By Julia Berg THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI’S ALMA MATER IS SUNG WITH PRIDE, at homecoming and athletic events and with bittersweet emotion at commencement ceremonies. Yet most of us don’t know anything about its creation by two people who wended very different ways to the University of Miami soon after its founding. The Tunesmith: Gifted […]
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Juicing Creativity
Students in the U’s Orange Umbrella Consultancy gain career skills by providing communication services to real clients. By Michael R. Malone Illustration By Nicole Andujar “SIX MINUTES ’TIL STATUS REPORT,” a student shouts into the sleek ambiance of the School of Communication’s Koenigsberg and Nadal Interactive Media Center. The heads-up rallies his fellow members of […]
Boosting the Signal
Boosting the Signal From spinning vinyl to streaming digital, WVUM celebrates its half-century ride on the changing airwaves of radio with a major renovation. By Aaliyah Weathers, ’19 Some 50 years ago, a group of University of Miami engineering students got caught running a pirate radio station out of an Eaton dorm room. Today the […]
You Know I Read It in a (Maga)Zine
They’re weird and they’re wonderful, and they’re really keen. Take a trip into the zine universe with UM Special Collections. By Dina Weinstein Marisabel Lavastida’s long, graceful fingers nimbly guide the needle in and out of its target. She pulls the gray thread taut and snips the excess. But this is no tailor shop, and […]
Hidden Treasure
By Annie Reisewitz, B.S. ’96 Photo by Donna Victor More than 60 years after earning her master’s degree at UM, Nancy Voss continues to curate the marine school’s treasure trove of specimens known as the Marine Invertebrate Museum. WITH ITS EXOSKELETON, TENTACLE-LIKE LEGS, AND LONG ANTENNAE , this creepy crawler has all the repulsive characteristics […]
Restoring Architectural Wonders in Cuba
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, one ofthe Spanish Colonial churches in the provincedesignated to the World Monuments Watch. By Bárbara Gutiérrez Photos by Carlos Domenech On a sunny January day in Santiago de Cuba, Oriente, 13 students from the School of Architecture scurry through the halls of the Church of Santa Lucia looking for […]
Tackling Concussions Head-On
How the University of Miami became a game-changingauthority in identifying, treating, and educatingthe public about sports-related brain injuries. By Maya Bell Illustration By Harry Campbell /The iSpot An avid sports fan who grew up in Canada, Gillian Hotz loved the brawling physicality of ice hockey. Yet as a young research neuroscientist who came to the […]
Off The Charts
Mixing activism with architecture,two University of Miami professors use drones to map informal cities in Latin Americain the hopes of improving conditions there. By Robert C. Jones Jr. The children play soccer barefoot on a dirt field, and when they aren’t imitating the flamboyant striking and passing skills of their country’s greatest footballers, they roam […]
‘Moonlight’ Becomes Him
The playwright behind this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture illuminates the pain, power, and promise of his hometown. ‘Moonlight’ Becomes Him BY MEREDITH CAMEL, M.F.A. ’12 PHOTOS BY ANDREW INNERARITY THE FIRST TIME TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY, WHOSE LARGELY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK inspired this year’s Best Picture Academy Award winner, realized he could provoke the senses […]
