Dreams morph into reality for former foster/homeless students

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Fostering Panther Pride students
Little wishes came true the other day — the kind that lead to bigger things down the road. Twenty-seven young women who either aged out of foster care or experienced homelessness as youth received precision help on the journey to reaching their goals. Standing on a stage in the Graham Center ballroom in front of a supportive crowd, […]

FIU graduates do well by doing good

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FIU graduation
Social entrepreneurship runs deep with the class of 2017 While traveling in Asia, Ari Sernik volunteered at a Cambodian orphanage for HIV-positive children. After returning home he devised a way to continue to help: He organized a charity auction of the children’s art work. That experience led him to create Ten-Yad (“Give a Hand” in […]

Business with bees creates sustainability

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FIU senior Andrea Saladrigas
For some, the idea of beekeeping may be daunting. But for senior marketing major Andrea Saladrigas, daughter of Florida’s third largest beekeeper, it was a simple solution to the complex problem of poverty. Saladrigas created the company Master Honey with her father to alleviate economic concerns that affect low-income women, while also addressing local health and environmental […]

FIU Celebrates Successful Partnership with Knight Arts Challenge Miami

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Knight Arts Challenge Miami
For 10 years, the Knight Arts Challenge Miami has provided funding for winning ideas that have sought to challenge and enrich our community through the arts. In 2017 alone, the Knight Arts Challenge will award a total of $7.8 million to new ideas in four different cities, including Miami. As a frequent entrant to the […]

Ryder partners with FIU to support women leaders, D.C. internship program

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FIU women leaders in D.C.
Ryder, a U.S.-based provider of transportation and supply chain solutions, recently granted FIU $30,000 through the Ryder Charitable Foundation. The Ryder Women in Leadership Executive Education Scholarship will increase access of promising female leaders in business, management, technology, logistics, transportation, supply chain management, data analytics, human resources management, and STEM fields to advanced leadership development […]

Introducing the Everglades to Sweetwater Elementary students

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Everglades National Park
This winter a group of students from the Honors College, who were participating in a unique Everglades class, embarked on an adventure — not trekking through alligators and pythons in the River of Grass — but interacting with fourth-graders at Sweetwater Elementary School. The Everglades: From Beginning to End, is a year-long, interdisciplinary Honors College […]

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 […]