The Miami Herald section front on Aug. 25, 1992, the day after Hurricane Andrew decimated South Miami-Dade. “Destruction at Dawn.” The Miami Herald front page on Friday, Aug. 28, 1992.

The Wilks Institute creates mutually beneficial and sustainable partnerships with our community partners as co-educators, and develops opportunities for students to engage through these partnerships.

Charles Trainor Jr., Miami Herald Staff - Hurricane Andrew - 8/27/1992 - Richard Colon, 11, sits by a tree at his house in Pleasure City, on Aug. 27, 1992.

MIAMI - Thirty years ago this week on August 24th, 1992 Hurricane Andrew cut like a buzz saw through South Miami-Dade County. Major portions of Florida City and Homestead were reduced to rubble.

Andrew Revkin, award-winning writer and author of The New York Times' Dot Earth Blog, will present “Seeking a Good Path in the Anthropocene" at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, in the Wilks Theater of the ...

Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, blasted the Bahamas and South Miami-Dade with sustained winds at 165 mph and higher wind gusts on Aug. 23-24, 1992.