The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health will host an open house on Wednesday, April 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, Room 665. The open house will provide an in-depth look at the department’s Master in Public Health Program, giving attendees an opportunity to learn more about the growing field of public health, meet one on one with faculty and program administrators, and talk to current students about their courses and research. Refreshments will be served. RSVP to Becky Greenfield at [email protected], or fill out this form.

Join the University of Miami Healthy Steps Parent Group on Wednesday, April 27 for a presentation on “Sleep and Young Children: Helpful Tips for Getting a Good Night’s Rest.” The presentation starts at 12 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, Room 3023. Nancy Becerra, Healthy Steps specialist, and Daniel Fernandez, Healthy Steps research associate will lead the discussion. Please RSVP at 305-243-1931 or email [email protected].

Gagani Athauda, associate scientist for the Schwann cell clinical trial team at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “Meeting FDA Requirements to Manufacture Autologous Human Schwann Cells for Transplantation” on Wednesday, April 27 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, please call 305-243-7108.

Alan P. Kozikowski, professor and director of the Drug Discovery Program in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present “Creating Zinc Monkey Wrenches: HDAC6 Selective Inhibitors for Use in Inflammation, Transplant Medicine, and Neurological Disorders” on Wednesday, April 27 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118. Kozikowski is a candidate for a faculty position in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

The Department of Art and Art History presents the Sixth Annual “Salon des Refuses” exhibition, named after the celebrated Salon des Refusés exhibition of 1863 in Paris in which the Impressionists exhibited their revolutionary new paintings that had been “refused” by the French Academy. The Department of Art and Art History will showcase the work of students who entered the Annual Juried Student Competition and were not accepted.

In celebration of the event, an opening reception will be held on Friday, April 1 at 5 p.m. along with the department’s annual barbecue.

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