Fariha Amir | Staff Writer In a recent TED Talk titled “How Pigs are Helping Us Fight Dementia,” founding faculty of the Neuroscience department at FIU, Leila M. Allen, shared her findings in the world of dementia research. Notably, her latest success in using pigs’ brains for early Alzheimer’s detection, which has opened new doors […]
Alba Rosa | Assistant News Director Several doctoral students under the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work represented their findings, demonstrating FIU’s excellence in the field at the annual American Public Health Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in early November, which received around 13,000 visitors. Public health, according to the APHA, is […]
Teresa Schuster/Staff Writer Students may be driven to school by semi-autonomous vehicles having full conversations with each other, thanks to ongoing research into vehicular communications at FIU. Two Ph.D. students, Sandhiya Reddy Govindarajulu and Imtiaz Nasim, along with faculty, are working on technology designed to integrate machine learning with vehicle networks in order to make […]
Camila Pereira/Contributing Writer This Wednesday is the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and FIU is getting in on the celebration to encourage women and others who are seeking to pursue a career related to STEM. FIU’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies will be hosting the event on February 11th, […]
Camila Pereira/Contributing Writer In a field of study generally dominated by men, two successful women in engineering shared stories of their studies to encourage women engineers FIU’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and FIU’s Student Programming Council (SPC) hosted the Women In Engineering event at the Engineering Center on January 29th, where women studying engineering […]
Sarah DeMond/Staff writer Two years ago, Daphne Sugino Souffront’s home and community in Dorado, Puerto Rico were destroyed by back-to-back hurricanes Irma and Maria. Her family home was ripped apart, missing a wall and parts of the roof. The agricultural infrastructure of Puerto Rico was obliterated, making it exceedingly difficult to access food, and […]
Laura Antunez / Contributing Writer The universe is expanding at about a 10 percent faster rate than astronomers initially predicted, according to findings from the Hubble Space Telescope. The expansion of the universe is a phenomenon that has been occurring since its initial birth. Dr. Caroline Simpson is a physics professor, and her research […]
On today’s short edition of the Claw and Growl, host Joshua Ceballos spoke about the Change Makers Conference, the first real picture of a black hole, SGA elections and much more.
By: Mathew Mesa/Contributing Writer In the wake of devastating Red Tide and King Tide phenomenon, the University’s Center for Aquatic Chemistry and Environment is producing innovative tools to protect both people and aquatic life alike. Thanks to a $5 million five-year grant from the National Science Foundation, CAChE is now designated as a Center […]
By: Joshua Ceballos & John Perez/PantherNOW Staff SeaKeepers is an international organization that performs marine research around the globe. They’ve teamed up with FIU College of Arts, Sciences and Education to help our professors and students go out in the field and do research that helps combat environmental issues and affect policies.
By: Nicole Stone/Assistant News Director The future of computing goes far beyond the next Macbook, according to an associate physics professor. “We are on the verge of a second quantum mechanic revolution,” said Hebin Li, head researcher of the Li Research Group at the University. Quantum information processing, the focus of Li’s research, is […]
