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MIAMI – The library at the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus is getting a new name on Monday, Nov. 8th: it will be known as the Glenn Hubert Library. Hubert, who grew up in a working-class family in Miami, worked throughout high school and college. He attended the University of Miami [...]
WHAT: The Biscayne Bay Campus Library of Florida International University will present a Banned Book ReadOUT in observance of Banned Books Week. The event will include a display of banned, expurgated, or challenged books on a bookshelf with chains and locks wrapped around them. FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg, FIU [...]
It’s a steamy morning in early August, less than three weeks before the start of the 2010 Fall Semester when more than 40,000 students will descend upon FIU, and PG 5 Market Station is hopping. Skill saws, drills and hammers provide a cacophonous backdrop to the 200 construction workers who [...]
Search the catalog, get help from a librarian or view hours from any smart phone with the FIU library’s new mobile site. When users visit library.fiu.edu on their mobile phone, they will be taken to the mobile site. Designed to resemble the university’s mobile site for a seamless mobile-web user [...]
Oleta River State Park to benefit from the collaboration By Karen Cochrane It’s Earth Day and the students of Alonzo & Tracy Mourning High School Biscayne Bay Campus are hard at work in the greenhouse that sits on the edge of campus. It’s a smaller group than usual — this [...]
When Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant Betsy Stoner needed live sponges and sea urchins for an Oceanography and Marine Biology course taught by biological sciences assistant professor Deron Burkepile, she didn’t have to go far. Biscayne Bay is literally steps away from the marine biology building at FIU’s Biscayne Bay [...]
You are invited to the President’s Open Forum Tuesday, January 26, 2010 – 9:30 am Graham Center Ballroom Dear members of the university community, Over the past several months, you have been instrumental in helping me launch an exciting new era for FIU. Thanks to your hard work and dedication [...]
WHAT: Iraq’s political stability and successful transition to democracy includes the prosecution of leading figures under the Saddam Hussein regime. Such top Baath Party officials, which included Ali Hasan al Majid (Chemical Ali) and Taha Yasin Ramadan, participated in heinous atrocities against fellow Iraqis since Saddam’s rise to power in [...]
There’s a new beverage in town: Pepsi. During winter break, FIU staff members and Pepsi employees have been busy restocking vending machines, stores and restaurants at Modesto A. Maidique Campus and Biscayne Bay Campus with Pepsi products. In 2010, there’ll be something for everyone’s beverage tastes, including Mountain Dew, AMP Energy, [...]
WHAT: Florida International University’s Honors College and Tau Sigma Alpha (TSA), the Honors College Honors Society, will present “A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat,” at which the author will discuss her work, which focuses primarily on Haiti and Haitian culture. WHO: Danticat is an award-winning author who has won the National [...]
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