FIU’s Naomi Ruele Qualifies for 2016 Rio Olympics

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Redshirt freshman Naomi Ruele will represent her home country of Botswana in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after qualifying in the 50 Free on Sunday. Ruele swam a 26.07 on Sunday from the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center during an official FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) approved time trial, qualifying for this year’s […]

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 […]

SGA president starts FIU expansion petition on Change.org

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Alexis Calatayud, Student Government Association president for Modesto A. Maidique Campus (MMC) and a senior political science student in the Green School of International and Public Affairs, has created a Change.org petition asking Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez and members of the Miami-Dade Commission to support the expansion of MMC to adjacent county lands. Calatayud says […]

Panther Alumni Week grows in size, impact

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When does Miami’s classic 3:05 cafecito break become an opportunity for a student to sit down and network with an accomplished public relations specialist? During FIU’s annual Panther Alumni Week, a highlight of which was a coffee break where students gained valuable insight from advertising and marketing expert Lily Saviñon ’10, founder of the Miami-based firm […]

Student-run hackathon to inspire entrepreneurship, innovation

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During the first weekend in March, 250 college students will hack day and night to make a new piece of technology that can help make the world a better place, or at least more entertaining. Organizers hope the first student-run hackathon at FIU – MangoHacks – will serve as a creative outlet for students to make apps, […]

High schoolers earn FIU scholarships using Raise.me

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High school students hoping to one day earn a scholarship to FIU no longer have to wait. Thanks to a relatively new startup called Raise.me, they can start earning scholarship money as early as their freshman year in high school. Hialeah-Miami Lakes (HML) Senior High student Christopher Perdomo discovered the program in September as he began his […]

Student programmer uses coding to solve community problems

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We often steer clear of tedious budgets, graphs and numbers. And many times, we’re not sure where to go to access important community information. When this data becomes inaccessible and hard to understand, it creates a problem for civic engagement. FIU student Gregory Johnson recognized this problem in Miami-Dade County and had a solution: coding. In August of […]

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 […]

Winner of Startup Weekend@FIU moves on to global challenge

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A team of FIU students that wants to change the way fans, musicians and venues connect has launched its idea on the world scene, competing for a chance to win recognition – and support – from top leaders in the tech world like Google, YouTube and Hootsuite. Headliner – an online platform designed to enable […]

Training minority students in environmental restoration

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Twelve FIU students have earned the opportunity to participate in hands-on research, competitive summer internships and personal mentorship that will train them to be the next generation of scientists and engineers in charge of environmental restoration in the United States. These students are the newest cohort in FIU’s Department of Energy Fellowship, a workforce development […]