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Schedule of Events October 2-4, 2009

Friday, October 2
All Family Weekend events are optional. We encourage you to attend sessions and events that are of interest to you and meet your scheduling needs for the weekend.
11am - 5pm	Check-In and pick up materials Location: 1st Floor, Whitten University Center

2pm - 2:45pm	Interest Sessions, Model Classes, and Tours Study Abroad - The World Awaits The University of Miami's office of International Education and Exchange Programs (IEEP) has many programs to choose for a semester, summer, or short-term study abroad experience. Representatives from IEEP will offer a presentation and Q&A. Parents should attend if your student is considering study abroad. Location: Hecht Residential College Faculty Master's Apartment Prestigious Awards & Fellowships: Making the Most of Your Education Join the Office of Academic Enhancement for an overview of the services the office offers for students interested in applying for prestigious awards and fellowships such as the Fulbright Scholarship Program Grant, the Rhodes Scholarship, the Marshall Scholarship, or the Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Learn what students can do now to prepare and possibly apply for these opportunities. Location: Stanford Residential College Faculty Master's Apartment Model Class: Psychosocial Change and Well-Being Dean Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean of the School of Education Dr. Ora Prilleltensky, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Educational and Psychological Studies Class Description: What is well-being? What makes for a satisfying life? What is the relationship between your own well-being and the happiness of your friends and relatives? How does the community influence your well-being? In this class we will cover these questions and will explore ways to promote well-being in individuals, groups, organizations and communities. Location: Whitten Learning Center, Room 192 Model Class: Genetics of Human Disease Dr. Michael Gaines, Assistant Provost for Undergraduate Research and Professor, Department of Biology Class Description: This lecture will be an overview of the genetic basis for human disorders including Cystic fibrosis, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, and Down's syndrome. Location: Glasgow Hall, Jorge M. Perez Architecture Building Center Model Class: Introductory Yoga at the Herbert Wellness Center Stretch, strengthen, and center yourself in a free hour-long introductory yoga class. Wear comfortable clothes you can move in and if you own a yoga mat feel free to bring it. Location: Herbert Wellness Center, Multipurpose Room B Lowe Art Museum Tour Spend the afternoon getting to know UM's campus Art Museum with a guided tour of the Lowe Art Museum. Highlights of the tour will include the last chance to view Through the Lens: Photography From the Permanent Collection and Arnold Newman: Photographic Legacy which is on view until Oct. 4, 2009. Visitors will also get a peek at the new Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts. Learn about the exciting world of photography, glass and ceramics as well as an opportunity to view works in the museum's permanent collection. Admission to the museum is included in the tour (normally $10 per adult-UM students are FREE). Location: Lowe Art Museum

3pm - 3:45pm	Interest Sessions, Model Classes, and Tours Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience Featuring Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education, Dr. William Scott Green and Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. Patricia A. Whitely. Join us for a discussion about the changes on the horizon for your student's Miami experience. Location: Stanford Residential College Faculty Master's Apartment Supporting Your Student's Career Choices Facilitated by the staff of the Toppel Career Center, this program will provide information about how you can encourage your student's career development. Topics include how to choose a major, career advising, internships, and career fairs. Location: Toppel Career Center Library Model Class: Vodou and Santeria: Religion in the Streets of Miami Dr. Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Class Description: This class will introduce the Afro-Caribbean religious traditions that are part of the everyday landscape of Miami with a nod to their impact on popular culture. Location: Hecht Residential College Faculty Master's Apartment Model Class: Creative Writing Maureen Seaton, Associate Professor, Department of English Lester Goran, Professor, Department of English Class Description: Join senior poet Seaton and senior fiction writer Goran as they guide you through the most celebrated Surrealist game of all, The Exquisite Corpse (Cadavre Exquis), where the writing comes easy and serendipity creates a masterpiece. Discover your hidden poet/writer. Location: Glasgow Hall, Jorge M. Perez Architecture Building Center Model Class: Exercise Physiology Dr. Joseph Signorile, Professor, Exercise and Sport Sciences Dr. Signorile will give an overview of the science behind exercise physiology with individual demonstrations of three ongoing studies-chance for participation. Location: Laboratory of Applied & Clinical Physiology, Merrick Building, Room 315 Model Class: Introductory Studio Cycling at the Herbert Wellness Center Hop on a bike and enjoy an easy ride while listening to hits from the 80's, 90's, and today! Please bring water and a towel. Although this will not be a strenuous class, the locker room showers are available for anyone who would like to freshen up. Complimentary day lockers are available-just pick up a key from the Pro Shop. Location: Herbert Wellness Center, Cycling Studio, 2nd Floor by Wellness Suite Lowe Art Museum Tour Spend the afternoon getting to know UM's campus Art Museum with a guided tour of the Lowe Art Museum. Highlights of the tour will include the last chance to view Through the Lens: Photography From the Permanent Collection and Arnold Newman: Photographic Legacy which is on view until Oct. 4, 2009. Visitors will also get a peek at the new Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts. Learn about the exciting world of photography, glass and ceramics as well as an opportunity to view works in the museum's permanent collection. Admission to the museum is included in the tour (normally $10 per adult-UM students are FREE). Location: Lowe Art Museum

4pm - 5pm	Meetings with the Academic Deans This is your opportunity to discuss your student's academic courses and interact with administrators in their school or college. Please attend the appropriate meeting for the school or college in which your son or daughter is enrolled. School of Architecture: Jorge M. Perez Architecture Building Center College of Arts and Sciences: College/Wesley Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive (across the street from the Lowe Art Museum) School of Business: James W. McLamore Executive Education Dining Room, 3rd Floor, Aresty Graduate Building, Business School Complex School of Communication: Shoma Hall (Communication International Building 3053) School of Education: Whitten University Center, Room 237 College of Engineering: Whitten University Center, Flamingo Ballrooms A and B Philip and Patricia Frost School of Music:Clarke Recital Hall, L. Austin Weeks Center for Recording and Performance School of Nursing & Health Studies: Executive Board Room at the M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science: Breakfast on the Bay to be held on Saturday, October 3. Please see Saturday schedule for more details.

5pm - 7pm	Family Weekend Happy Hour at the Rat Join us at the University of Miami's favorite hangout spot, the Rathskeller. Enjoy great food, entertainment, and a chance to relax and meet other UM families featuring Blackstar. Blackstar is an eclectic mix of talented players that love to play all that great rock, funk, and rhythm & blues that still stirs your soul. Playing the music of Van Morrison, Joe Cocker, Otis Redding, Al Green, and many others, Blackstar is Don Hyink on guitar and vocals, Bruce Turkel on harmonica, trumpet, and vocals, Allen Lynch on drums, Carlos Avila on Trombone, Oscar Dudamel on sax, and Karl Ellins on bass. Family Weekend participants will receive a 10% discount on food items with their Family Weekend nametag. Location: University Rathskeller

6:30pm - 7:30pm	USpeak: Open Verse and Story Performance Series USpeak: Open Verse and Story Performance is proud to feature Adrian Castro, who is what writer Campbell McGrath says is "fast becoming our foremost poet of the Caribbean, that crossroad of the Americas whose multiple cultures and languages he knows and speaks so fluently." Castro debuts his newest book of poetry, Handling Destiny (Coffee House Press), as poets, writers and musicians of UM step up to the open mic. USpeak will be taped and broadcast by WVUM, UM's student radio station, and is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, UM Citizen's Board and Auxiliary Services. The event is free and open to the public. Location: Oasis Deli in Whitten University Center

6:30pm - 8:30pm	UM Hillel Shabbat Services and Dinner Join us at the Hillel as we celebrate the first night of Sukkot. Kabalat Shabbat Services at 6:30pm Special Shabbat Dinner under the Sukkah at 7:30pm Students and their families are Welcome! Location: Hillel Building

7pm	Volleyball - UM vs. Clemson Join Category 5 and Athletics as Miami tries to break the record for attendance! Kick Family Weekend off right! One fan in attendance will leave the arena with "The Ultimate Tailgate Package," including a 32 inch TV, Hurricane branded tailgate chairs, BBQ set, cooler and more! Students get in free with Cane ID, adults $5 and children cost $3. Come and help us break the record for attendance! Go 'CANES and remember to wear ORANGE! Location: James L. Knight Sports Complex

7pm - 10pm	Gables Gallery Night On the first Friday of the month, over 100 shops, businesses and galleries in downtown Coral Gables open their doors to display fine art. Most locations provide wine and other refreshments free of charge. Drive and park anywhere in the Miracle Mile area. Complimentary transportation is provided between 6 of the major galleries if you begin at Virginia Miller Gallery at 169 Madeira Avenue. The City of Coral Gables also runs the free trolley service on Ponce de Leon Blvd Leon Blvd for the duration of Gallery Night. Please see the Coral Gables map in your check-in packet for directions. Location: Virginia Miller Gallery, 169 Madeira Avenue, Coral Gables

8pm	Festival Miami Gala Opening Night: Frost Symphony Orchestra "Celebrating the German Romantic Tradition" UM's Frost School of Music's Festival Miami, Miami's premiere music festival, is offering a 10% discount to all Family Weekend participants to attend the Gala Opening Night if tickets are ordered on the Festival Miami website using the following code: UMPARENT *All caps. No spaces in between* Festival Miami's 26th season opens with "Celebrating the German Romantic Tradition" at Gusman Hall where Zoe Zeniodi will conduct the Frost Symphony Orchestra in Robert Schumann's individualistic Overture to Faust. Frost School of Music faculty artist Tian Ying joins Maestro Thomas Sleeper and the Frost Symphony Orchestra to perform Beethoven's powerful Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, "Emperor," which has remained one of the most popular and widely performed works in the orchestral repertoire. The evening concludes with Johannes Brahms' iconic Symphony No. 1, with its fierce and arresting introduction that leads directly into the Allegro. The slow movement is intimate and modest with a magnificent violin solo at the end, and the third movement, an intermezzo, is as warm and ingratiating as Brahms' piano pieces. The heroic final movement is exalted and triumphant and a fitting tribute to Brahms' symphonic genius. Presented in Collaboration with the Miami Civic Music Association. Tickets MUST be purchased for this event. Please see the website for pricing information. Location: Maurice Gusman Concert Hall in Frost School of Music
Saturday, October 3
8:30am -10am	Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science Breakfast on the Bay for Students and Parents Breakfast served from 8:30am - 10am; welcome remarks at 9:30am Location: The Commons, Rosenstiel School, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149 (RSMAS students and parents only, please)

9am - 10am (check-in opens at 8am)	Family Weekend 5k Fun Run/Walk Co-sponsored with Delta Gamma sorority in support of the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. This UM community event will be an opportunity for you to explore the beautiful campus grounds. Run with your student, race a family member, or walk and enjoy the view of the lake. Check-in begins at 8:00 am and the race will begin promptly at 9:00am. Refreshments will be provided. Family Weekend guests: this event is included with your registration. Members of the University community: $10.00 donation. Location: Starting and finish line will be at "the Rock" in front of the University Center near the bookstore

9am - 11am	Late Check-In For Family Weekend participants that were unable to pick-up their materials on Friday, we will have another opportunity to pick up materials Saturday morning. Location: Whitten University Center, Information Desk (1st floor)

5:30pm OR 6:45pm	President's Tailgate for Families Join President Donna E. Shalala for a tailgate before the UM/Oklahoma game to celebrate Family Weekend. Due to the overwhelming response to this year's Family Weekend program, we will be having two seatings for the President's Tailgate for Families on Saturday, October 3. The first seating will be held at 5:30pm and the second seating will start at 6:45pm. Participants will be given a choice of tailgate times at check-in, first-come, first-served. Gates will open for the game at 6:30pm. Please note that the tailgate is alcohol-free and is located outside of the stadium. Due to stadium policy, there is no re-entry into the stadium; please make sure that you do not enter the stadium until after your tailgate. Location: Land Shark Stadium, Gate C Courtyard Area

8pm	Game Time! UM vs. University of Oklahoma You will receive your tickets in the packet you were given at check-in. If you purchased a bus pass, a bus sticker is on your ticket and will be your admission onto the buses. Buses will depart from the BankUnited Center beginning 3 hours before game time. Please see handout in your folder for additional instructions. Location: Land Shark Stadium Bus pick-up Location: BankUnited Center
Sunday, October 4
8:30am & 10am	Bus Tours of Historic Coral Gables Tours will last 1.5 hours, departing at 8:30am, and again at 10am. Please confirm at check-in that you have secured your seat. Check your ticket for your assigned times. Only pre-registered guests can participate in the tours. Pick up location: Stanford Circle adjacent to the University Center

1pm	Volleyball: UM vs. Georgia Tech Location: James L. Knight Sports Complex

We welcome you to use our Wellness Center and The Lowe Art Museum FREE of charge. Wellness Center Hours: Friday 6am - 11pm Saturday and Sunday: 8am - 10pm The Lowe Art Museum Hours: Friday and Saturday: 10am - 5pm Sunday: 12pm - 5pm
VARIOUS RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Catholic Mass Saturday, October 3: 5:30 pm and 7:00 pm (Spanish) Sunday, October 4: 8:00 am, 10:00am, 12 noon, 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm, 8:00 pm For more information, please call 305-661-1648 ext. 14. Location: St. Augustine Parish and Catholic Student Center

Chabad UM Friday, October 2, 7:30 pm: Shabbat Service and Dinner in the Sukkah Saturday, October 3, 10:30 am: Saturday Morning Services and Kiddush Lunch in the Sukkah Saturday, October 3, 7:30pm: Sukkot Service and Dinner in the Sukkah Sunday, October 4, 10:30 am: Sukkot Morning Service and Kiddush Lunch in the Sukkah For more information, please contact Rabbi Mendy Fellig at 305-206-4013 or by email at chabadum@aol.com. Location: Chabad at UM - 1251 Hardee Rd., Coral Gables, FL 33146

Episcopal Church Center Services: Sunday 8:00 am, 10:00 am, and 6:00 pm For more information, please contact Frank J. Corbishley, Chaplain, Episcopal Church Center at 305-284-2333 or by email at fcorbishley@miami.edu or visit on the web at www.umchapel.org. Location: UM Episcopal Student Chapel, 1150 Stanford Drive

Hillel Friday, October 2, 6:30pm: Kabbalat Shabbat Services (Traditional & Egalitarian) For more information, please contact Melina Gimal at 305-665-6948 Location: UM Hillel Building

University Christian Fellowship Sunday, October 4, 10:50 am (Brunch will be served) For more information, please contact Joe Lortie at 305-742-5442 or by email at j_lortie@bellsouth.net or visit on the web at www.umchristianfellowship.blogspot.com. Location: University Center I-Lounge, 2nd floor (use elevator in breezeway)

Wesley Foundation United Methodist Ministry Sunday, October 4: Worship at 6:00pm, with free dinner at 5:30pm For more information, please contact Rev. Beth Bostrom at 305-284-1920 or by email at beth@umwesley.org