Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success (SEEDS) is sponsoring an Industrial Engineering Speaker Series beginning Thursday, September 17 from 4 to 5 p.m in McArthur Engineering Annex 202. The first talk will feature Hayriye Ayhan, an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology who has served as secretary and treasurer of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society and has held an NSF Career Award. Her area of expertise is stochastic processes and applied probability with an emphasis on analysis and control of queuing systems, and she has published on applied probability, operations research, and control. The seminar, titled “Queuing Networks with Cross-Trained Servers,” will be immediately followed by a mentoring event. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.as.miami.edu/seeds. The series, made possible by an award to professor Eunji Lim, will host three Distinguished Scholars in Industrial Engineering followed by mentoring events for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.

Joy Lincoln, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Cartilage, Tendon, and Bone Lineages in Normal and Diseased Heart Valves” on Thursday, September 17 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Conference Room 6018. For more information, call Nivia Machin-Gonzalez at 305-243-1078.

Come and learn how the new and improved InfoEd portal provides a more efficient method of developing and submitting your National Institutes of Health electronic proposals using InfoEd Proposal Development. The presenter will give a demonstration of the changes and enhanced features of InfoEd PD. The session takes place on Thursday, September 17 from 12 to 1 p.m. at Dominion Towers, 12th Floor Conference Room. Registration is required via ULearn. For more information, contact the Office of Research Education and Training at [email protected].

The Center for Nonprofit Management Workshop presents “Developing a Successful Fundraising Campaign: How to Plan a Campaign that Matches Needs and Resources” at the Storer Auditorium on Thursday, September 17 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The event will feature guest speaker Steven M. Paikowsky, director of operations for congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Attend the session and learn how to plan a campaign that matches needs and resources, articulate a compelling case for support, identify the most promising funding sources, establish and cultivate relationships with donors, and organize an effective board-staff team.

For more information, call 305-284-6673, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://nonprofit.miami.edu.

Improve your writing skills for the workplace. Whether writing is a responsibility or a part of the daily routine, Business Writing is designed for those who want to write effective material. In this course, attendees will identify writing strengths and weaknesses, improve sentence construction and paragraph development, examine proper e-mail etiquette for the workplace, and write effective business communications. Individuals will review strategies and planning steps to ensure messages are clear, concise, and easily understood by readers. This is a blended learning course; the four Business Writing CBLs must be completed prior to registering for the live, instructor-led session. To complete the CBLs and register for the session, visit ulearn.miami.edu and follow the instructions to log on. For more information, call 305-284-5110 or 305-243-3090.

• Coral Gables Campus: Thursday, September 17 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, room 139.