVERSA by Joanna Castle Miller

A World Premiere

Directed by Matt Stabile

Executive Producers: Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, Linda and Joe Satz-Trustees


Young Joanna knows all the Jewish prayers – and how they’re really about Jesus. That’s because, many years ago, her mother, who wanted to be a rabbi, converted to evangelicalism through Jews for Jesus. As a result, young Joanna learns all the tricks of Christian missions, eventually becoming a missionary herself. But when something ancient draws her away, to the traditions she never learned and histories she never studied, she finds herself in a tiny village where, centuries ago, her father’s father’s father faced a similar crossroads and made a very different choice.

Castle Miller, a playwright, performer, and expert in the Jewish History of Spain, performs this one-woman, tour-de-force, auto-biographical tale of her upbringing in the evangelical church and subsequent return to Judaism. A special finalist with the Jewish Plays Project, the title references the term used to describe those Jews who converted to Christianity around the time of the Inquisition rather than face exile from their homeland. CONVERSA is about identity, migration, change, and the echoes of history which call us home.

February 7-22, 2026

Performances Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 3pm

No Saturday matinee on opening (2/7)

Pay What You Choose Preview on February 4th & 7th at 7:30 pm 

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Teaching With Technology Showcase 2026: Register and Submit Your Proposal

Join your colleagues on March 23, 2026, for the Teaching with Technology Showcase, a one-day, in-person event focused on Transforming Education with Artificial Intelligence.

Sessions will be faculty-led and proposal-driven, with hands-on workshops, live demos, and a catered lunch. Content will be organized around the following focus areas:

  • AI-Powered Teaching & Course Design
  • Assessment & Academic Integrity in the AI Era
  • AI for Research, Scholarship, & Creative Practice
  • AI in Action (workshops, demos, classroom use cases)

The event features a keynote by Dr. Randal Schober of Point Loma Nazarene University, sharing practical, research-based strategies through the Bloom-AI Framework.

Faculty are invited to attend or submit a proposal to share real-world AI teaching practices.

Schmidt Family Complex | 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Proposal deadline: February 6, 2026

Registration is now open.
Learn more or submit a proposal at https://www.fau.edu/twts/.

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Florida Atlantic Launches Inaugural Local Government and Non-Profit Internship Program (Civic Owls)

Florida Atlantic University is launching an exciting new paid internship program that allows juniors and seniors who have completed a minimum of 60 credits in all majors to gain experience in local government agencies and non-profit organizations. The Civic Owls internship program, funded by the President’s Office, will kick off in Spring 2026 and will be offered every Fall and Spring semester thereafter.

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