Careers / Jobs:UROP Rising Sophomore Applications Open
2021-02-16 08:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Learn more and apply today at http://myumi.ch/uropsophomore

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

Film Screening:Weekly Film Suggestions 2/14/21 - 2/20/21
2021-02-16 08:00 - 10:00 | Off Campus Location
Film Suggestions (more available through U-M Library):
The Amazing Nina Simone (songwriter Nina Simone -2015)
Moonlight (filmmaker Barry Jenkins - 2016)
In Black and White: Six Profiles of African American Authors (authors Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman and August Wilson - 1982)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (poet Maya Angelou - 2017)

These films are suggested for viewing on Kanopy and Swank within the University of Michigan Library - only available to University of Michigan students, staff, and faculty. Films featured in the weekly film suggestions are suggested based on availability within the University of Michigan Library streaming databases and relevance of weekly topic for events happening on campus. Most of the films selected have won awards, have cultural relevance, and generate discussion and thought. Feel free to look in the libraries and choose a film for yourself; for more titles please visit the "U-M Library Resource" link.

Conference / Symposium:U-M Africa Week
2021-02-16 08:30 - 12:20 | Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/91052244507
Africa Week will bring together thought leaders in higher education, industry, and government for a series of discussions on the key issues and opportunities that will shape Africa in the coming decades. Save the dates! Registration will open soon.

Speakers will include:
Mark Schlissel (U-M President)
Susan Collins (U-M Provost)
Vera Songwe (Executive Secretary, UNECA)
Michael Barr (U-M Dean of Public Policy)
F DuBois Bowman (U-M Dean of Public Health)
Andries Coetzee (Director, African Studies Center)
Valeria Bertacco (U-M Vice Provost)
Alec Gallimore (U-M Dean of Engineering)
Patrick Awuah (President, Ashesi University, Ghana)
Steve Ceccio (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering, University of Michigan)
Laura Beny (Associate Director, U-M Africa Studies Center)
Joseph Kolars (Associate Dean for U-M Medical School)
Lia Tadesse (Minister of Health, Ethiopia)
Susan D. Page (Ford School of Public Policy, former US Ambassador to South Sudan)

...and more!

Go to http://umafricaweek.org/ for complete conference schedule.

Sponsored by the African Studies Center, the Office of University Development, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Engaged Learning.

Workshop / Seminar:Writing in Academic Style
2021-02-16 08:30 - 10:00 | Off Campus Location
Whether you are writing a research article, class assignment, conference abstract or dissertation, the words, grammatical structures, and organizational patterns you use all signal whether your text sounds “academic.” We will look at features of academic style, and how these differ across a range of writing that undergraduate and graduate students do. In this workshop we will work on how to make effective stylistic choices for the types of writing you are doing and the academic identity you wish to convey to your readers in various writing contexts. Bring a text you are currently working on for analysis. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.
REGISTER HERE: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/7677

Livestream / Virtual:Rackham North: Diversity in STEM
2021-02-16 09:00 - 10:30 | Off Campus Location
This workshop discusses the impact diversity has on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and the importance of academic success, cultural competence, and socio-political consciousness. This session provides an overview of how persons from a diverse background can obtain and maximize grants, social support, mentoring, and training to become independent leaders in STEM. Additional workshop topics include developing a research identity and funding portfolio.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/r8oxZ.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

Other:LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours
2021-02-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location
The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

Class / Instruction:Mental Health Perspectives During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021-02-16 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
As the pandemic continues without a specific end in sight, many of us here and around the world continue to struggle emotionally. Two experts will shed light on how those struggles are manifesting themselves today and what we can anticipate in the mental health realm going forward. Dr. Sheria Robinson-Lane will focus on pandemic impacts in older adults. Dr. Sheila Marcus will speak to mental health implications of the pandemic on adults and children as well as strategies for managing associated ongoing stress.

Speaker Sheria Robinson-Lane, PhD, RN, is a gerontologist with expertise in palliative care, long-term care, and nursing administration. She has focused her career on the care and support of older adults with cognitive and/ or functional disabilities. Dr. Robinson-Lane is interested in the ways that older adults adapt to changes in health, and particularly how adaptive coping strategies effect health outcomes. Her research is focused on reducing health disparities or minority older adults with cognitive impairments and their informal caregivers. Prior to coming to coming to the University of Michigan School of Nursing, Dr. Robinson-Lane completed an NIH- funded advanced research rehabilitation training program in community living and participation with the University of Michigan Medical School.

Speaker Sheila M. Marcus, MD, is a Clinical Professor in the UM Department of Psychiatry and Division head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She leads a statewide program MC3 which assists primary care providers throughout the state in caring for individuals with mental health concerns. During COVID pandemic, she has assisted primary care providers and first-line providers with psychological first aid and balancing the stress of the pandemic with work and home obligations.

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Careers / Jobs:ScribeAmerica Info Session- Feb 16th
2021-02-16 10:00 - 11:00
Interested in a career in healthcare but unsure how to get experience? Join us for a presentation and Q&A about becoming a medical scribe with ScribeAmerica! You'll learn about an opportunity to work side by side with board-certified physicians while helping them provide better patient care. No experience necessary!

Please RSVP at the following link no later than 24 hours before the scheduled start time: https://forms.gle/agfppctcMf8WqKJM9

Lecture / Discussion:U.S. Representatives Elissa Slotkin and Peter Meijer: Voices across the aisle in a challenging time
2021-02-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Join the Ford School for a Conversations Across Differences event with U.S. Representatives Elissa Slotkin (D-MI 8th District) and Peter Meijer (R-MI 3rd District) moderated by Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr. The 117th congressional session has started with an insurrection, an impeachment trial, a disciplinary action in the House, and a push for major legislation that is passing along mostly partisan lines. Can Democrats and Republicans lower the temperature and find common ground to tackle the urgent problems facing the United States? We look forward to a thoughtful dialogue with two of the most dynamic members of Congress.

Cosponsored by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.

For bios and viewing information visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2021/us-representatives-elissa-slotkin-and-peter-meijer-voices-across-aisle-challenging-time

Workshop / Seminar:Complex Systems Seminar | Decolonizing Complexity: Bottom-up Traditions in Computational Futures
2021-02-16 11:30 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Join Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96616169868

Abstract: Indigenous cultures around the world developed an extraordinary repertoire of practices that embody many of the goals ultimately sought by complex systems researchers: egalitarian social relations, circular economies, ecological sustainability. Working with their modern descendents, we can develop collaborative practices that bring together “bottom-up” cultural traditions such as African fractals, Native American biocomplexity and restorative justice with contemporary computing technologies and frameworks.

Presentation:Biopsychology Colloquium: 619 Presentation: The effects of social behavior on dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens
2021-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Social behavior in rats is a phenomenon that is often studied in rats. Previous studies have found that social housing has an attenuating effect on the motivation to self-administer methamphetamine (METH) in female rats. Interestingly, females tend to benefit from having a cage mate while male rats do not. In order to understand how social behavior could be attenuating METH-taking behavior, the quality of the relationships between cage mates is being investigated to look at potential causes of this sex difference. Additionally, we are looking at dopamine (DA) release changes in the nucleus accumbens during baseline and after METH injections using fast scan cyclic voltammetry to understand the underlying neurochemical mechanisms that are occurring with different social housing conditions.

Exercise / Fitness:Cardio Kickboxing
2021-02-16 12:00 - 12:50 | Off Campus Location
Come punch and kick to the beat of great music! In this quick-paced cardio class, your body will stay in motion as you build strength, endurance, and confidence. People of all fitness levels will get results at this fun and challenging class.

Careers / Jobs:Data Science Internship Information Session
2021-02-16 12:00 - 13:00
Curious about what working at Capital One is like? Join us on for a glimpse into a day in the life of a Data Science Intern!

During this interactive info session and associate panel for STEM Masters & PHD Students, you'll learn more about working in unique, but interconnected roles. This is also a great chance to hear more about #LifeatCapitalOne, toask questions about our exciting opportunities, and to meet a few of ourassociates.

Livestream / Virtual:Frankel Institute Event Series: Stranger Still: Translating Contemporary Poetry from Israel/Palestine
2021-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
In this installment of the “Stranger Still” series, we invite the poets and translators Sabine Huynh (French, English, Hebrew) and Karen Alkalay-Gut (English, Hebrew, Yiddish) to join us in a conversation about their experiences as multilingual poets in Israel and the role of translation in their work. They will read selections of their poems and translations, including their recent collaboration: Huynh’s French translation Alkalay-Gut’s collection of Holocaust poetry, Surviving Her Story/Survivre à son histoire.

Karen Alkalay-Gut was born in London on the last night of the V-1 flying bomb attacks and grew up in Rochester, New York, completing a PhD in 1975 at the University of Rochester. Since 1972 she has lived in Israel, raising a family, and is retired from teaching poetry at Tel Aviv University. She was the founding chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English, a position she held until 2014 and resumed in 2018. She was Vice Chair of the former Federation of Writers Unions in Israel and is currently a board member of the Yiddish Writers Association. She has written poetry for the cabaret ensemble Panic Ensemble, as well as wide-ranging essays and scholarly articles. Her poetry publications include the recent collections A Word in Edgewise (English), Derakhim le-ehov (Ways to Love, Hebrew), and Yerusha (Inheritance, Yiddish/Hebrew).

Sabine Huynh is a poet, translator and editor based in Tel Aviv. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the author of a dozen books (poetry, novel, short stories, essay, diary), and numerous translations (from the French, Hebrew and English). Her poetry collections include Kvar lo, which won France’s 2017 CoPo Poetry Prize, and Dans le tournant/Into the Turning, a bilingual English-French book co-authored with Amy Hollowell. Her first novel, La Mer et l’enfant, was shortlisted for the 2014 Emmanuel-Roblès Prize and for the 2013 Chambery’s First Novel Festival Prize. With Haggai Linik, she is the founding editor of the French-Hebrew literary translation magazine Peham. Her latest poetry collection Parler peau (« to speak skin ») was illustrated by Philippe Agostini and published last year by Æncrages & Co. Her French translation of the complete poetry of Anne Sexton is due out in 2021 with the feminist publishing house Editions des Femmes.
Huynh Photo Credit: Miriam Alster

Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/1216070911601/WN_IsQh-wJARNmcGBeqKf60Qg

Livestream / Virtual:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation
2021-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? This talk, based on Professor Lindtner’s most recent publication "Prototype Nation" (Princeton University Press, 2020), offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. With historical precision and ethnographic detail, Professor Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–08, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation.

Silvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information. She researches, writes and teaches about DIY (do-it-yourself) maker culture, with a particular focus on its intersections with manufacturing and industry development in China. Drawing on her background in interaction design and media studies, she merges ethnographic methods with approaches in design and making. This allows her to provide deep insights into emerging cultures of technology production and use, from a sociological and technological perspective.

Together with Anna Greenspan (NYU SH) and David Li (XinCheJian), Silvia Lindtner is also the co-founder of the Research Initiative Hacked Matter. Hacked Matter. It has, since its inception in 2011, organized a series of workshops, lectures, public panel discussions as well as hands-on engagements with questions of DIY making, manufacturing, and innovation ecosystems.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wJ0Z2eYHQ6GWAu1oqDbkeA
