FIU’s location in the vibrant and dynamic city of Miami makes it the perfect place to learn about different cultures and international issues.
Each year students in FIU’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management have an opportunity to help stage one of the country’s most celebrated culinary events, the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival.
In 2009, law students in the Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic took on an international case of historic consequence. They represented five Liberians in a 13-month-long civil trial that argued Chuckie Taylor, the son of the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, had brutally tortured them leaving irreversible physical and psychological damage.
Henry Vega ’99, an electroacoustic performer living in The Hague, uses a most unexpected instrument to compose music: the computer. Vega began his musical training at the FIU School of Music learning the classics.
In 2009, students and staff joined forces with a neighboring high school in a year-long mangrove restoration project that will end with the planting of 1,200 mangroves and a boost to South Florida’s imperiled ecosystem.- Degree Programs
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Highlights from Welcome Week
The university community took time amidst the hustle and bustle of the new semester to welcome everyone to the start of classes. A record enrollment of appro...
A.J. Walking: 3 days to football
What is a secondary in football? We can almost hear the roar of the crowd at the game! Only a few more days ’til the start of the 2010 FIU football season and opening game vs. Rutgers on Sept. 11. As we count down to...
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The university community took time amidst the hustle and bustle of the new semester t...
Biology professor awarded NSF grant for pioneering work on coral reefs
Coral reefs around the world are in crisis. In the Caribbean alone, coral reefs have experienced drastic losses in the past 30 years, with 80 percent of the live corals lost since 1977. Coral disease is a major cause of t...
A.J. Walking: 3 days to football
What is a secondary in football? We can almost hear the roar of the crowd at the game! Only a few more days ’til the start of the 2010 FIU football season and opening game vs. Rutgers on Sept. 11. As we count down to...
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