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DTSTAMP:20261007T170542
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How Climate Shocks Produce Armed Rebellion: The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh & Universities As Incubators Of Mass Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Mushfiq Mobarak will be presenting two papers related to each other.\n\nTitle: How Climate Shocks Produce Armed Rebellion: The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh\n\nAbstract: Why do climate shocks produce conflict (Hsiang et al.\, 2013)? We study the 1970 Bhola cyclone in East Pakistan\, one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history\, which killed an estimated 350\,000 people. Using satellite imagery\, archival records\, electoral returns\, and insurgent biographies\, we show that cyclone exposure amplified pre-existing separatist sentiment at the ballot box and increased citizens’ subsequent participation in guerrilla warfare against the state. Our estimates imply that exposure to the cyclone’s devastation induced an additional 48\,613 insurgents to join the guerrilla war effort. Effects are larger in areas with pre-existing political and economic grievances and weaker relief provision. Our analysis reveals the step-by-step mechanisms through which environmental shocks can produce conflict: they shift voting behavior\, expose state indifference\, and convert grievance into armed mobilization.\n\nTitle: Universities As Incubators Of Mass Uprising\n\nAbstract: We link high-frequency geocoded protest data during Bangladesh’s 2024 Monsoon Revolution\, Facebook measures of protest activity and social connectivity\, university enrollment and demographics to establish: (1) campus protest precedes off-campus mobilization\; (2) student concentration predicts both on- and off-campus protest\, while non-student youth\, educated adults\, urbanization\, and locations of “placebo” universities authorized but not yet operating do not\; and (3) social connectivity to campus protests predicts off-campus diffusion one week later. Universities appear to incubate mass uprising by making dissent visible\, coordinated\, and capable of spreading beyond campus. Such patterns are also evident in U.S. Vietnam War protests and in global data. These results can rationalize why governments in Hungary\, Turkey\, Iran\, India\, Russia\, Bangladesh\, Israel\, and the United States have targeted campuses to suppress dissent.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150499
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar,Development
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261010T172127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T143000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reimagining STEM Student Success
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Reimagining STEM Student Success — a series designed to advance the recommendations of the STEM Success Working Group by positioning organizational change as the primary lever for student success. Across five sessions\, expert insights will connect research to concrete U-M practices to transform our campus systems\, cultures\, and structures.\n*Please register for each Session you would like to attend. *For the Zoom sessions\, you must also register separately for the Zoom Webinar using the link provided in the individual session description. This second registration is required to receive the Zoom webinar link.
UID:151919-21912418@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton
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DTSTAMP:20260925T170255
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Understanding the K-12 STEM Ecosystem in Michigan: Strengthening U-M’s Contribution
DESCRIPTION:Organizational change for student success begins well before college. Join campus leaders and experts for an in-depth look at the K-12 and pre-college STEM ecosystem in Michigan that shapes students' pathways long before they enter higher education. This session connects research to practice by examining the current status of STEM education in the state\, lessons learned from U-M's Wolverine Pathways program\, and identifying concrete opportunities to deepen U-M’s contribution toward sustained institutional and statewide impact.\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\nDeborah Loewenberg Ball\, Jessie Jean Storey-Fry Distinguished University Professor of Education\, University of Michigan\n\nCarla O’Connor\, Director\, Wolverine Pathways and University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor\, University of Michigan\n\nMegan Schrauben\, MiSTEM Network Executive Director\n\n\nAbout the series:\n\nReimagining STEM Student Success is a new series designed to advance the recommendations of the STEM Success Working Group by positioning organizational change as the primary lever for student success. Across five sessions\, expert insights will connect research to concrete U-M practices to transform our campus systems\, cultures\, and structures.\n\n\nSponsors:\n\nAccess & Opportunity\; Center for Educational Outreach (CEO)\; Comprehensive Studies Program\; Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT)\; Office of Faculty Development at the U-M Medical School\; Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education\; Student Success Initiative\; Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice\; UROP: A Center for Research\, Scholarship and Creative Inquiry
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152899
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton
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DTSTAMP:20261006T070018
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Immunoengineered Platforms for Type 1 Diabetes\n\nAbstract:\nImmunoengineering applies quantitative problem-solving and engineering tools—such as biomaterials and cellular and protein engineering—to address complex challenges in human health that traditional biomedical science alone cannot solve. In this seminar\, Dr. Tomei will present advanced immunoengineering platforms designed for targeted interventions in type 1 diabetes (T1D)\, focusing on two main frontiers: disease prevention via antigen-specific tolerance and safer\, more effective beta-cell replacement therapies.\n\nFor T1D Prevention: Dr. Tomei will discuss the development of macroporous scaffold slices designed to harness the tolerogenic properties of lymph node fibroblastic reticular cells via transplantation in murine models. Additionally\, she will show the development of decellularized lymph node scaffold sections to demonstrate that the pro-inflammatory T1D lymph node environment reprograms stromal cells into a diabetes-prone phenotype. These insights aim to inspire antigen-specific preventive approaches that avoid the risks of broad systemic immunosuppression.\n\nFor T1D Treatment: She will address the limitations of islet encapsulation in confined transplantation sites. To tackle this\, she will introduce an in vitro platform built to investigate the relative contributions of direct versus indirect allorejection. Furthermore\, she will present a biomaterial platform engineered with IgG-brining peptides for the sustained\, localized delivery of biological drugs (such as co-stimulatory blockers and anti-inflammatory agents). This approach achieves allograft survival rates comparable to systemic drug administration while eliminating systemic spillover and avoiding the associated risks of immunodeficiency. Finally\, Dr. Tomei will demonstrate the feasibility of achieving localized immunomodulation at the islet transplantation site through the co-delivery of islet-alloantigen-primed tolerogenic lymph node stromal cells. Overall\, these approaches could expand the safety and clinical applicability of beta-cell replacement therapy.    \n\nBio:\nDr. Alice Tomei is the Dr. Leonard and Diane F. Pinchuk Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami\, with secondary appointments in Surgery\, Microbiology and Immunology\, and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology. She earned her M.S. in Materials Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano\, Italy\, in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Biotechnology from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)\, Switzerland\, in 2008.\n\nDr. Tomei directs the Islet Immunoengineering Laboratory at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI)\, where her research integrates bioengineering\, biomaterials\, and immunology to develop innovative immunoengineering strategies for localized immune modulation\, improving islet transplantation outcomes and inducing antigen-specific immune tolerance as a path toward a cure for type 1 diabetes. Her research program is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Breakthrough T1D.\n\nDr. Tomei has trained and mentored 5 postdoctoral fellows\, 15 Ph.D. students\, 22 M.S. students\, 34 undergraduate students\, and 4 high school students in the fields of tissue engineering and immunoengineering. She has served as a standing member of the NIH BMBI Study Section and is currently President-Elect of the Cell Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Society (CTRMS).\n\nHer contributions have been recognized with numerous honors\, including the JDRF Career Development Award\, the Eliahu I. Jury Early Career Research Award\, the Alexander Orr Excellence in Teaching Award\, the Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Award\, and the Johnson A. Edosomwan Researcher of the Year Award\, which she received in both 2019 and 2024.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153338
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Pre-Health,Pre Med,North Campus,Michigan Engineering,Medicine,engineering,engineer,bme,Biotechnology,Biosciences,Bioninterfaces,biomedical engineering,biomedical,Biology,Biointerfaces,Basic Science
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CGIS: Programs in the Environment Abroad Info Session - Sp/Su 27 & Winter 28
DESCRIPTION:Want to learn more about environmental research study abroad programs for next summer or Winter 28? Join CGIS advisor Cierra Murphy as she goes over CGIS's environmental research programs.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151999
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