Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea
2018-02-01 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | Angell Hall - 1176
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
2018-02-01 15:00 - 16:00 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Already thinking about what you want to do this summer? Do you have some ideas about your dream internship experience? Do you have no idea what you're doing? That's OK.

Come check out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour. So, come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to dream of, search for, and find a great summer experience!

Chatwith folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network and to learn about other tools you can useto build a great job/internship search strategy.

If you're a Graduate Student wanting to attend we would like you to make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater to your needs more specifically.

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Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Undergraduate Conversation Group
2018-02-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Modern Languages Building - 3310
Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Workshop / Seminar:Speaking American English
2018-02-01 15:30 - 16:30 | V. Vaughan
The purpose of this program is to offer speech support for people who would like to pursue additional guidance in speaking American English. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the distinctive accents of our clients, but to enhance their communication skills in ways that will help them communicate a variety of settings. Each participant sets their own objective at the start of the workshop and works toward their personal goals with a licensed speech-language pathologist. This 10-week workshop will help you build confidence with both group and individual activities.

Lecture / Discussion:The Hidden Costs of Cheap
2018-02-01 15:30 - 17:00 | East Quadrangle - Keene Theater
Bryant Simon, Professor of History, Temple University

Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Human Exploration from Earth to Mars: Envisioning Becoming Interplanetary
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall
Professor Dava Newman
Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics
Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences, and Technology
MIT

Recent space science missions to Pluto and Jupiter along with earth observation missions of Spaceship earth will be highlighted. Humanity will become interplanetary and is on a journey to Mars. We are closer to reaching the Red Planet with human explorers than we have ever been in our history. Space agencies, academia and industry are working right now on the technologies and missions that will enable human “boots on Mars” in the 2030s. Advanced technologies for the next giant leaps of exploration include spacesuits and life support systems, which will be highlighted.

A three-stage plan from missions close to Earth involving commercial partners and the International Space Station, advancing to missions in Earth–Moon orbit, or deep space, and finally moving on to Mars, where explorers will be practically independent from spaceship Earth. The innovation required to achieve a human mission to Mars cuts across science, human exploration, and technology. It builds on what has gone before while driving the next advances.

The presentation concludes with an inclusive message on STEAMD (science-technology-engineering-arts-math-design) and the urgency to recruit the Mars Generation, including the artists, designers, poets, and makers.

About the speaker...

Dr. Dava Newman is the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Harvard–MIT Health, Sciences, and Technology faculty member. Her research in multidisciplinary aerospace biomedical engineering investigates human performance across the spectrum of gravity, including space suits, life support, and astronaut performance. Newman has been the principal investigator on 4 spaceflight missions. Known for her second skin BioSuit™ planetary spacesuit, her inventions are now being applied to “soft suits” to enhance locomotion on Earth. Newman is the author of Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design, has >300 publications, and has supervised 90 graduate students and mentored >200 undergraduates.

Dr. Dava Newman served as NASA Deputy Administrator from 2015–2017, nominated by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Along with the NASA Administrator, she was responsible for articulating the agency's vision, providing leadership and policy direction, and representing NASA to the White House, Congress, international space agencies, and industry. Dr. Newman was the first female engineer and scientist to serve in this role and was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. She championed the human journey to Mars, technology and innovation, and education. Newman and Trotti’s BioSuit™ has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial, American Museum of Natural History, Victoria and Albert and Museum, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Newman earned her Ph.D. in aerospace biomedical engineering, Master of Science degrees in aerospace engineering and technology and policy from MIT, and her Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Lecture / Discussion:BME 500 Seminar: Josh Dolhoff, Ph.D.
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1200
Joshua C. Doloff, Ph.D.
BME Faculty Candidate and Guest Speaker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Breaking down the immunobiology of implant fibrosis/foreign body response”

Abstract:

Implanted biomedical devices comprise a major component of modern medicine and are essential for many clinical applications ranging from tissue repair/reconstruction, electrical pacing/stimulation, controlled release, glucose sensing, and cell transplantation. However, a huge impediment to their therapeutic performance and lifespan, host immune-mediated foreign body response, results in their being walled off behind dense layers of fibrotic scar tissue. The first part of my talk will focus on systems biology approaches, including serial or combined innate and adaptive immune perturbations to elucidate immune-mediated rejection and fibrotic sequestration of biomaterial medical device implants. Identification of core innate and adaptive immune cell players will be discussed. Furthermore, cytokine and cytokine receptor array analysis in conjunction with cell sorting, antibody-based neutralization and small molecule inhibition will be presented in the context of identifying more selective targets in the fibrotic cascade. Throughout, multiple tissue implant sites, biomaterials, multi-component devices, and animal models, including non-human primates and a newly developed humanized mouse model, will also be presented. The last part of my talk will focus on leveraging this information toward the design of next generation technologies, including implant architecture, surface chemistries, and long-term controlled release systems, for successful elimination of rejection by modulating immune response.

Lecture / Discussion:CANCELLED: EIHS Lecture: Private Parts and Public Concerns: Erecting the Modern Japanese Penis
2018-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
In Japan and other places, modernity has given rise to what might be called a “penis industry”: a complex of urological knowledge, business interests, and advertising media that, by instilling a fear in impressionable young males that their genitalia embody a shameful departure from the physical norm, extracts money from their wallets to carry out one or another kind of treatment. This talk considers the emergence of the penis industry in early twentieth-century Japan, focusing on the advertising strategies that its entrepreneurs developed in print to promote a distinctly modern form of psychological anxiety.

Gregory Pflugfelder is an associate professor of Japanese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of History at Columbia University. Professor Pflugfelder's current work engages the construction of masculinities, the history of the body, and representations of monstrosity. His books include JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life, coedited with Brett L. Walker (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 2005); Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 (University of California Press, 1999) and Politics and the Kitchen: A History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Akita Prefecture (in Japanese; Domesu, 1986). His latest writing projects are "Growing Up with Godzilla: A Global History" and "Mobo: Playing the 'Modern Boy' in Interwar Japan and Its Empire." Professor Pflugfelder received his BA from Harvard (1981), his MA from Waseda (1984), and his PhD from Stanford (1996). He has been teaching at Columbia since 1996.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg with support from the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative.

Film Screening:Documentary Screening of "Extreme By Design"
2018-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Ross School of Business - R0210
The William Davidson Institute, Innovate Blue, the Barger Leadership Institute and LSA's Global Scholars Program are jointly sponsoring the screening of a documentary featuring college students introducing innovative products in emerging markets by applying design thinking and social entrepreneurship principles. At the screening, a WDI-managed program that offers a rare opportunity for international teamwork and entrepreneurship open to all undergraduates will also be discussed.
The documentary follows students from Stanford University’s Institute of Design as they create potential life-saving products for people in Bangladesh, Indonesia and other developing countries.
Those attending the screening will have an opportunity to learn about participating in a new virtual exchange program with fellow students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The MENA-Michigan Initiative for Global Action Through Entrepreneurship (M²GATE), managed by WDI, is open to any U-M undergraduate student. Register to reserve your seat at: http://bit.ly/2A6pMc0

Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar: Demographic and evolutionary consequences of new gene flow into small populations
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200
Rapidly changing rates of gene flow pose urgent challenges for wild populations as well as exciting opportunities for ecological and evolutionary study. Predicting fitness effects of altered gene flow among contemporary populations is crucial because there is a large range of potential outcomes that can go so far as to determine the difference between extinction and persistence. I study wild and experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies as a model system for understanding the effects of new gene flow on adaptation, fitness, and demography. Previous work has documented genetic rescue, an increase in population growth caused by the introduction of new alleles, in wild populations. I will recap this work as well as discuss preliminary findings from experimental mesocosms that highlight the potential for gene flow to provide longterm benefits when populations are exposed to novel stress.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/-hj6XA9CCEw

Lecture / Discussion:Kent Berridge's Distinguished University Professorship Lecture: Finding delight, desire and dread in the brain.
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre, 4th floor
ABSTRACT
This talk will describe a scientific journey studying brain mechanisms of pleasure ‘liking and ‘wanting’, and other emotions. Though crucial for normal life, ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’ processes can go awry in addiction and other disorders. Brain ‘wanting’ systems can grow independently powerful in addiction, become suppressed in mood disorders, and even have a darker side in some forms of paranoia. This journey follows in the footsteps of James Olds and other UM pioneers in brain mechanisms of reward and motivation.

BIO
Kent Berridge is the James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. His research aims for answers to questions such as: What causes addiction? How is pleasure generated by the brain? How is disgust generated? How does wanting something differ from liking it? What does fear share with desire?

Berridge received a B.S. degree in 1979 from the University of California at Davis, his M.A. in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University for two years in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He joined the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Psychology in 1985. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Senior Fellow, Fellow of AAAS, APA, and APS, and co-winner of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution award of the American Psychological Association.

Lecture / Discussion:Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Auditorium, Room 1110
Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law Center. On the faculty since 1982, he has also served in all three branches of government. During President Clinton’s first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Earlier in his career he was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy's 1980 Presidential campaign. He also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and was Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General John Douglas in the Department of Justice. Mr. Edelman’s most previous book was So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America, and of course we are here to celebrate Not a Crime to Be Poor.

Event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Lecture / Discussion:Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - Eldersveld Room (5670)
We are pleased to announce the Rubin Speaker Series Lecture, Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason of the University of Maryland, College Park. Professor Mason's research on partisan identity, partisan bias, social sorting, and American social polarization has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior, and featured in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Professor Mason received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2017.

We invite you to join us for an engaging conversation in the Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall on Thursday, February 1, 2018 from 4:00-5:30 PM.

Other:Adventure with a Purpose - SEA Semester Voyages
2018-02-01 17:00 - 18:00 | Undergraduate Science Building - 1160
Learn about the different study abroad opportunities available during the semester through SEA Semester, an international leader in undergraduate ocean education.
