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.

Description: Dr. Joy Mutinda will explore how the performance of "strength" that is pervasive for many self-identifies Black women contributes to feelings of sadness, anxiety, and increased levels of stress. Particular focus will be placed on the complex relationship between food, weight, stereotypical images of black women, and the embodiment of strength.

Panelists:

Caroline Blaum, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School Chris Priest, Project Manager, MIHealth Marketplace, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

Moderator: Helen Levy, Research Associate Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Sponsored by: The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

For more information visit www.closup.umich.edu or call 734-647-4091 Abstract The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, is reshaping how insurance and health care are provided in this country. This federal law includes a critical role for states in expanding coverage and for local health systems in transforming the delivery of care. The panel will discuss health care reform from federal, state and local perspectives.

Helen Levy, Research Associate Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan will provide an overview of the Federal health reform legislation. What does the law say, what has already been implemented, and what is still to come?

Chris Priest, Project Manager, MIHealth Marketplace, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs will discuss the implementation of MIHealth Marketplace, Michigan’s proposed health insurance Exchange, and other initiatives in Michigan.

Caroline Blaum, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School will discuss the University of Michigan health system's experience with health care delivery system reform, including the Physician Group Practice Demonstration and the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program.

Speaker: Susan D. Page, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, U.S. Department of State

The International Law Workshop introduces today's most debated issues in international and comparative law and is intended for non-specialists. Speakers will generally talk for 25 minutes followed by discussion and questions. The Workshop is open to members of the University Community.

Whether you worry too much about school, relationships, or anything else, these sessions are designed to help you manage your stress and anxiety.

This year's Whittemore Lecture features a panel discussion on the topic: "Landmark Women in Landscape Architecture." The free event is from 5-7 p.m. in Forum Hall in Palmer Commons. The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is co-sponsoring this year's lecture with SNRE. The panelists are:

Barbara Faga, first woman to be principal designer in EDAW, and then on the board of the largest design build firm in the world, AECOM, when EDAW was sold to AECOM. Designer of the Atlanta Olympics site plan.

Linda Jewell, one of the four women landscape architecture faculty in the nation in 1975. Former chair of the LA programs at Harvard and Berkeley. Co-editor of the forthcoming book, "Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice."

Darwina Neal, first woman to be president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, first chair of the ASLA Committee for Women, longtime landscape architect in charge of national park service design and management in Washington, D.C.

Introducing Restaff to TCC resources, and content on our website that can help get them personally started on their job/internship search

Renegade filmmaker Charles Atlas (who worked extensively with the late choreographer Merce Cunningham) introduces his 2002 documentary The Legend of Leigh Bowery. Artist/designer/performer/provocateur Leigh Bowery designed costumes and performed with the "enfante terrible" of British dance Michael Clark, designed one of a kind outrageous costumes and creations for himself, ran one of the most outrageous clubs of the 1980s London club scene (later immortalized in Boy George's Broadway musical "Taboo"), and was the muse of the great British painter Lucian Freud. The film includes interviews with Damien Hirst, Bella Freud, Cerith Wyn Evans, Boy George, and Leigh Bowery’s widow, Nicola Bowery. Atlas will engage in audience Q&A immediately following the film. Co-presented with the UM Institute for the Humanities, which hosts Charles Atlas's video installation Joints Array in February 2012.

This program is part of the UMS on Film series designed to expand our understanding of the artists and cultures represented on the UMS season. Each film is introduced by a cultural expert and reveals something of the emotions and ideas behind the creative process. For more information, please visit http://www.ums.org.

Actor and comedian Chris Rock journeys across the United States and into India to explore the complex relationship that black women have with their hair and shines a light in the painful and expensive lengths that they go in the pursuit of "good hair".

This event is offered as part of the Eating Disorder Awareness Month Activties at UM.

New music for organ written by U-M composition students and performed by U-M organ students. PROGRAM: Zare - Ecstatic Prelude and Fugue; Smith - Meditation Prelude; Koziara - Fantasia for Organ; Daugherty - An Evangelist Drowns/Desert Dance; Albright - Nocturne from Organbook III; Stanton - Suite for Organ (The Beautiful River); Student Composers - Composers’ Quilt

Miss Tess is a Baltimore native and New York City-based songwriter and performing musician who tours regularly with her band, as "Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade." In addition to Tess's tasty licks and jazz prowess on her 1940s archtop guitar, the current lineup includes Will Graefe on guitar, Danny Weller on upright bass, and Matt Meyer on drums. Encompassing styles of vintage jazz, blues, country, and folk, Miss Tess draws comparisons to artists such as Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Peggy Lee, and Chuck Berry, but maintains a style all of her own, with mostly original songs. "She’s a musical chameleon, recalling at various moments Tom Waits’ barfly humor, the cabaret-rock of Beirut, or even the wink-wink wit of early Bette Midler," says Holly Hughes of the Blogcrtics site.

PROGRAM: Beethoven - Sonata no. 10 in G Major, Op. 96 for Piano and Violin; Brahms - Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120, no. 1 for Clarinet and Piano; Clarke - Sonata for Viola and Piano