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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Honors Medical School application workshop
DESCRIPTION:Are you planning on applying to medical school this summer and want help in this process? If so\, we invite you to attend this Honors Program workshop led by Stephanie Chervin\, LSA Honors Program Pre-Med Advisor\, to help you:\n\n• Understand the timeline of the process from application to interview\n\n• Choose target medical programs\n\n• Get acquainted with the application service AMCAS\n\nBring your questions! This session is for current LSA Honors Program students only.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71046
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Pre-Health,Pre Med,Medicine
LOCATION:Mason Hall - 1330
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DTSTAMP:20191216T110945
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Wallace House Presents Davey Alba of The New York Times with Ceren Burdak of the School of Information and College of Engineering
DESCRIPTION:In 2018\, journalist Davey Alba traveled to the Philippines to investigate Facebook’s breakneck proliferation in that country and President Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power. She revealed how the politician’s incendiary style aligned perfectly with the tech company’s algorithms that reward entertaining\, inflammatory content. From maligning opponents to espousing hardline policies to combat the drug trade\, Duterte’s operatives created memes\, propaganda and egregious libel that flourished on Facebook. Join Alba and Ceren Budak\, associate professor\, University of Michigan\, for an examination of how demagogic political campaigns worldwide have weaponized the social media platform.\n\nAbout the Speakers:\nDavey Alba is a reporter for The New York Times covering technology. Prior to joining the Times\, she was a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News. She has been a staff writer at Wired and an editor at Popular Mechanics. Alba grew up in the Philippines and holds a B.A. degree from De La Salle University in Manila and an M.A. in science journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She received the 2019 Livingston Award for international reporting for her BuzzFeed investigation  “How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War“.\n\nCeren Budak is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and the College of Engineering. Her research interests lie in the area of computational social science\, a discipline at the intersection of computer science\, statistics and the social sciences.  Previously\, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New York. Burdak received a PhD from the computer science department at University of California\, Santa Barbara and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Bilkent University in Turkey.\n\nThis Livingston Lecture event is co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Science\, Technology and Public Policy Program\n\nThe Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is a co-sponsor of the event.\n\nThis event is produced with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70103
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,Politics,Media,Journalism,human rights,Free,Discussion,democracy,Culture,Authoritarianism
LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Performance:Department of Voice Recital
DESCRIPTION:Voice students present a recital of their latest repertoire.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64701
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,North campus,Music
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
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