ATHLETICS
Get set to welcome ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and others as their Saturday morning College GameDay broadcast—a three-hour extravaganza of fun, sizzle and swagger—sets up on the Coral Gables campus this week in advance of Saturday's gridiron match between the undefeated Hurricanes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The biggest game at UM in more than a decade has big implications for the college football playoffs.
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UNIVERSITY
Two experienced University professionals are joining the U leadership team—Jessica Brumley, as vice president for facilities operations and planning, and Brandon Gilliland, as vice president and chief financial officer.
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UHEALTH
With a new name for all hospital-based facilities—University of Miami Hospital and Clinics—the University of Miami Health System has consolidated its three hospitals into one operational model, a major step in transforming UHealth into a true, single academic health center.
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INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF THE AMERICAS
At a screening of a documentary on how the nonprofit Partners In Health brought health care to the world's poor, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim warned students not to think ill of the naysayers—and not to become one of them.
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COMMUNITY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
The Office of Civic and Community Engagement recently unveiled its new Miami Housing Solutions Lab to help address the affordable housing shortage in greater Miami, one of the world's least affordable areas for low-wage workers.
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HOMECOMING 2017
Capped by a 28-10 gridiron victory over Virginia Tech on a spectacular moonlit Saturday night, homecoming week lived up to its “The Magic in U” theme, with celebrations of cherished traditions—from decorating ornaments for the U’s orange tree to fireworks over Lake Osceola to the tapping of 20 extraordinary ’Canes, including Faculty Senate Chair Tomas Salerno and The Miami Hurricane faculty advisor Tsitsi Wakhisi, into the Iron Arrow Honor Society.
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TAKING ONE ACTION
When Margaret Otero, patient access manager at University of Miami Hospital, saw below-average marks for employee relationships on the Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey, she and her team decided to build bonds by helping save lives—at a run/walk to end childhood cancer.
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COMPLIANCE SERVICES
Learn how to avoid critical mistakes by attending an Ethics and Compliance Week information fair and an array of talks at the Miller School on Tuesday, November 7, the Coral Gables campus on Wednesday, November 8, and the Rosenstiel School campus on Thursday, November 9.
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UNITED WAY
Join TeamUM by making your pledge to United Way of Miami-Dade, and show Greater Miami that, especially in these times of need, ’Canes Care for ’Canes and ’Canes care for our community.
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FACULTY AND STAFF ASSISTANCE
This lunchtime seminar, offered on all three campuses next week, will provide updated information on who is eligible to receive benefits, when a person qualifies, and the necessary steps to apply.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Managers, who may initiate a TALK session at any time, should be meeting one-on-one with their direct reports between now and January to discuss progress on assigned goals and projects.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Men’s hoops, which opens the season at home against Gardner-Webb on Friday, November 10, is ranked 13th in the Associated Press Top 25 Preseason Poll, the program’s highest ever AP preseason ranking.
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HURRICANES FOOTBALL
Bennie Blades, a Jim Thorpe award winner and All-American safety who played for the Hurricanes from 1985 to 1987, has been named to the 2017 ACC Class of Football Legends.
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FROST MUSIC LIVE!
Mike “The Drifter” Flanigin, the go-to organist for guitar greats Jimmie Vaughan, Billy Gibbons, and Steve Miller, joins the Frost Studio Jazz Band to play Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and the music of Count Basie at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8, at the UM Gusman Concert Hall.
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CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
Richard P. Martin, the Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics at Stanford University, will examine Homeric poetry and local religion when he delivers the next Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors Lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 9, at the Newman Alumni Center.
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