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Proceeds from the Nov. 12 art opening – a blue-and-gold tradition more than two decades old – go toward interior design scholarships. By Martin Haro More than 500 FIU faculty, students, alumni, administrators, friends and family, as well as community supporters and art aficionados attended the opening of the 23rd [...]
Four weeks into this year’s FIU-United Way campaign, the university is halfway to its $300,000 goal thanks to the generosity of the FIU community. If you haven’t already contributed to the 2009 campaign, there’s still time. Click here to visit the university’s United Way page and here to donate online. If [...]
The men’s team beat Florida Memorial in front of more than 2,700 fans and the women’s team silenced Jacksonville as both teams gave fans something to cheer about. Isiah Thomas earned his first win as a college coach on Nov. 17 when Phil Gary Jr. scored a season-high 27 points [...]
Name: Maida Watson Ph.D. ’76 Hometown: Panama City, Republic of Panama Job Title/Department: Professor, Department of Modern Languages Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I am a graduate professor of Latin American literature and Latin American culture and an advisor of languages for business for CIBER at the [...]
You know that strand of red wool Madonna wears around her left wrist? That is a Kabbalah Red String, “an indispensable tool for spiritual and physical protection” against the Evil Eye. It is one of the many technologies that can be found at Kabbalah centres around the world. Kabbalah Centre [...]
Foreign policy journalist and member of The New York Times editorial board Carol Giacomo will speak on “The Main Foreign Policy Challenges Facing President Obama: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Threat of Nuclear Weapons” in a presentation Friday, Nov. 20. The event is being hosted by the FIU Student Government Association, [...]
FIU women’s basketball players invite you to join them as they host their first home game of the season Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the U.S. Century Bank Arena at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. In a doubleheader home opener, the women’s team takes the floor against Jacksonville at 5 p.m. and [...]
MIAMI (Nov. 17, 2009) – Florida International University police continue to follow leads in the case of an FIU law student who was reported missing last week. FIU police have now learned that Tommy Damon Daniels, 28, had contact with Miami Beach Police on Nov. 5, three days after he [...]
Members of the FIU family gathered Nov. 5 to honor architecture professor Nicolás Quintana, who is retiring from the university at the end of spring 2010 after 13 years of educating and inspiring students. The intimate reception, organized by the Dean’s Office of the College of Architecture + The Arts, [...]
FIU saw its stellar season on the SBC volleyball court earn Panthers a No. 1 seed at the SBC Championships, while the football team made everyone “Feel the Pride” at Homecoming. Plus, the basketball teams saw mixed results as they geared up for home openers at U.S. Century Bank Arena [...]
