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DTSTAMP:20261005T091223
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Winds of Change: Technical Progress and Learning by Doing in the Wind Industry
DESCRIPTION:We measure technical progress and cost declines in the wind turbine industry\, accounting for large quality improvements that have occurred over time. As in many industrial settings\, we do not observe costs. Instead\, we infer them by modeling the turbine procurement process\, and estimate the model on the near-universe of global commercial wind farms built from 2000 to 2019. We find that while commonly reported measures of price per unit of capacity fell by 30 percent during this time\, latent quality-adjusted costs fell by over 75 percent. Underpinning these cost declines\, we estimate substantial learning-by-doing. A doubling of manufacturing experience reduces manufacturing costs by 26 to 29 percent. Though inter-firm spillovers per unit are relatively small\, in aggregate\, they rationalize a significant portion of the cost reductions over time.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151827
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics,Energy,Environment
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261005T090606
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CMENAS 65th Anniversary: Celebrate the Legacy\, Scholarship\, & Future of MENA Studies
DESCRIPTION:10:30–11:  Arrival & Registration\n\n11:00–11:10: Director Welcome Remarks by CMENAS Director Jay Crisostomo\, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilization and Languages+\n\n11:15–12:30: Building CMENAS: Foundations & Transformations\, Former Directors Panel \n\n1:30 – 2:45: CMENAS in Practice: Careers & Impact featuring CMENAS Alumni\, Language Lecturers\, and K–12 Educators\n\n2:50– 2:55: Keynote Introductions\n\n3:00–4:30: Keynote by Aaron David Miller\, Senior Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\n4:30–4:40 PM: Closing Remarks\n\nAbout the Keynote Speaker:\nAaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books\, including his most recent\, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave\, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam\, 2008)\, and hosts Carnegie Connects\, Carnegie’s premier live podcast. He received his PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in 1977. Miller hosts Carnegie Connects\, Carnegie’s premier live podcast.\n\nMiller’s articles have appeared in the *New York Times*\, *Washington Post*\, *Politico*\, *Foreign Policy Magazine*\, and *Foreign Affairs Magazine*. He is a frequent commentator on CNN\, MSNBC\, NPR\, BBC\, and SiriusXM Radio.\n\nJoin on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/E78M6
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150692
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:cmenas,Middle East Studies,Conference,center for middle eastern and north african studies,Area Studies
LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room (2nd Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260619T111655
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Art of the Resume Bullet Point (for Graduate Students)
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Rackham’s embedded University Career Center career counselors\, the topic for this session is resumes. In particular\, what are some strategies for writing the all-important bullet point? In an interactive discussion with examples and opportunities to workshop your own resume\, we will work on framing your experiences as effectively as possible.\n
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149019
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual on Zoom
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DTSTAMP:20261014T123201
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T120000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Art of the Resume Bullet Point (for Graduate Students)
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Rackham’s embedded University Career Center career counselors\, the topic for this session is resumes. In particular\, what are some strategies for writing the all-important bullet point? In an interactive discussion with examples and opportunities to workshop your ownresume\, we will work on framing your experiences as effectively as possible. Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/110428 #UCC
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149039
CLASS:PUBLIC
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DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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