The following message was sent from President Mark B. Rosenberg to the university community on January 18, 2012. Dear students, faculty and staff: I know that many of you have heard that two students and five individuals who are not students were arrested on Thursday, January 12 for disrupting school [...]
President Rosenberg advocates for Pell Grants in D.C.
07/19/2011 By
Florida International University President Mark B. Rosenberg joined U.S. senators, college presidents and college students in advocating for protecting Pell Grants at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 19. U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, both from Maryland, joined Rosenberg and seven other university presidents from [...]
Thousands graduate during fall commencement ceremonies
12/13/2010 By
About 3,600 FIU students were set to graduate during six ceremonies on Monday, Dec. 13 and Tuesday, Dec. 14. The ceremonies took place at the U.S. Century Bank Arena on FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus. To read about some of FIU’s Worlds Ahead graduates, click here.
FIU offers free football tickets to health care employees
11/24/2010 By
Florida International University is offering health care professionals and their families complimentary tickets courtesy of AvMed Health Plans to Saturday’s home football game versus Arkansas State. “On this Thanksgiving weekend, we want to express our gratitude for all that health care professionals do for our community by inviting them and [...]
FIU architecture students walk on water
11/03/2010 By
FIU architecture students celebrated two decades of Walk on Water, a class assignment-turned-annual contest, on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Most of the two dozen or so students stepping into creatively buoyant contraptions to cross the 175-foot lake behind the Green Library were part of professor Jaime Canaves’ Materials and Methods of Construction class [...]
FIU medical and nursing students get lesson on home visits
08/25/2010 By
Florida International University medical and nursing students on Wednesday got an interactive lesson on how to make home visits. United HomeCare Services (UHCS), the largest home health agency in South Florida, conducted a “Community Classroom” session at its Northwest Miami-Dade offices to show more than 80 FIU students how to [...]
President Rosenberg praises funding for FIU projects in state budget
05/28/2010 By
Florida International University President Mark B. Rosenberg on Friday praised the inclusion of several crucial Florida International University projects in the state budget signed by Gov. Charlie Crist that had earlier been approved by the State Legislature. The budget included $17.6 million for a Student Support Complex that will consolidate [...]
FIU Hosts 13th Annual Western Hemisphere Security Colloquium
05/10/2010 By
WHAT: The 13th annual Western Hemisphere Security Colloquium will bring together respected scholars and experts in the fields of politics, economics, security and defense. Titled “A New Chapter in Trans-American Engagement,” the colloquium will examine the complicated realities and regional dynamics shaping the state of risk and insecurity in the [...]
Campus security increased; students offered counseling
03/26/2010 By
Police pursue perpetrator in stabbing of Kendall Berry Police continue to pursue the perpetrator in a stabbing that occurred Thursday evening on the FIU-Modesto Maidique Campus. The incident resulted in the death of Kendall Berry, 22, a student-athlete from Haines City, Florida majoring in education. Special precautions have been taken [...]
FIU teach-in tackles decentralization of Haiti and other recovery issues
03/09/2010 By
The decentralization of Haiti – shifting its population from densely-populated Port-au-Prince to less populated areas – in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake emerged as a major theme in Florida International University’s second Haiti Teach-In, sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs and the Latin American and [...]
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