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New technique to deliver life-saving drugs to the brain
In a new published study, FIU researchers present a revolutionary technique to effectively deliver anti-HIV drug AZTTP into the brain.
Student researchers feast eyes on Cuban memorabilia
New collection of Cuban ephemera is a boon for architecture students.
Meteor, asteroid put spotlight on space exploration
The occurrence of two astronomical events in one day gains worldwide attention.
Fishing leads to significant shark population declines, researchers say
The world’s shark population is experiencing significant decline with perhaps 100 million or more sharks being lost every year.
New research collaborative supports environmental conservation efforts in the Andean Amazon
The Global Water for Sustainability (GLOWS) program receives a USAID grant to expand research opportunities, education and capacity in Colombia.
Researchers combat water toxins
Chemists and environmental engineers developing new technology to destroy water toxins caused by algal blooms.
FIU to operate Aquarius Reef Base
FIU will steward the world's only operational underwater research center.
Grant for Everglades research renewed
An NSF grant renewal will continue research in the Everglades.
Hands-on research key component of DOE-FIU Fellows program
The 13 new inductees of the Department of Energy (DOE)-FIU Fellows program are being prepared to enter the DOE workforce in areas of technical need specific to environmental cleanup.
Alumna finds answers for food security with honeybees
Environmental studies graduate Stephany Alvarez-Ventura '11 recently received a USDA grant to fund her research.
Marine scientist to explore Arctic shorelines, habitats
FIU marine scientist Kevin Boswell is leading an effort to better understand the Arctic costal ecosystems and their contribution to Arctic productivity.
Music can improve concentration in some children with ADHD
From Rachmaninov to rock ’n’ roll, listening to music while studying may help some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). For some, music has similar positive effects to medication.
FIU Discovery Lab telebots could help disabled officers, veterans
FIU researchers are exploring how combining telepresence and robots to help disabled police and soldiers get back into action.
FIU students awarded prestigious NSF Research Fellowships
FIU doctoral students Pamela Pimentel and Mario Consuegra receive prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a distinction shared by numerous Nobel Prize winners, government and public policy leaders, and private industry trailblazers.
Growing an innovation ecosystem at FIU
A new “innovation ecosystem” at FIU will move research from fundamentals to industry.
Monster larva’s identity revealed
For centuries, an elusive larval creature with armor-like horns has kept its true identity a secret.
FIU joins forces with other universities to pioneer small health and environment-monitoring devices
FIU will partner with North Carolina State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Virginia on a national nanotechnology research effort to create small, wearable, self-powered devices that will help people monitor their health.
New Faculty Swell Ranks at FIU
As public universities across the nation grapple with another of several challenging budget years, new faculty orientation day 2012 at FIU was truly an affirming event. This year’s new additions help to advance the university’s strategic plan of building an outstanding faculty to teach its diverse and growing student body and to conduct world-class research.
Understanding preterm infant development helps ease their entrance into the world
Researchers use models to observe patterns of light and sound.
Funding brings new and renewed research opportunities
Summer months brought a variety of interesting funding opportunities to FIU, from new grants to renewed funding for existing projects including the Center for Research on U.S. Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (CRUSADA), Nuclear Research Interdisciplinary Program and STEM Transformation Institute.
Researchers tackle designer drug craze
FIU researchers are focused on developing new and better methods for screening synthetic drugs
Students offered rare glimpse into world of owl monkeys
At the DuMond Conservancy, FIU researchers and students conduct hands-on research on owl monkeys
FIU leads global water projects
FIU’s Global Water for Sustainability (GLOWS) program helps address the world’s growing water crisis
Rescuing Endangered Orchids
You may have heard stories about emergency rescues of plants or animals from habitats facing imminent destruction. This is one of those stories, except that the scope of the rescue is unprecedented and the transplantation itself was—and continues to be—of great scientific significance.
WOW – FIU unveils 12-fan Wall of Wind
The WoW is the only university research facility capable of simulating Category 5 hurricane winds.
New forensic method could help police solve crimes
New gunpowder signature developed by FIU forensic researchers could tie a shooter to ammunition
FIU researcher champions Blue Carbon
Study finds restoring seagrass meadows may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase carbon stores
The accidental engineer
Shekhar Bhansali’s life has taken him around the world. From his native India to Australia to Japan and finally the United States. Never one to follow the crowd, Bhansali instead chose a path that would test his ingenuity, show him new ways of approaching problems, and teach him lessons about working with people.
Faculty Profile: O. Dale Williams
O. Dale Williams, who recently joined FIU as chair of the Department of Biostatistics and interim chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Robert Stempel College of Public Health, grew up as a self-described “hillbilly” in the Ozark Mountains in Southwestern Missouri. He never envisioned himself heading up two academic departments at a major state university in Florida. But that’s exactly what happened.
Mariel boatlift crucial to cementing national gay movement, says FIU historian
On April 20, 1980, Fidel Castro proclaimed that any Cuban who wished to immigrate to the United States could leave. During the ensuing months, more than 125,000 Cubans fled from the port of Mariel. Among them several thousand self-identified homosexuals the communist nation deemed anti-revolutionary “undesirables.”
Neighborhood HELP™ trains 21st century physicians at FIU
Neighborhood HELP™ trains 21st century physicians at FIU
DOE Fellows: Turning students into scientists
Cleaning up the nation’s hazardous nuclear energy sites is complex, technically challenging work that requires specialized skills. Yet leaders of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, which leads those efforts, are growing concerned: Some 80 percent of the employees with those skills will approach retirement in the next 10 years.
Surviving a Child’s Death
There may be no greater strain on a family than the death of a child. Yet hospitals, doctors, and nurses are often ill equipped to help surviving family – mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and grandparents – cope with the overwhelming emotions and stress.
The Law of Life and Death
These strange questions open a new book by FIU College of Law professor Elizabeth Price Foley. The Law of Life and Death, published by Harvard University Press, uses stories of real people to examine the laws that govern such complex, provocative issues as abortion, in-vitro fertilization, life support, cryogenics and physician-assisted suicide.
NASA supports FIU student research to improve hurricane prediction
Joseph Zagrodnik always wanted to be a meteorologist. The only thing the Wisconsin native didn’t know was which specialty of the field he would study.
You think Japan and Haiti were bad? Just wait.
FIU professor Richard Olson says if governments around the world don’t get serious about reducing disaster vulnerabilities, hundreds of thousands of people will die, and millions more will suffer.
Poverty and AIDS
Public health experts have long known that black Americans infected with HIV die sooner on average than non-Hispanic white Americans. Many experts suspected this was because black HIV patients are more likely to be poor.
Reducing Arsenic in Rice
FIU biochemist Barry Rosen’s decades of research on how organisms handle arsenic at the molecular level is now pointing to strategies that may reduce the amount of arsenic that ends up in rice. His work also has implications for toxic waste cleanup and for optimizing drugs that use arsenic compounds to treat disease.
Solar Decathlon 2011
Two years ago, architecture professor Marilys Nepomechie and a group of FIU students conceived a home design perfect for South Florida – one that could get all its energy from the sun. This fall, they traveled to Washington, D.C., and built that house for a world-renowned competition: the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.
FIU knowledge guiding massive Everglades restoration effort
After more than a century of developing, draining, and damming the Everglades, Floridians realized they not only were endangering the ecosystem’s unique plants and animals but also the water resources humans depend on. Now, after more than a decade of intense public, political, and scientific debate, Florida is attempting to reshape the ‘Glades once more, this time with the benevolent goal of “getting the water right.”
Residential burglaries decrease, Criminal Justice study finds
Despite poor economic conditions and high unemployment, residential burglary in the United States has decreased, according to Stewart J. D’Alessio, professor in FIU’s Department of Criminal Justice
Palm species named after Wertheim Conservatory curator
A species of palm, Orania zonae, was named for the Scott Zona, curator for the FIU Wertheim Conservatory and faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences. Zona was part of a research team that explored the Bird’s Head Peninsula of New Guinea and discovered 11 new species. They were described for the first time in: "A monograph of the genus Orania (Arecaceae: Oranieae)" earlier this year.
Turtle tracking 101: When all else fails, call your manicurist
A team of researchers led by Florida International University researcher Kate Mansfield and Florida Atlantic University researcher Jeanette Wyneken have developed a safe and reliable method for tracking young sea turtles, to the oceans’ greatest mysteries. How did they do it? With hard work, a little ingenuity and a good manicurist.
Of life and limb
When someone loses a limb to war, accident, or disease, she can get an artificial limb that restores some of her lost movement. But even the best prosthesis doesn’t restore the sense of touch. And touch is what lets you grip an egg tightly enough that it doesn’t fall but loosely enough that you don’t smash it.
Hand-held, 3-D Imaging Device Continues to Advance
A revolutionary radiation-free, three-dimensional diagnostic imaging device developed by an FIU professor is now a step closer to widespread use in hospitals and clinics around the world.
