e-Veritas Archive | March 19th, 2010

UM-produced film ‘One Water’ to screen at Vizcaya

Mar
23
7:00 pm

One Water, which explores our changing relationship to water as it grows ever more perilously scarce, will screen at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, 3251 South Miami Avenue, Miami, on Tuesday, March 23 from 7 to 9 p.m.

The film, a collaboration among the University of Miami’s School of Communication, College of Engineering, and Frost School of School of Music, highlights a world where water is exquisitely abundant in some places and dangerously lacking in others, where taps flowing with fresh, clean water are contrasted with toxic, polluted waterways that have turned the blue arteries of our planet murky.

After the screening, a panel will contextualize the global challenge of preserving clean and safe drinking water. Panelists will include the film’s producer, co-director, and writer, Sanjeev Chatterjee, vice dean of the School of Communication and executive director of the Knight Center for International Media; editor and co-director Ali Habashi; Kenny Broad, director of the University of Miami’s Leonard and Jane Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy; and Ian Simpkins, chief horticulturalist at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.

Entry and general admission available on-site from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Seating is limited. RSVP at [email protected] or 305-284-2539. General admission is $15; free for students with ID. Refreshments available for purchase. Students with ID receive one voucher redeemable for select refreshments.

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Get your DMAS/FRS questions answered during information session

Mar
23
2:00 pm

Terry Diaz, assistant controller, and Vivian Kaye, training specialist for financial systems, will present a two-hour session focusing on the DMAS and FRS systems. The session is designed for current system users who need a quick review or have questions about particular screens. It is not for new users who are not that familiar with the systems yet or those who do not have current access to the systems. Share your questions regarding DMAS or FRS to ensure that they will be addressed appropriately by e-mailing them to [email protected] or [email protected].

To enroll, visit http://ulearn.miami.edu/. For more information, call 305-284-5110 or 305-243-3090. The event takes place on the Coral Gables campus on Tuesday, March 23 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, room 139.

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Author R. Zamora Linmark to appear at UM

Mar
23
8:00 pm

The Creative Writing Program’s reading series Lyric Hybrid: New Writing at the University of Miami will feature author and visiting writer in fiction R. Zamora Linmark on Tuesday, March 23 at 8 p.m. at the CAS Gallery on the Coral Gables campus. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, Linmark is the author of Rolling The R’s (novel), Prime Time Apparitions (his first collection of poetry), The Evolution of a Sigh, and Leche, a sequel to Rolling The R’s. The Lyric Hybrid series features the 2009 publications of the creative writing faculty. For more information, call 305-284-2182 or visit the Web site at www.as.miami.edu/english/creativewriting/readingseries.

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