Exhibition:Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition
2018-10-11 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Exhibition:Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas
2018-10-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

Exhibition:Pacific Underwater Photography
2018-10-11 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Exhibition:Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy
2018-10-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

Exhibition:Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan
2018-10-11 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room and Clark Library
This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), includes maps of the world, Japan, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean, Lake Forest, Illinois, forms the core of the exhibit, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.

Audubon Room hours:
Sunday, 1-6pm; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Clark Library hours:
Sunday, 1pm-12am; Monday-Thursday, 8am-12am; Friday, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm

Join us for an opening celebration on September 20, 4-7 p.m.

Exhibition:David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys
2018-10-11 08:30 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th Floor
Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Lecture / Discussion:"Engineering Therapies for Complex Diseases"
2018-10-11 09:00 - 10:00 | Chrysler Center - 133
Many diseases lack a clear cause, making the search for therapies especially challenging. For example, there is no known cause for more than 80% of the cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and the remaining cases can be caused by mutations in any one of more than twenty genes. It is unlikely that any single therapeutic strategy will work for all these patients. We seek to understand such complex diseases better by gathering a wide variety of omic, clinical and behavior data. I’ll describe the approaches we are using to integrate these data, identify disease subtypes and explore their therapeutic potential.

Dr. Ernest Fraenkel is a professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Exhibition:Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
2018-10-11 09:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

Exhibition:The Draft
2018-10-11 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

Well-being:Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics
2018-10-11 09:00 - 13:00 | Michigan League - Vandenberg Room
MHealthy, in collaboration with Michigan Visiting Nurses and Student Life, is holding walk-in, mass flu shot clinics for NON-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff, as well as students, spouses, and other qualified adults (OQA) of employees.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $25 per person.

Careers / Jobs:Cummins Company Day
2018-10-11 10:00 - 15:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for Cummins, Thursday, October 11th from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM in the Duderstadt Connector.

Other:M Farmers Market at Central Diag
2018-10-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Ingalls Mall
Join Michigan Dining and Central Student Government for the farm fresh tradition of M Farmers Market.

Stop by September 13th and October 11th at the Diag to pick up some fresh, local produce from our fabulous farmers, see live chef demos, or just pick up a healthy snack on the way to class.

There will be more surprises in store, so follow Michigan Dining on Twitter and Instagram (@MichiganDining) for updates!

Invite a friend that is passionate about produce/fanatical about farming!

Lecture / Discussion:DIPLOMACY AND DISCORD: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AROUND THE KOREAN PENINSULA
2018-10-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Dr. Ciorciari (Harvard AB, JD; Oxford MPhil, DPhil) is an associate professor at UM’s Ford School of Public Policy. He is the author of The Limits of Alignment (2010) and co- author of Hybrid Justice (2014). He has held fellowships at Stanford, the Asia Society and the Carnegie Corporation, and has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2004-07, he served as a policy official in the U.S. Treasury Department.

Prof. Ciorciari will focus on the complex and contentious international politics surrounding the two Koreas. He will review past efforts to achieve peace, reunification, and other objectives. He will explain the divergent interests of key regional players and discuss why progress has been so difficult to date. He will then turn to current diplomatic efforts led by the Trump administration, noting both pitfalls and prospects for positive change.

This is the fifth in a series of six weekly lectures. The next lecture will be on October 18th. The title is Nuclear Treaty Verification.

Exhibition:Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s
2018-10-11 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

Presentation:Accessibility Standard Practice Guide: An Introduction
2018-10-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Boyer Building - 111
To meet both U-M's legal obligations and the spirit of DEI, the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) and ITS are close to rolling out a Standard Practice Guide on digital accessibility. This presentation will provide context about the need for and benefits of this SPG, some history on its development, and a preview of documents, trainings, and consultation opportunities that will be available to support anyone who will be involved in its implementation. (30 min.) Non-ITS staff are welcome—room accommodates 35.
