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SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER

Surviving and Thriving

Angelique Muniz, a one-time boxer who could barely walk after beating oral cancer, and Patricia Emard, who vanquished breast cancer but avoided stairs, regained their strength and their lives in the fitness program exercise physiologist Stacy Cutrono developed for cancer survivors.

 

 
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE

No. 1 for the 16th Time

For the 14th consecutive year and the 16th time, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked as the nation’s best in ophthalmology in U.S News & World Report's Best Hospitals edition.

 
GRADUATE SCHOOL

A 'Research Exemplar'

Dean Guillermo “Willy” Prado, an expert in interventions for at-risk youth, is among the biomedical researchers recognized by The Research Exemplar Project at Washington University School of Medicine.

 
ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Using Satellites to Improve Forecasts

Using a powerful technique known as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, an international team of researchers helped improve the hazard forecast for Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano.

 
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

A Career of Distinction

Management Professor Chester A. Schriesheim is the 2017 recipient of the Distinguished Career Award bestowed by the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management.

 

PUBLIC HEALTH

Bridging the Gulf

President Julio Frenk returned to Mexico last week to teach a course that some University of Miami students attended virtually on a subject he knows well—the fundamental concepts of public health—at the now-renowned National Institute of Public Health he helped launch 30 years ago.

 

In Memoriam: William W. Sandler, Jr.


A Medal for Distinguished Expertise in International Relations


 

INSIDEUM

CANE KICKOFF 2017

Rallying the Team

Provost Jeffrey Duerk and Vice President for Human Resources Nerissa Morris were among the University leaders who paid a surprise visit last week to a briefing for about 100 employees who are volunteering for UM's new student orientation program this week.

 

 
LEADERSHIP MIAMI

Ready to Make a Difference?

The University is looking for enthusiastic individuals interested in joining the next class of Leadership Miami and making our community a better place to live, work, and play.

 
BUSINESS AND FINANCE

Secret to Normalcy

UM’s new executive vice president for business and finance and chief operating officer shared her secrets to normalcy, contained in Friday's Laws, with more than 100 Division of Business and Finance leaders last week.

 
WORKDAY

Downtime for Upgrades

Workday will remain unavailable a few hours every evening and on weekends to accommodate new configurations and data transfers needed for the September 1 rollout of the first phase of Workday Finance.

 
MEET A 'CANE

Saghar Leslie in the Spotlight

Meet this legacy ’Cane who finds motivation in support from her colleagues, and find out how you can be the next ’Cane in the spotlight by visiting InsideUM on Facebook.

 

Info Sessions for Employees with Dependents Applying to UM


Introducing Box Drive


Mindful Living


Working Securely Off Campus


Use RideFlag to Carpool to Campus


 

ATHLETICS

HURRICANES FOOTBALL

The State of Miami

Building on its throwback look, the University of Miami and adidas unveiled the Hurricanes' alternate football uniforms last week, the all-green "State of Miami" design and the all-black "Miami Nights" theme.

 

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PHYSICS DEPARTMENT

Eclipse Viewing

The Physics Department will host an eclipse watch in the courtyard outside the Knight Physics Building's Wilder Auditorium beginning around 2 p.m. on Monday, August 21, when nearly 80 percent of the sun will disappear behind the moon over Miami during the nation's first total solar eclipse in 38 years.

 
JERRY HERMAN RING THEATRE

Preview the Season

Faculty and Theatre Arts students will kick off the Ring Theatre’s new season at 7 p.m. on Sunday, August 27 with a free performance of songs and scenes from five upcoming plays—Pippin, Romance Romance, Romeo and Juliet, The Mountaintop, and The Pirates of Penzance.

 

TAKENOTE

Digital Signal Processing: Road to the Future on September 11


The Art of the Deal: How to Negotiate Complex Mergers and Acquisitions in 2017 on September 14


SEEDS ‘You Choose’ Leadership Award Applications Due September 29


Use JobX to Post Jobs for Students


Frost Preparatory Program Open House on August 17


 

FEATURED EVENTS

Aug
15

5:00 pm

Racism, Celebration and Otherness: Depictions of Blackness in the Cuban Cultural Discourse (1790-1959)