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FIU advances to NCAA tournament FIU baseball (36-23) set Sun Belt Tournament records in hits, runs scored and batting average in a 14-10 victory over Troy to claim its first Sun Belt Conference Tournament crown since 1999. After Pablo Bermudez led off the game with a single to left, Tyler [...]
Last night was an exciting one in Tennessee. After an almost five-hour marathon baseball game, FIU (34-23) clinched an 18-16 win over FAU (35-21) at the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. The two teams will meet again in an elimination game today and the winner will advance to the SBC Championship. As [...]
Florida International University President Mark B. Rosenberg on Friday praised the inclusion of several crucial Florida International University projects in the state budget signed by Gov. Charlie Crist that had earlier been approved by the State Legislature. The budget included $17.6 million for a Student Support Complex that will consolidate [...]
College of Law confers 152 degrees on its departing Class of 2010 Florida doesn’t need more lawyers. It needs a different kind of lawyer. With that message, Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga applauded the 152 graduates of the FIU College Law, a new generation of lawyers as diverse as Miami [...]
Nancy Borkowski, director of the Healthcare MBA program in FIU’s Chapman Graduate School of Business, opened a CFO Roundtable with an unusual challenge: Be the first to assemble six pieces of brightly colored foam into a pencil cube. More than 150 executives, alumni and students quickly started trying, wondering what it [...]
“Tap-Tap: Celebrating the Art of Haiti,” will be on view through Sept. 5 at The Frost. FIU will also keep a registry of Haitian art in Florida. At the Frost Art Museum’s new exhibit, a crowded tap-tap made of papier-mâché will transport you from a colorful country wedding to a [...]
Sophomore Diego Dominguez and his fellow MAST Academy students pondered the challenge: What’s the best way to keep a vulnerable flat roof from blowing off a building during a hurricane? They devised a solution that seemed effective, but admittedly didn’t look so good. They ran with it anyway, deciding that [...]
FIU Theatre kicks off this summer’s Alternative Theatre Summer Festival (ATSF) June 23. Created in 2006 by FIU Theatre professors Phillip Church and Marina Pareja, ATSF offers a mix of feisty and irreverent performances, provocative productions, international writers, musicals and early works by local authors. The goal of the festival [...]
The university recently won second place at the Green Office Makeover Contest. FIU’s environmental sustainability efforts were recognized May 12, when the university took second place at the Green Office Makeover Contest presented by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and Office Depot. “There was a tie for first place [...]
FIU’s Latin American and Caribbean Center, Cuban Research Institute, and School of International and Public Affairs joined Univisión 23 in hosting a screening of the documentary 50 Años de Exilio Tuesday, May 18, at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. The documentary, which was produced by Univisión 23, focuses on the Cuban-American community’s achievements of [...]
