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SUMMARY:Performance:Christine El-Hage Walters\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:SMTD doctoral alumna Christine El-Hage Walters performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-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.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132403
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Music,Free,Alumni
LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
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DTSTAMP:20250110T151643
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SUMMARY:Meeting:Chiacchiere e Caffè: Italian Speaking Hour
DESCRIPTION:All Language Levels Welcome!\n\nPractice your Italian speaking skills with fellow students and instructors in a welcoming and relaxed environment. Get advice on courses and discuss study abroad programs. Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, and baked goods.\n\nParliamo italiano!\n\nFor more information\, please contact Valerio Rossi at rossiv@umich.edu
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130922
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community,The College Of Literature\, Science\, And The Arts,Talk,Social Sciences,Social,Romance Languages And Literatures,Language,italian,International,Interdisciplinary,Interactive,intercultural,Coffee,Culture,Discussion,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Engaged Learning,Food,Free,Games,Global,In Person,Inclusion
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
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DTSTAMP:20250331T202944
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Student Dissertation Defense - The role of dominant plants\, insects\, and climate in shaping communities and ecosystems
DESCRIPTION:Dissertation abstract: \nPlant communities are structured by multiple potentially interacting factors\, including interactions between plant species\, herbivores\, and climate. Critically\, the independent and potentially interactive effects of plant-plant interactions\, insect herbivory\, and precipitation on plant community structure and ecosystem function are rarely investigated. My dissertation addresses this research gap through a set of three separate field studies in old fields across Michigan. First\, I investigated the role of a dominant plant species in shaping plant species richness\, productivity\, and the community structure of associated arthropods. Specifically\, I found that the dominant plant species Solidago canadensis (Canada goldenrod) indirectly reduced arthropod abundance by reducing the biomass of all of the other plant species in the community\, in part by reducing light availability. With this work\, I demonstrate that the effects of a dominant plant on communities spans across multiple trophic levels. Next\, at the same field site\, I implemented a field experiment to study the independent and combined effects of S. canadensis and insects on plant diversity\, biomass\, subdominant species abundance\, microclimate\, plant functional traits\, and decomposition. Insect presence mediated the effect of S. canadensis removal on plant biomass and richness. Furthermore\, the effects of S. canadensis and insects extended belowground and determined the temporal variability of plant biomass. Overall\, these results emphasize the importance of considering the effect of insects when trying to understand the role of dominant plants in structuring plant communities and shaping ecosystem function above- and below-ground\, as well as overtime. Finally\, I examined the combined effects of a generalist insect herbivore and altered precipitation on plant biomass\, richness\, functional diversity\, and the community averaged trends of a suite of plant traits. Altered summer precipitation and the presence of the generalist insect Melanoplus femurrubrum (Red-legged grasshopper) had interactive effects on the plant biomass and on community averaged plant traits\, in particular. These results suggest that the traits of the most common species in the community are the most sensitive to altered precipitation and grasshopper herbivory. Taken together\, my dissertation comprehensively examines the factors that structure plant communities\, and in particular enhances our understanding of the interactive effects of dominant plants\, insects\, and climate on communities and ecosystems.\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Join Zoom Meeting\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/94424914774\nMeeting ID: 944 2491 4774
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134309
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:zoology,Museum Of Zoology,Museum - Zoology,Museum - Herbarium,Graduate Students,Graduate School,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate,Free,evolutionary biology,evolution,eeb,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Ecology & Biology,ecology,Dissertation,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,climate,Biology,biological science
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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