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FIU’s School of Music will present a faculty spotlight concert Friday, Jan. 28, to raise money for “Music in Need,” an award-winning program created and administered by FIU music students that supplies music equipment to local elementary music programs. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Herbert and [...]
Name: Rebecca Friedman Hometown: Lawrenceville, N.J. Job Title/Department: Associate Professor of History/Director of European Union Center of Excellence/Director of European Studies. Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I am lucky because my job is never dull. It has three components: research (reading historical texts and writing about them), [...]
Israel Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren believes peace can come to Israel in the not-so-distant future, possibly in the form of a two-state system. The concept of a two-state system is not a new one, but one that comes with many challenges. Oren spoke about his hope for [...]
Tumblr, the microblogging platform, is the latest addition to FIU’s roster of social media networks. FIU.tumblr.com is a collection of news and multimedia generated by the news.FIU.edu team and users all across the web. It’s a place for Panthers to interact, share posts, texts, photos, quotes, links, music and videos. [...]
Antiques Roadshow viewers may have caught an appearance by The Wolfsonian-FIU Jan. 17 on PBS when the museum made a cameo on the show’s third episode of the ongoing 15th season. Host Mark L. Walberg met with appraiser Eric Silver at the Wolfsonian to examine its large collection of World’s [...]
Tikkun (“Healing the World”), Henry Richardson’s glass sculpture on special loan to FIU, was installed outside the Frost Art Museum Tuesday morning, Jan. 18. The 5,000 lb. work of art, which is meant to evoke FIU’s Global Learning for Global Citizenship curriculum, was moved into place with the help of [...]
Pepsi was looking for fresh ideas to facilitate significant community impact. They found it at FIU. FIU’s First Generation Scholarship Fund has been accepted as a Pepsi Refresh project. Now the university needs your help to secure the grant. To receive $50,000 from Pepsi, which would be matched by the State [...]
PUBLIC TALK
Friday, January 21, 7pm
The Wolfsonian welcomes Greg LeMond, three-time winner of the Tour de France, the best known and most prestigious three-week bicycle race in the world. LeMond shares his views on challenging and conquering speed limits through his experiences with the Tour and his years at the top of the cycling world. As the first American to capture the event, LeMond revolutionized the sport in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the first successful professional to use clipless pedals, cycling eyewear, modern high tech helmets, and aero bars. To put LeMond’s accomplishments in context, the evening kicks off with a glimpse the tour before LeMond conquered it, as we screen Vive Le Tour (1962, France, Louis Malle, 19 min, French with English subtitles, color, DVD). For more information or to RSVP: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free for Wolfsonian members, $10 all others.
On the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that ravaged Haiti, FIU held several commemorative events, ranging from a moment of silence to a fourth teach-in focused on the ongoing recovery and reconstruction of the island nation. The teach-in on Jan. 12 featured a panel of FIU experts, who discussed [...]
FIU Theatre is kicking off its spring season with The Ruby Sunrise, a Michael Yawney-directed play about how reality gets rewritten by the media. In anticipation to opening night, two of the show’s stars, Daniel Nieves, 23, and Sarai Heria, 22, gave us a preview of a key scene between [...]
