The College of Engineering (previously named the School of Engineering) was established in 1947. The College is housed in the McArthur Engineering building, a 120,000-square-foot complex with state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities, which is comprised of five departments that offer BS, MS, PhD and executive education programs in Biomedical Engineering; Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; and Industrial Engineering. The College of Engineering is recognized for the quality and diversity of its faculty, students, and curricula and is noted for educating tomorrow’s technology leaders for career success.
Frank Palmeri is professor of English at the University of Miami.
Dr. Frank Palmeri is Professor of English at the University of Miami and the author of Satire in narrative (1990) and Satire, history, novel: narrative forms, 1665-1815 (2003).
John C. Howell, a nationally respected trial lawyer, was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1955 and to the Colorado Bar in 1970. A graduate of the University of Miami Law School, Mr. Howell has practiced extensively in corporate law. He has also published sixteen books to date.
John C. Howell, a nationally respected trial lawyer, was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1955 and to the Colorado Bar in 1970. A graduate of the University of Miami Law School, Mr. Howell has practiced extensively in corporate law. He has also published sixteen books to date.
"The Historic Black Church Oral History Film Project represents an unprecedented campus-community partnership intended to preserve the rich cultural and social history of faith-based communities of color in South Florida, support university-wide interdisciplinary collaboration, and educate a new generation of high school, college, and graduate students about the crucial leadership role of Historic Black Churches in Afro-Caribbean-American communities." UM Law School Center for Ethics and Public Service (CEPS).
Roberto Rodríguez de Aragón was born in Güines, Havana, Cuba in 1927. During his exile in Miami, Florida, he was a member of Comandos L and the Pinos Nuevos organization. He also was National President of Municipios de Cuba en el Exilio and Junta Patriótica Cubana as well as of La Peña Teobaldo Rosell and Confederación de Profesionales Universitarios de Cuba en el Exilio. He was married to Raquel Fundora for fifty years and after her passing he married Olga Velasco. Roberto Rodríguez de Aragón died in Miami on October 5, 2012.
Sergio Andricaín was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1956. He is a journalist, literary scholar, editor and writer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana and in Costa Rica. He was a researcher at the Juan Marinello Cultural Center in Cuba, and in 1991 a consultant for the National Reading Program in Costa Rica.
During the 1990s, he was an editor of the UNESCO publications Colección biblioteca del promotor de lectura(1993) and Niños y niñas del maíz (1995), as well as the children's magazine for Colombia's Batuta National Foundation for Youth and Children Symphonic Orchestras. As a writer, he has worked for several newspapers and magazines in Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Spain and the United States.
Along with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, he created Fundación Cuatrogatos, a nonprofit that promotes Spanish-language reading and cultural and educational projects in Miami.
David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries.
Agustín Acosta (1886-1979) was a Cuban post-modernist poet and politician active in the 20th century. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, in November 1886, he completed his preliminary studies in Matanzas and early on in his career started working as a telegraph operator for a Cuban railroad line, acting as head of the telegraph service from 1909 to 1920.
Acosta graduated with a law degree from the University of Havana in 1918, and went on to become a notary in 1921, exercising this profession in Jagüey Grande, Matanzas, until he was politically imprisoned during the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. After the fall of the Machadato, Acosta served as provisional governor of Matanzas from 1933 to 1934. His other political offices included cabinet secretary to Carlos Mendieta, senator (1936-1944) and president of the Partido Unión Nacionalista (1936-1937).
A poet and a statesman, Acosta contributed both prose and poetry to various Cuban publications, most notably El Fígaro, El Cubano Libre, Socialand Carteles. Some of his well-known works of poetry include Ala(1915), La zafra(1926), Los camellos distantes(1936) and Caminos de hierro (1963), as well as multiple essays on José Martí.
Acosta left Cuba in 1972, living in Miami until his death in 1979.
Dr. Moravia Capó was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. A school teacher, she left Cuba in 1967 for Nicaragua, teaching physics and mathematics. Capó arrived in Miami in 1974, where she taught at St. Thomas University and Baldor School.
Dr. Capó retired after more than 50 years of teaching. She was involved in various civic organizations, including the Municipios de Cuba en el Exilio and the Cuban Women's Club, focusing her work on the issue of human rights in Cuba until her death in September 2007.
H. Franklin Williams joined the University of Miami faculty in 1939 as a professor of history. Although he continued to teach one course each semester, Williams accepted a succession of administrative positions. He served as Chairman of the History Department and as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1948, President Bowman F. Ashe appointed Williams as Vice President and Dean of Faculties. Williams later served as Dean of Students, Vice President for Community Affairs, and Dean of University College. Subsequently, He returned to teaching full time in the history department where served until 1972.
Among many other university contributions, Williams served on the University Publications Committee and was a member of the Gerontological Council, Vice President the Middle Eastern Institute, and helped establish the University of the Americas Inc. During the 1960's Williams acted as chairman of the Personnel Committee and as vice president of the Economic Opportunity Program, Inc.
Robert Bradford Browne was a Coconut Grove architect noted for his distinctive designs of tropical homes and buildings. Born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1922. He graduated from The University of Florida School of Architecture, and moved to Miami in 1952. Browne served as chief architect and coordinator of the Inter-American Cultural Trade Center (Interama) project in the 1960s. He died in Miami in 1987. Browne is listed in the AIA Historical Directory of American Architects (ahd1005515)
