Prestigious appointment: Sergio M. Gonzalez has been elected trustee-at-large for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education

Sergio M. Gonzalez, senior vice president for University Advancement and External Affairs, has been elected a trustee-at-large for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), an international association that serves educational institutions and the advancement professionals who work on their behalf in alumni relations, communications, development, marketing, and allied areas.

Gonzalez spearheaded University of Miami’s record-breaking Momentum: The Campaign for the University of Miami. The campaign launched in 2003 and by December 2007 had surpassed its goal, closing out at $1.4 billion.

In his role as senior vice president for University Advancement and External Affairs, Gonzalez oversees communications, government relations, and alumni affairs. He has been with the University since 2001.

The CASE Board of Trustees sets policies, approves the annual budget, and ensures sound management of the organization. The 30-member board is made up of four officers, eight district trustees, and 18 at-large trustees. Gonzalez is a member of the CASE Commission on Philanthropy and serves on the planning committee for the 2011 CASE Summit for Advancement Leaders.

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The Trip brings director Michael Winterbottom and the hilarious Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon back together in a road comedy that has delighted critics as well as audiences at the Toronto and Tribeca Film Festivals. When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country’s finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. When she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but Rob Brydon, his best friend and source of eternal aggravation. As the brilliant comic duo, freestyling with flair, drive each other mad with constant competition and showdowns of competing impressions, they come to a new understanding of not only good food, but the nature of fame, relationships, and their own lives. This film will screen Friday, July 15 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, July 16 at 3:15 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, July 17 at 3:45 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.

Neds (Non-Educated Delinquents) takes place in the gritty, savage, and often violent world of 1970s Glasgow. On the brink of adolescence, young John McGill is a bright and sensitive boy, eager to learn and full of promise. But the cards are stacked against him. Most of the adults in his life fail him in one way or another. His father is a drunken, violent bully and his teachers, who punish John for the sins of his older brother, Benny, are down on him from the start. With no one willing to give him the chance he desperately needs, John takes to the savage life of the streets with a vengeance. This film is part of the “From Britain With Love” series, running at the Bill Cosford Cinema through July 24. For more information on all the films in this series, visit www.FromBritainWithLove.org. The film will screen Friday, July 15 at 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, July 16 at 5:30 p.m.; and Sunday, July 17 at 8:15 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.

The University of Miami School of Architecture presents “La Habana,” an exhibition of photographs by Victoria Montoro. The exhibit will be on display from July 7 to August 12, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Korach Gallery of the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center. A reception will be held on Wednesday, July 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.

Cuban–born Victoria Montoro left Havana in 1961 and returned for the first time in 2008. The daughter of a former political prisoner, she calls the trip the most important of her life. It was a time for her to reconcile her memories from those invented ones or imagined ones acquired through the years. This body of work reveals how the buildings in La Habana have endured.

Toby Ward, research assistant professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Truncated ERBB2 Receptors in Breast Cancer: The Long and Short of It” on Friday, July 15 at 1 p.m. in Sylvester Conference Room 1301. No RSVP required. For more information, contact Diane Dames at [email protected] or 305-243-2287.