Students overcome homelessness, succeed with help from Kiwanis Club of Little Havana
In the fall of 2015, only one thing stood between Dania Myrthil and her bachelor’s degree in liberal studies: a class in Latin American culture – and the tuition... Read more.
Meet the 2016 Path Award winners
The Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work has selected the winners of the 2016 Path Awards. The annual Path Awards honor professionals and... Read more.
Getting to the root of plant form and function
The remarkable diversity of plant shapes and sizes found around the world can explain how some of the most complex plant communities are assembled. Two separate... Read more.
Reading Education master’s program earns top ranking
The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) ranked the Reading Education master’s program at FIU’s College of Education as the No. 1 teacher preparation program... Read more.
FIU Health launches weight management, bariatric surgery program
Turkeys are not the only ones who get stuffed during the holidays. Between the office parties and family gatherings, ‘tis the season for drinking and eating. Come... Read more.
FIU wellness and recreation center at MMC to undergo $25 million expansion
Plans are underway to more than double the size of FIU’s Wellness & Recreation Center at the university’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus (MMC) in west Miami-Dade... Read more.
Frost collaboration enhances art education in Sweetwater
Inspired by an art exhibit currently on display at the Frost Art Museum, students at Sweetwater Elementary School worked together to create a mosaic tile mural in... Read more.
Portrait of the artist-turned-curator: Alumnus wears his heart on his sleeve at Art Basel Miami Beach
The glitz and glamour that accompany one of the world’s largest gatherings of art—think celebrities and late-night after parties—resonate little with Omar... Read more.
Small Business Development Center at FIU helps international foods distributor expand
After nearly three decades in business, the owners of specialty foods distributor Ocho Rios International are no strangers to the challenges and demands of growing... Read more.
FIU offers hope, help to former foster care, homeless
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... Read more.