On Course Magic City Immersion Not long after their bus gets stalled behind the monthly cross-city bicycle caravan known as Critical Mass Miami, J. Miguel Kanai’s Urban Studies class finds sweet respite. At the corner of 15th Avenue and the famous Calle Ocho, they duck into Azucar. The neon-lit ice cream parlor in the festive […]
Tag Archives: College of Arts and Sciences
Rwenzori Rising
Is global warming melting one of Africa’s best-kept secrets? Biologist Nate Dappen calls attention to the ‘Snows of the Nile’ in a new documentary.
Helping Students Overcome Language Barriers
Citizen ’Cane Helping Students Overcome Language Barriers The daughter of a Saudi Arabian diplomat, Taghreed Al-Saraj, B.F.A. ’99, M.S.Ed. ’01, has lived in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Now at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is the school’s first Saudi female postdoctoral research fellow, Al-Saraj specializes in foreign language anxiety—the fear […]
Scores of Scores, Singers, and Showtunes
75th anniversary gala honors shining star of Broadway Composer and lyricist Jerry Herman, A.B. ’53, D.F.A. ’80, whose Tony- and Grammy-winning productions (Mame, La Cage aux Folles, Hello, Dolly!) have helped shape musical theater in America, was the guest of honor at a March event to mark 75 years of excellence in theater arts. A […]
CARD Comes of Age
A look at the UM center’s growing impact and life-changing approaches to helping families throughout South Florida affected by autism. Comes of Age BY ROBERT C. JONES JR. PHOTOS BY DONNA VICTOR First came the prolonged staring. Two-year-old Sebastian would train his gaze on the ceiling fan in his bedroom for what seemed like hours. […]
Solomon Islands Field Course Adventure
On Course Solomon Islands Field Course Adventure Jeffrey Aresty, B.S. ’77, and Patricia (Pickton) Aresty, B.S. ’76, met as University of Miami biology students on a research trip in Ecuador. That course set in motion a life of adventure together—from summiting Kilimanjaro to diving the Seychelles. To honor their passion for the natural world, ignited […]
Artistic Evolution
Throughout his career, award-winning painter Darby Bannard has been making original contributions to the field of art—both on canvas and in the classroom. By Brett Sokol Photo by Richard Patterson Jump to video I’M VERY LUCKY TO BE HERE,” SAYS DARBY BANNARD, professor of painting, while sitting in his acrylic-splattered campus studio. When he joined […]
Early Human Sexuality Educator
Early Human Sexuality Educator Psychotherapist Libby (Arkin) Tanner, A.B. ’48, a family medicine educator and sex therapist who trained at the famous Kinsey Institute and helped establish the nation’s first family medicine department at the University of Miami medical school in the 1960s, died of cancer on August 2, 2012 in Miami Beach. She was […]
Studying Creepy Crawlers to Save Lives
Citizen ’Cane Studying Creepy Crawlers to Save Lives Insects will always be one spindly-legged step ahead of us, says Adriana Troyo Rodríguez, Ph.D. ’07, who’s been a fanatic follower of arthropods for as long as she can recall. As a bug-obsessed child, she collected beetles, spiders, grasshoppers—whatever she could get her hands on in her […]
