The School of Architecture and the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Libraries will present Fredo Rivera, doctoral candidate in art history at Duke University, who will present “Modernism in the Tropics: Architecture and Tourism in Republican Havana, Cuba (1902-1958)” at the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, Glasgow Hall, on Wednesday, November 3 at 6 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

One of the best strategies for retaining talent is ensuring that the right candidate is placed in the best position. Several studies (The Saratoga Institute, the Society for Human Resource Management, and Hewitt Associates) estimate the cost of replacing talent at approximately 1.5 times the annual salary of the job opening. Hiring and Onboarding Talent addresses a methodology for hiring and retaining talent at UM. It gives an overview of the hiring process that includes everything from behavioral interviewing to onboarding, enabling leaders to hire employees who will contribute to a stable and high-performing team. Participants will focus on identifying talent needs, developing techniques to predict success based on past performance, creating an interview plan and peer interviewing process, developing a plan for onboarding, and retaining new talent.

Part I
Date: Wednesday, November 3
Time: 1 to 4 p.m.
Location: Miller School of Medicine campus, Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155.

Part II
Date: Wednesday, November 10
Time: 1 to 5 p.m.
Location: Miller School of Medicine campus, Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155.

You must complete the corresponding online CBL prior to enrolling in the course. To register for the CBL and the live session, visit ulearn.miami.edu and follow the instructions to log on. For more information, call 305-243-3090.

The Department of Art and Art History in UM’s College of Arts and Sciences will present a solo exhibition by Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta from November 2-28 at Wynwood Project Space, 2200-A NW 2nd Avenue, Miami. An opening reception will be held Saturday, November 13 from 6 to 10 p.m.

The exhibition features Zulueta’s impressive digital performance categorization project of more than 35 images addressing the social practice of consumerism in an era of globalization.

Zulueta’s interdisciplinary exhibition, “Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa Twenty-First Century,” includes a diverse cross section of participants typically marginalized from mainstream advertising that Zulueta directs in order to create a digital record of a pseudo anthropological ethnography study. The concept deals with expanding the tradition of photographic categorization projects of the past by documenting relevant social practice today.

Zulueta has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally at such venues as the International Center for Photography, Smithsonian Institution, and the Centro Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Cintas Foundation, and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

For more information regarding the artist, visit www.ricardozulueta.com. A full schedule of exhibitions can be viewed at www.as.miami.edu/art. Wynwood Project Space is open from 6 to 10 p.m. every second Saturday of the month and by appointment. Admission is free. For more information about the exhibition or Wynwood Project Space, call 305-284-2543 or e-mail [email protected].

The UM School of Business Administration and the Ethics Programs present “Legal Loopholes and Other Corporate Strategy Conundrums: A Business Ethics Perspective” by Don Mayer, J.D., LL.M. Arsht Visiting Ethics Scholar, from 4 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, November 3 in the Strauss Conference Room, School of Business.

Mayer, a specialist in international and comparative law and professor-in-residence at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver (UD), has been named UM’s first Arsht Visiting Ethics Scholar. His areas of expertise include corporate governance and corruption, international business and ethics, constitutional and employment law, political and legislative ethics, business ethics and global capitalism, corporate social responsibility, and military security and ethics.

For directions and further information, contact Evaline Fornino at 305-284-6105 or [email protected].

Jianhua Wang, research assistant professor at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, will present “Detection of Magnetic Particles in Live DBA/2 Mouse Eyes Using Magnetomotive Optical Coherence Tomography” on Wednesday, November 3 at 12 p.m. at the McKnight Vision Research Center, eighth-floor lecture room. For more information, contact Jeanne Raymond at 305-482-4541 or [email protected].