Palm Beach County Perspective

Ep. 15 - Palm Beach County Offers Great Opportunities for Higher Learning


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Episode 15 offers a look at Florida Atlantic University, with its campuses in Boca Raton, Jupiter, Davie, Fort Lauderdale and the Harbor Branch Oceanic Institute in Fort Pierce. We first look skyward as Professor Ata Sarajedini talks about his love of the stars and the many celestial bodies in our sky.  Dr Sarajedini offers an invitation to area residents to visit the observatory located on FAU's Boca Raton camps to witness, first hand, the mysteries of space. We then set our sights to the earthbound study of business with Dean Dan Gropper. Dr. Gropper's 25 years at FAU have allowed him to build a program now embracing over 8,000 students across its campuses. Each of these men discusses the impacts of the pandemic on the delivery of academics in their college disciplines. They go on to discuss the business of space exploration and how it has impacted our daily lives (even if we are not destined to visit the moon, Mars or any other planet within our solar system).

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Palm Beach County PerspectiveBy Robert Weinroth

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