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FIU football will host the annual Blue & Gold Spring Game Saturday, April 2, at 10:30 a.m. at FIU Stadium. In addition, your 2010 Sun Belt Conference and Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Champion Panthers will receive their SBC Championship rings in a special ceremony. Admission to the spring game is [...]
The President’s Council has redesigned the Outstanding Faculty Award given at Faculty Convocation to encourage greater participation from around the university. The award will now be known as the President’s Council Worlds Ahead Faculty Award. The nomination process has been streamlined into an online form. Also, the criteria have been [...]
Florida International University announced today that it will expand its presence in Downtown Miami by moving to a new state-of-the-art facility at 1101 Brickell Ave. The new space will house College of Business Administration and School of International and Public Affairs programs, as well as the Metropolitan Center, a public [...]
The FIU Art + Art History Department is inspired by The Art of Giving project, a national fundraising campaign that assists children in the world’s neediest countries, but wants to do something a little different. FIU will send underprivileged Haitian kids Converse shoes adorned with creative designs painted by art [...]
WHAT: The purpose of the conference is to bring awareness and teach FIU faculty and staff about the most current tools, technologies and best practices in online learning. Faculty will have the opportunity to explore how to effectively use online learning resources and technology to engage students and maintain quality within [...]
Home ownership lies at the core of the “American Dream,” revered by generations for its economic and social benefits. Yet a new study by faculty members at Florida International University and East Carolina University questions the assumption that buying a home is always the best investment – and raises the [...]
What links four members of Congress, Benjamin Franklin and the world’s most influential female economist? The answer is truly Worlds Ahead. Recently, the Washington, D.C., Capital Panthers and FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg welcomed the South Florida Congressional delegation to the 112th Congress and honored FIU alumna Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ’75, [...]
Stanford School of Medicine Professor Carlos D. Bustamante, is scheduled to lead a seminar titled “Population Genetics in the Personal Genome Era,” at 3:15 p.m on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The seminar will take place in the AHC2, room 160 on FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Complimentary refreshments will be served [...]
The Pic of the Week winner for March 14 – 18 is Kun Bao. He will receive a free lunch for two at the FIU Barnes & Noble Bookstore Café. Kun is a regular contributor to our Pic of the Week contest and his photo has received more than 50 [...]
The School of International and Public Affairs will host on Monday, March 21, Carmen Reinhart ’78, a College of Arts & Sciences grad and Dennis Weatherstone senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The economist will deliver a lecture titled “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial [...]
