Manatees grace university canals, waterways
The wildlife on campus includes fearless squirrels, flocks of ibis searching for Sebastian, Muscovy ducks that own the walkways – and even the occasional family of manatees. Manatees are marine mammals that mostly feed on sea grass. Commonly referred to as sea cows, they are large and slow-moving and live in warm tropical environments. With...
Entrepreneur creates collaboration website
Senior Steven Reubenstone created the professional counterpart to the popular dating website eHarmony.com with Collaborizm. “Collaborizm is a lot like eHarmony in the sense that, except we’re matching collaborators instead of romantic partners,” he said. With the help of the LaunchPad, Reubenstone created Collaborizm, which matches prospective entrepreneurs together. The word “Collaborizm” is a combination...
Complex houses hurricane simulator
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science will be able to experience the hurricane season all year long. RSMAS’s newest building, the Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Complex, will feature the only existing complex to have the power to generate Category 5 hurricane winds. The complex is housed in the...
Sickness greets spring semester
Freshman Melissa Bassett missed the first week of class this semester. She caught the flu the day before school began. “I started not feeling well at bid day, and when I woke up Monday, I felt even worse,” said Bassett, who is a neuroscience major on the pre-med track. She went to the Baptist Health...
Debunking the energy drink myth
As the semester progresses and assignments pile up, students line up at their local convenience store, on the hunt for a jolt to get them through the day without feeling drained. Running on an hour of sleep and exhaustion seeping in, students may think that downing an energy drink is not a bad idea. With...
Garden raises awareness about sustainability
Take a stroll between the Hecht towers and architecture building 48, and you will come across a garden — appropriately painted green and orange with two raised L-shaped beds that form a U. This CommUnity Garden is the brainchild of a group of architecture and ecosystem science and policy students who dreamed of implementing sustainable,...
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