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Dr. Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor has been elected to the Executive Board of Directors of the Allance Francaise of Miami and Fort Lauderdale Every two years, the Alliance Française of Miami and Fort Lauderdale elects its Executive Board of Directors. During a general assembly that took place on Friday September 25 a new 11-member Board was elected. The new Board members are Miami professionals and include bankers, lawyers, business leaders and a university professor. The Alliance Française of Miami and Fort Lauderdale is a non-profit, non-governmental, privately supported association which was founded in 1963 by Floridian Francophiles. It aims at developing cultural exchanges between the United States and France while fostering friendship between the French and the American people through both the organization of cultural and social events and French language courses. Dr. Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor was elected a member of the new Executive Board of Directors and will serve for the next two years. |
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Today Garrison Keillor reads Denise Duhamel’s poem “How It Will End” (from The Best American Poetry 2009) on his radio show The Writer’s Almanac. To hear this reading, please click here. She was also singled out in this Entertainment Weekly review of the anthology. For this review, please click here (you will need to scroll down quite a bit to see this commentary). |
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Dr. Kenneth James Feeley, Assistant Professor of Tropical Plant Conservation Biology in the Department of Biology, was recently interviewed regarding climate change and tropical tree survival. For the full article, please click here. |
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Dr. DeEtta Mills, Director of FIU’s Forensics DNA Profiling Facility, is helping authorities in the horse killings that have occured in recent months. Her research is featured both by FIU's news writers and Channel 4 is also showcasing Dr. Mills. For the CBS Channel 4 news interview and story, please click here. For the FIU News article, please click here. |
Dr. Alex Mebel's , faculty in FIU's Department of Chemistry, was mentioned in the NSF Digest. An exerpt from that article is below:
"Alexander Mebel, a theoretical chemist at Florida International University, merged the experimental results with theoretical computations of the reaction of ethynyl and diacetylene. Theoretical computations also provide the 3-D distribution of electrons in atoms and thus the overall energy level of a molecule.
Mebel's computations confirmed that triacetylene may be formed from the reaction of a single radical ethynyl molecule colliding with diacetylene and the existence of three transient intermediate molecules.
Perhaps most importantly, since the temperature of Titan's atmosphere ranges from -99 F, or -73 C, to -290 F, or -179 C, which necessitates the need for chemical reactions to release energy, Mebel's computations confirmed that the formation of triacetylene releases energy."
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