International Education and Exchange Programs has launched a new study abroad website. Learn about new semester intersession and spring break programs and browse photos of students who have studied abroad. Get information on applying for study and scholarships at the UM Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday, September 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the UC Lower Lounge.  Admission is free.  No rsvp required.  For more information, e-mail [email protected], call 305-284-4175, or visit http://www.miami.edu/index.php/study_abroad/.

Miriam Bitton

The School of Law’s Faculty Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, September 22 with visiting professor Miriam Bitton, who will present “Formalized Public Domain” in the law school’s fourth-floor faculty meeting room. The lecture begins at 12:35 p.m., following a lunch at noon in the same room. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture.

Bitton is a law professor at Bar-Ilan University School of Law in Ramat-Gan, Israel. A former visiting assistant professor of law at DePaul University College of Law, she was also the Microsoft Research Fellow at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law and a visiting fellow at George Washington University Law School.

Bitton writes and teaches in the fields of intellectual property law, law and technology, and property. She is the winner of the prestigious Alon Fellowship for the years 2009-2011 (granted by the Council of Higher Education in Israel to promising junior faculty members in Israel) and the 100,000 EUROs Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant (granted by the European Union Commission).

There is limited seating for this event. To attend, RSVP to Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected]. Priority will be given to those first to reply.

Join the Office of Research Education and Training Team for the Sponsored Programs quarterly meeting on Wednesday, September 22 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Clinical Research Building, Room 988. The meeting will provide the UM research community with Sponsored Programs updates. The agenda will cover: National Institutes of Health policy changes regarding post-submission materials and error correction window; new fringe benefit rates; ORIM help desk changes; InfoEd update; CRIS update; Velos UChart Update; and educational opportunities. Registration is not required.

Sapna Deo, associate professor of biochemical and molecular biology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Detecting MicroRNA’s: Quantifying an Emerging Biomarker Using Luminescence Technology” on Wednesday, September 22 at 12 p.m. in the McKnight Building, eighth-floor lecture room, on the Miller School of Medicine campus. For further information, contact Jeanne Raymond at 305-482-4541 or [email protected].

The Department of Medicine will host grand rounds on Wednesday, September 22 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Hector Bolivar, assistant professor of medicine, AIDS Clinical Research Unit, Division of Special Immunology a the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Natural Immunity to HIV: Is There Hope for a Cure?” For more information, please contact Cristina Orbeta at [email protected] or 305-243-6484.