Witold Rybczynski, prominent architect, educator, and author, will speak on his new book, Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities, on Thursday, February 3 at 6 p.m. in the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, Glasgow Hall. Holder of the National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize and the Seaside Prize, Rybczynski serves on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. His essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He has written 15 books and is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis will host Grand Rounds on Thursday, February 3 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Jessica Lerch-Haner, postdoctoral associate with The Miami Project, will present “Next-Generation Sequencing: Discovering Neuron-Intrinsic Mechanisms of CNS Repair.” 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].

The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism will present an Endocrinology Fellows Clinical Case Conference on Thursday, February 3 at 1 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Sabina Casula, fellow in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism will present “Hyponatremia.” For more information, please contact Angie Saint Jean at [email protected] or 305-243-8417.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds on Thursday, February 3 from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Seth Hayes, neurosurgery resident, will present “Deep Brain Stimulation.” 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].

The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism will present grand rounds on Thursday, February 3 at 1:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. David L. Vesely, director of the Cardiac Hormone Center at the University of South Florida Health Sciences Center and chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, Florida, will present “Cardiac Hormones in the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure and Renal Failure.” For more information, please contact Angie Saint Jean at [email protected] or 305-243-8417.