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Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, head of delegation for the European Union (EU) to the United States, will present “Transatlantic Relations in Turbulent Times” Wed., Feb. 22, in the SIPA Auditorium. The lecture is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The highest ranking diplomatic officer [...]
Three Panthers in the running for the 2012-2013 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) program won’t have to travel far for the next round of interviews: For the first time, FIU’s Undergraduate Education will host the final interviews for the southeast U.S. at Modesto A. Maidique Campus Feb. 9-10. CBYX is an [...]
One of the country’s leading thinkers, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, headlines this year’s Geopolitical Summit, “Rediscovering America?” The summit begins at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in the Graham Center Ballrooms. The 2012 summit will focus on the crisis posed by the global economic recession. Friedman’s [...]
FIU professors from the Department of Politics and International Relations sat down with journalists from across the country on Monday, Jan. 30, to discuss the Florida Primary and its importance to the presidential campaign. Professors Nicol Rae, Kathryn DePalo, Adrian Ang, and Kevin Evans briefed the journalists on issues ranging [...]
Political science major Nathaly Pena transcribes her notes at the FIU Bookstore.”I’d love to be a senator for the State of Florida and move on to be an ambassador,” she says.
At one point in his life, after he joined the army to escape a girlfriend who broke his heart, after he left his wife for gambling away their money, after he was kicked out of the military for abusing alcohol, Aaron Alvin Sr. lived in Memphis, homeless and addicted to [...]
The FIU Student Government Association and the International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) office celebrated International Education Week 2011 with art exhibits, lectures, information fairs, brown bag lunches and film showings at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Events at the Biscayne Bay Campus included the International Hospitality Games presented by the [...]
WHAT: The Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University will present “Classically Cuban: Cuban Music in the U.S.,” a concert of music compiled by author and independent scholar Emilio Cueto. The program includes pieces written from 1840 through the 1990s by Cuban composers living in both Cuba and the U.S. [...]
Author Carlos M. N. Eire will visit FIU Monday, Nov. 21, to deliver a lecture about his book Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy. The lecture and book signing is scheduled for 1 p.m. in Room 140 of the Graham Center at FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique [...]
Ambassador Haim Waxman, deputy permanent representative of the Mission of Israel to the United Nations, will deliver a lecture Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Wolfe Theater on FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus. Titled “Israel and the United Nations,” the lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. and is free and open to [...]
