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As one hot and steamy summer day sets on FIU …. Packs of Golden Panthers know it: Miami bridges the gap between North America, the Caribbean, Latin and South America, as well as the Western Hemisphere and other parts of the world to create a truly unique and exciting environment. [...]
MIAMI (June 30, 2009) Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine announced today that it has signed an affiliation agreement with Baptist Health South Florida, the first FIU medical school partnership that will increase the number of medical residencies available in South Florida. “All of South Florida’s medical students [...]
Today’s Headlines Stanley Fish article: Hope Springs Eternal: The N.B.A. Draft 06/30/2009 New York Times Last Thursday evening I kept popping up from the dinner table each time David Stern, president of the National Basketball Association, strode to the podium to announce that another N.B.A. team had made its selection [...]
Janette Manrara joins Top 20 on FOX‘s summer hit show “So You Think You Can Dance.” By Sissi Aguila FIU finance major Janette Manrara, 25, passed the auditions and is now sweating it out on FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance.” At stake are a $250,000 prize and the [...]
MIAMI – Florida International University designated 10 state and local leaders as Honorary Alumni in recognition of their steadfast support of FIU. As Honorary Alumni, those chosen have been given lifetime membership in the FIU Alumni Association and all privileges associated with that membership. They will be recognized at a luncheon [...]
WHAT: In 1934, the Republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. That same year, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of post-occupation Haiti, historian Matthew Smith argues that the period [...]
The service will be unavailable July 1-12. As part of the process of upgrading the PantherSoft Financials system from version 8.4 to version 9.0, and implementing PantherSoft Contracts and Grants version 9, the current PantherSoft Financials system 8.4 will not be available to FIU faculty/staff to enter, process or change [...]
Two FIU undergraduate advertising students were selected for prestigious summer internships at Hallmark Cards, Inc. More than 1,100 students from schools and universities around the country applied for 13 intern slots. Noel Walter and Christina Zayas, students at FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, were chosen for the summer [...]
MIAMI (June 25, 2009) – Kenneth A. Jessell has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer at Florida International University, FIU President Modesto A. Maidique announced today. Jessell comes to FIU after more than 25 years at Florida Atlantic University, where he most recently served as senior vice [...]
Name: Vanessa Baldomero ’06 Hometown: Miami, Fla. Job Title/Department: Assistant Director of Chapter & Young Alumni Relations, Office of Alumni Relations Campus: University Park In a nutshell: I oversee our different alumni chapters and all activities and programs for our young alumni group, YUPA! (Young Urban Professional Alumni). Number of [...]
