Fine Arts grad contributes illustrations to ‘The Big, Bad Book of Beasts’

By Contributing Writer

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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 [...]

President Rosenberg blogs from China: May 11-12, 2013

By Mark Rosenberg

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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 [...]

FIU in D.C. update

By Federal Relations

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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 [...]

Media Arts Festival leaves its mark during annual Miami Film Month

By Silvia Rodriguez

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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 [...]

Inaugural Media Arts Festival to promote student and local visual media artists

By Lilyvania Mikulski

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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 [...]

FIU and Tsinghua University students team up for Solar Decathlon China 2013

By James Hellegaard

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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 [...]

FIU’s internationally acclaimed quartet performs with Greater Miami Youth Symphony

By Sissi Aguila

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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 [...]

As sequester hits, FIU on the scene in D.C.

By Federal Relations

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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 [...]

National Youth Orchestra of Uruguay to perform with FIU Symphony Orchestra Feb. 4

By Karen Cochrane

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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 [...]

Yarn bombing at BBC

By Karen Cochrane

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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 [...]

Black Violin performs at official Inaugural Ball

By Angeline Evans

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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 [...]

The Wolfsonian-FIU receives $5 million to increase access to collection

By Karen Cochrane

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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 [...]

Frost Art Museum presents “Seminole Portraits”

By Mari de Armas

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“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 [...]

FIU to graduate thousands ready to make their mark

By Lilyvania Mikulski

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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 [...]

FIU News crashes rehearsal for Handel’s ‘Messiah’

By Karen Cochrane

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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, [...]