BU I LD ING MOMENTUM

The Student Activities Center, overlooking Lake Osceola, was made possible by a $20 million lead gift from the Fairholme Foundation. Students also played a major role, approving

a new fee to help pay for construction. Additional donations from alumni and other UM supporters contrib-uted another $5 million.

Opened in August, the SAC is a three-story, 119,000- square-foot facility that provides a new home to numerous student organiza-tions, a 24-hour study lounge, a Grand Ballroom, and a new Rathskeller. UM President Donna E. Shalala says the new SAC is “at the heart of student

learning, living, and playing, and it sets the pulse for an exciting and rewarding college experience.”

The Theodore G. Schwartz and Todd G. Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence, named by father and son donors and a part of the Isadore Hecht Athletic Center, is a multipurpose building that showcases enhanced football facilities, including a football locker room, players’ lounge, Gallery of Champions celebrating the legacy of Hurricane Athletics, and a new academic center for student-athletes. Improvements at the Hecht Athletic Center include a state-of-the-art training center and sports medicine facility.

News from Momentum2: The Breakthrough Campaign for the University of Miami Fall 2013

The Schwartz Family Foundation gift to UM Athletics for the two-level, 34,000-square-foot multipurpose facility follows a transformational gift in 1999 from University Trustee Christine and husband Theodore “Ted” Schwartz to help build the M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies. Now, this first-ever lead gift by a father and son to UM Athletics, is continuing the family’s tradition of support to higher education.

The new Patricia and Harold Toppel Career Center doubles the amount of space from the original Toppel Career Center and provides enhanced career-related programming and resources.

Made possible by a generous gift from UM alumna and Trustee Patricia Toppel, B.Ed. ’58, M.Ed. ’59, the new center will feature innovative technology, such as 360-degree video recording, and space for entrepre-neurship workshops, informational sessions and panel discussions, and interview space. The 12,000-square-foot center will be made up of a North and South Wing adjoined by a grand lobby and outdoor Career Pavilion. The original career center was dedicated in 1995 in recognition of Patricia and her late husband Harold Toppel’s generous support.

Transformingthe Face of the ULook around. The University of Miami is changing in impressive fashion, much of it due to donors’ generosity. The sparkling Student Activities Center is redefining the nucleus of the Coral Gables campus; the Schwartz Athletic Center is a bright beacon that enhances the resources available to our student-athletes; and the technology-enhanced Toppel Career Center will prepare our students to successfully compete in the global workplace.

THEODORE G. SCHWARTZ AND TODD G. SCHWARTZ CENTER FOR ATHLETIC EXCELLENCE

PATRICIA AND HAROLD TOPPEL CAREER CENTER

STUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER

Life-Changing Health CareOur dedicated physicians and faculty provide clinical care and conduct research that is making a difference to people in our community and across the globe.

The Landon ChallengeThe University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies is on track to open the nation’s first education-based Simulation Hospital. The facility will be a global resource for educators and health care professionals to assess and effectively address every possible safety breakdown in the hospital setting.

To kick off this pioneering effort in patient safety, the school this fall announced the R. Kirk Landon Challenge. Established to engage a community of people who care about the future of health care, Landon will match all leadership gifts of $50,000 or more, up to $1 million.

With the aim of identifying and correcting deficiencies in health care delivery, the Simulation Hospital will promote interprofessional collaboration where physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals work in teams to improve patient safety outcomes. It will be a test site for new health care products and the development of safety protocols that can be replicated throughout the world.

Landon, one of the South Florida community’s most generous philanthro-pists, supports the School of Nursing and Health Studies’ focus on advanced education and research. The challenge is aimed at attracting others passionate about improving health care now and for future generations.

The Patient-First Model of CareThe University of Miami Miller School of Medicine continues to be at the forefront of transformative health care, including the exciting work that is being conducted at the Eugene J. Sayfie, M.D., Pavilion for Excellence in Patient Care.

Located in the Professional Arts Center—where Sayfie, associate professor of clinical medicine, serves as medical director of the Sayfie Pavilion—the Pavilion exemplifies the patient-first model of care. The comprehensive care facility, which celebrated its grand opening in May 2012, promotes the whole body and life assessment to develop and execute an individualized health plan for patients. The plan also provides multiple tools patients can use to participate in their care.

This summer Sayfie and his wife, Suzie, who serves as executive director of development at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, were named best charitable couple in the SunPost’s “Best of South Florida, 2013” issue. For more than four decades the Sayfies have been avid supporters of hospitals, schools, and health organizations.

Sports Legends Gala EventUM Trustees Nick Buoniconti, left,

and his son Marc, center, are

surrounded by honorees and leaders

at the 28th Annual Great Sports

Legends Dinner held September 30

at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York

City. The annual event benefits The

Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis,

which supports cutting-edge spinal

cord injury research conducted at

the University of Miami Miller

School of Medicine’s The Miami

Project to Cure Paralysis, including

the Human Clinical Trials Initiative.

Pap Corps SupportThe 21,000-member-strong The Pap Corps: Champions for Cancer Research continued its annual support for the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center this year, contrib-uting $3.6 million to fund vital cancer research. The Pap Corps has donated more than $50 million to Sylvester over the years.

Attending the check presentation were Stan Scheff, Pap Corps chief financial officer; JoAnne Goldberg, Pap Corps president; Jayne Sylvester Malfitano, vice chair of the Sylvester Board of Governors; J. William Kingston, executive director of Sylvester Development; Joan Scheiner, chair of the Sylvester Board of Governors; and Chief Medical Officer W. Jarrard Goodwin, M.D.

In a first for Florida and the

Southeast, the University of

Miami Miller School of Medicine

celebrated the opening this

spring of the Elaine and Sydney

Sussman Family Crohn’s and

Colitis Clinic.

Longtime supporters of the

Miller School of Medicine, Elaine

and Sydney Sussman have been

instrumental in helping the

Miller School and UHealth-

University of Miami Health

System provide the finest patient

care through caring, commit-

ment, collaboration, and research

innovations. This latest gift for

the new clinic is part of the

A Spirit of Caring

Inspiring Medical StudentsThe Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Foundation recently made a series of targeted gifts to the Miller School of Medicine focused on supporting and challenging medical students to help patients attain optimal health and well-being.

On behalf of the foundation, Jeri Wolfson presented a $240,000 gift to support the Schiff Center for Liver Diseases. The Center engages in the most innovative treatments in liver disease, including interferon-free antiviral treat-ments and combination therapy.

Wolfson presented a second gift of $250,000 to the Integrative and Complementary Academic Medicine Programs. A third gift of $240,000 was presented to Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt for the Dean’s Discretionary Fund. The Wolfson Foundation has generously provided $19.5 million in long-term support to several areas of the Miller School.

Andee Sussman, daughter of Elaine and Sydney Sussman, dedicates the Sussman

Family Crohn’s and Colitis Clinic, which Maria T. Abreu, M.D., (right) directs.

President Donna E. Shalala with Eugene

J. Sayfie, M.D., (center) and Miller School

Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D.

Sussmans’ generous and substan-

tial giving to the University,

which includes the creation of

the Elaine and Sydney Sussman

Cardiac Catheterization

Laboratory at University of Miami

Hospital. Other donors include

Micky and Madeleine Arison,

Guido and Ana Lourdes Adler, and

Martin and Helene Lindenfeld.

The new clinic features a

comfortable reception area,

four examination and treatment

rooms, four infusion areas, and a

therapeutics monitoring area. It

is located across the hall from

the George & Estelle Rosenfield

Center for Digestive Health.

Scholarship and Student SuccessA university’s impact can be measured through the success of its students—and scholarship giving helps students achieve their goals.

GOLDSTE IN FAMILY CHALLENGE More than 2,800 young alumni stepped up and supported the GOLDstein Family Challenge, making this unique scholarship challenge an unqualified success. Former Hurricanes football player Sean Goldstein, B.B.A. ’12, and his parents Sandy, B.B.A. ’81, M.B.A. ’85, and Cindy, B.S.N. ’79, pledged to donate $25,000 to scholarships as long as at least 2,013 young alumni who graduated within the last decade made a gift of any amount by May 31, 2013. After reaching the target on May 1, the Goldsteins created a bonus round, committing an additional $10,000 if total participation reached 2,400 donors. In all, 2,821 young alumni made gifts.

COHEN FAMILY TRUE GENTLEMAN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUNDJoshua Cohen, A.B. ’96, and his wife, Megan, made a $1 million planned gift that will create The Cohen Family True Gentleman Endowed Scholarship Fund. The endowed scholarship will be awarded to two UM students, one female and one male, who are leaders in their sorority and fraternity. It will recognize Greek students for their leadership, commitment, and dedication to the work they do, in addition to their academic pursuits. “There’s a certain bond that exists between people who went to Miami,” said Joshua Cohen. “Giving back to the school is a way of saying, ‘Thanks for everything you’ve done for me.’“

WINE SPECTATOR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONMarvin Shanken, B.B.A. ’65, has generously extended his support of scholarships at the School of Communication for an additional five years. A portion of the Wine Spectator Scholarship Foundation will be used to support an annual trip to New York City to see the inner workings of M. Shanken Communications, a top publisher and Internet company that produces magazines, to participate in interactive discussions and presentations about each part of the publishing process.

CHAPLIN CHALLENGEThe Chaplin Challenge in the School of Law, created through the generosity of Trustee Wayne Chaplin, B.B.A. ’79, J.D. ’82, will match, dollar-for-dollar, each new contribution up to $50,000 made to new or existing scholarship funds through December 31, 2016, as long as matching funds are available. In setting up the challenge, Chaplin, president and COO of Southern Wine & Spirits of America, wanted to help offset the rising cost of legal education. To date, more than $800,000 has been matched, creating 17 new scholarships.

McKNIGHT DOCTORAL SCHOLARS PROGRAMBuilding upon UM’s tradition of diversity at all levels of the institution, the University collaborates with the Florida Education Fund to provide McKnight Fellowships to top-tier African-American and Hispanic doctoral students. The mission of the fellowship is to increase the number of doctoral recipients from these groups, who have been historically underrepresented in crucial disciplines and fields of study such as arts and sciences, business administration, engineering, and health sciences. There are currently 29 fellows enrolled at UM.

“ The three months I spent in the Galapagos on my study abroad semester was an extraordinary, remarkable, and unfor-gettable opportunity.”

–Amanda Tinoco, ‘14L. Hyer and E. Pascoe Study Abroad

Scholarship recipient

Whether it’s financial help to make the college dream come true, exploring

innovative and entrepreneurial thinking, taking part in study abroad, or making an impact in our local community, much of the success of University of Miami students can be tied to the generosity of our donors who support scholarship and student enrichment. Scholarships enable talented and deserving students to attend and succeed at the University of Miami, enhancing the University’s student body with their creativity, diversity, and enthusiasm. The University is fortunate to have alumni and donors who share their success through their giving. Student Musicians: This year, 37 University of Miami students benefited from scholarships from

the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, including 24 students at the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music. These scholarships are made possible through the generosity of South Florida philanthropists Penny and Trustee E. Roe Stamps.

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Dr. Lawrence Morehouse,

president of the Florida

Education Fund, and

Dr. Koren Bedeau,

associate dean of the

UM Graduate School

(center) with McKnight

fellows

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CAMPA IGN L EADERS

CAMPAIGN CHAIRSJayne and Leonard Abess

CAMPAIGN VICE CHAIRSTracey and Bruce BerkowitzJoanne and Eddie Dauer, B.S.E.E. ’72, M.D. ’75, M.S.B.E. ’01Swanee and Paul DiMareAna and Joe Echevarria, B.B.A. ’78Dany Garcia, B.B.A. ’92, and Dwayne Johnson, B.G.S. ’95Christine and Ted SchwartzPenny and E. Roe Stamps

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURECo-ChairsJorge M. PerezGilberto Neves

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESCo-ChairsFrances Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa, A.B. ’77James A. Kushlan, B.S. ’69, M.S. ’72, Ph.D. ’74

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONNational ChairPat Barron, B.B.A. ’75

SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONChairBob Mann, A.B. ’70

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENTChairHilarie Bass, J.D. ’81

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGChairAna VeigaMilton, B.S.E.E. ’87, J.D. ’93Co-ChairsLaura Coulter-Jones, B.B.A. ’80, M.B.A. ’90Carmen Gonzalez-SanfeliuSal Jurado, B.S.C.E. ’73, M.S.C.E. ’76

SCHOOL OF LAWChairWayne E. Chaplin, B.B.A. ’79, J.D. ’82Vice ChairsLarry J. Hoffman, J.D. ’54 Carolyn B. Lamm, J.D. ’73

LEONARD M. MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINEChairStuart Miller, J.D. ’82

PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST SCHOOL OF MUSICChairDavid Weaver

SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH STUDIESCo-ChairsPam GarrisonMaria Lamas Shojaee, A.B. ’85, M.B.A. ’12

ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCEChairSteve Saiontz, M.B.A. ’84, M.P.S. ’12

DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICSChairPaul DiMare

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESCo-ChairsFred Camner, J.D. ’69Mitchell Kaplan, M.S.Ed. ’80

CITIZENS BOARDChairAl Vara, B.S.E.E. ’79, M.S.E.E. ’85

Citizens Board MagicIn his inaugural address, UM alumnus Al Vara, the new president of the University of Miami’s Citizens Board, called on its membership to identify key contacts within their network that can make a difference in the University’s future.

“The magic of the Citizens Board is in our members’ ability to help the University of Miami build relationships with individuals, foundations, or corporations that can make impactful gifts,” Vara told a group of about 170 members at the annual kick-off luncheon held in the ballroom of the new Student Activities Center in September. Members of the Citizens Board have helped raise over $36 million to support Momentum2.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGFortinet, a California-based Internet-security provider, has funded the creation of the new Fortinet Cybersecurity Laboratory at the College of Engineering, which will be directed by Eric Rozier and Saman Zonouz, assistant professors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The generous gift, said Dean James M. Tien, “is an endorsement of the college’s primary mission: to educate tomorrow’s technology leaders for career success.”

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUREThe W.K. Kellogg Foundation has provided a generous grant, matched by the Barr Foundation, to help the people of the coastal plain region north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, build a “road map” for sustainable development. The School of Architecture’s team, headed by Sonia Chao, director of the Center for Urban and Community Design, will work on a plan that includes developing infrastructure, the construction of public and civic structures, sustainable and renewable energy sources, and sites for new public spaces.

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENTThrough the Jack and Harriet Rosenfeld Foundation Program in Jewish Education, the School of Education and Human Development is providing workshops, seminars, and other opportunities to support and enhance learning in Jewish day schools throughout South Florida, which is the nation’s second-largest Jewish population center. Hundreds of educators and thousands of children have benefited over the past several years, and a new program, the Rosenfeld Legacy Project: Exploring Jewish Values Through Children’s Literature Early Childhood Edition, is slated to launch in early 2014. The School also received a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to help create educational materials and provide teacher training to schools in Haiti.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESElizabeth B. White, A.B. ’73, was especially devoted to the University of Miami, and after learning she had cancer, White created a trust in her estate to take care of her mother and leave a legacy to her beloved alma mater. She passed away in 2006, and her mother died in 2012. White’s memory will live on through the Elizabeth B. White Endowed Professorship in Political Science. The focus of her studies at UM was on political science, and she used the knowledge she gained in her career, working for 30 years at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE The R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program—estab-lished through a founding donation from Marian Dunlap in honor of her husband, the late Richard J. Dunlap, and supported by a variety of exceptional organizations, companies, and private donors—maintains a superb website on marine conservation with a strong focus on sharks. The site, SharkTagging.com, provides a visually driven online experience through photos and research.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONIn 2008 Lloyd Straits, B.B.A. ’65, and his wife, Ruth, established the Lloyd and Ruth Straits Endowed Scholar-ship in support of students at the School of Business Administration. As part of the Momentum2 campaign, they recently increased their bequest toward this endowed scholarship, which will enable a greater number of UM business students to benefit from their generostiy.

Editor Peter E. Howard

Art Director Kristian Rodriguez, B.S. ’04

Contributors Annette Herrera Maria Olga Aizcorbe, A.B. ’73

Senior Vice President, University Advancement and External Affairs Sergio M. Gonzalez

M2U Fall 2013Associate Vice President, Central Development Naomi Nixon

Executive Director, Stewardship and Development Communications Darlene Rebello-Rao

Vice President, University Communications Jacqueline Menendez, A.B.’83

Assistant Vice President, Communications and Marketing Todd Ellenberg

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Phone: 305-284-4443

Email: give@miami.edu

Web: miami.edu/advancement

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From Around the Campuses

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The Story Thus Far

Thank you!

Your generous gifts fund life-changing opportunities for bright young scholars,

state-of-the-art educational resources, leading-edge health care, pioneering research,

innovative community-building, and much more. Many thanks for your support!

Learn more about the many exciting recent activities and achievements at the University of Miami in the pages inside.

Momentous Transformation

Thanks to the generous

support of donors like you,

the $1.6 billion Momentum2

campaign is already making

a dramatic impact on the U.

$1.18 billion in donations / 116,305 donors /

151 donations of $1 million or more / 44

endowed scholarships to help attract talented students /

19 endowed chairs and professorships to support

recruitment of outstanding research faculty / 16 new

and renovated facilities to advance sophisticated

research and enhance the campus experience