Carnival Foundation awards full scholarships to five students

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Hospitality students receive full-tuition scholarships sponsored by Carnival Foundation Five of South Florida’s brightest and most promising hospitality students are getting the opportunity to pursue their dream of launching a career in hospitality management with an $80,000 scholarship from Carnival Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Carnival Corporation . The Carnival Gold Scholars program, which is in […]

First generation students receive Golden Gift scholarships

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Forty-four first generation students who live near FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC) are now Golden Gift Scholars. The scholarship fund is a project of the BBC Vice Provost’s Council, a group of community and business leaders committed to supporting programs on the campus. The Golden Gift First Generation Scholars Program focuses on juniors and seniors […]

Student organization establishes First Generation scholarship

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Reaching back and helping others climb the same mountain makes everyone stronger. The men and women of Alpha Kappa Psi, a professional business fraternity at the College of Business, have raised funds to establish a First Generation Scholarship at FIU, making them the first student organization to do so. “Many of us, including myself, are […]

A mother’s gift helps improve students’ cardiac exam skills

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When Maruchi Suquet Mendez met Harvey there was an immediate connection. Harvey is a sophisticated cardiopulmonary patient simulator used to teach medical students how to develop and improve their cardiac examination skills. Mendez is a mother, who 15 years later, still grieves the loss of her son from sudden cardiac death. Mendez and Harvey are now […]

Wertheims’ philanthropy spurs collaboration between FIU, UF

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Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim
South Florida optometric physician and philanthropist Dr. Herbert Wertheim, a Horatio Alger Medal recipient, has become one of the most important supporters and financial contributors to Florida’s public universities. In doing so he hopes to spur closer collaboration between these institutions, magnifying the societal benefit to Florida and the nation. “Both Florida International University and the University of […]

South Florida News Service to expand and go bilingual

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South Florida News Service (SFNS), a program in FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will expand into a digital-first, bilingual independent news organization with a $150,000 grant from The Hearst Foundation. The SFNS, provides an opportunity for students to publish stories with partnering news organizations and learn firsthand what it means to be reporters in the […]

Protecting the nation’s power grid from cyber attacks

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Researchers from FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have teamed up with four other universities and a utility company to help safeguard the nation’s power utilities from cyber attacks. “A cyber attack on any part of the nation’s power grid could leave millions of people without power, resulting in serious health and safety threats as well as […]

$1.1 million federal grant supports FIU’s first generation student initiatives

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Today 23-year-old Jessica Pintado is an intern in a prestigious medical research program. But she almost gave up on her dream as an undergraduate at FIU. “For a long time I wanted to do research, but I didn’t feel like I had the skill set,” said Pintado, a first generation university student who earned bachelor’s […]

FIU to examine substance use in youths as part of national landmark study on brain development

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The National Institutes of Health has awarded FIU $12.7 million as part of a multi-year national landmark study on substance use and adolescent brain development. The award, for the first five-year cycle of the research study, is the single largest NIH award ever received by FIU faculty. Raul Gonzalez, associate professor of psychology, psychiatry, and […]