Effective June 1, the Division of Real Estate and Facilities will assume responsibility for the management of all electronic locking systems on the Coral Gables campus. Electronic Access Control will merge with Facilities Management’s Key Shop to create the unit known as Access Control. Requests for electronic access and/or scheduling of operational hours on CBORD (exterior electronic locks) and Onity (interior electronic locks) as well as traditional metal keys will now be the responsibility of Access Control. Access Control will have oversight for locking plans, access requests, installation, repair, and maintenance of all electronic mechanisms. This includes new installations as well as the issuance and duplication of metal keys. Requests for access will be reviewed by the UM Police Department as appropriate. For more information, including details on how to request access, please visit Access Control Coral Gables.

Vincent Brown, professor of history and African and African-American Studies at Duke University, speaks at the Atlantic Geographies Institute.

Fifteen prominent early-career humanities and social science scholars visited the Coral Gables campus from May 14-17 for the inaugural Atlantic Geographies Institute, an intensive session of interdisciplinary seminars on emerging work in Atlantic studies.

Vincent Brown, an acclaimed historian, author, documentary filmmaker, and professor of history and African and African-American Studies at Duke University, served as keynote speaker for the event, presenting the lecture “Cartographies of Atlantic Worlds: What Are We Mapping?” Read the full story

Bryan Stepanenko, a UM medical and master of public health student, explains how to run a relay race to some of the fair's young attendees.

When Miller School Master of Public Health students Angelica Melillo and Becky Greenfield reached out to Booker T. Washington High School, their aim was to create a sustainable cooking and nutrition program for the students just up the street from the medical campus. Little did they know the monthly program established by the Public Health Student Association would blossom into Overtown Springs into Health, the first of what they hope will become an annual health fair in partnership with the high school.

Held at the school on May 12 and sponsored by Johnson and Johnson Lifescan, Overtown Springs into Health offered community residents free health screenings, as well as access to many diverse community resources, including the University of Miami’s WalkSafe program, Camillus House, and the UM Pediatric Mobile Clinic. Fairgoers also enjoyed free aerobics, yoga, salsa, and Zumba classes, as well as a raffle and several prizes. Read the full story

The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health will host a distinguished speaker seminar on Friday, May 25 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Clinical Research Building, conference room 692. Daniel W. Goldberg, research assistant professor of spatial science and associate director of the University of Southern California’s GIS Research Laboratory, will present “Uncertainty in Geocoded Data and Its Effects on Environmental Health Studies.” For more information, please contact Recinda Sherman at [email protected].

In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They’re in love. She’s a painter, he’s a successful actor. It’s just a normal afternoon – except that this isn’t a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow at 4:44 a.m., the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst doomsayer could have imagined. The final meltdown will come not without warning, but with no means of escape. There will be no survivors. As always, there are those who, as their last cigarette is being lit and the blindfold tightened, will still hope against hope for some kind of reprieve, for a miracle. Not our two lovers. They – like the majority of the Earth’s population – have accepted their fate: the world is going to end.

The film screens Friday, May 25 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 26 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, May 27 at 6 p.m. General admission is $9. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.