Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Addressing Barriers to Mental Health Care: The Development of the Mood Lifters Program (April 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59073 59073-14677949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Approximately half of all Americans will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Many more will cope with negative life events such as trauma, the death of a loved one, divorce, job loss, and physical illness. Unfortunately, research suggests that the current mental health care system in the United States (U.S.) is dramatically underutilized with only 43.1% of the 44.7 million Americans affected by mental illness receiving mental health care in the last year (NIMH, 2017). Many people experience significant barriers that prevent them from accessing care. In order to address some of the barriers to mental health care, researchers at the University of Michigan developed a novel intervention, Mood Lifters. Mood Lifters is a peer-led, low-cost, evidence-based program designed to improve mental wellness, decrease negative affect and increase positive affect. Mood Lifters weaves together the most effective biological, psychological and social techniques, based on the most recent research, to provide strategies that people can use to make changes, develop healthy habits and live the life they want. This talk will cover the development of the Mood Lifters program and the current scientific support for the program.

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Presentation Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:12:57 -0400 2019-04-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Votta
Write Togethers (for grad students) (April 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58376 58376-14491996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on papers, theses, and dissertations. These Monday Write Together sessions (from 9am-noon) bring graduate writers into common quiet space to work. Sweetland will offer short presentations on writing and work productivity, distribute writing support and information, and provide coffee, tea, and refreshments.

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Other Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:46:28 -0500 2019-04-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Other flyer
Why We Need Diversity on Complex Tasks (April 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63304 63304-15634624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 10:00am
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Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Author and U-M Professor Scott E. Page will explore a variety of models that reveal how, when and why diversity produces better outcomes - as well as when it does not. Some of the ideas and models will come directly from computer science. Others will borrow insights from the social and biological sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Apr 2019 10:30:05 -0400 2019-04-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Duotone portrait of Scott E. Page
CSEAS-WCED Forum. The Philippines Withdraws from the ICC: Now What? (April 22, 2019 11:20am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63055 63055-15543232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 11:20am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

As the Philippines withdraws from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, what are the prospects for justice in the context of President Duterte’s war on drugs and other crimes against humanity?

Panel followed by Q& A discussion.
FRANCIS TOM TEMPROSA, SJD Candidate, Law School, University of Michigan; Former Legal Adviser, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines

LIGAYA LINDIO-MCGOVERN, Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Kokomo; National Convenor of MALAYA-US Movement Against Killings and Dictatorship and For Democracy in the Philippines (organization works with victims of the drug war)

JUSTIN SUCGANG, LLM Student, Law School, University of Michigan

SONJA STARR, Professor, Law; Codirector, Empirical Legal Studies Center, University of Michigan

STEVEN R. RATNER, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan

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After-forum activity:
Show your support for human rights advocacy and join us in holding up the “Stop the Killings” banner in front of the Weiser Building. The banner is made out of black mourning pins symbolizing the fallen victims of the Philippine drug-war.

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Sponsors: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Donia Human Rights Center, Michigan Journal of International Law, and International Law Society.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:40:22 -0400 2019-04-22T11:20:00-04:00 2019-04-22T12:40:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion image
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58703 58703-14544807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:04:10 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) Workshop / Seminar Economics
Developmental Brown Bag: Development and neuroplasticity of selective attention in early childhood (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59224 59224-14717528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract

How do children attend selectively, focusing their attention on relevant information while simultaneously suppressing distractors? What neurobiological and contextual factors contribute to the development of selective attention in early childhood? In this talk, I will explore these questions, utilizing a multimethod approach that combines electroencephalography (EEG) with behavioral, experimental, and observational measures. In part 1, I will share findings from studies in which I examined the brain functions supporting selective attention in early childhood in the context of socioeconomic adversity. These studies emphasize that there is notable variability in the neurodevelopment of selective attention in children from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds. In part 2, I will discuss pilot data and future directions for research on how neighborhood, household, and classroom auditory environments contribute to the development of selective attention as children transition to formal schooling. In addition, I will present my ongoing and planned work towards reproducible, replicable, and representative developmental EEG research, in the context of neurodevelopment of selective attention specifically, and for developmental research broadly.

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Presentation Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:51:01 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Isbell
Mindfulness (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58488 58488-14508663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Take a moment to pause and “catch your breath” amid your busy and hectic schedule by sitting with others through a meditation. The meditations are guided (which means there will be speaking throughout the meditation) and they ​last ​for 25 minutes. We typically sit in chairs, but you can choose to sit on the floor or bring a cushion to sit on. For more information, go to our website, https://lsa.umich.edu/advising/stay-on-track/staying-motivated/mindfulness.html

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Well-being Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:58:40 -0500 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T12:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Well-being Person sitting on a mountain
Ph.D. Defense: Mac Morris (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63134 63134-15578787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Deep vein thrombosis, defined as blood clots forming in veins beneath muscles in the body, is the third most common cardiovascular disease worldwide. The standard treatment of deep vein thrombosis involves using anticoagulants to stop clot progression but is only successful in 2/3 of patients because the composition of the clot changes over time. The standard diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and determination of the age of the thrombus are based on the patient’s timeline of when these symptoms appeared. With use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), thrombus progression can be studied non-invasively from the acute to chronic stage. The aims of this work are to apply a Gaussian mixture model to multiparametric MRI of preclinical thrombi and determine whether spatial correlations exist with composition by histology.

Thrombosis was induced in 30 12-week-old mice divided into three groups and imaged at either acute, sub-chronic, or chronic time points. The multiparametric MRI volumes consisted of T1-, T2-, and T2*-weighted images. The MRI volume for each mouse was normalized, and the thrombus was segmented. The T1, T2, and T2* intensities at each location were input into a Gaussian mixture model. Following image acquisition, tissue samples were acquired and stained for Martius scarlet blue trichrome to examine red blood cell, collagen, and fibrin content in each thrombus.

To analyze each Gaussian mixture model region, qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed by comparing the Gaussian mixture model results with the paired histology. 2D correlation values between the Gaussian mixture model tissue class and histological composition revealed that the first cluster class correlated with red blood cells (p < 0.05), and the second cluster class correlated with fibrin and collagen (p < 0.05). This study demonstrates that spatial correlations exist between the classification of multiparametric MRI data and corresponding histology. With the aforementioned methods and results from each study, we are able to move one step closer with assisting healthcare providers in optimizing treatments for patients with deep vein thrombosis.

Chair: Joan Greve

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Presentation Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:51:38 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
Professional Development Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Celebration Ceremony (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61709 61709-15172356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The Professional Development Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate Program is proud to announce this year’s certificate recipients. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of program participants. The ceremony will feature the Dean of Rackham Graduate School, the University’s Chief Diversity Officer, and student keynote speakers. A reception will immediately follow in the Assembly Hall. Friends, faculty, and staff are all welcome to join our celebration ceremony!
Applications for the 2019-2020 school year will be made available in August for interested graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across all University of Michigan schools and departments. For any further questions or inquiries, please contact rack-dei-certificate@umich.edu
Pre-registration is required at https://myumi.ch/L11ed.
For more information about the PD DEI Certificate Program or to access the application in August 2019, please visit https://rackham.umich.edu/professional-development/dei-certificate/.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:15:51 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Ceremony / Service Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE), Public Finance: College Aid and the Marginal Cost of a College Degree: Evidence from a Randomized Trial. (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59898 59898-14797332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Social, Behavioral, and Experimental Economics (SBEE)

Abstract

A large privately-funded scholarship program randomized 'full-freight' financial aid awards to entering students at Nebraska's public colleges and universities. Scholarship awards increased four-year college attendance among recipients but had little effect on two-year or overall attendance. Awards granted to students targeting four-year colleges boosted six-year graduation rates by 8.5 percentage points, with gains unevenly distributed, ranging from a high of 15 - 20 points among minority program applicants and those with low ACT scores, to zero for well-prepared program applicants. Roughly 92% of the scholarship aid went to students who would have graduated without scholarship aid. Average scholarship costs were $43,000 per additional college year completed and $425,000 per additional four-year degree obtained, but this falls to $230,000 for nonwhite students. Costs were high in part because scholarship awards lengthened time to degree among recipients. Nevertheless, the bulk of scholarship expenditures reflect transfers from scholarship sponsors to scholarship recipients rather than incremental expenditures on post-secondary education.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:34:34 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Social, Behavioral, and Experimental Economics (SBEE) Workshop / Seminar Economics
STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63166 63166-15581084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Big Data in Population Science - Mini-Series (3 of 4)

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs are a key contributor to eco- nomic growth and national competitiveness. Yet STEM workers are perceived to be in short supply. This paper shows that the "STEM shortage" phenomenon is explained by technological change, which introduces new job skills and makes old ones obsolete. We find that the initially high economic return to applied STEM degrees declines by more than 50 percent in the first decade of working life. This coincides with a rapid exit of college graduates from STEM occupations. Using detailed job vacancy data, we show that STEM jobs changed especially quickly over the last decade, leading to flatter age-earnings profiles as the skills of older cohorts became obsolete. Our findings highlight the importance of technology-specific skills in explaining life-cycle returns to education, and show that STEM jobs are the leading edge of technology diffusion in the labor market.

BIO:
David Deming is a Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Director of the Harvard Inequality and Social Policy Program, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses broadly on the economics of skill development, education and labor markets. He is currently serving as a coeditor at the AEJ: Applied, and is a Principal Investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the CLIMB Initiative, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility. He recently won the David N. Kershaw Prize, which is awarded biannually to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to the field of public policy and management under the age of 40.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:18:07 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion David Deming
What to Expect After Graduate School: Tools for Success (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63172 63172-15585189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Not sure what to expect post-graduation? Join GradSWE and MESWN for an informative and exciting conversation about what's next after grad school! A panel comprised of postdocs, senior PhD students, young professionals, and junior faculty will share their experiences with choosing a career path (e.g. academia vs industry), navigating the job market, and preparing for life post-graduation. Lunch will be provided! RSVP is required.

Contact: Kanchan Swaroop at kanchan@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:03:46 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
German Lab (April 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55378 55378-14797433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500).
Go to the German Lab 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 101-231), 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, do your homework in the LRC! Then if you get stuck on something, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck.
For more info: https://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html

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Class / Instruction Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:39:22 -0400 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Class / Instruction German Lab MTWTh 1-4 LRC
Being Brown: South Asian Narratives of Brownness in Southeast Michigan (April 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62493 62493-15372977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Using an interdisciplinary lens, the exhibit explores the heterogeneity in the contours of brown narratives among South Asians in the Midwest. Although there is an emerging interest in the social construction of brownness on its own terms, most of such explorations are situated either in the East or West Coast. Rarely have the narratives of brownness in the Midwest been explored. The Midwest, particularly Ann Arbor and the greater Detroit area, has a sizable population of South Asians who work in a variety of blue collar to professional jobs that range from motel cleaners to doctors.

This exhibit was curated by Ram Mahalingam, Osman Khan, and Aswin Punathamebkar.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:12:40 -0400 2019-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Ethics and Politics of AI: Data Violence: Discourse and Justice in a Datafied World (April 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62336 62336-15353047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Values of fairness, antidiscrimination, and inclusion occupy a central place in the emerging ethics of data and algorithms. Their importance is underscored by the reality that data-intensive, algorithmically-mediated decision systems—as represented by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)—can exacerbate existing (or generate new) injustices, worsening already problematic distributions of rights, opportunities, and wealth. At the same time, critics of certain “fair” or “inclusive” approaches to the design and implementation of these systems have illustrated their limits, pointing to problems with reductive or overly technical definitions of fairness or a general inability to appropriately address representative or dignitary harms.

In this talk, Anna Lauren Hoffmann extends these critiques by focusing on problems of cultural and discursive violence. She begins by discussing trends in AI/ML fairness and inclusion discussion that mirror problematic tendencies from legal antidiscrimination discourses. From there, she introduces “data violence” as a response to these trends. In particular, she lays out the discursive bases of data-based violence—that is, the discursive forms by which competing voices and various “fair” or “inclusive” solutions become legible (and others marginalized or ignored). In doing so, she undermines any neat or easy distinction between the presence of violence and its absence—rather, our sense of fair or inclusive conditions contain and feed the possibility of violent ones. She concludes by echoing feminist political philosopher Serene Khader’s call to move away from justice-imposing solutions toward justice-enhancing ones. Importantly, justice-enhancing efforts cannot simply be a matter of protecting or “including” vulnerable others, but must also attend to discourses and norms that generate asymmetrical vulnerabilities to violence in the first place.

About the Speaker:

Anna Lauren Hoffmann is a scholar and writer working at the intersections of data, technology, culture, and ethics. She is currently an Assistant Professor with The Information School at the University of Washington.

Her work centers on issues in information, data, and ethics, paying specific attention to the ways discourse, design, and uses of information technology work to promote or hinder the pursuit of important human values like respect and justice. She is concerned with the ways data, information, and technological systems (or the ways we talk about them) discriminate by undermining the development of self-respect of some, especially through the infliction of symbolic and discursive violences. In addition, she works on issues around ethics education for data professionals and computer scientists, as well as the possibilities (and limits) of research ethics and professional codes of ethics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:07:30 -0400 2019-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Anna Lauren Hoffmann
RNA Innovation Seminar, Theme: Molecular Biology (April 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59722 59722-14780106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

"The Mechanism of RAN Translation at Repeat Expansion Mutations”
Katelyn Green
Ph.D. candidate from the Peter Todd Lab
~and~
“Isolation of exosomes from blood by integrating acoustics and microfluidics”
Mengxi Wu, PhD
from the Katsuo Kurabayashi Lab lab

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:52:11 -0400 2019-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Outstanding GSI and Faculty Mentoring Awards Ceremony (April 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62609 62609-15410180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Each year the Rackham recognizes the efforts and talents of Graduate Student Instructors whose dedication to developing course content and classroom activity is truly outstanding on our campus. Similarly, Rackham honors the mentoring abilities and involvement of faculty through three different mentoring awards. We invite all in the University—students, faculty, and staff—to attend the event and reception to congratulate the award recipients.

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Ceremony / Service Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:16:23 -0400 2019-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Ceremony / Service Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59572 59572-14752331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 22, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Discrimination and Cortisol: One Pathway to Health Disparities among Black Americans.”

By Eleanor K. Seaton, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Center for Child and Family Success
Associate Professor, Social and Family Dynamics, T. Denny Sanford School of (SSFD)
Arizona State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:58:31 -0500 2019-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
HEP-Astro Seminar | Picosecond Timing: extending the physics potential of the High Luminosity LHC with the CMS MIP timing detector (April 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63020 63020-15536914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is an upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which will extend the accelerator's potential for new discoveries in physics. This upgrade will increase the rate of collisions by a factor of five beyond the original design value and the total collisions created by a factor ten. To meet the challenging conditions of the HL-LHC, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is undergoing an extensive Phase 2 Upgrade program. In particular, a new precision timing detector with hermetic coverage up to a pseudo-rapidity of |η|=3 will measure minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) with a time resolution of 30-40 ps. This measurement of the time coordinate will reduce the effects of the high levels of pile-up expected at the HL-LHC and bring new capabilities to the CMS detector. In this seminar, I will discuss the impact on the HL-LHC physics program as well as the design and technology of this new detector.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:15:25 -0400 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
New methods and strategies in the synthesis of natural products (April 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61881 61881-15225983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

New methods and strategies in the synthesis of terpenoid and polyketide natural products will be discussed.




Sergey Pronin (UC Irvine)

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Other Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:15:12 -0400 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Rubin Speaker Series (April 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57748 57748-14280617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

Jason Lyall is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Political Violence FieldLab at Yale University. He is also affiliated with Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He is also a member of the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network.

His research examines the effects and effectiveness of political violence in civil and conventional wars. On-going research projects are investigating (1) how violence and aid affect civilian attitudes and behavior in violent settings; (2) how ethnic inequality shapes the battlefield performance of conventional armies, including the propensity of soldiers to desert and defect; and (3) the role of airpower in modern wars. His research draws on diverse methods and languages, ranging from macrohistorical data and field, survey, and natural experiments to archival research and participant observation. He has conducted fieldwork in Russia and Afghanistan, where he served as the Technical Adviser for USAID’s Measuring the Impact of Stabilization Initiatives (MISTI) project during 2012-15.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:46:41 -0500 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Polish Wet Monday / Czech Pomlázka Monday (April 22, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62884 62884-15486004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Experience Slavic Easter Monday traditions like Polish Śmigus-dyngus/Wet Monday and Czech Pomlázka Monday! Delicious food will be provided! There will be a pomlázka braiding demonstration as well.
Open to everyone!

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:52:10 -0400 2019-04-22T16:15:00-04:00 2019-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering 2019 polish wet monday czech pomlazka monday
Healthcare Delivery in Emerging Markets (April 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62900 62900-15492420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Join us as graduate student teams share in-country project summaries of their work with healthcare organizations in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Peru, and Rwanda.

The graduate student presenters are enrolled in the International Business Immersion course which is designed to enhance the students global leadership capabilities, awareness of diverse business issues on the current international landscape, and on-the-ground experience in a specific country. This will be a great opportunity for you to learn more about this course, the students' work and their experiences abroad.

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Presentation Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:18:59 -0400 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Presentation Students interviewing a patient
Michigan Students Making An Impact (April 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63186 63186-15587260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Graduate students from the Ross School of Business, the School of Public Health and the School of Information will give presentations on their global health work conducted in Ethiopia, Kenya, India, Peru and Rwanda. Students worked on a variety of projects, including: improving data reporting at a Rwanda health clinic; developing a business plan to grow the number of surgeries at a Kenya eye care facility; creating a business strategy to start an oxygen gas supply business to service an Ethiopian hospital; commercializing a low-cost, low-tech ventilator for the India market; and, developing operations and marketing plans to turn a Peru clinic into a gastrointestinal center of excellence.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:45:34 -0400 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Presentation Information Poster
Michigan Students Making An Impact (April 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63186 63186-15587261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Graduate students from the Ross School of Business, the School of Public Health and the School of Information will give presentations on their global health work conducted in Ethiopia, Kenya, India, Peru and Rwanda. Students worked on a variety of projects, including: improving data reporting at a Rwanda health clinic; developing a business plan to grow the number of surgeries at a Kenya eye care facility; creating a business strategy to start an oxygen gas supply business to service an Ethiopian hospital; commercializing a low-cost, low-tech ventilator for the India market; and, developing operations and marketing plans to turn a Peru clinic into a gastrointestinal center of excellence.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:45:34 -0400 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Presentation Information Poster
Resume Lab (April 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62460 62460-15366341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Organized By: University Career Center

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/293545

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 07 May 2019 12:30:06 -0400 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States University Career Center Careers / Jobs
RC Chamber Musicians in Concert (April 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63179 63179-15585200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Small chamber ensembles of various instruments will play music by Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and others.

Students performing include:
Anna Argento
Andy Bui
Griffin Barron
Laboni Bayen
Anneke Benison
Briana Bowen
Noah Burns
Yuxuan Cao
Carolyn Chen
Chelsea Cheng
Christopher Combs
Josephine Croce
Kaila Daley
Eleanor Epskamp-Hunt
Tia Esposito
Ryan Estmont
Alexandria Hamlin
Kevin Huang
Lyric Kleber
Nora Kuo
Aabi Laal
Jamie Lai
Isabel Lee
Sonia Lee
Audrey Ling
Samuel Maves
Sierra Mullins
Hannah Novack
Isabella Panse
Daria Pyrozhenko
Marie Rucinski
Safia Sayed
Abigail Schneider
Ruby Schneider
Jackson Schodowski
Phoebe Shih
Benjamin Stefadu
Lily Talmers
Jeffery Torano
Daniel Wan
Wendy Wang
Sohee Won
Carolyn Wu
Ed Wu
Maple Xu
Minjing Yang
William Yang
Christopher Young
Matthew Young
Fangbo Yuan
Nicole Zukowski

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Performance Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:18:35 -0400 2019-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T19:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Poster design
Therapy Dogs in the Library (April 22, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61976 61976-15250107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Shake off end-of-semester stress while relaxing with a furry friend. Therapy dogs await your attention, courtesy of Therapaws of Michigan.

Join us near the Design Lab's PIE Space (Prototype-Inspire-Explore) on the first floor of the Shapiro Library:

Thursday, April 18: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Monday, April 22: 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:48:47 -0500 2019-04-22T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Reception / Open House therapy dog in the library
Department of Theatre Senior Showcase (April 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60239 60239-14851287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Senior BFA performance majors present a public dress rehearsal before they hold showcases in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

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Performance Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:40:28 -0400 2019-04-22T19:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Theatre Students
Spring Showcase 2019 (April 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62880 62880-15485957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Come join Vibrance Dance CO for their Annual Spring Showcase on Monday, April 22 @ 7pm. Vibrance is a jazz, contemporary and modern dance group who has been working all year to put on a showcase for the U of M community and they would love to see you there!

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Performance Thu, 04 Apr 2019 13:55:43 -0400 2019-04-22T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T21:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Vibrance Dance Company
StrengthFinders: Discover YOUR FINGERPRINT of STRENGTHS (Student-Athletes) (April 22, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62684 62684-15425427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Ross Academic Center, Conference Room, 1110 S State St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States
Organized By: University Career Center

Student-Athletes discover YOUR natural talents and build your confidence! Learn how your unique strengths are 1 in 33 MILLION!

UNLOCKING YOUR STRENGTHS is as EASY as 1-2-3:
1. RSVP on Handshake for the STRENTHSFINDERS event to receive a free code to take the assessment.
2. USE EMAILED FREE CODE: After you RSVP, you will receive an email within 24 hours with directions on how to complete the assessment
3. COMPLETE ASSESSMENT: You will need up to 30 minutes to complete assessment and then ATTENDSESSION

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 07 May 2019 18:30:06 -0400 2019-04-22T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:30:00-04:00 Ross Academic Center, Conference Room, 1110 S State St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Crystal Bowersox (April 22, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58293 58293-14452851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:37:55 -0500 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance crystal
Senior Recital: Jessica Hu, cello (April 22, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63265 63265-15605808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Chopin - Nocturne in E-flat Major, op. 9, no. 2; Chopin - Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C MAjor, op. 3; Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante in E Minor, op. 125.

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Performance Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:15:16 -0400 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Student Recital: Mitchell Luttermose, saxophone (April 22, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63218 63218-15595493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Rogers - Lessons of the Sky; Zupko - In Transit; Noda - Maï; Françaix - Cinq Danses Exotiques; Albright - Pit Band.

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Performance Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:15:13 -0400 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Third Dissertation Recital: Brendan Ige, tuba & euphonium (April 22, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63204 63204-15589329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Plog - Three Miniatures; Kraft - Encounters II; Larsen - Concert Piece for Tuba and Piano; Madsen - Sonata for Tuba and Piano, op. 34; Jacob - Fantasia for Euphonium.

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Performance Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:15:17 -0400 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 22, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-22T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work (April 23, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63110 63110-15576718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:03:22 -0400 2019-04-23T08:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T10:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) Workshop / Seminar Economics
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (April 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-04-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Instant Knowledge: Detroit (April 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63285 63285-15612037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: History of Art

This workshop will focus on data-objects, or historical, data-based research and mapping projects related to Detroit, from the 1930s to the 1980s. Students and invited guests will reflect about these objects in the context of the Cold War and the global dimension or urbanization processes, and in relationship to the Mapping Detroit project, currently prepared at Taubman College.

9:00 - 10:45AM: Detroit Cold War
Tim Barney
University of Richmond

Presentations from:
Jessica Puff
Anjelica Hope Perez
Bader AlBader & Christine Hwang

10:50 - 1:00PM: Detroit Global

Presentations:
Amit Ittyerah
Weican Zuo

Discussants:
Robert Fishman
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrio
Anya Sirota
Lukasz Stanek
Kathy Velikov
Claire Zimmerman

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:29:39 -0400 2019-04-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building History of Art Workshop / Seminar poster
MCDB Seminar: Unraveling the first step in SNARE-mediated vesicle fusion (April 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62800 62800-15468798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Yanzhuang Wang

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:02:05 -0400 2019-04-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T10:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar bicycles in front of bsb
MCDB Doctoral Defense: The Neuromuscular System: Postsynaptic Regulation (April 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61880 61880-15223804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Mentor: Mohammed Akaaboune

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Other Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:34:24 -0400 2019-04-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Other BSB Building
Poverty: Looking from the Inside Out (April 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58956 58956-14626049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

If you’ve ever wondered why people in poverty don’t just….get a job, stick to a budget, or work a little harder, this class is for you. Together we will explore the dynamics of poverty—looking at what keeps people in it, what’s needed to break out of it, and how we can all play a role in building community to end poverty.
Class includes hands-on simulations, thoughtful discussion, and personal stories of struggle and transformation. The final class focuses on solutions and will feature two dynamic programs making a real difference right here in Washtenaw County. This Study Group led by Suzanne Van Dam is for those 50 and over and will meet Tuesdays, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., April 23rd through May 7th.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:37:29 -0500 2019-04-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
AIM for DE&I Speaker Series (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63130 63130-15578783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Tuesday, April 23 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (1st Floor, 913 S. University Ave.) for the all new Academic Innovation at Michigan for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (AIM for DE&I) Speaker Series. This talk will be the second of four throughout April and May aimed at exploring issues at the intersections of teaching and learning; technology; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Talk Information:

Augmented Empathy: How can design bring empathy back in an increasingly disconnected world

Come join an interactive storytelling journey to explore identity; how identities are connected to the communities and sub-cultures to which we belong. Whether it evolves out of geography or perception, this is an exploration of the building blocks of augmenting empathy with Bayete Ross Smith.

Bayeté Ross Smith is a photographer and multimedia artist from New York whose collaborative projects Along The Way and Question Bridge: Black Males have shown at the Sundance Film Festival and several others. He is a TED Resident and an embedded media maker with POV/Am Doc and The New York Times, and he has exhibited his work internationally. He is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Bayeté uses photography, video and public installation to investigate the ways we perform our racial, gender and cultural identities through clothing, music and the communities of affinity we choose. He reveals both the pleasure of performing our chosen personas, as well as the dangers of perceiving these personas in others.

All members of the University of Michigan community including faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:15:48 -0400 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T12:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM for DE&I Series
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations Graduate Speaker Series (April 23, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59651 59651-15636674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

**Fall 2019 KICK-OFF WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 23RD**

Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations marks the third run of the professional development event hosted by Tau Beta Pi aimed at providing Michigan Engineering graduate students the opportunity to enhance their scientific communication skills. The series will be co-hosted/sponsored by TBP and the graduate societies of MSE, ECE, ChE, and MACRO and also sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs! As "learning-by-practice" event, it aims to help students learn how to effectively convey the "big picture" value of their research to a diverse audience, while also engaging a dialog of science and engineering research among graduate students across the entire College of Engineering. The event is aimed primarily at graduate students planning to take their candidacy exam, but anyone is welcome to participate! We will host 7-10 events each term, and event dates/times will be announced on a rolling basis.

Each session is structured to have student speakers (2-3 per session) make a timed (15-20 min) presentation on their graduate research to a broad engineering audience and a communications expert panel (3-4 panelists). Our expert panelists will provide constructive feedback to the speakers (and the audience), highlighting the positive aspects of each presentation and also indicating opportunities for improvement. This structure will allow for the speakers to receive specific feedback on their communication skills, while also providing the audience with generalized guidelines for good scientific communication.

If you would like to participate as a speaker/audience, please fill out the links below. We will follow-up with you with scheduling details. NOTE: The event is open to ALL CoE students, regardless of TBP membership status.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:20:21 -0500 2019-04-23T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Tau Beta Pi Workshop / Seminar TBP Speaker Series
Biopsychology Colloquium: Treating the hyperphagia driving obesity: Neural mechansims of feeding inhibition with a focus on CNS GLP-1R as a target (April 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59099 59099-14677977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Obesity prevalence continues to climb worldwide providing significant pathophysiologic challenges to human health. Hyperphagia, the primary driver of this epidemic, results from the activating effects of hedonic sensory features of the food environment on specific, behavior-generating brain circuits. Feeding inhibition, by contrast, results from ingested food triggering GI satiation signals whose activational effects are conveyed via vagal afferents and processed by n. tractus solitarious (NTS) neurons that are also responsive to leptin and oxytocin. A focus on food intake inhibition neurobiology compels attention to roles for gastrointestinal satiation signals and provides an entry point in deciphering a circuit diagram for feeding inhibition that should be useful to the development of efficacious obesity phramacotherapies. It is interesting to note that GLP-1 released from intestinal enteroendocrine cells by digested food excites centrally projecting vagal afferents that in turn excite GLP-1-positive TH- positive and PrRP-positive NTS neurons. The rats’ ~500 GLP-1 NTS neurons send their axons to multiple and anatomically distributed GLP-1R expressing nuclei such that when activated by the consequences of food ingestion and other antecedents there is a brain wide increase in GLP-1R signaling that results in feeding inhibition. Others and we have individually probed function in various GLP-1R expressing nuclei with agonist and find a remarkable degree of redundancy across targets including reductions in: meal size, cumulative intake, food seeking and feeding motivation. GLP-1R targeted anti-obesity drug therapy works via brain penetrance of long acting modied agonists resulting in multisite activation of endogenous control circuits to reduce feeding and thereby body weight. Among their actions GLP-1R targeting therapies impact neural mediation of hedonic processes involved in food seeking and feeding motivation. Support from NIH DK-21397

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Presentation Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:06:47 -0400 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation grill
Comparative Politics Workshop (April 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (April 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62791 62791-15466657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Susan Biggins, Director of the Basic Sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, will deliver the Department of Biological Chemistry seminar on Tuesday April 23rd, 2019. This seminar will take place at 12:00 noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II. The title of the talk is: "Chromosome Segregation: New Approaches and Insights."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 10:02:12 -0400 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Not your father's ecological theory: how trait clusters change our view of limiting similarity (April 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57422 57422-14191310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

Abstract
Niche partitioning is a primary mechanism thought to ameliorate competitive interactions and promote coexistence. As such, understanding how competitive interactions and niches interact is potentially invaluable for understanding the formation and maintenance of biodiversity -- a primary goal in ecology. Recent upheavals in ecological theory suggest that competitive interactions should produce a clustered distribution of traits in biological communities, for traits relevant to coexistence. Our lab has recently demonstrated evidence for the existence of these trait clusters in a neotropical forest community. For maximum tree height, the cluster boundaries align surprisingly well with previous models of how light rays and forest canopy architecture interact to produce regions of maximum light availability. This seminar will propose ways to further our understanding of niche processes by illustrating how investigating the scale over which clustering emerges in different traits can be linked to the scale over which those traits might impact competing organisms. Recent collaborative work involving the chemical trait makeup of neotropical plants illustrates how chemical trait space might represent a novel niche axis to test predictions of trait patterning. Finally, a flexible modeling framework for asking how phylogenetic models of trait evolution impact ecological theory is presented as a tool for helping to bridge expectations across community ecology and phylogenetics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:23:39 -0400 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar trait clusters
Special Life After Graduate School Seminar | Applied Physics Applied (April 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63256 63256-15603734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Catalin Florea (Applied Physics PhD, 2002) will share notes on his (non-academic) early and mid-career path – from landing the first job deep into Midwest, to working now in R&D for a Fortune 100 company. Achievements and setbacks will be discussed, and an informal Q & A session will provide an opportunity to connect with the speaker.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:15:26 -0400 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
April 23rd Bavarian Inn Employment Fair (April 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63062 63062-15545336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Frankenmuth, Michigan, United States of America
Organized By: University Career Center

Our next job fair will take place on
Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 from 1 – 5 p.m.
at the Bavarian Inn Restaurant(Swiss Rooms)
We hope to see you there!

Exclusive Advantages for Bavarian Inn Team Members:

-Full and part time opportunities
-Growth opportunities
-Medical, dental, vision and life insurance option
-401 K with company matching
-Educational opportunities
-Tuition reimbursement program
-Tuition Reimbursement after 90 days of service
-College, university, or technical school
-Associates, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral, or Technical
-Grade A = 100% Grade B = 75% Grade C = 50%
-Free lunches
-Great discounts
-Annual bonus opportunities
-Great tips for servers
-Referral program – get paid for referring others to work with you

Current Team Openings as of 4/4/19 - https://bavarianinn.com/jobs/
-Assistant Cook
-Biergarten Server
-Cheese Haus Sales Assistant
-CB&LS Sales Assistant
-Dining Room Supervisor
-Dish Worker
-Frank's Muth Sales Assistant
-Front Desk Clerk
-Housekeeper
-Host/Hostess
-Line Cook
-Martha's Gift Shop Clerk
-Prep Cook
-CB&LS Retail Supervisor- Advanced Sales
-Receiving Clerk
-Redemption Clerk (3 minors)
-Server
-Water Slide Attendant ( minors)

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 08 May 2019 12:30:08 -0400 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Frankenmuth, Michigan, United States of America University Career Center Careers / Jobs
German Lab (April 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55378 55378-14797448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500).
Go to the German Lab 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 101-231), 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, do your homework in the LRC! Then if you get stuck on something, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck.
For more info: https://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html

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Class / Instruction Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:39:22 -0400 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Class / Instruction German Lab MTWTh 1-4 LRC
Being Brown: South Asian Narratives of Brownness in Southeast Michigan (April 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62493 62493-15372978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Using an interdisciplinary lens, the exhibit explores the heterogeneity in the contours of brown narratives among South Asians in the Midwest. Although there is an emerging interest in the social construction of brownness on its own terms, most of such explorations are situated either in the East or West Coast. Rarely have the narratives of brownness in the Midwest been explored. The Midwest, particularly Ann Arbor and the greater Detroit area, has a sizable population of South Asians who work in a variety of blue collar to professional jobs that range from motel cleaners to doctors.

This exhibit was curated by Ram Mahalingam, Osman Khan, and Aswin Punathamebkar.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:12:40 -0400 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
EEB dissertation defense: Drivers of epidemic timing and size in a natural aquatic system (April 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62169 62169-15308869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Clara presents her dissertation defense

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Presentation Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:24:21 -0400 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation Daphnia
Internship Lab (April 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62467 62467-15366348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Organized By: University Career Center

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/293561

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 08 May 2019 12:30:07 -0400 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States University Career Center Careers / Jobs
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards Ceremony (April 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62486 62486-15372951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

While all Ph.D. students produce dissertations of quality, some students write dissertations that are truly exceptional for the high caliber of their scholarship and for the significance and interest of their findings. Each year we invite faculty to nominate the dissertations produced in their programs that were outstanding. The nomination dossiers submitted are then read and discussed by a review panel of faculty members who identify the finalists. Members of the Michigan Society of Fellows read the finalists’ dissertations, review the merits, and select the winners. We recognize these exceptional dissertations with the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards. All members of the U-M community are invited to attend the awards ceremony and reception to honor and congratulate the award recipients.

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Ceremony / Service Mon, 25 Mar 2019 18:16:22 -0400 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Ceremony / Service Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Tech Talk Tuesday (April 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
Economic History (April 23, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58613 58613-14517947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Postponed from April 16, 2019

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:08:14 -0400 2019-04-23T14:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
EXCELebration - TACO TUESDAY 2019 (April 23, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63167 63167-15581085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building, EXCEL Lab (1279), 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Organized By: University Career Center

Celebrate the end of the term with EXCEL! We will present a brief program, award the 2019 EXCEL Prize, and serve up tacos from Tios. Come early for tacos and enjoy the last days of classes! 

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 08 May 2019 12:30:08 -0400 2019-04-23T14:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T15:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building, EXCEL Lab (1279), 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Access to Justice (April 23, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63002 63002-15534802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 3:15pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law School Problem Solving Initiative

Multidisciplinary teams of graduate and professional students have spent the past term considering the real-world problem of access to the civil justice system.

Students will present solutions that improve access to civil justice in Michigan, drawing on insights from law, information technology, engineering, design, public policy, business, sociology, social work, and other relevant fields.

Proposed solutions to be discussed:

- legal information for migrant farm workers

- representative jury pools

- tenant support in eviction proceedings

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Presentation Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:25:12 -0400 2019-04-23T15:15:00-04:00 2019-04-23T18:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law School Problem Solving Initiative Presentation Hutchins Hall
American Culture End of Semester Celebration! (April 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63322 63322-15642808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Celebrate the end of another school year! Bring a friend and drop by the Ethnic Studies Lounge for snacks and conversation!

And as a bonus: walk-in advising with Scott will be available from 4-5pm as well!

Pastries, Snacks and Coffee
Tuesday 4/23 from 4-5:30 pm in the Ethnic Studies Lounge (Study area in American Culture)

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Reception / Open House Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:05:26 -0400 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Reception / Open House Haven Hall
Chemical Regulation of Functional RNAs (April 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55268 55268-13711531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

We study the mechanisms of specificity and regulation of enzymes that act on RNA. We identified the molecular basis for how a small molecule, heme, affects microRNA processing enzyme Drosha. We show that heme acts as a signaling factor to switch on processing of a subset of microRNAs. Other chemicals such as S-adenosylmethioinine, and transfer of its methyl group to RNA, can also have a big role in RNA-mediated gene regulation. We show the mechanistic details of how RNA methylation is accomplished, using crystal structures and biochemical studies.








Yunsun Nam (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

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Other Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:15:14 -0400 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
CM-AMO Seminar | The precision frontier: hunting for new short-range forces with AMO-based sensors (April 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63282 63282-15611985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

We normally think of large accelerators and massive detectors when we consider the frontiers of elementary particle physics, pushing to understand the universe at higher and higher energy scales. However, several tabletop low-energy experiments are positioned to discover a wide range of new physics beyond the Standard model, where feeble interactions require precision measurements rather than high energies. In high vacuum, optically-levitated dielectric nanospheres achieve excellent decoupling from their environment, making force sensing at the zeptonewton level (10^{-21} N) achievable. In this talk I will describe our progress towards using these sensors for tests of the Newtonian gravitational inverse square law at micron length scales. Optically levitated dielectric objects show promise for a variety of other applications, including searches for gravitational waves. Finally, I will discuss the Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE), a precision magnetometry experiment using laser-polarized 3-He gas to search for a notable dark-matter candidate: the QCD axion. ​

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:15:26 -0400 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Michigan Meltdown (April 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62205 62205-15313207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: First Presbyterian Church
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us for FREE ICE CREAM the last day of classes, 4-6pm April 23rd!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:00:09 -0400 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 First Presbyterian Church Maize Pages Student Organizations Social / Informal Gathering
The 5th Biannual FTVM 236 Audiovisual Essay Festival (April 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62979 62979-15528490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Since 2016, the FTVM 236 course at the University of Michigan has used audiovisual essay assignments on as large a scale as at any other institution in the world. More than one hundred students who enrolled in FTVM 236 during the winter 2019 term created a series of audiovisual essays as part of their work for the course. This final event showcases the hard work, critical acumen, and creativity that went into their final capstone projects, in which each student made an original critical argument in audiovisual form about a selected film or television episode that was studied in the course. Winners in a number of categories will be selected by a vote of the enrolled students in attendance.
Join us for this celebration of outstanding undergraduate work!

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Film Screening Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:31:24 -0400 2019-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:30:00-04:00 Department of Film, Television, and Media Film Screening poster
International Studies Information Session and Q&A (April 23, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52598 52598-12874400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. International Studies academic advisors will discuss:

• Prerequisites
• Major and minor requirements
• Sub-plans
• How to declare
• Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute
• Study abroad, grants, and internships
• Relevance of an International Studies major or minor

Undeclared students should plan to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. For dates of all upcoming sessions, please review the PICS event calendar. If you have questions, please e-mail is-advising@umich.edu. All sessions will be held in Weiser Hall located at 500 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

A half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information, please email is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information, please email is-michigan@umich.edu. Prospective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations, events, and special announcements should sign up for the International Studies Prospective Student email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914

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. Please contact: is-michigan@umich.edu.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:52:32 -0400 2019-04-23T16:15:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:15:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Presentation photo
New Music Business Models (April 23, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62930 62930-15517955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Law School Problem Solving Initiative

Can we improve musicians’ opportunities to earn money from music?

The amount of revenue generated by the music and recording industries
is massive, and by most accounts, increasing. Musicians and composers
receive only a tiny fraction of that money, and many of them complain
that that share has been getting smaller.

Students will discuss how working musicians and composers can earn more money from their music.

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Presentation Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:49:09 -0400 2019-04-23T16:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Law School Problem Solving Initiative Presentation
Cognitive Science Study Day (April 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63257 63257-15603735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science majors: Are you looking for a quiet place to study for final exams? The Weinberg Institute is pleased to open the Cognitive Science space on the 9th floor of Weiser Hall for extended study hours on Tuesday, April 23, & Wednesday, April 24, from 5 to 9 pm. Drop in anytime during the extended evening hours. Study with your fellow Cog Sci majors. Enjoy free pizza, snacks, and soda.

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Other Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:53:41 -0400 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Other Weiser Hall
Panel: Viewpoint Diversity and the Future of Intellectual Discourse (April 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62901 62901-15492418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

We live in increasingly polarized times, and partisan animosity is at a high. Against this backdrop, it is tempting to sort ourselves into echo-chambers. What effects might this have on future discourse about important scientific, ethical, and policy matters? How does polarization affect the academy? Can viewpoint diversity increase the quality of research in politically relevant fields like social psychology, sociology, or political philosophy? Join us for a panel discussion with Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology at Rutgers, and Hrishikesh Joshi, Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan. All are welcome. Coffee and snacks will be provided!

Hosted by the Freedom and Flourishing Project.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:29:14 -0400 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion F&F Panel
Schokoladenstunde (April 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-14797404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) 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 Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Study Break (April 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63038 63038-15536933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The LSA Opportunity Hub will be transformed into the ultimate study space: free pizza and snacks and quiet rooms for when you need to concentrate, and Yin yoga classes and other activities for when you need a break. Be sure to join us!

5–10 p.m. | Study spaces & board games available
5:15–5:45 p.m. | Yoga guided by an instructor
6–6:30 p.m. | Yoga guided by an instructor

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:15:47 -0400 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Social / Informal Gathering Pizza
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (April 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (April 23, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-23T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Student-Made Video Games Showcase (April 23, 2019 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62983 62983-15528493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:45pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience 20+ new student-made video games at the EECS 494 + EMU Games Showcase! Interact with the developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

==Experiences on Display==
Myosotis
Junkyard Brawl
Poseidon's Treasure
GeomCraft
Flag Frenzy
Off the Deep End
Farmer Feud
Xenon
Blast from the Pass
Evacuation Protocol
Equinox: Security Breach
Forest Fight
Self-Love: The Thrivening
Atomic Mice
Friend and Foe
Wizard's Fury
Battles of the Seas
Fammunition
Coaster Shooter
Medieval Footrace
Cannon Bound
Swatch
Coastal Defense

Learn more about EECS 494 and the EMU SAG program at www.eecs494.com and https://www.emich.edu/cot/vbe/programs/sag/curriculum.php.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:22:49 -0400 2019-04-23T18:45:00-04:00 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 BBB EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition showcase_photo
Chinese Instrumental Music Ensemble Concert (April 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63014 63014-15534814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

A concert performance by students in RCHUMS 252, playing erhu (fiddle), dizi (flute), pipa (lute), and percussion.

April 23, 7pm
East Quad's Keene Theater

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Performance Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:56:10 -0400 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Ensemble
Daniel Washington Voice Studio Recital (April 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63264 63264-15605807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Prof. Daniel Washington present a voice recital featuring music by Purcell, Mozart, Puccini, Delibes, Lloyd-Weber, and Verdi.

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Performance Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:15:16 -0400 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Professional Autobiography (April 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62580 62580-15405819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: HSSP

Come learn about a career in Osteopathic Medicine from Dr Beals-Becker. She received her degree in Osteopathic Medicine from Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, in 1995. The focus of her practice is acute and chronic pain and newborn nursing problems. Her other interests include healthy, traditional foods and nutrition counseling.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:42:15 -0400 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Couzens Hall HSSP Lecture / Discussion Lynn Beals-Becker flyer
Start in a High Paying Career with Your Science Background (April 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63096 63096-15555874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Career Center

Graduating soon and not sure what to do next? We've all been there. Join us as we unveil the blueprint to starting a clinical research career: healthcare's best kept secret!

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 08 May 2019 18:30:07 -0400 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T19:30:00-04:00 University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Student Recital: Brian Kachur, saxophone (April 23, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62637 62637-15416696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Hyla - We Speak Etruscan; Bolcom - Concert Suite; Decruck - Sonate en Ut#; Denisov - Sonate.

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Performance Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:15:14 -0400 2019-04-23T19:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Brian Kachur
The Big Show (April 23, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62950 62950-15520077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Michigan’s oldest improv comedy group, ComCo’s final show the year. 90 minutes of laughs, stories, and all around fun. Come see the ComCo seniors for one final time in a night you won’t forget!

Doors at 7:30 p.m.

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Performance Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:51:36 -0400 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
University Symphony Orchestra (April 23, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61136 61136-15038534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Freda Herseth, mezzo-soprano

Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 PM in the lower lobby.

The final USO concert of the season opens with the rollicking music of John Adams and features the affecting Five Poems of Dorothy Parker by Ann Arbor composer Braxton Blake, sung by Prof. Freda Herseth. The second half of the concert opens with the hauntingly beautiful Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis for two string orchestras and solo string quartet by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The season comes to a close with Respighi’s Pines of Rome, the colorful portrait of Rome including children playing at games, the song of a nightingale, and the approaching march of a triumphant Roman army.

PROGRAM: John Adams- A Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Braxton Blake- Five Poems of Dorothy Parker; Vaughan Williams- Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Respighi-Pines of Rome

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Performance Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:24:57 -0400 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance USO
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 23, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-23T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: South Quad
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 South Quad Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 North Quad Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: Mosher-Jordan Hall
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 Mosher-Jordan Hall Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: Martha Cook Residence
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 Martha Cook Residence Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: Lawyer's Club & Munger Residences
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 Lawyer's Club & Munger Residences Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: Mary Markley Hall
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 Mary Markley Hall Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Late Night Breakfast (April 23, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63315 63315-15636688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:00pm
Location: Bursley Hall
Organized By: Michigan Dining

MDining is hosting Late Night Breakfast at ALL dining halls on Tuesday, 4/23 from 10-11:30pm.

Come out and enjoy your favorite breakfast classics at an all you can eat breakfast buffet!

Here's a look at the menu:

Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage links
Tater Tots
Tofu Scramble
Bagels
Donuts
Muffins
Coffee
And more!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:58:16 -0400 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T23:30:00-04:00 Bursley Hall Michigan Dining Social / Informal Gathering Late Night Breakfast is happening at all dining halls on 4/23 from 10-11:30pm!
Biophysics Symposium (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62917 62917-15494569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Protein-protein interactions among Bcl-2 family proteins regulate apoptosis. Anti-apoptotic members of the family, including Bcl-2, Bcl-xL, Bcl-w, Mcl-1, and Bfl-1, sequester pro-apoptotic family members by binding tightly to an amphipathic alpha helix within them, blocking pro-death functions. Through this mechanism, overexpression of the anti-apoptotic proteins is implicated in oncogenesis and resistance to chemotherapy. Tight-binding and selective inhibitors of Bcl-2 family proteins can be used to diagnose the Bcl-2 dependencies of cancer cells and may be developed as therapeutics. The challenge of designing peptides that function as high-affinity and selective inhibitors of specific Bcl-2 family proteins poses a fundamental, challenging problem in protein engineering and a good opportunity to study principles of protein-peptide recognition. I will describe features of Bcl-2 family protein interactions and discuss approaches we have developed that integrate computational structure-based modeling with high-throughput screening to generate peptide-based inhibitors.

Register here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/biophysics-symposium/2019-biophysics-symposium-registration/

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:42:37 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Conference / Symposium Chemistry Dow Lab
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (April 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-04-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
UROP Annual Spring Research Symposium (April 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62692 62692-15425437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Annual Spring Research Symposium is the culmination of the year-long research efforts of our students. We are excited to celebrate their achievements and showcase their work.

Download the "UROP Symposium" mobile app!
Apple Store.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/urop-symposium/id1459883092?ls=1&mt=8
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.umich.urop

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:32:53 -0400 2019-04-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium UROP Symposium
Engaged Pedagogy Initiative Symposium (April 24, 2019 9:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63093 63093-15555871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:15am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join the winter 2019 cohort of Engaged Pedagogy Initiative Fellows for the EPI Symposium. Students will lead discussions around topics in Community-Based Learning.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-04-24T09:15:00-04:00 2019-04-24T11:45:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Fgf8a and Tgfb3 converge on Notch signaling to inhibit retina regeneration in zebrafish (April 24, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61431 61431-15099348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Kristen Verhey, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:59:58 -0500 2019-04-24T09:30:00-04:00 2019-04-24T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Daniel Goldman
Decisions at End of Life (April 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58965 58965-14628130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The course will discuss facts and issues concerning end-of- life decisions. Topics include: Michigan and federal laws on funerals, the discourse between family and doctors when a terminal illness is present, cross-cultural rituals about funerals, and local options and costs for cremation, green burial, etc. The difference between powers of attorney and advance directives will be explained. Handouts will include this information plus a list of facts for your survivors.

Instructor Marion Holt has extensive knowledge of end of life topics and has developed two courses on aging. This session for those 50 and above will meet on April 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:40:39 -0500 2019-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
End of the Term Lunch, Recharge & Study Space (April 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62248 62248-15335303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Be sure you’re here by 12:15 to be entered into a drawing to win a CEW+ swag bag!

It’s the end of the semester and CEW+ is providing space (and food!) to help you finish the year off strong. Students are invited to drop in and take advantage of our study spaces, self-care activities, and healthy snacks. There will also be a social hour with lunch from 12:30-1:30 PM (RSVP requested for planning purposes).

We will also be offering two guided opportunities to practice mindfulness meditation at 10:15 and 1:30. Based on research from multiple sources, mindfulness is considered a key skill that can be utilized to reduce stress and induce a state of relaxation. Some of the many benefits of practicing mindfulness during finals are, higher brain functioning, increased attention and focus, increased clarity in thinking and perception, lowered anxiety levels, and better sleep. Mindfulness is a skill that can be learned and most effective when practiced on a regular basis. Come see how 15 minutes can help you make the most of your study time!

Feel free to drop in and socialize with other students or stay all day to get some work done. Either way, CEW+ is here to support you!

Bring friends to study together in our quiet spaces, or just hang out and meet other students from different departments in relaxing and welcoming spaces throughout the Center. Children are welcome with a designated child-friendly study space.

If you would like to attend the lunch, please RSVP. No registration is otherwise needed to drop in.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:17:54 -0400 2019-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T15:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Social / Informal Gathering Study Day
End of the Term Lunch, Recharge & Study Space (April 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59101 59101-14677981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Be sure you’re here by 12:15 to be entered into a drawing to win a CEW+ swag bag!

It’s the end of the semester and CEW+ is providing space (and food!) to help you finish the year off strong. Students are invited to drop in and take advantage of our study spaces, self-care activities, and healthy snacks. There will also be a social hour with lunch from 12:30-1:30 PM (RSVP requested for planning purposes).

We will also be offering two guided opportunities to practice mindfulness meditation at 10:30 and 1:30. Based on research from multiple sources, mindfulness is considered a key skill that can be utilized to reduce stress and induce a state of relaxation. Some of the many benefits of practicing mindfulness during finals are, higher brain functioning, increased attention and focus, increased clarity in thinking and perception, lowered anxiety levels, and better sleep. Mindfulness is a skill that can be learned and most effective when practiced on a regular basis. Come see how 15 minutes can help you make the most of your study time!

Feel free to drop in and socialize with other students or stay all day to get some work done. Either way, CEW+ is here to support you!

Bring friends to study together in our quiet spaces, or just hang out and meet other students from different departments in relaxing and welcoming spaces throughout the Center. Children are welcome with a designated child-friendly study space.

If you would like to attend the lunch, please RSVP. No registration is otherwise needed to drop in.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:39:14 -0500 2019-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T15:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Reception / Open House CEW+ Logo
Finals Survival Breakfast (April 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63278 63278-15609927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

CCI want to help you survive this Finals Season with two opportunities for FREE breakfast on Wednesday April 24th! That morning, head over to the Pierpont Commons Atrium for FSB To-Go where you can grab a quick, on-the-go meal before heading to the library.

Hungry later that night? From 10pm-1am, stop by the Michigan League Ballroom to fill up on free late night breakfast. Both events are while supplies last so make sure to get there early!

(And don't miss out on MDining's Late Night Breakfast on Tuesday April 23rd from 10-11:30pm at your nearest residence hall. Food is free with a meal plan and $8.50 with blue bucks or a credit card.)

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:21:18 -0400 2019-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering FSB
Finals Survival Breakfast To-Go (April 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63280 63280-15611983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

CCI want to help you survive this Finals Season with two opportunities for FREE breakfast on Wednesday April 24th! That morning, head over to the Pierpont Commons Atrium for FSB To-Go where you can grab a quick, on-the-go meal before heading to the library.Hungry later that night? From 10pm-1am, stop by the Michigan League Ballroom to fill up on free late night breakfast. Both events are while supplies last so make sure to get there early!(And don't miss out on MDining's Late Night Breakfast on Tuesday April 23rd from 10-11:30pm at your nearest residence hall. Food is free with a meal plan and $8.50 with blue bucks or a credit card.)

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:00:13 -0400 2019-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Maize Pages Student Organizations Social / Informal Gathering Pierpont Commons
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
OS Honors Symposium (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61375 61375-15097048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Come celebrate with our OS senior honors students as they present their research. Support your peers, or stop by to see what OS Honors is all about.​ Faculty, staff, students, friends, and family welcome! Lunch provided.

RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/hCpcMDakaYDt9AXF3

11am -- Welcome Dr. Lisa Fein, OS Lecturer and Honors Coordinator
11:10-11:30am -- Nadia Finkel
11:30-11:50am -- Vivian Hu
11:50am-12:10pm -- Catererd Lunch
12:10-12:30pm -- Lilah Kalfus
12:30-12:50pm -- Jenna Weberman

Nadia Finkel, Legal Underpinnings and Implications of Sexual Assault on College Campuses: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Policy Recommendations (Michelle Munro-Kramer, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing)

Vivian Hu, Insights From the First Year on Dodd-Frank’s Pay Ratio Disclosure (Jerry Davis, Associate Dean for Business + Impact, Professor, Ross School of Business)

Lilah Kalfus, The Business Case for Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Study on the Relationship Between Social and Financial Performance (Steve Samford, Assistant Professor, Organizational Studies)

Jenna Weberman, Wellness in the Workplace (Gretchen Spreitzer, Professor, Ross School of Business)

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Presentation Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:28:55 -0400 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Organizational Studies Program (OS) Presentation honors
Study Day Write-In (April 24, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63113 63113-15576721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Peer Writing Center opens its doors on Wednesday, April 24th from 11:30am-3:30pm for the Study Day Write-in. Feel our positive writing vibes in a quiet environment. We'll have study snacks on hand to keep you going along with writing consultants who can help you with anything you are working on.

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Other Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:56:17 -0400 2019-04-24T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-24T15:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Other flyer
HET Brown Bag | Finding String Theory from the Large N Bootstrap (April 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76370 76370-19711135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will discuss some recent methods for computing nonplanar CFT correlators, dual to one-loop amplitudes in AdS. This will include two applications to string theory: first, the development of a novel approach to computing perturbative string amplitudes; and second, a rigorous way to count the number of "large'' extra dimensions in the gravity dual of a strongly coupled, large N CFT.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:13:04 -0400 2019-04-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Ph.D. Defense: Kunal Rambhia (April 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63081 63081-15653093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

The purpose of this dissertation is to advance the development of a drug-loaded polymeric scaffold for bone tissue engineering as a promising synthetic substitute for autologous bone grafts. While still considered the reference standard for treatment of large volume bone injuries, autologous grafts are limited in their clinical applications by donor site morbidity, limited tissue availability, and potential for graft failure. The clinical use of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP) as bone graft substitutes has resulted in serious side effects due in part to the supraphysiologic dose of BMP required for adequate healing. New approaches to treating these large volume injuries are needed. Our proposed strategy utilizes tissue engineering and drug delivery concepts to develop synthetic drug-loaded biomimetic scaffolds for bone regeneration.

To enhance the osteogenic potential of synthetic scaffolds, we sought to simultaneously deliver two growth factors: recombinant human BMP-7 and recombinant human basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2). We first established an in vitro cell culture model using rabbit mesenchymal stem cells to evaluate and optimize the dose and duration of FGF-2 treatment in combination with BMP-7 as a basis for our in vivo studies. We subsequently encapsulated the growth factors in poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanospheres with tailored release patterns for each factor. Low molecular weight PLGA was used to encapsulate FGF-2 in fast releasing nanospheres while high molecular weight PLGA was used to encapsulate BMP-7 in slow releasing nanospheres. We found that FGF-2 augmented BMP-7-directed ectopic bone formation in a subcutaneous mouse model, and that the synergistic effect was dependent on the dose and duration of FGF-2 treatment. We also found that FGF-2 may contribute to enhanced bone formation due to its effects on cell migration and proliferation, as well as its angiogenic and osteogenic effects.

We then established an in vitro model to evaluate human mesenchymal stem cells in 2D monolayer and 3D culture on novel nanofibrous spongy microsphere scaffold (NF-SMS). We used a similar PLGA-based drug delivery system to control the release kinetics of FGF-2 and BMP-7 and conjugated drug-loaded PLGA nanospheres to the injectable NF-SMS scaffold. In a critical size cranial defect mouse model, low dose FGF-2 combined with BMP-7 enhanced bone regeneration over BMP-7 alone.

Lastly, we sought to better understand the crosstalk between the FGF-2 and BMP-7 signaling pathways through a series of experiments to measure the effect of FGF-2 on canonical BMP signaling in mouse calvarial osteoblasts. We identified a potential new link between these signaling pathways and propose a new mechanism by which FGF-2 signaling modulates BMP receptor activity, enhancing the phosphorylation of R-Smad1/5/9 proteins.

This research elucidates the criteria for achieving synergy between BMP-7 and FGF-2 through relevant in vitro and in vivo models. It provides guidelines for future development of biomimetic scaffolds with controlled release of multiple relevant biological cues to stimulate healing and tissue regeneration.

Chair: Peter X. Ma

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Presentation Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:49:45 -0400 2019-04-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
Study Tables X Grade-a-thon (April 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63307 63307-15634626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Galleria
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

Do you have a ton of studying to get done?
Do you have an overwhelming amount of assignments to grade?

Let the Program on Intergroup Relations give you a space to work among a group of inclusive individuals!

Food Provided -- undegraduates and graduate students welcome!

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Well-being Mon, 22 Apr 2019 11:08:20 -0400 2019-04-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 Galleria The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Well-being flyer
Grad School and Beyond (April 24, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62886 62886-15486006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

When is the right time to look for a job?
What are resources for looking for a job?
How should you work with your committee in the job search process?
How should you handle your applications and reference letters?

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 06 Apr 2019 19:49:04 -0400 2019-04-24T12:30:00-04:00 2019-04-24T13:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar Job Market
BLI Destress Fest 2019! (April 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62906 62906-15492423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Come de-stress with us! Join BLI for an end-of-year celebration to unwind before finals!

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Other Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:41:43 -0400 2019-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Other Weiser Hall
Student Recital: Marina Sakellakis, saxophone (April 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63253 63253-15603731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Saint-Saëns - Oboe Sonata in D Major, op. 166; Decruck - Sonate en Ut#; Yoshimatsu - Fuzzy Bird Sonata; Bresnick - Every Thing Must Go; TV - Grab It!

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Performance Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:15:16 -0400 2019-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Materials Chemistry Students 3rd Year Research Seminars (April 24, 2019 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62993 62993-15530603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 1:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry




William Dean, Matthew Hannigan, Quintin Cheek, Samuel Michaud, Jinhee Kim

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Other Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:15:12 -0400 2019-04-24T13:15:00-04:00 2019-04-24T16:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Being Brown: South Asian Narratives of Brownness in Southeast Michigan (April 24, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62493 62493-15372979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Using an interdisciplinary lens, the exhibit explores the heterogeneity in the contours of brown narratives among South Asians in the Midwest. Although there is an emerging interest in the social construction of brownness on its own terms, most of such explorations are situated either in the East or West Coast. Rarely have the narratives of brownness in the Midwest been explored. The Midwest, particularly Ann Arbor and the greater Detroit area, has a sizable population of South Asians who work in a variety of blue collar to professional jobs that range from motel cleaners to doctors.

This exhibit was curated by Ram Mahalingam, Osman Khan, and Aswin Punathamebkar.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:12:40 -0400 2019-04-24T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Ling.A.Mod Discussion Group (April 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59362 59362-14734865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Language Across Modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication - speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:06:32 -0500 2019-04-24T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T15:50:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Robots and the Workplace: Addressing Automation-Related Workplace Disruption (April 24, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63246 63246-15601674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 3:15pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law School Problem Solving Initiative

The advent of autonomous technology, artificial intelligence, and new sales and delivery mechanisms are likely to bring economic upheaval to a wide variety of professions, including transportation, sales, fulfillment, and hospitality services.

Multidisciplinary teams of graduate and professional students spent the term exploring the history and current issues around employment shifts to create proposals to maintain decent livelihoods in the face of automation.

Guest panelists:
John Austin (Director, Michigan Economic Center)
Lionel Robert (Core Faculty, Robotics and Associate Professor, U-M School of Information)
Dana Thompson (Clinical Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship Clinic, U-M School of Law)
Curt Wolf (Managing Director, Urban Collaboratory, U-M School of Civil and Environmental Engineering )

Instructors:
Marc Norman, Associate Professor of Practice,
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Nina Mendelson, Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law,
University of Michigan Law School

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Presentation Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:47:39 -0400 2019-04-24T15:15:00-04:00 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law School Problem Solving Initiative Presentation Hutchins Hall
Defense Dissertation: Development of a Hypersonic Aerothermoelastic Framework and Its Application to Flutter and Aerothermoelastic Scaling of Skin Panels (April 24, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62878 62878-15485954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Defense Committee
Chair: Professor Peretz P. Friedmann
Cognate: Professor Bogdan Epureanu
Members: Professor Carlos E. S. Cesnik, Professor Joaquim R. R. A. Martins

Presentation Info
Date: 04/24/2019
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: FXB 1044

Airbreathing hypersonic flight has the potential to revolutionize global transportation and has been one of the last frontiers in the aerospace industry for over seven decades. Unlike conventional commercial aircraft, air-breathing hypersonic vehicles are naturally interdisciplinary: the aerodynamic, structural and thermal responses are tightly coupled. One of the unresolved technical challenges is the lack of hypersonic aerothermoelastic scaling laws for conducting aerothermoelastic testing. Once such scaling laws were available, the flight test data obtained on scaled models could be extrapolated to full-size vehicles, resulting in a dramatic cost reduction in the development of hypersonic vehicles.

This dissertation aims to achieve refined hypersonic aerothermoelastic scaling laws using a novel two-pronged methodology, which combines the classical scaling approach with augmentation from numerical simulations of the specific aerothermoelastic problem. First, an efficient aerothermoelastic computational framework is developed. The framework adopts a novel technique that enables the extrapolation of surrogate-based interpolative reduced order aerodynamic models and achieves computational acceleration by four orders of magnitude. The framework also features the linearized stability analysis for efficient identification of aerothermoelastic stability boundary and a tightly-coupled scheme for near-real-time aerothermoelastic simulation of extended flight time. On top of the framework, the development of new aerothermoelastic scaling laws is formulated in the form of a constrained optimization problem, which is solved using a Bayesian optimization approach. The effectiveness of the two-pronged approach is demonstrated by its application to the refined hypersonic aerothermoelastic scaling of a composite skin panel configuration.

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Presentation Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:39:06 -0400 2019-04-24T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation daning
Cross-Campus Transfer Info Sessions (April 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59248 59248-14719642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

If you are enrolled in another University of Michigan-Ann Arbor school or college and are interested in transferring to LSA, you must attend a transferring to LSA information session.

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

Monday, January 14
Tuesday, January 22
Monday, February 11
Wednesday, February 27
Tuesday, March 19
Monday, April 1
Tuesday, April 16
Wednesday, April 24

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Class / Instruction Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:55:20 -0500 2019-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Class / Instruction
Department Colloquium | Axion Dark Matter and Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: New Techniques for New Physics (April 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60195 60195-14849034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Two of the biggest open questions in the Standard Model of Particle Physics are: is the neutrino its own antiparticle, a Majorana particle, and is Peccei-Quinn Symmetry with the resulting axion the solution to the strong CP problem. The answer to these questions is a portal to new physics and the answer to the even bigger questions of the generation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry and the nature of dark matter. My group works to address these questions with searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay and ultra-light axions. In this talk, I will review the physics that connects these two efforts, the current status of the fields, and our R&D efforts towards the next-generation experiments.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:15:23 -0400 2019-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Reducing Firearm Violence within Urban Communities (April 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63003 63003-15534803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Law School Problem Solving Initiative

Firearm violence is one of the leading causes of death and disability for youth and emerging adults residing in urban settings. Negative firearm-related outcomes include firearm homicides, non-fatal shootings, and access to illegal firearms.

Over the past term, graduate and professional students worked with community leaders, law enforcement, and public health experts to develop solutions aimed at addressing firearm violence.

Students will present their ideas and discuss challenges and opportunities with panelists and audience members.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:50:58 -0400 2019-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Law School Problem Solving Initiative Presentation
Statistical Learning Workshop (April 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59442 59442-14743403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:21:42 -0500 2019-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
Cognitive Science Study Day (April 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63259 63259-15603737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science majors: Are you looking for a quiet place to study for final exams? The Weinberg Institute is pleased to open the Cognitive Science space on the 9th floor of Weiser Hall for extended study hours on Tuesday, April 23 & Wednesday, April 24 from 5 to 9 pm. Drop in anytime during the extended evening hours. Study with your fellow Cog Sci majors. Enjoy free pizza, snacks, and soda.

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Other Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:33:29 -0400 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Other Weiser Hall
Making Art Public: A conversation with Mark di Suvero and Christina Olsen (April 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63024 63024-15536918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Public art on a university campus plays a significant role in creating an environment that supports the development of the mind and spirit of students, faculty, and staff. The University of Michigan has an historic and longstanding commitment to public art. The campus is full of icons that evoke the Michigan spirit, but none capture the vital importance of public art on campus like Mark di Suvero’s Orion.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 24 for an opportunity to hear from one of the greatest living sculptors and creators of public art.

Born in Shanghai, China, in 1933, di Suvero immigrated to the United States in 1941 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. An internationally renowned sculptor and pioneer in the use of steel, he began showing his sculptures in the 1950s. Di Suvero is the sculptor of two iconic works on the U-M Ann Arbor campus: Shang, a kinetic sculpture that features a suspended platform that swings, and Orion, a brightly painted, orange-red sculpture made of hand-cut, painted steel. His architectural-scale sculptures have been exhibited in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. di Suvero is the first living artist to exhibit in the Jardin des Tuileries and the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris and at Millennium Park in Chicago. His work is featured in more than 100 museums and public collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. An activist for peace and social justice, di Suvero co-founded Park Place Gallery, an artists’ cooperative, in New York City in 1962. In 1977, he established the Athena Foundation to assist artists to fulfill their ambitions. He established Socrates Sculpture Park in 1986 at the site of a landfill in Queens, New York. Di Suvero has received several honors, including the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center and the National Medal of Arts.

Christina Olsen is the Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Chair of the University of Michigan President's Advisory Committee on Public Art. Before coming to Michigan she served as the Class of 1956 Director at the Williams College Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums and foundations, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Foundation, and the Portland Art Museum. She is a national leader in debates about the changing role of campus art museums and their relationships with the public and campus, and has lectured frequently on the topic. Olsen has curated and produced many exhibitions and programs, including most recently Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, currently on view at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen is on the board of the Association of Art Museum Directors and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. She received a BA in history of art, with honors, from the University of Chicago, and an MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

This program is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan President's Advisory Committee on Public Art.

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Presentation Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:15:39 -0400 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Clinical Research Networking Event (April 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62896 62896-15488150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
Organized By: University Career Center

Medpace is a scientifically-driven, global, full-service clinical contract research organization (CRO) providing Phase I-IV clinical development services to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Medpace’s mission is to accelerate the global developmentof safe and effective medical therapeutics through its high-science and disciplined operating approach. We leverage local regulatory and deep therapeutic expertise across all major areas including oncology, cardiology, metabolic disease, endocrinology, central nervous system, anti-viral and anti-infective. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Medpace employs approximately 2,700 people across 36 countries.

Below are the positions we will be recruiting for at this event:


1. Clinical Research Associate (CRA)-located in Cincinnati, Ohio unless you have CRC experience.

Comprehensive training program that will provide you the resources and knowledge to monitor sites independently
Must be willing to travel 60-80%
Communicates with medical staff and clinical research physicians
Work with world class research sites


2. Project Coordinator (PC)-located in Cincinnati, Ohio

Partner with Clinical Trial Manager to coordinate dailystudy activities
Central point of contact for internal and external teammembers
Create and maintain project timeline


3. Regulatory Submissions Coordinator (RSC)-located in Cincinnati, Ohio

Assist with the start-up of clinical research sites
Collaborate with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
Prepare regulatory documents, including Informed Consent Forms


4. Clinical Trial Manager (CTM)-located in Cincinnati, Ohio

Postdoctoral Research or Healthcare research experience required
Managementof project timelines and all project deliverables
Responsible for leading internal prject team members

Please email Brooke Molloy at j.molloy@medpace.com for more information and to RSVP.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 09 May 2019 12:30:07 -0400 2019-04-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-24T19:30:00-04:00 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Rackham DEI Strategic Plan Town Hall (April 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63021 63021-15536915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Rackham, in partnership with Rackham Student Government, Students of Color of Rackham, and Rackham Graduate International, is hosting a town hall for students to provide input for the Year 4 Rackham Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategic Plan. One point of emphasis will be establishing action items for how to improve graduate-student climate at the program and campus levels. Join us to make your voice heard! Refreshments will be served.
Pre-registration required at https://myumi.ch/J7mY2.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:15:48 -0400 2019-04-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-24T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Meeting Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Membership Meeting Party (April 24, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58179 58179-14435453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:16:47 -0500 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering East Quadrangle
Everything You Want to Know about the Cinetopia Film Festival (April 24, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53017 53017-13200560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Presenter Russ Collins, Executive Director and CEO, Michigan Theatre, will present the latest news on the Cinetopia Film Festival held every June in Ann Arbor and Detroit.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how it has evolved since it began in 2012 and why it is so central to the Michigan Theatre mission.

This After 5 presentation does not require Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership and is open to the public.

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Presentation Sun, 24 Feb 2019 16:12:22 -0500 2019-04-24T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:30:00-04:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Presentation After 5
The Accidentals (April 24, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61175 61175-15045298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Named among Yahoo Music’s “Top 10 Bands to Watch in 2017,” The Accidentals began their adventure in their hometown of Traverse City, MI, when Katie Larson, a sophomore cellist, and Savannah Buist, a junior violinist, were paired for a high school orchestra event. The gifted young musicians became fast friends and before long, bandmates. Dubbing themselves after the musical notes that fall outside of a key signature, they were joined in 2014 by percussionist Michael Dause, and since then national attention has increasingly come their way. Along the road, where they've performed more than 1,000 shows over the last five years, they been open to and influenced by a dizzying variety of musical genres, from classical music to hip-hop. Signed to the major Sony label in 2017, the band has released two albums, including the recent and politically aware "Heavy Flag." See them in the intimate confines of The Ark while you still can!

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Performance Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:20:09 -0500 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance accidentals
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 24, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-24T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Finals Survival Breakfast (April 24, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63281 63281-15611984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

CCI want to help you survive this Finals Season with two opportunities for FREE breakfast on Wednesday April 24th! That morning, head over to the Pierpont Commons Atrium for FSB To-Go where you can grab a quick, on-the-go meal before heading to the library. 

Hungry later that night? From 10pm-1am, stop by the Michigan League Ballroom to fill up on free late night breakfast. Both events are while supplies last so make sure to get there early!

(And don't miss out on MDining's Late Night Breakfast on Tuesday April 23rd from 10-11:30pm at your nearest residence hall. Food is free with a meal plan and $8.50 with blue bucks or a credit card.)

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Social / Informal Gathering Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:24:40 -0400 2019-04-24T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T01:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Social / Informal Gathering My cousin and I made pancakes for breakfast, so we figured since we had a camera, good lighting, fruit and a lot of syrup, we’d have a go at taking a photo like the professionals.
Finals Survival Breakfast (April 24, 2019 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63278 63278-15609928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

CCI want to help you survive this Finals Season with two opportunities for FREE breakfast on Wednesday April 24th! That morning, head over to the Pierpont Commons Atrium for FSB To-Go where you can grab a quick, on-the-go meal before heading to the library.

Hungry later that night? From 10pm-1am, stop by the Michigan League Ballroom to fill up on free late night breakfast. Both events are while supplies last so make sure to get there early!

(And don't miss out on MDining's Late Night Breakfast on Tuesday April 23rd from 10-11:30pm at your nearest residence hall. Food is free with a meal plan and $8.50 with blue bucks or a credit card.)

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:21:18 -0400 2019-04-24T22:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T01:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering FSB
PitE Midnight Breakfast (April 24, 2019 11:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62667 62667-15423236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

PitE students can take a study break and enjoy a free hot, catered breakfast buffet!

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Other Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:21:39 -0400 2019-04-24T23:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T01:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Program in the Environment (PitE) Other Pancakes
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (April 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-04-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
CURRENT TOPICS IN GENDER IDENTITY (April 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61745 61745-15179070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Dr. Shumer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology. He is the founder and clinical director of the Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic at Mott Children’s Hospital, a clinic for transgender and gender nonconforming youth. Dr. Shumer’s research has specifically focused on improving mental health disparities in the transgender community. He has clinical expertise in this area, as well as disorders of sex development and general pediatric endocrinology and diabetes.

Chromosomes and hormones work in fetal life to differentiate males and females; these are the biological determinants of sex. But what about gender identity? What makes us feel like a boy or a girl, a man or a woman? Dr. Shumer will review what is currently known and unknown regarding the origins of gender identity.
He will also discuss epidemiology, disparities faced by transgender individuals, and current standards of care in the medical setting.

This is the fourth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Changing Gender Roles. The next lecture will be May 2, 2019. The title is: Three Hypotheses for Explaining the So-Called Oppression of Men.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:23:57 -0500 2019-04-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
International Economics (April 25, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59156 59156-14692571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:56:06 -0500 2019-04-25T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
Linguistics Capstone Poster Session (April 25, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63067 63067-15545344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Students in the Winter 2019 Capstone Poster Seminar on Gesture, Sign, and Speech will be presenting their research posters on Thursday, April 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Refreshments provided.

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Other Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:07:48 -0400 2019-04-25T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Other Lorch Hall
#Anxiety Toolbox Workshop in College of Engineering (April 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62600 62600-15408007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)

This 4 session workshop will focus on understanding anxiety, learning strategies to manage anxiety, and develop a plan to apply the strategies on a day to day basis for all CoE Students,

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Well-being Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:14:37 -0400 2019-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Well-being #Anxiety Toolbox
Department of Biological Chemistry Distinguished Alumni Lectureship (April 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62999 62999-15534799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Pimchai Chaiyen, Professor at the School of Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), will deliver the annual Distinguished Alumni Lectureship in the Department of Biological Chemistry on Thursday April 25th, 2019. This lecture will be held at 12 noon in South Lecture Hall, MS II. The title of the lecture is: Flavin-Dependent Enzymes: Mechanisms and Innovations."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:06:24 -0400 2019-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
Dissertation Defense: Design and Analysis of Sequential Randomized Trials with Applications to Mental Health and Online Education (April 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63227 63227-15595499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics Dissertation Defenses

Dynamic treatment regimes, also called adaptive interventions, guide sequential treatment decision-making in a variety of fields, including healthcare and education. Dynamic treatment regimes accommodate differences between individuals and changes in individuals over time. Sequential randomized trials are a specific type of trial design useful for developing high-quality dynamic treatment regimes. Sequential randomized trials utilize re-randomization of individuals over time in order to discover how to sequence, time, and personalize treatments. Two of the most commonly used sequential randomized trial designs are sequential multiple assignment randomized trials and micro-randomized trials.

In this thesis, we contribute to both the design and analysis of sequential randomized trials. We describe design considerations for sequential randomized trials in online education. We present the design and analysis for a sequential randomized trial developed to reduce dropout in a massively open online course. We also develop statistical methodology and sample size formulae for sequential multiple assignment randomized trial designs which include cluster-level randomization. The techniques are inspired by a trial aiming to develop high-quality dynamic treatment regimes for mental health clinics. Lastly, we illustrate the design, describe the analysis, and present results of a large micro-randomized trial aiming to develop mobile health interventions for improving medical interns' mental health.

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Other Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:25:45 -0400 2019-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T14:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Dissertation Defenses Other flyer
End-of-Year Meeting about English Department Interest Groups (April 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52309 52309-12631407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

An annual planning meeting for interest groups affiliated with the English Department. Lunch will be available beginning at 12pm with presentations and discussion starting at 12:30.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:07:42 -0400 2019-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T13:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Ethics and Politics of AI: Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (April 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62338 62338-15353051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Content moderation can serve as a prism for examining what platforms are, and how they subtly torque public life. Our understanding of platforms too blithely accepted the terms in which they were sold and celebrated - open, impartial, connective, progressive, transformative - skewing our study of social behavior that happens on them, stunting our examination of their societal impact.

Content moderation doesn’t fit this celebratory vision. As such, it has often been treated as peripheral to what they do—a custodial task, like sweeping up, occasional and invisible. What if moderation is in fact central to what platforms do? Moderation is an enormous part of the work of running a platform, in terms of people, time, and cost. The work of policing all this caustic content and abuse haunts platforms, and profoundly shapes how they work.

Today, social media platforms are being scrutinized in the press; specific controversies, each a tiny crisis of trust, have gelled into a more profound interrogation of their responsibilities to users and society. What are the implications of the emerging demand that platforms serve not as conduits or arbiters, but as custodians? This is uncharted territory for the platforms, a very different notion of how they should earn the trust of their users and stand accountable to civil society.

About the Speaker:

Tarleton Gillespie is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and an affiliated associate professor in the Department of Communication and Department of Information Science at Cornell University. His new book, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale University Press) was published in June 2018. He is also the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2007), the co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (MIT, 2014), and the co-founder of the blog Culture Digitally.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:16:08 -0400 2019-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Tarleton Gillespie
GINA Relays (April 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62225 62225-15677700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hillsdale College
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Outdoor track meet hosted by Hillsdale College

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Other Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:00:11 -0400 2019-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T23:59:59-04:00 Hillsdale College Maize Pages Student Organizations Other
Special HEP-Astro Seminar | The quest for the Axion (April 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63185 63185-15587259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Axions and axion-like particles are excellent dark matter candidates, spanning a vast range of mass scales from the milli- and micro-eV for the QCD axion, to 1E-22 eV for ultralight axions in string theory. In some scenarios, inhomogeneities in the axion density lead to the formation of compact structures known as axion “miniclusters” and axion stars. I will first discuss astrophysical and cosmological constraints on axions at either end of this spectrum, using data from the cosmic microwave background anisotropies and the effects of miniclusters on the gravitational microlensing and on direct detection. I will then assess the formation and the evolution of axion stars in various astrophysical regimes.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:15:24 -0400 2019-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
The Riddler: Exploring the Structure-Function-Stability Relationship in Organic Electronic Materials (April 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62251 62251-15337487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Coming soon ....








Jeanne Pemberton (University of Arizona)

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Other Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:15:12 -0400 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T14:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Thesis Defense: “Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Ferric Heme-Thiolate Complexes and their Reactivity with NO as Models for Cytochrome P450 Nitric Oxide Reductase” (April 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63050 63050-15539038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry




Andrew P. Hunt (Advisor: Prof. Nicolai Lehnert)

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Other Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:15:12 -0400 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T14:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
ACTIVITIES THAT MATTER: MAKING THE MOST OF THE AMCAS WORK/ACTIVITIES SECTION (April 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62337 62337-15353050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Designed for pre-med students applying this June, this workshop will discuss the activities section of the AMCAS application. Newnan pre-health advisors will review how to pick activities and write successful descriptions. We will review examples from successful applicants and also discuss strategies for the most meaningful activities section. Students should attend only one of the following workshops, to be held in G243 Angell Hall:

Wednesday, April 10, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Monday, April 15, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 25, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:11:37 -0400 2019-04-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-25T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar
Being Brown: South Asian Narratives of Brownness in Southeast Michigan (April 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62493 62493-15372980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Using an interdisciplinary lens, the exhibit explores the heterogeneity in the contours of brown narratives among South Asians in the Midwest. Although there is an emerging interest in the social construction of brownness on its own terms, most of such explorations are situated either in the East or West Coast. Rarely have the narratives of brownness in the Midwest been explored. The Midwest, particularly Ann Arbor and the greater Detroit area, has a sizable population of South Asians who work in a variety of blue collar to professional jobs that range from motel cleaners to doctors.

This exhibit was curated by Ram Mahalingam, Osman Khan, and Aswin Punathamebkar.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:12:40 -0400 2019-04-25T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Dissertation Defense: Scalable classification methods with applications to healthcare claims and automotive dealership data (April 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63305 63305-15634623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics Dissertation Defenses

With technology advances in recent years, sensing and media storage capabilities have enabled the generation of enormous amounts of information, often in the form of large data sets in different scientific fields such as biology, marketing and medicine. As this vast amount of data has opened a wealth of opportunities for data analysis, computationally scalable methods become increasingly important for statistical modeling. This thesis focuses on developing scalable classification methods and their applications to automotive dealerships and healthcare problems.

The first project studies parameter estimation of customers' and dealerships' consumption preference for the automotive market, which determines the manufacturers' profits. Most existing methods assume that the dealerships are rational and hence aim to maximize profits, which conflicts with observations. We propose a structural Bayesian model for customers’ and dealerships’ preference which aims to maximize a flexible utility function. Further we develop an MCMC algorithm utilizing parallel computing to estimate model parameters. The model is calibrated to data from a manufacturer, and the estimates are used in a simulation model to design optimal financial incentive offers to maximize profits.

The second project focuses on the two-class classification problem based on the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC), which is often considered as a more comprehensive measure for the performance of a classifier comparing with the misclassification error. Maximizing the empirical AUC directly, however, is computationally challenging as naive computation of the AUC requires quadratic time complexity, while computing the misclassification error only requires linear time complexity. Further, the optimization involves indicator functions and it is NP-hard. In this project, we propose a non-convex differentiable surrogate function for the AUC, and further develop a scalable algorithm to optimize this surrogate loss function. The proposed algorithm takes advantage of the selection tree data structure and also uses a truncated Newton strategy so that the computational complexity of the optimization scales at the quasilinear time. In the setting of linear classification, we also show that the estimated coefficients enjoy theoretical asymptotic consistency. Finally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method using both simulation studies and two data sets, one for normal/abnormal vertebral column classification and the other for behaving/not-behaving network visit classification, and show that the proposed method outperforms the support vector machine (SVM) in terms of the AUC.

The last project is motivated by the problem of predicting midterm mortality of patients using the Ninth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) codes, which is relevant for healthcare and clinical research. The ICD-9 contains a list of standard six-character alphanumeric codes recording useful clinical information including patient diagnoses and procedures. However, the number of ICD-9 codes in a specific study is often large, on the order of thousands or tens of thousands, and the dependence structure among ICD-9 codes is complicated, which pose statistical challenges for using the ICD-9 codes. To address these challenges, we develop a supervised embedding method that combines an unsupervised criterion for learning latent representations of ICD-9 codes and a Deep Set neural network model for classification, which is invariant with respect to the ordering of the ICD-9 codes. The proposed supervised embedding method has the advantage of modeling the inter-relationship within ICD-9 codes and the nonlinear relationship between codes and the outcome variable simultaneously, and it can also be naturally extended to the semi-supervised learning setting. The model is trained using the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) approach, which allows the entire database to be stored on multiple computing nodes and hence makes the method suitable for analyzing large data sets. We have applied the proposed method to 1-year mortality prediction using the Medical Information Mart for Incentive Care III (MIMIC-III) database and achieved superior performance in comparison with several benchmark models.

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Other Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:25:06 -0400 2019-04-25T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Dissertation Defenses Other flyer
CM Theory Seminar | Towards exciton optomechanics in suspended 2D semiconductors (April 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62425 62425-15364107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Excitons, made of electron-hole pairs bound by Coulomb interaction, provide compelling opportunities for applications in optoelectronics, information storage, non-volatile logic. However, the small binding energy of exciton in conventional semiconductors jeopardizes its integration and potentials in modern optoelectronics schemes. In the past decade, a new type of two-dimensional semiconductors, mainly transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), attract tremendous interests with much larger exciton binding energy. Thus, stable excitonic effects up to room temperature can give rise to extremely strong light-matter interaction. Together with their ultra-lightweight and other emerging properties, such strong excitonic interaction in 2D TMD opens up the possibility to optically control properties of monolayer semiconductors over the suspended structure.

In this talk, I will first review this new type of 2D semiconductors and interesting device physics by employing the structure of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Then I’ll present our study of exciton-induced nonlinearities in suspended TMD monolayers, where we achieved a robust optical bistability near the exciton resonance. Our results also demonstrate a helicity-dependent optical switching that enables control of light not only by light intensity but also by its polarization using monolayer materials. Additionally, I will discuss our recent results on dynamically manipulating the mechanical motion of a suspended 2D semiconductor through its exciton resonance, without an optical cavity structure.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:15:24 -0400 2019-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall