University of Miami

The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is a college and research institute for the study of oceanography and the atmospheric... sciences within the University of Miami . It is located on a 16 acre campus on Virginia Key in Miami, Florida, USA. It is the only subtropical applied and basic marine and atmospheric research institute in the continental United States. Up until 2008, RSMAS was solely a graduate school within the University of Miami, while it jointly administrated an undergraduate program with UM's College of Arts and Sciences. In 2008, the Rosenstiel School has taken over administrative responsibilities for the undergraduate program, granting Bachelor of Science in Marine and Atmospheric Science and Bachelor of Arts in Marine Affairs baccalaureate degree. Master's, including a Master of Professional Science degree, and doctorates are also awarded to RSMAS students by the UM Graduate School. The Rosenstiel School's research includes the study of marine life, particularly Aplysia and coral; climate change; air-sea interactions; coastal ecology; and admiralty law.
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Fred D'Aguiar is an author of poetry, novels, and drama. Born in London to Guyanese parents, D'Aguiar spent his childhood from the age of two to... twelve in Guyana. His work has received much, and growing, acclaim. His Bill of Rights, about the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, was a finalist for the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University , Visiting Writer at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts , and was Assistant Professor of English at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine . He was Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Miami. Since 2003, he has held the position of Professor of English and Co-Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech. He was also Northern Arts Literature Fellow at Newcastle and Durham Universities. D'Aguiar trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, graduating in 1985. His first collection of poetry, Mama Dot , was published to much acclaim.
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