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Lawrence Toll, Ph.D., a scientist whose research focuses on the management of pain and drug addiction through pharmacology and new drug discovery, recently joined Florida Atlantic University as a professor in the department of Biomedical Science in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and as an investigator in the FAU Brain Institute. Toll is FAU’s first recruit under the 21st Century World Class Scholars Program established by the state of Florida. Prior to joining FAU, Toll was the director of the neuropharmacology program at Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and serves as vice president/treasurer and president elect (term to begin in June) of the International Narcotics Research Conference. He is the current chair of the Opioid Receptor Subcommittee of the nonprofit International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. Florida Atlantic University announced new board of trustee appointments. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Brent Burns and

Brad Levine and reappointed Mary Beth McDonald to the FAU Board of Trustees. Burns succeeds Thomas Workman Jr., who has served on the board since 2008. Levine succeeds Daniel Cane, the current vice chair, who has served on the board since 2013. McDonald, who has served on the board since 2013, is the former mayor of Vero Beach. Burns is president and chief operating officer of JM Family Enterprises Inc., and Levine is chief executive officer of Tellus LLC, in Deerfield Beach. The Board is a 13-member group responsible for cost-effective policy decisions appropriate to the university’s mission, the implementation and maintenance of highquality education programs, the measurement of performance, the reporting of information and the provision of input regarding state policy, budgeting and education standards.

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