November 2nd, 2018

1st-Gen Aero Student Career Clinic

Karen Albrecht, Lockheed Martin Executive (retired) & CEO Karen Albrecht Enterprises

We are holding a special event for students who are the first in their family to attend college. The College has told us you meet this...

IOE 836 Seminar: John W. Gosbee, MD, MS

Teaching human factors engineering to help biomedical engineering students build safer devices and medical residents design safer healthcare

Bio: John Gosbee, MD, MS teaches human factors engineering (HFE) and patient safety at the University of Michigan Departments of Internal...

Economics at Work

Jason Granet, Managing Director of Liquidity Solutions & Head of International Liquidity Portfolio Management at Goldman Sachs

Jason is deputy head of Liquidity Solutions for Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). He is responsible for the management, oversight and...

Phondi Discussion Group

Justin Craft and Tamarae Hildebrandt

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

My Butch Career: A Memoir

Esther Newton (Women's Studies, American Culture), with Clare Croft (Dance) and Gayle Rubin (Anthropology, Women's Studies)

Join LGQRI in celebrating Esther Newton’s forthcoming memoir....

November 3rd, 2018

Chinese Stories

A Pipa Solo Recital by Gao Hong

Gao Hong, a pipa virtuoso, will present an evening concert of pipa music. The concert includes eight beautiful pipa music pieces that will...

David Cook

Presented by The Ark

David immediately launched to stardom following his Season 7 American Idol title. He broke several Billboard chart records when 14 of his...

November 4th, 2018

November 5th, 2018

Clinical Science Brown Bag: ABPP/ABCN Board Certification– What You Should Know

Kristen Loeher Votruba, Ph.D., ABPP, Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist, Clinical Assistant Professor, Neuropsychlogy Associate Training Director, University of Michigan

Summary: The current presentation will introduce organizations important in the board certification of psychologists. All specialty boards...

"American Mah-Jongg"

Mary Engelhardt will facilitate the playing of Mah-Jongg

This class is designed for those who already know how to play American Mah-Jongg. American Mah-Jongg requires that you earn/possess the 81st...

How to be an Effective Lab Scholar

Monica Dus, Asst. Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

This free, one-hour workshops are designed for honors thesis writers, but is open to all interested students. Part of the workshop series:...

November 6th, 2018

CWPS Faculty Lecture Series | Mbala Nkanga, Associate Professor of Theatre

Memory of Violence in Peaceful Performance: An Inquiry into the Development of Theatre and Performance Practices in Francophone Africa

This presentation presents the preliminary findings on the use of memory of the violent past in popular artistic expressions, performances...

November 7th, 2018

Wisdom Circle

A Joint Exploration of the World's Religions

A comparison and celebration of the different approaches of the world’s religions to various spiritual topics. Topics would include but...

The Future of Social Security: Michigan Forum

Various: An educational forum on Social Security and federal budget policy for University of Michigan faculty and students, as well as Detroit-area community leaders.

What’s at stake? For most of the 20th century, Americans have been able to rely on multiple sources of retirement income – including...

Physicians, Public Speech and Politics

23rd Annual Department of Psychiatry Waggoner Lecture to be presented by Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, M.D., J.D.

Please join the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry for the 23rd Annual Waggoner Lecture on Ethics & Values in Medicine. The...

November 8th, 2018

New Perspectives on the Piano Movers' Problem

Siddhartha Srinivasa, Boeing Endowed Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington

In 1979, Schwartz and Sharir introduced the Piano Movers' Problem --- move a piano in a cluttered home from start to goal without...

Art History and Motion Pictures

Frank Beaver, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus of Communication and Sscreen, Arts and Cultures.

Professor Beaver will discuss Art History and Motion Pictures. His book dictionary of Film Terms was translated into Mandarin in 1993 and...

Robotics Interfaces with Architecture Seminar

"Behavioral Prototypes" by Roland Snooks, Associate Professor of Architecture at RMIT Melbourne

Roland Snooks explores the complexity of the contemporary social and natural world through the creation of objects, installations, public...