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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Place as Method\, Theory\, and Responsibility: Rethinking Scientific Inquiry for Complex Social Issues
DESCRIPTION:The challenge: New data and approaches to study complexity in the social world has often been without a concurrent focus on the foundations of scientific inquiry\, including complex thinking\, broad causal thinking\, attention to epistemic lens\, and integrating multiple disciplinary approaches. Further\, the academic research model\, with its resource-segregated networks\, discipline-specific training\, and short-term productivity metrics\, contributes to a fragmented and potentially misleading understanding of the social world. In the second annual ISR Symposium on Complexity in the Social World\, we will use ‘place’ as the case study to facilitate discussions on rigorous social science in the public interest.Using research on place as the case study\, discussion topics will include:Complex thinking about the social worldThe contribution of the humanities the study of the social worldEpistemic lens and research transparencyTheories\, frameworks\, and the limits of traditional causal inferenceThe draw and danger of cool new dataAddressing the challenges of the academic model of sciencePresentations on the science of place will include:The relational nature of place in population social inequalitiesThe role of history in shaping placeThe racialization of place\; the spatialization of racePlace as a neutral and rational driver of social inequalitiesApproaches to testing (causal) ideas around place
UID:149491-21906510@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149491
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Room 1430, Institute for Social Research
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DTSTAMP:20260916T082105
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China\, 1860-1911
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the economic origins and consequences of religious conflicts during the late Qing China (1860–1911)\, when Christian missionaries entered a Confucian society. While the literature has attributed Chinese anti-missionary conflicts to the clash of cultures\, we find that the religious violence was attenuated by the level of economic complementarities\, through access to Treaty Ports and public goods provided by the missionaries. We further document negative economic spillovers of the anti-missionary conflicts\, as evidenced by the reduced foreign and domestic investments in modern industries. A key transmission mechanism was Western newspaper coverage\, which reinforced collective memory and deterred future investment. We also find long-lasting impacts on modern FDI flows and autarkic attitudes among local Chinese.
UID:150510-21909533@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150510
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Development,Economics,History,Political Economy,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261001T005658
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:When Milk Spills Over: Agro-Processing Industrial Policy\, Complementarity and Structural Change.
DESCRIPTION:Industrial policies combine multiple instruments\, yet existing research typically studies individual components or treats the bundle as a monolithic intervention. I examine complementarity in policy components of an agro-processing industrial policy\, Operation Flood\, the world’s largest dairy-development program implemented across Indian districts from 1970 to 1996. Digitizing the implementing agency’s annual reports\, I construct a district-by-year map of farmer cooperatives and dairy-processing plants. The components’ staggered rollout generated some districts with one component and some with the bundle. Using matched stacked difference-in-differences\, I find that village milk prices in bundle districts increase by 33% during the flush season. Neither arm alone shows any significant effects\, and I reject additivity for prices at the 10% level. A stylized model explains this complementarity.  Cooperatives alone can saturate local markets\, while plants alone cannot transmit the value of an additional outlet upstream. The bundle routes surplus milk to processing and passes value back to farmers. Turning to structural change\, the industrial employment share increases by 1.7 percentage points in bundle districts\, with no significant standalone effects. This increase comes mainly from non-food manufacturing\, with suggestive evidence of input-output linkages. The results show that industrial policy design must account for how market failures interact and how gains are shared along the supply chain
UID:150498-21909520@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150498
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Development,Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260924T145855
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Activity-Based Assays for Monitoring Treatment and Prevention of Infectious Diseases \nAbstract:\nFor many infectious and chronic diseases\, effective medications already exist\, and prevention or treatment succeeds or fails on whether those drugs are dosed and taken correctly. Concentrations that are too low lead to new infection or treatment failure\, and concentrations that are too high cause adverse reactions. Current methods for measuring drug concentrations are expensive\, labor-intensive\, and slow\, which puts them out of reach for most people who would benefit from them. Rapid and inexpensive tests would make monitoring and dose individualization far more widely available\, from centralized laboratories to the bedside and the home\, and particularly in resource-limited settings.\n\nOur lab develops tests that measure drug concentrations using the drugs' own biochemical activity rather than by detecting the drug molecules themselves. We have built user-friendly tests that measure the active intracellular forms of several human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) medications\, with excellent concordance with gold-standard mass spectrometry. We extended this approach to therapeutic drug monitoring of cytomegalovirus (CMV) medications\, measuring ganciclovir triphosphate in infants with congenital CMV\, where dosing must avoid both underexposure and toxicity. The same need applies to transplant recipients and other immunocompromised populations. Most recently\, we inverted our assay principle: by measuring the activity of reverse transcriptase derived from patient samples\, rather than recombinant enzyme\, we can measure HIV viral load and detect phenotypic drug resistance in the same rapid and user-friendly format.\n\nOur current focus is on optimizing\, validating\, and delivering these tests to populations in need both locally and globally\, building a unified toolkit for monitoring drug exposure\, viral suppression\, and drug resistance at the point of need.    \nBio:\nAyokunle (Ayo) Olanrewaju is an assistant professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). His lab develops bioanalytical technologies that decentralize therapeutic drug monitoring\, so that quantitative drug-level and drug-resistance measurements can be made at the clinic or the community rather than requiring samples to travel to centralized laboratories. The work rests on two technology pillars: enzymatic assays that use the activity of a target enzyme as a direct readout of drug exposure\, viral load\, and resistance\, and autonomous capillaric microfluidics that run complex liquid handling without pumps\, valves\, or external power. He applies these tools to HIV\, cytomegalovirus\, tuberculosis\, and cancer\, with the aim of making tests usable wherever they are needed\, including in low-resource settings.\n\nAyo received undergraduate and master's degrees in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Alberta\, Canada\, and his Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal. He completed postdoctoral training in mechanical engineering at UW and started as an assistant professor in UW Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering in January 2022. In 2026\, he co-founded Ireti Biosciences\, a UW spinout commercializing his lab's rapid enzymatic assays for medication monitoring. His lab is supported by an NIH/NIAID R01 and an NIH MIRA (R35)\, and his awards include the Beckman Young Investigator Award and the International AIDS Society (IAS)/France Recherche Nord & Sud Sida-HIV Hépatites (ANRS) Lange/van Tongeren Prize for Young Investigators.
UID:152621-21914192@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152621
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Bioninterfaces,Biosciences,Biotechnology,bme,engineer,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Research,seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20261001T112144
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T160000
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.
UID:151999-21912593@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151999
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DTSTAMP:20260917T151354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T160000
SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
UID:138848-21913643@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/my/meetingjunem
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DTSTAMP:20260611T142720
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Banned Books Tea
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the freedom to read at the annual Hopwood Banned Books Tea. Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and light refreshments\, enter a raffle to win a banned book\, check out books (banned and otherwise) from the Hopwood Library\, and sign up for the Hopwood Reading Challenge.
UID:148702-21905152@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148702
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Ann Arbor,Banned Books Week,book event,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,English Language & Literature,Faculty,Food,Free,Graduate Students,Hopwood Program,Literary Arts,Literature,Reading,Social Justice,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1176 (Hopwood Room)
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