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 […]

Teaching, not testing makes better students

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Teaching is more than just assembling a series of best practices that are expected to lead students to perfect standardized test scores. According to an article published by Assistant Professor James Burns, who joined FIU’s College of Arts, Sciences & Education faculty in January, teachers should be lifelong learners who inspire their students to take […]

Einstein, gravitational waves and the rippling effects of scientific discovery

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People around the world celebrated the news last week that scientists at the Large Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory have finally detected gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time whose existence was first proposed by Albert Einstein in 1916. The waves came from two black holes circling each other, inching closer until they finally collided. The discovery paves […]

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 […]

FIU supports military veterans, minorities interested in farming business

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For more than 10 years, Garfield Jarrett proudly wore the uniform of a U.S. Marine. Military service was both his passion and his career. But injuries sustained during a 2008 roadside attack in Iraq ended it all. Granted a medical discharge, Jarrett returned home to South Florida and enrolled at FIU to pursue a bachelor’s […]

‘Remote-controlled brain’ a top story of 2015

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An FIU professor’s research has landed on a list of Discover magazine’s top 100 science stories of 2015. A groundbreaking nanotechnology procedure directed by Sakhrat Khizroev has earned spot no. 48 on a comprehensive listing that covers fields from space exploration to medicine, technology, paleontology and environment. The selections were made from hundreds of thousands of peer-reviewed […]

Chaplin School honors world’s most beloved professor

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FIU legend Rocco Angelo sure can bring down the house. The Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management recently threw the professor a surprise party that drew industry luminaries and scores of alumni from as far away as New York, California and Amsterdam. With Frank Sinatra and Julie Andrews—his favorites—blaring in the background, and wine, appetizers […]

Blind alumnus excels as NASA engineer

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In anticipation of NASA’s launch of the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft on Thursday, Dec. 3, we sat down with electrical engineering alumnus Marco Midon ’97, MS ’00 to discuss how he built a successful career as a NASA communications engineer.   Marco Midon discovered his love for telecommunications when he was young and fascinated by […]

Launch a new venture in 54 hours at Startup Weekend Miami

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Jeff Brown hears new startup ideas all the time. He has even had would-be entrepreneurs approach him with their idea scrawled on a napkin. What does Brown – a self-described serial entrepreneur and angel investor – tell them? “I’m not going to fund a napkin and I’m not going to do the work for you,” […]