"Conserving Hearing During Inner-Ear Surgery"- An engineering article for the University of Miami College of Engineering

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"Conserving Hearing During Inner-Ear Surgery"- An engineering article for the University of Miami College of Engineering

By Rochelle Broder-Singer | 01/30/17

A $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is helping Suhrud M. Rajguru, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Biomedical Engineering Department and Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Otolaryngology, explore how hypothermia might help preserve residual hearing in patients who undergo cochlear implant surgery.

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"New Technique to Reduce Inner-Ear Trauma During Cochlear Implant Surgery"- An engineering article for the University of Miami College of Engineering

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"New Technique to Reduce Inner-Ear Trauma During Cochlear Implant Surgery"- An engineering article for the University of Miami College of Engineering

By Rochelle Broder-Singer | 02/15/17

Not all patients who receive cochlear implants to treat deafness are totally without hearing; many have some residual hearing. But the inner-ear surgery required to implant these life-changing devices can often result in trauma that causes loss of that residual hearing. Suhrud M.

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"The Use of High-Dimensional Sparse Structural Equation Modeling"- An engineering article for the University of Miami College of Engineering

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"The Use of High-Dimensional Sparse Structural Equation Modeling"- An engineering article for the University of Miami College of Engineering

By Nancy Abramson | 06/17/19

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a powerful and flexible toolbox for statistical inference – the practice of forming judgments typically on the basis of random sampling. SEM is a set of mathematical models, computer algorithms and statistical methods that function as tools to help with statistical inference. However, despite the flexibility of structural equation models (SEMs), there are few efficient and effective inference methods that can work with the kinds of problems with many variables and possible values that commonly occur in contemporary fields, such as genomics.

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"Why Unemployment Checks Affect Wages"- What Happens When Unemployment Benefits are Extended? – A business research article for the University of Miami Business School magazine

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"Why Unemployment Checks Affect Wages"- What Happens When Unemployment Benefits are Extended? – A business research article for the University of Miami Business School magazine

By Rochelle Broder-Singer

Unemployed workers become more desperate for a job as their unemployment benefits get close to running out. This usually means they’re willing to accept lower pay for a job. It’s a fact that employers often exploit, and one reason that wages can vary dramatically among workers at the same company with the same productivity.

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"Drowning Out 'Whisper Ratings' "- A Short Research Article for the University of Miami School of Business magazine

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"Drowning Out 'Whisper Ratings' "- A Short Research Article for the University of Miami School of Business magazine

By Rochelle Broder-Singer 

When a firm wants to issue a security – say, a bond or a bunch of mortgages packed together – it hires a credit rating agency to review the underlying assets and give the security a credit rating. Investors use the rating to make decisions about whether, and how much, to invest.

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"Keep Your Gift Wrapping Under Wraps" – Short Research Story for the University of Miami School of Business magazine

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"Keep Your Gift Wrapping Under Wraps" – Short Research Story for the University of Miami School of Business magazine

By Lauren Comander

If you’re feeling pressure to step up your gift wrapping as the holidays near, then wrap your mind around findings by Uzma Khan, associate professor of marketing at the School. Drop the bows and the carefully crafted corners and keep things simple, she says, or you’ll be setting the gift recipient up for disappointment. 

Fall 2017 BusinessMiami magazine

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