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FIU Biomedical Engineering hosted the daylong EDC BioTech 2012 Conference in the Graham Center Ballrooms at Modesto A. Madique Campus May 9 – a move that reaffirmed the university’s commitment to South Florida’s development as a life sciences corridor. Recently, FIU convened Life Sciences South Florida, a work group comprised [...]
What’s working? What can we improve? What can we change? These questions set the tone for open discussion as more than 40 student mentees and volunteer mentors came together on March 23 to review FIU’s College of Business Administration’s mentoring program. Topics included team building, financial literacy, interview and résumé [...]
Seven children from the Division of External Relations learned more about what their parents do for a living when they participated in the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Thursday, May 3. Karina Bravo, Raymond Castro, Janet D’Alessandro, Jenevieve Jimenez, Sebastian Negret, Emma Nissim and Marco Vargas [...]
Professor Irma Becerra-Fernandez Ph.D. ’94 has accepted the position of interim vice president for Engagement effective May 14. She replaces Divina Grossman, who recently was chosen as the new chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In her current post as the vice provost for Academic Affairs, Becerra-Fernandez has co-chaired [...]
A blue-and-gold celebration is in order: The Indianapolis Colts have chosen former FIU MVP T.Y. Hilton to join their roster in the third round of the 2012 National Football League Draft. A former FIU All-American and four-time Sun Belt Conference first-team pick, Hilton got the call April 27 informing him [...]
Colombian-born Andres Rodríguez MS ’11 is a first-time documentary filmmaker who will attend Puntos de Vista 2012, Texas State University’s third international Spanish-language documentary film festival on Friday, April 27. The School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) grad will present Levantándose del Pantano, a 25-minute edit from Rising from [...]
Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old high school student who was killed Feb. 26 by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., was remembered during a multifaith memorial service at Biscayne Bay Campus April 18. Dubbed “Standing on the Side of Love and Justice,” the event was organized by students in adjunct [...]
New Zealand-born, blue-and-gold defender Anthony Hobbs is bound for England. The recreation and sports management student-athlete is set to join the Kiwi delegation at this summer’s Olympic Games in London. Hobbs, 21, will join the likes of international soccer player Ryan Nelsen on the roster of the New Zealand team [...]
Five Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management undergrads were welcomed into the company of Loews Scholars at the Kovens Conference Center at Biscayne Bay Campus April 11. Each Panther received a $1,000 scholarship in recognition of their commitment to their studies – they all maintain a GPA of 3.0 [...]
When attorney Richard Montes de Oca MBA ’00 decided to strike out on his own, leaving his position as assistant general counsel for Royal Caribbean Cruises last summer, he decided to put the MBA he earned at FIU to work and create a job for himself. “Being in-house can lead [...]
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