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The view from the passenger window of the turboprop seaplane always had been the same: miles and miles of clear blue water as the aircraft made the 30-minute flight from Key West to Dry Tortugas National Park. Maritime archaeologist…

With the arrival of Julio Frenk as president in 2015, the University of Miami set in motion a process to transform course delivery and classroom design. This transformation—to improve student engagement, integrate technology with…

Logan Beatty had an interest in science from a young age. He was drawn to television shows like “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” And his favorite episodes featured the oceans. Beatty’s detailed recollections of these shows came in handy later,…

When Peter Tarjan was seven years old in the spring of 1944, living in his home in Budapest, Hungary, his father was drafted into forced labor and sent to German territory. He never saw his father again after December, 1945. Tarjan was…

Army Capt. Brian Geil knows that many of the Reserve Officer's Training Corps (ROTC) cadets he instructs and trains at the University will one day become military leaders who may well be asked to risk their lives—and those of the soldiers…

Guillermo “Willy” Prado is so passionate about the process of creating new knowledge that he had his personalized University of Miami license plate inscribed with the letters RSRCH—a truncated version of the word “research.” “Submitting a…

At the Black Archives in Overtown, a group of students gazed at the remnants of a scorched cross that was planted at a Miami Shores church by the Ku Klux Klan.In Little Havana, they stood solemnly in front of the monument and a flame that…

When Luciene Espinosa was 12, she told her mother she thought she was a lesbian. At the time, opening her soul to her conservative, Cuban mom took courage, but Espinosa felt compelled to share her feelings with the person who always had…

Tori Miller is no stranger to blazing her own path. In 2020, she made history when she was the first female general manager in the National Basketball Association G League history. At the time, she was promoted within the front office of…

Emma Hantgan has wanted to live and study abroad since she was 10.She was inspired by her family vacation to Jerusalem, Israel, when she visited her relatives for the first time. “It really shaped my perception of wanting to learn about…