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Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): State Finance Systems and Crowding-Out by State Contributions to Public Education

Gail Lucasan

Details to come.

Donuts & Hot Chocolate

Join the Opportunity Hub for Donuts and Hot Chocolate!

Personal Computer Maintenance and Internet Security Tips

Are your electronic data secure?

This class will focus on how to protect your data and identity. Topics include antivirus software, internet threats (ransomware, phishing,...

"The Untethered Soul, The Journey Beyond Yourself"

Back By Request

Michael Singer says: In this book, we will undertake a journey of exploration of “self…We will…turn to a single source that has...

Affirming Muslim Student Identities on College Campuses

Shafiqa Ahmadi, JD

Shafiqa Ahmadi, JD, is an associate professor of clinical education at the Rossier School of Education and the co-director for the Center...

Biodiversity: An Exploration of the Diversity of Life

Plus New Organisms

Are you curious about the many forms that life takes on this planet? We will start with an overview of taxonomy--the art and science of...

Capital One Company Day

The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for Capital One on Wednesday, March 14, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the Duderstadt Connector....

Women in Economics: Navigating Disparity and Underrepresentation

The panel features Kathryn Dominguez, Ying Fan, Sara Heller, and Betsey Stevenson. Please RSVP if you will attend using the following link:...

HET Brown Bag Series | Empirical Determination of the Dark Matter Velocity Distribution

Lina Necib (Caltech)

Using the hydrodynamic simulation Eris, as well as various realizations of the Milky Way from the FIRE simulation, we found that the...

Race and Attitudes toward First Ladies from Hillary Clinton to Michelle Obama

Andra Gillespie (Emory University)

First ladies are understudied political actors in American politics. Though their role is informal, citizens develop trong attitudes toward...

Social Brown Bag

Veronica Derricks

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Social Brown Bag

Ramona Perry

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Theater and Social Justice

This conversation between eminent practitioners of socially engaged theater will set the context for Rhodessa Jones and Company's...

Mystery Book Club

Five Authors

Mystery lovers, this is the group for you. Instead of reading familiar authors, we will be searching for new talent. So, bring a list of...

Thesis Defense: A New Decarboxylase: A Mechanistic Characterization of PrFMN Decarboxylase FDC1

Kyle Ferguson (Advisor: Dr. E. Neil G. Marsh)

Kyle Ferguson (Advisor: Dr. E. Neil G. Marsh)...

Thesis Defense: Zhiyuan Yao

Zhiyuan Yao

Klionsky lab

Health Lies in Action

Quantifying the Self: Three Lectures on Human Instruments

A lecture on the next generation of physiological monitoring as embodied by wearable, therables, and the quantified self.

Quantifying the Self: "Health lies in action"

The Bioethics Discussion Group and the Transforming Engineering Education col-Laboratory present a lecture on the next generation of...

CANCELLED Educating Student Activists in Divisive Times

Mariame Kaba

Update as of 3/12/18: due to inclement weather Mariame had to cancel her visit to our campus. We will be in touch if we are able to...

The Google of Healthcare: Making Big Data Work for—As Opposed to Against—Our Patients’ Best Interest

Kayte Spector-Bagdady

Our data are collected at every turn: where we drive, who we email, what we google, what we buy. Perhaps a last bastion of expected privacy...

The Google of Healthcare: Making Big Data Work for—As Opposed to Against—Our Patients’ Best Interest

Kayte Spector-Bagdady explores how health data are currently being collected and by who, as well as ways we can both serve and protect our...

Thesis Defense: "Insights into Crystalline and Material Solids from Advances in Magic Angle Spinning NMR"

Joshua Damron (Advisor: Dr. Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy)

Joshua Damron (Advisor: Dr. Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy)...

Depression on College Campuses Conference Closing Keynote Address: Strategic Engagements: UCLA Depression Grand Challenge & Resilience Peer Network

Elizabeth Gong-Guy, PhD, executive director, Campus and Student Resilience, UCLA

In the past decade, UCLA has developed a network of services to support student wellness across an array of domains extending far beyond...

Efficient Hardware and Methods for Deep Learning

William J. Dally, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, NVIDIA

Abstract: The current resurgence of artificial intelligence is due to advances in deep learning. Systems based on deep learning now exceed...

Teaching for Diversity: Pedagogy Workshop with Lecturers, Faculty and GSIs

Join us for a workshop around the pedagogic guide created by Xangô and the Argentine Confederation of Public Education Workers during 2016....

2018 Helmut W. Baer Lecture in Physics | Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino

Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

Neutrinos are “ghostly” particles, interacting only rarely with matter. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) was first...

Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Soldiers and Kings: Violence, Representation, and Photoethnographic Practice in the Context of Human Smuggling Across Mexico

Jason De León, Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, University of Michigan

Since 2015, Jason De León has been involved in an analog photoethnographic project focused on documenting the daily lives of Honduran...

Elastomeric Surfaces for the Rational Synthesis, Assembly, and Fabrication of Adaptive, Functional Materials

Stephen Morin (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

We are investigating new synthetic strategies for the fabrication of adaptive, hybrid structures comprised of combinations of soft materials...

Internship Lab

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Just Sustainabilities in Policy, Planning and Practice: Presentation by Julian Agyeman, PhD

SEAS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Presentation

Please join us Wednesday, March 14 in the Samuel T. Dana Building, room 1040 from 4-5:30pm for a School for Environment and Sustainability...

Macroeconomics: The Historical Role of TFP News in U.S. Recessions and Booms

Leonardo Melosi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Renato Faccini, Queen Mary University of London

Details to come.

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Yusin Redux: Satire and Democratization in South Korea

Youngju Ryu, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

Ahead of a hotly contested presidential race in 2012, a controversial painting by the artist Hong Sŏng-dam depicted the then candidate Park...

Saint-Domingue by Way of Saint-Petersburg: Imagining the Haitian Revolution in Imperial Russia

Jennifer Wilson

This talk will explore how the Haitian Revolution was covered in the Russian press from 1802-1804. Of primary focus will be how the presence...

The Republic of the Unlettered: Ordinary Litigants, Civil Law and Writing during the Spanish Imperial Enlightenment

Arthur Aiton Lecture featuring Bianca Premo

An overview of Professor Premo's 2017 book, The Enlightenment on Trial, this lecture add deeper consideration of the constraints of...

IOE 899 Seminar: Jeff Fessler, EECS, University of Michigan

"Optimal first-order convex minimization methods with applications in machine learning"

Abstract: Many applications, including machine learning, require optimization of convex cost functions. For convex cost functions with...

Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Greek Tragedy

Panel discussion with Rhodessa Jones (the Medea Project) moderated by Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature)...

Vibrancy of Silence Film Screening

This is a 90-minute documentary film that highlights the creative achievements of six Sub-Saharan African women in various intellectual and...

Accenture Case Interview Workshop

Interested in recruiting for a consulting position but unfamiliar with the case interview format? This workshop, brought to you by...

Author’s Forum Presents: "Early Modern Cartesianisms"

A Conversation with Tad Schmaltz and George Hoffmann

Tad Schmaltz (philosophy) and George Hoffmann (French) discuss Schmaltz's new book "Early Modern Cartesianisms."...

IEDP Senegal Post-Trip Presentation

Research & Exploration in Dakar, Winter 2018

Join us on Wednesday, March 14 to hear from this year's IEDP PubPol 674 cohort about our research and exploration in the West African...

Maize Collective Speaker Series

Join Maize Collective for a three-part speaker series to explore topics relating to the music industry. These panel-style discussions will...

Asset & Wealth Management Panel and Networking Event

On March 14th, 2018, we’ll be at University of Michigan tomeet interesting and diverse minds from all different backgrounds and majors who...

Capital One Demos

FRESHMEN, SOPHOMORES & JUNIORS...

From Community Engagement to Career

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LinkedIn- Profile

What should your professional identity look like online? Learn the do's and don'ts at this workshop. This is one of several...

Meme War!

Fair Use Week

Celebrate Fair Use Week with a Meme War! Participants will be asked to create a meme centered around their experience at U-M. The event will...

Mochas and Masterpieces

Get crafty & cozy with Mochas & Masterpieces these last days of winter! CCI invites you to join us on Wednesday, March 14 in the...

Mochas and Masterpieces

Get crafty & cozy with Mochas & Masterpieces these last days of winter! CCI invites you to join us on Wednesday, March 14 in the...

Designing Landscapes with Native Plants

Native plant landscapes can range from formal to informal while being beautiful and supporting wildlife. This interactive conversation local...

Author Talk: Garrett Graff: Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

Garrett Graff

Garrett Graff, magazine journalist, author and historian, describes an eye-opening true story of the government’s secret plans to survive...

SMTD@UMMA

Exercising the Ear: Music and conversation with Augusta Read Thomas

Augusta Read Thomas, one of today’s most acclaimed composers, joins U-M composer Roshanne Etezady for conversation about music, art, and...

SMTD@UMMA Performance: Exercising the Ear: Music and Conversation with Augusta Read Thomas

This program is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served....

Teach Us All: A screening of the documentary

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VegWeek (Mar 14): Forks Over Knives Movie Screening & Q&A with Marc Ramirez

Marc Ramirez, former UM Football Player

This event is part of VegWeek, a series of talks on the health, environmental, and ethical benefit of a plant-based diet. This screening is...

VegWeek 2018

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS),...

Graham Nash

Graham Nash is a British-American singer-songwriter and musician. Nash is known for his light tenor voice and for his songwriting...

M-Prize Laureate Residency Guest Recital: Argus Quartet with Students

The first-place laureate ensemble in the strings division of the 2017 M-Prize International Chamber Arts Competition, the Argus Quartet...