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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:LSA Information Session for LSA + Ross School of Business MDDP (Joint Degree)
DESCRIPTION:This information session will detail the application requirements\, general structure and considerations of a MDDP (Joint Degree)  between the Colleges of LSA and the Ross School of Business. This session is mandatory for those seeking to complete the Undergraduate Dual Degree Approval form. Individual audits of progress and the signing of documents will not take place during this group meeting.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/110146
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/3418063291
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DTSTAMP:20231120T113516
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RNA Innovation Seminar: Andy Berglund\, University at Albany
DESCRIPTION:HYBRID SEMINAR:\nIn-person: BSRB\, ABC Seminar Rooms\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qbOGve5KT7mUErr2Pg0Aow\n\nAbstract: Repeat or microsatellite expansions are responsible for more than 50 human diseases. Myotonic dystrophy (DM)\, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)\, and spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are a few examples of repeat expansion diseases.  RNA processing (pre-mRNA splicing) pathways are negatively impacted in these diseases with specific changes in pre-mRNA splicing proposed to lead to symptoms observed in affected individuals. Many of the projects in the lab combine biochemical\, molecular\, and genomic approaches with cellular and other model systems to understand the mechanisms through which these diseases alter pre-mRNA splicing. Through screening approaches\, small molecules have been identified that reduce the levels of the repeat expansion RNAs and rescue mis-splicing in DM and SCA  cell and animal models.\n\nKeywords: Myotonic Dystrophy\, Spinocerebellar Ataxias\, Alternative Splicing and RNA Binding Proteins
UID:109682-21822697@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109682
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biosciences
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20231130T110545
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Search Engines | \"Octavia Butler AI: Other Radical Possibilities of Technology\"
DESCRIPTION:Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: \nhttps://myumi.ch/Z3Vqy\n\nPlease register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: \nhttps://myumi.ch/EPMmG\n\nTalk Abstract\n\n“Meanwhile blackness means to render unanswerable the question of how to govern the thing that loses and finds itself to be what it is not.” Harney & Moten\, The Undercommons\n\nMy argument in this project is to make AI more wild\, not less. By wild\, I indicate generative possibility for the technology in opposition to the reproduction of the same. The prompt for this line of inquiry is the call for transparency and accountability as an “ethics” in AI design. Another prompt is the “alien encounters” described in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series of speculative fiction. I wonder if advocacy toward a corrective can produce the ends sought: less harmful bias and more equitable opportunity. What if—outside of the frame of the ethical corrective—one reorients AI application and ontology?\n\nKeywords\n\nartificial intelligence\, black techné\, ethics\, Octavia Butler\, ontology\, predictive\, surround\, supervised learning\, unsupervised learning\n\nDr. Beth Coleman is an Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the University of Toronto\, where she directs the City as Platform lab. Working in the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies and Critical Race Theory\, her research focuses on smart technology & machine learning\, urban data\, and civic engagement. She is the author of Hello Avatar and multiple articles. Her research affiliations have included the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society\; Microsoft Research\; Data & Society Institute\; and expert consultant for the European Commission Digital Futures. She was the 4S 2021 Toronto Conference Co-Chair. She is a founding member of the Trusted Data Sharing lab\, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and the Inaugural Director\, University of Toronto Black Research Network Institute Strategic Initiative. Coleman is a 2021 Google Artists and Machines Intelligence awardee and 2022 Google Senior Visiting Researcher. Her previous academic positions include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Waterloo. She is the co-founder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy\, an internationally acclaimed multimedia art and sound platform. She has a history of international exhibition including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New Museum of Contemporary Art\, and Musée d'Art moderne Paris. \n\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture\, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute\, at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Since 1994\, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on toxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include\, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White\, Routledge\, 2011)\; Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota\, 2007)\; Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002)\; and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman\, Routledge\, 2000). In November 2019\, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.”\n\nAndré Brock is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture\, Black technoculture\, and digital media. His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media\, video games\, weblogs\, and other digital media. He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book\, titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures\, was published with NYU Press in 2020 and theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.\n\nThis event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.\n\nPlease register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: \nhttps://myumi.ch/Z3Vqy\n\nPlease register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: \nhttps://myumi.ch/EPMmG\n\n\nThis event is the second lecture of new DISCO Network programming\, titled \"Search Engines\,\" funded by the U-M Arts Initiative with support from the DISCO Network and Digital Studies Institute. \n\n\nWe would like to thank the following co-sponsors:\n\nDepartment of Afroamerican and African Studies\nDepartment of American Culture\nDepartment of Communication and Media\nDepartment of English Literature and Language\nDepartment of History\nSchool of Information\nTrotter Multicultural Center
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/115066
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Artificial Intelligence,ArtsEngine,Big Tech,Books,Culture,Digital Culture,Digital Cultures,Digital Media,Digital Studies,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Humanities,Information and Technology
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Conference Room
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