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MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute again ranked nation’s leading eye hospital
For the seventh year in a row, the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute has been named the No. 1 hospital in the country for ophthalmology in U.S.News & World Report’s 2010-11 Best Hospitals annual survey. Three other specialties at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center were also ranked among the nation’s best. | more |
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FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Frost School of Music launches new website
After an extensive development and testing phase, the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music has launched its redesigned website, which now features a variety of new and enhanced features, such as complete listings of concerts, master classes, and recitals at all of the school’s performance venues; expanded faculty profiles; and videos of students sharing their academic and musical experiences. | more |
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SPORTSLINE
Five UM students on All-ACC Academic Rowing Team
The University of Miami has placed five student-athletes on the 2010 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Rowing Team. Sarah Medland, Theresa Recicar, Kate Rickers, Monika Sajincic, and Molly Thornton all represent UM on this year’s team. | more
• Student-athletes Andersson, Vallverdu receive Arthur Ashe Jr. Award. | more |
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FOR YOUR BENEFIT
Communication Skills for Emerging Leaders
How well you communicate can influence how others view your work, performance, and prospects for career mobility. Although all of us talk and listen to one another, we may not be communicating. Communication Skills for Emerging Leaders, sponsored by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, will help you learn to actively listen in a variety of situations, listen for different types of input and respond appropriately, and identify pertinent information. | more |
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| Top military officials tour CSTARS | more
2011 Global Business Forum early registration discount extended | more
UChart rolls out new era of patient safety | more
Debbie School gets dream playground | more
Register for the SPEAK test | more
Refer outstanding students to the Office of Prestigious Awards and Fellowships | more
Take an August intersession course this summer; registration still open | more
Get information on UM’s credit certificate programs | more
Plastic Surgery offering discounts on facials, microdermabrasion treatments | more
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Gubernatorial visit
After visits to Panama City and Tampa Bay, where he discussed matters related to the Gulf oil spill, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist made a stop at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science last Wednesday, where the U.S. Senate hopeful joined a group of UM scientists and other lawmakers in a roundtable discussion on the environmental disaster’s impact on the state’s key industries and ecosystems. Above: Gov. Crist, left, addresses panelists and the media, as Rosenstiel School Dean Roni Avissar looks on. | more |
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FREEZE FRAME
Sebastian takes flight
Those magnificent University of Miami students in their flying machine must have felt like the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as they perched their Ibis-inspired plane on the edge of a 30-foot deck at Bayfront Park in Miami on July 10, hoping their winged wonder would soar high and long. To their delight, it did, flying a distance of 48 feet before splashing down safely, an effort that was good enough to win second place in the Red Bull Flugtag Miami. | more |
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FREEZE FRAME
When in Rome
School of Architecture Rome Program director and faculty member Carmen Guerrero and her students were recently invited to display a collection of their models and drawings at the new MAXXI museum in Rome. Their work is being displayed through November 28 in one of five inaugural exhibits entitled "Luigi Moretti Architetto from Rationalism to the Informal." | more |
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| Monday, July 19: Microbiology and Immunology dissertation seminar | more |
| Tuesday, July 20: Microbiology and Immunology seminar series: TCR Vbeta Repertoire Analysis for Graft-vs-Host Disease | more |
| Wednesday, July 21: Medical Grand Rounds lecture: Hepatitis Vaccinations | more |
| Thursday, July 22: Performance Improvement Management series | more |
| Thursday, July 22: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Management of Pott’s Disease in Adults and Children | more |
| Thursday, July 22: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: The Delicate Nature of Learning from Error: A New Format for M&M’s | more |
| Thursday, July 22: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Cardiometabolic Disease after SCI: Best-Practice Approaches to Effective Management of Impairment | more |
| Friday, July 23: Technology Tips and Shortcuts of Today’s Top Administrative Professionals | more |
| Friday, July 23: Business Writing | more |
| Friday Through Sunday, July 23-25: Cosford screenings: Accidents Happen | Breathless | The Abduction from the Seraglio |
| Monday, July 26: D-CFAR lecture: The Importance of Mentoring | more |
| Tuesday, July 27: Pediatric Grand Rounds: Microarray-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization for Neurodevelopmental Disorders | more |
| Thursday, July 29: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: Effective and Safe Blood Substitutes: An Attainable Reality or a Lost Cause? | more |
| Monday through Friday, September 20-24: Save the date: Foundations of Translational Research 'Bootcamp' | more |
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