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BENEFITS
Open Enrollment begins Monday; several enhancements offered
The University of Miami’s Open Enrollment—the annual period during which employees can enroll in and make changes to their medical, dental, flexible spending, and short-term disability benefits—begins Monday, October 4 and continues through Friday, November 5. During Open Enrollment, which this year offers several enhancements, employees can go to myUM to make their 2011 benefit elections. | more
• Confused about health reform? Watch “Health Reform Hits Main Street” | more
• Update on Faculty and Staff Health, Wellness, and Benefits Guides | more |
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FOR YOUR BENEFIT
Get your free flu shots at the Health, Wellness, and Benefits Fairs starting Monday
With flu season only days away, University of Miami employees will be able to get free flu shots at the Health, Wellness and Benefits Fairs that start Monday, October 4. | more |
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MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Sports Legends Dinner raises $16 million for The Miami Project
Former President Bill Clinton joined NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti and his son, Marc, as they hosted an impressive crowd of more than 1,400 guests for the 25th Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York to benefit The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis. The silver anniversary celebration, held last Monday, raised more than $16 million. | more |
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SPORTSLINE
Orlando Franklin named ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week
University of Miami senior Orlando Franklin has been named Atlantic Coast Conference Offensive Lineman of the Week after he graded out at 96 percent in helping to lead the UM football team to a 31-3 win at Pittsburgh last Thursday night. | more |
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UM PRESENTS
Choral Studies concert series opens with ‘I Hear America Singing’
The 2010-2011 Frost School of Music Choral Studies concert season opens on Sunday, October 3 at 7 p.m. with “I Hear America Singing” at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Coral Gables. Featuring the Frost Chamber Singers, Maelstrom Men’s Chorus, and Cantilena Women’s Chorus, the concert will present a variety of American folk songs and choral music by American composers. | more |
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Coming off a record-breaking year in which it raised more money for the United Way of Miami-Dade than ever before, UM has launched its 2010 fundraising campaign. Get involved in upcoming events:
• Bake sale to benefit the United Way at Gables One Tower | more
• Office of Student Employment Raffle: Marriott Hotel Vacations | more
• Department of Pediatrics Raffle: Dolphins tickets, Panthers tickets, and more | more |
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Food drive to benefit Camillus House | more
Herbert Wellness Center to close early for UM-FSU game | more
Join The Launch Pad at Toppel for the 2010 Elevator Pitch Contest | more
Bachelor of General Studies information session | more
Need part-time assistance? Consider hiring a student | more
October is National Protect Your Hearing Month | more
Take advantage of free computer software training in October and November | more
Open enrollment for UM’s Competency-Based Programs is now under way | more
UM to offer free mood disorder screenings on October 7 | more
Coral Gables and Rosenstiel School faculty: Provost Research Award applications due October 8 | more
Save the date: College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series gets under way October 11 | more |
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Exploring blue holes
In a National Geographic-sponsored presentation augmented with vivid images of his deepwater dives into the Bahamas’ famed blue holes, Rosenstiel School Associate Professor Kenny Broad last Saturday gave the standing-room-only audience at UM’s Storer Auditorium an in-depth look at these mysterious caverns, which could shed new light in fields such as natural history, microbiology, and climate change. | more |
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FREEZE FRAME
USpeak series gets under way
University of Miami alumnus and Jamaican-born poet Geoffrey Philp kicked off USpeak’s second season with the debut of his poetry collection Dub Wise last Friday at the Oasis Deli in the Whitten University Center. More than 115 young writers and poets welcomed Philp home 28 years to the day from his last reading at UM, some stepping up to the mic and reading their own poetry. | more |
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| Thursday, September 30: Frost School’s Trudy Kane to give faculty flute recital | more |
| Thursday, September 30: Orthopaedics Grand Rounds: Cartilage Injuries in the Talus | more |
| Thursday, September 30: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: Recent Developments in the Monitoring of Oxygenation | more |
| Thursday, September 30: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Management of Pineal Region Tumors in Children | more |
| Thursday, September 30: Surgical Grand Rounds: Reconstruction of Wounds Following Trauma or Oncologic Resection with Varied Flaps | more |
| Thursday, September 30: Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds: Malpractice or Miscommunication? Lessons Learned to Improve Patient Safety on the Labor and Delivery Suite | more |
| Thursday, September 30: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Advances and Controversies in the Management of Pituitary Tumors | more |
| Thursday, September 30: The AACR Undergraduate Student Caucus and Poster Session | more |
| Thursday, September 30: Division of Hospital Medicine Grand Rounds: The Handoff of Hospitalized Patients | more |
| Friday, October 1: Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar: The Genetic Pharmacopoeia: Translational Applications of Gene Transfer Technologies | more |
| Friday, October 1: Neurology CME Grand Rounds: Assessment of Rapidly Progressive Dementia and Early Diagnosis of Prion Disease | more |
| Friday, October 1: Neurology Grand Rounds: Therapeutic Strategies and Mechanistic Insight into Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis, a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis | more |
| Friday through Sunday, October 1-3: Cosford Cinema screenings | Trash Humpers | Women Without Men | Tosca | D2: Mighty Ducks |
| Sunday, October 3: School of Law’s Society of Bar and Gavel to hold annual 5K Race Judicata | more |
| Sunday, October 3: Choral Studies concert series opens with ‘I Hear America Singing’ | more |
| Monday, October 4: Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar: Target Identification and Inhibition in the Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms | more |
| Monday, October 4: Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: NF-kB Signaling in Inflammation and Cancer | more |
| Monday, October 4: Biology Departmental Seminar: Development and Regeneration of Feather Stars (Stalkless Crinoids) | more |
| Monday, October 4: Launch Pad workshop: Financial Modeling | more |
| Monday, October 4: Bake sale to benefit the United Way | more |
| Tuesday, October 5: Genomic Medicine: Changing the Medical Landscape | more |
| Wednesday through Friday, October 6-8: IRS: Tax Law Updates for 2010 | more |
| Wednesday, October 6: Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Stress Management and Biobehavioral Processes in Chronic Disease | more |
| Wednesday, October 6: CCS Seminar Series: The Spectral Element Dynamical Core in the Community Climate System Model | more |
| Thursday, October 7: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Update on Clinical Trials in Spinal Cord Injury | more |
| Thursday, October 7: Train-the-Trainer certification program | more |
| Thursday, October 7: Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Seminar Series: The Awesome Power of Yeast Genomics | more |
| Thursday, October 7: Epidemiology and Public Health seminar: Random Forests, Theory and Applications for Variable Selection | more |
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