A distinguished panel of guests—which includes a former secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; the first female director, president, and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist—will discuss “Still an Immigrant Nation? How Immigration is Shaping America’s Character in the 21st Century” on Monday, February 6 at 5 p.m. at the Newman Alumni Center.

The panel, which is part of the University of Miami Global Affairs Lecture Series, will be moderated by Thomas “Mack” McLarty, president of the international advisory firm McLarty Associates and CEO of the fourth-generation family transportation business, McLarty Companies. Panelists will include:

• Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009 and co-founder and managing principal of Chertoff Group, which provides strategic counsel to corporate and government leaders on various security issues. A former federal judge, he is senior of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP.

• Carlos M. Gutierrez, vice chair of the Institutional Clients Group for Citigroup. Gutierrez was 7 years old when he and his family came to the United States from Cuba in 1960. As secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2005 to 2009, he played a key role in the landmark CAFTA-DR agreement and was actively involved in U.S.-Cuba Policy during the Bush Administration, co-chairing the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. Prior to that, he served as chairman and CEO of the Kellogg Company, which he first joined in 1975 as a sales representative.

• Antonia Hernández, president and CEO of the California Community Foundation, which provides financial, technical, and management support to nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles County. Previously she was president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

• Jane Harman, the first female director, president, and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Harman took the helm in 2001 after nine terms in Congress, serving on the Armed Services, Intelligence, and Homeland Security committees. She was a top aide in the U.S. Senate, deputy cabinet secretary to President Jimmy Carter, and special counsel to the Department of Defense. She is a board member at the Newsweek Daily Beast Company.

• Andrés Oppenheimer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and syndicated columnist for The Miami Herald and more than 50 other newspapers. He is the anchor of television’s Oppenheimer Presenta and the author of six best-selling books on Latin American affairs.

Offered in collaboration with the College of Engineering’s Distinguished Speaker Series, this panel will feature discussion between Miller School of Medicine faculty members and Roderic Pettigrew, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health, member of the Institute of Medicine, and member of the National Academy of Engineering. It will be held on Monday, February 6, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, sixth-floor Executive Center. For more information on the series or the panel discussion, please contact the Miller Office of Research at 305-243-0239.

The College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History presents the solo exhibition Legerdemain, by photographer Jeffrey Stern, on view February 6 to 24 at Wynwood Project Space, 2200-A N.W. Second Avenue, Miami. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 11.

The exhibition features recent work that explores an unseen view of the interaction of people, their environment, and the interplay of light. Through a series of 40 photographs, Stern has captured views of everyday life that we all pass by, unaware of their existence.

For more information about the exhibition or Wynwood Project Space, call 305-284-2543 or email [email protected]. For a full schedule of exhibitions, visit www.as.miami.edu/art.

Karen Hales, associate professor in the Department of Biology at Davidson College, will present “Genetic Control of Mitochondrial Morphogenesis during Drosophila Spermatogenisis” on Monday, February 6 at 12:20 p.m. in the Cox Science Center, Room 166. Hales performs genetic analysis with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to explore the molecular mechanisms by which mitochondria are moved and shaped in cells. In Drosophila melanogaster (as in most other higher organisms), mitochondria undergo a dramatic series of shape changes during spermatogenesis. Through the analysis of male-sterile mutants defective in mitochondrial morphogenesis, Hales’ lab isolates and characterizes genes whose protein products function in this process.

For more information about this lecture, please contact Julia Dallman at [email protected].

James F. Sallis, distinguished professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of California, San Diego, will present “Building Active Communities: Research to Advance Policy and Practice” on Monday, February 6 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, first-floor auditorium. Called the “obesity warrior” by Time magazine, Sallis is one of the most cited authors in the social sciences. He will discuss reversing the tide of inactivity by promoting healthier, more active communities and will provide examples of how research is being used to stimulate and guide changes in policy and practice.