By Deborah O'Neil
Lessons on kinship from the Gogodala of Papua New Guinea On my second day in Papua New Guinea, Nalisa Ibowa sat me down on the floor and wrapped her arms around my shoulders. She looked into my eyes and studied my face for several minutes. Then she nodded and gave [...]
By Deborah O'Neil
As the magazine goes to press at the start of 2013, the FIU community is welcoming Ron Turner as FIU’s new head football coach. Turner comes to FIU from the NFL, most recently as the quarterback coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He’s spent eight seasons coaching college football at [...]
By Angeline Evans
While South Florida was transfixed by FIU alumnus Richard Blanco at the presidential inauguration, another pair of Panthers was also preparing for the day’s festivities. Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester ’03 and Wilner B. “Simply Sick” Baptiste, better known as the duo behind Black Violin, played to a crowd of 35,000 [...]
By Martin Haro
FIU Magazine’s former associate editor and FIU alumnus Martin Haro ’05 looks back on his time as a Panther. When I came to FIU in 2002 I didn’t know FIU Magazine existed, let alone that I would work in External Relations, the division that produces the magazine and FIU News, [...]
By Angeline Evans
The Education Effect, a partnership between Miami-Dade County Public Schools and FIU funded by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation was recently written up in The Huffington Post. The program implemented a variety of academic projects and dual enrollment opportunities at Miami Northwestern Senior High School in Liberty City, with the goal [...]
By Angeline Evans
This year, FIU Magazine went to California, got blown away by engineering and dropped our first digital-only issue. We took a (brief) break from finalizing the Spring 2013 issue to find out what our staff is looking forward to as the end of the year draws near. I look forward to finally [...]
By Deborah O'Neil
What if you knew the world were going to end? Next week. On December 21. By now, every Mayanist scholar in the world has tried to clarify how the doomsday soothsayers have misunderstood the Maya calendar. At best, the date Dec. 21, 2012, signifies the end of a cycle of [...]
By Alexandra Pecharich
For weeks I observed the activity in the GC lounge at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. On schooldays it is filled with students in search of a place to accomplish any number of important tasks – from last-minute studying to answering text messages to catching a few z’s between classes. [...]
By Angeline Evans
This month, we celebrated several achievements in the Division of External Relations. The launch of the FIU.edu redesign, which is aesthetically pleasing and technically cutting-edge Our first online-only issue of FIU Magazine – the Music Issue The inaugural TEDxFIU event While both the web redesign and online magazine are new iterations [...]
By Deborah O'Neil
As we launch our first digital-only magazine, I have to confess that I have become a believer. You see, I am a print person. I grew up working at newspapers – I got my first newspaper job when I was 15. I love holding a book, or a magazine or [...]
By Deborah O'Neil
I spent a good part of the month of September talking to lawyers – FIU lawyers, that is. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the College of Law and I was honored to play a role in the celebration. The anniversary was an important moment of reflection for FIU. [...]
By Deborah O'Neil
Around this time every year a whole lot of us start getting revved up for college football. My diehard football friends – Alberto Padron ’98, MBA ’09; Eddie Hondal ’88, MS ’00; Joann Adkins; Julian Kasdin; Robert Valcarce – are posting on Facebook almost daily about our team. To feed the excitement, I always [...]
