First-of-its-kind program offers hope to students with intellectual disabilities In many ways, Carolina Puig’s freshman year at FIU is a typical one: new friends, new school, new adventures. Carolina, however, is not a typical FIU student. While her red book bag is filled with college textbooks, Carolina, 19, reads at [...]
FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Telemundo Communications Group announce groundbreaking academic partnership
05/11/2011 By
WHAT: Telemundo Communications Group and the FIU School of Journalism and Mass Communication have established “Hispanic Media Futures,” an innovative student development program to train future Hispanic journalists and communicators. The program is part of a multi-level, multi-year commitment by Telemundo to advance the inclusion of Hispanic professionals in the [...]
FIU to host one-day conference on natural gas and renewable energy
10/05/2010 By
Concerns about climate change and energy security have converged to boost the development of alternative and renewable fuels that can be produced domestically. Efforts are underway to commercialize next-generation biofuels derived from agricultural residues and energy crops, but these remain several years away. Cleaner energy is needed now to bridge [...]
FIU’s Festival of the Trees kick starts the holiday season
11/18/2009 By
Proceeds from the Nov. 12 art opening – a blue-and-gold tradition more than two decades old – go toward interior design scholarships. By Martin Haro More than 500 FIU faculty, students, alumni, administrators, friends and family, as well as community supporters and art aficionados attended the opening of the 23rd [...]
