Calendar

See the online calendar and submit items at http://www.uthouston.edu/calendar/.

HIV: At Which Stage is it Most Infectious?” noon, May 3, University Center Tower 1414, James A. Yorke, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics, University of Maryland. Sponsored by School of Health Information Sciences. Contact Namiko.Burleson@uth.tmc.edu or (713) 500-3938.

Annual Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library Conference, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., May 8, School of Nursing and Student Community Center, on “Vanishing Bits and Bytes: Preserving Information.” Among featured speakers is Samuel Kaplan, Ph.D., professor and chairman, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical School, on “Digital Preservation of Journal Literature at the National Library of Medicine.” For information call (713) 795-4200 or visit http://resource.library.tmc.edu/Conference.htm.

“Pathophysiology of Back Pain,” noon, May 19, Medical School Building (MSB) basement 605, Michael Heggeness, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine. Sponsored by Baylor/UT Medical School at Houston Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance. Lunch provided. Please RSVP. Contact (713) 797-5740 or Karstena.Ockelberry@uth.tmc.edu.

Dean’s Lecture Series, 4 p.m., May 31, MSB 3.001, Irving Weissman, M.D., director, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center.

AALDP Nomination Deadline, June 1, faculty and administrator nominations for Academic and Administrative Leadership Development Program due to Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. See http://www.uth.tmc.edu/academic/aldp/AALDP_Brochure.pdf.