Evangelos Badiavas, associate professor of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, will present “Stem and Progenitor Cells in Skin Repair and Regeneration” on Wednesday, February 3 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Ioannides Library, Room 2090. For more information, call 305-243-4472.

Visiting Professor Margaret Raymond presents “Looking for Trouble: Framing and the Dignitary Interest in the Law of Self-Defense” at the School of Law’s faculty seminar scheduled for Wednesday, February 3. Lunch will be served at 12 p.m. in the Faculty Conference Room, room G480, on the fourth-floor library. The talk will start at 12:35 p.m.; the question-and-answer session will end by 1:50 p.m.

To attend, individuals must RSVP to Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected]. Priority will be given to those first to reply.

This seminar, presented by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) in partnership with The Families First Network and The Children’s Trust, provides parents and caregivers of children ages birth to 5 the opportunity to learn positive parenting strategies to promote appropriate behaviors and reduce problematic behaviors. Parents and caregivers will discuss ways to manage temper tantrums and other attention-seeking behaviors and will learn techniques to reinforce positive behaviors effectively. A child development specialist from The Families First Network will lead the seminar.

Miller Medical School campus: Tuesday, February 2 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Medical Wellness Center classroom

Rosenstiel School campus: Wednesday, February 3 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Library, Map and Chart Room

Coral Gables campus: Thursday, February 4 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, Room 139

To register go to http://ulearn.miami.edu. For help with ULearn, call the Professional Development and Training Office at 305-284-5110. Mac Users: Please call the FSAP office at 305-284-6604 to register by phone.

Gordon Fishell, professor and director of the Smilow Neuroscience Program at New York University Medical School, will present “Making Up Your Mind: The Origins and Integration of Cortical Interneurons Into Brain Circuitry” on Wednesday, February 3 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.

The University of Miami Ethics Programs and the Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation Community and Educational Well-Being Research Center at the School of Education will host Nel Noddings, professor of philosophy and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education Emerita at Stanford University. Noddings will speak about the relationship between her work on schools and the “Ethics of Care and Its Implications for Community and Educational Well-Being.” The lecture takes place on Wednesday, February 3 at 5 p.m. in the Learning Center, Room 182.

Noddings is known for her work as a feminist and as an ethicist and educational philosopher. She is the author of a wide range of books on ethics, education, school reform, and community. For questions or suggestions concerning her visit, e-mail [email protected].