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UNIVERSITY
Deadline Extended for 403(b) Elections
The deadline for the 403(b) election period has been extended to Friday, April 22. During this extension, University of Miami employees will have access to more one-on-one on-campus appointments with investment planners, as well as opportunities to take advantage of Fidelity walk-in assistance on a first-come, first-served basis at several locations. | more |
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MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Miami-to-Japan Eye Rescue Mission: Bascom Palmer’s Vision Van Heads to Japan
Bascom Palmer’s Vision Van departed last week on a cargo flight from Miami to Sendai, Japan, where it will help ophthalmologists from Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo offer emergency vision screenings and treatments to people suffering eye injuries incurred during or after the Tohoku-Pacific earthquake and tsunami. | more |
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FOR YOUR BENEFIT
Get Involved: Staff Survey Closes This Friday, April 22
The University encourages those who have not yet completed the 2011 staff survey to click on the link in their email and spend just 15 minutes providing feedback about their UM experiences. The results will help the University enhance the work environment. | more |
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SPORTS
UM Celebrates Dream Season at Annual Women’s Basketball Banquet
Several Hurricanes took home team honors in front of the largest crowd ever for the annual Women’s Basketball Postseason Banquet, held April 12 at the BankUnited Center’s Hurricane 100 Room. | more |
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UM PRESENTS
Catch a Production of the Broadway Classic ‘Pal Joey’
Rodgers and Hart’s Broadway classic Pal Joey runs through April 23 at the University of Miami’s Jerry Herman Ring Theatre. The play tells the story of Joey, a nightclub habitué who, despite his habit of loving and leaving women, is thoroughly lovable. | more |
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Visit the Last Well ’Canes Farmers Market of the Season and Win a Prize | more
Call for Proposals for Research Projects on Ethics and Community | more
Weight Loss Surgery Now Covered for UM Employees | more
New Weight Watchers at Work Sessions Begin April 20 | more
Summer Financial Assistance Available | more
Register for Basic Rape Aggression Defense Course | more
Important Information for Faculty Planning to Attend Commencement | more
Open Session and Q&A with BankUnited Chairman, President, and CEO | more
Save the Date: Medical Issues and the Growing Child Conference: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Fragile X Syndrome and Interventions that Work, May 18 | more
Travel Fairs to Be Held on Coral Gables and Miller School Campuses | more |
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Green Recognition
With Earth Day only a week away, the University of Miami honored New York Times bestselling author and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen with the Reitmeister-Abess Center Environmental Stewardship Award last Thursday. The event, held just off the bank of Lake Osceola on the Coral Gables campus, also included the groundbreaking for the Net-Zero water project, an initiative that will install wastewater treatment technology at UM’s Eaton Residential College. | more |
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FREEZE FRAME
Grandmaster Chen Extols the Health Benefits of Tai Chi
With slow, graceful, deliberate movements punctuated by an occasional powerful thrust, tai chi Grandmaster Chen Zhenglei showed scores of onlookers in the Schoninger Research Quadrangle at the Miller School of Medicine on April 13 why he’s so popular in China—and why 300 million people across the globe practice the ancient Chinese martial art. | more |
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| Monday, April 18: EU Center Panel Discussion: The European Reaction to the Libyan Crisis | more |
| Monday, April 18: College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series: Hierarchical Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Semiconductors | more |
| Monday, April 18: Biology Departmental Seminar Series: Anatomy of the Palm Family: Diversity in Relation to Phylogeny | more |
| Monday, April 18: MAIA Program to Host Q&A Session | more |
| Monday, April 18: Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series | more |
| Tuesday, April 19: SPEAK Test | more |
| Tuesday, April 19: Lactation Support Training Seminars | more |
| Tuesday, April 19: Open Session and Q&A with BankUnited Chairman, President, and CEO | more |
| Tuesday, April 19: Sponsored Programs Quarterly Meeting | more |
| Tuesday, April 19: Sponsor-Investigator Responsibilities Course | more |
| Through Wednesday, April 20: Research Reporting System | more |
| Wednesday, April 20: Advanced InfoEd Proposal Development Hands-On Workshop | more |
| Wednesday, April 20: Bipartisan Policy Center and UM to Present Public Forum on Nutrition and Education | more |
| Wednesday, April 20: Faculty Senate meeting | more |
| Wednesday, April 20: Psychiatry Grand Rounds: The Psychology of Writing Thrillers: Mingling the Facts of Mental Illness with the Fictions of Creative Writing | more |
| Wednesday, April 20: Unexplored Frontiers: Kenny Broad Plunges into Bahamas Blue Holes | more |
| Wednesday, April 20: Biology Departmental Seminar: Of Mice and Mammoths: Body Size Evolution of Insular Mammals | more |
| Thursday, April 21: Goran Reading Series Panel Discussion: So You Majored in Creative Writing: Now What? | more |
| Thursday, April 21: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: Airway Catheters, Stylettes, Introducers, and Bougies: A Brief History | more |
| Thursday, April 21: Velos Patient Management Module | more |
| Thursday, April 21: Gifford Arboretum Lecture: The Origin of Today’s Tropical Floras | more |
| Friday, April 22: Book Presentation: International Migration in Cuba: Accumulation, Imperial Designs, and Transnational Social Fields | more |
| Wednesday, April 27: Sleep and Young Children: Helpful Tips for Getting a Good Night’s Rest |
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| Wednesday, April 27: Miami Project Wednesday Morning Seminar Series: Meeting FDA Requirements to Manufacture Autologous Human Schwann Cells for Transplantation | more |
| Thursday, April 28: Party at the 2011 Corporate Run/Walk | more |
| Thursday, April 28: Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Is April 28 | more |
| Through Sunday, May 1: M.F.A. Exhibition ‘Creativity Driven by Southern Hospitality’ | more |
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