The Division of Student Affairs at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce calls for presentations and panels for the Ninth Annual Student Affairs Research Symposium: Getting to Nine on 16 May 2012. The 2012 Student Affairs Research Symposium invites presentations from staff, students, and faculty nationwide on topics related to issues of theory to practice in our work with students. This year, we extend that collaboration to include initial work about accreditation, in order to share research and dilemmas. We strive to build a true dialogue around the application of theory to practice, and the ways that practice shapes theory.

View selected items from the world’s foremost archive of international radical social protest movements. "Social protest movements often involve intense passion, so expect to see some edgy and offensive items on display," says Labadie Collection curator Julie Herrada.

The Labadie Collection is the world’s largest publicly accessible research collection covering just about every 19th, 20th, and 21st century protest movement that can be documented on paper, from the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street. It has served as a resource for thousands of people the world over, from high school students to seasoned researchers, from young activists in search of their roots to documentary filmmakers unearthing eye-catching images. Books, serials, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, audio recordings, posters, and political buttons are all part of this eclectic group of materials.

View the exhibit during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Thurs 8:30am-7pm, Fri 8:30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1pm-7pm

Celebrate the 90th anniversary of the famed Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden, the largest collection of antique and heirloom peonies in North America. The festival features self-guided tours, cut-flower display in the Reader Center, peony-inspired artwork, and more. Or just come out to see the dazzling display of 10,000 blossoms during peak bloom. Free admission. Nichols Arboretum is open sunrise to sunset. For peony garden updates visit the Matthaei-Nichols website or Facebook page, or call 734-647-7600 for more information.

Two new archival collections focusing on acclaimed filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-1985) were recently added to the U-M Special Collections Library’s already substantial Welles holdings. Selections from the new materials, including correspondence relating to Welles’s never-completed film Don Quixote and several costume designs credited to Welles for The Chimes at Midnight, are on display in the Special Collections Library (7th floor, Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan) now through June 2012.

Special Collections Hours: Mon-Wed 10am-8pm, Thurs-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-noon, Sun closed.

All invited for a series of twice-daily, free staff-led tours of the U-M Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden, May 15-20 during the 2012 peony bloom season. All tours take place in the Arboretum, 1610 Washington Hts., at 12:15 & 7 pm. Due to unseasonably warm weather last winter and this spring we've moved the bloom time up. Today’s tours: 12:15 pm: Elements of Style - Demystifying peony forms and fashions; 7:00 pm: What’s in a Name? - Peony names of the past—the who, what, when, and why.

Two tours each day: 12:15 & 7 pm