HUSSMAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN GENOMICS
With the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease expected to triple by 2050, the Miller School of Medicine and other collaborators have been awarded up to $30.2 million to conduct the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project Follow-Up Study and investigate protective variants for the disease in the Amish population.
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SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
As Visiting Knight Chair for fall 2017, Lindsay D. Grace is bringing rapid game development to the University to help journalists, designers, and developers learn how to integrate game design as an engagement strategy.
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Yolanda Martínez San Miguel, the new Marta Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies, didn’t think she'd have much use for early-New World poetry or politics until she stumbled on the poet, philosopher, and nun known as Sor Juana.
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ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOPHERIC SCIENCE
Researchers have zeroed in on a unique component of heroin that could help determine the origin of individual batches, potentially opening new avenues to find the source and disrupt the nation’s opioid crisis.
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IN MEMORIAM
UM alumnus and trustee Robert “Bob” Mann, whose influential gifts enabled communication students to learn and create in state-of-the-art classrooms and television studios, passed away last week at age 70.
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SCHOOL OF LAW
Miami Law's Health Rights Clinic is employing the Boal Forum Theatre method, which transforms the traditional theatrical experience into a democratic, participatory, and collaborative production, to teach students to spot ethical issues and inappropriate client counseling.
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OPEN ENROLLMENT
Check out the top five things you need to know before Open Enrollment starts on Monday, October 16.
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UM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
During the second week of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, UMIT reminds internet users how to avoid being phished, or tricked, by scammers who send fraudulent emails that appear to be from trusted sources or brands.
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OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
The University is offering five more sessions of Active Shooter Response Training this semester, including three at Gables One Tower that include additional training by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program on Workplace Violence.
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HERBERT WELLNESS CENTER
Healthy Campus Week returns October 16-20 when the Patti and Allan Herbert Wellness Center and the Partnership for a Healthier America present the U's largest yoga class and a variety of other free events and activities.
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TUITION REMISSION
Michelle Valencia, the director of publications at the School of Law, has seen not only her career at the U grow, but also her son and daughter, who know the blessings of tuition remission.
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SOCCER
For the 13th year in a row, the University of Miami's soccer team earned the United Soccer Coaches Association's Team Academic Award, given to teams with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 in the previous school year.
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HURRICANES FOOTBALL
The Class of 2017—Michael Irvin, Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, Warren Sapp, and Sean Taylor—will be inducted into the University of Miami Ring of Honor, UM football's highest achievement, at a Turnberry Isle luncheon on Friday, October 13.
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LOWE ART MUSEUM
Michele Oka Doner’s newest project opens Thursday, October 12 and features 55 large-format photographs of specimens from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science’s Invertebrate Museum and an immersive video installation, Mysterium Alive.
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FROST MUSIC LIVE!
In the final installment of his musicology series, Professor Emeritus Frank Cooper examines the potential for epiphanic moments and flashes of illumination in formerly dark places at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 12, in the Clarke Recital Hall.
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