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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Umit Ozkan\, *Ohio State University*
DESCRIPTION:A reception with light refreshments will be held in the B10 lobby before each seminar from 1-1:30 p.m.\n\n*Abstract:*\nBridged polysilsesquioxane (BPS) is a hybrid organosilica material combining the mechanical strength of inorganic silica with the tunable chemical and structural properties of organic bridging groups. While BPS materials are widely explored as adsorbents\, their application in catalysis remains limited. Here\, we investigate BPS as a palladium (Pd) catalyst support for the aqueous-phase hydrogenation of lignocellulosic bio-oil aromatic model compounds and the hydrogenolysis of trichloroethylene (TCE)\, a toxic groundwater pollutant. Leveraging BPS tunability\, we synthesized hydrophobic Pd supports: aryl-bridged polysilsesquioxane (ABPS) and its swellable counterpart\, S-ABPS (also referred as swellable organically modified silica (SOMS)). ABPS-supported Pd catalysts exhibited remarkable activity for phenol hydrogenation and TCE hydrodechlorination\, significantly outperforming commercial Pd catalysts. Furthermore\, while state-of-the-art Pd catalysts suffer from slow kinetics at low temperatures/concentrations and poisoning by sulfur and chlorine species (SO42-\, HS-\, Cl-)\, the S-ABPS catalyst demonstrated exceptional deactivation resistance. We also investigated the effect of support’s organic content\, aromaticity\, and basicity on catalyst properties\, activity\, and selectivity. Using in situ and ex situ spectroscopy\, X-ray absorption\, and thermogravimetric analysis\, we have established structure-property-activity relationships. Ultimately\, this work demonstrates that ABPS is a highly promising support for noble metal catalysts\, offering superior metal dispersion\, poisoning resistance\, and tunable aqueous-phase activity and selectivity.\n\n*Bio:*\nUmit S. Ozkan is a Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at The Ohio State University\, where she has served since 1985. A renowned expert in thermal and electro-catalysis\, she has authored over 300 publications\, holds eight patents\, and has delivered hundreds of invited lectures worldwide. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of AAAS\, AIChE\, and ACS. Her leadership spans numerous professional organizations including AICHE\, ACS and North American Catalysis Society.  She served or continues to serve on the Editorial Boards of Catalysis Today\, Journal of Molecular Catalysis\, Catalysis Letters\, Topics in Catalysis\, The Royal Society of Chemistry Catalysis Book Series\, Applied Catalysis B\, ACS Applied Energy Materials\, Catalysis Reviews in Science and Engineering\, ACS Catalysis\, Journal of Catalysis\, and Nature Sustainability.   \n\nProfessor Ozkan is the recipient of many honors and awards among which are North American Catalysis Society Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Catalysis Award (2027)\, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Margaret Rousseau Pioneer Life Time Achievement Award (2024)\, American Chemical Society George Olah Award (2024)\, North American Catalysis Society Burwell Lectureship Award (2023)\, ACS Henry H. Storch Award (2017)\, ACS Energy and Fuels Distinguished Researcher Award (2012)\, John van Geuns Lectureship Award at the Van't Hoff Institute at the University of Amsterdam (2010)\, Iowa State University\, Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (2010)\, AIChE Mentorship Excellence Award (2009)\, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (2007)\, the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award (2002). In 2013\, she was honored by a special volume of Topics in Catalysis. The volume included contributions from 35 different research groups from 12 different countries. In 2019\, she was again honored\, this time by a special volume of Catalysis Today.\n\nIn her research group\, Dr. Ozkan has advised and mentored over 100 graduate students\, post-doctoral researchers and honors students.
UID:152584-21913955@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152584
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,graduate students,Free,chemical engineering
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20261012T085156
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Newnan Advising Major Mosaic Project Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join Newnan advisors and share your crafty side as we begin our Major Mosaic Project! \n\nNewnan works with students from all LSA majors and minors\, and this project will give you the opportunity to represent yours visually. We bring the art supplies and snacks\; you bring the creativity. \n\nThis project begins with the launch party and will continue through the year with a series of Growing the Gallery events\, so if you can't join us for this one\, stay tuned for more opportunities.
UID:153549-21915993@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153549
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Open To All Majors,Art,Lsa Newnan Academic Advising Center,Newnan,Newnan Academic Advising,Newnan Lsa Academic Advising Center
LOCATION:Angell Hall - Newnan Advising Center
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DTSTAMP:20260930T094655
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T143000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Trick or Treat at the President's House
DESCRIPTION:Come by the President's House front gate on October 29 between 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. where President Grasso will hand out cookies & treats to celebrate Halloween and the fall season.
UID:153094-21915061@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153094
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Halloween,free
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DTSTAMP:20260924T111831
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T140000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Engineering Headshot Session
DESCRIPTION:Need a professional headshot for networking or other communications? The ECRC is offering FREE portrait-style headshots to engineering students.\n\nRegister in Career Forge – Spots are limited and will be available on a first-to-sign up basis.
UID:152814-21914562@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152814
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Graduate Students,Career
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - Lurie Nanofabrication Hallway
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DTSTAMP:20261002T120822
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GCC Italy: Modern Italy and Political Psychology Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Joshua Rabinowitz and CGIS Advisor\, Joy Richardson\, to learn more about the CGIS: Global Course Connections (GCC) in Rome\, Italy - Modern Italy and Political Psychology program. This GCC program offers the unique opportunity to pair your on-campus winter studies with an exciting hands-on 3-week global experience taught by Joshua Rabinowitz in the summer.Using Rome\, Italy\, as an experiential laboratory\, this course connection will tie the theories and findings of social and political psychology to the modern Italian context. You will see through museum visits\, architectural tours\, artistic and cultural experiences\, and class discussions how social identity\, collective action\, and political ideology (including fascism and contemporary populism) have resonated through the last 200 years of Italian history.\nYou can view the GCC Italy application here.
UID:153046-21914979@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153046
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Psychology,International Education,Europe,Abroad,Study Abroad
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912791@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Robotics,Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
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DTSTAMP:20261022T115440
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T143000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Through the NIE looking glass: The curious case of the Indian Forest Service
DESCRIPTION:Institutions\, or the “rules of the game”' that constrain and enable human behavior\, are fundamental determinants of economic development and social well-being. Pioneering work in new institutional economics (NIE) has provided a macro level framework to analyze why institutions emerge\, prevail\, and change in societies. Using the conceptual apparatus of property rights\, transaction costs\, and incomplete contracts\, this literature has answered foundational questions about organization of economies\, bargaining in polities\, and issues surrounding collective action and common-pool resource management. Recent scholarship in the new political economy (NPE) tradition has utilized agency theory to explain how micro-level details of political institutions - electoral rules\, forms of government and democracy\, political reservation and term limits - influence policy outcomes. A growing literature has extended these insights to climate related outcomes\, documenting how political institutions shape deforestation\, pollution\, natural resource extraction\, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.\n\nIn comparison to this literature linking institutions to policymaking and outcomes\, less attention has been devoted to arrangements at the policy implementation stage i.e.\, public sector organizations\, civil society and bureaucrats responsible for implementing policies. These “meso-organizations” that interpret\, adapt\, implement and enforce macro-level rules of the game in specific policy domains remain largely a black box in the economics literature. Emerging theoretical work in new public management (NPM) and a growing empirical literature has begun to open this black box\, for example\, studying how the selection\, allocation\, and incentives of bureaucrats shape public service delivery. From an empirical perspective\, however\, we know remarkably little about the role of these non-political actors in delivering environmental outcomes\, and even less about how their institutional contexts (e.g.\, local ties\, social proximity\, and informational advantages) moderate these roles.\n\nFor this talk\, we use a pair of case studies from India to draw on insights from NIE\, NPE and NPM for delivering climate solutions. First\, we briefly summarize a project examining if interventions by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often more effective than comparable efforts by other actors. Combining a stratified field experiment in India with a triple-differences estimation strategy\, we show that a local NGO’s prior engagement with target communities increases the effectiveness of a technology-promotion intervention implemented by it by at least 30 percent.\n\nSecond\, we describe in more detail how the assignment of individual bureaucrats to regions of work shapes policy outcomes. The Indian Forest Service\, elite officers recruited by the central government and assigned to states for life\, are responsible for conservation and the day-to-day management of India's forests\, wildlife\, and natural resources. We study whether and how assigning forest bureaucrats to work in their home regions of origin affects bureaucratic performance. We build a novel panel dataset on characteristics and work history of IFoS bureaucrats (using text-parsing techniques and link them to their performance measures at the officer-level and district-level i.e.\, forest administration units that they govern). Utilizing quasi-random variation in home state assignment generated by an allocation rule\, we examine how the social proximity of forest bureaucrats in regions of their work shapes forest governance and conservation outcomes.\n\nIn conclusion\, we make the case that institutions (governance\, rules of the game\, transaction) are vital\, especially because formal contracts quite limited for implementation (‘post-contract’ adjustments) of policies\, programs\, and projects in the domain of climate solutions. The cases we present show that it is not just the quantity\, but the micro-institutional type and nature of institutions that mater. In particular\, we argue for more attention to civil society (and as such to social norms\, intrinsic motivations\, civic virtue)\, at least as a complement to state & markets.
UID:150500-21909522@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150500
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Development,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261021T100253
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ASC Film Screening & Panel | Nigeria’s 2027 Elections and the Future of Democracy in Africa
DESCRIPTION:In anticipation of Nigeria’s 2027 general election\, the African Studies Center (ASC) is organizing “Nigeria’s 2027 Elections and the Future of Democracy in Africa: Film Screening and Panel Discussion.” The program will examine Nigeria’s democratic journey and prospects through a screening of *MKO*\, a recently released documentary about the annulment of the 1993 presidential election and the military dictatorship that followed\, followed by a featured panel discussion on nearly three decades of civilian rule.\n\nThe panel will feature Nigerian-American filmmaker and journalist Ose Oyamendan\, who covered the 1993 election and participated in the protests that followed the annulment of its results\, along with faculty and colleagues from Political Science\, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)\, and the African Studies Center. The discussion will invite panelists to reflect on the historical significance of the 1993 election\, the evolution of Nigerian democracy since the transition to civilian rule\, and the opportunities and challenges ahead. A dinner for the panelists will follow the program.\n\n*MKO* (2026)\nDocumentary\, 108 minutes (1 hour and 48 minutes)\nDirector: Ose Oyamendan\n\n*MKO*\, directed by Nigerian-American filmmaker Ose Oyamendan\, explores the life\, political struggle\, and controversial death of Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola\, popularly known as M. K. O. Abiola.\n\nChief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola\, GCFR\, was a Nigerian business magnate\, publisher\, philanthropist\, and politician. In June 1993\, he ran for president and won an election widely regarded as free and fair\, but Nigeria’s military government annulled the results. The annulment prompted nationwide protests\, the extrajudicial killing of protesters\, and the detention of activists\, including Abiola. He later died in military custody on July 7\, 1998\, under controversial circumstances. His death helped catalyze the dismantling of military rule and Nigeria’s return to civilian democratic governance.\n\n\nPanel Discussion:\nOse Oyamendan\, Nigerian-American journalist and filmmaker\n\nOmolade Adunbi\, ASC Director and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies/Anthropology/Law\, University of Michigan\n\nJenna Bednar\, Professor of Political Science\, University of Michigan\n\nAdrian Deese\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\, University of Michigan\n\nJi Yeon (Jean) Hong\, Associate Professor of Political Science and Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies\, University of Michigan\n\nBios:\n\nOse Oyamendan is a Nigerian-American filmmaker based between Los Angeles\, Lagos\, and London. His debut feature is the critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary *Aswat Acherim*\, which explores unlikely war zone friendships between residents of Sderot\, an Israeli village\, and their neighbors in Gaza. His sophomore film\, *MKO*\, debuted to critical acclaim at the 2026 Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival. Since graduating with an MFA\, Ose has directed a few dozen commercials\, short films\, and documentary films in the USA\, Africa\, Europe\, and the Middle East. He is an award winner at Tribeca\, Rome\, and Houston Worldfest film festivals. His projects have been shown all over the world in theaters\, on television\, and on streaming platforms.\n\nOmolade Adunbi is a political and environmental anthropologist and professor of Afroamerican and African Studies in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS).  His research examines the dynamics of power\, natural resource extractive practices\, governance\, human and environmental rights\, culture\, transnational institutions\, multinational corporations\, and the postcolonial state.\n\nAdrian M. Deese is an assistant professor of Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan. He completed a PhD in religious studies at the University of Cambridge in England. His research focuses on religious diversity and interreligious dialogue in nineteenth-century West Africa.\n\nJi Yeon (Jean) Hong is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies. Her research centers on the political economy of authoritarianism\, with a regional focus on East Asia. She is particularly interested in the institutional legacies of colonialism and authoritarian rule. \n\nCo-sponsors: Donia Human Rights Center\, Center for Emerging Democracies\, Center for Democracies and Civic Empowerment\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\n - - - -\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email Contact:	teyei@umich.edu
UID:153786-21916335@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153786
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture,film screening,Discussion,Democracy,African Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010
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