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SPRING
RECESS THIS WEEK
As
a reminder, this week is Spring Recess here at the University.
Classes resume on Monday, March 17.
REQUIRED
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN SPONSORED
RESEARCH
The
University has launched a required educational certification
program for all faculty/investigators and non-faculty
departmental personnel involved in the administrative
aspects of sponsored research activities. The program
is currently open for non-faculty departmental personnel
who originate, review, or approve any phase of a sponsored
grant or contract document, including proposals, awards,
and transactions, and is divided into five sessions
spread over two and a half days. Attendance is required
for all five sessions, and a test will be given at the
end of the program. The schedule of classes and registration
for non-faculty departmental personnel is through the
Professional
Development and Training Office. Make sure to register
for the entire program (sessions one through five) at
the same time. For more information, e-mail Jill
Tincher. The faculty/investigator program will begin
after most non-faculty departmental personnel are certified.
INSTRUCTIONAL
ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE WORKSHOP
Graduate
Teaching Assistants are invited to attend the workshop
On My Honor, 4:30 - 6 p.m., Thursday, March
20, at Dr. Robert Moore's Master Suite, Mahoney
Residential College. Led by Dr. Valerie Manno Giroux
(IAC faculty consultant), Dean William Sandler (Dean
of Students), and a graduate and undergraduate student
representing the Honor Council, the workshop will cover
cheating, plagiarism, and Honor Council procedures.
Refreshments will be served. Contact Peggy
Nickerson at 305-284-2008 by Monday, March
17, to RSVP.
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MEN'S
AND WOMEN'S TENNIS TEAMS IN ACTION
Come
out on Tuesday, March 11, as
the women's tennis team takes on Boston
University at 2 p.m. followed by the
men's tennis team against American
University at 6 p.m.
HURRICANES
FOOTBALL MEMORABILIA IN ONLINE AUCTION
The
Athletics Department offers fans an
opportunity to own a piece of Hurricane
history. The online auction of all
110 Hurricanes football lockers from
the Hecht Athletic Center ends at
noon on Wednesday, March 12.
For more information, visit http://hurricanesports.com
and click on "Hurricane Football
Locker Auction."
HURRICANE CLUB LEGENDS GOLF CLASSIC
AND AUCTION/DINNER EVENT
The
Hurricane Club Legends Golf Classic
will be held on Friday, April 4,
at the Doral Golf Resort. Registration
begins at 10:30 a.m., lunch will be
served at 11 a.m., and play begins
with a 12:30 p.m. shot gun start.
Foursomes will be paired with former
and current UM players, coaches, and
staff. Later that evening is the Hurricane
Club Annual Legends Dinner & Auction
Event. Auction items include UM memorabilia,
professional sports collectibles,
gift certificates, hotel room night
stays, trips, and much more. The dinner
and auction takes place in the Champions
Pavilion. All auction items will be
on display for viewing beginning at
5 p.m. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m.,
and the Auction Event starts at 6
p.m. Cost to attend the Legends Auction
& Dinner Event is $50. In addition,
every dinner ticket purchased will
receive one free raffle ticket compliments
of the Hurricane Club. All proceeds
from the golf tournament and dinner/auction
event benefits the Student-Athlete
Scholarship Fund. For more information,
contact the Hurricane Club at 305-284-6699
or visit www.hurricanesports.com.
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CARDIOVASCULAR
CENTER HOSTS FIRST MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
The
Cardiovascular Center is sponsoring its first multidisciplinary
conference, Miami International Revascularization
Summit, Thursday - Saturday, March 27-29,
at the Wyndham Miami Beach Resort. It is a novel conference
style emphasizing audience participation with actual
patient cases discussed. Topics include interventional
cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, neurology and radiology.
For more detailed information, call the Cardiovascular
Center at 305-243-2720.
AMERICAN
CANCER SOCIETY GRANTS AVAILABLE
The
UM/Sylvester Office of Research Administration is now
accepting applications for the American Cancer Society
(ACS) Institutional Grant to provide funds for meritorious
cancer research that cannot be readily supported through
other funding mechanisms. The primary purpose of the
ACS grant is to provide seed funds for the initiation
of promising new projects or novel ideas by junior faculty
members. An award of $20,000 is available for a one-year
period. Applicants must not have received any peer reviewed
funding. For guidelines and application forms, contact
Dorothy Mills
at 305-243-6292. Applications must be received
by Saturday, March 15.
ALUMNI'S
MIAMI GOLF CLASSIC RAISES FUNDS FOR STUDENTS
Join
fellow alumni and friends for the Fifth Annual Miami
Golf Classic, Friday, March 21, at the Biltmore
Golf Course in Coral Gables for a great day of fun.
The event raises scholarships for UM students from the
South Florida area. For more information or to register,
contact Tricia Dingler at 305-284-2872 or send
an e-mail.
SYMPOSIUM
EXAMINES CONQUEST OF MEXICO
The
Center for Latin American Studies, the Lowe Art Museum,
and the Departments of Anthropology, History, and Art
and Art History are hosting an international symposium
titled Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Images of the Conquest of Mexico,
Saturday and Sunday, March 22-23, at the Storer
Auditorium. The conference will address issues of cultural
change and representation as aspects of the larger processes
of invasion (military, religious, and biological), colonization,
and resistance that occurred between European and Indigenous
peoples in the formation of Colonial Mexico. The symposium
accompanies Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest
in Colonial Mexico, an exhibit at the Lowe featuring
a series of eight 17th century paintings depicting the
"Conquest of Mexico" from the Jay I. Kislak
Foundation. Audience members will be asked to register
at the door; however, the event is free of charge. For
more information visit the Web
site.
THE
MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS RECEIVES AWARD
The
National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
(NINDS) recently awarded The Miami Project a five-year,
$2.6 million contract to replicate promising published
studies that could lead to treatments for spinal cord
injury. The contract also will support the recruitment
and training of new scientists to spinal cord injury
research, ultimately increasing the number of scientists
working in this field. Miami Project Scientific Director
W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D., and Mary Bartlett Bunge,
Ph.D. will direct the project. For further information,
click here.
REMINDERS
- Join
Dean John Clarkson, Faculty Senate Chair Jane Connolly,
leaders of the UMSM Appointment, Promotion and Tenure
Committee, and others for the workshop Policies
and Procedures for Promotion and Tenure, 4 p.m.,
Friday, March 14, in the 8th floor auditorium
of the Mailman Center for Child Development. This
is an opportunity to learn about the faculty promotion
and tenure process and to interact with individuals
involved in these decisions. This workshop is essential
to faculty who will seek promotion and/or tenure in
the next few years and to senior faculty who must
vote upon these actions and provide advice to their
colleagues. It will also be helpful to staff involved
with administrative responsibilities in these matters.
- The
School of Medicine's Center for Treatment Research
on Adolescent Drug Abuse continues its 2003 Drug Abuse
Lecture Series continues at noon, Friday, March
14, at the American Cancer Society/Winn Dixie
Hope Lodge. The lecturer is Grayson Holmbeck, Ph.D.,
who will discuss ways that developmental issues can
be incorporated into the treatment of children and
adolescents. Contact Joanna de Velasco at 305 243-6434
for more information.
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