Nanette Hahr Bishopric, professor of medicine, pediatrics, and pharmacology, and director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory in the Cardiovascular Division at the Miller School, will present “Molecular Remodeling in the Cardiac Stress Response” on Tuesday, April 27 from 12 to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, South Building, first-floor Seminar Center A and B. For more information, call Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or e-mail [email protected].

The University of Miami’s Creative Writing Program will showcase its new and emerging poets and fiction writers on Tuesday, April 27 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Wynwood Project Space, 2200-A NW 2nd Avenue, Miami. The evening will feature poets who are working in multimedia as well as writers who will be reading short fiction and excerpts from novels. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call 305-284-2182 or visit www.as.miami.edu/english/creativewriting.

Yong Bao, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Secular Trends of Pubertal Development” on Tuesday, April 27 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or e-mail [email protected].

Theodore J. Lampidis, professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the Miller School of Medicine, will lecture on “Exploiting Oncogene-Driven Glucose Metabolism for Therapeutic Gain Using Sugar Analogs” on Tuesday, April 27 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. For additional information, contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or e-mail [email protected].

The University of Miami’s Center for Hemispheric Policy will host its fifth annual Latin America Conference on Tuesday, April 27 from 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the InterContinental Hotel Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza. “The Global Economic Outlook and Its Impact on Latin America,” “The Social and Political Agenda for the Region,” and “U.S.-Latin America Relations Under the Obama Administration” are topics that will be discussed.

Porfirio Lobo, president of Honduras, will be the luncheon speaker. Featured speakers confirmed to date include: Carmen Lomellin, U.S. permanent representative, Organization of American States; Gabriel Silva, Honduras’s minister of defense; Augusto de la Torre, chief economist, Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank; and Arturo Valenzuela, assistant secretary, Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State.

Scheduled panelists will include Graciana del Castillo, senior research scholar at Columbia University; Carlos Gutiérrez, non-resident scholar at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and former U.S. secretary of commerce; Carlos Alberto Montaner, journalist and writer; Michael Shifter, president, the Inter-American Dialogue; James Spalding, dean of the School of Economics and Foreign Relations, Universidad Americana, Paraguay, and former ambassador of Paraguay to the United States; and Alexander F. Watson, managing director, Hills and Company, and former assistant secretary, Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State.

The program fee is $125; faculty and students get special consideration with valid ID. RSVP to [email protected]. For more information, please call Isabel Artime at 305-284-9918 or visit www.miami.edu/chp.