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The State Department recognized FIU for its “deep commitment to international exchange and to building lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries."
Assefa Melesse of the Department of Earth and Environment has been named a Jefferson Science Fellow to build capacity for science, technology and engineering expertise within the State Department.
FIU has been named a Fulbright HSI Leader for the second year in a row by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Get to Know FIU's 2022-2023 cohort of Fulbright U.S. Scholars
January 26, 2021 at 11:51am Francisco Febronio Peña is about to earn two doctoral degrees — in roughly the amount of time it would normally take to earn a single Ph.D. The FIU Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Environment is the first student to take part in an innovative, new dual-degree program between FIU and another international university. For two years, Peña worked toward a civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. at the University of Florence in Italy. He investigated a method to develop low-resolution flood models that estimated water surface elevation and flood extent as e...