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Miami University.
The
University of Miami (informally referred to as
UM,
U Miami,
Miami and
The U)
[8][9] is a private,
nonsectarian university located in
Coral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2012, the university currently enrolls 15,613 students
[10] in 12 separate colleges, including a
medical school located in
Miami's
Civic Center neighborhood, a
law school on the main campus, and a
school focused on the study of
oceanography and
atmospheric sciences on
Virginia Key.
These colleges offer approximately 115 undergraduate, 114 master's, 51
doctoral, and two professional areas of study. Over the years, the
University's students have represented all 50 states and close to 150
foreign countries.
[11] With more than 13,000 full and part-time faculty and staff,
[12] UM is the sixth largest employer in
Miami-Dade County.
[13]
Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $346.6 million per year in sponsored research grants.
[14] UM offers a large library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in
Cuban heritage and music.
[15]
UM also offers a wide range of student activities, including
fraternities and sororities, a student newspaper and radio station. UM's
intercollegiate athletic teams, collectively known as the
Miami Hurricanes, compete in
Division I of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association,
[16] and its
football team has won five national championships since 1983.
[17]
History
A group of citizens chartered the University of Miami (UM) in 1925
with the intent to offer "unique opportunities to develop inter-American
studies, to further creative work in the arts and letters, and to
conduct teaching and research programs in tropical studies."
[18]
They believed that a local university would benefit their community.
They were overly optimistic about future financial support for UM
because the South Florida land boom was at its peak.
[18] During the
Jim Crow era, there were three large state-funded universities in Florida for white males, white females, and black coeds (
UF,
FSU, and
FAMU, respectively); in this accord, UM was founded as a white,
coeducational institution.
The University began in earnest in 1925 when
George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gave 160 acres (0.6 km
2) and nearly $5 million,
[19] ($67.2 million, adjusted for current inflation) to the effort.
[20] These contributions were land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had been sold in the city.
[21] The University was chartered on April 18, 1925
[22] by the Circuit Court for Dade County.
[23] By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM,
[24] the land boom had collapsed, and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by a
major hurricane.
[25]
For the next 15 years the University barely remained solvent. The
construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick
Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic
difficulties.
[25]
In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with
partitions separating classrooms, giving the University the early
nickname of "Cardboard College."
[25][26][27]
In 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned
in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. UM's plight was so
severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds
to keep it open.
[26] A reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by UM's first president
Bowman Foster Ashe (1926–1952). The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E.B. Douglas,
David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and
J. C. Penney. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the
University of Havana closed due to political unrest.
[25] UM filed for bankruptcy in 1932.
[25][28]
In July 1934, the University of Miami was reincorporated and a Board of
Trustees replaced the Board of Regents. By 1940, community leaders were
replacing faculty and administration as trustees.
[23] The University survived this early turmoil. During Ashe's presidency, the University added the
School of Law (1928),
[29] the
School of Business Administration (1929), the School of Education (1929), the Graduate School (1941), the Marine Laboratory (1943, renamed in 1969 as the
Rosenstiel School), the School of Engineering (1947), and the
School of Medicine (1952).
[25]
Walkway leading to the Otto G. Richter Library on the campus of the University of Miami
During World War II, UM was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the
V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a
Navy commission.
[30]
One of Ashe's longtime assistants,
Jay F. W. Pearson, assumed the presidency in 1952.
[31] A charter faculty member and a marine biologist by trade,
[31] Pearson retained the position until 1962.
[18] During his presidency, UM awarded its first doctorate degrees and saw an increase in enrollment of more than 4,000.
[18][32]
The social changes of the 1960s and 1970s were reflected at UM. In
1961, UM dropped its policy of racial segregation and began to admit
black students.
[32][33] African Americans were also allowed full participation in student activities and sports teams.
[34]
After President Stanford pressed for minority athletes, in December
1966, UM signed Ray Bellamy, an African American football player. With
Bellamy, UM became the first major college in the Deep South with a
Black football player on scholarship.
[35] UM established an Office of Minority Affairs to promote diversity in both undergraduate and professional school admissions.
[36] With the start of the 1968 football season, President Henry Stanford barred the playing of "
Dixie" by the University's band.
[25]
Historically, UM regulated female student conduct more than men's
conduct with a staff under the Dean of Women watching over the women. UM
combined the separate Dean of Men and Dean of Women positions in 1971
Campus
Coral Gables campus
UM's main campus spans 260 acres (1.1 km
2)
[37] in
Coral Gables,
located immediately south of the city of Miami. Most of the University
of Miami's academic programs are located on the main campus in Coral
Gables, which houses seven schools and two colleges including the
University of Miami School of Law. The campus has over 5,900,000 sq ft (550,000 m
2) of building space valued at over $657 million.
[38]
Several other programs, including bilingual Continuing and
International Education classes, are offered at the Koubek Center in
Miami's
Little Havana,
[39] the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami,
[40] and the South and Richmond campuses in southwest
Miami-Dade county.
The university also has a campus theater, the
Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, which is used for student plays and musicals.
[41] The
John C. Gifford Arboretum, a campus
arboretum and
botanical garden, is located on the northwest corner of the main campus in Coral Gables.
[42]
The Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center is the lecture hall and gallery
of the School of Architecture that displays exhibitions focusing on
architecture and design.
[43][44]
The Coral Gables campus is served by the
Miami Metrorail at the
University Station.
[45] The Metro connects UM to
Downtown Miami,
Brickell,
Coconut Grove, and other Miami neighborhoods. The UM campus is about a 15-minute train ride from Downtown and Brickell.
[46] The Hurry 'Canes
shuttle bus service
operates two routes on campus (as well as to the University Station)
and weekend routes to various off-campus stores and facilities during
the school year; an additional shuttle route provides service to the
RSMAS campus on Virginia Key and
Vizcaya Station. Miami also has a
Zipcar service.
Student housing
| UM residence halls[47] |
Year built |
Room capacity |
| Apartment Area[48] |
1948 |
est. 500 |
| Eaton Residential College |
1954 |
400 |
| Mahoney Residential College |
1958 |
750 |
| Pearson Residential College |
1962 |
750 |
| Hecht Residential College |
1968 |
900 |
| Stanford Residential College |
1968 |
900 |
| University Village |
2006 |
800 |
| Total |
4,500 (29% of UM students) |
The Coral Gables campus houses 4,500 enrolled students. This group is
disproportionately freshmen (84% of new freshmen live on campus
compared with 43% of all degree undergraduates).
[15]
UM's on campus housing consists of five residential colleges and one
apartment-style housing area available only to undergraduate degree
seeking students. The residential colleges are divided into two
dormitory-style residence halls and three suite-style residence halls. The McDonald and Pentland Towers of Hecht Residential College
[49] and the Walsh and Rosborough Towers of Stanford Residential College
[50]
are commonly referred to as the "Freshman Towers", as the single-sex by
floor (with shared bathroom facilities) co-ed dormitories generally
house new students. Eaton Residential College, which originally housed
only women,
[51] and the Mahoney/Pearson Residential Colleges
[52][53] have suite-style housing with every two double-occupancy rooms connected by a shared bathroom.
In addition to these five residential colleges, Miami also has an area called the University Village
[54] which consists of seven buildings with
apartment-style
annual contract housing, fully furnished with kitchen facilities. The
University Village is only open to juniors and seniors, but was
previously open to graduate students and students of the School of Law
up until July 31, 2009; after this date, there has been no housing
available for any graduate students on the Coral Gables campus.
[55][56] The University of Miami also has a series of
fraternity houses, opposite the intramural fields on San Amaro Drive, dubbed "Fraternity Row"; the sororities do not possess any such facilities.
Miami previously had a series of seven buildings set aside for
student residences called the Apartment Area, consisting of the oldest
dormitories on campus which were originally built to house married
veterans and their families.
[57]
These buildings also featured fully furnished apartments with kitchen
facilities, but were not leased to students as in the University
Village. These residences were closed at the end of the Spring 2010
semester,
[48]
although several others of these original dormitories continue to be
used as office space for departments such as the Office of Student
Employment, the
Air Force ROTC Detachment 155, and the Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Education PIER 21.
The University of Miami does not offer housing for students with children or for married students.
[58] UM abolished its separate dorms for athletes in 1990.
[59]
Medical campus
The
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine campus, located in Miami city proper in
Civic Center, trains 1,000 students in various health-related programs.
[60] It consists of 68 acres (280,000 m
2) within the 153 acres (620,000 m
2)
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex. The
medical center includes three UM-owned hospitals: University of Miami
Hospital, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Anne Bates Leach
Eye Hospital.
Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Holtz Children's Hospital, and the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical
Center are also a part of the medical center and are affiliated with UM,
but are not owned by UM.
[61] The heart of this campus is "
The Alamo" – the original City of Miami Hospital, which opened in 1918, that is on the
National Register of Historic Places.
[60][62] In 2006, UM opened the 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m
2), 15-story Clinical Research Building and Wellness Center.
[60] In 2009, a
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified, nine-story Biomedical Research Building, a 182,000 sq ft (16,900 m
2)
laboratory and office facility, opened to house the Interdisciplinary
Stem Cell Institute and the Miami Institute for Human Genomics.
[63] UM has started to build a 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000 m
2) UM Life Science Park adjacent to the UM medical campus.
[64]
These additional Gold LEED certified buildings are being built by
Wexford Science & Technology, a private developer, on land leased
from UM.
[65] The Medical campus is connected to UM's main campus by the
Miami Metrorail with direct stations at University Station for the main campus, and Civic Center Station for the medical campus.
On December 1, 2007, the University purchased the Cedars Medical
Center, renaming it as the University of Miami Hospital. Situated in the
Miami Health District, the hospital is close to the Jackson Memorial
Hospital, which has been used by the UM students and faculty to provide
patient care for many years.
[66]
Starting in 2004, the Miller School began offering instruction on the campus of
Florida Atlantic University in
Boca Raton, Florida.
MD candidates were admitted to either the Miami or Boca Raton programs
and spent the first two years studying on the selected campus and the
last two on the main campus in Miami.
[67]
In April 2005, the Boca Raton program was expanded to include a third
clinical year in Palm Beach County. In 2010, when Florida Atlantic
University made plans to establish their own medical school, no future
classes of the regional campus were accepted. The last class to complete
the first three years of training in Boca Raton is the Class of 2013.
[68]
There is no on campus housing for students of the Miller School of Medicine in Miami or Boca Raton.
[69] The Miami and Boca Raton campuses charge identical tuition, with a lower tuition for in-state students.
[70]
Virginia Key campus
In 1945, construction began on the
Rickenbacker Causeway to make
Virginia Key accessible by car. The county offered to give UM a part of the island adjacent to the
Miami Seaquarium in exchange for UM operating the aquarium.
[71]
However, the aquarium construction was delayed when a bond referendum
failed, so UM leased the land in 1951. In 1953, UM built classroom and
lab buildings on a 16 acre (65,000 m²) campus to house what would become
the
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Additional buildings were added in 1957, 1959 and 1965.
[71] The U.S.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory is located across the
Rickenbacker Causeway
from the campus. From 1947 to 1959, the State of Florida funded the UM
Marine Lab on Virginia Key until the State built a separate marine lab
in St. Petersburg.
[71] In 2009, UM received a $15 million federal grant to help construct a new $43.8 million, 56,500 square feet (5,250 m
2) Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building.
[72]
There is no housing on the Virginia Key campus. As part of its
campus-wide free shuttle service, UM operates a route from the Coral
Gables campus to the Virginia Key campus, which includes stops at the
Vizcaya Metrorail station on weekdays.
[56][73]
South Campus
In 1946, UM acquired the former
Richmond Naval Air Station,
in southwestern Miami, located 12 mi (19 km) south of the main campus
in order to accommodate the post-war increase in students. Its six
buildings provide 63,800 sq ft (5,930 m
2)
[61] to currently house: the Global Public Health Research Group, Miami Institute for Human
Genomics, Forensic Toxicology Laboratory (for analysis of
DUI suspect blood samples), and
Microbiology and
Immunology.
[74]
The campus was acquired immediately following World War II and provided
classrooms, housing, and other amenities for about 1,100 students
(mostly freshmen) for two academic years. In 1948 it was repurposed as a
research facility.
[75] In the 1960s, some of the buildings were leased to the
Central Intelligence Agency. The South Campus Grove was a 350 acres (1,400,000 m
2) plot for agricultural research and horticultural studies that was established in 1948.
[24][75] For 20 years, UM used radioactive
isotopes
in biological research on the South Campus, and buried materials,
included irradiated animals on the site. In August 2006, UM agreed to
reimburse the Army Corps of Engineers $393,473 for clean-up costs under
the
Superfund law.
[76]
The Richmond campus is a 76 acres (310,000 m
2) site near South Campus that was formerly the
United States Naval Observatory Secondary National Time Standard Facility, which already had buildings and a 20M antenna used for
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI).
[77]
The Rosenstiel School's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced
Remote Sensing (CSTARS) and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC)
have research facilities located on a portion of the new campus.
Sustainability
Since 2005, UM has a "Green U" initiative which includes LEED
certification for buildings and the use of biofuels by the campus bus
fleet.
[78] UM established the
Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.
[79]
As a part of the Abess Center, UM launched the R.J. Dunlap Marine
Conservation Program to educate students on the importance of protecting
the marine environment.
[80] In 2008, UM replaced the chiller plant on its Virginia Key campus to improve its carbon footprint.
[81] UM also planted
mangroves,
sea grape trees, and other dune plants on Virginia Key to protect its sand dunes and to protect the campus from storm damage.
[82] UM received a "C+" grade on the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card
[83] and a "B-" for 2010
[84] for its environmental and sustainability initiatives.
Student body
In 2011, UM received 28,000 applicants for only 2,150 available
openings in its freshman class. Nearly 75 percent of new freshmen
admitted to the university graduated in the top 10 percent of their high
school class with an average
GPA of 4.2 and an average
SAT score of 1319.
[86]
In 2010, undergraduates were composed of: 32% from the Greater Miami
area, 12% from other parts of Florida, 44% from other U.S. states, and
11% were foreign students. Graduates were composed of: 34% from the
Greater Miami area, 16% from other parts of Florida, 37% from other U.S.
states, and 13% were foreign students.
[5]
As of 2002, UM graduation rates had 64.1% graduating within 4 years, 75.1% graduating within 5 years, and 76.8% graduating within 6 years.
[87] Male student athletes have a 52% 4-year graduation rate, and 72% of female student athletes graduate within 4 years.
[88][89]
Academics
Fall freshman statistics[10][90]
| |
2012 |
2011 |
2010 |
2009 |
2008 |
| Applicants |
27,757 |
27,745 |
25,895 |
21,845 |
21,774 |
| Admits |
11,020 |
10,635 |
10,157 |
8,411 |
7,527 |
| % Admitted |
39.7 |
38.3 |
39.2 |
44.4 |
38.6 |
This table does not account deferred
applications or other unique situations. |
There are currently 2,580 full-time faculty members, 91% of whom hold doctorates or terminal degrees in their field.
[91] UM has a student-faculty ratio of 11:1.
[91] The University of Miami is accredited by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and 23 additional professional and educational accrediting agencies. It is a member of the
American Association of University Women, the
American Council on Education, the
American Council of Learned Societies, the Association of American Colleges and Universities,
[92] the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, the Independent Colleges & Universities of Florida,
[93] and the
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
[94]
Organization
UM is led by a Board of Trustees, which holds two meetings each year.
[23] The Board has 48 elected members, 3 alumni representatives, 23 senior members, 4 national members, 6
ex officio members, 14 emeriti members, and 1 student representative.
Ex officio
members, who serve by virtue of their positions in the University,
include the President of the University, the President and Immediate
Past President of the Citizens Board, and the President,
President-Elect, and Immediate Past President of the Alumni Association.
[23]
Since 1982, the Board has eleven visiting committees, which include
both Trustees and outside experts, to help oversee the individual
academic units.
[23]
UM's President is the university's chief executive officer with a 2012 salary of $1.16 million,
[95] and each academic unit is headed by a Dean.
The University of Miami announced on April 13, 2015 that Dr. Julio
Frenk will be the University’s 6th president. Dr. Frenk previously
served as Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and
Mexico’s Minister of Health.
[96]
2012-2013 Tuition[97]
| School |
Tuition |
Total Cost |
| Undergraduate |
$39,980 |
$57,542 |
| Graduate School |
$39,840 |
$57,402 |
| Law School |
$42,000 |
$59,562 |
| Medical School (FL) |
$31,686 |
| Medical School (non-FL) |
$41,168 |
- Undergraduate & Graduate
- Graduate only
In addition, UM also has a Division of Continuing and International
Education and a program in Executive Education as part of the School of
Business Administration.
The Graduate School does not have a separate faculty, but rather
coordinates the faculties from the other schools and colleges with
respect to master and doctorate degree program.
[99] A partnership with nearby
Florida International University
also allow students from both schools to take graduate classes at
either university, allowing graduate students to take a wider variety of
courses.
[100] In addition, the Miller School of Medicine offers separate PhD
[101] and MD/PhD
[102] programs in several biomedical sciences.
The
Department of Community Service,
staffed by volunteer medical students and physicians from UM's Leonard
M. School of Medicine, provides free medical and other community
services in Miami and surrounding communities.
For the fiscal year ending May 2012, UM had $2,403,500,000 in total revenues and $2,431,500,000 in functional expenses.
[103]
Rankings
| U.S. News & World Report rankings[110] |
| National Top University |
48 |
| Biological sciences |
84 |
| Chemistry |
49 |
| Education |
56 |
| Engineering |
111 |
| Fine Arts |
114 |
| Law |
63 |
| Math |
95 |
| Medical School: Primary Care |
90-118 |
| Medical School: Research |
45 |
| Physics |
131 |
| Psychology |
52 |
| Public Affairs |
87 |
| Sociology |
84 |
| Other UM Rankings |
| CMUP Research Universities[111] |
78 |
| USNWR Earth Sciences[112] |
43 |
| Wuhan International ESI[113] |
106 |
| USNWR Clinical Psychology[114] |
25 |
In the 2014 issue of
U.S. News & World Report 's "America's Best Colleges," the University of Miami was ranked 48th among national universities.
[115] U.S. News 's 2014 ranking of U.S. medical schools ranked the
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine as the 46th best medical school in the nation, while
US News ranked the
School of Law as the 61st best law school in the nation.
[116] In 2008,
U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Miami Physical Therapy Department 7th in the nation
[117] and the Department of Psychology's Clinical Training Program 25th in the nation.
[114]
The
National Science Foundation
ranks UM 112th out of 630 research institutions in the number of
granted doctorate degrees in its FY 2006 survey. It ranked 79th out of
630 in terms of total research expenditures.
[118]
The
Academic Ranking of World Universities rates UM one of the world's top 150 academic institutions
[119] In
Forbes magazine's 2010 rankings of 600 undergraduate institutions, UM ranked 293rd.
[120] In 2012,
Forbes
gave the University of Miami a 132 overall ranking and ranked it among
the 115 top private universities and among the top 53 research
universities in the nation.
[121]
In the 2009 edition of
Best 371 Colleges,
The Princeton Review ranks UM one of the 141 "Best Southeastern Colleges"
[122] and ranks it first in the nation in its "Lots of Race/Class Interaction" category.
[123][124][125]
Libraries
The Otto G. Richter Library, the University of Miami's main library,
houses collections that serve the arts, architecture, humanities, social
sciences, and the sciences. It is a depository for federal and state
government publications.
[126]
Rare books, maps, manuscript collections, and the University of Miami
Archives are housed in the Special Collections Division and in the Cuban
Heritage Collection.
In addition to the Richter Library, the Libraries include facilities
that support programs in architecture, business, marine science, and
music:
- Judi Prokop Newman Information Resources Center (Business)
- Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library[127]
- Paul Buisson Architecture Library
- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library
The University also has specialized libraries for medicine and law:
- Louis Calder Memorial Library (Medicine)
- University of Miami Law Library
Within the Miller School of Medicine, there are two specialized
departmental libraries for ophthalmology and psychiatry that are open to
the public:
- Mary and Edward Norton Library (Ophthalmology)
- Pomerance Library (Psychiatry)
Combined holdings of the libraries include over 3.4 million volumes,
87,125 current serials titles, 75,521 electronic journals, 630,756
electronic books, 4.1 million microforms, and 172,560 audio, film,
video, and cartographic materials.
[15] The Libraries have a staff of 37 Librarians and 86 support staff.
[128]
Research
Sponsored research expenditures for fiscal year 2008 reached a record of more than $326 million.
[129] Those funds support over 5,000 graduate students and postdoctoral trainees.
[130] In Fiscal Year 2006, UM received $127 million in federal research funding, including $89.5 million from the
Department of Health and Human Services and $16.7 million from the
National Science Foundation.
[131] Of the $8.2 billion appropriated by Congress in 2009 as a part of the stimulus bill for research priorities of the
National Institutes of Health, the Miller School received $40.5 million.
[132]
In addition to research conducted in the individual academic schools
and departments, Miami has the following University-wide research
centers:
The Miller Medical School has more than $200 million per year in
external grants and contracts to fund 1,500 ongoing projects. The
medical campus includes more than 500,000 sq ft (46,000 m
2)
of research space with plans underway to build a new UM Life Science
Park, which will add an additional 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000 m
2) of space adjacent to the medical campus.
[63]
UM's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute seeks to understand the
biology of stem cells and translate basic research into new regenerative
therapies. In 2007, Joshua Hare, MD and colleagues reported that a new
stem cell therapy was safe for the treatment of myocardial infarction
and reduced complications from the condition.
[142]
As of 2008, the Rosenstiel School receives $50 million in annual external research funding.
[143]
Their laboratories include a salt-water wave tank, a five-tank
Conditioning and Spawning System, multi-tank Aplysia Culture Laboratory,
Controlled Corals Climate Tanks, and DNA analysis equipment.
[144]
The campus also houses an invertebrate museum with 400,000 specimens,
and operates the Bimini Biological Field Station, an array of
oceanographic high-frequency radar along the US east coast, and the
Bermuda aerosol observatory.
[145] UM also owns the
Little Salt Spring, a site on the
National Register of Historic Places,
[146] in
North Port, Florida, where RSMAS performs
archaeological and
paleontological research.
[147]
UM is building a
brain imaging
annex to the James M. Cox Jr. Science Center within the College of Arts
and Sciences. The building will include a human functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) laboratory, where scientists, clinicians and
engineers can study fundamental aspects of brain function. Construction
of the lab is funded in part by a $14.8 million in stimulus money grant
from the
National Institute of Health.
[148]
In 2004 the university received $124 million in science and
engineering funding from the U.S. federal government, the largest
Hispanic-serving recipient and 54th overall. $92 million of the funding
was through the
Department of Health and Human Services, and was used largely for the medical campus.
[149]
UM maintains one of the largest centralized academic cyber
infrastructures in the country with numerous assets. The Center for
Computational Science High Performance Computing group has been in
continuous operation since 2007. Over that time the core has grown from a
zero HPC cyberinfrastructure to a regional high-performance computing
environment that currently supports more than 1,200 users, 220 TFlops of
computational power, and more than 3 Petabytes of disk storage. The
center’s latest system acquisition, an IBM IDataPlex system, was ranked
at number 389 on the November 2012 Top 500 Supercomputers
[1].
Student life
The University is affiliated with 31
fraternities and sororities.
[150] Five of them (
Alpha Epsilon Pi,
Lambda Chi Alpha,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
Sigma Chi, and
Zeta Beta Tau) have
houses on campus.
[151] Among the service groups organized by students are
Amnesty International[152] and
Habitat for Humanity.
[153] Students organize the
Ibis yearbook, UMTV (a cable TV channel carried on
Comcast Channel 96, which includes nine programs, many of which have won national awards),
UniMiami (a Spanish-speaking Cable TV broadcast),
[154] the student-run
Distraction Magazine and the
campus radio station
WVUM.
[155][156]
Since 1929, students have published
The Miami Hurricane newspaper twice-weekly.
[157] The paper has been honored in the
Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame.
[158]
UM has appointed individuals in the various departments to handle
students' problems and complaints called "Troubleshooters." UM also has
an
Ombudsman to mediate complaints that cannot be resolved by the troubleshooters.
[159] Since 1986, UM has an Honor Code governing student conduct.
[160]
The University has a number of student honor societies. The
Iron Arrow Honor Society (which also inducts faculty, staff and alumni) is the highest honor awarded by the university.
[161][162] The University maintains a chapter of
Mortar Board.
[163] In 1959, the
Order of Omega was founded at UM, and it remained a one-campus honorary until 1964.
[164] It is now a national honorary for fraternity and sorority members with a chapter continuing at UM.
[165]
Athletics
The University of Miami's athletic teams are the
Hurricanes, commonly referred to as the "Canes". They compete as a member of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I level, competing primarily in the
Atlantic Coast Conference for all sports since the 2004–05 season.
[166] The Hurricanes previously competed in the
Big East Conference from 1991–92 to 2003–04. Men's teams compete in
baseball,
basketball,
cross-country,
diving,
football,
tennis, and
track and field; while women's teams compete in basketball, cross-country, diving, golf,
rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, and
volleyball.
[16]
The University of Miami's mascot is
Sebastian the Ibis. Its
marching band is the
Band of the Hour. The
Miami Maniac is the mascot for baseball games.
The
football program has been named national champion five times over the past three decades (
1983,
1987,
1989,
1991, and
2001)
[17] and has appeared in the
AP Top 25 frequently during this time. Alumni of the Miami Hurricanes football team include five members of the
Pro Football Hall of Fame and two
Heisman Trophy winners. The UM football team is coached currently by
Al Golden.
For 70 years, from 1937 through 2007, the Hurricanes played their home football games at the
Miami Orange Bowl. Beginning with the 2008 season, the University of Miami began playing its home football games at
Sun Life Stadium (recently renamed from Dolphin Stadium
[167]) in
Miami Gardens. The university signed a 25-year contract to play there through 2033.
[168]
On December 12, 2009, the global sports network
ESPN aired a documentary on the UM football program,
The U, which drew 2.3 million viewers, the most ever for a documentary on the sports cable network.
[169] As of the 2011
National Football League season, UM had the most players active in the NFL of any university in the nation, with 42.
[170]
Baseball program
The UM baseball team, coached currently by
Jim Morris, has won four national championships (
1982,
1985,
1999 and
2001).
Ryan Braun was named "National Freshman of the Year" by
Baseball America while playing for the school in 2003, and won the
Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Player of the Year award as a junior.
[171][172][173] They play their home games at the on-campus baseball stadium,
Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field, named for
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who contributed $3.9 million toward the stadium's 2007–2009 renovation.
[174]
Other sports
A smaller facility,
Cobb Stadium,
is located on the University of Miami campus and is used by the
university's women's soccer and men's and women's track and field teams.
[175] UM's men's and women's basketball teams play their home games at
BankUnited Center on the Coral Gables campus.
Jim Larrañaga is the head coach of
UM's men's basketball team.
[176] UM's men's basketball team has twice reached the
NCAA Championship's "Sweet 16" (1999–2000 and 2012–2013).
Katie Meier is the head coach of UM's women's basketball team.
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