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May in photos: Commencement, orientation and the No. 1 spot

May in photos: Commencement, orientation and the No. 1 spot

Campus & Community

By David Drucker

May 31, 2019 at 3:44pm

It was a big month for our students, the lifeblood of the university. While thousands of Panthers heard their names called at commencement, brand-new students made their first FIU connections at orientation. FIU’s Model UN team also turned in a historic achievement. Here are some of our favorite moments from May, as captured by FIU photographers Margi Rentis, Doug Garland, Carl-Frederick Francois, Eduardo Merille and Kat de Jesus. 

On the first day of the month, the university recognized nine female Worlds Ahead graduates in engineering. Photo by Margi Rentis.
When the confetti comes down, our paws go up. Students of the Chaplin School celebrated commencement earlier this month. Photo by Kat de Jesus.
student guide takes new Panthers on a tour of Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Photo by Margi Rentis.
The university closed on Memorial Day to honor our country’s soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. Photo by Margi Rentis.
In May, FIU Model UN nabbed the No. 1 team ranking in North America for the first time in the program’s 31-year history. Photo by Eduardo Merille.
Saif Y. Ishoof, vice president of the Office of Engagement, is always out in the community greeting people with a huge smile. It’s pictures like this (taken with panelists at Tostada Tuesday this month) that have members of the university community hailing him as “The Selfie King.” From left: Lucas Hernandez, guest speaker from Microsoft; Amy Austin Renshaw, co-founder/CEO of Code/Art; Erika Twani, co-founder of Learning One to One; Andres Campo, founder/CEO of Axxis Solutions; Susan Germer, co-founder of Playposit; Joseph Riquelme, assistant vice president for FIU Online; and President Mark B. Rosenberg. Photo by freelance photographer Vanessa Castillo.
FIU Downtown on Brickell, where business students go to learn in the heart of Miami. Photo by Doug Garland.
Computer engineering major Guillermo Garrido and graduate student in public health Joel Greenup discuss the design of an exoskeleton for Greenup’s leg at Edge Lab, a makerspace lab available to all students. Photo by Carl-Frederick Francois.
President Rosenberg snapped this photo of Dr. Herbert Wertheim at a celebration for his 80th birthday, his wife Nicole’s birthday and the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary. At the celebration, Dr. Wertheim made a surprise $1 million endowment gift to the School of Music.
President Rosenberg and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in Israel. The governor announced a $5.2 million National Institute of Mental Health grant to fund a collaboration between researchers at FIU and Tel Aviv University.