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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - Speakers: Julia Boyle & Marianne Azevedo Silva
DESCRIPTION:Speaker 1: Julia Boyle from Weber lab\n\nTitle: Microbes mediate extrafloral nectary ecology\n\nDescription: Plant-arthropod defense mutualisms involve specialized plant traits that provide food or shelter to arthropods in return for protection against natural enemies\, including herbivores and pathogens. Two examples of such traits are extrafloral nectaries\, plant organs that secrete sugary amino-acid-rich nectar to feed beneficial arthropods\, and leaf domatia\, small structures on the undersides of leaves that shelter predatory and fungivorous mites. Despite their widespread distribution and convergent evolution\, little is known about how domatia and extrafloral nectaries interact with plant microbiomes\, and whether microbes mediate the costs and benefits of these traits. Here\, I combine field observations and manipulative common gardens to demonstrate that both microbes and mites play an underappreciated role in the ecology and evolution of extrafloral nectaries.\n\nSpeaker 2:  Marianne Azevedo Silva from Weber lab\n\nTitle: A Tale of Mutualism Exploitation\, Told Twice: The Science We Present and the Stories We Leave Untold\n\nDescription: In this talk\, I will present a study investigating potential exploitation in one of the most ancient mutualisms between plants and arthropods: the plant–mite mutualism mediated by leaf domatia. Herbivorous eriophyid mites (often referred to as “gall mites”) have long been hypothesized to exploit this mutualism\, yet this hypothesis has remained untested. By combining leaf observations with molecular data\, I investigated whether the gall mite Acalitus ferrugineum acts as an exploiter of the domatia-mediated mutualism in American beech (Fagus grandifolia).\nBut this talk is about more than the scientific findings. I will tell the story of this research twice: first\, as the polished\, seemingly straightforward narrative we typically present at scientific conferences\, and then as the much less predictable journey behind it. From the initial idea to unexpected challenges\, changes in direction\, and the decisions that ultimately shaped our findings\, I will share some of the stories that scientific talks often leave untold.
UID:153627-21916115@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153627
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Workshop,evolutionary biology,evolution,environmental,Environment,eeb,Ecosystems,ecosystem,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology,Research,seminar,scientists,Science
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20261002T103525
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:From Classroom to Career: Sociology Alumni Panel and Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 27th from 12-2pm in the LSA Building for an exciting afternoon with U-M Sociology alumni! We have invited 5 alums from various backgrounds to give current Sociology students a glimpse at what post-graduation life can look like for someone with an undergraduate Sociology degree. Enjoy a free lunch while we have conversations centered around the alums’ time as an LSA student\, their journeys to the careers they are in today\, and the challenges they’ve overcome along the way. Business attire is not required\, so please come as you are!\n\n\nYou should attend this event if you are:\nA liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student\nInterested in learning more about what post-grad life is like for a Soc alum\n\n\nWhat you’ll gain by attending:\nLunch! \nInsight into the wide range of careers available to you after graduation\nThe opportunity to network with alums who have been where you are\n\n\nRSVP now to reserve your spot! Lunch will be served. If you have any questions you’d like to ask the panel\, please fill out the form in the sidebar by Wednesday\, October 21. \n\nAlum Bios:\n\nJasmine Brooks - Consulting & Nonprofit \nJasmine Brooks\, M.Ed.\, Jasmine has been advising and guiding others in their decisions towards success since 2010. She began her career as a first-grade teacher in Detroit\, and then as a college success counselor for high school students. Since then\, she has served in roles such as the National Honor Society Advisor\, Dean of Students and Dean of College Success\, and Assistant Principal with a primary focus on the matriculation and graduation rate of high school students into post-secondary institutions. \n\nJasmine founded JMB Advising\, an educational consulting company that has grown from supporting high school and college students to servicing school curriculum development\, individual clients\, and out-of-school programming. This role helped connect her to the Detroit College Access Network\, where she now serves as the Senior Director of Graduate 313. DCAN’s focus is to open three community hub locations across Detroit that will support students\, families\, and residents of Detroit as they earn post secondary credentials within the next 5 years.\n\n\n\n\nLauren Bacans-Grounds - Public Health\n\nBorn and raised in Michigan\, Lauren is now the Executive Director at the Islamic Food Bank of Toledo. She received her Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan and planted her roots in Perrysburg Heights a few years later.\n\nAs a community organizer\, volunteer manager\, and program manager for many years\, she is passionate about joyful volunteer experiences that create positive impact in the community. She also believes in building strong community networks\; we must all work together to support each other.\n\nIn her spare time\, she fosters cats (with the help of her husband\, dog\, and four cats)\, and she likes to cook and hike.\n\n\nJeff May - Law\nJeff May is a member of Bodman's Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group where he represents business clients in complex commercial disputes.  He is also a member of the Municipal Law and Government Relations Practice Group where he handles municipal litigation on behalf of municipal and private clients and counsels township boards and city councils on a broad range of governance matters.  Mr. May currently serves as the prosecuting attorney for the cities of Howell and Brighton.\n\nPrior to his career in law\, Mr. May worked for over 5 years in the music industry\, primarily serving as a booking agent for independent music artists\, where he negotiated financial terms for performances\, designed and implemented touring plans\, researched prospective business partners\, and issued contracts.  He also worked as a tour manager and concert promoter.\n\n\n\n\nYevgenia Gazman - Law\nYevgeniya Gazman graduated in 2002 from the University of Michigan with a BA in Sociology and a specialization in Criminology\, Law\, & Deviance. Ms. Gazman earned her JD in 2007 from the University of Minnesota. She is a staff attorney at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center Detroit office where she specializes in representing unaccompanied children through their immigration proceedings in state and immigration court\, as well as before administrative bodies. Ms. Gazman is a regular contributing writer and photographer for the Detroit Jewish News. She is also the founder and creative force behind YGazm Art\, LLC. Her company's motto is “Good Through Art Together.”\n\nSusie Schutt - Mental Health \n\nSusie Schutt is a mental health counselor\, registered drama therapist\, theatre director\, and intimacy director based in Rhode Island. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan\, where she earned a B.A. in Sociology and Social Inequality\, with a focus on race\, class\, and gender. Susie went on to receive a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and Drama Therapy from Lesley University in Massachusetts.\n\nSusie currently works with schools\, recovery centers\, families\, and individuals across Rhode Island through Thrive Behavioral Health\, 2nd Act\, and her private practice\, Third Person Therapy\, LLC. She served as Director of Education & Drama Therapist at The Gamm Theatre\, a professional theatre in Rhode Island\, from 2014 to 2022. She continues to work as a theatre and intimacy director with local colleges and theatre companies throughout New England.
UID:152941-21914820@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152941
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Networking,Lsa Opportunity Hub,Career,Alum Connections
LOCATION:LSA Building - MPR 1040
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DTSTAMP:20260917T123057
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How to Teach Appreciative Interviewing
DESCRIPTION:Activities that ask students to conduct interviews\, particularly of community members\, can be a powerful method for helping students research real-world issues and understand diverse perspectives. While interview assignments are common across academic disciplines\, less common is explicit instruction for students on effective techniques for interviewing. How might we prepare our students to effectively build rapport with\, interview\, and collect stories or information from communities?\n\nIn this session\, staff from U-M’s Ginsberg Center will share methods for teaching students skills in appreciative interviewing\, an approach to interviewing that emphasizes interviewee expertise and encourages interviewers to guard against deficit-based thinking. Throughout the session\, we’ll model discussions and activities from Ginsberg Center that you can use to prepare your students for interviewing. In the process\, you’ll have the opportunity to practice skills that will strengthen your own communication with students\, be it in office hours\, classroom instruction\, supervision\, or other contexts.\n\nREGISTER: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/111999
UID:149917-21907386@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149917
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Staff,Faculty,Free,Leadership
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261021T182123
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IPE Study Abroad Presentation to  Integrated Business and Engin students
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is for IBE students and will help them navigate how best to study abroad while pursuing both degree programs. 
UID:153851-21916562@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153851
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:DOW 2150
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DTSTAMP:20260911T121559
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Metricracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/kVZXk\n\nBased on fieldwork inside one of China's most celebrated social credit systems\, this talk shows what actually happens when a state tries to score the moral lives of its citizens. Far from the all-seeing surveillance machine\, the system runs on data that are selectively collected and routinely fabricated—and even then\, the state struggles to make the score mean anything\, facing constant contestation and reinterpretation. This notorious system\, Dr. Liu will suggest\, is less an authoritarian anomaly than a sharp lens on the contradictions of governing by numbers anywhere.\n\nChuncheng Liu is a sociologist of knowledge and technology who studies the politics of data and classification. An assistant professor of communication and sociology at Northeastern University\, he earned his Ph.D. in sociology and science studies at the University of California\, San Diego\, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England. His current research examines the politics of sociotechnical systems that surveil and classify citizens. His work has appeared in journals including *Big Data & Society*\; *Information\, Communication & Society*\; *Social Science & Medicine*\; and *Science\, Technology & Human Values*\, and has been featured in outlets such as The Guardian\, Bloomberg\, and Rest of World.\n\n*Part of the International Institute Theme Year: Sovereignty*\nhttps://myumi.ch/ii-theme
UID:150169-21908314@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150169
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theme Year,Asian Languages And Cultures,China,chinese,Chinese Studies,Data,Politics,Sociology
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260928T093938
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Oak Hill Advisors | Company Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Come learn about career opportunities at Oak Hill Advisors! If you are interested in investing and learning about how businesses are evaluated\, this session is for you. You don't need a background in finance. We hope this session will be interactive and informative. We will be talking about internship opportunities for the summer of 2028 so this is ideal for those graduating in 2029. Come join us!
UID:152940-21914819@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152940
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lsa Opportunity Hub,Career,Employer Connection
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2114
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DTSTAMP:20261021T182123
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS GenAI Essentials - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:Generative AI tools are increasingly part of academic\, research\, and professional work\, but using them effectively requires more than knowing how to write a prompt. GenAI Essentials is a practical workshop series designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars make informed\, responsible decisions about when and how to use generative AI.Through interactive sessions and hands-on activities\, participants will examine the capabilities and limitations of GenAI tools\, practice strategies for using AI in writing and communication\, and develop more intentional approaches to prompting and evaluating AI-generated responses.Participants may register for one or more sessions.By the end of the Fall 2026 series\, participants will be able to:Evaluate appropriate uses and limitations of generative AI in academic\, research\, and professional contexts.Identify ethical\, privacy\, academic integrity\, and disclosure considerations that should inform GenAI use.Use GenAI strategically to support revision\, feedback\, and professional communication without outsourcing authorship or judgment.Develop more specific and effective prompts by identifying the characteristics\, goals\, and conventions of the writing they want to produce or improve.If you have any questions\, please reach out Dr. Ioannis Chremos (ichremos@umich.edu)
UID:151412-21911559@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151412
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
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