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Then and Now

A glimpse of classrooms, labs, art studios, and more in the past and present.

By University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences

March 4^th, 2025

Undergraduates walk past the Ashe Administration Building on their way to classes in 1957.

A student walks in front of the Ashe Administration Building in 2025.

Students in a painting class at the Lowe Art Museum on the Coral Gables Campus. Date unknown.

A student works on a piece in a 2024 ceramics class.

Faculty onstage preside over the University of Miami January 1946 commencement ceremony.

A University of Miami commencement ceremony at the Watsco Center in 2024.

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A mathematics instructor teaches a class. Date unknown.

Sarbeswar Praharaj, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, teaches a class in the Geographic Information System Laboratory in 2025.

Students board the University of Miami bus at the Main Campus bus stop. Date unknown.

Students board the Hurry ’Canes Shuttle on the Coral Gables Campus in 2025.

Three biology students study specimens under microscopes in the 1950s.

Students Daniel Rolin, foreground, and Kathryn Rubino, background, use cutting-edge ECHO Revolve microscopes in 2025 under the guidance of Winter A. Beckles, center, a senior lecturer in the Department of Biology.

Students read and relax outside the Oscar E. Dooly Memorial Classroom Building. Date unknown.

Students walk outside the Oscar E. Dooly Memorial Classroom Building in 2025.

Students and a professor during a language class in a language lab. Date unknown.

Neta Kanny, right, a Ph.D. student in the Michele Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, teaches a Portuguese class in 2025.

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Taylor Alexander, a botany professor, shows students details on a leaf in a campus greenhouse in the 1950s.

Left to right: Gwen Pohlmann, a post-baccalaureate research associate, Michelle Afkhami, an associate professor of biology, and Joshua Fowler, a postdoctoral research associate, in the University of Miami Greenhouse in 2024.

A male student and a female student in a geography classroom examine and draw maps in 1952.

Students learn about heat maps in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development’s Geographic Information System Laboratory in 2025.

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Claude F. Carter, a physics professor, uses a then state-of-the-art electron microscope in 1951.

Artem Akopyan, a postdoctoral fellow, uses a microscope in the laboratory of Joshua Cohn, a physics professor, in 2025.

People move through the lobby of the Ashe Administration Building. Date unknown.

Sophomore Daniela Serrano poses for a photo on the stairs of the Ashe Administration Building in 2025.

Dorothy Hipps, a computer operator at the University of Miami Ungar Computer Center, answers computer commands at the console in 1972.

A student surfs the Internet in a computer science laboratory, visiting an early version of the University of Miami’s website in the 1990s.

Computer science Ph.D. student Ana Ribas Rodríguez works to develop AI models to help with the interpretability of medical imaging.

Students congregate on the temporary campus site in 1947. The temporary wooden buildings, known as the “The Shacks,” were erected to accommodate the large number of students enrolling after World War II.

An exterior view of 1300 Campo Sano, the last remaining wooden “shack,” in 2025. It has undergone extensive rehabilitation and is now a historic landmark.

Art students Alan Hochman and Julia Hanes draw sketches in a studio art class in 1952.

Kyle Trowbridge, left, a senior lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History, works with a student during a 2024 studio art class.

Actors perform on the main stage inside what was then known as the Ring Theatre. Date unknown.

Actors perform in the Department of Theatre Arts’ production of “The Pirates of Penzance” in April 2018 in what is now the Jerry Herman Theatre.

Psychology students work on a project. Date unknown.

Mingbo Cai, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, demonstrates how to use an fMRI machine in 2024.

A man examines a painting at the University in an undated photo.

Visitors at the 2024 Lowe Art Museum exhibition “A Collector’s Journey: Susan Grant Lewin and the Art Jewelry World.”

A female student studies on campus in 1966.

Freshman Calissa Kim studies for a microbiology class outside the James M. Cox, Jr. Science Building in 2025.

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