Anna Tuttle: My study abroad experience in Italy

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As part of FIU News’ Summer Sojourns 2018 series, which highlights the adventures of FIU students, Junior Anna Tuttle shares her experience on Honors College study abroad program to Italy. “My study abroad experience was life-changing because I will never think of the world the same way again. Instead of studying history, we were living it.” Read more: https://news.fiu.edu/2018/08/the-world-is-my-classroom-study-abroad-to-italy/125359

My first job as a digital content producer at Royal Caribbean

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Yashodhara Suri, an Honors College graduate, recently landed a job at Royal Caribbean Ltd. as a Junior Digital Content Producer! “I’m able to handle a lot of work and challenges that come my way and they usually are pretty interdisciplinary as opposed to ONLY what I learned in my major, which definitely relates back to the Honors way of teaching.” …

Congratulations to our 2018 Summer Graduates

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Thursday, July 26, 2018 the Honors College held their 2018 Summer Graduation Assembly in which graduating students were recognized for their competition of Honors College graduation requirements. They also received their tassel and medallion that will be worn at Commencement. You can find pictures from the assembly on our Facebook page. Congratulations once again to our students and we wish …

Jorge and Darlene Perez donate $1 million to the Honors College

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THANK YOU! We are so grateful for the Perez family and their donation to the Honors College! The donation will be used to fund the Jorge and Darlene Pérez Scholars Endowment, a scholarship for high-achieving students within the Honors College program who intend to live and work in South Florida after graduation. Read more about the story behind the donation: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article214769700.html

FIU ranked number 2 in public universities in Florida

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The Florida Board of Governors released this year’s performance scores and FIU is now ranked number two among public universities in Florida. Improvements in key areas such as four-year graduation rate, cost to students, second year retention rate and issuing of bachelor’s degrees without excess hours earned FIU this ranking. Check out the article here: https://news.fiu.edu/2018/06/fiu-among-top-performing-public-universities-in-florida/123858

I am a Freshman, so what?

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Meet Rahul Mittal, an Honors College Freshman majoring in Computer Science, and already a busy contributor at FIU and our extended community! Recently, Rahul wrote an article for Medium about his experiences, accomplishments, and plans so far at FIU. Congratulations on your work so far Rahul and we can’t wait to see what you do next! Read Rahul’s article here: …

Poetic Palette at Margulies Warehouse

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Poetic Palette Friday, April 6 at 07:00 PM Margulies Collection at the Warehouse 591 NW 27th St, Miami, FL 33127 | 305.576.1051 Free and open to the public Join us for an insightful evening of poetry inspired by artworks from the Margulies Collection in collaboration with FIU Honors College course “Poetry Art Community” developed by Professors John W Bailly and …