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Summer 2024 President’s and Dean’s lists honor FGCU’s top scholars

September 13, 2024 0

Florida Gulf Coast University honors its top scholars each semester by naming undergraduate students to the President’s or Dean’s lists....

Honors communication grad lands NASA storytelling internship

September 5, 2024 0

For Christmas one year, Brandon Cominsky received a telescope as a gift. This singular gesture propelled his life on a...

FGCU grad honored for dedication to social work in local schools

August 29, 2024 0

Helping others is essential to Judes Sétalaire Albert’s character, a quality developed during his youth in a small Haitian commune...

Student-athletes soar through leadership development academy

August 22, 2024 0

Anna Claire Bridge is teed up to play a greater leadership role on the women’s golf team in her senior year at Florida...

Alum wins $10,000 to lead development of app connecting music fans

August 15, 2024 0

At one point during his undergraduate years at Florida Gulf Coast University, Abraham Joseph found it challenging to make new...

Hell, high water and canned tuna: Alum tells global stories for The New York Times

August 6, 2024 0

Video journalist Alex Pena has slept in Black Hawk helicopters flying over Afghanistan, in a tent on the tarmac of...

From FGCU to the world stage: one student’s Irish dance journey

July 31, 2024 0

When Fort Myers native Meagan Urbanek was 10 years old, she danced onstage in the Florida Gulf Coast University ballroom...

FGCU graduate’s island cafe-studio feeds artistic appetite

July 24, 2024 0

Island life has long sparked the imagination of artists. Paul Gaugin, the post-impressionist French painter, became especially famous for depicting...

Spring 2024 President’s and Dean’s Lists honor top scholars

July 10, 2024 0

Florida Gulf Coast University honors its top scholars each semester by naming undergraduate students to the President’s or Dean’s lists....

New Honors College dean brings international study experience to role

June 28, 2024 0

An international academician who was born and raised in Fort Myers and attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes...

Access for all — an FGCU student turns challenges into change

June 18, 2024 0

Volunteering as a patient in Marieb College of Health & Human Services classrooms has helped Keith Goldberg advocate for people...

RHM partnership with Ritz-Carlton yields internships and careers

June 13, 2024 0

When Alfonso Diaz applied for internships as an undergraduate at Florida Gulf Coast University’s School of Resort & Hospitality Management , he knew little about ritzy...