The Developmental Center for AIDS Research will host its ninth annual HIV Symposium on “Treatment as Prevention: Controlling the AIDS Epidemic through Antiretroviral Therapy” on Tuesday, April 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, on the Coral Gables campus. Registration is required. This educational activity is approved for seven AMA PRA Category 1 credits. For more information, contact Ilse Duarte at 305-243-8125 or [email protected] or Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1988 or [email protected].

GOT Spot Featuring Rose’s Café, a new dining option for University of Miami employees, will host a grand opening celebration today, March 26 at 11:45 a.m. on the first floor of Gables One Tower. Guests can sample cuisine and find out who won the “Name the Wrap and Salad” contest.

UM President Donna E. Shalala will speak, and other attendees will include Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc; Miller School of Medicine Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt; Joe Natoli, senior vice president for business and finance and chief financial officer; and Mark Diaz, associate vice president of budget and finance.

To learn more about GOT Spot Featuring Rose’s Cafe, click here. For contest rules, click here.

United Arab Emirates Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, right, and U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, discussed U.S. and UAE bilateral relations at a forum held on March 9 at the University of Miami.

The Department of Philosophy presents Gillian Russell, associate professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Russell is the author of Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defense of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (OUP, 2008) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language (with Delia Graff Fara) and New Waves in Philosophical Logic (with Greg Restall). Her research focuses on the philosophy of logic and language. Her talk, “Indexicals and Barriers to Implication,” will be held on Thursday, March 22, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in room 233 of the University Center. For more information, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305 284-4757.

Ponce de Leon Boulevard is getting a facelift. Hundreds of new Alexander palm trees, a species widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions all over the world, are being planted in the median of Ponce between Red and LeJeune roads, giving a new look to the scenic stretch of roadway, a fair portion of which parallels the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus.

In all, some 358 Alexander palms—or Archontophoenix Alexandrae—will be planted, including some in the median that fronts the UM campus. The new trees are part of a streetscape beautification project recently approved by Coral Gables commissioners.

The project is scheduled for completion this week. UM, which has a Development Agreement with Coral Gables, agreed with city officials that a facelift for Ponce would be a benefit to the institution and residents, and will contribute about $60,000 to the landscape improvements in front of its campus. Coral Gables will maintain the improvements.