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Volume 49 ■ Number 2 - October 2006
For the Faculty and Staff of the University of Miami
www.miami.edu/veritas
TEAM UM’S UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN GETS UNDER WAY
The University of Miami will
launch its 2006 United Way campaign this month—a streamlined campaign that will run only six weeks instead of an entire semester.
“United Way of Miami-Dade County has had great success with large companies and organizations that have run shorter campaigns,” says Jerry Lewis, vice president for University Communications, who is serving in his third year as UM’s United Way campaign director. “We think running a more compressed, highly focused campaign will meet with similar success here at UM.” The goal of this year’s campaign is $1 million, which Lewis says is essential in order to meet the pressing needs of the community.
“Our faculty, staff, and students have a long tradition of coming through for the United Way,” says Lewis. “Our folks are always generous, but this year we’re asking everyone to dig a little deeper into
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their pockets to help people In our community who are less fortunate.”
UM’s campaign begins October 10 and will continue until November 17. For the second year in a row, all individual pledges will be made via MyUM. Faculty and staff will receive printed online giving cards with easy instructions on how to make an online pledge. Online donation options include payroll deduction, credit cards, and electronic checks.
Several giving levels will be available, including the University’s United Way Leadership level—the growing group of faculty and staff who donate at least 1 percent of their salary via payroll deduction. “It makes a tremendous difference and is relatively painless through monthly payroll deduction,” says Lewis.
Donations to the United Way may be unrestricted or may be designated to a specific United Way agency or agencies. In addition, gifts may be designated to University programs. Gifts designated to a University program also count toward UM’s Momentum campaign.
Watch for updates in electronic newsletters e-Veritas and e-Update. For more information on the University’s United Way campaign, visit www.miami.edu/unitedway.
Carver, a professor of psychology, is a personality psychologist whose research has focused on stress and coping, issues in emotional experience, and goal regulation. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation; the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the National Cancer

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Faculty in arts and sciences and architecture recognized; Nobel Laureate Schally joins Miller School
Momentum gift creates distinguished professorships
When the University of
Miami launched its ambitious Momentum campaign three years ago, one of its overarching goals was to endow professorships and attract gifted scholars from around the world.
Now an anonymous gift and a donation from a longtime UM supporter have given the institution a major boost toward achieving that goal.
The anonymous gift will create new professorships recognizing the contributions of some of UM’s most outstanding faculty scholars in arts and sciences and architecture. To date, the Momentum campaign has established 22 endowed chairs and professorships; this latest gift will support five new distinguished professorships.
Four of the five new Distinguished Professors are from the College of Arts and Sciences: Charles S. Carver, Distinguished Professor of Psychology;
David Ellison, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities; Howard Gordon,
Distinguished Professor of Physics; and Susan Haack, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities. The fifth Distinguished Professorship is Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Distinguished Professor of Architecture.
Each professorship will fund research that supports the scholarly work of the faculty members.
“Their work enhances the intellectual life of our campus and the education of our students and brings great distinction to our University,” Executive Vice President and Provost Thomas J.
LeBlanc says of the distinguished group.
In addition to these appointments in arts and sciences and architecture, renowned endocrinologist and Nobel Laureate Andrew Schally is joining the faculty as Miller Distinguished Professor in the Miller School of Medicine.
Schally’s appointment is supported by the generosity of the family of the late Leonard M. Miller, for whom the medical school is named.
Schally won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for his research in endocrinology. He was one of a pair of scientists to first isolate several of the communicating chemical links between the brain and the pituitary gland and to determine their structure and succeed in synthesizing them. His discoveries have led to many practical clinical applications that are in wide use. He has written over 2,200 publications, more than 1,200 of them since receiving the Nobel Prize.
Institute; the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; and the American Cancer Society. He has published numerous articles and books and is associate editor of the prestigious journal Health Psychology. He is a fellow and charter member of the Association for Psychological Science.
Distinguished hono Nobel Laureate Andrew Schally, above, joins the faculty of the Miller School of Medicine. Architecture Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, left, is a leader in the New Urbanism movement.
Ellison is a professor of French, and he chaired the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures from 1993 until 2003. During his tenure as chair, he introduced changes in curriculum development and teaching techniques, including the use of advanced electronic learning technologies and digitized audio and multimedia lessons to allow distance learning over the Internet, and brought in specialists
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Going green: The new Green U program is making UM environmentally responsible
A zero-emission car that runs on a system of rechargeable batteries. Electric scooters that whisk

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Riding the green wave: Diana Cortes and Danny Hearn of the Department of Telecommunications use Segway electric scooters to go on service calls around the Coral Gables campus.
Information Technology engineers to work sites around campus. A 13-story building with a white-sealed roof that reflects sunlight and office lights that turn themselves off when no j one’s inside.
Welcome to Green U. Launched last year, the University-wide program is aimed at making the institution a community leader in the acquisition of environmentally responsible products and the practice of ecologically sound maintenance and operations procedures.
“The Green U initiative is part of a University community effort coordinated by our Office of Environmental Health and Safety to promote a greener, more environmentally sensitive campus,” says Alan Fish, vice president for Business Services and a member of the Green U program task force.
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