FIU public health researcher co-authors new study for World Health Organization A new World Health Organization report on the public health response to the Haiti earthquake says the international community repeated and amplified mistakes of past disasters and those failures cost lives during a critical lifesaving period. The study, co-authored [...]
New report points to failures in international response to Haiti earthquake
02/21/2012 By 2 Comments
FIU hosting energy industry leaders at two conferences
02/20/2012 By 1 Comment
As oil drilling begins off the coast of Cuba, prices at the pump threaten to reach record levels and the debate over the Keystone Pipeline expansion continues, some of the world’s foremost experts on energy are set to convene at Florida International University for two industry conferences. The Global Energy [...]
Move over recycling bin, here comes the Dream Machine
02/17/2012 By 6 Comments
This week, the Office of University Sustainability introduced the FIU community to the Dream Machine, a computerized recycling kiosk. Folks can recycle their cans and bottles and earn reward points redeemable for local discounts. For every plastic bottle and aluminum can recycled in the reverse vending machine, PepsiCo will make [...]
Get your tickets: FIU Panthers vs. Miami Marlins March 7
02/17/2012 By 15 Comments
Get a sneak peek of the new Marlins Park and support FIU baseball. The Panthers will face off against the Miami Marlins in an exhibition game Wednesday, March 7. The game will be held at the new ballpark (1390 N.W. 7th St.) at 7:10 p.m. Tickets are $10 and get [...]
CNN meteorologist to discuss extreme weather events
02/16/2012 By 3 Comments
Extreme weather is in the forecast with the impending visit of Bonnie Schneider, who’s coming to FIU Friday, Feb. 24. The CNN and HLN meteorologist will discuss the weather anomalies of 2011 at her free lecture, which is scheduled for 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Wertheim Conservatory at Modesto [...]
Chinese scholars pursue Healthcare MBA at FIU
02/16/2012 By 2 Comments
Many firsts are happening for a group of Chinese health management students studying at FIU’s College of Business Administration. The thirteen students from Southern Medical University (SMU), one of the top medical universities in China, arrived in the fall of 2011 as the first SMU class to pursue their Healthcare [...]
Tianjin faculty demonstrate Chinese brush painting
02/16/2012 By 1 Comment
Faculty-artists from the School of the Arts at Tianjin University of Commerce visited MMC Feb. 10 to share the art of Chinese brush painting FIU art lovers were schooled in Chinese brush painting Feb. 10. A delegation from the School of the Arts at Tianjin University of Commerce (TUC) in [...]
A mogul, an actor and a journalist walk into FIU…
02/16/2012 By 5 Comments
What do hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, Entourage star Adrian Grenier, and Sam Sifton, the national editor of The New York Times, have in common? Well, if you guessed the three are scheduled to speak at Biscayne Bay Campus this semester then you’d be right. Simmons will be the first to [...]
Remembering Antonio Jorge
02/16/2012 By 1 Comment
Professor Emeritus Antonio Jorge, who started at FIU in 1978 as a professor in the Department of International Relations with a joint appointment in the departments of economics, political science, sociology and anthropology, died Feb. 7. “He was one of the most classically educated people that I ever met,” said [...]
Employees asked to support FIU through new Ignite campaign
02/15/2012 By 4 Comments
FIU rolled out its first-ever faculty and staff fundraising campaign, “Ignite,” with a rousing call to action from founding faculty member Steve Fain. “I know it is tough to ask people for money,” Fain, chair of the new campaign, told a crowd of 400 in the GC Ballrooms Feb. 15. [...]
