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FIU has received grant to study the adverse effects of algae and microbes on coral reefs. The $822,000 grant is funded by the National Science Foundation. “Healthy fish and marine populations thrive on healthy coral reefs,” said Deron Burkepile, a Marine Sciences professor in the Department in Biological Sciences. “Human beings also [...]
FIU has received a National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant to facilitate the hiring, retention and promotion of women in the academic areas of science and mathematics for their “Awareness, Commitment and Empowerment (ACE) of Women Scientists at FIU” project. The three-year, $573,000 grant will help broaden women’s advancement and participation within [...]
Grenville Draper, professor of geology and associate director of Liberal Studies at FIU, has discovered fragments of mantle plume rocks in the northern Dominican Republic. A mantle plume is a mass of abnormally hot rock that rises up through the Earth’s mantle. Many scientists believe these plumes explain the existence [...]
Coral reefs around the world are in crisis. In the Caribbean alone, coral reefs have experienced drastic losses in the past 30 years, with 80 percent of the live corals lost since 1977. Coral disease is a major cause of the pandemic major decline of the reefs. While scientists can [...]
FIU focuses on long-term solutions for Haiti’s future HEALTH FIU physician Dr. Pilar Martin has made numerous trips to Haiti, where she has a longstanding relationship with Rose-Mina de Diegue Orphanage in Port Au Prince. While there, Dr. Martin has delivered relief supplies and provided medical care in orphanages, tent [...]
Steve Oberbauer’s extensive research supports the belief that man is precipitating climate change around the world. By Martin Haro FIU biology professor Steve Oberbauer spends about three months of the year in the Alaskan tundra, the Costa Rican rainforest and the Florida Everglades, researching climate change and focusing on plant [...]
By Amy Elizabeth Ritterbusch MA ’08, Ph.D. candidate, International Relations My trips to and from Bogota begin and end in Colombian Customs and Immigration. The process always makes me nervous because I don’t feel like a ‘real’ Colombian when I enter the country. The customs agents look suspiciously at me [...]
By Susan Feinberg When FIU students David Shor and Leonard Foret packed their bags and headed for the Independent University of Moscow in September, where they are participating in the Math in Moscow program, they weren’t sure what to expect. “Based on cultural stereotypes, I thought that Russia would be [...]
