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IMPACT PHILANTHROPY NEWS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

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Frost Institutes to Spark Innovation in Science and Engineering

landmark $100 million gift from longtime supporters Dr. Phillip and Patricia Frost—announced at the January 29, 2016, inauguration of UM President Julio Frenk—is enabling the University of Miami to create the Frost Institutes for Science and Engineering. “The University of Miami is already known for excellence in biomedicine, marine sciences, and other fields,” Frenk said in his inauguration speech. “But continued excellence cannot be sustained without critical investments in basic and applied science, mathematics, and engineering. These disciplines, which form the building blocks for innovation, must be strengthened to maintain our leading edge as a research university.”

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President Frenk with Patricia and Phillip Frost, whose “generosity will carry us further and faster in our quest for excellence across all domains critical to 21st-century advances,” Frenk said.

The Pap Corps Pledges $50 Million to Sylvester

Pap Corps Board members, left to right: Stavroula Christodoulou, secretary; Doreen Heisler; Linda Moses, president; Beverly Berkowitz, vice president; Lois Fleisher; JoAnne Goldberg, past president; and Stephen Margolis

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Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of UHealth–the University of Miami Health System, announced a landmark $50 million gift from The Pap Corps Champions for Cancer Research at a ceremony at Sylvester at Deerfield Beach on November 10, 2016. This commitment, one of the largest made to a cancer center nationally last year, is targeted toward saving lives by funding cancer research. Sylvester’s Deerfield Beach location, which is set to begin a major renovation and expansion later this year, will be dedicated as “The Pap Corps Campus” in honor of the gift. “We are tremendously grateful to The Pap Corps leadership, membership, and volunteers for their unwavering support and unique partnership over the past 64 years,” said UM President Julio Frenk.

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YOUR PHILANTHROPY IN ACTION With the conclusion of another successful academic year at the University of Miami, we extend gratitude to our loyal community of donors, the driving force behind our growth and accomplishments. Your generosity has a profound effect on our students, on our faculty, and on the quality of the programs and services we offer. This newsletter highlights the impact of some of the inspiring gifts that are advancing UM’s most important priorities. Our heartfelt thanks for your support, which is helping us to fulfill our vision and shape our future.

Celebrating the Life of Susan E. Miller This past fall, the University Sue and Leonard’s three of Miami lost a loyal children, Stuart Miller, J.D. champion and cherished ’82 (immediate past chair of friend. Community leader, the Board of Trustees), philanthropist Jeffrey Miller, A.B. ’84, and education and Leslie Miller Saiontz, advocate Susan honored Sue’s memory with a E. Miller donation to the Frost School passed away of Music to purchase a rare in November 1714 Giuseppe Guarneri 2016, leaving violin. The Sue Miller With the Miller siblings—Jeffrey, Leslie, and Stuart—and Frost School Dean an extraordinary legacy of Violin will be loaned to a Shelly Berg behind him, senior Miclen LaiPang plays the Sue Miller Violin, a charity and generosity of talented Frost School violin 1714 Guarneri. spirit. Her philanthropic student each year upon the work and steadfast commitment to advancing the University’s recommendation of the string faculty. mission over the years helped to shape its present and future. This magnificent gift also launched the Miller Sue was the widow of the late Leonard M. Miller, former Instrument Collection campaign to raise funds for the chair of UM’s Board of Trustees and founder of Lennar purchase of 24 additional high-end instruments for the Corporation. Totaling over $200 million since 2004, the Frost School. Miller family’s giving has made an indelible mark on the To find out more, call 305-284-2819 or visit University of Miami. miami.edu/SueMillerFund.

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Frost Institutes Frenk unveiled the network of intertwined research organizations housed under the Frost Institutes at the 50th annual Miami Winter Symposium. The name of the Frost Institutes was modeled after the National Institutes of Health, inspiring UM to have a strategic, coordinated investment in the sciences and engineering.

The first individual institute announced, the Frost Institute of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, creates an arena for the comprehensive study of the chemical sciences, including basic and applied research areas, to advance knowledge and technologies in chemistry, biochemistry, and engineering. A portion of the $100 million gift will be used to construct an iconic, modern science and engineering building on the University’s Coral Gables campus, to be

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named the Phillip and Patricia Frost Science and Engineering Building. Of the gift, $30 million is designated to create at least 13 chairs in STEM fields, with $3 million set aside for graduate student support. “Patricia and I are committed to making Miami a hub for technological and scientific innovation, which is the main reason for our support of basic and applied sciences and engineering at the University of Miami,” Dr. Frost said.

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Richter Library Receives Rare and Historic Kislak Collection The internationally significant Jay $30 million, includes more I. Kislak Foundation collection than 2,300 rare books, maps, will now have two permanent manuscripts, pre-Columbian homes in South Florida—in the artifacts, and other historic University of Miami’s Otto G. materials, including a first Richter Library and at Miami edition of the famous 1493 letter Dade College’s Freedom Tower, of Christopher Columbus, in in downtown Miami. which the explorer described his Jay Kislak, prominent New World discoveries to King philanthropist and Miami Ferdinand and Queen Isabella resident for more than 60 years, of Spain. Other highlights has been a lifelong collector include a 1486 edition of of rare books and historic Ptolemy’s Cosmographia, among Left to right: President of Miami Dade College Eduardo Padrón, artifacts focused particularly the most influential works in collector and philanthropist Jay Kislak, and President Frenk, with on Florida and the Caribbean, the history of cartography, and some of the cartographic treasures of the Kislak Collection exploration, navigation, and the a two-volume account of the early Americas. In 2004 he and the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Jay I. Kislak Foundation donated more than 3,000 rare books, Expedition, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson after maps, manuscripts, and objects to the Library of Congress, whose the Louisiana Purchase. Kislak Collection now forms the basis of a major exhibition and The University of Miami’s share of the Kislak materials will programs in Washington, D.C. become part of the Richter Library’s Special Collections division, “The University of Miami is among the nation’s top 50 which houses archives related to the cultural and political research institutions, with a library that draws scholars from history of South Florida, the Caribbean Basin, and South around the world,” Kislak said. “With the recent inauguration of America, and its Cuban Heritage Collection. The University is Dr. Julio Frenk, this is an ideal time to establish the permanent renovating its special collections center, which will be renamed repository in South Florida to conserve our collections and make the Kislak Center, envisioned as a hub of educational and cultural them available to scholars and students for generations to come.” programming, with lectures, fellowships, and a new exhibit The Kislak gift, representing a combined valuation of about gallery featuring materials from the Kislak collection.

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The Pap Corps The $50 million pledge will support innovative research in cancer epigenetics, cancer control, and tumor biology. Across these programs, funding will support the recruitment of more than two dozen leading cancer experts, Sylvester’s most promising scientists and their research projects, as well as laboratory expansion and research technology. “This gift from The Pap Corps is historic in its magnitude and will be transformative in its scope, funding critical cancer research at Sylvester that

will save lives in our community for years to come,” said Stephen D. Nimer, director of Sylvester. Announcing the dedication of the campus to a hearty round of applause, Jayne Sylvester Malfitano, president of the Harcourt M. and Virginia W. Sylvester Family Foundation, acknowledged the efforts of the grassroots organization. “My father built the cancer center to give our patients and their families a place of comfort,” said Malfitano. “The Pap Corps’ singular focus on research has given our patients better treatments, better outcomes, and hope. Thank you for your commitment to our mission and for helping us to become a world-class cancer center.”

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Many members of The Pap Corps attended the ceremony. Linda Moses, president of The Pap Corps, said the organization had previously raised almost $60 million for Sylvester, $43 million of that since 2003. This latest gift brings The Pap Corps’ total giving to more than $100 million. “I am deeply humbled to be at the helm of this wonderful organization on this historic occasion and to represent 64 years of commitment of our past presidents, officers, members, and volunteers,” said Moses. “Sylvester is growing, and we are poised to support that growth and continue our strategic relationship to build on our collective success.”

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The Lennar Foundation Medical Center Opens on Coral Gables Campus A new era began on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus, with the opening on December 5, 2016, of The Lennar Foundation Medical Center, which offers the premier medical services of UHealth–the University of Miami Health System. Made possible by a lead gift of $50 million from The Lennar Foundation—the charitable arm of the Lennar Corporation, one of the nation’s largest builders of quality homes—the new, state-of-theart 200,000-square-foot, five-story outpatient center provides easy access to UHealth’s leading physicians and comprehensive, academically based health care for surrounding areas as well as UM students, faculty, and staff. The LEEDcertified facility was designed by architects Perkins+Will. As with all UHealth locations, this new facility is powered by the groundbreaking research and education of the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, including specialty care by the renowned Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute—ranked the No. 1 eye hospital in the nation for 15 years—and UHealth Sports Medicine Institute. Primary care, outpatient surgery, men’s and women’s health, urology, sports medicine, physical therapy, diagnostic

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Help Us Take Flight

The ibis represents the University of Miami’s invincible spirit—the last animal to leave before a storm and the first to reappear once that storm has passed. Such resilience imaging, radiation oncology, and other and renewal define our institution. When UHealth subspecialties are also on site. illness and injury strike, patients require “Today is about the building of courage and resilience to cope with their legacies, the building of communities, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. and the building of futures, and we That symbol of resilience, presented in a unique glass sculpture, now welcomes cannot expect to find better builders patients, family, and friends entering anywhere than Lennar,” UM President The Lennar Foundation Medical Center, Julio Frenk said at the center’s dedication UHealth–the University of Miami Health ceremony on November 18. “In giving System’s new facility that opened last back to the community where Lennar December on the Coral Gables campus. had its beginnings in 1954, The Lennar Similar to a “brick campaign,” each handFoundation embodies one of the highest blown ibis suspended in a U shape that ideals of philanthropy, which is to build spans four stories represents a unique better futures by building healthier lives.” recognition opportunity. The Lennar Foundation Donors who support Medical Center is a patientThe Lennar Foundation Take flight by naming centric health care destination, an ibis. To donate or for Medical Center Fund with more information, call where all patients and their a $5,000 or $10,000 gift will 305-243-9760 or visit families are treated with utmost name an ibis that is part of miami.edu/upliftingu. the 244-piece installation. dignity and respect. To this Grateful patients, alumni, end, the design of the physical and friends of the structure centers on optimizing University can honor someone or create patient comfort, while the service model is their own legacy by participating in this founded on communication, appreciation, artistic installation.

relaxation, and education in order to promote the delivery of comprehensive, compassionate, and expert care, and to ensure patient satisfaction. “This is not just a building, it’s an experience,” said Stuart A. Miller, CEO of the Lennar Corporation and immediate

past chair of the UM Board of Trustees. “We have a responsibility to lift up this community, and I hope that this edifice will serve as a reminder to all of us that with great success comes great responsibility.”

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Thousands Tackle Cancer in DCC VII A sunny Saturday in February Most of the participants warmed the already upbeat in the DCC, which has raised spirit of the Dolphins Cancer more than $16 million for Challenge (DCC) VII, as 4,000 Sylvester since its start seven participants and volunteers years ago, have experienced cycled, ran, walked, or performed cancer firsthand, either as countless tasks to support the a survivor or as the family search for cancer cures at Sylvester member or friend of someone Comprehensive Cancer Center at who was lost to the disease. the University of Miami Miller And every year they show that School of Medicine. generosity and determination Riders—including Stuart Miller, left, and Dr. Stephen D. Nimer—as DCC VII’s five cycling know no age limits. well as runners and walkers raised vital funding for cancer research at routes—the Dolphins Ride (14 “What an amazing day!” the seventh annual Dolphins Cancer Challenge. miles), the Ft. Lauderdale Ride Sylvester Director Stephen D. (25 miles), the Miami Ride Nimer told the stadium (35 miles), the Boca Ride (52 miles), and the Hurricanes crowd after finishing the 100-mile ride. “This allows Hundred (100 miles)—departed from different locations us to bring life-changing cancer care to you. We talk a lot throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach about things like precision medicine and immunotherapy. counties, but all ended at the finish line in the Dolphins’ What we mean is that now more than ever we give people Hard Rock Stadium, where family, friends, co-workers, their life back.” and other supporters waited with music, cheers, cameras, Rider, cancer survivor, and Sylvester volunteer Camille and homemade signs of thanks. The throng of runners and Moses kicked off the post-event concert by Counting Crows walkers taking part in the DCC 5K, with Bruce Springsteen’s with a heartfelt expression of gratitude. “Born to Run” blaring from the loudspeakers for inspiration, “Thank you, cancer fighters!” she called out to the traveled a 3.1-mile route that began and ended at the stadium. audience. “Because of you, I’m alive!”

Great Sports Legends Dinner Raises Millions for The Miami Project The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Williams; NFL Hall of Paralysis, the fundraising Fame running back from arm of The Miami Project to the New York Jets Curtis Cure Paralysis, honored an Martin; New York Knicks unparalleled group of Hall of legend and NBA Hall of Famers, gold medalists, world Famer Willis Reed; four-time champions, and philanthropists IndyCar Series champion in front of a crowd of more than Dario Franchitti; Olympic 1,300 supporters on September gold medalist Tara Lipinski; 12 at the Waldorf Astoria in WNBA and FIBA Hall New York, raising millions of of Fame basketball great Wayne Newton, Venus Williams, Buzz Aldrin, Tara Lipinski, and Christian dollars for spinal cord injury Cheryl Miller; and recordSlater were among the celebrity guests at the 31st Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner. research during the 31st Annual setting long-distance Great Sports Legends Dinner. swimmer Diana Nyad. The benefit, hosted by NFL Hall of Famer Nick NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt emceed the Buoniconti and his son Marc, honored New York Yankees event, and the cast of the smash hit Broadway musical great and World Series champion Mariano Rivera; sevenOn Your Feet! – The Story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan time tennis Grand-Slam winner and fashion designer Venus performed live.

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Endowments Live Forever, Give Forever

Growing our endowment between now and our centennial in 2025 is among the University of Miami’s highest priorities. Endowed funds are an important source of financial support, generating income in perpetuity and providing a stable funding base for key initiatives. While expendable gifts are vital to UM’s operation, endowments are permanent gifts that “live forever, give forever” by assisting in longrange planning and supporting faculty chairs, scholarships, programming, and facilities.

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Here are a few highlights of recent endowment giving. FACULTY The University has received several landmark endowments for faculty chairs, advancing its mission to attract, retain, and recognize outstanding talent. Richard Fain, chair of the UM Board of Trustees and chairman and CEO of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., and his wife, Colleen Fain, an active volunteer and advocate for many civic and Jewish causes, have pledged $4.4 million to establish the Fain Family Distinguished Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies. The chair will be within the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, which provides resources for the exploration of issues and trends affecting the Jewish people over the last century. Aiming to transform the treatment of kidney disease at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Peggy and Harold Katz recently committed $10 million to ensure long-term progress in research, education and clinical care in what is now known as The Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension. The gift will endow two faculty positions in nephrology and hypertension, and also establishes the David

Roth, M.D., Endowed Chair in Transplant Nephrology. Judge A. Jay Cristol, J.D. ’59, chief judge emeritus of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, has made a $2 million commitment to create the Judge A. Jay Cristol Endowed Chair in Bankruptcy at the School of Law. Judge Cristol, a recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute William L. Norton, Jr. Judicial Excellence Award, also shares his talents and experience as an adjunct faculty member and a member of the steering committee for the School of Law’s annual bankruptcy skills workshop. A gift of $2.2 million will establish a permanent endowment and enable the creation of the Appignani Foundation Chair for the Study of Atheism, Humanism, and Secular Ethics in the College of Arts and Sciences. The gift, made by entrepreneur Louis J. Appignani, will propel new interdisciplinary courses, scholarship, and research concerning the philosophical underpinnings, ethical status, implications, and historical and cultural significance of atheism.

VISITING CHAIRS The University also seeks to endow visiting faculty chairs. As part of an initiative introduced by President Julio Frenk, the first Distinguished Presidential Scholars and Fellows have been appointed to visit, for a semester or a portion thereof, to teach and contribute to the intellectual enrichment of the University community. Endowing these prestigious appointments would support visiting faculty on a recurring basis. Internationally acclaimed flutist Sir James Galway recently joined the Frost School of Music as one of the University’s inaugural Distinguished Presidential Scholars. In this capacity, he engages with students and faculty through

performances, master classes, and lectures. Other visiting faculty named to date are Distinguished Presidential Scholar Carlos D. Bustamante, founding chair and professor of the Department of Biomedical Data Science and professor of genetics and biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Distinguished Presidential Fellow Susan Meiselas, a renowned photojournalist and documentarian and a former MacArthur Fellow. Acclaimed Cuban independent journalist and free-speech advocate Yoani Sanchez, another Distinguished Presidential Fellow, lectured on campus throughout the spring 2017 semester.

STUDENT SUPPORT Endowments enhance the University’s long-term ability to extend financial assistance and awards to students. President’s Council member and former UM trustee Michael J. “Pete” Piechoski, B.B.A. ’76, has endowed two graduate student fellowships—the Piechoski Family Endowed Graduate Business Fellowship and the Piechoski Family Endowed Graduate Engineering Fellowship—to honor and foster the academic accomplishments of Ph.D. students.

Lixing Chen, the inaugural Piechoski Fellow in engineering, and Chelsea Kajs, the Piechoski Fellow in business, joined their benefactor at the annual Scholarship Donor Appreciation Luncheon in February. Endowments also fund many other forms of student support. The Piechoski Study Abroad Endowed Fund helps students to supplement their learning and enhance their competitive edge with the enriching experience of foreign travel and study.

PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT In recognition of its work to engage adults age 50 and older in learning opportunities, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) has received a generous gift from its namesake’s foundation. Noting the University’s commitment

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to “education as a lifelong pursuit,” The Bernard Osher Foundation has announced a $1 million grant in the form of a $950,000 endowment and a $50,000 bridge grant to support OLLI’s continued work.

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

Students Design the Future at BuildLab 1 On June 10, 2016, for the second time in less than one year, the School of Architecture broke ground on a new building. Thanks to a generous gift made by W. Robert (Bob) Miller and his wife, Cathy, the Design Build program will have a home in the B.E. & W.R. Miller BuildLab. Named in honor of First Florida Building Corporation founder B.E. Miller and his son, W. Robert Miller, the facility will provide a workspace with state-of-the-art building equipment, slated for completion later this year.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Fuqua Gift to Mathematics The Mathematics Department has welcomed its first named postdoctoral research assistant professor, funded through a $250,000 gift from alumnus Jeffry B. Fuqua. Fuqua Research Assistant Professor José Samper will be working in combinatorics with Michelle Wachs Galloway, who was the recipient of the inaugural Provost’s Funding Award in recognition of her continuous National Science Foundation funding dating to the early 1980s.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

New Scholarships Enhance Access to Excellence

In the 2016-17 academic year, School of Business Administration students were awarded 339 scholarships. The school also announced several new scholarships, including the Lawrence C. Phillips Memorial Endowed Scholarship in Taxation, established in memory of Larry Phillips, a member of the school’s accounting faculty for 26 years. Another memorial scholarship was created in memory of William R. Smith III, former NFL defensive end for the New Orleans Saints and a student in the school’s Executive MBA for Artists and Athletes program. Additional memorial scholarships were established to honor former students Fernando Franco Franco, M.B.A. ’06, and Allison Sharp, M.B.A. ’15, and a beloved lecturer, program manager and advisor in the school’s

Department of Accounting, Maggie Alvarez. Other funds have recently been established for the Steckley-Weitzel Family Scholarship and the Angelo Napolitano Family Legacy Scholarship in Real Estate.

Now retired and living in California, Orloff is a new member of the school’s visiting committee. “I cherish my experiences at UM and come back every year to see what’s new and different on the campus,” he said.

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

The University of Miami School of Communication ushered in a new interactive age with the dedication in December 2016 of two new centers, the Koenigsberg & Nadal Interactive Media Center (IMC) and the Robert & Lauren Mann Broadcast Center. Spearheaded by lead gifts from Bill Koenigsberg, B.B.A. ’77, president, CEO, and founder of Horizon Media, and Miles Nadal, chairman and CEO of Peerage Capital Group, the IMC is a unique collaborative space with a fully equipped studentrun consulting firm where students can gain handson experience in a professional setting by providing creative services to clients. The Mann Broadcast Center, named for longtime UM trustee Robert “Bob” Mann, A.B., ’70, is housed in the Frances L. Wolfson Building and includes updated technologies in a renovated space that seamlessly links to the IMC and the newly revamped Robert Corley Groves Studio, commonly known as Studio B.

Alumni, students, faculty, and friends of the College of Engineering gathered on April 12 for a special luncheon honoring Murray I. Mantell, the “founding father” of the Department of Civil Engineering. The event, held at the Robert and Judi Prokop Newman Alumni Center—just a few months shy of Mantell’s 100th birthday— celebrated his many decades of service and leadership to the college. Mantell attended UM as a physics major from 1935 to 1938 but left because the University did not offer an engineering degree at the time. He returned in 1946 to join the faculty of the Department of Engineering Science, which was still part of the College of Arts and Sciences. He became the founding chair of the Department of Civil Engineering in 1948, a role he held through 1974 and again from 1982 to 1983. Luncheon guests included several student and alumni recipients of the Murray I. Mantell Scholarship, which was established in 1982 as a tribute to Mantell and his distinguished service.

Twin Dedications Mark New Era

Honoring Civil Engineering Founding Father

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Three Miami Firms Join Forces for Philanthrophy

The School of Education and Human Development received an extraordinary gift from Jeffrey Orloff, B.Ed. ’70, and his wife, Katherine: a generous bequest to fund capital improvements. As a teacher, principal, and business executive, Orloff focused on the intersection of education and technology. He helped to launch one of the nation’s first computer schools, then spent 13 years as an Apple executive, helping to carve out a leading market position for the Macintosh as the “bicycle for the mind.” Orloff continued his career in technology with LeapFrog and SanDisk.

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Former Apple, LeapFrog Exec Reconnects

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Three leading Miami trial, appellate, and class action law firms—Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, Podhurst Orseck, and Harke Clasby & Bushman LLP—have committed $1 million to the University of Miami School of Law to support merit-based scholarships, an endowed fellowship, and a fund that establishes an annual forum. The scholarships will provide vital funding for the recruitment and retention of exemplary students who have demonstrated a significant role in public service. The Class Action and Complex Litigation Endowed Fellowship, also funded by the donation, will support a student each year who

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has shown a commitment to class action and complex litigation. The gift also brings leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from across the country together in an annual forum, the first of which was held in December 2016. “Every lawyer at HCB is a proud graduate of the University of Miami School of Law,” said Lance Harke, managing partner of the AVPreeminent-rated complex commercial litigation boutique Harke Clasby & Bushman. “We are forever grateful and overjoyed to be able to give back to an institution that has meant so much to us personally as well as to this community and our region as a whole.” Miami Law Dean Patricia D. White is deeply thankful to the three firms for their gift. “Coming together as a consortium to make the largest impact possible is a symbol of their commitment to innovative problem solving,” she said.

ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

New Research Boat for Fieldwork

4 Ocean-based fieldwork is one unique aspect of the undergraduate curriculum at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Thanks to a gift from the Tina and Richard Carolan Foundation in honor of UM student Alana Carolan, the school has a new research boat, the R.V. Blacktip, that will enable research groups of up to 10 people to explore nearby field sites in Biscayne Bay, where students will learn marine conservation techniques ranging from assessing coral health to scientific diving and conducting reef fish surveys.

MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

The commitment is in honor of longtime South Florida philanthropist and volunteer Betty Siegel Reader, who was a passionate advocate for education. Since 2011, the Fund has provided approximately $1.5 million to undergraduate and graduate students, under the guidance of co-directors Marc Gidney, Jerilynn Gidney, and Candice Gidney. Although tuition at the Miller School is one of the lowest in the country among private medical schools, a vast majority of medical school applicants require financial assistance. Scholarships and financial support can play a critical role in their choice of medical school and in the school’s ability to attract the best and brightest students.

FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC

DiMares Help Students Pursue Music Education 5 Through their recent $1 million pledge to the Frost School of Music, UM trustee Paul J. DiMare and his wife, Swanee, are helping exceptional Frost students who have financial difficulties. The DiMares have committed to support half of the annual room and board expenses (currently $15,000 per year) for six music students. Remaining costs will be matched annually by funds from the University’s Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and/or the Frost School of Music. Honoring one of the new Roadmap Initiatives, the University of Miami is committed to meeting 100 percent of demonstrated financial need for admitted students by its centennial in 2025. The partnership of the DiMares is advancing this important initiative and bringing a Frost School education within reach for more great musicians of tomorrow.

The Mrs. Betty Siegel Reader Scholarship Fund Established for Medical Students In hopes of easing the financial burden of a medical education, the Mrs. Betty Siegel Reader Scholarship Fund has made a generous $1 million pledge to create scholarships for students at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

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SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH STUDIES

Helene Fuld Health Trust and Sylvester Foundation Gifts Support Simulation Hospital

6 The Helene Fuld Health Trust has awarded $1.7 million to the School of Nursing and Health Studies (SONHS) to build The Helene Fuld Skills Resource Center, a setting on the fifth floor of the school’s forthcoming Simulation Hospital where students can master fundamental techniques and procedures. The award will also fund three years of scholarships for eight full-time students per year in the school’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program. The Simulation Hospital, which will open in fall 2017, began as the vision of former SONHS Dean Nilda (Nena) Peragallo Montano, who stepped down in late 2016 after 13 years of leadership. Her tenure is being honored with a $500,000 commitment to the hospital from the Harcourt M. and Virginia W. Sylvester Foundation, announced by Jayne Sylvester Malfitano, president and secretary of the Sylvester Foundation, a University trustee, and co-chair of the SONHS visiting committee. The gift will fund an operating room wing named for Peragallo Montano.

LOWE AND LIBRARIES

Mellon Foundation Fosters Arts Engagement among Faculty The Board of Trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved a grant in the amount of $500,000 to the University of Miami to support collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences’ Lowe Art Museum and the University of Miami Libraries through their shared effort to further faculty engagement with historical and artistic collections. The grant will enable the Lowe and the Libraries to establish two new faculty fellowships–one devoted to campus engagement and the other to the conservation of art and archival works on paper. In addition, it establishes a new programming fund to incentivize faculty to engage with University collections and enable the development of joint public programs that highlight these collections.

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STUDENT LIFE

New Student Housing Village Planned For students living top-tier research on campus, nothing institution, so, too, do influences their quality students’ expectations of life more than the for a comfortable, quality of their housing. secure, and supportive In keeping with its living and learning vision for intentional environment,” said and enlightened Patricia Whitely, UM’s growth, the University vice president for of Miami is embarking student affairs. on a multiphase plan The village to expand and improve will encompass housing options for 25 interconnected future ’Canes. buildings seven stories The new Student tall, consisting of The new student residential facilities, designed by Arquitectonica, will integrate Housing Village is five residential floors various aspects of campus life in a comfortable, supportive living and learning designed to meet atop two floors of environment. students’ evolving needs common areas, retail for living space that is aesthetically pleasing, accessible, and space, a 200-seat auditorium, and flexible space for programs cohesive, and offers a variety of areas for collaboration and and exhibits. Buildings will be connected by glass-enclosed recreation. Centrally located in the heart of the Coral Gables breezeways, and the halls will open onto beautiful and highly campus, on the south side of Lake Osceola, functional courtyards. An expansive lawn and the village will dramatically improve the gardens, as well as rooftops covered in cooling For information on campus living experience. grass, will add to the greening of the campus. naming opportunities, Designed by the famed Miami-based Integrating the myriad aspects of please call University Advancement at firm Arquitectonica, the innovative residence campus life, the Student Housing Village 305-284-4443 or email halls will provide a total of 1,102 beds in will elevate the daily experiences of the give@miami.edu. apartment- and suite-style housing options students it serves. Once completed, the new for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. This residence halls are expected to be an asset in new space is sorely needed: Demand for on-campus housing the recruitment and retention of new students, who often consistently exceeds supply, and some of the existing options rate universities in part on the quality of their on-campus do not foster community involvement or engagement in ways housing. that meet the needs of today’s students. The Student Housing Village has an expected “As the University of Miami continues to rise as a completion date of fall 2019.

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COMMUNITY

JPMorgan Chase Helps UM Address Miami’s Affordable Housing Challenges UM’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) joined forces with JPMorgan Chase to develop an interactive tool for understanding and addressing Miami’s affordable housing challenges. In providing philanthropic support to CCE, JPMorgan Chase’s goal is to foster more informed housing policy and practice throughout South Florida, which ranks among the country’s least affordable metro areas. Funded by planning and implementation grants from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, CCE created MAP/ Miami Affordability Project, a free, publicly accessible online mapping tool for developing data-driven strategies to promote affordable housing. The tool combines four datasets— Developments, Neighborhoods, Parcels, and Historic—in a virtual display that shows the supply and demand for housing

and its geography throughout Miami-Dade County. After MAP’s initial success, in October 2016 JPMorgan Chase made an additional gift to enable CCE to develop MAP 2.0, which will include Broward and Palm Beach counties. In Miami-Dade, MAP will expand to include more parcel-level data to allow users to learn much more about key Miami neighborhoods, including Liberty City, Little Haiti, and South Dade. “In order for our neighborhoods to drive economic growth, it is critical that we work to restore and preserve affordable housing options for local residents,” said Maria Escorcia, South Florida Philanthropy Manager for JPMorgan Chase. “We are proud to support University of Miami’s efforts to address affordable housing preservation to sustain homeownership in South Florida’s communities.”

Osher Foundation Makes Gift to Establish Integrative Medicine Center Thanks to the extraordinary philanthropy of Bernard Osher, the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine will soon be one of a select few institutions offering a unique and comprehensive center for evidence-based, integrative medicine. The Bernard Osher Foundation, which was founded by Osher in 1977, recently approved a $5 million endowment gift, along with a $500,000 current-use grant, to create the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the Miller School of Medicine. The funds supporting the grants are a personal donation of Osher, who also is treasurer of the foundation. Believed to be the first of its kind in South Florida, the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine will combine the use of modern medicine with complementary therapies, encompassing multidisciplinary initiatives in education, clinical care, research and community engagement. The Osher Center will bring all of UHealth’s

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integrative medicine efforts together under one roof at the UHealth Fitness and Wellness Center in the Don Soffer Clinical Research Center. It will collaborate with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to continue developing innovative approaches to pain management and palliative care. “This initiative will promote a holistic approach to health and wellness, and serve as a comprehensive resource for health care providers, patients and medical students,” said President Julio Frenk. The Osher Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life through support of higher education and the arts, and is committed to the support of integrative medicine. Other Osher Centers of Integrative Medicine are located at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

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Tour Connects ’Canes Worldwide The We Are One U Tour brings the leadership and intellectual power of the University of Miami campuses to ’Canes throughout the world. The tour, introducing President Julio Frenk to our global ’Canes Communities, has visited seven cities to date, discovering along the way what UM means to alumni, parents, and friends. The tour launched in New York City in September 2016. Hundreds of alumni met President Frenk and learned more about the Roadmap to Our New Century—a bold plan to guide the University of Miami toward its greatest aspirations by its 100th anniversary in 2025. Guests also heard a ’Cane Talk by Ben Kirtman, professor and director of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric

Business professor and ’Cane Talk speaker Anita Cava, right, and her student, Katherine Kedzierski-Kuring, B.B.A. ’90

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Studies, about groundbreaking research by UM faculty to predict sea level rise around the world. “It has been a privilege getting to know the ’Canes community—vibrant, innovative, and committed to a better world,” said President Frenk. “I am delighted to meet more parents and alumni, and to work together toward our next century.” The tour has also brought ’Canes together in Ft. Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Washington, D.C., Costa Rica, and Atlanta, and has highlighted cutting-edge research on topics ranging from mindfulness and leadership to methods of fact-checking news. Over 1,500 alumni, parents, and friends of the University have attended the tour thus far.

From left: Eric Ponce, B.S.B.E. ’01, Amishi Jha, associate professor of psychology who presented a ’Cane Talk, and Kevin Green, B.S.C. ’01, at the Los Angeles event

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Honoring UTrailblazers The UM Black for scholarships. Alumni Society’s To honor these First Black Graduates pioneers and celebrate Project chronicles an their courage, successes, important part of the and contributions, the University’s history First Black Graduates and acknowledges Project proudly hosted those who blazed UTrailblazers, a signature the trail of diversity event on the Coral and inclusion here. Gables campus on Thirty-five years after February 24-25, 2017. it opened for classes in The event included a C.J. Latimore, B.F.A. ’76, at podium, along with, left to right, Burgess Owens, B.S. 1926, the University special presentation of ’75, Congresswoman Federica Wilson, M.Ed. ’73, George Knox, J.D. ’73, and Ray admitted its first black the monthlong exhibition Bellamy, B.S.Ed. ’72, M.S.Ed. ’77, were among the “Top of the Class” honorees at students. Created We Were Pioneers at the UTrailblazers celebration. in 2012 and led by the Richter Library, Denise Mincey-Mills, B.B.A ’79, featuring an address by history professor Learn more at Antonio Junior, A.B. ’79, and Phyllis Tyler, Donald Spivey; an alumni-student forum; video miami.edu/ B.B.A ’79, the First Black Graduates Project aims interview and portrait sessions; a grand gala; firstblackgraduates to identify black graduates from 1961 to 1979, and the launch of the First Black Graduates document their personal histories, and raise funds Endowed Scholarship Fund.

UM Alumni Association Recognizes Hank and Corinne Greenberg On April 26, at the UM Alumni Association’s 2017 Regional Alumni Awards Ceremony in New York City, husband-and-wife alumni Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg and Corinne P. Greenberg, Class of 1949, received the Edward T. Foote Alumni of Distinction Award for the honor they have brought the University through their personal and professional achievements. Hank Greenberg is former chair and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and former chair and CEO of AIG. Currently chair and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc., he also heads the Starr Foundation. Corinne Greenberg

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administers the Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Foundation. The Greenbergs’ philanthropy to UM includes funding for student scholarships and a Starr Foundation gift of $10 million to the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the Miller School of Medicine. “Hank and Corinne Greenberg are an enduring example of the importance of alumni giving,” said UM President Julio Frenk. “The generosity of this dynamic couple bolsters many significant medical, research, and arts endeavors at their alma mater.”

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Soffer Family Makes Lead Gift for Football Indoor Practice Facility In September 2016 the “Athletic excellence is an University of Miami integral part of the University announced the largest of Miami, building character donation in the history of the and community,” said UM Department of Athletics— President Julio Frenk. “It is the lead gift for a statein this spirit that I thank the of-the-art football indoor Soffer family on behalf of practice facility. In honor of our student-athletes and the their mother, Carol, Jeffrey entire U family.” Soffer and Carol’s other The project includes a children made a $14 million 20,000-square-foot football commitment toward the operations center with a Carol Soffer Football Indoor mezzanine level that will Practice Facility. house all of the football “I’ve been a passionate coaches’ office space with supporter of the University of Miami views overlooking the indoor fields. Athletics Department for over 20 years, The football center will also feature six For more information on how to make a gift in and I’m honored that my family and I position meeting rooms, a head coach’s support of this project, visit can be part of this tremendous project,” suite, three coaches’ conference rooms, HurricanesFootballFacility. Carol Soffer said. “The football indoor a first-class football recruiting suite com or call the Hurricane practice facility will bring a new complete with lounges and meeting Club at 305-284-6699. Naming opportunities dimension to the University. It will have rooms, as well as a state-of-the-art within the facility a lasting effect on all student-athletes video center. are still available. now and in the future.” To date, over $31 million of the The 81,800-square-foot facility $34 million project has already been will feature two Field-Turf fields—one 80 yards long and pledged by donors, with fundraising continuing through an additional 40-yard field directly connecting to the the fall. Squillante Strength and Conditioning Center. The facility Originally from Chicago, Carol Soffer has been will be located on the current football practice grounds, a Golden Cane Society donor for over 20 years and and will feature interconnectivity to the Hecht Athletic supported many Miami Athletics initiatives, most recently Center and the Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence. the Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence project.

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Celebration of Women’s Athletics Supporters of Hurricanes Tamara James, B.L.A. sports packed the Watsco ’06, former Hurricanes Center Fieldhouse on women’s basketball standout February 12, 2017 for and current mayor of Dania the University of Miami’s Beach, was the event’s sold-out, third annual keynote speaker. James Celebration of Women’s is the Lady ’Canes’ Athletics. The luncheon career scoring leader honored current studentand was elected mayor athletes from UM’s nine of her hometown in women’s sports programs November 2016. for their excellence on the playing The crowd also heard inspiring field as well as in the classroom and speeches from Shalala, UM President For more information the community. Julio Frenk, Director of Athletics Blake on the Edna Shalala The event raised $300,000 for James, Deputy Director of Athletics/ Women’s Athletics the Edna Shalala Women’s Athletics SWA Jennifer Strawley, women’s Fund, please visit Fund, which provides female studentbasketball head coach Katie Meier, and www.miami.edu/ ednacshalalafund. athletes at the University with first-class women’s soccer student-athlete Gracie opportunities to compete, study, and Lachowecki, who graduated this spring prepare themselves for life after athletics. with a degree in nursing. Former UM President Donna Shalala pledged The luncheon included the presentation of a major gift to the fund, matching all gifts up awards to 11 student-athletes representing each of to $100,000. the University’s women’s sports.

Match Marcus Campaign Miami native and newly appointed successful personal To track the UM Board of Trustees member and professional campaign’s progress Marcus Lemonis wants the best for lives after or make a gift, visit our student-athletes. That’s why the graduating. MatchMarcus.com or entrepreneur, philanthropist, and host of Lemonis call 305-284-6699. the hit CNBC show The Profit has issued kicked off the a $3 million matching challenge to his campaign with fellow fans. a $250,000 check presented to The “Match Marcus” fundraising campaign will Director of Athletics Blake James, and will match support the Department of Athletics’ initiatives of half of all donations to any fund within Athletics, up to academics, athletics, and life, providing our student$1 million. Lemonis is chairman and chief executive athletes with resources to help them compete on the officer of Camping World, the nation’s largest playing field, excel in the classroom, and transition into recreational vehicle and outdoor retailer.

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