The University has launched a new Travel Card to facilitate the payment of University travel-related expenses. With the availability of this new card, departments will no longer have the ability to purchase airline tickets using the Ghost Card at the various agencies after August 31. Instead, employees will need to apply for the new Travel Card with which airline tickets and other travel expenses should be paid.

Departments with a need to pay for non-employee travel will need to have the designated employee with this job responsibility apply for the Travel Card so that they may continue to purchase non-employee tickets. Note that tickets may be purchased from any of the authorized agencies using the new Travel Card. Please join representatives of the Travel Management, Corporate Card, and Accounts Payable offices when they host information sessions. Registration is required via ULearn. Click here for instructions on how to register for the sessions below.

Miller School of Medicine campus: June 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Dominion Parking Garage, Professional Development and Training Office Training Room.

Coral Gables campus: June 30 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Richter Library, third-floor conference room.

Suzy is a born-and-bred British soldier, but fitting back into civilian life after fighting in Iraq isn’t easy. Haunted by the responsibility she feels for the death of an Iraqi child, she becomes obsessed with the safety of her own daughter, feeling the need to protect her against a seemingly imaginary threat. As Suzy’s paranoia builds, her behavior becomes more and more erratic until, finally, she puts her own child in serious danger. This film is part of the “From Britain With Love” series that is running at the Bill Cosford Cinema from through July 24. For more information on all the films in the series, visit www.FromBritainWithLove.org. This film will screen Friday, June 24 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, June 25 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, June 26 at 2 p.m. and 6 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.

In a fierce alternative vision of America’s bleak future, a young boy is about to learn how cruel the world can be. Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed into economic and political disaster. From the ashes rose a new breed of terror: a vampire epidemic that has swept across what is left of the nation’s abandoned towns and cities. It’s up to Mister, a death-dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent’s New Eden. The film will screen Friday, June 24 at 9 p.m.; Saturday, June 25 at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 10 p.m.; and Sunday, June 26 at 4 p.m. and 8 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.

Ivonne H. Schulman, assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT): Goals, Rationale, and Design” on Tuesday, June 28 from 12 to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, 1295 NW 14th Street, South Building, first-floor Seminar Center A and B. This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, call Raquel Mota at 305-243-9067 or [email protected].

From left to right: Antonio Barrientos, associate professor of neurology, mentors physiology and biophysics postdoctoral associate Robin Dando, while Masayuki Fukata, assistant professor of gastroenterology, heeds advice from Robert Keane, professor of physiology and biophysics, about his specific aims page.

After a successful event on May 26, the Miller School Office of Research and the initiative Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success (SEEDS) will again co-host speed mentoring on June 23. The program will be held in the Clinical Research Building in the sixth-floor Executive Center from 3 to 6 p.m.

To volunteer as a mentor, contact Nancy Levros at [email protected]. Registration for mentees is full, but faculty may contact [email protected] to be added to the mailing list or visit the SEEDS website at www.as.miami.edu/seeds for future speed mentoring dates, which will be planned around National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant deadlines.

Mirroring the concept of speed dating, speed mentoring requires mentees to rotate between mentors to receive guidance on preparing the specific aims section of their grant proposals for submission to the NIH. At the last event, each of the 12 mentees had a 15-minute session with at least three of the 14 mentors. Both mentors and mentees left gaining valuable knowledge. Read the full story