It’s a new school year and time for a new season of LoweDown Happy Hours. At the first LoweDown Happy Hour of the new academic year, scheduled for Thursday, September 2 from 7 to 9 p.m., guests can enjoy a tour of the Asian Gallery by Lowe Art Museum director Brian Dursum, register for a raffle of the new catalog Aspects of Asian Art, and munch on Chinese food, with cocktails by Bacardi. Admission is $10; free for Lowe members.

Kim Anderson-Erisman, director of education for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “Translation in Spinal Cord Injury: Perspectives and Priorities” on Thursday, September 2 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, please call 305-243-7108.

The Department of Orthopaedics at the Miller School of Medicine will present grand rounds on Thursday, September 2 from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Raymond Robinson, associate professor of orthopaedics at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Solving the Dislocation Problem in Total Hip Replacement Surgery.” For more information please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at [email protected].

L.D. Britt, Brickhouse Professor and Chair of Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School, will present “Penetrating Trauma Management-2010: What is Evidence-Based Practice?” on Thursday, September 2 from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. at the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to outline the diagnostic modalities required in the evaluation of penetrating trauma and highlight evidence-based data supporting specific management paradigms. The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Elisa Arguelles at 305-585-1280 or [email protected].