Veritas, Vol. 24, No. 03, November 1983

              Ground broken fox* new RÄMAS building
Ground was broken Friday, November 4, for a new science and administration building on the Virginia Key campus of the UM Rosen-stiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. President Edward T. Foote and Dean Alan Berman welcomed guests to a traditional groundbreaking ceremony at 3 p.m. They had help in turning the first shovels of earth from Representative Michael Friedman, member of the House Committee on Education, Chairman James W. McLamore, UM Board of Trustees, Maurice Green-baum of the Rosenstiel Foundation, and Max Abramovitz and Gerald I. Schiff, of Abramovitz-Harris-Kings-land, architects.
The new building, which is Phase III in the School’s seven-step plan for campus modernization and development, will be the gateway to the campus. It will rise two floors above a parking area for lOO automobiles, and will provide 66,000 square feet of space. The first level will house administrative offices, classrooms, and the School’s growing library. The second level will be devoted to laboratory space for analytical scientists.
The New York architectural firm
of Abramovitz-Harris-Kingsland developed the Rosenstiel School’s master plan and designed the
building. Stobs Brothers Construction Company of Miami will build it. Hufsey-Nicolaides Associates of
Miami are the mechanical engineers, and Brill Engineering, also of Miami, will oversee structural engineering.
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Artist's rendering of netv RSMAS building
Seeking highest caliber students
UM makes early scholarship offers to Floridans brightest high school seniors
More than 340 of the best and brightest Florida high school students and their parents accepted an invita-
tion to attend High School Honors Weekend October 6-8. While most universities award their scholarships
in late March or early April, UM Provost William F. Lee III presented a variety of four-year scholarships
totaling $2.3 million to 126 of the students with exceptional SAT scores and excellent rankings in an interview with the Scholarship Committee on Oct. 8.
Dade and South Broward County students and parents were invited to a similar local High School Honors Day on October 14, where an additional $3 million in scholarships were awarded.
“It is not true that gifted students need go out of state to get the best education they can find as undergraduates. We simply want to let the people in-state know that there exists, in their own backyard, an excellent private, research university which they ought to consider along with their other alternatives,” said Dr. James Ash, associate provost for honors and undergraduate studies.
“Competition for good students has been getting keener among all universities, including those that are the very oldest and best endowed, because of the declining number of 18-22 year olds. The better our students, the better our graduates, our alumni, and our reputation. No university can be better than the students it attracts,” Ash said.
“By 1987 we want one-fourth of all the qualified honors students gradu-
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Associate ProvostJim Ash announced scholarships for 120 high school seniors from Dade and Broward Counties on October 14.