Award-winning journalist to keynote FIU Faculty Convocation

Posted by × 09/17/2008 at 1:32 pm

MIAMI – TIME magazine Senior Correspondent Michael Grunwald, a nationally-acclaimed author recognized for his work on the Florida Everglades, will be the keynote speaker this week at FIU’s Faculty Convocation and Awards Ceremony, underscoring the university’s “go green” initiatives.

Grunwald’s 2006 book, “The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise”, received the gold medal for non-fiction at the Florida Book Awards. He will discuss “The Everglades and Florida: The Past and the Future” at the annual event, which serves to honor faculty selected for recognition by their peers. Faculty Convocation is scheduled to take place at 9 a.m. on September 19th at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center at Florida International University’s University Park, 11200 S.W. 8th Street in Miami.

Grunwald also has covered the Justice Department and Congress for The Washington Post and, among other recognitions, is the recipient of the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting and the Society of Environmental Journalists’ award for in-depth reporting.

To read Grunwald’s most recent TIME article, “Is Florida the Sunset State?” visit http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1821648,00.html.

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Media Contacts: Jean-Paul Renaud at 305-348-2716.

About FIU:

Florida International University was founded in 1965 and is Miami’s only public research university. With a student body of more than 38,000, FIU graduates more Hispanics than any other university in the country. Its 21 colleges and schools offer more than 200 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations and law. FIU has been classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a “High Research Activity University.” In 2006 FIU was authorized to establish a medical school, which will open in 2009. FIU’s College of Law recently received accreditation in the fastest time allowed by the American Bar Association.

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