MIAMI -- Just a few short weeks ago, on the eve of the newest shockwave to hit the global financial sector, Caribbean Bankers from across the region gathered in Trinidad & Tobago to receive training as Anti-Money Laundering Certified Associates through the FIBA AML Institute. The 2-day training seminar...
Lab Funded with $250,000 Grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation MIAMI -- The School of Journalism and Mass Communication SJMC at Florida International University FIU recently dedicated a state-of-the-art multimedia lab funded in large part by a $250,000 grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The foundation, which previously entrusted...
TIANJIN, CHINA -- The School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Florida International University has graduated 29 students from its satellite campus here. The graduates are fielding job offers from such companies as Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton, Mandarin Oriental Miami and Loews Miami Beach Hotel. Eight graduates plan to pursue...
MIAMI -- Twenty-nine students are graduating on May 5, 2008 from Florida International University's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management program in China, located in Tianjin, the third largest city in China and the seaport of Beijing. The program, a joint venture between the government and FIU, is lauded as...
MIAMI -- Miami-Dade County has granted accreditation to the Structures and Construction Laboratory test facility at Florida International University, making it an official site for determining whether building materials and other products comply with the county's strict building code. Miami-Dade County, which has a building code designed to minimize...
FIU's College of Business Administration Executive Dean Joyce J. Elam Appoints World-Renowned Expert in International Finance and Money Laundering to Prestigious FIBA Professorship MIAMI -- Joyce J. Elam, executive dean, College of Business Administration and vice provost, FIU Online at Florida International University announced today that she has appointed...
Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, a Miami law firm, has started a summer fellows program, which will provide three summer internships at Legal Services of Greater Miami for students from the University of Miami School of Law, Florida International University College of Law and...
Buy Them While You Can! MIAMI -- On Wednesday, January 9, 2008 reserve tickets for marquee events at the 2008 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival will go on sale. Tickets for this year's event, celebrated Thursday, February 21 through Sunday, February 24, 2008, sold out within...
MIAMI -- Two yellow flowering Poinciana trees, donated by Fairchild Tropical Gardens, will be planted on the Engineering Center grounds during a Ceremony to commemorate the first graduating class of the Bachelorate Degree in Environmental Engineering at FIU which began in Fall 2006. The first students graduating are Guerda Montinard...
MIAMI -- Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc., the Nation's Leading Wine and Spirits Distributor and Control States Broker with a tradition of service excellence since 1968 and proud to be celebrating its 40th anniversary, announced that Harvey R. Chaplin, Chairman and Chief Executive Office of Southern Wine &...
Why do some houses withstand hurricanes better than others? Researchers at the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University hope to find out with a first-of-its-kind hurricane simulator, scheduled to be completed next summer. The “Wall of Wind” machine, composed of 24 massive fans, will be capable of generating...
Lovers For Life: Kerrith D. Fiddler married Chevette F. Sanders at the New Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Miami, FL. The bride is a graduate of the University of Florida and Florida International University. She works as a child protective investigator supervisor for the Dept. of Children and Families (DCF-State...
DR. RICHARD T. SCHOEPHOERSTER has been named dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at E1 Paso. He had previously been chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University. Schoephoerster earned a bachelor's, master's and doctorate from the University of Iowa.
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Maya Plentz of College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International University, +1-305-348-0229, +1-305-917-5456, plentzm@fiu.edu MIAMI, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Growing up black in 1960s Texas might have put Bernard Harris a little far from the stars than he wanted to be. But when he found a...
Growing numbers of south Florida's Cuban-Americans oppose U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba, according to a poll conducted by Florida International University. Cuban-Americans who have been in the U.S. the longest take the toughest stance against the island nation's government. > 65%--indicate they...
Cervena Venison of New Zealand awarded its first $2,500 "Restaurateur of the Year" scholarship to Anthony Mandriota, a graduate student studying hospitality management at Florida International University's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. The scholarship was awarded to the student who submitted the best essay on "Meat Trends for 2007"...
BOSTON -- AIR Worldwide Corporation AIR announced today that it has collaborated with the International Hurricane Research Center IHRC and the College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International University FIU, and will fund the installation of the "AIR Turntable" for the "RenaissanceRe Wall of Wind" WOW hurricane simulator. The...
To: STATE EDITORSContact: Martha Hoffmann of College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International University, +1-305-348-6978 MIAMI, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sixty-two students from FIU's College of Engineering and Computing China cohort participated in the graduation ceremony held in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 17, 2007. These students will receive a...
