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More than 4,300 graduates received their diplomas this spring semester in one of six commencement ceremonies Monday, April 30, and Tuesday, May 1. The FIU News team was there to capture all the Polaroid moments – students celebrating and parents beaming with pride – in the video above. Check out [...]
A blue-and-gold celebration is in order: The Indianapolis Colts have chosen former FIU MVP T.Y. Hilton to join their roster in the third round of the 2012 National Football League Draft. A former FIU All-American and four-time Sun Belt Conference first-team pick, Hilton got the call April 27 informing him [...]
FIU political science major Graciela Aguero remembers noticing years ago that a lot of U.S. presidents have been members of an honor society called Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) – 17 presidents in all – including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. So Aguero did a little research on [...]
Team FIU joined the largest office party in South Florida when it participated in the 2012 Mercedes-Benz Miami Corporate Run April 26. More than 20,000 runners and walkers competed in the annual spectacle, a 5K (3.1 miles) 27 years running that brings out the best in everyone involved in the [...]
FIU has launched a Pintrest account to help users discover different career paths and topics of interest. This initiative complements recent efforts to help students explore new majors and graduate on time. The pilot program is being introduced on this newly popular virtual pinboard and allows digital bookmarkers to explore traits of [...]
Colombian-born Andres Rodríguez MS ’11 is a first-time documentary filmmaker who will attend Puntos de Vista 2012, Texas State University’s third international Spanish-language documentary film festival on Friday, April 27. The School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) grad will present Levantándose del Pantano, a 25-minute edit from Rising from [...]
Research scientists, engineers, lawyers and authors were among those honored at the annual Top Scholars reception FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg recognized more than two dozen distinguished members of the FIU academic community for their outstanding achievements in research and scholarship at the Top Scholars reception April 9. “It is [...]
Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old high school student who was killed Feb. 26 by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., was remembered during a multifaith memorial service at Biscayne Bay Campus April 18. Dubbed “Standing on the Side of Love and Justice,” the event was organized by students in adjunct [...]
New Zealand-born, blue-and-gold defender Anthony Hobbs is bound for England. The recreation and sports management student-athlete is set to join the Kiwi delegation at this summer’s Olympic Games in London. Hobbs, 21, will join the likes of international soccer player Ryan Nelsen on the roster of the New Zealand team [...]
Five Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management undergrads were welcomed into the company of Loews Scholars at the Kovens Conference Center at Biscayne Bay Campus April 11. Each Panther received a $1,000 scholarship in recognition of their commitment to their studies – they all maintain a GPA of 3.0 [...]
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