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UNIVERSITY
SEEDS luncheon with President Shalala is this Wednesday
SEEDS (Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success) will host its annual lunch with University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala on Wednesday, November 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Hurricane 100 Room at BankUnited Center. The event will give women from all UM campuses the opportunity to network, learn the results of the SEEDS Climate Survey, and hear remarks by President Shalala. | more
• Applications for SEEDS You Choose awards due December 10 | more |
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MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Dean Goldschmidt honored with Poder’s Outstanding Citizenship Award
Miller School of Medicine Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt received the Outstanding Citizenship Award from Poder magazine and the Americas Business Council (ABC) Foundation on November 9, joining an elite group of global leaders who were honored for their “remarkable strategy, vision, and execution in their respective businesses and organizations.” | more |
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UNIVERSITY
UM’s Visual Identity Program: compliance and assistance
Last year the University of Miami instituted its new visual identity program. It is important that all areas throughout the University adhere to the new system so the institution is represented in a uniform and consistent fashion. The system’s signatures, logos, and type fonts are the only authorized marks to be used in all University communications and must be used in accordance with the University’s guidelines. | more |
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FREEZE FRAME
The breakfast club
Every year for the last decade, hundreds of Miami-Dade’s most powerful women gather at the United Way Women’s Leadership Breakfast in the spirit of philanthropy and community improvement. At the 10th annual incarnation of the event, held this past Wednesday, November 10, at UM’s BankUnited Center, 1,000 prominent women gathered to celebrate a decade of giving in support of education, income and health programs, and services in the community. | more |
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UNITED WAY
Participate now in United Way raffle featuring travel prizes
Secure a chance to win two first/business class vouchers on American Airlines to any domestic destination, Mexico, or Canada when you participate in the Team UM United Way raffle. | more
• Office of Finance and Treasury launches United Way Silent Auction | more
• Book sale at Calder Memorial Library will benefit the United Way | more |
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FOR YOUR BENEFIT
Take advantage of January and Spring Break intersession courses
Make use of short-format educational courses to accrue credits, graduate faster, or just learn for pleasure. There are courses in arts and sciences, business, communication, and more. | more |
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UM PRESENTS
Department of Theatre Arts presents ‘Hedda Gabler’
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen has been lauded as one of the most significant dramatists of the modern theatre for his unflinching realism, his controversial subject matter, and his revolutionary portrayal of women as independent thinkers. Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is currently playing at the University of Miami’s Ring Theatre through November 20. | more |
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| School of Law creates interdisciplinary course on hospitals | more
Neuroscience Research Day on Dec. 3: Deadline for submissions is November 19 | more
African-American art at the Lowe spans three centuries | more
Bascom Palmer holiday beauty event offers several treatment discounts | more
Fall open house at Miami Law | more
UM presents Mechanomorphic | more
Business school to host M.B.A. information session | more |
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A day of remembrance
With veterans from many wars in attendance, including a former aviator of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, the University of Miami community paused last Thursday to honor the men and women who have served and lost their lives in defense of the country. Above: UM President Donna E. Shalala and General Douglas Fraser, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, were among those who spoke.| more |
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FREEZE FRAME
CHC honors Father Jose Conrado Rodriguez
Carlos A. Saladrígas, co-chair of the Cuba Study Group and member of the University of Miami’s Board of Trustees, together with the Cuban Heritage Collection, hosted a special ceremony to honor Father Jose Conrado Rodriguez’s receipt of the 2010 Geremek Award, which is being housed at the CHC. | more |
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| Monday, November 15: Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Intrinsic Deficiencies in Mouse and Human B Cell Functions with Age | more |
| Monday, November 15: Architectural photography students’ exhibit will feature reception, lecture | more |
| Monday through Wednesday, November 15-17: Medicare 101 | more |
| Tuesday, November 16: DCFAR Special Seminar: Managing HIV/AIDS in Resource-Constrained Settings | more |
| Tuesday, November 16: Cell Biology and Anatomy Seminar: The Extracellular Matrix and the Molecular Pathophysiology of Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma | more |
| Tuesday, November 16: Depression and Anxiety in Parkinson’s Disease | more |
| Tuesday, November 16: Successful Event Planning: Techniques of Today’s Top Professionals | more |
| Tuesday, November 16: UM Memory Disorders Center to offer free screenings | more |
| Tuesday, November 16: Spanish Tapas Cooking Class at the Herbert Wellness Center | more |
| Tuesday, November 16: Frost Trombone Choir to perform | more |
| Tuesday, November 16 and Friday, November 19 through Sunday, November 21: Cosford screening: Last Train Home | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: Core Lecture Series: Hyperthyroidism | more |
| Wednesday and Thursday, November 17-18: Medical Issues and the Growing Child Conference XV – Session A | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: Epidemiology and Public Health Grand Rounds: Individual Prediction in Prostate Cancer Studies Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival Model | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Neurobiologically Informed Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: DMAS/FRS for Beginners | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: InfoEd Proposal Development beginners’ hands-on workshop | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: Teams to build unique structures at School of Architecture’s Canstruction event | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: Buoniconti Fund’s 2nd Annual Holiday Bazaar | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: Alpha-1 and the Internist | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: Faculty Senate meeting | more |
| Wednesday, November 17: McKnight Research Seminar: Fungal Keratitis in a Rat Contact Lens Model | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Orthopaedics Grand Rounds: Treatment of Metastatic Disease of the Spine | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Inter-American Development Bank: The Main Partner for Latin American and Caribbean Social and Economic Development | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: A Trip to Afghanistan | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: Neuropathology | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Surgical Grand Rounds: The Use of Robotic Technology in Pediatric Surgery | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Seminar Series: Germ Cell Development and Differentiation in Planarians | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Sponsored Programs Roundtable: UChart Research Update | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Department of Medicine Special Guest Lecture: B Lymphocytes in Type 1 Diabetes | more |
| Thursday, November 18: CLAS Conversations Series presents: Putting Research to Work: Publishing and Grantsmanship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Endocrinology Grand Rounds: Epicardial Fat: Clinical and Research Applications | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Working in a Team Environment | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Research Conference: High HDL in Type 1 Diabetes | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute Lectureship Series: Cartilage Regeneration | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Bascom Palmer Grand Rounds | more |
| Thursday, November 18: Digital Humanities Workshop: Keynote, PowerPoint, ARTstor | more |
| Thursday, November 18 through Sunday, November 21: Cosford screening: Lebanon | more |
| Friday, November 19: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar Series: Notch Signaling in Tumorigenesis: Nic, NACK and Other Loose Ends | more |
| Friday, November 19: School of Law Human Rights Lecture: Obama’s War on Terror: Change We Can Believe In? | more |
| Friday, November 19: Neurology Clinicopathological Conference: A 62-Year-Old Man with Facial Palsy and Leg Pain | more |
| Friday, November 19: Neuroscience Research Day on Dec. 3: Deadline for submissions is Nov. 19 | more |
| Friday, November 19: Legal Theory Workshop lecture: (Re)inventing Work Law in a Transnational Context: Voluntary Codes of Conduct in Multinational Supply Chains | more |
| Friday, November 19: Miller Center lecture: The Reaction of German Society to Anti-Semitism during the Nazi Seizure of Power | more |
| Friday, November 19: EU Center lecture: Reform of the Reform? Prospects of the Revision of the Lisbon Treaty on the Eurozone Requirements | more |
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