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News Briefs 4/26

Happy Hour The Lowe Art Museum presents the last LoweDown of the season in conjunction with Miami Museum Month and Membership Appreciation Evening. In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, enjoy live Maria...

Fresh, chemical-free produce available close to campus

Although many people know organic food is healthy, not everyone realizes that eating locally-grown produce can be just as important. The advantages of local produce are three-fold: it helps the...

Honors program should offer diverse courses

Students at UM have endless academic opportunities. And our options are growing each semester. But in the University Honors program, I see room for improvement. To graduate with honors, students in...

News Briefs 4/16

Memorial Service A memorial service for School of Communication (SoC) professor Stanley Harrison will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday at the SoC Reading Room located in the main lobby of the...

SpectrUM celebrates two decades of pride

Looking out over a procession of flags, floats and fanfare, SpectrUM members sat high up in the trees on Ocean Drive on Sunday to celebrate diversity in sexual orientation and gender identity during t...

News Briefs 4/12

Pride Week SpectrUM is hosting Marriages on the Rock on Thursday for Pride Awareness Week. Students can show support for marriage equality and marry anyone they want – friend, roommate or lab partn...

Communication professor led by example

  Stanley Harrison, a public relations professor at UM’s School of Communication, passed away in his home Thursday. Harrison, 81, taught public relations writing and the history of jour...

News Briefs 4/9

Media Clay Cane, an award-winning writer and media consultant, will give a presentation at the Lowe Art Museum on Wednesday 5 p.m. There will also be an informal reception at the Lowe, beginning at...

Newly inaugurated president finds niche on campus

At first, Nawara Alawa felt she was forced to be a Hurricane. She was raised by conservative Syrian parents who expected her to attend a university near her home in Miami Lakes. Hoping for more...

Sixth branch to target green projects on campus

Ready to reduce, reuse and recycle, Student Government will launch its sixth branch, the ECO Agency, next fall. SG’s ECO Agency will be the green initiative programming board with a goal of reducin...

Lyssa Goldberg

Lyssa Goldberg is online editor of The Miami Hurricane. She is a senior majoring in journalism and political science with a minor in math. She has interned at Mashable and the Miami New Times, and her work has also been featured in The Huffington Post.