The University of Miami’s Faculty Senate will meet on Wednesday, August 25 at 3:30 p.m. at School of Business Administration, McLamore Executive Education Dining Room. All faculty members are welcome to attend. For more information, visit the Faculty Senate Web page at www.miami.edu/FacultySenate.

Today your role as a “gatekeeper” is more important than ever with the growing risks to security and privacy in businesses. This audio conference will cover techniques to perfect your role as gatekeeper of confidential information, minimize interruptions, be friendly but firm with persistent callers, and prevent identity theft in the office. This is a brown-bag lunch-and-learn session.

Miller School of Medicine campus: Wednesday, August 25 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at Dominion Towers Parking Garage, Suite 155.

Coral Gables campus: Friday, August 27 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, Training Room

To register for the CBL and the live session, visit ulearn.miami.edu and follow the instructions to log on. For more information, call 305-243-3090 or 305-284-5110.

Ryan Williams, graduate student in neuroscience, will present “Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors for the Regeneration of Brainstem Axons after Spinal Cord Injury” on Wednesday, August 25 at 1 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor APEX Auditorium. For more information, please contact Judy Harmon at 305-243-3368.

The Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery will host grand rounds on Wednesday, August 25 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Ioannides Library, Room 2090. David Kerman, assistant professor of gastroenterology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Inflammatory Bowel Disease.” For more information, call 305-243-4472.

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis will host a special seminar by Paul J. Reier, Anne and Oscar Lackner Eminent Scholar Chair and professor of neuroscience at the University of Florida College of Medicine, on Wednesday, August 25 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Reier will present “Respiratory Function after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury.” For more information, please visit www.themiamiproject.org/Lectures or call 305-243-7108.