The Department of Neurology will present grand rounds on Friday, February 4 at 1 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s Retter Auditorium. Thomas Sick, professor of neurology and physiology/biophysics in the Basic Science Division at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Cortical Spreading Depression: A Laboratory Curiosity that Just Won’t Go Away.”

The Training Division of the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program will present its Friday Noon Interdisciplinary Lecture Series on Friday, February 4, from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, Room 3023. Deborah Chin, coordinator of adult and transition services at the University of Miami-Nova Southeastern University Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, will discuss how schools may facilitate transition planning, how to access community resources, and what families can do to support a successful transition. This activity will provide 1.00 CE Credit to psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors who attend. For more information, please contact Wanda Denise Castro at 305-243-4466 or e-mail [email protected].

It’s been a year since a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, indiscriminately destroying lives and cultural institutions, including libraries. Libraries Without Borders already was working to assist in the development of Haitian libraries prior to the earthquake and was among the first responders to this crisis. Most of the public library buildings and collections were seriously damaged and the cultural and educational structures in the capital largely destroyed.

In this presentation, Patrick Weil, visiting professor of law and Robina Foundation International Fellow at Yale Law School and a senior research fellow at the French National Research Center in the University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne, will speak on “The Impact of the Haitian Earthquake on its Libraries” on Friday, February 4 at 12:30 p.m. in Room A110A at the School of Law. Lunch will be provided.

Fangliang Zhang, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, will be visiting the Miller School campus from February 3 to 4. Zhang will present the seminar “On the D-List: Posttranslational Arginylation of the Cytoskeletal Proteins” on Thursday, February 3 at 9 a.m. at the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 6018. He will give a talk on Friday, February 4 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 6086. For more information, call Elba Lalor at 305-243-5874.

The National Security and Armed Conflict Law Review and the Military Law Society will host Sean Summers, lead attorney in the landmark Supreme Court case Snyder v. Phelps on Friday, February 4 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room E352 at the School of Law. Two free CLE credits are available for attending. Please RSVP to [email protected].