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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Building your Cultural Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:In this fast-paced\, ever-changing\, increasingly globalized world\, we need to be able to understand how to work effectively with many different types of people to reach our goals. In this workshop\, we will focus on cultural intelligence (or CQ as it is often called) to assess your own cultural values and behavioral preferences while understanding where others may be coming from. Participants will have the opportunity to practice how to navigate cultural misunderstandings that may occur within your research or a major project team and develop plans for how to continue building your cultural intelligence.\n\nThis workshop is open to all master’s\, PhD.\, and postdoctoral scholars at the University of Michigan. If you have any questions\, please reach out to rackpdeworkshops@umich.edu.
UID:144871-21896069@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144871
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions
LOCATION:West Conference Room, 4th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260331T142040
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260331T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reflect & Connect at The Arb!
DESCRIPTION:Are you ready for Spring yet?\nJoin us for a casual\, yet intentional stroll through the Arb while we explore new growth and the possibility of change. Join Dr. Joseph Rizzo and a member of the Arb Staff as we explore the seasonal changes occurring in our local ecosystem. We will engage in mindfulness activity meant to deepen our connection between the seasonal shifts and our internal experience. 
UID:145188-21896778@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145188
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Reeder Center @ The Arb, 1610 Washington Hts. Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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DTSTAMP:20260203T112700
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Indigenous Sovereignty and Collaborative Science Resource Collection
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special session to learn about the recently released \"Indigenous Sovereignty and Collaborative Science Resource Collection.\"\n\nThe goal of this collection is to support people who want to understand how collaborative science can align with and affirm Indigenous sovereignty and rights to self-determination. The NERRS Science Collaborative program and partners created this collection in response to a need expressed by project teams and reserve partners\; namely\, to better understand sovereignty and what it means for collaborative science. Together\, we are learning how to better support project teams who are working with Native nations or who wish to do so. We hope that the information presented in this collection will help people to better understand the broader context of this topic\, and to be respectful of knowledge that is not\, and cannot be assumed to be\, theirs. Join the session to learn how these resources could assist in your own work\, in the NERRS\, and beyond!
UID:144971-21896215@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144971
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260318T163450
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260331T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Aiton Lecture: Señorita Telefonista: Sexual Harassment\, Pregnancy Discrimination\, and Class Identities in Early Twentieth Century Mexico City
DESCRIPTION:At the height of worker mobilization in revolutionary Mexico City some of the most combative workers were telephone operators. In this talk\, Susie S. Porter takes us from switchboards to union halls\, and into the streets as working women fought for better wages and against marriage bans\, pregnancy discrimination\, and sexual harassment.\n\nTelephone operators’ struggles to defend their bodily autonomy were historically contingent and constructed through the material and discursive conditions of class. Countervailing practices of class distinction shaped women’s capacity to speak and informed their activism. As languages of class circulated––by management\, organized labor\, working men\, and working women themselves––working and middle- class identities were made and unmade. The success of organized labor hung in the balance.\n\nSusie S. Porter\, Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah\, is the author of two award-winning books: Workingwomen in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions\, 1879-1931 (University of Arizona Press\, 2003)\; and\, From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico\, 1890-1950 (University of Nebraska Press\, 2018). Spanish-language versions of both books were published by El Colegio de Michoacán Press.\n\nHer forthcoming book is titled: Señorita Telefonista: Sexual Harassment\, Gender Discrimination\, and Class Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City (University of Nebraska\, 2026)\n\nPorter is also co-editor and contributor to 3 edited volumes and a documents reader in Mexican history. Susie is a Member of the Mexican Academy of History (as Corresponsal Internacional). She has held residential fellowships at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (2022-23) and L’Institut d’Études Avancées de Nantes\, France (2023-24).\n\nShe serves as a country conditions expertise for asylum cases\, was a co-founder of the Westside Leadership Institute (Spanish language version) and works as an organizer with the Salt Lake City Latinx community. She served as chair of the Gender Studies Division (2010-2020) and\, since 2021\, as director of the Center for Latin American Studies. For her work in the community\, Porter was designated Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Utah (2019).\n\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Aiton Lecture Committee.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146780
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Latin America,International,Interdisciplinary,Humanities,History
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260317T171650
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism\, Policing\, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence
DESCRIPTION:Maxamed Abu-maye\, assistant professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University\, speaks on his project\, \"Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism\, Policing\, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence.\"\n\nThis multi-sited project\, the first of its kind\, exposes the links between U.S. military violence abroad and police brutality at home through a profound exploration of Somali refugee lives. \"Black Muslim Refugee\" traces the globe-spanning journeys of these refugees\, from civil war–era Somalia to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to their eventual arrival in San Diego\, and Abu-maye analyzes their experiences through the dual lenses of anti-Blackness and Islamophobia. He situates their displacement within the larger context of East Africa's colonial history\, as well as the policy consequences of the American-backed war on terror and war on drugs. Throughout\, Abu-maye's centering of Somali subjectivity underlines this community's critical and creative capacity to defy the mechanisms that seek to \"manage\" and ultimately control them.\n\nSponsored by the University of Michigan Library\, Arab and Muslim American Studies\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Studies\, Global Islamic Studies Center\, and the Islamophobia Working Group.
UID:146710-21899540@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146710
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (1st floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260304T142805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260331T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Catalysts for Change: Cultivating a Culture for Chemistry Graduate Student Success
DESCRIPTION:This project investigates how departmental culture shapes chemistry graduate students’ belonging\, development\, and access to opportunity. The project responds to documented challenges in doctoral education including unclear success criteria\, inconsistent mentoring\, and hidden cultural norms and seeks to generate actionable\, evidence-based pathways for systemic improvement. We designed and deployed a mixed-methods pilot survey to chemistry graduate students measuring six domains informed by prior graduate-education and equity scholarship: (1) graduate milestones\, (2) research competency\, (3) teaching competency\, (4) advisor support (academic and emotional)\, (5) peer and departmental culture\, and (6) academic and demographic background. This talk will center on the qualitative data which is founded on academic citizenship\, which is a set of behaviors\, responsibilities\, and relational practices through which members of an academic community contribute to its collective functioning\, integrity\, and well-being beyond their individual scholarly outputs. It includes activities such as mentoring\, service\, collaboration\, care work\, and stewardship that sustain learning environments\, support colleagues and students\, and advance the shared mission of the institution and discipline. Findings show that academic citizenship is unevenly distributed across student groups and is most strongly predicted by research competency and access to departmental resources. Advisor emotional support and advisor skill dynamics emerged as significant contributors to academic citizenship. Results informed department-level interventions\, including (1) a redesigned first-year experience course integrating research\, teaching\, communication\, and wellness\, and (2) a multidimensional mentoring model grounded in sociopolitical noticing and disciplinary metaphors (chemist\, family\, coach). The project demonstrates that departmental culture can be surfaced\, measured\, and intentionally reshaped to create conditions where graduate students thrive because of rather than in spite of our systems.
UID:138425-21882930@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138425
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science,Chemical Education
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260325T063537
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Elastic Turbulence in 3D Porous Media
DESCRIPTION:A wide range of environmental\, industrial\, and energy processes rely on transport in disordered 3D porous media. In many of these settings\, transport is limited by strong flow heterogeneities and the steady\, laminar flow imposed by geometric confinement (Re«1). Polymer additives have potential as a key engineering tool for modifying these flows to improve transport. However\, the flow behavior of these rheologically-complex fluids remains poorly understood in these disordered settings—in large part due to imaging limitations. \n\nWe address this gap by fabricating transparent 3D porous media and directly imaging the flow in situ. We find that polymer stretching can give rise to an elastic instability that generates turbulent-like fluctuations under conditions prohibitive for traditional turbulence. Combining microscopic flow measurements with theoretical modeling\, we demonstrate that viscous dissipation associated with this instability is responsible for an anomalous increase in macroscopic flow resistance\, resolving an over-50-year-old puzzle. We then show how these chaotic fluctuations can be harnessed to enhance pore-scale mixing of solutes by 3–6×\, and the rate of chemical reactions by an order of magnitude. This work demonstrates how couplings between complex geometries and complex fluid rheology can give rise to intriguing flow behaviors—providing new avenues to understand\, control\, and engineer transport in confined spaces.
UID:147036-21900264@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147036
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Physics,Science
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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