Baptist Collegiate Ministries will hold a kickball tournament for Haiti relief at the Yaron Intramural Fields on Friday, March 5 at 6 p.m. Teams must consist of at least nine players. The team entry fee is $10 per person, with all proceeds going to Haiti relief. Each participant gets a T-shirt. E-mail [email protected] for rules and registration.

Man’s best friend will do a good deed for some cool cats and fine felines on Friday, March 5 on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. That’s when the UM Pre-Veterinary Society will hold a dog wash from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the patio between The Rock and the UM Bookstore. Two experienced grooming assistants and lots of pre-vet members will be on site to scrub and groom your dog to raise money for The Cat Network, a nonprofit organization that helps reduce the stray cat population of South Florida by the humane trapping, low-cost sterilization, and adoption of cats and kittens. The dog wash is free, but donations are requested. Proof of a rabies vaccine and a leash for all canine participants are needed at the time of the event. Appointments are recommended, but walk-ins are more than welcome. Please e-mail [email protected] or call Alyssa Comroe at 908-812-5764 with any questions or to make an appointment for your dog to be washed.

Throughout the spring semester, Eric Kriss, the University of Miami School of Business Administration’s entrepreneur in residence, is hosting a weekly practicum series on starting a new venture. The next session is entitled “Dealing With Uncertainty.” Topics will include estimation models, validation, extrapolation, penetration curves, and the law of unintended consequences. The practicum will be held on Friday, March 5 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Aresty Graduate Business Building, Room AGB 331. It is free and open to the public; RSVP not required.

More information on the practicum series can be found on the School of Business Administration’s Entrepreneurship Program Web site by clicking here. For more information, please contact Ken Colwell at 305-284-8588.

A presentation of powerful images from the Haiti earthquake and a discussion of the role of photojournalism in documenting the disaster will be held Friday, March 5 at 6 p.m. at the Cosford Cinema. Photojournalist Carl-Phillippe Juste and videographer Carl Hersch, both of whom have covered the aftermath of the earthquake and subsequent relief efforts, will be featured at the event.

Under the threat of persecution, Haitian-born Juste and his politically active family were forced to flee Haiti in 1965. Since 1991 Juste has worked for The Miami Herald, covering stories around the world; he has received numerous awards for his work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Hersh has spent more than 30 years documenting conflicts, disasters, and upheavals in Latin America and the Caribbean for ABC, CNN, and BBC.

This event is presented by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami and is free and open to the public.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Neurology will host Joint Grand Rounds on Friday, March 5 from 12 to 1:15 p.m. in Bascom Palmer’s Retter Auditorium. Richard Isaacson, assistant professor of clinical neurology and medicine and director of the Neurology Residency Program at the Miami Miller School of Medicine, will present “Overview of Education Research on Cognitive Disorders.” The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 1.25 CE credits will be awarded to psychologists and 1.0 CE to social workers who attend. For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or [email protected]; or Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073 or [email protected]; or visit the departmental Web site at http://psychiatry.med.miami.edu/Grand-Rounds.aspx.