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Vice President Joe Biden recently joined U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., along the north shore of the Tamiami Trail Canal to show support for Everglades restoration. FIU professor Leonard Scinto was among the invited guests. Scinto, an aquatic biogeochemist, is the associate director of [...]
FIU will be honored with a Brazilian International Press (BIP) Award as an Outstanding Institution Promoting Portuguese Language at the Amaturo Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, May 4. “This award has been around for 15 years and has presence in countries like Brazil, the U.S., Japan and [...]
Dipak Jain, chairman of the Jain Education & Research Foundation, received an honorary degree from the College of Arts & Sciences during Spring 2012 Commencement. Jain currently serves as dean of INSEAD, one of the largest business graduate schools in the world. As chairman of the Jain Education & Research Foundation, [...]
FIU took part in the unveiling of the Broadening Participation in STEM Education Act this week on Capitol Hill. College of Engineering and Computing Dean Amir Mirmiran joined bill sponsors Congresswomen Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) and Miami’s own Frederica Wilson, corporate leaders and fellow academics at a press conference and [...]
This is the fourth article in a series highlighting some of the 124 faculty members who were hired during the 2011-2012 academic year When Percy Hintzen joined the faculty at FIU, he did so with more than just a passion for teaching. He also brought his love for the Caribbean. [...]
FIU creative writing professor John Dufresne has been named a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. Dufresne is one of 181 scholars, artists and scientists in the U.S. and Canada selected for the prestigious award. “It’s quite a thrill to have been given this fellowship and recognition,” Dufresne said. “It feels like a validation [...]
FIU physics Ph.D. student Idaykis Rodriguez ’08 is packing her bags and passport and headed to Lindau, Germany, this summer now that she has been invited to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The Cuban-born Panther is the only FIU student granted the opportunity to meet with more than 25 Nobel Prize winners [...]
This article, co-authored by FIU Department of Earth and Environment Assistant Professor Hong Liu, was originally published in Tropical Garden magazine Spring 2012. By Hong Liu, Feng Chang-Lin, Shu-Wei Cai and Yi-Bo Luo Photos by Hong Liu You may have heard stories about emergency rescues of plants or animals from habitats [...]
Physics Professor Brian Raue enjoys physics but loves baseball. He spends most of his days exploring the nature of matter with his students and conducting research at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, which is conducting research on the atom’s nucleus. But sometimes, during the last few classes [...]
Students from the FIU Agroecology Program visited Washington, D.C., to take part in the Multicultural Scholars (MSP) and National Needs Fellows (NNF) Programs Project Directors Annual Meeting in March. The conference was sponsored by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The [...]
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