Presentation:James A. Kelly Learning Levers Prize Final Showcase
2025-04-10 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Detroit) | Marsal Family School of Education - Room 2202 - Prechter Lab
The James A. Kelly Learning Lever Prize is a competition designed to challenge University of Michigan students to invent digital tools with the potential to significantly improve student learning. This prize encourages a culture of innovation in education and rewards the creative, interdisciplinary work of University of Michigan students.

See five student teams pitch educational technology innovations to improve preK-12 students' learning. Students will pitch to a panel of expert judges for the chance to win up to $10,000 to support their innovations.

To view previous year's final pitches or learn more about the program, go to: https://marsal.umich.edu/learning-levers

Workshop / Seminar:Learning from the Heterogeneity at the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface via Electrochemical Correlative Microscopy
2025-04-10 16:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
Understanding the structure-reactivity relationship at electrochemical interfaces is central to unraveling nearly all electrochemical processes, including electrocatalysis and batteries. However, these interfaces are typically structurally heterogeneous, which impedes interpreting the structure-activity relationships using conventional ensemble electrochemical measurements. In this presentation, I will discuss our efforts toward developing and applying electroanalytical techniques—such as scanning electrochemical probe microscopy and correlative microscopy—to gain new knowledge from electrochemical interfacial heterogeneity. First, I will discuss our efforts towards simultaneous probing of local activity and product selectivity in electrocatalytic reactions via a hybrid scanning electrochemical probe microscopy approach, equivalent to a miniature rotating ring disk electrode. Combined with correlative electron microscopy, this approach enables simultaneous mapping of the facet-dependent activity and selectivity in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on polycrystalline Au and Pt. In the second example, I will discuss the approach to measure site-specific nucleation kinetics and energetics in electrodeposition, which plays an important role in the cyclability of batteries that use metal anodes. Finally, the application of controlled electrodeposition towards accelerated materials discovery will be discussed.

Well-being:LSA@Play: Makers Series - Craft-a-Ganza
2025-04-10 16:00 - 17:30 | LSA Building - 1040 Multipurpose Room
Stop by this Makers Series event for dinner and to create your own masterpiece using a variety of recycled materials. Plus, join our optional contest and enter your piece for a chance to win a pizza party!

The LSA@Play Makers Series offers regular crafting events for students to practice mindfulness, relax, and unleash their creativity!
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For LSA undergrads only. Join us for LSA@Play, a series of events to welcome and support LSA students! Gatherings and activities offer an opportunity for students to prioritize well-being, inclusivity, and community. Plus, get free food and LSA swag! Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details, subscribe to receive text/email updates, and check for additional events being added soon! Events are first come, first served, and while supplies last. One swag item per student and you must be present with an MCard to receive.

The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please email lsaatplay@umich.edu if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet the requested accommodations.

Livestream / Virtual:Premodern Colloquium | "The Inquisition and the Image."
2025-04-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
We hope you will join us on Thursday, April 10th at 4:00 PM EST when Adam Jasienski (Associate Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University) engages us in conversation about a draft chapter from a new book project, tentatively titled "The Inquisition and the Image."

Dr. Jasienski sets up his project as follows:

"The Inquisition and the Image is a study of the Spanish Inquisition’s archives through the lens of visual culture. The hundreds of thousands of preserved inquisitorial trials provide an unparalleled—and almost entirely unstudied—source for how people lived within the complex world of art objects that filled the early modern Hispanic world: how they made them, what they did with them, and what hopes and beliefs they placed upon them.

Because of how ambitious this project is (analyzing material from twenty-six inquisitorial tribunals on three continents across over three centuries), I chose to structure my book according to problems that arise time and again in the institution’s archives, rather than trying to create a comprehensive catalogue of every case where images and artworks appear. I strive to read the inquisitorial trials against the grain to attempt to grant agency to individuals accused of sacrilege: why might they have acted the way they did, if they actually knocked over a statue of a saint? What else might have been at play? What can we glean of their motivations and beliefs from the often very terse descriptions of the witnesses and notaries? How, in sum, can we return some dignity to the individuals who are often only marginally present in the discussions about their own purported actions?"

Host Brendan McMahon (U-M History of Art) will begin admitting participants to the meeting at 3:50. Discussion begins at 4:00 and concludes by 5:30.

Meeting:Responsive Readership & Anthropological Dialogues
2025-04-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
Lecture: April 10, 4-6pm
RLL Commons, MLB 4314

Workshop: April 11, 11am - 1pm
RLL Commons, MLB 4314

Reframing old debates about the relationship between comparative literature and the social sciences, Professor Brock asks what literary studies and anthropology still have to learn from one another. What does contemporary anthropological theory have to say about the ethics of approaching a multicultural curriculum? Conversely, how do fictional accounts of ethnographic and pseudo-ethnographic encounters foreground literary-studies methodology as an indispensable tool for navigating intercultural spaces?

Other:Student Poetry Reading
2025-04-10 16:00 - 17:30 | 202 S. Thayer - Lobby
In celebration of National Poetry Month and student poets at U-M, an informal, open-mic reading featuring U-M undergraduate students reading their original poetry. All undergraduates invited to read their original poetry. For more information, contact Laura Kasischke, laurakk@umich.edu. All welcome to attend and listen. Refreshments will be served!
