The Aethiopian Ocean in a 1710 French map of Africa 1.5 Name change; . . (53) 1.38 FIU belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and is one of Florida's primary graduate research universities awarding over 3,400 graduate and professional degrees annually the university offers 191 programs of study with more than 280 majors in 23 colleges and schools FIU offers many graduate programs including architecture business administration engineering law and medicine offering 81 master's degrees 34 doctoral degrees and 3 professional degrees. 8.2 Culture and wildlife MLB Baseball player, U.S Historic district, Cityscape The island is mainly occupied by the Virginia Key Beach Park Miami Seaquarium Miami-Dade's Central District Wastewater Treatment Plant and the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Other facilities include the former Miami Marine Stadium the National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center and an office of the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. . Occupational Therapy 75 12.2 Cooperation agreements FIU's founding president Charles "Chuck" Perry was appointed by the Board of Regents in July 1969 after a nationwide search at 32 years old the new president was the youngest in the history of the State University System and at the time the youngest university president in the country Perry recruited three co-founders Butler Waugh Donald McDowell and Nick Sileo Alvah Chapman Jr former Miami Herald publisher and Knight Ridder chairman used his civic standing and media power to assist the effort in the 1980s Chapman became chair of the FIU Foundation Board of Trustees, City of Miami Cemetery 1930 214,830 222.8% Palm Beach County Park Airport LNA KLNA Palm Beach Westwood Lakes.
Fort Dallas built in 1836 PortMiami is the world's largest cruise ship port and is the headquarters of many of the world's largest cruise companies. Green Library The first airport on the site of MIA opened in the 1920s and was known as Miami City Airport Pan American World Airways opened an expanded facility adjacent to City Airport Pan American Field in 1928 Pan American Field was built on 116 acres of land on 36th Street and was the only mainland airport in the eastern United States that had port of entry facilities Its runways were located around the threshold of today's Runway 26R Eastern Airlines began to serve Pan American Field in 1931 followed by National Airlines in 1936 National used a terminal on the opposite side of LeJeune Road from the airport and would stop traffic on the road in order to taxi aircraft to and from its terminal Miami Army Airfield opened in 1943 during the Second World War to the south of Pan American Field: the runways of the two were originally separated by railroad tracks but the two airfields were listed in some directories as a single facility Following World War II in 1945 the City of Miami established a Port Authority and raised bond revenue to purchase Pan American Field which had been since renamed 36th Street Airport from Pan Am it merged with the former Miami Army Airfield which was purchased from the United States Army Air Force south of the railroad in 1949 and expanded further in 1951 when the railroad line itself was moved south to make more room the old terminal on 36th Street was closed in 1959 when the center modern passenger terminal (since greatly expanded) opened United States Air Force Reserve troop carrier and rescue squadrons also operated from the airport from 1949 through 1959 when the last unit relocated to nearby Homestead Air Force Base (now Homestead Air Reserve Base). . In 2011 PortMiami was awarded a federal grant as part of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program to restore a connection between the Florida East Coast Railway's yard in Hialeah and the PortMiami directly connecting the port to rail networks across the United States as well as re-establishing the port's on-dock rail capability (loading and unloading directly between ships and trains) the railroad bridge connecting the PortMiami to the mainland was damaged by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 at which time service was suspended the project was scheduled to be finished in time for the completion of the other projects in 2014 the rail project is related to another scheme to increase PortMiami's capacity; an inland intermodal center known as Flagler Logistics Hub to be built to be built near the airport on 300 acres of land in Hialeah. FIU students can also study abroad in Paris France via MICEFA, 8 Notable employees Cuban American female recording artist Ana Cristina was born in Miami in 1985. !
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