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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: Adam Reimer
DESCRIPTION:About the presentation: Achieving conservation aims in the Great Lakes region\, including protecting water quality\, enhancing wildlife habitat\, and building community resilience\, often relies on voluntary actions by farmers\, ranchers\, and rural landowners. Numerous agencies\, organizations\, and policies support farmer adoption of soil health practices\, improved nutrient management\, and managed tile drainage. Despite decades of effort\, adoption of key practices has lagged what is needed to reach larger conservation goals. National Wildlife Federation has worked with producers and conservation professionals for over a decade to improve outreach and conservation communications to reach new audiences and expand adoption of key practices. NWF programs apply insights from social and behavioral science to increase organizational capacity and identify novel strategies for increasing conservation adoption. This presentation will share key insights from NWF programs and outline research and extension needs to scale up adoption in the Great Lakes region.\n\nAbout the speaker: Adam Reimer is the outreach and evaluation scientist at the National Wildlife Federation. He has training in interdisciplinary social and agricultural science with a PhD from Purdue University. Adam has an extensive research background exploring farmer and landowner conservation decision making and the role of policy and social networks in conservation outcomes. At NWF\, he helps support local and farmer-led conservation outreach throughout the Midwest by leveraging social and behavioral sciences to develop effective engagement strategies.
UID:142040-21889936@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142040
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ecology,Environment,Environmental Policy,Free,Great Lakes,Lecture,Public Policy,Research,seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260504T113544
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260506T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260506T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bayesian Generative Modeling of Latent Subpopulations with Non- parametric Distributions
DESCRIPTION:Across many scientific domains\, researchers increasingly collect large heterogeneous datasets containing multiple meaningful subpopulations whose labels are unavailable. These subpopulations may be related in complex ways\, and each may exhibit rich internal structure. Scientific analysis often requires not only assigning observations to latent subpopulations\, but also characterizing the distributional structure within each subpopulation. Mixture models provide a natural framework for this goal. However\, most existing work assumes that component distributions belong to specified parametric families\, which are almost always misspecified in practice. Capturing complex subpopulation structures therefore requires extending mixture models to allow nonparametric component distributions. This extension immediately raises fundamental challenges of identifiability and inference: since only the overall population distribution is observed\, it is unclear what should count as a distinct subpopulation\; when components are highly flexible\, it is unclear whether they can be separated\, especially in overlapping regions\; and even when separation is theoretically possible\, reliably estimating latent subpopulations remains a major inferential challenge. In this dissertation\, we address these theoretical and methodological challenges within a systematic Bayesian nonparametric framework.\nFirst\, we develop a unified framework based on mixtures of Dirichlet process mixtures (MDPMs) for two classes of nonparametric mixture structures: one in which components’ high-density regions are spatially differentiated\, and another in which components may fully overlap but are distinguished by contrasting density levels. We develop scalable algorithms and evaluate them through simulations and real-data applications in univariate and multivariate settings\, showing that component distributions can be accurately recovered under mild conditions.\nSecond\, we extend the approach to multivariate settings where component high-density regions are spatially differentiated but not convexly separable. To handle complex density-contour geometry\, we approximate these regions by unions of hypercubes and construct MDPMs over the resulting coverings\, allowing the model to learn component distributions with complex latent-support geometries. Simulation studies demonstrate strong performance across diverse settings.\nThird\, we provide theoretical support for the framework by establishing identifiability conditions for the first class of mixture structures. We further derive posterior contraction rates under the MDPM framework. These results show that MDPMs preserve the efficiency of learning the overall population density relative to a single Dirichlet process mixture\, while enabling latent nonparametric component distributions to be learned at a nearly polynomial rate\, substantially faster than the typical rates of nonparametric deconvolution.
UID:148073-21902919@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148073
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 438
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260211T104938
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260506T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260506T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A Conversation about Maternal Mental Health with Dr. Kara Zivin
DESCRIPTION:One in five women will experience a mental health condition during pregnancy or the first year postpartum. Blending personal narrative with research and policy insights\, this event explores maternal mental health challenges and the urgent steps needed to improve care for mothers and their families.\n\nJoin us as Kara Zivin speaks in conversation with Molly Spencer about Persevered: A Maternal Mental Health Memoir. Audience Q&A to follow discussion.\n\nThis event is open to the public but registration is appreciated.\n\nFor questions about this event\, please contact zivin.research@umich.edu.\n\nNote: This event will include discussion of serious mental health topics including suicide. We understand this material pose challenges for some people\, but discussing it is crucial to our understanding of maternal mental health. Our speakers will handle these topics with care and sensitivity.
UID:145356-21897165@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145356
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Depression,Discussion,Faculty,In Person,Mental Health,Mental Health Awareness Month,Public Health,Public Policy,Storytelling
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260505T103416
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260507T110000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Peng Zhai Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:The seismic cycle\, also known as sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip (SEAS)\, is characterized by periodic accumulation and release of tectonic stress. This multi-timescale process encompasses both rapid coseismic rupture\, which unfolds over seconds\, and prolonged interseismic deformation lasting up to thousands of years. Physics-based numerical models of the seismic cycle aim to capture SEAS within a unified framework and to enhance our understanding of earthquake generation. In this dissertation\, I employ fully dynamic seismic cycle models\, including dynamic inertial effects\, to investigate earthquake nucleation and the coupled evolution of fault slip and inelastic fault zone deformation governed by damage rheology.\n\nChapter 2 focuses on exploring the influence of the characteristic weakening distance (DRS) in rate-and-state friction (RSF) on earthquake nucleation. The findings indicate that a larger value of a/b (>0.75)\, rather than the traditionally assumed 0.5\, is needed to produce expanding crack nucleation for a relatively small DRS. This suggests that fixed-length nucleation may be more common on both natural and laboratory faults\, and therefore earthquake nucleation style is strongly governed by both a/b and DRS.\n\nChapter 3 aims to develop a novel seismic cycle model integrating RSF and damage rheology to capture the coevolution of fault slip and fault zone deformation. Simulations reveal coseismic velocity drops consistent with seismological observations and a persistent shallow slip deficit (SSD). Off-fault damage is predominantly generated during earthquakes\, concentrating at shallow depths in a flower-like structure\, characterized by a distributed damage area surrounding a localized\, highly damaged inner core. Utilizing an experimentally based logarithmic healing law\, the model shows that coseismic reductions in off-fault rigidity only partially heal\, leading to a cumulative\, permanent rigidity loss over multiple seismic cycles. Consequently\, the fault zone width and rigidity eventually stabilize\, reaching a mature state with a large cumulative fault slip.\n\nIn Chapter 4\, I apply this earthquake coevolution model to examine the role of weak fault zone deformation on the generation of multiscale seismicity. The results demonstrate that relatively weak fault zones (i.e.\, when surrounding rocks have a low internal friction coefficient) facilitate the production of both large and small earthquakes\, reproducing key earthquake scaling relations observed in nature\, such as power-law magnitude-frequency distribution\, magnitude-invariant static stress drop\, and non-linear fracture energy scaling in a unified framework. These findings highlight the fundamental role of the coevolution of earthquakes and fault zone inelastic deformation in controlling earthquake behaviors.\n\nIn conclusion\, these findings highlight the significant role that fault friction and fault zone deformation play in governing earthquake nucleation\, slip behavior\, and earthquake scaling relations. Particularly\, by capturing the coevolution of fault slip and fault zone deformation over multiple seismic cycles\, Chapters 3 and 4 underscore the fundamental importance of fault zone inelastic deformation in shaping earthquake dynamics beyond fault friction and rock elasticity. The spontaneously generated inelastic deformation dissipates elastic strain energy and acts as natural rupture barriers to modulate earthquake size. The coevolution of fault slip and fault zone inelastic deformation provides an efficient way to generate fault stress heterogeneity and a wide spectrum of earthquake size over multiple seismic cycles. These insights offer new directions for interpreting natural fault systems and assessing seismic hazards.
UID:148094-21902941@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148094
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Earth And Environmental Sciences
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540
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DTSTAMP:20260506T144019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260507T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260507T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Methods for Causal Inference in Settings with Clustered Data Subject to Missingness and Measurement Error
DESCRIPTION:Educational programs\, healthcare policies\, and economic shocks frequently act upon intact clusters rather than isolated individuals. Evaluations of such interventions can adjust for baseline differences between clusters with matching\, then address persisting imbalances through regression adjustment. The Peters-Belson (PB)/Oaxaca-Blinder (OB) estimator fits a regression to predict outcomes individuals would have had if they were in the control condition\, and adjusts for imbalances in predicted outcomes by comparing individuals’ differences between observed and predicted outcomes.\n\nThis dissertation begins by showing that in studies that enroll or match only a small number of clusters\, the regression fit contributes non-negligibly to variability of the PB/OB estimator both across studies and across treatment allocations within studies. It makes two proposals in response: first\, incorporating auxiliary clusters—those that are not retained in the initial cluster match—into the regression fit\, and second\, defining the regression coefficients and the PB/OB estimator as M-estimators of regression. The first proposal exhibits promising gains in precision in simulations and an empirical application\, while the second exhibits improved estimation of sampling variability over variance estimators that ignore variation from the coefficient estimates\, particularly when paired with a novel jackknife-type bias correction.\n\nThe CR2 adjustment is a widely used bias correction for cluster-robust variance estimates\, but it may be computationally infeasible in studies with large clusters given existing routines’ reliance on obtaining spectral decompositions of estimated cluster-specific covariance matrices. Chapter 4 provides exact representations of CR2 that obviate this step of the computations\, reducing walltime of CR2 estimates from over a day to just over a minute in settings previously deemed too computationally burdensome.\n\nThe concluding chapter focuses on the initial cluster-level match\, proposing two propensity score (PS) estimators that balance latent confounders when only noisy measurements are available\, if they are available at all. These PS estimators improve matching feasibility and reduce the MSE of treatment effect estimators compared to propensity scores generated from a logistic regression fit to the noisy measurements.
UID:148137-21903034@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148137
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 438
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DTSTAMP:20260427T141648
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260507T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260507T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:America at 250\, with Special Emphasis on the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal
DESCRIPTION:Two-hundred and fifty years ago\, America famously proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” That same year\, Pennsylvanians led by Benjamin Franklin declared that “all men are born equally free and independent.” This year\, Americans are once again discussing issues of creational equality and birth equality—this time in the context of a great debate over the meaning of birthright citizenship. How will the Supreme Court decide this issue? How should it decide? What would Lincoln have thought about the current debate? Yale Law School Professor Akhil Reed Amar will examine these and related questions through the lens of his recent book\,  Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution\, 1840–1920.
UID:147300-21900655@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147300
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:American History,Americas Constitution,Author Talk,booksigning
LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260430T165804
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260508T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260508T153000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Production of High Quality Facsimiles with Giovanni Scorcioni
DESCRIPTION:Giovanni Scorcioni\, owner of Facsimile Finder\, a provider and maker of high quality facsimiles based in San Marino\, gives a presentation on how these facsimiles are made\, with an emphasis on the use of gold leaf. Most of the facsimiles are of manuscript copies dating from ca.700-1600 CE\, so these beautifully ornate facsimiles are often the only way to experience the work. The Clark Library uses their copies extensively for instruction. We'll include time to enjoy many examples from Giovanni and the Clark Library collection.
UID:148028-21902860@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148028
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260505T110722
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260508T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260508T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Recent advances in proboscidean paleontology
DESCRIPTION:Recent advances in proboscidean paleontology will be discussed. Please join us.
UID:148085-21902932@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148085
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum Of Paleontology,Paleontology,Research Museums Center
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 3150
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DTSTAMP:20260421T181536
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260508T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Author Event: Gustavo Souza Marques - \"Tyler\, The Creator’s Hip Hop Revolution\"
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Gustavo Souza Marques (Gusmão)\, Assistant Professor of Musicology\, for a talk at the Ann Arbor District Library on his recently released book\, *Tyler\, The Creator’s Hip Hop Revolution: Transmedia Journeys Beyond Gangsta*\, published in Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound\, Music and Media series. \n\nFocusing on Tyler – one of the most inventive artists in the history of hip hop – the book approaches his musical work through the lenses of history\, identity and audio-visual analysis. \n\nThis talk is part of the Society for American Music’s *Sounding the Nation* series\, a national project covering the history of American music.\n\nThis event includes a signing with books for sale. 
UID:147912-21902389@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147912
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Lecture,Media,Music,Research,Scholarship,Talk
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260508T101318
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Contributions to Expected Shortfall Regression
DESCRIPTION:Expected shortfall (ES)\, defined as the average over the tail below (or above) a certain quantile of a probability distribution\, is a coherent measure to characterize the tail of a distribution in many applications\, such as finance\, environmental science\, and healthcare research. Expected shortfall regression is a framework for analyzing the relationship between the ES of a response variable and a set of covariates. As an application example\, in health disparity research\, it can uncover the relations between the lower/upper tails of the conditional distribution of a health-related outcome and covariates of the subjects. This thesis is dedicated to three statistical methodologies for expected shortfall regression.\n\nIn the first chapter\, we propose the high-dimensional expected shortfall linear regression with the lasso penalty to induce sparse estimators. We propose a debiased estimator and establish the asymptotic normality for conducting valid statistical inferences. We illustrate the finite sample performance of the proposed methods through numerical studies and a data application on health disparity. In the second chapter\, we study a novel optimization-based approach for linear expected shortfall regression\, which relaxes the assumptions made on the conditional quantile models. While the proposed loss function is implicitly defined\, we provide a prototype implementation of the proposed approach with some initial expected shortfall estimators based on binning techniques or machine learning methods. With practically feasible initial estimators\, we establish the consistency and the asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator. The proposed approach achieves heterogeneity-adaptive weights and therefore often offers efficiency gains over existing approaches in the literature\, as demonstrated through simulation studies. In the last chapter\, we further extend the framework to model the nonlinear relationship between covariates and the ES of the response\, and introduce a novel expected shortfall random forest (ESRF) framework. The proposed ESRF approach integrates subsampling and data-splitting schemes to construct a nonparametric ensemble that jointly estimates conditional quantiles and expected shortfalls. Building upon this framework\, we further develop the expected shortfall causal forest (ESCF) to estimate the conditional ES treatment effect\, defined as the difference between the conditional ES of potential outcomes. We establish the pointwise consistency and the asymptotic normality for both the ESRF and the ESCF estimators. We illustrate the finite-sample performance of the proposed methods through simulations and an empirical application examining health disparities among low-birthweight infants.\n\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/98910982237
UID:148173-21903183@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148173
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/98910982237
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DTSTAMP:20260505T110515
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T113000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The establishment of terrestrial ecosystems patterns during the Permian of central Pangea
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we welcome Keegan Melstrom\, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Central Oklahoma for this talk.
UID:148086-21902933@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148086
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum Of Paleontology,Paleontology,Research Museums Center
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120504
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 11\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nTony Capra\, PhD\nProfessor\nBakar Computational Health Sciences Institute\nDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics\nUniversity of California\, San Francisco\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Xinjun Zhang\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nWe use the tools of computer science and statistics to address problems in genetics\, evolution\, and biomedicine. For a summary of our major research foci\, see Research.\n\nOur group is located in the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California\, San Francisco. Prior to coming to UCSF\, Tony spent 7 wonderful years at Vanderbilt University.\n\nHumans differ from one another and our closest living relatives\, the chimpanzees\, in a wide range of traits\, including our susceptibility to many diseases. We model the evolutionary processes that have produced these novel traits and develop algorithms that compare genomes to predict the functional relevance of specific genetic differences between individuals and species.
UID:143393-21893074@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143393
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,basic sciences,biolgical chemistry,biological chemistry,biological science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,cancer,Chemistry,Discussion,epilepsy,Faculty,Free,genetics,genome,genomics,human genetics,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Epidemiology,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Neurogenetic Diseases,Information and Technology,lecture,Life Science,lifton,Medicine,Natural Sciences,neel,neurological disease,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Reception,research,Science,seminar,sodium channel,symposium
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260507T093048
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Special Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. McMillon\, an economist and UM math alum\, will give a talk about his research and his career path. His research interests include systemic discrimination\, educational inequality\, criminal dynamics\, algorithmic fairness\, and the political economy of reparative reforms. \n\nThe talk will be followed at 4pm by a reception in the atrium.
UID:148149-21903158@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148149
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Economics,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1068
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DTSTAMP:20260505T105842
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260512T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260512T140000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cameron Tripp Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99268139971\n\nCirculation patterns in the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) have an outsized impact on the global climate system. Southeasterly trade winds force upwelling along the equator and the South American coastline\, maintaining a regional ‘cold tongue’ that outgasses large fluxes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Shifts in the intensity of EEP upwelling can moderate the development and decay of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)\, the largest source of interannual climate variability on Earth. Leading Earth system models predict ENSO impacts to intensify under anthropogenic greenhouse warming\, but rely on scarce observations of its historical variability.\n\nIn this dissertation\, I leverage oxygen isotopic (δ18O) and trace elemental measurements of aragonitic coral skeletons from the Galápagos archipelago to investigate EEP oceanographic conditions in the past and present. Geochemical tracers in scleractinian coral skeletons are powerful archives of past temperature and circulation patterns. At Galápagos\, a globally significant biodiversity hotspot in the EEP\, these environmental signals are closely linked to ENSO variability.\n\nThe relative abundance of strontium (Sr/Ca) within Porites lobata corals varies as an inverse function of seawater temperature\, as does their δ18O composition. In Chapter 2\, I generate Sr/Ca and δ18O records from subfossil Galápagos P. lobata to reconstruct ENSO variability at 4000 years before present (BP). Whereas δ18O records from the central equatorial Pacific document weakened ENSO between 5000-3000 BP\, my results demonstrate robust\, negatively skewed ENSO variance\, amplified relative to that over the preindustrial last millennium. This contrast illuminates a shift in the spatial profile of ENSO at 4000 BP\, with cold La Niña events intensifying and developing farther east in response to orbital forcing.\n\nDramatic shifts in ENSO variability often manifest due to changes in equatorial upwelling patterns. In Chapter 3\, I investigate the sensitivity of barium (Ba/Ca)\, cadmium (Cd/Ca)\, and phosphorus (P/Ca) concentrations in P. lobata corals to upwelled water supply in the Galápagos archipelago. I statistically decompose vertical velocity data from an ocean physics reanalysis product to reveal two independent modes of regional upwelling associated with the shoaling Equatorial Undercurrent and the southeasterly trade winds\, respectively. The coral geochemical tracers document contrasting variance patterns at separate island sites\, consistent with distinct regional expressions of these overlapping upwelling patterns. Although coral Ba/Ca and Cd/Ca generally covary within a record\, implying a shared environmental driver\, P/Ca results are less informative.\n\nPrior analyses have suggested that physiological artefacts can overprint environmental signals in coral Ba/Ca records\, limiting proxy fidelity. In Chapter 4\, I evaluate the influence of skeletal density and linear extension rate on Ba/Ca ratios from a large assemblage of living and subfossil Galápagos corals. 83% of the Ba/Ca records analyzed demonstrate no annual covariance with these physiological parameters\, linked to coral calcification rate. However\, mean Ba/Ca ratios are typically reduced in faster growing records\, consistent with the Rayleigh fractionation model of element partitioning. Similarly\, annual Ba/Ca values in one record correlate inversely with extension\, driving periodic offsets from an overlapping record. These results indicate that Ba/Ca records should be screened for physiological artefacts ahead of their application.\n\nAltogether\, this dissertation provides a robust assessment of coral geochemical proxies and their utility in reconstructing oceanographic conditions in the EEP. Whereas temperature-sensitive tracers can demonstrably be leveraged to reconstruct the variance and asymmetry of historical ENSO\, upwelling proxies are best paired with regional circulation data for faithful interpretation.
UID:148099-21902946@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148099
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Earth And Environmental Sciences
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260505T123808
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260513T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260513T223000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CDB Seminar Series: Amy Ralston
DESCRIPTION:2026 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series\n\nSpeaker: Amy Ralston\, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Michigan State University.\n\nTitle: The embryonic origins of pluripotency\n\nHost: Ben Allen\, PhD\n\nThe venue is accessible via elevator and ramp. If you require any accommodations in order to fully participate in this activity\, please inform Brooke Lorigan-Bishar.\nT: 734-647-4835\nE: brloriga@med.umich.edu
UID:146584-21899313@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146584
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Science
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260129T140906
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260514T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260514T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:High Times: The Changing World of Cannabis
DESCRIPTION:Legalization and commercialization of cannabis have led to rapid changes in cannabis consumption in the United States. Frank’s research focuses on interventions to expand access to evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders. He will share information on changing cannabis use patterns in Michigan and the risks and benefits of cannabis\, including the drug’s impact on seniors and others on cognitive function\, anxiety\, safe driving\, and chronic pain. Additionally\, he will describe harm reduction strategies to address high-risk use. Frank\, a Michigan alumnus and graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine\, is an educator and clinical consultant for U-M’s Overdose Prevention and Engagement Network\, co-director of Training & Education for the U-M Opioid Research Institute\, and chair of the Washtenaw County Board of Health.
UID:144793-21895910@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144793
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Retirees
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260430T065405
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260515T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Patients to Policy: A Conversation with Dr. Mona Hanna
DESCRIPTION:As part of Grand Rounds\, Dr. Sumit Agarwal will interview Dr. Mona Hanna about public health advocacy and the launch and expansion of Rx Kids\, the nation’s first-ever community-wide prenatal and infant cash prescription program. Rx Kids is led by Dr. Hanna and Michigan State University and administered by GiveDirectly\; the program was co-founded by Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. \n\nMona Hanna\, MD\, MPH\nAssociate Dean for Public Health\nC.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health\nMichigan State University College of Human Medicine\n\nSumit Agarwal\, MD\, MPH\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\, Division of General Medicine\nUniversity of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health\nPoverty Solutions Faculty Affiliate
UID:148011-21902725@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148011
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health,Poverty,Public Health
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Ford Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260508T181527
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260516T153000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Owens at 100\": Dr. Darryl Taylor Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Darryl Taylor\, pioneering countertenor\, scholar\, and professor of voice at the University of California\, Irvine\, will present a lecture celebrating the centennial of composer Robert Owens (1925–2017). A leading interpreter and frequent collaborator with Owens and his music\, Dr. Taylor explores the composer’s life\, his collaborations with poets including Langston Hughes\, and the powerful legacy of his songs within the African American Art Song tradition. Through historical insight and musical illustration\, the presentation highlights how Owens’s work preserves cultural memory while continuing to inspire singers and audiences today.\n\nJoin us for the lecture in Room 1378 of the Moore Building.\n\nFree and open to the public as part of the 2026 George Shirley Vocal and Composers Competition.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nhttps://www.albanyrecords.com/artists/darryl-taylor/
UID:148201-21903313@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148201
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Culture,Diversity,Free,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Research,Scholarship,Talk
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260504T140416
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T100000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Distinguished Faculty Seminar: Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention in welcoming Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell to the University of Michigan for an in-person presentation titled: Where We Need to Go: Lessons Learned About Firearms and Domestic Violence From 25 Years of Research and Talking to Abused Women. The seminar will be held from 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building on U-M’s Central Campus. Registration is required.
UID:147794-21901975@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147794
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community Safety,Community Violence,Firearm,Free,Graduate,Graduate Students,health,Health & Wellness,health behavior,health care equity,health care policy,health communication,Healthcare,Injury Prevention,Interdisciplinary,Medicine,Mental Health,Multidisciplinary,Nursing,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Safe Storage,Social Impact,Suicide Prevention,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Ruthven Administration Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120515
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 18\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nArneet Saltzman\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Cell & Systems Biology\nUniversity of Toronto\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Stephanie Bielas\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nMost of the cells in an organism share the same genome sequence\, yet they are able to carry out many distinct functions. Along with other layers of gene regulation\, chromatin modification plays a key role in this cellular specialization. Our research focuses on histone modifications such as lysine methylation\, and the proteins that recognize these modifications\, which are often referred to as chromatin ‘readers’. Chromatin readers can recruit and act as part of diverse chromatin modifying protein complexes to mediate the silencing of many genes with important functions in cell proliferation and differentiation. We will use a combination of genetic\, biochemical and genome-wide sequencing approaches to investigate the striking regulatory complexity of chromatin readers. Our research will contribute to a better understanding of how cells acquire and maintain different fates during development\, how chromatin readers contribute to epigenetic inheritance\, and how aberrant regulation of histone methylation contributes to the pathogenesis of several human diseases\, including cancers.
UID:143394-21893073@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143394
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,basic sciences,biolgical chemistry,biological chemistry,biological science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,cancer,Chemistry,Discussion,epilepsy,Faculty,Free,genetics,genome,genomics,human genetics,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Neurogenetic Diseases,Information and Technology,lecture,Life Science,lifton,Medicine,Natural Sciences,neel,neurological disease,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Reception,research,Science,seminar,sodium channel,symposium
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260413T111156
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Inside the Study
DESCRIPTION:Go behind the scenes with the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program for \"Inside the Study\,\" a new webinar that gives an “under the hood” look at Prechter Program studies: what they’re designed to learn\, what participation is like\, what the team is finding so far\, and what’s coming next. On Monday\, May 18\, 2026\, from 6:00-7:30 PM ET\, the first \"Inside the Study\" webinar will spotlight BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder.\n\nIn 2023\, the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program was named as one of the six inaugural institutions in the BD² Integrated Network to engage people living with bipolar disorder in a long-term research study and build a rich database to better understand the condition\, its treatment\, and to support improvements in care. The BD² Integrated Network has since expanded its clinical sites to 11 institutions across the United States and Canada. Along with the long-term studies and databases\, the BD² Integrated Network sites are working together to design and implement a Learning Health Network (LHN) for bipolar disorder.\n\nWebinar attendees will learn more about the Prechter Program's role in the BD²: Integrated Network\, including team member's contributions to building the Learning Health Network and will hear from a BD² study participant.\n\nThis webinar is open to everyone interested in learning more about the BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder study. Register here.\n\nA recording of this webinar will be posted to the Prechter Program YouTube playlist for later viewing. Individuals registered for the webinar will be emailed a link to the recording once it becomes available. \n\nOpen About This Event configuration options
UID:147666-21901542@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147666
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bipolar,Depression,Discussion,Free,Health & Wellness,Mental Health,Psychiatry,Psychology,Public Health,Well-being,Wellness
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260429T101353
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260519T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260519T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter/Spring 2026 Seminar Series: \"Engineering next-generation intrabodies for monitoring the dynamics of proteins and their modifications in living cells\"
DESCRIPTION:Timothy Stasevich\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor\nBiochemistry & Molecular Biology\nColorado State University
UID:145985-21898226@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145985
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Biosciences,Ecology,Education,Engineering,Free,Graduate School,Graduate Students,human genetics,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Life Science,Medicine,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Rackham,Research,Science,seminar,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260421T095242
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260520T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260520T223000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CDB Seminar Series: Haifan Lin
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Piwi-piRNA Pathway: A New Paradigm of Genetic Regulation That Unites the Genome\n\nSpeaker: Haifan Lin\, PhD. Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology\, Professor of Genetics & of Obstetrics\, Gynecology\, and Reproductive Sciences\, Yale School of Medicine. Director\, Yale Stem Cell Center.\n\nHost: Dawen Cai\, PhD\n\nThe venue is accessible via elevator and ramp. If you require any accommodations in order to fully participate in this activity\, please inform Brooke Lorigan-Bishar.\nT: 734-647-4835\nE: brloriga@med.umich.edu
UID:147861-21902056@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147861
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Science
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T103356
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260520T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Nature in Pieces: Why Large\, Continuous\, Connected Forests Hold More Life”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Thiago Gonçalves-Souza will give a free\, public talk focused on a simple but important question: When forests are broken into pieces\, can biodiversity be maintained across the broader landscape? \n\nUsing data across six continents\, he challenges the idea of fragmentation in his talk titled\, “Nature in Pieces: Why Large\, Continuous\, Connected Forests Hold More Life.”\n\nThe postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan will explore why protecting large\, continuous\, and connected forests remains essential for conserving biodiversity.  \n\nGonçalves-Souza\, a quantitative community ecologist\, teaches a General Ecology Lecture course at UMBS.\n\nHis current research centers around synthesizing the effects of human-mediated habitat loss and climate change on animals and plants. With a broad taxonomic scope ranging from arthropods to mammals\, Gonçalves-Souza uses quantitative tools to unravel the intricate dynamics of biodiversity change. He also investigates the utility of traits in predicting species redistributions across local and global scales.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147273-21900620@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147273
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,biodiversity,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260507T085855
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T100000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Jaeshin Park
DESCRIPTION:Date: May 21\, 2026\nTime: 9:00 AM\nLocation: IOE 2717 + Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/my/jaeshin?omn=95985574553\nChair: Eunshin Byon\nDissertation Title: Data-Driven Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Models and Digital Twins: From Variance Reduction to Real-Time Calibration
UID:146165-21898610@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146165
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses,Ioephdstudents,Michigan Engineering
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260504T114020
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Distributional Learning via Flexible Expectile Regression: Methods for Dependent\, Multivariate and Incomplete Data
DESCRIPTION:We develop a unified framework for flexible distributional learning based on expectile regression with adaptive basis functions\, allowing one to capture heterogeneous covariate effects across different regions of the outcome distribution. Building on this foundation\, we introduce a series of methodological contributions that extend expectile regression to increasingly complex data settings.\n\nFirst\, we propose a flexible nonparametric framework for expectile regression using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS)\, motivated by longitudinal studies in human biology in which aspects of the distribution of offspring anthropometry covary with parental characteristics. We develop a computationally efficient algorithm based on over-relaxed alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to estimate expectiles across multiple distributional levels\, and establish valid joint inference procedures for a collection of expectiles using both cross-fitting and robust analytic approaches.\n\nSecond\, we extend expectile regression to event time data subject to right censoring and left truncation\, motivated by biomedical and public health studies where outcomes are incompletely observed and covariate effects may vary across the lifespan. Our motivating application is to understand how lifespans in different demographic groups correspond to neighborhood deprivation\, allowing for different effects on early and late mortality. To capture such patterns\, we estimate conditional expectiles of patient lifespans using weighting to account for censoring and truncation.  We then derive asymptotic linear expansions of the estimators and construct robust sandwich variance estimators\, enabling valid inference for distributional contrasts\, including comparisons across demographic groups and difference-in-difference analyses across expectile levels.\n\nThird\, we develop a unified framework for multivariate generalized expectile regression to analyze multi-output longitudinal data\, motivated by applications in which multiple related outcomes are measured repeatedly over time and exhibit complex dependence. Examples include biomedical studies where multiple health indicators are tracked for each patient\, or demographic data where event counts in geographic strata evolve jointly over time. Such data may exhibit heterogeneous covariate effects that predict different features of the response distribution. We begin by extending expectile regression to have a link function for each response\, enabling the specification of models with additive and multiplicative structures. We formulate the problem as a stacked estimating equation system capturing dependence across outcomes\, across time\, and across distributional levels without requiring specification of a working correlation structure. We develop cluster-robust sandwich covariance estimators that support valid inference for joint hypotheses\, enabling simultaneous assessment of distributional effects across outcomes and expectile levels.\n\nFinally\, we introduce a new class of interpretable distributional summaries based on expectile L-moments (EL-moments)\, motivated by the need for robust and informative measures of distributional shape that can be modeled in relation to covariates. Classical measures such as skewness and kurtosis are often sensitive to extreme observations and are not readily adapted to regression settings\, while quantile-based summaries lack smoothness and can be difficult to integrate into unified modeling frameworks. By projecting the expectile function onto a shifted Legendre polynomial basis\, we obtain EL-moments that provide interpretable summaries of location\, scale\, asymmetry\, and tail behavior. We further extend these summaries to conditional settings via expectile regression\, enabling covariate-dependent characterization of distributional features. We develop an influence-function-based framework for inference\, yielding consistent covariance estimators for both the EL-moment coefficients and their derived ratios.
UID:148074-21902920@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148074
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 438
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260303T122837
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Lost Campus: The University of Michigan’s Vanished but not Forgotten Spaces
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan’s campus has a long and deep history and every generation has cherished particular places\, such as the campus zoo or the famous “Sleepy Hollow.” Many of these locations are now gone\, but not forgotten. Join us to hear from Professor Jim Tobin as he traces U-M’s “lost campus” and how the campus’ changing spaces reflect broader patterns in university history.\n\nPresented with support from the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.\n\nRefreshments will be provided.
UID:142453-21890971@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142453
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,free,history,lecture,Making Michigan,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260406T145845
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History
DESCRIPTION:Queen Elizabeth II met with President Ford at the White House – not to mention with four of his predecessors and eight of his successors. Indeed\, she met with more U.S. presidents than any other person in history. What did she do with that unprecedented access? Quite a bit\, journalist Susan Page discovered in her new book\, being published at the 100th anniversary of Elizabeth’s birth. Her Majesty was more than a stoic figure in a colorful hat\, waving from a balcony. She was a deft diplomat\, a shrewd judge of character and\, by the way\, a skilled mimic. She was also the most effective force maintaining Great Britain’s voice in the world even as its empire declined. A look at how she did that during her long reign\, and at her sunny encounter with Jerry and Betty Ford during the Bicentennial celebration.
UID:147457-21901066@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147457
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:American History,Author Talk,booksigning,History,Queen Elizabeth Ii
LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260430T094956
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260527T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260527T223000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CDB Seminar Series: Junior West
DESCRIPTION:2026 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series\n\nSpeaker: Junior West. Molecular\, Cellular\, and Developmental Biology. University of Michigan.\n\nTitle: Barrier Breakdown: Claudins and the pathway to metastasis\n\nHost: Chelsey C Spriggs\, PhD\n\nThe venue is accessible via elevator and ramp. If you require any accommodations in order to fully participate in this activity\, please inform Brooke Lorigan-Bishar.\nT: 734-647-4835\nE: brloriga@med.umich.edu
UID:146707-21899512@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146707
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Science
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T105313
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260527T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260527T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Using Science to Make a Difference: The Work to Reduce Global Mercury Pollution”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Linda Greer will give a free\, public talk titled\, “Using Science to Make a Difference: The Work to Reduce Global Mercury Pollution.”\n\nAlthough many study environmental science because they are concerned about the health of the planet\, most apply their training to research or teaching following their education. \n\nA UMBS alumna\, Greer earned a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology with a “hard science” dissertation but spent her career at the Natural Resources Defense Council working with lawyers and policy experts to promote improvements in environmental laws and regulations and to pressure corporations to reduce their pollution abroad.\n\nIn this talk\, Greer will describe the use of science in her advocacy\, illustrating this line of work with the story of reducing global mercury pollution.\n\nLinda Greer is an environmental toxicologist who worked on toxic chemical and industrial pollution with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for nearly 30 years. She capped her career overseeing green supply chain initiatives for four years with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs\, the leading environmental NGO in China and now works as an independent consultant.\n\nLinda spent most of her career on domestic environmental law and policy. As manufacturing moved abroad\, however\, she turned her attention to global pollution matters\, concentrating her work internationally.\n\nFocusing first on mercury pollution\, Linda was a founder and leader of the NGO’s community’s successful effort to pass the Minamata Convention in the United Nations\, a binding international treaty to reduce the use and release of this toxic metal around the globe.\n\nSubsequently\, Linda turned to China\, creating NRDC’s Clean by Design Program\, a highly successful green supply chain initiative that promotes improvements in apparel manufacturing.\n\nFor more than a decade\, Linda taught a popular summer intensive course\, “Scientific Fundamentals of Risk Assessment” at Vermont Law School\, and she has also taught short courses for the National Association of State Attorney Generals and the U.S. Department of Justice Department of Environmental Crimes.\n\nGreer served as the interim director of the University of Michigan Biological Station in 2016-2017 during a sabbatical break from advocacy.\n\nLinda has served on many expert panels and commissions\, including the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board. She currently serves on the board of the Cary Institute.\n\nLinda is the author of over a dozen technical and policy articles on environmental matters and has frequently testified before Congress. She has a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology (U of Maryland)\, a M.S.P.H. in environmental sciences and engineering (UNC School of Public Health\, Chapel Hill)\, and a B.S. in biology (Tufts University).\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147274-21900621@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147274
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T110745
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260603T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260603T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“The Tale of a Weevil”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron will give a free\, public talk titled\, “The Tale of a Weevil.”\n\nBoisseron is professor and chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan and an affiliate faculty in Romances Languages and Literature\, and Comparative Literature.\n\nHer interdisciplinary scholarship bridges Global Black Studies and the Environmental Humanities through literary\, historical\, and artistic perspectives.\n\nThis talk will use a magnifying glass to examine an environmental crisis of epic proportions in the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.\n\nFrom 1972 to 1993\, a highly toxic pesticide was sprayed on weevil-infested banana plantations in the islands\, despite known health risks\, largely due to pressure from powerful white planter elites and the economic importance of the banana industry.\n\nThe resulting health impact on the population has come to symbolize how the colonial is often inextricable from the ecological. But what about the weevil?\n\nThis talk responds to environmental scholar Malcolm Ferdinand’s call to also look at the weevil in this dramatic story.\n\nBoisseron is the author of “Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora” (2014) and “Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question” (2018).\n\nHer current book project focuses on food repurposing and was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship\, alongside additional funding for her broader work on repurposing practices.\n\nHer recent publications examine pesticide contamination on banana plantations in the French Antilles.\n\nIn Winter 2024\, Boisseron taught Food Literacy for All as a faculty instructor and is a Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Affiliate.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147276-21900623@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147276
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,Environmental Humanities,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260430T165058
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260612T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260612T153000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A2Inkubate: Finding Your Comics Voice – A2CAF pre-conference event
DESCRIPTION:Plan on an afternoon of exploration and enlightenment as we uncover the power of personal narrative in graphic novels. Join us for this special Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival (A2CAF) pre-conference for librarians\, educators\, and cartoonists! Get ready for the fun events at A2CAF by leveling up your comics knowledge and skills with the people who care about the medium as much as you do!\n\nHow do comics creators discover what kind of comics they want to make? Who their audience is? Which stories inspire them? Join A2CAF guests Kazu Kibuishi (Amulet)\, Victoria Jamieson (When Stars Are Scattered)\, and John Patrick Green (Investigators) for a rich discussion about the decisions they make when creating graphic novels. Moderated by Meggie Ramm.\n\nDon’t miss this great opportunity to learn from some of the most talented graphic novelists working today. Whether you’re an aspiring artist or simply curious about the creative process\, this event is sure to inspire and inform.
UID:148027-21902859@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148027
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Gallery (3rd floor)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260223T143824
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260616T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260616T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Rare Failures\, Public Perception\, and Automated Driving: Why Exceptional Events Shape Trust in Emerging Safety Technologies
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the “vaccine paradox” of automated driving: why rare\, highly publicized failures of self-driving vehicles provoke intense emotional and political reactions while the far more common harms of human driving remain normalized. Drawing on risk psychology\, public-health history\, and human-factors research\, Prof. McGehee examines how visibility imbalance\, trust\, and perceptions of control shape public acceptance of emerging vehicle automation. Using real-world examples from automated-vehicle deployments alongside lessons from vaccine adoption and safety communication\, the talk argues that societal expectations for perfection in automation may obscure meaningful population-level safety gains. The presentation concludes by discussing how transparency\, responsible system design\, and careful language around driver-assistance technologies can help align public perception with evidence as automated driving evolves toward broader deployment.\n---\nAbout the speaker: Daniel V. McGehee\, is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Iowa and Director of the Driving Safety Research Institute (DSRI) and the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS)\, one of the world’s largest and most advanced ground-vehicle simulation facilities. For more than three decades\, his work has focused on human factors\, driver behavior\, and the safe integration of advanced vehicle technologies\, including automated driving and driver-assistance systems. Dr. McGehee’s research spans engineering\, medicine\, public health\, and transportation policy\, with projects funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation\, National Institutes of Health\, and the automotive industry. He has led over $40 million in sponsored research and authored more than 160 scientific publications addressing driver attention\, crash avoidance\, vulnerable road users\, and the design of vehicle interfaces. His work combines naturalistic driving studies\, simulation\, and field research to better understand how humans interact with emerging mobility systems. At the University of Iowa\, he holds joint appointments in emergency medicine and public health\, reflecting his longstanding interest in traffic safety as a population-level health issue.
UID:145812-21897843@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145812
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Civil and Environmental Engineering,conference,Discussion,Education,Engineering,Engineering Academic Calendar,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Information and Technology,Leadership,Lecture,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Professional Development,Research,seminar,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Webcast
LOCATION:Transportation Research Institute - Room 139
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T112317
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260617T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Hann Lecture in Ornithology: “Trait-based Insights into the Dynamics of Biodiversity”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Marta Jarzyna will give the Hann Lecture in Ornithology. The free\, public talk is titled\, “Trait-based Insights into the Dynamics of Biodiversity.”\n\nJarzyna is an associate professor in the Department of Evolution\, Ecology and Organismal Biology at Ohio State University.\n\nTrait-based ecology has long been heralded as a framework capable of providing mechanistic insight into biodiversity dynamics and thereby enabling predictions of future biodiversity states.\n\nYet despite decades of development\, the promise of trait-based ecology remains largely unrealized.\n\nIn this talk\, the macroecologist and biodiversity scientist will draw on examples from her own research to critically examine where this promise has and has not been fulfilled.\n\nUsing avian systems as a case study\, Jarzyna demonstrates how incorporating functional traits into biodiversity metrics can reveal patterns that traditional species richness measures obscure.\n\nIn particular\, she shows that trait-based approaches uncover seasonal dynamics in bird communities — shifts in functional composition across the year that species counts alone would miss entirely.\n\nThese findings illustrate both the potential of trait-based ecology and the persistent gap between its theoretical ambitions and empirical application.\nJarzyna’s research focuses on understanding the processes that drive biodiversity dynamics across spatial\, temporal\, and taxonomic scales.\n\nShe holds an M.S. in environmental science from Warsaw University of Life Sciences and a dual Ph.D. in fisheries and wildlife and ecology\, evolutionary biology\, and behavior from Michigan State University\, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147277-21900625@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147277
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,biodiversity,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T114121
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260624T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260624T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Making Steel Knives from Sands Found on Douglas Lake”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. John Verhoeven is a metallurgical engineer\, U-M alumnus and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Iowa State University who lives along Douglas Lake\, near the University of Michigan Biological Station.\n\nAs part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Verhoeven will give a free\, public talk titled\, “Making Steel Knives from Sands Found on Douglas Lake.”\n\nSince retiring\, he has continued to do research with colleagues in northern Michigan. They recently found magnetic black sand on Douglas Lake\, reduced it to iron and made kitchen knives.\n\nTheir experiments measuring the composition of the sand in an electron microscope show that it comes from what geologists call OUI deposits of the Mid-Continental Rift. Verhoeven said the source rock from which the sand eroded — Fe-Ti oxide ultramafic intrusions (OUI) — was brought to the surface from magma in Earth’s core 1.1 billion years ago when tectonic plates separated. \n\nHere is a more detailed description of the lecture from Verhoeven: “Bladesmith Tim Zowada\, who lives near Petoskey\, smelts the magnetic black sand he collects on Lake Superior near White Fish Point into iron and makes knives. Working with Tim\, we discovered that the source rock from which the sand eroded contains Ti. This was a new discovery because geologists had assumed the source rock was the same as the iron ore used to make the Taconite which is shipped through the Soo Locks to supply US steel mills. It does not contain Ti. With the help of geologist Marcia Bjornerud\, we have shown that the source rock is what geologists call: Fe-Ti oxide ultramafic intrusions (OUIs). These rocks where brought to the surface from the magma in Earth’s core 1.1 billion years ago when tectonic plates separated and the mid-continental rift (MCR) formed. The rift runs through the Lake Superior region\, and our experiments show the Ti minerals of Tim’s sand matches the composition from OUI drillings collected near Lake Superior. With the help of my neighbor\, Mike Johnson\, we have recently found magnetic black sand on Douglas Lake and Tim has reduced it to iron and made a few small kitchen knives which will be passed around. Our experiments measuring the composition of the sand in an electron microscope in my shop show that it also comes from OUI deposits of the MCR. Douglas Lake also lies on the MCR. The implications of these results will be discussed.”\n\nVerhoeven grew up in Monroe\, Michigan\, and attended the University of Michigan\, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering as well as his master’s and Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering.\n\nHe spent his professional career at Iowa State University\, doing research in the DOE lab and teaching in the Materials Science Department. \n\nVerhoeven has published two books on metallurgy\, 220 peer-reviewed journal papers and obtained 18 patents.\n\nHe built home and shop on Douglas Lake in 1991 and has continued doing research there since retirement in 2000.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147279-21900626@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147279
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260508T155308
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260625T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260625T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Original Debates over Constitutional Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:Today\, debate rages over how to interpret the United States Constitution\, especially what role history should play in that practice. \n\nWhen the generation that adopted the Constitution in the late eighteenth century first interpreted the document\, what defined their debates? How do those debates compare to the ones structuring American constitutional law today? \n\nJoin us for a lecture exploring how to read the Constitution through lenses past and present and reflecting on what the creators can teach us about the Constitution today.\n\nBook sales\, signing and reception to follow.
UID:148196-21903220@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148196
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:American History,Americas Constitution,Author Talk
LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T115652
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260701T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260701T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology: “Continent-Scale Aerial Dispersal of Fungi”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Bala Chaudhary will give the Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology. The free\, public talk is titled\, “Continent-Scale Aerial Dispersal of Fungi.”\n\nChaudhary is an associate professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College who studies mycorrhizas (plant-fungal symbioses)\, macroecology (continent-scale ecology)\, and movement (microbial dispersal).\n\nDispersal is a fundamental ecological process driving the abundance and distribution of species from local to global scales.\n\nSignificant knowledge gaps exist regarding the mechanisms of fungal dispersal\, especially for species that live entirely belowground.\n\nChaudhary describes the results of multiple complimentary studies that combine macrosystems biology\, trait-based ecology\, eDNA metabarcoding\, and data synthesis approaches to address fundamental questions in fungal dispersal ecology.\n\nShe also shares new methods her lab is developing to apply AI and data synthesis to make inferences about the ecology and evolution of fungi.\n\nChaudhary earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Northern Arizona University\, previously holding faculty appointments at DePaul University and Loyola University Chicago.\n\nIn her lab\, she uses trait-based approaches to develop predictive frameworks for microbial dispersal\, community assembly and biogeography\, and employs complementary approaches of macroecological field work\, controlled lab experiments and data synthesis to study multi-scale questions in ecology.\n\nChaudhary is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award and advises on continent-scale biology for the National Academy of Science\, Engineering\, and Medicine.\n\nPrior to academia\, Chaudhary worked as an environmental consultant in Los Angeles restoring drastically disturbed urban areas to create habitat for endangered species.\n\nShe is an award-winning advocate for antiracist strategies in STEM and the founder of WOCinEEB\, an international organization for racial and gender minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147281-21900628@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147281
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T121445
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260708T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260708T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Making a Migratory Monarch”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. André Green will give a free\, public talk titled\, “Making a Migratory Monarch.”\n\nGreen is an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan who studies the unique features of monarch butterfly migration.\n\nHe also teaches a course at UMBS titled “Eco-Evo-Devo: How Genome and Environment Affect Organismal Development\,” that has undergraduate students use cutting-edge molecular genetics techniques (including CRISPR) to illustrate fundamental concepts in eco-evo-devo while leveraging the remarkable biodiversity at UMBS.\n\nMonarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are renowned for their annual transcontinental migration where they fly thousands of miles each fall to overwinter at specific sites in central Mexico.\n\nHow did this phenotype evolve?\n\nThe mechanisms (behavioral\, genetic\, and molecular) required for migrants to perform this trip\, particularly to naïvely identify their overwintering sites with remarkably high fidelity\, are unknown.\n\nIn his talk at UMBS\, Green will discuss his lab’s efforts that aim to extend our understanding of how this occurs.\n\nHis team integrates development\, genomics\, behavior\, and physiology in both laboratory and natural settings.\n\nGreen earned a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University and a bachelor of science degree in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147283-21900631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147283
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T122918
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260715T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260715T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology: “Unravelling the Relationships of the Natural World with Biodiversity Genomics”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Jay Goldberg will give the Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology. The free\, public talk is titled\, “Unravelling the Relationships of the Natural World with Biodiversity Genomics.”\n\nGoldberg is an Indigenous (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) evolutionary biologist who uses cutting-edge genetic tools to study interactions between chemically defended plants and their specialist herbivores in the Sonoran Desert.\n\nHe is now starting an independent lab as a presidential scholar at Arizona State University to uncover the (co)evolutionary processes that shape plant-insect interactions in the Sonoran Desert\, focusing primarily on the sacred Datura plant (Datura wrightii) and its community of highly specialized insect herbivores that can tolerate the myriad chemical defenses produced by this iconic native plant.\n\nCoevolution\, when interacting species exert selection upon one another\, has fascinated biologists for decades.  Research on coevolution is historically limited to theoretical studies or controlled experimentation with tractable model systems\; now\, however\, modern genomics techniques have ushered in a new era of research that explores coevolutionary processes in naturally interacting populations of organisms.  \n\nGoldberg’s fascination with plant-insect interactions began during a post-baccalaureate internship at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology.\n\nHe went on to complete his Ph.D. at Indiana University before doing two postdocs: one in Judie Bronstein’s lab at the University of Arizona and another in Saskia Hogenhout’s lab at the John Innes Centre.\n\nWhen he’s not working\, Goldberg enjoys playing drums\, cooking fancy food for his friends\, and hiking with his dog.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147288-21900635@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147288
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T124430
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260722T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260722T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Linking Pathogen Inactivation and Byproduct Formation: Nucleic Acid Fate During Drinking Water Disinfection”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Aleksandra Szczuka will give a free\, public talk about safe and sustainable drinking water and human health\, titled “Linking Pathogen Inactivation and Byproduct Formation: Nucleic Acid Fate During Drinking Water Disinfection.”\n\nSzczuka is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan whose research is motivated by broad access to affordable water.\n\nDrinking water treatment plants — originally designed to treat relatively clean surface waters — are now faced with increasing levels of biological and chemical contaminants. \n\nChlorination is a key process for controlling acute health risks. However\, disinfection byproducts (DBPs)\, which pose chronic health risks such as bladder cancer\, form as an unintended consequence of chlorination.\n\nSzczuka will examine nucleic acids as a missing link between pathogen control and byproduct formation. She also will discuss the roles of previously overlooked chlorine species in nucleic acid reactivity and viral inactivation\, and the potential for nucleic acid chlorination to form an emerging class of DBPs.\n\nCollaborating with practitioners\, Szczuka will talk about how utilities in Michigan are working to meet both biological and chemical contaminant treatment objectives in a changing climate.\n\nHer research uses fundamental chemistry and microbiology to inform treatment of non-traditional water sources to safeguard public health. Szczuka is especially interested in understanding the drivers of acute and chronic health risks in water and in advancing emerging treatment technologies.\n\nShe collaborates with researchers\, engineers\, and utility practitioners.\n\nSzczuka received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University\, and a B.S.E. degree in chemical and biological engineering from Princeton University.\n\nPrior to starting her lab\, Alex was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. \n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147295-21900642@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147295
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T130019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260729T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260729T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pettingill Lecture in Natural History: “Beavers: Architects of Climate Resilience”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Emily Fairfax will give the Pettingill Lecture in Natural History. The free\, public talk is titled “Beavers: Architects of Climate Resilience.”\n\nFairfax is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota and an affiliate faculty member at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory.\n\nShe uses a combination of remote sensing\, modeling\, and field work to understand how beaver ecosystem engineering can create drought and fire-resistant patches in the landscape under a changing climate. \n\nBeaver dams and beaver mimicry (e.g. Beaver Dam Analogs) are gaining popularity as a low‐cost\, nature-based strategy to build climate resiliency at the landscape scale.\n\nHere in the Great Lakes Region\, we are experiencing wetter winters\, hotter and drier summers\, flashier storms\, and a longer frost-free season.\n\nBeaver ecosystem engineering can help mitigate some of these impacts on local to watershed scales.\n\nBeavers slow and store water in their ponds\, canals\, and the surrounding soil during flood periods which can then be accessed by riparian vegetation during droughts.\n\nAs a result\, the well-watered vegetation in beaver-dammed riparian corridors is less flammable. \n\nFairfax’s research has shown that these beaver-influenced patches of the landscape stay green and can serve as climate refugia\, preserving intact\, mature riparian habitat\, even during extreme drought and fire.\n\nShe suggests that perhaps instead of relying solely on human engineering and management to create and maintain healthy waterways and riparian zones\, humans could benefit from partnering with beaver’s ecosystem engineering to achieve the same goals at a lower cost. \n\nFairfax double majored in chemistry and physics as an undergraduate at Carleton College\, then went on to earn a Ph.D. in geological sciences with an emphasis in hydrologic sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder.\n\nHer research has been featured internationally in National Geographic\, the New York Times\, the LA Times\, PBS\, NPR\, BBC\, and others. When Fairfax says she can talk about beavers all day\, she’s not kidding.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147296-21900643@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147296
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260310T061642
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260908T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: TBA
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:146386-21898980@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146386
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120530
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260914T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260914T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 14\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nYang Shi\, PhD\nProfessor of Epigenetics\nLudwig Institute for Cancer Research\nOxford University\, Oxford\, England\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Shigeki Iwase\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nBefore joining Ludwig Oxford in 2020\, I was Professor of Cell Biology and C. H. Waddington Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. I received my PhD from New York University and postdoctoral training at Princeton University. I joined Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor in 1991 and was appointed a Professor of Pathology in 2004. In 2009 I joined the Newborn Medicine Division of Boston Children’s Hospital.\n\nI am interested in identifying key epigenetic regulators in cancer\, elucidating their mechanism of action and providing the conceptual basis for translating our basic findings to the clinic via the development of new therapeutic strategies. With the discovery of the first histone methyl eraser\, LSD1\, in 2004\, our group demonstrated that histone methylation is dynamically regulated\, which overturned the long-held dogma that such modifications were static and irreversible. We have also discovered many additional histone demethylases with different specificities\, and novel readers\, including those that specifically recognize unmodified lysine and arginine and suggest that the unmodified states are not simply a ground neutral state of epigenetic information but rather likely code for epigenetic information as modified states. Importantly\, many of these chromatin enzymes and readers have since been implicated in various types of human cancers\, indicating an important role of chromatin regulation in tumorigenesis.\n\nMore recently\, we have also been studying RNA modifications and how they impact gene expression regulation. In many ways this exciting field parallels the early days of chromatin biochemistry and biology\, i.e.\, the nature and the biological and pathological functions of RNA modifications\, as well as the enzymes responsible for writing\, erasing and reading them\, are just beginning to be understood.\n\nAt Ludwig Oxford\, my lab is focusing on two questions. First\, how to convert “cold tumors to “hot” and how to sustain durable responses to cancer immune checkpoint blockade therapy. Second\, how to induce therapeutic differentiation of cancers\, using acute myeloid leukemia and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma as models where chromatin/epigenetics have been shown to play a crucial role in the maintenance of a poorly differentiated state.
UID:143395-21893072@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143395
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,basic sciences,biolgical chemistry,biological chemistry,biological science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,cancer,Chemistry,Discussion,epilepsy,Faculty,Free,genetics,genome,genomics,human genetics,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Epidemiology,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Neurogenetic Diseases,Information and Technology,lecture,Life Science,lifton,Medicine,Natural Sciences,neel,neurological disease,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Reception,research,Science,seminar,sodium channel,symposium
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DTSTAMP:20260507T144558
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Shakespearean Studies Biannual Lecture in Honor of Barbara Hodgdon
DESCRIPTION:Details forthcoming\n\nAbout the speaker:\nAndrew James Hartley is Emeritus professor in UNC Charlotte’s Department of Theatre in which he served as the Russell Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare studies for 18 years\, specializing in performance theory and practice. In addition to working as a dramaturg and director\, he is the author of various scholarly books including The Shakespearean Dramaturg\, Shakespeare and Political Theatre\, a performance history of Julius Caesar\, essay collections on Shakespeare on the University stage\, Shakespeare in Millennial fiction\, and (with Peter Holland) Shakespeare and Geek Culture. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on staging Renaissance drama. He was the editor of the performance journal Shakespeare Bulletin for Johns Hopkins UP for a decade\, was resident dramaturg for Georgia Shakespeare\, and is an honorary fellow of the University of Central Lancashire\, UK. Dr. Hartley is currently editing Julius Caesar for the Arden 4th series. In addition to teaching Shakespeare related classes\, he also taught creative writing courses for the English department. Under the pen names AJ Hartley and Andrew Hart he is the award winning\, New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels in a variety of genres\, including several books co-written with Tom DeLonge of Blink-182. Several of his books are currently in development for television and film\, and some have appeared in numerous languages overseas. As AJ Hartley he is a regular presenter at DragonCon and other regional conventions. His latest book series is Hideki Smith\, Demon Queller.
UID:148155-21903163@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260921T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260921T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 21\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nIra Hall\, PhD\nProfessor of Genetics\nDirector of the Yale Center for Genomic Health\nYale School of Medicine\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Ryan Mills\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nDr. Hall's research career spans the fields of genetics\, genomics\, bioinformatics and data science. He received a B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley (1998)\, and worked as a technician for 2 years in Sarah Hake's plant genetics group at the USDA/ARS Plant Gene Expression Center. He received his Ph.D. in genetics from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2003)\, where his work in Shiv Grewal's laboratory established the first direct link between RNA interference and chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance. As a postdoc with Michael Wigler (2004) and independent Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow (2004-2007)\, Dr. Hall used microarray technologies and mouse strain genealogies to conduct the first systematic study of DNA copy number variation hotspots. As a faculty member at the University of Virginia (2007-2014)\, Washington University (2014-2020) and Yale (2020-present)\, his work has sought to understand the causes and consequences of genome variation in mammals\, with an increasing focus on computational methods development and human genetics. His group has developed bioinformatics tools for variant detection\, variant interpretation\, sequence alignment\, data processing\, and data integration. He has led genome-wide studies of human genome variation\, heritable gene expression variation\, human genetic disorders\, tumor evolution\, mouse strain variation\, genome stability in reprogrammed stem cells\, and single-neuron somatic mosaicism in the human brain. Dr. Hall's work has been featured in Science Magazine's Breakthrough of the Year (2003 & 2007)\, the NIMH Director's \"Ten Best of 2013\" and The Scientist (2013)\, and he has received several prestigious awards including the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2003)\, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award (2006)\, the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2009)\, and the March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Research Award (2010). He has also served as an Associate Editor at Genome Research (2009-2014) and Genes\, Genomes and Genetics (2011-2018).\n\nMost recently\, Dr. Hall has played a leadership role in several large collaborative projects funded by NIH/NHGRI including the Centers for Common Disease Genomics\, the AnVIL cloud-based data repository and analysis platform\, and the Human Pangenome Project. His current work is focused on two broad goals: (1) mapping variants and genes that confer risk to human disease\, with ongoing projects focused on coronary artery disease and cardiometabolic traits in unique and underrepresented populations\, and (2) developing methods for the detection and interpretation of human genome variation\, with an emphasis on structural variation and other difficult-to-detect forms\, and on comprehensive trait association in human disease studies.
UID:143396-21893071@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143396
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,basic sciences,biolgical chemistry,biological chemistry,biological science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,cancer,Chemistry,Discussion,epilepsy,Faculty,Free,genetics,genome,genomics,human genetics,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Epidemiology,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Neurogenetic Diseases,Information and Technology,lecture,Life Science,lifton,Medicine,Natural Sciences,neel,neurological disease,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Reception,research,Science,seminar,sodium channel,symposium
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DTSTAMP:20260507T144539
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Heberle Lecture and Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Details forthcoming\n\nAbout the speaker:\nAmanda Anderson is Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities. Her research focuses on broad questions of intellectual history\, disciplinary formation\, and the relations among literature\, moral life\, and politics. Her books include Humanities Theory (Oxford University Press\, 2025\; with Simon During)\; Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies (University of Chicago Press\, TRIOS series\, 2019\; with Rita Felski and Toril Moi)\, Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life After Psychology (Oxford University Press\, Clarendon Lectures in English Literature\, 2018)\, Bleak Liberalism (University of Chicago Press\, 2016)\, The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton University Press\, 2006)\, The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton University Press\, 2001)\, and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell University Press\, 1993). She is co-editor of George Eliot: A Companion (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2013) and Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton University Press\, 2002). She leads the Cogut Institute’s Collaborative Humanities Initiative.
UID:148160-21903171@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148160
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222
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DTSTAMP:20260507T142424
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T181500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guerline Jozef | 2026 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Guerline Jozef\, the co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance\, will receive the 2026 Wallenberg Medal on Tuesday\, September 29th at 4:30PM in Rackham Auditorium. In keeping with the tradition of the Wallenberg Lecture\, Jozef will draw on her personal experience to share with the audience her understanding of how one person can make a difference.\n\nGuerline M. Jozef\, a servant leader rooted in faith\, is a globally recognized human rights advocate\, thought leader\, and strategist who has worked to transform the conversation on migration\, race\, and justice. Jozef is the executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA)\, a Haitian-American-women-led organization serving immigrants\, with a particular focus on Black immigrants at the US-Mexico border and beyond. With the HBA\, she has built a movement that centers people of African descent in migration while amplifying the voices of the most marginalized. She is the creator of “Tales from the Borderlands and Beyond\,” and co-founder of both the Black Immigrants Bail Fund (BIBF) and the Cameroon Advocacy Network.\n\nHer influence has been recognized nationally and internationally. She was named one of the Washingtonian’s 500 Most Influential People of 2025\, one of Politico’s 40 Most Influential People on Race\, Politics\, and Policy of 2021\, and one of the BBC’s Top 100 Women of 2024. She was honored with the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora IMPACT Award from the Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance (CariPhil)\, the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award\, the AFL-CIO’s 2024 GMLK Human Rights Award\, the 2024 Haitian Impact Awards\, and the 2023 Midwin Charles Legacy Award from the 1804 Haitian Roundtable. She has been recognized by the Women’s Refugee Commission (Voices of Courage Award\, 2024)\, The Haitian Times (Newsmaker of the Year\, 2022)\, the National Haitian-American Elected Officials Network\, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award among others.\n\nMs. Jozef has been featured in Forbes\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Politico\, Time Magazine\, The Miami Herald\, The Haitian Times\, Politico\, and DemocracyNow. She has testified before the United Nations\, the United States Congress\, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)\, and recently brought her advocacy to the international stage during the IV International Forum of Parlamentarians in Barranquilla\, Colombia. Guerline went to the border for Haitians—but she stayed for everyone seeking safety and protection. \n\n“Guerline Jozef is a powerful advocate for the dignity and rights of migrants who has linked the experience of migration at the US-Mexico border to global human rights movements. She works tirelessly to give voice to the marginalized and to shape a more just future for all\,” said Sioban Harlow\, chair of the Wallenberg Medal Executive Committee and Professor Emerita of Epidemiology\, Obstetrics and Gynecology\, and Global Public Health.\n\nFree and open to the public. Wheelchair and ADA accessible. ASL and CART provided.
UID:145865-21897966@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145865
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:human rights,Wallenberg Lecture
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120553
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 12\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nMalia Fullerton\, DPhil\nAdjunct Professor\, Epidemiology\nProfessor\, Bioethics and Humanities\nAdjunct Professor\, Genome Sciences\nAdjunct Professor\, Medicine - Medical Genetics\nActing/Interim Center/Institute Director\, School of Public Health\nUniversity of Washington\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Wendy R. Uhlmann\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nStephanie Malia Fullerton\, DPhil\, is Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is also Adjunct Professor in the UW Departments of Epidemiology\, Genome Sciences\, and Medicine (Medical Genetics)\, as well as an affiliate investigator with the Public Health Sciences division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She received a PhD in Human Population Genetics from the University of Oxford and later re-trained in Ethical\, Legal\, and Social Implications (ELSI) research with a fellowship from the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute.\n\nDr. Fullerton’s work focuses on the ethical and social implications of genomic research and its equitable and safe translation for clinical and public health benefit. She serves as the ELSI lead for the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER2) Consortium coordinating center\, co-chairs the TOPMed Consortium ELSI Committee\, and chairs the Bioethics Advisory Board of the Kaiser Permanente national Research Bank. She contributes to a range of empirical projects focused on clinical genomics translation and precision medicine approaches to the treatment and prevention of cancer and kidney disease in diverse patient populations.
UID:143398-21893070@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143398
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,basic sciences,biolgical chemistry,biological chemistry,biological science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,cancer,Chemistry,Discussion,epilepsy,Faculty,Free,genetics,genome,genomics,human genetics,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Epidemiology,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Neurogenetic Diseases,Information and Technology,lecture,Life Science,lifton,Medicine,Natural Sciences,neel,neurological disease,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Reception,research,Science,seminar,sodium channel,symposium
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DTSTAMP:20260506T121518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ISR Insights Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Discover groundbreaking research on social issues at the ISR Insights Speaker Series. Join us as ISR researchers take the stage to share their insights.
UID:148129-21902997@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Education,Insights Speaker Series,Social Science
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
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DTSTAMP:20251028T082420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:141176-21888297@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251028T082420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:141176-21888405@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260505T165245
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ISR Insights Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Discover groundbreaking research on social issues at the ISR Insights Speaker Series. Join us as ISR researchers take the stage to share their insights.
UID:148107-21902963@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Insights Speaker Series,Social Science
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
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DTSTAMP:20251028T082420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:141176-21888406@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall
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DTSTAMP:20251205T091103
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270420T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: TBA
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:142065-21889962@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142065
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
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