FIU exhibit on display at Museum of Discovery and Science

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When the Museum of Discovery and Science in Ft. Lauderdale recently opened its new EcoDiscovery Center, FIU researchers delivered a unique Everglades exhibit. Sitting at the center of the major, 34,000-square-foot expansion is a kiosk housing the latest tracking data for a variety of predators that currently populate the Everglades [...]

FIU’s investment in research recognized by ‘Chronicle’ as a success story

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The Chronicle of Higher Education this week features FIU as an example of a university with a research growth strategy that has succeeded where many others have not. The Chronicle discovered that FIU’s efforts over the past decade to invest in growing federally funded scientific and engineering research has yielded [...]

What is it like to fly through the eye of a hurricane?

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The news.FIU.edu team caught up with Hugh Willoughby a few weeks ago to interview him for the Worlds Ahead Web site. His short profile video will launch with the site soon, but we thought that his description of flying through the eye of a hurricane was a great piece to [...]

Researcher returns to lab after shark bite

FIU researcher Kirk Gastrich is back to work in the Marine Sciences lab at the Biscayne Bay Campus after a close encounter with a nearly 6-foot lemon shark last month. Gastrich was bitten around his elbow by a shark he was measuring in the coastal Everglades. While the encounter has [...]

Dr. Seza Gulec on Selective Internal Radiation Therapy – Channel 7 News

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Dr. Seza Gulec, an FIU Wertheim College of Medicine professor of surgery and radiology/ nuclear medicine, is a leading researcher in the development of this treatment and was the first in the United States to use SIRT in combination with chemotherapy for the treatment of liver cancers. He was originally [...]

FIU engineering dean named “Engineer of the Year”

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MIAMI – Florida International University College of Engineering and Computing Dean Amir Mirmiran has been named the Miami-Dade American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Engineer of the Year, adding to his list of  accomplishments since assuming leadership of the college. Mirmiran, 48, who became the college’s dean in February after [...]

Liver cancer patients find new hope in targeted microsphere treatment pioneered at FIU

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Listen to a WLRN interview with Dr. Gulec MIAMI – May 7, 2009 – A novel treatment for inoperable liver cancer that delivers high doses of radiation directly to the site of tumors is extending and improving the life of patients.  Known as Selective Internal Radiation Therapy, this innovative treatment [...]

This man has MERIT

Madhavan Nair became the first FIU professor to win a prestigious MERIT Award from the NIH for research that’s expected to help in the design of interventions for HIV-infected drug abusers.