Reza Ardehali, fellow in cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, will present “Prospective Identification and Isolation of Cardiovascular Progenitors from Human Embryonic Stem Cells” on Tuesday, February 1, from 12 to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, South Building, first-floor Seminar Center A and B. This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, call Raquel Mota at 305-243-9067 or e-mail [email protected].

The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a seminar by Gary Beecham, research assistant professor at the Hussman Institute. Beecham will present “Dissecting the Genetic Etiology to Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease” on Tuesday, February 1 at 4 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. For more information, contact Lourdes Acosta at 305-243-2559 or [email protected].

The Civic and Community Engagement Project will present “Community Engagement and Public Scholarship: A Good Neighbor Protocol for Higher Education” on Tuesday, February 1 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the College of Arts and Sciences Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables campus. Victor Becerra, programs director of the Community Outreach Partnership Center at the University of California, Irvine will speak. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, click here.

The American Studies Program will host a lecture by Vicki Ruiz, dean of the School of Humanities and professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine, on Tuesday, February 1 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum. Ruiz will present “Why Latino History Matters to U.S. History.” A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, click here.

Jessica Lenahan, the first U.S. domestic violence victim to bring a legal challenge against the U.S. before an international human rights tribunal, will speak about her case at the School of Law on Tuesday, February 1 from 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. at the Law Library, Reading Room D201. Her remarks, as well as those by professor Caroline Bettinger-López, are part of the law school’s International Graduate Law Programs Lecture Series.

Lenahan, who is represented by the UM School of Law’s Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School, and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed her complaint after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her due process claims against the Castle Rock, Colorado, police for refusing to enforce her domestic violence restraining order against her estranged husband, who abducted and killed her three young daughters.

For more information on the lecture, visit www.law.miami.edu/iglp.