Liberty Brooks | Contributing Writer Canvas is back online today after a cyberattack, but Florida International University students still cannot access the platform. On Thursday, students across the globe opened their Canvas platform to see a ransom note left by the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters. The cyberattack shut down Canvas during finals week for many schools, […]
Contributing Writer | Andres Sanchez For Florida International University, a school with over 50,000 total students, the establishment and continuance of student resources, both personal and academic, is essential to sustaining strong graduation and retention rates. Yet, FIU’s most essential vehicles for providing student resources, the Dorothea Green Library and special collections, continue to be […]
Gabriela Saldana, a 23-year-old FIU senior, was arrested by FIU police at approximately 2:10 a.m. Thursday, April 16, on a felony charge of making threats to kill or cause bodily harm. Gabriella Mateo | Staff Writer Saldana, who is an undergraduate research assistant at FIU, was reported by another student in a 215-person group chat […]
The FIU EFRM program is using science and finance to create models for Hurricane preparedness through combined risk assessment with financial risk transfer through global capital markets. Sakari Biorn | Contributing Writer With the approaching hurricane season, the Environmental Finance and Risk Management (EFRM) program at FIU is combining elements of environmental sciences, math, economics, […]
SGA Senate passed a bill creating a new international student standing committee in its last session of the spring semester. Jorge Cardona | Staff Writer On April 13, the “I Stand for International” Bill was passed by the Senate in a 20-2 vote, creating a new International Student Affairs Committee (ISAC) as a permanent Senate […]
Staff Writer| Alexandra Perez In today’s world, all roads lead back to AI. And while that might make sense in a rapidly evolving era, it has also made something else exponentially clear. Every conversation about college somehow ends the same way: AI. It really doesn’t even matter where the dialogue starts… learning, cheating, the future- […]
Kendall Moffett | Staff Writer Students are not being prepared enough to enter a growing AI-driven job market, leaving many of us to navigate its use and ethical implications on our own. A recent Gallup study evaluating how public universities prepare students for artificial intelligence in the workforce confirms what many of us are already […]
A new $4.6 billion project is coming to Sweetwater. “Flagler Center” will be built on the previous location of the now-closed Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. This project is planned to be one of the largest redevelopment sites in Miami-Dade County. Sakari Biorn | Contributing Writer A new development project may be coming up near […]
Sonia Stolar | Staff Writer As an international student, airport visits are second nature to me. I have mastered the art of packing for a trip that could last up to four months, memorized my way around Miami International Airport, and have accumulated passport pages filled with stamps from layovers and final destinations. While I […]
Last week, FIU hosted a “Symposium on Free Speech and Censorship” featuring legal experts, academics, journalists, and media students from FIU who spoke on topics related to the First Amendment and the emergence of artificial intelligence in journalism. Alicia Bolton | Staff Writer On April 8, FIU hosted the Free Speech Symposium, part of The […]
Linette Garcia | Staff Writer As tensions rise between the United States, Israel, and Iran, it’s easy to think of the conflict as something distant—something unfolding across oceans, far removed from the daily lives of regular people like you and me. But that distance is an illusion. The consequences of the Iran 2026 war are […]
