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The Pic of the Week winner for April 4-11 is Edward Delgado. He will receive a gift certificate for a 10 minute massage at Waves Spa at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Delgado is a photographer and a sophomore at FIU, majoring in Finance. He was inspired by FIU’s branding campaign, [...]
The President’s Council has redesigned the Outstanding Faculty Award given at Faculty Convocation to encourage greater participation from around the university. The award will now be known as the President’s Council Worlds Ahead Faculty Award. The nomination process has been streamlined into an online form. Also, the criteria have been [...]
FIU kicked off its external Worlds Ahead campaign this week at Miami International Airport. Two large, lit display boards will greet holiday travelers and stay up through the spring break season. The university’s External Relations team developed the advertising as a play on the vintage postcards of Miami’s boom era. [...]
President Mark B. Rosenberg hosted a Worlds Ahead screening Nov. 2 in the Graham Center Ballrooms at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. More than 500 members of the FIU community enjoyed four films that highlight community engagement projects in the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine; the Honors College; the School of [...]
Dear FIU Family, Welcome to the fall semester! I hope you had a great summer and are ready for an exciting and invigorating academic year. We expect a record enrollment for 2010-2011, so please plan accordingly in timing your arrival on campus and parking your vehicles. For our new students, [...]
For the first time, FIU astronomers can explore the skies of the Southern Hemisphere without ever leaving Miami. The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA), a consortium of 10 universities, recently launched a refurbished and automated telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory on a remote peak in the [...]
“Worlds Ahead” tells the FIU story and raises the bar for the future By Sandra Gonzalez-Levy, FIU Senior Vice President of External Relations Florida International University is ready to define itself. For the first time in our history, FIU is launching a branding campaign, a public declaration of what makes [...]
Building a legacy of local and global engagement By Mark B. Rosenberg For me, every student counts. It goes without saying, of course, that every graduate counts as well. I am particularly proud of the accomplishments of one of my students and one of our early graduates, Manny Diaz ’77, [...]
The Graham Center at Modesto A. Maidique Campus now welcomes visitors in a Worlds Ahead fashion. On March 4, the map of the world previously over the benches was moved over the entrance doors of GC. To highlight the university’s commitment to educating globally engaged students, FIU’s new initiative Global [...]
The Worlds Ahead message will be woven into FIU’s communication from here forward. Nearly 700 faculty and staff members packed the Graham Center ballrooms March 2 curious to hear what FIU’s new branding campaign was all about. Those who’d been here for years seemed sure they’d be underwhelmed. Then President [...]
