Florida Polytechnic president selected for Fulbright award

Dr. Randy K. Avent, president of Florida Polytechnic University, has been selected as the 2024-2025 recipient of the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Award.

The award is presented, annually, to one American scholar with the purpose of supporting research at the intersection of policy and technology that can improve the understanding of issues important to the United States and the European Union.

Avent, who is set to leave his post as Florida Poly’s president at the end of the spring semester, will then travel to Spain to begin working on his Fulbright-funded research at the University of Barcelona. He will study the role of academic research in driving economic development, with a special emphasis on the contrast between the current European and American models.

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