Richard Bookman, vice provost for research, will discuss hurricane preparedness for the research community during town hall meetings on each campus.

Miller School of Medicine campus: Thursday, June 10 at 2 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

Coral Gables campus: Friday, June 11 at 10 a.m. in the Cox Science Center, Room 213.

Rosenstiel School campus: Friday, June 11 at 2 p.m. in the Dean’s Conference Room.

These sessions will be geared not only to those who are new to the area but to any researcher with questions about preparing for a storm. Other presenters will include the Office of Research Emergency Preparedness Team, Risk Management, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) consultants. For more information, please visit http://uresearch.miami.edu/prepare or contact Linda Waterman at 305-243-5396 or [email protected].

The Office of Research has launched a new UResearch website. Visit uresearch.miami.edu for helpful resources for the research community, including:

• On the homepage: Join a listserv, provide feedback on research policies, find biomedical collaborators or mentors, log in to the research reporting system, read UM research administration news, find funding, log in to UM’s research information systems, learn about featured scholars, read announcements from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

• On the left sidebar: browse links for faculty, staff, students and post-docs, research partners, and study participants.

• From the top drop-down menu: find information about getting started, award administration, research integrity, technology advancement, education and training, policies and forms, resources, and jobs.

For more information, you may attend a demonstration of the new site on the Coral Gables campus (Monday, May 10 from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Flispe building, Room 502) or the Miller School of Medicine campus (Tuesday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Dominion Towers, 1201B). Please register via ULearn.

Helpful links

New Office of Research homepage: uresearch.miami.edu

Finding funding: uresearch.miami.edu/funding

Policies and forms: uresearch.miami.edu/forms

Contact us: uresearch.miami.edu/staff