#FootballFridays: Don’t Miss Friday Night Lights

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Friday Night Lights: 2016 Spring Game Set for April 15 MIAMI (April 4, 2016) — The 2016 FIU Football Spring Game will take place on Friday, April 15, under the lights at Ocean Bank Field at FIU Stadium. Kickoff for Friday Night Lights is set for 7 p.m., and admission is FREE to the public. Gates open at […]

Annual Torch Awards gala celebrates 15th anniversary

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The annual Torch Awards celebrated its 15th anniversary March 19 with a gala honoring distinguished alumni in the FIU community. The event, held at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, raises money for the university’s Alumni Center Building Fund and its First Generation Scholarship Fund, which benefits students who are the first in their families to attend college. […]

Alumni Profile: Vania Toledo ’12, MS ’14

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Vania Toledo ’12, MS ’14 is a mother of 2 children ages 11 and 7 living in the Miami area. She has a Masters of Science in Global Strategic Communications from FIU and has been working in the marketing industry for over 15 years. Currently, she is the Director of Marketing & PR in the U.S. […]

Football Friday: Get Ready for Spring Ball

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FIU spring football practices began the first week of March at FIU Stadium. Our Panthers are coming off a 5-7 season where we returned just about everyone on offense, but on defense FIU will need to figure out who will replace stalwarts such as Michael Wakefield, Denzell Perine, Lars Koht, Richard Leonard and Jeremiah McKinnon. Click here for […]

Scene at the Frost

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We welcomed 40 visitors to the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum this past Thursday, March 24 for Art After Dark, a new event sponsored by the City of Doral. Art After Dark offers adults an opportunity to create an artwork inspired by one of our current exhibitions. Director Jordana Pomeroy kicked off the event […]

Honor an FIU graduate with a digital bookplate

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Graduation is an important milestone, the culmination of years of hard work and dedication, and deserves to be recognized! The FIU Libraries is offering family and friends the chance to honor their FIU graduate with a special gift – a digital bookplate in the library catalog. A physical bookplate is traditionally a small print or […]

Alumnus to be featured in SoFlo HOME PROJECT

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WPLG-TV, Local 10, the ABC affiliate in Miami-Fort Lauderdale announced today the launch of a new, weekly show, “SoFlo HOME PROJECT,” featuring Martin Amado ’96, which will debut Saturday, April 2 at 11:00 am. Host of SoFlo HOME PROJECT will be South Florida home designer, Martin Amado. “We are extremely excited about our newest locally-produced show in […]

Forbes ranks FIU second best employer in Florida

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For the second year in a row, FIU has made “America’s Best Employers” list by Forbes magazine. FIU is thesecond best ranked Florida employer after Publix, and is the highest ranking university in Florida on this year’s list. “Reaching this milestone two years in a row validates what FIU’s faculty and staff have known all […]