University of Miami

See Schedule OResearch and Public Service:UM has been classified by the Carnegie Commission as a Doctoral University with Highest Research Activity. The School of Architecture's areas of focus include Urban Design, Planning & Real Estate Development, Construction Management, Technology and Computation, Coastal Resilience, Health and the Built Environment, Historical Preservation and Adaptive Use, Classical and Traditional Design, Housing and Hospitality Design, Building in the Caribbean, Latin America and the Tropical World, Architectural History, and Theory. Faculty and students are actively engaged in interdisciplinary research with numerous schools including the Miller School of Medicine, The Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy and the Center for Humanities. The College of Arts and Sciences provides numerous community outreach activities, including student musical theatre productions at the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre and Alvin Sherman Family Stage; student, faculty, and visiting artist exhibitions in the Wynwood Gallery in the design district of downtown Miami; faculty curated exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum; lectures and other educational programs sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, and the Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas; volunteer activities in the public schools, hospitals and community clinics for developmentally disabled children; technology workshops for Miami-Dade public school teachers sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages Laboratory; and a series of programs, hosted by several departments and funded by various federal agencies and private foundations, to enhance the diversity of students pursuing scientific careers through research opportunities for pre-college and undergraduate students; and career development opportunities for high-school and community-college faculty.The School of Law offers externship programs and foreign exchange programs in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Panama, Spain, and Switzerland. The School's award-winning clinics, focusing on different areas of the law, offer exceptional training grounds and give students practical, hands-on lawyering while also helping needy and underrepresented individuals. The School is also home to LawWithoutWalls (LWOW), an innovative academic model that brings together students, faculty, practitioners, and entrepreneurs from around the country and the world to explore innovation in legal education and practice.The Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science is one of the leading oceanographic research and education institutions in the nation. Known originally as the University's marine laboratory, it was founded in 1943. It evolved into the Institute for Marine Science in 1961, and eight years later became the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) within the University of Miami. In 2022, its name was expanded to Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science to better reflect its breadth and depth as it has grown to include studies of earth's geology in addition to its atmosphere and oceans. The Virginia Key campus has grown to include modern research and teaching facilities, a dedicated academic library, and an internationally recognized Marine Invertebrate Museum. RSMAS also operates a state-of-the-art 96-foot catamaran research vessel, the F.G. Walton Smith. In 2014, RSMAS added to its fleet of specialized research vessels a one-of-a-kind Helicopter Observation Platform (HOP), a flying scientific laboratory equipped with state-of-the-art technology and scientific instrumentation, which provides scientists with a unique capability to obtain vital information on environmental processes and mechanisms that affect our climate and impact human health. RSMAS includes a freshwater Scientific Dive Pool. It plays a critical role in providing necessary scientific diving instruction to participants in our science programs and research projects. The facility allows scientists and students to gain a deeper understanding of the marine environment and coral reefs. CSTARS (Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing), located on the Richmond campus in south Miami-Dade county was launched in 2003, and conducts research with remotely sensed data received from earth-orbiting satellite systems. This state-of-the-art real-time reception and analysis facility provides data for environmental monitoring. The predictive power concentrated on this 78-acre campus is helping to provide vital, life-saving information regarding earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, freak waves and other natural and manmade disasters, including monitoring of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and oil spills.The Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine has been designated a Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) in Florida, and is leading the University's prestigious Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), awarded by the NIH. Other clinical and research programs include the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute, the Miami Transplant Institute, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the Diabetes Research Institute, the Mailman Center for Child Development, and many more.