Florida International University Honors College Review SUMMA CUM LAUDE Fall 2010 | Volume 1, No. 1
The Honors College Review 1 Leonardo Aballe, Alejandro Abaunza, Laura Abbott, Taji Abdul-Raheem, Leatrice Aberman, Lourdes Abraham, Brian Abramson, Liala Abreu, Ofer Abudi, Alf Abuhajleh, Suha Abu-Hamdan, Lorraine Acevedo, Alexandra Acosta, Elizabeth Acosta, Jorge Acosta, Karen Acosta, Melissa Acosta, Brenda Adrianzen, Andrea Aghlg aghag nian, Alian Agug ila, Doris Aguig lar, Erika Aguig lar, Eilen Aguig lera, Mariyya Ahmed, Noushin Ahmed, Arnold Aiken, Stephanp ie Aitken, Ola Akache, Nicole Akong,g Ramon Alatorre, Camilo Aldama, Hanadysy Ale, Barbara Alexander,, Caroline Alexander,, Erik Alexander,, Raphnypy Alexandre,, Adrian Alfonso,, Daniel Alfonso,,J Jacquq eline Alfonso,, Asim Ali, Nicole Allahar,, Cherisse Allard,, Elizabeth Allen,, JosaJ nne Alleyne,y, Razia Allyy, Yolanne Almanzar,, Isabel Almazan, Dianeyday Almonte,, Alexander Alonso, Grace Altamirano,, JeJ anette Altarriba, Agustg in Alterman,, Alejanj dra Alvarez,, Amanda Alvarez, Annette Alvarez,, Carmen Alvarez,, Cristina Alvarez,, Ianessa Alvarez, Ramon Alvarez, ! eresa Alvarez,, Francesca Alvarez-Calderon,, Marcela Alzate, Mariano Amicarelli, Adi Amit, Cara Anderson, Geoff rey Anderson, Carolyn Andrade, Aileen Andreu, Lauren Andreu, Nery Anorga, Rosa Ansoleaga, Ilione Antoine, Carolyn Antonoff , Dillon Arango, Ivette Arango, Mariano Ardissone, Angel Ares, Alejandro Arias, Delhy Arias, Mayty e Armasmas, Melissa Armasmas, Ana Arocha, Edgarg d Arroyoy , Leanet Ascuncee, Paul Ashee, Carlos Atencioio, LuisAts Atencio-Zass, Sannica Atkinson, Clidiane Aubourgurg,g KarrielAul Augustg inin, JasJ on Auricchio, Amber Austintin, Georgeg Austintin, Monika Avellollo, Aileen Averbuchh, Alberto Avila, Jessielynn Avila, Karima Ayesh, Jorge Azcuy, Nadine Azor, Luis Azurduy, Djuradj Babic, Tina Babos, Teresa Badillo, Alice Bae, Danielle Baeigalupo, Andreas Baeuchle, Cristina Baez, Shalini Bahad, Ana Balladares, Samantha Banal, Javier Banos, Rafael Barba, Maya BdBardawilil, Sabribina Bardod wellll, Patriiciai BkBarkas, 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Florida International University Honors College Review UMMA CUM LAUDE S Fall 2010 | Volume 1, No. 1
Welcome to Summa Cum Laude! ! e Honors College In this Issue magazine will now come to you semi-annually in a new, expanded format. We hope that alumni will glimpse themselves 04 20 Years of Honors in the promise of our current students, that civic and university This year the Honors College is torchbearers will be inspired to support these fi ne future leaders, proudly celebrating its twentieth and that the Honors community will be energized by the exciting birthday! achievements of its members. ! e Honors College is Worlds Ahead! Twenty years of evolution have produced one of 08 Honors Giving the fi nest Honors programs in the country. From our hopeful beginnings as the Faculty Caryl Grof and Sharon Placide on Scholars Program, we have grown into a College with over a thousand students and a giving to Honors roster of Faculty Fellows that includes some of the university’s most renowned teachers. 14 What do you know about Today, our students present their research at international conferences, publish while still Sweetwater? undergraduates, issue critically acclaimed music CDs, start successful businesses and non- The Honors College and City of profi ts, produce gallery-quality art, and earn prestigious graduate fellowships. Sweetwater Partnership A few highlights: t Our annual A & V Art Exhibition, produced by John Bailly’s class, for the fi rst 16 Research and Service time was housed in FIU’s respected Frost Art Museum, and draws in increasingly in the Amazon important members of South Florida’s arts community. The Honors College is t ! e Sweetwater partnership was fully subscribed by students the fi rst day the Worlds Ahead. available openings were listed. ! is year we added four internships, citizenship 18 Whale Warriors classes taught by our Pre-law Community, computer training for the elderly, and A journalist’s voyage with the a major tree-planting program supported by a grant from the Arbor Foundation. eco-pirates of Antarctica. t We introduced a vibrant new fi rst-year curriculum, with cutting-edge pedagogy and technology, incorporating response “clickers,” fi lm production, and the 22 Frank and Ana met at the resources of the Wolfsonian Museum. Honors College 18 years ago. t Honors helped support the Miami visit of the Dalai Lama, enabling dozens of Their love for each other and our students and supporters to hear this remarkable world leader “close up and Honors continues. personal.” 24 What are they up to? t We instituted a new study abroad program to France that, in focusing on how Alumni notes war and revolution shaped northern Europe, goes far beyond the typical student travel experience. Whether you are a faithful alum or a newcomer to the College, we invite you to read Editorial Staff about our successes and join in the excitement. Share your story and your expertise with Kanchana Marapana, Editor a small group of students through a Dinner with Future Leaders. Join the Community J.C. Espinosa Advisory Board. Attend the fascinating Food for Talk. Come hear an Excellence Lecture. Jayne Klein Consider joining our students on one of our high-octane study abroads. Share your news and Juan Lopez stories with other readers. Join with the many others who are helping prepare FIU’s best and Leif Elliott brightest for key roles in the development of South Florida, our nation, and the world. Design and Production Aileen Solá-Trautmann Senior Designer FIU External Relations Lesley A. Northup Offi ce of Publications Interim Dean
Change of address information: Please send updated address information to The Letters to the Editor: Share your news, ideas, and stories with us and our Honors College, DM 233, Florida International University, 11200 S.W. 8th Street, readers. Summa Cum Laude welcomes letters to the editor by e-mail to Miami, FL 33199 or by e-mail to kmarapan@fi u.edu [email protected], by fax to 305-348-2118 or by mail to Summa Cum Laude, The Honors College, DM 233, Florida International University, 11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199. The Honors College Review 3 as it really been twenty years? It accomplishments with pride and we look ! e earliest iteration of the Honors Hmay be hard to fathom, but yes, forward to our future with excitement. College, the Faculty Scholars Program, this year the Honors College is proudly Before the Honors College was a was formed in 1972 and became an celebrating its twentieth birthday! While college, it was the Honors Program. ! e integral part of FIU’s newly admitted the path we have traveled has not always Program got its start in 1990 with an lower-division student body. ! e program been smooth and our road to success inaugural class of only 100 freshmen. brought together some of the best and has had its share of detours, bumps, Its initial mission, which has since been brightest students and challenged them and hidden curves, we have still come a expanded in many new directions, was to to think outside the box of the traditional long way from our humble beginnings. “introduce intellectually curious students university curriculum. As more and more We have grown and fl ourished, we have to a comprehensive view of the nature students were admitted to the Faculty planted the seeds for success, and we of thought, knowledge, and human Scholars program, the need for it to evolve have seen those seeds bloom and reach understanding in order to broaden their became apparent. And, when Liberal fruition. So, today, we look back on our vision of the world.” Arts courses were made a part of the 4 The Honors College Review University’s core curriculum, the seeds with which to grow a full-fl edged Honors College were fi rmly planted. Dr. Fernando González-Reigosa, the Dean of Undergraduate Studies in 1972, was at the forefront of the push to create an entire Honors curriculum. ! e Honors Program, housed in a cramped offi ce space in Primera Casa, was initiated in 1990. Still, Gonzalez-Reigosa dreamed of an intellectual community in which outstanding students focused on critical thinking, personal and professional enrichment, and excellence working hand-in-hand with a group of dedicated teachers and scholars. ! is vision led eventually to the transformation of the program into an autonomous college phase of the Honors College international 2000, when Honors Place consisted within the university. outreach with the Italy Study Abroad of a mere 5 rooms, the community In 1997, after relocating twice, Program. Over four weeks, students got has expanded to 70 rooms and been the Honors Program fi nally found a to explore Venice, Florence and Rome. transformed into a community of permanent home in the Deuxieme Maison Pairing the interdisciplinary cornerstone scholars that was at one point named the building and became the Honors College. of an Honors education with the potential “Best Living and Learning Community” Invigorated by a new sense of its growing off ered by study in another country, in the state of Florida by Florida Leader value to the University, and with a larger the Study Abroad programs have since Magazine. Honors Place has fostered a space in which to stretch itself, the College blossomed into one of the College’s most family on campus for College students concentrated its eff orts on providing coveted experiences. and enabled them to grow together students with a continually evolving Dr. Fjellman also spearheaded the academically and socially. interdisciplinary curriculum. expansion of the Honors College onto the ! e community that Dean González- Recognizing that, in an increasingly North Miami campus, currently known as Reigosa left in 2001 was nothing like globalized world, it was not enough for the Biscayne Bay Campus. ! e presence the program he oversaw in its infancy. students to understand only their own culture, the College set about developing of the College there enables even more When he retired, Dr. Ivelaw Griffi th ways to give them the opportunity to students to take advantage of the special became the second dean of the Honors get fi rst-hand experience abroad. Its fi rst academic and cultural opportunities College. Under his expert leadership, the move in that direction was to establish a aff orded by the College’s programs and Honors College doubled its enrollment partnership with the University of Alcalá community. and became an even more signifi cant de Henares in Madrid, which gave rise to In 1999, Honors Place was part of the university. Among other the Spain Study Abroad Program. Students established. ! e idea was to create a things, Dean Griffi th added both the in the program travelled throughout Spain, residential living-learning community Student Research and Artistic Initiative taking in the architecture, art, culture, exclusively for Honors College students, (SRAI) and the Honors Convocation people, and food. where they could get to know one to the College’s off erings. SRAI paired In the summer of 1998, Associate another, study together, and participate faculty with students who shared similar Dean Stephen Fjellman led the next in special programs and events. Since research interests. Opportunities for The Honors College Review 5 a college provost, leaving a greatly improved Honors College in the capable hands of Dr. Lesley A. Northup, the former associate dean. Dean Northup has overseen one of the most diffi cult force. All fi nal research projects evolutions in the history of the College. are exhibited at an annual In spite of severe university-wide budget research conference each spring cuts, the College has continued to fulfi ll at FIU. its original goals and reach into new ! e annual Honors areas. According to Dean Northup, this College Convocation has been possible due “largely to the has evolved into an generosity and understanding of our outstanding showcase of great faculty Fellows, who have willingly talent and dedication of accepted a reconfi guration of how they are the College’s faculty and compensated while continuing to teach students. Students enter with passion and dedication. We have their original work, from also been able to eliminate unnecessary poetry to short stories expenditures and use technology more research in the program encompass nearly to painting, music, photography, and effi ciently, and everyone on staff has every academic discipline and artistic sculpture, in a contest, and all of it is become a super-saver.” endeavor. ! e program, now renamed on display at the Convocation. ! e At the same time, development eff orts Advanced Research and Creativity in day begins with a parade of nations have made rapid strides and opened up Honors (ARCH), gives interested students that features the fl ags of each of the new possibilities for Honors College a chance to learn by doing, rather than many countries from which both students. For example, “Food for Talk,” sitting in a classroom in a seminar. It also students and faculty hail. A bagpiper an innovative event that mixes fi ne dining enables them to do the kind of research announces the entry of the parade to with discussions of timely issues led by the Graham Center ballrooms, where the more typical of graduate study, off ering a diverse group of university scholars, Convocation celebration continues. Once an opportunity for supervised research was introduced in the spring of 2010. inside, the audience is treated to a variety of and formal creative projects. Participation Proceeds from the now annual event are musical performances by students and the in the program also increases student used to enhance the Honors College’s announcements of annual scholarship winners knowledge of opportunities within various scholarship programs. and awards for student artistic entries. disciplines, strengthens their resumes, and Today, Honors is providing some After 5 years of service to the College, gives them a competitive advantage when 1000 students with more advantages and Dr. Griffi th moved on to become applying for graduate school and the work opportunities than ever before. ! e last 6 The Honors College Review few years have seen many new initiatives the Overtown Youth Center, recruiting that have led the College into previously students in Tau Sigma Alpha, the College’s untapped areas. Such signifi cant BBC Honors Society, to serve as tutors partnerships as the 3 + 3 program with and mentors for the young people at the FIU’s Law School and a partnership with Center. ! is extremely productive and FIU’s Athletics Department are now in constantly evolving program now hosts place, strengthening the Honors College’s an annual luncheon at BBC celebrating ties with the university and helping the Overtown students, and conducts a Honors students advance. weekly SAT tutoring program and book ! e College has also begun to place far club. It has also brought such exciting greater emphasis on outreach and service guests as Edwidge Danticat to the campus learning, as students are encouraged to speak. to take leadership roles and contribute Under Dean Northup’s leadership, to the community. ! e pioneering the Honors College continues to look to Sweetwater partnership impacts FIU and the future, while still keeping one eye on the past and both feet on the the surrounding community, as students ground. ! e creative mix of tutor children, teach sports and hygiene, outstanding faculty, students plant community gardens and trees, and staff continues to generate mentor seniors in computer use, off er innovative curricular and citizenship classes, and put together events service opportunities that help with the elementary school. ! rough the prepare students for productive Sweetwater partnership, members of the and successful futures. Honors community can work together for common goals, perform an important service, and enjoy excellent learning opportunities through unusual and challenging internships. ! e Honors College on the Biscayne Bay Campus has begun its own community service initiative. In 2007, Jayne Klein, the BBC Program Director, established a partnership with Honors College Magazine E . T
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Over the years, many deserving Honors College students have benefi tted from the generosity of the College’s donors. Some
of those fortunate students have already achieved their professional goals, and others are well on their way to achieving them.
Today, many of those graduates, armed with the desire to serve as beacons of light on the path to success for new generations
of students, are reconnecting with their alma mater so they can help build an ever-wider circle of giving. Most of you will
remember, fondly, two key former staff members who speak here of the importance of your contributions.
8 The Honors College Review CARYL GROF but we need your help. And you can help grow in their careers and personal lives, was a fi xture at FIU by giving something back to the Honors shaped in part by their experiences with from 1980 until her College.” professors like Caryl Grof. retirement last year. “If I were an Honors alumnus, I would She worked with some SHARON PLACIDE think about what my most meaningful of the University’s best spent 11 years working experience in the College was and then students. As an instructor and Associate and teaching in the fi nd some way to contribute to that Dean in the Honors College, she feels Honors College. She area,” Placide said. “Our alumni can that Honors College students have taught remains passionate contribute in a number of ways: they can her as much as she taught them. “! e about the College’s attend Honors College events, they can combination of an interdisciplinary purpose and students: “We force students expose our students to the professional approach to teaching and learning with to think analytically about inhabiting world, and they can help by sharing their a dedicated faculty who exemplifi es this others’ lives, Not just through the experiences with current students.” in their everyday lives, coupled with humanities, but through the natural Sharon’s greatest passion is the students willing to go beyond grades and sciences as well. Some students are study abroad program. She feels that look at life through a variety of lenses uncomfortable with that, but it stretches it is a powerful means of opening has been the Honors College’s passion their skills nevertheless.” Both she and students’ minds by providing them with from its inception. Love of education, professor Grof witnessed fi rst-hand the experiences “far beyond mere travel. It talent, passion, and creativity are some Honors College’s evolution from a program provides them with educational activities, of the things the Honors College prides with only about 400 students to one with enables them to actually experience a new itself on. As we move into the future, we over 1000. While under Dean Northup, civilization, a new culture, and everything reach out to our alumni for support. We she said, “there hasn’t been the same in between.” ! ose of our alumni who ask that you look back fondly on your fi nancial freedom [as under earlier deans], have been fortunate enough to participate memories of all the support you received this Dean has still managed to creatively in this program could help the College from us. Many of you have told us how enhance the Honors programs and expand and its students a great deal by making a much the Honors College helped change the extracurricular off erings for students.” contribution, large or small, to a program your life. We can continue to provide the ! ose off erings are something that that will lead them to discover new excellence that you all benefi ted from, graduates will be able to hold onto as they worlds of thought.
INVEST in the FUTURE NOW! We instill in all Honors students intellectual rigor, unwavering ethical standards, and leadership skills. To be leaders, they know they have to begin to give back to the community that has fostered their education and growth. Honors students have embraced this challenge to become leaders, investing their time, talent, and treasure in the Sweetwater partnership, the Overtown Youth Center, and numerous campus initiatives. This is your chance to invest in them.
Our most crucial needs: r A NAMING SPONSOR for either the College or its proposed new building. The Honors College is out of space, and the State cannot provide it! We need a building with classrooms, labs, advising of! ces, and community spaces to house our students and bring them together. This is your opportunity to make a meaningful, values-driven, and lasting contribution to the future. r STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIPS to help deserving students experience another culture and be better citizens of the world. r OUT-OF-STATE (and country) SCHOLARSHIPS to bring the world to Honors, defraying the high costs of tuition and housing for non-Floridians. r GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP assistance that we can use discretionarily to help those in most need. r UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS to advance the skills, knowledge, and passions of students from the beginning of their academic careers.
For information on any aspect of giving to the Honors College, please contact Juan Carlos Espinosa at 305-348-4100 or email espinosj@fi u.edu.
The Honors College Review 9 SPRING 2011
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Discover the intellectual treasures at Miami’s burgeoning public institution of higher learning. Food for Talk is an intimate opportunity to eat, drink, and converse with university scholars on a wide variety of topics. Whether you’re interested in !ne wines, U.S. foreign policy, particle colliders, sports or the human psyche, you’ll !nd a discussion table of fascinating companions.
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Does my dog really love me? What happens if you fall into a black hole? What is art? Is Fidel Castro already dead?
planning and Barefoot Wine and Bubbly and Aguilar beer donated their wares. The guests who gathered to &&!& %'!- (! ! ! ' CAB members, prominent community members, alums, and other friends of the Honors College. One alum waxed nostalgic, musing that the various discussions brought back memories of her days as a student in Honors College seminars. Amidst plentiful Italian food and non-stop wine and beer, the discussions went on late into the evening. The event closed with a poetry reading by the world-renowned
One of the evening’s most popular poet and FIU alum, Richard Blanco. discussions was led by Psychology Through his poetry, Blanco, a Cuban- Professor Bennett Schwartz, who American, explores the ways in which cultural identity is negotiated. The %$& &%&% !& - !"$ & "! on the mental and emotional lives entire audience was captivated by his of animals with his fellow diners. At poem, “Thanksgiving Dinner,” dealing another table, diners seated with Barry with the way that many ethnic families Gump from the School of Hospitality celebrate Thanksgiving by mixing the Management learned about wine Ð and traditional American meal with their These were just some of the got to taste several different ones, as own cultural specialties, be it spicy thought-provoking questions that FIU he brought several bottles to the table curries, pork fat, or stir fry. scholars discussed during “Food for with him. Guests seated at the “What If you wonder if your dog really ,& " /%-$%&'!$ % ! is Art?” table enjoyed their experience loves you, or whether men and dinner. The event, which was so with John Bailly so much that they women are really different, just make successful that it is slated to become a immediately reserved the same table plans to come to the next Food for regular annual feature of the College, for this year’s event. Talk event this spring, and you just was held at the Wolfe University Center Food for Talk was organized by the might get some answers or provide Ballroom on the Biscayne Bay Campus Honors College and its Community them. Eat, drink, network, and "! $'$+&&'$-&! Advisory Board (CAB) in order to enjoy a great evening! Stay tuned intriguing faculty members leading raise money for the Honors College over the next few months for the discussions on such topics as religion, Scholarship Fund. CAB member announcement of the Second Annual sex, wine and global warming. Orlando Gonzales spearheaded the Food for Talk this spring. The Honors College Review 11 &'!&$"- % Emma V. Lopez Emma Lopez, senior, majors in currently works as a physics learning environmental engineering with assistant. In 2006, she interned with a minor in earth science. She is the Department of Earth Science, actively involved in the Society of where she assisted graduate students Women Engineers and the Catholic with such research activities as Student Union at FIU. She also collecting sediment samples from participated in Alternative Spring Florida Bay, analyzing peat samples Break (ASB), helping patients with from Australia, and collecting data on AIDS and HIV. This summer, she South Florida hurricanes. She was participated in the study abroad also a DOE Fellow, doing research at program to the Peruvian Amazon. As FIU’s Applied Research Center on a her project, she constructed rain water mercury project analyzing data from a collection systems in three schools creek in Tennessee. for indigenous mestizo communities ! "+%! !. !" so that the children could have clean and has performed for children at drinking water. local schools. She has also been a Emma has also worked at the guest speaker for Career Day. Emma ! !$ ! !/%"-"!($ "'% loves travelling and has been to many projects such as the Solar House and European countries, India, China, the Motorola Engineering Expo. She and Turkey.
Richaud Pack New Honors College member full athletic scholarship. Richaud plans Richaud J.F. Pack is more than just to pursue a career in medicine because a scholar. In his native Michigan, he he is passionate about helping people. made headlines with his athleticism. Perhaps this comes from his experience He recently graduated magna cum growing up: “The one thing I appreciate laude from Ernest W. Seaholm High about my family is my parents’ School in Birmingham, Michigan, commitment to each of us academically where he broke the single basketball and athletically. They have given scoring record with 56 points, and me and my siblings a great spiritual holds the school record for most foundation to build upon. I admire the total points. ESPN named him the closeness that my siblings and I share.” USA Midwest player of the week. He is excited to be a part of the Honors In Michigan he was the only player College: “I joined the Honors College this century to score over 100 points because I wanted a smoother transition combined in two consecutive games into higher education, which will be (45+56). Richaud also earned the % $'&" + !%&!&- & "!) & President of the United States’ Gold small group of students and professors Award for Community Service in high that have similar capabilities and school. Given his achievements, it is aspirations.” The College looks forward not surprising that FIU offered him a to Richaud’s ongoing achievements.
12 The Honors College Review Student Activities
FIU vs Rutgers Tailgate Honors College students, the Provost and Dean Northup were among the enthusiastic tailgaters on September 11th at the FIU vs. Rutgers game. Smart people do love sports!
Smart people love sports and competitive excellence. The FIU Honors College and the This partnership also encourages Athletics Department have undertaken Honors students to support and a long-term partnership designed to appreciate FIU athletics. Students offer student athletes the best of both participate in “Honors College Nights” academics and athletics at FIU. at various games and meets, sponsor The Honors College seeks to tailgate parties and become involved recruit scholar athletes into our with sports-oriented community service community, where they will be projects through the Honors College Ð recognized equally for their academic Sweetwater partnership.
A&V Exhibition The A & V installation is the culmination of an Honors College seminar taught by artist and Honors College fellow John Bailly. The class examines the role visual art plays in the social dialogue over controversial issues. This year the exhibition moved to the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum at FIU, a testament to the exceptional quality of the work by the students and the growing prestige of the exhibition. The Honors College Review 13 Honors College – City of Sweetwater Partnership We are making a difference.
What do you know about Sweetwater? other students ran a sports program for !e school was also the site for a Perhaps you have breezed through this 4th-grade girls, tutored youngsters after wildly successful “Artistic Evening,” compact city on your way down 107th school, and conducted a news literacy put together by students in one of the Avenue to FIU, or stopped at one of its survey of Spanish-speaking citizens for an College’s first-year leadership classes. shops or restaurants. But you probably Honors seminar. In a few short months, !ese ambitious folks planned an event don’t know much about our neighbor to the partnership is enabling the College where young artists from both the the north. !e Honors College is doing to become an integral part of the urban elementary school and Honors displayed something about that. community that has been FIU’s home. their work and performed musical In October 2009, the College initiated As you might expect, Honors students selections. Some three hundred people an innovative partnership with the City of have been particularly drawn to working attended this joyous cultural initiative, Sweetwater. A true example of university- with children. At Sweetwater Elementary for which local restaurateurs, solicited community engagement, the partnership School, they have been running a program by members of the class, provided a brings members of the College together sponsored by the Women’s Sports reception. Honors instructor John with Sweetwater residents to provide a Foundation that teaches young girls about Bailly spoke at the event, talking about range of high-impact community services exemplary female athletes and healthy feeding a child’s thirst for learning by and exciting educational opportunities for nutrition and lifestyle choices, along with experimentation and experience. our students. !is past spring, ten students the fun of playing basketball. After the Youngsters were not the only focus of served in internships in the mayor’s office first few tentative girls came to the early the partnership, of course. !is summer, and with community leaders, learning sessions, word of mouth guaranteed a at the request of Raul Rodriguez, owner how a small city is governed, funded, and stream of enthusiastic participants for the and benefactor of Li’l Abner Mobile improved. At the same time, dozens of rest of the spring. Home Park—home to almost a third of
14 The Honors College Review In 1938, a group of expatriate performers known as the “Russian Midget Circus Group” settled in what was then called Sweetwater Estates.
Sweetwater’s residents— Honors senior Arbor Day Foundation. Also on the accompanying two others sponsored by Tania Santiago ran an exercise program for sustainability front, students from Dr. Raul Rodriguez. women several days a week. !is proved Brian Peterson’s first-year Honors class are Sweetwater is no longer a mystery to to be such a hit that the women have working with the elementary school to the people of FIU. Our students have prevailed upon Rodriguez to pay her to create a student-run vegetable garden on learned, for example, that in 1938, a stay on for the fall. the grounds. group of expatriate performers known At Sweetwater’s Senior Center, Honors !roughout all this activity, Honors as the “Russian Midget Circus Group” students have also begun a regular visiting students have served in dynamic settled in what was then called Sweetwater program that brings them into one-on-one internships in the Sweetwater Police Estates. Formed in Russia in 1907, the relationships with residents. !is fall, they Department, the Office of Social Services, Circus had rapidly become famous. With began teaching these senior citizens how the Office of Economic Development, the Russian Revolution in 1917, the to use the Center’s computers to send and the Finance Office, the Office of the City group gave up its home country and, in receive email and to surf the Net, linking Clerk, and the Office of the Assistant to 1930, after having traveled all over the them to their families and the world. the Chief of Staff. !ese opportunities have world, arrived in America at the Port Coming this fall, in addition to been invaluable. Interns have learned how of San Francisco. After performing for the continuation of past successes, are to write grants, prepare legislation, plan for almost three decades, the group members several new programs. Expanding into an election, run governmental meetings, became U.S. citizens. !eir retirement environmental concerns, the partnership and deal with constituents. One intern was destination is now home to what will be giving elementary students trees to given a paying job for the summer. !e ten Chairman Al Dotson of the university’s be planted and cared for in conjunction current City internships were expanded Board of Trustees calls the Finest with the Reclamation Project and the to fourteen and formalized in the fall, Institution in the Universe—FIU!
The Honors College Review 15 s u m m e r i n the Amazon THE HONORS COLLEGE IS Worlds Ahead
THE HONORS COLLEGE IS GEARING UP FOR ANOTHER EXCITING SUMMER STUDY ABROAD TRIP TO THE JUNGLES AND VILLAGES OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON. !e trip is part of a two-semester service-research program, begun 3 years ago under the guidance of Dr. James Riach and Dr. Devon L. Graham. !e students will be working to continue the various student initiatives, studies, and projects that others began in years past and to create new ones. During the spring semester, students learn about the features of the Amazon rainforest and its natural and cultural history. !e studies will focus on the current challenges to the environment and the region’s indigenous people. Faculty directors will encourage each student to choose a project about which he or she is really passionate, which the students will implement while in the Amazon during the summer. !e program works largely in tandem with Project Amazonas, Inc., a Peruvian-American non-profit organization that focuses on humanitarian, educational, research, and conservation work in the Peruvian Amazon and operates four field stations there. It is dedicated primarily to the conservation of Amazonian wildlife and to the livelihood of the peoples who live there. In previous years, the partnerships formed between Honors College students and Amazon residents spanned a wide range of topics and disciplines, reflecting the interests of each student. Some worked to address community needs for health care,
16 The Honors College Review sanitation, and potable water. Others focused on programs to help revitalize and chart the culture of the people in the indigenous Yagua communities. Still others documented the biodiversity of the region and the human and natural factors influencing it. One significant student project involved collecting information on the medicinal uses of plants, a knowledge that has long been an integral part of the rich tradition of natural medicine in these communities. One major project dealt with water filtration and latrine systems. It has already resulted in an increased ability of the local communities to stave off diseases. As an integral part of that project, an “Staying in the Amazon, away from civilization and educational campaign on hygiene and sanitation was conducted. having very limited communication with the outside In the area of cultural revitalization, world, was an unforgettable experience, truly once two members of this year’s group – Ernesto Alfonso and Jennifer Tovar in a lifetime. ... But besides everything I physically – are striving to find common ground between the younger and the older experienced, it was also a time in which I was able generations in the Yagua community in to reflect upon many things about my life. !is order to revitalize their language and culture. !e Yaguan traditions, like many experienced helped me grow as a person in ways other indigenous traditions, are fading I never thought of before.” — Jenny Tovar (2010) quickly. Not only does this represent an impending loss of their knowledge and culture, but it also points to a more elders working together in their native that “when things change enough so that serious practical problem since the language and cultural idioms. it is us on the outside who are visited by granting or retraction of land rights and Christopher Gillette, who took native Amazonians and asked what our other benefits to the people is based at part in the 2008 Peruvian Amazon needs and interests are, then we have least in part on the preservation of their program and is a student in FIU’s made real progress. People must first culture. What will happen if there is no Environmental Studies Program and realize that the Amazon is important longer a traditional culture to preserve? an amateur photographer, documented and indispensable, not just because of Alfonso and Tovar plan to document some of the Amazonian wildlife. He the resources and services it provides, on film some of the elements of the described his excursion into the Amazon but also because of the different ways of Yaguan culture. !ey hope to track as “the experience of a lifetime, honestly, thinking and types of knowledge held individual attitudes toward the something that has changed my life by its human residents. !e Amazon and importance of preserving the culture and forever.” His work made such an impact its people need to be allowed to evolve. at the same time help preserve it.!ey are on him that he plans to go back during It has been said that the one constant in also working with the teachers in the area the next winter break to continue it. the universe is change. We just need to in order to produce a play based on folk Although there will always be more change in a manner that is not unhealthy storytelling using the Yagua language, in work to do, the program offers much and that will allow for continued well- an effort to have the children and their hope for the future. Dr. Riach has said being for future generations.” The Honors College Review 17 Excellence Lecture
18 The Honors College Review A Journalist’s Voyage with the Eco-Pirates of Antarctica
and answered a seemingly unending down. Half of their group had just been number of questions posed to him by butchered in this water, many crying for the audience. Everyone present found a long time before they died.” it painful to hear the chilling stories he Heller explained that, in 1986, the told of how these beautiful, intelligent International Whaling Commission creatures were routinely and cruelly (IWC), a group of 66 nations that makes slaughtered for no legitimate reason. regulations and recommendations on ! e Farley Mowat is owned by the whaling around the world, enacted a Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, moratorium on open-sea commercial a radical anti-whaling group led by whaling in response to the rapidly- Paul Watson, the man who founded declining numbers of the Earth’s largest Greenpeace in 1972, but has since left mammals. ! e Japanese, who have been it. ! e group is constantly in pursuit aggressive whalers since the end of World of Japanese whalers, and when it fi nds War II, exploited a loophole in the law them, it often takes extreme measures to that allows signatories to kill a certain stop the killing that follows inevitably in number of whales each year for “scientifi c their wake. Toward that end, the Farley research.” ! eir fl aunting of the law is is armed with water cannons, a catapult one of the many justifi cations cited by for fl inging garbage, a reinforced bow Watson for stopping the Japanese fl eet Last spring, the Honors College for ramming, and a weapon called the from engaging in its illegal commercial Excellence Lecture series featured Peter “can opener,” a giant blade mounted enterprise, which provides whale meat Heller, an award-winning adventure on the bow of the ship used to rip open for restaurants. writer, sea life activist, and author of the the hull of any commercial whaling In answer to the question, Can best-selling book, ! e Whale Warriors: ship. Its 44-person, all volunteer crew is the commercial killing of whales be ! e Battle at the Bottom of the World to fearless, dedicated, and passionate about justifi ed? Heller asserted that biologically, Save the Planet’s Largest Mammals. In its common cause — each one ready ecologically, economically, logically, his lecture, he detailed the hair-raising, and willing to give up his life if to do so morally, and ethically, the answer is often shocking, experiences he had over would save the life of even a single whale. emphatically “no.” “Nothing in their the course of the two months he spent Heller told of how, when the ship was makeup has prepared them for the new aboard the eco-pirate ship Farley Mowat in Taiji, Japan, which is known primarily perils we humans impose on them: as it hunted an illegal Japanese whaling as a whaling town, a group of world- depletion of their food sources, pollution fl eet in the stormy Atlantic waters off famous surfers and activists joined the of the waters they live in, disruption of Antarctica. Heller vividly described crew and formed “surfer’s circles” in the their social structure, and most obviously, how, after weeks of enduring heavy seas, water to help prevent any more whales killing them outright … If the oceans are dodging icebergs, and playing cat-and- being killed. His description of the dying in our time, and we kill them … we mouse with various authorities, the scenario was heartbreaking: “Fourteen should have committed a crime so heinous Farley fi nally found the Japanese fl eet. or fi fteen of the little whales pressed in we shall not ever be redeemed.” Heller shared story after story panic against a far net stretched across about his shipboard adventures with a the cove. ! ey huddled together as we Heller’s latest book is KOOK: What Surfi ng fascinated audience of over 300 people. got close. Small babies nosed out of Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the He read other excerpts from the book the water to peer at us. ! ey calmed Perfect Wave.
The Honors College Review 19 HONORS COLLEGE Community Advisory Board
Four dynamic South Florida business and community leaders have joined the Honors College Community Advisory
Board (CAB). Jonathan Cameron, Leonie M. Hermantin, Ralph Rios, Raul F. Rodriguez and Tina M. Vidal-Smith join a
vibrant board of leaders who work to support the students, mission and programs of the FIU Honors College.
Jonathan Cameron supporting grassroots initiatives in Haiti’s and Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF), Jonathan Cameron rural communities. Formerly the Director including event organization and student is an FIU Honors of Research and Strategic Planning at the professional development. College graduate Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center in (2007) and works Miami, she has over ten years of non-profit Raul F. Rodriguez for the investment management experience. As part of her Raul F. Rodriguez management firm contribution to the CAB, she will forge a was born in Miami Morgan Keegan in Coral Gables. He has partnership between the Lambi Fund and and is a graduate of worked in the financial services industry the Honors College. Belen Jesuit for 4 years and currently manages the Preparatory School. business operations for three financial Ralph Rios He attended the Real advisors as a Registered Client Service Ralph Rios is West Colegio Universitario Escorial Maria Associate. In this role he helps establish Kendall Baptist Cristina in Madrid and Florida and maintain relationships with high net Hospital’s new Vice International University. A successful worth clients, and trades stocks, bonds, President of businessman and community leader, options, and other investment vehicles. Professional Services. Rodriguez has a varied set of business He is also actively involved with the He is on the board of interests. He is the founder and president Honors College Alumni Chapter. In the South Miami Children’s Clinic, which of Agua Dulce Investments, LLC, a addition, he enjoys reading, camping, serves needy kids in the City of South private investment and family wealth and following the Florida Marlins. Miami. Rios graduated from Florida management company; chairman and International University with a master’s vice president of NAS Homes, an Leonie M. Hermantin degree in Health Services Administration importer and exporter of home products, Leonie M. in 2000. Rios also served as an adjunct with offices in China and Mexico; and Hermantin’s career instructor in FIU’s Health Services founder, chairman and president of Luar reflects her Administration program from 2001-2008. Entertainment, with ownership interest commitment to Haiti Rios takes over on the CAB for Javier in Segafredo Brickell and Irish Pub. He is and the Haitian Hernandez-Lichtl, who is now CEO of also the managing director of Lil’ Abner diaspora community. West Kendall Baptist Hospital. Rios will be Mobile Home Park, a community of She is the Deputy Director of the Lambi instrumental in the continued development about 3,500 residents in Sweetwater. His Fund of Haiti, a community foundation of relations between the Honors College other interests include breeding Paso
20 The Honors College Review THE HONORS COLLEGE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD 2010-2011
Ruth D. Jimenez CAB Chair Vice-President & Branch Manager US Century Bank
Fino horses and martial arts.
As president of the Rayni Ricky Arriola Sergio Barrera Jonathan Cameron Carlos Castellon Xavier Cortada President, Chief Executive Registered Client CPA Artist Foundation, he has provided over 100 Inktel Direct Officer Service Associate Jordan, Castellon, Business Travel Morgan Keegan & Ricardo PL scholarships for immigrant children. Advisors, Inc. Company, Inc. Rodriguez was instrumental in the creation of the Sweetwater Project, a multi-faceted collaboration between the FIU Honors College and the residents, government and other institutions in the city of Sweetwater. Renier Diaz de la The Honorable Gerald C. Grant, Jr. Orlando Gonzales Leonie Hermantin Portilla Anitere Flores Branch Director CAB Vice Chair Deputy Director School Board State AXA Advisors Program Manager Lambi Fund of Member, District 5 Representative SER-Jobs for Haiti Tina M. Vidal-Smith Miami-Dade County State of Florida Progress National, Public Schools Inc. Honors College alumna Tina M. Vidal-Smith is currently vice president of business development at Pacer Corporation, a company that David Samuel Hitt The Honorable Patrick Morris Gustavo Martinez J. David Peña Vice President Steve Leifman Chief Development Pandiani Attorney acquires and turns around financially Banco Popular Associate Admin- Officer Deputy Consul J. David Peña & istrative Judge YMCA Republic of Associates distressed businesses in several industries. Miami Dade Argentina County Courts Vidal-Smith graduated from FIU with a bachelor’s degree in international business and marketing in 2002 and a master’s degree in international business in 2004. She is also the 2010 recipient of FIU’s prestigious Torch Award, Frank Ramos Ralph Rios Raul Rodriguez Tina Vidal Smith Juan C. Vila recognizing alumni who have made a Attorney at Law, Vice President President Chief Operating President and CEO Mediator of Professional Agua Dulce Officer Vila & Son positive impact on their profession, the Clarke, Silverglate Services Investments, LLC Pacer Corporation Landscaping & Campbell, P.A West Kendall Corporation community and the university. Baptist Hospital
The Honors College Review 21 22 The Honors College Review Frank & Ana One great achievement of the Honors it finally gave us a chance to meet.” and in the process of questioning what College has been the happy couple who It seems that Frank had been admiring I believed, what I had been taught, I met in the Honors Program 18 years her for quite some time before Ana discovered that I truly did believe it. Not ago— Ana and Frank Ramos. !eir approached him: “I first saw Ana during just because I was told to, but because I courtship and marriage have made them the first break-out session when Honors. had confronted it, tested it, and found the proud parents of two boys, David, 12, Prof. Weitz was discussing the finer points it to be worthy. !e Honors College and Michael, 9. Frank and Ana are regular of “Back to the Future” with Michael J. Fox, strengthened my faith and my moral visitors to the campus and are dedicated to and Ana seemed to have an answer for every compass simply by challenging it.” serving and helping their Honors College. question while I sat silently admiring her. !e After graduating in 1993, Frank following week Ana approached me about a Frank: “I met my wife through the Honors attended the University of Miami Law questionnaire we’d filled out for class. !at Program, and I would not be successful School. He now works for Clark Silverglate conversation sparked a series of dates.” without her.” & Campbell, where he was recently Ana recalls working on the Honors elevated to administrative partner. He’s College annual projects, which were always Currently you are very active with FIU been the president of the Florida Defense intense but also very satisfying. Frank and and the Honors College. Why give back Lawyers Association and the inaugural Ana collaborated on both projects they to the Honors College? president of the 11th Judicial Circuit presented. !ey spent countless hours Ana: “I am a huge believer in the Historical Society. Frank also serves as an researching, conducting interviews, and importance of higher education. I am the Honors College Community Advisory writing the 50+ page reports. As Ana daughter of Cuban immigrants and a first- Board member and Alumni Association humorously noted, “It actually showed generation college student. !e education I Board member. us that we complemented each other We have experienced Frank and Ana’s very nicely and that we could spend received at FIU and in the Honors College special love for their alma mater on many an inordinate amount of time together were a crucial part of making me who I occasions. We asked them to share with us without killing each other, very important am today, and I feel indebted to our alma a little bit about the importance of Honors things to know when you’re engaged. mater.” in their lives. Turning in those completed projects and knowing that we had accomplished Frank: “It was such an integral part of our Do you remember your first encounter? them together was always a cause for lives; we thought it was important to give back to a program that gave so much to us.” Ana: “I was working on an Honors celebration.” assignment. We were given a questionnaire Do you think the Honors College Any advice for the current students? to answer anonymously and then hand contributed to your success? in. !ey were redistributed with only our Ana: “Take advantage of every positive social security number on it, and we had Ana: “!e Honors Program brought me opportunity you are offered. Enjoy your to analyze the person who had answered to Frank, who is my partner, best friend, time in college and pay attention to the life the one we were given. I had seen Frank and the love of my life. I can’t imagine you’re living right now, not just the life you in our small discussion group, and I was what life would have been like without hope to one day live. Above all, know what very curious if the questionnaire I had to him, so for that I’ll be forever grateful you believe and why you believe it, and analyze was his. So I walked up to him to the Honors College. Aside from that, then be faithful to that.” during Honors and asked him for his social the Honors Program strengthened my security number. He seemed confused, but faith in everything I believe in. !ey Frank: “Figure out what your dreams are he rattled it off anyway. It wasn’t him, but challenged us to question everything, and pursue them wholeheartedly.” The Honors College Review 23 Alumni Notes W As an example to Gainesville to study at the UF sure he could get a job that would of a Levin College of Law, from which he allow him to lounge around in his committed, graduated, cum laude, in 2003. He has underwear all day. That would have lifelong Honors put his communication skills to use been a prophetic thought, given his learner, while arguing cases before the Florida career path. Starting a small operation alumna Janet Third District Court of Appeal and the he literally ran out of a spare bedroom L. Dapprich United States Court of Appeals for in his condo, Gandara is now (1998) the Eleventh Circuit and applied his President of Underwear Station, Inc., completed her research and writing abilities as senior a wholesale distributor of men’s and master’s in research editor for the Florida Journal women’s intimate apparel, specializing education degree on April 26, 2010, the of International Law in 2002-2003 in high-end and high-fashion day of her 58th birthday. Her graduate and as author of publications such as underwear. Gandara developed his studies focused on the areas of cultural Immigration Law: Nowhere to Turn— work ethic during his time at FIU, diversity and competency. These are Illegal Aliens Cannot Use the Freedom where he was not only an Honors issues she deals with on a daily basis in of Information Act as a Discovery Tool College student but also served as her position as Health Education to Fight Unfair Removal Hearings. President of the FIU Chapter of the Coordinator at the Department of ——— American Marketing Association, Veterans’ Affairs in Miami. served as a consultant for FIU’s Joel Gandara ——— Athletic Department working on (2003) was alumni awareness, and continued to The research, writing, and such a busy work on building his business in communications skills that he gained and hard- whatever spare time he had. After at Honors College classes have served working graduating from FIU in December of Larry Fleurantin (2000) well in his undergrad 2003 with a B.A. in International law practice for the past six-and-a-half that you’d Relations, Gandara was able to years. After graduating summa cum think he dedicate his energies exclusively to laude from FIU in 2000, he moved wanted to be developing his company. His business has recorded more than a 100% gain Sometimes it only takes one life-changing year after year and despite the experience to set your career on a new path recession, under Gandara’s direction the or reinvigorate your life goals. For Jacqueline company has found new markets and Alfonso, (2000) one such experience was her brands that have helped increase sales. trip to Italy in summer of 1998 as part of the ——— Honors Italy Study Abroad Program. Following Honors alumna Nicole Stratten this experience, she decided to pursue a doctoral (2005) is also an Honors College degree in psychology, partly inspired by her RIÀFHVWDIIDOXPQD$IWHUZRUNLQJ distinguished, PhD-holding Honors professors. for Honors for 4 years as a program Jacqueline graduated summa cum laude in 2000 assistant and subsequently as an from FIU with a B.A. in Psychology. She went academic adviser, Nicole left Florida on to earn her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at shortly after completing her M.A. the University of Central Florida, where she concentrated her research on in Liberal Studies at FIU. She is substance abuse prevention and intervention. After completing a predoctoral FXUUHQWO\WKH$VVLVWDQW)URQW2IÀFH internship year at the Greater Hartford Internship Consortium, in August of Manager for the Holiday Inn University 2008 she joined the Emmanuel College faculty, where she currently teaches Plaza in Bowling Green, Kentucky. in the Psychology Department and works with undergraduate students in her 6KHVXSHUYLVHVÀYH*XHVW6HUYLFH on-campus laboratory. Representatives and two bellmen. 24 The Honors College Review Jerzy Brodzikowski (2007) was an Shortly after active and dynamic Honors student graduation, budding leader, serving as President of Tau visual artist Sigma Alpha, the Honors Biscayne Rosemarie Romero Bay Honors Society. His interest (2009) has already in politics and international issues curated shows and has been further explored in his exhibited her own graduate studies. He is currently original artworks at working as a project assistant and Art Center South analyst at demosEUROPA - Centre Florida and the Black for European Strategy, a think tank Mangrove Collective in Miami, receiving press and success. She is currently at in Poland. In this position, Jerzy the University of Florida pursuing an MFA in Creative Photography. To that end, examines Polish and other European she participated in the Florida Board of Education (BOE) Summer Fellowship economies and their prospects for program for professional networking as well as taking classes, thanks to the a low-carbon future. He will publish teaching assistantship and 100% tuition waiver she was awarded. She also a report based on his findings by has a solo show of her artwork coming up at the World Erotic Art Museum in the end of this year. To further August in South Beach and an exhibition called Parapraxis at the Bakehouse broaden his already globally-minded Art Complex in October. educational horizons, Jerzy will be applying to PhD programs in the During his time that made her such a dynamic and fields of political ecology and energy as an productive Honors student leader policymaking. undergraduate during her time at FIU. As if currently ——— biology major, attending law school at Duke University Honors gave were not enough, she also serves as Richard Jonathan president of the Duke Women Law Garcia (2007) Moser (2008) Students Association and Co-Chair of graduated the opportunity the Immigration Education Program and from FIU to travel to worked last summer at the U.S. State with a Jamaica as Department. Keeping busy last summer, Bachelors in part of the Honors Jamaica Study VKHZRUNHGDWWKHODZRIÀFHVRI&DUOWRQ Psychology. Abroad program. This allowed him to Fields in downtown Miami, while also He recently step outside the classroom and learn campaigning for Republican candidate completed his about a different environment and for Congress Paul Crespo and working Masters FXOWXUHE\H[SHULHQFLQJLWÀUVWKDQG on bringing Duke Law’s Southern degree in Sexuality Studies from San Learning about Jamaica’s ecology and Justice Spring Break program to Miami. Francisco State University. His thesis geology also gave him the experience explores the ways gay and queer ——— of what being in an unfamiliar trans-men (female-to-male Ever since graduation, Sociology environment would be like—something transgender) negotiate sex, risk, and and International Relations double that helped prepare him for his graduate pleasure when engaging in sexual major Vanessa De La Ossa (2010) research work. As an FIU grad student activities with other men (including has immersed herself in public in the biology department, Jonathan has trans and non-trans men). Richard is service. She earned a Congressional spent over 2 months this summer in currently working as Program Hispanic Caucus Institute Public Alaska, participating in an intensive 4 Coordinator for the National Sexuality Policy Fellowship, working both at the -week Arctic ecology course and Resource Center at SFSU, and will Department of State and then at the researching water relations and carbon be applying to PhD programs next 2IÀFHRI&RQJUHVVZRPDQ&DURO\Q ÁX[RI$UFWLFWXQGUDYHJHWDWLRQ year in either health promotion or Maloney (R-NY) for her second ——— sociology. placement. Vanessa continued working Ever-industrious alumna Rocio Perez with Congresswoman Maloney as a full- (2008) is maintaining the work ethic time staff member in Washington, D.C. The Honors College Review 25 Alumni Notes
Being a true Honors College student means balancing both scholarship and citizenship—in other words, not always having your head buried in books and research but sometimes looking up at the world around you and seeing how you can play a part to make a difference. Alum Zeke Romero (2009) seems to have found a way to meld both in his post-grad occupation. He received a paid internship with the National Republican Congressional Committee, working as a Hispanic Outreach Communications intern. This fall he will be attending the Indiana University- Bloomington Maurer School of Law, with a $15,000 per year scholarship. He is also an Associate of the Council on Legal Educational Opportunity (CLEO), a program designed to promote GLYHUVLW\LQWKHOHJDOSURIHVVLRQE\SURYLGLQJDFDGHPLFÀQDQFLDODQGPHQWRULQJ programs to minorities and low-income individuals.
Savvy IN MEMORIAM entrepreneur and business graduate Justin Vizaro (2010) already has his own business up and running Veronica Allais successfully. Class of 2010 He started his company, Local 10 Card, in his hometown of St. Petersburg, but he plans on expanding it to other cities, including Miami, this fall. Its main product is a discount card that is only valid at locally owned businesses. After being operational for only about a month, Local 10 already offer discounts at over 100 businesses. Check out the website for more information: http://www. Igor Mata local10card.com. Class of 2013 To Join the Honors College Alumni Chapter visit O[[W!OVUVYZÄ\LK\HS\TUP. For more information about the Alumni We are all eager to know what you are up to! Send in your news, updates, and other interesting tidbits to Kanchana Marapana at kmarapan@fi u.edu. Any and all stories are welcome-be it news of jobs, fellowships, Chapter or the Honors College Community weddings, births, travels, promotions, and other signifi cant milestones in your life. Advisory Board, please contact 2HUJOHUH 26 4HYHWHUH at 305-348-4100 or email The Honors College Review RTHYHWHU'Ä\LK\. WJuly Honors College Alumni Happy Hour About 30 Honors College Alumni gathered at the Happy Hour at Grimpa Steakhouse in Brickell on July 2010. Our special thanks to Frank Ramos for helping us arrange this event.
WSeptember Alumni Happy Hour Honors Alumni network at Segafredo Brickell, made possible by Community Advisory Board member Raul Rodriguez.
The Honors College Review 27 FALL SEMESTER CALENDAR OF EVENTS
October 14 Excellence Lecture – Anya Kamenetz 3:30pm CBC 255
November 1 Colloquium BBC – Michael Heithaus 2:00pm BBC/TBD
November 9 Colloquium – Lettie Bien 3:30pm DM 100
November 13 L’il Abner Foundation Thanksgiving Bash 10:00am-2:00pm L’il Abner Mobile Home Park 11239 Northwest 4th TER, Miami, FL 33172
November 20 L’il Abner Foundation Gala TBA Belen Jesuit Prep School (Tentative) 500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
December 3 Honors College Awards Assembly 6:00pm GC 243
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