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FIU staff left their competitors in the dust and claimed a $6,000 credit for the Virgin HealthMiles Rewards program as their prize. The HealthMiles pilot program will continue this summer. Full-time, benefits-eligible employees who are interested can sign up here. Win cool rewards for being active and healthy! Team FIU [...]
The campaign’s goal is to raise $5 million to preserve the study of world religions at FIU. His Holiness’ generous pledge last month was essential to this initiative. In response to the strong support for religious studies at FIU including members of the community, impassioned pleas by students and faculty/staff [...]
WHAT: Florida International University will host an informational session to update veterans on the new educational benefits provided by the G.I. Bill, which was dramatically modified last year. The G.I. bill provides college or vocational education, among other benefits, for returning veterans. The latest changes apply for veterans who entered [...]
MIAMI – The Florida Board of Governors has appointed S. Lawrence Kahn, III, president and CEO of Lowell Homes, Inc. to serve on Florida International University’s Board of Trustees. Kahn’s appointment is effective immediately and runs through January 2011. “I am deeply honored by this opportunity to serve FIU,” Kahn [...]
The “Miami New Times” hails his book, “Washington Burning,” best of 2009 by a local author. When Les Standiford became director of FIU’s Creative Writing Program in 1985, he wondered if he could make the program a success. “At the time, Miami wasn’t really a book town,” he recalled. “There [...]
There’s no distracting Juan Saldarriaga. The nursing student focuses on his studies at the Biscayne Bay Campus Library despite the beautiful, breezy day right outside the window.
R. Alexander Acosta, who stepped down from his position as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida to lead FIU’s College of Law, met with members of the FIU community during a reception held in his honor June 9 at University Park’s Reagan House. Before making his debut, Acosta spoke with News@FIU representatives [...]
Tyler Townsend has been named First Team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA). It is the third All-American honor the former FIU outfielder has received this off-season. Townsend, who was recently drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the third round of the MLB draft, had a record-setting year [...]
MIAMI (June 18, 2009) – The Princeton Review has placed Florida International University’s College of Law second on its list of schools with the most diverse faculty. The rankings, included in the Best 174 Law Schools 2009 edition, a guidebook, are based on feedback from 19,000 students. The 80-question survey [...]
As the university community gears up for the start of the four-day-week summer schedule, FIU employees should take note of related adjustments to the payroll calendar. By Trudy Fernandez Back by popular demand: the Summer 4/10 schedule, which begins on June 19 and runs through July 31. The start of [...]
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