FIU Haiti experts in the news


Florida International University on WPLG-MIA (ABC) – Miami, FL
Local 10 Morning News at 6 (News)
…most students are staying here with relatives.  meantime Florida International University right now looking for you…

Florida International on WPLG-MIA (ABC) – Miami, FL
Local 10 News Sunday (News)
…today, more than 200 Florida International University students, faculty, staff, and alumni spent their Sunday…

Engineers urge overhaul of Haiti’s archaic building practices
The Miami Herald
That added mass can prove fatal, said Amir Mirmiran, engineering dean at Florida International University

South Florida key to recovery in Haiti, but road is long and unchartered
The Miami Herald
“With such a large Haitian community, there’s obviously going to be investment from here,” said Alex Stepick, FIU professor and director of the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute…

Florida International University on WTVJ-MIA (NBC) – Miami, FL
South Florida Nightly News at 7pm (News) – NBC
…for the first time since the earthquake in Haiti, a Florida International University professor is able to hold the little Haitian girl she’s been in the process of adopting. Pilar Martin has been waiting …

Rebuild — the right way
The Miami Herald
Sylvan Jolibois is associate professor of civil engineering and urban planning at FIU.

Haiti Immigration Expert to Speak at WQCS Feb. 18
WQCS Radio
Dr. Alex Stepick will share his thought about the earthquake in Haiti and its possible impact on immigration. He is director of the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute at Florida International University in Miami, and a professor…

Why Haiti Keeps Getting Hammered by Disasters
ABC News – Seth Borenstein
it’s Haiti,” said Richard Olson, a professor at Florida International University who directs the Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas project.

Haiti quake happened along fault line, experts say
MiamiHerald.com
But the likelihood of a tsunami in the Caribbean is lower because the shifting plates occurred on land, said Florida International University professor

FIU expert: Haiti caught unawares
WLRN Miami Herald News
Joining us now to talk about the largely unexpected quake is Florida International University Professor Grenville Draper who specializes in…

College Students, Professors Give Money, Time for Haiti
U.S. News & World Report – Kim Clark
The University of Southern California is having a prayer vigil and fundraiser today, and Florida International University held a “teach-in” about Haiti.

Florida “safe” from earthquakes
Sun-Sentinel – Michael Turnbell
“Florida is one of the most stable places on the planet,” said Florida International University professor Grenville Draper, who has studied and mapped the

American Colleges Scramble to Contact Students and Professors in Haiti
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Chantalle F. Verna, an assistant professor of history and international relations at Florida International University whose work has focused on U.S.-Haitian relations, said she had received news…

FIU Hosts Teach-In On The Haiti Crisis
CBS4
Florida International University experts are getting together Saturday, January 16th for a “teach-in”, where they will join experts on the aftermath of natural disasters and look ahead to solutions…

SPECIAL PROGRAM: “Haiti: The Continuing Story”
WLRN Miami Herald News
Listen to the hour-long special program, “Haiti: The Continuing Story”, hosted by Joshua Johnson. Guests: Rev. Patrick Charles, St. Bartholomew Catholic Church; Sabrina Salomon, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center; Peter Brown, Quinnipiac University Polling Institute; and Oliver Kerr, Florida International University Metropolitan Center. Download the program on iTunes.

Flood of Aid to Haiti Looks Like Chaos, but Normal
The New York Times/AP
‘If you don’t get coordination, the water and food isn’t going to get out either,” said Richard Olson, a professor at Florida International University who directs the Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas…

Haiti draws ‘special type of person’
USA Today – Aamer Madhani
Most are Haitian-Americans who have returned to their native land, said Eduardo Gamarra, a Haiti scholar at Florida International University.

Haitian earthquake’s severity no surprise to experts
Tampabay.com – Andy Boyle
The Florida International University earth sciences professor has studied the geological tectonics of that part of the Caribbean for more than 30 years.

Florida International University on National Public Radio – U.S. Cable
NPR/U.S. Cable
… Eduardo Gamarra and science professor at Florida international University joins us
now from Miami while competing for joining us…

FIU to hold public meeting to discuss Haiti’s future
The Miami Herald
Haiti is on everyone’s mind this weekend and Florida International University is offering a public, free forum with its experts to discuss what comes…

Flood Of Aid To Haiti Looks Like Chaos, But Normal
NPR – Edith M. Lederer / AP
“If you don’t get coordination, the water and food isn’t going to get out either,” said Richard Olson, a professor at Florida International University who …

Los desamparados: un problema de urgencia
El Nuevo Herald
“Estamos a 22 semanas de la temporada ciclónica y tenemos cientos de miles de personas en viviendas temporales”, advirtió Richard Stuart Olson, presidente del Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Internacional de la Florida, que ha…

Many ties bind S. Dakota to ravaged island nation
Sioux Falls Argus Leader – Jonathan Ellis, Jeff Martin – ‎6 hours ago‎
Over the years, Haiti has drawn Americans with no direct connection, says Eduardo Gamarra, a Haiti scholar at Florida International University. …

US leads rescue efforts
Duluth News Tribune (registration) – Jennifer Loven
“If you don’t get coordination, the water and food isn’t going to get out either,” said Richard Olson, a professor at Florida International University who …

Haiti Earthquake to Cost Economy at Least 15% of GDP
Bloomberg – Andres R. Martinez, Lori Rothman
The World Bank’s 15 percent figure is too conservative, Eduardo Gamarra, a political science professor at Florida International University in Miami, …

Dominican and Haitian Presidents agree on immediate response plan …
Dominican Today
The World Bank’s 15 percent figure is too conservative, Eduardo Gamarra, a political science professor at Florida International University in Miami, said in a telephone interview. Aid and pledges to Haiti will be difficult to distribute

Word about families in Haiti slow to reach the Florida Keys
KeysNet – Sean Kinney
“The port is out,” Florida International University Political Science Chairman Richard Olson said. “Everything is going to have to come into airfields,

Impact ‘at top of the intensity scale’
The Age – Richard Alleyne
What the plate did to the fault was akin to someone trying to move a grand piano across a floor, Florida International University professor Grenville Draper

Consideran probable un terremoto en Cuba
El Nuevo Herald
Para Grenville Draper, geólogo del Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra de la Universidad Internacional de la Florida (FIU), un terremoto así sólo sería posible en el área de Santiago…

Haiti: how to rebuild a country already in crisis?
ReliefWeb (press release) – Laurie Goering
Now “the state is even more of an abstraction,” said Eduardo Gamarra, an expert on Haiti and the Dominican Republic at Florida International University.

South Florida reaches out to Haiti
The South Florida Times – Nicole White
… the 2008 collapse of a school building, had been warned of a catastrophic earthquake, said Florida International University Professor Grenville Draper. …

Is Royal Caribbean Doing the Right Thing in Haiti?
Daily Finance ‎
“Personally, I think it’s a good idea,” says Cheryl Carter, a professor of travel and tourism at Florida International University who has been to Labadee,

Colleges Respond To Haiti Disaster
City Town Info Education Channel – Yaffa Klugerman
… the University of Southern California had a prayer vigil and fundraiser, and Florida International University held a “teach-in” about Haiti. …

Global Journalist: Recovery from Haitian earthquake
Columbia Missourian – Stuart Loory
Eduardo Gamarra, professor of political science, Florida International University; Miami: Yes, perhaps. There was some major ground shaking yesterday with…

Starting from scratch in Haiti’s Port-au-Prince ruins
Seattle Times – Andres Viglucci, Scott Hiaasen ‎ ‎
… said Richard Stuart Olson, a Florida International University political-science professor who studies the political effects of disasters…

Florida unaffected by fault line in Haiti earthquake
Florida Times-Union – Carole Fader
What the plate did to the fault is like when a person tries to move a grand piano, Grenville Draper, a professor at Florida International University,

A nation in need
Minneapolis Star Tribune
What the plate did to the fault is akin to a human trying to move a grand piano across a floor, said Florida International University professor Grenville

Earthquake exposes largely unregulated construction in Haiti
eTaiwan News – Jacqueline Charles, Curtis Morgan ‎ ‎
That added mass can prove fatal, said Amir Mirmiran, engineering dean at Florida International University. “You can think about the entire ground shaking,”

Haiti and Nigeria:  failure in human management , natural resources
Triumph – Olusegun Fakoya
Or as Professor Richard Olson of Florida International University puts it, “there is a whole bunch of things working against Haiti, one is the hurricane…

Professors emphasize conscious Haitian aid
The Dartmouth – Laura Bryn Sisson
The panelists included Chantalle Verna, professor of history and international relations at Florida International University, Neil Roberts, professor of…

Digital archivists work to save rare books, historical documents
MiamiHerald.com – Audra D.S. Burch 
… about all of those collections,” said Wooldridge, project coordinator for the Digital Library of the Caribbean at Florida International University. …

AP Enterprise – US Botched Haiti Flights to Fla.
AP/The New York Times
Richard Olson, a Florida International University expert on disaster response, said the lesson the U.S. government can take from the Haiti

Spring Break in Miami means helping Haitians
Sun-Sentinel (blog) – Scott Travis 
Students from the University of Miami School of Law’s Health & Elder Law Clinic and Florida International University are hosting other Spring Breakers from around the country who want to…

Florida, Feds Squabbled Over Haiti Airlifts
CBS 4 
“Florida did pretty well, considering,” said disaster expert Richard Olson of Florida International University. “But loading it all onto one state, …

In Haiti Digital Archivists Work to Save Rare Books, Historical Documents
ResourceShelf (blog) 
about all of those collections,” said Wooldridge, project coordinator for the Digital Library of the Caribbean at Florida International University.

Scientists: No spike in quake activity
MiamiHerald.com – Fred Tasker 
where we have good seasons and bad ones,” says Dr. Grenville Draper, professor of earth sciences at Florida International University.

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