The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism in the Miller School’s Department of Medicine will present grand rounds on Thursday, February 25 at 1 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. George S. Eisenbarth, professor of pediatrics and immunology and director of the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes at the University of Colorado at Denver School of Medicine, will present “Personalized Medicine and the Pathogenesis of ‘Polyendocrine’ Autoimmunity.” For more information, please contact Angie Saint Jean at [email protected] or call 305-243-8417.

A Sponsored Programs Screens classroom training session for individuals with DMAS/FRS access to sponsored accounts will be held on Thursday, February 25 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, Professional Development and Training Office, Room 139. Registration is through ULearn at http://ulearn.miami.edu.

The session will include a review of Sponsored Program screens in DMAS and FRS. Topics for discussion will include what SPM access allows users to do on DMAS and FRS, post-award accounting such as the award reimbursement method, and various FAQs on topics such as cost share and guarantee data.

For more information, contact Vivian L. Kaye at 305-284-5509 or e-mail [email protected].

Clinical research professionals from all University of Miami campuses are invited to attend the monthly meeting of a new networking group for clinical research staff including research coordinators, nurses, associates, assistants, and Institutional Review Board coordinators and support staff. The next meeting takes place on Thursday, February 25 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Clinical Research Building, sixth-floor Executive Center. The itinerary includes:

12 to 12:10 p.m.
Introduction and results from NCRP survey; JoNell Potter, associate director of the Clinical Research Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

12:10 to 12:30 p.m.
ORCA Audits at UM: How to prepare, common findings, and tips on how to avoid findings;  Johanna Stamates, Office of Research Compliance

12:30 to 12:40 p.m.
Presentation by PIs/Coordinators of Current Research

12:40 to 1 p.m.
General Discussion

For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 305-243-8070.

Journalist and author John Otis will be at the School of Communication, Shoma Hall, on Thursday, February 25 at 5 p.m. to discuss his new book, Law of the Jungle. The book is a true-life adventure tale of American hostages, Marxist guerrillas, and buried treasure set in Colombia. It’s also the true account of how a Saving Private Ryan-style mission degenerated into a frenzied, every-man-for-himself gold rush and the story of one of the most amazing hostage-rescue operations in history. Born in Minnesota, John Otis has worked as a journalist in Latin America for more than two decades, and also covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His 2001 investigation of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas for the Houston Chronicle was honored by the Overseas Press Club as the best reporting out of Latin America. Otis now reports from Colombia for Time, GlobalPost.com, and PRI’s The World radio program.

The University of Miami Department of Philosophy will host Stephen Engstrom, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, who will present “Unity of Apperception” on Thursday, February 25 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the University Center, Room 233. Before he joined the faculty at Pittsburgh in 1990, Engstrom taught at the University of Chicago and at Harvard. His areas of interest include ethics, metaphysics, modern philosophy (especially Kant), and ancient philosophy. He is co-editor (with Jennifer Whiting) of Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (Cambridge, 1996); and has published articles on Kant’s ethics and epistemology. For more information, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305-284-4757.