SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
A major gift from the Finker-Frenkel Legacy Foundation will establish the Business Plan Competition Endowed Fund and support the Business Plan Competition, which annually awards nearly $50,000 in prize money to help UM's budding entrepreneurs launch their ventures.
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MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Miller School researchers played a key role in a clinical trial that discovered a new way to treat stroke patients, extending the critical treatment window from six to 24 hours.
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DISTINGUISHED PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR
In the first of his four talks last week, public health policy pioneer C. David Naylor cautioned against the tendency in the United States “to become fixated on favorable comparisons” with health care in his native Canada.
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Elizabeth Simpson, assistant professor of psychology, whose work has contributed to the evidence that newborn babies can imitate facial gestures and other movements, finds that a 2016 study challenging that evidence is seriously flawed.
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Victoria Coverstone, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is leading the research of a technology that will enable small satellites to carry large mirrors that fold at launch and reopen in space, improving the efficiency of space telescopes.
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UNIVERSITY
Campus Rabbi Lyle Rothman, Jewish chaplain at the University of Miami Hillel, and Abdul Hamid Samra, an adjunct professor of electrical engineering who is an imam at a local mosque, were among 60 religious leaders from 20 states who joined the American Peace Caravan in Morocco to promote peace and understanding.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Take this short, anonymous survey on your experiences with TALK for Success and help the Office of Workplace Equity and Performance make adjustments to and improve the University’s new performance review process, which launched in February.
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FACULTY AND STAFF ASSISTANCE
This month’s Mindful Living seminar, offered on all three campuses next week, will focus on the importance of fostering gratitude.
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FACULTY AND STAFF ASSISTANCE
Explore the importance of mindsets in the winter edition of Mind and Matter, the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program’s quarterly newsletter.
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HURRICANES FOOTBALL
Whenever UM’s ball-hawking defense forces a turnover, it falls to Joel Rodriguez, director of player development, to award the now-famous turnover chain to the player who recovers a fumble or intercepts a pass.
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HURRICANES BASEBALL
In his last season as head coach, Jim Morris leads the Hurricanes baseball team into a 2018 campaign that includes the likes of Florida, Notre Dame, Virginia, and North Carolina.
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UM SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Athletes from six sports, including for the first time, a soccer player, Britney Butcher, are represented in the nine-member UM Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2018, which will be inducted next year.
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FROST MUSIC LIVE!
The Frost Wind Ensemble pays homage to recently departed conductor and composer Stanisław Skrowaczewski and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky on Thursday, November 30, when student Chee Weng Yim premieres his transcription of Stucky’s only composed symphony.
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LOWE ART MUSEUM
Michele Oka Doner’s newest project, on display through January 14, features 55 large-format photographs of specimens from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science’s Marine Invertebrate Museum and the immersive video installation, Mysterium Alive.
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