The American Studies Program will present the roundtable discussion “World Literature in the United States Today,” featuring Edwidge Danticat, Mitchell Kaplan, Walter K. Lew, R. Zamora Linmark, Becka Mara McKay, and Pamela Thompson on Friday, April 16 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the College of Arts and Sciences Wesley Gallery. For more information, contact Tim Watson at 305-284-5589, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.as.miami.edu/calendar/1359.

A. James Hudspeth, investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and F.M. Kirby Professor and director of the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University in New York, will present “Making an Effort to Listen: Mechanical Amplification by Myosin Molecules and Ion Channels in Hair Cells of The Inner Ear” on Friday, April 16 from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.biomed.med.edu/neuro.

Zhongwei Li, associate professor at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University, will present “RNA Quality Control in E. coli Under Oxidative Stress” on Friday, April 16 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118.

The Frost Opera Theater at the University of Miami concludes its 2009 – 2010 season with the South Florida premieres of two one – act operas: Strawberry Fields by Michael Torke and A.R. Gurney, and Ballymore, Part 1: Winners by Richard Wargo.

Lauded by international press and an Emmy Award nominee for its PBS Great Performances broadcast, Strawber­ry Fields draws together memorable characters surrounding an elegant, aging woman who perceives life in Central Park as a visit to the opera.  While there, she shares her love for Verdi with a Columbia University student who, in turn, teaches her about John Lennon.  Ballymore, Part 1: Winners is based on a play by Ireland’s premiere dramatist, Brian Friel.  It relates the events of a fateful day in the lives of two teenagers engaged to be married in the town of Ballymore, Ireland.

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