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José J. Fernández Partagás was born in Havana, Cuba on May 14, 1935. In 1954 he graduated from the Instituto Edison de Bachiller en Ciencias y Letras. In 1960 he received from the University of Havana a doctorate in math, and in 1964 he received his MS in Meteorology from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

His areas of specialization were weather analysis, specialized forecasting, climatology, hurricane studies, and tropical meteorology. He held the following professional positions:

• Meteorologist, Cuban National Observatory (1960 -1961)

• Graduate Assistant, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University (1962-1964)

• Meteorological Offices, Department of Civil Aviation, Nassau, Bahamas (1965-1966)

• Research Associate, Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, University of

Miami, 1967-1987

• Honorary Research Associate, Remote Sensing Lab, College of Engineering, University of Miami, 1987-1990

• Consulting meteorologist and private researcher in meteorology, 1990-1997

Fernández Partagás wrote a great amount of articles and papers and gave numerous lectures sponsored by scientific organizations. He was also a guest weather expert on talk shows on various Spanish radio and TV stations.

José J. Fernández Partagás died in the Otto G. Richter Library of the University of Miami on August 23, 1997.

The Office of Student Employment (OSE) is part of the Division of Enrollment Management, which is responsible for assisting and guiding degree-seeking students through the job search and placement process while attending the University of Miami.

Dr. Clarence P. Idyll joined the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami in 1948 as research associate in fisheries.  He conducted studies principally for the Florida State Board of Conservationa and for several foreign govvernment.

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).

Sara M. Sanchez was Associate Professor and Caribbean/Latin American Bibliographer, Richter Library, University of Miami.

Sara M. Sanchez was Associate Professor and Caribbean/Latin American Bibliographer, Richter Library, University of Miami.

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.