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At one point in his life, after he joined the army to escape a girlfriend who broke his heart, after he left his wife for gambling away their money, after he was kicked out of the military for abusing alcohol, Aaron Alvin Sr. lived in Memphis, homeless and addicted to [...]
Ishmael Khaldi, the Middle East and Arab Affairs advisor to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, will deliver a lecture Tuesday, Sept. 20, in FIU’s Graham Center, Room 150, at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Titled “Israel Today and the Arab Spring,” the lecture is scheduled for 10 a.m. and is free and [...]
This is the first post in an occasional series exploring some of the special spaces and unique attributes of the campuses of FIU. It’s an oasis of calm amidst the hustle and bustle of Modesto A. Maidique Campus. The Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Conservatory houses a mini tropical rainforest featuring [...]
The challenges facing the global community are not small: world poverty, health care coverage amid vast disparities, and global environmental sustainability in the 21st century. To address these issues, FIU’s second Geopolitical Summit, which took place Oct. 18-19, gathered some of the world’s foremost minds for a forum that fostered [...]
The College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) joined forces with the gentlemen of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Nov. 8 to fight hunger in South Florida. Ken Furton, the dean of CAS, climbed into a dunk tank on the Graham Center lawn, in his suit and tie, to help raise money [...]
Representing the Netherlands at this year’s National Model United Nations Conference, the FIU Model United Nations team received the Outstanding Delegation Award. This is the fifth consecutive year FIU’s team has walked away with the conference’s highest honor. With 21 delegates, this year’s team was the largest ever fielded by [...]
By JoAnn C. Adkins In January, Philip Stoddard sat in a living room of fellow concerned citizens waiting for someone to step up to the challenge. The group of South Miami citizens needed a viable candidate for mayor. Unhappy with the three-term incumbent, they were looking for change. But while [...]
Florida International University has a number of professors who study Chile and Latin America, as well as professors who can address issues related to the earthquake in Chile. Several have been featured or quoted in stories about the recent earthquake in Haiti. This is a list of experts willing to [...]
Congratulations to FIU professor Philip Stoddard, who was voted in as South Miami’s new mayor Feb. 9. Stoddard defeated incumbent Mayor Horace Feliu with 58 percent of the vote. The biology professor and anti-nuclear activist entered the election just hours before filing closed. Feliu, who endorsed two new nuclear power [...]
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