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SI NCE ITS I NCE PTIO N I N 1925, THE

UNIVERSITY HAS HAD MANY THINGS TO

B RAG ABOUT. HERE A RE JUST SOME OF

THE RECENT UNIVER SITY ACHIEVEMENTS

FOR YOU TO SHAR E W H E N M E ETI NG

WITH PEOPLE I N YO U R COM M U N ITY.

SI NCE ITS I NCE PTIO N I N 1925, THE

UNIVERSITY HAS HAD MANY THINGS TO

B RAG ABOUT. HERE A RE JUST SOME OF

THE RECENT UNIVER SITY ACHIEVEMENTS

FOR YOU TO SHAR E W H E N M E ETI NG

WITH PEOPLE I N YO U R COM M U N ITY.

47U.S.News & World Report’s 2011 “America’s Best Colleges”

NAT IONAL R ANKINGS

47U.S.News & World Report’s 2011 “America’s

Best Colleges” rankings placed UM in the top tier— No. 47 in the National Universities category. Up 20 spots from 2002, UM is the highest-

ranked Florida school and one of the fastest-rising nationwide.

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The University of Miami placed high in the 2011 edition of

“America’s Best Graduate Schools,” published by U.S.News &

World Report. UM’s Miller School of Medicine ranked No. 47, moving

up four slots from 2010. The School of Law moved up 11 points in

one year to 60th out of 184 schools, with its graduate program

in tax law ranked fifth nationwide.

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The University of Miami is one of the country’s best institutions for

undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review’s 2010

guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges. The Princeton Review rated the

University No. 1 in the country for “Race/Class Interaction” and

ranked the School of Business Administration No. 6 for providing the

greatest opportunity for minority students in its 2011 edition and

No. 7 in the U.S. in the “Most Competitive Students” category.

NAT IONAL R ANKINGS

The Rosenstiel School of Marine

and Atmospheric Science is listed

among the ranks of Harvard and Princeton

as one of the top five “heavy hitters” in the

recent Essential Science Indicators list

published by Thomson Reuters. UM is also

listed 13th in the world for geosciences.

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For the seventh year in a row, UM’s

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was

ranked the No. 1 hospital in the country

for ophthalmology in U.S.News & World

Report’s 2010-11 “America’s Best

Hospitals” annual survey. Several

other specialties at the University

of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical

Center were also ranked: ear, nose,

and throat (No. 30), kidney disorders

(No. 49), pediatrics: diabetes and

endocrinology (No. 24), pediatrics:

neonatology (No. 25), and neurology

and neurosurgery (No. 29).

The University of Miami ranks 15th among

top Peace Corps volunteer-producing

schools in the medium size category for

2010, with 23 alumni and four graduate

students currently serving around the globe.

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The full-time MBA program at the University

of Miami School of Business Administra-

tion is ranked No. 43 in Forbes magazine’s

2009 biennial ranking of business schools

nationwide. The influential Financial Times

newspaper ranked the school No. 18 in the

U.S. and No. 26 in the world for research in its

2010 ranking of executive MBA programs.

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Parade magazine placed UM on its A-List

in two categories: Large Private Schools and

Health Sciences. Hispanic Business magazine

ranked three UM graduate schools—Miller

School of Medicine (No. 2), School of Law

(No. 3), and School of Business Administration

(No. 4)—among the nation’s top ten for His-

panic students in its 2010 Diversity Report.

C O N T ’ D N A T I O N A L R A N K I N G S

BRIGHT NEW

STUDENTS

UM received more than 25,900 applicants for only 2,000 spots.

Approximately 68% of new freshmen graduated in the top 10% of their class.

The average GPA was 4.20 and the average SAT score was nearly 1300.

ACCELERATING ACADE M ICS

The School of Law in 2009 welcomed

its 11th dean, Patricia D. White, who

formerly served as dean of Arizona State

University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College

of Law. She has been widely recognized

for both her intellectual rigor and

passionate advocacy of public service.

Renowned climatologist Roni Avissar

joined UM in 2009 from Duke University,

where he chaired the Department of Civil

and Environmental Engineering, to become

the new dean of the Rosenstiel School

of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

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James M. Tien, dean of the College of

Engineering, was the recipient of the 2010

IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award. IEEE is

the world’s largest professional association

advancing technology for humanity.

Yadong Luo, Emery M. Findley, Jr. Distin-

guished Chair and professor of manage-

ment at the University of Miami School

of Business Administration, is regarded as

the world’s foremost international business

scholar, according to a study published

in the International Business Review.

The College of Arts and Sciences welcomed

its new dean, Leonidas Bachas, a distin-

guished biological chemist who formerly

served as the Frank J. Derbyshire Professor

of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky

and chair of its Department of Chemistry.

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Ralph L. Sacco, chair of the Miller School

of Medicine Department of Neurology,

was inducted as president of the American

Heart Association. He is the first

neurologist to hold the position.

ACCELERATING ACADE M ICS

President Bill Clinton held the third Clinton Global Initiative

University meeting at the University of Miami in April 2010.

More than 1,300 students from 83 countries and all 50 states,

along with university presidents, administrators, and national

youth leaders, attended the conference to devise strategies

to make the world a better place.

E XC LU S I V E E V E N TSThe University’s first Global Business Forum, hosted by the School

of Business Administration in 2009, was a vibrant success, drawing more

than 700 attendees and distinguished business leaders from around the world,

including former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. A second Global Business

Forum in January 2011 focused on The Business of Health Care, featuring

business and government leaders such as U.S. Secretary of Health and

Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.

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Other international figures who spoke on the Coral Gables campus

include His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso,

and Fareed Zakaria, editor-at-large of Time magazine.

E XC LU S I V E E V E N TS

NATIONAL R E COG N ITION

FOR FUN DRA IS I NG

Despite the nation’s serious economic downturn, UM’s fundraising cash

total for fiscal year 2010 reached nearly $160 million, up 4 percent from

the previous year. Overall, new commitments of $100,000 and up reached

nearly $138 million, up more than 56 percent from last year.

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The University of Miami is ranked No. 1 among charities that have

earned the most consecutive Charity Navigator 4-Star ratings for fund-

raising efficiency and ongoing fiscal excellence. UM has earned a 4-Star

rating for ten years in a row, coming in ahead of Harvard, Cornell, Yale,

Stanford, and Vanderbilt. Charity Navigator is the nation’s premier indepen-

dent charity evaluator. In 2009 the Council for Advancement and Support

of Education (CASE) recognized the University with its WealthEngine Award

for three years of successful educational fundraising.

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The University also is a champion fundraiser for charitable causes in local and

global communities. The University raised $1.3 million for United Way of Miami-Dade

last year. And following the tragic earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, the University

raised nearly $7 million for aid and rebuilding. The University of Miami field hospital

in Haiti was headquarters for medical volunteers to treat more than 30,000 patients

and perform more than 1,500 surgeries.

NATIONAL R E COG N ITION

FOR FUN DRA IS I NG

NEW BU ILDIN GS

ON CAM PUS

The Robert and Judi Prokop Newman Alumni Center

opened October 2010 to celebrate the achievements of

graduates and welcome them whenever they return to campus.

The $25.2 million, 72,000-square-foot facility is the only building

on campus completely funded by donors.

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In 2009 researchers moved into the new Biomedical Research

Building, a188,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that is

home to the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics and

the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute.

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The first phase of the UM Life Science & Technology Park is

now under construction and slated for completion in summer 2011.

The first building will include 252,000 square feet of wet and

dry lab space, offices, and shared facilities to be leased by both

established and spinoff companies. A giant step toward making

South Florida a biomedical research powerhouse and a

major medical destination, the project also includes many

community outreach components.

NEW BU ILDIN GS

BREAKTHROU GH

RESEARCH

Research and sponsored program

expenditures totaled more than

$330 million in FY2010. As part of the

American Recovery and Reinvestment

Act, University of Miami researchers have

been awarded more than $100 million

in grant awards. This support is funding

University-wide projects aimed at finding

solutions to some of the world’s most

pressing problems.

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Researchers at the Hussman Institute

for Human Genomics helped to

identify the first common genetic risk

factor for autism spectrum disorder.

They also identified a gene that may

increase susceptibility for late-onset

Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers at the Miller School of

Medicine have identified a family of genes

that may control the ability of the optic nerve

to regenerate. The finding may one day lead

to treatment advances for diseases such as

glaucoma and optic nerve stroke, as well as

spinal cord injury and other neurodegenera-

tive diseases of the brain and spinal cord.

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The Diabetes Research Institute (DRI)

at the Miller School of Medicine has

pioneered several methods of restoring

natural insulin production to those living with

diabetes. In a first-of-its-kind breakthrough,

DRI researchers in late 2009 isolated

insulin-producing islet cells from a soldier’s

bullet-damaged pancreas. The cells were

cultured and implanted in the soldier’s liver,

curing his injury-induced diabetes.

BREAKTHROU GH

RESEARCH

The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science’s Aquaculture Program

is spearheading research and development in the emerging fields of hatchery technology

and offshore aquaculture. Through the school’s National Center for Coral Reef Research,

more than 50 University-wide scientists are joining forces to study, predict, and mitigate

the harmful effects of global climate change on coral reef systems.

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The School of Nursing and Health Studies was designated a Pan

American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Nursing Collaborating Centre—one of just 11 in the U.S. Through this

designation, the school works to understand the effect of nursing shortages

on patient safety in the Caribbean and Latin America.

AT H L E T I C

A C H I E V E M E N TS

Student-athletes achieved a University all-time-high Graduation Success Rate

of 86 percent, seven points higher than the NCAA average. Five UM sports teams

achieved 100 percent for three or more consecutive years.

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The women’s basketball team advanced to the Women’s National Invitation

Tournament Championship Game on April 3, 2010. It was the team’s first-ever

appearance in a championship game since its 1972 formation.

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In 2010, the baseball team extended its own NCAA record

with its 38th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance.

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The football team had a record-setting 11 Pro Bowl picks (either as starters,

backups, or alternates) for the January 31, 2010 game. This is the largest number

for one school since 1970, when the league started keeping Pro Bowl records.

The team also earned NCAA honors for having posted a multi-year Academic

Progress Report score in the top 10 percentile.

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In her senior year, Laura Vallverdu won the Honda Sports Award in tennis,

designating her as the nation’s top collegiate female athlete in the sport.

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Junior Ti’erra Brown won the USA Championship in the 400-meter hurdles

at the 2010 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championship. She is the first

Hurricane track-and-field athlete to win a U.S. national title.

AT H L E T I C

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