Valerie Mann has been showing her work professionally throughout the US and in Canada and Germany for 23 years. She grew up on a large family farm in Indiana, went to University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana to earn a BFA in painting, then to MSU to earn an MFA in sculpture. Now working and teaching in Ann Arbor, Mann’s use and study of tools inspired this body of work. Used every day and sometimes taken for granted, tools are indispensable in the making of art. These favorite tools are beautifully designed and well-thought out for their specific job.

By day, Jean-Marc Fontaine is a molecular biologist, and by night and weekend, he is an artist. He spent his childhood and youth in Normandy, France, and his dream of becoming a scientist grew together with his imagination and passion for oil painting and drawing. After moving to the US in 1998, Fontaine became fascinated with sculpting. This self-taught artist explores funny and familiar subjects, with close attention to details in human anatomy. Viewers will meet French, Belgian, British and American characters. Fontaine hopes that “…these cartoon characters will bring a smile to patients (children and adults, alike).”

A driving force in Monte Nagler’s artist quest is to have others see the world in a finer light and to appreciate life a little more. He has the ability to make visible what others can only sense, sharing with viewers the emotional beauty he experiences. Nagler’s photographs, which have won numerous awards, are found in many private and public collections, including the Detroit Institute of Art, the U-M Museum of Art and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. He is also a noted writer, lecturer and teacher of photography and the author of six highly successful photography books.

By day, Jean-Marc Fontaine is a molecular biologist, and by night and weekend, he is an artist. He spent his childhood and youth in Normandy, France, and his dream of becoming a scientist grew together with his imagination and passion for oil painting and drawing. After moving to the US in 1998, Fontaine became fascinated with sculpting. This self-taught artist explores funny and familiar subjects, with close attention to details in human anatomy. Viewers will meet French, Belgian, British and American characters. Fontaine hopes that “…these cartoon characters will bring a smile to patients (children and adults, alike).”

Elizabeth Busey has been inspired by global travel to explore the forces that shape our world – growth, pressure, erosion and decay. Through this exploration, she highlights patterns from many disparate perspectives in order to celebrate their universality in the natural world. Her work is created by printing multiple layers of ink onto cotton rag paper, where a single linoleum block is gradually reduced with each color layer. Busey is a primarily self-taught printmaker who produces her work in Bloomington, Indiana on a press made of recycled steel.

Traditional kunqu, a genre of classical Chinese theatre, comes alive in the large scale photographs of Xu, Zengquan. The viewer experiences the personalities of the characters and the spirit of the dance, opening a window into traditional Chinese culture and history. Now a local practicing engineer, Xu was born into a family of 10 brothers and sisters, in Jiangsu, China, and discovered his passion for photography in his teens. His work has been published by the Smithsonian Institution. Gifts of Art is pleased to present this exhibition in partnership with the U-M Confucius Institute.

Darryl Baird is Associate Professor of Art at U-M Flint in graphic design and photography. This body of photographic work is a series of highly magnified plant sections offered as homage to natural life cycles and the inherent potential for beauty in mature forms. These images are a means to explore the cycles of all living things and a way to find understanding through the process. For this series, Baird used antique lenses and the now discontinued Polaroid Positive/Negative 55 film. His work is included in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas and U-M Museum of Art in Ann Arbor.

This year, Gifts of Art celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Employee Art Exhibition! This eagerly anticipated annual event showcases the exceptional talent and creativity of the people who work at the University of Michigan Health System, and for the first time this year, family members too! There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show, and a People's Choice award will be determined by the votes of visitors to the exhibit. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibition gallery, which will be hosted by Dr. Ora H. Pescovitz, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs.

Visit the Pierpont Commons Wall Gallery located just outside of the Commons Cafe to see this beautiful exhibit featuring framed photography of nature in North America.

​Photographs by Artists: Sue and Dick Rigterink

Artist Statement: These images communicate the diversity, characteristics, habitats, behavior, and beauty of the plants and animals with whom we share the earth. Rather than simply looking, we hope you will pause, observe and really see. By stopping movement, the patterns and grace of those around us are there for us to learn from, enjoy and protect.

The exhibit will be displayed until Friday, September 28th.

All pieces in the exhibit are for sale. Please contact the Center for Campus Involvement (uminvolvement@umich.edu) if you are interested in purchasing art from this exhibit.

Travel, an essential activity of human societies, has evolved into an industry with social, economic and environmental impacts. From pilgrimage and exploration to trade and tourism, advances in transportation have enabled new types of travel and created new places, some existing solely for the vacationer. This exhibition highlights changes in travel including information on early pilgrimages, exploration narratives, the grand tour of Europe, women travellers, World’s Fairs, the birth of the family vacation and specialized tourism using maps and narratives from the Library collections.

The exhibit "Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope" includes papyri and early printed books illustrating how the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems originally composed in the oral tradition, were first written down, edited, and eventually translated into the main European languages. This journey of transmission and interpretation throughout the centuries ends with the first editions of Alexander Pope’s renderings of the poems.

Visitors to the exhibit will hear a series of readings from the poems in the original Greek and in several other languages, including Latin, English, Dutch, and Spanish.

The exhibit is part of the LSA Fall 2012 theme semester, Translation.

Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

Visit the Michigan Union Art Lounge to see this art exhibit featuring landscape oil on canvas paintings from some of the most beautiful places in Michigan.

Exhibit: “Beautiful Michigan” - Landscape Paintings, Oil on Canvas

Artist: Anil Dhir

Artist Statement: For a painter, Michigan offers one of the most beautiful landscapes, whether here in Ann Arbor, up-north or anywhere else. These paintings are my attempt to capture some of the Michigan beauty. I believe that a great painting is a like a beautifully composed piece of music. My wish is to create a painting with a simple aim of honestly capturing the very essence of what I saw, and be able to make the viewer feel what I felt. (To read the full artist statement, please visit campusinvolvement.umich.edu, it is also posted with the exhibit.)

The exhibit will be displayed until Friday, October 5th.

All pieces in the exhibit are for sale. Please contact the Center for Campus Involvement (uminvolvement@umich.edu) if you are interested in purchasing art from this exhibit.

Please note: The Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) provides opportunities for student and professional artists to display work suitable for a general audience. CCI hosting an artist’s work does not mean we endorse the artist’s point of view; we recognize the free speech rights of our exhibitors.

Canan Tolon’s paintings and installations serve as visual records of the passing of time. Each swipe captures the gesture as well as the memory of the gesture, now already in the past. Each panel appears to duplicate itself beyond any final tally, proliferating in the room.

Upon first glance, Tolon’s constructs evoke a sense of freedom in their repetition. They appear infinite, suggestive of vast open spaces, like the modern landscapes viewed out of a train window, or the documentary film reels from the mid- twentieth century. They draw us in, inviting our dreams and interpretations. In this momentary introspection, we contemplate our own histories.

Then, like the first day of any highly anticipated tomorrow, after the proverbial summer full of expectation…expecting things to change, to be different, to be new again, we are struck with a profound disillusionment, stranded in a place full of promise that never delivers. In a turn, the world of photographic familiarity Tolon has created collapses in on itself. — Amanda Krugliak, arts curator

This Institute for the Humanities original installation was made possible by the generosity of the 2012 Kidder Residency in the Arts. The installation is based on Canan Tolon’s observations and experiences during her time in Ann Arbor, and many of the materials used are salvage materials from her visits to Detroit architectural yards.

Speaker: Dario Gaggio, Associate Professor of History, U-M

Has Europe's economic and political integration created a transnational European identity? To what extent is such identity compatible with others, such as national belonging, religious affiliations or ethnic ties? This lecture will address these questions by reviewing historical and current evidence and assessing the cultural and emotional dimensions of European integration.

The First 2012-2013 Thursday Morning Lecture Series, "Europe in Crisis: Issues Behind the Headlines", September 13 – October 24, will help us think about and make sense of the E.U.'s present political, social, and economic challenges in the current crisis.

Next Thursday lecture series (Nov-Dec): "The Supreme Court: Impact of Current Decisions on our Society"

Please car pool when possible

Central Student Government, in partnership with University Unions, presents U-M's own MFarmers' Market. Fresh fruits and vegetables direct from local farms will be available for purchase. There will also be chef demonstrations, tips for healthy and sustainable eating, samples, giveaways, plant sale and more.

Blue Bucks, cash and credit cards accepted.

The market offers fresh fruits and vegetables from local farms, cooking demonstrations, free samples, giveaways, recipes, a plant sale and tips for healthy and sustainable eating.

David Skeel, law professor at U.Penn., and Daniel Crane, UM law professor, discuss their research on the religious affiliations of the Supreme Court justices (7 Catholic & 2 Jewish) and its implications for the judiciary.

Thurnau Prof. of Dance Peter Sparling’s screendance installation, Clonal Renderings will be shown as part of: I know you’re there, but who am I?: Explorations of Identity and Place. This juried exhibition explores the intersection of identity and place. How does place shape identity? How does identity shape the places we choose to inhabit? Gallery hours 12PM-7PM

(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) In 1997, an episode of the Pokémon animated TV series apparently induced seizures in children, which led to the warnings that appear today at the beginning of TV animations in Japan by government mandate. This incident serves as a point of departure for considering how television screens (and televised animations) have come to imply a tricky combination of totalizing strategies and individualizing procedures, generating modes of affective attunement to broadcast and wifi systems that parallel to neoliberal governmentality.

About the Speaker: Thomas Lamarre teaches in East Asian Studies and Communications Studies at McGill University. Some of his written works include books such as "Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics" (2005), "Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription" (2000), and "The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation" (2009).

Gifts of Art is pleased to present a free demonstration and performance in partnership with UMS and the Confucius Institute. Directed by Cai Shaohua, the Suzhou Kun Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province will conduct an artistic demonstration and plain clothes performance of kunqu — classical Chinese opera — at the U-M Health System, offering a rare glimpse into the inner workings of this 600 year old art form. Kunqu is known for its blending of dramatic literature, soulful singing and elegant dancing. The genre is now enjoying a revival, blending classical stories and performance practices with contemporary staging interpretations and technologies, similar to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new, yet authentic, interpretations of classical English plays. An exhibit of photographs of kunqu by Xu, Zengquan are on exhibit in the Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 from August 20-October 8, 2012. View video excerpts from a 2008 production by the Suzhou Kun Opera on the UMS webpage under the Media tab. Ticketed performances by the group will be held at the U-M Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre on Sept. 28 and 29, 2012.

Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Michigan League Ballroom Learn more about Faculty Women's Club, founded in 1921. Membership is open to all University of Michigan women; faculty, spouses, partners and friends. This event starts the 2012-2013 season of activities. Renew friendships, make new acquaintances, and enjoy light refreshments while learning about the many events, activities,and special interest groups open to you as a member of Faculty Women's Club. We will have an informal book exchange: you may bring up to 3 books and adopt as many as you wish!

Annual Fall reception

Take advantage of an opportunity to meet one-on-one with the director of the KGI Postbaccalaureate Program to discuss your personal pathway towards becoming a physician.

LEARN MORE ABOUT ¥ important factors to consider when deciding on a postbacc premed program ¥ unique differences between postbacc premed programs ¥ opportunities to work in the bioscience industry of biotech or pharmaceuticals

Pre-registration required to secure a one-on-one consultation: http://careercenter.umich.edu/contact/makeappointment Go to "Special Services" and then "Pre-med Consultations".

This workshop will introduce you to the University’s extensive library system so that you can start using library resources immediately, and will provide an introduction to databases for conducting online research. This session will be taught by engineering librarians, with a focus on engineering resources. All students who are interested in learning about the library are welcome to attend.

All sessions are free, but registration is required.

Thursdays, September 13 - October 11 Dick Chase, Trinity Lutheran Church, 1400 W. Stadium Blvd. The group will read and discuss "The Windward Shore," a new book by Jerry Dennis. The author uses walks along the lakeshores and winter on the Great Lakes to meditate “on the ancient questions about mind and matter, time and attention, wildness and wonder.” Please read to the end of Chapter 1 for the first class. Dick Chase has logged several thousand miles of nature walking, and volunteers for the Huron River Watershed Council.

Climate change research increasingly focuses on dynamics among species, ecosystems and climates: better data about the historical behaviours of these dynamics are needed. Integration of existing data from ecology, paleontology and geology, but their integration is hampered by differences in temporal and geographic scales. One way of bridging these scales is through the quantitative analysis of geographic distributions, climate interactions, and functional traits, using sampling schemes consistent with the coarsest of these data (namely the paleontological and geological data). Using locomotor traits in terrestrial vertebrates in the present and the recent geological past, Dr. Polly will look at environmental sorting of species by their traits, the interplay between geographic sorting and evolutionary change in response to climate, and changes in species climatic niches.

Karl Schlögel, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Lecture Abstract: Professor Schlögel will discuss the problems of narratives of simultaneity. There is a spontaneous predominance of time and chronological order in historiography, for which entirely convincing arguments do not exist. Conventionally, time dominates. Professor Schlögel will question this dominance and discuss what might happen if historians respect the symmetry of time and space. The resulting epistemological consequences directly impact the question of narration. In his view, historians have much to learn from M.M. Bakhtin’s concept of “chronotope,” along with the great writer-philosophers like Musil, Joyce, Doderer, Bely, and Proust.

Participants are Samuel Bagenstos, professor of law; Nicholas Bagley, assistant professor of law; and Richard Primus, professor of law. The moderator is Richard Friedman, Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor of Law. Each member of the panel will give a separate presentation on different aspects of the decision. Students, faculty and staff are welcome. 

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., is President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organization. Mr. Ferguson served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He was a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, served as Chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, and chaired Federal Reserve Board committees on banking supervision and regulation, payment system policy, and reserve bank oversight.

Light reception following event

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., is president and chief executive cfficer of TIAA-CREF, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organization.

Mr. Ferguson served as vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He was a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, served as chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, and chaired Federal Reserve Board committees on banking supervision and regulation, payment system policy, and reserve bank oversight.

Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in April 2008, Mr. Ferguson was head of financial services for Swiss Re, chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corporation, and a member of the company's executive committee. From 1984 to 1997, he was an associate and partner at McKinsey & Company. He began his career as an attorney at the New York City office of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Mr. Ferguson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the Academy's Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and served on its predecessor, the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Mr. Ferguson is co-chair of the Committee on Economic Development, and he serves on the Board of Directors of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and Audax Health, as well as the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Institute for Advanced Study and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP and serves as co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Long-Run Macro-Economic Effects of the Aging U.S. Population. He is chairman of the Economic Club of New York and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Harvard University Visiting Committee for the Memorial Church, and the Group of Thirty.

Mr. Ferguson holds a BA, JD, and a PhD in economics, all from Harvard University.

Are you planning to attend the Career Expo on October 2nd and 3rd? Are you interested in getting feedback on your resume for your upcoming job/internship search?

Then, sign up NOW to have your resume reviewed at The Career Center by a career advisor or guest employer as part of The Career Center's Resume Review Nights!

Resume Review Nights will be held on 9/25, 9/26, 9/27 and 10/1 from 5-8pm, by appointment. Sign up for an appointment on-line at http://careercenter.umich.edu/contact/makeappointment under "Special Services" or call us at 734-764-7460.

Can't attend our Resume Review Nights? Appointments can also be scheduled daily (8am-5pm) through The Career Center's website.

For more information about the Career Expo, visit us at www.careercenter.umich.edu.

Oni Buchanan’s concert programming is often interdisciplinary in nature, directly engaging the intimate connections between the arts, and frequently including adventurous contemporary works alongside established repertoire, bringing works from disparate centuries into fascinating and enlightening conversation. In addition to solo programming, she has co-curated (with poet Jon Woodward) several large-scale, interdisciplinary performance projects.

Most recently, they commissioned a concert-length work for piano/spoken text/electronics from renowned electroacoustic composer John Gibson, which will premiere in Ann Arbor, and will be performed on tour throughout the 2012/13 season. The piece, called "Uncanny Valley" (after Jon Woodward’s serial poem of the same name), explores the phenomenon of "semantic satiation," searching through repeated poetic lines and musical forms for what is most uncanny, and most human, in both language and music.

Non-invasive techniques such as fieldwalking, geophysics, and geomorphology provide an 'urban biography' of this North African coastal town and an understanding of its economic growth in the Roman Period. Lecture by David Stone

Hear reports from U-M graduate/professional school students about their successful strategies for finding and applying to internships, either through formal programs or through creating one’s own internship.

Sponsored by the International Career Pathways Committee

The College Truth Tour 2012 is making a stop at the University of Michigan featuring former Presidential candidate Herman Cain and the band Quiet Drive

Completely FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Tickets are going quickly, and you must REGISTER for the event at collegetruthtour.com

Let’s face it; we currently have one of the worst economies for college graduates ever.

One-third of all young workers are either unemployed or underemployed, 60% believe they will be less financially successful than their parents and over half feel the United States is headed in the wrong direction. Do we need to be accepting of a high unemployment rate or a stagnant economy?

We believe the answer is a resounding, “No.”

There needs to be a serious discussion on how to fix this economy. How do we ensure that a student doesn’t walk across the stage to get their diploma and go straight into the unemployment line? This is not a Republican, Democrat, conservative, or liberal issue. This is not about any particular president, congress member, or corporate leader. This is about the facts. This is about the Truth.

Join this fun and educational discussion with Herman Cain!

Brought to you by Students for Healthcare Freedom

Join us for a Jazz music performance featuring Billy D. Scott and Colin Frishberg. Billy is a jazz pianist pursuing a master's degree in jazz and improvisation at the University of Michigan School of Music. Colin is a jazz bassist who is currently taking classes at the School of Music and LSA.

Some medical schools are starting to shift to a new Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format when vetting applicants. Attend this workshop to discuss the differences between MMI's and traditional interviews. Get an opportunity to practice with peers to gain experience with this new format!

Guillermina Jasso is Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her research focuses on immigration policy.

Co-Sponsored by: Fr. Gabriel Richard Lecture Fund, St. Mary Student Parish Ford School of Public Policy Population Studies Center School of Social Work

As part of the Hill 100 celebration, UMS is proud to present the Chicago Symphony, which opened Hill Auditorium on May 14, 1913 at the 20th Ann Arbor May Festival. This concert, conducted by CSO music director Riccardo Muti, marks the 204th Chicago Symphony program since its UMS debut, opening UMS’s 14th season in 1892.

The concert—and the Hill 100 season—opens with Wagner’s Overture to The Flying Dutchman, a work that they performed at that same May Festival the season that Hill Auditorium opened. Frequently heard in the 1920s, this piece has not been programmed on a UMS concert in nearly 35 years. Cesar Franck’s most well-known work, the Symphony in d minor, dates from the same period and rounds out the program. In between, CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates’ Alternative Energy explores the human progression through greater and more powerful forces of energy, blending electronic sounds recorded at Fermilab with percussion and orchestra.

We are thrilled to bring this very special performance to Hill, as it represents all that is UMS: proud history, brilliant performance, and a promise to inspire awe.

Program Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman (1843) Mason Bates: Alternative Energy (2012) Franck: Symphony in d minor (1888)

Agnieszka Holland, director. (101 min., 1993) Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic book, after the death of her parents in India, a young girl is sent “home” to England to live with a distant relative. She gradually uncovers the secrets hidden away in the estate, including a long-abandoned garden, and in restoring it she finds resilience and friendship.

Join us as author Max Holland presents LEAK, his fast-paced, scrupulously fact-checked book. LEAK reveals intriguing historical insights into Mark Felt, the fabled secret source known only as “Deep Throat,” whose disclosures to the Washington Post in 1972 helped bring about the destruction of Richard Nixon’s presidency. Holland will retrace Mark Felt’s steps during the crucial Bureau investigation of the bungled black-bag job in the Democratic National Committee Watergate complex offices. Open Seating; Free Admission; Book sales/signing and reception follow program.

Mariana Chilton, an expert on child hunger will deliver the Vivian R. Shaw lecture with a reception to follow.

Ann Arbor's harmonica wizard meets the cream of Brazilian blues

Peter Madcat Ruth is one of the best harmonica players on earth, a mainstay of Ann Arbor's blues scene since the 1970s and a carrier of tradition who learned his art directly from Chicago's masters of the blues harmonica. He's never stopped developing his music and taking on new projects. In 1998, Madcat started touring with the Big Joe Manfra Band, one of the hottest bands on the Brazilian blues scene. Madcat and the Big Joe Manfra band have now completed nine tours of Brazil and have played over 60 shows together, including three appearances on Globo International TV. Together they recorded a live CD entitled "Madcat Live in Rio," which has been released in Brazil on the Bluestime Records label. It's a whole new flavor of the blues!

David Skeel is Samuel Arsht Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvnia. His lecture will examine the relationship of ideas of justice and goodness as they flow out of Christian religious commitment. David is a member of 10th Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and has spoken for the Veritas Forum organization.

Interested in the National Bone Marrow Registry? Looking for a club to join with leadership & volunteer opportunities?

DO YOU LIKE PIZZA?

IF SO,

Join us at our MASS MEETING: TODAY, September 27th, on the 4th floor of the Michigan Union in the Conference Room 4016 @ 8:00 PM

Check out our website: www.michiganmarrowmatch.webstarts.com to learn more about us!

Once you get off the elevator the Conference Room is straight ahead & to the left