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

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.

Celebrate Mardi Gras all week at Computer Showcase. Get great deals on an 11" MacBook Air or Dell Latitude or take advantage of everyday low pricing on any iPad in stock. Special prices also available for printers, cases and covers.

Celebrate Mardi Gras all week at Computer Showcase. Get great deals on an 11" MacBook Air or Dell Latitude or take advantage of everyday low pricing on any iPad in stock. Special prices also available for printers, cases and covers.

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.

Join The Career Center staff in an interactive workshop on how to make the most of your professional presentation. We will review some strategies for conveying your most important professional story components to employers in resumes, CVs, and cover letters. For this session we will particularly focus on how to present your story in interviews. We will examine how to make impact and tailor your approach depending on the industries you are targeting.

To register go to: https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Events/wssel.php

Only Grad Students/ Register Required

Seminar with Holden Ko, Department of Pharmacology

In this talk, Bhattacharya will present work in his lab using a potentially transformational approach to marine genomics and ecology referred to as single cell genomics (SCG). Although relatively well established with prokaryotes, SCG has only recently been applied to the more complex genomes of eukaryotes. Working with collaborators at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, SCG methods were used to generate draft genome assemblies from individual picobiliphyte (bacterial-sized planktonic protists) cells captured in the ocean. In contrast with the recent description of this phylum as photosynthetic, no evidence was found of plastid DNA nor of nuclear-encoded plastid-targeted proteins, which suggests that these picobiliphytes are heterotrophs. Genome data from one cell were dominated by sequences from a widespread single-stranded DNA virus, which was absent from the other two cells. These latter two cells however contained non-eukaryote DNA derived from marine Bacteroidetes and large DNA viruses that presumably are prey items. Therefore, our shotgun sequencing approach to uncultured marine protists revealed distinct interactions of individual cells. Generally, SCG offers the possibilityto gain access not only to the native DNA of cells but also to the DNAs of prey, symbionts, and pathogens associated with each cell. This seminar will also discuss SCG work with the Paulinella model that has begun to uncover the connections between phagotrophy, horizontal gene transfer (HGT), and primary plastid endosymbiosis. Ultimately, it may be possible to reconstruct HGT events at the level of individual cells and populations in nature.

Improving effective communication with friends, colleagues, family or supervisors often involves learning how to be assertive. This group will focus on defining assertiveness, understanding how it can change your relationships, and building skills to become more assertive in real-life situations.

This month's roundtable will focus on ways you can promote leadership development within your student organization and specifically highlight two university programs, LeaderShape and Leadership Connection, as resources to help you do so. We will share information on the purpose and goals of these programs, hear about the experiences and reflections of former participants, and discuss the amazing impact investing in leadership development can have on your student org.

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!

We hope to see everyone there!

Kenny Cupers is visiting assistant professor of architecture and 2010-2011 Reyner Banham Fellow at the University at Buffalo, where he teaches architectural history, theory, and urban studies. His work focuses on the social agency of architecture and the uses of urban space. Forthcoming books include a history of French mass housing and new town development, an edited volume that examines the problematics of use in architecture and urbanism, and a photographic reportage of the Parisian banlieue. His research on postwar modernism, participation, and contemporary urban issues such as the politics of street vending in Los Angeles has been published in Positions, Planning Perspectives, Cultural Geographies, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Thresholds. His work has been supported by numerous fellowships and grants, including the Fulbright, Chateaubriand, and Clarence Stein Fellowships. He recently co-edited a Footprint journal issue on agency and criticality in architecture and is the author of Spaces of Uncertainty (2002, with M. Miessen), an investigation into the ephemeral qualities of public space through the lens of post-wall Berlin. He received his MSc in Architecture from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), an MA from Goldsmiths College (London), and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

The 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.

This workshop will be for members of MESO. We will discuss how to best present your medical service trip experience to graduate schools and employers in the future.

The renowned soprano has performed on many of the great stages including New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she is now the Director of the Ryan Opera Center.

Learn needle-felting!

Please join us for a showing of the film "The Panic in Needle Park" starring Al Pacino and Kitty Winn.

“Their performance was filled with subtlety and wonder… the playing was breathtaking in its precision, dynamism, and agility…a thrilling encounter.” (The Independent) Regarded internationally as one of the foremost string quartets of the day, the Hagen Quartet consists of the two brothers Lukas (violin) and Clemens (cello) and their sister Veronika Hagen (viola), along with violinist Rainer Schmidt, who has been with the group for more than 20 years. For this return performance — they last appeared in Ann Arbor in 1998 — the Hagen Quartet presents a program of Beethoven quartets as part of UMS’s focus on musical renegades.

Program · Beethoven : String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 (1801) · Beethoven : String Quartet in f minor, Op. 95 (1810) · Beethoven : String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 (1809)

Join us as we welcome Shane Harris, who discusses the threats and challenges that will define America’s national security in the 21st century. An author and journalist, Shane Harris has spent the last decade writing about national security and counterterrorism. He is the author of “The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State,” voted one of 2010’s Best Books by The Economist.

Shane Harris, winner of the 24th annual Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, is Senior Writer for the Washingtonian, “the magazine that Washington lives by.”

Open Seating; Free Admission; Reception follows program

Wisconsin's Jeffrey Foucault writes sparse small-town ballads and love songs whose lyrics are great poems in themselves. "Townes Van Zandt, Greg Brown, and Kelly Joe Phelps fans should give Foucault a listen," says the Pasadena Weekly. The country rockers and dark blues songs of this Midwestern original are truly haunting things. Jeffrey has grown tremendously as a songwriter over the nine albums he has realeased, and by now he's gaining raves from the likes of supercritic Greil Marcus, who describes Jeffrey's music this way: "An acoustic guitar figure comes up against drums buried far away, like a memory. The story creeps out, and stops well short of its end, though you can glimpse it. Foucault drifts over the words so lightly that they seem to fade as they're sung, and you might stop trying to hear them as words, let them come as sounds."

Violist Maggie Snyder has performed as a soloist and in orchestras throughout the United States as principal violist, solo concerto player and under well-known conductors. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center, and has performed in Mexico, Greece, Korea, and Russia. She is currently the violist in the West Virginia Piano Quartet. with Katherine Collier, collaborative piano PROGRAM: Hindemith - Sonata for Viola and Piano; Bach - Suite no. 1 in G Major; Clarke - Sonata for Viola and Piano; Enesco - Concertpiece for Viola and Piano

The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) will host a dialogue, sponsored by MESA/Trotter, about the differences amongst African Americans and determining if color matters in the 21st Century. This will be an open dialogue for all individuals.