The University of Miami Libraries and the Department of Theatre Arts will present an evening with American playwright Bill C. Davis on Thursday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in the Otto G. Richter Library, Coral Gables campus. Davis will speak about the inception and development of his plays for Broadway. Seating for the event is limited. RSVP to 305-284-3551 or [email protected].

Davis is the author of Mass Appeal, which premiered at The Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City and later moved to Broadway, where it received the Outer Critics Circle Award. He later adapted the play as a screenplay, and it was made into a movie starring Jack Lemmon and Charles Durning. For more information on Davis, visit: www.billcdavis.com.

Frost Opera Theater presents Benjamin Britten’s comic opera Albert Herring on March 3, 4, 5, and 6 at Gusman Concert Hall. Albert Herring is one of Britten’s most witty scores, rife with musical quotes and strikingly Mozartean in its musical characterizations and its mix of pathos and humor.

The residents of a sleepy English village are aghast to learn that unsullied young women are nowhere to be found. Without a suitable candidate to be queen of the village’s May Day festival, timid Albert is crowned “King of the May.” A night of carousing ensues, leaving the town elders scandalized and his friends impressed. Contemporaries of Britten speculated that Albert was a satirical self-portrait of the composer himself.

Frost Opera Theater will by joined by members of the Frost Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alan Johnson. Dean Southern stages the production, and the set design is the result of a second collaboration between Frost Opera Theater and the University of Miami School of Architecture. Simone Meeks’s design was chosen from among the students enrolled in a fall 2010 course, led by François Lejeune, with the objective of designing a set for the current production. Read the full story

Sponsored by the Miller School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic in conjunction with the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement, Perioperative Medicine Summit 2011 will be held March 3-5 at the Eden Roc Renaissance, Miami Beach. The summit will help clinicians who are actively engaged in perioperative medical care to incorporate the latest findings from clinical research and recommendations from evidence-based guidelines into their practices so that they can improve the quality and safety of their medical care. Evidence-based lectures will be supplemented by clinical cases, and an audience response system will be used for exchange of information among faculty and attendees. In addition, clinical and lab research, innovations, and clinical vignettes related to perioperative medicine will be selected for presentation. The event is targeted towards internists, hospitalists, family practitioners, anesthesiologists, physician assistants, certified nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and allied health professionals engaged in management of the perioperative patient. To register, please visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will host Grand Rounds on Thursday, March 3 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Coleen Atkins, assistant professor of neurological surgery at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “Miami Project: Restoring Learning After Traumatic Brain Injury.” For more information or to add your name to the department’s education announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or e-mail [email protected].

The Department of Neurological Surgery will host Grand Rounds on Thursday, March 3 from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Ali Aziz-Sultan, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “A Trip to Afghanistan.” For more information or to add your name to the department’s education announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or e-mail [email protected].