Exhibition:Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck
2019-11-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-26 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery
Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

Exhibition:Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture
2019-11-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-26 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals
This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition
2019-11-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-26 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas
2019-11-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center
Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Oil on Water: Painting on Linen
2019-11-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-26 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals
Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Pen & Ink Queens
2019-11-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-26 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals
Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media
2019-11-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-26 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center
Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels
2019-11-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-26 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center
Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Workshop / Seminar:Webinar: SEAS Information Session for International Students
2019-11-25 08:30 - 09:30 | Off Campus Location
A SEAS Admission Coach will host an International Applicant Information Session. They will provide an overview of how to apply to SEAS and answer questions live.

To attend this webinar, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxteU8pTqY_wcpFI0pp8M3N5uI5HFDSpmABvnHMwH3nAKL1g/viewform

Contact person:
SEAS Admissions: SEAS-admissions@umich.edu

Exhibition:Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy
2019-11-25 09:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-26 09:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-27 09:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-28 09:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-29 09:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-30 09:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

Exhibition:WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1
2019-11-25 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-26 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

Exhibition:Literature in Fragments: Lost Greek Works at Michigan
2019-11-25 10:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-26 10:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 10:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 10:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 10:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th Floor
This exhibit presents a selection of such fragmentary literary texts from the University of Michigan’s Papyrology Collection. Although literary papyri represent a small fraction of surviving papyrus texts, they nonetheless enable scholars both to improve their readings of known literary texts and to illuminate the rich diversity of ancient Greek literature, the overwhelming majority of which has been lost to time.

The Greek literature that survives complete in the present day largely represents the texts that were the most popular in antiquity, works like Homer’s Iliad and Euripides’ Medea. These texts were repeatedly copied throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages, ensuring their continued transmission. Literary texts on papyri, however, provide a rare opportunity to glimpse fragments of ancient literature in their original form and to discover works that were read in antiquity but did not otherwise survive into the medieval and modern periods. This includes lesser-known works by such famous authors as Aristophanes and the Greek tragedians, as well as fragments of texts whose authors remain unknown.

The exhibit was curated by Allison Thorsen, UMSI student, and can be viewed during regular hours of the Special Collections Research Center:
https://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-research-center

Other:Psychology Walk-In Advising
2019-11-25 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-11-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-11-26 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-11-26 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-11-27 10:00 - 12:00 | East Hall - 1343
Peer Advising Walk-Ins are great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins are reserved for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

Workshop / Seminar:The Transition to Graduate Writing
2019-11-25 11:30 - 13:00 | North Quad - Space 2435
Writing in graduate school calls on students to work in a variety of new genres and challenges writers to expand on their skills as communicators. This workshop will help early graduate student writers identify critical practices and strategies to enhance their writing and build an effective approach to graduate writing. We’ll talk about becoming more strategic readers and examine patterns of inquiry across disciplines moving from the practice of asking good questions to the importance of topic construction. We will also talk about the variety of communication forms graduate writing can take. The workshop will conclude by examining our writing routines and finding ways to expand our own writing process to succeed in graduate school. Lunch will be provided.

Workshop / Seminar:Hub Studio - Resume
2019-11-25 12:00 - 14:00 | LSA Building - 2001
Have you wanted to update your resume, but can't find the time? Stop by the Hub Studio anytime between 12pm-2pm for open work time to draft a resume from scratch, strengthen your current resume or tailor your resume for a specific position. Hub coaches will be available to work with you on developing a resume that best represents your accomplishments, skills, and unique strengths. As you apply to opportunities, develop your professional identity, and reflect on your experiences thus far, the Hub can help you develop next steps in your process! This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

Workshop / Seminar:Inclusive Leadership
2019-11-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
There is a lot of talk about “Inclusive Leadership” but many are left asking: What is it? Why is it important? How can I do it? This workshop will address these questions by presenting research on the specific traits, elements, and styles of inclusive leaders. Participants will be able to reflect on and share their own experiences and times that they have witnessed others modeling inclusive leadership. We will discuss the benefits of inclusive leadership at the individual and organizational level. The presenter will also share resources and best practices on inclusive leadership frameworks. This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Deborah S. Willis.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/NxBmK.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

Careers / Jobs:MIT Sloan Graduate Programs Information Session: MBA, Finance, Analytics
2019-11-25 12:00 - 13:00
MIT Sloan offers several options for college seniors and recent college graduates. Meet with our admissions team to explore which program might be right for you.

1. MIT Sloan MBA Early Admission
Is an MBA in your five-year plan but you need some experience in the workforce, first? Apply now, and then work for two to five years before beginning your MBA program.

2. Master of Finance
This 12- or 18-month STEM program prepares you for a premier finance career through hands-on experience and academic rigor.

3. Master of Business Analytics
A 12-month STEM program teaches you to apply data science and machine learning to solve real-worldbusiness problems.

Why MIT?
The MIT name is recognized around the world. Your MIT degree will open doors and create unimagined opportunities. That's because MIT is exceptional, and a degree from here says that you are, too.

Class / Instruction:German Lab
2019-11-25 13:00 - 16:00, 2019-11-26 13:00 - 16:00, 2019-11-27 13:00 - 16:00 | North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500)
The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-103), if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/

Other:MIW Application Deadline-February 14, 2020
2019-11-25 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-30 13:00 - 14:00
Regular admission deadline for Fall 2020 and early admission Winter 2021.

Social / Informal Gathering:BME Coffee Hour
2019-11-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Lurie Biomedical Engineering - Atrium
All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

Workshop / Seminar:HEP-Astro Seminar | The Degree of Fine-Tuning in our Universe -- and Possibly Others
2019-11-25 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 335
The fundamental constants of nature must fall within a range of values in order for the universe to develop structure and ultimately support life. This talk considers the current constraints on these quantities and assesses the degree of fine-tuning required for the universe to be viable. The first step is to determine what parameters are allowed to vary. In the realm of particle physics, we must specify the strengths of the fundamental forces and the particle masses. The relevant cosmological parameters include the density of the universe, the cosmological constant, the abundance of ordinary matter, the dark matter contribution, and the amplitude of primordial density fluctuations. These quantities are constrained by the requirements that the universe lives for a sufficiently long time, emerges from its early epochs with an acceptable chemical composition, and can successfully produce galaxies. On smaller scales, stars and planets must be able to form and function. The stars must have sufficiently long lifetimes and hot surface temperatures. The planets must be large enough to maintain atmospheres, small enough to remain non-degenerate, and contain enough particles to support a biosphere. We also consider specific fine-tuning issues in stars, including the triple alpha reaction that produces carbon, the case of unstable deuterium, and the possibility of stable diprotons. For all of these issues, the goal of this enterprise is to delineate the range of parameter space for which universes can remain habitable.

Lecture / Discussion:Job Talk
2019-11-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Angell Hall - 3222
Lecture / Discussion

Meeting:LSA/Ross MDDP Info Sessions
2019-11-25 16:00 - 17:00
If you are interested in applying for the Multiple Dependent Degree Program (MDDP) between LSA and the Ross School of Business you must attend an MDDP information session.

Info sessions will be held in Angell Hall, Room G243 at Mondays at 4:00 p.m. on the following dates:

September 23
October 28
November 25
***new date: November 26***
December 16

Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance: Optimal Noise in Second Best
2019-11-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Lorch Hall - 201
Abstract

Noise can be efficiently introduced by a decision-maker into data to protect identity (differential privacy) or to reduce gaming between a decision-maker and an agent who can the manipulate data. We present a new benefit of noise: to efficiently reduce distortions in a second-best setting. We derive a condition---which quickly converges to standard DARA preferences in the number of agents---where the introduction of noise in the private provision of public goods is Pareto improving. Despite producing a risk cost, noise reduces free-riding, which is more valuable under our condition. The effect is large: total Nash giving, while still less than first best, now diverges in the number of donors instead of converges (the standard result). A second application relates to tax.

Lecture / Discussion:RNA Innovation Seminar, Kristian Baker, Case Western
2019-11-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
Kristian E. Baker, Ph.D. (Principle Investigator), Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University

Abstract: The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway in eukaryotes serves as an RNA quality control system to protect cells from persistent expression of C-terminally truncated polypeptides as a consequence of premature translation termination at nonsense codons. How the cell defines a translation termination event as premature and, subsequently, how this information is communicated to the decay machinery so as to accelerate the degradation of the mRNA remain unclear. We have previously shown that mutations within UPF1 - a member of the SF1 helicase superfamily and a core component of the NMD machinery - which inactivate its ATPase activity give rise to RNA decay intermediates that accumulate due to stalling of ribosomes at or near the premature termination codon. These findings revealed a key functional interaction between the translation apparatus and NMD machinery, and signify that ATP hydrolysis by UPF1 targets the ribosome to facilitate peptide hydrolysis and/or ribosome recycling during translation termination.
My lab’s ongoing efforts directed at dissecting the how UPF1 impacts premature translation termination will be presented.

Lecture / Discussion:The Privatization of Religion and the Rise of Ethno-Nationalism: Trends and Fluctuations in Israeli Jewish Identity
2019-11-25 16:00 - 17:30 | 202 S. Thayer - 2022
Over the last thirty years major changes have transformed Israeli Jewish Identity. Secular Zionism, which held undisputed hegemony, has receded through a crisis of identity and split into two major camps. Religious Zionism, at first evincing a triumphant Settler movement, has lost its ideological center, and now holds power without a vision, and the Ultra-Orthodox are going through a process of Israelization, making them more integrated and also more nationalistic. We shall analyze and understand the many and varied Jewish voices emerging today in Israel.

Lecture / Discussion:IOE 813 Seminar: Armagan Bayram, PhD
2019-11-25 16:30 - 18:00 | Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1123
Virtual appointments between patients and healthcare providers can offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional office appointments for managing chronic conditions. Virtual appointments increase contact with the physician by either substituting or complementing office appointments, leading to improved health outcomes. The true value of virtual appointments cannot be realized until they are truly integrated with the office appointment systems. In this study, we introduce a capacity allocation model to study the use of virtual appointments in a chronic care setting. Specifically, we develop a finite horizon stochastic dynamic program to determine which patients to schedule for office and virtual appointments that maximizes aggregate health benefits across a cohort of patients. Optimal policy characterization for this problem is challenging. We find that under certain conditions, a myopic heuristic, where the sickest patients are scheduled for office appointments and the next sickest patients are scheduled for virtual appointments, is optimal. We show that the myopic heuristic performs well even in more general settings. Our findings further show that virtual appointments serve a dual purpose: they may reduce the number of office appointments and may trigger follow-up office appointments.

Dr. Armagan Bayram is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at University of Michigan – Dearborn. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. Dr. Bayram’s research interests include the development of stochastic models and solution methods for capacity and resource allocation problems. Of particular interest are stochastic optimization and dynamic programming models that involve nonprofit and healthcare applications.

1123 LBME is room 1123 in the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (LBME). The street address is 1101 Beal Avenue. A map and directions are available at: http://www.bme.umich.edu/about/directions.php.

This seminar series is presented by the U-M Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS): Our mission is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery through a multi-disciplinary, systems-engineering approach.

For additional information and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please contact genehkim@umich.edu.

Photographs and video taken at this event may be used to promote CHEPS, College of Engineering, and the University.

Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab
2019-11-25 17:30 - 18:30 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at: that’s ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resume formatting, learn how to build great bullet points, and get feedback on your resume.

If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'dlike to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326383

Workshop / Seminar:PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts
2019-11-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Off Campus Location - Miller Manor Community Room
All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

Meeting:Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing
2019-11-25 18:30 - 20:00 | East Quadrangle - 1807
The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

Film Screening:Language, trauma and identity shifts: "Beit Avi" screening
2019-11-25 19:00 - 21:00 | North Quad - Space 2435
A short but important film about identity shifts happening when you don't have a home or family anymore and you leave your whole world and your language behind, too. Everyone copes in their unique way. Snacks provided at 6:30. Discussion by Elena Luchina, Shachar Pinsker and representatives of student clubs and different fields of study.

Well-being:Prioritize Wellness
2019-11-25 19:00 - 20:00 | West Hall - Asubuhi Lounge
Throughout the semester, it is important to recharge and take breaks to be prepared. Join us for a mindful break and a chance to reflect on wellness! Stop by at some of our Drop-In stations and grab a sleep kit!

Performance:Small Jazz Ensembles
2019-11-25 19:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Carolyn and Milton Kevreson Rehearsal Hall
Student groups of Professors Milne, Hayden, and Hurst perform

Presentation:UM Psychology Community Talk: The Science of Choking Under Pressure: Why we fail and how to succeed when it matters
2019-11-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Off Campus Location - Multi-purpose Room
Abstract: Just in that moment when we want to do our best and the pressure is on, we often fail to live up to our potential. From sports to public-speaking to test-taking, many of us have experienced and witnessed "choking under pressure". What is happening in your brain and body when you choke in stressful situations? Is there anything we can do about it? In this talk, UM Psychology Professor Taraz Lee shares insights from the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience that shed light on the phenomenon of "choking under pressure" including some of the psychological tools you can use to perform at your best when it matters most.

Bio: Taraz Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Area and the head of the Cognition, Control, and Action (CoCoA) Lab. Using a variety of techniques such as functional neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, behavioral studies, and computational modeling, Prof. Lee and his lab study how motivation and executive control processes both help and hurt performance in a variety of domains. Many people have the intuition that exerting too much control over well-learned actions can be harmful, especially when under pressure to perform. At the same time, most day-to-day activities clearly benefit from goal-directed control and enhanced motivation. The CoCoA Lab is interested in understanding this apparent paradox. How do the mechanisms of executive control and motivation both support and potentially hamper the activity of neural systems needed for successful performance?

Performance:Faculty Recital: Chad Burrow, clarinet and Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano
2019-11-25 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
PROGRAM:
Reger- Tarantella and Albumblatt for Clarinet and Piano (1902)
Berg- Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, op. 5 (1913)
Karg-Elert- Sonata for Clarinet Solo, op. 110 (1925)
Reger- Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B-Flat Major, Op. 107 (1909)

Performance:Senior Recital: Karalyn Schubring, piano
2019-11-25 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM: Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 12 in A-flat Major, op. 26; Stravinsky - Piano-Rag-Music; Ligeti - Musica Ricercata; Schoenberg - Suite for Piano, op. 25; Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody no. 4 in E-flat Major; Uehara - The Tom and Jerry Show.

Careers / Jobs:Applications Open for Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program
2019-11-26 08:00 - 23:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 23:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 23:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 23:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 23:00
UROP's Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program ( DCERP) will be accepting applications for Summer 2020 through December 3rd! DCERP students will gain valuable experience while helping community organizations with their research needs. They'll also become part of a dynamic learning community that will get to know about Detroit history, have fun together, and share their passion for social justice. Students will receive a stipend and housing for this 9-week program.

Apply today! http://myumi.ch/erK95

Exhibition:Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World
2019-11-26 08:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-27 08:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-29 08:00 - 18:00, 2019-11-30 08:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library
Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

Exhibition:Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan
2019-11-26 09:00 - 16:00, 2019-11-27 09:00 - 16:00, 2019-11-28 09:00 - 16:00, 2019-11-29 09:00 - 16:00, 2019-11-30 13:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

Careers / Jobs:Hiring Event for Administrative Workers at U-M
2019-11-26 10:00 - 15:00 | 173 Parkland Plaza, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103, United States of America
We're hiring clerical health care workers and administrative office professionals for opportunities at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan. Both part- and full-time opportunities are available.

Comprehensive benefit package! Competitive pay rates! Flexible schedules! Room for growth, advancement, and career development!

Find your calling, apply your knowledge, and discover how you can build your future with us! RSVP today! Go to: https://events.indeed.com/event/30884/?from=educationalinstitutions.

Unable to attend in-person? RSVP and then call ortext “U-M JOB FAIR” to 734-665-3757.

For over 55 years, we’ve helped job seekers navigate the ever-changing world of work and pave a pathto career success. For a list of current openings, visit www.manpowermi.com/jobs.

Workshop / Seminar:ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz
2019-11-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Institute For Social Research - 1450
Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Lecture / Discussion:The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Pascal Rogé, piano
2019-11-26 10:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Maestro Rogé is one of the most sought after pianists and pedagogues of his generation. Currently based in Switzerland, he will present a master class for outstanding SMTD pianists.

Exhibition:Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s
2019-11-26 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors: Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

Exhibition:Abstraction, Color, and Politics:
2019-11-26 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors: Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

Exhibition:Collection Ensemble
2019-11-26 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Exhibition:Copies and Invention in East Asia
2019-11-26 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I
Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

Workshop / Seminar:Drop-in Backpacking, Registration, and Degree Audit Checks
2019-11-26 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-11-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Angell Hall - G243 Angell Hall
LSA advisors will help you select courses and backpack for the winter semester. The advisors can also show you how to run an unofficial audit check to see what you might still be missing towards your degree requirements.

Please bring a laptop, if possible.

These sessions will be taking place on the following dates:

Tuesday, November 26 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH
Wednesday, November 27 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH
Monday, December 2 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH

Exhibition:Mari Katayama
2019-11-26 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department.

Exhibition:Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs
2019-11-26 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-27 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - ArtGym
Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.

Presentation:Transfer Students: Drop-in Backpacking, Registration, and Degree Audit Checks
2019-11-26 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-11-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Angell Hall - G243
LSA advisors will help you select courses and backpack for the fall semester. The advisors can also show you how to run an unofficial audit check to see what you might still be missing towards your degree requirements.

Please bring a laptop, if possible

Workshop / Seminar:Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2)
2019-11-26 11:30 - 12:50 | Lorch Hall - 201
Details to come.

Presentation:Biopsychology Colloquium: The influence of locomotion on sound processing in the auditory cortex.
2019-11-26 12:00 - 13:00 | East Hall - 4464
Abstract: Locomotor activity has a substantial influence on incoming sensory input and on the manner by which this input is processed. In the visual modality, locomotion has been shown to increase responses to visual stimuli in the visual cortex. Interestingly, within the auditory modality locomotion has been associated with inhibited spontaneous and sound-evoked responses in pyramidal cells, with the strongest inhibition observed in response to reafferent, self-generated sounds. However, previous studies have focused on the effect of locomotion on the activity of single cells, while the effect of locomotion on local network dynamics in the auditory cortex remains largely unknown. To address this knowledge gap we used two-photon calcium imaging to monitor activity in local neuronal ensembles in the auditory cortex of awake head-fixed Thy1-GCaMP6f mice that were free to stand, walk or run on a treadmill. Using this approach we analyzed single-cell and network response properties of excitatory pyramidal neurons to different sounds under different behavioral states. Our preliminary results demonstrate substantial heterogeneity of locomotion-related modulation of neural activity within local neural ensembles. Neighboring neurons exhibited differential and often divergent influence by locomotion: while some neurons exhibited reduced activity during locomotion as expected, responses of other neurons within the same ensemble were often strongly enhanced. Furthermore, heterogeneity in the effect of locomotion was observed on both spontaneous and sound-evoked responses, and for neural responses to different types of sound stimuli. These results may offer clues to the nature of network-level sound processing that underlie the perception of hearing during locomotion.

Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Pollinators, predators and parasitoids: the amazingly diverse world of Hymenoptera
2019-11-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Biological Sciences Building - 1010
Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

Abstract
Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants) are some of the most numerous and diverse animals on the planet. The group includes pollinators, predators, parasitoids, herbivores and practically everything in-between. They can be found in almost every terrestrial habitat around the world (as well as a few aquatic ones) and many are essential in keeping food on our tables and pest populations under control, while others are pests themselves or are species of medical concern. Despite this insect group’s importance, and how integral it is in shaping the world we see today, there are still many fundamental unanswered questions about the taxa in this amazing group. This seminar will focus on Hymenoptera biodiversity and what the E. M. Tucker lab at the U-M Museum of Zoology is doing to explore unanswered questions about these extraordinary creatures.

Image courtesy of Sam Droege, USGS.

Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
2019-11-26 12:00 - 13:00 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas, but you’re not sure where to get started? Wherever you’re at: that's ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to search for and find a great internship experience!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy.

**If you're not sure what you're interested in, consider making an "Exploring Major/Career Option" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting.

**If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening@ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326493

Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Periphery, Locality, and Status in Writings from Sixteenth-Century Dali, Yunnan
2019-11-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Weiser Hall - 110
From 1253, when Mongol armies invaded the independent Dali Kingdom in the southeastern foothills of the Himalayas, its capital, Dali, was transformed into a remote periphery of Yuan and then Ming empires. By the sixteenth century, Dali's gentry families, both indigenous and migrant, were increasingly educating their sons in the classical tradition, to enroll in the civil service examinations and take positions as Ming officials. How did their experiences transform the ways that Dali's literati wrote about their hometown, about its people, and about themselves?

Eloise Wright is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research explores practices of reading and writing literary Chinese in what is now southwest China from 1250 to 1700. She received her PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2019.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Social / Informal Gathering:Ukrainian Faculty Office Hours
2019-11-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Mason Hall - hallway
See Svitlana or Eugene every Tuesday afternoon in the Mason Hall Hallway to speak Ukrainian!

Exhibition:Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's
2019-11-26 14:00, 2019-11-27 14:00, 2019-11-28 14:00, 2019-11-29 14:00
University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

Other:Premed Course Selection Help
2019-11-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Mason Hall - 1330
Drop in to have your premed course selection questions answered! Group format, stay as long or as little as you would like. Current LSA Honors Program students only.

Meeting:LSA/Ross MDDP Info Sessions
2019-11-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Angell Hall - Room G243

Social / Informal Gathering:Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court
2019-11-26 16:00 - 2019-11-27 02:00, 2019-11-27 16:00 - 2019-11-28 02:00, 2019-11-29 16:00 - 2019-11-30 02:00 | Off Campus Location
From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

Other:Stacia Everett Office Hours
2019-11-26 16:00 - 18:00 | East Quadrangle - 1730
Got questions about Semester in Detroit (SiD)? Drop by Stacia's office hours! Stacia Everett is currently a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Political Science. She participated in Semester in Detroit during the Spring/Summer '17 and was apart of the BEST Cohort Codename: SID Next Door! She loves to sing enjoys discussing social justice topics.

SiD office hours are held in our office at 1720 East Quad. For further questions, email us at semesterindetroit@umich.edu.

Workshop / Seminar:UROP - Endnote Workshop
2019-11-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Shapiro Library - 4041
The Endnote workshop for UROP and MRADS students requires registration.

Workshop / Seminar:UROP - SPSS Workshop
2019-11-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Shapiro Library - 2054 PC Lab
This workshop introduces UROP students to SPSS in 90 minutes. Specifically, this workshop briefly covers each of the following:
- Managing and importing your data (i.e., loading your data into SPSS)
- Compute new variables (e.g., compute mean scores across multiple variables, recode and label categorical variables)
- Visualize data (e.g., boxplots, scatterplots, histograms)
- Compute summary statistics (e.g., means, standard deviations, medians) and correlations
- Compare means with t-tests
-Analyze relationships among multiple variables with linear regression (i.e., like Y = mx + b but fancier)

Importantly, you'll leave with materials to review these skills on your own.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/erv9m

Workshop / Seminar:UROP Finding and Understanding Data Workshop
2019-11-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Mason Hall - 1401
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/XeGn0
Workshop for UROP and MRADS students only

Workshop / Seminar:UROP Intro to GIS Workshop
2019-11-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery Lab 100
In this workshop, you will learn the basics of visualising geographic information and creating your own maps in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Open source and proprietary mapping and GIS software and online tool options will be described, and exercises will be done in ArcGIS Pro, a desktop GIS program available through a campus license. Students will leave with a roadmap for learning more beyond this short, basic GIS intro workshop.

Workshop / Seminar:Take Time Before You Sign (Your Lease)
2019-11-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Couzens Hall - Palmer Lounge
Know your housing options for next school year? If not, no worries! Whether you want to live on campus or off campus, we can provide helpful information regarding key details regarding your housing options!

Well-being:CBT Group for Social and Performance Anxiety
2019-11-26 17:30 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Registration is open for the University Psychological Clinic’s fall CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) group for adults with social or performance anxiety. People with social anxiety often worry about seeming incompetent, unintelligent, or awkward in social situations. Symptoms like heart pounding, shaking, sweating, dry mouth, or “blanking out” are common symptoms. People with social anxiety may continue to worry about how they came across to others long after the event is over. This group can help you build skills to counter the effects.

If you think social anxiety is negatively affecting your relationships, your work, or your overall mental health, this group might be the next step for you. Clinicians at the Psychological Clinic use evidence-based group therapy to help participants learn to identify and shift unhealthy thinking patterns. You will build coping skills and increase confidence in a supportive environment and at your own pace. The group will meet on Tuesdays, beginning October 15, 2019, for eight weeks, with an additional follow-up booster session a month after the program’s conclusion.

If you think this group is the right fit for you, call the Psych Clinic at (734) 764-3471 to schedule an individual, preliminary screening. This screening will take 30-60 minutes. Some insurance is accepted to cover the cost. Without insurance the screening cost is $20. This screening allows you to work with a clinician to determine if the group is right for you.

Please send referrals by faxing a brief treatment summary or evaluation report to the Psychological Clinic, attention Michelle Van Etten Lee, Ph.D. The fax number is (734) 764-8128.

Social / Informal Gathering:Schokoladenstunde
2019-11-26 17:30 - 18:30 | North Quad - Language Resource Center
All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.). "Schokoladenstunde" will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak, and on Thursdays by Mary Gell or sometimes Veronica Williamson.

"Schokoladenstunde" will take place in the comfortable seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. You will be able to get some German chocolate and speak German with language instructors.

Presentation:CWPS Graduate Student Capstone Presentations
2019-11-26 18:00 - 20:30 | East Quadrangle - Keene Theater
Free & Open to the Public, followed by a reception with light refreshments.

Graduate students pursuing the Certificate in World Performance Studies present their research findings in engaging, and often performative, Capstone Presentations. This event is split into two sessions:

Tuesday, November 26
East Quad Keene Theater
6-8:30pm

Marjoris Regus: The Everyday Performances and Diverse Identities of Hip Hop Artists Overseas

Mario Vircha: Migrare, what happens when a culture disperses?

Lisa Decenteceo: Dancing with Tradition, Contesting the Self: Internal Subversions of Igorot Identity
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Tuesday, December 3
East Quad Keene Theater
6-8:30pm

Sherry Lin: The Dinner Table Series

Jean Carlo Urena Gonzalez

Evan Haywood: Blood & Fire / Anticolonial Narratives in Jamaican Oral History

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Lecture / Discussion:Bioethics Discussion: Cities
2019-11-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Lurie Biomedical Engineering - 2185
A discussion on our new environment.

Readings to consider:
1. Health and Urban Living
2. Urban Bioethics: Adapting Bioethics to the Urban Context
3. The Experience of Living in Cities
4. From the Urban to the Civic: The Moral Possibilities of the City

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/036-cities/.

When roaming the city, please consider roaming the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

Performance:Second Dissertation Recital: Zixiang Wang, piano
2019-11-26 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
PROGRAM: Chopin - Mazurka in Bflat Minor, op. 24, no. 4; Mazurka in C Mionr, op. 30, no. 1; Nocturne in B Major, op. 62, no. 1; Etude in C-sharp Minor, op. 10, no. 4; Etude in E Minor, op. 25, no. 5; Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, op. 60; Liszt - Sarabande und Chaconne über Themen aus dem Singspiel “Almira” von G. F. Handel, S181; Beethoven - “Wonne der Whemut”, op. 83, no. 1 (S. 468/5); Beethoven - “Mit einem gemalten Bande,” op. 83, no. 3 (S. 468/2); Liszt - Transcendental Etude no. 2 in A Minor, S. 139/2; Liszt - Trois Caprices-Valses: Valse de bravoure, S. 214/1.

Performance:University Choir and Chamber Choir
2019-11-26 20:00 | Hill Auditorium
Mark Stover, conductor, University Choir
Eugene Rogers, conductor, Chamber Choir

The concert explores the interfaith connections of various mystics, scholars, and poets. The University Choir will perform works by Javier Busto, Jonathan Dove, and Peteris Vasks. The Chamber Choir will perform the Michigan premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s amass. amass is a multi-movement work that incorporates words of mystics and saints from various world religions and the traditional texts from the Roman Catholic mass. The performance will feature guests soloists and U-M alumni Bernard Holcomb, tenor, Jonathan Lasch, baritone, Meg Dudley, soprano, Prof. Amir Eldan, cello; Bret Hoag, guitarist; and the cello and percussion studios of Profs. Richard Aaron and Jonathan Ovalle.

PROGRAM:
Busto- Ave Maria
Dove- Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars
Vasks- The Fruit of Silence
Hagen- amass

Workshop / Seminar:ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware
2019-11-27 09:30 - 10:30 | Institute For Social Research - 6080
Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

Careers / Jobs:United States Capitol Police Chat
2019-11-27 10:00 - 14:00
Chat with a USCP Recruiter via E-mail, Live. Every Wednesday from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM EST. Email us at Talk2Us@USCP.gov. All you need is a valid email account to participate. Recruiters will be available toanswer questions regarding the hiring process.

Other:Jamaica Jordan Office Hours
2019-11-27 11:00 - 13:00 | East Quadrangle - 1720
Got questions about Semester in Detroit (SiD)? Stop by during Jamaica's office hours! Jamaica Jordan is a senior, Pre-Medicine student with a major in Gender & Health. Jamaica grew up in Detroit and attended Detroit Public Schools. Jamaica’s favorite activities are to watch movies and travel. Working for Semester in Detroit for the past 2 years has helped her grow in leadership, team building, communication, and utilizing university resources. After interning at Eastern Market Corporation through Semester in Detroit, summer 2017, she was given the opportunity to continue working for Eastern Market the following summer, working in the Market’s Nutrition Educational programs. In Jamaica’s previous three years at the university she has continued to be lifted by her mentors and values the work of mentorship, this has lead her to accept a position with the Office of Multicultural Initiatives as an Academic Success Partner mentoring freshmen and sophomore students. The past three years at the University and the past 2 years at Semester in Detroit has continued to bring blessings of new and challenging experiences.

Social / Informal Gathering:Thanksgiving Treats with the Dean
2019-11-27 12:30 - 14:00 | LSA Building - 2001 (2nd floor)
On-campus for Thanksgiving Break? We're still here!

Join LSA Dean Anne Curzan for pumpkin pie and hot chocolate. Stop by anytime!

Questions: LSA.UGED.Events@umich.edu

Other:Thanksgiving Day Parade Watch Party
2019-11-28 07:00 - 12:00 | Detroit Center
You’re invited to UMDC’s 2019 Thanksgiving Day Parade Watch Party!

Adults: $15 Children: $5 Kids under 5 y/o - Free
Parking Not Included

The University of Michigan Detroit Center is excited to host its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade Watch Party! Please join us to take part in one of the great traditions of the city and enjoy one of America’s oldest parades.

It promises to be another year of family, community, and tradition. Our party features a delicious hot breakfast beginning at 7:00 AM. The parade kicks off at 8:50 AM, with the option to watch inside or bring a chair to sit outside along the parade route, right on Woodward.

This event is a one of a kind opportunity for guests to see the parade floats, featured bands and Santa Claus up close and personal! Kick-off the holiday season with this true Detroit tradition (early registration is encouraged).

Click the registration link to RSVP and pay.

Social / Informal Gathering:Thanksgiving Lunch with Graduate Rackham International
2019-11-28 11:30 - 14:00 | Mosher-Jordan Hall
Join GRIN for Thanksgiving banquet at Mosher-Jordan Dining Hall with your friends and family. You’ll pay $7.00 per person and GRIN will cover the rest.
Please direct any questions you have regarding this to Anukta Datta.
Registration is required at myumi.ch/1pMAA.

Presentation:Molecularium
2019-11-29 10:30 - 11:30, 2019-11-30 10:30 - 11:30 | Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium & Dome Theater
The Molecularium is a digital dome program that makes molecular science fun. The show blends scientific simulations with kid-friendly characters to introduce young people to the world of atoms and molecules. Suitable for K-3, plus families of all ages. Preceded by brief star talk.

The new Planetarium & Dome Theater has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs, easy-access seats, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour prior to show.

Presentation:Sky Tonight
2019-11-29 11:30 - 12:30, 2019-11-29 12:30 - 13:30, 2019-11-29 13:30 - 14:30, 2019-11-29 14:30 - 15:30, 2019-11-30 10:30 - 11:30, 2019-11-30 11:30 - 12:30, 2019-11-30 12:30 - 13:30, 2019-11-30 13:30 - 14:30 | Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium & Dome Theater
Star talks will examine the night sky with its slowly changing constellations, bright planets, and a short journey to visit far-away objects.

The new Planetarium & Dome Theater has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs, easy-access seats, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour prior to show.

Lecture / Discussion:Scientist in the Forum
2019-11-29 13:00 - 14:00
Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

Presentation:Black Holes
2019-11-29 15:30 - 16:30 | Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium & Dome Theater
This cutting-edge production works with data generated by supercomputer simulations to bring the current science of black holes to the dome screen. It includes immersive animations of the formation of the early universe, star birth and death, the collision of giant galaxies, and a simulated flight to a super-massive black hole lurking at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Preceded by brief star talk.

The new Planetarium & Dome Theater has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs, easy-access seats, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour prior to show.

Performance:Matt Watroba
2019-11-29 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Presented by The Ark
Your Thanksgiving weekend in Michigan isn't complete without hearing Matt Watroba! Matt is the kind of guy who makes friends easily. Not only is he on a first-name basis with most of the major folk musicians in North America after a few decades of sharing stages with them, but he also has the kind of rapport with audiences that makes them feel as if they're sitting among friends in a living room. Matt's local shows have had the feel of a homecoming for Michigan folk music, with great songs and warm memories for all—and often special guests!
Dinner-show tickets with reserved seating available.

Careers / Jobs:P&G CEO Challenge - Case Competition
2019-11-30 00:00 - 23:55 | 1 Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, United States of America
The P&G CEO Challenge application is officially live and open through November 30th!!! As a reminder, we've set the event date as the application deadline!

The P&G CEO Challenge is a world-wide case competition which will test your aptitude for business strategy and real-life problem-solving. If you’ve been eager to demonstrate your ingenuity and intelligence beyond your campus, this is the chance to make an impression ona global scale. If selected as a regional finalist, you will be invited on an expenses paid trip to our World Headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio with a chance to represent the US in the Global Final.

Top students will ascend to the Global Final in Mexico City and win the opportunity to meet P&G CEO David Taylor. Prepare to compete with teams from around the world to see who is most fit to be the next CEO of P&G.

The first step: assemble a team, then prepare to showcase your ability to think critically about leading a brand in the online case. Applications close on November 30th!

Key dates for challenge:
November 30th: Initial Case Application due
Early January: Second Round Teams Announced
Jan-Feb: 2nd Round Video Challenge
Mid Feb: North American Finalists Announced
April 1st - 3rd: North America Regional Finals in at P&G HQ in Cincinnati, Ohio
June 1, 2020: Global Finals in Mexico City, Mexico

For more information, visitthe P&G CEO Challenge site at https://www.pg-ceochallenge.com
