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This is the seventh article in a series highlighting some of the 124 faculty members who were hired during the 2011-2012 academic year When you walk into Hakan Yilmazkuday’s office, you are first greeted by a dry erase board. It’s placed high up on the wall, nearly lining up with the [...]
FIU will be honored with a Brazilian International Press (BIP) Award as an Outstanding Institution Promoting Portuguese Language at the Amaturo Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, May 4. “This award has been around for 15 years and has presence in countries like Brazil, the U.S., Japan and [...]
Dipak Jain, chairman of the Jain Education & Research Foundation, received an honorary degree from the College of Arts & Sciences during Spring 2012 Commencement. Jain currently serves as dean of INSEAD, one of the largest business graduate schools in the world. As chairman of the Jain Education & Research Foundation, [...]
An academic discussion about the opposition primaries and the president’s health Two events have reignited the discussion on Venezuelan politics in recent weeks: the opposition primaries propelled Gov. Henrique Capriles into the Venezuelan presidential race and President Hugo Chavez continues to experience health issues. FIU’s School of International and Public [...]
Abdel Perera, ‘11, is headed to Capitol Hill in May. The School of International and Public Affairs alumnus has been awarded a 2012 Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship. Perera was among 20 national finalists competing for the prestigious award. “I was very excited to represent FIU in the finals,” Perera said. “I did [...]
Recent events that have ignited global interest in the future of Venezuela’s political landscape will be the topic of discussion during a March 27 event hosted by FIU’s School of International and Public Affairs. The issue of current President Hugo Chavez’s recurring health problems coupled with the recent primaries that [...]
FIU School of International and Public Affairs alumni, Ernesto Alfonso and Abdel Perrera, are finalists for the 2012 Rangel Program: International Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program. The Rangel Program, formally named the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program, will award 20 graduate fellowships valued at more than $90,000 each. The funds [...]
The FIU Department of Modern Languages will host an international symposium, The Legacy of the Algerian War: Between History, Memory and Representations, March 22 and 23 in the MARC Pavillion at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. The two-day event is free and open to the public. A reception and introduction [...]
The FIU Judaic Studies Program will host a screening of “Dolphin Boy” at noon Friday, March 9 at Academic Health Center 3 (AHC-3), room 205. An interactive discussion with the film co-producer Judith Manassen-Ramon and Maria Pienkowski-Gunia, a senior research support specialist with the FIU Center for Children and Families, will [...]
Timur Kuzibaev, a senior majoring in political science, has received a 2012-2013 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) Program fellowship and will leave for Germany in July. Kuzibaev was one of three FIU students invited to the final round of interviews for the program which was hosted at the Modesto A. Maidique [...]
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