Achieving and maintaining a good credit score is an important gateway to many financial freedoms. Offered by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, this valuable seminar is geared toward those who are interested in developing a greater understanding of strategies for preserving good credit scores. Kevin Maher of Consumer Credit Management Services will help you discover what it takes to correct bad credit scores and maintain good ones.

Coral Gables campus: Tuesday, June 8 from 12 to 1 p.m., Max Orovitz Building, Room 139.

Miller Medical School campus: Thursday, June 10 from 12 to 1 p.m., Dominion Parking Garage, Room 155.

To register, go to http://ulearn.miami.edu. For help with ULearn, call PDTO at 305-284-5110 or 305-243-3090. Mac users: Please call the FSAP office at 305-284-6604 to register by phone.

Allan Shulman, M.Arch. ’92, associate research professor in the UM School of Architecture and principal architect of Miami firm Shulman & Associates, on Thursday, June 10 at 7:30 p.m. presents a conversation about and book signing of Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove. Shulman is coauthor of the book, along with Randall Robinson Jr. and Jeff Donnelly.

The free book talk and signing, which takes place at The Wolfsonian-FIU museum on Miami Beach, is offered in conjunction with the museum’s current installations, “Unrealized Architecture” and “The Grand Hotels of Schultze & Weaver.”

For information, call 305-535-2644 or e-mail [email protected].

Julia Ross, an M.D./Ph.D. graduate student in Gregory Plano’s lab, presents “Systematic Deletion Analysis and Characterization of the Type III Secretion Apparatus Component YscD of Yersinia pestis” on Thursday, June 10 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at [email protected].

The University of Miami’s School of Business Administration, in conjunction with the Network and Learn series, will host an information session on its evening/weekend M.B.A. programs on Thursday, June 10 at 6 p.m. at the McLamore Executive Education Center, third floor. At the session, Linda L. Neider, professor of management, will present “Managing Generational Differences in the Workplace.” The event, which includes a networking reception, is free. For more information or to RSVP, call 305-284-2510, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.ummba2010.com.

Richard Bookman, vice provost for research, will discuss hurricane preparedness for the research community during town hall meetings on each campus.

Miller School of Medicine campus: Thursday, June 10 at 2 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

Coral Gables campus: Friday, June 11 at 10 a.m. in the Cox Science Center, Room 213.

Rosenstiel School campus: Friday, June 11 at 2 p.m. in the Dean’s Conference Room.

These sessions will be geared not only to those who are new to the area but to any researcher with questions about preparing for a storm. Other presenters will include the Office of Research Emergency Preparedness Team, Risk Management, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) consultants. For more information, please visit http://uresearch.miami.edu/prepare or contact Linda Waterman at 305-243-5396 or [email protected].