Honors Students Win New Laptops to Excel in Remote Learning

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This month, five Honors students stopped by FIU MMC to pick up their brand new Apple MacBook Pros and Window Surface Laptop 3s computers. These devices, courtesy of the Tony Menendez Computer Scholarship, are for the students to keep during their undergraduate studies and after. With most Fall courses currently taking place online and many courses continuing in hybrid and …

Honors Class Cleans Up Masks and More at Deering Estate

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Written by: Brittany Torres Rivera On October 14, 2020, students enrolled in Professors John Bailly’s Miami in Miami course were able to conducte a cleanup at the Deering Estate, a staple activity in the seminar, for the first time in seven months. Among the usual marine debris, they found something new clogging the waterways of the island: masks. Teaching assistant Nicole Patrick …