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Blue-and-gold enthusiasm builds for the 2010 spring semester. Below is a guide of important information for Panthers. By Martin Haro After a revitalizing winter break, FIU is set to welcome back to its campuses on Monday, Jan. 4, students, faculty/staff and administrators ready for the 2010 spring semester. Panthers have [...]
There’s a new beverage in town: Pepsi. During winter break, FIU staff members and Pepsi employees have been busy restocking vending machines, stores and restaurants at Modesto A. Maidique Campus and Biscayne Bay Campus with Pepsi products. In 2010, there’ll be something for everyone’s beverage tastes, including Mountain Dew, AMP Energy, [...]
By Susan Feinberg FIU volleyball is making the grade in the classroom as well as on the court. Despite long matches and practices and weekly road trips during the season, the team has achieved a cumulative grade-point average of 3.19, with nine of the players achieving a GPA over 3.3. [...]
Mary Jo Trepka, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, has received a $1.3 million grant for a unique five-year study that will focus on racial disparities in AIDS survival in Florida. African-Americans in the United [...]
To the FIU community: With the passage of another year, I want to thank you for the work you have done for the university. In my monthly news updates, I have proudly shared many academic achievements by faculty, students and staff. Some of the most significant university accomplishments during the Fall [...]
By Susan Feinberg Recent budget cuts and teacher shortages in Miami-Dade County have forced drastic cutbacks in high school health curricula, leaving many teens at risk for problems such as alcohol, drug addiction, AIDS, teen pregnancy and suicide with little or no health education. Thirty undergraduate nursing students at the [...]
Winners will be featured in the media gallery on news.FIU.edu and on the FIU facebook page. On Sept. 20, 2008, during the fourth quarter of FIU’s first home game in the then brand new FIU stadium, photographer Edwin Estrada noticed the sun disappearing behind the clouds casting an orange glow. He [...]
Conference Will Guide Olympic Officials in Developing Processes for Resolving Athlete Gender Controversies MIAMI – Some of the world’s leading experts on sex differentiation disorders will come to Miami Beach in January for a groundbreaking conference hosted by faculty in Florida International University’s Wertheim College of Medicine. This conference will [...]
FIU students look to the past in FDR’s ‘Alphabet Soup’ Remedies for the Great Depression, a student-curated exhibition that examines the Roosevelt administration’s New Deal programs. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, was organized by The Wolfsonian’s chief librarian and FIU adjunct professor of history Francis [...]
The FIU family gathered in celebration Dec. 9 at U.S. Century Bank Arena. FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg celebrated his first holiday season in office with more than 1,300 of his closest friends and colleagues – just like he wanted. The occasion? The annual President’s Holiday Celebration at U.S. Century [...]
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