The Office of Civic and Community Engagement will host the panel discussion “Designing for Diversity: Affordable Housing for America’s Changing Demographic” on Monday, March 26 at 6 p.m. in the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center. The panel will address the need for new design and planning models that take into account an aging population and the greater demands for affordable housing units that reflect diverse lifestyles among seniors, LGBTQ populations, migrants and immigrants, and multigenerational families. Speakers will discuss architectural and urban-design solutions for ensuring the accessibility and affordability of housing for these overlapping groups.

As part of a Distinguished Speaker Series, The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will sponsor a special seminar by Jürg Ott, professor emeritus and head of the Laboratory of Statistical Genetics at Rockefeller University. Ott will present “Family-Based Association Studies” from 12 to 1 p.m. on Monday, March 26 in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

A pioneer in the field of genetic linkage and a world-renowned senior scholar, Ott’s scientific accomplishments include identifying genetic links for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, macular degeneration, and retinitis pigmentosa.

For more information, contact Nora Matelis at 305-243-8408 or [email protected].

David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, presents “Medieval History Meets Geopolitics: Judaism, Christianity, Islam” on Monday, March 26 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, 105 Merrick Building, Coral Gables campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. To RSVP email [email protected], call 305-284-6882, or fax 305-284-5274. The event is co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Religious Studies.

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology will host a seminar by graduate student David Siefker on Monday, March 26 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. Siefker will present “Infection and Inflammation in the Neonatal Gut.”

David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, will present “Medieval History Meets Geopolitics: Judaism, Christianity, Islam” on Monday, March 26 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, Merrick Building, Suite 105. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Miller Center and the Department of Religious Studies.