Homecoming 2009: Look back at a week of festivities celebrating blue and gold

FIU alumni, students, faculty and staff showed off their Panther pride and spirit with a week of activities, Nov. 9 to Nov. 14, culminating in a 35-28 win against North Texas on Homecoming Saturday at FIU stadium.
Here are some of the more memorable sounds and images of Homecoming 2009:

Watch video highlights of the Homecoming game [...]

Writers on the Bay Reading Series presents Mike Grunwald

As part of its Fall 2009 Barnes & Noble Writers on the Bay Reading Series, the Creative Writing Program will present on Thursday, Dec. 3, Time correspondent and author Mike Grunwald, at 8 p.m. at the Biscayne Bay Campus Bookstore.
Grunwald will discuss and read from his latest book, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the [...]

FIU presents Madonna’s rabbi Nov. 20

You know that strand of red wool Madonna wears around her left wrist? That is a Kabbalah Red String, “an indispensable tool for spiritual and physical protection” against the Evil Eye.
It is one of the many technologies that can be found at Kabbalah centres around the world. Kabbalah Centre International is an organization dedicated to [...]