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The Homecoming game has been pushed back to 7:30 p.m. in order to be televised on the Sun Belt Network. Homecoming 2010 will be the biggest in FIU history with a week of student events building excitement for Homecoming Day “Panthermonium.” The slate of activities offers something for everyone in [...]
FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg encouraged faculty and staff to help improve the lives of those who live, work and raise families in South Florida at the kick-off event for the university’s 2010 United Way campaign. The kick-off was held on Oct. 27 in the Graham Center Ballrooms on the [...]
With one week until opening night on Nov. 4, the director of the upcoming staging of the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning rock opera at MMC, Broadway vet and alumnus Andy Señor Jr. ’97, talks about coming back to FIU and what we can expect of the show. Rent will play in [...]
MIAMI – For two decades, sophomore architecture students who take Professor Jaime Canaves’ class have had a seemingly impossible assignment: Walk on water. More than 1,500 students later, the class project has become a university tradition that attracts parents, faculty, staff and fellow students to watch the race at the [...]
More than 2,100 students from FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication had the opportunity Oct. 20 to meet executives and professionals from the E.W. Scripps Company and Scripps Howard Foundation during Scripps Day 2010. The day-long event allowed students to boost interview skills, obtain career coaching, network with media [...]
Name: Nancy Cadavid ’07 Hometown: Hialeah, Fla. Job Title/Department: Marketing Manager, Business Services Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: My job entails marketing and promoting all the retail and dining services on campus. Number of years at FIU: Eight as a student and three-and-a-half as a full-time employee. [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a very special Very Wolfsonian Weekend – the museum’s annual fundraising extravaganza – beginning Thursday, Nov. 11, through Saturday, Nov, 13. Festivities will kick off, appropriately enough, on the date in 1995 when the museum first opened its doors on Washington Avenue in Miami [...]
The university family came together Oct. 22 to celebrate the accomplishments of outstanding staff members at the annual Employee Service and Recognition Awards Ceremony. “This is the time we can recognize the excellence that you bring everyday to making a difference in the lives of so many people in the [...]
On October 23, Roary and the Dazzlers hit Dolphin Mall to promote FIU and FIU gear at Lids, Champs and Sports Authority for FIU’s first-ever Shopping Day. FIU faithful, shoppers and families came by to snap a pic with Roary and the always lovely Dazzlers. Among the best deals were 2 [...]
