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DTSTAMP:20160421T105421
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This!
DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens.
UID:30488-3519933@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20160523T155817
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Supporting Scholarship: Eight Topics Documented in the Clements Library
DESCRIPTION:Come and see what brings researchers from around the world to the William L Clements Library to explore its historical collections. This exhibit highlights eight research topics that the holdings of the Clements support. They include: Exploration and Discovery\; Colonial America\; Conflict\; Age of Revolution\; Education\; Business and Trade\; Religion & Reform\; and The Under-Represented. \n\nVisit to see rare treasures that reflect the broad range of early maps\, manuscripts\, books\, prints\, and photography in our collections.  For more information about the Library and using it for research\, please visit our website at clements.umich.edu. \n\nThis exhibit will close on October 28\, 2016.
UID:30795-3776663@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30795
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,Lifelong Learning,Education,History,Exhibition
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20160628T160209
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ariana Orozco's Dissertation Oral Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Ariana Orozco's dissertation oral defense:\n\nDissertation Title: Memory and Material Culture in Contemporary German Prose by Jenny Erpenbeck and Judith Schalansky\n\nDefense Date and Time: Friday\, July 1\, 10:30 AM\n\nDefense Location: 3308 Modern Languages Building
UID:31090-4066764@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31090
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate School
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160404T105502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction
DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29456-3120477@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA,Architecture,Exhibition,Museum
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20160422T134945
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie\, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010\, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air\, California\, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series\, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos\, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words\, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.”
UID:30494-3530520@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30494
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160422T140125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight
DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum.
UID:30497-3530583@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,Exhibition,Art
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160329T123251
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang
DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30041-3321306@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Visual Arts,Museum,Exhibition,Art,Architecture
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20160329T124905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30043-3321392@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Exhibition,Museum,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160308T121704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016)
DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29503-3129561@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,Information and Technology,Exhibition,Art,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160422T140757
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink
DESCRIPTION:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests\, a keen appreciation of form\, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink\, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979\, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts\, exhibited together for the first time\, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization\; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum\, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators\, and their commitment to public education.
UID:30500-3530727@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,Art,Exhibition,India,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160622T181506
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T113000
SUMMARY:Performance:Center Stage Strings Brown Bag Lunch Performances
DESCRIPTION:Bring your lunch and listen to some great music from our string students. Adults and kids of all ages are encouraged to come.
UID:30777-3754515@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30777
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,North campus,Free
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160701T181603
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T143000
SUMMARY:Other:2-Electron 3-Center Bonds as a\n\nTool for Hydrogen Storage and\n\nSelective Catalytic Reactions
DESCRIPTION:Inorganic\nMary Grellier\, University of Toulouse\n 
UID:30890-3859112@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30890
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706 Chemistry
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DTSTAMP:20160615T134715
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T140000
SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: Mechanisms that underlie experience-dependent assembly of neural circuits
DESCRIPTION:Candidate for PhD in Molecular\, Cellular\, and Developmental Biology\n\nAbstract:\nI aim to understand the interaction between the environment and the developing brain through investigating how sensory experience shapes behavior. Sensory experience modifies neural connections through activity-dependent plasticity\, enabling animals to cope with environmental variability. Classic work\, particularly those in vertebrate visual systems\, has provided important insights into the mechanisms that underlie experience-dependent plasticity of the developing circuit. However\, there are significant gaps explaining the mechanism by which sensory experience shapes circuit function during development. Particularly\, how experience-dependent changes in synaptic transmission during development affect behavior in the mature animal are poorly understood. This dissertation examines how noxious sensory experience during development changes synaptic transmission in the nociceptive circuit to shape behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila provides a relatively simple and genetically amenable model for analyzing both neural development and mechanisms underlying behaviors\, and is thus a powerful model for discovering basic principles underlying experience-dependent plasticity during development. One well-characterized set of Drosophila sensory neurons is the nociceptors. The nociceptors respond to noxious environmental cues such as intense radiation\, chemical or mechanical stimuli. The cell bodies and dendrites of these neurons lie just underneath the larval cuticle\, and their dendrites receive sensory inputs from the environment. Their axons\, in turn\, project to the central nervous system to provide inputs to the nociceptive circuits\, which eventually leads to appropriate motor responses. In larvae\, activation of the nociceptors elicits a robust behavioral response. To address how noxious stimuli alters the nociceptive circuit\, I have established a calcium live-imaging technique to physiologically measure neural dynamics within larval brains and have developed a behavioral assay to probe motor output. Through the use of these experimental techniques\, I have determined that excessive noxious experience during a sensitive period in development modifies nociceptive behavior through an intrinsic program of circuit development. These findings suggest that the development of the larval nociceptive circuit is shaped by sensory inputs and neural activity. Moreover\, my collaborative work demonstrates that the developmental plasticity is es¬tablished through serotonergic inhibition which specifically modifies synapses in the nociceptive\, but not mechanosensory\, pathway. We further show that excessive stimulation of nociceptors activates serotonergic neurons to sensitize the presynaptic terminals of nociceptors to serotoninergic inhibition after development is completed\, leading to abated nociceptive behavior. This is the first demonstration\, to our knowledge\, that noxious sensory experience shapes the development of Drosophila\, and reveals a neural mechanism involved in offsetting harmful environmental stimuli.
UID:30989-3962780@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30989
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Research,Dissertation Defense,Biology
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20160518T153725
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T133000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session
DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.\nPresentations are every Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Thursday\, and Friday from 1–1:30pm from June 8–August 4 (except July 5-6).\nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more.\nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. Fulfill this requirement before the school year even begins!
UID:30742-3738397@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30742
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Impact,Undergraduate,Study Abroad,Diversity,Inclusion,International,Language,Social Justice
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1338
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DTSTAMP:20160628T181509
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T150000
SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: James Russell\, flute
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Swallow - Falling Grace\; Russell - The Man Who Cried Jazz\, Breath\, Freedom\; Henderson - Serenity\; Pearson - Jeanine\; Blakey - Look at the Birdie
UID:31092-4068757@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31092
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus
LOCATION:Stearns Building - Cady Room
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