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.

Photo Competition Rules and Criteria

Criteria for entries: -must be a two dimensional image -submitted as a jpeg, gif, or pdf file -resoultion must be at least 300 dpi -image must depict or represent any or all parts of North Campus -Short description of the content and how it represents North Campus

examples of entry:

photograph, photograph/mixed media (2D), photoshop etc..

How to submit entries: -deadline for submission: March 5, 2012 by 11:59pm EST -One entry per person. Up to 3 images per entry, they shall be judged together.

-Submit entries to: NorthCampusPhoto@gmail.com

-add as a jpeg, gif, or pdf file attachment -include Submission Form with entry

Judging Process: The winners shall be selected by a diverse panel of judges. The judges shall select “Honorable Mention” pieces first. Then, from the “Honorable Mention” pool, the judges will select first, second, and third place winners.

Winners/ Prizes: Winners will be notified via email. All Honorable Mention Pieces will be up for display in the Duderstadt connector from March 12 - 16.

Prizes will be as follows:

First Place: $300

Second Place $150

Third Place $75

Honorable Mention will receive a small gift

North Campus

Preeminent American sculptor Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) is best known for his dynamic and monumental works made of industrial steel and salvaged materials that populate museum grounds, landscapes, and urban environments around the world. In addition to countless exhibitions and awards, in March 2011 di Suvero was honored with the National Medal of the Arts by President Obama in a White House ceremony. This exhibition, organized by UMMA and on view exclusively in Ann Arbor, features approximately 15 of di Suvero's rarely exhibited smaller scale pieces, or tabletops, from the 1950s to the present. The tabletops are not maquettes of larger-scale works but an expressionistic and engaging genre all their own, an outlet for exploring ideas relating to the calligraphic nature of form, balance, proportion, and movement. Drawing from numerous private collections as well as the artist's studio, the exhibition offers the opportunity to experience this intimate work in the Museum's ground level, glass-walled Irving Stenn, Jr, Family Project Gallery, adjacent to the two di Suvero outdoor steel sculptures on the Museum's grounds–Orion (2006) and Shang (1984–85).

This exhibition is made possible in part by the Office of the President of the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Health System, and Laura Lynch and Hugh McPherson.

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.

A one hour drop in workshop. Learn skills for managing your worries.

Thirty minutes of organ solo music. Bring lunch or purchase at the Crossroads Cafe. PROGRAM: Lemmens - Prélude in E-flat à 5 Parties; Jacob - Suite For Flute and Kyboard; Stearns - Service Sonata no. 1; Buxtehude - Double Fugue in G

Procrastination is a common problem for college students. It can compromise academic performance and increase stress and anxiety. This workshop will help students to identify causes of procrastination and develop strategies for getting started!

As part of the film series of the Winter 2012 LSA Theme Semester, Language: The Human Quintessence, we will show L'Enfant Sauvage, or "The Wild Child." This 1970 classic film depicts the story of Victor, a child discovered in 1798 living alone in the wilds of Southern France. When he was found, Victor had no ability to use language. This film focuses on his linguistic and social development after he was brought to Paris to work with Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard.

Screening of "Biutiful" with Javier Bardem on February 8th at 7:00pm in the Great Lakes North room at Palmer Commons! Partnership with the Spanish Club!

Rodney Dorsey, conductor. The Concert Band opens the winter term with a variety of repertoire that will surely bring warmth to the February chill. The cornerstone of the program is a wonderful transcription of Paul Hindemith\&##39;s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber. Another special highlight is a premier by American composer Andrew Rindfleisch entitled American Scripture. PROGRAM: Nelhybel -Symphonic Movement; Rindfleisch - American Scripture; Gandolfi - Flourishes and Meditations on a Renaissance Theme; Stone - Carnevale: Eight Minitaure Classics introduced by Igor Stravinsky in Pulcinella; Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber

The Brooklyn-to-Atlanta transplants of Girlyman scheduled their first rehearsal for September 11, 2001. After that, says vocalist-songwriter Nate Borofsky, "We realized that we wanted to have fun, to do what felt right to us, and to not take ourselves too seriously. We started out by calling ourselves Girlyman." Girlyman executes amazing harmonies that hint at the members' classical training. Their shows are miracles of mutually attuned nonconformist magic. Girlyman has collaborated with comedian Margaret Cho, who sums up this remarkable group pretty well: "They seamlessly blend folk, country, pop, and rock, and they genre-bend as fearlessly and flawlessly as they gender-bend. It's the music of my heart and soul. Girlyman is the future and the past and the present." Can the members of Girlyman read each other's minds? Sometimes it seems so. Onstage they often finish one another's sentences or burst into improvised ditties so tight they seem rehearsed. This longtime trio recently added a fourth member, former Po' Girl drummer J.J. Jones, who has become completely integrated into the group's sound, and they've been at work on a new album, "Supernova."

Recitations of John Cage’s paired "Lecture on Nothing" (1950) and "Lecture on Something" (1951), which explore the aesthetics of art, Cage’s concept of Silence, and the music of attention, in this case to rhythmically structured spoken texts. The "something" that is the topic of the second lecture is the music of composer Morton Feldman; the subject of the first lecture is self explanatory...

Come and enjoy the comedic stylings of the best comedians on campus. The finalists are Charlie Galagher, Nick Drew, Waleed Mansour, and Dan Gantman. They will compete for a $150 prize, trophy, and title as MI Favorite Comic 2012.