Month: July 2023

Dr. Dimitrios Giarikos, Dr. Amy Hirons, and Dr. Jose Lopez were awarded a $535K FDEP grant with the project titled, “Heavy Metal Implications to Sediment Microbiome and Coral Reef Community”.

The overarching goal of this community-engaged project is to improve mental health outcomes on campus by increasing the mental health literacy of students and the faculty and staff that interact and support students.

In our proposed research, we seek to investigate the enabling role of environmental change for entrepreneurial pursuits, particularly digital startups. We aim to develop empirically validated theory focused on environmental change by COVID-19 and digital entrepreneurship.

Teachers, especially early childhood educators, have always been in a very stressful job and teachers are not paid like they should. So, there’s a lot of turnover rates in general, but with COVID burn out rates and stress increases, teachers needed even more support. So, all of those things together are how this project came to be.