Research
An FIU professor launched a campaign to save one of the rarest plant species in the world.
The Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine is attracting attention for its fresh approach to medical education.
Researchers studying how the loss of a child affects families hope their findings will help improve standards of care.
Graduate students earn prestigious NASA fellowships to help improve hurricane predictions.
Students bring to life their vision for sustainable building at international competition.
FIU scientists are taking the lead in restoration efforts of the Everglades and its unique ecosystem. The stakes are high, with the fate of this national treasure hanging in the balance.
Dr. Ranu Jung of FIU’s Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory is working on neural-enabled prostheses that would transmit the sensation of touch.News Stories
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.”
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.
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.
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.
