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HURRICANE IRMA

Category 5 Teamwork

As students are welcomed back to the Coral Gables campus, yellow caution tape is the most visible sign of the wreckage left in Hurricane Irma's wake—a testament to the extraordinary teamwork that restored the University in remarkable time.

 

 
BUTLER CENTER FOR SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP

Serving a Community in Need

Dozens of students who just returned from their unexpected "hurri-cation" fanned out across South Florida on Friday to help local neighborhoods rebound from Hurricane Irma. Watch the video.

 
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE

Relief for Our Neighbors

Accustomed to more faraway missions, Vision Van volunteers stayed closer to home last week, providing urgently needed care for residents, nurses, and recovery personnel in the Hurricane Irma-ravaged Middle and Lower Keys.

 
ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

A 'New Frontier'

Spearheaded by a UM team, a new three- and four-week forecast model could help decision makers better prepare for future hazards like heat waves, cold spells, heavy rain, even hurricanes.

 
HELPING HANDS

How to Help

Help the University and its partners help families struggling to recover from Hurricanes Irma and Maria across Florida and the Caribbean by bringing needed items to collection boxes on campus.

 

SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH STUDIES

Ushering in a New Era of Health Care Education

The bold vision for advancing health care education and practice manifests itself this Thursday, September 28, when the School of Nursing and Health Studies’ Simulation Hospital officially opens on the Coral Gables campus and hosts its inaugural symposium on a timely topic—improved disaster response and patient-care experiences—on Friday, September 29.

 

Obstetrician Delivers Destiny—by Phone


Eye Infections Linked to Opioid Crisis


Park Share Proposal Runner-Up in International Competition


 

INSIDEUM

TUITION REMISSION

The Perfect Equation

Professor of Mathematics Chris Cosner was initially drawn to the U by Miami's beaches and mild winters, but the icing on the cake was the tuition remission program, which enabled his three children to find their career paths.

 

 
MEET A 'CANE

Welcoming New 'Canes

Let's meet some new ’Canes on their first day of work at the U, and learn why they are so excited to join the University of Miami family.

 
UM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

High Sierra and McAfee

For now, High Sierra, Apple's new MAC operating system, is incompatible with McAfee's anti-virus, encryption, and other products, and should be avoided until further notice.

 
FACULTY AND STAFF ASSISTANCE

Art as Therapy

Create art to explore, express, and manage challenges at this seminar offered on the Coral Gables and Miller School campuses this week.

 
UM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Is Your Building Next?

The building-by-building progress of the new authentication method UMIT is rolling out for all wired devices is available online.

 

Follow @InsideUM to Win Prizes


 

ATHLETICS

HURRICANES FOOTBALL

Second-Half Surge Pushes 'Canes Past Toledo

Taking the field for the first time in 21 days after Hurricane Irma cancelled one game and postponed another, the Miami Hurricanes exploded for 42 second-half points to defeat Toledo 52-30 at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday.

 

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

A Revolution in Concrete

An international exhibition commemorating Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi, considered “the most brilliant artist in reinforced concrete," opens with a free reception at the Korach Gallery from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 7.

 

 
UM GALLERY

MFA Students Show Their Stuff

The works of incoming Master of Fine Arts graduate students are on view at the University of Miami Gallery in Wynwood through Sunday, October 15, with a reception for the artists from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, October 14.

 

TAKENOTE

SEEDS ‘You Choose’ Leadership Award Application Deadline Extended to October 10


Big Data Conference + Workshop Rescheduled for December 4-5


Initial Applications for Revised Provost’s Research Awards Due October 20


Discounted Tickets for Sesame Street Live!


 

FEATUREDEVENTS

Sep
26

12:00 pm

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War

Sep
29

9:00 am

Simulation Hospital Inaugural Symposium: A Response to the Call for Radical Transformation