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If you’re out and about this weekend, be sure to check out the Miami Tower in downtown Miami. The iconic structure will be bathed in blue and gold light Sept. 30-Oct. 2 for Homecoming 2011. The lights go on automatically at sunset and will shine until 11 p.m. on Friday [...]
Homecoming week comes to a close this weekend with the annual parade, crowning of royalty and the football game against Duke University. The entire FIU community is invited to Modesto A. Maidique Campus Saturday, Oct. 1, to celebrate Panther traditions. The theme this year is “If Roary Ran the Circus…”. [...]
Monica Lozano, the CEO of publishing company impreMedia, opened the 2011-’12 Hearst Distinguished Lecture Series at Biscayne Bay Campus Sept. 14. Additional lectures will take place next February and March. “Today, there are more English-language, Hispanic-oriented media targeting this population – so what’s fueling this boom, and how are companies [...]
Beginning Oct. 12 at the Frost Art Museum at Modesto A. Maidique Campus, The Wolfsonian-FIU will present “Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods from Farm to Kitchen,” an exhibition that explores how technology and design remade the places where food was produced, sold, cooked and eaten from the turn of the [...]
Professor Kalai Mathee took top honors Sept. 22 at Faculty Convocation – an annual event that welcomes new faculty and recognizes faculty accomplishments. Mathee, founding department chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, received the President’s Council Worlds Ahead Faculty [...]
According to U.S.News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges,” undergraduate international business programs at FIU’s College of Business Administration rank in the top 20 in the country. The college has achieved this ranking each year since 2005, securing a spot in the top 10 three times; in 2011, FIU Business [...]
To date, FIU has raised more than $3 million for its First Generation Scholarship Fund. More than 150 movers and shakers gathered in the beautiful Granada Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables Sept. 23 to share a lovely breakfast. The occasion, as FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg said, [...]
FIU Public Health Professor Mary Jo Trepka received one of the country’s highest honors for researchers on Friday, Oct. 14. President Obama named Trepka, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at FIU’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, as one of the recipients of the Presidential [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Teresita Fernandez ’90, a MacArthur Award-winning visual artist, to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a federal panel that advises the president, Congress and governmental agencies on national matters of design and aesthetics. Members of the arts panel play a key role in [...]
