May 26: Attend Dean Woolliscroft's office hours program Since beginning the "office hours" program, Dean Woolliscroft has met informally with many faculty, staff and students who have provided him with valuable comments and suggestions on how to enhance our efforts and make a great school even better. Below are the days, times and locations for office hours in May and June. Faculty, staff and students are invited to stop by with their creative ideas and innovative solutions:
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26, in the Biomedical Science Research Building seminar room A
11 a.m. - noon. Friday, June 19, in University Hospital room 1H202
May 28: Farewell reception for Lindsay Graham Please join us in wishing Lindsay Graham well in his new position as executive dean for finance and administration, Division of Biological Sciences and Medicine at Brown University. The reception will be held from 3 - 5 p.m. Thursday, May 28, in the Ford Auditorium Lobby. Remarks to begin at 3:30 p.m.
May 29: Screening and Beyond, assays, hits, probes, leads...drugs symposium
The "Screening and Beyond, assays, hits, probes, leads...drugs" symposium will take place from 8:45 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. Friday, May 29, in Palmer Commons Forum Hall. Attendees of this symposium will hear about real-life examples of challenges and successes involved in small molecule and siRNA screens. For more information regarding the symposium's agenda and to register, visit the Web site. The symposium is hosted by Promega and the Center for Chemical Genomics, Life Sciences Institute.
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Seminars,
lectures, colloquia and events for next week
Wednesday,
May 27, 2009
11:30 a.m.
Department of Emergency Medicine Residency Alumni Grand Rounds. Stephen Schenkel, M.D., MPP, chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mercy Medical Center, assistant professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, will present "Revisiting Occam's Razor: Cases that Defy the Rule" and "Crab Cakes, The Wire, and Hairspray-Emergency Medicine in Charm City," in the MCHC Auditorium.
Thursday,
May 28, 2009 12:10
p.m. Gifts of Art. Jazz standards by Susan Chastain and James Dapogny, UH Main Lobby, floor 1.
1
p.m. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Seminar Series. Peter Lloyd Jones, Ph.D., associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, will present, "Matrix Signaling as a Key Determinant in Pulmonary Vascular Development and Disease," Cardiovascular Center Danto Auditorium.
Friday,
May 29, 2009 11.45 a.m. Depression Center Colloquium Series. Paul Costa, Ph.D., director, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National Institutes of Health, and Sandra Villafuerte, Ph.D., research investigator, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, will present "Personality and Mental Illness," in the Rachel Upjohn Building Garden Level Auditorium.
Since beginning the "office hours" program, Dean Woolliscroft has met informally with many faculty, staff and students who have provided him with valuable comments and suggestions on how to enhance our efforts and make a great school even better. Below are the days, times and locations for office hours in May and June. Faculty, staff and students are invited to stop by with their creative ideas and innovative solutions: 
Please join us in wishing Lindsay Graham well in his new position as executive dean for finance and administration, Division of Biological Sciences and Medicine at Brown University. The reception will be held from 3 - 5 p.m. Thursday, May 28, in the Ford Auditorium Lobby. Remarks to begin at 3:30 p.m.