Evan Flugman, a recent graduate of the Earth & Environment Department, was showcased in the Miami Herald and other presses for his continuing work on climate change.''South Florida is on the front line against sea-level rise in the United States, and the Florida Keys are ground zero,'' said Evan Flugman, who co-authored a Florida International University report on the importance of Monroe County tackling the issue now. To read the full article, please click here.
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--> USDA Public Service Leader Scholarship was awarded to William Dovale, an International Relations/Economics student. The U.S. Department of Agriculture "Public Service Leaders Scholarship Program" or PSLS pays for a student's Master's degree in Economics or International Relations and converts students to permanent employment upon graduation. William will receive:
* Full-tuition scholarship - He is starting his Master's at FIU but the scholarship is transferrable to any U.S. university
* Paid internship leading to permanent employment
* Employee benefits, mentoring, career development, and leadership training and use of a personal computer
He will get paid internships during the summers at USDA either in DC or at one of its offices abroad. Airfare is paid for as well. Upon graduation with his Master's, William automatically becomes permanent employees of the USDA in his field of study: international trade. |
Professor Dionne Stephens, in the Psychology Department, has received the Carolyn Payton Award of the APA Division 35, Section 1 (Psychology of Black Women)! The award is for her book chapter titled "Examining African American female adolescent sexuality within mainstream Hip Hop culture using a womanist - ecological model of human development: in the Handbook of Feminist Theory, Methods and Praxis in Family Studies.
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Dr. Jim Jaccard, Professor in the Psychology Department, has just received a new grant from NIH. His project on "Underage Drinking in Latino Youth" was awarded 2.2 million in direct costs for the next 5 years and over 3.2 million in total costs. Dr. Jaccard conducts research on attitudes, communication, decision making, parenting of adolescents, intervention design, and quantitative methods.
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Dr Hong Liu, an Assistant Professor in FIU's Earth and Environment Department, is currently conducting field work in China. Since 2008, Dr Liu has been conducting ongoing field work in the Yachang Orchid Nature Preserve. The preserve is located in the remote Guangxi Province in southwestern China on the border with Vietnam. Guangxi together with the adjacent Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, forms one ot the world's nine orchid-diversity hotspots. It was not until 2004 that several Chinese botanists discovered more than 130 species of orchids in this area. Dr. Liu reports that the sheer numbers and variety of orchid species is simply amazing. These include orchids of great horticultural importance that have been collected to near extinction elsewhere, such as species of Cymbidium and Paphiopedilum. Among the exciting discoveries in Yachang are at least one species new to science, as well as the rediscovery of Geodorum uelophiodes, a flashy terrestrial species that was classifed as extinct 80 years ago. Because of Dr. Liu's involvement with this preserve FIU is listed as a co-sponsor of the Guangxi International Orchid Conservation Workshop.
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