Emilio F. Moran, an internationally recognized ecological and environmental anthropologist whose research has focused on aspects of the human dimensions of environmental change, will speak on “Population and Environment in the Amazon Basin: Towards Integrative Land Change Science” on Monday, March 21 at 1 p.m. at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Seminar Room 103.

Moran’s presentation will provide an overview of the Amazon research he has conducted over several decades, summarizing how it links to the study of global environmental change and land use/land cover change. The lecture, which is sponsored by the Rosenstiel School and the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, is free and open to the public.

Learn how to effectively create your business plan at this Launch Pad workshop, which will be held on Monday, March 21 from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at the Toppel Career Center on the Coral Gables campus. This workshop will be lead by guest lecturer and Launch Pad venture coach Marco Scanu. Learn more about Scanu on LinkedIn. RSVP to [email protected]. The workshop is free and open to the community; lunch will be provided by EVOS Miami.

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 “EU’s Development Policy in the Overseas Regions,” a seminar and discussion by Ronald Hall, European Commission fellow. The event takes place on Monday, March 21 from 5 to 6 p.m. at Merrick 306 on the Coral Gables campus.

Richard Stanley, the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, will present the College of Arts and Sciences’ 2011 McKnight-Zame Distinguished Lecture on Monday, March 21 at 5 p.m. at the CAS Gallery/Wesley House, 1210 Stanford Drive, on the Coral Gables campus. Stanley, who is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, will speak on “A Survey of Alternating Permutations.” The McKnight-Zame Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by a generous donation from Jeffry B. Fuqua, AB ’67, MS ’70, Ph.D. ’72, who received his Ph.D. in Mathematics under the direction of Professor James McKnight. This lecture series is named in honor of both Professor McKnight and Professor Alan Zame, who was a close mentor of Fuqua while he was a student at the University of Miami. All are welcome to attend. A reception will follow the lecture. For more information, click here.

Kathleen Clark, professor in the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, will present “Ethics for an Outsourced Government” on Monday, March 21 at 12:30 p.m. in the UM School of Law’s faculty conference room. To RSVP for the lecture, e-mail Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected].

Clark, a 2010-11 Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow, teaches and writes about government ethics, national security law, legal ethics, and whistle-blowing. Clark co-authored a Washington Post op-ed about the Justice Department torture memo and later expanded that analysis into Congressional testimony and a law review article. That article has been featured in two legal ethics casebooks and a public administration anthology and was cited in a Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility report about the torture memo. Clark created and for 13 years taught a course on governmental ethics as part of the Congressional the Administrative Law Program. A member of the American Law Institute (ALI), she is an advisor to the ALI’s Project on Principles of Government Ethics, a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, and past chair of the National Security Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools.