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Dave Stewman LOVES baseball. But the native Tennessean never had a favorite team until last May when he saw FIU baseball play at the 2010 Sun Belt Conference Tournament in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. “I just really liked the hard-nosed, never let up attitude that Coach Turtle Thomas has instilled in these [...]
UALR pushed across the go-ahead run in the sixth inning to defeat FIU 7-6 in the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship at Warhawk Field in Monroe, Louisiana, on May 29. Hector Acosta stole third base in the sixth inning and kicked the ball out of third baseman Jeremy Patton’s glove [...]
Betsy Soler, FIU’s social media community manager, reads all your comments on FIU News, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Each week, she features a range of comments from the quirkiest to the most passionate and insightful in a video blog. Watch to see if your comment is highlighted!
The following message was sent from President Mark B. Rosenberg to the university community on May 27, 2011. Dear members of the university community: Many of you have been asking about the news yesterday that more than $600 million in projects have been eliminated from the state’s $69.1 billion budget. All [...]
FIU College of Law graduated 175 lawyers May 27 at MMC’s U.S. Century Bank Arena. Many of the new alumni have already secured positions at major law firms and public interest organizations throughout Miami and the surrounding counties. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T. [...]
On Friday, Florida International University will graduate a new class of lawyers determined to make an impact. And they are being welcomed to the profession by two attorneys who have made their mark in public service: U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T. Canady. “These [...]
Plans are already underway to expand next year’s program A pilot program to collect unwanted items from students moving out of the dorms for the summer has given renewed life to more than 3,000 lbs. of goods that were slated for the trash heap. The FIU GoGreen Team partnered with [...]
Hospitality and tourism management senior Andres Quevedo shows off his mad skills on his nifty yellow longboard in front of the Glenn Hubert Library at Biscayne Bay Campus on May 25.
The FIU Athletic Department’s continued dedication to academic excellence became apparent with the release of the seventh-annual Academic Progress Rate (APR) report, announced May 24 by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In the report, the university’s athletic programs registered their highest multi-year scores across the board in the seven-year [...]
Move expands university’s artistic footprint South Beach soon will be home to studio and gallery space for music, art and architecture students, as FIU’s College of Architecture + The Arts expands its artistic footprint this fall. “This expansion to Lincoln Road puts our students at the center of one of the [...]
