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UM climbs nine spots in annual college rankings

The University of Miami was ranked No. 38 in the 2012 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” issue. “This has truly been a climb to excellence,” UM President Donna E. Shal...

Design-A-Course pilot program launches in the fall

Student Government (SG) released the applications for the Design-A-Course pilot program on Feb. 6. The program was one of the former SG administration’s original campaign platforms. “Taking U Forwa...

Seminars offer new perspective to freshmen

Conducting research just got a lot more exciting, thanks to a series of freshmen seminars offered by the College of Arts and Sciences. This fall, freshmen will have the opportunity to take one of 1...

Canes Care for Canes fosters positive campus community

Canes Care for Canes, a campus-wide, action-oriented initiative sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs, aims to promote a more caring campus community where students can respect, support and wat...

Layout of Student Activities Center unveiled

Last spring, the Rathskeller was located next to Lake Osceola and the new 119,368-square-foot Student Activities Center (SAC) was just a drawing on a map. Now, almost a year later, the last of ...

Anime Club hosts first comic convention

On Saturday, costumed Canes reveled in Japanese culture, food and music at the Anime Club’s first Hurricon, a convention that focused on anime, manga, and video games. Anime is short for animation ...

Professor spotlight: Top of their class

Students from different colleges at UM were asked to nominate their favorite professors. They made their selections based on the impact the professors have had on their lives, both inside and outside ...

New Student Government Executive Board members make their way into office

On Wednesday, the new Student Government (SG) Executive Board members will assume their new posts. Along with the members of Inspired by U, the Executive Board will be made up of five appointed pos...

‘Inspired by U’ wins Student Government election

In a close race, the "Inspired by U" ticket defeated "Think B.I.G." and won all three positions on the Student Government executive board Friday afternoon. Treasurer-elect Kenneth Esman and Vic...

SG tickets head to trial for code violations, election results postponed

This story was updated at 8:05 p.m. on Feb. 23. Breaking news: The trial is open to students and will take place Thursday at 9:15 p.m. in UC 211.  The results of this week’s Student Governme...

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