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Three-month pilot program will offer car wash and auto detailing services Monday through Friday in the Gold Garage. By Karen Cochrane It’s a multi-tasker’s dream: Beginning March 30, members of the university community can get their cars washed and waxed at University Park while they’re teaching, working or attending class. [...]
The State of Florida’s Deferred Compensation Program allows participants to “defer,” or delay, receiving a portion of their income until a later date. By Trudy Fernandez Are you interested in building up your retirement savings? The information listed in this article will provide you with the tools you need [...]
Name: Theresa “Tee” Wright Hometown: Miami, Fla via Anchorage, AK Job Title/Department: Benefits Coordinator, Human Resources Campus: UP In a nutshell: My job consists of meeting with new hires, assisting with their benefits selections and problem solving. Number of years at FIU: 9 years What do you enjoy most about [...]
As FIU students graduating this spring prepare for Commencement ceremonies April 27-28, the FIU Alumni Association will host Golden Panthers during Grad Send-Off in FIU bookstores at University Park (pictured), Biscayne Bay Campus and the Pines Center. The Pines Center’s Grad Send-Off event is scheduled for Saturday, March 28.
MIAMI – The algae in Yellowstone National Park could one day save lives by consuming the arsenic in toxic sites and ridding crops, such as rice, of dangerous levels of the contaminant. Researchers at Florida International University’s College of Medicine have discovered that the one-celled alga called Cyanidioschyzon [...]
Byron Pitts will deliver a keynote speech at BBC on April 2. By Martin Haro Byron Pitts, an Emmy award-winning journalist and contributing correspondent to CBS’ 60 Minutes, will serve as keynote speaker at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s annual student celebration and awards ceremony, presented as part [...]
Architecture students Jayson Loyola and Sheyla Carbonell study outside the College of Architecture building on Tuesday before class.
For three days, from February 25-27, The Wolfsonian–FIU played co-host to some 350 museum and library professionals at the annual Institute of Museum and Library Services WebWise Conference, held in Washington, D.C. As digital technologies become a way of life, the WebWise Conference serves as the only event that brings [...]
WHAT: Uva de Aragón, associate director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, will present her latest book, Crónicas de la República de Cuba. 1902-1958, a series of more than 40 articles published in 2002, the centennial of the birth of the Republic of Cuba. Columnist Carlos Alberto [...]
With the co-sponsorship of LACC, SIPA and the Honors College, students can experience the rich and expressive culture of indigenous Ecuador this summer, July 28 to August 6. Participants will earn three credits (six credits for Honor College students) in diverse courses such as “Native Religions of Central and South America” [...]
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