Ronald Goldberg, professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, will present “Etiopathogenesis and Prevention of Type 2 diabetes” on Wednesday, October 20 at 7:30 a.m. at the Diabetes Research Institute, sixth-floor boardroom. For more information, please contact Angie Saint-Jean at [email protected] or 305-243-8417.

Jacqueline Dixon, former College of Arts and Sciences dean, will present a leadership workshop for SEEDS (Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success) on Wednesday, October 20 at 12:20 p.m. at the  Cox Building, Room 166. Dixon, the college’s first female dean, will talk about the HERS (Higher Education Resource Services) international program of leadership training for women. Dixon is a successful HERS training alumna and under her leadership the College of Arts and Sciences initiated new undergraduate programs in Ecosystem Science and Policy and PRISM (integrating science and math education), which won funding for a new building. She also served on the SEEDS steering committee. The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, visit www.as.miami.edu/seeds.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will host grand rounds on Wednesday, October 20 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Retter Auditorium. Ned Kalin, Hedberg Professor, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, and director of the Health Emotions Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will present “Developmental Factors Underlying the Risk to Develop Anxiety and Depression.” The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 1.50 CE credit will be awarded to psychologists and 1.5 CE to social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors who attend.

For more information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073, e-mail [email protected], or visit the departmental website.

The Department of Medicine will host grand rounds on Wednesday, October 20 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Allan Rodriguez, associate professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, will present “Management of HIV – Beyond HAART.” For more information, please contact Cristina Orbeta at [email protected] or 305-243-6484.

The Haiti earthquake reportedly began with a giant roar. Almost every account of the disaster begins with a deafening noise that alerted people to the disaster. Yet, predictably, it was images of collapsed buildings and suffering victims that flooded the media, and most observers outside Haiti absorbed information through the visual register. However there was also some coverage of sound and music in the aftermath of the disaster. This special lecture will examine the uses of music directly after the Haiti earthquake. It will look at music made by Haitians for Haitians close to the epicenter in the aftermath of the quake. It will also examine music made by Americans for Americans, in telethon performances in New York and Los Angeles weeks after the event.

The speaker, Elizabeth McAlister, associate professor in the Religion Department at Wesleyan University, will argue that Haitians used music, and particularly religious music, self-reflexively to orient themselves in time and space and to construct a frame of meaning in which to understand and act in the devastated Haitian capital.

It will be held on Wednesday, October 20 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Casa Bacardi on the Coral Gables campus. RSVP required. Please call 305-284-8783 or e-mail [email protected].

The lecture is open to the University community and is being co-sponsored by Africana Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the MAIA Program, and the Department of Religious Studies.