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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Hopwood Program Manager Virtual Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:Bring your questions about the 2026 Hopwood Awards writing contests and get instant answers. Contest deadline is January 15th.
UID:143226-21892519@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143226
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Creative Writing,Dearborn,English Language And Literature,fiction,Flint,Free,Graduate Students,Hopwood Program,Literary Arts,Poetry,Writing
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251202T151537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T140000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Summer International Internships w/ CIEE Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) has partnered with four internship provider organizations that maintain portfolios of placements around the world\, offering the chance for undergraduate students to participate in quality International Internships over the summer. This info session will go into detail about the program for one of these providers\, CIEE. \n\nCIEE Summer Global Internship programs combine a full-time internship with an integrated academic seminar (earning 6 total credits) to provide professional exploration and specific skills development over the course of 8+ weeks during the summer. You’ll learn to contextualize real-world experience while learning about local business culture\, intercultural communication\, professional development\, and linkages between local and global industry trends. With 18 approved locations in 17 different countries across the globe and placements in a wide variety of career fields--Arts\, Business\, Communication\, STEM\, Health Sciences\, Policy/Law\, and many more--you're sure to find a fantastic option that's the right fit for you! \n\nSound interesting? Come join us either in-person or virtually to learn more! Register now via Sessions: myumi.ch/R32QX
UID:141346-21888664@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141346
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Abroad,Asia,Asia-pacific,Australia,Career,Central America,China,Culture,Diversity,Europe,European,global,global engagement,global opportunities,Information Session,intercultural,International,Internship,internships,Korea,Latin America,Networking,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Pre-Law,Sessions,study abroad,Summer,Travel,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
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DTSTAMP:20260104T173308
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T143000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Number Theory Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Come plan this semester's seminar with us! Whether you're open to giving a talk or not\, we'd love for you to join us. Feel free to bring ideas for topics you'd like to hear about in the seminar.
UID:143157-21892336@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143157
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
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DTSTAMP:20260106T082650
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | Nanoscale Soft Matter Under Electron Microscopy
DESCRIPTION:We are fascinated with nanoscale soft matter\, which crosses the boundaries of synthetic and living systems and defies simple mean-field theories or coarse-grained models. In this talk\, I will show a few of our recent case studies\, with new understandings provided by our multimodal “electron videography.” The first is the measurement and significance of interactions beyond nearest neighbors in colloidal nanoparticles in and out of equilibrium. These interactions not only determine the phase behaviors of nucleation and crystal growth\, but the phonon mode structures if we treat nanoparticle self-assemblies as a new type of mechanical metamaterials. We establish accordingly the rules of nanoscale phonon manipulation in complex and new assembly structures such as Maxwell lattice with floppy modes and moiré lattices with angle-dependent band structures. The second is the measurement and design of structural heterogeneity of nanoparticles\, polymers\, and biological systems. We show that scaling theory needs to be coupled with atomic functional density theory to predict\, for example\, nanopatterning of polymers on surfaces. We also show the spatiotemporal fluctuations of proteins and cells during interactions\, which can impact greatly the function and efficacy of interactions. The third is the existence and generation of defects and strain in crystalline nanomaterials\, let them be catalysts or electrodes. Atomic lattices are “softened” in these systems\, leading to extended strain patterns in three dimensions that we visualize at the nanoscale. All these new observations are aligned with our push of electron videography and automation to make the invisible visible\, and we see this as the beginning of a more comprehensive understanding and utilization of nanoscale soft matter.\n\nBiography: \nProf. Qian Chen is currently a professor and Racheff Scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She got her BS degree in chemistry from Peking University and her PhD degree from the same department with Prof. Steve Granick. She completed her postdoctoral research with Prof. Paul Alivisatos at the University of California\, Berkeley\, under a Miller Fellowship. She became a faculty in 2015 and since then has received awards for the research in her group\, such as the Forbes 30 under 30 Science List (2016)\, the AFOSR YIP (2017)\, the NSF CAREER award (2018)\, the Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry (2018)\, the ACS Unilever Award (2018)\, the Hanwha-TotalEnergies IUPAC Young Scientist Award (2022)\, the Soft Matter Lectureship (2023)\, the Provost's Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring (2024)\, the MRS Outstanding Early-Career Investigator Award (2024)\, the ACS Langmuir lectureship (2025) and ACS Nano lectureship (2025). Her group’s research focuses on imaging\, understanding\, and engineering soft\, biological\, and energy materials at the nanoscale.
UID:143251-21892553@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143251
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Physics,Science
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20251202T115505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T150000
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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:138848-21885038@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260113T183122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student DGT Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Student DGT will be happening on Wednesdays from 3-4 PM in EH 3866 this semester. We’ll be holding our planning meeting Wednesday\, January 14th (3-4 PM\, EH 3866) and talks will hopefully begin the week after.\n\nPlease come sign up to give a talk! You can email gshemy@umich.edu or mohithna@umich.edu if you’re unable to make the planning meeting but are interested in giving a talk.
UID:143707-21893697@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143707
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20260113T175749
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student DGT Seminar: Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Let us plan the schedule for this semester. We welcome new ideas for reading groups\, discussions\, and related activities. We especially encourage first-year PhD students to attend.
UID:143880-21894200@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143880
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - EH3866
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DTSTAMP:20251211T193113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Habitat Heartbeats: Listening to What Oysters and Mussels Can Tell Us about Southern California Estuaries
DESCRIPTION:Southern California’s estuaries can experience large swings in water quality due to events like freshwater inflow\, sewage spills\, and estuary mouth closures. The Tijuana River NERR (TRNERR) monitors several estuaries in San Diego County to better understand how biological communities respond to changes in water quality. Through an iterative process with TRNERR and other users\, this project team co-developed a biosensor monitoring system that uses shellfish (oysters and mussels) as biosentinels. Alongside state and local land managers and other wetland and aquaculture professionals\, the team designed an open-source electronic sensor that attaches to shellfish and monitors gaping behavior and heart rate. These metrics that can be used as indicators of physiological stress in response to environmental changes.\n\nIn this webinar\, the project team will describe their collaborative process within the team and with additional potential end users. Potential users included resource managers\,  aquaculture practitioners\, and research biologists working with these bivalves in other settings. The team will describe the basic components of the biosensor equipment and approaches used in the field and lab for gathering and analyzing data. Data from the focal estuaries will be used to illustrate individual and group responses of the biosentinel bivalves to rapidly-shifting water quality conditions.
UID:142624-21891232@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142624
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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