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When the Museum of Discovery and Science in Ft. Lauderdale recently opened its new EcoDiscovery Center, FIU researchers delivered a unique Everglades exhibit. Sitting at the center of the major, 34,000-square-foot expansion is a kiosk housing the latest tracking data for a variety of predators that currently populate the Everglades [...]
Examining the correlation between humans and other primates, the School of Integrated Science and Humanity (SISH) will launch its Cognitive Neuroscience lecture series Nov. 3. Asif A. Ghanzanfar, associate professor of neuroscience and psychology at Princeton University, will discuss his research on the emergence and evolution of speech through rhythms at [...]
After inclement weather forced a postponement of last week’s Lambda Chi Alpha’s dunk-a-thon, College of Arts & Sciences Dean Kenneth G. Furton is ready to suit up Tuesday, Oct. 25, and take to the tank. For the second year in a row, Furton will climb into the dunk tank at 2 p.m. on [...]
Lambda Chi Alpha’s dunk-a-thon scheduled for Monday, Oct. 17, has been postponed due to weather. A new date for the annual fundraiser, which benefits the North American Can Food Drive, will be announced soon. College of Arts & Sciences Dean Kenneth G. Furton was the highlight of last year’s event, spending [...]
He’s the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. He’s a chemist. He’s the founding director of the International Forensic Research Institute. And Monday, Oct. 17, Kenneth G. Furton becomes a target for every student, faculty member, staff member and administrator on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. For the [...]
Grenville Draper, professor of geology and associate director of Liberal Studies at FIU, has discovered fragments of mantle plume rocks in the northern Dominican Republic. A mantle plume is a mass of abnormally hot rock that rises up through the Earth’s mantle. Many scientists believe these plumes explain the existence [...]
Alan D. Solomont, the ambassador of the United States to Spain and Andorra, will deliver a lecture Monday, Sept. 19, at FIU’s Frost Art Museum. Titled “U.S.-Spain Relations Today,” the lecture is scheduled for 10 a.m. and is free and open to the public. Solomont has spent much of his [...]
Yvette R. Piggush, an assistant professor in Department of English at FIU, was recently named a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Through the grant, Piggush will study at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester, Mass., an independent research library that collects, preserves and provides access to all printed [...]
Czech Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg will deliver a lecture on Monday, Sept. 19, at FIU’s Frost Art Museum, reflecting on the Arab Spring and other global events that have transformed the Czech Republic. Titled “Through the Lens of the Czech Experience,” the lecture is set for 2:30 p.m. [...]
FIU’s Global Water for Sustainability Program (GLOWS) will be helping to improve water quality in Rwanda. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded GLOWS a five-year, $21.9 million grant for a project dubbed Rwanda Integrated Water Security Program. The program is designed to positively impact human health, food [...]
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