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As oil drilling begins off the coast of Cuba, prices at the pump threaten to reach record levels and the debate over the Keystone Pipeline expansion continues, some of the world’s foremost experts on energy are set to convene at Florida International University for two industry conferences. The Global Energy [...]
Professor Emeritus Antonio Jorge, who started at FIU in 1978 as a professor in the Department of International Relations with a joint appointment in the departments of economics, political science, sociology and anthropology, died Feb. 7. “He was one of the most classically educated people that I ever met,” said [...]
WHAT: A national authority on university-community engagement, Ira Harkavy, founding director of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, will be visiting Florida International University to discuss FIU’s engagement efforts and help create strategies and avenues for faculty, students and partners to work together to tackle [...]
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida’s 10th Congressional District representative in the U.S. House of Representatives and chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, will discuss “Security Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy” during a lecture Friday, Oct. 28. The event is part of the Ruth K. & Shepard Board Distinguished Lecture Series [...]
Ana Lourdes Ardon, the vice consul of Honduras in Miami, welcomed 45 agroecology students from Universidad Nacional de Agricultura (UNA) in Catacamas, Honduras, to FIU Oct. 17. The students were visiting FIU to learn more about agricultural practices through lectures and hands-on training. The students were hosted by the university’s agroecology [...]
FIU is inviting book lovers, collectors and sellers to a book sale with approximately 20,000 books Oct. 15-16, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Wolfe University Center at the Biscayne Bay Campus. The books are part of an eclectic collection recently donated to the university. Books on sale include the [...]
Cutting-edge ventures from Latin America and South Florida will vie for more than $50,000 in awards, and recognition from leading investors, at Florida International University’s 2011 Americas Venture Capital Conference (AVCC), Nov. 16-17, at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. FIU’s Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center and College [...]
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 [...]
