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FGCU wins program-first ASUN baseball championship
Florida Gulf Coast won four games in two days to claim the program’s first-ever ASUN baseball tournament championship and make its first appearance in the upcoming NCAA baseball tournament.
Athletics video promotes diversity & unity on campus
In an effort to promote FGCU as an all-inclusive campus, all of the Eagles’ athletic teams collaborated on a unified video message, “15 Teams, 1 Family: All Eagles.” An initiative spearheaded by FGCU’s Athletic Inclusion & Diversity Committee (AIDC), the video below features a representative from each of the Green & Blue’s teams and encourages…
Nothing funny about neglecting bunny, rescuer says
Jen Macbeth hates what happens every summer, and it has nothing to do with subtropical heat and humidity or severe thunderstorms. As co-founder of the Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue, the instructor in Florida Gulf Coast University’s Department of Marine and Ecological Sciences knows her bunny-loving brigade soon will have to clean up the mess…
Finance students translate concepts to real world
Ana Benitez Muñoz knows firsthand the value of understanding money matters. After she graduated from Naples High School in 2009, she went to work full time to help support her family, which like many had been caught up in the global financial crisis at that time. “I saw how it affected everyone,” she recalls. “No…
Girls Going Places inspires tomorrow’s entrepreneurs
“If you can see it you can be it.” That was one of the key messages conveyed to about 140 young women at the 18th annual Girls Going Places entrepreneurship conference May 3 at FGCU. You can be your own boss by starting a business. You can be a TV news anchor or a dermatologist…
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