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October 18, 2010 | Monday

SCHOOL OF LAW
School of Law launches innovative postgraduate fellowship program
The University of Miami School of Law has established Legal Corps, an ambitious postgraduate fellowship program that will place recent law graduates in public agencies, public interest organizations, and judicial chambers in Florida and throughout the country. | more

UNIVERSITY
Life Science & Technology Park augments UM’s record of service to Overtown
From affordable health care to after-school tutoring programs and parenting workshops, University of Miami initiatives were entrenched in Miami’s Overtown community long before the institution broke ground on its Life Science & Technology Park, the first phase of which is scheduled for completion near the historic neighborhood next summer. | more
MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Researchers win NCI grant to reduce cervical cancer in minorities
Researchers and physicians at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center continue to break new ground in research that benefits the medically underserved. The National Cancer Institute has awarded more than $4.2 million in funding to a five-year Miller School project aimed at reducing the excess rate of cervical cancer among minority women. | more
UNIVERSITY
UM announces holiday schedule
The University has announced its holiday schedule for calendar year 2011 and information about the December 2010 holidays. The last working day before the holiday season begins is Wednesday, December 22 for the Coral Gables and Rosenstiel School campuses and Thursday, December 23 for the Miller School campus and UHealth System. | more

Learn lifesaving skills and help the United Way at School of Education’s CPR classes
The School of Education will host two CPR and AED certification classes on the Coral Gables campus, with proceeds benefiting the United Way. | more

• United Way 1 percent donors can earn a chance to see the Miami Heat in action | more
• Purchasing Department’s vendor fair to benefit the United Way | more
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Reaching you in the event of a storm or other emergency
All members of the UM community are urged to take steps to ensure that the University can communicate with you in case a storm or some other emergency threatens our area. | more
UM PRESENTS
Fun-filled Festival Miami continues, employee discounts available
Partake in all that Festival Miami has to offer – from world premieres and symphonic concerts to chamber music presentations and jazz performances through October 30. The 27th season of Festival Miami features 20 concerts over a four-week period. | more
  • UM to host election forum with former presidential advisors Mark Penn and Karen Hughes | more
  • College of Engineering and SEEDS to host workshop on writing effectively for science and engineering | more
  • MAIA program now accepting applications for summer 2011 UGLOBE Study Abroad Programs | more
  • Energy in the Americas: The Future of State Oil Companies | more
  • School of Law to host immigration law symposium and training | more
  • Cosford Cinema to present new film series | more
  • Alumni Weekend and Homecoming 2010: Destination Miami, November 4-6 | more
  • Sponsorships available for Epigenetics in Development and Disease symposium | more
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dentistry to open new office at University of Miami Hospital | more
  • Come out to Sun Life Stadium and cheer for the ’Canes at UM Employee Day on November 6 | more
  • UM encouraging faculty, staff, and students to help tackle cancer one mile at a time | more
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    Business students take on beautification projects
    School of Business Administration students dedicated a recent Saturday to reaching out to improve community sites throughout the Miami area. The Business United Day was part of FIRST Step, a required freshman course in which student teams engage with local community groups for the entire fall semester.     | more
    Webcast: Understanding the Aetna Select 2 Plan Deductible
     Open Enrollment is under way, and employees have until Friday, November 5 to enroll in their 2011 benefits on myUM. The Aetna Select 2 deductible is changing in 2011. To learn more about how the deductible in Aetna Select 2 works and how you can use a health care FSA to pay the deductible, participate in one of several Webcasts planned over the next few weeks. | more
    Monday, October 18: UM admission and financial aid information session for employees | more
    Monday, October 18: Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: NF-kB Activation and Function: An Alternative View and New Insights into NF-kB Function in the Nervous System | more
    Monday, October 18: Biology Departmental Lecture: The Architecture of Human Kin Detection: Altruism, Inbreeding, and Morality | more
    Monday, October 18: The Hispanic/Jewish Connection in the United States | more
    Monday, October 18: The Launch Pad weekly workshop: Social Media Strategy | more
    Monday, October 18: Department of Philosophy Lecture Series: Grounding: The Whole Nine | more
    Monday, October 18: Master of Arts in International Administration (MAIA) to host Q&A session | more
    Monday, October 18: ICCAS to present a Conversation with the Secretary | more
    Tuesday, October 19: Cardiology Grand Rounds: Diagnosis and Therapy for Vulnerable Plaque | more
    Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, October 19, 21, and 22: Relaxation Training | more
    Tuesday, October 19: Miller Center lecture: Hillel: If Not Now, When? | more
    Tuesday, October 19: American History as Seen Through Currency | more
    Tuesday, October 19: DCFAR seminar: Mucosal Immune Responses in HIV Controllers: Location, Location, Location | more
    Tuesday, October 19: Emerging Therapeutic Approaches to Mitochondrial Diseases | more
    Wednesday, October 20: Epidemiology and Public Health Grand Rounds: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Structural Ecosystems Therapy (SET) for HIV+ Women in Drug Recovery and Their Families | more
    Wednesday, October 20: Endocrinology Core Lecture Series: Etiopathogenesis and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes | more
    Wednesday, October 20: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: Management of HIV – Beyond HAART | more
    Wednesday, October 20: Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Developmental Factors Underlying the Risk to Develop Anxiety and Depression | more
    Wednesday, October 20: Former dean Jacqueline Dixon presents a leadership workshop for SEEDS | more
    Wednesday, October 20: Open enrollment for UM’s Competency-Based Programs is now under way | more
    Wednesday, October 20: Forty Years of Transplantation: Perspectives on the Past and Projections on the Future | more
    Wednesday, October 20: Singing, Religion, and the Quake in Haiti: From the Rubble to the Telethon | more
    Thursday, October 21: Orthopaedics Grand Rounds: The Biomechanical Rationale for Interosseous Ligament Reconstruction in Essex-Lopresti Injuries | more
    Thursday, October 21: Geriatrics Institute Grand Rounds: Vitamin D: From Bones to Brain | more
    Thursday, October 21: Endocrinology Fellows Clinical Case Conference: The Diagnostic Challenges of Growth Hormone Deficiency | more
    Thursday, October 21: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Special Seminar: Nutritional Modulation of Environmental Toxicity: Implications in Atherosclerosis | more
    Thursday, October 21: Division of Hospital Medicine Grand Rounds: A Man with Abdominal Pain and Jaundice | more
    Thursday, October 21: Hiring and Onboarding Talent | more
    Thursday, October 21: SEEDS to sponsor speaker and mentoring series | more
    Thursday, October 21: Lowe Art Museum to present Arnold Newman Lecture and Workshop in Photography | more
    Thursday, October 21: Perspectives on Islamic Environmentalism | more
    Friday, October 22: Endocrinology Grand Rounds: Growth Hormone in Aging | more
    Friday, October 22: Endocrinology Research Conference: Role of Type 3 Deiodinase (D3) in Pancreatic Islet Function | more
    Friday, October 22: Department of Philosophy Lecture Series: Analyticity and Knowledge by Virtue of Meaning in Bolzano | more
    Friday, October 22: Marine Science Graduate Student Organization to host annual auction at Rosenstiel School | more
    Friday, October 22: Coaching for Performance | more
    Friday, October 22: Critically acclaimed Irish poet Paul Perry returns to UM as part of Goran Reading Series | more
    Friday, October 22: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar Series: Astroglial-NF-kB is an Important Regulator of Learning and Memory and Neurogenesis in Female Mice | more
    Friday, October 22: Religious Studies ‘Brain Bag’ Lunch Colloquium Series | more
    Saturday, October 23: Bike to the BankAtlantic Center to benefit motorcycle safety and education | more
    Saturday, October 23: UM-NSU CARD to host Autumn Moonlight fundraising event | more
    Saturday, October 23: Nestor Torres in concert | more
    Sunday, October 24 through Wednesday, October 27: XXXII Inter-American Course in Clinical Ophthalmology | more
    Monday, October 25: Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar: Bayesian Statistical Methods for the Design of Early Phase Cancer Trials and Analysis of Longitudinal Cancer Data | more
    Monday, October 25: Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Calcium Control of T Regulatory Cells by TNFRSF25 | more
    Monday, October 25: Launch Pad weekly workshop: Basics of Business Law | more
     

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