News Briefs

Spring 2009 Issue

A&S STUDENTS TACKLE GLOBAL PROBLEMS

Undergraduates meet with Bill Clinton, other leaders, and fellow student-advocates to discuss solutions through their own projects.

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FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR: ON THE DIRT ROAD AGAIN

Recent graduate wins Fulbright Scholarship to continue his research in southeast asian villages.

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UM-LED TEAM PREDICTS DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAKS IN THE TROPICS

Climate-based model, the first of it's kind, links global climate change to local disease vectors.

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BIOLOGY PROFESSORS’ RESEARCH APPEARS IN SCIENCE AND NATURE

Imaging method elucidates protein function in living animals.

Ancient tree rings uncover intriguing clues to the Earth's climate .

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ONE VOICE, MANY LANGUAGES: NEW PROGRAM PROMOTES LINGUISTIC SKILLS AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS

University of Miami students can now learn almost any language they choose through a new program called Directed Independent Language Study (DILS).

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PROFESSOR’S BATTERY RESEARCH NOTED IN NATURE

Physics professor Stewart E. Barnes, working with researchers at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, has demonstrated that development of a “spin battery”—predicated on the forces acting on the spin of electrons and charged by applying a large magnetic field to microscopic devices called nanomagnets—is possible.

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ARTLAB: THE ART OF ORGANIZING AN EXHIBITION

The Department of Art & Art History, in cooperation with the Lowe Art Museum, has introduced “ArtLab”—a course that gives UM undergraduates an opportunity to curate an exhibit from the conceptual stage through the final installation.

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FIRST PH.D. STUDENT APPOINTED TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The University of Miami’s Board of Trustees appointed the 2009-10 student representative, T. Mechelle Francis, ’11, this past April 15. Francis, 31, is the second Arts & Sciences student in consecutive years to be awarded the post.

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PHYSICS PH.D. CANDIDATE WINS 2009 A.P.S. FELLOWSHIP

The American Physical Society has awarded a 2009 Student Fellowship in Physics and Society to UM graduate student Zhenyuan Zhao.

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VISITING COMMITTEE PROVIDES SAGE ADVICE

The committee has three missions: to provide the dean with feedback on the strategic plan for the College; to help the dean secure the resources necessary for the success of that strategic plan; and to present the Board of Trustees and the Academic Affairs Committee with regular updates on the College’s progress.

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