The choice is yours: Vote for April’s Movie on the Lawn

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The next screening in the Frost Art Museum series is scheduled for April 12 The Frost Art Museum will host another outdoor movie screening this spring, on Thursday, April 12, and the powers that be are once again letting you choose what we’re watching. Earlier in March, the museum showed [...]

Top costume design award goes to FIU Theatre

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She is a senior in the BFA program in FIU Theatre; she is an Honors College student; and she’s also one of the top costume designers in the college theatre scene. Meet Caroline Spitzer, the recipient of the highest accolade for costume design at this year’s Kennedy Center American College [...]

Write the lyrics to FIU’s ‘Alma Mater’ and win $1,000

Music Professor Clair McElfresh wrote and composed the current Alma Mater in 1975.

You have the opportunity to be part of Panther history. FIU is getting a new “Alma Mater” and you can be its lyricist. The “Alma Mater” Committee is looking for a song that conveys FIU’s energy, optimism and diversity. Students, faculty, staff, retirees and alumni are invited to submit entries; group entries [...]

Jamaican dance group coming to BBC March 22

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An exciting cross-cultural exchange will take place under the spotlight Thursday, March 22, when The Company Dance Theatre from Kingston, Jamaica, comes to the Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC). Now in its 23rd season, the company will perform a variety of pieces from its repertoire, including traditional Afro-Caribbean movements and classical [...]

Judaic lecture series features ‘Dolphin Boy’ documentary

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The FIU Judaic Studies Program will host a screening of “Dolphin Boy” at noon Friday, March 9 at Academic Health Center 3 (AHC-3), room 205. An interactive discussion with the film co-producer Judith Manassen-Ramon and Maria Pienkowski-Gunia, a senior research support specialist with the FIU Center for Children and Families, will [...]

School of Music students receive high praise from Latin Recording Academy

(Left to right): School of Music Director Orlando Garcia, Jorge Canovas, Lina Borda and Latin Recording Academy Chief Financial Officer Luis Dousdebes

School of Music students Lina Borda and Jorge Canovas recently visited the Miami office of the Latin Recording Academy to meet with Luis Dousdebes, the academy’s CFO. Dousdebes had invited the Panthers to present them with certificates of appreciation for their  contribution and dedication during their FIU Internship Program. Borda, a [...]

Seth Gadinsky appointed founding chair of the Office of Engaged Creativity Advisory Council

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Seth Gadinsky has been elected as founding chair for the Office of Engaged Creativity Advisory Council. Gadinsky is owner of Gadinsky Real Estate, LLC, a full service retail real estate company located on Miami Beach. In his new role, Gadinsky will be responsible for building awareness of FIU and developing [...]

FIU Opera Theater’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ opens March 2

FIU School of Music students rehearsing for opening night of The Turn of the Screw.

The stage is set and FIU Opera Theater students have been busy rehearsing for this weekend’s two-day presentation of Benjamin Britten’s ghost opera, The Turn of the Screw. The show opens on Friday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, with an additional showing [...]

Campus Voices: Nervous but excited at SoBe

Nicole Garcia represented the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as a press and media associate at five events, including the Whole Foods Market Grand Tasting Village.

Nicole Garcia, a public relations senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC), was among the 30 recruits from the school who volunteered at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival Feb. 23-26. Last week, FIU News asked Garcia to write a first-person piece about this [...]

FIU to honor Isabel Allende at BBC special event

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Acclaimed Latin American author Isabel Allende will visit FIU Monday, March 5, to receive a literary award from the Creative Writing Program and participate in a public talk. The event is open to the public and begins at 8 p.m. in the Wolfe University Center at the Biscayne Bay Campus. [...]