From the Editor The Season of Resilience and Renewal In September 1926, less than a month before the newly established University of Miami was slated to open, a Category 4 hurricane ripped through Miami. A quick plan to relocate from the ravaged Coral Gables campus to the nearby Anastasia Hotel allowed the U to open […]
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From the Editor Making Our Way Amid a wave of bloody pogroms in Poland, my grandfather was born a Jew. Repeatedly denied a visa to reunite with his mother in the United States, he fled alone at 13 from Eastern Europe, landing in Mexico, where he made his way for four years by selling saints […]
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From the Editor Lend Us Your Ears Remember Doctor Doolittle and his talent for talking to the animals? UM has its own version of Doctor Doolittle. But instead of talking to the animals, Professor Carolyn Cray is listening to them—their blood and other biological samples tell her when they’re in trouble and, oftentimes, how their […]
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From the Editor Back to the Future Miami: The University of Miami Magazine shares its 25th anniversary with a humble little creation known as the Internet. When this publication launched in 1989, the World Wide Web was just coming to life. With the birth of the Web, the world of communications embarked on a journey […]
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From the Editor A Vicarious Bon Voyage I decided not to take a summer vacation this year. Maybe I didn’t feel the need after the vicarious thrills of adventure I experienced by editing all the stories in this issue. After all, without lifting a finger I managed to scale one of the most exciting equatorial […]
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From the Editor Admission of Gilt A couple of months ago I received an excited email from a parent. “It’s a terrific new year for us because [our daughter] was accepted into UM! She has been checking her email every 30 seconds this week and found out at 6:25 a.m., and then woke us up […]
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Moving Day A couple of weeks after we moved into the stunning Robert and Judi Prokop Newman Alumni Center in September, I was making my already almost-routine trek to Sebastian’s Café when something near the ground caught my peripheral vision. A brown puff perched behind the manicured hedge stood out against the cream-colored Jerusalem stone […]
