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Merit-based financial assistance provides a path forward for talented student
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (421+ words) March 3, 2026 at 4:34pm With the rising cost of college, many students lack the resources to apply and enroll upon graduating high school. Scholarships provide a path to higher education, which, in turn, enables upward mobility. For junior Ana Fonseca, college was…...
FIU After-School All-Stars leader named national Afterschool Ambassador
9+ hour, 28+ min ago (409+ words) FIU After-School All-Stars leader named national Afterschool Ambassador'Florida International University in Miami Sean Prospect '02, MS '03 has been selected as a 2026 Afterschool Ambassador by the Afterschool Alliance. Prospect is the executive director of FIU After-School All-Stars Program and South Florida After-School…...
FIU named a ‘Dream School’
1+ week, 4+ day ago (594+ words) Jeff Selingo, the national higher education expert who named FIU to his dream colleges list, visited campus this week By Gisela Maria Valencia February 20, 2026 at 3:23pm We all know that FIU is a dream university. FIU is home to incredible students,…...
Fostering Panther Pride students witness signing at White House
1+ week, 6+ day ago (387+ words) February 18, 2026 at 10:36am From tutors who have helped him with course material to success coaches like Christine Dome, Secrest appreciates the academic resources FPP offers him as well as the built-in community that has welcomed him. "I've made a lot of…...
U.S. News ranks FIU among Top 50 public universities – again
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (117+ words) FIU remains a Top 50 public university in U.S. News rankings, earning No. 1 in the nation for social mobility and No. 2 public in international business. - In Florida, FIU has been No. 1 for three years in a row in performance-based funding metrics that…...
College of Medicine welcomes M.D. Class of 2029 at White Coat Ceremony
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (628+ words) August 6, 2025 at 3:18pm With proud families cheering and cameras flashing, FIU's newest medical students took a defining step to becoming physicians. The White Coat Ceremony is a rite of passage officially welcoming students into the medical profession and introducing them to…...
Brains and brawn: Recruited from Ukraine as a student-athlete, she graduates this week with a Ph.D. in computer science
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (710+ words) August 4, 2025 at 11:00am Maryna Veksler moved from Ukraine in 2015 to enroll at FIU after the school's tennis coach relentlessly pursued her. Several programs had eyes on the then-teenager, but "she was the most insistent," Veksler says of the woman who heads…...
Cybersecurity MBA students talk tech, business and policy in D.C.
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (530+ words) July 9, 2025 at 9:30am With cybersecurity threats escalating globally and the rapid rise of AI reshaping policy debates, 24 students from the MBA in Cybersecurity Risk Management program at FIU Business traveled to Washington, D.C., last month for a high-impact residency focused on the…...
Ph.D. in hand, new graduate works to bring educational reform to developing nations
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (644+ words) July 8, 2025 at 1:03pm They did. And true to his word, Vaye paid off the debt in small increments by selling meat in the city from a large tray balanced on his head." It was his first foray into educational reform " in this…...
Stempel College Dean ranks among top scholars in the world
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (173+ words) ScholarGPS ranks renowned neurotoxicologist Tom's R. Guilarte in the top 0.05% of scholars on lead poisoning research worldwide. June 24, 2025 at 12:36pm Tom's R. Guilarte, professor and dean of FIU's Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, has dedicated more than 30 years of his…...