POINTS OF PRIDE HEMISPHERIC EXCELLENT This past year, the has made RELEVANT great strides in realizing our vision to become the hemispheric, excellent, relevant, and exemplary EXEMPLARY university the world needs as we approach our centennial in 2025. The Roadmap to Our New Century—a comprehensive strategic plan for achieving our aspirations—continues to guide

POINTS OF PRIDE | 2018 our progress. • To support teams of scholars in multiple disciplines MISSION- as they tackle the world’s most compelling research problems, U-LINK (University of Miami Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge) provides funding for innovative, collaborative DRIVEN projects. • University of Miami biologists lead an international team RESEARCH of scientists to discover that tropical and subtropical forests across South America’s Andes Mountains are responding to warming temperatures by migrating From basic discovery to complex interdisciplinary to higher, cooler elevations but are not moving quickly inquiries, research that translates into actionable enough to avoid possible extinction. solutions is among the top strategic priorities of • Ge-Cheng Zha, a professor of mechanical and aerospace the Roadmap to Our New Century. engineering and co-director of the Center for Green Aviation, continues his groundbreaking research to improve the efficiency of aircraft using a new airfoil he developed.

• Selected for its expertise in genetics and • The School of Law’s International Arbitration genomics and its location, the University Institute and the ICC International Court of Arbitration receives a $60 million grant from the collaborate on an unprecedented research project National Institutes of Health to lead aimed at bringing greater transparency to the SouthEast Enrollment Center for international arbitration via a new data analysis All of Us, a program to build the most platform. inclusive and diverse health database in history. The center will enroll 100,000 participants as part of the more than 1 million U.S. participants expected over the next five years. • • •

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Artem Sviridov and Pitbull’s , becomes the the becomes inMiami. • During spring move-out, more than 4,000 resident students donate 38.5 tons (77,160 pounds) of goods to NATIONAL Goodwill Industries International, Inc., an increase of 7,570 pounds from the previous year. RECOGNITION • Belen Fadrique, a Ph.D. candidate in biology, discovers 16 new species of bamboo in Peru. The University of Miami continues to garner accolades for innovative programs that are shaping the future of education.

No. 26 on the 2019 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges for Veterans list FIRST-YEAR ADMISSIONS A+ No. 47 in the 2019 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher 34,267 most Education College applications Rankings ever received 54% 3.7 first-year GPA average students speak two or more No. 53 on U.S. languages 2,342 News’ 2019 Best largest Colleges list first-year class enrolled

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• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is the No. 1 ophthalmology • The University is facility in the nation for the 17th time in the U.S. News named one of only 14 Best Hospitals edition and is ranked for the second Lead Advisory Institutions consecutive year by Ophthalmology Times as the No. 1 by the Student Afairs overall ophthalmology program, the best in clinical care, Administrators in and the best residency program in the United States. Higher Education for its Lead Initiative on Civic • The Miller School of Medicine is among the top 50 Learning and Democratic medical schools on the U.S. News 2019 Best Graduate Engagement. Schools list. • In just its second year of • The Campus Pride Index ranks the University a 4-star operation and first year university, recognizing the openness of LGBTQ of eligibility, The Lennar culture as indicated by LGBTQ support and institutional Foundation Medical inclusion, student life, housing and residential life, Center earns a Guardian counseling, health, and campus safety. of Excellence Award for Patient Experience • The Frost School of Music makes Billboard’s list of the from Press Ganey, a Top Music Business Schools of 2018. national leader in health care performance UMimprovement. LEADERSHIP • Amina Gautier, an award-winning short story author and creative writing professor, receives the 2018 PEN/Malamud AND Award for Excellence in the Short Story category. • Renowned neurologist and stroke researcher SCHOLARSHIP Ralph L. Sacco, professor and chair of neurology and the Olemberg Family Chair of Neurological Disorders at the Miller School of Medicine, • Mary Lindemann, professor and chair of the Department of is elected to the National Academy History, is elected president of the American Historical of Medicine. Association, the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields. • The University’s Office of the General Counsel is named Legal Department of the Year by the Daily as part of the publication’s 2018 Professional • Five Bascom Palmer Eye Institute faculty members are honored Business Review among the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World of Excellence Awards. Ophthalmology: Eduardo C. Alfonso, Philip J. Rosenfeld, Harry W. Flynn Jr., Richard K. Parrish II, and Sonia H. Yoo. • Ben Kirtman, professor of atmospheric sciences at the Rosenstiel School and director of the Cooperative Institute for • Miami Business School finance professor Indraneel Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Chakraborty is named one of the 2018 Best 40 Under is 40 Professors by Poets&Quants. named a 2019 fellow of the American Meteorological Society for his • Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science outstanding contributions to weather, water, and climate. professor Martin Grosell, who specializes in environmental physiology and toxicology in marine fish and invertebrates, receives the Award of Excellence in fish physiology from the American Fisheries Society. • Jean-Hubert Olivier, assistant professor in the chemistry department, is the University’s first faculty member to receive BUILDING THE the Beckman Young Investigators Award, bestowed to foster inventions that “will open up new avenues of research in FUTURE science.” Among the most anticipated additions to the Coral Gables campus are the Student Housing Village and Centennial Village. • Pediatric nurse Cynthia Foronda, associate professor of Together they will transform the student living and academic clinical at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, receives experience. We also celebrate the rise of other spaces that foster the 2018 Educational Change Award from the Josiah Macy Jr. learning, collaboration, and excellence in athletics and campus life. Foundation.

• Composer and associate professor Carlos Rafael Rivera wins his first Emmy Award for the theme music from the Netflix limited series “Godless.”

• Charles Huang, an associate professor in the biomedical engineering department, is elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an honor bestowed on only 3 percent of the society’s members. • The 90,000-square-foot Carol • University of Miami Soffer Indoor Practice Facility Hillel is awarded the features two high-performance prestigious 2018 Philip H. artificial turf fields and a football and Susan Rudd Cohen operations center with coaches’ Outstanding Campus ofces, conference and meeting Award from Hillel rooms, a video center, a recruiting International Global suite, and displays celebrating the Assembly. University’s football history. • The School of Architecture’s Thomas P. Murphy Design Studio Building, a PRESTIGIOUS 20,000-square-foot building with a high-tech fabrications lab, modern workstations that PARTNERSHIPS optimize collaboration, and several innovative design features, is • The University hosts the first named the 2018 Building of the National Geographic conference, a two-day symposium Year by World Architects. on Campus that connects students to Nat Geo’s • The School of Architecture’s B.E. & W.R. Miller BuildLab worldwide community of scientists, opens, giving students an open-air, covered structure where journalists, educators, and explorers. they can construct projects even in inclement weather. • The University of Miami partners • The Kislak Center at the Otto G. with entrepreneurial Richter Library opens, celebrating heavyweight Magic the landmark gift by the Jay I. Kislak Leap, founded and Foundation of a significant collection of led by alumnus Rony Early Americas maps, books, Abovitz, to create Project artworks, and other Alexandria, which will transform artifacts. learning and make spatial computing an important part of the University’s educational experience. • The University celebrates the announcement of the Phillip and • The University launches the Hemispheric University Patricia Frost Science and Consortium, a Roadmap to Our New Century initiative that Engineering Building, which will provides a platform for students, faculty, and researchers to house an intertwined network of collaborate. The inaugural consortium meeting brings leaders institutes that will boost STEM from universities across the hemisphere to the University. disciplines across the University.

• World health experts • The Dolphins Cancer Challenge, meet at the University a partnership between the to discuss the Miami Dolphins and Sylvester findings, identify Comprehensive Cancer Center at solutions, and call the University of Miami, completes for action on The Lancet its eighth year and raises more Commission’s report, led than $5 million for innovative $ by Felicia Marie Knaul, cancer research. director of the Institute for Advanced Study of • Faculty, students, and staf the Americas, on the engage with the community lack of palliative care and at a record level, completing pain relief for millions of sufering people around nearly 209,000 hours of service. The economic impact the world. of this service is estimated at $5.15 million. • A regional joint meeting of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine, held at the University, focuses on the potential for health care breakthroughs when doctors and engineers collaborate. DISTINGUISHED • leads a rally at Michelle Obama the Watsco Center for When We All Vote, a national nonpartisan, GUESTS nonprofit organization founded to spark a conversation about the responsibilities of registering and voting. • Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak speaks at the Miami Business School’s first World Leaders lecture. • Hip-hop superstar Drake visits the • Grammy Award-winning singer and University to film a video for his single and songwriter Alessia Cara speaks to “God’s Plan” donates funds to students at the Frost School of Music. support student scholarships and the Frost School of Music’s Donna E.

• Former U.S. President Bill Clinton convenes Shalala MusicReach Program. the second summit of his Clinton Global Initiative Action Network on Post-Disaster • Among the at the University, uniting business, Recovery notable speakers government, and civil society leaders to imparting wisdom make Commitments to Action that help communities to graduates at the in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica,

and Antigua and Barbuda recover from the May 2018 Commencement ceremonies are Peruvian-born novelist and Nobel devastating hurricanes of 2017. laureate Mario Vargas Llosa (left); race and gender equality champion • CNN’s Fareed Zakaria speaks on , daughter as part of the Northern Nontombi Naomi Tutu campus of Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu; and Trust Lecture Series and 2018 Fall renowned flutist . Convocation. Sir James Galway • The Hurricanes men’s team earns an at-large ATHLETIC bid to the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the fourth time in head coach Jim Larrañaga’s seven seasons ACHIEVEMENTS at the U. • Randy Ableman is named the 2018 ACC Women’s Diving • Manny Diaz, who catapulted the Hurricanes Coach of the Year. defense to elite status during his three years as defensive coordinator, is named head • UM student-athletes earn first place in the Division I coach of the football category of the 2018 NCAA Team Works Helper Helper team. Community Service Competition.

• Gino DiMare becomes the 10th head • Six Miami Hurricanes are selected baseball coach in program history. in the April 2018 NFL Draft, with defensive lineman Chad Thomas • Miami athletics launches the Building leading the way as the 67th Women Champions campaign to overall selection and going to enhance scholarship support, leadership the . development, and career coaching for female student-athletes. • Sophomore tennis phenom Estela Perez-Somarriba • Women’s basketball head coach is named the Atlantic Coast Katie Meier achieves the 250th victory of Conference’s Player of the Year, her stellar 13-year coaching career at Miami becoming the fourth Hurricane and leads the team to an NCAA tournament bid. to earn the prestigious award. Senior Erykah Davenport achieves the best single-season percentage in • Amy Deem, director of track program history. and field/cross country, is named the 2018 ACC Outdoor Track and Field Women’s Coach of the Year, winning the honor for the third time. miami.edu

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