Nayeli Lomeli/Staff Writer Just like we savor chocolate chip cookies at the smell of their warm aroma, mosquitoes do the same for their blood meal at the smell of human odor and scientists have discovered how. Matthew DeGennaro, a biologist and leader of FIU’s Laboratory of Tropical Genetics, and his team of researchers recently […]
Nayeli Lomeli/Staff Writer The color lavender is very significant in LGBTQ history. It brings together the color of the pink triangles that gay men were forced to wear in the Nazi concentration camps and the black triangles lesbians had to wear, to create a symbol of support and pride for the LGBTQ community. The […]
Nayeli Lomeli/Staff Writer A line of about 150 students waited outside 8th Street Kitchen before 5 p.m. to make sure they were in the first 800 students who would eat for free that night. The Black Student Union hosted the “From 8th Street Kitchen to the Cotton Club” on Wednesday Feb. 27 in celebration […]
Nayeli Lomeli/Contributing Writer FIU alumnus Oliver Diez is the 2020 recipient of the Francisco R. Walker Miami-Dade County Teacher of the Year award, something he considers to be the culmination of his many dreams. Diez began teaching one week before his graduation in 1999 and had a goal: forming a concert band at an elementary […]
