UP Labs: Connecting the community with careers

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JPMorgan Chase has funded a program that trains the unemployed and underemployed to take skilled jobs in the health care field. –By Gisela Valencia for FIU News Yessica Orellana was searching for a second chance at a fulfilling career. She’d left college in 2013 without earning an associate’s degree and was starting to worry she […]

FIU Business receives initial gift to establish Butters Endowed Professorship at Hollo School of Real Estate

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–By Cynthia Corzo for FIU BizNews FIU Business has received a $250,000 gift from noted developer Malcolm Butters and his wife Catherine Butters to support high-level teaching and research at the Hollo School of Real Estate. This initial gift, plus an additional $250,000 in matching funds, will establish the Butters Endowed Professorship, a $500,000 endowment to […]

Miami Marlins Foundation surprises student with first-generation scholarship

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As the Graham Center pit filled with Miami Marlins staff, local media, FIU baseball players, FIU cheerleaders and photographers ready to surprise Ana Ribeiro with a first-generation scholarship, the junior unknowingly walked right past it all. After a quick meeting at the scholarship office, Ribeiro learned she needed to head back to the Graham Center […]

FIU Law surpasses 95 percent bar passage milestone, leads Florida on July 2019 exam

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–By Greg Miller for FIU News FIU Law graduates earned a 95.7 percent first-time bar passage rate on the July 2019 Florida Bar Exam, the highest of any of Florida’s 11 law schools, and 21.8 percentage points higher than the state average. Since 2009 – the earliest year for which the Florida Supreme Court maintains online […]

‘I’ve raised more than $100,000 for my fellow students’

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–By Steven Marin Jr. for FIU Magazine. Marin is a junior majoring in business management and a student in the Honors College. I experienced a moment in eighth grade that will forever impact my life. I played on a traveling basketball team, and many of my teammates and I came from backgrounds of privilege. We were used […]

Board of Trustees votes to extend Rosenberg’s contract

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–By Lourdes Perez for FIU News In its last meeting of the academic year, the FIU Board of Trustees voted to extend President Mark B. Rosenberg’s contract. At a meeting on Wednesday, the board unanimously approved a one-year extension to Rosenberg’s contract following a “superior” performance rating for Rosenberg’s accomplishments and leadership during the 2017-2018 […]

FIU student-athletes set new GPA high: 3.29

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–By FIU Athletics FIU Athletics continues to raise the bar in the classroom, as student-athletes posted the highest term grade point average in the department’s history after earning a 3.29 GPA for the spring. The three highest GPAs on record for the athletic department have all come in the last three semesters, with a 3.28 last […]

Unleashing the “Aha!” moment: STEM education transformed

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The STEM Transformation Institute has redesigned the education experience, creating a model for the rest of the nation –By Ayleen Barbel Fattal for FIU Magazine At 19, Laird Kramer saw himself as an accountant. One of his college professors saw a physicist. Kramer was good with numbers so he enrolled as an accounting major at […]

Looking to the Next Horizon: Landmark campaign to "change the face of this institution"

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–For FIU Magazine FIU is pushing boundaries. University researchers are saving species on the verge of extinction. They are helping families with children who have ADHD. In the face of sea level rise and devastating natural disasters, they are working to create sustainable infrastructure for Miami and other coastal areas. And in a firmly digital […]

Today is #FIUDay 2019 in Tallahassee!

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On Tuesday, March 19, 2019, President Mark B. Rosenberg sent the following message to the university community: Today is FIU Day in Tallahassee! Watch President Mark B. Rosenberg’s FIU Day message! Members of the FIU community – including students, faculty, alumni, and members of the FIU Board of Trustees – will be in the capital, […]