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UNIVERSITY
Faculty and staff invited to attend Global Business Forum panel sessions at no cost
The stage is set for the University of Miami Global Business Forum, January 12-14, which will feature top business and government leaders such as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt. UM faculty and staff who have not registered for the entire three-day forum are invited to attend one or more of the 30 concurrent panel sessions at no cost. Also, several of the key sessions will be streamed live to the Miller School campus. | more |
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MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Watch the Breakthrough Medicine blitz
The Breakthrough Medicine series, which provides viewers the opportunity to go inside a university-based health system and share in the remarkable breakthroughs being made on campus each day, will be airing Saturdays in January at 7 p.m. on Channel 10 (ABC-WPLG). | more |
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
UM voicemail successfully upgraded; training videos and webinars to be offered
Telecommunications has successfully upgraded the Communité Messaging Interaction Center, instituting several improvements to the voicemail system. Training videos and a brochure of features are available, and a series of webinars have been scheduled to familiarize employees with the upgraded system. | more |
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SPORTS
Eight Hurricanes invited to 2011 NFL Combine
The University of Miami football team will have more than half of its departing senior class represented at the 2011 NFL Combine. Eight players—Allen Bailey, Matt Bosher, Damien Berry, Graig Cooper, Leonard Hankerson, Orlando Franklin, Colin McCarthy, and DeMarcus Van Dyke—have been invited to represent UM at the Combine, which will be held from February 23 through March 1 in Indianapolis, Indiana. | more
• Miami women’s tennis ranked 12th in Campbell/ITA college tennis rankings. | more |
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UM PRESENTS
College of Arts and Sciences to present solo exhibition by Ralph Provisero
The Department of Art and Art History in UM’s College of Arts and Sciences will present a solo exhibition by Ralph Provisero. “Trinacria” will be on view at UM’s Wynwood Project Space from January 8 to 22, with an opening reception scheduled for Saturday, January 8 from 6 to 10 p.m. | more |
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| Miami Innocence Workshop Clinical Program earns national recognition | more
Basic science chairs launch Discovery Science Grand Rounds | more
Hussman Institute accepting applications for Genetic Analysis of Complex Human Diseases course | more
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Caregiving, Sickness, Health, and Pain Issues | more
Department of Theatre welcomes Tommy Tune | more
Diabetes Self-Management: Taking a Modern Approach | more
Take advantage of free computer software training in January and February | more |
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Justice at Bascom
Sandra Day O’Connor, center, may have left the bench, but the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice still remains active. O’Connor, who was the first female member of the nation’s highest court, paid a special visit to UM’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute on January 3, learning about the University’s cutting-edge research. | more |
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The Pursuit of Happiness
The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program will offer a lunchtime seminar titled "The Pursuit of Happiness." Although elusive for many, happiness continues to be a very sought-after experience. This seminar will provide an opportunity for an open discussion about happiness and a model “compass” that can be used to help achieve the experience. | more
• Faculty Disclosure Form now open on myUM | more |
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| Thursday, January 6: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: TEE for High-Risk Patients Undergoing Non-Cardiac Procedures: Concepts Revisited | more |
| Thursday, January 6: Velos Patient Management module | more |
| Thursday, January 6: Orthopaedics Grand Rounds: A Novel Technique for Subtalar Arthrodesis Following Calcaneal Fractures | more |
| Thursday, January 6: Division of Hospital Medicine Grand Rounds: Infection in the Immunocompromised Host | more |
| Thursday, January 6: Surgical Grand Rounds: Drivers and Obstacles to Change in Academic Medicine: The Case of Mitral Repair | more |
| Thursday, January 6: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Introduction to Urodynamics | more |
| Thursday, January 6: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Brain Metastases | more |
| Friday through Sunday, January 6-8: Cosford screening: Around a Small Town | more |
| Saturday and Sunday, January 8-9: Beaux Arts Festival of Art to take place on Gables campus | more |
| Tuesday, January 11: Pediatric Grand Rounds: Airway Anomalies and Laryngomalacia in Children | more |
| Tuesday, January 11: Cell Biology and Anatomy Seminar: Heart Valves: Cartilage and Bone | more |
| Tuesday, January 11: Cardiology Grand Rounds: Medical Radiation: Physician, Patient, and Public Issues | more |
| Tuesday, January 11: Information session on new Research Reporting System | more |
| Tuesday, January 11: SPEAK test to be administered | more |
| Wednesday, January 12: McKnight Research Seminar: Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival and Regeneration | more |
| Thursday, January 13: Bascom Palmer Grand Rounds | more |
| Thursday, January 13: Orthopaedics Grand Rounds: How to Learn Well | more |
| Thursday, January 13: Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Seminar Series: Hedgehog Signaling in Development and Cancer | more |
| Thursday, January 13: Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop to speak in Sylvester Distinguished Lecture Series | more |
| Thursday, January 13: Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar: mTOR Inhibition and Beyond in AML: Real-Time Pharmacodynamic Monitoring in Tumor Cells Using Single Cell Techniques | more |
| Thursday, January 13: Student works to be displayed at Miami International Art Fair, January 13-17 | more |
| Tuesday, January 18: Human Genetics and Genomics Seminar Series | more |
| Wednesday, January 19: Sea Secrets Lecture: The Extraordinary and Embattled Sperm Whale | more |
| Wednesday, January 19: Purchasing, Disbursements, and PCard office to host joint training session on policies and procedures | more |
| Wednesday, January 19: Miami Law lecture: In Search of Copyright’s Lost Ark | more |
| Thursday, January 20: Sponsored Programs Roundtable Series: Research Reporting System | more |
| Thursday, January 20: Velos Patient Management module | more |
| Thursday, January 20: Effort Certification Reporting class offered | more |
| Friday, January 28: Lowe Art Museum to feature works of Cuban-born painter Rafael Soriano | more |
| Saturday, January 29: Join Team ’Canes 4 Autism at the inaugural WalkAbout Autism fundraiser | more |
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