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New internships available to students with Zoo Miami

March 10, 2014
At the Bay, School of Environment, Arts and Society

It’s been a few months since FIU partnered up with Zoo Miami, and now students can reap the benefits of this collaboration.

University emphasizes benefits of public-private partnerships

July 30, 2013
News

Public-private partnerships are well underway at the University, regardless of critics. Contracts with Academic Partnerships and Royal Caribbean are in the process of being finalized, while a partnership with Zoo Miami was finalized on July 16.

FIU and Zoo Miami Team Up for Research

July 24, 2013
At the Bay, Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, News, School of Environment, Arts and Society

Vinson Pressley/Staff Writer According to a press release, the School of Environment, Arts, and Society, Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, and Zoo Miami have joined forces. Their research will cover several areas of zoo biology, including reproduction, behavior, nutrition, conversation and the maintenance of animals in housing facilities. The partnership – which has […]

Professor to lecture on wildlife at Zoo Miami

July 24, 2013
Entertainment

Photo by Samuel Mann/Creative Commons Holly McCoach/Staff Writer Care to take a walk in someone else’s shoes? Take a walk on the wild side and wander through the life of an animal instead. The World Through Predators’ Eyes will be hosted this Friday by Dr. Mike Heithaus, Executive Director of the School of Environment, Arts […]

FIU partners with Zoo Miami in animal research and lecture series

May 9, 2013
News

The School of Environment, Arts and Society is partnering with Zoo Miami in its new lecture series. Kristen Bishop will speak in the series’ first lecture on her research of animal movement. Photo by Chris Miller (Sideonecincy), courtesy of Creative Commons. Danny Rodriguez//Contributing Writer Panther country will be working with some new cats at Zoo […]

Sensibility needed in proposing protective legislation

February 18, 2011

In the wake of the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the country has been privy to the pain of a community and the uniting of both political parties under a common cause. Unfortunately, we have also seen knee-jerk reactionary policies being thrown to the House Floor for consideration.

Negligent gun laws a factor in Ariz. shooting

January 19, 2011

The complexities of the Tucson, Ariz. massacre committed by Jared Loughner in an attempt to assassinate Representative Gabrielle Giffords has created a plethora of debates... However, the factual point that transcends speculation and intellectual debate is this: it is not a mere tragic coincidence that a massacre that left six people dead and 13 others wounded was in a state that has careless and negligent gun laws.

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