If you have a dream of starting your own business or have other creative ideas that you’d like to explore than Robert Keltie, Assistant Director of the Adams Center in the College of Business wants you to contact him.
Prize money can be earned for creativity and winning business plans can receive up to $10,000 toward the venture. Plans are reviewed by a panel of seasoned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The Adams Center for IT Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in FAU’s College of Business, in conjunction with Victory International Corp. and other companies in the FAU Research Park, will hold a business plan competition during the Spring Term, 2002. The competition recognizes and encourages the entrepreneurial spirit that has developed among the talented students, faculty, and alumni of Florida Atlantic University. All members of the FAU family are eligible to participate.
Although non-FAU participants are allowed, at least one currently-enrolled FAU student must have a significant ownership percentage of the participating company.
In addition, the Research Park Authority will award six months of free rent in the business incubator to the winning team and operating business advice will be available from the Adams Center staff as well as from the Enterprise Development Corporation staff on the Boca Raton campus of FAU.
The Adams Center can assist in completing a company team where legal, business, journalistic, or other skills are needed.
For more details, email Keltie at [email protected] or call him at 561/297-3177.
FAU AOD Prevention and Research Office Update
Bacchus and Gamma, the nation’s largest peer education program founded at the University of Florida, has renewed the GAMMA charter at FAU. This student program seeks to enhance healthy behaviors. FAU GAMMA in spring 2002 will sponsor three programs:
Drunk and DrunkerNational Alcohol Screening Day: Dunk Tank and Online Drinking SurveyThe Smart Owl Social Norms Project: Student Involvement and Leadership
FAU’s AOD is currently recruiting staff and students interested in volunteering to serve on the Smart Owl Team. Call today for a brief orientation. This project will involve students helping students and focus on increasing school spirit and support for our first-year, athletic, residential and Greek programs.
The FAU AOD office and retention office are developing a partnership designed to help students including programs for students on probation and an online student retention survey.
A Life Skills Summer Camp is planned for at risk teenagers at FAU. More parents don’t know where to turn with the challenges of helping their children navigate the challenges of facing today’s teenagers. If you know a child that may benefit from the camp please contact our office. Meetings are scheduled with South Florida School Districts to discuss FAU research on implementing and evaluating the Social Norms Approach in area high schools.
A Life Skills Healthy Lifestyle Workshop is scheduled for Faculty and Staff focusing on learning how to maintain healthy eating habits and weight levels. “Want to enhance your motivation to Loose Weight”: Begin by monitoring on paper your eating habits for one week”
The College Alcohol & Life Skills Prevention Program PowerPoint Presentation will be presented for faculty and staff interested in learning more about Dr. Gregory’s research and prevention programs in spring 2002 on the FAU campus.
Summer Soar Research: An ongoing research project is planned for summer 2002 with summer soar students testing the out the efficacy of two prevention programs. Smart Owl Quiz: How many drinks per week does the typical college student drink in one week?
For more information contact Gregory, [email protected] or call 561/297-2138 or Helen Cantor, Office Manager in the Counseling Center at [email protected] or call 561/297-3540.
FAU Choral Group to Highlight Promenade Series Concert
The Florida Atlantic University Choral Group will highlight the third Promenade Concert Series event on Sunday, Feb. 10, at 2 p.m., in the auditorium of FAU’s John D. MacArthur campus in Jupiter.
Tickets to the event, which will feature popular and classical vocal selections, are free to the public.
The event is sponsored by Florida Atlantic University, in association with the Hibel Museum of Art and Fidelity Bank and Trust. The MacArthur campus auditorium has a capacity of 250, therefore, early arrival is recommended to ensure seating.
Concert attendees are invited to join a special reception at the Hibel Museum of Art at the Abacoa Town Center in Jupiter following the concert. The museum is located at 1200 Town Center Drive, Suite 4-108.
For more information on the concert or the Hibel Museum of Art, call 561/848-9633, or visit www.hibel.org
Yair Mazor to Present Free Lecture
Florida Atlantic University’s Holocaust and Judaic Studies program will host a free public lecture by Dr. Yair Mazor titled “A Literary Approach to Human Evil and Suffering in the Bible” on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 4:30 p.m., in the Performing Arts Building, room 101, on the Boca Raton ampus.
Dr. Mazor is an internationally acclaimed scholar in Biblical literature, modern Hebrew literature, Enlightenment Hebrew literature, comparative and Scandinavian literature, and children’s literature. He has authored 12 books and more than 200 scholarly articles and book reviews published in the U.S., Israel and many European countries. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Baron Prize for exceptional excellence in research and teaching in the field of Jewish studies (the University of Wisconsin’s most distinguished teaching award) and The Most Distinguished Scholar in Hebrew Literature in the U.S.A.
The lecture is also being sponsored by the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. For information call 561/297-2979, or visit the Web site at www.fau.edu/divdept/schmidt.
