Student Corner
Digestible tidbits of research
During the annual Three Minute Thesis Competition, seven graduate students summed up their research projects in rapid succession.
Studying the impacts of housing policies on political beliefs
Assistant Professor Haoluan Wang compared historical maps with current Miami-Dade County voter registration data to research the effects of redlining on political party affiliation.
Summit focuses on growing campus leaders
LAUNCH, a one-day leadership event, delves into diverse topics to help motivate undergraduate students to become leaders on campus and in their own lives.
Efforts to increase women’s participation in STEM majors paying dividends
A College of Arts and Sciences first-year student shares her journey to study mathematics and credits the program that guided her there.
Hurricanes have fun while serving others
Many students stopped by a few of the 24 organizations offering different service projects for the Hurricanes Help the Hometown event on Wednesday afternoon.
Scholars chart new directions for Cuba
Specialists from around the world convened for a three-day conference hosted by the University of Miami Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Collection, where they explored innovative and artistic responses to decades of repression and economic paralysis on the island.
Couple celebrate a life of public service with bequest for scholarships
Alumna Rosanna Lucotti-Roberts and her husband, Lawrence Roberts, have made a substantial bequest to establish scholarships in business and criminology at the University of Miami.
Looking for your life’s calling? Let college be your compass
The college experience, which offers infinite interactions with peers and academic guides, is an ideal incubator to help students gravitate toward their life’s calling, suggests Maria Stampino, dean of Undergraduate Affairs.
Inspiration versus infringement in the use of AI
Hannah Kuker, a junior at the University of Miami, won first place at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business annual international conference. With the help of faculty advisors, her paper analyzed AI rights to using copyrighted material with a specific focus on the visual arts.
Scholarship propels senior toward her goal to study in the Near East
Brendi Wilmore earned the prestigious Critical Language Scholarship Spark Award, which is allowing her to learn Arabic this summer through an intensive virtual program funded by the U.S. State Department.
Six graduate students win prestigious fellowships
Doctoral candidates in the Departments of Biology and Psychology earned fellowships from the National Science Foundation, helping to pay for three years of their research.
Future astrophysicist is observing the past to find the existence of super massive black holes
Ph.D. student Joseph Sterling is using data from the James Webb Space Telescope to seek out the remnants of supermassive black holes in outer space.
Environmental research and public engagement create ideal summer internship for student
D.C.-area native returns home for summer internship as a Citizen Scientist for the Smithsonian
Research scholar combines mindfulness with dance movement therapy
Malena Price, a U.S. Fulbright Research Scholar and McKnight Doctoral Fellow studying adult clinical psychology, espouses how dance movement therapy combined with mindfulness training may help to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms in undergraduates.
