Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge
2017-09-15 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
2017-09-15 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

Auditions:Groove Auditions
2017-09-15 00:00 | University Activities Center
The hypest group on campus is ready for fresh faces!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYZK4O4CHgI

While most people know Groove as "those drummers who play trashcans and ladders on the Diag," all kinds of talent is found in our family: drummers, of course, but also singers, dancers, violists, actors, comedians, freestyle-rappers, and frozen pizza aficionados.

If you're interested in joining a group that is here to rock the masses while using insane amounts of glow-in-the-dark spraypaint and wearing cool masks, come to ONE of our two auditions!

Wednesday, September 13th, 7-10pm.
Thursday, September 14th, 7-10pm.

Please have a special talent prepared (~2 minutes) and show us who you are! No drumsticks required, no musical experience necessary. :)

Auditions:IMPROV COMEDY AUDITIONS!
2017-09-15 00:00 - 23:59 | Angell Hall
Wednesday September 20th at 9PM in the Angels Hall Auditoriums Come audition for Images of Identities Improv Comedy Group! Everyone is invited to come show your skills on your feet, get crazy, and have fun!If this date has a conflict, feel free to email: madjones@umich.edu to reschedule your audition.

Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network
2017-09-15 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!
2017-09-15 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

Other:September Informational Mass Meetings
2017-09-15 00:00 | Michigan League
Join the American Red Cross in kicking off our fall semester in service! We will be having two informational mass meetings for prospective members of the club in the Kalamazoo Room on the second floor of the Michigan League. Attendance is only required at ONE of these meetings. Come in to learn about our mission, hear from our leadership members, and meet fellow Red Crossers! Hoping to see you all there!-Leadership of the Red Cross at the University of Michigan

Auditions:Top 50: Interviews
2017-09-15 00:00 | Ross School of Business
Invited candidates only.

Presentation:Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition
2017-09-15 07:30 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition is a competitive presentation of operations and manufacturing solutions developed by Tauber Institute student teams from their 14-week team projects. At Spotlight!, students showcase their project results and compete for academic scholarships.

Spotlight! is an excellent opportunity to establish relationships with students and corporate partners, expand your university presence, and see many new ideas in operations and manufacturing.

Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial
2017-09-15 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!
2017-09-15 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:Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017)
2017-09-15 08:00 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Asia Library -- 4th Floor
During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

Exhibition:Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University
2017-09-15 08:00 - 19:00 | 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
2017-09-15 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
2017-09-15 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
2017-09-15 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.

Other:Spartan Invite
2017-09-15 08:00 - 15:00 | Forest Akers East Golf Course
Hosted by MSU

Exhibition:The Grandmother Tree Walk
2017-09-15 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
2017-09-15 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

Conference / Symposium:Bicentennial Detroit Seminar
2017-09-15 08:30 - 15:15 | Off Campus Location
The Detroit Festival will celebrate and reflect upon U-M’s connections to the city in the past, present and future. It begins with the Bicentennial Detroit Seminar and Michigan faculty and alumni presenting engaging programs focused on investing in Detroit, educational pathways, innovative technologies and innovative arts.

Registration will be required. Please check website for details.

Exhibition:Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context
2017-09-15 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

Conference / Symposium:Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium
2017-09-15 08:30 - 17:00 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
SCHEDULE
8:30 a.m. | Welcome by U-M President Mark Schlissel

8:40 a.m. | Brief retrospective on the life sciences at U-M

9:10 a.m. | Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer
Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D.
Director, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Director, Life Sciences Institute 2002-2015

9:15 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture: Nature’s gift: how the discovery of structural principles in a microbial protein helped illuminate the pathophysiology of psychiatry
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

10:10 a.m. | Morning break

10:30 a.m. | Single molecules and single cells: probing chemistry and biology at their fundamental limit
David R. Walt, Ph.D.
Core faculty member, Wyss Institute at Harvard University; Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor; Founder of Illumina, Inc. and Quanterix, Corp.

11:30 a.m. | Whole-animal imaging with high spatiotemporal resolution
Philipp Keller, Ph.D.
Group Leader, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus

12:30 p.m. | Lunch break

1:45 p.m. | Probing the molecular organization of cells and organelles using cryo-electron microscopy
Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2:45 p.m. | LSI labs poster session (Great Lakes Rooms)

4:00 p.m. | Engineering sub-nm, organs & ecosystem
George Church, Ph.D.
Core faculty member, Wyss Institute at Harvard University; Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:55 p.m. | Closing remarks

Conference / Symposium:Behavioral Finance Symposium
2017-09-15 08:45 - 14:05 | Ross School of Business - Blau Colloquium
WE’RE NOT ROBOTS. FINANCIAL POLICY SHOULDN’T ACT LIKE WE ARE.
Economics meets psychology, law, finance, and public policy in this two day event.

Yale economist and Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller and JPMorgan Chase Institute President & CEO Diana Farrell will provide keynote addresses; four panels will address consumer finance, investment and retirement security, micro-enterprise and small business, and macro financial stability.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-15 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
2017-09-15 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

Other:Social Media Week in Ann Arbor
2017-09-15 09:00 - 17:00 | Ross School of Business
Social Media Week is coming to Ross this Friday, September 15th and it is open to the public!Social Media Week (SMW) is a worldwide conference series (think the new TED Talks) that is dedicated to showing how drastically social media and technological advancements are changing the world around us, and this year it is coming to Ann Arbor! There will be an amazing group of speakers from Spotify, Fox Sports, Facebook, Dollar Shave Club (and many more) to provoke deeper thinking and stimulate conversation about what Social Media and technology advancements mean for the future of culture and commerce.Tickets must be purchase on Eventbrite for $20 - the ticket includes breakfast and lunch from the best food trucks in Detroit.Tickets are available here!For more information, schedule and speakers, click here.

Presentation:BLI10 Student Showcase and Lunch
2017-09-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Michigan League - Koessler & Henderson
The BLI was founded in 2007 to provide student powered but faculty guided opportunities for leadership development to Michigan undergraduates. The institute has evolved and grown dramatically over the last ten years and we are poised to expand our reach and our programs into the next decade. Please join us to celebrate this milestone and help envision our future. We welcome alumni, supporters, and partners from on and off campus to join us for a public event on Friday, September 15, 2017.

The BLI student showcase is an opportunity to engage with students and learn about their involvement with the institute.

The showcase will feature an interactive panel presentation and discussion to explore the wide array of student experiences from across BLI’s co-curricular programming. The panelists are a diverse group of current students who will share their personal narrative with BLI through interactive dialogues.

The poster presentation will highlight the exceptional work of students through a variety of projects, internships, grants, and awards from throughout the years.

Lunch will be served after the panel and we will continue the experience with a student facilitated audience exercise.

Careers / Jobs:Bosch Company Day - CANCELLED, CLICK EVENT TO VIEW NOTES
2017-09-15 10:00 - 14:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
PLEASE NOTE: THE BOSCH COMPANY DAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SEPTEMBER 15.

Bosch will not be on campus Friday, September 15. Instead, we will be coming to town the very next day to host a tailgate! We’re excited for the opportunity to meet up with talented students prior to the career fair. The president of Bosch North America will be attending, along with a number of other high-level Bosch executives. We hope you’ll take advantage of this great networking opportunity and join us.

WHERE:
MGoPatio, located just west of Michigan Stadium, map available at https://goo.gl/maps/tFpUpSfEnZ92
312 Berkley Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48103

WHEN:
Saturday, September 16 (University of Michigan vs. Air Force)
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

WHAT:
Networking with the Bosch team, including the president of Bosch North America!

The event will be catered by Zingerman’s Delicatessen. We’d love to meet you, even if you’re just stopping by on the way to the game. You may very well see some familiar faces when we’re in town for the engineering career fair just a few days later (September 18)!

Please RSVP using the link at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIPclcok3G0xHpxtvptIXYEemIfOythmDL88tR0m1Ta-i4Jw/viewform (while logged in to your Gmail account) and send any questions to Chris Cox (Christopher.Cox@us.bosch.com). Go blue!

Careers / Jobs:Cummins Inc Networking Hours
2017-09-15 10:00 - 14:00 | Davidson Winter Garden Ross School of Business 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Cummins Inc will be on Campus for networking hours with students for internship opportunities in 2018 at Winter Garden Networking area at Ross School of Business.

Cummins Inc will be recruiting interns for summer of 2018 for various position in marketing and sales function. UOM alumni from Cummins will be on campus to talk to you and answers any question that you may have about Cummins.

We are welcoming interested students from variety of majors to this company info session to learn about Cummins and how it is a great place to work and start your professional career.Cummins encourages diversity from all aspects, so everyone is welcome toattend and learn about what we do and how you can bring your innovative ideas to play.

Refreshments will also be served.

Some of the positions we are looking for are:
Marketing - Other
Marketing - Product Management
Marketing - Research
Marketing - Sales Purchasing

Level of students: Senior, Junior, Sophomore

Hope to see you all there.
Go Blue.

Careers / Jobs:Intel and Texas Instruments Resume Critiquing, hosted by ECRC
2017-09-15 10:00 - 16:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
Representatives from Intel and Texas Instruments will provide resume critiques on a drop-in basis in the Duderstadt Connector on September 15 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.

Exhibition:Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere
2017-09-15 10:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library
This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

Lecture / Discussion:Performance and American Cultures
2017-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room
How do American studies and performance studies intersect in our research and teaching? What theories, methodologies, fields of evidence, and habits of mind do these fields offer one another? Where and how do performance studies and American studies not mesh well? What problems at their intersection might be unsolvable? How can these fields together produce new knowledge about US cultural history, particularly aobut the histories of race?

Careers / Jobs:Women's Brunch
2017-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Anderson Room Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
To RSVP, please use the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P76TGRC

Class / Instruction:Writers Unlimited
2017-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Participants present their creative essays, stories, and novels for constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement. Please bring copies of your work to distribute.

Instructor Joy Rome, who was a senior faculty member in Communications at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, will lead this study group for those 50 and above for two hours each Friday from September 15, 2017 through August 31, 2018 (except for November 24 and December 29).

Careers / Jobs:Ace the Interview! Interview Preparation Workshop
2017-09-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Pierpont Commons - Pierpont East Rooms
In career services, there is a saying: the resume gets you the interview, and the interview gets you the job. Developing excellent interview skills is essential to conducting a successful job search. This workshop will provide an overview of several different types of interviews and how to best prepare for each, including behavioral, technical, case, and phone/Skype interviews. We will review strategies for answering interview questions, such as the STAR format, and discuss what to emphasize when answering interview questions. Preparing for common interview questions is only one part of the process - learn what to wear and bring to an interview and how to follow up with an employer after the interview. Come learn how to ace the interview!

Exhibition:Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library
2017-09-15 11:00 - 12:00 | William Clements Library - G060
Join us for a tour of the renovated Library to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation about our new space and an opportunity to view the current exhibit, The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers. The Pioneer Americanists is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. This exhibit is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-15 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
2017-09-15 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.

Careers / Jobs:Intel Corporation Company Day
2017-09-15 11:00 - 15:00 | Duderstadt Center
The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for Intel Corporation on Friday, September 15, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the Duderstadt Connector.

Exhibition:Legacy: Art across Generations
2017-09-15 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
2017-09-15 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.

Social / Informal Gathering:National Double Cheeseburger Day at Mosher-Jordan
2017-09-15 11:00 - 20:00 | Mosher-Jordan Hall
Come to Mosher-Jordan Dining Hall on Friday, September 15th to celebrate National Double Cheeseburger Day. They will be serving double cheeseburgers with triple deck buns and steak fries! There will also be an extended burger bar which will include bacon, cheddar, blue cheese, caramelized onions, and more!

Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
2017-09-15 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
2017-09-15 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.

Performance:10 Blocks on the Camino Real
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Diag - Central Campus
"A big-hearted Williams one-act about love and heroism, staged with West African flair in a performance full of vibrant song and dance, perfectly suited to the outdoor marketplace."

The University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) hosts the National Theatre of Ghana in residence from September 12-17, featuring a series of open air performances of 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, written by Tennessee Williams. In this one-act play, song, dialogue and dance are used to tell the story of how the American hero Kilroy enters the pantheon of heroes by losing his innocence. The plaza of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is a crossroads of world theater, drawing on Williams’ experiences in Mexico, and inspired by German theater, Chinese opera and commedia del’arte. Ghana is the source and setting for this new production, directed by David Kaplan, curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. While the spoken English text is performed as written by Williams, Spanish songs and Spanish words have been translated to Ghanaian songs and Ghanaian languages. Don Quixote has become Okomfo Okokye, the founder of the Ashanti line of kings, who finds his sidekick, Osei-tutu. Other Spanish details are exchanged for Ghanaian specifics: pesos for pesewas, fiesta for jubilee. The presiding musician plays two blue djembe drums, rather than a blue guitar.

Established in 1983 at the University of Ghana at Legon, the professional theater company once known as “Abibigromma” became the resident troupe of the National Theatre of Ghana in 1991. The focus of the company is to develop a rich blend of music, dance, mime, movement, and dialogue with a strong social, spiritual and folkloric base. In addition to performances and class visits throughout the week, they will give a workshop for the public at the Residential College on Wednesday, September 13 at 4pm in the East Quad Keene Theater, and will also work with students at Ann Arbor’s Community High School, and Mosaic Youth Theater in Detroit.
CWPS aims to recreate the atmosphere of the Ghanaian outdoor productions here in Michigan, staging performances in four outdoor venues through the week. These include:

Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market
315 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor MI
Wednesday, September 13 at 12pm

The Diag
University of Michigan
Friday, September 15 at 12pm

Ypsilanti Farmers Market Depot Town
100 Rice Street, Ypsilanti MI
Saturday, September 16 at 11am

CMAP Detroit
2221 Carpenter, Detroit MI
Sunday, September 17 at 2pm

All performances are free and open to the public.

Other:9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

Careers / Jobs:Consulting Track: Case Interview Prep
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Do you need to practice for case study interviews?
Are you looking for practice partners?

Join us for Consulting case study practice sessions. This hands-on session is designed to connect you with other students preparing for case interviews. Practice cases and get insights fromyour peers.

Note: No actual case experience is necessary. Make sure though, to familiarize yourself with case interview concepts visit the career sections of consulting firm websites.

Because this is an interactiveworkshop, plan to arrive on time (12pm) and stay for the full session (1:30pm)

SPACE IS LIMITED. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ADMITTED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE BASIS.

Performance:EXCEL Talk: Davóne Tines & ART & M. Schachter
2017-09-15 12:00 | Off Campus Location - EXCEL Lab (1279 Moore)
This talk will focus on the new composition, THE BLACK CLOWN, for the American Repertory Theater. THE BLACK CLOWN features music by Michael Schachter and libretto by Davóne Tines and Michael Schachter.

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk: Davóne Tines, Ryan McKittrick from A.R.T. & M. Schachter
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | EXCEL Lab (1279) Earl V. Moore Building 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
This talk will focus on the new composition, THE BLACK CLOWN, for the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). THE BLACK CLOWN features music by Michael Schachter and libretto by Davóne Tines and Michael Schachter. The panel includes A.R.T's Director of Artistic Programs Ryan McKittrick, who joins composer (and current U-M DMA student) Michael Schachter and Davóne Tines, who is Schacter's co-librettist and the dynamic baritone playing the lead.

Workshop / Seminar:Getting Stuff Done…Time Management for Grad Students and Other Busy People
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor
Though we all have the same number of hours in the day, some people just seem to use time more efficiently than others. In this workshop, you’ll learn some strategies for successful time management - tailored specifically to the often unstructured, yet multi-faceted lives of graduate students.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=454.

Lecture / Discussion:IOE 836 Seminar: University of Michigan Bioastronautics and Life Support Systems (BLiSS)
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - G699
Title: Human Performance and Operations Design for the Mars Habitat Challenge

Bio: BLiSS is a student research team dedicated to expanding humanity into space through researching the technologies needed to keep people alive, safe and comfortable up there. We are actively working on several NASA sponsored research projects in the areas of life support systems, plant growth, and habitation.

Abstract: The University of Michigan Bioastronautics and Life Support Systems (BLiSS) research group proudly presents a once in a lifetime opportunity, the Mars Habitat Challenge! This is a 2 semester project to design a dual-purpose deep space habitat that can be used both in space and on the Martian surface. During this seminar BLiSS members will introduce the projects, its goals, and the human factors, ergonomics, and operational issues that will be part of the habitat's design. BLiSS will also showcase ways for passionate IOE students to receive credit for working on this project.

Workshop / Seminar:Life After Grad School Seminar | What Is It All About? Adulthood?
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | West Hall - 335
Ph.D. student becomes Post-Doctoral Fellow, who becomes an Assistant Professor, who becomes an Associate Professor, who becomes a Professor, who becomes... well the list can continue. This is a typical thought trend of many who consider getting a Ph.D. while the reality is different. During this talk, we will discuss the theoretical perspective of life after graduate school and what reality looks like. In addition, this talk will highlight transitions in career paths and fields and how to overcome the stress. In conclusion, this talk will go through an overview of what matters and what doesn’t matter beyond the Ph.D.

Prior to joining CFC in 2017, Peter held several positions working for, and with electric cooperatives. Most recently, he served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Pedernales Electric Cooperative, the largest distribution electric cooperative in the U.S. Prior to that, he was an Advisor at the Cooperative Research Network, the technology research arm of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. He has previously launched several small businesses focused on energy analysis, bottom of the pyramid issues and poverty reduction through electricity access. He serves on boards and advisory committees, and is a sought after speaker both nationally and internationally.

Peter holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan with a focus on energy.

Other:Sloop Championship
2017-09-15 12:00 - 23:59 | Detroit, Michigan
Flying Scott regatta hosted by Detroit Yacht Club

Exhibition:The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding
2017-09-15 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.

Sporting Event:Tournament at MSU
2017-09-15 12:00 - 23:00 | IM Sports West
Going to East Lansing to play Sparty and a few other teams

Exhibition:Vital Signs for a New America
2017-09-15 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.

Lecture / Discussion:Yiddish Leyenkrayz
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | 202 S. Thayer - 2000
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

Performance:Dance Master Class Repertory Series: William Crowley
2017-09-15 12:10 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theatre
SMTD alumnus William Crowley introduces students to Graham Technique, its basic principle of “contraction and release”, spirals, and proper breathing patterns, demonstrating the beneficial knowledge that comes from the awareness of one’s own center and core strength. Crowley will then teach A Dance in Search of a Title, a work originally intended as a solo but taught as an ensemble piece, which explores the ties that bind beyond the physical realm. It is a dance of loss and longing, contrasted with the hope and faith stemming from of a love that is eternal

Each Modern Lab session features a different guest artist teaching a master class and sections from their repertory. This panorama of the contemporary dance field is presented to broaden the students’ awareness of potential career possibilities.

Each guest artist conducts a 30-minute technique class/warm-up and then teaches repertory that is performed by the class. In the final 15 minutes, faculty coordinator Bill De Young conducts a Q & A with each artist, discussing their career; their recommendations for transitioning from student to professional, and what they look for when they audition dancers for their projects.

This event supported in part by the EXCEL Lab.

Lecture / Discussion:ISP Lecture. Islamotopia: American Exceptionalism and Muslim Reform
2017-09-15 12:30 - 14:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery
The notion of "American Islam," signifying a uniquely American expression of Islam that either presently exists or awaits us as an attainable future, has been employed by diverse Muslim thinkers, including Salafi revivalists, progressive feminists, and even Muslim Republicans. Discourse of "American Islam" often represents this present/future as one in which American Muslims shed inauthentic cultural practices, achieve a pure and authentically textualist Islam, and then proceed to export "true Islam" to Muslims worldwide. The United States thus appears in these discourses as a sort of "umma laboratory" in which American Muslims will purify Islam on a global scale. This lecture examines the development of American Muslim exceptionalism, the exclusions and marginalizations that it performs, and calls attention to indicators of its decline.

Michael Muhammad Knight is the author of 11 books, including fiction, nonfiction, scholarship, and scholarly reflection. Knight’s work examines issues of authenticity and authority in Muslim communities, with special focus on American Muslims. He is assistant professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. His 12th book, "Muhammad: Forty Introductions," is forthcoming in 2018.

Sponsors: Islamic Studies Program, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum

Well-being:Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff)
2017-09-15 12:30 - 13:00 | Angell Hall - G243
Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

Conference / Symposium:BME Bicentennial Celebration
2017-09-15 12:45 - 14:15, 2017-09-15 14:30 - 16:15, 2017-09-15 16:30 - 17:30 | Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium
Thursday, September 14, 2017 | Ford Library
- Imaging Presentation: (History, Future, Panel Discussion) 1:00 - 2:45 PM
- Neural Engineering Presentation: (History, Future, Panel Discussion) 3:00 - 5:00 PM
- Keynote: Matt O'Donnell, 5:15 PM

Friday, September 15, 2017 | Kahn Auditorium
- Regenerative Medicine Presentation: (History, Future, Panel Discussion) 12:45-2:15 PM
-Precision Health Presentation: (Nanotechnology, Computational Biology, Panel Discussion) 2:30-4:15 PM
- Keynote: David Mooney, 4:30 PM

Reception / Open House:BLI10 Open House
2017-09-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Weiser Hall - 800
The BLI has moved!
We are excited to announce that our department is moved to our new location in 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, located in the heart of central campus at the University of Michigan, and home to a number of interdisciplinary and internationally-focused units within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and is a center for active and engaged learning.

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.

Join us for coffee and dessert on September 15 from 1-3pm to check out our new student-centered space.

Class / Instruction:Considering African Art
2017-09-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Many of our most well-known artists, such as Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani in France, and Klee and Kirschner in Germany drew inspiration from the art and artifacts of Africa.

Come join us for a 2-session exploration of the arts of Africa – the first a slideshow/lecture, the second, a trip to the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art (UMMA) to view and discuss their wonderful Africa collection.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Friday, September 15 and September 22 and led by instructor Helen Weingarten.

Careers / Jobs:Diversity Roundtable
2017-09-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Anderson Room Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
To RSVP, please sign up at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PV2RTVT

Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work
2017-09-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Lorch Hall - 140
Rebecca Blumenstein
Deputy Managing Editor
The New York Times

Rebecca Blumenstein has been deputy managing editor of The New York Times since February 2017, where she focuses on making sure The Times remains an essential destination for readers interested in business, finance, economics and technology. Previously, she was deputy editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal.

Before that, she was the Page One Editor, appointed in September 2011, and a deputy managing editor and international editor since December 2009. Ms. Blumenstein has also served as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online and as the China bureau chief, overseeing China coverage for the Journal.

Prior to moving to China in the summer of 2005, Ms. Blumenstein served as chief of the Journal’s New York Technology Group, which covered the historic mergers and changes in technology that recast the telecommunications industry.

Ms. Blumenstein joined the Journal in 1995 as a reporter in the Detroit bureau, where she covered General Motors. She began her journalism career at the Tampa Tribune, and then later moved to Gannett Newspapers and Newsday, where she covered politics and breaking news.

She oversaw the China team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007.

Ms. Blumenstein holds a bachelor’s degree in social science and economics from the University of Michigan, where she was editor in chief of the Michigan Daily. Her husband, Alan Paul, is a magazine writer and author of “Big in China,” a book about her family’s adjustment to China and “One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band.”
Economics at Work is an invited speaker series whose goal is to allow students a chance to discover the wide array of career paths of undergraduate economics majors and the role economics plays in their careers.

Careers / Jobs:ECRC / Steelcase Elevator Pitch Booth
2017-09-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
Unsure of how to start a conversation with a recruiter at the Career Fair? Uncertain of how to explain your relevant experiences succinctly to an employer? Come to our Elevator Pitch Booth to practice with industry recruiters!

Representatives from Steelcase and the Engineering Career Resource Center will be available to listen to your elevator pitch and provide feedback to help you prepare for the Career Fair. Steelcase will be representing a recruiter’s perspective and this event is not company focused, all engineering and computer science students are welcome! The event will be held from 1 PM - 4 PM on Friday, September 15, in the DUDE Connector.

Workshop / Seminar:Labor Economics
2017-09-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Lorch Hall - 201
Details to come.

Lecture / Discussion:PhonDi Discussion Group: Ask the Algorithm: Using Machine Learning to study human speech production and perception
2017-09-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Lorch Hall - 473
Abstract:
Machine learning, the use of nuanced computer models to analyze and predict data, has a long history in speech recognition and natural language processing, but have largely been limited to more applied, engineering tasks. This talk will describe two more research-focused applications of machine learning in the study of speech perception and production.

For speech perception, we'll examine the difficult problem of identifying acoustic cues to a complex phonetic contrast, in this case, vowel nasality. Here, by training machine learning algorithms on acoustic measurements, we can more directly measure the informativeness of the various acoustic features to the contrast. This by-feature informativeness data was then used to create hypotheses about human cue usage, and then, to model the observed human patterns of perception, showing that these models were able to predict not only the utilized cue, but the subtle patterns of perception arising from less informative changes.

For speech production, we'll focus on data from Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA), which provides position data for the articulators with high temporal and spatial resolution, and discuss our ongoing efforts to identify and characterize pause postures (specific vocal tract configurations at prosodic boundaries; Katsika et al. 2014) in the speech of 7 speakers of American English. Here, the lip aperture trajectories of 800+ individual pauses were gold-standard annotated by a member of the research team, and then subjected to principal component analysis and discrete cosine transform. These analyses were then used to train a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, which achieved a 94% classification accuracy in cross-validation tests, with a Cohen's Kappa showing machine-to-annotator agreement of 0.978, suggesting the potential for improvements in speed, consistency, and objective characterization of gestures.

These methods of modeling feature importance and classifying curves using machine learning both demonstrate concrete methods which are potentially useful and applicable to a variety of questions in phonetics, and potentially, in linguistics in general.

Lecture / Discussion:Pulitzer Prize-Winning Alumni of the Michigan Daily
2017-09-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan’s student newspaper, will explore media issues in the digital age at a special program of panel discussions on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. The event, which begins at 1pm in Rackham Auditorium, is sponsored by the UM Office of Student Publications in conjunction with Wallace House (home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship program & The Livingston Awards.)

Highlighted in this event will be: Eugene Robinson, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer for Commentary and the new Chair of the Pulitzer Board; Ann Marie Lipinski, winner of a Pulitzer in 1988 for Investigative Reporting; Lisa Pollak, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer for Feature Writing; Stephen Henderson, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer for Commentary; Neil Chase who directed coverage that won the 2017 Pulitzer for Breaking News; Amy Harmon, winner of two Pulitzers, in 2008 for Explanatory Reporting and in 2001 as part of a team; Dan Biddle, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting; and Rebecca Blumenstein, who led a team to a 2007 Pulitzer for International Reporting.

The award-winning journalists will be joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff members in discussions of newsroom diversity, sports in the social media era, and alternative career paths for young journalists. The sessions will also include a discussion of how the University’s student publications have evolved through the decades.

Lecture / Discussion:AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: Orion Overview
2017-09-15 13:30 - 15:00 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall
Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor building the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, NASA’s first spacecraft designed for long-duration, human-rated deep space exploration. Orion will transport humans to interplanetary destinations beyond low Earth orbit, such as asteroids, the moon and eventually Mars, and return them safely back to Earth.

About the speaker...
Corey Brooker has been serving the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) within the Commercial Civil Space Line of Business at Lockheed Martin Space Company for the past 10 years. He leads the LM Orion Launch Vehicle Integration efforts between MPCV and the Space Launch System (SLS) for both Exploration Mission (EM)-1 and EM-2. He was recently selected to the Executive Development Growth Enhancement (EDGE) program. He is also leading the change effort for EM-2 to fly on the SLS Block 1B vehicle. In addition to his launch vehicle integration, he co-leads the Employee Engagement team for Orion Denver. Previously, he led the technical integration of the Orion EFT-1 Mission with ULA on the Delta IV that flew Dec 5th, 2014 and supported the Systems Analysis efforts for Pad Abort 1 that flew May 6th, 2010.

Previous work experience includes over 12 years of Loads & Dynamics for launch vehicle development, design and production flights on the Atlas V and Delta IV evolved expendable launch vehicles. He has been a part of 11 Atlas V and 10 Delta IV mission successful flights.

Corey holds a Bachelor’s (1994) and Master’s Degree (1995) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Presentation:Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin at the University of Michigan
2017-09-15 13:30 - 15:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
Join actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin with workers' rights advocate and co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United Saru Jayaraman for a discussion on economic inequality in Michigan and nationwide.

Given their strong ties to Michigan, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are touring the state to call for higher wages and working and living conditions for working people statewide. After the speakers share their own experiences with the issue, they will share how Michiganders across the state can take action.

Workshop / Seminar:OS Career Prep Workshop
2017-09-15 13:30 - 14:30 | Weiser Hall - 855
Be prepared to make the most of your career search experience! OS is partnering with the LSA Opportunity Hub to present this career prep workshop to gain knowledge that can help you on your road to participating in career fairs and securing a great job or internship.

The main topics of the workshop include professional etiquette, introduction to career competencies, and crafting an elevator pitch.

Headshots! OS will have a professional photographer set up from 1-4pm to take headshots of any OS student. Your professional headshot is an important image for your own personal brand. It’s a first impression that will be viewed by prospective employers. Each student will receive one digital file.

Lecture / Discussion:UM Sustainable Food Systems presents Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Saru Jayaraman on the Restaurant Industries broken wage system
2017-09-15 13:30 - 15:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
Join the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin with workers’ rights advocate and co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United Saru Jayaraman for a discussion on economic inequality in Michigan and nationwide.
Given their strong ties to Michigan, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are touring the state to call for higher wages and working and living conditions for working people statewide. After the speakers share their own experiences with the issue, they will share how Michiganders across the state can take action.

The sponsors for this event are UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, the Ford School of Public Policy, and the Taubman College. We thank these generous sponsors for making this event possible.

This event is FREE and OPEN to the Public.

If you’d also like to join Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin for lunch, consider attending the event prior at Miss Kim: Click the link that says Tickets.

Presentation:CCN Forum -Where to Start? Bottom-Up Attention Improves Working
2017-09-15 14:00 - 15:00 | East Hall - 4464
Working memory (WM) is enhanced for items that capture attention, but little is known about how it achieves this effect. In this talk, I will provide behavioral and neural evidence that bottom-up attention is helpful only when perceptual selection demands are high. When multiple information sources compete, bottom-up attention prioritizes the location at which encoding should begin. When encoding order is set, bottom-up attention has little or no benefit to working memory. In contrast, voluntary attention improves working memory regardless of encoding order. Neural evidence from fMRI and ERP supports this hypothesis. These results suggest that bottom-up attention improves the probability that items enter WM, but voluntary attention is a better predictor of the quality of the representation.

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Astronomy Mohler Prize Lecture for Excellence in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
2017-09-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Michigan Union - Pendleton Room
“Building the Universe, Piece by Piece”

Prof. Dalcanton has led several teams that have used extraordinary images from the Hubble Space Telescope and complementary data from the ground to unravel how galaxies like ours formed, evolved, and produced new stars. In her lecture, Prof. Dalcanton will illuminate the complex forces that have shaped the Universe we see around us, traveling from as far back in time as modern observations permit to the present. She will highlight the unique role that the Hubble Space Telescope has played in uncovering the rich tapestry of galaxies and stars and talk about what the future of space exploration might hold for future discoveries.

Should you require any reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access and opportunity related to this event please contact Stacy Tiburzi at 734-764-3440 or stibu@umich.edu

Lecture / Discussion:DocDi Discussion Group
2017-09-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Lorch Hall - 403

Careers / Jobs:Health Track: Help! What's an MMI?
2017-09-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
You may have heard that MMIs are gaining popularity especiallyamong medical, dental, pharmacy and veterinary schools. But what is anMMI exactly? Come to this session to understand this interviewing format, familiarize yourself with what to expect, and practice with your fellow students.

Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Language Conversation Group
2017-09-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Modern Languages Building - 3304
Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Lecture / Discussion:Weather as a Problem in Media Theory
2017-09-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Modern Languages Building - 3308
On its face, weather sounds like the most banal and mundane thing possible. When people talk about the weather, we usually take that as a sign of nothing to talk about. This talk aims to show that the accusation that talking about the weather is intellectually empty is hardly the case in the age of climate change, and even dangerous. The history of human interaction with weather is also a history of cultural techniques and media technologies. Dramatists and divines have sought meaning from atmospheric events. Reading the skies is one paradigm case of human-nature interaction, and studying weather can stand in as part for whole as an inquiry into the environments humans have made or unmade. The history of modern weather forecasting is also a history of the militarization of the sky and oceans, and is co-extensive with the history of modern telecommunications and computation. Weather raises two questions of profound interest to recent media theory: how mundane infrastructures are full of meaning and how vaporous or evanescent entities can be tracked, recorded, and programmed. In this way, studying the weather is a special case in media theory’s more general study of how media help constitute the world.

Careers / Jobs:Ace Your Interview
2017-09-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Room B844 East Hall East Hall, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Lecture / Discussion:BLI10 Founders Panel
2017-09-15 15:00 - 18:00 | Michigan League - Koessler and Garden Courtyard
The Founder's Panel brings together the inaugural group of Michigan Alums who initiated and support the BLI’s student funding and leadership development programs.

In giving the founding gift to establish the Leadership Institute, Dave Barger said, "Leadership is the frontline connectivity. It's about being plugged into the customer, the culture, the government and being visionary. What's exciting to me about this program is that it is directed at undergraduates. Leadership usually is wrapped into a program well down the career path in graduate school. The Institute will give undergraduates the ability to grab leadership concepts early. They will have experience painting the picture."

The panel will be an inspiring discussion and sharing of stories, successes, challenges, insights on how we got here, and where we are going, with plenty of audience interaction. Our esteemed panelists include Dave Barger, Barry Blattman, Jamie Sprayregen, and Rick Price.

After the showcase, please join us for a closing reception in the Garden Courtyard with remarks from Dean Martin.

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk: National Theatre of Ghana
2017-09-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Studio 2 (1435) Walgreen Charles R Jr Drama Center 1226 Murfin Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
In this workshop members of Abibigromma will engage with students to explore African music and dance and the intersection of those arts with storytelling.

Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminar
2017-09-15 15:00 - 16:00 | West Hall - 335
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Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminar | A New Solution to the Gravitino Problem: Suppressed Production by Sgoldstino Dynamics
2017-09-15 15:00 - 16:00 | West Hall - 335
In supersymmetric theories, the gravitino is copiously produced by the scattering of the thermal particles at the end of inflationary reheating. The gravitino is overproduced unless the reheat temperature is sufficiently low, which is incompatible with thermal leptogenesis. This is known as the gravitino problem. In models of low scale mediation, the field value of the sgoldstino determines the mediation scale. We point out that the sgoldstino field value can be different in the early Universe than the present one. In particular, a large initial field value since the era of the inflationary reheating suppresses the gravitino production significantly and removes the gravitino problem. We rigorously analyze the cosmological evolution of the sgoldstino and show that the reheat temperature may well exceed the conventional upper bound, restoring the compatibility with thermal leptogenesis.

Careers / Jobs:Prysmian Group: Ready. Start. Apply; a Facebook Live Event
2017-09-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual - Facebook live event
Join us to learn how to apply for the International Graduate Leadership Program with the Prysmian Group! This will be a Facebook Live Event that is sure to answer all your questions about this exciting program!

https://www.facebook.com/PrysmianGroupGraduateProgram/

Lecture / Discussion:SynSem Discussion Group
2017-09-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 403

Workshop / Seminar:Mastering the American Accent Workshop - For New Clients
2017-09-15 15:30 - 17:00 | V. Vaughan
This 10-week workshop is for students who would like help developing their language skills for improved communication. Workshop participants can expect:
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language pathologist
- Group conversations and activities
- Increased confidence in spoken language skills

This session is for new workshop students. For the advanced/returning client session, please see Thursday's workshop listing.

Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Quantifying Natural Hazards: From Earthquake Damage to Debris Flows
2017-09-15 15:30 - 16:30 | 1100 North University Building - 1528
Many natural hazards have been well known and qualitatively understood for decades, but still lack accurate measures of how damaging future events will be. For example, despite many years of research, it still remains a question as to how much variability in ground motions one should expect of a large San Andreas type earthquake, and whether early warning for debris flows can be successfully implemented. In this talk, I address both of these questions by using simple but physically sound mechanical principles to quantify certain aspects of these hazards.

Workshop / Seminar:"Nanoscale Architecture of the Human Kinetochore" and "Interplay between antibiotic efficacy and drug-induced lysis leading to enhanced biofilm formation at Sub-MICs"
2017-09-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 Chemistry
“Nanoscale Architecture of the Human Kinetochore”
Alex Kurkreja, Biophysics Doctoral Candidate
ABSTRACT: The human kinetochore is a multi-protein machine that binds ~20 spindle microtubules (MTs) to drive chromosome segregation during cell division. Although the biochemical bases of the functions that the kinetochore performs to segregate chromosomes are well-understood, defining the underlying mechanisms has proven to be challenging. This is because the kinetochore is highly complex in composition (hundreds of copies of eight protein components), and large in size (a ~200 nm diameter disk-shaped surface). To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying kinetochore functions, its spatial architecture must be defined. Specifically, the nanoscale architecture of its protein components relative to the 25 nm diameter of a MT, and sub-micron scale organization of ~20 such MT attachments over its ~200 nm wide surface must be determined to reveal how kinetochore components interact with one another, with regulatory proteins, and with the MT lattice. Here we investigate the nanoscale architecture of the human kinetochore using FRET microscopy. We initiated this analysis with the MT-binding Ndc80 complex, the linchpin of kinetochore-MT attachment, and the two parallel pathways that recruit it to the kinetochore. Our data elucidate the spatial architecture of the Ndc80 complex and how its two biochemical pathways organize the human kinetochore, establishing a foundation for defining a complete picture of its MT-binding machinery.
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“Interplay Between Antibiotic Efficacy and Drug-Induced Lysis Leading to Enhanced Biofilm Formation at Sub-MICs”
Kelsey Hallinen, Biophysics Doctoral Candidate
ABSTRACT: We study E. faecalis biofilm formation at varying concentrations of antibiotic, using subminimal inhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of antibiotics on all wild-type biofilms and higher concentrations on mixed populations of both sensitive and drug resistant strains. In this work, we investigate the effects of sub-MICs of ampicillin on the formation and extracellular matrix of E. faecalis biofilms. We found that total biofilm mass is increased over a narrow range of ampicillin concentrations before ultimately declining at higher concentrations. From our mixed population studies, we show that the degree of cooperation between resistant and sensitive cells can significantly alter large-scale properties of the biofilm, such as the ratio of sensitive to resistant cells and the statistical and architectural properties of cell-cell contact topologies.

Fair / Festival:Bicentennial Detroit Festival
2017-09-15 16:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Marking the founding of U-M in Detroit! Grand Circus Park will be home base for a bicentennial founding ceremony emceed by alumna and journalist Carmen Harlan with public and university leaders. There will also be a public celebration featuring live entertainment, performances, food and exhibits.

Careers / Jobs:Deloitte Consulting - All Analyst Presentation
2017-09-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Rogel Ballroom Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Stop by Deloitte’s All Analyst Presentation, our annual Consulting information session, to learn more about the Consulting practice and opportunities available. Following the event, students will also havethe opportunity to network with practitioners at varying levels within the firm. All majors welcomed, please come dressed in business casual attire.

Lecture / Discussion:NERS Colloquium: Ron Gilgenbach, U-M NERS Dept
2017-09-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Cooley Building - 2906 Baer Room
Department Welcome

Workshop / Seminar:NERS Department Welcome
2017-09-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Cooley Building - White Auditorium
The first NERS fall colloquium is a department welcome.

Meeting:Prospective Mentor Info Session
2017-09-15 16:00 - 17:00 | The Tap Room
If you are interested in mentoring with our FATE program, we invite you to attend an Information Session this Friday, September 15th from 4:00pm - 5:00pm in The Tap Room (located in the ground level of The Union). The Program Coordinator, Rachel, from the FATE program will be there to talk with interested mentors and a few returning mentors will be in attendance as well to share their mentor experience with you! This is a great opportunity to learn more about the program and ask any questions you may have! If you would like to attend the information session this Friday, please RSVP to Rachel at rmazzaro@meritgoodness.com If you cannot attend the info session but are interested in learning more about mentoring and applying, send an email to Rachel (rmazzaro@meritgoodness.com) and she would be happy to send over some more detailed information!

Lecture / Discussion:Exhibiting the Reformation
2017-09-15 16:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
Join us for an opening lecture by Professor Helmut Puff to celebrate the exhibit Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context, which recognizes the 500th anniversary since Martin Luther, a professor of theology and a monk, published his 95 theses condemning the excesses and corruption of the church.

Lecture / Discussion:Exhibiting the Reformation
2017-09-15 16:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, Room 100
This lecture will formally introduce the exhibition "Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context." 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, this 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. Highlighting University of Michigan’s Special Collections, Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context, commemorates this pivotal transformation in world history.

Social / Informal Gathering:International Coffee Hour
2017-09-15 16:30 - 17:30 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms (3rd floor)
International Coffee Hour is a great place for international and U.S. students, scholars, faculty and staff to socialize with each other and meet new people from around the world. No registration is required.

While walk-ins are welcome at the event, early registration is appreciated so we can better prepare for the event.

Social / Informal Gathering:International Coffee Hour
2017-09-15 16:30 - 17:30 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms
International Coffee Hour is a great place for international and U.S. students, scholars, faculty and staff to socialize with each other and meet new people from around the world. No registration is required.

Conference / Symposium:Biomaterials Day Abstract Submission Deadline
2017-09-15 17:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location
Submit your abstract for Biomaterials Day! https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/sfb/biomaterials-day
Biomaterials Day is a 1.5-day symposium hosted by UofM consisting of student oral/poster presentations, a keynote speaker and other invited speakers, and career development panels centered on recent advances in biomaterials and will receive participation from undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty from 20 universities in the upper midwest.

Performance:Sheryl Oring: I Wish to Say - Vital Signs for a New America
2017-09-15 17:00 - 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.

Recreational / Games:Videogames and eSports Kickoff LAN brought to you by LOGITECH G, TESPA, DXRACER and MORE!
2017-09-15 17:00 - 21:00 | Ross School of Business
Games hosted: LoL, Overwatch, Dota 2, Hearthstone, Rocket League, HoTS and more!

BRING YOUR COMPUTERS AND ETHERNET CABLES! Ethernet cables can also be purchased at the LAN.

BIWEEKLY!
Date: 9/15, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Ross School of Business,
R2220: Overwatch, DOTA, Hearthstone
R2230: League of Legends

*Parking is FREE in the Ross parking structure after 5pm!
*Hot-and-Ready pizzas be sold for $7 each!
*Ethernet cables of varying lengths will also be sold at our event!

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LoL
https://www.facebook.com/groups/UMichLoL/

If you’re coming for LoL, we're excited to annouce that we're going to be closing the year out with a elo restricted premade tournament! Details will be posted in the UMich League of Legends Facebook group and emailed out to the Arbor Esports email group. Note, the event may run longer than 9:00 pm, so be sure you can stay for the entire tournament.

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Overwatch
https://www.facebook.com/groups/UMichOverwatch/

Just show up with your setup and be ready to play some games.
Looking to do some more last minute custom games as well (like the ones we talked about in the Facebook Group, predator, csgo, etc.)
We're looking forward to seeing you there!
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Hearthstone
https://www.facebook.com/groups/UMichHearthstone/

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Dota
https://www.facebook.com/groups/UMichDota/

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“Like” us on Facebook (and enable notifications) to keep informed about our future events and join our game specific community groups!
https://www.facebook.com/ArborEsports

Auditions:Auditions for "Equus" | Rude Mechanicals
2017-09-15 18:00 - 22:00 | Michigan League
Hey, y'all! We at Rude Mechanicals are happy to annouce auditions for our play "Equus," written by Peter Shaffer and directed by Alexander Sherwin. We would love to invite everyone down to try out for a position in the play! We also encourage everyone to apply for non-actor positions as well. We have several openings in our Marketing, Scenic, and Stage departments and would love to get more people involved!

WHEN ARE AUDITIONS:
-Auditions:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th from 6:00PM - 10:00PM &
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th from 6:00PM - 8:00PM
-Callbacks:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th from 8:00PM - 10:00PM &
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th from 6:00PM - 10:00PM
** Please SIGN UP FOR YOUR AUDITION SLOT HERE:https://doodle.com/poll/27abzfrqw74dviby **

WHERE ARE AUDITIONS:
Auditions will be held in Room A (3rd Floor) of THE LEAGUE.

WHAT TO BRING:
Please bring a 1 - 1/2 Minute Contemporary Dramatic Monologue of your choosing! If you have a Headshot & Resume, please bring that as well!

EQUUS CONFLICTS WITH:
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Merry Wives of Windsor, One Hit Wonder, & Violet.

If you have any more questions about these auditions or this production, please don't hesitate to ask at: rudes.production@umich.edu

Rally / Mass Meeting:Elegance Fashion Info Session
2017-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 | North Quadrangle, Room 2435
Come learn more about Elegance Fashion, and how YOU can get involved!

Auditions:Fall Auditions
2017-09-15 18:00 - 23:00 | Sophia B. Jones Room - First Floor of the Union
If you identify as female and enjoy music, singing, and/or vocal percussion, come out and audition for the Sirens A Cappella group! Auditions consist of scales, a tonal memory exercise, sight singing (fear not!), and a brief solo (approx. one verse and chorus of a song that best shows your range/stylistic capability!). If you have any questions, please reach out to our president, Jillian Hurst, at jlhurst@umich.edu, and feel free to check us out at AcaRush Monday 9/11 at 7PM in the Union Ballroom and on social media (FB, YouTube, and Instagram) for more info! Walk-ins welcome!

Other:Game vs Eastern Michigan @ EMU
2017-09-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Game vs. Eastern Michigan University @ EMU

Rally / Mass Meeting:Michigan Animation Club Mass Meeting
2017-09-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Design Lab 1
Do you want to learn to animate? We are holding our mass meeting on Friday, September 15th, from 6pm-8pm in Design Lab 1 (Duderstadt Center). Absolutely no experience is required to join; we teach the basics of 2D and 3D animation through student and sponsored projects. It's a great opportunity to learn new skills, meet awesome people, and create something amazing! Everyone is welcome to join, and there WILL be cookies. If you have any questions, contact Michelle Sheng at shengmi@umich.edu.

Meeting:Prison Birth Project Mass Meeting
2017-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Mason Hall - 1339
The Prison Birth Project will be hosting mass meetings for those who are interested in becoming involved. We are a group of students that support pregnant moms who are in prison. If you are interested in our project, we would love to talk to you. There will be many leadership opportunities opening soon, including director positions for the following teams:

Fundraising, Grant Writing, Community Outreach & Activism, Doula Support, Event Planning, and Social Networking & Multimedia

If you or somebody you know might be interested, please stop by! If you are unable to make our mass meeting times, you can email us at prisonbirthproject@umich.edu for more information.

Exercise / Fitness:Mass Meeting
2017-09-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Michigan Union
An informational mass meeting to introduce new members to what we do as a club on campus and the logistics of our programs. This includes info about lessons, carpools, trips, social events, merch, and a way to meet the e-board! Interested in climbing with fellow wolverines? Find out how this Friday at 6:30 PM in the Michigan Union room 2105 B!

Auditions:Angels On Call Fall 2017 Auditions
2017-09-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Crofoot Room in the Union
Angels On Call is the only philanthropic a capela group at the University of Michigan! Love to sing or beatbox and love to give back to the community?? Audition for AoC this fall!Auditions are Thursday through Saturday, September 14-16 from 7-10pm in the Union Crofoot Room. Sign up for a 10 minute audition time slot at AcaRush on Monday, September 11 at 7:30pm in the Union Ballroom, or by emailing angelsoncallum@gmail.com.Each year we raise money for a charity of our choice and sing regularly at the University of Michigan hospital and partner with other local charity events. Go to AngelsOnCallUM.org to find out more about us and the audition process!We can't wait to see you there!

Other:Away game vs MSU
2017-09-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Grand Ledge High School
Friday Sept 15th we will travel to play Michigan State at a field near East Lansing for our second game of the season.

Other:Joseph Harms & Sena Moon
2017-09-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Joseph Harms (Poetry), introduced by Chelsea Welsh
Sena Moon (Fiction), introduced by Clayton Wickham

This event will be held in the Helmut Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (525 State Street). The reading begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Sena Moon hails from Seoul, South Korea, and is currently a student of the Helen Zell Writers' Program. She used to dabble in graphic design and nonprofit organizations. She has a rabbit called Butters and a husband called Peter, and reads them both to sleep. Every night.

A finalist for the 2015 National Poetry Series Award for his sonnet sequence Bel (Expat Press, forthcoming), Joseph Harms is the author of the novels Baal and Cant (Expat Press, reprints forthcoming). His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Boulevard, the Alaskan Quarterly Review, The Opiate and Bayou Magazine.

Lecture / Discussion:Mark Webster Reading Series
2017-09-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Other:Peter Ho Davies & Derek Palacio
2017-09-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Peter Ho Davies is on the faculty of the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Michigan. His debut collection, The Ugliest House in the World, won the John Llewellyn Rhys and PEN/Macmillan awards in Britain. His second collection, Equal Love, was hailed by the New York Times Book Review for its "stories as deep and clear as myth." It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New York Times Notable Book. In 2003 Davies was named among the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta. The Welsh Girl was his first novel and his second, The Fortunes, was published in September 2016. The son of a Welsh father and Chinese mother, Davies was raised in England and spent his summers in Wales.

Derek Palacio received his MFA in creative writing from The Ohio State University. His short story “Sugarcane” appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, and his novella, How to Shake the Other Man, was published by Nouvella Books. He lives and teaches in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the codirector, with Claire Vaye Watkins, of the Mojave School, and serves as a faculty member of the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program.

About The Fortunes:
Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.
Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor; Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star; a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community; and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood.

About The Mortifications:
In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel boatlift. Uxbal Encarnación—father, husband, political insurgent—refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife, Soledad, takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami’s familiar heat, Soledad pushes farther north into the stark, wintry landscape of Hartford, Connecticut. There, in the long shadow of their estranged patriarch, now just a distant memory, the Encarnacións begin a process of growth and transformation.

In their own way, each one both struggles and flourishes. Isabel, spiritually hungry and desperate for higher purpose, finds herself connected to the dying in uncanny ways. Ulises is bookish and awkwardly tall, like his father, whose memory haunts and shapes his thoughts. Presiding over them both is Soledad. Once consumed by her love for her husband, she begins a tempestuous new relationship with a Dutch tobacco farmer. But just as the Encarnacións begin to cultivate their strange new ways of life, Cuba calls them back. Uxbal is alive, and waiting.

Performance:Faculty Recital: Stephen Shipps, violin
2017-09-15 19:30 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
Featuring Mi Eun Kim, piano and Wei Yu, cello.

PROGRAM:
Martinu- Piano Trio No. 2
Smetana- From My Homeland for Violin and Piano
Janáček- Pohadka for Cello and Piano
Dvořák- Piano Trio in F minor, op. 65

Performance:Mason Jennings Band
2017-09-15 20:00 | Off Campus Location
New music from a Twin Cities–based Ark favorite.

Workshop / Seminar:Opera Workshop/Discussion: THE BLACK CLOWN
2017-09-15 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Music by Michael Schachter
Libretto by Davóne Tines and Michael Schachter
Based on the dramatic monologue by Langston Hughes.
Schachter’s new composition for the American Repertory Theater features the unique, genre-crossing work of rising bass-baritone Davóne Tines, who will be joined by SMTD vocal majors and pianist Steven McGhee under the musical direction of Kathleen Kelly for this first hearing of the vocal score.

Performance:The Bros. Landreth
2017-09-15 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Alternative-Country

Social / Informal Gathering:Toys R UMix
2017-09-15 22:00 - 2017-09-16 02:00 | Michigan Union
The third UMix of the Fall 2017 semester is happening this Friday, September 15th, in the Michigan Union from 10pm-2am.

Stop by for a mix of nostalgia and fun and watch Toy Story, gear up for life-size Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, keep your balance in giant inflatable Twister, make crafts, eat from the midnight buffet and more!

Be sure to bring your MCard for entry to the Union. Michigan students can bring up to two guests if they are checked-in upon arrival.

Other:UMix Late Night
2017-09-15 22:00 - 2017-09-16 02:00 | Michigan Union
Spend your Friday Night with UMix.UMix Late Night, is the University of Michigan's premier late night tradition filled with a series of fun activities and events for all U-M students. You'll find a variety of programs like arts and crafts, live entertainment, games, movies, and more! And always a free Midnight Buffet!UMix is Fridays 10pm - 2am in the Michigan Union.

Other:2018 EMGIP - Bundestag Internship
2017-09-15 23:59 | Off Campus Location
EMGIP (Émigré Memorial German Internship Program) offers internship opportunities for U.S. and Canadian students in the German parliament, the Bundestag. The internships are two months long and we try to match the position with the student’s interests and experiences. Interns will be placed within the Verwaltung, preferably with a Sekretariat working for their preferred Ausschuss. In addition to contributing to the respective offices, interns have the opportunity to study legislative and administrative procedures in the German parliament.

The successful applicant will receive compensation of approximately € 1,800 per month from the German Bundestag. Subsidized health insurance is available through DAAD for a monthly fee. DAAD can help the interns to obtain housing in Berlin and make contacts with fellow international interns and German students. Travel expenses are the intern’s responsibility.

Website: https://www.daad.org/en/find-funding/graduate-opportunities/emgip-bundestag-internship/

Other:German Chancellor Fellowship 2018-2019
2017-09-15 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Are you a rising leader of tomorrow? Would you like to spend one year conducting a project of social significance in Germany?

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s prestigious German Chancellor Fellowship Program (BUKA) offers you the opportunity to conduct an independent year-long research project at a German host institution of your choice and to join a diverse, lifelong network of scholars. In addition to receiving a monthly stipend of EUR 2,150 to 2,750, paid travel expenses, and a German language course, each German Chancellor Fellowship class takes part in a study tour together throughout Germany, during which they meet the Federal Chancellor of Germany.

The stay in Germany begins with a language scholarship for an obligatory two-month intensive German language course, which takes place during August and September 2018. Depending on the individual German language knowledge, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation may grant an additional language course in July or approve a reduction of the course. The German Chancellor Fellowship is granted for twelve months and starts in October 2018 with a four-week introductory seminar in Bonn and Berlin. This provides varied insights into the social, political, economic and cultural life in Germany. It is followed by eleven months of individual project work starting in November.

Applications for the 2018-2019 fellowship are now open and close on September 15, 2017. Applicants are strongly encouraged to begin contacting potential host institutions as soon as possible.

Eligibility requirements:
* Citizenship of the United States, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, Brazil or India
* Bachelor’s or comparable academic degree, completed less than twelve years prior to the starting date of the fellowship (October 1 of the year following application)
* Demonstrated leadership potential; applicants whose background is largely academic should also have gained some leadership experience beyond their own research activities
* Either English or German language skills

Program benefits:
* Fellowship grant of 2,150 EUR, 2,450 EUR or 2,750 EUR per month, depending on qualifications
* Allowance for a stay of one to two months at an additional institute in Europe
* Two-week study tour of Germany, including a reception at the Federal Chancellery
* Allowance for research costs amounting to 500 EUR per month
* Lump sum for travel to and from Germany if costs not borne by a third party
* Allowances for family members accompanying the fellow to Germany
* German courses in the fellow’s own country prior to the stay in Germany as well as during the stay in Germany to intensify the knowledge of German acquired during the intensive language course
* Extensive alumni sponsorship after the stay in Germany has been completed

Candidates from all professions and disciplines are encouraged to apply. Applicants should possess an interest in international issues and demonstrated leadership potential in their respective fields. Fellows will be recruited from a broad range of areas such as politics and public policy, law, media, business, the non-governmental sector, the arts, and more.

Visit the American Friends website for the last round of fellows and their profiles here.

What will fellows accomplish during their year in Germany?
During their time in Germany, Federal Chancellor Fellows conduct original, independent projects at their host institutions. Projects should have a long-term and visible social impact, and help to advance fellows’ careers and professional development.

Fellows are mentored by hosts in Germany, whom the fellows have chosen on the basis of their expertise in their respective areas. Through their experience in Germany, fellows will acquire greater knowledge of their fields, gain new international experience, and strengthen their intercultural competence – all essential qualities for future professional leaders.

What does the application entail?
* A project plan (approx. 3 pages)
* A detailed statement of support from a host in Germany (For information about finding a host, click here)
* Two letters of recommendation from individuals qualified to comment on the candidate’s professional, personal, and/or academic background.

Website: https://www.profellow.com/announcements/2018-19-german-chancellor-fellowship-applications-now-open/

Other:Metropolitan Studies in Berlin - Winter 2018
2017-09-15 23:59 | Off Campus Location
This program is designed for students without a German language background who are looking for an in-depth look at the culture and context of the metropolis of Berlin. German majors should consider the University of Michigan programs in Freiburg and Tübingen.

Eligibility:
* Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing
* Good academic standing
* Minimum 3.0 overall GPA
* No previous German language study is required

Academics:
Students must take 16-18 credit hours per semester. One German language course (4 credits) is required for beginning and intermediate students. All other courses are taught in English and worth 3 credits unless otherwise stated. Two week-long field trips will be included in the program, as well as day excursions that complement your learning in the classroom and contribute to a general knowledge of German culture and society.

Please see program website (IES) for details.

Application Website: https://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10946

If you have any questions how these credits could count towards a German major or minor, please ask Andrew, ajmills@umich.edu, or Kalli, kallimz@umich.edu.

Other:One-Semester Study-Abroad Program in Tübingen (Winter 2018)
2017-09-15 23:59 | Off Campus Location
The program takes place in the Winter term, and is intended for students who have completed at least German 221/231 or a 300-level German course by the end of the Fall 2017 term.

The German Department strongly recommends that you precede your stay in Tübingen by attending two four-week sessions at the Goethe Institut in Schwäbisch Hall (January and/or February) where you will live with a host family. This segment is not part of the CGIS program itself. Please talk with Andrew or me about the Goethe segment (see our contact information at the bottom of this email).

The CGIS portion in Tübingen will start early in March with a mandatory Kompaktkurs (6 credits) or a Startkurs (3 credits). While you will be enrolled for the Winter 2018 term at the University of Michigan, you will then take classes during "Sommersemester" at the Universität Tübingen (mid April - late July). You will earn 15-18 credits for Winter 2018: the courses that you take in Tübingen can be language courses for international students or regular university courses. Various university courses outside the English Department are taught in English.

Tübingen credits can be used to satisfy degree requirements for a German major or minor.

For more information about the Tübingen program, go to: https://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10248
