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A blue-and-gold celebration is in order: The Indianapolis Colts have chosen former FIU MVP T.Y. Hilton to join their roster in the third round of the 2012 National Football League Draft. A former FIU All-American and four-time Sun Belt Conference first-team pick, Hilton got the call April 27 informing him [...]
FIU political science major Graciela Aguero remembers noticing years ago that a lot of U.S. presidents have been members of an honor society called Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) – 17 presidents in all – including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. So Aguero did a little research on [...]
Team FIU joined the largest office party in South Florida when it participated in the 2012 Mercedes-Benz Miami Corporate Run April 26. More than 20,000 runners and walkers competed in the annual spectacle, a 5K (3.1 miles) 27 years running that brings out the best in everyone involved in the [...]
FIU graduate students hosted a NASA-sponsored International Space Apps Challenge at the Engineering Center April 21-22. The global “codeathon-style” event brought together teams from around the world to collaborate on the development of solutions that address critical challenges. Teams from 25 cities, 17 countries and seven continents participated simultaneously. “The [...]
FIU has launched a Pintrest account to help users discover different career paths and topics of interest. This initiative complements recent efforts to help students explore new majors and graduate on time. The pilot program is being introduced on this newly popular virtual pinboard and allows digital bookmarkers to explore traits of [...]
FIU creative writing professor John Dufresne has been named a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. Dufresne is one of 181 scholars, artists and scientists in the U.S. and Canada selected for the prestigious award. “It’s quite a thrill to have been given this fellowship and recognition,” Dufresne said. “It feels like a validation [...]
The Division of Athletics has rounded out FIU’s coaching staff with the recent hiring of four new head coaches. Most recently, the university announced the hiring of Trevor Theroulde as the seventh head coach in the 38-year history of the FIU volleyball program. Theroulde has been the school’s top assistant [...]
Competing against other top business schools, students from FIU’s College of Business Administration won third place in the national Johnson & Johnson Business Case Competition, March 29-April 1. A team of international business, finance and Honors College undergraduate students – Litong Chen, Carlos E. Gomez, Giorgio Izzo, Prince Mikado and [...]
Ursula von Rydingsvard is the Green Critics’ lecturer Saturday, April 21, at the Green Library. Her exhibit, “Sculpture,” will be on display at the Frost Art Museum through Aug. 5. At first glance, guests of the Frost Art Museum this summer may think the traveling exhibit on view is the [...]
Colombian-born Andres Rodríguez MS ’11 is a first-time documentary filmmaker who will attend Puntos de Vista 2012, Texas State University’s third international Spanish-language documentary film festival on Friday, April 27. The School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) grad will present Levantándose del Pantano, a 25-minute edit from Rising from [...]
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