James Wilson will be presenting a seminar for the Department of Biology called “Fluorescent Analogs and Fluorogenic Reactions: Shedding Light on Biological Systems” on Monday, September 28 from 12:20 to 1:20 p.m. in Cox 166. Dr. Wilson is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Miami. The focus of his research lies in conjugated polymers, novel fluorophores, fluorescence-based detection schemes, and organic materials. Dr. Wilson is developing a toolkit of fluorescent analogs of neuroactive compounds that can function as reporters of synaptic transmission and related processes. For more information about this event, please contact [email protected].

University of Miami law professor Caroline Corbin will present “Ceremonial Deism and the Reasonable Religious Outsider” at a UM School of Law faculty seminar on Wednesday, September 30. Lunch will be served at 12 p.m. in the faculty conference room, Room G480, on the fourth floor of the law library. The talk will start at 12:35 p.m., and Q&A will end by 1:50 p.m. Space is available for a small number of students. To attend the lunch and the seminar, RSVP to Detra Davis at [email protected]. Priority will be given to those who reply earliest. Copies of Corbin’s paper are available outside Room G382.

A Faculty Senate meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 30 at 3:30 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development’s eighth-floor auditorium on the Miller School campus. All faculty members are welcome to attend. For more information, visit the Faculty Senate Web page at www.miami.edu/FacultySenate.

James E. Tcheng, a physician in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, will present “Antithrombotic Therapies in CAD – Where Are We In 2009?” on Tuesday, September 29 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. For more information, call Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or e-mail her at [email protected].

Medical Development is hosting a happy hour in support of the UM United Way Campaign on Wednesday, September 30 from 5 to 7 p.m. The University Restaurant and Patio, 1050 NW 14th Street (next to the CRB), will donate 35 percent of its proceeds to the United Way. Take a break from the daily grind and mingle with colleagues while enjoying a post-work drink and appetizer for a good cause. All are welcome…family and friends invited! Please contact Beth Goldberg at [email protected] or 243-3492.