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Stempel College receives $6.6M to study Parkinson’s disease
The NIEHS has awarded professor Kim Tieu a $6.6 million grant to study how brain cells die in Parkinson’s disease and to develop effective drug therapies for this brain condition.
June 25, 2019
$1.5 million grant readies doctoral students for research
FIU is launching a transdisciplinary biomolecular and biomedical sciences training program for doctoral students thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
June 4, 2019

The Latest

In the Amazon, it takes a village
An international team led by FIU ecologist Jason Vleminckx is shedding light on how trophic interactions shape community assembly in tropical forests.
August 24, 2019
Ambitious project aims to map and measure trees in Coconut Grove in hopes of changing policies
Grove ReLeaf has the ambitious goal of mapping every tree in the neighborhood and calculating what it calls the “services” provided by each of those trees.
August 24, 2019
LACC at 40: Director Frank Mora on the center’s accomplishments—and the work ahead
Frank O. Mora is the director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center and a professor in the Department of Politics & International Relations.
May 8, 2019
Ph.D. student awarded grant to conduct research at national lab
An FIU student is one of only 70 graduate students chosen to participate in an exclusive U. S. Department ...
April 15, 2019
Scientists discover how mosquitoes zero in on our sweat
A team of researchers from FIU’s Laboratory of Tropical Genetics has identified a unique olfactory receptor.
March 28, 2019
Educating a generation of cyber warriors
FIU is educating new defenders of the cyber world.
April 10, 2018