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“I always wanted to be a meteorologist,” says Joseph Zagrodnik. A master’s student in FIU’s Department of Earth & Environment, the only thing the Wisconsin native was unsure of was which specialty within the field he would study. That decision, he says, became an easy one when he traveled to [...]
Bertin Kouadio is used to being first. A member of the minority Beng people in Côte d’Ivoire, he was the first among the Beng people to move to the United States. And on Tuesday, Dec. 15, when he walks across the stage at FIU’s U.S. Century Bank Arena, he will [...]
MIAMI – The FIU President’s Council on Thursday presented its Outstanding Faculty Award to W. Kinzy Jones, a mechanical and materials engineering professor for more than two decades at Florida International University, where he is the founding director of the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute. The award was presented at [...]
Dr. Scott Zona is a curator in the Biological Sciences Department in the College of Arts & Sciences. Sona’s professional background is both in botany (plant taxonomy, specializing in palms) and horticulture. He loves taking photographs and he agreed to share some of the beautiful imagery that he has captured inside [...]
For Ashley Angel, Florida International University’s first meteorology graduate, choosing to study weather was easy. ”I live in South Florida,” said Angel, 21, an Orlando native who now calls Palm City home. “I’ve lived through many hurricanes.” On Monday, Angel will be the first FIU student to receive a degree [...]
