Happening @ Michigan

2018 NERS Bootcamp

"Learn about graduate school in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences !"

WHO: We are looking for undergraduate junior and seniors from nuclear engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, mechanical...

Engineering Graduate Symposium

The Engineering Graduate Symposium is a College-wide event focusing on doctoral and master’s students’ research. College of Engineering...

Envisioning the Future: Business as Creators

Jim Keane

As part of the “Working Towards Shared Prosperity” conference at Ross sponsored by Business+Impact and the Aspen Institute Business...

Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar, Public Finance

Martin O'Connell, Institute for Fiscal Studies United Kingdom

Details to come.

How Black is American Film History?: A Scholarship and Pedagogy Mini-Conference

Guest speakers include Cara Caddoo (Indiana University), Miriam Petty (Northwestern University), and Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto).

The event investigates the formation of the American film industry from its origins into the 1940s and beyond, paying special attention to...

U-M Structure Seminar

Qingyun Dan, Ph.D. and Sean Newmister, Ph.D.

Qingyun Dan...

Statistics Department Seminar Series: Pierre Bellec, Assistant Professor of statistics, Rugers University

Some higher order phenomena for tuning the Lasso

In sparse linear regression, it is now well understood that the Lasso achieves fast prediction rates, provided that the correlations of the...

Dance Modern Lab Master Class Series: Donnell Oakley

Donnell Oakley is an independent choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. She has had her work produced through a...

EIHS Workshop: Boundaries of Everyday Life

Taking up Fabio Lanza’s question–is there a socialist everyday?–this panel will explore the nature, meanings, and boundaries of...

HistLing Discussion Group

Jeff Heath

The HistLing Discussion Group is devoted to discussions of language change.This week, Linguistics Professor Jeffrey Heath will present...

Michigan Meeting Fall Symposium: Life with/in Digital Objects

Andre Brock (Georgia Tech), Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (HyphenLabs), Lionel Robert (U-M School of Information), Sophia Brueckner (U-M Art and Design)

Schedule of Events for Friday, 10/26...

Mock Law Class & Lunch with Prof. Richard Broughton

Come get a feel for a law school class led by UDMercy Professor Richard Broughton...

Mock Law School Class

Friday, October 26th, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Koessler Room, Michigan League

Come get a feel for a law school class led by UDMercy Professor Richard Broughton. Pre-registration required with buslepba@udmercy.edu to...

Psychology Methods Hour: Explaining the Benefits and Implementation of Bayesian Cognitive Modeling to Frequentist Reviewers

Alex Weigard, Research Fellow working with Dr. Beltz

Bayesian hierarchical modeling can provide novel insights into the mechanistic processes that allow humans to complete cognitive tasks. This...

Table Talks on the Diag

Talk about the issues that matter most with your fellow students. Discuss topics ranging from healthcare to immigration to the environment...

Telomeres and the DNA Damage Response

Titia de Lange, Rockefeller University

Host: JK Nandakumar...

The Angamuco Urban Landscape: LiDAR, survey, and excavation at a Purépecha City, Michoacán, Mexico

Dr. Chris Fisher and Dr. Anna Cohen

Angamuco is a newly documented Purépecha (Tarascan) urban center within the Imperial heartland of the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán,...

ASCE Speaker Series: Aristeo

ASCE Speaker Series

Malaria Ecology and Epidemiology: Challenges to Interrupting Transmission

a MAC-EPID symposium honoring Mark Wilson

Speakers include:...

Economics at Work

David Cohen, Director, Human Capital, Resources Group. American Securities

David Cohen is the Director of the Human Capital Practice at American Securities. As a member of the firm’s Resources Group, he supports...

Intersex 101 Workshop

Unsure of what intersex means? What to learn more about how to support intersex people and their rights? Join the Spectrum Center for a...

Labor Economics: Who Profits from Patents? Rent-Sharing at Innovative Firms

Pat Kline, University of California Berkeley

Details to come.

Phondi Discussion Group

Stephen Tobin

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and...

Roundtable: “What Is Genre?”

Virginia Jackson (Irvine) with Annika Pattenaude, Annie Bolotin, and Talin Tahajian

A panel-style conversation that will begin with brief comments from Jackson and three University of Michigan graduate students: Annie...

AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: Decision-Making Superiority Delivered

George F. Halow, Manager, Global Investment Efficiency, Global Product Planning & Strategy, Ford Motor Company

Ethics and Integrity in Business is a dynamic and interactive lecture, where students are placed in a variety of ethical situations and will...

Eyes on the Horizon? Fragmented Elites and the Short-Term Focus of the American Corporation

Richard Benton

In recent years, scholars and popular commentators have expressed concerns that U.S. corporations are too focused on short-term performance,...

Political Theory Workshop

Janice Feng

TBA

8th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter, M.D. Lecture in Medical Genetics

Harry C. Dietz, MD, Johns Hopkins University of School of Medicine

This annual lectureship honors Dr. Thomas D. Gelehrter, a leader within the human genetics community and internationally recognized as an...

Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Forum

Matt Jones, Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado (Boulder)

Diffusion models have shown great success in explaining choice response time in a wide variety of domains. However, to account for RT...

Decolonizing European History at the Museum

Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University

As the colonial past is increasingly being incorporated into national and transnational histories, some museums have positioned themselves...

Engineering human tissues for regenerative medicine and study of disease

2018 Alan J. Hunt Memorial Lecture - Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Tissue engineering is becoming increasingly successful with authentically representing the actual environmental milieu of the development,...

Internship Lab

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Mothering Across Borders and the Children Left Behind: Zimbabwean and Mexican Immigrant Female Domestic Workers in Johannesburg, South Africa and San Diego, United States

Lorena Muñoz, Assistant Professor Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies, University of Minnesota

This comparative study, illustrates how motherhood materializes through the often emotionally-heavy choices that female immigrants make as...

EXCEL Talk: Juergen Stark

Join EXCEL for an exciting conversation with Juergen Stark, CEO of Turtle Beach. Turtle Beach designs and markets premium audio peripherals...

Economic Theory: Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing

Xiaosheng Mu, Harvard University

Details to come.

Department Colloquium

Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow)

Does Virtual Reality Consist in Veridical, Illusory or Hallucinatory Experience?...

Ento-Mouth Presents: Eat A Bug

Ento-Mouth presents the first campus, insect serving food cart where art, sustainability, culture, diet, and good flavors come together!!...

Falling in Love with Love Poetry

Never Enough Love

Together we will read and enjoy love poems from the ancient world to the present. Readings will include poetry by canonical authors such as...

HET Seminars | Hunting for Heavy Winos

Tim Cohen (U Oregon)

I will discuss recent progress in calculating a precision photon spectrum for heavy wino annihilation to photons, along with implications...

Luisa Coleta and the Capuchin Friar

A Methods Workshop on the Challenges of Writing Global Microhistories

In 2016 Rebecca Scott and Cuban historian Carlos Venegas came upon a record of the “confession” of María Luisa Coleta, a refugee from...

Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Abelton Workshop with Thomas Faulds

This workshop will explore songwriting, composition, production, and performance techniques utilizing Live 10, Max for Live and Push.

Technosemiotics

Michael Lempert | Associate Professor of Anthropology

A roundtable conversation about new ways to study and think about the entanglements of medial technologies in sociocultural life....

Department of Music Theory Colloquium Series

Prof. Patricia Hall will present “Irony and Identity: Musical Manuscripts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.”...

Special Lecture: Physical Models of Seismic Sequences Across Multiple Scales: Aftershocks and Small Repeating Earthquakes

Camilla Cattania, Stanford University

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts lectures that bring in distinguished speakers from other universities and research...

Undergraduate Research Awards Ceremony, 2017-2018

Please join us as we honor the 2017-2018 U-M Library Undergraduate Research Award recipients. Meet the recipients, hear about their...

Analytical 3rd Year Student Seminars

Cole Chapman(Bailey Lab) , John Orlet(Bailey Lab)

Cole Chapman(Bailey Lab) , John Orlet(Bailey Lab)...

Business Analyst Summer Scholar Info Session

Come join us for a presentation on Deloitte consulting, including an internship trajectory path, day in the life of a Summer Scholar,and...

CSAS Lecture Series | A Vigil Wasted? Notes on the Ruin-Sublime in Afghanistan

Mrinalini Chakravorty, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia

As abandoned remnants of human activity, ruins evoke concerns about the durability of the past, a setting, and of human perception and...

Intro to Camping

Adventure Leadership Trips

Join us on an over night trip from 4pm Friday October 26th, 2018 to 10am Saturday, October 27th. Want to break into the art of camping, but...

Seminar Title: "The ParA/MinD family of ATPases make waves to position DNA, cell division, and organelles in bacteria"

Assistant Professor Anthony Vecchiarelli, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental, University of Michigan

Abstract: Positional information in eukaryotic cells is mainly orchestrated by cytoskeletal highways and their associated motor proteins...

Ultrafast Studies of Single Plasmonic Nanostructures

Gregory Hartland (University of Notre Dame)

The optical properties of metal nanostructures are dominated by plasmon resonances, which are strong collective motions of the conduction...

Distinguished Lecture in Musicology

Porgy and Bess Against the Grain: New Approaches to a Confounding American Opera

Mark Clague (University of Michigan), chair...

Ableton Public Workshop with Thomas Faulds and special guest Nick Hoop

This workshop will explore songwriting, composition, production, and performance techniques utilizing Live 10, Max for Live and Push. It...

Speed dating & inter-graduate mixer at Dom’s

Fundraiser for United Asian American Medical Student Association (UAAMSA)’s annual SE Michigan health fair

Looking for the love of your life (or friendship)? Tired of being alone? Spending too much time Netflixing and not enough chilling? Want to...

Equilibrium

Presented by Amazin' Blue

Symphony Band

“Soundscapes”

Michael Haithcock, conductor...

The Verve Pipe

Presented by The Ark

Boo Mix

Looking to get into the Halloween spirit? Boo Mix is this Friday, October 26th, in the Michigan League! Come decorate pumpkins, watch the...

BooMix

Looking to get into the Halloween spirit? Boo Mix is this Friday, October 26th, in the Michigan League! Come decorate pumpkins, watch the...

George Valenta Scholarship

Application Deadline

George Valenta Scholarship 2018/2019...