Student team wins first place in national Campus RainWorks Challenge
FIU students earned first place out of 50 teams in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s eighth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge. The competition encourages students from across the country to submit green infrastructure designs and solutions to help address...
FIU students take first place in first-ever Solar District Cup competition
A multi-disciplinary team of FIU students came together to design a solar photovoltaic, the conversion of light into electricity, and storage system to maximize energy savings for 20 years as part of a new competition by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National...
During the pandemic, Honors College students are making a difference from home
While hundreds of South Florida nurses, doctors, and essential workers risk their lives to help on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, students who are at home and quarantined are wondering: What can I do from where I am? While FIU continues to aid the community...
Computing professor creates dashboard for COVID-19 prediction, visualization
Organizations around the world have created coronavirus-tracking tools to monitor COVID-19 cases through real-time analytics. An FIU professor, who specializes in theoretical optimization and learning algorithms, and his research team at FIU, have created...
Equity Advisors provide diversity guidance to colleges
Working to improve diversity and inclusion on campus is a tall order, especially when the campus is as large as FIU, with over two thousand instructional employees. A new program is being launched to make sure faculty members have easily identifiable point persons to...
Remote learning may be just the start for FIU’s English Language Institute
The English Language Institute (ELI) had two days to reimagine an intensive program students travelled from all around the world to attend. As FIU moved to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the institute’s staff created a remote curriculum they had...
Students rise against the odds to complete their senior design project on machine learning for robotics
In this time of uncertainty, when so many things have been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two students rose above these challenges to complete their senior design project, remotely. Although the College of Engineering & Computing Senior Design Showcase...
Researchers find Bitcoin’s Lightning network susceptible to cyberattacks
After announcements of travel restrictions, the price plummeted from $8,000 to $3,800 in one day, according to a report by CryptoCompare. Despite the crash, people haven’t lost interest in Bitcoin. Forbes reported that Americans are using their stimulus checks to buy...
Grad students honored for their research with Provost Awards
Every year FIU celebrates the accomplishments of graduate students, faculty mentors and graduate program directors by awarding Provost Awards during Graduate Student Appreciation Week. These awards recognize outstanding grad student research and provides them with...
Robotics Academy among top finalists for prestigious innovation award
Future jobs in architecture, engineering and construction are going to look quite different than they do today. These industries will rely heavily on automation and robotics, and FIU’s Robotics Academy is at the forefront of preparing their workforce. For its efforts...
Got my first job! Working at Northrop Grumman
In this series, recent grads share their journey to landing that first job out of college. After years of studying and working toward a degree, these Panthers’ hard work paid off. Now they’re paying it forward by letting you know how they did it. Name: Gabriel E....
Congratulations to the Outstanding Student Life Award winners!
The Division of Academic & Student Affairs is celebrating FIU’s 2020 Outstanding Student Life Award winners and finalists. The annual awards honors students who embody the spirit of FIU from every college and academic year. The inspirational students include...