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Behind every laptop sticker, there’s a story
Back in the travel days of yore, when people who flew coach could actually afford to check full-size luggage on airliners, trips often were memorialized by destination stickers that tourists would affix to thei r bags. They were like mini-postcards with glue, each with its own tale – “Paris is for Lovers”; “Aloha! from Hawaii”;…
FGCU Complete program helps adults finish degree
FGCU is providing more educational opportunities for working adults in Charlotte County with a new pilot degreecompletion program. Known as FGCU Complete, the program enables people with 18 months or more of college credit to pursue an FGCU bachelor’s degree. The program started in October. Three degree programs are available: Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Studies, Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Studies, and…
FGCU videographers nominated for Emmy
A video about FGCU’s Jazz Ensemble is among the contenders for the 42nd annual Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards in the Education Schools Program category. Produced by videographers Jasmine Kettenacker and Timothy Clark of the University Marketing and Communications department, the 2-minute video focuses on jazz musician and director of jazz studies Brandon Robertson, who directs the ensemble, and the students who have come to love jazz as well because of their…
Getting plugged in at FGCU
He hasn’t spent any time in laboratories. But Antonio Reyes has done a lot of experimenting. An integrated studies major at Florida Gulf Coast University, Reyes likes to try new things, to do “a little of a lot. I really spread myself in a ton of different aspects,” he says. Scheduled to receive his bachelor’s…
Research in the wake of recovery
Amid the chaos and disruptions left behind after Hurricane Irma roared through Southwest Florida last September, FGCU’s Communities in transition initiative sprang to life. For four years, the initiative had provided support for professors who wanted to engage in research addressing issues in the surrounding community, says Billy Gunnels, director of undergraduate scholarship. But, he says,…
Lessons in compassion and computer savvy
Elementary-school teacher gives student a one-of-a-kind gift Caution: the mouthwatering aroma of waffles cooking is not, perhaps, everything it seems to be. Rather, you just might be catching a whiff of a 3-D printer churning out its latest coded creation. Eric Demeri (’04, Elementary Education), former science enrichment teacher at Sunshine Elementary School in Lehigh…
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