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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:OGPS Wellness Week
DESCRIPTION:Join the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (OGPS) for our Wellness Week Series\, featuring a variety of wellness-focused activities throughout the week. Taking time to rest\, recharge\, and care for your well-being is associated with improved productivity\, reduced stress\, and better physical health\, yet many of us rarely have the opportunity to pause and simply be.Graduate students\, postbac learners\, postdoctoral scholars\, faculty\, and staff are all invited to participate in this week of wellness. Join us for a meditation practice\; enjoy snacks\, puzzles\, and visits with the Therapaws therapy dogs\; learn strategies to feel more present and confident in your academic writing\; explore ways to strengthen your financial wellness\; or discover the benefits of expressive writing through journaling.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152749
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20261007T131953
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:What’s Wrong with this Hand? Doing Disability Studies with Doctors\, Administrators\, & Other Helpful Experts
DESCRIPTION:What happens when we share our research with those who are researching us? Or when the insights from our research are used against us\, often in the guise of assistance or protection? And what happens to disability studies research when ethnic\, gender\, and sexuality studies departments are made to disappear? In this talk\, which will likely generate more questions about these questions than answers to them\, I bring some of my experiences doing disability studies as a disabled person to bear on a larger work-in-progress on disability marginalia.\n\nCurrently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Alison Kafer is the Embrey Associate Professor of [redacted] at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Feminist\, Queer\, Crip\, and her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. Being by the water brings her joy\, as does making things with clay.\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. To request additional accommodations\, please email akheff@umich.edu or davisemm@umich.edu.\n\nOctober 15\, 3pm - 4:30pm\nMichigan Union\, Kuenzel Room (1st Floor)\nLivestream also available\, after Registration.\n\nEvent is free\, but registration is required.\nhttps://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/115340\n\nThis event is part of the (Doing) Disability research from the (Disabled Margins) project. Funding for this event was provided by the Provost's Disability Scholarship Initiative.
UID:153327-21915802@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153327
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Gender Equality,Disabilities,Sexuality,Medicine,Health Care Policy,Health Care Equity,Health Care,Gender Studies,Gender New Works New Questions,Gender Identity,Disability Awareness,Gender Diversity,Gender,Free,Ethnic Studies,Ethnic,Disability\; Recognition\; Accessibility\; Diversity\; Inclusion,Disability Studies,Disability Justice,Disability Community,Disability
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room (1st floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260909T145311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Elucidating phase-change heat transfer mechanisms and their role in developing next generation energy systems
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nLiquid–vapor phase change is one of the most effective ways to absorb and reject thermal energy\, yet many of the mechanisms governing phase-change heat transfer remain poorly understood. In this talk\, I will discuss our recent advances in optical diagnostics that have enabled us to directly probe the physics of boiling heat transfer. We find that bubbles substantially enhance single-phase liquid heat transfer by increasing turbulence within the liquid\, enabling a simple model that predicts the boiling curve from optical measurements alone - without machine learning. I will also discuss our measurements of microlayer evaporation\, where a new spatial-temporal analysis technique enables accurate determination of microlayer thickness and accommodation coefficient\, and motivates a boundary-layer-based scaling law for the initial microlayer thickness. Together\, these studies demonstrate how advanced optical measurements can reveal previously inaccessible heat-transfer mechanisms and translate them into predictive models that provide a foundation for designing next generation thermal energy systems.\n\nBiography:\nMatt Hughes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan and currently an editor of the journals Applied Thermal Engineering and AI Thermal Fluids. He was previously a Research Scientist in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His research focuses on the fundamentals of multi-phase flow and heat transfer\, autonomous operation of thermal hydraulic systems and experiments\, and advanced thermal system design.\n\nFor the most up to date information on the location\, please check the related link the week of this event
UID:150369-21909103@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150369
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free
LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - FXB1012
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DTSTAMP:20260928T140226
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Catalyst Discovery for Metal-free\, Photoredox CO2 Reduction
DESCRIPTION:Our goal is to identify sustainable\, light-driven routes for CO2 utilization. Prior experiments show that upon excitation by light and subsequent reduction\, a simple organic chromophore\, p-terphenyl\, can reduce and transform CO2 into valuable molecules such as amino acids. These photoredox reactions are attractive because organic chromophores are metal-free and can access highly reactive states upon excitation and quenching that are otherwise energy-intensive. However\, the steps of the photoredox cycle and the reasons for the low turnover numbers of these catalysts are poorly understood. We use state-of-the-art quantum chemistry methods and automated workflows to delineate mechanisms of steps constituting the catalytic cycle\, develop design principles\, and leverage these insights to drive the discovery of viable chromophores. The driving force for the desired electron transfer (ET) step to reduce CO2 cannot be increased without simultaneously increasing that for competing deactivation via carboxylation\; this indicates the existence of fundamental relationships that limit catalyst performance. Deactivation can also occur via Birch reduction of the catalyst by the radical cation form of the sacrificial electron donor. These steps are highly sensitive to the choice of solvent\, as is the quenching of the excited-state catalyst. I will describe our work establishing a protocol for calculating and characterizing excited-state complexes (exciplexes) that are the result of incomplete quenching. I will also share our recent efforts towards applying structural causal frameworks to photoredox chemistry.
UID:151929-21912474@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151929
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Physical Chemistry,Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260908T114922
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Understanding adaptation to anthropogenic disturbance at a global scale
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Anthropogenic disturbance is a dominant force driving evolutionary change on Earth today. From global land use change\, to resource extraction and consumption\, to rapid and ongoing climate change\, humans are fundamentally changing our planet. While the geochemical\, ecosystem and ecological consequences of anthropogenic caused environmental change are well studied and increasingly understood\, the impacts on evolution are less understood. In this talk I will address this problem by seeking to answer a single general question: How does anthropogenic disturbance influence the evolution of life? As a case example\, I will describe our work on the the cosmopolitan plant white clover\, where we are examining how various anthropogenic disturbances affect all major mechanisms of evolution. I will describe our global studies examining whether urbanization affects phenotypic and genomic evolution. I will then explore whether invasive populations can adapt to novel environments in their invaded range\, including the role of functional traits and structural variants across the genome in these adaptations. Finally\, I will explore whether populations can adapt to rapid climate change through time in introduced and native ranges. The results from the white clover system provide insight into when species are likely to be able to adapt to anthropogenic disturbance\, and when they may be unable to adapt. When combined with studies of other systems\, it is becoming clear that anthropogenic disturbance is becoming one of the most important drivers of evolution.
UID:151705-21912004@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151705
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Talk,symposium,Science,Research,evolutionary biology
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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