Join the University of Miami women’s basketball team tonight, November 22, at 7 p.m. at BankUnited Center for their game versus the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Arrive early and witness UM Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt honor Head Coach Katie Meier and the Miami Hurricanes for their tremendous success in the 2010 Women’s National Invitation Tournament with the unveiling of the WNIT Runner-Up Banner. Hocutt also will honor junior guard Shenise Johnson for her 1,000th career point, which she scored on March 28 in the quarterfinal round of the WNIT. Tickets are available for $5 adults and $3 youth, and can be purchased online at www.HurricaneSports.com or at the BankUnited Center Box Office on game day.

Fulvia Verde, associate professor of molecular and cellular pharmacology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Staying in Shape: Control of Cell Polarity and Cell Growth” on Monday, November 22 at 12:20 p.m. in the Cox Science Center, Room 166. Verde’s current research focuses on using innovative proteomic and genomic approaches, including DIGE (2-dimensional fluorescence difference gel elecrophoresis), SGA (synthetic genetic analysis), and SDL (synthetic dosage lethality). While she predominantly uses the yeast S. pombe as a model system to dissect conserved molecular mechanisms of cell morphology control, her lab also tests the implications of findings in neuronal cells and in human cancer cells. For more information about this event, please contact Professor Athula Wikramanayake at [email protected].

Ernesto Luna, postdoctoral associate, will present “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Gp96-Mediated CD8 Cross-Presentation” on Monday, November 22 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology’s distribution list, please contact Brian Ruther at [email protected].

The School of Law’s Legal Theory Workshop continues with Georgetown Law Professor Nina Pillard, who will lecture on “(Re)inventing Work Law in a Transnational Context: Voluntary Codes of Conduct in Multinational Supply Chains” on Monday, November 22 in the law school’s faculty meeting room. The workshop begins at 12:30 p.m., with lunch served at noon.

Pillard joined the Georgetown law faculty in 1997 after a decade as an accomplished litigator. She teaches civil procedure, constitutional law, American and transnational legal theory, and various labor and employment courses. Her current research interests include the constitutional and statutory law of equality with a focus on employment and law in a transnational context.

Shortly after joining the Georgetown faculty, Pillard took a leave in 1998-2000 to work in the Department of Justice under President Clinton as deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel. Pillard’s Supreme Court work, both before and during her time at Georgetown, includes more than 25 cases that she has briefed and eight that she has argued before the Court, including the path-marking Nevada v. Hibbs, sustaining the Family and Medical Leave Act against constitutional challenge, and Green Tree v. Bazzle, opening the way for plaintiffs to proceed as a class in mandatory arbitration.

There is limited seating for this event. To attend, RSVP to Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected].

The Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence, a partnership with Florida International University, and the Jean Monnet Chair of the University of Miami, will present “Reform of the Reform? Prospects of the Revision of the Lisbon Treaty on the Eurozone Requirements,” by María Lorca-Susino, European Union Center fellow. The presentation will take place on Monday, November 22 from 5 to 6 p.m. at Merrick 307.