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Recognized for Sea Level Rise Community Work
FIU’s Associate Professor Juliet Pinto, and an eyesontherise.org team member, received the “Forward Thinking Award” from the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce this month for her work — and the work of others she has helped lead — related to sea level rise communication and science in South Florida.
Seed Grant Helps Fund Future Initiatives
A $3,800 seed grant from the College of Architecture + the Arts, of which FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication is joining, has been awarded to an 11-person faculty team to create a proposal for large, national external funding. The team members across five departments will use the seed grant to amplify and sustain current projects, including the[…]
Jacobson Talks Climate Gentrification at CLEO Liberty City Forum
Not all areas of South Florida will see increased flooding as a result of sea level rise. Some of Miami-Dade County’s poorest neighborhoods, including Liberty City, Little Haiti and Overtown, are at much higher elevation compared to the rest of the county. This fact has not escaped notice from real estate developers, who are starting[…]