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		<title>EU ambassador to discuss world economic crisis at FIU</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>esuperez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College of Arts & Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joao Valde de Almeida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Distinguished Lecture Series]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, head of delegation for the European Union (EU) to the United States, will present “Transatlantic Relations in Turbulent Times” Wed., Feb. 22, in the SIPA Auditorium. The lecture is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The highest ranking diplomatic officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English professor strikes gold at book awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Haro</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Florida Book Awards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FIU Creative Writing Program]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Florida Library Association Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynne Barrett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magpies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of Florida's Division of Cultural Affairs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations go out to Lynne Barrett on winning the Gold for General Fiction at the Florida Book Awards, which every year honors the best work produced by Sunshine State writers. The English professor will collect her award – which celebrates Magpies, her latest collection of short stories – at the Florida [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panther Voices: Sentiment toward Cuba embargo changing as community changes</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/panther-voices-sentiment-toward-cuba-embargo-changing-as-community-changes/35827?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=panther-voices-sentiment-toward-cuba-embargo-changing-as-community-changes</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eaguila</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campus Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Headliner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[50 years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba embargo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuban Research Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Global and Sociocultural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIU Cuba Poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ford Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guillermo Grenier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; Panther Voices series, lead investigator and sociology professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betsy reads your comments Feb. 10</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/betsy-reads-your-comments-feb-10/35851?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=betsy-reads-your-comments-feb-10</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eaguila</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Betsy Soler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FIU News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betsy Soler ’10, FIU’s social media community manager, reads all your comments on FIU News, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Each week, she features a range of comments from the quirkiest to the most passionate and insightful in a video blog. Watch to see if your comment is highlighted! &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>FIU to host College Goal Sunday</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/fiu-to-host-college-goal-sunday-2/35737?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fiu-to-host-college-goal-sunday-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[College Goal Sunday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College of Nursing and Health Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Pell Grant Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida International University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIU will host “College Goal Sunday.”  The one-day event aims to help college-bound students fill out their financial aid forms to ensure access to higher education.  Similar workshops are being held throughout South Florida and the state. High school seniors and their families are invited to attend to get help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feb. 10 lecture to explore life of a citizen scientist</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/feb-10-lecture-to-explore-life-of-a-citizen-scientist/35710?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feb-10-lecture-to-explore-life-of-a-citizen-scientist</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[College of Arts & Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Biological Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mathew William Lensch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QBIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QBIC Confluence lecture series]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quantifying Biology in the Classroom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard researcher Mathew William Lensch will speak about &#8220;Nature and Nurture: The Life of a Citizen Scientist&#8221; Friday, Feb. 10, as part of the QBIC Confluence seminar series. The event is free and will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the College of Law, RDB 1100, at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership lecture series kicks off Feb.8</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/leadership-lecture-series-kicks-off-feb-8/35693?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=leadership-lecture-series-kicks-off-feb-8</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eaguila</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[“The ‘How’ of Business Ethics”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruno Avolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College of Arts & Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College of Business Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College of Business Complex Special Events Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James O' Toole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary C. Gentile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Leadership will launch its Leadership lecture series Feb. 8 with a presentation by Mary C. Gentile, a pioneer in business ethics. Gentile’s lecture, “The ‘How’ of Business Ethics” will address the questions: &#8220;What if I were going to act on my values? What would I say and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange final interviews coming to FIU</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/congress-bundestag-youth-exchange-final-interviews-coming-to-fiu/35660?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=congress-bundestag-youth-exchange-final-interviews-coming-to-fiu</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abdel Perera]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Politics and International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIU undergraduate education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilarion Martinez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nestor Perez]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[political science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Timur Kuzibaev]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Panthers in the running for the 2012-2013 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) program won&#8217;t have to travel far for the next round of interviews: For the first time, FIU&#8217;s Undergraduate Education will host the final interviews for the southeast U.S. at Modesto A. Maidique Campus Feb. 9-10. CBYX is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Coley! Point guard among elite scorers in nation</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/holy-coley-point-guard-among-elite-scorers-in-nation/35621?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=holy-coley-point-guard-among-elite-scorers-in-nation</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cochrane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIU Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerica Coley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As recently as last week, Panthers point guard Jerica Coley listed her two state high school championship tennis titles as her biggest sports accomplishment to date. By season’s end, the sophomore may be forced to reassess her biggest athletic feat. With only seven games left in the regular season, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working through red tape: How FIU Law students will help small business</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/working-through-red-tape-how-fiu-law-students-will-help-small-business/35573?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=working-through-red-tape-how-fiu-law-students-will-help-small-business</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Haro</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bedilia Campbell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FIU College of Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Martinez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Sevilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miami-Dade county ordinances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miami-Dade small business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mom-and-pop shops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[N.A.N.A.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[R. Alexander Acosta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[County Commission Chairman Joe A. Martinez is on a mission to clean up the entire code of ordinances – and he’s recruited students from the College of Law to help get the job done. Together with FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg and R. Alexander Acosta, the college’s dean, Martinez announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geopolitical Summit to host Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/geopolitical-summit-to-host-pulitzer-prize-winner-thomas-friedman/35605?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=geopolitical-summit-to-host-pulitzer-prize-winner-thomas-friedman</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the country’s leading thinkers, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, headlines this year’s Geopolitical Summit, “Rediscovering America?” The summit begins at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in the Graham Center Ballrooms. The 2012 summit will focus on the crisis posed by the global economic recession. Friedman’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance Marathon a ‘personal’ event for student</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/dance-marathon-a-personal-event-for-student/35587?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dance-marathon-a-personal-event-for-student</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Haro</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 FIU Dance Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfredo Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alfredo Brown is 21 years old. He’s a sports management senior at FIU, and the president of Pi Kappa Phi. Today, he is a healthy young man, but he once was known as a Miracle Child. He was born three months premature, and among the problems he faced were a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University Health Services issues chickenpox information</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/university-health-services-issues-chickenpox-information/35593?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=university-health-services-issues-chickenpox-information</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University Health Services (UHS) advised the FIU community Feb. 2 that there has been a case of chickenpox, also known as varicella disease, diagnosed at the university. Varicella is a virus that can be spread through respiratory droplets and skin-to-skin contact. Since most people were exposed to the disease as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIU hosts Haiti-CEO retreat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Haiti marks the second anniversary of its devastating earthquake, one of the most significant signs of economic recovery is a strong entrepreneurial spirit. The “2011 Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year” from telecommunications operator Digicel fostered that success. Twenty-four finalists for the award took part in an intensive executive education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Alito presides over FIU moot court finals</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/justice-alito-presides-over-fiu-moot-court-finals/35486?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=justice-alito-presides-over-fiu-moot-court-finals</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[FIU’s 9th annual Moot Court Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Chevres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Rosemary Barkett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Stanley Marcus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mathew Rogoff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sat as chief justice for FIU’s 9th annual Moot Court Competition Even seasoned trial lawyers might find themselves intimidated arguing in front of a Supreme Court justice. At FIU’s 9th annual Moot Court Competition, four College of Law students rose to the challenge. U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the whistleblower-journalist relationship matters</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/why-the-whistleblower-journalist-relationship-matters/35484?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-the-whistleblower-journalist-relationship-matters</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Haro</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carol Marbin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fred Blevens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jon Oberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lowell Bergman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Feldstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modesto A. Maidique Campus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its 2012 Hearst Distinguished Lectures Series, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will present a two-day program exploring “What If Nobody Listened? How Whistleblowers and Journalists Expose Corruption, Skullduggery and Injustices” Feb. 8-9 at MMC and BBC  In 1984, Meryl Streep received her fifth Academy Award nomination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research with monkeys may yield solutions to conservation issues</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/research-with-monkeys-may-yield-solutions-to-conservation-issues/35523?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=research-with-monkeys-may-yield-solutions-to-conservation-issues</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Biological Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DuMond Conservancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Tapanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monkey Jungle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sian Evans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[She’s still an undergraduate, but Elizabeth Tapanes, a biological sciences major in the School of Environment, Arts and Society, already has five years of research experience under her belt with the DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests. Her research with owl monkeys, a species common in Central and South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cristobal signs highest-rated recruiting class yet</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/cristobal-signs-highest-rated-recruiting-class-yet/35508?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cristobal-signs-highest-rated-recruiting-class-yet</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIU football signed its largest, highest-rated and best academic recruiting class on National Signing Day, Feb. 1. Head coach Mario Cristobal said this class is a sign of things to come. &#8220;We spent our first years trying to build a competitive football team. Now our focus is building a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panthers sweep Sun Belt swimming, diving awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eaguila</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Danielle Meara]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sabrina Beaupre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonia Perez Arau]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sun Belt Conference Swimmer and Diver of the Week]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The awards keep pouring in for the FIU swimming and diving team. Sophomores Sonia Perez Arau and Sabrina Beaupre were the Sun Belt Conference Swimmer and Diver of the Week for the week ending Jan. 29. This marks Perez Arau&#8217;s second award of the season. Beaupre has now won diver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIYou: Martha M. Barantovich ’91, MS ’94, Ed.D. ’06</title>
		<link>http://news.fiu.edu/2012/02/fiyou-martha-m-barantovich-91-ms-94-ed-d-06/35456?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fiyou-martha-m-barantovich-91-ms-94-ed-d-06</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Haro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Martha M. Barantovich ’91, MS ’94, Ed.D. ’06 Hometown: Miami, Fla. Job Title/Department: Instructor, Department of Leadership and Professional Studies in the College of Education Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I teach undergraduates about the foundations of education and get them to ask questions. Number of [...]]]></description>
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