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Wednesday October 22 2008

Fall Fitness Challenge 2008 - 
(for U-M faculty, staff, grad students, and retirees)

Time:

N/A

Type:

Miscellaneous

Join the Fall Fitness Challenge 2008 and get moving! The goal is to MOVE for at least 30 continuous minutes, 3 or more days a week and maintain or lose weight and/or inches in the process. You take your own weight and/or waist measurements at the beginning and end of program (or we can take them for you). At the end of the program, if you are successful at moving and at least maintaining your measurements, you will be reimbursed the $15 registration fee and entered into a drawing for five grand prizes! The Challenge begins September 23, and lasts six weeks. For more information, call 734-975-3056 or visit our website.

Web:

http://www.mhealthy.umich.edu

Cost:

Registration is $15.

Sponsor:

MFit Health Promotion Division

Haiti - by Jane Evelyn Atwood

Time:

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Location:

Lane Hall

Room:

Exhibit Space

Type:

Arts Related/Exhibition

Artist's Statement - HAITI: I asked to go to Haiti for an assignment in 2005 - but that first trip was not enough. I needed to photograph Haiti in depth, for myself. These pictures were taken in Haiti between 2005 and 2007, in Gonaives, Jeremy, Port-de-Paix, Anse Rouge, Fatima la Coupe, La Pointe, Anse a Foleur, Sainte Anne, Chansolme, Saint-Louis du Nord, Sources Chaudes, et Bassin Bleu.

Web:

http://www.umich.edu/~irwg/events/exhibits/jaehaiti.html

Sponsor:

Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Additional Sponsors:

Arts at Michigan, Center for the Education of Women Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, History of Art, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute, Later American and Caribbean Studies, Law School Center for International and Comparative Law, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Rackham Graduate School, School of Nursing, and the School of Social Work.

Too Much Time: Women In Prison

Time:

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Location:

Art and Architecture

Room:

Slusser Gallery

Type:

Arts Related/Exhibition

Jane Evelyn Atwood is one of the world's leading photojournalists. Fascinated by people and concepts of exclusion, she has managed to penetrate worlds that most of us do not know, producing work that reflects her deep involvement with her subjects over time. In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. In her presentation, Atwood will speak about how she started and how she works, beginning with pictures from the prostitute series and including work from a story of the first person with AIDS in France to allow himself to be photographed for publication; a ten-year study of blind children; photos from Too Much Time (2000), her investigation of female incarceration in forty prisons and nine countries; and, finally, pictures from a four-year project on landmine survivors in Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Reception, Friday, October 24th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm http://www.art-design.umich.edu/news/?p=1093&aud=e&menucat=ne

Web:

http://www.art-design.umich.edu/ev_lectures.php

Sponsor:

Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Additional Sponsors:

Arts at Michigan, Center for the Education of Women Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, History of Art, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute, Later American and Caribbean Studies, Law School Center for International and Comparative Law, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Rackham Graduate School, School of Nursing, and the School of Social Work.

Google Earth on Campus: - 
How scientists can benefit from this mainstream technology

Time:

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location:

Biomedical Science Research Building

Type:

Conference/Symposium

The opening sessions of the Scientific Applications for Google Earth Conference. This is a meeting to bring together scientists from across the country and members of the Google community to explore how to use Google Earth and related technology to enable rich, new data interaction. No registration is required for the opening sessions, which are free and open to the public.

Google Earth, Google Maps and the KML programming language they share offer new ways of visualizing, communicating, and sharing data for scientists and policymakers as well as for hobbyists and novice users. The opening sessions will give an overview of the possibilities and share success stories. Speakers are:

--Thomas Zurbuchen, professor and director of the U-M College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship

--Ryan Falor, systems engineer, Google Earth education and outreach

--Tim Killeen, assistant director for geosciences, National Science Foundation (NSF)

--Dan Atkins, Kellogg Professor of Community Information in the U-M School of Information, Associate Vice President for Research Cyberinfrastructure and former director of the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure

--Sean Askay, Google Earth outreach evangelist

--Michael Weiss-Malik, KML product manager, Google

--Trey Smith, systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University West and NASA Ames Research Center's intelligent robotics group

Some researchers at Michigan are already making use of this technology. Perry Samson, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, has created www.tornadopaths.org. This mashup of data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Google Maps and Google Earth shows where tornados hit the United States each day. Samson has also put together several interactive air quality websites.

Conference organizers see applications in archeology, demographics, disease-tracking, climate change studies, urban planning and more fields.

Web:

http://googleearthconference.engin.umich.edu/index.php

Sponsor:

For more information, contact Thomas Zurbuchen, (734) 763-1021 or thomasz@umich.edu

The Infinite Landscape - 
Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection

Time:

9:00 AM

Location:

1301 South University Ave.

Type:

Arts Related/Exhibition

This exhibition will present some of the most compelling landscape images from the Museum's own renowned collection.

Web:

http://www.umma.umich.edu

Sponsor:

University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gypsy Pond Music X

Time:

12:00 PM

Location:

E.V. Moore Building

Room:

Outside at the pond

Type:

Performance

A multi-media sonic installation involving electronic music, light/movement sensors, and sculpture, all created by the Digital Music Ensemble under the direction of Stephen Rush. As has been the practice for ten years, the work is a result of careful study of labyrinths.

Cost:

Free - no tickets required

John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society

Time:

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Location:

Biomedical Science Research Building

Room:

Auditorium

Type:

Lecture/Discussion

Brewster Kahle, a leading proponent of open access to all knowledge, will consider the consequences of the consolidation of information into the hands of a few private organizations when he delivers the keynote lecture on "The Closing of Library Services... The Opening of Library Services." Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and director of the Open Content Alliance, has been a vocal critic of proprietary services like the massive Google Books project, which recently scanned its one-millionth volume from the University of Michigan libraries. Following the presentation, a panel of experts will comment on Kahle's ideas and discuss the possibilities of "Library 2.0" -- the next generation of libraries, which will capitalize on all that the digital age has to offer to benefit patrons, including social networking, 24- hour services, and user-created content. Panelists will be John Seely Brown, U-M alumnus, visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, and independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation; Paul Courant, university librarian, dean of the U-M Library, and professor of information, public policy, and economics at U- M; Jessica Litman, professor of law and information at U-M; and Kahle.

Web:

http://www.si.umich.edu/jsb

Sponsor:

School of Information

GROCS Wednesday Afternoon Tea

Time:

4:00 PM

Location:

Duderstadt Center (Media Union)

Room:

Design Lab One

Type:

Meeting

Served every Wednesday Afternoon in Design Lab One @ 4:00 p.m., Wednesday Afternoon Tea is an opportunity for you to share your project ideas, eavesdrop on others, ask questions, or just meet GROCS reviewers and former grant recipients. Everybody is welcome, you do not need to be part of GROCS.

Web:

http://www.dc.umich.edu/

Sponsor:

Duderstadt Center

Ta-You Wu Lecture - The Universe is a Strange Place

Time:

4:15 PM

Location:

East Hall

Room:

1324

Type:

Lecture/Discussion

Over the course of the twentieth century we have constructed a very successful fundamental theory of the behavior of matter. Viewed from this perspective, the world looks very different from our everyday reality. It is a very strange place, and a beautiful one--in particular, we've come to understand that the building blocks of matter appear as notes in a Music of the Void. Professor Wilczek will discuss this along with some recent discoveries indicating that the world is even stranger than we've understood so far, and how we're rising to the challenge.

Reception preceding at 3:30 p.m. in East Hall South Atrium.

Web:

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/physics/newsevents/special_lectures/

Sponsor:

Department of Physics

Guest Appearance: Ken Wolin, percussion

Time:

4:30 PM

Location:

E.V. Moore Building

Room:

Rehearsal Hall

Type:

Performance

Member of The President’s Own United States Marine Band will rehearse with Percussion Ensemble.

Cost:

Free - no tickets required

Careers in International Health & Humanitarian Relief

Time:

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Location:

Michigan Union

Room:

Kuenzel Room

Type:

Workshop/Seminar

Staff members from organizations and U-M faculty members involved in various aspects of international health and humanitarian relief will share the paths they took to reach their current positions, as well as discuss the key elements to preparing for a successful career in international health.

Web:

http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/events/fairsevents/icp.html

Sponsor:

The Career Center

Additional Sponsors:

The Career Center, College of Engineering, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Germanic Languages and Literature, International Center, International Institute, School of Information, School of Natural Resources & Environment, School of Public Health, The School of Social Work.

Global Careers in Information and Technology

Time:

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Location:

Michigan Union

Room:

Anderson RoomCD

Type:

Workshop/Seminar

Employers representing a wide range of organizations will discuss international opportunities relating to engineering and information technology. Speakers will provide insight into these careers and discuss ways for students to prepare for international opportunities within these fields.

Web:

http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/events/fairsevents/icp.html

Sponsor:

The Career Center

Additional Sponsors:

The Career Center, College of Engineering, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Germanic Languages and Literature, International Center, International Institute, School of Information, School of Natural Resources & Environment, School of Public Health, The School of Social Work.

Law School Applications Deconstructed

Time:

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Location:

Angell Hall

Room:

Aud. B

Type:

Presentation

Cornell, Duke, NYU, and Stanford Admissions Deans discuss application factors and how to showcase personal strengths in your written presentation.

Sponsored by The Career Center, Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center, BULA, DGP, MPLS, KAP

Sponsor:

The Career Center

Solemn Evensong at Canterbury House - followed by FREE supper

Time:

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Location:

Canterbury House - 721 East Huron Street

Type:

Religious/Spiritual

Solemn Evensong is a service of Evening Prayer, consisting of scripture readings, psalms and prayers. The service is particularly reverent, with incense, bells, candlelight, and chanted responses. Those who find themselves drawn to “high church” liturgy will find this service particularly appealing. Something different for Canterbury House!

Web:

http://www.canterburyhouse.org

Sponsor:

Canterbury House - Episcopal Student Foundation

Tim Killeen - 
School of Natural Reources and Environment Dean's Speaker Series

Time:

5:30 PM - 6:30 AM

Location:

Dana Natural Resources Building

Room:

1040

Type:

Lecture/Discussion

Timothy Killeen is Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and past President of the American Geophysical Union. Killeen came to NSF under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment in July 2008 as Assistant Director of Geosciences. Prior to NSF, Killeen was Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for eight years, and remains as a Senior Scientist in NCAR's High Altitude Observatory, where his research interests include the experimental and theoretical study of the Earth's upper atmosphere. He came to NCAR from the University of Michigan where he was Professor of Atmospheric and Space. During his tenure at Michigan, he also held positions as Director of the University of Michigan's Space Physics Research Laboratory and Associate Vice President for Research.

Killeen is Past President of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), a former AMS Councilor, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Killeen has served as President of the Space Physics Section of the American Geophysical Union, and on numerous NASA, NSF, AGU and university committees. He served as co-chair of the NASA Sun-Solar System Connection Strategic Roadmap Committee, and is a past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.

The lecture begins at 5:00 p.m. in Room 1040, Dana Building; a reception follows.

Web:

http://www.snre.umich.edu/lectures

Sponsor:

School of Natural Resources and Environment

The Trehan India Initiative at the University of Michigan

Time:

6:00 PM

Location:

Alumni Center

Type:

Lecture/Discussion

Ambassador Ronen Sen's lecture and visit will inaugurate a new three-year initiative on contemporary South Asia, entitled "The Trehan India Initiative at the University of Michigan." The initiative is made possible by a grant from Ranvir and Adarsh Trehan and the Trehan Foundation.

A reception will follow the free public lecture.

Sen was India's first ambassador to Russia following the demise of the former Soviet Union (1992-1998), and also served as ambassador to Germany during reunification (1998-2002). Since becoming ambassador to the U.S. in 2004, he has worked to strengthen the relationship between India and the United States.

Web:

http://www.indianembassy.org/newsite/ambassador.asp

Sponsor:

For more information, contact Maryanne George (734) 615-6514 mageorge@umich.edu

Teaching and Volunteering Abroad

Time:

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location:

Michigan Union

Room:

Pond Room

Type:

Workshop/Seminar

Programs for teaching and volunteering abroad offer a vast range of opportunities in fields such as health, social work, natural resources and teaching English. Positions are available for undergraduate and graduate/professional students, as well as for those about to graduate. Find out about some well-established programs and follow up with their representatives (and others) at the International Opportunities Fair the following day.

Sponsor:

The Career Center

Additional Sponsors:

The Career Center, College of Engineering, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Germanic Languages and Literature, International Center, International Institute, School of Information, School of Natural Resources & Environment, School of Public Health, The School of Social Work.

The President s Own Marine Band

Time:

7:30 PM

Location:

Hill Auditorium

Type:

Performance

Founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress, "The President's Own" United States Marine Band is America's oldest professional musical organization. Today, "The President's Own" is celebrated for its role at the White House and its dynamic public performances. Free tickets required, limit of 4 per request. General admission. Doors open at 6:45PM, all patrons must be seated by 7:15PM. For tickets send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Marine Band Tickets, League Ticket Office, 911 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1265.

Cost:

Free tickets required

UUAP Video Game Tournaments - SSB: 64 & Melee 1 v 1

Time:

8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Location:

Pierpont Commons

Room:

Rec Room

Type:

Activity

Test your gaming skills on some of the most popular games to win Best Buy or Meijer gift certificates!

Tournaments are FREE for all UM students. Typically we reward $50 to 1st place and $25 to 2nd place for 1 v 1 tournaments. For 2 v 2 and multi-game tournaments, we will have pairs of $30 and $15 prizes.

Hope to see you soon!

Web:

http://www.umich.edu/~uuap/programs/recreation/video.html

Sponsor:

University Unions Arts & Programs