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MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Miami Project Researchers Hunt for Drugs to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury
As part of a new U.S. Department of Defense grant consortium called Operation Brain Trauma Therapy, two researchers at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis—W. Dalton Dietrich and Helen M. Bramlett—will identify and develop drugs that reduce swelling, improve blood flow, limit neuronal damage, and prevent cognitive impairments after mild, moderate, or severe traumatic brain injury. | more
• Telischi Named Chair of Otolaryngology | more |
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UNIVERSITY
President Shalala to Deliver Inaugural Collegetown Faculty Lecture on Health Care Reform
Drawing upon the knowledge and skills that made her the longest-serving secretary of health and human services in U.S. history, President Donna E. Shalala will deliver a timely lecture on health care reform this Thursday, February 3, in Storer Auditorium at 6:30 p.m., with a reception beginning at 6 p.m. | more |
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Creative Writing Program to Host Craft-Intensive Weekend; UM Employees Receive 10 Percent Discount
Have a great American novel in your head or on your hard drive? The University of Miami’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program will host the weekend workshop series “Write Now” on February 19 and 20. The series is designed to engage the local writing community and guide participants via workshops and seminars in fiction, poetry, and memoir. UM faculty and staff will receive a 10 percent discount off registration. | more |
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SPORTS
Miami Baseball Enters USA Today/ESPN Poll at No. 18
With spring practice now under way, the University of Miami baseball team has earned its fourth preseason ranking, coming in at No. 18 in the USA Today/ESPN Preseason Top 25 Poll. Last season UM ended the year ranked No. 15 in the final poll. | more
• Men's Basketball Employee Day | more |
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UM PRESENTS
LoweDown Happy Hour: Celebration of Cuban Art
Join the Lowe Art Museum for the first LoweDown of 2011, as it celebrates the exhibition “Rafael Soriano: Other Worlds Within, A Sixty Year Retrospective” on Thursday, February 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. Guests can enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition, presented by Rafael Soriano’s daughter, Hortensia, along with tasty Cuban treats, and register for a raffle of the exhibition catalog. | more |
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FOR YOUR BENEFIT
The Power of Positive Thinking
While many of us invest a great deal of time and energy into physically caring for our bodies, few of us consider the importance of taking the same care to assure our mindset also supports optimal health. The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program will offer the lunchtime seminar, The Power of Positive Thinking, for those interested in exploring how thoughts can influence health and well-being.| more |
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College of Engineering to Host AMA Meeting | more
Research, Creativity, and Innovation Forum Seeking Judges | more
Special Interest Housing Group Application Process Under Way | more
SEEDS to host workshop with author and Scientist Ellen Daniell | more
Learn about Effort Certification Reporting | more
Free English Course for International Graduate Teaching Assistants
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Business School to Host Information Session on its Executive M.B.A. Program in Palm Beach | more
School of Law and H.O.P.E. Public Resource Center Offer Free Income Tax Preparation | more |
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Testing the Limits of Education Reform
The current state and future of education took center stage on Thursday, January 27, when Diane Ravitch, former assistant secretary of education under George H.W. Bush, delivered the Northern Trust 2011 Lecture “Testing the Limits of Education Reform” at Storer Auditorium. The lecture was presented by Northern Trust and UM's School of Education. Ravitch, an educational historian and one of the nation’s most vocal critics on what is being done in the name of school reform, discussed a range of topics, from standardized testing and charter schools to the educational policies of the Obama administration. Above, Ravitch, right, signs a copy of her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, for School of Education graduate student Shahrzad Daneshvar. | more |
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FREEZE FRAME
Interdisciplinary Inquiry
The Idea of the Hospital, a new interdisciplinary offering at the University of Miami School of Law, kicked off the first of its eight day-long “module” sessions on Saturday, January 22, with a discussion about nursing’s role in this complex health care institution. UM President Donna E. Shalala led the morning lecture for 21 graduate students from a variety of disciplines: law, engineering, architecture, medicine, business, and epidemiology and public health. | more |
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| Through Monday, January 31: Cosford Screening: La Traviata | more |
| Monday, January 31: Biology Departmental Seminar: Climate, Harvest, and the Dynamics of Plant Populations in a Changing World | more |
| Monday, January 31: Launch Pad Weekly Workshop: Bootstrapping Your New Business | more |
| Monday, January 31: Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar: Motors, Movement, and Malignancy | more |
| Monday, January 31: Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Characterization of rVSV for Use as an Oncolytic Vector | more |
| Monday, January 31: Faculty Learning Community Kick-Off Panel to Be Held | more |
| Monday, January 31: DMAS/FRS for Beginners | more |
| Monday, January 31: Sponsor-Investigator Responsibilities Course | more |
| Monday, January 31: Laughter as Resistance: Performance during the Holocaust | more |
| Through February 1: Building Change-Ready Teams | more |
| Tuesday, February 1: Cell Biology and Anatomy Seminar: Nuclear Structural Changes in Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation and Cancer | more |
| Tuesday, February 1: Cardiology Grand Grounds: Prospective Identification and Isolation of Cardiovascular Progenitors from Human Embryonic Stem Cells | more |
| Tuesday, February 1: International Graduate Law Programs Lecture Series: Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation: A Survivor’s Journey | more |
| Tuesday, February 1: Sylvester Oncogenomics Core Facility Lecture: Implementing NanoString Technology in a Core Facility | more |
| Tuesday, February 1: Community Engagement and Public Scholarship: A Good Neighbor Protocol for Higher Education| more |
| Tuesday, February 1: Human Genetics and Genomics Seminar Series: Dissecting the Genetic Etiology to Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease | more |
| Tuesday, February 1: Art Exhibition at CAS Gallery Celebrates Black History Month | more |
| Tuesday, February 1: Why Latino History Matters to U.S. History | more |
| Tuesday, February 1: Working in a Team Environment | more |
| Wednesday, February 2: Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Heartache and Heartbreak: The Remarkable Relationship Between Depression and Heart Disease | more |
| Wednesday, February 2: School of Law Faculty Lecture Series: Law Talk v. Science Talk: The Languages of Law and Science in WTO Proceedings | more |
| Wednesday, February 2: Center for Humanities Lecture: Night-Rule: Empires of the Nonhuman in Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Descartes | more |
| Wednesday, February 2: Endocrinology Journal Club: Relationships between Vascular Calcification, Calcium Metabolism, Bone Density, and Fractures | more |
| Wednesday, February 2: Endocrinology Grand Rounds: Lawrence M. Fishman Lecture: Cardiac Hormones and the Treatment of Cancer | more |
| Wednesday, February 2: Gail F. Beach Memorial Visiting Lectureship Series: In Vivo Discovery of Molecules for Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disease | more |
| Thursday and Friday, February 3-4: Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Faculty Candidate Seminar: On the D-List: Posttranslational Arginylation of the Cytoskeletal Proteins | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Neurological Surgery and Miami Project to Cure Paralysis Grand Rounds: Next-Generation Sequencing: Discovering Neuron-Intrinsic Mechanisms of CNS Repair | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Endocrinology Fellows Clinical Case Conference: Hyponatremia | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Deep Brain Stimulation | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Endocrinology Grand Rounds: The Lawrence M. Fishman Lecture: Cardiac Hormones in the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure and Renal Failure | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Endocrinology Special Fellows Conference: The Lawrence M. Fishman Visiting Professor in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Series: Structural and Functional Analysis of Insect Odorant Receptors | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Miami Dolphins to Present Proceeds from Cycling Challenge | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Miami Ballroom Dance Club to Host Spring Open House | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Orthopaedics Grand Rounds: Radiation Safety and How to Transfer a Spine-Injured Patient | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Next-Generation Sequencing: Discovering Neuron-Intrinsic Mechanisms of CNS Repair | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Surgical Grand Rounds: Spinal Cord Injury: Treatment, Controversies, and New Frontiers | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Bascom Palmer Grand Rounds | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Legal Theory Workshop Speaker Series: From Subject to Sovereign: Citizen and Nation-State in a Globalized World | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Velos Patient Management Courses to Be Offered | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Otolaryngology Grand Rounds: Laryngopharyngeal Reconstruction | more |
| Thursday, February 3: OB/GYN Grand Rounds: Is This Ovary Malignant? Separating the Wheat from the Chaff | more |
| Thursday, February 3: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: New Agents for the Treatment of Pain | more |
| Friday, February 4: Neurology Grand Rounds: Cortical Spreading Depression: A Laboratory Curiosity that Just Won’t Go Away | more |
| Friday, February 4: LEND Program to Present Friday Noon Interdisciplinary Lecture Series | more |
| Friday, February 4: Law School to Hold Multicultural Admissions Fair | more |
| Friday, February 4: The Impact of the Haitian Earthquake on Its Libraries | more |
| Friday, February 4: Protest vs. Privacy: Featuring Attorney Sean Summers, of the Recent Supreme Court Case Snyder v. Phelps| more |
| Friday, February 4: Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Seminar: Assessing Interactions and Associations with Genetic Data in Clinical Trials | more |
| Monday, February 7: Learn More about the Audit Process | more |
| Monday, February 7: College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series: Nanoscale Modifications of Cementitious Materials | more |
| Monday, February 7: A Conversation About Faith, Politics, and the Media | more |
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