These are the dog days of summer. Long, lazy days when one can relax a bit. For many, it is a time to take vacations and enjoy the warm, languorous hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whether going to the beach or enjoying an afternoon by the pool or in the backyard, summer reading is a treat for many. It can be fun novels, short stories, poems, or sci-fi texts. To each their own.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
University of Miami deans and professors shared some of what they will be reading and watching this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?\u00a0<\/p>\n
My summer reading list is usually more ambitious than time will allow.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But I hope to read \u201cThe Comfort Crisis\u201d by Michael Easter; \u201cThe Greatest Sentence Ever Written\u201d by Walter Isaacson; and Ada Ferrer\u2019s \u201cKeeper of My Kin.\u201d I also hope to catch up on recent books and articles written by our faculty at the School of Law.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you watch on television?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I will try to catch as many World Cup games as possible!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Patricia Abril, dean, School of Law <\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I typically read books about leadership. But I plan to add \u201cSuper Agers\u201d by Eric Topol and \u201cThe Anxious Generation\u201d by Jonathan Haidt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be watching on television?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I will be watching the World Cup every chance I get. I don\u2019t do much streaming.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Henri Ford, dean and chief academic officer at the Miller School of Medicine<\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the summer, I plan to read \u201cQuantum Supremacy\u201d by Michio Kaku and, of course, books written by A&S faculty, including \u201cInfinite Country\u201d by Patricia Engel and \u201cBefore the Holocaust\u201d by Herman Beck.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be watching on television?\u00a0<\/p>\n
With regard to what I am watching on TV, I plan on spending a lot of time watching the FIFA World Cup, as I am an avid soccer fan and play soccer myself, and finishing the Jack Ryan series.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leonidas Bachas, dean, College of Arts and Sciences<\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?<\/p>\n
This summer, I plan to focus my reading around artificial intelligence, not only from a technical perspective but books that ask the bigger questions: What happens to judgment, leadership, education, and human purpose when AI becomes much better at doing some of the work we once thought was uniquely ours?\u00a0<\/p>\n
On my to-read list are \u201cCo-Intelligence\u201d by Ethan Mollick and \u201cThe Coming Wave\u201d by Mustafa Suleyman. I also want to read \u201cThe Maniac\u201d by Benjam\u00edn Labatut, which is a more literary exploration of genius, technology, math, and the early roots of AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be watching on television?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I do not watch much television, but I may catch an AI documentary or two this summer, perhaps PBS\u2019 \u201cIn the Age of AI\u201d or NOVA\u2019s \u201cA.I. Revolution.\u201d I am excited about documentaries that treat AI neither as an apocalypse but as one of the defining human, business, and ethical challenges of our time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And for some summer break, I will watch some of the FIFA World Cup, especially the latter part of the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So perhaps my summer theme can be summarized as artificial intelligence X human intelligence!<\/p>\n
Paul A. Pavlou, dean, Miami Herbert Business School<\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?<\/p>\n
I plan to read “Range” by David Epstein. It explores how people with broad interests, rather than narrow specialization, often succeed in complex fields.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be streaming or watching on TV?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I plan to watch FIFA soccer, Wimbledon Tennis, and US Open Golf. I also plan on watching the documentary “The Chosen.”<\/p>\n
Vincent K. Omachonu, interim dean, College of Engineering<\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I am reading \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o in History Storming Through the Ages\u201d by Cesar N. Caviedes and \u201cDear Committee Members\u201d by Julie Schumacher.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be listening to?\u00a0<\/p>\n
My current favorite podcast is \u201cOpinionated History of Mathematics.\u201d It is a great soporific.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben Kirtman, dean, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science<\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?\u00a0<\/p>\n
For fun this summer, my nightstand is full of long-overdue reads. I have started with \u201cKin\u201d by Tayari Jones, which has been an engrossing read about family, motherhood, friendship, and an interesting follow up to the One Book One U common book the past year, \u201cThe Vanishing Half\u201d \u00a0by Brit Bennett, who I had the great honor of being in conversation with in February when she visited campus as part of the One Book One U program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Having recently met Judge Roy Altman, and in a desire to always be in continuous conversation about contentious issues, I have his new book, \u201cIsrael on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law,\u201d next up in my queue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also, since my postdoctoral fellow is expecting a baby, I have been revisiting and collecting for her my favorite children\u2019s books that my son enjoyed when he was a little guy\u2014now 19 years old\u2014including \u201cPlease, Baby, Please,\u201d \u201cGoodnight Moon,\u201d \u201cThe Paperbag Princess,\u201d \u201cChowder,\u201d \u201cLife Doesn\u2019t Frighten Me,\u201d \u201cThe Very Hungry Caterpillar,\u201d \u201cThe Snowy Day,\u201d\u00a0and \u201cLove you Forever.\u201d It seems silly, but it gives me great empty-nest joy to remember childhood story time via these books.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be watching on television?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I will be bingeing on as many World Cup matches as I can, especially since getting an in-person ticket seems impossible and very pricey! Of course, it would be nice if the USA would at least win their group, and I will be on my feet cheering for the Haitian national football team\u2014but if not those two, Les Bleus all the way (go Mbapp\u00e9!).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Laura Kohn-Wood, dean, School of Education and Human Development <\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I will be catching up on Louise Penny\u2019s wonderful inspector Gamache series by reading her two recent works, \u201cA World of Curiosities\u201d and \u201cThe Black Wolf.\u201d I just finished Anne Applebaum\u2019s \u201cTwilight of Democracy\u201d and will be starting \u201cRegime Change\u201d by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan when the book is released later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be watching on television?\u00a0<\/p>\n
After seeing John Hamm and Elizabeth Moss in several recent series, I\u2019m rewatching \u201cMad Men,\u201d the TV series that launched their careers.<\/p>\n
Charles Eckman, dean, UM Libraries<\/p>\n
What will you be reading this summer?\u00a0<\/p>\n
This summer, I\u2019m reading Ada Ferrer\u2019s memoir, \u201cKeeper of My Kin,\u201d which weaves together family history, migration, and memory through the lens of the Cuban experience. As someone who works with Cuban heritage and diaspora collections, I\u2019m especially interested in personal narratives that illuminate the human impact of major historical events. Ferrer\u2019s account offers a moving perspective on how the Cuban Revolution shaped one family\u2019s story of separation, identity, and belonging across generations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What will you be watching on television?\u00a0<\/p>\n
For lighter entertainment, I\u2019ve been streaming \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay,\u201d a comedy-horror series that has been a fun summer escape into spooky New England.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amanda T. Moreno-Schroeder, Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair and director of the Cuban Heritage Collection <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are the dog days of summer. Long, lazy days when one can relax a bit. For many,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-317081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}