Posted on 20 April 2011
Hug the Lake is a campus-wide event that brings the University of Miami community together to celebrate Earth Day. This Friday, April 22, more than 700 students, faculty, and staff are expected to join hands, encircling Lake Osceola in the center of the Coral Gables campus in a symbolic “hug” to show appreciation for and increase awareness about the environment. The hug will take place from 12:05 to 12:20 p.m.
Posted on 20 April 2011
Mija is a woman in her 60s who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine. On a whim she enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural center and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she’s plagued by the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and struggles with new vocabulary and the challenges of the creative process. The film screens on Friday, April 22 at 9 p.m.; Saturday, April 23 at 2:45 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.; and Sunday, April 24 at 5:15 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non UM-students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.
Posted on 20 April 2011
“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80-plus New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times‘s style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics, and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place, and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny, and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace. The film will screen on Friday, April 22 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 23 at 5:25 p.m.; and Sunday, April 24 at 3:25 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non UM-students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.
Posted on 20 April 2011
Joaquin Jimenez, research associate professor in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Protection from Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia: From the Bench to the Bedside” this Friday, April 22, at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118. Jimenez is a candidate for a secondary appointment in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Posted on 15 April 2011
The Department of Neurology will host a clinicopathological conference on Friday, April 22 from 1 to 2 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Retter Auditorium. Clinton Wright, associate professor of neurology, and Melissa Ortega, neurology instructor, along with neurology resident Adam Slansky, will present “57-Year-Old Male with a Chief Complaint of ‘I Need a Neurologist.’ ”