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FIU football will host the annual Blue & Gold Spring Game Saturday, April 2, at 10:30 a.m. at FIU Stadium. In addition, your 2010 Sun Belt Conference and Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Champion Panthers will receive their SBC Championship rings in a special ceremony. Admission to the spring game is [...]
The FIU Art + Art History Department is inspired by The Art of Giving project, a national fundraising campaign that assists children in the world’s neediest countries, but wants to do something a little different. FIU will send underprivileged Haitian kids Converse shoes adorned with creative designs painted by art [...]
What links four members of Congress, Benjamin Franklin and the world’s most influential female economist? The answer is truly Worlds Ahead. Recently, the Washington, D.C., Capital Panthers and FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg welcomed the South Florida Congressional delegation to the 112th Congress and honored FIU alumna Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ’75, [...]
The School of International and Public Affairs will host on Monday, March 21, Carmen Reinhart ’78, a College of Arts & Sciences grad and Dennis Weatherstone senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The economist will deliver a lecture titled “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial [...]
Recent tragic events in Japan – a magnitude-9 earthquake, a tsunami and the threat of a nuclear meltdown – have combined the worst of both natural and man-made disasters. How will Japan respond? What are the worldwide lessons to be learned? Join the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) for a [...]
The morning of March 10 was one of those perfect Miami mornings – sunny, breezy, a little unpredictable, but fun, which, no doubt, added to the charm of spending it at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus. The occasion? The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Carnival Student Center. As Biscayne Bay Campus [...]
Last week, the Florida Legislature convened its 60-day session in Tallahassee, and the university hosted another successful FIU Day in the Capitol. A delegation of students, administrators, faculty, and nine members of the Board of Trustees traveled to Tallahassee to advocate for FIU’s legislative priorities. The decade-old tradition was started [...]
Alumnus Michael Baiamonte ’86 is one of the most recognizable announcers in the South Florida sports market By Sissi Aguila ’99, MA ’08 South Florida sports fans know the voice and his trademark introduction, “Aaaannnnd noooowwww staaaand up and make some nooooise for your Miiiamiiii HEEEAAAT!” As the public address announcer for [...]
They were believers long before the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl victory. Now Michael Maher ’97, Frank Peña ’99, Alberto Padron ’98, MBA ’09 and Eddie Hondal ’88, MS ’00 want you to join them at FIU Stadium By Deborah O’Neil MA ’09 When the gut-wrenching moment arrived in Detroit’s Ford Field [...]
Rebecca Vega Thurber searches for answers to the world’s coral reef loss By JoAnn Adkins When you announce to the world that a coral reef has herpes, it’s difficult to predict how people might react. Rebecca Vega Thurber did just that in 2008 and caught the attention of marine scientists [...]
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