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Portia Simpson Miller, former prime minister of Jamaica, will be speaking at FIU Nov. 6 for the 11th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. The [...]
The deadline to toss your hat in the ring is Nov. 6 Do you have a hidden talent that would leave your co-workers awestruck? Do you think your department could mount a marquis-worthy performance? This is your shot to shine on stage. FIU will be holding its first annual Faculty [...]
Women’s soccer wants to pack the stands for Friday night’s critical game against conference foe Florida Atlantic. At stake for the Panthers is the regular season championship and No. 1 seed at next week’s Sun Belt Conference Championship Tournament. The Oct. 30 game begins at 7 p.m. at the soccer [...]
The FIU Electro-Acoustic Research Society (EARS) was recently named the Outstanding Organization in the Arts Community by the university’s Council for Student Organizations (CSO) for the activities the group coordinated during the 2008-2009 academic year. EARS, which includes students who are music and non-music majors, was honored for its work [...]
WHAT: The Judaic Studies Program in FIU’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Simon Wiesenthal Center will present a lecture by Efraim Zuroff, Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center—Jerusalem. Zuroff is an American-born Israeli historian who has played an important role in the efforts to bring Nazi war criminals [...]
There was standing room only this week at the kickoff for the new Tuesday Times Talk series, part of FIU’s Global Learning initiative. More than 60 students, faculty members, and staff gathered in GL 220 to discuss a New York Times article about the introduction of cell phones in rural [...]
The Panthers went for broke the weekend of Oct. 23-25, giving it all out on the volleyball court, soccer and football fields and the tennis court, among other fields of play. Read on to find out how they did. On and on for women’s soccer The women’s soccer team recorded [...]
Dr. Garth Graham, Department of Health and Human Services’ deputy assistant secretary of minority health, will speak at FIU Oct. 29 as part of the Honors College’s Fall 2009 Excellence Lecture series. Graham’s topic will be “Health Care for Underserved communities: Challenges and Opportunities in Health Reform.” A 1997 graduate [...]
Name: John Bailly ’90 (I received my MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1993) Hometown: I was born in Slough, U.K. I lived in Long Island, Paris and Lyon prior to settling in Miami. Job Title/Department: Fellow, The Honors College Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: [...]
The FIU community can now read stories about the latest alumni happenings at News@FIU, the university’s centralized news Web site. By Deborah O’Neil The new alumni section of News@FIU is a collaboration between FIU’s alumni and communication offices. It will be updated regularly to include features about successful graduates, videos [...]
