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A Lego building competition, a flight simulator and a candy structure contest were all part of the 10th annual Engineering Expo at Florida International University on Feb. 25. Approximately 1,200 elementary through high school students from Miami-Dade and Broward counties visited facilities and laboratories such as the Wall of Wind, [...]
FIU hosted more than two dozen high school teams who came together to test their knowledge of math and science. For the second year in a row, the competition ended with an “overtime” round. It all came down to this: “Assuming the specific heat of aluminum is 0.9 Joules per [...]
Saturday, Feb. 19, was SUPER for Panthers. FIU fans enjoyed baseball, softball, women’s and men’s basketball as well as a free tailgate hosted by the FIU Alumni Association – all without leaving Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Check out all the fun:
According to folklore, the Hope Diamond, with its brilliant gray-blue color, was cursed when it was snatched from an idol in India. The curse bestowed bad luck and even death to its owner and anyone who touched it. The story of the Hope Diamond has survived centuries. With its rich [...]
The women’s tennis team will host a fundraiser tournament Saturday, March 12, at the FIU Tennis Courts. Registration and warm-ups for the event will begin at 9 a.m. with round-robin doubles play starting at 9:45 a.m. The cost for each participant is $50. All proceeds benefit the FIU women’s tennis [...]
FIU co-sponsored the internationally acclaimed Niagara in Miami Conference Feb. 16-18 at the Hilton Miami Downtown. The child mental health forum, founded by William E. Pelham, director of the FIU Center for Children and Families, focuses on state-of-the-art interventions for mental health problems in children and adolescents. The interdisciplinary conference [...]
WHAT: Celebrity chef and food activist Jamie Oliver will visit Booker T. Washington Senior High School to meet with students and the creators of the Overtown Cookbook, a collaborative project between the high school and Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Robert [...]
Unique partnership offers local students paid employment and real-life work experience Creating a talent pipeline for the future and providing employment opportunities for college students, Florida Power & Light Company and Florida International University have launched the utility’s first on-campus customer care center to answer calls from FPL customers in [...]
Name: Gretchen Scharnagl ’00, MFA ’04 Hometown: Miami, Fla. I’m originally from Connecticut. Job Title/Department: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I teach drawing, visual thinking, ceramics and 2-D design in the Art and Art History Department, color theory in [...]
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, professor of Management Information Systems (MIS), and the director and fellow of the Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center within the College of Business Administration, has been appointed Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. Becerra-Fernandez will support the Provost in setting overall academic priorities, overseeing university-wide implementation of student-centered initiatives, and [...]
