November 4th, 2020

Post-Election Debrief

ELI November 2020 Workshop Series: English for Academic Purposes

Everyone is talking about the election now, and these conversations will continue after Election Day, November 3. Is it possible to engage...

Ancestry and Genomics Through a Bioethical Lens

Shawneequa L. Callier, JD, MA, Associate Professor, Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University

The Department of Anthropology & the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan are proud to present...

November 5th, 2020

The Scholar as Translator

Chana Kronfeld, University of California Berkeley

Join Chana Kronfeld, renowned translator of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry, for a discussion of her scholarship and translations. Kronfeld...

November 6th, 2020

Native American Graves and Repatriation Act: A Roundtable Discussion

Amadeaus Scott, UMMAA; Colleen Medicine-Dir of Language & Culture, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians; William Johnson-Curator of Ziibiwing Center/Chair of MACPRA; Marcus Winchester-Dir of Language and Culture, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi

This event will highlight the collaboration and cooperation between Tribes and the University of Michigan as the Native American Graves and...

Economics at Work

Gwendolyn Hatten Butler, President and Chief Investment Officer Capri Investment Group

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early...

November 7th, 2020

November 8th, 2020

November 9th, 2020

November 10th, 2020

Sacred Hands

This fully illustrated exhibit describes a wide selection of manuscripts from our collections that contain texts of the three Abrahamic...

Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) Annual Symposium

"Modeling the Perceived Truthfulness of Public Statements on COVID-19: A New Model for Pairwise Comparisons of Objects with Multidimensional Latent Attributes"/Political Science PhD Student Jerry Qiushi Yu

Modeling the Perceived Truthfulness of Public Statements on COVID-19: A New Model for Pairwise Comparisons of Objects with Multidimensional...

Challenges in dynamic mode decomposition

Ziyou Wu – PhD student, Electrical and computer engineering, Bio-inspired robotics dynamical system lab

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) is a powerful tool in extracting spatio-temporal patterns from multi-dimensional time series. DMD takes in...

Biopsychology Colloquium: Intraoperative Neuromonitoring: Applied Neuroscience in the Operating Room

Dr. Vincent Martinez, Surgical Neurophysiologist & Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neuromonitoring, University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Children's Hospital

Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) is frequently utilized during surgical procedures that place the brain, spine, or other neural...

Intro to Python for Community Members and K-12 Teachers and Students

Lead Presenter: Fred Feng, Assistant Professor Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn

This hands-on workshop is tailored to audiences who do not have prior programming experience. The first half of the workshop covers Python...

Scrubbing and Cleaning of Sensitive Data

Lead Presenter: Jonathan Reader, Programmer/Data Analyst, Neurology, University of Michigan Co-Presenters: Nicolas May, Data Systems Manager, Neurology, University of Michigan Kelly Bakulski, Research Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Univers

Before analysis, data must be retrieved, scrubbed of identifiable information, cleaned (e.g., addressed missing data, reshaped...

Stitching Together the Fabric of 21st Century Social Science

Presentations: Mike Mueller-Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan: “The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System: Assessing the Footprint of the U.S. Criminal Justice System” David Johnson, Director and Research

Today’s pressing questions of social science and public policy demand an unprecedented degree of data scope and integration as we...

The State of the Art in Automated and Semi-Automated Video Coding

Lead Presenter: Jason Corso, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan Co-Presenters: Maggie Levenstein, Director and Research Professor, ICPSR and School of Information, University of Michigan Susan Jekielek, Assistan

Video is being acquired at an alarming rate across domains, including social research, healthcare, entertainment, sporting and more. The...

Functional MRI 2020-21 Symposium Speaker

Age Differences in Functional Network Reconfiguration with Working Memory Training with Alex Iordan, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan

Abstract: Demanding cognitive functions like working memory (WM) depend on functional brain networks being able to communicate efficiently...

International Studies Honors Plan Information Session

Anthony Marcum, PhD, Lecturer III and Coordinator of Experiential, Independent, and Honors Education, Program in International and Comparative Studies

The Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS) offers an Honors Plan for International Studies majors with an overall GPA of...

CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China

Keynote Speaker: Ray Dalio, Founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and Co-Chairman, Bridgewater Associates, LP. Panel Discussion: U-M Faculty Alan Deardorff and Ann Lin, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; Moderator: Twila Tardif, LRCCS Director

Join us as we partner with the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York for an enlightening evening of presentations and...

CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China

Keynote Speaker: Ray Dalio, Founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and Co-Chairman, Bridgewater Associates, LP. Panel Discussion: U-M Faculty Alan Deardorff and Ann Lin, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; Moderator: Twila Tardif, LRCCS Director

Join us as we partner with the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York for an enlightening evening of presentations and...