50@50: Walk on Water founder shares his experience as a young professor at a young university


To celebrate the university’s 50th anniversary, FIU News is sharing 50 moments in FIU’s history as part of our “50@50″ series.

By Joel Delgado ’12 MS ’17 

Architecture Professor Jaime Canaves has been teaching students at FIU since the university’s early days – but at first, some students had trouble believing he was actually their professor.

Canaves, who established the annual Walk on Water competition that has become a university tradition, talks about his experience as a young professor at an even younger institution.