Dance Marathon a ‘personal’ event for student

Per tradition, the total raised at Dance Marathon is announced at the end of the event. More than $60,000 was raised in 2012.

Alfredo Brown is 21 years old. He’s a sports management senior at FIU, and the president of Pi Kappa Phi. Today, he is a healthy young man, but he once was known as a Miracle Child. He was born three months premature, and among the problems he faced were a [...]

Dance your worries away at the 2012 Dance Marathon Jan. 28-29

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Everyone’s invited to enjoy a ‘Lion King’ theme at one of the biggest parties thrown on campus and raise funds for the Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation “It Means No Worries” – that’s the Lion King-inspired theme of this year’s FIU 15th annual Dance Marathon, the largest student philanthropy at the [...]

Panthers spread holiday cheer in the community

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With the holidays as a background, FIU’s student-athletes, faculty and staff were all about giving back during the last week, delivering toys and spreading cheer throughout South Florida. The holidays are a time of celebration, and at FIU we like to look back on the year that was, while looking, [...]