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By Contributing Writer
FIU alum Jesse Peterson recently contributed to the illustrations in The Big, Bad Book of Beasts: The World’s Most Curious Creatures, written by best-selling author Michael Largo. Largo first discovered Peterson at FIU’s Bachelor of Fine Arts show in 2010. The piece he was drawn to, “Miami: The Bludgeoning,” is a [...]
By Mark Rosenberg
Dispatches from Beijing and Shanghai–including Mothers Day! From Beijing There is a saying in China that the country is “very good at hiding its brightness.” Beijing offers unparalleled opportunities to build FIU’s linkages in the world’s most populous country. Much brightness can be found. And so it has been the [...]
By Federal Relations
With immigration now taking center stage in Washington, D.C., members of the university community continued to advance FIU’s STEM education agenda. The draft bill released late Wednesday by the Senate’s “Gang of 8″ incorporates a measure that would create a new competitive grant program for STEM capacity building at Minority-Serving Institutions [...]
By Silvia Rodriguez
The Miami Film Month, held every year during the month of March, is helping the city become a growing spot for film culture. This year, FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications (SJMC) joined in on the events with the FIU Media Arts Festival (MAF). Held at the FIU College [...]
By Lilyvania Mikulski
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) is launching the FIU Media Arts Festival (MAF) to promote new visual media by local artists and encourage the development of insightful and provocative visual storytelling The MAF is the closing event for the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau’s (GMCVB) Miami [...]
By James Hellegaard
Though separated by more than 7,000 miles of land and ocean, not to mention a huge cultural divide, students from FIU in Miami and Tsinghua University in Beijing are teaming up to develop an energy efficient, cost-effective and attractive solar-powered house for the Solar Decathlon (SD) China competition to be [...]
By Sissi Aguila
The Amernet String Quartet, FIU’s ensemble-in-residence, joined the Greater Miami Youth Symphony (GMYS) on March 10 to perform Edward Elgar’s Concerto for Quartet and Orchestra. GMYS – founded by Robert Strassburg in 1958 to foster a love of music in young people and to enrich the cultural life of the [...]
By Federal Relations
With sequestration of the entire federal budget hitting today, FIU and its advocates were advocating in full force to protect investments in research and financial aid. President Mark B. Rosenberg, in town to present the university’s 2013 federal priorities to the Florida Delegation, also raised the great stakes in play [...]
By Karen Cochrane
The National Youth Orchestra of Uruguay will perform alongside the FIU Symphony Orchestra Monday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in MMC’s Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. Artist-in-Residence Robert Davidovici will be conducting Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture,” a fantastic tale that [...]
By Karen Cochrane
Students in Pip Brant’s Land Art/Earth Art (ART 3843-B51) are making their mark at the Biscayne Bay Campus. Works that reflect an “ecovention” sensibility will be appearing all over campus this semester, including post cozies, yarn birdhouses, moss drawings and pop-up spice gardens. The work displayed here is part of [...]
By Angeline Evans
While South Florida was transfixed by FIU alumnus Richard Blanco at the presidential inauguration, another pair of Panthers was also preparing for the day’s festivities. Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester ’03 and Wilner B. “Simply Sick” Baptiste, better known as the duo behind Black Violin, played to a crowd of 35,000 [...]
By Karen Cochrane
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to The Wolfsonian–FIU to support programs that will provide greater public access to the museum’s collection of art and design, especially by enhancing its online offerings and reach. The grant, announced Dec. 3 at the New [...]
By Mari de Armas
“Reflections Across Time: Seminole Portraits” will be on view at The Frost from now until Jan. 13, 2013. The Frost Art Museum presents “Reflections Across Time: Seminole Portraits.” The exhibit that merges Native American portraiture with Native American ethnographic materials in a historic exhibition that shows more than 150 years [...]
By Lilyvania Mikulski
More than 4,000 students will receive their bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees next week during three days of graduation ceremonies at FIU. Among them will be newlyweds who traveled far to find love in the biology lab; a young woman who had to overcome an abusive home, foster care and [...]
By Karen Cochrane
Have you already purchased your tickets to Friday night’s concert at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center featuring Handel’s Messiah? It’s Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. FIU News crashed Tuesday’s rehearsal for the concert and made the video above. A collaboration of FIU School of Music’s Symphony Orchestra, the Amernet String Quartet, [...]
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