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UNIVERSITY
Blackstone LaunchPad Program Developed at UM to Train Ohio’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Ever since the University of Miami created The Launch Pad, the program’s distinctive approach to entrepreneurship education has served as a model for and benefited students at other institutions around the nation. Now, in the latest indication of the UM Launch Pad’s success, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation and The Burton D. Morgan Foundation have announced a $3.2 million, three-year partnership to train the next generation of entrepreneurs in Northeast Ohio. | more |
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MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
New Study Offers Hope for Lupus Patients with Kidney Disease
Nephrologists at the Miller School of Medicine played a key role in an international study that has uncovered an effective therapy for treating patients with lupus nephritis, a debilitating kidney disease linked to lupus. | more |
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SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH STUDIES
New Bachelor of Science in Public Health Degree Receives Accreditation
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has approved the accreditation of a new Bachelor of Science in Public Health at the University of Miami’s School of Nursing and Health Studies. | more |
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This year’s United Way campaign is well under way as departments, divisions, and units across the University host fundraising events that include bake sales, raffles, and more. Get involved in upcoming events:
- United Way Campaign Drawing | more
- President’s Office “You Pick” Raffle | more
- Office of Student Account Services Raffle; Win a MacBook Pro, iPad2, or iTouch | more
- Document Services and Solutions United Way Raffle | more
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ATHLETICS
Hurricane Student-Athletes Establish New GSR Mark
The University of Miami continues to make strides in academic progress, raising the bar yet again in the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of its student-athletes. The NCAA recently announced the GSR for all member institutions, with UM setting an Athletics Department-wide record with a GSR of 89 percent, a three percent increase over last year. | more |
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Special Ticket Offer for ’Canes Final Home Game
The Department of Athletics is offering a Thanksgiving holiday special for the Hurricane football team’s final home game of the season against the Boston College Eagles on Friday, November 25 at 3:30 p.m. at Sun Life Stadium. | more |
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| Vendors in the Spotlight | more
2011-12 Fact Finder Now Available | more
Faculty Disclosure Form on MyUM | more
Fall Course Evaluations Online | more
UM Bookstore to Host Appreciation Day | more
Design a New Logo for the Butler Center | more
Registration Now Open for 2012 Intersession Courses | more
Sexual Assault Response Team Seeks Volunteers | more
New Public Health Service Funding Conflict of Interest Regulations | more
Donate to the Holiday Hope Tree | more
FDA Summit 2011 Highlights and Update Sessions | more
UM Sociology and Criminology Club Accepting Donated Items for Service Members | more |
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A Thanksgiving Celebration of International Proportion
It began more than 25 years ago as a way for faculty and staff of the Intensive English Program to share Thanksgiving with their students. Today, International Thanksgiving is one of the oldest traditions of the Division of Continuing and International Education. Over the years it has grown into a large, multicultural potluck feast. On November 18, IEP students shared food from their homelands, their culture, and their talents with invited guests and other students in the program. | more |
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FREEZE FRAME
Lifting Up the West Grove
In a daylong event that combined a neighborhood cleanup with recreational activities, health screenings, and legal aid counseling, a team of student fellows from the School of Law’s Center for Ethics and Public Service organized the first Community Health and Education Fair in West Coconut Grove. Above: Children negotiate an obstacle course at Armbrister Park, site of the fair. | more |
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UM Dining Services Seeks Your Input on Campus Dining Options
University of Miami Dining Services is in the process of developing the University’s master dining plan for the Coral Gables campus. As a follow-up to an earlier survey, UM Dining Services now seeks to learn more about your use of UM food service facilities—or reasons for not using them—in order to better meet your expectations. | more |
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| Monday, November 21: Biology Departmental Seminar: The Secret Social Life of Dolphins: Alliances, Friendships, and Kinship Ties | more |
| Tuesday, November 22: Harnessing African Diaspora Studies for Economic Empowerment: Uniting the African Family for Development | more |
| Tuesday, November 22: Rehabilitation Medicine Grand Rounds: Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain | more |
| Tuesday, November 22: Pediatric Grand Rounds: What Every Pediatrician Should Know about a Baby-Friendly Hospital: Our Path to Designation | more |
| Tuesday, November 22: Cardiology Grand Rounds: Comprehensive Cardiac Rehab | more |
| Tuesday, November 22: Miami Law Open House | more |
| Friday through Sunday, November 25-27: Cosford Screenings: Melancholia | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | The Sleeping Beauty |
| Monday, November 28: Biology Departmental Seminar: Co-Evolution between Animals and Their Symbiotic Bacteria | more |
| Monday, November 28: EU Center Lecture: The European Union’s Eastern Neighborhood Policy | more |
| Monday, November 28: EU Center Lecture: The European Union’s Role in the Mediterranean | more |
| Tuesday,November 29: Cardiology Grand Rounds: Cardiopulmonary Stress Testing: Indications and Interpretation | more |
| Tuesday,November 29: Cell Biology Research Forum: Coercion and Subversion of Eukaryotic Cell Biology by the Master Manipulator Chlamydia Trachomatis | more |
| Tuesday,November 29: Pathology Grand Rounds: Perspectives on POCT | more |
| Tuesday,November 29: Pediatric Grand Rounds: Pediatric Glaucoma Is Fine | more |
| Wednesday, November 30: McKnight Research Seminar: Characterizing Cross Talk between Pro-Survival Pathways and the Immune System in the Retina | more |
| Wednesday, November 30: Miami Clinical and Translational Science Seminar Series: Translation Research in Health Disparities | more |
| Wednesday, November 30: South Florida Summit on Jewish Genetic Diseases | more |
| Wednesday, November 30: Free Workshop for Families with Special-Needs Children | more |
| Wednesday, November 30: Miami Project Wednesday Noon Seminar: Emergency Hypothermia for Latrogenic Spinal Cord Injury | more |
| Thursday, December 1: Surgical Grand Rounds: Liver Transplantation for Malignant Disease | more |
| Thursday, December 1: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: Advances in Brain Tumor Surgery | more |
| Thursday, December 1: Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: The Role of RNF11 in the Negative Regulation of Antiviral Signaling | more |
| Thursday, December 1: DMAS/FRS Training | more |
| Thursday, December 1: Business School to Host M.B.A. Program Information Session | more |
| Saturday, December 3: Ophthalmic Imaging 2012: Optical Coherence Tomography Applications and Future Technology | more |
| Sunday, December 4: Department of Philosophy Lecture Series: Portraits and Death: Rendering Absence and Loss in Art | more |
| Sunday, December 4: Save the Date: Frost School’s Winter Wonderful! to Raise Funds for Music Scholarships | more |
| Monday, December 5: College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series: Resource Management for Computer Operating Systems | more |
| Monday, December 5: Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Gp96 and HIV Vaccines | more |
| Tuesday, December 6: Human Genetics and Genomics Seminar Series: Genomic Medicine in the Sequencing Age | more |
| Thursday, December 8: Fourth Annual Florida Tobacco Summit | more |
| Thursday, December 8: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: Visual Understanding of Coagulation | more |
| Tuesday,December 13: Innovation to Entrepreneurship Boot Camp | more |
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