The  Business Administration Entrepreneur in Residence Eric Kriss is hosting a weekly practicum series over the course of the spring semester about starting a new venture. Last week’s session, “Creating an Identity,” drew a full house of enthusiastic entrepreneurs. If you missed it, be sure to mark your calendars for this week’s session.

Attend “Forming the Entity,” on Friday, February 12 at 12 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge, on the ground floor of the School of Business Administration. Kriss will discuss the pros and cons of various legal forms for one’s new venture from an entrepreneur’s perspective, as well as several other important considerations. Topics will include:

• Sole proprietorship
• General partnership
• Limited partnership (LP)
• Limited liability partnership (LLP)
• Limited liability company (LLC)
• S corporation (pass-through)
• C corporation
• Tax-exempt organizations (501c3)
• Domicile
• Licenses and permits

The practicum is free and open to the public. RSVP is not required.  For more information, visit this Web site, e-mail [email protected], or call 305-284-8588.

In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army staff sergeant who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army’s casualty notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband’s death, Will’s emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving, and very human portrait of grief, friendship, and survival. Featuring tour-de-force performances from Foster, Harrelson, and Morton, and a brilliant directorial debut by Oren Moverman, The Messenger brings us into the inner lives of these outwardly steely heroes to reveal their fragility with compassion and dignity. Admission is $6 for all University of Miami faculty, staff, and alumni; free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, February 12 at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, February 13 at 3:15 p.m., 5:30 p.m., and 7:45 p.m.; and Sunday, February 14 at 3:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

Charles DeCarli, professor of neurology and director, Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Imaging of Dementia Center for Neuroscience Aging (IDEA) Laboratory, University of California, Davis, will present “The Interaction of Cerebrovascular and Alzheimer’s Pathologies on Cognition” on Friday, February 12 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or [email protected].

Mitchell Wallin, associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, will present “Multiple Sclerosis Risk Factors for Onset” on Friday, February 12 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or [email protected].

Patrick Bavoil, professor and chair of the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, will present “A Well Kept Secretome: The Polymorphic Membrane Protein Family of Chlamydia Trachomatis” on Friday, February 12 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, contact Ilse Duarte at [email protected].