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President Mark B. Rosenberg sent the following memo to the university community: The beginning of the Atlantic Hurricane Season presents us with the challenge and an opportunity to think about our disaster preparedness and get ready for hurricanes, as well as other natural and man-made disasters. As the 2011 hurricane [...]
What links four members of Congress, Benjamin Franklin and the world’s most influential female economist? The answer is truly Worlds Ahead. Recently, the Washington, D.C., Capital Panthers and FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg welcomed the South Florida Congressional delegation to the 112th Congress and honored FIU alumna Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ’75, [...]
More than 2,100 students from FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication had the opportunity Oct. 20 to meet executives and professionals from the E.W. Scripps Company and Scripps Howard Foundation during Scripps Day 2010. The day-long event allowed students to boost interview skills, obtain career coaching, network with media [...]
Welcome to President Mark B. Rosenberg’s blog chronicling his visit to China. Today, in his final blog entry, he reports on FIU’s first alumni event in China. Click here to check out his entry from May 7th, here to check out his entry from May 8th, and here to check [...]
In a videotaped message to the FIU community, FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg addressed the March 25 stabbing death of FIU student-athlete Kendall Berry on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Related posts: Police arrest suspect in stabbing of FIU student Kendall Berry FIU football coach Mario Cristobal thanks community, remembers [...]
Dear members of the university community: We continue to monitor the devastating news coming out of Haiti after Tuesday’s earthquake. Our sympathy and solidarity stand with the Haitian people. I know that the FIU community is eager to help the Haitian community and the best thing to do at this [...]
MIAMI (Nov. 2, 2009) – Florida International University’s College of Education has received a grant from Lumina Foundation for Education to develop model retention programs for Hispanic students in higher education that can be shared with universities across the country. The $496,000 award identifies FIU as one of the largest [...]
MIAMI – Florida International University announced today that it has signed an agreement with the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) to provide options to reduce traffic bottlenecks in Miami-Dade County. Funded with up to $500,000 from MDX, FIU’s Lehman Center for Transportation Research will focus on the development of an advanced bus [...]
MIAMI – President Mark B. Rosenberg, Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public School Alberto Carvalho and Miami-Dade College President Eduardo Padrón will host a one-of-a-kind town hall meeting to address the future course of education in South Florida. The entire FIU community is invited to participate. The town hall meeting, which [...]
President Mark B. Rosenberg sent the following memo to the university community on Wednesday, Aug. 19: TO: Members of the University Community FROM: Mark B. Rosenberg, President SUBJECT: Hurricane Preparedness DATE: August 19, 2009 As the 2009 hurricane season becomes more active and we continue to monitor tropical systems that [...]
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