Building for the Future

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FIU students compete to build country’s best solar-powered house By Martin Haro ‘05 FIU students will compete with 20 universities around the world to build an energy efficient, solar-powered house that will be displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., next fall. The FIU house will be uniquely designed [...]

Local students devise novel roofing solutions in first FIU hurricane mitigation challenge

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Sophomore Diego Dominguez and his fellow MAST Academy students pondered the challenge: What’s the best way to keep a vulnerable flat roof from blowing off a building during a hurricane? They devised a solution that seemed effective, but admittedly didn’t look so good. They ran with it anyway, deciding that [...]

Top scholars from across the disciplines honored

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FIU President Modesto A. Maidique recognized FIU faculty members from a breadth of disciplines for their outstanding achievements in research and scholarship at a reception on Tuesday, March 31, at the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Home located at University Park. More than two dozen distinguished members of the FIU academic community [...]