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In this edition of Campus Voices, FIU News asked Carol Damian, director and chief curator of The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, to reflect on Andy Warhol’s legacy on the 25th anniversary of his death. Andy Warhol died 25 years ago today, Feb. 22., at the age of 58 [...]
Eighty students from FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management (CSHTM) were at the Miami Beach Convention Center Feb. 22, prepping for tomorrow night’s Moet Hennessy’s The Q and Moet Hennessy’s The Q After Dark. These students are just a few of the small army (nearly 1,000) who volunteer [...]
As a partner in the 100Kin10 movement, FIU is participating in today’s 100Kin10 Partner Summit in Washington, D.C. The initiative is a multi-sector effort to train or retrain 100,000 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers over the next 10 years. It was established in January 2011 by the Carnegie [...]
Most Panthers know alumnus Paul McCall as #12, the quarterback who led FIU football from 2005-09. A double graduate of FIU with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, McCall is currently working on his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He is an aspiring astronaut. FIU News asked McCall to write a first-person piece [...]
Extreme weather is in the forecast with the impending visit of Bonnie Schneider, who’s coming to FIU Friday, Feb. 24. The CNN and HLN meteorologist will discuss the weather anomalies of 2011 at her free lecture, which is scheduled for 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Wertheim Conservatory at Modesto [...]
Harvard researcher Mathew William Lensch will speak about “Nature and Nurture: The Life of a Citizen Scientist” Friday, Feb. 10, as part of the QBIC Confluence seminar series. The event is free and will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the College of Law, RDB 1100, at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. [...]
Three Panthers in the running for the 2012-2013 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) program won’t have to travel far for the next round of interviews: For the first time, FIU’s Undergraduate Education will host the final interviews for the southeast U.S. at Modesto A. Maidique Campus Feb. 9-10. CBYX is an [...]
As recently as last week, Panthers point guard Jerica Coley listed her two state high school championship tennis titles as her biggest sports accomplishment to date. By season’s end, the sophomore may be forced to reassess her biggest athletic feat. With only seven games left in the regular season, the [...]
University Health Services (UHS) advised the FIU community Feb. 2 that there has been a case of chickenpox, also known as varicella disease, diagnosed at the university. Varicella is a virus that can be spread through respiratory droplets and skin-to-skin contact. Since most people were exposed to the disease as [...]
She’s still an undergraduate, but Elizabeth Tapanes, a biological sciences major in the School of Environment, Arts and Society, already has five years of research experience under her belt with the DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests. Her research with owl monkeys, a species common in Central and South [...]
