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.

Bright colors, strong edges, and intersecting geometric forms are the hallmarks of Patrick Dengate's current studio work. Drawing from the tradition of 20th century Cubism, Dengate presents paintings and woodcuts with subjects ranging from Utah canyons, Costa Rican towns, busy rail yards, and ships on the Great Lakes. His work is featured in the recently published book Eyes On: Landscapes, a compilation of 50 contemporary painters from around the world. Dengate's work is on display in several corporate collections in Michigan and can be found in private collections across the US, Canada and Europe.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

David C. Turnley is a world renowned photographer, filmmaker, and University of Michigan Alumnus. He received the Pulitzer Prize in photography and filmmaking for his coverage of the Revolutions in 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Square in China.

In addition, he was twice awarded the World Press Picture of the Year, the prestigious Robert Capa Award for Courage, and four Overseas Press Club Awards.

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to view these twenty-five iconic photographs by David Turnley from October 4th – November 9th in the Gallery of the International Institute in the School of Social Work Building.

Mr. Turnley is also presenting at the International Institute's Symposium "Translating Human Rights: Bodies of Evidence".

After receiving a BFA from Rutgers University, Denise Rohde went on to study photography with renowned photographer Art Sinsabaugh at the University of Illinois. Working for years in a darkroom, the switch to digital allowed her to draw from her painting and printmaking experience. Being able to combine mediums digitally has unleashed her imagination. Denise moved to Ann Arbor eight years ago from Champaign, Illinois, and she has found Michigan to be an "eyeful." Some of her exhibits include the University of Illinois, Roulette NYC, Peachtree Plaza Atlanta and the Kodak Pavilion, Epcot Center.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Farmington Hills, Michigan artist Gail Rosenbloom Kaplan has a portfolio of work that includes trompe l'oeil clay, glass mosaics, printmaking, mixed media, and most recently, sand art. In addition to local gallery exhibitions and community installations, her work has been displayed through the U.S. Arts and Embassy Program and showcased in Norway, Barbados and Brazil. Kaplan presently works at Children's Hospital in Detroit where she creates art with children and adolescent patients to provide an atmosphere for healing. The Brillo Blox sand art sculpture is comprised of 12 cubes and is designed as a puzzle than can be assembled as an abstract sculpture. These puzzle cubes highlight the different pictures used in the advertising of Brillo over the past 100 years.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Born and raised in China, Mingshi Huang studied at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan, where he earned his graduate degrees. Huang travels extensively between the US and China and currently teaches at Nanjing University in Jiangsu Province. Recently, he completed several monumental, museum commissioned sculptures in China. This exhibition is a reminiscence of Huang’s work done while in Ann Arbor. Although his interests spread from representational to expressionist, Huang is rooted in a traditional ground. His figure paintings and landscapes reflect his masterful approach to traditional realism.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

This exhibit features portraits of and stories by Advance Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) who work at the University of Michigan Health System. Stories by these nurses with advanced training overlay their portraits with words. Led by Assistant Professor Laurie Hartman, this collaboration with Gifts of Art shines a spotlight on APRNs, explaining how in their work they conduct evaluations, order and interpret diagnostic tests, deliver various treatments and prescribe medications. Nurses, who tend to treat patients in a holistic manner, viewing humans across the lifespan as biological, psychological, social and spiritual beings, are consistently among the most highly trusted professionals in the nation.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Thomas and Sarah Gelsanliter are full-time ceramic artists creating unique handmade tiles and pottery at their studio, One Acre Ceramics, located in southeastern Michigan. Thomas received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002, and his intricate designs are influenced by historical furniture, industrial plate ware, and classic Arts & Crafts and folk art iconography. Sarah is largely self-taught as a potter and spent a year living in Japan, visiting studio potters throughout the country. She throws all of the pottery on the wheel, finishing and assembling each piece when partially dry. A palette of luminous glazes highlight the hand-carved designs and crisp lines, giving each piece a polished, radiant finish.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

This exhibit features origami artists who enjoy folding fractals, tessellations and corrugations out of paper - an area of origami that explores pattern and texture in art and design. Each artist approaches this in their own unique way, and their work highlights the variety and beauty of this little known branch of origami. The artists hail from around the US, and were selected for their expertise and artistry in folding these beautiful patterns. The show was curated by Beth Johnson and includes work by Malachi Brown, Tom Crain, Rebecca Harris, Beth Johnson, Chad Killeen and Ben Parker.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Visit the Michigan Union Art Lounge to see this exhibit of memorable campaign posters collected by the Library of Congress and featured in the book “Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art” (Quirk Books, 2012).

The back of each poster includes commentary and additional artwork; when visiting the exhibit, do not hesitate to turn any of the posters over to read more about the election that year.

Enjoy the exhibit and remember to vote on Tuesday, November 6th then join us for an Elections Results Viewing Party at 8pm in the Michigan Union U-Club.

The exhibit will be presented through Nov. 20 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Saturday hours are noon-7 p.m.

The gallery is open noon - 7 p.m. on Saturdays and closed on Sundays. Portions of the exhibit are presented at other campus buildings.

We will begin with an overview of The Bard’s life – his family, schooling, and other early influences as well as his career as a poet and playwright in fast-paced, vibrant London during a dynamic time in world history. We will then focus on the plays – how they came to be written and the (very colorful) theatrical milieu out of which they were produced. Jim Glenn has spent much of his life working in the theatre, with a special interest in Shakespearean productions.

Few deny our society bombards us daily with negative words and images regarding aging. But are we actively teaching age stereotypes to our children and grandchildren? We will explore and discuss both negative and positive messages in children’s literature. Learn how positive aging attitudes may extend life and how to help children view late life as a vital stage. All books discussed will be shared in class. Lindsey McDivitt has worked in stroke education for 25 years and has also written several non-fiction books about aging for children.

African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical, social, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art, National Museum of African Art, Fowler Museum at UCLA, as well as several Detroit area private collections, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things, Embodied Time, Moving Through Time, Global Time, and "NOW."

This exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition "Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire," which features the Clements collection's major painting "The Death of General Wolfe." William L. Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North America dating between 1492 and 1800, with a heavy emphasis on early European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items from Mr. Clements’s original donation and pieces the Library has acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in eighteenth-century American history.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan, Canadian, and British collections, this ambitious and thematically focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).

The Seoul-based art collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) is known for innovative video works that exist at the nexus of visual art and digital literature. Blurring the boundaries between media, technologies, and cultural histories, YHCHI has gained international acclaim for their "net art" productions-mostly black- and-white videos of quickly flashing capitalized text in a generic font with synchronized music. This exhibition will present a newly commissioned piece by UMMA, which will be added to the artists' website, yhchang.com.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional support provided by the Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Fund.

Visitors encountering Danish artist Just’s exhibit will find themselves captivated in stages, as the experience of viewing it unfolds over time. In this breathtaking installation, as in much of his work, Just situates the viewer in his signature landscape of beauty, provocation, and a general uneasiness that is as seductive as it is ominous. The storyline is at once deceptively simple and perplexing: a wheelchair-bound protagonist travels through a neighborhood in the outskirts of Paris to her apartment, while a young male character appears to follow her. Once home, she is able to leave her wheelchair but is overcome by a powerful seizure. One of Just’s unique strengths is his ability to engage the viewer in an open-ended, unresolved narrative in a manner that is more intriguing than frustrating. It is impossible to parse but equally impossible to abandon, and this is the essence of Just’s gift for hypnotic storytelling. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

In this workshop, you will learn how to efficiently input data, format your worksheets, and use formulas to manipulate and clean data. You’ll learn about sorting, filtering, tabling, conditional statements, and other ways to make data work for you. This is a hands-on workshop. Some experience with Excel is recommended.

Note: This workshop will use Excel 2010 for Windows.

All sessions are free, but registration is required.

A talk by Fabio Lanza, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Arizona State University. This presentation focuses on the history of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, an association of young students of Asia in the U.S., radically critical of U.S. foreign policies, but also of the structure of their own field of study.

Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!

Open to the Public

Cost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental)

Dr. Noa Noy, Professor, Department of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve, will be giving a talk titled "New functions for an old vitamin: cell signaling by retinol and its serum binding protein RBP"

Two experts who have written about and taught this subject will help participants increase their marital happiness. To achieve the greatest benefit, it is recommended that both partners participate. The topics include: understanding your own happiness expectations; communication methods that minimize conflicts and hurts; and work and play within the relationship. Please obtain “Maximizing Happiness Through Intimate Communication” by Marshall and Marguerite Shearer, both MDs, who will facilitate this class. They have obtained a wealth of experience through work with Masters and Johnson, giving lectures at University of Michigan and writing a syndicated column for the Detroit Free Press for 23 years.

Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm

Get ideas, learn strategies, and become informed about tools to better organize and preserve your personal image, text, and other digital files. The workshop covers commonly used computer file types but will exclude management of large datasets.

Sarah Wingo is a masters student at the School of Information. An IMLS grant provided support for her summer internship in the Department of Preservation and Conservation and the development of this workshop.

All sessions are free, but registration is required.

At the symposium, which is sponsored by the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center, researchers will present their latest finding on climate change and variability in the Great Lakes region.

Participants spend 10-15 minutes discussing the previous week’s events. They will be asked to present an item of interest, which is then discussed by the group. All opinions are welcome.

Class continues Tuesdays, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. September 4 - July 30 at TSRC. Facilitator: Irma Sklenar.

OLLI members will meet one-on-one with 5th - 8th grade Emerson students to learn technology in Emerson’s computer lab. Young students will help teach and practice digital skills, while OLLI participants share their experiences and wisdom. Experienced teachers/ technology educators will be available for each class. Participants will set their own goals and gain the tools needed to reach them, while also connecting with youth who are learning leadership, compassion, and collaboration.

Join us this semester for special drop-in classes.

All exercise classes meet in 3275 CCRB from 4–5pm and are only $3 at the door/no registration required.

You must be a registered UM student or have a Rec Sports membership to participate

Presenter: Kathryn Greiner, U-M Credit Union

In these tough economic times, having a good credit report is difficult but more important than ever. A negative report can impact both your ability to secure credit and also gain employment.

Learn about your FICO® score and why it matters more than generic credit reports. Kathryn Greiner, the UMCU financial guru, is back to walk you through strategies to repair your credit.

This event is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Credit Union.

Interested in advancing your government-focused career? Join the Alumni Association and distinguished alumni guests who currently work within the federal or state government, or government relations. Make new connections and expand your network, with light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments available.

October 30, 2012 06:00 PM A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104) Art + Architecture Building

Kristina's thoughtful, well-informed, and articulate assessments – heard on CNN, BBC and National Public Radio – in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, became the first public voice of reason to mediate the great storm's human and civic consequences to America and beyond.

Starting in 1992 Ford was Director of City Planning in New Orleans; in 2000 she won the Award for Distinguished Leadership from Louisiana's Chapter of the American Planning Association. Ms. Ford is a frequent speaker on urban affairs, and has appeared on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times and in Planning magazine. Prior to publishing The Trouble with City Planning, she wrote Planning Small Town America.

Kristina holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from The University of Michigan, and was, until her full-time entry into public service in 1983, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public Administration at NYU. From 2010 to 2011, Ms. Ford was Chief of Staff for New Orleans' deputy mayor in charge of public facilities, infrastructure and community development.

Refreshments Served

NPM’s Social Innovation Series brings top leaders to campus who cut across boundaries to provide innovative, practical solutions for society’s biggest challenges. At a young age, Daniel Lurie is an emerging voice for philanthropy and has started an organization called Tipping Point – named after the book by Malcolm Gladwell about how a small group of people can make a big difference.

Tipping Point has raised over $50 million to fund the most effective poverty-fighting organizations in the Bay Area. Tipping Point invests in groups that have strong leadership, clean financials, and the desire to work with an engaged funder towards measurable results in four key issue areas: Education + Youth, Employment, Family Wellness, and Housing.

Before founding the Tipping Point in 2005, Daniel worked and the Robin Hood Foundation in New York City and set out to adapt the organization’s model to fit his home community in the Bay Area. Through his new philanthropy approach, all operating and fundraising costs are covered by board members and each dollar raised is expended within a year; there is no endowment. Join Daniel as he shares his story and the work being done in poverty alleviation.

Join experienced political analysts, including University of Michigan faculty and alumni, for an informed and engaging discussion about the upcoming 2012 presidential election: the campaigns, candidates, and key issues, including “superPACs.”

Representatives from Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) headquarters in Torrance, CA will be showing a documentary about the North Korean crisis and about the North Korea people. The documentary will be showing REAL North Korea refugees and about what is REALLY happening in North Korea.

The representatives will also introduce the new SHIFT campaign LiNK is launching this fall. They will mention what it is and how YOU can get involved!

The event is free, open to anyone, and pizza will be provided!

Bi-weekly meeting of OSCR Ambassadors. This group is focused on volunteering at the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, and spreading the word about conflict resolution services.

OSCR Office

The man who told us the story of Alice's Restaurant really needs no introduction. But even listeners who know Arlo Guthrie's songs by heart may not realize how he has continued to experiment and explore in recent years. Arlo has performed with symphony orchestras, appeared in acting roles on television, written an award-winning children's book--and enriched his concert performances with the experiences of a lifetime. "Going to one of my shows is like fishing," Arlo says. "A lot of it is just being there." Arlo's brand new "Here Comes The Kid" tour celebrates Woody Guthrie’s immeasurable contributions to the landscape of American folk.

PROGRAM: Mozart - Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452 with Louis Nagel, piano; Prokofiev - Quintet in G Minor, op. 39 with Nancy Ambrose King, oboe; Bach - Trio with Nancy Ambrose King, oboe; Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders! with Daniel Gilbert, clarinet

Launching your PresentationÉPresenting your story in the job search á While format is very important when preparing a resume and cover letter, and tips for interviewing are also important, it is far more important that oneÕs resume, cover letter, and interview speaks to their skills, strengths, and interests as they relate to the specific position they are applying to. This workshop is designed to help students think about how they will present their Michigan experience on a resume and cover letter, and in-person.

Launching your PresentationÉPresenting your story in the job search á While format is very important when preparing a resume and cover letter, and tips for interviewing are also important, it is far more important that oneÕs resume, cover letter, and interview speaks to their skills, strengths, and interests as they relate to the specific position they are applying to. This workshop is designed to help students think about how they will present their Michigan experience on a resume and cover letter, and in-person.