News in this week’s Inside UTMB column: “Environmental health in a disaster: Lessons from the Gulf Coast” is the topic of this week’s SCI Café, with UTMB’s Cornelis Elferink and Sharon Croisant presenting; Dr. Mariano Garcia-Blanco will be joining UTMB as the new chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology later this year; “Beat the heat” is the topic for this month’s meeting of the UTMB diabetes support group; Dr. Cris Berlingeri-Ramos will present “Wrinkles, age spots and skin cancer, oh my! Caring for our aging skin” on June 10 at the Lunch Bunch meeting; UTMB’s Center for Addiction Research was honored with a proclamation from the City of Galveston for its work with the Bay Area Council on Drug Abuse for National Prevention Week.