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By Evelyn Perez
Hakan Yilmazkuday, assistant professor in the Department of Economics, has been appointed as executive secretary of the International Economics and Finance Society (IEFS). As executive secretary, Yilmazkuday is responsible for the society’s web communications, organizing officer elections, and planning and executing the IEFS Sessions at the 2014 Allied Social Science [...]
By Joel Delgado
It didn’t take long for Jose Alvarez to get his wish. In fact, he probably could have used a little more time. In his very first week of taking classes at FIU in pursuit of an MLA in landscape architecture, he was stunned when asked, along with others in his [...]
By Evelyn Perez
When Rodney Earl Walton first laid his hands on a copy of his book Big Guns, Brave Men: Mobile Artillery Observers And The Battle for Okinawa, it was the ultimate ending to a journey that began in graduate school at FIU. Walton first began his research on the Battle of Okinawa [...]
By Amy Ellis
Principal Wallace Aristide could barely contain himself as he faced the more than 265 graduating seniors of Miami Northwestern Senior High School last week, many of them clothed in the colors of the colleges and universities they plan to attend, including FIU. “I’m so excited I don’t know what to [...]
By JoAnn Adkins
Meredith Newman recently attended the gala dinner during the Joint Congress of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA) in Bahrain. Newman, the senior associate dean for the College of Arts & Sciences and professor of Public Administration, serves as [...]
By Marlen Mursuli
FIU Board of Trustees today approved a $1.2 billion budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. The budget contains growth in most areas, except in financial aid, where changes in the number of students eligible for Pell Grant and Bright Futures Scholarships resulted in a reduction in the financial aid budget. [...]
By Federal Relations
The week of June 3-7 FIU in D.C. was advocating for our students on three fronts: student loans, immigration reform and STEM education. The university’s Governmental Relations team also hosted the first event for its D.C. Summer Panthers Intern Program. In the Senate this week, two competing bills offered by [...]
By Simone Worsdale
Luckily, it poured sunshine instead of rain Saturday, June 1, as fishermen raised dollars for scholars at the 11th Annual FIU Fishing Tournament and Dock Party benefiting the FIU Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. For the first year, the dock party was open to the public, and FIU invited the entire [...]
By Eduardo Merille
FIU has nearly 200,000 alumni. We’re the 7th largest university in America. So it might stand to reason that we are in some way connected to some incredible people and places. While they’re not all direct connections, some may surprise you. So next time one of these people or entities come up [...]
By Karen Cochrane
Across the street from the Kwik Serve advertising “subs, lotto, cigarettes 24/7” and half a block from the Full Gospel Worship Ministry on N.W. 15th Avenue stands a 40-foot wall. One side anchors a computer lab for the residents of the Liberty Square public housing project. The other side fronts [...]
By Joel Delgado
Most students dream of a summer filled with leisure, sun and surf to recuperate after a semester of work and studies. Meghan MacLaren isn’t most students. She would rather do something more constructive with her time – like winning. MacLaren, who hails from the United Kingdom and is coming off [...]
By FIU Magazine
Alumni couple Sapan and Gitika Bafna wanted to educate the world about their Jain faith, and in FIU’s Department of Religious Studies their ideas took root. In 2010, Jains from around the world came together with FIU to create the only endowed professorship devoted to the study of Jainism in [...]
By Angeline Evans
Student-athletes keep a grueling schedule, fitting in academic demands with training, practice and games. While coaches and trainers help these students perform on the field, FIU’s Student-Athlete Academic Center supports their performance in the classroom through one-on-one advising, tutoring and study services. “What we expect from [student-athletes] athletically is huge,” [...]
By Karen Cochrane
The world was captivated earlier this year when scientists at CERN confirmed the existence of the elusive Higgs boson particle. A half-century of searching by a team of 4,000 scientists could now proclaim to the world that, finally, they had found the subatomic speck often referred to as the “God [...]
By Evelyn Perez
The FIU Model United Nations (MUN) team has been ranked seventh “Best Delegate” in North America by BestDelegate.com. The education company also ranked FIU MUN as the top team from the state of Florida, followed by Florida State University and the University of Florida, in this year’s 2012-2013 Final College [...]
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