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This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University.
University of Miami
MottoMagna est veritas (Latin)
Motto in English
Great is the truth
TypePrivate
Established1925
Endowment$538 million USD[1]
ChairmanPhillip T. George, M.D.
PresidentDonna Shalala
ProvostThomas J. LeBlanc
Academic staff
2,505 full time[2]
Students15,629[3]
Undergraduates9,855
Postgraduates5,259
Location
Coral Gables
,
Florida
,
USA
CampusSuburban
ColorsOrange, Green and White    
NicknameHurricanes
MascotSebastian the Ibis
Websitewww.miami.edu
File:Umiami prime logo.svg

The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, Miami, or The U[4][5]) is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in the city of Coral Gables, Florida within Miami-Dade County. In addition to its main campus, the University of Miami maintains a medical campus in the City of Miami at the Miami Civic Center and a marine research facility on Virginia Key.

As of 2009, the university currently enrolls 15,629 students[3] in 12 separate colleges, including a medical school, law school, and a school focused on the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences. These colleges offer approximately 115 undergraduate, 114 master’s, 51 doctoral, and two professional areas of study. The University's students represent all 50 states and 148 foreign countries.[6] With more than 13,000 full and part-time faculty and staff,[2] UM is the sixth largest employer in Miami-Dade County.[7]

Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $326 million per year in sponsored research grants.[8] UM also offers a large library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage and music.[9] UM also offers a wide range of student activities, including fraternities and sororities, a student newspaper and radio station. UM's intercollegiate athletic teams compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association,[10] and its football team has won five national championships.[11]

History

A group of citizens chartered the University of Miami in 1925 with the intent to offer "unique opportunities to develop inter-American studies, to further creative work in the arts and letters, and to conduct teaching and research programs in tropical studies."[12] They believed that a local university would benefit their community. They were overly optimistic about future financial support for UM because the South Florida land boom was at its peak.[12] At the time, there were three large state funded universities in Florida for white males, white females, and African-Americans. Originally, UM was intended to be a private college to serve white students.

The University began in earnest in 1925 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gifted 160 acres (0.6 km2) and nearly $4 million dollars to the effort. The University was chartered by the Circuit Court for Dade County[13] with an initial Board of Regents chaired by William E. Walsh, a Miami Beach municipal judge. By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM,[14] the land boom had collapsed, and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by a major hurricane.[15] In the next 15 years the University barely remained solvent. The construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties.[15] In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with partitions separating classrooms, giving the University the short-lived nickname of "Cardboard College."[15][16][17]

In 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. UM's plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open.[16] A reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by UM's first president Bowman Foster Ashe (1926–1952). The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E.B. Douglas, David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C. Penney. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest.[15] UM filed for bankruptcy in 1932.[15] In July 1934, the University of Miami was reincorporated and a Board of Trustees replaced the Board of Regents. By 1940, community leaders were replacing faculty and administration as trustees.[13] The University survived this early turmoil. During Ashe's presidency, the University added the School of Law (1928)[18], the School of Business Administration (1929), the School of Education (1929), the Graduate School (1941), the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (1943), the School of Engineering (1947), and the School of Medicine (1952).[15]

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Walkway leading to the Otto G. Richter Library on the campus of the University of Miami

One of Ashe's longtime assistants, Jay F. W. Pearson, assumed the presidency in 1952.[19] A charter faculty member and a marine biologist by trade,[19] Pearson retained the position until 1962.[12] During his presidency, UM awarded its first doctorate degrees and saw an increase in enrollment of more than 4,000.[12][20]

The social changes of the 1960s and 1970s were reflected at UM. In 1961, UM dropped its policy of racial segregation and began to admit African-American students.[20][21] African-American students were allowed full participation in student activities and sports teams.[22][23] UM established an Office of Minority Affairs to promote diversity in both undergraduate and professional school admissions.[24] With the start of the 1968 football season, President Henry Stanford barred the playing of "Dixie" by the University's band.[15] Historically, UM regulated female student conduct more than men's conduct with a staff under the Dean of Women watching over the women. UM combined the separate Dean of Men and Dean of Women positions in 1971.[25] In 1971, UM formed a Women's Commission which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus.[26] The result was UM's first female commencement speaker,[27] day care, and a Women's Study minor. Following the enactment of Title IX in 1972, and decades of litigation, all organizations, including honorary societies were open to women. The Women's Commission also sought more equitable funding for women's sports.[28] Today, UM is a diverse institution with an undergraduate enrollment that is 53% female, 28% Hispanic and 10% African-American.[29]

From 1961 to 1968, UM leased buildings on its South Campus to serve as the covert headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency's JMWAVE operation against Fidel Castro's government in Cuba.[30] In 1968, after Ramparts magazine exposed CIA operations on other campuses, JMWAVE was moved off the UM campus out of concern for embarrassing the university.[31]

Henry King Stanford became UM's third president in 1962.[32] The Stanford presidency saw increased emphasis on research, reorganization of administrative structure and construction of new facilities. Among the new research centers established were the Center for Advanced International Studies (1964), the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution (1964), the Center for Theoretical Studies (1965), and the Institute for the Study of Aging (1975). Under Stanford, in 1965, UM began to recruit international students.[15]

In 1981, Edward T. Foote II became the school's fourth president.[33] Under Foote's leadership, on campus student housing was converted into a system of residential colleges.[34] In addition, Foote initiated a five-year $400 million fundraising campaign that began in 1984 and raised $517.5 million.[35][36] He saw the endowment expand from $47.4 million in 1981 to $465.2 million in 2000.[35]

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The old University of Miami "bar" logo, replaced in 2009

Foote was succeeded by Donna Shalala, who assumed the UM presidency in 2001.[37] Under Shalala, Miami has built new libraries, dormitories, symphony rehearsal halls, and classroom buildings. The university's academic quality and student quality also have improved as a result.[38] During Shalala's leadership of the University of Miami, Miami hosted one of three nationally televised U.S. presidential debates of the 2004 U.S. Presidential election[39].

Starting in 2002,[40] UM conducted a fundraising campaign titled "Momentum: The Campaign for the University of Miami" that ultimately raised $1.37 billion,[41] the most money raised by any college in Florida as of February 8, 2008.[42] Of that amount, $854 million went to the medical campus.[41] On November 30, 2007, UM acquired the Cedars Medical Center and renamed it the "University of Miami Hospital", giving the Miller School of Medicine an in-house teaching hospital rather than being merely affiliated with area hospitals.[43]

On February 28, 2006, custodial workers at the University of Miami, who are contracted to the university by a Boston, Massachusetts-based company, UNICCO, began a strike prompted by allegations of unfair labor practices, substandard pay, lack of health benefits, and workplace safety. After students began a hunger strike and on-campus vigil, the strike was settled on May 1, 2006. The settlement resulted in a card count which lead to the recognition of the first union-representated bargaining unit at UM.[44][45][46] UM raised wages from $6.40 to $8.35 per hour and provided health insurance.[47]

In 2008-09, UM responded to the economic slowdown by tightening expenditures.[48] While its endowment lost over 26.8% of its value,[1] impacting endowment income, the school receives more than 98% of its operating budget from other sources.[48]

Campus

Coral Gables campus

The John C. Gifford Arboretum at the University of Miami

UM's main campus spans 260 acres (1 km²)[49] in Coral Gables, located immediately south of the city of Miami. Most of the University of Miami's academic programs are located on the main campus in Coral Gables, which houses seven schools and two colleges including the University of Miami School of Law. The campus has over 5,900,000 sq ft (550,000 m2) of building space valued at over $657 million.[50] Several other programs, including bilingual Continuing and International Education classes, are offered at the Koubek Center in Miami's Little Havana,[51] the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami,[52] and the South and Richmond campuses in southwest Miami-Dade county.

The university also has a campus theater, the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, which is used for student plays and musicals.[53] The John C. Gifford Arboretum, a campus arboretum and botanical garden, is located on the northwest corner of the main campus in Coral Gables.[54] The Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center is the gallery of the School of Architecture that displays exhibitions focusing on architecture and design.[55][56]

Student housing

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="width:400px;" align=right

! UM residence halls[57] ! Year built ! Room capacity |- | Apartment Area | 1948 | est. 500 |- | Eaton Residential College | 1954 | 400 |- | Mahoney Residential College | 1958 | 750 |- | Pearson Residential College | 1962 | 750 |- | Hecht Residential College | 1968 | 900 |- | Stanford Residential College | 1968 | 900 |- | University Village | 2006 | 800 |- |colspan=2| Total | 5,000 students |}

4,450 enrolled students live on campus. This group is dispropotionately freshmen (84% of new freshmen live on campus compared with 43% of all degree undergraduates).[9] UM's on campus housing consists of five residential colleges and two apartment-style complexes. The Florence Ruth Hecht and Henry King Stanford Residential Colleges consist of two twelve-story towers each, floors assigned to a single gender with a shared bathroom. Hecht also houses the school's Theatre Arts Department.[58][59] The Daniel J. Mahoney, Jay F. W. Pearson, and Julian S. Eaton Residential Colleges are set up in a suite style: two double-rooms share a single bathroom or one single-room has a bathroom. Eaton also houses the Department of Residence Halls.[60][61][62] The University of Miami's Apartment Area consists of the oldest buildings on campus which were originally built to house married veterans and their families. Currently, the Apartment Area houses male and female upperclassmen (one gender per unit) in two or three double-rooms models with a shared common area, kitchen, and bathroom.[63] The University Village complex is for juniors and seniors and are fully furnished, including kitchens and bedrooms. Most apartment models have private bedrooms and bathrooms, except for a four-bedroom two-bathroom set up. Due to its distance from the campus proper, the University Village also has its own convenience store.[64]

Medical campus

Main article: Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

The Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine campus is located near downtown Miami, which houses Jackson Memorial Hospital and several other University-owned hospitals and buildings.[65] The nine-story Biomedical Research Building, a 182,000 sq ft (16,900 m2) facility houses the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute and the Miami Institute for Human Genomics.[66] Additional Gold LEED certified buildings are being built by Wexford Science & Technology, a private developer, on land leased from UM.[67]

On December 1, 2007, the University purchased the Cedars Medical Center, renaming it as the University of Miami Hospital. Situated in the Miami Health District, the hospital is close to the Jackson Memorial Hospital, which has been used by the UM students and faculty to provide patient care for many years.[68]

Starting in 2004, the Miller School began offering instruction on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. MD candidates are admitted to either the Miami or Boca Raton programs and spend all four years studying on the selected campus.[69] In April 2005, the Boca Raton program was expanded into a full four year medical degree program.[70]

Virginia Key campus

Main article: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
The Applied Marine Physics Building at UM's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key.

In 1945, construction began on the Rickenbacker Causeway to make Virigina Key accessible by car. A large part of the island was devoted to a black-only county beach.[71] The county also offered to give UM a part of the island adjacent to the Miami Seaquarium in exchange for UM operating the aquarium.[72] However, the aquarium construction was delayed when a bond referendum failed, so UM leased the land in 1951. In 1953, UM built classroom and lab buildings on a 16 acre (65,000 m²) campus on Virginia Key in the City of Miami to house what became the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Additional buildings were added in 1957, 1959 and 1965.[72] The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory is located across the Rickenbacker Causeway from the campus. From 1947 to 1959, the State of Florida funded the UM Marine Lab on Virginia Key until the State built a separate marine lab in St. Petersburg.[72] In 2009, UM received a $15 million federal grant to help construct a new $43.8 million, 56,500 square feet (5,250 m2) Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building.[73]

South Campus

In 1946, UM acquired the former Richmond Naval Air Station, in southwestern Miami, located 12 mi (19 km) south of the main campus in order to accommodate the post-war increase in students. Its six buildings provide 63,800 sq ft (5,930 m2)[65] to currently house: the Global Public Health Research Group, Miami Institute for Human Genomics, Forensic Toxicology Laboratory (for analysis of Driving Under the Influence (D.U.I.) motorist blood samples), and Microbiology & Immunology.[74]The campus was acquired immediately following World War II to accommodate about 1,100 students (mostly freshmen) with housing, dining and recreational facilities and classrooms for two academic years.[75] From 1948 to present it has been used as a research facility and storage area. In the 1960s, some of the buildings were leased to the Central Intelligence Agency. The South Campus Grove was a 350 acres (1,400,000 m2) plot for agricultural research and horticultural studies that was established in 1948.[14][75] For 20 years, UM used radioactive isotopes in biological research on the South Campus, and buried materials, included irradiated animals on the site. In August 2006, UM agreed to reimburse the Army Corps of Engineers $393,473 for clean-up costs under the Superfund law.[76]

The Richmond campus is a 76 acres (310,000 m2) site near South Campus that was formerly the United States Naval Observatory Secondary National Time Standard Facility, which already had buildings and a 20M antenna used for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI).[77] The Rosenstiel School’s Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC) have research facilities located on a portion of the new campus.[78]

Sustainability

Since 2005, UM has a "Green U" initiative which includes LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for buildings and the use of biofuels by the campus bus fleet.[79] UM established the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.[80] As a part of the Abess Center, UM launched the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program to educate students on the importance of protecting the marine environment.[81] In 2008, UM replaced the chiller plant on its Virginia Key campus to improve its carbon footprint.[82] UM is also planting Mangroves, sea grape trees, and other dune plants on Virginia Key to protect its sand dunes and to protect the campus from storm damage.[83] UM received a "C+" grade on the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card [84] and a "B-" for 2010[85] for its environmental and sustainability initiatives.

Student body

See also: List of Florida universities by admission rates
University of Miami demographics
Ethnic enrollment, 2009[86] Undergraduates Graduates
African American 9% 8%
Asian American 9% 13%
Hispanic (of any race) 29% 22%
White (non-Hispanic) 53% 56%
Total 100% 100%

There were 21,845 applications for the fall 2009 freshman class, with 9,700 accepted and 2,006 enrolled.[3] The mean SAT scores and high school GPAs for entering freshmen were the highest ever. The yield rate (percentage of accepted students who chose to attend UM over other schools where they are also accepted) for New Freshmen was 21%, which was down from 2008 (24%). The 2009 yield rate for New Transfers was 43%.[87] The 2009 freshman class came from: 39% Florida (with 18% Dade County and 7% Broward County); 49% outside Florida in the United States, and 12% foreign students.[87]

In 2009, the average SAT score of UM's incoming freshmen class was 1285, which is a 10 point increase from last year and a 110 point rise since 2001.[88] Further, 40% of UM students ranked in the top 5% of their high school class.[89]

As of 2002, UM graduation rates had 64.1% graduating within 4 years, 75.1% graduating within 5 years, and 76.8% graduating within 6 years.[90] Male student athletes have a 52% 4-year graduation rate, and 72% of female student athletes graduate within 4 years.[91][92]

Academics

Fall freshman statistics[3][93]
  2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Applicants 21,845 21,774 19,807 19,031 18,810
Admits 9,700 8,411 7,527 7,704 8,678
% Admitted 44.4 38.6 38.0 40.4 46.1
This table does not account deferred
applications or other unique situations.

There are currently 2,505 full-time faculty members, 91% of whom hold doctorates or terminal degrees in their field.[94] UM has a student-faculty ratio of 11:1.[94] The University of Miami is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and 23 additional professional and educational accrediting agencies. It is a member of the American Association of University Women, the American Council on Education, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association of American Colleges and Universities[95], the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, the Independent Colleges & Universities of Florida,[96] and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.[97]

Organization

UM is led by a Board of Trustees, which holds two meetings each year.[13] The Board has 48 elected members, 3 alumni representatives, 23 senior members, 4 national members, 6 ex-officio members, 14 emeriti members, and 1 student representative. Ex-officio members, who serve by virtue of their positions in the University, include the President of the University, the President and Immediate Past President of the Citizens Board, and the President, President-Elect, and Immediate Past President of the Alumni Association.[13] Since 1982, the Board has eleven visiting committees, which include both Trustees and outside experts, to help oversee the individual academic units.[13]

UM's President, currently Donna Shalala, is the university's chief executive officer with a salary of $783,420,[98] and each academic unit is headed by a Dean.

2009-2010 Tuition[99]
School Tuition Total Cost
Undergraduate $35,540[100] $52,044
Graduate School $26,640 $44,968
Law School $37,418 $54,022
Medical School (FL) $29,289[101]
Medical School (non-FL) $38,504
Undergraduate & Graduate
Graduate only

In addition, UM also has a Division of Continuing and International Education and a program in Executive Education as part of the School of Business Administration.

The Graduate School does not have a separate faculty, but rather coordinates the faculties from the other schools and colleges with respect to master and doctorate degree program.[103] A partnership with nearby Florida International University also allow students from both schools to take graduate classes at either university, allowing graduate students to take a wider variety of courses.[104]

The Department of Community Service, staffed by volunteer medical students and physicians from UM's Leonard M. School of Medicine, provides free medical and other community services in Miami and surrounding communities.

For the fiscal year ending May 2008, UM had $2,048,588,166 in total revenues and $1,992,907,677 in functional expenses with the excess going to endowment or other fund accounts.[98]

Rankings

Academic rankings
National
Forbes[105]479
U.S. News & World Report[106]50
Washington Monthly[107]130
Global
ARWU[108]Top 200
THE[109]244
Other UM Rankings
CMUP Research Universities[110] 78
USNWR Earth Sciences[111] 43
USNWR Fine Arts[112] 119
Wuhan International ESI[113] 106

In the 2010 issue of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges," the University of Miami was ranked in the top tier of all national universities, placing 50th.[114] U.S. News's 2009 ranking of U.S. medical schools ranked the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine as the 51st best medical school in the nation, while the School of Law ranked as the 71st best law school in the nation in the 2009 US News rankings.[115]

The Academic Ranking of World Universities rates UM one of the world's top 200 academic institutions[116] In Forbes Magazine's 2009 rankings of 600 undergraduate institutions, UM ranked 479th.[117]

In the 2009 edition of Best 371 Colleges, The Princeton Review ranks UM one of the 141 "Best Southeastern Colleges"[118] and ranks it first in the nation in its "Lots of Race/Class Interaction" category.[119][120][121]

Libraries

The Otto G. Richter Library, the University of Miami's main library, houses collections that serve the arts, architecture, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. It is a depository for federal and state government publications.[122] Rare books, maps, manuscript collections, and the University of Miami Archives are housed in the Special Collections Division and in the Cuban Heritage Collection.

In addition to the Richter Library, the Libraries include facilities that support programs in architecture, business, marine science, and music:

  • Judi Prokop Newman Information Resources Center (Business)
  • Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library[123]
  • Paul Buisson Reference Library (Architecture)
  • Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library

The University also has specialized libraries for medicine and law:

  • Louis Calder Memorial Library (Medicine)
  • University of Miami Law Library

Within the Miller School of Medicine, there are two specialized departmental libraries for ophthalmology and psychiatry that are open to the public:

  • Mary and Edward Norton Library (Ophthalmology)
  • Pomerance Library (Psychiatry)

Combined holdings of the libraries include over 3.3 million volumes, 77,159 current serials titles, 67,894 electronic journals, 550,974 electronic books, 4 million microfroms, and 153,700 audio, film, video, and cartographic materials.[9] The Libraries has a staff of 37 Librarians and 86 support staff.[124]

Research

Sponsored research expenditures for fiscal year 2008 reached a record of more than $326 million.[8] Those funds support over 5,000 graduate students and postdoctoral trainees.[125] In Fiscal Year 2006, UM received $127 million in federal research funding, including $89.5 million from the Department of Health and Human Services and $16.7 million from the National Science Foundation.[126] Of the $8.2 billion appropriated by Congress in 2009 as a part of the stimulus bill for research priorities of the National Institutes of Health, the Miller School received $40.5 million.[127] In addition to research conducted in the individual academic schools and departments, Miami has the following University-wide research centers:

The Miller Medical School has more than 1,500 ongoing projects. The medical campus includes more than 500,000 square feet.[66] UM's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute seeks to understand the biology of stem cells and translate basic research into new regenerative therapies. In 2007, Joshua Hare, MD and colleagues reported that a new stem cell therapy was safe for the treatment of myocardial infarction and reduced complications from the condition.[136]

As of 2008, RSMAS receives $50 million in annual external research funding.[137] Their laboratories include a salt-water wave tank, a five-tank Conditioning and Spawning System, multi-tank Aplysia Culture Laboratory, Controlled Corals Climate Tanks, and DNA analysis equipment.[138] The campus also houses an invertebrate museum with 400,000 specimens, and operates the Bimini Biological Field Station, an array of oceanographic high-frequency radar along the US east coast, and the Bermuda aerosol observatory.[139] UM also owns the Little Salt Spring, a site on the National Register of Historic Places[140], in North Port, Florida, where RSMAS performs archaeological and paleontological research.[141]

UM is building a brain imaging annex to the James M. Cox Jr. Science Center within the College of Arts and Sciences. The building will include a human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) laboratory, where scientists, clinicians and engineers can study fundamental aspects of brain function. Construction of the lab is funded in part by a $14.8 million in stimulus money grant from the National Institute of Health.[142]

Student life

The University is affiliated with 31 fraternities and sororities,[143] with 6 having residential houses.[144]Among the service groups organized by students are Amnesty International[145] and Habitat for Humanity.[146] Students organize the Ibis yearbook, UMTV, UniMiami (a Spanish speaking Cable TV broadcast),[147] and the campus radio station WVUM.[148][149]

Since 1929, students have published The Miami Hurricane newspaper twice-weekly.[150] The paper has been honored in the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame.[151]

UM has appointed individuals in the various departments to handle students' problems and complaints called "Troubleshooters." UM also has an Ombudsman to mediate complaints that cannot be resolved by the troubleshooters.[152] Since 1986, UM has a Honor Code governing student conduct.[153]

The University has a number of student honor societies, including the Iron Arrow Honor Society (which also inducts faculty, staff and alumni),[154] and a chapter of Mortar Board.[155] In 1959, the Order of Omega was founded at UM, and it remained a one-campus honorary until 1964.[156] It is now a national honorary for fraternity and sorority members with a chapter continuing at UM.[157]

Athletics

Main articles: Miami Hurricanes, Miami Hurricanes baseball, and Miami Hurricanes football
University of Miami mascot Sebastian the Ibis makes the signature U hand gesture.

The university fields 15 athletic teams. Men's teams compete in football, baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, tennis, and track and field. Women's teams compete in basketball, cross-country, diving, golf, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball.[10]

Since 2004, the university's sports teams (nicknamed the Hurricanes) compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference.[158] The football program was named national champion five times (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 2001.)[11] The football team was named in the AP Top 25 frequently during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s and many players are drafted into the NFL each year.[159]

Beginning with the 2008 season, the University of Miami began playing its home football games at Sun Life Stadium (recently renamed from Dolphin Stadium[160]) in Miami Gardens. The university signed a 25-year contract to play there through 2033.[161] A smaller facility, Cobb Stadium, is located on the University of Miami campus and is used by the university's women's soccer and men's and women's track and field teams. UM's men's and women's basketball teams play their home games at BankUnited Center on the Coral Gables campus. The UM baseball team plays their home games at the on-campus stadium Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field.[162]

People

Notable alumni

Main article: List of University of Miami alumni

Alumni of the University of Miami include entertainers Dwayne Johnson and Gloria Estefan; football players Jeremy Shockey, Michael Irvin, and Vinny Testaverde; Olympic gold-medalist Greg Louganis; prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi; former Mayors of Miami Manny Diaz, David T. Kennedy, and Alex Penelas; former NASA astronaut Daniel T. Barry; and scientist and television personality Brady Barr.

Notable faculty

Main article: List of University of Miami faculty

The faculty of the University of Miami includes (or has included) physicists Paul Dirac and Carolyne M. Van Vliet, geologist Cesare Emiliani, economist Neil Wallace, artist & architect Bonnie Seeman, sociologist Lowell Juilliard Carr, biologist Samuel H. Gruber, constitutional law expert John Hart Ely, head of the Administrative Conference of the United States Paul R. Verkuil, jazz vocalist Kevin Mahogany, bassist Jaco Pastorius, and philosopher Colin McGinn.

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