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		<title>Dr. Seza Gulec on Selective Internal Radiation Therapy &#8211; Channel 7 News</title>
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Dr. Seza Gulec, an FIU Wertheim College of Medicine professor of surgery and radiology/ nuclear medicine, is a leading researcher in the development of this treatment and was the first in the United States to use SIRT in combination with chemotherapy for the treatment of liver cancers.  He was originally profiled on FIU News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIU professor receives grant to study racial disparities in AIDS survival</title>
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Mary Jo Trepka, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, has received a $1.3 million grant for a unique five-year study that will focus on racial disparities in AIDS survival in Florida.
African-Americans in the United States have been disproportionately affected by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting to save one-of-a-kind orchids in China</title>
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By Susan Feinberg
When Department of Earth and Environment Assistant Professor Hong Liu began exploring the Yachang Orchid Nature Preserve located in a remote corner of southwest China in 2008, she realized that she was in the midst of an orchid paradise.
“It was an amazing sight,” she recalled. “Everywhere I looked, there were orchids. And these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lumina Foundation grant funds study to keep Hispanics in college</title>
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MIAMI (Nov. 2, 2009) &#8211; Florida International University’s College of Education has received a grant from Lumina Foundation for Education to develop model retention programs for Hispanic students in higher education that can be shared with universities across the country.
The $496,000 award identifies FIU as one of the largest producers of Hispanic graduates and funds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/11/lumina-foundation-grant-funds-study-to-keep-hispanics-in-college/</link>
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		<title>FIU, MDX form partnership to improve transportation in region</title>
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MIAMI – Florida International University announced today that it has signed an agreement with the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) to provide options to reduce traffic bottlenecks in Miami-Dade County.
Funded with up to $500,000 from MDX, FIU’s Lehman Center for Transportation Research will focus on the development of an advanced bus rapid transit system along State Road [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/10/fiu-mdx-form-partnership-to-improve-transportation-in-region/</link>
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		<title>FIU biology professor protects marine and terrestrial environments</title>
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On an average workday, biology assistant professor Deron Burkepile might be scuba diving in Key Largo or observing exotic animals in grassland communities in South Africa.
Burkepile, a field ecologist, explores how humans impact marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and what we can do to mitigate any resulting damage.
He spends most of his time studying what happens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/10/fiu-biology-professor-protects-marine-and-terrestrial-environments/</link>
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		<title>FIU researchers seeking participants for clinical trial focusing on anxiety problems among children</title>
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Now in the second year of a five-year study, participating families will receive state-of-the-art treatments and contribute to advancing knowledge of better treatments.
The Child and Anxiety Phobia Program is beginning the second year of a clinical trial, and researchers are looking for more participants from the FIU community and surrounding area. The program is part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/07/fiu-researchers-seeking-participants-for-clinical-trial-focusing-on-anxiety-problems-among-children/</link>
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		<title>CAS faculty awarded $2.75 million for environmental research</title>
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Professors to investigate whether treated reclaimed water can be used in the restoration of coastal wetlands in southern Biscayne Bay.
By Susan Feinberg
Gary Rand, professor in the Department of Earth and Environment, and Piero Gardinali, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, recently received $2.75 million from the Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department to conduct groundbreaking environmental research and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/07/cas-faculty-awarded-2-75-million-for-environmental-research/</link>
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		<title>FIU Everglades collection among Top 10 in the nation</title>
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Internet Scout calls it &#8220;a fabulous resource on everything from urban development to the role of women in the modern conservation movement.&#8221;

By Sissi Aguila
&#8220;Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida&#8217;s Natural History, 1884 to 1934,&#8221; a collection from FIU&#8217;s Everglades Digital Library, was chosen by Internet Scout as one of the Top 10 research Web sites of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disappearing seagrass threatening future of coastal ecosystems</title>
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MIAMI &#8211; In the first study of its kind, Florida International University scientists, along with an international team of researchers, have discovered a troubling acceleration of seagrass loss across the globe, threatening the immediate health and long-term sustainability of coastal ecosystems.
The team has compiled and analyzed the first comprehensive global assessment of seagrass observations and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/07/disappearing-seagrass-threatening-future-of-coastal-ecosystems/</link>
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		<title>Liver cancer patients find new hope in targeted microsphere treatment pioneered at FIU</title>
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Listen to a WLRN interview with Dr. Gulec
MIAMI &#8211; May 7, 2009 - A novel treatment for inoperable liver cancer that delivers high doses of radiation directly to the site of tumors is extending and improving the life of patients.
 Known as Selective Internal Radiation Therapy, this innovative treatment uses millions of microscopic radioactive beads referred [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/05/liver-cancer-patients-find-new-hope-in-targeted-microsphere-treatment-pioneered-at-fiu/</link>
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		<title>FIU scientists find animal pigment in plants</title>
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The jaundice pigment bilirubin, only thought to exist in animals, has been discovered in the seed arils of bird-of-paradise trees.
By Sissi Aguila
A team of FIU scientists have found the bilirubin pigment &#8211; the yellowish hue associated with bruises and jaundice sufferers &#8211; in the white bird-of-paradise tree. This is the first example of animal pigment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIU research team discovers algae that could help clean up environment, make food supply safer</title>
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          MIAMI - The algae in Yellowstone National Park could one day save lives by consuming the arsenic in toxic sites and ridding crops, such as rice, of dangerous levels of the contaminant.
            Researchers at Florida International University&#8217;s College of Medicine have discovered that the one-celled alga called Cyanidioschyzon thrives despite the toxic concentrations of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/03/fiu-research-team-discovers-algae-that-could-help-clean-up-environment-make-food-supply-safer/</link>
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		<title>FIU researcher and team invent device to aid in detection of breast cancer</title>
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A decade after Dr. Anuradha Godavarty began focusing her research efforts on breast imaging, she and her research team are ready to begin testing a hand-held, 3-D imaging device they created. Their hope is that the innovation will aid in the detection of breast cancer.
 
By Karen Cochrane 
A hand-held, 3-D imaging device being developed by FIU researchers shows early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International collaboration at FIU leads to discovery of new single-element compound</title>
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MIAMI (Jan. 28, 2009) Florida International University researchers have discovered a new single-element compound, a breakthrough that could rewrite chemistry books.
The Center for the Study of Matters at Extreme Condition (CeSMEC) at FIU led an international group of scientists that synthesized and characterized a single-element compound, Boron Boride (B28).
The classic definition of a chemical compound [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/01/international-collaboration-at-fiu-leads-to-discovery-of-new-single-element-compound/</link>
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		<title>FIU and University of Miami present documentary on 1970s-80s generation in Cuba</title>
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WHAT:Florida International University&#8217;s Cuban Research Institute and the University  of Miami&#8217;s Latin American Studies Program and Center for Latin American Studies will present a screening of the documentary &#8220;El Telón de Azucar&#8221; (&#8220;The Sugar Curtain&#8221;).
&#8220;El Telón de Azúcar&#8221; is a documentary that hauntingly captures present-day Cuba through the eyes of those that were born [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/01/fiu-and-university-of-miami-present-documentary-on-1970s-80s-generation-in-cuba/</link>
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		<title>FIU researchers receive $5 million grant from NASA</title>
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Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm leads a group of researchers and graduate students studying the wetlands of the Everglades and Mexican Yucatan. The research team&#8217;s findings could reveal if projected dramatic changes in these ecosystems&#8217; futures are true. 
By Grant Smith
A team of four universities led by FIU&#8217;s Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm received a $5 million grant from NASA for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/01/fiu-researchers-receive-5-million-grant-from-nasa/</link>
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		<title>Outstanding researchers flock to FIU College of Medicine</title>
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January 9, 2009
MIAMI - As FIU&#8217;s newly-accredited College of Medicine prepares to welcome its first class in the fall, deans are busy recruiting leading researchers from universities throughout the world.
These scientists will head teams that will develop key areas of study at the new College of Medicine, which aims to revolutionize medical education and pilot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2009/01/outstanding-researchers-flock-to-fiu-college-of-medicine/</link>
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		<title>This man has MERIT</title>
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Madhavan Nair became the first FIU professor to win a prestigious MERIT Award from the NIH for research that&#8217;s expected to help in the design of interventions for HIV-infected drug abusers.

By Grant Smith
Dr. Madhavan Nair, professor and chair of immunology and associate dean of biomedical research in the FIU College of Medicine, has won a coveted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2008/09/fiu-researcher/</link>
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