Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center presents Disparities and Community Outreach Core Journal Club: Current Issues in Cancer Disparities and Community-Based Participatory Research on Thursday, May 6 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, Room 1080. Open to all students, faculty, staff, and the community, the event is a brown-bag lunch; attendees are invited to bring their own lunch. Articles for discussion include “Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What Patterns Tell Us” presented by Paula Braverman, Catherine Cubbin, Susan Egerter, David Williams, and Elsie Pamuk, which appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 100, Suppl. 1, 2010,  pp. S186-S196. Also discussed will be “Cancer, Culture, and Health Disparities: Time to Chart a New Course?” Authored by Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Annalyn Valdez Dadia, Mimi Yu, Antonella Surbone, the article appeared in CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol. 60, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2010, pp. 12-39. Reservations are optional but requested; to RSVP, e-mail [email protected] or call 305-243-8299.

The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine will present grand rounds on Thursday, May 6 at 1 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium (no lunch will be provided). Sanford Baim, clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, will present “Recurrence of Disease Following Kidney or Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation.” For more information, please contact Angie Saint Jean at [email protected] or 305-243-8417.

The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Miller School of Medicine will host grand rounds on Thursday, May 6 from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, Broad-Bussell Auditorium. Wilson Compton, director of the Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, will present “Linking Public Health Drug Abuse Research to Neuroscience.”

Compton will discuss some of the ways in which drug abuse epidemiology and neuroscience can be linked, both conceptually and practically, for field studies. Such studies include those seeking to address the extent and causes of drug abuse and addiction; identify ways to prevent drug abuse and addiction; and guide the organizing, financing, and implementation of best-practice services to treat addiction. He has been the principal or co-principal investigator of multiple federally funded grants focusing on the epidemiology of drug abuse, HIV prevention, and co-occurring mental and drug use disorders.

Docent Linda Dixon leads a tour.

The Lowe Art Museum depends on its docent volunteers to be the museum’s “face” to its visitors. Docents lead groups of adults and children in a discussion on how to look at art, creating memorable experiences for visitors of all ages. More than 60 docents collectively conduct about 1,200 tours each year. Docents share a strong sense of camaraderie and enjoy the personal enrichment that comes through the academic training they receive and the pleasure in discovering art together with others. As a volunteer docent, you’ll meet interesting new people and experience the excitement of being part of art education in your community.

Volunteer training is on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Attend an upcoming open house event to find out if the Docent Volunteer Program is the right opportunity for you. Education Department staff and docents will be on site to introduce the program more thoroughly, and program applications will be available.

The next open house events occur on Thursday, May 6 at 2 p.m. and Thursday, July 15 at 2 p.m. For more information and to RSVP, contact Jodi Sypher, curator of education, at 305-284-3621 or [email protected].

The Lowe Art Museum presents the last LoweDown reception of the season. In conjunction with Museum Members Month and Membership Appreciation Evening, this LoweDown will feature a gallery tour of the UM Faculty Exhibition presented by the artist himself, William Carlson. Enjoy some delectable Mediterranean cuisine with beverages by Bacardi, PAMA, and Barefoot Wine & Bubbly.

The event is free for Lowe members and museum members with card; $10 Admission for non-members; $5 Admission for UM faculty, staff, and students.

For more information, visit http://www.miami.edu/lowe/