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The courtroom was silent as the foreman rose to deliver the verdict in Nugent vs. the State. “Not guilty,” she said. The defense cheered and the prosecution received encouraging pats on the back. This was no ordinary court case: the judge and mentors were FIU college students and the prosecutors [...]
For some, preparing their tax return is a simple, albeit not enjoyable, exercise. For other people, help is sorely needed. This past tax season once again, accounting students from FIU’s College of Business Administration helped low-income earners complete their tax forms. The students participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance [...]
FIU’s Global Water for Sustainability Program (GLOWS) will be helping to improve water quality in Rwanda. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded GLOWS a five-year, $21.9 million grant for a project dubbed Rwanda Integrated Water Security Program. The program is designed to positively impact human health, food [...]
Plans are already underway to expand next year’s program A pilot program to collect unwanted items from students moving out of the dorms for the summer has given renewed life to more than 3,000 lbs. of goods that were slated for the trash heap. The FIU GoGreen Team partnered with [...]
Three teams are New York City-bound after March 22 competition organized and hosted by Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence. Spain’s housing market slowdown. Greece’s high government deficit and debts. Germany’s globalization challenges, including immigration. Twelve teams of ninth and tenth graders from Miami to Fort Pierce tackled these complex [...]
Chef and food activist Jamie Oliver visited Booker T. Washington Senior High School Feb. 25 to meet with students and the creators of the Overtown Cookbook, a collaborative project between the high school and FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Robert Stempel College of [...]
FIU hosted more than two dozen high school teams who came together to test their knowledge of math and science. For the second year in a row, the competition ended with an “overtime” round. It all came down to this: “Assuming the specific heat of aluminum is 0.9 Joules per [...]
WHAT: Celebrity chef and food activist Jamie Oliver will visit Booker T. Washington Senior High School to meet with students and the creators of the Overtown Cookbook, a collaborative project between the high school and Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Robert [...]
Unique partnership offers local students paid employment and real-life work experience Creating a talent pipeline for the future and providing employment opportunities for college students, Florida Power & Light Company and Florida International University have launched the utility’s first on-campus customer care center to answer calls from FPL customers in [...]
The Miami-Dade Community Action Agency awarded FIU $400,000 to provide scholarships to 191 of the university’s neediest students so they may continue their education at FIU. Scholarship recipients are students like Alwyn Rodriguez, a veteran who each day spends five hours commuting from Miami Beach to campus because he does [...]
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