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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:The Jeffrey Parsons 2022 Lecture: \"Refusal of Colonialism in Nihookaa Dine'e' Bila'Ashdla'ii Archaeology: Creating Pathways to Indigenous Futures\"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Marek-Martinez will discuss her research and perspectives on decolonization and Indigenization of archaeological research. Over the past 20 years\, she has worked within\, by\, and for her Dine' (Navajo) communities\, however\, this work is in service of all Indigenous peoples. Dr. Marek-Martinez will share her research\, particularly in the area of the refusal of colonialism using Indigenous archaeological approaches in the creation of tribally specific archaeological approaches. The work that she has completed for her People resulted in a Nihooka Dine’e bila’ ashdla’ii archaeology\, or an archaeology of the Five Finger Earth Surface People\, a ceremonial name for the Navajo People. Dr. Marek-Martine will use her work with the Navajo Nation to discuss the ways that colonial based archaeology has impacted Navajo communities and the subsequent attempts at reclamation of deep history for the Navajo people. Finally\, she will also give an overview of the colonial roots of archaeology that have created the space necessary for an Indigenized and decolonized archaeology.
UID:92759-21695326@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/92759
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Archaeology,Native American
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20220304T133157
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T130000
SUMMARY:Presentation:The resilient supply chain: Harnessing agility for a post-pandemic world
DESCRIPTION:The supply chain field has never been more relevant. From the pandemic\, to major logistical disruptions\, to shortages due to increased demand\, it’s hard to turn on any popular press or social media channel and not hear a comment about the supply chain. In this session\, meet Kinaxis executives John Sicard\, CEO\, and Dr. Anne Robinson\, CSO\, and hear their stories from the front lines of the supply chain. They’ll cover how companies are looking to navigate their supply chain challenges in new and innovative ways\, and the relevant skills required to be successful. \n\nAnne Robinson bio: As Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)\, Anne is responsible for accelerating Kinaxis strategic development to add further value to customers. She and her team collaborate closely with customers\, external stakeholders\, and the rest of the senior executive team to drive the strategic roadmap\, thought leadership\, and to identify emerging technologies and new industry opportunities.\nA proven leader in analytics and digital transformation\, with expertise in operations\, supply chain\, and strategy\, Anne has extensive experience managing supply chains for complex\, global organizations. As Executive Director of\, Global Supply Chain Strategy\, Analytics\, and Systems at Verizon\, Anne was responsible for the strategic vision of the company’s global end-to-end supply chain\, driving excellence through world-class data analytics\, process innovation\, and employee empowerment. Before Verizon\, Anne spent several years at Cisco\, where she was responsible for managing advanced analytics\, business intelligence\, and performance management teams.\nAnne is a past president of INFORMS (the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences)\, a seasoned industry speaker\, and has served on several advisory boards. She is the recipient of the 2020 Martin K. Starr Excellence in Production and Operations Management Practice Award as well as a Supply & Demand Chain Executive 2020 Pros to Know. Originally from St. John's\, Newfoundland and Labrador\, Anne has a BScH from Acadia University\, MASc from the University of Waterloo\, and an MSc and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.\n\nJohn Sicard bio: John assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kinaxis in Jan. 2016. With over 25 years’ tenure at Kinaxis\, John first started at the company as a key contributor to the architecture and development of Kinaxis’ supply chain management solutions in early 1994 and has since held a number of senior management roles in development\, professional services\, business consulting\, sales\, marketing\, and customer support. Prior to his current appointment\, John was Chief Products Officer (CPO)\, overseeing all aspects of the product life cycle\, including product vision and strategy\, design and development\, product management\, and quality assurance. Before joining Kinaxis\, John held senior software architect and management positions in research and development at FastMAN Software Systems Inc. (also known as Promira before being purchased by Manugistics) and Monaco Agra. John earned a Bachelor of Computer Science\, from Concordia University in Montreal\, Canada\, with a strong focus on software architecture and UI Design. John is also a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
UID:92790-21695694@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/92790
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Industrial And Operations Engineering
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20220309T144244
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T133000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Info Session: Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR)
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nGary Harper - Co-Director & Research Director\; Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education\, School of Public Health\nAnna Kirkland - Co-Director & Academic Director\; Director\, Institute for Research on Women & Gender\; Professor of Women's & Gender Studies\nGabriel Johnson - Graduate & Undergraduate Peer Mentor Coordinator\; PhD Student\, Health Behavior & Health Education\, School of Public Health\nHeidi Bennett - Project Coordinator & Academic Counselor\nAdrian Beyer - Current SOAR Scholar\nMyla Lyons - Current SOAR Scholar\n\nCurrent U-M students are invited to learn more about the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) program. SOAR prepares students for graduate school and eventual research careers in behavioral and social science related to HIV/AIDS. Students participate in mentored research projects and coursework during their junior and senior years.\n\nInfo sessions will provide more details about the program requirements and benefits\, as well as a space to ask current SOAR scholars and mentors questions about the program and the application process. Current students and U-M faculty or staff who work with students are invited to attend an info session.\n\nApplications for fall '22 are now open. The deadline to apply is March 31\, 2022.
UID:93205-21701531@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/93205
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Irwg
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20220406T105221
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T131500
SUMMARY:Presentation:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions on your own by finding the north star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. \n\nThe state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and deep into the ocean from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.\nThe planetarium is operating at reduced capacity to maximize distancing between viewers and masks are required.
UID:89869-21674008@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/89869
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,natural history museum
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium and Dome Theatre
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DTSTAMP:20220310T202212
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smart Infrastructure Finance: The transformational role of data for democratized digital project delivery
DESCRIPTION:Most investments in infrastructure projects take the form of (municipal) bonds\, government and private debt and private equity\, a form of financing that cannot be easily converted to cash. This limits the type of investor who will engage in projects. Data provides near real time insights into performance\, structural health and use\, much like share prices update as new information becomes available to inform buyers and sellers. As a result\, data from physical infrastructure is setting the stage for a new software-as-a-service (SaaS)-like business and financing model where data contracts can be securitized\, licensed and used for new infrastructure applications and services. By envisioning data as the informational stock (or collateral) of infrastructure\, better pricing of its value\, and improved liquidity of investments\, are already starting to change designs and financing mechanisms that maximize performance delivery. Ultimately\, by decreasing reliance of financing on the tax base of communities\, access to quality infrastructure services will become more democratized\, as data-driven revenue starts contributing to the funding mechanism.
UID:93235-21701784@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/93235
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Entrepreneurship
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20220207T134815
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T130000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Phondi Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research\, discuss \"hot\" topics in the field\, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.\n\nFor more information about Phondi\, email phondi-contact@umich.edu.
UID:92055-21686433@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/92055
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language,Linguistics
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20220223T151656
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T130000
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SUMMARY:Other:Race & Tech Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The Race & Tech reading group is meeting every Friday at 1 PM this semester.\n\nFor Friday\, 2/25th\, we will be talking about this really fantastic article\, \"Critical Race Theory for HCI\". Co-author Professor Kentaro Toyama from SI will be facilitating the discussion.\n\nEven if you aren't able to read each week's article\, or haven't been able to make it to previous discussions\, you are very welcome to join and listen in on the conversation. This group welcomes all - whether you're a student\, staff\, faculty\, or community member.\n\nZoom Meeting Passcode: racetech\n\nAfter the break\, we will start reading chapters of Wendy Chun's new book\, Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition. \nWe also welcome anyone to facilitate a discussion - if you would be up for it\, please add your name to the schedule\, linked below.\n\nThe full book is available online through the library\, but we are working on securing funds to order some physical copies for those who would like one. If you'd like a copy\, fill out a google form and we'll follow up.
UID:92722-21694821@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/92722
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Books,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Org,Technology,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20220207T132751
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T143000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Winter 2022 MEMS Lecture. Arcadia Brasiliensis: Landscape and Colonial Dislocation in the Poetry of Cláudio Manuel da Costa
DESCRIPTION:The publication of the Orbas of the Brazilian Cláudio Manuel da Costa in 1769 is recognized as the beginning of a period in Brazilian colonial literature termed ‘Arcadianism.’ The literature of this period displays the initial formulations of Brazilian national identity\, anticipating its independence in 1822 and negotiated by means of a neoclassical armature.\n\nMy lecture will consider formulations of space and landscape in the work of Cláudio Manuel da Costa\, whose poetry\, centered around the Greco-Roman bucolic Arcadia\, reconciles the experience of inhabiting a landscape altered by colonialist intervention with the idyllic projection of the European literature which serves as his literary antecedent. Such a formulation encapsulates the tension between real and imagined spaces that characterizes European geographical thinking after the so-called ‘discovery’ of the Americas\, which fundamentally altered the European world view. \n\nThe literature that emerged from the era of Iberian discovery and exploration would shape its colonial spaces in its own imagination through reliance on literary formulations of space coined in the literatures of Greco-Roman antiquity. This Eurocentric narrative is disrupted by literatures produced by the inhabitants of this New World\, shaping the world that was their center in contradistinction to its image in European literatures.
UID:92049-21686409@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/92049
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Contexts For Classics,European,History,Latin America,Literature,Poetry,Research
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20220311T145539
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T133000
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SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:AE200 Seminar Series|Extreme Physiology: Engineering Meets Physiology in Space
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kathy Clark\nAssociate Chair\, Movement Science\, School of Kinesiology\nAdjunct Associate Research Scientist\, Aerospace Engineering\n\nSpace enthusiasts have been talking about going to Mars since we launched the first astronauts into space.  We have not actually traveled very far from our home planet and we are only beginning to understand physiological changes and the potential for using science and engineering to overcome those challenges.  For example\, we know we on Earth are protected by the van Allen belts.  Can we find a way to protect astronauts who travel beyond the 36\,000 miles of van Allen belt coverage from the radiation?  Can we overcome the loss of blood cells\, muscle mass\, proprioception\, and immune system function?  Some of these are scientific questions\; others are engineering problems to solve.  NASA and her international partners must work together to solve these problems if we are ever to travel back to the Moon\, on to Mars\, and beyond.  This generation of scientists and engineers are going to be the people who overcome these challenges.  A side benefit is for people all over the world to overcome differences and work together on this greatest of adventures.\n\nAbout the Speaker...\nDr. Kathy Clark is currently a Movement Science Lecturer in the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. She received her Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the University of Michigan. Prior to her time at the school\, Dr. Clark was a member of the Stafford/Anfimov Advisory Panel and the Stafford-Covey Return to Flight Task Group at NASA. She also served as Chief Scientist at NASA for both the Human Exploration & Development of Space Enterprise and the International Space Station.\nDr. Clark is a professional speaker who uses her experience to motivate and inspire others to reach for the stars in their careers. She also works to promote education with groups like the Jean-Michel Cousteau Society\, the Square One Education Network\, the Argos Foundation\, the National Marine Sanctuaries\, the Sea World Hubbs Institute\, SAS Games\, the National Space Grant Foundation\, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s After School All Stars\, and the 27 Foundation.\n\nRegistration: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqfu2gpzsqH9PK9ZMR7d_lvdsBufe1qX5X
UID:93327-21702658@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/93327
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Aerospace,aerospace engineering
LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 FXB Boeing Lecture Hall
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DTSTAMP:20220323T103556
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T141500
SUMMARY:Presentation:Big Astronomy
DESCRIPTION:Big Astronomy focuses on three of Earth’s largest observatories in Chile’s rugged Andes Mountains and arid Atacama Desert. By avoiding clouds and light pollution\, mountain tops and dry deserts are ideal locations for Earth bound telescopes. Big Astronomy features the perspectives of not only astronomers\, but also the engineers\, technicians\, and support staff needed to keep these massive pieces of equipment running. Includes an abbreviated star talk.\n\nThe state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and deep into the ocean from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.\nThe planetarium is operating at less than 50% capacity to maximize distancing between viewers. As with all University of Michigan buildings\, masks are required.
UID:89871-21674101@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/89871
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,natural history museum
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium and Dome Theatre
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20220304T092805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T143000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Pre-Clinical Investigation of Histotripsy for Non-Invasive Ablation of Liver Cancer
DESCRIPTION:Liver cancer\, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the top ten causes of cancer related deaths worldwide and in the United States. The liver is also a frequent site for metastases originating from colorectal cancer\, pancreatic cancer\, melanoma\, lung cancer and breast cancer. Depending on the location\, severity and staging of liver cancer\, multiple treatment options are currently available including surgical resection\, liver transplantation\, chemotherapy\, radiation therapy\, targeted drug therapy\, immunotherapies\, and ablation techniques including radiofrequency ablation (RFA)\, microwave ablation (MWA)\, cryoablation\, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)\, yet the prognosis of HCC remains poor with five-year survival rates reported at only 18% in the US. Even after treatment\, the high prevalence of tumor recurrence and metastasis highlights the clinical need for improving outcomes of liver cancer.\n\nHistotripsy is a novel non-invasive\, non-ionizing\, and non-thermal ablation technique that mechanically destroys target tissue by controlled acoustic cavitation. High pressure (p->30MPa)\, microsecond-length ultrasound pulses cause endogenous nanometer-scale gas nuclei in the target tissue to rapidly expand and collapse\, generating high mechanical stress and strain to disrupt the cellular structure into an acellular homogenate. This dissertation investigates histotripsy as a therapeutic ultrasound treatment option of liver cancer and other solid tumors.\n\nThe first study evaluated the safety and feasibility and survival benefits of histotripsy in an in vivo murine liver tumor model. Results showed that non-invasive histotripsy ablation reduced local tumor progression of subcutaneous human-derived HCC tumor and improved survival outcomes in immunocompromised mice. This study also characterized the radiological features correlating to the histotripsy tumor response.\n\nThe second study investigated the anti-tumor immune response generated by histotripsy ablation of subcutaneous murine melanoma and HCC tumors. Histotripsy stimulated potent local intratumoral infiltration of innate and adaptive immune cell populations\, promoted abscopal immune responses at untreated tumor sites and inhibited growth of pulmonary metastases. Histotripsy was capable of releasing tumor antigens with retained immunogenicity and was able to amplify the efficacy of checkpoint inhibition immunotherapy.\n\nThe third study evaluated the safety\, feasibility\, and tumor volume reduction effects of histotripsy for liver cancer ablation in an orthotopic\, immune-competent in vivo rat HCC model. For the first time\, it was demonstrated that complete as well as partial histotripsy ablation of tumors can result in complete tumor regression with no recurrence.\n\nThe fourth study evaluated the effects of partial histotripsy tumor ablation on tumor response\, risk of metastases and immune infiltration in an orthotopic\, immunocompetent\, metastatic rodent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) model. Results showed that histotripsy significantly improved survival outcomes with no increased risk of metastasis compared to controls and demonstrated that augmented tumor immune infiltration may have contributed to the eventual regression even with partial treatment of tumors.\n\nThe fifth study compared the safety\, tumor response and survival outcomes between single and repeat histotripsy treatments of human-derived HCC tumors in immunocompromised murine hosts and mouse-derived HCC tumors in immunocompetent murine hosts. One week after the initial histotripsy treatment\, animals received a repeat histotripsy treatment. Results showed that while both histotripsy groups significantly improved survival outcomes over control\, the repeat histotripsy group demonstrated slower tumor growth and increased survival compared to single histotripsy.\n\nOverall\, this dissertation demonstrated the potential and in vivo feasibility of histotripsy for successful non-invasive tumor ablation\, reduction of local tumor burden and prevention of metastasis. Future studies will continue to investigate the safety\, efficacy\, and biological effects of histotripsy liver cancer treatment for potential translation to clinic.\n\nDate: Friday\, March 18\, 2022\nTime: 1:30 PM EST\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95042725076   Passcode: EarthPass\nChair: Professor Zhen Xu
UID:92996-21698984@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/92996
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:biomedical,biomedical engineering,bme,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20220224T091948
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Weakness of Strong Expectations: Diffusion and the Self-Defeating Prophecy
DESCRIPTION:New innovations\, practices\, and behaviors often spread through diffusion processes in which earlier adopters influence later adopters. However\, research on diffusion has a well-documented success bias — cases in which a new innovation successfully spreads through a population or organizational field garner more attention and theorizing than the countless other cases in which similar innovations fail to take off. The same theories and models that account for successful diffusion often become cumbersome when tasked with explaining failed diffusion\, an outcome that is at least equally common. In this talk\, I will present results from a theoretically-informed computational model of organizational behavior to argue that failed diffusion need not be more mysterious than successful diffusion. In fact\, both outcomes may reflect the same underlying mechanisms rooted in how actors form social expectations for how others will behave. Organizations interpret their peers’ decisions to adopt or reject a new innovation in light of their own socially formed expectations\, with unsurprising decisions having less impact than conspicuous surprises. Consequently\, successive adoptions of a new innovation reinforce its spread while also paradoxically making its continued diffusion more susceptible to disruptions that can make a previously growing “bandwagon” suddenly and unexpectedly collapse. These dynamics make the spread of new innovations noisy and unpredictable because the same innovation facing identical initial conditions can diffuse widely in some cases but fail to launch in others. While we often think of institutionalized expectations as making the social world more predictable\, the opposite also holds—widely-believed prophecies can be self-defeating as well as self-fulfilling.
UID:92750-21695192@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/92750
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Organizational Studies,Virtual
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0220
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DTSTAMP:20220228T145551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220318T140000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Alum Connection: Google Racial Equity Program Manager\, Na’kia Channey (she/her)
DESCRIPTION:Na’kia Channey (Organizational Studies & International Studies ‘20) has an impressive résumé for someone who graduated just under two years ago\, and during a pandemic. As a first-generation college student in LSA\, she became a firm believer in the power of developing a professional network because it helped her secure internships at the Human Rights Campaign\, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation\, and then Google\, which then led to her current role in their San Francisco office as Racial Equity Program Manager. In this practical Alum Connection\, Na’kia will provide ideas and tools for breaking through your shyness around networking. She’ll get you thinking about potential internships to help you learn what you may want to do in your career\, and help you navigate the significant resources the U-M and LSA has to offer.\n\n\nAbout Na’kia:\nNa’kia Channey is a 2020 graduate of the University of Michigan with a BA in Organizational Studies and International Studies. She is a Strategic Project Manager at Google where she works closely with experts to define and execute the industry-defining Racial Equity Commitments and company-wide People Strategy. While an LSA student\, Na’kia acquired competitive internships in top nonprofits and Fortune 100 companies\, notably the Human Rights Campaign and Google. She is a first-generation college student and has broken down barriers\, attributing her success to her unique networking and job search approach which has allowed her to secure internships while bypassing the typical application process. In her spare time\, she manages a career coaching business where she is passionate about providing concrete\, tangible advice that professionals can utilize to achieve the careers that they have always envisioned. \n\nYou should attend this session if you are:\nA UM undergraduate LSA student who is considering doing an internship and are looking for guidance on where to begin\nSeeking a career in social justice that meets your compensation goals \nA first-generation college student seeking connection with a first-generation LSA alum\n\nWhat you’ll gain by attending:\nPractical tools for developing and maintaining a network of contacts\nAccess to a recently graduated alum who can support you in thinking about internships and other career preparation steps  \nA deeper look social justice roles and DEI work across nonprofits and corporations \n\nInteraction Level: Moderate\n\nRSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.\n\nThe LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested\, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Anna Colvin at ancolvin@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.
UID:92843-21697187@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/92843
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Internship,Networking
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20220316T032329
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SUMMARY:Presentation:CCN Forum:  The Morality Game: A Paradigm for Testing and Modeling Moral Character
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nMoral character judgments inform highly consequential decisions about whom to trust\, reward\, punish\, praise\, blame\, and forgive.  We posit that humans represent and predict ethical choices by determining how much the observed person values themselves (S)\, values others (O)\, and cares about outcome disparities (D).  Observers are modeled as revising their preconceptions about these parameters after watching the social choices of other people\, which they understand in terms of the three corresponding incentives within each situation.  A Morality Game was developed\, where across a series of trials each participant/observer predicts peoples’ next choices before and after watching their previous choices in game theoretic dilemmas with systematically varied payoff structures that include helpful\, selfish\, win-win\, and malicious options.  We find that participants represent their beliefs about other peoples' moral decision-making based on relative weightings of the above three independent dimensions and they revise these beliefs with evidence.
UID:90129-21668035@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/90129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20220402T123103
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:International Student Career Chat with Tapan Mujumdar\, Global Platform Owner - Motion Planning | Automated Driving | Motion Planning & Control at Aptiv
DESCRIPTION:Come to this virtual session to hear from UM Alumni Tapan Mujumdar\, Global Platform Owner - Motion Planning | Automated Driving | Motion Planning & Control at Aptiv. Learn more about Tapan at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tapan-mujumdar-adengineer/\n\nSubmit your questions for the presenter in advance at:  \nhttps://forms.gle/cwPYZ38nUPD3LNVW8\n\nRegister for this meeting at:\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpcOCsqj0oHdVAHI49fn63gbAvKbNpl-HC \n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to umich.joinhandshake.com\, locate the event in the events tab\, and then click the 'Join Event' button.
UID:93133-21700916@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/93133
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