Travel grants offer scholars chance to explore Cuban culture

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For more than 10 years, FIU Libraries, the Cuban Research Institute (CRI), and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center have offered Díaz-Ayala Library travel grants to scholars interested in studying the university’s special collections related to Cuba and Cuban Americans. The grants provide the opportunity to conduct research on Cuba and the Cuban diaspora, an opportunity […]

Nanotechnology-based gene editing study seeks to eradicate HIV in brain of drug abusers

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Madhavan Nair
Opiate abuse is a significant risk factor for HIV infection, and in combination they can have a devastating effect on the brain. Scientists at FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) are studying new therapies that can short circuit HIV infection and mitigate the damaging effects that opiate addiction has on the central nervous system. […]

FIU President’s Council launches campaign to raise funds for Fostering Panther Pride

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FIU student Juan Munoz
Juan Muñoz lost his mother to cancer when he was six years old. Raised by a single father, Juan grew up both in the U.S., where he was born, and in his father’s native Colombia. At age 16, when he was attending high school in Cape Coral, Fla., his father abandoned him and his 17-year-old […]

A whole new world: free passports encourage student travel

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FIU student Annalese Abreu
Maybe traveling the world is on your bucket list. The first step to making that goal a reality: getting a passport. More than 120 FIU students recently got their first passport for free. FIU’s Office of Study Abroad and The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) recently hosted a passport caravan on campus. As part […]

High schoolers create ‘zines for progress’ with Wolfsonian–FIU

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Miami artist Deming Harriman
  Students from eight local high schools are finding their voices on social issues and expressing their creativity through the Wolfsonian–FIU’s Zines for Progress community outreach program. Zine artists combine creative writing, journalism, photography, and art to produce small-circulation, self-published works, often dealing with controversial or niche topics that may not make it into mainstream […]

New Career Closet needs donations

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FIU College of Business student Carlos Santiago
  Have work clothes that you’ve been meaning to donate? Now is the perfect time to do some spring cleaning in your wardrobe, because the Career Closet, a new program through FIU Career and Talent Development, needs donations. The Career Closet, which soft-launched last week, is a mobile professional clothing closet that provides free suits and […]

App helps Flint residents find services, info on lead risk

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Mywater Flint App
A new app and website launched by an FIU alumnus is helping residents of Flint, Michigan, assess the risk of lead contamination in their homes and find resources to cope. The Mywater-Flint app, designed by computer science alumnus Mark Allison Ph.D. ’14 in conjunction with his students at the University of Michigan-Flint, provides information on […]

Alumnae teachers honored as some of the best

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Devalyn Suarez
Miami-Dade County Public Schools named two FIU alumnae the runners-up of its Teacher of the Year and Rookie Teacher of the Year awards. The runner-up awards, given by United Teachers of Dade President Karla Hernandez-Mats, included recognition at a Jan. 26 dinner ceremony and a cash prize donated by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. Laura Ortiz ’03, […]