FIU Food Pantry Cures Student Food Insecurity
Samantha Soria / Contributing Writer The global pandemic saw an increase in food insecurity. Students turned to FIU’s Student Food Pantry to know where their…
Fostering Panther Pride
Kicked out, Homeless and now, Worlds Ahead Graduate
Sarah DeMond/Contributing Writer While most teens wind down their senior year of college remedying senioritis, Tamara Telfort spent hers in a homeless shelter. Telfort was…
Business Student Raises Over $100,000 For Peers Coming Out of Foster Care
Elizabeth Fernandez/ Assistant News Director For Steven Marin, the question of where his next meal would be coming from was never on the table….
FIU expands mentoring programs
Starting the week of Sept. 23, 2013, FIU will launch a two-part mentoring program that will pair students from Miami Northwestern High School with FIU faculty and staff: Fostering Panther Pride, intended for students who are or have been homeless or in the foster care system, and Golden Scholars Bridge Program, intended to help provisionally admitted students transition into college life.
Reel to Reel: Rudd shines as naive manchild in “Our Idiot Brother”
By: Steve Mesa/Columnist “Our Idiot Brother,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is a very funny movie with Paul Rudd in the title…