Spotlights

Center for Humanities provides a new resource for South Florida

With an inaugural group of Faculty Fellows, a full slate of events throughout the academic year, and other dynamic programming, the center seeks to become a resource not only for the University but the entire South Florida community    Learn More

2009 Arts and Sciences Beyond the Book Winners Announced

A&S student projects addressing the evolution of the French language, embryology, and popular religion and peacemaking in Sudan are among 12 chosen for the 2009 Beyond the Book Scholarship.    Learn More

Professors take part in Israeli math conference

The University of Miami, ORT Braude College and Bar-Ilan University hosted the event. More than 100 mathematicians from around the world convened in Nahariya, Israel, this past spring.    Learn More

Philosophy Professor wins 2009 Provost’s Award, the highest honor for academic pursuits

Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc has honored Philosophy Professor Michael Slote with the 2009 Provost’s Award, the University’s highest honor for scholarly activity during a ceremony March 31 on the Coral Gables campus.    Learn More

The College and the Biology department celebrate Darwin’s 200th at the Gifford Arboretum

More than 125 people celebrated English Naturalist Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday with a garden tour and talk by Dr. Lucia Lohmann.    Learn More

Physicist Develops Battery Using New Source Of Energy

Physicist Stewart E. Barnes and other collaborators have been able to prove the existence of a “spin battery,” a battery that is "charged" by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in a device called a magnetic tunnel junction.    Learn More

Lullaby of Broadway

UM grads play a bigger part at the top of the New York theater world than you might imagine    Learn More