U-M Retirees Association Presents: Documenting Your Family History; Organizing for the Next Generation
Katherine Willson, founder and past president of the Virtual Genealogical Association,
Katherine Willson, will offer a starter guide to help participants begin to think about organizing records and photographs for their...
UMRA -U-M Retirees Association Presents: Inside (the) Game: Race, Gender, and the Sociocultural Business of Sports
Ketra L. Armstrong, Ph.D. Professor of Sport Management, Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and Director of the Center for Race & Ethnicity in Sport, School of Kinesiology, U-M
Dr. Armstrong is a nationally recognized scholar of race, gender and the social psychology of sport and leisure consumption. In addition,...
UMRA-U-M Retiree Association Presents: A Review of the Most Common Forms of Dementia
Jim Mangi, Alzheimer's Association's Community Educator.
After Mangi retired from a career as a scientist and business owner, he became deeply involved in dementia awareness and education. Jim is a...
UMRA-U-M Retirees Association Presents: Climate Change and What it Means for the Great Lakes
Johnathan Overpeck: Samuel A. Graham Dean; William B. Strapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education; Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering; Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Environment and Sustainability
Dean Overpeck is an interdisciplinary climate scientist and has led active climate research programs on five continents. His research is...
UMRA - U-M Retirees Association presents: Animal Companions: Pets & Seniors
Jessie Hitt, Community Educator with the Humane Society of Huron Valley
Jessie Hitt will help us think through some of the benefits and challenges of pet ownership. For anyone considering adding an animal...
UMRA- U-M Retirees Association Presents: People-Centric Language Computing
Dr. Rada Mihalcea, Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Michigan College of Engineering
Dr. Mihalcea holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Oxford. In 2008 Mihalcea...
UMRA - UM Retirees Association Presents: Hiking and Walking Trails in the Greater Ann Arbor Area
Sarah Ely, UMRA Member and Organizational Development and Training at U-M, Ford Motor Co.
Sarah Ely and "friends" will discuss walking: Over 50 songs include the word "walking" in the title, per Google. As...
UMRA-U-M Retiree Association Presents: The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness
Andrei Markovits, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Karl W. Deutsch Colllegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Political Science and Sociology in the College of Literature, Science and
The title of this talk is also the title of his most recent book, The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness. this is a story of an...
