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-Click image to enlarge- | UM Computing Facilities
Universities were among the first businesses in the nation to operate computers. Computer systems at the University of Miami are now managed by Information Technology. Headed by Dr. M. Lewis Temares, the IT Department of the University of Miami was ranked in 2002 by Computerworld as the Number One Place to work in IT in the U.S.A.
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-Click image to enlarge- | Ungar Computing Center
The Computing Building was dedicated in January 1965 and in December 1969 was named the Arthur A. Ungar Computing Center, in honor of a pioneer Miami businessman. Ungar had been a trustee of the university from 1937 to 1965 and then trustee emeritus until his death in April 1969.
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-Click image to enlarge- | Ungar Computing Center in the 1970s
The first computer labs on campus were in the newly-built Arthur A. Ungar Computing Center, completed in 1965.
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-Click image to enlarge- | Wellness Center Construction
Norm Parsons, director of the George A. Smathers Wellness Center, shows the construction site to President Foote and a guest in 1994. Former U.S. Senator Smathers donated $10 million to the University in 1992, with the sole purpose of creating a student wellness and recreation center. The 149,000 square foot facility, which opened in 1996, includes an indoor pool, exercise and weight lifting equipment, classrooms, and much more.
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-Click image to enlarge- | Whitten University Center
The University Center was constructed in 1947 and remodeled many times over the years. On April 22, 1965, the student union was rededicated in honor of Norman A. "Chick" Whitten who had been the director of the University of Miami Student Union for 19 years before his sudden and untimely death at the age of 51, less than a year after the building was completed. Whitten created and named Sebastian the IBIS, the University's mascot as we know it today. The walkway pictured here is no longer part of the building.
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-Click image to enlarge- | Women Students Study in the "Shacks", ca. 1940's
University of Miami students endured a wide variety of classrooms, library, and dormitory spaces during the first three decades of the school's history. These undergraduates are gathered in an unfinished building similar to many that dotted the Coral Gables campus through the 1940's.
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