Meeting:SynSem
2024-09-13 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location - Lorch 473
The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Conference / Symposium:U-M Entrepreneurship & Innovation Resource Fair
2024-09-13 15:00 - 18:00 | Central Campus Classroom Building - 0460 & 3460
The U-M Entrepreneurship & Innovation Resource Fair is a collaborative effort between the centers, institutes, & student organizations at the University of Michigan, aiming to expose current students to the existing entrepreneurial resources the university provides, while encouraging our leaders and best to pursue and create innovative solutions in the U-M community and beyond.

Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture, Anne Kort, University of Michigan
2024-09-13 15:30 - 16:30 | 1100 North University Building - 1528
Extant mammals move in many ways, from walking and running to swimming and climbing. How can we compare locomotion across taxa, both extant and extinct, to understand how these different styles of movement evolved through time? For any organism, locomotion is a complex combination of (1) its capacity for movement as constrained by its morphology, (2) the behaviors that the organism employs within its biomechanical limits, and (3) the habitat(s) through which the organism moves. Traditionally, this complexity is collapsed into several broad locomotor categories, like arboreal, terrestrial, or cursorial, because postcranial fossils and modern ecological data are often extremely limited. I will present two cases where exceptional data allows for more nuanced comparison of locomotion across mammals. First, in extant mammals, GPS tracking data records locomotor behavior: how far and where individuals choose to travel. I used data from an online database, Movebank, to measure the daily distance travelled by different species of mammals. I took skeletal measurements from specimens in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ) for the same species to look at how morphology corresponded with distance moved. For the second case, I will discuss the preservation of partial skeletons in the Eocene Bridger Formation of Wyoming. Often, postcranial fossils are isolated bones without good identifiers and locomotion must be inferred from the function of a single bone or joint. The Bridger Formation, however, has produced a number of exceptional partial skeletons, including for “archaic” mammals, groups which have gone completely extinct. I will show how these can be used to examine the interaction between different elements of the skeleton in relation to locomotion.

Other:Match vs Toledo
2024-09-13 16:00 - 22:00 | The University of Toledo
7pm kickoff

Presentation:IOE Alumni Panel
2024-09-13 17:00 - 18:00 | GG Brown Laboratory - 2505
Join the IOE Ambassadors for their annual Alumni Panel, and hear from successful Michigan IOE alums working across a variety of industries and roles, from an engineer in a hospital to a CEO! Dinner will be provided! Please RSVP using the following link:
https://forms.gle/srxwT6zeH4zXWYUq7

Social / Informal Gathering:Kaffeestunde im Max Kade Haus
2024-09-13 17:00 - 18:00 | North Quad - Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ)
Kaffeestunde is a weekly opportunity to mingle and unwind "auf Deutsch". It is a place to connect with other Max Kade residents, chat informally in German and participate in activities prepared by facilitators. The Kaffeestunde is open to the wider German-speaking community at UofM.

Kaffeestunde meets weekly on Fridays from 5-6pm in the Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ)
