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FIU Career Services recently welcomed a new associate director, alumna Shawna McNair MS ’07. She recently shared with FIU Magazine five important tips to help Panthers build their careers, and encourages alumni to attend the fall career fairs at MMC and BBC Sept. 23 and Oct. 5, respectively. By Martin [...]
A national survey offers a closer look at FIU undergraduates and their experiences at the university. FIU Magazine examines the data in its latest cover story. By Deborah O’Neil MA ’09 Sophomore Donna Duggins scans her planner for an opening as she settles in for a one-hour commute to Biscayne [...]
Angela K. Salmon is a professor of early childhood education. She was featured in FIU’s Worlds Ahead ad series in The Miami Herald last May. A good teacher is always engaging children in thinking, fostering their curiosity and valuing their right to play. Big discoveries, big inventions come from people who [...]
Founding faculty member Judy Blucker helped build FIU and its women’s athletics programs. Now, she’s leaving a gift for future generations of female athletes. By Bryan Gilmer for FIU Magazine Though Florida International University launched in 1972 – the same year Congress enacted Title IX requiring equal opportunities for college [...]
If you’ve been to an FIU football game, you’ve probably seen FIU’s Blue Man. The second-year architecture student is positively blue with FIU pride. FIU Magazine caught up with him recently to learn about his blue-hue beauty secrets and plans for the football season. Were you “Born This Way”? Funny [...]
By Deborah O’Neil MA ’09 Most people don’t like what professor Richard Olson has to say. Spend a little time talking to him about disasters and you’ll leave with a real sense of foreboding. However, when you contemplate the wreckage that remains from the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the political, [...]
FIU’s football team got everyone’s attention last season with its first championship and bowl win. Now they are hungry for more By Pete Pelegrin ’96 Walk into the FIU football offices and you are greeted by the sparkling gold 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Champions trophy and the 2010 Sun Belt [...]
Alumnus David F. Alfonso ’96 has a prediction for FIU graduates who have never been to an FIU football game: “Come to the first game on Sept. 1, and you will come to all the rest.” When you do, you’ll be watching FIU’s champion football team play on the newly [...]
Star player T.Y. Hilton pushed himself this summer so he can defend FIU’s Sun Belt Conference championship By Pete Pelegrin ’96 If you were looking for T.Y. Hilton this off-season as he prepared for his upcoming senior season you were likely to find him on the beach or with his parents [...]
FIU alumnus Anthony Leone’s healthy fast-food restaurant is poised to become a household name By Sissi Aguila ’99, MS ’08 We’ve all read the restaurant horror stories. You think you’re eating healthy and it turns out that chicken wrap has more fat than a Big Mac. One day, after watching a [...]
