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Congratulations go out to Lynne Barrett on winning the Gold for General Fiction at the Florida Book Awards, which every year honors the best work produced by Sunshine State writers. The English professor will collect her award – which celebrates Magpies, her latest collection of short stories – at the Florida [...]
County Commission Chairman Joe A. Martinez is on a mission to clean up the entire code of ordinances – and he’s recruited students from the College of Law to help get the job done. Together with FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg and R. Alexander Acosta, the college’s dean, Martinez announced [...]
Alfredo Brown is 21 years old. He’s a sports management senior at FIU, and the president of Pi Kappa Phi. Today, he is a healthy young man, but he once was known as a Miracle Child. He was born three months premature, and among the problems he faced were a [...]
As part of its 2012 Hearst Distinguished Lectures Series, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will present a two-day program exploring “What If Nobody Listened? How Whistleblowers and Journalists Expose Corruption, Skullduggery and Injustices” Feb. 8-9 at MMC and BBC In 1984, Meryl Streep received her fifth Academy Award nomination [...]
Name: Martha M. Barantovich ’91, MS ’94, Ed.D. ’06 Hometown: Miami, Fla. Job Title/Department: Instructor, Department of Leadership and Professional Studies in the College of Education Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I teach undergraduates about the foundations of education and get them to ask questions. Number of [...]
The next screening in the Frost Art Museum series is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, March 1 The Frost Art Museum wants you to help pick the next movie we’re watching. Yup, after successful outdoor screenings of the documentary I Am and the Halloween classic Beetlejuice, the powers that be at [...]
In the last year, FIU demonstrated its commitment to community engagement through the arts, encouraging students and friends to participate in several creative initiatives. Last summer, FIU worked with hundreds of people of all ages on its Worlds Ahead Mural and Ship of Tolerance projects, as well as The Art [...]
Name: Eric Brewe Hometown: Long Beach, Ind. Job Title/Department: Assistant Professor of Science Education, Department of Teaching and Learning Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: My job is to promote learning science by teaching courses for high school teachers on teaching science, by teaching physics courses that promote [...]
Everyone’s invited to enjoy a ‘Lion King’ theme at one of the biggest parties thrown on campus and raise funds for the Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation “It Means No Worries” – that’s the Lion King-inspired theme of this year’s FIU 15th annual Dance Marathon, the largest student philanthropy at the [...]
A gamers dream event will be held at the Engineering Center Jan. 27-29: the Global Game Jam, hosted by FIU’s Collaborative Open Innovation Lab (COIL ), an educational program that assists students and pros in envisioning and realizing technology ideas. Some 10,000 game enthusiasts, developers, designers and artists are expected [...]
