The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will host a special seminar on Thursday, August 26 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118. Patrizia Pasini, research scientist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky, will present “Whole Cells as Sensing Systems in Biomedical and Environmental Analysis.”

The Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellows Colloquium will be held on Thursday, August 26 at 2:30 p.m. in the Elena Díaz Versón Amos Conference Room of the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion in the Richter Library, second floor. The colloquium will feature Katerina Seligmann, comparative literature, Brown University, presenting “Mapping the Intellectual Caribbean,” and Martin Tsang, global and sociocultural studies, Florida International University, presenting “Afro-Chinese Identity and Religion in Cuba.” Both are recipients of Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellowships in the pre-prospectus category.

The fellowships provide assistance to graduate students who wish to use the research resources available in the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami. The goal of these fellowships is to engage emerging scholars with the materials available in the collection and thus contribute to the larger body of scholarship in Cuban, hemispheric, and international studies. The 2010 CHC Graduate Fellowships are generously funded by The Goizueta Foundation.

Please RSVP to [email protected] or 305-284-4900.

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.

Tina V. Hartert, associate professor of medicine and director of the Center for Asthma and Environmental Health Research at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, will present “Viruses and Asthma: The Chicken or the Egg?” on Tuesday, August 31 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or [email protected].

Higher education will never be the same when rowdy and rich senior Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) goes back to school to help his college misfit son. Melon lends some fatherly support by enrolling as a fellow freshman, but when he ticks off his professor he must hit the books or go back to being the world’s wealthiest dropout. The film screens on Friday, August 27 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, August 28 at 6 p.m.; and Sunday, August 29 at 5 p.m. Admission is $6 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non UM-students, and staff. General admission is $8. Cash only. Free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.