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By Ron Hayes
How would you describe a map of Africa to a blind person?
How would you explain a chart of the fluctuating U.S. economy to someone who cannot see that chart?
How would you talk like a pirate?
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — One summer day in the late 1920s, a little boy named Arthur Jaffe asked a librarian at the Carnegie Library in Butler, Pa., to recommend a book.
“She gave me a children’s abridged edition of Robinson Crusoe, and I c
Florida Atlantic University’s Caring Hearts Auxiliary, of the Louis and Anne Green Memory and Wellness at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, raised more than $210,000 at the ninth annual walk. The fun-filled event brought together nearly 400 p
Officials ushered in the June and Ira J. Gelb, M.D. Auditorium in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine building at Florida Atlantic University in honor of the philanthropists’ $250,000 donation to their scholarship fund. ‘It is my honor and pri
The fourth-annual reception raised more than $60,000 to benefit Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine’s incoming class. More than 220 business, civic and healthcare leaders attended, each giving a donation for underwrit
ABOVE: (l-r) Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie, FAU President John Kelly, National Save the Sea Turtle Foundation Director Frank Wojick, FAU Provost Gary Perry and Professor Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D., of the the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science’s Depa
Ray Coleman, executive director of the FAU / Pine Jog Environmental Education Center, welcomed more than 160 friends and supporters to a festive affair with the theme ‘Revealing Today’s Environmental Leaders.’ Awards went out to Environmental Educato
Supporters of the Owls made waves at the school’s annual black-tie-optional event that raised more than $500,000 for scholarships and support for veterans and first-generation students. ‘The Making Waves Gala was a tremendous success,’ FAU President
By Steve Plunkett
Motorists heading south to a Florida Atlantic University football game or other campus event in 2017 will exit Interstate 95 on a ramp that crosses Yamato Road and the interstate itself before depositing them on FAU Boulevard.
Delray’s Fabulous Fashion Show: Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach – Jan. 17
Gordana ‘Gordi’ Adzic models beachwear from Kokonuts of Delray Beach on Jan. 17 during “Delray’s Fabulous Fashion Show” in front of the Colony Hotel on Atlantic Avenue. The fashi
David High is enjoying his life in ‘retirement,’ including an active lifestyle from his home. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
Ten years ago, David High and his wife, JoAnne, joined some friends in attending a few meetings of the
Anne and Louis Green were two of the more than 400 walkers and sponsors who came out to support the eighth annual affair that raised more than $310,000 for Florida Atlantic University’s Louis and Anne Green Memory and Wellness Center at the Christine
By Thom Smith
So much for the bad news at FAU. Since Dennis Crudele took over as interim president after Mary Jane Saunders’ embarrassing debacle that peaked with the plan to name the stadium for the prisons-for-profit company GEO International,
Shopping for scholarships was the theme of a fundraiser at the renowned men’s clothing store
benefiting Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
A total of 25 percent of merchandise sales came back to the college
ABOVE: Fifteen entrepreneurs ages 12-18 wait their turn to present to the judges.
By Emily J. Minor
If you think kids today are lazy — holed up in their rooms, Googling cheat codes for video games, making new friends only on the Web — then you ne
Judy Collins (left) with CARP luncheon chairwoman Barbara Katz. Photo by Paulette Martin
By Thom Smith
“I wanted to get this out of the way right now …
Bows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles
in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I’ve loo
By Thom Smith
A year ago this month, Florida Atlantic University President Mary Jane Saunders decided the school’s athletics department needed a kick in the pants. She started at the top, firing Athletic Director Craig Angelos. Granted, the new stadi
Daniela Nikolova-Popova demonstrates an equation during the conference Group Theory, Combinatorics and Computing, held in Highland Beach. Libby Volgyes/The Coastal Star
By Libby Volgyes
It doesn’t matter that Daniela Nikolova-Popova has studied an
Bernie Marcus, chairman of the Marcus Foundation
and co-founder and former CEO of The Home Depot,
and his wife, Billi, announce their $25 million gift to
Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Images provided
With the new $25 million
Howard Schnellenberger will wrap up a career
of more than half a century of football during the
debut season of Florida Atlantic University’s new
stadium on the school’s Boca Raton campus. Photo by Tim Stepien
FAU tries kicking food up a notch at
