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Good news: The FIU mobile app is now available for Android & BlackBerry. We launched the iPhone app back in August. You can use the app to see what’s happening on campus, find a book or article in the library, check class schedules and financial aid, enroll in courses, watch [...]
Are you ready to get involved this fall? The Office of University Sustainability has many exciting opportunities for you: Internships & Work-Study Positions The office looks for new interns at the beginning of every semester. Internships are available to FIU students in any major and are offered on a volunteer [...]
FIU is switching from the Panther Card to the FIU One Card. The One Card is the new official on-campus identification card. With more than 50,000 people at FIU transitioning to the One Card, one student asked a very good question: Can the old cards be recycled? After seeing this [...]
After countless whiteboard sessions, extensive usability testing and a complete redesign, the Web communications team is proud to announce the release of FIU’s new University Calendar. One of the most noticeable additions is the “Featured” section, which highlights hand-picked events that are of particular interest to the FIU community. This [...]
Whether you’re looking for Chili’s, the Owa Ehan building or a bike rack, the new campus maps will help you find what you’re looking for. You may notice that we’ve added a unique interactive feature that lets you tag locations with keywords. For example, people have already begun tagging PG5 with the [...]
Creating eco-art installations, cleaning up the environment, kicking back with yoga and a movie, and exploring Biscayne Bay by kayak are just a few of the opportunities that await the FIU community when the university celebrates Earth Week. Students at FIU have organized dozens of events for FIU Earth Week, [...]
Need volunteer hours? Like to work outdoors? If you answered “yes” to either question, consider joining the hundreds of students who volunteer each semester at the FIU Nature Preserve. A great educational resource at Modesto A. Maidique Campus, the 11-acre habitat mimicks natural South Florida landscapes. Volunteers help remove exotic [...]
It’s a familiar refrain….reduce, re-use, recycle. While this may seem like the latest round of environmental lip service, FIU is taking those words to heart and meeting the call of today’s environmental challenges. For the third consecutive year, the university has enrolled in the nationwide competition known as a Recyclemania. [...]
The United States Department of Energy has challenged the collegiate minds of tomorrow to present creative solutions at their Solar Decathlon Competition. FIU competed in the Solar Decathlon in 2005 with the “Engawa” house and won first place in the Energy Balance Competition. In 2011 FIU will again be competing [...]
FIU is flipping the script! We’ve decided that going green means investing in you! The Sustainability Committee has a budget of $10,000 to help students fund environmentally friendly projects that will contribute to the visibility and culture of sustainability on campus. That means it’s time for you to take that great idea [...]
