Juliet Pinto and Kate MacMillin have been inducted to the CLEO Institute Leadership Circle, a group of science and communication experts focused on environmental issues. CLEO has been a partner with eyesontherise.org since its inception. See the other 2015 inductees here.

Click below to see two of several pieces of coverage from this year’s King Tide Day, led by students from SJMC and eyesontherise.org faculty. Miami’s NBC6   Telemundo

Republished from FIU SJMC’s The Wire.

One of the many advantages of Florida is that people can enjoy its 1,300 miles of coastline, but with it come the challenges of sea level rise. In order to create awareness and solution for this climate change, many conferences take place around the world, and this year, our SJMC participated in the French American Climate TalkS (FACTS).

Building up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will be held in France in 2015, FACTS hosted its 12th edition this past Sept. 28, where innovations, facts and solutions were the key point of the conference. […]

A similar version of this post appeared in FIU News.

Four FIU faculty members have been named the 2015 winners of the Innovative Outreach to Scholastic Journalism Award, sponsored by the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Robert Gutsche Jr., Susan Jacobson, Kate MacMillin and Juliet Pinto worked as a team to create “Sea Level Rise: South Florida and eyesontherise.org” – a project involving FIU students and South Florida high school students. […]

Eyes team members Juliet Pinto and Susan Jacobson helped to shape the most recent issue of Miami Montage, a news magazine published each summer by high school students at the University of Miami. Click here for the website and click the image above for the PDF.

Take a look at our final report to the Online News Association related to our year-long project. Thank you all for the great work!