The School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS) in the College of Arts & Sciences is inaugurating its first Environmental Film Series from January to April during of the spring 2012 semester. “As the first film series for the school, we consciously tried to connect each film with each discipline [...]
Environmental Immersion Day
11/14/2011 By
Students from Miami Springs High School visit FIU’s organic garden and shade house as part of the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Challenge Program‘s “Environmental Immersion Day” on Nov. 9. The Challenge Program engages local high school students in multi-disciplinary environmental science education and fieldwork to motivate them to pursue careers [...]
Agroecology Program to award more than $330,000 in scholarships
11/08/2011 By
The FIU Agroecology Program is granting 15 scholarships to train students for careers in agriculture, food and natural resources sciences. The scholarships, worth up to $24,000 each, can be used to fund lab research, presentations, service-learning activities, engagement projects, internships and professional development workshops. It also offers the opportunity to [...]
Honduran students visit FIU for week of agroscience
11/01/2011 By
More than 20 agroscience juniors from the Universidad Nacional de Agricultura (UNA) in Honduras were hosted by the FIU Agroecology Program and the Department of Earth and Environment for a week-long, ecological agriculture workshop. The Consulate General of Honduras in Miami helped the university receive the students with a welcome address Oct. [...]
FIU awards $60,000 for student research in the Everglades
10/31/2011 By
Eight FIU graduate students were awarded the 2011-12 Cristina Menendez Fellowship by the Southeast Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians to support their ongoing research in the Everglades. The grants, worth $7,500 each, were given to students in the Biological Sciences, Earth and Environment and Chemistry and Biochemistry departments in the College [...]
Geologist makes rare discovery in Dominican Republic
10/11/2011 By
Grenville Draper, professor of geology and associate director of Liberal Studies at FIU, has discovered fragments of mantle plume rocks in the northern Dominican Republic. A mantle plume is a mass of abnormally hot rock that rises up through the Earth’s mantle. Many scientists believe these plumes explain the existence [...]
FIU responds to Gulf oil crisis
05/13/2010 By
By Susan Feinberg The oil spill caused by an explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico continues to grow, and could have devastating environmental, economic and public health consequences for coastal states. FIU scientists, environmentalists and scholars are mobilizing to help officials face [...]
Summer fun: meteor shower to light up sky Aug. 11-12
08/11/2009 By
Get your blankets ready: The evenings of Aug. 11-12 are expected to be the best nights of the year to view the Perseid meteor shower, a spectacular show put on every summer courtesy of Mother Nature. The “shooting stars,” caused when the Earth enters a stream of dusty debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, should be most plentiful between [...]
