FIU will host “College Goal Sunday.” The one-day event aims to help college-bound students fill out their financial aid forms to ensure access to higher education. Similar workshops are being held throughout South Florida and the state. High school seniors and their families are invited to attend to get help [...]
Working through red tape: How FIU Law students will help small business
02/03/2012 By 2 Comments
County Commission Chairman Joe A. Martinez is on a mission to clean up the entire code of ordinances – and he’s recruited students from the College of Law to help get the job done. Together with FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg and R. Alexander Acosta, the college’s dean, Martinez announced [...]
Dance Marathon a ‘personal’ event for student
02/03/2012 By 3 Comments
Alfredo Brown is 21 years old. He’s a sports management senior at FIU, and the president of Pi Kappa Phi. Today, he is a healthy young man, but he once was known as a Miracle Child. He was born three months premature, and among the problems he faced were a [...]
Why the whistleblower-journalist relationship matters
02/02/2012 By 4 Comments
As part of its 2012 Hearst Distinguished Lectures Series, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will present a two-day program exploring “What If Nobody Listened? How Whistleblowers and Journalists Expose Corruption, Skullduggery and Injustices” Feb. 8-9 at MMC and BBC In 1984, Meryl Streep received her fifth Academy Award nomination [...]
Panthers sweep Sun Belt swimming, diving awards
02/01/2012 By 2 Comments
The awards keep pouring in for the FIU swimming and diving team. Sophomores Sonia Perez Arau and Sabrina Beaupre were the Sun Belt Conference Swimmer and Diver of the Week for the week ending Jan. 29. This marks Perez Arau’s second award of the season. Beaupre has now won diver [...]
FIYou: Martha M. Barantovich ’91, MS ’94, Ed.D. ’06
02/01/2012 By 3 Comments
Name: Martha M. Barantovich ’91, MS ’94, Ed.D. ’06 Hometown: Miami, Fla. Job Title/Department: Instructor, Department of Leadership and Professional Studies in the College of Education Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I teach undergraduates about the foundations of education and get them to ask questions. Number of [...]
Vote for the next Movie on the Lawn
01/31/2012 By 15 Comments
The next screening in the Frost Art Museum series is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, March 1 The Frost Art Museum wants you to help pick the next movie we’re watching. Yup, after successful outdoor screenings of the documentary I Am and the Halloween classic Beetlejuice, the powers that be at [...]
What can FIU learn from the Penn State sex abuse case?
01/31/2012 By 6 Comments
President Emeritus Modesto A. Maidique led the university community in a discussion about leadership, values and ethical issues raised by the Penn State scandal “This is a case of a distorted culture that has wrapped itself around a football team,” said President Emeritus Modesto A. Maidique at an FIU teach-in [...]
FIU professors debrief foreign journalists on presidential primaries
01/30/2012 By 3 Comments
FIU professors from the Department of Politics and International Relations sat down with journalists from across the country on Monday, Jan. 30, to discuss the Florida Primary and its importance to the presidential campaign. Professors Nicol Rae, Kathryn DePalo, Adrian Ang, and Kevin Evans briefed the journalists on issues ranging [...]
Betsy reads your comments Jan. 27
01/27/2012 By 2 Comments
Betsy Soler ’10, FIU’s social media community manager, reads all your comments on FIU News, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Each week, she features a range of comments from the quirkiest to the most passionate and insightful in a video blog. Watch to see if your comment is highlighted!
