Workshop / Seminar:Transitioning from Peer to Supervisor
2025-04-08 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.

Performance:Eva Albalghiti & Eric Whitmer, carillon
2025-04-08 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Graduate student Eva Albalghiti & musicology PhD student Eric Whitmer perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Lecture / Discussion:Chat with a Sex Therapist
2025-04-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Michigan League - Koessler Room (3rd Floor)
Join SAPAC's BICE (Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement) Program for a Chat with a Sex Therapist!

When: Tuesday, April 8th 2-4pm

Where: Michigan League, Koessler Room (3rd Floor)

Learn about sexual heath and empower yourself by speaking with sex therapists:

Amy Raad
Maneesha Finkle
Sara Zocher

Light refreshments, tote bags, condoms, dental dams, and more will be provided. There will also be a sex toy raffle!

Submit Anonymous Questions Here: shorturl.at/p9HEC

Workshop / Seminar:EEB Student Thesis Defense - The Effects of Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken fern) on Understory Microclimate and Seedling Success in Temperate Forests
2025-04-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Dana Natural Resources Building - Dana 1024 (IGCB conference room)
Title: The Effects of Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken fern) on Understory Microclimate and Seedling Success in Temperate Forests

Abstract: The understory influences biodiversity and ecological processes and are a defining element of forest ecosystems, as they can contain up to 90% of plant species in temperate forests. Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum) often dominates forest understory communities globally, including those in Northern Michigan. Dominant understory species affect ecosystems proportional to their high abundance. To explore how bracken fern impacts microclimate, plant diversity, and seedling success, I asked two overarching questions: (1) how does natural variation in density of a dominant species impact understory abiotic conditions and plant diversity? (2) How does the cover and removal of a dominant species affect seedling survival and success? I established a bracken fern removal experiment in three forests at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS). I paired plots where the bracken fern cover was left intact (natural) with plots where the bracken fern cover was removed (removal), across a gradient of bracken fern densities (0, 25, 50, 75 100% cover). Soil moisture and temperature varied across the gradient of bracken fern density in natural plots. At peak growing season, soil moisture variation was the highest in 50% natural plots. We did not detect a significant difference in seedling survival across the gradient of bracken fern density in either natural or removal plots. Seedling leaf area, specific leaf area, and leaf carbon-to-nitrogen ratios were not significantly affected by the removals. In 75% natural plots exclusively, removal had a negative effect on seedling green leaf % N. Our results highlight that dominant understory species differentially influence understory microclimate and seedling traits in temperate forests, but their impact is not proportional to cover. Instead, bracken fern cover may be both facilitative and inhibitory for seedling growth and establishment, showcasing the dynamic role of dominant species in temperate forests.

This is a hybrid event.
Join remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93842698134
Meeting ID: 938 4269 8134

Careers / Jobs:2025 JPMorganChase Virtual Freshman Focus - Session 2
2025-04-08 15:00 - 17:30
Keen to kick start your career in Financial Services and curious if JPMorganChase might be a good fit? Our Freshman Focus program maybe for you!In this virtual program, exclusively for first year students, you will gain an insight into our Wholesale Revenue business areas: Commercial & Investment Banking (CIB) and Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) through overviews, panel sessions and Q&A with recruiters. As a participant of this program you will develop a deeper understanding of financial services, experience our inclusive culture, and get the chance to meet our business representatives.You'll find out what it's like to work within these business areas and hear first-hand about the skills you’ll learn and unique responsibilities of all the teams that make up our Wholesale business. You'll discover just how deep our commitmentis to our clients, communities and employees, and how we're constantly innovating to meet their needs.We'll also give you time to understand the pathway to future opportunities with us at JPMorganChase through dedicated time with our Early Careers Recruitment Team!If you're highly motivated and enjoy working in teams to come up with innovative solutions, this program is for you. We are seeking first year students of all majors who demonstrate: Interest in financial servicesAttention to detailEagerness to learn and developStrong collaboration skillsAbility to think critically and analyticallyStrong verbal and written communicationFluency in EnglishAttend college/university in the U.S.CurrentFreshman (graduating 2028) If you’re interested, please follow the link below to register and upload your resume in order to be considered.Freshman Focus – Tuesday, April 8th: 3:00pm – 5:30pm EST - Link to register. Deadline to register: Friday, February 28th

Workshop / Seminar:Cohen-Macaulay Simplicial Complexes
2025-04-08 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 3088
The Stanley-Reisner correspondence relates (non) faces of a simplicial complex with monomial ideals of a polynomial ring, yielding a number of surprising connections between the combinatorics of simplicial complexes and commutative algebra. After introducing the relevant definitions and exploring some examples, we’ll discuss Reisner’s criterion, a theorem that equates Cohen-Macaulay-ness of a certain ring with the vanishing of homology of subcomplexes of the simplicial complex.

Workshop / Seminar:Economic Sociology and Organizations (ESO) Workshop
2025-04-08 15:00 - 16:30 | LSA Building - 4147
Winter 2025 Line-up:

1/14: Ori Tamir, "The Performativity of Exchange Rates: How the Fed Floated the Dollar to Signal Price Stability"

1/28: Ruiling Li, "Leaving Without Betraying: Enduring Consent Post Career Exits in the Chinese Tech Industry"

2/11: Sarah Farr, "Moral Economy of Property and Collective Action in Mexico City"

2/25: Jonah Stuart Brundage, "Patrimonial and Settler-Capitalist Logics of Expansion in Early Modern Empires"

3/11: Subin Min, "The Role of Institutions to Facilitate Savings for Low-Income Families: A Qualitative Study of CollegeBound Saint Paul"

3/25: Mira Vale, "Strategic Ambiguity and the Ethics of AI in Digital Health"

4/8: Analidis Ochoa , "Blood Veins for Hire: Social Inequality and the Blood Plasma Industry."

Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - Soil mosaics and ant-earthworm functional domains within the coffee agroecosystem of Puerto Rico
2025-04-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Biological Sciences Building - 1010
Ants and earthworms are widely recognized as important soil ecosystem engineers that contribute to various ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling, production of organic matter, and soil formation, and are thus important for maintaining healthy soils within agroecosystems. Addressing the dominant ant and earthworm taxa on Puerto Rican coffee farms, I propose the existence of a “soil mosaic” of contrasting soil functional domains, driven by the ant Solenopsis invicta exerting top-down control on populations of the earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus, which then finds refuge elsewhere, forming discrete areas of contrasting influence on soils by each organism. These contrasting effects then create a mosaic of soil patches of differing quality, which will ultimately affect crop production within the coffee agroecosystem. Through this work I aim to broaden the current understanding of the ecological relationship between ants and earthworms and their shared functional impact on the generation and maintenance of soil structure, fertility, and plant growth within the coffee agroecosystem.

Lecture / Discussion:A Wrinkle in Time: A 4-Dimensional View of Lung Development and Injury
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Buhl Res Cen for Human Genetics - 5915
Jennifer Sucre, M.D.
Director, Biodevelopmental Origins of Lung Disease (BOLD) Center
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Cell & Developmental Biology
Vanderbilt University

Sporting Event:Baseball vs Akron
2025-04-08 16:00 | Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium
Baseball vs Akron

Careers / Jobs:Carve out your Career with McKinsey's Black Network
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00
Join McKinsey's Black Network to hear from our consultants on the different paths they've taken at the firm. There is no set path here and you'll hear from current consultants as well as McKinsey alumni on how their experience at the firm has set them on unique and transformative career paths. This event is hosted by McKinsey's Black Network and is justone of our many worldwide initiatives aimed at helping individuals get to know McKinsey better.

Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Soft condensed matter spectroscopy in the terahertz range
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 340
Terahertz spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful tool for studies of condensed matter systems, complementary to other more widespread techniques such as x-ray diffraction or infrared spectroscopy. The use of terahertz radiation, lying in the spectral range 0.1-10 THz (3-330 cm^{-1}), can reveal structural and dynamical information that is not easily accessible by other means.Terahertz vibrational modes are often mediators of technologically important chemical reactions such as the gas capture reaction in clathrates or exchange reactions in metal-organic frameworks. This presentation will review several spectroscopic studies which illustrate some of the ways in which terahertz spectroscopy is being used to study such soft materials.

Bio:
Dr. Mittleman received his B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988, and his M.S. in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1994, both in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a post-doctoral member of the technical staff, where he built one of the early terahertz time-domain spectrometers for material spectroscopy and imaging. Dr. Mittleman joined the ECE Department at Rice University in September 1996. In 2015, he moved to the School of Engineering at Brown University. His research interests involve the science and technology of terahertz radiation. He is a Fellow of the OSA, the APS, and the IEEE, and a Humboldt Research Award winner, and in 2023-2025 he is a Mercator Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He has recently completed a three-year term as Chair of the International Society for Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves.

Workshop / Seminar:Colloquim Seminar: Stable functions on groups
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 1360
In 2011, Malliaris and Shelah proved a strong form of Szemeredi's regularity lemma for the class of "stable graphs", which are graphs omitting a certain special subgraph called a "half-graph". Using tools from additive combinatorics, Terry and Wolf proved a group theoretic analogue of this result in which finite graphs are replaced by subsets of finite abelian groups. A suitable generalization to arbitrary finite groups was then proved by myself, Pillay, and Terry using model theoretic methods. This talk will focus on an analytic analogue of stability defined for bounded functions on groups. Roughly speaking, the main result of the talk says that if G is amenable, then any stable function on G is almost constant on all translates of a unitary Bohr set in G of bounded complexity. I will also discuss several applications related to Bogolyubobv's Lemma, the Croot-Sisask Lemma, and Folner's Theorem.

Lecture / Discussion:EHAP Lecture Series: Alpha Male Replacements in White-Faced Capuchins
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 4448
In primates, male reproductive success is often facilitated by dominance rank. While we have a good understanding of the ultimate benefits that dominance rank provides males, we know less about how male physiology and phenotypes change as males undergo changes in dominance rank. In this seminar, I will discuss our ongoing research on the hormonal, morphological, olfactory, and behavioral correlates of male rank acquisition in white faced-capuchins. Changes in male dominance rank are also associated with high rates of infanticide, which produces extreme sexual conflict. Females have evolved strategies to reduce the occurrence and/or costs of infanticide to female reproductive success. I will discuss our exploration of one potential female strategy, the Bruce effect - the termination of pregnancy in response to exposure to non-sire males.

Social / Informal Gathering:German Convo on the Go
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Burton Memorial Tower
Members of the U-M community can walk and talk in German with Mary Gell (magell@umich.edu), German language instructor. Meet at Burton Tower, 'rain or shine', for a 1-hour walk. If the temperature is dangerously low, this event will meet in room 3110 Modern Languages Building. Please contact Mary if you have questions. Note that the group leaves at 4pm sharp.

Careers / Jobs:Make an Impact: Boosterthon is Hiring Changemakers for July/AugustRoles!
2025-04-08 16:00 - 16:35
If you love the idea of impacting students, working with an amazing team, thriving in a high-energy environment, and having fun, Booster is the company for you! We have teams throughout the US who are hiring both part-time and full-time positions starting July/August and wouldlove to meet you! WHO WE ARE: Booster is a vibrant, mission-driven organization grounded in the belief that positivity and purpose are essential to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to fostering a culture where our team members feel empowered to achieve their full potential and make a positive impact on the world. Guided by our six virtues: Gratitude, Wisdom, Care, Courage, Grit, and Celebration, we believe in cultivating leaders who change the world. We are a fun and exciting place to work, where every day brings new opportunities to make a difference! At Booster, we empower schools across the nation through innovative and engaging fundraising services. We serve elementary, middle, and high schools nationwide, offering a range of services from Fun Runs to a comprehensive school fundraising platform. We've proudly helped over 7,500 schools profit more than $700 million in much-needed funds. Our mission is to raise $1 billion for schools by 2027, and we're excited about every step we take toward this goal. WHAT TO EXPECT: During this information session, youwill hear more about what Booster does as a company and you'll get the chance to make a personal connection with each of Booster's recruiters! We'll explore what Booster's company culture looks like and what career growthopportunities there are within the company. We hope to see you there! Check out our Career Page to learn more and APPLY: https://www.choosebooster.com/careers

Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Waves before the Wave
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Weiser Hall - Room 1010
During the second half of the 20th Century, large portions of the world encountered three significant waves of South Korean cultural export. Prior to the massively successful Korean popular media, consumer products, and technology that are globally recognized today, Tae Kwon Do masters, Protestant missionaries, and classical musicians began representing South Korea to other countries. These specifically post-war domains of Korean culture manifest as highly specialized forms of learned expertise and authority, which passed through explicitly defined and sustained social relations. Unlike the mediatized movement of cultural commodities or the rapid rise and fall of mass consumer trends, the valorized cultural forms of these earlier waves traveled through face-to-face communication and embodied interaction in relatively intimate settings. This presentation draws out some sociopolitical connections among these three earlier waves of Korean cultural export in order to situate the broader phenomenon within a history of migration, transnational education, and the Cold War.

Nicholas Harkness is the Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Korea Institute at Harvard University. His long-term ethnographic research in South Korea has focused on language, music, and religion within the context of Korea’s massive engagement with Protestant Christianity in the 20th and 21st Centuries. He is the author of Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea (University of California Press, 2014) and Glossolalia and the Problem of Language (University of Chicago Press, 2021), as well as numerous papers in Korean Studies, linguistic anthropology, and semiotics. Harkness is the recipient of the Edward Sapir Book Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and many fellowships and grants, including from the Social Science Research Council, the National Humanities Center, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the Korea Foundation. At Harvard, Harkness also organizes the Roman Jakobson Symposium and the Harvard-Yenching Institute Field Development Program in Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology.

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B48hxMTBQKe6AS0BHNVEhw

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Workshop / Seminar:The Radical Lives of Anaerobes and How to Fight Them
2025-04-08 16:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
Pathogenic bacteria that infect the gastrointestinal and respiratory tract form biofilms that are largely anaerobic, modulating their metabolic lifestyle and virulence. Many of these microbes utilize acetate fermentation via the enzyme pyruvate formate lyase (PFL), which catalyzes the production of acetyl-CoA and formate from pyruvate via a radical mechanism, enabling additional ATP production and the de novo synthesis of proteins and nucleic acids. We have investigated the mechanism of PFL via mechanism-based inhibitors to reveal the essential role of two cysteine thiyl radicals in catalysis and estimate their reactivity for the first time. Additionally, we have demonstrated the role of nitric oxide (NO) as an irreversible inhibitor of they glycyl radical enzyme PFL as well as glycyl radical enzymes as a class and their radical S-adenosylmethionine-dependent activases via the production of dinitrosyl iron complexes. These results set the stage for the development of mechanism-based inhibitors of PFL and other glycyl radical enzymes and provide a biochemically informed approach to narrow-spectrum site-specific antibiotic development for the treatment of gastrointestinal and pulmonary disease.

Lecture / Discussion:Why Gender History Needs Women’s History (and vice-versa)
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Tisch Hall - 1014
Margaret Chowning is the Muriel McKevitt Sonne Chair Professor of Latin American History (emerita) at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico from the Late Colony to the Revolution (Stanford, 1999), Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent (Oxford, 2006), and Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940 (Princeton, 2023). She is working on a book of urban history in Mexico, with special attention to the impact that liberal policies and liberal “values” exerted on gender relations and urban life in the nineteenth century.

Her presentation, “Why Gender History Needs Women’s History (and vice-versa),” is drawn from her experience conceptualizing, researching, and organizing her recent book, Catholic Women and Mexican Politics.

Workshop / Seminar:Winter 2025 - Diversity and Inclusion Department Design Showcases
2025-04-08 16:00 - 19:00 | Ambatana - The Afro American Multicultural Lounge, South Quad, 600 East Madison Street, Ann Arbor, MI
The Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Department is looking forward to starting the design process for three new multicultural spaces which will be part of the Central Campus Residential Development, scheduled to open in Fall of 2026:Building One - Grace Lee Boggs Multicultural Lounge
Building Three - Mino-Bimaadiziwin Multicultural Lounge
Building Five - Origins Multicultural Engagement Space
The focus of the design showcases will be to gather feedback related to the functional components of the lounge, such as the furniture and color schemes for each lounge. The design showcase opportunities are drop-in style, so please join us at any point of time you are able.
