Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge
2017-09-12 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit) | Jewish Family Services
Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client. Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked, taking notes for the patients to reference. Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members. Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months. Must fill out application, background check, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here

Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network
2017-09-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Bryant Community Center
Volunteers help distribute food from the truck, "shop" with families, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families. Sign-Up Here

Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network
2017-09-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Community Action Network
Volunteers will help build academic success and confidence in the students they tutor. Tutors help with homework, reading, and enrichment activities. Tutor shifts also include time to hang out with the students during meals or recreation. These are good times to make meaningful connections with students, helping them become better students and community members. Your time and passion could make a difference in one's educational success. Volunteers must commit to one day per week for a min. of 12 weeks. Must complete application, background check, and online training. 60 points Sign-Up Here

Other:Recruiting New Members for Fall 2017!
2017-09-12 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Michigan
The LSA Honor Council is an undergraduate student organization dedicated to developing initiatives that aid in the promotion of respect, integrity, and personal responsibility. We also attend meetings hosted by the Office of Student Academic Affairs for students accused of academic misconduct. In our recruitment efforts, we prioritize the importance of forming a council composed of individuals with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. This spectrum of varied perspectives enables our council to more effectively address issues of integrity on our campus. This upcoming year, we are recruiting a group of motivated and dedicated LSA students who are interested in working closely with the deans, faculty, and fellow students to promote a campus culture that values integrity. This past year, we have accomplished this goal by hosting faculty department presentations, tabling events, and discussions of current ethical issues. Most recently, we hosted Dr. Victor Strecher from the School of Public Health to present a talk on “Designing a Happy Life.” Given the breadth of our activities, it is crucial that we incorporate students with diverse skill sets to maximize our council’s potential. We hope that you will join us next fall! Link to application: http://lsastudenthc.weebly.com/become-a-member.html

Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial
2017-09-12 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor
Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

Exhibition:Enter the As I See It Literary Competition!
2017-09-12 08:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
Arts at Michigan is seeking student literary works for the As I See It Literary Competition! Tell us about your University of Michigan experience in 200 words or less. Looking for inspiration? Check out the UpstART 200 archive (https://www.lib.umich.edu/upstart200/collections/show/) of historic or culturally significant work that is held by or related to U-M. A winner will be selected and will receive a $200 gift card to Literati Bookstore! First and Second Runners Up will also receive prizes. The deadline to submit works is September 21, 2017. Learn more and submit here: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/asiseeit/

Exhibition:Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University
2017-09-12 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Exhibition:Michigan Past & Present
2017-09-12 08:00 - 21:00 | Pierpont Commons
Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

Exhibition:Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger
2017-09-12 08:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Common Room
Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

Exhibition:Reverberations of Rebellion: 1967 in Detroit and Ann Arbor
2017-09-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby
The 1967 Detroit rebellion was a pivotal event in the history of the Motor City. While Ann Arbor may seem far removed from Detroit, the themes of 1967—housing segregation, media bias, student activism, and police violence—resonated here as well.

This exhibit, on display in the Hatcher Graduate Library North lobby through September 15, 2017, highlights the extensive archival resources of the Bentley Historical Library and the U-M Library’s Labadie Collection. These materials place the rebellion in the context of 1960s activism against racism and inequality in Detroit and Ann Arbor, and illustrate the significance and range of press coverage.

Exhibition:The Grandmother Tree Walk
2017-09-12 08:00 - 20:00 | Nichols Arboretum
Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

Exhibition:Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion
2017-09-12 08:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

Exhibition:Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context
2017-09-12 08:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Highlighting manuscripts and early printed books from the Special Collections Library, the exhibit commemorates the 500th anniversary of a pivotal transformation in world history. In 1517, Martin Luther, a professor of theology and a monk, published his scathing critique of indulgences, a church practice that allowed Christians to buy off time from suffering for one’s sins in the afterlife.

Issued in the provincial town of Wittenberg, Luther's call for academic debate and reform unleashed a series of events that led to the break-up of Latin Christianity. The Reformations that followed forever altered the lives of those in early modern Europe and beyond.

The late medieval German lands teemed with innovation. Novel forms of piety emerged, the demand for practical learning grew, more universities competed for students, and wealth from both trade and mining transformed social relations. The dissemination of texts and ideas on an industrial scale via the printing press reshaped communication, knowledge, and belief. In this context, reform—the renewal of a lost standard of the past in the present—became a battle-cry for religious, economic, and political change.

Audubon Room hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-6:00pm, Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm, Sunday 1:00-6:00pm

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

Exhibition:Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa
2017-09-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Taubman College Gallery
Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

Careers / Jobs:General Electric Company Day
2017-09-12 09:00 - 16:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector, EECS Atrium and FXB Atrium.
The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for General Electric on Thursday, September 12, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in the Duderstadt Connector, EECS Atrium and FXB Atrium.

Careers / Jobs:Consultations with UM Alumna @ Unilever
2017-09-12 09:30 - 11:30 | University Career Center office University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Are you interested in applying to an internship at Unilever inMarketing, Sales (Customer Development), IT, Finance, HR & Supply Chain? Are you interested in applying to Unilever's full-time Future Leaders Program?

Meet with UM Alumna Melissa Ehrlich to learn about all the great opportunities available at Unilever

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Lecture / Discussion:Exposing Fake News: But it is not What You Think
2017-09-12 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
A Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ms. Hosea was a BBC
correspondent for twelve years, one of the most trusted news organizations in the world with a worldwide audience of forty million people. Ms. Hosea spent almost three years based in the Middle East. She covered the Arab Spring from day one in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the uprisings in Libya and Yemen. Ms. Hosea also covered the war in Gaza and the massacre of Muslim Brotherhood supporters. She mentions she respects her colleagues and the work they do, but even the BBC is not immune to political pressures. In the U.S., Ms. Hosea is making a film on access to clean water and environmental justice. As part of her film, she was at the Standing Rock Camp, where media workers faced felony charges for covering events. Ms. Hosea is also working in Flint and the Navajo Nation, where people’s water was contaminated.

This presentation will provide insights based on her experience as a BBC correspondent on how certain subjects were covered, or not covered, and why.

This is the first in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2017-18. A variety of topics will be covered. There is one lecture each month, for a total of ten. The next lecture will be on October 10, 2017. The subject is Redistricting in Michigan and Other States: Should Politics Choose the Voters?

Careers / Jobs:General Electric Resume Critiquing, hosted by ECRC
2017-09-12 10:00 - 16:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
General Electric representatives will provide resume critiques on a drop-in basis in the Duderstadt Connector on Tuesday, September 12, from 10 AM-4 PM.

Please note that every effort will be made to assist as many students as possible during the resume critique session. To facilitate this, we will limit critiques to approximately 10 minutes per student. Given the time parameters and student interest on any given day, the line will be monitored and closed at an appropriate time to ensure a prompt ending at 4:00 PM. This is necessary as a courtesy to our employer hosts who have volunteered their time to support our students! Please plan your time accordingly.

Careers / Jobs:Northrop Grumman Company Day
2017-09-12 10:00 - 14:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for Northrop Grumman on Tuesday, September 12, from 10 AM to 2 PM in the Duderstadt Connector.

Careers / Jobs:Stryker Company Day
2017-09-12 10:00 - 14:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Atrium
The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for Stryker on September 12 from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM in the Duderstadt Atrium.

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine, which help improve patient and hospital outcomes. Stryker is active in over 100 countries around the world. Summer 2018 internships are available for Computer Science Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Biomedical Engineers. Stop by our table to get insight into some of our innovative products, while interacting with U of M alumni who now have an awesome career in one of the leading medical device companies!

Careers / Jobs:Introduction to Engineering Careers, by Symplicity
2017-09-12 10:30 - 11:30 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Advanced Training Labs 1 & 2
Engineering Careers, by Symplicity (formerly ENGenius.Jobs), is the career portal for Michigan Engineering. This is the same great system as before, just with a new name! Engineering Careers, by Symplicity, helps connect students and alumni with organizations looking to recruit Michigan Engineers. Students can use the system to research careers, apply to jobs, schedule interviews, conduct mock interviews, and schedule career advising appointments with the ECRC.

This session will be valuable to those who are completely new to Engineering Careers, by Symplicity, and wish to learn more about it. Through this interactive workshop, you will learn how to activate your account, conduct a job search, apply for positions of interest, and schedule interviews. Since employers posting positions on Engineering Careers, by Symplicity, are looking specifically for University of Michigan students, this can be a very effective tool for your job search.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Exhibition:Gloss: Modeling Beauty
2017-09-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen, Philippe Halsman, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And
artists James Van Der Zee, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.

Lead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Exhibition:Legacy: Art across Generations
2017-09-12 11:00 - 16:00 | Haven Hall - G648 GalleryDAAS
Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

Exhibition:Moving Image: Portraiture
2017-09-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
2017-09-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

Exhibition:Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
2017-09-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

Other:9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline
2017-09-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

Presentation:Biopsychology Colloquium
2017-09-12 12:00 - 13:30 | East Hall - 4464
How light modulates mood and cognition: is orexin a common mediator?

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar
2017-09-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
Dr. Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Scripps Research Institute, will be presenting a seminar on Tuesday, September 12th at 12 noon in North Lecture Hall, Medical Science Building II. The talk is titled: "Origins of Life- Giving Rise to Biological Chemistry from Pre-Biological Chemistry."

Reception / Open House:OS Sub Social - Open House
2017-09-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Weiser Hall - 800
We are excited to announce that our department is moved to a new location on the 8th floor of Weiser Hall. Our old suite in Ruthven Museum served us well, and we made great memories there, but we couldn't be more excited about our new space.
Weiser Hall is an active, tech-enabled hub that encourages different types of interaction across groups of people, geography, and disciplines, offering new opportunities to students. We have an open door policy with plenty of space for events, meetings, studying, and socializing!

Stop in to say hi, grab some lunch, and stay for a chat at our sub social on September 12th from 12-2pm!

Exhibition:The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding
2017-09-12 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
On view from September 8-October 14, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor), The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding is a group exhibition including image and video work by Terry Adkins, John Akomfrah, Shelagh Keeley, and Zineb Sedira. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Co-curated by Gaëtane Verna, Director of The Power Plant, and Mark Sealy, The Unfinished Conversation is grounded in the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932-2014), who devoted his life to studying the interweaving threads of culture, power, politics, and history.

Taking Hall’s essay Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse as a point of departure, viewers will be invited to think about how meaning is constructed; how it is systematically distorted by audience reception; and how it can be detached and drained of its original intent to produce specific or slanted narratives. Hall’s interdisciplinary approach drew on literary theory, linguistics, and cultural anthropology in order to analyse and articulate the relationship between history, culture, popular media, cold war politics, gender, and ethnicity.

By presenting the work of artists who bring into play time, memory, and archives so as to construct new readings of the past, the exhibition will lay emphasis on the idea that the “visual” is an assimilatory process continuously at work in the construction of cultural, political, personal, and national identities.

Co-curators Gaëtane Verna and Mark Sealy state that it is their curatorial intention to build a multiple moving/still/audio archive, an image map, a visual vehicle that will ferry the audience across the choppy waters of memory, images, and politics to an undeterminable, obscure, and un-chartable destination, where people often meet with a fatal end. The exhibition aims to take viewers on a journey in time, to bring them to encounter images, which act as both objects of art and ideas in flux, circulating in and out of the archive through the corridors of cultural re-construction.

This image map will be drawn by the work of Terry Adkins, John Akomfrah, Shelagh Keeley and Zineb Sedira, four artists whose practice is devoted primarily to commenting on recent socio-political events and situations and relating them to the not so distant past in order to help us understand the world we live in.

By stimulating our personal and collective memory, these works will show us how history agitates and causes anxiety in our personal lives and in the political realm as they will reveal the fact that national identity is not an essence or a state of being, but a “becoming,” a process whereby subjectivities are formed in the interstices between such binary oppositions as us/them, black/white, or native/foreigner, and that it is in those in-between spaces that marginalized people are the agents and subjects of many possible futures, imagined or real.

The thread that connects all these art works is the artist’s involvement with the significant social issues confronting humanity today and their profound desire to push formal boundaries in order to tackle them.

The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding is organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto in partnership with Autograph ABP, London. The exhibition is co-curated by Gaëtane Verna, Director, The Power Plant and Mark Sealy, Director, Autograph ABP.

Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.

Exhibition:Vital Signs for a New America
2017-09-12 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
On view from September 8-October 14, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor), Vital Signs for a New America is a group exhibition including work by Dylan Miner, Sheryl Oring, and the performance collective The Hinterlands. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Vital Signs for a New America uses a range of meaningful and compelling of community-engaged approaches to invite the public to join Miner, Oring, and The Hinterlands in speaking out and sharing stories; listening and re-learning; and remembering the past to imagine new possibilities for the future.

Active public engagement is at the heart of Vital Signs for a New America. Each work on view in this group exhibition offers opportunities to interact directly with the artists and their art. As part of the exhibition programming, the gallery will become a common space for storytelling and tea drinking with Dylan Miner; a bustling executive assistant’s office with Sheryl Oring; and a tactile, expansive personal archive with the performance collective The Hinterlands. Vital Signs invites the public to speak out, listen, and imagine new models for inclusive futures.

Dylan Miner: Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore
Saturdays, September 9-October 14, 1-3 pm

Dylan Miner, Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Michigan State University, is an artist, activist, and scholar. Miner identifies as a Wiisaakodewinini (Métis), the Ojibwe designation for a Native male of mixed ancestry. While conducting an oral history project with retired Anishinaabe autoworkers, elders shared the idea that “we don’t visit as much as we used to” due to the limitations of urbanizations, wage labor, and settler colonialism to name a few. In response, Miner was inspired to explore the methodology of visiting with an art gallery or museum context. Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore is a creative action where the public is invited to share tea and conversation with the artist, creating new friendships and maintaining social relationships within a specific time and place.

Sheryl Oring: I Wish to Say
Friday, September 8, 5-6.30 pm and 7-8 pm (two engagements)
Fridays, September 15-October 13, 5-7 pm

Nationally renowned artist Sheryl Oring’s belief in the value of free expression guaranteed by the American constitution propelled her to initiate I Wish to Say (2004-ongoing), a public platform that invites people to voice their concerns about the state-of-affairs in the country to the President of America. For this project, Oring sets up a portable public office — complete with a manual typewriter — and invites viewers to dictate postcards to the President of the United States, prompting with a simple phrase: “Do you have a message for the president?” Over the last decade, Oring has toured this project across the country and more than 3,000 postcards have been mailed to the White House. Taking place for the first time in Michigan, Oring will be working with students and volunteers at the Stamps Gallery and in the city of Ann Arbor to spark dialogues not just among artists and academics but also among the diverse public of Ann Arbor on their notes to the President.

The Hinterlands: The Radicalization Process Papers
Tuesday, October 3, 6-7.30pm: History is a Living Weapon (performance)

The Hinterlands delve into the past to remember and re-learn the cultural memories and collective histories of Detroit and Ann Arbor. A collection of boxes is discovered in the basement of a house on the border of Detroit and Hamtramck. In them, a rich personal archive of publication clippings, which appear to chronicle radical U.S. histories of the 60s and 70s. Using the archive as a performative platform, the artists invite audiences to engage with the materials contained in the boxes that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, real and imagined. The ephemera and memorabilia in the The Radicalization Process Papers takes audiences on a journey that navigates layers of historical accounts, art, politics, and cultural artifacts and asks audiences to examine the assumptions of freedom and democracy in popular American culture. Created and compiled by The Hinterlands in collaboration with historian and poet Casey Rocheteau and designer Ben Gaydos.

Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Spatial structure and the coupling of intransitive loops in community assembly
2017-09-12 12:10 - 13:00 | Ruthven Museums Building - 2009
Bring your lunch and join us for our weekly seminar

Careers / Jobs:Figure It Out: Internship Edition
2017-09-12 13:00 - 14:00 | University Career Center office University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
We are in the process of fine-tuning a brand new workshop for this year. But, we need your help! We want you all to be apart of the first few who experience it.

The goal of the program is to create a dynamic space to inspire your internship search.

After the 50-minute workshop, you will:
- figure out what you like and how to put it to work
- inspire and generate ways to gain experience
- filter through internships and experiences in Handshake
- understand informational interviewing and ways to expand your network

Class / Instruction:German Lab
2017-09-12 13:00 - 16:00 | North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500)
German Lab in Alcove B in the Language Resource Center in North Quad is open Mon-Thu 1-4 pm.

The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500, http://lsa.umich.edu/lrc/facility).
Go to the German Lab for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-231), if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4, do your homework in the LRC! Then if you get stuck on something, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck.
For more info: http://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html

Class / Instruction:National Issues
2017-09-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
This study group for those 50 and above will focus on domestic public issues of great importance. Topics will be selected by the class members, and teams of class members will facilitate group discussion using materials gleaned from the internet, recent readings, life experiences, and other similar sources.

Instructors Barbara Comai and Leo Shedden will lead these two hour discussions on Tuesdays September 12, October 3, 17 and 31, November 7and 21, and December 5 and 19.

Lecture / Discussion:ChE Seminar Series: Ali Mohraz
2017-09-12 13:30 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location - Research Auditorium
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of California – Irvine

Social / Informal Gathering:First Year Grad School Boot Camp: Grad Student Mixer: "Cookies, Coffee, and Conversation"
2017-09-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms
New College of Engineering graduate students are invited to attend this kick-off for a series of events that are being offered to introduce you to fellow first-year students, expand your grad school toolbox, network with older grad students and professors, and learn more about what UM has to offer.

For more information, please email avibereg@umich.edu.

Sponsored by the Materials Science & Engineering department, and the CoE Office of Student Affairs' Grad Student Community Grant Program.

Workshop / Seminar:Economic Development Seminar, Applied Microeconomics/IO: Financing the African Colonial State, The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor
2017-09-12 14:30 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 201
Abstract:
Recent studies on colonial public finance have pointed to the severe constraints to fiscal capacity building Sub-Saharan Africa, and to the inclination of colonial governments to avoid direct taxes when revenue from trade became sufficiently available. Although fiscal revenue was indeed a central pillar of the colonial state formation process, contributions from a widely used but invisible source of government ‘income’ – that of forced labor (or ‘labor taxes’) – have so far been left out of the picture. Exploiting data on labor corvée schemes in French Africa between 1913-1937 (the prestations), this is the first paper to provide estimates of how much this in-kind form of revenue may have enhanced colonial budgets. I show that in most places labor taxes constituted the most important component of early colonial state income. My results imply that studies on historical fiscal capacity building efforts need to make a greater effort to estimate and integrate this significant source of state income into their analysis.

Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Interval Management: A Future Air Traffic Concept to Increase Efficiency in the National Airspace System
2017-09-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall
Interval Management (IM) is a NextGen Air Traffic concept that leverages advances in communication, navigation, and surveillance technologies to enable an aircraft to space relative to other aircraft. Aircraft that are equipped with IM avionics will implement speeds to precisely achieve and maintain an Air Traffic Control (ATC)-specified interval from another aircraft (think of IM as “cruise control” for commercial flights). Improvements in spacing precision will ultimately lead to increased throughput in capacity-constrained airspace, thereby reducing system delays.
This presentation will provide an overview of the IM concept, starting with the problem the concept is addressing, and detailing the path to deploying the concept in the National Airspace System (NAS). There will be a specific focus on the development of control laws and algorithms for the IM avionics standards to ensure string stability, as well as the use of fast-time simulation analysis for verifying avionics performance in a realistic environment.

About the speaker...
Dr. Lesley A. Weitz is a Principal Systems Engineer in The MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD). Her current research is in advanced avionics for NextGen, including concept development, design, and analysis of avionics leveraging advances in communication, navigation, and surveillance technologies. Dr. Weitz is also the IM Project Lead, providing technical oversight for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Dr. Weitz’s contributions to the IM body of work include the development of spacing algorithms, string stability analysis of IM operations, and the modeling and simulation of IM operations to assess algorithm performance within a realistic environment of varying wind conditions and aircraft types.
Dr. Weitz received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 from the University at Buffalo and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2005 and 2009, respectively. She is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers. Additionally, she has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office entitled, “Methods and Systems for Determining Required Interval Management Performance.” Dr. Weitz is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and is the Chair of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee.

Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Double Feature
2017-09-12 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 335
We report on rubidium vapor-cell Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a 0.7 T magnetic field where all involved levels are in the hyperfine Paschen-Back regime, and the Rydberg state exhibits a strong diamagnetic interaction. Signals from both 85RB and 87Rb are present in the EIT spectra. Isotope-mixed Rb cells allow us to measure the field strength to within a ± 0.12% relative uncertainty. The measured spectra are in excellent agreement with the results of a Monte Carlo calculation and indicate unexpectedly large Rydberg-level dephasing rates. Line shifts and broadenings due to magnetic-field inhomogeneities are included in the model.

Workshop / Seminar:Mobility and the plebs in the early Republic: the example of the plebeian secessions
2017-09-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Angell Hall - 2175
Recent studies have demonstrated the extent of the evidence for mobility in central Italy, yet its implications for early Rome are relatively little explored. I will focus on the plebeian movement, normally seen in terms of an internal political dispute. Our understanding of the ‘Struggle of the Orders’ is conditioned by the idealising view of our literary sources, who look back on the early Republic from a period when the plebeians provided many of the key members of the nobility. However, if we see the plebeian movement in its contemporary central Italian context, it emerges as much more threatening and potentially subversive. The key plebeian tactic, secession from the state, is often regarded as little more than a military strike. Instead, I argue that it is a genuine threat to abandon the community, and secessions can be seen as "paused migrations." This paper also considers two other episodes that support this picture, the migration to Rome of Attus Clausus and the Claudian gens, and the proposed move to Veii by the plebs.

Presentation:Public Health Major Info Sessions
2017-09-12 16:00 - 17:00 | School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - 1655 SPH I, School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights
Learn more about the public health major and requirements for admission. Why should you study public health at Michigan?

What public health degrees does Michigan offer and what careers can you find after graduation?

These 30-minute interactive presentations are followed by time for questions and discussion. Register online at sph.umich.edu/undergrad.

Public health refers to all organized measures—both public and private—that promote health, prevent illness and disease, and prolong the quality and years of life for the population as a whole. Public health creates conditions under which people can live a healthy lifestyle and, when treatment is necessary, it ensures equitable access to safe and effective health care.

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, we offer engaged learning opportunities through interdisciplinary education with top faculty, access to innovative laboratory and field settings, and community-based and entrepreneurial training. We provide Michigan students with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed as leaders in the field of public health

Film Screening:Selma film screening and discussion
2017-09-12 16:00 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, room #100
The Institute for the Humanities, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the English Language Institute present a free screening of the critically acclaimed film Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay and based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. A short introduction to the film and its historical context will precede the screening at 4:10pm, and a discussion with graduate students Maryam Aziz (American Culture), David Hutchinson (History), and Tara Weinberg (History) will follow at 6:30pm.

Presented in conjunction with "Marching Forward: Social Justice Then and Now" series of events, projects, and resources associated with Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s visit to the University of Michigan on September 21, 2017. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/marchingforward/

Film Screening:Selma Screening and Discussion
2017-09-12 16:00 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100, Gallery
Please join us for a screening and a discussion with graduate students Maryam Aziz (American Culture), David Hutchinson (History), and Tara Weinberg (History).

Meeting:Board Fellowship Program Info Session
2017-09-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Ross School of Business - R2210
Learn how you can prepare for mission-driven leadership with project management and executive skills as a board member of a nonprofit like United Way or Ann Arbor SPARK. Hear details about this year’s participating partner organizations, the fellowship, and the board-level strategic project you complete as a Board Fellow.

All applicants must attend one of the two scheduled information sessions at Ross or the Ford School.

Careers / Jobs:General Electric Informational Session
2017-09-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109
General Electric (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. As of 2016, the company operates through the following segments: Aviation, Current, Digital, Energy Connections, Global Research, Healthcare, Lighting, Oil and Gas, Power, Renewable Energy, Transportation, and Capital which cater to the needs of Financial services, Medical devices, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Software Development and Engineering industries. Come listen as GE recruiters discuss the company's future ventures and opportunities within the company. Dinner will be provided. Contact: zhouamy@umich.edu

Other:GRIN Fall Welcome Party at North Campus
2017-09-12 17:00 - 18:30 | LEC Johnson Rooms A&B
The new semester is approaching and we will host our welcome party again! Both in North and Central campus. Let's get reconnected with familiar faces and new graduate students! A chance to win free GRIN T-shirts ;)

Please RSVP: https://goo.gl/vLUUjV

Lecture / Discussion:Schokoladenstunde
2017-09-12 17:00 - 18:00 | North Quad - Language Resource Center
Schokoladenstunde will take place twice per week: Tuesdays between 5-6 p.m. with Mary Gell, and Wednesdays from 2-3 p.m. with Silvia Grzeskowiak, in the Language Resource Center in North Quad. The group will meet in the seating area between the two computer classrooms.

As the name promises, chocolate will be available. Silvia and Mary will be bringing games to the Schokoladenstunde. The hour will be spent chatting and playing games in German (e.g. Tabu). Students at all levels are welcome.

Careers / Jobs:The U.S. Job Search: A Guide for International Students
2017-09-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1200 EECS
International students have a lot to offer employers, including cross-cultural skills, diversity, a global perspective, and language skills. However, conducting a job search in the U.S. can be quite challenging. This workshop is designed to give international students the knowledge and resources they need to conduct an effective job search. At this workshop, you will learn the possible differences between your home country and the U.S. with respect to resumes and interviews. You will also hear tips on how to find companies who are open to sponsoring visas. Finally, a representative from the International Center will discuss the various work visas available to international students, as well as give guidance on how to answer the work authorization questions on Engineering Careers, by Symplicity.

Other:UM-HSP Introduction to Hospital Pharmacy
2017-09-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Walgreens Lab in the College of Pharmacy
Are you looking for more exposure to the career pathways to health-system pharmacy? If so, attend UM-HSP's Introduction to Hospital Pharmacy event to learn more about career options in health-system pharmacy! Note: This is NOT a PPSO-sponsored event, so there will be no points awarded for attending.

Meeting:AIESEC Info Session
2017-09-12 18:00 - 18:30 | Mason Hall
Join our Info Session to find out more about what AIESEC is and how you can take part in the worldwide youth movement! Work with real companies and customers, and discover the effect of international experiences. Applications are due September 17th at midnight: bit.ly/aiesecfallrecruitment

Class / Instruction:Cognition and Emotion in Aging
2017-09-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
A series of TED-style talks (followed by Q&A/discussion) with researchers at UM not just about their own studies but the “bigger picture” related to their research on aging. Most focus on attention, memory, and emotion. No materials to purchase; occasional advance or follow-up readings may be distributed by email.

This course for those 50 and above will feature several researchers at the University of Michigan who use a variety of behavioral and neuroscience techniques to explore the basic principles of attention, memory, and emotion, and how those functions may change as we get older.

The study group will meet for two hours on Tuesdays from September 12 - November 7(except on October 17).

Careers / Jobs:Eli Lilly and Company Informational Session
2017-09-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1005
Eli Lilly and Company is an American global pharmaceutical company with headquarters located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States. Lilly strives to help people live longer, healthier, more active lives and has been recognized by Forbes and Fortune, among others, as a top workplace. Come listen as Eli Lilly recruiters discuss the company's future ventures and opportunities within the company. Dinner will be provided. Contact: zhouamy@umich.edu

Workshop / Seminar:GRE Prep Information Session
2017-09-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Mason Hall - 1449
Join us as we discuss the CSP Kaplan GRE Program in detail regarding the program structure, Kaplan data from previous academic terms, application requirements, and review specific application components. This event is for interested CSP junior and senior students only.

Lecture / Discussion:The Evolution of Beekeeping: History, Making, and Use of Skeps
2017-09-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
A presentation on skeps by Roger Sutherland, professor emeritus at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Skeps are beehives made of coiled straw, with a single opening at the bottom. This technique for making beehives has been largely discarded because of the difficulty of accessing the bees and hive for inspection. Presenter: Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers. Free.

Presentation:The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series presents Daniel Pink
2017-09-12 18:30 - 19:45 | Hill Auditorium
We’re pleased to welcome Daniel Pink, author of New York Times best-sellers A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell is Human, to speak at Hill Auditorium. Pink was named one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and his TED Talk on the science of motivation is one of the most-watched of all time with more than 19 million views. During his presentation, “The Mind of the Future: How to Survive an Outsourced, Automated Age,” Pink will discuss the shift from the information age to the conceptual age and how to prepare for the future world of work.

This event is free and open to the public.

Lecture / Discussion:Bioethics Discussion: First, do no harm
2017-09-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 2185
A roundtable discussion on the basis of medical care.

Essays to consider:
"The Hippocratic Oath"
"The nocebo effect of informed consent"
"The doctor-patient relationship in different cultures"

For more information and to receive a copy of the essays, please contact belmont@umich.edu.

Other:Fall 2017 Mass Meeting
2017-09-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Angell Hall
Join Kappa Alpha Pi Pre-Law Fraternity for our annual fall mass meeting!

Social / Informal Gathering:IASA Freshman Kickoff
2017-09-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Michigan League
Join IASA in the Michigan League for some fun and games with other freshman! This is a great opportunity to meet some new people and play games like trivia and family feud!

Exercise / Fitness:MLift Info Meeting
2017-09-12 19:00 - 20:00 | 3440 Mason Hall
Come see what MLift is all about in our first introduction meeting of the semester! MLift provides an inclusive environment for students with an interest in strength training to come together and discuss interesting topics in the health and fitness world while fostering an atmosphere of acceptance and community in the weight room.A second info meeting will be held on Thursday, October 14 in Mason Hall room 1339 for those of you who cannot make the first info meeting!

Rally / Mass Meeting:optiMize Mass Meeting
2017-09-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Innovate Blue
OptiMize: Mass Meeting #1 OptiMize: Mass Meeting #2 OptiMize: Mass Meeting #3We’re recruiting our next cohort of social innovators who want to take action on an issue they care about through the optiMize Social Innovation Challenge. Come grab dinner with us, meet some of our optiMize community members, and learn how you could receive up to $20,000 to turn your ideas into impact at our Mass Meeting.

Other:Fall Mass Meeting
2017-09-12 20:00 - 21:00 | Mason Hall
Attend our mass meeting to meet the PPSO Executive Board and learn more about the organization!

Performance:Guest Recital: Winston Choi, piano
2017-09-12 20:00 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
Canadian pianist Winston Choi is the head of the piano program at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts. His professional career was launched when he was named laureate of the 2003 Honens Piano Competition and winner of France’s Concours International de Piano 20e siècle d’Orléans in 2002. An inquisitive performer, his fresh approach to standard repertory, and masterful understanding, performance, and commitment to works by living composers make him one of today’s most dynamic young concert artists.

Performance:Katie Lee
2017-09-12 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Former vocalist with Orpheum Bell and Appleseed Collective

Other:UMBDT Welcome Week Event #1
2017-09-12 20:00 - 23:00 | Michigan Union
Greetings potential Dancing With The Stars contestant!
If you've ever wanted to learn how to dance, look no further than The Ballroom Dance Team! We would love for you to join us on Tuesday, September 12th in the Michigan Union Pendleton for the first in a series of **FREE** ballroom dance lessons. Come with your friends or that special someone for a free, fun evening of dancing! Our first event has two lessons in two styles along with four showcases of students showing off how you could look in a year of being on the team. Hope to see you there!
