Michigan Classics is an adult summer softball league run by the Department of Recreational Sports. Anyone and everyone is welcome to play!

March 12-16: Team Registration May-July: 10-week summer season

Sign-up online! Games played at Mitchell Field

We invite you to browse panels about the scripts of ancient Egypt, indigenous languages of Central and South America, languages of Southeast Asia, and more – including the English language and language used in graffiti and comics.

This exhibit highlights the possibilities for exploration and discovery within the library’s collections, which are impressive on many levels. The sheer number of materials, including more than 8.5 million volumes in locations all over campus, and access to millions of digital books, journals and images, makes it one of the largest university library systems in the United States. The collection encompasses ancient documents written on papyrus, electronic journals reporting on the latest advances in science and medicine, and materials from nearly every period, culture, and way of thought in between.

Winning photographs from the North Campus Photography Competition will be displayed in the Duderstadt Connector Gallery.

Catalog Confessions launches the week of March 5 to coincide with the 10th annual Depression on College Campuses Conference.

Submissions will be gathered via selected Library bookdrops March 5th-16th and then digitized and displayed on the Shapiro Lobby screens during the month of April.

Cards and envelopes will also be provided at the following drop-off locations, Hatcher Graduate Library, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Taubman Health Sciences Library, and the book drop on the first floor in the School of Art & Design.

Share your secret beginning March 5th.

Video installation by Charles Atlas exploring time-based portraiture, the body, fragmentation, and movement of Merce Cunningham.

Related events: Film Screening of The Legend of Leigh Bowery by Charles Atlas: Monday, February 13, 7pm, UMMA Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State. (Presented in conjunction with UMS)

Brown Bag Lecture by Charles Atlas: “Video in Performance and Video as Performance,” Tuesday, February 14, 12:30pm, 202 S. Thayer, room 2022

Gallery Reception with Charles Atlas: Wednesday, February 15, 4:30-6pm, U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010

The gallery is open Saturday 11am-3pm and closed Sunday.

This is the first part of a two-part exhibition introducing exciting, recently acquired works from UMMA's collections gifted to the museum during the past five years. Recent Acquisitions: Curator's Choice, Part I presents a first look at artworks, mostly prints, drawings, and photographs by artists as diverse as Annie Leibovitz, Edward Steichen, and Rembrandt van Rijn. Carole McNamara, Senior Curator of Western Art, chose works that focus on some of the enduring and compelling themes that have occupied artists in Europe and America. One is the preoccupation with the human form as an expression of ideas, feelings, and sensations. This selection begins with the tradition of the academic nude study and progresses to embrace different genres, from both secular and religious contexts. Another selection-landscapes and cityscapes-are each opportunities for artists to speak to our relationship to the natural world-both in how we experience landscape as well as how we construct our own urban environments.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

The tiny dramas that comprise Robert Wilson's Video 50 contain aspects of his hallmark aesthetic: surreal or dream-like imagery, the absence of a linear narrative, the conflation of seemingly unrelated characters and micro-stories, and a mesmerizingly slow pace. Video 50 consists of a randomly arranged set of 30-second "episodes," a few of which feature notable French personalities of the 1970s-perfumier Hélène Rochas stares down a mugger, culture minister Michel Guy struggles to open a dresser drawer-and Wilson thought of these as miniature portraits or character studies. The creator and director of aggressively experimental theater, Wilson first came to prominence with works from the mid-1970s such as The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973) and Einstein on the Beach (1976). These lavish, unusually long productions broke and then redefined every convention of theater. In Video 50 his shorter time-based portraits explore the intersection of narrative and still-life, seductively dissolving the distance between viewer and subject.

Fluxus emerged in the early 1960s as a loose, international network of artists, composers, and designers-"led" by Lithuanian-born American artist George Maciunas (1931-1978)- that was noted for blurring the boundaries between art and life. Fluxus artists like Maciunas, Nam June Paik, George Brecht, and Yoko Ono, among many others, challenged the notion of high art by creating unassuming, often humorous objects and performances that redefined the terms of artistic production by demonstrating the idea that "anything can be art and anyone can do it." Because of their disregard for traditional artistic media, many of the objects in the exhibition are-often by design-acutely resistant to conventional forms of museum display. Variously conceived as carriers of ideas, absurdist send-ups of consumer products, and invitations to direct, playful participation by the viewer, these works attempt to undermine the idea that art is separate from the activity of living one's life. Through 116 works, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life will introduce visitors to the study and appreciation of art as an exciting and intellectually rewarding experience, and to the notion that art is something that can play an active role in their own approaches to life's essential questions.

This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art and was generously supported by Constance and Walter Burke, Dartmouth College Class of 1944, the Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal Fund, and the Ray Winfield Smith 1918 Fund. UMMA's installation is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Arts at Michigan, and the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Join us at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the dedication of the gardens in 1962. Travel back in time to view images of the conservatory, buildings, and grounds as they were 50 years ago; learn about how faculty and students have been using the Botanical Gardens for research, teaching, and learning for decades, including exciting current work by Associate Professor of Architecture Moji Navvab; and catch a breath of warmer weather in the conservatory with a spring flower display. Free conservatory admission.

Each workshop will provide knowledge and experiential practice of basic mindfulness skills. Mindfulness can help to reduce daily stresses, cultivate greater awareness of the present, and accept life's difficulties. Workshops may include: introductory principles of mindfulness, sitting and walking meditations, emotion awareness, and relaxation breath work. Students are welcome to attend any week.

Nourish YourSELF seeks to empower women of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, and health and wellness that affect them in an open, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all University of Michigan women of color – undergraduate and graduate, faculty and staff. This special session of Nourish is co-sponsored by the Coalition for Queer People of Color and will feature a panel of diverse women discussing the topic of feminism. Free lunch will be provided.

The Coalition for Queer People of Color is a group of Michigan students, faculty and staff all committed to building community around, and highlighting the lived experiences of, queer people of color. Click the following link for updates and more information about the Coalition for Queer People of Color: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Coalition-for-Queer-People-of-Color/304344932958637

Located on the 3rd Floor

Get ready to cheer on your favorite team for this years March Madness! Come out to the Pierpont Rec Space March 15th, 16th, 24th and 25th for a game day viewing party with FREE food and lots of giveaways. Don't forget the national championship viewing party on April 2nd. Follow us @uminvolvement for more updates!

Paul Rosenthal (Artistic Director of the Sitka Music Festival), and Linda Rosenthal (Artistic Director of Juno Jazz & Classics and the Lake Placid Chamber Music Institute) will talk with students regarding outreach and career building.

How in its emotional no less than institutional senses could settlement emerge in an early modern ‘world on the move’? The lecture explores the tensions between mobility and locality through the ways Sufi Islam responded to demands of settlement by preserving the migrant bodies of blessed men and the shrines, texts and rituals that surrounded them. Tracing how different Muslim communities located their sense of belonging, the lecture shows how religious resources were deployed to create new spaces of memory on Indian soil through the interplay of architecture and narrative as Afghan, Mughal and Hindustani Muslims constructed new homelands while remembering their distant places of origin.

The typical pattern of morphological evolution associated with the radiation of a group of related species is the emergence of a novel trait and its subsequent diversification. From butterfly eyespots and their various colorful rings to the diversity of shapes assumed by vertebrate teeth, seashells or horn beetles, this pattern of emergence-diversification holds for countless characters across most animal groups. Yet, the genetic mechanisms associated with these two evolutionary steps are poorly characterised. We have characterized some of the genetic changes underlying the evolution and the diversification of a wing pigmentation pattern in some Drosophila species. Our results show how a primitive spot of dark pigment on fly wings has first evolved from the assembly of a novel gene regulatory module whereby pigmentation genes fell under the regulation of a common transcriptional activator. The primitive wing spot pattern subsequently diversified through the sole changes in spatial distribution of this activator. These results suggest that the genetic changes underlying the emergence and the diversification of the wing pigmentation patterns are partitioned within genetic networks. More generally, this two-step model accounts at the gene regulatory level for the general pattern observed in animals and plants where morphological diversification mostly results from occasional novelties and infinite variations on these new themes.

Interested in global study in Germany? Not sure where to begin? Please attend our information session on Thursday, March 15 from 4pm to 5pm in G155 Angell Hall.

At this session you will learn about:

• The 2 CGIS programs available in Germany • Other non-UM options in Germany • Scholarships and Financial Aid

During the session you will have a chance to meet with a German Language Concentration Advisor and a CGIS Advisor, as well as U-M students who have participated on the CGIS programs. If you are unable to attend this session but would still like to learn more please contact cgis@umich.edu or (734) 764-4311 with any questions.

Conference Room D inside CGIS Office

“The impact of journalistic norms on the framing of Title IX and women’s sports.” Presented by Marie Hardin, Associate Professor of Journalism and Associate Director for Sports Journalism at Penn State University.

If you struggle to form connections with new people, then this session will be helpful to you. We will explore strategies for meeting new people and forming new friendships. Depending on the needs of the participants, we may also talk about ways to deepen the friendships that you already have.

This month's roundtable will help your organization use social media more effectively. Our guest presenter, Eric Heilmeier, will discuss how student orgs can use recent changes to Facebook effectively, how to create a brand and market using several different social networking sites, and creating and protecting your online identity. There will also be time to hear from fellow students and ask questions.

Light refreshments will be provided! We will continue our semester-long raffle for $100 for your student organization! Your student org will receive one entry into the raffle for every member of your organization who attends a Student Organization Roundtable. We encourage you to attend every Roundtable throughout the semester because the more you attend, the better chance your org has to win $100!

Laura Wolf-Powers is an assistant professor in the graduate city and regional planning program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches urban economics, economic development and community development. Her research focuses on metropolitan labor markets, job-centered economic development, workforce development, and the role of third sector organizations in urban politics and governance.

This lecture is part of PARG's Emerging Voices Lecture Series. P+ARG is comprised of research students in both Urban and Regional Planning and Architecture. Our main purpose is to enhance the social and academic experiences of research students in the college. We organize forums for sharing research across disciplines as well as casual social events. We also use the group as a platform from which to approach administrators and outside groups with our aspirations and concerns as a student body. Our most exciting project this year will be the extension of last year's successful "Emerging Voices" series of guest lectures into a day-long conference planned for March 2011. This conference will be interdisciplinary in nature, and is themed "The Lean Years: Infrastructure, Dwelling and Sustenance," where we will convene local and visiting scholars to discuss the future challenges and interesting constraints facing those who shape the built environment.

Building a strong community can be key to understanding your career options and uncovering great opportunities. Discover ways to identify, research, and build community to support your job search and career planning.

Closed - Collegiate DECA members

This program acknowledges and recognizes African American women and women of African descent on the campus of the University of Michigan. We hope to encourage women, both those who have shown great leadership and service to the surrounding community and those that have decided to take a humble yet important role in building the community, to continue being strong and dedicated to their individual efforts. The women being honored include students, faculty, and staff members from the University of Michigan.

RSVP by March 13, 2012 (see link below)

The Office of Multi–Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) and the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center offer grant opportunities to student organizations for the purpose of developing programs, events, & activities that foster intercultural leadership and strengthen community development.

Workshop participants will learn the following:  How to write an effective grant proposal  Information on program budgeting  Criteria for maximizing funding  Examples of quality grant applications For questions or more information, contact MESA/Trotter grant committee by emailing mesatrottergrants@umich.edu or calling the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) at (734) 763-9044.

Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery houses an impressive mix of artifacts, artwork, and natural history collections. This presentation will discuss the museum’s recent refurbishment in order to expand upon its role as a center for public education and to reflect the diversity of Glasgow’s civic museum complex.

De-stress before midterms with this workshop from popular dance instructor Sean Hoskins. http://seanhoskins.com/

Edilberto Moreno, M.D a physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. He is skilled at diagnosing and treating a wide range of gynecological issues and complete pregnancy care. Dr. Moreno will discuss the cultural shifts that have occurred in the field of OB/GYN, like reduced sexism and more focus on what the mother wants to happen during labor, etc. Dr. Moreno will be answering questions during this very discussion-based event. You can find out more information about Dr. Moreno at: http://mi-obgyn.com/dr-moreno.php

Mark Kirschenmann, director. An evening of contemporary, creative improvisation.

Want a new way to escape the hustle and bustle of college life? Let Images of Identities Improv Comedy group provide laughter that is good for your soul. One Thursday each month, join us for a night of laughs, food, fun, and surprises.