Other:Campus-wide survey: U-SHAPE (open from October 2-24, 2012)
2012-10-19 00:00 - 12:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location - THIS IS AN ONLINE SURVEY
U-SHAPE, the first ever large-scale study of its kind, aims to understand the habits, attitudes, and perceptions of undergraduate and graduate students related to eating and body image. U-SHAPE is designed to gather important information about the ways in which individual characteristics as well as the campus environment influence students’ relationships with eating, dieting, exercise, and body image, and how these relationships, in turn, fit into a larger picture of student mental health.

The survey opens at 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 2 and closes at 11:59pm on Wednesday, October 24. Students will be RANDOMLY SAMPLED to participate in this important survey!

Exhibition:Bowling, Burgers & Dogs: Digital Color Photography
2012-10-19 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1
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

Exhibition:Brillo Blox & More: Sand Art Sculpture
2012-10-19 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1
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

Exhibition:Contemporary Cubism: Painting & Woodcut Prints
2012-10-19 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
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.

Exhibition:David C. Turnley Photo Exhibit
2012-10-19 08:00 | School of Social Work Building - Gallery of the International Institute
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".

Exhibition:Many Faces of Advanced Practice Nursing
2012-10-19 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
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

Exhibition:One Acre Ceramics: Handcrafted Stoneware
2012-10-19 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
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

Exhibition:Origami Tessellations & Fractals
2012-10-19 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1
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

Exhibition:Reminiscence of Ann Arbor: Oil on Canvas
2012-10-19 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1
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

Exhibition:Travel Through Maps and Narrative: An Exhibition on Travel and Tourism
2012-10-19 08:00 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor
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.

Conference / Symposium:SUMIT_2012
2012-10-19 08:30 - 16:30 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium
Register now for SUMIT_2012, the University of Michigan’s annual symposium to raise awareness and educate the community about cyber security. This conference presents a rare opportunity to hear seven nationally recognized experts discuss the latest cyber security trends and threats. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

Exhibition:“Nina Pagalos: The Art of Travel”
2012-10-19 09:00 - 17:00 | Art and Architecture Building
The exhibit “Nina Pagalos: The Art of Travel,” presented from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 19-25 in the Warren Robbins Gallery, celebrates the sensory journey of being thrown into a new and undiscovered environment. The gallery is on the second floor of the School of Art & Design.

Exhibition:Architecture+Adaptation: Designing for Hypercomplexity
2012-10-19 09:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1644
Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

Exhibition:Canan Tolon Installation: Time After Time
2012-10-19 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - 1010
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.

Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit
2012-10-19 09:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery

Conference / Symposium:Sustainability & Social Justice: Conflicting Urgencies
2012-10-19 09:00 - 17:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor Amphitheater
Economic inequity and poverty are a daily reality for billions of people worldwide. Climate change and other impending crises threaten ecosystems and population centers across the planet. Each of these crises demands immediate attention, but they are often in conflict. Which takes precedence? How can we address them both?

Join urban and regional planning faculty and students – along with distinguished academics and practitioners from around the country – for a one-day symposium featuring a series of round-table discussions and critical thinking. These sessions will allow us to debate and discuss – Is sustainability socially just? Is social justice sustainable? Can we advance both, in both theory and reality?

Lecture / Discussion:Electronics on anything: How thin film electronics can instrument the world
2012-10-19 10:00 - 11:30 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - Room 1500 EECS, 1301 Beal Ave, UM North Campus
Silicon electronics have revolutionized the processing and handling of information. The high temperatures required to create crystalline silicon devices, however, has limited the application of crystalline silicon to sensing systems that work in a small and mechanically rigid form factor. The development of inorganic and organic thin film electronics has launched a second revolution in electronics, granting the ability to process electronically active materials at low temperatures. This has allowed for two exciting opportunities: the ability to build electronic devices on the same size scale as the systems they interact with, and the ability to integrate electronic materials on a range of substrates including electronically active and flexible materials. Our group has been working on the hybrid integration of organic semiconductors and SLS laser-recrystallized silicon with active substrates to implement sensing, display, and mechanical actuation functionalities. In this presentation, I'll show how thin film electronics and the hybrid integration enabled by new semiconductor systems and process options allows for active and spatially localized control of systems that are typically used in a single element format. Using this capability we have demonstrated the electronic implementation of all five senses as well a new approaches to mechanical actuation in polymer materials and driving LEDs in display engines. In particular, I'll show how thin film transistors can be integrated with other active materials to build monolithically integrated microphones and pressure sensors, flexible sheet scanners, mass-based chemical sensors, high power light engines, and segmented polymer actuators. It is our hope that these devices will form some of the building blocks for future electronic systems and interface paradigms with application in a range of technological and healthcare areas.

Class / Instruction:Older Folk in Film–OLLI Study Group
2012-10-19 10:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
Although movies seem made for young people, you can still find films with sensitivity and insight about the lives of older people in different (but in some ways similar) cultures. While these films deal with the realities of aging, all are thoughtful, engaging and ultimately ennobling. The films we will screen are “Make Way for Tomorrow” (USA, 1937); “Tokyo Story” (Japan, 1953); “Away from Her” (USA, 2002); “Cloud Nine” (Germany, 2009); “After Life” (Japanese, 1999); and “Wild Strawberries” (Sweden, 1957). Bring lunch to the discussion following the screening, if you like. Ira Konigsberg is Professor Emeritus of Film, U of M.

Class / Instruction:Race and the Constitution--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location - First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw Ave
The study group will consider decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment and other constitutional provisions concerned with race. In the course of our discussions, we will necessarily also consider theories about how the Constitution should be interpreted and about the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system. Reading materials will be distributed either prior to or at the first meeting of the study group. Terry Sandalow is Dean Emeritus of the Law School and the Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Class / Instruction:The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
2012-10-19 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road, Suite C, Ann Arbor.
This study group will read aloud and discuss the three Theban plays of Sophocles. We will get to know something of the Sophoclean hero. He demonstrates, as Bernard Knox puts it, “that man’s keenest sight is blindness, his highest knowledge ignorance, his soaring confidence and hope an illusion.” We will watch “The Gospel at Colonus” and see excerpts from film treatments of “Oedipus Rex” and “Antigone.” The text is Robert Fagles’ “The Three Theban Plays of Sophocles.” Marilyn Scott was a lecturer in classics and great books at U of M and taught Latin and English literature at Community High School.

Class / Instruction:Writers Unlimited–OLLI Study Group
2012-10-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Each week, writers will bring in typed copies of their short stories, plays, poems, novels, essays, or freelance magazine articles. Fellow writers will offer friendly and appreciative criticism on all aspects of writing. Participants are asked to provide copies of their essays to share with the group. For 23 years, Joy Rome was a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Class continues Fridays, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon September 7 - August 30 at TSRC.

Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time
2012-10-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Exhibition:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire
2012-10-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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).

Exhibition:Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America through the William L. Clements Library Collection
2012-10-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Exhibition:Jesper Just: "This Nameless Spectacle"
2012-10-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Exhibition:YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2012-10-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Workshop / Seminar:Drop-in and Draw: Fridays in the Gallery
2012-10-19 11:10 - 13:00 | Museum of Art
This drop-in gallery class offers an opportunity to be more than an observer at the Museum. With the guidance of the instructor, learn to observe the works in the UMMA collections; experiment with proportion, perspective, line quality, value, composition, and personal style. No experience necessary; all are welcome!

$10 one-time drop-in fee (cash only), materials included
Pre-register for all 8 classes: $72 UMMA and AAAC members and UM students / $80 non-members, materials included. Register online at annarborartcenter.org.

Lecture / Discussion:Michael Lewis-Beck Talk
2012-10-19 11:30 | Haven Hall - 5670
Michael Lewis-Beck from the University of Iowa, will give a lecture about economics and the elections.

Exhibition:Dance on Screen Exhibition
2012-10-19 12:00 | Off Campus Location - Work Gallery - 306 S. State Street, Ann Arbor
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

Other:Noon Public Skate
2012-10-19 12:00 - 12:50 | Yost Ice Arena
Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!

Open to the Public

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

Other:Social Justice Series: Professor Maria E. Cotera
2012-10-19 12:00 | North Quad - Room 2185
Maria E. Cotera, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Latino Studies, speaks as part of the UMSI Social Justice Series.

Exhibition:Untranslatable!
2012-10-19 12:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Gallery
A series of dance improvisations for camera by Peter Sparling. Gallery hours 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Presentation:Carnegie Endowment Jr Fellow Program Information Session
2012-10-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Student Activities Building - The Career Center Program Room
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Each year the Endowment offers 8-10 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year.

Michigan students interested in receiving more information about the nominating process and this year's application should plan to attend an information session. Can't make the info session? Please email: Geni Harclerode (gmichaud@umich.edu).

Other:Engaged Learning Fair
2012-10-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Michigan League - Vandenberg Room

Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America
2012-10-19 13:00 - 16:45 | William Clements Library - Great Room
Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm

Class / Instruction:History of Modern Art: Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
The group will survey modern art, stressing its historical contexts, with slide lectures and discussion. Reading materials will be suggested and sometimes distributed. The class will be given by Roger Green, Ph.D., a former art critic for Booth Newspapers, who is now teaching art history at EMU.

Workshop / Seminar:Internship Search Boot Camp for Organizational Studies Concentrators
2012-10-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Weiser Hall
This boot camp is designed to help OS students become more confident in their internship search. Please note that there is a pre-workshop assignment that must be completed prior to attending. Contact Melissa Eljamal at the OS Department for assignment in advance of this workshop.

Workshop / Seminar:Senior Career Checklist
2012-10-19 13:15 - 16:15 | Angell Hall - Comprehensive Studies Program
This workshop will allow students to discuss and develop academic next steps and career plans with a CSP advisor and Career Center coach.

Exhibition:Clip/Stamp/Fold
2012-10-19 14:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Liberty Research Annex, 305 W. Liberty St, Ann Arbor
Researched and organized by a team of Ph.D. candidates in the School of Architecture at Princeton University led by Professor Beatriz Colomina. The team included: Craig Buckley, Anthony Fontenot, Urtzi Grau, Lisa Hsieh, Alicia Imperiale, Lydia Kallipoliti, Olympia Kazi, Daniel Lopez-Perez, and Irene Sunwoo.

This exhibition tracks the critical function of independent architectural publications that were the engine of an intensely creative period of experimental architectural practice in the 1960s and 1970s. Known as "little magazines," the periodicals that proliferated during this period appeared in response to the political, social and artistic changes of the time. The show includes manifestoes, pamphlets, building instruction manuals, and a survey of magazine covers as well as professional magazines, complemented by interviews with editors and designers of these publications.

Generous support for this exhibition was given by The Guido A. Binda Lecture and Exhibition Fund

Workshop / Seminar:Gone Google! Tips and Tricks for Email Part 2
2012-10-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Faculty Exploratory, 209
Now that you are comfortable with sending and receiving email, changing settings and moving around in your email, are you ready for more? In this hands-on session, we will focus on getting more mastery over searching in your email, including creating filters (“rules” in Outlook) that will help you keep organized. We’ll also open it up to other questions you may have.

If you have a laptop, you are welcome to bring it and attend even if you are on the waitlist.

Workshop / Seminar:LSAT Familiarization Course
2012-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Location to be determined
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. This course, sponsored by the UM Career Center and LSA SG, has been designed to offer University of Michigan students and alumni/ae an affordable opportunity to jumpstart their preparation for the December 2012 LSAT and beyond. Course details and registration at:

http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/article/lsat-familiarization-course

Class / Instruction:Stress Before and After the Death of a Spouse--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Trinity Lutheran Church, 1400 W. Stadium Blvd.
The death of one’s spouse forever alters the life of the surviving spouse, and introduces new and often unexpected stresses to manage. If there is a prolonged illness leading up to the death, there are added stresses. Participants will discuss how these unique stressors affect health and well being socially, emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually. Effective strategies for coping with stress, such as guided imagery, music, writing, diet, humor and exercise will be reviewed and practiced. Individuals in any stage of the bereavement process are welcome. John A. Bayerl is a retired school counselor and adjunct lecturer with the Leadership and Counseling Program at EMU and NMU. He is a recent widower.

Class / Instruction:The Birth & Growth of the American Musical--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Jewish Community Center, 2935 Birch Hollow Dr.
The group will look at the roots of the American musical and follow its development to the current time, starting with the European influence, continuing with American Yiddish theater, vaudeville and the African-American contribution. The second section will cover the musical up to about 1930and the last section will cover the mid-twentieth century until today. Please go to the OLLI website for more details. Barbara Mackey, PhD in Theater History, has taught musical theater.

Class / Instruction:"Religion In America: (A Short History)"--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road, Suite C, Ann Arbor.
The group will read and discuss this book by Jon Butler, Grant Wacker and Randall Palmer, three eminent historians of religion. It traces religious development in the United States from colonization up to the 21st century. While Americans have experienced massive cultural changes, secularization and exposure to a variety of beliefs, most have remained incurably religious. Facilitated by John Cameron.

Lecture / Discussion:Sustainable Systems FORUM #2
2012-10-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Dana Natural Resources Building - 1040
Come join us for our Sustainable Systems Forum series. The SS Forum is intended to explore topics of interest to those involved in the Sustainable Systems field of study, but all are welcome to attend these events. Speakers will present on topics in sustainability with opportunities for the audience to engage in the discussion.

SPEAKER: Dr. Jeremiah Johnson, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan

ABSTRACT:
In this talk, Dr. Johnson will discuss his experience as an energy consultant in which he developed renewable energy strategies and conducted market analysis for electric utilities. Several of the key concerns currently facing utilities will be discussed, spanning challenges with renewable integration, evolving utility business models, the response to regulatory uncertainty, and the impact of natural gas prices. Having recently joined the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the start of this semester, Dr. Johnson will introduce his plans for research at the Center for Sustainable Systems.

Lecture / Discussion:Google Lecture Series: Roger Ehrenberg
2012-10-19 15:30 - 17:00 | North Quad - 2255
Roger Ehrenberg (BBA '87) discusses the many turns of his financial career, from mergers and acquisitions to venture capitalist. A common thread throughout his career has been large-scale data, and he was an early proponent of "big data" venture investing.

He has been involved in seeding over 40 companies, including bit.ly, MyTrade, TweetDeck, and Wallstrip. He is the author of the business and technology blog Information Arbitrage.

A reception will follow the lecture.

Lecture / Discussion: Death of a Megapredator: Whitey Hagadorn, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
2012-10-19 16:00 - 17:00 | 1100 North University Building - 1528
Anomalocaridids were the first large predators, and are thought to have been ferocious consumers of trilobites and other prey that inhabited early Paleozoic seas. Like Tyrannosaurus rex, sabre-toothed cats, and similar apex predators, they first became known from a famous deposit - the Cambrian Burgess Shale. Aside from their iconic status, anomalocaridids also play an important role in our understanding of Earth history and evolution because they are keystone organisms. They are keystones because our interpretations of their biology and ecology, based on the morphology of fossils, anchor our understanding of how entire marine ecosystems functioned. Yet new finite element modeling, taphonomic, and mineralogic analyses of these extinct creatures seems to contradict the longstanding interpretation of the biology and ecology of these animals, suggesting rather that they may have been small, that their mouths were soft, that they could not close their mouth, and that they could not have possibly eaten trilobites. Similarly, analyses of malformed or "bitten" trilobites interpreted to be prey suggests that they could not have been deformed by the mouth or appendages of any known anomalocaridid. Analysis of putative anomalocaridid coprolites from the same deposits suggests that coprolites were produced by other animals or inorganic processes. Based on this new work, it is unclear if these iconic predators were really just small worm-suckers or whether they were early plankton combers. Regardless, this new data could substantially change the way we interpret the complexity of ancient ecosystems, the evolution of large arthropods and their kin, and biogeochemical feedback loops in organic-rich muddy settings.

Class / Instruction:i”¢Plan For Career Exploration
2012-10-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool)
This brief presentation is designed for students enrolled in a School of Kinesiology course. We will be doing a brief activity to get students to think about their potential career interests, as well as introducing The Career Center's resources to help students better navigate their campus partners.

Performance:Mark Webster Reading Series
2012-10-19 19:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends–a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

Film Screening:Silent Ozu: CJS Fall Film Series - Free Friday Screenings
2012-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Kraus Natural Science - Natural Science Auditorium
(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) CJS's Fall Film Series of 2012 features silent films by Yasujiro Ozu with professional benshi (narrator), Ichiro Kataoka, performing theatrical narration at each screening. Most films will also include a live music accompaniment.

A STRAIGHTFORWARD BOY (Tokkan kozÅ) (Shown with Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid")
A rarely-screened fragment of Ozu’s 12th film. Much of the film is missing, including the middle scene were the kidnappers unsuccessfully attempt to return the boy they snatched. It stars three actors who would become Ozu regulars: Tatsuo Saito, Takeshi Sakamoto, and Aoki Tomio (who took the stagename Tokkan Kozo from this film’s Japanese title).
(14 min, 35mm, 1929)

LIVE Music: Performance by Chris McNamara.

Performance:Carbon Leaf
2012-10-19 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI

Performance:Chiara Quartet storefront concert
2012-10-19 20:00 | Off Campus Location - 314 S. Fourth Ave., across from the Blake Transit Center

Performance:Guest Recital: Grupo Krapp
2012-10-19 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
The Argentinian experimental troupe comprised of dancers, musicians, artists and writers, will present its work Adonde van los muertos (lado B).

Performance:Sunday in the Park with George
2012-10-19 20:00 | Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
A musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, directed by Mark Madama, music direction by Cynthia Kortman Westphal. A compelling story about inspiration - in art and in life. League Ticket Office 734.764.2538

Performance:University Philharmonia Orchestra
2012-10-19 20:00 | Hill Auditorium
Christopher James Lees, conductor. Featuring Professor Christopher Harding in one of Mozart&##39;s most charming piano concerti, this program opens with a bombastically soaring Wagner overture and closes with four inspired tone paintings by Respighi. PROGRAM: Wagner - Overture to the Flying Dutchman; Mozart - Piano Concerto in A Major K.488, Christopher Harding, piano; Respighi - Church Windows Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 in the Lower Lobby.

Social / Informal Gathering:The Nightmare Before UMIX
2012-10-19 22:00 | Michigan Union
Dress up in your best costume and join us for pumpkin carving, a haunted tour of the Union, psychic readings, a hypnosis show and more! Our featured movie will be "Batman 3: The Dark Knight Rises," and we'll be serving a very special Halloween buffet!
