The Department of Neurological Surgery will host grand rounds on Thursday, October 7 from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Gustavo Pradilla, neurosurgery resident at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will present “The Inflammatory Hypothesis of Cerebral Vasospasm.” For more information or to add your name to the department’s educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or [email protected].

Accurate and timely research information and metrics better position us to understand and describe our organization and increases the competitiveness of grant applications and the successful management of the research enterprise. Come to the Research Roundtable on Thursday, October 7 from 12 to 1 p.m. in Dominion Towers, 12th-floor Conference Room, to meet the research decision support group and learn about some of the services they provide, including the Web-based Research Reporting System. Please register in ULearn. If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Research Education and Training team at [email protected].

Younger, precocious Catherine takes great delight in scaring her older sister, Marie-Anne, by reading Bluebeard aloud—itself a story of two sisters. In the story, teenage siblings Marie-Catherine and Anne descend into poverty after their father dies; Marie-Catherine decides to marry the terrifying Bluebeard as a way out of destitution. The young bride and the hairy, mountainous nobleman develop a tender relationship—until Bluebeard’s wrath is incurred after Marie-Catherine deliberately disobeys him. As the film jumps between the 17th century and the 20th century, Breillat makes observations about sibling rivalry, sexual curiosity, notions of purity and innocence, and the power of language and imagination. French with English subtitles. The film screens on Thursday, October 7 at 7 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.

The Lowe Museum Store will hold its annual recycled art book sale from Thursday, October 7 through Sunday, October 10. Books will be sold by the pound (75 cents per pound for softcover books, $1.50 per pound for hardcover editions). The four-day sale will be held during normal store hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and from 12 to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Lowe Art Museum’s next LoweDown Happy Hour will feature the museum’s spectacular Mesoamerican collection. Traci Ardren, an associate professor of anthropology in UM’s College of Arts and Sciences and curator of the exhibition The Jaguar’s Spots, will conduct a tour of the exhibition. Guests can enjoy light Mexican fare and Mariachi, and register for a raffle of The Jaguar’s Spots catalog. Cocktails will be generously provided by Bacardi, and other beverages will be courtesy of Vitamin Water Zero and Honest Tea. The event takes place on Thursday, October 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Lowe. Admission is $10; free for Lowe members.