The Department of Neurological Surgery will present grand rounds on Thursday, April 21 from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Brian Hood, neurosurgery resident, will present “Stem Cells in Neurosurgery.” 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 [email protected].

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds on Thursday, April 21 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Neurological surgery residents will present on various topics. 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 [email protected].

Successful University of Miami alumni Crissa Jean Chappell, Tom Cavanagh, and Hayes Roth will discuss their life and career experiences after receiving a degree in creative writing at the special Goran Reading Series event “So You Majored in Creative Writing: Now What?” The interactive panel discussion will take place on Thursday, April 21 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the CAS Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables campus. The event is of interest not only to current or prospective creative writing students, but to community members pondering how creative writing endeavors fit into the world beyond an academic setting. The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please e-mail [email protected].

The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism will host grand rounds on Thursday, April 21 at 1:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Fawaz Haj, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California Davis, will present “Regulation of Systemic Insulin Sensitivity and Energy Balance by Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatases.” For more information, please contact Angie Saint-Jean at [email protected] or 305-243-8417.

The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism will host a fellows research conference on Thursday, April 21 at 2:45 p.m. in the Batchelor Building, sixth-floor conference room 604. Fawaz Haj, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California Davis, will present “Regulation of Pancreatic Endocrine Function by Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatases.” For more information, please contact Angie Saint-Jean at [email protected] or 305-243-8417.