2024 Alumni Weekend and Homecoming
Monday, Oct. 21, to Saturday, Oct. 26
Kicking off today with opening ceremonies, and over the next few days,15,000 University students are joined on campus by thousands of faculty and staff members, community members, and alumni to commemorate the University’s rich traditions and to celebrate its future. With programs designed to unite the campus and fill every Cane with pride, explore a roundup of official events organized by Student Affairs and the University’s Alumni Association.
Book Talk: ‘Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States’
Monday, Oct. 21, at 6:30 p.m.
Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, assistant professor of religious studies at the College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss her book. A scholar of Africana religions with expertise in the ethnographic study of Vodou in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora, Nwokocha's ethnographic work challenges and enriches readers' understandings not only of Vodou and its place in Black religious experience but also of religion's entanglements with gender and sexuality, race, and the material and spiritual realms. Hosted by the Center for the Humanities, register to attend this event at Books & Books in Coral Gables.
Hurricane preparedness training
Thursday, Oct. 24, at noon via Zoom
Offered by the Office of Emergency Management, this one-hour training is strongly recommended to everyone, especially new faculty, staff, and students. The class offers a brief discussion of hurricane facts and figures, interpreting forecasting information, important information on how to stay safe before, during, and after a storm, and an overview of the University’s hurricane plans. Register to attend and find other training opportunities.
Share information about your commute to campus.
Deadline is Thursday, Nov. 21.
The Office of Sustainability invites Canes to participate in a survey about commuting to, from, and around campus. In partnership with the Parking and Transportation and Campus Planning and Development, survey responses will be used to determine the future direction of alternative mobility at the University. The best answers to the open question will be eligible to receive a gift basket, which includes a T-shirt, reusable bottle, gift cards, and a solar phone charger. Take the survey now.
Now Available: Gemini by Google
Google’s new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Gemini, can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across, and combine different types of information—including text, code, audio, image, and video. Similar to Microsoft Copilot, Gemini for education includes added data protection—this means that as long as you’re logged in with your University of Miami account, the data you share within Gemini is only used for responses to your prompts, and your data is not used to train or improve Gemini or other generative AI models. Please keep in mind that Gemini is not yet HIPAA compliant. To start using Gemini today, log in at gemini.google.com. Learn more about Gemini.
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