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Alumni Update
August/September 2021
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From Dean Chris Makaroff
Dear Alumni and Friends:
Another academic year has begun, and we are as excited as ever to welcome the Class of 2025 to our campus. This year, Miami is welcoming a total of 4,618 new students, including 2,036 students in the College of Arts and Science — both enrollment records.
Of course, despite our great excitement to return to in-person classes and events this fall, we are still confronting the considerable challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Miami continues to be very aware of the ongoing concerns, so to help us keep everyone’s health and safety our top priority, Miami is requiring facial coverings for everyone and offering various incentives for faculty, staff, and students to get vaccinated if they have not done so already. Here are the latest updates related to Miami’s pandemic response.
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Several building renovation projects are now in full swing at various stages, including:
- Peabody Hall Honors College (more details to be announced)
- The Clinical Health Science and Wellness facility (pictured, top), which will house the Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology, our new Physician Associate program (more on this soon), and the new Oxford-based nursing curriculum, along with the student health center (opening summer 2023)
- The Richard M. McVey Data Science Building (pictured, bottom), which will house the Department of Statistics, the Center for Analytics and Data Science (CADS), and several non-CAS programs (opening late fall 2023)
- Planning for the renovation of Bachelor Hall, which will house the Departments of English, History, Media, Journalism & Film, Philosophy, and Comparative Religion, as well as the Humanities Center
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 | Inside Washington students talk with U.S. Rep Jim Clyburn, House Majority Whip, in the Lincoln Room of the U.S. Capitol building
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| We are proud to announce that Miami’s summer 2021 Inside Washington Program has just wrapped a successful session in Washington, DC earlier this month.
Nineteen undergraduate students from numerous majors participated in face-to-face meetings and discussions with many key Washington insiders, including several prominent alumni.
In addition, our students were then able to jump into internships at congressional offices, think tanks, news media and political consulting agencies, nonprofits, and lobbying firms. See the full list.
I wish to thank all our alumni who have provided such extraordinary support for Inside Washington and our students. I am also grateful for the hard work done by Inside Washington Director Annie Blair, Education Abroad Director Ryan Dye, MJF Chair Bruce Drushel, Political Science Chair Bryan Marshall, and many others throughout Miami and CAS.
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I'd like to highlight a couple recent noteworthy accomplishments from our faculty:
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Thank you, as always, for all that you do for Miami, CAS, and your respective departments and programs. The ongoing support and engagement we receive from our global network of alumni as we weather these ongoing challenges is a constant source of great pride.
Love and Honor,
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- Mike Vanni appeared on WCPO Ch. 9 (ABC) to discuss cicadas and his new study about how dead cicadas affect pond ecosystems.
- Katie Day Good provided five tips for having a healthy relationship with screens in this article in Authority Magazine.
- Ann Hagerman, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and one of the top researchers in the world on polyphenols, had her paper on Nature Communications featured in Science magazine.
- Professor of Global & Intercultural Studies Rodney Coates, who presented a webinar "teach-in" on June 18 about the importance of Juneteenth in American history, was also interviewed by CBS news correspondent Jeff Pegues '92 in a podcast, CBS News Special: America Changed Forever, to discuss the historical event and new federal holiday.
- Professor of Mathematics Suzanne Harper was selected for the 2021 OCTM Kenneth Cummins Award for College/University by the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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- Associate professor of English Daisy Hernandez speaks with NPR's Terry Gross on Fresh Air about her book, The Kissing Bug: The True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease.
- A TV pilot, Unfinished Murder Ballads, written by Western Program coordinator & advisor Zackary D. Hill, Matt and Josh Riffle, and poet Darren Demaree MA '09 (inspired by one of his poetry collections of the same name) was announced as an official selection in the Adapted Screenplay Contest.
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded associate professor of history Daniel Prior a Collaborative Research Grant for the project, Early Modern Kyrgyz Oral-derived Narrative Sources (EMKONS). His project team includes Alia Levar Wegner of the Miami University Libraries as digital project manager, as well as four other scholars from the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan.
- Ask the Experts on Afghanistan: Professor of political science Laura Neack, associate professor of comparative religion Nathan French, and professor of anthropology Homayun Sidky provided insight about the unfolding situation in Afghanistan as U.S. troops pull out and the Taliban reasserted control of the country.
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