Join University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala, School of Law Dean Patricia D. White, and the UM community in celebrating the launch of the Mariano J.D., M.B.A., LL.M. in Taxation Triple-Degree Program on Thursday, February 2 at 5:30 p.m. at Storer Auditorium on the Coral Gables campus.

The program, which is believed to be the first of its kind, began this academic year, awarding its first scholarship to third-year law student Christopher Callahan. Recipients of the scholarship are known as Mariano Scholars.

A generous gift from Steven Mariano, chair and CEO of Patriot National Insurance Group, made the program possible.

As part of Thursday’s event, Patricia A. Brown, director of the School of Law’s Graduate Program in Taxation and former deputy international tax counsel for treaty affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will deliver the lecture “Making Deals that Don’t Make Headlines: My Ten Years as the U.S. Tax Treaty Negotiator.”

A reception will follow. The event is free.

For more information, call 305-284-3470.

The Department of Anesthesiology will host grand rounds on Thursday, February 2 from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Danielle Ludwin, assistant professor of anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center, will present “Going the Distance: Preventing Burnout and Promoting Job Engagement in Anesthesia.” For more information, contact Marsha Williams at 305-585-1191 extension 2-2 or [email protected].

Surgical grand rounds will be held on Thursday, February 2 from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the Central 2 Auditorium. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and W. H. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, will present “Regenerative Medicine: New Approaches to Health Care.” Atala will discuss the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and appraise the current state of stem cell research.

This educational activity is approved for one AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Elisa Argüelles at 305-585-1280 or [email protected].

David Adaikkalasamy, postdoctoral associate in the Department of Neurological Surgery, will present “Developing Therapies to Improve Learning and Memory after Traumatic Brain Injury” on Thursday, February 2 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, please call 305-243-7108.

The American Studies Program will host a lecture by Don Doyle, McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, who will present “America’s International Civil War” on Thursday, February 2 at 3:30 p.m. at the Richter Library, third-floor conference room. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of the American Studies Program’s Spring 2012 Speaker Series. For more information, email [email protected] or visit www.as.miami.edu/ams/events.