The University of Miami’s Creative Writing Program welcomes award-winning author Peter Selgin February 13-17 for a week of new beginnings. Selgin, author of the “Your First Page” blog and 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers, is a renowned editor of opening sentences, paragraphs, and pages. Join the Creative Writing Program as Selgin reads at Books and Books, conducts one-on-one manuscript consultations for senior creative writing students, and hosts the seminar “In the Beginnings” to discuss manuscript openings. Please visit http://www.as.miami.edu/english/creativewriting/writerinresidence for details.

For more information, please contact M. Evelina Galang, director of the Creative Writing Program, at [email protected] or Jen Mehan at [email protected].

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.

Faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to learn about the University of Miami’s conflict of interest policy by attending an upcoming seminar or setting up a training session for their department/unit. For more information on bringing a workshop to your facility, or to invite a compliance representative to your faculty meeting, please contact Lory Hayes, associate director of research compliance, at 305-243-5036 or [email protected].

The seminars are an excellent opportunity to learn about the University’s process for identifying potential conflicts of interest and the new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) conflict of interest (COI) regulations for Public Health Service (PHS) funding. Please register through ULearn for the following sessions:

• Wednesday, February 8 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Flipse Building, Room 502 (Gables Campus)

• Monday, February 13 from 1 to 2 p.m. at Dominion Tower, 12th-floor Large Conference Room (Miller School of Medicine campus)

• Thursday, March 8 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Seminar Room (Rosenstiel School campus)

• Wednesday, March 21 from 3 to 4 p.m. at Dominion Tower, 12th-floor Large Conference Room (Miller School of Medicine campus)

Please contact the Office of Research Education and Training at 305-243-5092 or [email protected] for details about scheduled training sessions, or visit http://uresearch.miami.edu/coi for more information on conflict of interest in research.

Wrapped Monument to Cristobal Colon Project for Barcelona - Plaza Porta de la Pau, 1976

In celebration of its 60th anniversary, the Lowe Art Museum will present the exhibition “From the Vault: Building a Legacy, Sixty Years of Collecting at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami.”

On view January 28 through March 25, the exhibition is a highlight of the Lowe’s distinguished collecting history and draws from some 18,000 works of art, showcasing important objects not currently on view or that may never have been seen by faculty, staff, students, or the general public.

An exhibition preview and lecture will be held on Friday, January 27, from 7 to 10 p.m. Read the full story