UM’s economic impact on Miami-Dade County, FY 2007
>> $4.5 billion
Miami-Dade’s 2007-08 budget
>> $7.3 billion
Estimated cost of UM construction projects under way and in the pipeline
>> $986 million
Tons of cement produced every five months
>> 976 million 
 
2007 revenue of public biotech companies worldwide
>> $80 billion
Annual revenue Miami-Dade life-science
companies generate
>> $2.3 billion
Square footage of UM’s planned Life Science Park
>> 2 million
Square footage of New Jersey’s Monmouth Mall
>> 1.4 million
 
Percentage of Floridians surveyed who believe global warming will worsen storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes
>> 80
Percentage of Americans who believe miracles occur
>> 80
Dives Rosenstiel School researchers and others completed during a 20-day census of the Tortugas Ecological Reserve
>> 1,710
Year John Lethbridge invented an early diving machine
>> 1715

SOURCES: UM Economic Impact Report 2007; Miami-Dade County Manager’s Budget Message; UM Capital Projects Report 2008; MIT Tech Talk; Ernst & Young; The Beacon Council; Miller School of Medicine; Reuters.com; “Florida: Public Opinion on Climate Change,” a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded survey by University of Miami and Yale University researchers; The Pew Forum; Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science; BBC