Nearly 200 School of Business alumni working in the real estate industry came together for an evening of networking in downtown Miami in November. The event was also an opportunity for current students in the School’s real estate programs to make contacts in their field of interest.

More than 140 mentors and students came together for an orientation in September to kick off the School’s 2013 Mentor Program. The program pairs South Florida business professionals with junior, senior, and graduate business students throughout the academic year.

Ruben Dario Lizarralde (MSPM ’99) was named Colombia’s minister of agriculture by President Juan Manuel Santos on September 11.

The School plans to launch an innovative weekend Executive MBA program that breaks new ground in MBA education and will uniquely focus on four key management themes – those of importance to individuals and organizations operating in or connecting with high-growth markets, particularly those of the Americas.

Yongtao Guan, a professor of management science, along with collaborators from the Yale School of Public Health, has received a $453,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify potential links between cancer risk and the proximity of homes to heavy automobile traffic.