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Head Coach Mark Richt is one of the nation’s most talented athletic coaches, known for building winning football teams of character. So much is written about coaches developing athletes, but head coaches also have a unique responsibility to develop leadership among the coaches who collectively shape a team, its strengths and its culture. Coach Richt joined us for an intimate conversation about his philosophy and strategies for shaping a team of coaches who work together to nurture the next generation of athletes. What principles guide his organization to success on the gridiron and in life? Tune in for a personal chat about coaching coaches, the role of family, and managing a winning organization.

At the University of Miami School of Communication, students are not waiting for summer or graduation to gain real-world experience. Through Orange Umbrella, a full service, student-run communication consultancy, students work in a real business with real clients. Their clientele span from within the university, to national campaigns in television and retail. Students across multiple disciplines get their creative juices flowing from outside the traditional classroom.

Utilizing their wide array of skills and talents, this student-run entity is the first of its kind at the University of Miami, giving students a competitive edge unlike any other.

Twenty years before the United States re-established diplomatic relations with Cuba, theater artists from both sides of the Florida Straits were practicing their own kind of diplomacy. Lillian Manzor, director of the University’s Cuban Digital Theater Archive, discusses the roles that theater and digital culture can play in building community in a moment and across the fraught borders of time, space and nations.

The University of Miami is a global institution that reaches across the borders of geography, identity, and discipline. Learn the journey of one UM undergraduate from his native Brazil to South Florida and to a campus where he faced choices: biology labs or economics problem sets? Policy analysis or soccer? Hear Mateus Lima, Class of 2017, explain why his answer at every crossroads has been “yes.” He will reflect on learning across disciplinary lines and make the case for how a University of Miami education is preparing him to tackle some of the pressing issues of the next century by allowing him to live, think, and create in the intersections.

It’s been more than 150 years since doctors first diagnosed blood cancers, and for most of that time, there was no effective treatment or cure. Chemotherapy led to advances and gave many patients longer life and improved health, but for many, leukemia and lymphoma remained among the hardest cancers to treat. Thanks to advances in immunology and an ever-improving understanding of genomics and proteomics – the role genes and proteins play in disease and its progression – scientists and clinicians are able to identify unique markers present on blood cancers and modify healthy cells from our own immune system to find and destroy them. Hear from Dr. Komanduri about where the science is headed, and the remarkable breakthroughs in cancer treatment that will shape the future of care.

Dr. Erin Kobetz, Associate Director for Population Science and Cancer Disparity at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, is a champion for collaborative work that supports underserved communities as they seek greater access to health. Her journey as a scientist was transformed by her own cancer diagnosis, which inspired innovative approaches to prevent cancer in South Florida communities from Little Haiti to local fire stations. Dr. Kobetz’s internationally-recognized work is grounded in dialogue and partnership, and is transforming both care for individuals and the way health systems approach prevention. Learn how the University of Miami is becoming not just a place to seek treatment, but a partner in the quest for health equity.