Law alumni give back through scholarship

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Nicole Fundora’s days are jam-packed, and that’s the way she likes it. She works full-time as a paralegal at Broad and Cassel. She is a single mom to two daughters. And she’s a law student in FIU’s evening law program. She expects to graduate in 2018, and one thing that’s helping her reach that goal: […]

Alumni annual meeting celebrates new board of directors and $50,000 donation from Wells Fargo

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On Wednesday, May 4, the FIU Alumni Association held its Annual Meeting & Cocktail Reception, a spirited event designed to get alumni and donors excited for the year ahead. Before the cocktail reception kicked off, an intimate group of volunteers gathered to be inducted into the 2016-2017 Alumni Association Board of Directors. The group was […]

Annual Torch Awards gala celebrates 15th anniversary

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The annual Torch Awards celebrated its 15th anniversary March 19 with a gala honoring distinguished alumni in the FIU community. The event, held at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, raises money for the university’s Alumni Center Building Fund and its First Generation Scholarship Fund, which benefits students who are the first in their families to attend college. […]

Relay for Life surpasses $1 million for American Cancer Society

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More than 5,000 students, faculty, staff and community members came together March 4 – 5 as FIU Relay for Life celebrated raising a record $116,000, the most amount raised in a single year. With this year’s efforts, the group has now contributed a collective $1 million to the American Cancer Society. The student-run event– now […]

The Wertheims join The Giving Pledge

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Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim
Florida philanthropists Herbert and Nicole Wertheim have joined The Giving Pledge, a commitment by the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. The Wertheims join Bill and Melinda Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffett, among other global philanthropists, who plan to give most of their money away. “We are honored to […]

Rosenberg family donates $1 million for scholarships

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FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg and his wife, Rosalie, announced their $1 million donation to FIU for First Generation Scholarships at the launch of this year’s Ignite campaign, designed to encourage faculty and staff to give back to FIU. “As a first-generation college graduate myself, I understand what it means to receive financial assistance to […]

Community health clinic opens at Miami Northwestern High

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Center funded by $1.45 million federal grant to FIU’s Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences Just two days before the grand opening of the John H. Peavy Health Center at Miami Northwestern Senior High School (MNW), Racquel Vera was still busy unpacking supplies and equipment. Vera, a clinical assistant nursing professor at FIU […]

Health avatar could become modern version of doctor’s house call

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It’s happy hour, and there’s a man, a man with a drinking problem, headed to his favorite bar. He turns into the parking lot, and his phone comes to life. It’s an image of a woman, her voice calm and reassuring. “I noticed you’re headed to the bar,” the woman says, using the GPS in […]

FIU offers hope, help to former foster care, homeless students

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Vanessa Morales remembers packing up hundreds of care packages with food, toiletries and clothing for students in need at FIU. What her fellow volunteers at Baptist Collegiate Ministries did not know was that Vanessa desperately needed a care package herself. For two months, Morales, a junior at FIU studying elementary education, had been living in […]

Forensic institute leads nation in NIJ awards for 2015

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Researchers at FIU’s International Forensic Research Institute (IFRI) have been awarded $1.5 million from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to further research in drug exposure detection, forensic chemistry, synthetic cannabinoids and DNA analysis. The combination of five grants and two fellowships totals the most NIJ awards given to a single institution in 2015. “The […]