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 […]

Student team competes in regionals of $1 million Hult Prize

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FIU Hult Prize Team
An all-female team working to restore dignity to millions of women refugees around the world was in Boston March 3-5 pitching its idea as part of the 2017 Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition. While the four FIU students narrowly missed making the final round of the annual global competition that awards $1 million […]

A Record-Setting Week for the Panthers

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FIU Panthers statue
It was a record-setting week for FIU Athletics as the Panthers saw a diver earn the swimming and diving program its first First-Team All-America honor, the softball team set the school record for consecutive wins, the tennis team continued to dominate opponents, a discus thrower broke a 31-year-old record, baseball wrapped up a 3-2 week, […]

Florida International University students perform in historic concert in Havana

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FIU choir in Cuba
Recently, FIU students performed with Argentine composer Martín Palmer in Havana, Cuba. The concerts were the first time the FIU choir has ever performed in Cuba. WPLG Local 10 News covered the trip and spoke with several students. HAVANA – Last year Argentine composer Martín Palmeri brought his “Misatango” to Miami-Dade in a performance with the Florida International […]

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 […]

Medical students join prestigious honor society

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FIU AOA Honor Society Inductees
A group of Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) students have joined a club so prestigious that members include more than 50 Nobel Prize winners. The 18 students — along with two HWCOM graduates and three faculty members — were inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), a national honor society for medical students and medical professionals. The […]

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 […]