In December 2011, Juan Morales was given FIU’s Worlds Ahead Graduate Award.

A Worlds Ahead Graduate is a student that has been nominated by FIU faculty and administrators as someone who goes beyond what is expected. This student has taken the opportunity that he was given and is doing something great with it. “Worlds Ahead” is as much a part of what you are today as what you aspire to be tomorrow. It is an attitude, one that commands us to think differently, exceed expectations and create new possibilities.