March 2016 in photos


By Joel Delgado ’12 MS ’17 

In March, FIU was featured on national television, hosted a town hall with a presidential candidate leading up to the Florida primaries and even had a student-athlete qualify for the Olympics!

Our photographers Ben Guzman, Carl Frederick-Francois, Doug Garland, Chris Necuze, Linda Flores, Tim Long and Eduardo Merille captured these great moments and more. Check out the amazing people and events on campus as documented through their lenses.

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Sporting his signature red fedora, Dr. Herbert Wertheim speaks with scholarship recipients at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.

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Matthew DeGennaro checks on the mosquitos in his on-campus mosquito lab. A neurogeneticist with 20 years of experience in biomedical research, DeGennaro uses molecular genetics to address biological questions. He is also known for creating the first mutant mosquito and uses his genetic approach to study mosquito behavior.

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FIU recently partnered with Florida Advanced Surgical Team (FAST), a group of almost 100 highly qualified physicians, nurses and paramedics, to train in emergency disaster medical care. In the photo above, FAST members (from left to right) trauma surgeon Dr. Ahmed Elhaddad; flight nurse Barbara Hand; and EMT-P flight medic Jennifer Schleiblich manage a patient care exercise in a Black Hawk helicopter simulator. The exercise took place at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, during Operation Patriot Sands.

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Journalist and news anchor José Díaz-Balart interviews FIU students — including SGA-MMC President Alexis Calatayud (center) — near Deuxieme Maison (DM) during a live broadcast of his weekday morning show MSNBC Live March 4.

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Deanna Chiappo and Carolina Peredo enjoy a beautiful day on campus, one of many we had during March!

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Formula SAE (aka Panther Motorsports) members tinker with their formula-style race car, one of more than a dozen projects displayed at the College of Engineering and Computing’s first Student Design Showcase March 23.

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Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio discuss immigration, the Supreme Court and sea level rise at an MSNBC town hall held at Modesto A. Maidique Campus March 9.

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Located in the FIU Health – Ambulatory Care & Surgery Center (right next to PG-5), this funky mosaic welcomes visitors to the first dedicated pediatric ambulatory surgical center in South Florida.

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Strong, beautiful and FIU educated. The university celebrated International Women’s Day March 8 with a social media campaign featuring our Worlds Ahead students.

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Puppy love. High school students play with a service dog during the High School Forensic Student Academy at FIU, hosted by the International Forensic Research Institute (IFRI) March 15. At the academy, speakers from IFRI’s local laboratories – including the Drug Enforcement Administration regional laboratory, Miami-Dade Police Department and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office – offered demos, tours and discussions about careers in forensic science to students from Miami-Dade Public Schools.

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FIU swimmer Naomi Ruele will represent her home country of Botswana in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after qualifying during an official Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA)-approved time trial at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center March 20.

Ruele was perfect during the C-USA Championships, winning gold in each of the seven events she swam in (three individual, four relays) and was named the C-USA Swimmer of the Meet.

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SIPA from the sky. This aerial view gives us a look at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs  building’s photovoltaic solar panels. For eight consecutive years, FIU has earned the distinction of being the most energy efficient institution within the Florida State University System. Through energy conservation measures and efficiency upgrades, FIU uses less energy per square foot than any other public university in the state.


To view more of our favorite FIU images, visit our “Month in Photos” series page.