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FIU graduate students hosted a NASA-sponsored International Space Apps Challenge at the Engineering Center April 21-22. The global “codeathon-style” event brought together teams from around the world to collaborate on the development of solutions that address critical challenges. Teams from 25 cities, 17 countries and seven continents participated simultaneously. “The [...]
FIU physics Ph.D. student Idaykis Rodriguez ’08 is packing her bags and passport and headed to Lindau, Germany, this summer now that she has been invited to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The Cuban-born Panther is the only FIU student granted the opportunity to meet with more than 25 Nobel Prize winners [...]
On April 10, Xavier Cortada, director and artist-in-residence of FIU’s College of Architecture + The Arts Office of Engaged Creativity, took his Native Flags project to 336 Miami-Dade Public Schools. Native Flags is a participatory eco-art project that consists of planting a native tree and a project flag on school [...]
This article, co-authored by FIU Department of Earth and Environment Assistant Professor Hong Liu, was originally published in Tropical Garden magazine Spring 2012. By Hong Liu, Feng Chang-Lin, Shu-Wei Cai and Yi-Bo Luo Photos by Hong Liu You may have heard stories about emergency rescues of plants or animals from habitats [...]
Physics Professor Brian Raue enjoys physics but loves baseball. He spends most of his days exploring the nature of matter with his students and conducting research at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, which is conducting research on the atom’s nucleus. But sometimes, during the last few classes [...]
April is national STD Awareness Month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that every year there are an estimated 19 million new sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Estimates suggest that even though young people represent only 25 percent of the sexually experienced population, nearly half of [...]
For some, spring break means lazy days at the beach. But for 13 FIU students, Spring Break 2012 meant trading in their flip flops for hiking boots and a trip out west. The group of undergraduate students and two faculty members from the Department of Earth and Environment packed their [...]
Take Back the Night is an annual international event that raises awareness about sexual abuse. Program organizers were out the morning of April 4 setting up a display behind the Graham Center at Modesto A. Maidique Campus to promote FIU’s event on Tuesday, April 10, at 7 p.m.
Sian Evans, FIU professor and managing director of the DuMond Conservancy, will present “Anthropoid Adventures” Tuesday, March 27 at the Luna Star Café in North Miami. It is scheduled for 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Evans teaches primate biology in the Department of Biological Sciences, an [...]
Adam Rosenblatt, a Ph.D. candidate in the FIU Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded the 2012 Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). He is headed to Washington, D.C., for the Congressional Visits Day March 28-29. Rosenblatt is one of three national finalists invited to the annual science policy experience. The [...]
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