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FIU football will host the annual Blue & Gold Spring Game Friday, March 30, at 7 p.m. at Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium. Admission to the game is free. Panther Rage will be giving out t-shirts to the first 200 students. Following the Spring Game head on over to the [...]
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 [...]
Women’s hoops is set for post-season play. FIU will host Stetson in the opening round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) on Thursday, March 15, at U.S. Century Bank Arena. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. WNIT is an annual tournament involving 64 of the nation’s top women’s Division I [...]
FIU’s College of Law jumped 19 spots in U.S.News and World Report’s 2013 edition of Best Graduate Schools, from 132 to 113. “These rankings recognize what we already know, that the FIU College of Law is on the right track,” said College of Law Dean R. Alexander Acosta. “As we [...]
Hundreds of students, faculty/staff, alumni, friends and family channeled the heroes within to show they’re “ordinary people by day, cancer fighters by night,” at the March 2-3 “Superheroes”-themed 8th annual FIU Relay for Life, one of the largest philanthropies on campus. An estimated 80 teams participated in this year’s event, [...]
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. [...]
FIU students brought their A game to Moët Hennessy’s The Q and The Q After Dark as the 2012 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival kicked off Feb. 23 against a backdrop of clear skies, swaying palm trees and the ocean. FIU News will be following the action [...]
Most Panthers know alumnus Paul McCall as #12, the quarterback who led FIU football from 2005-09. A double graduate of FIU with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, McCall is currently working on his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He is an aspiring astronaut. FIU News asked McCall to write a first-person piece [...]
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 [...]
This week marks 50 years of the United States embargo on all trade with Cuba. Since 1991, FIU has polled South Florida Cuban-Americans to gauge sentiment toward the embargo. The poll shows support for the policy eroding. As part of FIU News’ Panther Voices series, lead investigator and sociology professor [...]
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