CampusMaps app now serving MMC
Campus Maps app includes FIU in its server, helping students find their classes.
Campus Maps app includes FIU in its server, helping students find their classes.
The Yik Yak phone app, created just last year by Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, combines elements of both Twitter and “geo-fencing” to create an anonymous environment for students to “yak” about school happenings all across campus.
According to alz.org, the disease can be recognized through 10 early symptoms, including memory loss that disrupts daily functions, a change in personality and confusion with time or place to name a few.
Miami’s innovators have gathered to bring together projects and ideas at eMerge Americas Techweek, a conference that started on Thursday, May 1 and runs through Tuesday, May 6.
As Miami suits up for eMerge Americas, FIU is preparing for all things tech — recruiting student volunteers for its own pavillion that will showcase University innovations and its new Small Business Development Complex.
Rigoberto Roche has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering and is now working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. His job description includes writing code for the International Space Station and monitoring telecommunication satellites.
The University has launched its first fully-online undergraduate degree program, FIU 2.0.
While the ban on cellphones in schools is prevalent in K-12 classrooms, restrictions have also been popping up on college campuses in New York, Wyoming, Nevada and California.
Arsenic, a known carcinogen, is almost unavoidable by humans. Traces of it can be found in rice, drinking water, apple juice and even in chicken meat. However, Barry Rosen, associate dean of basic research and graduate programs, said that although finding arsenic in our poultry sounds frightening, we should not be scared.
The start of the fall semester is a time for buying books and electronics, all of the things a college student needs for a successful semester. The holy grail of school supplies? Some students would say their iPhone.