Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Food Literacy for All (April 7, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-04-07T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
The Farm Bill and National Food Policy (April 7, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72679 72679-18044333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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The bipartisan 2018 Farm Bill supports the one in four jobs related to food and agriculture in Michigan. It provides five years of certainty for Michigan’s farmers, fuel opportunity in rural communities and grow small businesses. It continues historic investments in land, water and wildlife conservation, will grow Michigan local food economies, and will support families working hard to make ends meet.

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:16:54 -0400 2020-04-07T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All
Bioethics Discussion: Responsibility (April 7, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52730 52730-12974164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on what we owe to ourselves and others.

NOTICE: Online hosting procedure https://bluejeans.com/7569798571.

Readings to consider:
1. Social Responsibilities of Bioethics
2. The Concept of Responsibility: Three Stages in Its Evolution within Bioethics
3. Bioethics for Whom?
4. Towards an Ethics of Blame

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/044-responsibility/.

Please read the blog responsibly: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:12:34 -0400 2020-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Responsibility
CANCELLED - Book Tour | Embattled Dreamlands The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory (April 8, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73363 73363-18208327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Embattled Dreamlands explores the complex relationship between competing national myths, imagined boundaries and local memories in the threefold-contested geography referred to as Eastern Turkey, Western Armenia or Northern Kurdistan.

Spatially rooted in the shatter zone of the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space, it sheds light on the multi-layered memory landscape of the Lake Van region in Southeastern Turkey where collective violence stretches back from the Armenian Genocide to the Kurdish conflict of today. Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping, and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute and resolve present-day conflicts. "Embattled Dreamlands" provides a unique insight into the development of national identity which will provide a great resource to students and researchers in sociology and history alike.

David Leupold is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. He was the 2018-19 Manoogian postdoctoral fellow with the Armenian Studies Program, U-M. He holds a doctoral degree from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Based on his doctoral research on contested landscapes of memory, Dr. Leupold's first monograph “Embattled Dreamlands – The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory” is in print with Routledge. He is fluent in German (native), English, Russian, Armenian, Turkish and Farsi. His field of research encompasses the politics of memory, mnemonic landscapes and counter-narratives in the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:14:18 -0400 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion David Leupold, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | What Motivates Skilled Workers to Emigrate from Japan? (April 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70097 70097-17530447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

Although the Japanese government has been promoting the acceptance of highly skilled foreign workers, the lack of skilled labor force in Japan is already at the critical level. Furthermore, the number of Japanese skilled workers (defined as those who have a university degree) moving overseas as permanent residents has been increasing. What motivates them to relocate to other countries permanently? As part of a research program aimed to understand demographic changes in Japan and their ramifications, we fielded a survey experiment to test hypotheses regarding the factors that motivate Japanese skilled workers to emigrate from Japan to other countries.

Yusaku Horiuchi is a Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on applying experimental designs and statistical methods to a range of empirical questions in political science. His substantive research interests include political behavior, public opinion, electoral institutions, and Japanese politics.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:52:07 -0400 2020-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yusaku Horiuchi, Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies,Dartmouth College
CANCELLED--Critical Conversations: Dissertation Showcase (April 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70855 70855-17693693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Lunch will be available at 12:30. Presentations begin at 1:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:30.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:24:45 -0400 2020-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
CANCELLED - LRCCS and Asia Library Deep Dive Lecture | Historical Networks in Chinese Buddhism: The Role of the Daoan, Huiyuan and Kumārajīva Triangle (April 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73565 73565-18261075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Free and Open to the Public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Using a large SNA dataset for Chinese Buddhist history (c.17,000 actors) we will focus on the fountainhead of Chinese Buddhism - a constellation formed by three seminal figures: the monk Daoan, his student Huiyuan, and the Indian translator Kumārajīva. In the time between c.360 and 420 CE, each was at the center of an active community of collaborators and patrons. According to the available records, historical network analysis illustrates how the stable growth of Buddhism after the 4th century is a direct result of the activities of Daoan, Huiyuan and Kumārajīva and their students. Without the varied and influential activities of these three, Buddhism might have remained a religion of foreigners (like later Manichaeism and Nestorianism), or stayed a fad among aristocrats (like the xuanxue movement). I will also argue that the impact of the constellation should be considered a main reason for why Chinese Buddhism has always defined itself as Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Marcus Bingenheimer is Associate Professor in Religion at Temple University. His main research interests are the history of Buddhism in East Asia and early Buddhist sutra literature. Beyond Buddhist Studies, Marcus is interested in computational approaches to scholarship and how to do research in an age of digital information.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:56:00 -0400 2020-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Marcus Bingenheimer, Associate Professor in Religion, Temple University
CANCELLED: Lauren Groff Roundtable Q&A (April 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69582 69582-17368297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Lauren Groff’s latest book, Florida (Riverhead Books, 2018), explores loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments, decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Florida won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Southern Book Prize, and the Kirkus Prize.

Groff is also the author of the short story collection, Delicate Edible Birds, and three novels: The Monsters of Templeton, a finalist for the Orange Prize for New Writers; Arcadia, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction; and Fates and Furies, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Prize, and the Kirkus Prize, and the winner of the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne in France.

Groff’s short fiction has won prizes including the Pushcart Prize, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, and the Paul Bowles Prize, and has appeared frequently in the New Yorker and the Best American Short Stories anthology. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Foundation, and her work has been published in over 30 languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:58:45 -0400 2020-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Lauren Groff
- CANCELED - CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (April 9, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71463 71463-17827815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Hailong Wang of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

Dr. Wang will give a lecture titled "Understanding causes and effects of surface albedo reduction in the Arctic."

Abstract: Since the early 1980s, the Arctic has warmed 2-3 times faster than the global mean, a feature often called Arctic amplification. As the Arctic warms, the retreat of snow and ice together with the associated feedbacks is known to be an important reason for Arctic amplification. According to our feedback estimates from historical climate model simulations and reanalysis data sets, much of the Arctic amplification of warming can be attributed to the surface albedo feedback. Satellite observations reveal a 1% per decade absolute reduction in the Arctic mean surface albedo in spring and summer during 1982-2014. We used results from a global climate model and multiple reanalysis data sets to unravel the causes of this decreasing trend. We found that reductions of terrestrial snow cover, snow cover fraction over sea ice, and sea ice extent appear to contribute equally to the Arctic albedo decline. Further analysis of the global model results showed that the decrease in snow cover fraction is primarily driven by the increase in surface air temperature, followed by declining snowfall. Although the total precipitation has increased as the Arctic warms in the recent decades, Arctic snowfall has decreased substantially in all the analyzed data sets. It is well known that the presence of light-absorbing soot can significantly darken the snow and ice surface, but soot has been decreasing in the past decades over the Arctic, indicating that soot heating has not been the driver of changes in the Arctic snow cover, ice cover, and surface albedo since the 1980s.

Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:20:31 -0400 2020-04-09T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
Live Event Canceled - Njideka Akunyili Crosby: In Person (April 9, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70398 70398-17594445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles. Crosby uses collage and photo transfer-based paintings to expose and explore moments of collision, moments of unity, and moments of hybridity found in cross-cultural relationships and in cultures of colonization. Crosby’s work is both personal and universal, as she draws upon her lived experience with interracial marriage, immigration, and dual ideas of home, and the deep traces of colonization in Nigeria. In 2019, Crosby was a participant in the Venice Biennale 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff. Recent solo exhibitions include Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The Beautyful Ones at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Counterparts, which debuted at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2017 before traveling to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. She received an honorary doctorate of art from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 2019 and was named among the Financial Times’ “Women of the Year” in 2016.

Supported by University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

Image: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, “The Beautyful Ones” Series #1c, 2014.  Acrylic, color pencil, and transfers on paper, 61 x 42 inches. Photo: Joshua White Photography

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:45 -0400 2020-04-09T17:10:00-04:00 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Crosby.jpg
Penny Stamps Speaker Series Presents: Njideka Akunyili Crosby: In Person (April 9, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70569 70569-17604962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles. Crosby uses collage and photo transfer-based paintings to expose and explore moments of collision, moments of unity, and moments of hybridity found in cross-cultural relationships and in cultures of colonization. Crosby’s work is both personal and universal, as she draws upon her lived experience with interracial marriage, immigration, and dual ideas of home, and the deep traces of colonization in Nigeria. In 2019, Crosby was a participant in the Venice Biennale 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff. Recent solo exhibitions include Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The Beautyful Ones at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Counterparts, which debuted at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2017 before traveling to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. She received an honorary doctorate of art from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 2019 and was named among the Financial Times' “Women of the Year” in 2016. 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:07 -0400 2020-04-09T17:10:00-04:00 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (April 9, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

Or just writing a paper for an AMCULT or Ethnic Studies class?

Join us, Thursdays in Ethnic Studies Lounge on the 3rd floor of Haven Hall!

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
CANCELLED: Lauren Groff: In Conversation (April 9, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69589 69589-17368304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Lauren Groff’s latest book, Florida (Riverhead Books, 2018), explores loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments, decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Florida won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Southern Book Prize, and the Kirkus Prize.

Groff is also the author of the short story collection, Delicate Edible Birds, and three novels: The Monsters of Templeton, a finalist for the Orange Prize for New Writers; Arcadia, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction; and Fates and Furies, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Prize, and the Kirkus Prize, and the winner of the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne in France.

Groff’s short fiction has won prizes including the Pushcart Prize, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, and the Paul Bowles Prize, and has appeared frequently in the New Yorker and the Best American Short Stories anthology. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Foundation, and her work has been published in over 30 languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. UMMA is pleased to be the site for most of these events. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:57:29 -0400 2020-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Lauren Groff
Author Event | Stephen Kesler: Great Lakes Rocks (April 9, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73387 73387-18214928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

***Please note that events at AADL are currently postponed indefinitely.***

The Great Lakes region contains some of Earth’s oldest rocks as well as some of its youngest geologic features. Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region tells this 4 billion-year history starting with the hills, lakes and rivers that we see today and moving back in time through the advance and retreat of the glaciers, the formation of tropical seas and reefs, the rifting that almost split North America into two parts, and ending with the volcanism and mountain building that made one of Earth’s earliest continents. This history includes strange iron-rich and salt-rich oceans, an immense meteorite impact, a super-giant lava flow, and many ore deposits that lured early European settlers into the area. It also helps us predict the geologic future of the Great Lakes region, which will likely include earthquakes, meteorite impacts, changes in our rivers, lakes, and waterfalls and, most of all, in our climate. At this event, Stephen Kesler will showcase rock samples from around the Great Lakes.

Steve Kesler earned a PhD in geology from Stanford University and has taught at Louisiana State University, University of Toronto, Instituto de Recursos Norenovables (Mexico) and University of Michigan. Since joining U-M in 1977, he and many students have gone on field trips over most of the Great Lakes region. In addition to Great Lakes Rocks, he has co-authored several other recent books including Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment; Metals and Society; and Future Global Mineral Resources.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:23:12 -0400 2020-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:29:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Lecture / Discussion Cover image for "Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region," by Stephen E. Kesler
Master's Thesis Defense: Mingyang Wang (April 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73990 73990-18460430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Blue Jeans. It will be linked before.

BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/315155702

Objectives
We have developed a novel anti-vascular technique, termed photo-mediated ultrasound therapy (PUT), which utilizes nanosecond duration laser pulses synchronized with ultrasound bursts to remove microvasculature through cavitation. The objective of the current study is to explore the potential of PUT in removing cutaneous microvessels.

Methods
The auricular blood vessels of two New Zealand white rabbits were treated by PUT with a peak negative ultrasound pressure of 0.45 MPa at 0.5 MHz, and a laser fluence of 0.056 J/cm2 at 1064 nm for 10 minutes. Blood perfusion in the treated area was measured by a commercial laser speckle imaging (LSI) system before and immediately after treatment, as well as at one hour, three days, two weeks, and four weeks post treatment. Perfusion rates of 38 individual vessels from 4 rabbit ears were tracked during this time period for longitudinal assessment.

Results
The measured perfusion rates of the vessels in the treated areas, as quantified by the relative change in perfusion rate (RCPR), showed a statistically significant decrease for all time points post treatment (p<0.001). The mean decrease in perfusion is 50.79% immediately after treatment and is 32.14% at four weeks post treatment. Immediately after treatment, the perfusion rate decreased rapidly. Following this, there was a partial recovery in perfusion rate up to 3 days post treatment, then followed by a plateau in the perfusion from 3 days to 4 weeks.

Conclusions
The study demonstrated that a single PUT treatment could significantly reduce blood perfusion by 32.14% in the skin for up to 4 weeks. With unique advantages such as low laser fluence as compared with photothermolysis and agent-free treatment as compared with PDT, PUT holds potential to be developed into a new tool for the treatment of microvessels in the skin.

Keywords: laser; ultrasound; anti-vascular treatment; skin microvessels; photo-mediated ultrasound therapy

Chair: Dr. Xueding Wang

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:53:59 -0400 2020-04-10T10:30:00-04:00 2020-04-10T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
AIM Research (VIRTUAL) (April 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71755 71755-18441326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, the AIM Research data privacy panel, originally scheduled for Friday, April 10, will be made virtual in one way or another. The details of a virtual version of this event have yet to be finalized. The previously scheduled date of April 10th should now be treated as flexible. Updates will be shared here when made available.

Staff within the Center for Academic Innovation are working hard to connect with the panelists for this event to provide alternative formats that may include one or more of the following:

- Recorded videos of panelists answering questions sourced by the AIM Research community
- A live Zoom video presentation featuring one or more data privacy panelist
- A written piece(s) on the Center for Academic Innovation blog surrounding data privacy within higher education

Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our students, staff, and guests. As we all work together to minimize the spread of the COVID-19 disease brought on by coronavirus, the Center for Academic Innovation is postponing all upcoming in-person events. We are evaluating each event for potential adjustments in format and date and will reach out again when decisions have been finalized.

We appreciate your understanding during these difficult and uncertain times. We apologize for any inconvenience. You can see the latest information on the status of all upcoming events on our events page.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at academicinnovation@umich.edu.

AIM Research (formerly AIM Analytics) is a monthly seminar series for researchers across U-M who are interested in research and learning analytics. The field of learning analytics is a multi and interdisciplinary field that brings together researchers from education, learning sciences, computational sciences and statistics, and all discipline-specific forms of educational inquiry.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:13:56 -0400 2020-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T13:30:00-04:00 Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Research
CANCELLED Psychology Methods Hour: How Do We Align Theory and Data in Psychological Science? A Focus on Adolescent Brain and Behavior (April 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69622 69622-17368337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event has been cancelled.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:36:27 -0400 2020-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Michael
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (April 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: HistLing Discussion Group: Ben Fortson (April 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70402 70402-17594449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:50 -0400 2020-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELLED: "Egon Schiele in the Clinic: Medicine, Motherhood, and the Biopolitics of Viennese Modernism" (April 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73713 73713-18302650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

“Pathological” was a damning term frequently applied to the visual art of Viennese modernism. Yet while the nudes of Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, and others diverged sharply from the classical pictorial tradition, they emerged alongside a contemporaneous trend: the increasing presence of medical imagery in the city’s visual vernacular. In the decades after 1900, the bodies of working-class Viennese—women and children, in particular—came to occupy a central place in films, lectures, exhibitions, and literature. A medicalized gaze, this lecture argues, was fostered by a complex Viennese social network of physicians, artists, writers, and politicians—all of whom staked their claims on women's bodies to vastly different ends.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:10:28 -0400 2020-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Schiele Schwangere
CANCELED: SoConDi Discussion Group (April 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72539 72539-18015949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:36:44 -0400 2020-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (April 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70094 70094-17530442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:43:22 -0400 2020-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Cancelled: Smith Lecture (April 10, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63143 63143-15578797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:24:13 -0400 2020-04-10T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
*CANCELED* Ethel V. Curry Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Tim Rice, UCLA (April 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65629 65629-16623835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Bruno Nettl, in his 1983 magisterial conspectus The Study of Ethnomusicology: 29 Issues and Concepts, suggested that this field might best be understood as “the science of music history.” And yet it can seem that what makes ethnomusicology unique among music disciplines is its devotion to ethnographic fieldwork. So what is the role of history in this field of study? How do ethnomusicologists “do” history? Do they understand themselves as historians or ethnographers or both? Since the demise of comparative musicology in the U.S., most historical writing in ethnomusicology has been associated with particular ethnographic studies. After an examination of some classic examples of historical studies in ethnomusicology, I discuss my recent attempt to skirt the problems of “universal history,” avoided in ethnomusicology since the 1960s, in my writing of what amounts to a history of the world’s music.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:29 -0400 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
CANCELED: What is Asian American Cinema? (April 13, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73442 73442-18219386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Asian Americans have been making it big in the film industry! Come watch and discuss a variety of short films that have been getting traction the past couple of years! Food will be provided.

This event is a part of Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Heritage Month which is celebrated mid-March to mid-April at the University of Michigan. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:22:38 -0400 2020-04-13T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion A/PIA Heritage Month Calendar: Asian American Cinema
A Conversation with Sander Levin (April 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70517 70517-17602801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

An open conversation with the Distinguished Speaker ex-Congressman Sander Levin about the highlights of his career, his accomplishments and perhaps disappointments. Time permitting, he will also state his views on certain legislation that needs to be addressed.

Sander Levin is a Professor of Practice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to January 2019. He chaired the House Ways and Means Committee in 2010. He was in office in 2010 when his committee played a key role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act. He later served as the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee before he retired. He was born in Detroit. He has a master’s degree in International Relations from Columbia University and a law degree from Harvard University. He also served for two terms in the Michigan State Senate before his election to the U.S. Congress.

This is the eighth in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2019-20. A total of ten lectures are presented covering a variety of topics. Lectures are held on Tuesday mornings once each month. The next lecture will be held May 12, 2020. The title is The Current Impeachment Cycle in Washington DC.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:45:32 -0500 2020-04-14T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Paying for China’s Urbanization: Land Finance and Its Impact (April 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70230 70230-17550035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

At the center of China’s rapid urbanization is land: land leasing provides both current revenue and collateral for future revenue streams. The so-called land finance has paid for massive infrastructure development in particular. This presentation will discuss a confluence of factors underlying land finance and its impact on the production of China’s contemporary cityscape.

Weiping Wu is a Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Director of the MS Urban Planning program at Columbia University in New York City. She also is on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Columbia Population Research Center. Her research and teaching have focused on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. She is an internationally acclaimed urban and planning scholar working on global urbanization with a specific expertise in issues of migration, housing, and infrastructure of Chinese cities. Among her many publications are books "The Sage Handbook on Contemporary China" (2018), "The Chinese City" (2012)," Local Dynamics in a Globalizing World" (2000), "Pioneering Economic Reform in China’s Special Economic Zones" (1999), and "The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities" (1997).

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:02:32 -0400 2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion LRCCS Noon Lecture Series * Event Title (e.g., Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?): Paying for China’s Urbanization: Land Finance and Its Impact
[POSTPONED] Beautiful Justice: The Aesthetics of Oppression and Freedom (April 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72573 72573-18018167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

What role does aesthetics play in the struggle for social justice? Aesthetic judgments saturate our interactions with media, from billion-dollar advertising campaigns to texts from ancient philosophy. However, aesthetics also play a crucial role in our lived experience of oppression and freedom. From the racist claims for white beauty as superior genetics to the liberating music inspirations of reggae, hip-hop, and soul, the aesthetic dimensions of struggles for social justice, and the hidden politics behind aesthetic perceptions, have received little attention. This presentation revisits the historical and cross-disciplinary conversations around aesthetics as beauty through form and function and introduces beautiful justice, a design framework that aims to extend the discussion to include justice.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:10:09 -0400 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 School of Education National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Audrey Bennett headshot
PhD Defense: Joel Tan (April 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73953 73953-18443421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This PhD defense will be taking place via Blue Jeans. Link below.

Blue Jeans: https://bluejeans.com/304616213
Chair: Dr. Xueding Wang

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is an emerging biomedical imaging modality that combines optical and ultrasound imaging technologies. PA imaging relies on the absorption of electromagnetic energy (usually in the form of visible or near-infrared light) leading to the generation of acoustic waves by thermoelastic expansion, which can be detected with an ultrasound detector. PA imaging can be used to detect endogenous chromophores such as deoxyhemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin, or can be used together with external nanosensors for added functionality. The former is used to measure things like blood oxygenation, while the latter opens up many possibilities for PA imaging, limited only to the availability of optical nanosensors. In this dissertation, I employ the use of PA nanosensors for contrast enhancement and molecular imaging in in vivo small animal cancer models.

In the first section, I introduce a novel PA background reduction technique called the transient triplet differential (TTD) method. The TTD method exploits the fact that phosphorescent dyes possess a triplet state with a unique red-shifted absorption wavelength, distinct from its ordinary singlet state absorption profile. By pumping these dyes into the triplet state and comparing the signal to the unpumped dyes, a differential signal can be obtained which solely originates from these dyes. Since intrinsic chromophores of biological tissue are not able to undergo intersystem crossing and enter the triplet state, the TTD method can facilitate “true” background free molecular imaging by excluding the signals from every other chromophore outside the phosphorescent dye. Here, I demonstrate up to an order of magnitude better sensitivity of the TTD method compared to other existing contrast enhancement techniques in both in vitro experiments and in vivo cancer models.

In the second section, I explore the use of a nanoparticle formulation of a repurposed FDA-approved drug called clofazimine for diagnosis of prostate cancer. Clofazimine nanoparticles have a high optical absorbance at 495 nm and has been known to specifically accumulate in macrophages as they form stable crystal-like inclusions once they are uptaken by macrophages. Due to the presence of tumor associated macrophages, it is expected that clofazimine would accumulate in much higher quantities in the cancerous prostate compared to normal prostates. Here, I show that there was indeed a significantly higher accumulation of clofazimine nanoparticles in cancerous prostates compared to normal prostates in a transgenic mouse model, which was detectable both using histology and ex vivo PA imaging.

In the third and final section, I explore the use of a potassium (K+) nanosensor together with PA imaging in measuring the in vivo K+ distribution in the tumor microenvironment (TME). K+ is the most abundant ion in the body and has recently been shown to be at a significantly higher concentration in the tumor. The reported 5-10 fold elevation (25-50 mM compared to 5 mM) in the tumor has been shown to inhibit immune cell efficacy, and thus immunotherapy. Despite the abundance and importance of K+ in the body, few ways exist to measure it in vivo. In this study, a solvatochromic dye K+ nanoparticle (SDKNP) was used together with PA imaging to quantitatively measure the in vivo distribution of K+ in the TME. Significantly elevated K+ levels were found in the TME, with an average concentration of approximately 29 mM, matching the values found by the previous study. The results were then verified using mass spectrometry.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:19:15 -0400 2020-04-14T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ann Arbor City Council Prospective Candidates Debate (Wards 4 & 5) (April 14, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74243 74243-18603189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 2:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Students of PUBPOL 456/756 invite the public to join them for a debate featuring prospective candidates for the city council in Ann Arbor.

Livestreamed at www.a2gov.org/watchctn(link is external)
(once on a2gov site, select the Government Channel and click on the 2:30pm timeslot for Tues April 14)

This event takes place as a product of PUBPOL 456/756. It originated and is planned, organized, and moderated by the students of the Ford School’s Public Policy Course 456/756 under the supervision of their instructor, John Hieftje, former Mayor of Ann Arbor.

Featuring Ann Arbor City Council hopefuls from the following wards:

Ward 4: John Eaton, Jennifer Eyer, Mozhgan Savabieasfahani

Ward 5: Erica Briggs, Dan Michniewicz

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:21:22 -0400 2020-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T15:45:00-04:00 Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Tomás
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Populism, Nationalism, and the Rise of Radical Politics in Europe and the United States (April 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71589 71589-17842695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Bart Bonikowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, Resident Faculty at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, where he co-directs the Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy and serves as Director of Undergraduate Programs. Using relational survey methods, computational text analysis, and experimental research, his work applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in the United States and Europe, with a particular focus on nationalism, populism, and the rise of radical-right parties. His publications have appeared in the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, European Journal of Political Research, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Brown Journal of World Affairs, and a number of other peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

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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. Contact: weisercenter@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:37:31 -0400 2020-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion speaker-image
CANCELLED "The Many Lives of John Donne: Criticism as Creative History.." (April 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73182 73182-18155742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

contact Prof. Anne Gere argere@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:32:42 -0400 2020-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
THIS EVENT IS CANCELED (April 14, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72640 72640-18035587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Government leaders are finding it more and more difficult to secure the funding necessary to maintain services for their constituents. This situation has led them to turn to historically untoward means of boosting revenues such as casinos, sports betting, and marijuana. Many believe allowing and taxing such activity will help communities bridge the gaps in their budgets, while others question the negative impacts on society. Join us as we weigh the social and financial impacts of Taxing Vice in our communities.

Program:

6:00 - 6:30 pm
Check-in and hors d'oeuvres

6:30 - 8:00 pm
Panel Discussion

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:16:24 -0400 2020-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion Taxing Vice
Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda taxes and public policy (April 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72680 72680-18044334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:15:59 -0400 2020-04-14T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Jennifer Falbe
Food Literacy for All (April 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-04-14T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
2020 and Beyond (April 14, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72871 72871-18088117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

From impeachment to Congress to the presidential campaign, American politics has been full of chaos and strife. What does it all add up to, and what does it say about our nation at this uncertain moment in history?

Molly Ball is TIME's National Political Correspondent. Previously, she covered U.S. politics for "The Atlantic" and "Politico," and worked for newspapers in Nevada and Cambodia.

Free Admission. Free Parking. Reception follows program.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:24:40 -0500 2020-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T21:00:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Lecture / Discussion Molly Ball
CANCELED Author's Forum Presents: "Eardrums: Literary Modernism as Sonic Warfare" (April 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70000 70000-17491345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Tyler Whitney (Germanic languages and literatures) and Tung-Hui Hu (English) discuss Tyler's new book, followed by Q & A.

About the book:
In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on the literature that defined the period. Both formally and thematically, the modernist aesthetics of Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Detlev von Liliencron, and Peter Altenberg drew on this blurring of martial and civilian soundscapes in traumatic and performative repetitions of war. At the same time, Richard Huelsenbeck assaulted audiences in Zurich with his “sound poems,” which combined references to World War I, colonialism, and violent encounters in urban spaces with nonsensical utterances and linguistic detritus—all accompanied by the relentless beating of a drum on the stage of the Cabaret Voltaire.

Eardrums is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is not only a new way of understanding the sonic impulses behind key literary texts from the period. It also outlines an entirely new approach to the study of literature as as the interaction of text and sonic practice, voice and noise, which will be of interest to scholars across literary studies, media theory, sound studies, and the history of science.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:08:22 -0400 2020-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Eardrums
CANCELLED - Arnold Sameroff Lecture Series in Developmental Theory: Early Deprivation and Development: Studies of Orphanage-Adopted Children (April 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73223 73223-18179629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note this event has been cancelled.

This talk will cover my work on children adopted internationally from institutions (e.g., orphanages) into families in the US. The goal of this work was to understand the impact of deprivation in the first years of life on physical and behavioral development. Despite moving into some of the most well-resourced families on the planet when they were between 1 and 3 years of age, on average, previously institutionalized (PI) youth show significant impacts, often dose-dependent, on neurobehavioral development, the functioning of their stress-regulatory systems, and cardiometabolic health. Not all children are similarly affected, and I will also cover our work on parenting post-adoption and its relations with children’s outcomes. Finally, we are beginning to explore the role that puberty may play in potential recalibration stress physiology and its implications (positive and negative) for the adolescent development of PI youth.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:56:19 -0400 2020-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Megan Gunnar
[CANCELED] MAS Lecture | The Wooster Site: Overview of Prehistoric and Historic Occupations and Discussion of Previous and Upcoming Excavations (April 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73738 73738-18337311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Wooster Site is a large, multi-component prehistoric and historic Native American site located at a natural crossing point on the Portage River in northeastern Jackson County, Michigan. It has yielded several thousand artifacts ranging from Paleolithic spear points to historic musket flints.

Dan Wymer, who owns 23 of the 29 acres comprising the Wooster Site, has invited MAS members to join him in April for a day of excavation at the site. The exact date will be determined by how soon the frost leaves the ground and the soil dries out enough to be sifted. The focus of the excavation will be a previously cultivated area that yielded 10,000-year-old Agate Basin artifacts during controlled surface collecting. MAS members who would like to participate in the dig are asked to attend this presentation in order to become familiar with the site and the details of how the April dig will be conducted.

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit http://www.miarch.org/

MAS Lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the Kelsey Museum education office (734-647-4167) as soon as possible. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:04:36 -0400 2020-04-16T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Agate Basin artifacts from the Wooster Site
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ann Arbor City Council Prospective Candidates Debate (Wards 1, 2 & 3) (April 16, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74244 74244-18603190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 2:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Students of PUBPOL 456/756 invite the public to join them for a debate featuring prospective candidates for the city council in Ann Arbor.

Livestreamed at www.a2gov.org/watchctn(link is external)
(once on a2gov site, select the Government Channel and click on the 2:30pm timeslot for Tues April 14)

This event takes place as a product of PUBPOL 456/756. It originated and is planned, organized, and moderated by the students of the Ford School’s Public Policy Course 456/756 under the supervision of their instructor, John Hieftje, former Mayor of Ann Arbor.

Featuring Ann Arbor City Council hopefuls from the following wards:

Ward 1: Anne Bannister, Lisa Disch

Ward 2: Linh Song

Ward 3: Anthony Brown,Travis Radina, Evan Redmond

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:19:58 -0400 2020-04-16T14:30:00-04:00 2020-04-16T15:45:00-04:00 Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Golden retriever dog
- CANCELED - CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. John Knox (April 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72222 72222-17957459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. John Knox of the University of Georgia will give a lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

Seminar details forthcoming.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:21:03 -0400 2020-04-16T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-16T17:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
CANCELLED: EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Ukuphazama iNatali: Bringing Queer and Indigenous Studies Approaches to South African History and Beyond (April 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63596 63596-15808577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How can critical indigenous and queer theoretical approaches transform the way we think about colonial history in South Africa (and beyond)? If settler colonialism itself is presented as a form of orientation, of making a recognizable and inhabitable home space for European arrivals on indigenous land, then native peoples and their continued resistance can serve to ‘queer’ these attempted forms of order. In such circumstances, the customs, practices, and potentially the very bodies of indigenous peoples can become queer despite remaining ostensibly heterosexual in orientation and practice, as their existence constantly undermines the desired order of an emergent settler state.

T.J. Tallie is an assistant professor of African history at the University of San Diego. He specializes in the comparative settler colonial and imperial history, with a focus on South Africa. His interests include colonialism, gender and racial identity, indigeneity, sexuality, and religious expression. He is the recent author of Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa.

Free and open to the public.

This event presented by the Department of Women's Studies and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:59:57 -0400 2020-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Chair's Distinguished Lecture | Power Star: Harvesting in the Sun's Energy in Space (April 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74274 74274-18617482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

David Hyland
Professor Emeritus of Texas A&M University
President of Augusta Quantum Electrodynamics, Inc.

The advance of civilization will require substantially more powerful sources of energy than are presently available. Aside from the Earth’s supply of radioisotopes and fossil fuels, the abundant supply of fusion-based energy produced by the sun remains to be efficiently harvested. The collection of solar energy in space could potentially be an order-of-magnitude more effective than ground-based technology because in space, solar insolation is continuous and not attenuated by the atmosphere. These potential advantages have motivated efforts to design space solar power systems since the early 1960s.
A solar power system consists of a space segment that collects solar energy, converts the energy into radiation (typically in a wavelength band to which the atmosphere is mostly transparent), then transmits the radiation to a ground facility that converts the radiation into electrical power. Since the ground-based power collection technology is (relatively) well developed, we concentrate here on the space segment, called the Solar Power Satellite(s) (SPS).

In this presentation, an SPS is assumed to be a space system in geostationary orbit that collects solar power via photovoltaics and transmits it to ground collection stations using microwave radiation. Previous system designs developed over the past several decades entail gigantic, articulated structures with many (in some cases, thousands of) moving parts and require on-orbit infrastructure and in-space construction using advanced robotics. The concept described here combines solar cell / microwave patch antenna printing technology with well-established inflatable satellite technology (based upon the Echo relay satellites). A Power StarTM is a large, deployable, thin-skinned balloon upon which solar cells and microwave transmitters are printed. For launch, the system is compactly folded into a spherical canister. Once attaining orbit, the canister is opened; the balloon inflated via sublimation of an interior coating; the skin rigidified, and the balloon finally evacuated. I review the state of manufacturability in printing technology, inflatable satellite technology, the retro-directive phased array technology for beam direction and shaping, and the power distribution design to address the “elbow problem”. Considerations of solar pressure effects, orbit maintenance, and thermal response are also presented.

In summary, while capable of substantial power generation, even with low efficiency solar cells, the design has no moving parts, requires no in-space construction, and can be packaged in many existing launch vehicle payload fairings. With these features, and according to current economic analyses, the design can provide a first revenue system in one launch.

About the speaker...

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Hyland was awarded the S. B. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1969 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, also in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1971 and 1973, respectively. From September 1969 through July 1983, Dr. Hyland served at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory as Staff Member.

Beginning in August 1983, Dr. Hyland led the Structural Control Group within Harris Corporation. He served as Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist for numerous research programs for NASA and the Air Force. In February 1992, Dr. Hyland was promoted to Senior Scientist and assigned to the Senior Staff of the Vice President of Engineering of the Aerospace Systems Division. Dr. Hyland joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on May 1, 1996 and served as Full Professor with tenure and Chairman of the Aerospace Engineering Department until September 1, 2003.

He joined Texas A&M University in 2003 as Associate Vice Chancellor of Engineering, Associate Dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering, holder of the Wisenbaker Chair of Engineering, Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering and Professor of Physics in the College of Science. Resigning his administrative appointments in 2006, Dr. Hyland served as Director of Space Science and Space Engineering Research along with the academic positions named above.

In 2016, Dr. Hyland retired from Texas A&M University as Professor Emeritus and is now President of Augusta Quantum Electrodynamics Inc, conducting advanced research in quantum optics for a variety of applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:06:37 -0400 2020-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion David Hyland
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (April 16, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

Or just writing a paper for an AMCULT or Ethnic Studies class?

Join us, Thursdays in Ethnic Studies Lounge on the 3rd floor of Haven Hall!

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-04-16T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-16T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (April 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: SynSem Discussion Group (April 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72625 72625-18033401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:25:52 -0400 2020-04-17T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Environmental Awareness and Compassionate Action (April 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73358 73358-18208323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

With the existential crisis of our time, climate change, bearing down upon us, there is a need to develop constructive and sustainable solutions. Great strides have been made in generating awareness about climate change, overpopulation, mass extinction of species and other stressors on the environment. In 2019, the City of Ann Arbor declared a Climate Emergency. But how can we as individuals make a difference? Buddhism has always emphasized the interdependence of all living beings and the benefit of interacting compassionately.

The inaugural Jewel Heart Annual Earth Day Forum will present a dialogue between Tibetan Buddhist scholar and teacher, Demo Rinpoche, and eminent scientists and activists. The Forum will address the human and spiritual dimension of sustaining life on this planet.

Participants:

Demo Rinpoche – Jewel Heart Tibetan Buddhist Center
Mark Hunter – UM Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Anthony King – UM Department of Psychiatry
MaryCarol Hunter - UM School for Environment and Sustainability
Avik Basu - UM School for Environment and Sustainability
Rebecca Hardin - UM School for Environment and Sustainability
Isabelle Osawamick - Native American Anishinaabemowin Language Specialist
Jonathan Rose – The Garrison Institute

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:50:50 -0400 2020-04-18T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Event ad with background image of mountains, grassy hills and water, photo of Demo Rimpoche
[POSTPONED] The Women's Suffrage Movement in Photographs (April 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73666 73666-18278625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

*Update 3/12/20: This lecture has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date.*

Since the nation’s founding, Americans have used images to define political power and gender roles. Popular pictures praised male political leaders, while cartoons mocked women who sought rights. In the mid-nineteenth century, women’s rights activists like Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony challenged these powerful norms by distributing engraved and photographic portraits that represented women as political leaders. Over time, suffragists developed a national visual campaign to win voting rights. Their photographs captured their public protests and demonstrated their dedication to their cause for mass audiences.

Allison K. Lange, PhD is an assistant professor of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, published essayist and public historian. In preparation for the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, she is curating exhibitions at the Massachusetts Historical Society and Harvard’s Schlesinger Library. Lange’s talk is based on her forthcoming book, "Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement."

This lecture is a part of the Clements Library's Randolph G. Adams Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the Michigan Photographic Historical Society.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:24:28 -0400 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T21:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "Bloomerism in Practice: the morning after the victory" (detail), 1851
Michigan Medicine Community Conversations (April 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73489 73489-18250068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

When there is effective communication, workplace relationships can thrive. At times, innovative solutions aren’t being implemented because we aren’t hearing each other out, literally. Studies show most people do not listen with the intent to understand but with the intent to reply. Building active listening skills can lead to more meaningful conversations and efficient results to workplace dilemmas. Join us to explore the importance of connecting with others and the common barriers that we face when trying to work together.

This Community Conversation explores the nature of conflict and opens dialogue regarding the strategies you use to manage conflict.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Mar 2020 08:51:16 -0500 2020-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T13:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Community Conversation Image
[POSTPONED] Great Lakes Theme Semester Panel Series: Looking Forward - Legal and Policy Prescriptions for the Great Lakes (April 20, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70292 70292-17564367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

A highlight of the 2020 Great Lakes Theme Semester will be a speaker series surveying key issues confronting the Great Lakes and the peoples who depend upon them. Each session will be structured as a panel of three to four presenters speaking briefly on an aspect of the session’s theme, engaging in dialogue as a panel, and then opening the floor for audience participation. An informal gathering, offering more opportunities for the campus community to interact with the speakers, will follow each session.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:16:56 -0400 2020-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Great Lakes Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion GLTS
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy (April 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70269 70269-17556193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

This talk examines the unfolding controversy surrounding human genome editing in and across China’s national public sphere and national sphere of experts, the transnational public sphere, and the transnational sphere of experts between 2015 and 2019.

Ya-Wen Lei is an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University. She is the author of "The Contentious Public Sphere" (Princeton University Press, 2018).

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:03:23 -0400 2020-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Master's Defense: Jonathan Primeaux (April 21, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74331 74331-18633862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be placed below.

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/7013698675

Children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) must undergo multiple surgical stages to reconstruct the anatomy to a sustainable single ventricle system. Stage I palliation, or the Norwood procedure, enables circulation to both pulmonary and systemic vasculature. The aorta is reconstructed and attached to the right ventricle and a fraction of systemic flow is redirected to the pulmonary arteries (PAs) through a systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt. Despite abundant hemodynamic data available 4-5 months after palliation, data is very scarce immediately following stage I. This data is critical in determining post-operative success. In this work, we combined population data and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to characterize hemodynamics immediately following stage I (post-stage I) and prior to stage II palliation (pre-stage II). A patient-specific model was constructed as a baseline geometry, which was then scaled to reflect population-based morphological data at both time-points. Population-based hemodynamic data was also used to calibrate each model to reproduce blood flow representative of HLHS patients.

The post-stage I simulation produced a mean PA pressure of 22 mmHg and high-frequency oscillations within the flow field indicating highly disturbed hemodynamics. Despite mean PA pressure dropping to 14 mmHg, the pre-stage II model also produced high-frequency flow components and PA wall shear stress increases. These suboptimal conditions result from the need to ensure adequate PA flow throughout the pre-stage II period, as the shunt becomes relatively smaller compared to the growing patient size. In the future, CFD can be used to optimize shunt design and minimize these suboptimal conditions.

Chair: Dr. Alberto Figueroa

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:05:00 -0400 2020-04-21T14:30:00-04:00 2020-04-21T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Master's Defense: Xijia Quan (April 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74183 74183-18559840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Blue Jeans. The link will be posted below.

Blue Jeans link: https://bluejeans.com/6788336326

We propose a novel optimization algorithm for radiofrequency (RF) pulse design in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), that regularizes the magnitude and phase of the target (desired) magnetization pattern separately. This approach may be useful across applications where the relative importance of achieving accurate magnitude or phase excitation varies; for example, saturation pulses "care" only about the magnitude excitation pattern. We apply our new design to the problem of spin "prephasing" in 3D functional MRI using blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) contrast; spin prephasing pulses can mitigate the signal loss observed near air/tissue boundaries due to the presence of local susceptibility gradients. We show that our algorithm can improve the simulation performance and recover some signal in some regions with steep susceptibility gradients. In all cases, our algorithm shows better phase correction than a conventional design based on minimizing the complex difference between the target and realized patterns. The algorithm is open-source and the computation time is feasible for online applications. In addition, we evaluate the impact of the choice of (initial) excitation k-space trajectories, both in terms of trajectory type (SPINS vs extended KT points) and overall pulse duration.

Chair: Dr. Jon-Fredrik Nielsen

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:11:30 -0400 2020-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T16:00:00-04:00 Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Webinar: Restoring Native Oysters on North America's West Coast (April 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73838 73838-18339519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Conservation and restoration of coastal foundation species has become a global priority, to protect and enhance the habitats and services they provide. The oyster native to the west coast of North America between Baja California and British Columbia is Ostrea lurida, the Olympia oyster, a species quite unfamiliar to many people, even those that live in the region. Unlike oysters in other regions, this one is quite small, and does not form high profile reefs. Nevertheless, it is a vital part of bays and estuaries along the Pacific coast, providing food for humans and other species and enriching diversity. Recently, a community of practice has formed to rebuild populations of Olympia oysters to maintain their legacy for future generations.

The Native Olympia Oyster Collaborative (NOOC) was supported in the past year by funding from the National Estuarine Research Reserve System’s Science Collaborative. NOOC created a website (https://olympiaoysternet.ucdavis.edu) to serve as a portal for resources about native oyster science, restoration, and education. NOOC also compiled the first comprehensive archive of Olympia oyster restoration projects, creating an ARC GIS Story Map (https://projects.trnerr.org/oystermap/) to highlight them, and conducting a synthesis of approaches and lessons learned.

This webinar introduces the unique ecology of the Olympia oyster, the challenges it faces, and approaches taken to restoration. NOOC’s accomplishments to date will be highlighted, including the development of the web portal and story map. Finally, presenters will share lessons learned from the synthesis of twenty years of restoration projects conducted along over 2000 km of coast line. These lessons apply to restoration of any coastal foundation species anywhere: the importance of a structured decision-framework to match goals to approaches, the opportunities for community engagement, the need to consider ecosystem processes, and the value of a regional network for strategic planning.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:52:57 -0400 2020-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
Food Literacy for All (April 21, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-04-21T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Food Literacy for All Course Conclusions (April 21, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72681 72681-18044335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Center for Academic Innovation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:11:52 -0400 2020-04-21T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All
Bioethics Discussion: History (April 21, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52731 52731-12974165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the means to our ends.

NOTICE: Online hosting procedure https://bluejeans.com/7569798571.

Readings to consider:
1. Bioethics and History
2. The History of Bioethics: Its Rise and Significance
3. What can History do for Bioethics?
4. “My Story Is Broken; Can You Help Me Fix It?”: Medical Ethics and the Joint Construction of Narrative

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/045-history/.

Of historical note – the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:22:43 -0400 2020-04-21T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion History
PhD Defense: David Martel (April 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74201 74201-18568320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be provided below.

Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/2019377962

Tinnitus is the disorder of phantom sound perception, while hyperacusis is abnormally increased loudness growth. Tinnitus and hyperacusis are both associated with hearing loss, but hearing loss does not always occur with either condition, implicating central neural activity as the basis for each disorder. Furthermore, while tinnitus and hyperacusis can co-occur, either can occur exclusively, suggesting that separate pathological neural processes underlie each disorder.

Mounting evidence suggests that pathological neural activity in the cochlear nucleus, the first central nucleus in the auditory pathway, underpins hyperacusis and tinnitus. The cochlear nucleus is comprised of a ventral and dorsal subdivision, which have separate principle output neurons with distinct targets. Previous studies have shown that dorsal cochlear nucleus fusiform cells show tinnitus-related increases in spontaneous firing with minimal alterations to sound-evoked responses. In contrast, sound-evoked activity in ventral cochlear nucleus bushy cells is enhanced following noise-overexposure, putatively underlying hyperacusis. While the fusiform-cell contribution to tinnitus has been well characterized with behavioral and electrophysiological studies, the bushy-cell contribution to tinnitus or hyperacusis has been understudied.

This dissertation examines how pathological neural activity in cochlear nucleus circuitry relates to tinnitus and hyperacusis in the following three chapters.

In the first chapter, I characterize the development of a high-throughput tinnitus behavioral model, which combines and optimizes existing paradigms. With this model, I show that animals administered salicylate, a drug that reliably induces tinnitus at high doses in both humans and animals, show behavioral evidence of tinnitus in two separate behavioral tests. Moreover, in these same animals, I show that dorsal-cochlear-nucleus fusiform cells exhibit frequency-specific increases in spontaneous firing activity, consistent with noise-induced tinnitus in animals.

In the second chapter, I show that following noise-overexposure, ventral-cochlear-nucleus bushy cells demonstrate hyperacusis-like neural firing patterns, but not tinnitus-specific increases in spontaneous activity. I contrast the bushy-cell neural activity with established fusiform-cell neural signatures of tinnitus, to highlight the bushy-cell, but not fusiform-cell contribution to hyperacusis. These analyses suggest that tinnitus and hyperacusis likely arise from distinct neural substrates.

In the third chapter, I use computational modelling of the auditory periphery and bushy-cell circuitry to examine potential mechanisms that underlie hyperacusis-like neural firing patterns demonstrated in the second chapter. I then relate enhanced bushy-cell firing patterns to alterations in the auditory brainstem response, a sound-evoked electrical potential generated primarily by bushy cells. Findings in this chapter suggest that there are multiple hyperacusis subtypes, arising from separate mechanisms, which could be diagnosed through fine-tuned alterations to the auditory brainstem response.

Chair: Dr. Susan Shore

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:17:07 -0400 2020-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth (April 22, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72596 72596-18024699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
As a fundamental process for converting kinetic to thermal energy, collisionless shocks are ubiquitous throughout the heliosphere and astrophysical systems, from Earth’s magnetosphere to supernova remnants. While these shocks have been studied for decades by spacecraft, telescopes, and numerical simulations, there remain key open questions in shock physics, such as: How do shocks accelerate particles to extremely high energies? or How are particles heated across a shock? Laboratory experiments thus provide a significant opportunity to both complement spacecraft and remote sensing observations with well-controlled and well-diagnosed datasets, and to help benchmark numerical simulations that bridge laboratory and astrophysical systems.
In this talk, I will discuss recent results from experiments and simulations on the formation and evolution of collision-less shocks created through the interaction of a supersonic laser-driven magnetic piston and magnetized ambient plas-ma. Through advanced diagnostics a fast, high-Mach-number shock is observed. Direct probing of particle velocity distributions reveals the coupling between the piston and ambient plasmas that is a key step in forming magnetized collisionless shocks. Particle-in-cell simulations further detail the shock formation process, the role of collisionality, and the dynamics of multi-ion-species ambient plasmas. I will also discuss how this experimental platform complements spacecraft missions and can allow novel investigations of shock heating and particle acceleration.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Schaeffer is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astro-physical Sciences at Princeton University. He received his BA in Physics at Cornell University and his PhD in Physics from UCLA, and did his postdoctoral work at Princeton in high-energy-density laboratory astrophysics. Dr. Schaeffer has extensive experience in experiments involving mag-netized laser plasmas, collisionless shocks, and magnetic reconnection, and a keen interest in bridging laboratory and astronomical observations. He also has expertise in a wide range of di-agnostics, including Thomson scattering, refractive imaging, proton radiography, and x-ray im-aging. He has authored dozens of papers and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:24 -0400 2020-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-22T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Derek Schaeffer
Brexit: Where Did It Come From and Where Is It Going? (April 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74377 74377-18680262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Jim Adams, UM Professor of Economics will provide this lecture which is free and open to the public.

The link to Professor Adams’ lecture is https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rvhxkrsx

If you only want to join it by phone:
Dial one of the following numbers, enter the participant PIN followed by # to confirm:
+1 (800) 520-9950 (US Toll Free)
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:25:10 -0400 2020-04-23T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (April 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

Or just writing a paper for an AMCULT or Ethnic Studies class?

Join us, Thursdays in Ethnic Studies Lounge on the 3rd floor of Haven Hall!

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-04-23T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-23T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
CANCELLED - CREES 60th Anniversary Keynote Lecture. The Great Chernobyl Acceleration: A Humanist’s Encounter with the Science of Disasters (April 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69819 69819-17431808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent upwards of 50 million curies into the surrounding environment. Working through archives, Brown encountered many contradictory accounts of the disaster and its effects. Realizing that though people and archives lie, trees probably don’t. She turned to scientists—biologists, foresters, physicians and physicists—to help her understand the ecology of the greater Chernobyl territories and the health effects that ensured. She learned working in the swampy territory around the blown plant that radioactive contaminants saturated local eco-systems long before the Chernobyl accident and continued after the 1986 event. Brown argues that to call Chernobyl an “accident” is to sweep aside the continuum of radiation exposure that saturated environments in the northern hemisphere in the second half of the 20th century. Instead of a one-off accident, Brown argues that Chernobyl was a point of acceleration on a timeline of radioactive contamination that continues to this day.

Kate Brown is professor of history in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of the prize-winning histories *Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters* (Oxford 2013) and *A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland* (Harvard 2004). Brown was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has also been supported by the Carnegie Foundation, the NEH, ACLS, IREX, and the American Academy of Berlin, among others. Her latest book, *Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future*, will be published by Norton (US), Penguin Lane (UK), and Czarne (Poland) in spring 2019, and by Actes Sud (France) in October 2019.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:54:16 -0400 2020-04-23T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Kate Brown
CANCELLED - CREES 60th Anniversary Series. 2020 Vision on CREES: Viewing the Field through Directors’ Eyes (April 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70722 70722-17619604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Four former CREES Directors will reflect on the contributions of the University of Michigan to Russian, East European and Eurasian studies over the past 60 years, and discuss the continued relevance of area studies today. Moderated by the current CREES Director, Professor Geneviève Zubrzycki.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:12:17 -0400 2020-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T12:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion CREES 60th Anniversary Series. 2020 Vision on CREES: Viewing the Field through Directors’ Eyes
COVID-19 - A New Update (April 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74393 74393-18682278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Dr. Lona Mody, Amanda Sanford Hickey Professor Internal Medicine, Associate Division Chief of Geriatric and Palliative Care Medicine will give you the latest information on the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The link to Mody's lecture is:
https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/vxujjpgq

To call in, dial: 1 (800) 520-9950 and enter PIN 1214384 #

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:26:05 -0400 2020-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Live Panel Discussion (April 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74437 74437-18714561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: North Quad Programming

Join us Tomorrow Tuesday, April 28 at 1 PM for a 1-hour live panel discussion with UMDPSS Special Victims Unit experts talking about sexual assault and domestic violence during a pandemic followed by Q&A. Panel will feature:

Lead Police Officer Maureen Burke - Outreach Coordinator

Lead Police Officer Margie Pillsbury - Investigations Coordinator

Marlanna Landeros - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
and Student Programs

CLICK HERE TO ENTER LIVE PANEL. TUE APRIL 28, 1PM:
https://meet.google.com/neg-jwca-jmx

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:42:01 -0400 2020-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-28T14:00:00-04:00 North Quad North Quad Programming Lecture / Discussion April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Mindfulness at the Time of Covid 19 (April 28, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74409 74409-18688304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

A FREE special live-stream lecture offered by the Turner Senior Wellness Program!

Reflecting on the stress we are experiencing at the time of current pandemic, and learning on how mindfulness can help ease such stress and restore a sense of well-being.

Mariko Foulk, LMSW Clinical Social Worker, Michigan Medicine Geriatrics Center

The link Foulk lecture is https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93526204010?pwd=VE9PY3FRQ3ZmcEVVanY0QlF5UFBudz09

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Webinar ID: 935 2620 4010
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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:14:11 -0400 2020-04-28T13:30:00-04:00 2020-04-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
Vaping: A New Public Health Crisis or a Solution to the Disaster of Cigeratte Smoking? Or Neither? (Or Both?) (April 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74410 74410-18688305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Ken Warner, UM Professor Emeritus of Public Health

Please click the link below to join Dr. Warner’s webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91930175534

Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
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Webinar ID: 919 3017 5534

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:25:26 -0400 2020-04-29T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
PhD Defense: Richard Youngblood (April 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74358 74358-18666222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Blue Jeans. The link will be posted below.

BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/855683101

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) differentiated into complex three-dimensional (3D) structures, referred to as ‘organoids’ due to their organ-like properties, offer ideal platforms to study human development, disease and regeneration. However, studying organ morphogenesis has been hindered by the lack of appropriate culture systems that can spatially enable cellular interactions that are needed for organ formation. Many organoid cultures rely on decellularized extracellular matrices as supportive scaffolds, which are often poorly chemically defined and allow only limited tunability and reproducibility. By contrast, engineered synthetic matrices can be tuned and optimized to mimic the embryo environment in order to enhance development and maturation of organoid cultures. Herein, this work primarily focuses on using synthetic polymer matrices to investigate how the design of biomaterials can guide key interactions guiding stem-cell decisions for the reproducible generation and control of organoid cultures.
Microporous biomaterials comprised of synthetic polymer materials were shown to guide the assembly of pancreatic progenitors into insulin-producing clusters that further developed into islet organoids. The scaffold culture facilitated cell-cell interactions enabled by the scaffold design and supported cell-mediated matrix deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins associated with the basement membrane of islet cells. Furthermore, when compared to suspension cultures, the scaffold culture showed increased insulin secretion in response to glucose stimulus indicating the development of functional β-cells. By modifying the stage that cells were seeded on scaffolds from pancreatic progenitor to pancreatic endoderm, islet organoids showed increased amounts of insulin secreted per cell. In addition, seeding scaffolds with dense clusters instead of a single suspension minimized cell manipulation during the differentiation, which was shown to be influential to the development of the islet organoids. An engineered insulin reporter further identified how mechanistic changes in vitro influenced function within individual cells by measuring insulin storage and secretion through non-invasive imaging.
hPSC-derived lung organoids (HLOs) were also evaluated for in vivo maturation on biomaterial scaffolds, where HLOs were shown improved tissue structure and cellular differentiation. Investigative studies demonstrated that scaffold pore interconnectivity and polymer degradation contributed to in vivo maturation, the size of the airway structures and the total size of the transplanted tissue. Polymer biomaterials were also developed to modulate local tissue and systemic inflammation through local delivery of human interleukin 4 (hIL-4)-expressing lentivirus. Microporous scaffold culture strategies improve organoid complexity and exert fine control over the system using engineering solutions, thus, allowing the community to build more realistic organoid tools. Taken together, the microporous scaffold culture demonstrates the feasibility to translate organoid culture to the clinic as a biomanufacturing platform.

Chair: Dr. Lonnie Shea

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:21:55 -0400 2020-04-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (April 29, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70795 70795-17957293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental infor-mation about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our com-munications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.
Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft stra-tegically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the far-thest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untagle the effects of the star we live with.

About the speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:50 -0400 2020-04-29T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Nicola Fox
China’s Global Ambitions and Its Domestic Challenges (April 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74389 74389-18682275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

This presentation will examine China’s global ambitions as related to trade and investment, Belt and Road, and national security in the context of broad domestic challenges, such as environmental degradation, slowing growth, and rising expectations from the burgeoning middle class.

The speaker, Professor Mary E. Gallagher, relates China’s global aspirations to the regime’s desire to manage these domestic problems.

Professor Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights Professor at the University of Michigan where she is also the director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese
Studies.

Professor Gallagher received her Ph.D. in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. Her most recent book is Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State (Cambridge University Press 2017). She is also the author or editor of several other books.

Please click the link below to join Prof. Gallagher’s webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93223323877

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Webinar ID: 932 2332 3877

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:14:14 -0400 2020-04-30T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-30T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
Master's Defense: Manan Parag Anjaria (April 30, 2020 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74435 74435-18714559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 30, 2020 1:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Blue Jeans. The link will be provided below.

Blue Jeans Link: https://bluejeans.com/126133694

Individual muscle contributions to facilitate limb motion are altered in people with transtibial amputation. Specifically, proximal muscles on the residual limb and muscles on the intact limb compensate for the lack of plantarflexor muscles on the residual limb. Powered ankle prostheses have been developed to replace the function of the ankle plantarflexor muscles. As powered prostheses can help people with amputation walk faster, and replicate local ankle joint mechanics similar to biological ankles, we expect that muscle activity would also differ when using powered prostheses compared to unpowered prosthesis. Exploring muscle synergies, or the patterns of co-activation of muscles recruited by a single neural command signal, can provide insight into the neural control strategies used to walk with different types of prostheses. The goal of this study was to determine if the use of a powered ankle prosthesis affected muscle coordination and coactivation in comparison to the use of unpowered prosthesis. Nine people with unilateral transtibial amputation and 9 age-matched, non-amputee controls walked on a treadmill while muscle activity from 16 lower limb muscles were collected. Participants with amputation performed two trials, one with an unpowered and one with a powered prosthesis, on the same day. People with transtibial amputation had higher thigh muscle co-contraction when walking with powered prostheses. They also had the same number of synergies in both prostheses as the non-amputee group, which suggests that the complexity of the motor control strategy is not affected by amputation or prosthesis type. The first three synergies in the intact limb were similar, however, the contribution of different muscles to the fourth synergy varied in people with amputation as they used more knee flexors than ankle dorsiflexors in the late swing phase. We also explored the time-varying pattern of the synergies across the gait cycle. There were some phases of the gait cycle where activation profiles for all the synergies were significantly different between the groups with and without amputation. However, there were strong correlations between muscle weightings for each synergy between the groups with and without amputation, with both prostheses. This indicates that they used a similar muscle recruitment strategy. The use of powered prosthesis reduced the compensatory activity of the proximal muscles making the intact limb synergies muscle weightings more similar to healthy individuals with prolonged or delayed activation profiles. The study could not offer any interpretations of the synergies of the residual limb due to lesser muscle activity data available. Future work should be focused including a larger set of muscles including the lumbar muscles and residual leg muscles to get a better look at the muscle synergy.

Chair: Dr. Deanna Gates

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:44:40 -0400 2020-04-30T13:15:00-04:00 2020-04-30T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Diversity, Many Model Thinking about Pandemics and Their Consequences (May 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74412 74412-18688307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Scott Page, UM Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management
Please click the link below to join Prof. Page’s webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92597629286

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Webinar ID: 925 9762 9286

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:41:34 -0400 2020-05-01T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-01T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
Actual Innocence in Michigan: An Update from the Michigan Innocence Clinic (May 5, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65433 65433-18682280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.
The link for the event will be posted on the OLLI website the day before the lecture

Professor David Moran (Professor, Clinical Professor of Law, Michigan Innocence Clinic, University of Michigan) will speak about the problem of wrongful convictions in Michigan and how the Michigan Innocence Clinic investigates and litigates cases where persons have been wrongfully convicted but there is no DNA evidence to test. During this lecture for those 50 and over Professor Moran will discuss several recent cases in which the Michigan Innocence Clinic has achieved exonerations for its clients.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:55:00 -0400 2020-05-05T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-05T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Distinguished Lecture Series
PhD Defense: Xianglong Wang (May 5, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74357 74357-18666221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be via Zoom. The link will be provided below.

Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99315883529

Biological transport processes often involve a boundary acting as separation of flow, most commonly in transport involving blood-contacting medical devices. The separation of flow creates two different scenarios of mass transport across the interface. No flow exists within the medical device and diffusion governs mass transport; both convection and diffusion exist when flow is present. The added convection creates a large concentration gradient around the interface. Computer simulation of such cases prove to be difficult and require proper shock capturing methods for the solutions to be stable, which is typically lacking in commercial solvers. In this talk, we propose a second-order accurate numerical method for solving the convection-diffusion equation by using a gradient-limited Godunov-type convective flux and the multi-point flux approximation (MPFA) L-Method for the diffusion flux. We applied our solver towards simulation of a nitric oxide-releasing intravascular catheter.

Intravascular catheters are essential for long-term vascular access in both diagnosis and treatment. Use of catheters are associated with risks for infection and thrombosis. Risk management dictates that the catheters to be often replaced on a 3 to 5-day cycle, which is bothersome to both patients and physicians. Nitric oxide (NO) is a potent antimicrobial and antithrombotic agent produced by vascular endothelial cells. The production level in vivo is so low that the physiological effects can only be seen around the endothelial cells. The catheter can incorporate a NO source in two major ways: by impregnating the catheter with NO-releasing compounds such as S-nitroso-N-acetyl penicillamine (SNAP) or using electrochemical reactions to generate NO from nitrites. We applied our solver to both situations to guide the design of the catheter.

Lung edema is often present in patients with end-stage renal disease due to reduced filtration functions of the kidney. These patients require regular dialysis sessions to manage their fluid status. The clinical gold standard to quantify lung edema is to use CT, which exposes patients to high amounts of radiation and is not cost efficient. Fluid management in such patients becomes very challenging without a clear guideline of fluid to be removed during dialysis sessions. Aggressive fluid removal can cause both exacerbations of congestive failure and hypotension resulting from low blood volume.

Recently, reverberations in ultrasound signals, referred to as “lung ultrasound comets” have emerged as a potential quantitative way to measure lung edema. Increased presence of lung comets is associated with higher amounts of pulmonary edema, higher mortality, and more adverse cardiac events. However, the lung comets are often counted by hand by physicians with single frames in lung ultrasound and high subjectivity has been found to exist among the counting by physicians. We applied image processing and neural network techniques as an attempt to provide an objective and accurate measurement of the amount of lung comets present. Our quantitative results are significantly correlated with a few clinical parameters, including diastolic blood pressure and ejection fraction.

Co-Chairs: Dr. Joseph Bull and Dr. Alberto Figueroa

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:16:12 -0400 2020-05-05T13:00:00-04:00 2020-05-05T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Ambitious Reform in Saudi Arabia: Its Current Status and What It Means for the Kingdom and Region (May 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74422 74422-18712326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

The links to access this event will be available on the OLLI website the day prior to the event.

Saeed Khan, Senior Lecturer, Near East and Asian Studies, Global Studies, Wayne State University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:37:32 -0400 2020-05-06T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-06T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
Interest Groups and American Trade Politics (May 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74390 74390-18682276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required. Access details will be available on the OLLI website the day prior to the event.

In this talk Professor Iain Osgood provides a model of contemporary American trade politics. He emphasizes the political advantages of pro-trade firms relative to anti-trade firms, and also examine the role of trade skeptics in the labor movement and among progressive groups. Dr. Osgood will show how this model can help explain
trade policy developments of the past thirty years, with particular focus on the recent debates over NAFTA and trade with China.

Speaker: Dr. Iain Osgood is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is currently working on projects examining special interest coalition-building around climate change; progressive opponents of trade in the United States; and identifying clusters of development strategies among countries engaging with global markets. His recent work appears in several respected political journals.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:39:43 -0400 2020-05-07T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-07T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
Ph.D. Defense: Kevin Hughes (May 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74436 74436-18714560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Blue Jeans. The link will be provided below.

Blue Jeans Link: https://bluejeans.com/302652230

A variety of immunological disorders are characterized by inappropriate responses to innocuous protein. This is particularly relevant in autoimmune disease, allergy, and transplant rejection. For these, the therapeutic options that exist are minimal or involve broadly immunosuppressive regimens which are often characterized by undesirable side effects. This dissertation highlights advances in the design of a biodegradable poly-lactide-co-glycolide (PLG) nanoparticle (NP) platform to provide antigen-specific tolerance in these disease models.

Strategies to incorporate multiple antigens conjugated to bulk PLG were investigated in a murine model of multiple sclerosis with the observation that a minimum antigen loading of 8µg of antigen per mg of nanoparticle was sufficient to induce maximally observed efficacy. Insights gathered from development of these particles were critical to the design of experiments related to food allergy in mice. Importantly, we demonstrate that it is possible to delivery peanut extract via nanoparticles intravenously without induction of anaphylactic response. Prophylactic and therapeutic administration of particles resulted in improved clinical outcomes and reduction in Th2 markers, including IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13. Interestingly, administration of PLG NPs to deliver allergen did not induce skewing of immunological responses towards Th1/Th17, which is a common approach to treat allergy in pre-clinical models and certain clinical immunotherapy regimens. Studies in a murine model of allogeneic skin transplant rejection demonstrated that the method of incorporation of antigen into the PLG NP resulted in statistically significant delay in graft rejection. These studies also demonstrated shortcomings in the platform’s ability to completely prevent rejection, which we hypothesize is the result of an inability to prevent direct rejection.

Development of FasL-conjugated implantable polymeric discs provided an immunologically privileged site on which to transplant islet cells, which may represent an opportunity to supplement tolerogenic therapies like our PLG NPs. A similar polymeric, implantable technology was designed to enable analysis of the function of inflammatory immune cells, a novel finding which has provided a method to monitor disease progression and response to therapy in a murine model of multiple sclerosis. Collectively, this work has provided several novel strategies to improve polymeric nanoparticle therapies and an implantable, biodegradable platform that shows promise as a companion diagnostic for therapies that impact immune function, including PLG NPs.

Chair: Dr. Lonnie Shea

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:54:09 -0400 2020-05-08T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-08T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Witness Lab Event: Artist Reflections with Courtney McClellan: Witnessing as an Artistic Act (May 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72291 72291-17968252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Witness Lab is a project of Roman Witt Artist-in-Residence, Courtney McClellan. It is part museum exhibit, part performance art, part research project, which seeks to understand and illuminate the intersection of performance and the law. During the run of the project, classes investigating different aspects of the courts and our legal system, as well as performances of mock trials and trial scenes, have all taken part in creating and shaping the Witness Lab project. McClellan will discuss her findings from this form of research.  She will focus her conversation on the art museum and the University of Michigan as a site specific places in which to make art. 

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:15:23 -0400 2020-05-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-05-10T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Perspectives on the social dimensions of infectious crises (pandemics and epidemics), and the specific role of vaccines. (May 11, 2020 10:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74520 74520-18776714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 11, 2020 10:15am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Vaccines are the topic of the first Lecture Video Learning developed for OLLI members. Lecture Video Learning will include videos that give background perspective combined with live presentations that offer timely updates.

Online - Free! No registration needed.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92098972759.

Presenter Dr. Alexandra Stern is the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine and associate director of the Center for the History of Medicine. She is a medical historian with a research focus on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States. Her expertise supplies historical context in such areas as public health, children’s health, scapegoating, ethnic relations, political governance and social restrictions, and the complex interplay among these elements that define the human and community experience during an evolving public health emergency.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 May 2020 10:40:23 -0400 2020-05-11T10:15:00-04:00 2020-05-11T12:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Video Lecture
How Covid-19 Could Affect the United States’ Fall 2020 Elections (May 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74519 74519-18776713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Please click the link below to join Barbara McQuade’s webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99452419688
Phone: 1 312 626 6799 or 1 646 876 9923
Webinar ID: 99452419688

Barbara McQuade, Professor from Practice, UM Law School

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 May 2020 11:23:15 -0400 2020-05-12T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-12T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lecture
A View of the Global Auto Industry from Michigan (May 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74392 74392-18682277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required. Access information will be available on the OLLI website the day prior to the event.

Michigan is the nation’s top producer of light vehicles and automotive parts and, if the state were an independent country, it would be the 10th largest vehicle producer in the world. Michigan is also the top state for both automotive and parts imports and exports—trade is critically important to the health of the industry and the state.

A lot has changed in the industry’s first hundred or so years, though trade remains critically important. Automotive competition is global—with long and complicated supply chains that stretch around the world in support of the automotive sector.

This presentation by Kristin Dziczek will provide an overview of Michigan's largest manufacturing sector in the context of current U.S. trade policies and negotiations.

Kristin Dziczek is Vice President - Research at the Center for Automotive Research. She is a globally recognized expert on automotive labor union issues and lectures regularly on the subject. She has also served in government and industry roles and has published articles in labor and management publications.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:57:15 -0400 2020-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-14T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
Michigan Medicine Community Conversations (May 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73490 73490-18250069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

When there is effective communication, workplace relationships can thrive. At times, innovative solutions aren’t being implemented because we aren’t hearing each other out, literally. Studies show most people do not listen with the intent to understand but with the intent to reply. Building active listening skills can lead to more meaningful conversations and efficient results to workplace dilemmas. Join us to explore the importance of connecting with others and the common barriers that we face when trying to work together.

Join us to share and hear stories related to your experiences with racial diversity. This conversation is designed to increase awareness and understanding of community member experience.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:33:18 -0400 2020-05-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-05-15T09:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Community Communication Image
Swimming upstream: Overcoming the challenges of gigantic gene expression and lengthy cilia assembly in Drosophila spermatogenesis (May 19, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74576 74576-18833192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Jaclyn Fingerhut to present her dissertation virtually on May 19, 2020.

Hosted by: Yukiko Yamashita, Mentor

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 May 2020 11:46:04 -0400 2020-05-19T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-19T15:00:00-04:00 Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Swimming upstream: Overcoming the challenges of gigantic gene expression and lengthy cilia assembly in Drosophila spermatogenesis
The Kids are Not All Right: Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19 (May 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74605 74605-18851154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series:
The Kids are Not All Right: Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19

Presenter: Pamela Davis-Kean, Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at ISR

Wednesday, May 20
11am
https://umich.zoom.us/j/97584475822

With schools closed due to the COVID19 virus, the teaching and learning environments for children have now merged into one place--the home. With schools being the "great equalizer" for education opportunities, what does it mean for families to provide assistance and much of the teaching during the quarantine and what challenges will schools face if they are able to open in the fall? Dr. Davis-Kean will discuss her research on the inequalities in educational opportunities and what that means for families, schools, and children as this unprecedented crisis is potentially increasing achievement gaps across the country.

This webinar is the first in a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 May 2020 14:42:52 -0400 2020-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
VIRTUAL EVENT: Navigating the economic crisis during a global pandemic (May 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74565 74565-18827087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

This event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, May 21 at 10:00 am Eastern Time. **Please register here to attend: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y3QMjWLNSxi2NXAuu0sNAQ**

Please note: to join the event you will need to download Zoom to your device. http://zoom.us/

Join us for a discussion on the challenges of navigating an economic crisis during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Ford School professors Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, and Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr, will discuss some of the unprecedented economic challenges facing global leaders today. How can national, state, and local policymakers advance economic needs and the health and safety of communities? Globally, what approaches have worked so far, and where can we go from here? What have we learned, and how can we be better prepared in the future?

This event is hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by the Office of University Development.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 May 2020 10:03:42 -0400 2020-05-21T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-21T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Wolfers, Stevenson, Barr
The Epidemiology of Pandemics and Vaccines (May 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74562 74562-18825097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

The epidemiology of pandemics and vaccines: the history and process of vaccine development in the US and globally; rapid response to produce a covid-19 vaccine, and near-term drug and antibody therapies

Speaker Dr. Emily Toth Martin is on the faculty of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on building a greater understanding of the epidemiology of viral respiratory diseases (including RSV, bocavirus, and influenza) through the use of molecular epidemiology. In particular, her work aims to identify strategies to reduce infections, particularly in individuals with chronic comorbidities and in hospital infectious environments (including MRSA / VRE coinfection).

Online - Free! No registration needed. Link to the 3 sessions: Please use the following link to access the event:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92098972759

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 May 2020 08:27:08 -0400 2020-05-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-26T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
Virtual Seminar - "Metabolic engineering strategies: from static to dynamic rewiring of microbial metabolic networks” (June 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74728 74728-18952538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Filipa Pereira, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Link to attend: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93168574796

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 May 2020 10:54:07 -0400 2020-06-01T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
Webinar: Learning Health Systems in the Time of COVID-19 (June 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74564 74564-18825099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This 90-minute webinar is designed to introduce individuals to the overall concept of learning health systems, focusing on core components of learning cycles and infrastructure. It is appropriate for anyone interested in how health systems function, and particularly for individuals working within health systems. We will use examples that span countries and clinical problems, with special emphasis on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 May 2020 11:05:21 -0400 2020-06-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-02T15:30:00-04:00 Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Corona virus and Collaboratory logo
Motor City at a Standstill: Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Detroit (June 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74752 74752-18962487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, June 3, 2020
11:00am EST
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2Afy5YH

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Detroit has emerged as an epicenter of the crisis. To date, more than 1300 Detroiters have died from a coronavirus infection and 43 percent of city residents have lost their jobs. In this ISR Insights talk, Jeffrey Morenoff (Professor, Sociology and Public Policy; Director, Population Studies Center) and Lydia Wileden (PhD Candidate, Sociology and Public Policy; Population Studies Center trainee) will discuss efforts by the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study -- a panel study of more than 1100 Detroiters -- to capture the real-time experiences of Detroiters and share insights from two survey waves on the dramatic financial precarity facing many Detroit households and the behavioral and economic changes residents are making to get by.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 May 2020 21:12:24 -0400 2020-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
[CANCELED] In-Gallery Conversation | Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past (June 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69150 69150-17252916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join University of Michigan photographer Randal Stegmeyer as he discusses the stories behind the photographs on view in the special exhibition *Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past.* This will be an informal conversation with the artist himself and an opportunity for you to ask him your questions. The event is free and open to the public.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:05:57 -0400 2020-06-07T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-07T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion coffin of Djehutymose
LEAD: “I Can’t Breathe”—A Call to Action for Leaders in Higher Education (June 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74786 74786-18996294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity and Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead DEI initiatives. This LEAD conversation will address how faculty, staff, and student leaders in higher education can address the trauma that marginalized populations in our community are facing due to racism and societal injustice. This session will focus on traumas facing the Black community with Angie Stewart (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Lead, Organizational Learning), Dr. Stephen Ward (Director, Semester in Detroit; Associate Professor Residential College, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies) and Justin Woods (M.B.A./M.S.W. Candidate; Founder at EQuity Social Venture) as featured guests.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/YywnE.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Jun 2020 18:15:18 -0400 2020-06-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
RNA Innovation Seminar, Jeffery Twiss, MD, PhD, Professor, Interim Departmental Chair, SmartState Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics, University of South Carolina (June 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73583 73583-18263274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Jeffery Twiss, MD, PhD, Professor, Interim Departmental Chair, SmartState Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics, University of South Carolina

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:43:23 -0500 2020-06-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-06-15T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion lecture
Wealth and the Persistence of Racial Inequality (June 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74898 74898-19065440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, June 17, 2020
11am EST
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98604209689

As the country grapples with its persistent problem of racial injustice, this ISR Insights talk will focus on one aspect of long-standing racial inequality — gaps in family wealth. Featuring new findings on the depth and persistence of racial wealth gaps, Fabian Pfeffer (Associate Professor, Sociology; Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center, ISR) will also clarify why rising levels of wealth inequality present a major challenge to the economic prosperity and opportunity of most families in this country.

This webinar is the third in a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR.  If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.  This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:35:19 -0400 2020-06-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Health & Fitness + COVID-19: (June 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74943 74943-19104686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Shelter-in-place orders caused all patient/client-centric allied health and fitness providers to quickly pivot exclusively to a virtual medium. This webinar will provide a deep dive into the best practices and protocols that have emerged to optimize patient/client care in a virtual/telehealth environment. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with:

-- Valerie Macpherson - Clinical Site Supervisor, U-M MedSport Physical Therapy
-- Scott Marcus (LSA ‘96) - Owner, Metro Detroit Orangetheory Fitness
-- Dr. Rachael Miller - Physical Therapist & Women’s Health Coach
-- Amy Ritsema - Co-Owner, OnSite Wellness
-- Nick Shaw (SM ‘11) - Founder & CEO, Renaissance Periodization

Hosted by Mike Stack (MVS '04)
Founder & CEO, Applied Fitness Solutions
Lecturer, U-M Applied Exercise Science

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:09:06 -0400 2020-06-17T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-17T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion Health & Fitness + COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here? Summer Webinar Series
COVID-19: From Epidemiology to Equity (June 17, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74920 74920-19079191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Policy Talks @ the Ford School

The novel coronavirus pandemic has both revealed and exacerbated long-standing racial, economic and social inequalities in the United States. Paula Lantz, associate dean of the Ford School and James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy, and Michael S. Barr, dean of the Ford School, will discuss the emerging social epidemiology of COVID-19 and current understanding regarding public health and social policy responses.

Please visit fordschool.umich.edu to register to attend.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:45:35 -0400 2020-06-17T15:30:00-04:00 2020-06-17T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Paula Lantz and Michael S. Barr
The role of Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule in development and diseases (June 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74737 74737-18960488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to announce that Hao Liu will present his dissertation defense on June 18th, 2020 through a live stream virtual seminar!

Dissertation Committee:
Associate Professor Bing Ye, Mentor
Assistant Professor Kenneth Kwan, Chair
Professor Yukiko Yamashita
Assistant Professor Dawen Cai
Associate Professor Ken Inoki

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 May 2020 07:41:08 -0400 2020-06-18T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Hao Liu Flyer
COVID, White Supremacy, Black Women’s Concerns (June 18, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74937 74937-19102720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

In response to the latest events across the country and the world, on Thursday, June 18 our women panelists will address COVID in the context of white supremacy and police brutality, major problems of pandemic proportions.

We will discuss these issues with a focus on individual, peer and family relations, and community organizing. Our overarching theme, Identity and Vulnerabilities, will be used to frame the discussion.

Guests:

Andrea B. Williams, JD: Director, Advocacy Training and Community Engagement; STEPS To End Family Violence Program; Rising Ground, NYC
Yatesha D. Robinson, LMSW, MA: Field Faculty and LEO Lecturer III; Social Work; University of Michigan
Marah A. Curtis, MSW, PhD.: Professor of Social Work; Institute for Research on Poverty; Center for Demography and Ecology; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lauren Davis, LMSW: Assistant Director - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Adjunct Lecturer in Social Work; University of Michigan
Lady Carlson, Lead Organizer at West Side Sponsoring Committee and Together Louisiana.
Triana R. Shanks, PhD: Professor & Director of Community Engagement; Social Work; University of Michigan
Please join us!

Now is the moment for action.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:18:29 -0400 2020-06-18T15:00:00-04:00 2020-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion
Still, We Rise: Navigating Race & Religion in the Academy (June 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74963 74963-19112543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

This panel convenes six Black scholars across higher education, history, psychology, and public health to address the ways in which they experience and navigate the intersections of their racial/ethnic, religious and other identities within academia. Topics will address both scholarly and non-scholarly issues such as: mental health and well-being, navigating racism and other forms of stigma and oppression in academia; impostor syndrome, "cultural taxation," and "hidden labor." During the session, attendees are invited to submit questions to the panelists.

Moderator: Meredith O. Hope, PhD (NCID Postdoctoral Fellow)
Panelists: Donte Bernard, PhD (Medical University of South Carolina); Danielle Busby, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children's Hospital); Lauren Hammond-Ford, PhD (Augustana College); James Holly, Jr., PhD (Wayne State University); Yusuf Ransome, DrPH (Yale School of Public Health); Chauncey Smith, PhD (University of Virginia)

Livestreamed on the NCID Facebook page: myumi.ch/Bol2l

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:15:51 -0400 2020-06-19T14:30:00-04:00 2020-06-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Promotional flyer for event
Michigan Medicine Community Conversations (June 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73484 73484-18243531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: North Campus Recreation Building
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

When there is effective communication, workplace relationships can thrive. At times, innovative solutions aren’t being implemented because we aren’t hearing each other out, literally. Studies show most people do not listen with the intent to understand but with the intent to reply. Building active listening skills can lead to more meaningful conversations and efficient results to workplace dilemmas. Join us to explore the importance of connecting with others and the common barriers that we face when trying to work together.

This conversation explores the use of power in the workplace and opens discussion related to your experiences with power dynamics.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:34:24 -0400 2020-06-22T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-22T11:00:00-04:00 North Campus Recreation Building Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Community Conversation Image
PhD Defense: Matthew S. Willsey (June 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74994 74994-19128257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be placed below.

Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91278019863

Many diseases and injuries irreparably harm the brain or spinal cord and result in motor paralysis, widespread sensory deficits, and pain. Often, there are no treatments for these injuries, and therapies revolve around rehabilitation and adapting to the acquired deficits. In this work, we investigate brain machine interfaces (BMIs) as a future therapy to restore sensorimotor function, use BMIs to understand sensorimotor circuits, and use novel imaging algorithms to assess structural damage of somatosensory inputs into the brain.

Brain-controlled robotic arms have progressed rapidly from the first prototype devices in animals; however, these arms are often slow-moving compared to normal hand and arm function. In the first study, we attempt to restore higher-velocity movements during real-time control of virtual fingers using a novel feedforward neural network algorithm to decode the intended motor movement from the brain. In a non-human primate, the neural network decoder was compared with a linear decoder, the ReFIT Kalman filter (RFKF), that we believe represents the state-of-the-art in real-time finger decoding. The neural network decoder outperformed RFKF by acquiring more targets at faster velocities. This neural network architecture may also provide a blueprint for additional advances.

Somatosensory feedback from robotic arms is an important step to improve the realism and overall functioning. The use of somatosensory thalamus was investigated as a site of implantation for a sensory prosthesis in subjects undergoing awake deep brain stimulation surgery (DBS). In this study, electrical stimulation of the thalamus was performed using different stimulation patterns and the evoked sensations were compared. We found that the sensations evoked by bursting (a burst of pulses followed by a rest period) and tonic (regularly repeating pulses) stimulation were often in different anatomic regions and often with differing sensory qualities. These techniques for controlling percept location and quality may be useful in not only in BMI applications but also in DBS therapies to better relieve symptoms and avoid unwanted side effects.

Given the importance of sensory integration in motor functioning, the third study investigated the impact of a pharmacological perturbation on somatosensory content in primary motor cortex measured with Utah arrays implanted in two NHPs. Specifically, during continuous administration of nitrous oxide (N2O), somatosensory content was assessed by using the neural activity in primary motor cortex to classify finger brushings with a cotton-tip applicator. N2O degraded but did not eliminate somatosensory content in motor cortex. These findings provide insight into N2O mechanisms and may lead to further study of somatosensory afferents to motor cortex.

A debilitating facial pain syndrome, called trigeminal neuralgia (TN), is thought to be caused by vascular compression of the sensory root that provides somatosensory feedback from the face. In this final study, magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging was used to assess the structural damage of this sensory root. In a retrospective manner, we developed and tested an algorithm that predicted the likelihood of pain relief after surgical treatment of TN. This algorithm could help select patients for surgery with the best chance for pain relief.

Together, these studies advance BMI technologies that attempt to restore realistic function to those with irreparable damage to sensorimotor pathways. Furthermore, using BMIs and novel imaging, this work provides a better understanding of sensorimotor circuits and how sensory pathways can be damaged in disease states.

Co-Chairs: Parag G. Patil and Cynthia A. Chestek

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:24:23 -0400 2020-06-29T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-29T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Arrested Welcome virtual launch event with Irina Aristarkhova (June 29, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74971 74971-19116469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 29, 2020 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery and Minnesota University Press co-host a virtual book launch event with Irina Aristarkhova on Monday, June 29, 2020 from 10.30am–12pm EST in celebration of Aristarkhova’s new book, Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art. For this event, Aristarkhova will be joined in conversation by artists Ana Prvački, Faith Wilding, Lee Mingwei, Kathy High, Mithu Sen, and Ken Aptekar.

Access the event via Zoom at: https://umich.zoom.us/J/93226435999
[Password: 444131]

Amid xenophobic challenges to America’s core value of welcoming the tired and the poor, Irina Aristarkhova calls for new forms of hospitality in her engagement with the works of eight international artists. The first monograph on hospitality in contemporary art, Arrested Welcome blends feminist analysis with in-depth case studies and asks who, how, and what determines who is worthy of our welcome.

“A thought-provoking and accessible analysis of the ways that contemporary performance and exhibition artists address a theme of great contemporary importance: hospitality. Linking that theme to a cluster of related issues—fear, courtesy and etiquette, the act of waiting, the act of welcoming—Arrested Welcome offers a series of engaging examples of ways that artists can stimulate personal reflection and political engagement without being didactic or preachy.” —Susan Merrill Squier, author of Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor

Read more about the book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/arrested-welcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:15:08 -0400 2020-06-29T10:30:00-04:00 2020-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Arrested_Welcome.jpg
Going Viral: Epidemics and Media in the Age of Print (June 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74917 74917-19073311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The turn of the sixteenth century was a time when the rapid expansion of print media forged communities of readers eager to learn about the epidemics of the day, such as the plague, syphilis, and the English Sweating Sickness. Not unlike today, anxieties about the rapid spread of diseases coincided with anxieties about the rapid spread of harmful information.

Christopher Hutchinson (University of Mississippi) and Helmut Puff (University of Michigan) will engage in a one hour conversation about the nexus of epidemics and media (c. 1500).

This remote event is presented in webinar format via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_54AFMMcwRAK_wbuCSZs32Q

We welcome your questions during this live event!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:57:28 -0400 2020-06-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-06-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Durer Syphilitic Man Broadsheet
UMBS Summer Lecture Series: Hann Endowed Lecture in Ornithology (June 30, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74976 74976-19118434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Genital evolution in Birds: Losing the penis and winning the Battle.

Most birds do not have a penis, and most ornithologists have not thought about bird penises much. However, evolutionarily, the loss of the penis in birds is an extremely significant event: why lose an organ that seems so handy to get sperm close to female eggs? Dr. Brennan will discuss some hypotheses as to why this loss may have occurred and talk about her work describing variation in the genitalia of avian species that have retained their ancestral penis, and experimental manipulations that have revealed the surprising role of male-male competition in genital morphology. In addition, Dr. Brennan will talk about her research on how sexual conflict has driven extreme modifications of the female genital morphology in ducks, where females suffer great direct and indirect costs from forced copulations and they have evolved complex vaginas that prevent the full eversion of the penis, and reassert female control over paternity. An evolutionary arms race is playing out in the complex genitalia of waterfowl, with some species having extremely exaggerated genitalia. One possible resolution of such conflict is disarmament, and Dr. Brennan will discuss how the avian penis loss may have been driven by female choice for increased sexual autonomy, giving females the upper hand in the reproductive battle.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:23:19 -0400 2020-06-30T19:00:00-04:00 2020-06-30T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Patricia Brennan holds a male Ruddy Duck.
PhD Defense: Daniel Quevedo (July 1, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74977 74977-19118435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held digitally via Blue Jeans. The link will be placed below.

BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/863787871

Nanomedicine- where a therapeutic is loaded into nanoparticles to increase therapeutic efficiency and improve patient outcomes- has long had the potential to revolutionize medicine. With all of their promise, nanoparticle carrier technologies have yet to make a significant clinical impact, emphasizing the need for new technologies and approaches. In this dissertation, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) co-jetting was used to develop various methods to create novel Synthetic Protein Nanoparticles (SPNPs), which were then applied to the delivery of therapeutic enzymes, and characterized using a microfluidic technique. It was found that SPNPs can be made from various proteins, such as Human Transferrin, Hemoglobin, and others, and that various macromers can be selected, such as a stimuli responsive NHS-Ester based macromer that can detect oxidative environments and show signs of degradation within 30 minutes of being taken up by HeLa cells. SPNPs were then loaded with medically relevant enzymes, such as the antioxidant enzyme catalase. The enzymes showed high activity retention rates, with catalase SPNPs maintaining up to 82% of their original enzymatic activity. Additionally, antibody-targeted catalase SPNPs were able to protect up to 80% of REN cells in an inflammatory disease model. Next, an electrokinetic microfluidic system was adapted for the characterization of SPNPs based on their protein composition and anisotropy, and was able to differentiate bicompartmental particles made from two different proteins from single compartment SPNPs made of an equivalent isotropic mixture of the same two proteins, with a voltage difference of 900 V between the two particle types, in contrast to the 50 V step sizes possible in these systems. Finally, preliminary work was conducted on using a small targeting molecule, meta-acetylenbenzylguanidine (MABG), for the treatment of neuroblastoma, and a system for validating MABG targeting in SK-N-BE(2) cells (a neuroblastoma cell line) was developed. Work done in this dissertation presents the development of multifunctional protein nanocarriers and lays the groundwork for the targeted delivery of active therapeutics using these particles.

Chair: Dr. Joerg Lahann

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:24:54 -0400 2020-07-01T09:30:00-04:00 2020-07-01T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Webinar: Filing Taxes for Graduate Students (July 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74832 74832-19004274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 6, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join us for this session which will get you prepared for tax season and answer your questions. Please note, although all students are welcome, this session is geared towards domestic students. A Zoom link will be shared closer to the date.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/K4lbq.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:15:19 -0400 2020-07-06T11:00:00-04:00 2020-07-06T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
Kate A. Fitzgerald, PhD, Vice Chair, Research, Department of Medicine, (July 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74621 74621-18880949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Registration link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_25jkEySCT6q3UWjxfRU13Q

Keywords: lncRNA, Inante Immunity, Interferon, Antiviral

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Jul 2020 11:22:18 -0400 2020-07-13T16:00:00-04:00 2020-07-13T17:00:00-04:00 Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion speaker photo
Mental Health and Well-being Among Older Americans During the Pandemic: The COVID-19 Coping Study (July 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75039 75039-19175351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR.

Wednesday, July 15, 1pm
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92804413123

COVID-19 has both immediate and long-term consequences for the health and well-being of Americans. Older adults are not only at higher risk for severe illness from the disease, but may also be especially vulnerable to social and emotional harms associated with the pandemic. In this ISR Insights talk, Jessica Finlay (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Social Environment and Health, ISR) and Lindsay Kobayashi (Assistant Professor, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health) will discuss insights from the COVID-19 Coping Study of nearly 7,000 adults aged 55+ from across the country. The talk will share participants’ perspectives and diverse experiences during the first upswing of the pandemic, including major sources of stress and ways of coping.

If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:59:29 -0400 2020-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-15T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion
Combating poverty and inequality amidst a pandemic (July 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74921 74921-19079192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Policy Talks @ the Ford School

The current public health crisis has further exposed deep inequities in the United States, leaving millions unemployed and straining social services. While many Americans have seen an abrupt drop in income, those already living in poverty are facing additional hardships. Luke Shaefer, Ford School associate dean and director of Poverty Solutions, Alford A. Young Jr, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Sociology and a professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Michael S. Barr, dean of the Ford School, will discuss some of the ways that policymakers and communities are attempting to combat poverty during this crisis. How can existing federal, state, and local programs expand to meet rapidly increasing needs? What policy approaches can effectively help those most in need? How can we learn from these extraordinary circumstances in order to more effectively alleviate poverty moving forward?

For more information and to register to attend please visit http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/combating-poverty-and-inequality-amidst-pandemic

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:08:42 -0400 2020-07-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-07-16T03:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion
Survey Research and African Americans: The National Survey of American Life (July 15, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75197 75197-19324451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Blalock Lecture Series and the Getting To Know ISR series are pleased to co-present Dr. Robert Taylor and David Thomas in a talk on ISR's Program for Research on Black Americans and the associated data archived at ICPSR.

Robert Joseph Taylor, MSW, Ph.D., is the Sheila Feld Collegiate Professor and the Harold Johnson Endowed Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. He is the Director of the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research. He is currently on the editorial board of Society and Mental Health and Race and Social Problems and has served on the editorial boards of Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and Family Relations. Professor Taylor has published 3 books and over 175 journal articles in two major areas—African American family social support networks and African American religious participation. He has been Principal Investigator of several grants from the National Institute on Aging which examine the role of religion in the lives of Black and White elderly adults. He has been Co-Principal Investigator with James Jackson on several grants from the National Institute of Mental Health on the correlates of mental health and mental illness among Black Americans including the only major national probability surveys of Black Americans (The National Survey of Black Americans and the National Survey of American Life). He has been selected as one of the 250 Highly Cited researchers in the General Social Science Category by ISIHighlyCited.com (Creators of the Citation Index and Current Contents). The selection of a researcher is based on the total number of citations received by that individual as recorded in the ISI database between 1981-1999.

David Thomas supervises staff in both the General Archive and Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD). He began his ICPSR career by processing ABC News/Washington Post and CBS News/New York Times polls. Now, his team is responsible for processing public opinion polls for ICPSR. In addition to polling data, his team processes the National Election Pool data, the American National Election Survey data, American Community Survey, and the Latino National Survey for ICPSR.


Join this virtual event at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99256074056?pwd=RitrT1RwS000SE0xYmh1UGZVUHQ3UT09


Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. The lecture series is held in honor of Tad Blalock, a distinguished statistician and sociologist who was an Official Representative to the Consortium and a member of its Executive Council.

Co-sponsored with ISR's Perspectives Committee as part of the Getting to Know ISR series.

These lectures are all FREE to join and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:18:29 -0400 2020-07-15T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-15T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion ICPSR Summer Program and ISR Perspectives' logos
PhD Defense: Charles Lu (July 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75199 75199-19324453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be placed below.

Zoom: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/95667535536

Therapeutic neuromodulation has an established history for clinical indications, such as deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and spinal cord stimulation for pain, despite an incomplete understanding of its mechanism of action. Novel neuroprosthetics have the potential to enable wholly new therapies, including sensory restoration and treatment of affective disorders. In order to fully realize the potential of these interventions, precise parameterization of stimulation, informed by better understanding of underlying processes, is required. This dissertation explores the temporal and spatial determinants of outcomes for stimulation within the context of clinical and experimental sensorimotor neuromodulation.

The first study of the dissertation defines a new functional target for subthalamic deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease treatment. While optimal sites of stimulation are often analyzed as discrete points in space, therapeutic tissue activation is known to activate entire volumes of surrounding tissue. To identify markers of these volumes, we used machine learning tools to identify associations between features of wideband neural recordings and regions of clinically validated stimulation regions derived from patient-specific tissue activation models. The study identified several electrophysiological markers of therapeutic activation regions, providing a tool for efficient optimization of stimulation programming.

Despite the importance of spatially precise stimulation, conventional stereotactic methods are limited by intrinsic sources of error. The second study assessed a novel form of lead localization utilizing local impedance at deep brain sites. We demonstrated that in vivo impedance measurements generally match patterns observed in electrostatic simulations and showed that these values can be efficiently estimated using diffusion tensor data. Impedances measured using a clinical macroelectrode provided spatial information at the resolution of millimeters and could be used to roughly localize deep brain trajectories, presenting a prototype method to complement existing targeting technologies.

The final study evaluated a novel form of deep brain stimulation for modulation of pain. Previous rodent studies show that stimulation of zona incerta can provide analgesic effect, and clinical evidence suggests that stimulation of a nearby nucleus, nominally used to treat motor manifestations of Parkinson disease, often also results in improvement of pain symptoms. We directly tested the analgesic effect of zona incerta stimulation in humans and demonstrated that stimulation at the physiological spiking frequency of zona incerta selectively reduces perceived heat pain.

Chair: Dr. Parag G. Patil

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:30:00 -0400 2020-07-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-07-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
PhD Defense: Benjamin Juliar (July 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75205 75205-19330337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via BlueJeans. The link will be placed below.

BlueJeans Link: https://bluejeans.com/358462383

Engineering large viable tissues requires techniques for encouraging rapid capillary bed formation to prevent necrosis. A convenient means of creating this micro-vascular network is through spontaneous neovascularization, which occurs when endothelial cells (ECs) and supportive stromal cells are co-encapsulated within a variety of hydrogel-based extracellular matrices (ECM) and self-assemble into an interconnected network of endothelial tubules. Although this is a robust phenomenon, the environmental and cell-specific determinants that affect the rate and quality of micro-vascular network formation still require additional characterization to improve clinical translatability. This thesis investigates how the proteolytic susceptibility of engineered matrices effects neovascular self-assembly in poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels and provides characterization of changes to matrix mechanics that accompany neovascular morphogenesis in fibrin and PEG hydrogels.

Proteolytic ECM remodeling is essential for the process of capillary morphogenesis. Pharmacological inhibitor studies suggested a role for both matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)- and plasmin-mediated mechanisms of ECM remodeling in an EC-fibroblast co-culture model of vasculogenesis in fibrin. To further investigate the potential contribution of plasmin mediated matrix degradation in facilitating capillary morphogenesis we employed PEG hydrogels engineered with proteolytic specificity to either MMPs, plasmin, or both. Although fibroblasts spread in plasmin-selective hydrogels, we only observed robust capillary morphogenesis in MMP-sensitive matrices, with no added benefit in dual susceptible hydrogels. Enhanced capillary morphogenesis was observed, however, in PEG hydrogels engineered with increased susceptibility to MMPs without altering proteolytic selectivity or hydrogel mechanical properties. These findings highlight the critical importance of MMP-mediated ECM degradation during vasculogenesis and justify the preferential selection of MMP-degradable peptide crosslinkers in the design of synthetic hydrogels used to promote vascularization.

Matrix stiffness is a well-established cue in cellular morphogenesis, however, the converse effect of cellular remodeling on environmental mechanics is comparatively under characterized. In fibrin hydrogels, we applied traditional bulk rheology and laser tweezers-based active microrheology to demonstrate that both ECs and fibroblasts progressively stiffen the ECM across length scales, with the changes in bulk properties dominated by fibroblasts. Despite a lack of fibrillar architecture, a similar stiffening effect was observed in MMP-degradable PEG hydrogels. This stiffening tightly correlated with degree of vessel formation and critically depended on active cellular contractility. To a lesser degree, deposition of ECM proteins also appeared to contribute to progressive hydrogel stiffening. Blocking cell-mediated hydrogel degradation abolished stiffening, demonstrating that matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-mediated remodeling is required for stiffening to occur. EC co-culture with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in PEG resulted in reduced vessel formation compared to fibroblast co-cultures and no change in hydrogel mechanics over time. The correlation between matrix stiffening and enhanced vessel formation, and dependence on cellular contractility, suggests differences in vessel formation between fibroblasts and MSCs may be partially mediated by differences in cellular contractility. Collectively, these findings provide a deeper understanding of mechanobiological effects during capillary morphogenesis and highlight the dynamic reciprocity between cells and their mechanical environment.

Chair: Dr. Andrew Putnam

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:02:36 -0400 2020-07-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Policing and Protest 2020 (July 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75046 75046-19183194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Note: The webinar has a Q&A format. We welcome your questions before via email (eihswebinar@umich.edu) and during the webinar via Zoom Q&A. This event will be recorded and available for future viewing online.

***Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qVR5E3VGRG2x_xJ4AK47AA

The killing of George Floyd, in the wake of the horrific and obscene history of the killings of unarmed black people by the police, has focused attention like never before on the systemic anti-black racism of the criminal-legal system in the United States. To be sure, the massive expansion and militarization of policing and incarceration are in some ways of comparatively recent origin. Yet they also have a much deeper origin in, and are inextricably connected to, a longer history of the judicial and extra-judicial violence against black people in the continent. The racist inequities of the criminal-legal system, indeed, are not a bug, but a feature.

Our panel of experts, scholars of the United States at the University of Michigan, will help us explore, beyond the headlines, the reach of the long arm of the carceral state in society as well as the challenges and opportunities that have been thrown up by the contemporary protests against the systemic violence of the state. The stakes for understanding the working of the carceral state are documented by the Documenting Criminalization and Confinement project of the University of Michigan’s Carceral State Project. However, the momentous protests against anti-Black racism as well as the broad public support they have received both within the United States and across the world—the clamor heard round the world—have also created a novel opportunity for implementing and imagining futures beyond a blatantly rigged carceral framework.

Panelists:
• Melissa Burch, Anthropology, University of Michigan
• Matthew Countryman, Afroamerican and African History, American Culture, History, University of Michigan
• Matthew Lassiter, History, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
• William D. Lopez, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan

Moderator:
• Mrinalini Sinha, History, University of Michigan

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:07:31 -0400 2020-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Daniel Lobo, "Brionna Taylor" (public domain)
LHS Collaboratory Webinar - Global LHS for COVID-19 (July 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75087 75087-19214577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Please join us for this special webinar session on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 10:00 am - 11:30 pm EDT.  Registration: https://umich-health.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wVDWLBm5QYK79DVK8Tb7_w

This 90-minute webinar is designed to share the work of an international collaboration to develop the foundation for a global Learning Health System addressing COVID-19 and future public health crises. Presenters will share lessons learned from Italy, Spain and the United States, including describing a proposed international comprehensive systemic framework for collection, management, and
analysis of high-quality data to inform decisions in managing the clinical response and social measures to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, presenters will discuss how the results of a pilot project currently under development may illuminate a collaborative path forward for local, regional, and national public health stakeholders worldwide.

Perspectives from Italy:  Paolo Stocco

Perspectives from Spain: Borja Sanchez Garcia, Pablo Rivero, Francisco Ros, Esther Gil Zorzo 

Perspectives from the USA: Charles P. Friedman, Rebecca Kush, Joshua C. Rubin, Douglas Van Houweling

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:22:14 -0400 2020-07-29T10:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo-globe
Studio Visit and Conversation with Artist Xu Weixin (July 29, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75241 75241-19348010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

​Based in Beijing and New York, artist Xu Weixin is known for his stunning, large-size portraits of Chinese people who lived during the Cultural Revolution. In 2016, the series and portraits of contemporary miners were presented with great acclaim at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Please join panelists Xu Weixin (artist), Angie Baecker (Ph.D. Candidate, Asian Languages and Cultures), Lihong Liu (Assistant Professor, History of Art) and moderator Natsu Oyobe (Curator of Asian Art, Museum of Art) in exploring Xu Weixin's studio and in progress works. The conversation will illuminate the art and artists’ roles during the global health crisis as well as the rise of anti-Chinese and anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S. virtual webinar.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bChPWY4vQMqsKNwlf9tZEw

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:15:14 -0400 2020-07-29T18:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
PhD Defense: Katy Norman (July 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75267 75267-19395124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via BlueJeans. The link will be posted below.

BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/516255948

Mucosal surfaces in the lung interface with the outside environment for breathing purposes, but also provide the first line of defense against invading pathogens. The intricate balance of effective immune protection at the pulmonary epithelium without problematic inflammation is not well understood, but is an important consideration in complex lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although IPF is a fibrotic interstitial lung disease of unknown origin and COPD is an obstructive lung disease, they do share some similarities. Both are heterogeneous and progressive in nature, have no cure and few treatment options, advance through unknown mechanisms, and involve an aberrant immune response. As research has focused into the role the immune system plays in IPF and COPD, it has become clear that disease progression is caused by a complex dysregulation of immune factors and cells across the tissue compartments of the lungs and blood.

Data-driven modeling approaches offer the opportunity to infer protein interaction networks, which are able to identify diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers and also serve as the basis for new insight into systems-level mechanisms that define a disease state. Additionally, these approaches are able to integrate data from across multiple tissue compartments, allowing for a more holistic picture of a disease to be formed. Here, we have applied data-driven modeling approaches including partial least squares discriminant analysis, principal component analysis, decision tree analysis, and hierarchical clustering to high-throughput cell and cytokine measurements from human blood and lung samples to gain systems-level insight into IPF and COPD.

Overall we found that these approaches were useful for identifying signatures of proteins that differentiated disease state and progression better than current classifiers. We also found that integrating protein and cell measurements across tissue compartments generally improved classification and was useful for generating new mechanistic insight into progression and exacerbation events. In evaluating IPF progression, we showed that the blood proteome of progressors, but not of non-progressors, changes over time, and that our data-driven modeling techniques were able to capture these changes. Curiously, our models showed that complement system components may be associated with both COPD and IPF disease progression. Lastly, though our analysis suggested that circulating blood cytokines were not useful for differentiating disease state or progression, preliminary work suggested that cell-cell communication networks arising from stimulated peripheral blood proteins may be more useful for classification and gaining mechanistic insight from minimally invasive blood samples. Overall, we believe that this approach will be useful for studying the mucosal immune response present in other diseases that are also progressive or heterogeneous in nature.

Chair: Dr. Kelly Arnold

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:19:44 -0400 2020-07-30T10:00:00-04:00 2020-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
PhD Defense: Josiah Simeth (August 5, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75278 75278-19402991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Notice: This event will be held via BlueJeans. The link will be placed below.

BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/715371816

Measures of regional and global liver function are critical in guiding treatments for intrahepatic cancers, and liver function is a dominant factor in the survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Global and regional liver function assessments are important for defining the magnitude and spatial distribution of radiation dose to preserve functional liver parenchyma and reduce incidence of hepatotoxicity from radiation therapy (RT) for intrahepatic cancer treatment. This individualized liver function-guided RT strategy is critical for patients with heterogeneous and poor liver function, often observed in cirrhotic patients treated for HCC. Dynamic gadoxetic-acid enhanced (DGAE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows investigation of liver function through observation of the uptake of contrast agent into the hepatocytes.

This work seeks to determine if gadoxetic uptake rate can be used as a reliable measure of liver function, and to develop robust methods for uptake estimation with an interest in the therapeutic application of this knowledge in the case of intrahepatic cancers. Since voxel-by voxel fitting of the preexisting nonlinear dual-input two-compartment model is highly susceptible to over fitting, and highly dependent on data that is both temporally very well characterized and low in noise, this work proposes and validates a new model for quantifying the voxel-wise uptake rate of gadoxetic acid as a measure of regional liver function. This linearized single-input two-compartment (LSITC) model is a linearization of the pre-existing dual-input model but is designed to perform uptake quantification in a more robust, computationally simpler, and much faster manner. The method is validated against the preexisting dual-input model for both real and simulated data. Simulations are used to investigate the effects of noise as well as issues related to the sampling of the arterial peak in the characteristic input functions of DGAE MRI.

Further validation explores the relationship between gadoxetic acid uptake rate and two well established global measures of liver function, namely: Indocyanine Green retention (ICGR) and Albumin-Bilirubin (ALBI) score. This work also establishes the relationships between these scores and imaging derived measures of whole liver function using uptake rate. Additionally, the same comparisons are performed for portal venous perfusion, a pharmacokinetic parameter that has been observed to correlate with function, and has been used as a guide for individualized liver function-guided RT. For the patients assessed, gadoxetic acid uptake rate performs significantly better as a predictor of whole liver function than portal venous perfusion.
This work also investigates the possible gains that could be introduced through use of gadoxetic uptake rate maps in the creation of function-guided RT plans. To this end, plans were created using both perfusion and uptake, and both were compared to plans that did not use functional guidance. While the plans were generally broadly similar, significant differences were observed in patients with severely compromised uptake that did not correspond with compromised perfusion.

This dissertation also deals with the problem of quantifying uptake rate in suboptimal very temporally sparse or short DGAE MRI acquisitions. In addition to testing the limits of the LSITC model for these limited datasets (both realistic and extreme), a neural network-based approach to quantification of uptake rate is developed, allowing for increased robustness over current models.

Chair: Dr. Yue Cao

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:51:41 -0400 2020-08-05T14:00:00-04:00 2020-08-05T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Race, Sport, & Restorative Justice (August 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75343 75343-19442246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

This webinar will feature a discussion with scholars on the manner in which race, the intercollegiate athletic enterprise, and the system of higher education intersect to impact Black student-athletes’ experiences. The undercurrent for the discussion is based on one of the principles of the Black Lives Matter movement: restorative justice.

Moderated by:

Ketra Armstrong
Director, Center for Race & Ethnicity in Sport
Professor, Sport Management
University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor

Panelists include:

Albert Y. Bimper, Jr., PhD
Asst. VP, Sr. Assoc. Athletics Director
Assoc. Professor, Sport Management & African American Studies
Author, Black Collegiate Athletes & the Neoliberal State: Dreaming from Bended Knee
Colorado State University

Deniece Dortch, PhD
Visiting Asst. Professor, Higher Education Administration
Co-Founder, Sista to Sista
Scholar, Racism in Higher Education
The George Washington University

Joseph N. Cooper, PhD
Chair, Sport Leadership & Administration
Assoc. Professor, Leadership in Education
Author, From Exploitation Back to Empowerment: Black Male Holistic (Under)Development Through Sport & (Mis)Education
University of Massachusetts–Boston

Lori Latrice Martin, PhD
Professor, African American Studies & Sociology
Faculty Athletics Representative
Author, White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs
Louisiana State University

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:37:17 -0400 2020-08-06T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-06T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Header image includes title of webinar and headshot of Ketra Armstrong
The American National Election Study: History and Insights from Recent Surveys (August 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75386 75386-19457966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 11:00 a.m. EDT
Join us virtually: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92353673792

Why does America vote as it does on Election Day? Since 1948, the American National Election Studies (ANES) has provided data to inform explanations of election outcomes in the United States. The ANES provides survey data from a nationally representative sample of American adults to give researchers a view of the political world through the eyes of ordinary citizens.

In this ISR Insights talk, Dr. Vincent Hutchings (Professor, Department of Political Science; Research Professor, Center for Political Studies) will discuss the history of ANES and why it remains an essential resource for the social sciences. He will talk about the study’s approach to data collection and instrumentation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes conducting surveys through a combination of Internet, video, and telephone interviews. Dr. Hutchings will also highlight politically-relevant results from recent studies, including attitudes on the Black Lives Matter movement.

This webinar is part of a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu. This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:02:54 -0400 2020-08-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-12T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
COVID-19 Understanding Our Present Situation and Preparing for and Coping with the Future (August 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75708 75708-19568686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Kobayashi is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at UM. She, along with Dr. Jessica Findlay, is conducting a research project to understand how the pandemic and associated control practices are affecting older adults in the US. She will provide strategies to help older adults cope with current concerns and influence planning for the future.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:24:26 -0400 2020-08-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-13T14:00:00-04:00 University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
School Mental Health in the Detroit Public Schools Community District (August 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75783 75783-19606037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series - School Mental Health in the Detroit Public Schools Community District

August 25, 11am EST: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98456054707
Robin Jacob, PhD, Co-Director Youth Policy Lab
Elizabeth Koschmann, PhD, TRAILS Program Director

In recent years, rates of child and adolescent mental illness have skyrocketed. Nearly half of adolescents in the United States will experience symptoms of a mental illness before age 18, and one in five will be severely impaired by their symptoms. Among youth ages 10-24, suicide has become the second leading cause of death, killing almost 8,000 young people annually. These problems may be acerbated in urban, high poverty schools. There is evidence of higher rates of both mental illness and self-injury and suicidal behavior in communities of color which is hypothesized to reflect the impact of systemic racism, as well as significant racial disparities in access to high quality health and mental health care. Schools are uniquely positioned to identify and respond to students’ mental health care needs, and to reduce widespread inequities in access to effective prevention and early intervention services. However, only limited data is available on the prevalence and pattern of mental health challenges in urban schools or about the school or district resources available to address those challenges.

This study presents data collected as part of a partnership between TRAILS (Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students), the Youth Policy Lab, and the Detroit Public Schools Community District. In 2019, our study team collected survey data from nearly 3,500 DPSCD teachers, administrators, school staff, almost 11,000 students, and 800 families. In this talk, Drs. Robin Jacob and Elizabeth Koschmann will share findings on (1) the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and exposure to traumatic events among students, (2) the degree to which these are associated with school engagement, absences, and other behaviors, and (3) the challenges staff and district administrators face in providing mental health services for their students.

This webinar is part of a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu. This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:29:43 -0400 2020-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
PhD Defense: Ziwen Zhu (August 26, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75720 75720-19576537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be placed below.

Zoom: umich.zoom.us/j/92149340369

Branched Chain amino acids (BCAAs) play an essential role in cell metabolism supplying both carbon and nitrogen in pancreatic cancers, and their increased levels have been associated with increased risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs). It remains unclear how stromal cells regulate BCAA metabolism in PDAC cells and how mutualistic determinants control BCAA metabolism in the tumor milieu. In chapter 1, we present an overview of PDAC biology, tumor microenvironment (TME), altered cancer metabolism and BCAA metabolism. In chapter 2, we uncover differential gene expression of enzymes involved in BCAA metabolism accompanied by distinct catabolic, oxidative, and protein turnover fluxes between cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and cancer cells with a marked branched-chain keto acids (BCKA)-addiction in PDAC cells. In chapter 3, we showed that cancer-induced stromal reprogramming fuels this BCKA-addiction. We then show the functions of BCAT2 and DBT in the PDAC cells in chapters 3 and 4. We identify BCAT1 as the BCKA regulator in CAFs in chapter 5. In chapter 6, we dictated the internalization of the extracellular matrix from the tumor microenvironment to supply amino acid precursors for BCKA secretion by CAFs. We also showed that the TGF-β/SMAD5 axis directly targets BCAT1 in CAFs in chapter 7. In chapter 8, we validate the in vitro results in human patient-derived circulating tumor cells (CTCs) model. Furthermore, the same results were also validated in PDAC tissue slices, which recapitulate tumor heterogeneity and mimic the in vivo microenvironment in chapter 9. We conclude this manuscript with chapter 10 in which we propose future studies and present directions towards pancreatic cancer research. In summary, our findings reveal therapeutically actionable targets in stromal and cancer cells to regulate the symbiotic BCAA coupling among the cellular constituents of the PDAC microenvironment.

Chair: Dr. Deepak Nagrath

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:02:15 -0400 2020-08-26T09:30:00-04:00 2020-08-26T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
SLE Shared Summer Reading Discussion (August 28, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75682 75682-19566686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join SLE for a discussion of the shared summer reading book Braiding Sweetgrass. Esha Biswas, graduate student in the School for Environment and Sustainability and Student Affairs Coordinator with the Residential College, will be a special guest facilitator. Students can participate remotely via Zoom or in person in the Oxford Courtyard.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:20:46 -0400 2020-08-28T19:30:00-04:00 2020-08-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Lecture / Discussion
A Simulation Based Comparison of Point-of-Care Testing and Central Laboratory Testing (August 31, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76322 76322-19687515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 31, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)

In response to demand for fast and efficient clinical testing, the use of point-of-care testing (POCT) has become increasingly common in the United States. However, studies of POCT implementation have found that adopting POCT may not always be advantageous relative to centralized laboratory testing. We construct a simulation model of patient flow in an outpatient care setting to evaluate tradeoffs involved in POCT implementation across multiple dimensions, comparing measures of patient outcomes in varying clinical scenarios, testing regimes, and patient conditions. We find that POCT can significantly reduce clinical time for patients, as compared to traditional testing regimes, in settings where clinic and central testing areas are far apart. However, as distance from clinic to central testing area decreased, POCT advantage over central laboratory testing also decreased, in terms of time in the clinical system and estimated subsequent productivity loss. For example, testing for pneumonia resulted in an estimated average of 27.80 (central lab) versus 15.50 (POCT) total lost productive hours in a rural scenario, and an average of 14.92 (central lab) versus 15.50 (POCT) hours in a hospital-based scenario. Our results show that POCT can effectively reduce the average time a patient spends in the system for varying condition profiles and clinical scenarios. However, the number of total lost productive hours, a more holistic measure, is greatly affected by testing quality, where POCT often is at a disadvantage. Thus, it is important to consider factors such as clinical setting, target condition, testing costs, and test quality when selecting appropriate testing regime.

Vikrant Vaze is the Stata Family Career Development Associate Professor at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He is interested in developing optimization, game theory, and analytics approaches for improving large-scale complex systems, such as transportation and healthcare. In June 2020, Vikrant was selected as one of 85 engineers who will participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering (NAE) Symposium. He holds two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in transportation and operations research, and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. Before joining academia, he worked as a Research Scientist in Philips Research and as an algorithmic trader on the Wall Street. Joint research work by Vikrant, his students and collaborators has been honored with best paper awards from AGIFORS in 2010, 2017, and 2019, from FAA/Eurocontrol in 2011 and 2017, and most recently with the INFORMS TSL Outstanding Paper Award in Air Transportation. He is the recipient of a number of academic and research honors including the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, as well as awards from the U.S. Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, National Institutes of Health, World Wildlife Fund, and several other industry-sponsored awards.

This seminar series is presented by the U-M Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS): Our mission is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery through a multi-disciplinary, systems-engineering approach. For the Zoom link and password and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please RSVP. For additional questions, contact CHEPSseminar@umich.edu. Photographs and video taken at this event may be used to promote CHEPS, College of Engineering, and the University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:21:43 -0400 2020-08-31T16:30:00-04:00 2020-08-31T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Lecture / Discussion Vikrant Vaze, Ph.D.
Reading and Q&A with Poet Kaveh Akbar (September 3, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75393 75393-19463850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Kaveh Akbar's debut book of poetry, *Calling a Wolf a Wolf* (Alice James Books, 2017; Penguin UK, 2018), boldly confronts addiction and the path of recovery— traversing faith, the self, and the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety.

Akbar is also the author of a chapbook, *Portrait of the Alcoholic* (Sibling Rivalry, 2017) and the recipient of the Levis Reading Prize, Pushcart Prize, Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson.

Kaveh founded Divedapper, a home for dialogues with the most vital voices in American poetry. With Sarah Kay and Claire Schwartz, he writes a weekly column for *the Paris Review* called "Poetry RX." Previously, he ran *The Quirk*, a for-charity print literary journal. He has also served as Poetry Editor for BOOTH and Book Reviews Editor for *the Southeast Review*. Along with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, francine j. harris, and Jonathan Farmer, he starred on *All Up in Your Ears*, a monthly poetry podcast. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere. His next work, *Pilgrim Bell*, is forthcoming 2021 (Graywolf).


The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:05:27 -0400 2020-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kaveh Akbar
Craft Lecture: Exploring the Revelatory Break (September 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75394 75394-19463851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

In his *A Year With Swollen Appendices*, Brian Eno talks about experiencing the crack in a blue’s singer’s voice or the static of a grainy film as being “the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” If we accept as American writers that our medium, the English language, is one of the deadliest colonial weapons ever invented, then its breaking becomes a political urgency. How do we undermine our language’s inherent corrosiveness, turn a violent technology against itself to speak to things—doubt, sex, identity, justice, rage—it would rather us leave unspoken? This craft lecture will look at writers—including Robert Hayden, Jean Valentine, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Jos Charles—who use revelatory breaks in idiom, form, and syntax to render with clarity what is too urgent, too momentous, for mere rhetorical speech. We will then apply those techniques to our own imaginings of what might be possible outside the inherited strictures of our inherently imperialist medium.


Kaveh Akbar's debut book of poetry, *Calling a Wolf a Wolf* (Alice James Books, 2017; Penguin UK, 2018), boldly confronts addiction and the path of recovery— traversing faith, the self, and the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety.

Akbar is also the author of a chapbook, *Portrait of the Alcoholic* (Sibling Rivalry, 2017) and the recipient of the Levis Reading Prize, Pushcart Prize, Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson.

Kaveh founded Divedapper, a home for dialogues with the most vital voices in American poetry. With Sarah Kay and Claire Schwartz, he writes a weekly column for *the Paris Review* called "Poetry RX." Previously, he ran *The Quirk*, a for-charity print literary journal. He has also served as Poetry Editor for BOOTH and Book Reviews Editor for *the Southeast Review*. Along with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, francine j. harris, and Jonathan Farmer, he starred on *All Up in Your Ears*, a monthly poetry podcast. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere. His next work, *Pilgrim Bell*, is forthcoming 2021 (Graywolf).


The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:06:00 -0400 2020-09-04T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kaveh Akbar
HET Seminar | Partially Composite Supersymmetry (September 4, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76190 76190-19671625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Partial compositeness can be used to explain the Standard Model fermion mass hierarchy and predict the sfermion mass spectrum in a supersymmetric model. It assumes that the Higgs and third-generation matter superfields are elementary, while the first two matter generations are composite, with a linear mixing between elementary superfields and supersymmetric operators with large anomalous dimensions. This gives rise to a split-like, supersymmetric model that intricately connects the sector responsible for the generation of flavor with supersymmetry breaking to produce a unique sparticle spectrum. The inverted sfermion mass spectrum can be probed at future flavor violation experiments such as Mu2e or searches for the electron and neutron electric dipole moment.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:33:00 -0400 2020-09-04T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Democracy and Debate (September 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75605 75605-19544897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Our speaker, Professor Michael S. Barr, will explore the critical issues facing the country during the Fall 2020 election, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis.

Michael S. Barr is the Joan and Samuel Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School, the Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffit Professor of Law, and Faculty of the Center on Finance, Law and Policy at the University of Michigan. He served from 2009-2010 as the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, and was a key architect of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School; his Ph.D. in International Relations from Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar, and his B.A. summa cum laude, with Honors in History from Yale University.

This is the first of ten lectures to be presented once each month from September 2020 through June, 2021. The next lecture will be held October 13, 2020. The title is: Efforts by the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:25:09 -0400 2020-09-08T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Distinguished Lecture Series
WCED Panel. Flashpoint: Belarus (September 8, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76253 76253-19679582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Panelists: Adam E. Casey, WCED Research Fellow; Sasha de Vogel, doctoral candidate in political science; Natalia Forrat, WCED Visiting Associate and former WCED Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-20), U-M. Moderator: Dan Slater, WCED Director.

This panel will discuss and analyze the recent controversial presidential election in Belarus, subsequent large-scale protests demanding democratic change, and the state's response, including police violence and accusations of foreign intervention. Register at http://myumi.ch/2D1VB.

Adam E. Casey is a research fellow at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Toronto in May 2020. His research interests include authoritarian regimes, comparative civil-military relations, Soviet and Russian foreign policy, and democratization. His work has been published in *World Politics*, *Post-Soviet Affairs, Foreign Affairs,* and the *Washington Post*. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the relationship between foreign support and authoritarian rule, as well as a new collaborative project on the origins of military forces in autocracies.

Sasha de Vogel is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Michigan. She specializes in authoritarian politics, collective action, and the politics of the former Soviet Union, particularly Russia. Her research considers how authoritarian regimes respond to protest movements, the conditions in which protesters are promised concessions, and the effect that concessions have on protesters’ ability to sustain activism. Her research has been supported by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, a Carnegie Corporation-Harriman Institute Research Grant for Ph.D. Students in the Social Sciences, and a Weiser Emerging Democracies Fellowship, among other grants.

Natalia Forrat is a WCED Visiting Associate and a research affiliate at the Governance Project at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at WCED in 2018-20. She received her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in 2017 and, before coming to the University of Michigan, was a pre-doctoral fellow at CDDRL at Stanford as well as a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. Her academic interests focus on state-society relations, political regimes, governance, and civil society. Currently, Natalia is finishing her book on the social basis of authoritarian power in Russia and working on a survey of civil servants in Ukraine and Kazakhstan as a part of Stanford’s Governance Project. You can learn more about her work at www.nataliaforrat.com.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:59:10 -0400 2020-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Belarus protest (unsplash.com)
The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series presents Jacqueline Novogratz (September 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76246 76246-19679544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Now is a time to reimagine and rebuild systems that are better and fairer. How can we redefine success from its focus on hegemonic norms like money and power, to prioritize humanity and the sustainability of the earth? Join Dean Scott DeRue, Tuesday, Sept. 8 for a discussion with New York Times best-selling author Jacqueline Novogratz on how we all can make the change using innovative entrepreneurial models.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:09:11 -0400 2020-09-08T16:30:00-04:00 2020-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series presents Jacqueline Novogratz
MIDAS Faculty Research Pitch (September 9, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75915 75915-19623831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Please join us for the very first MIDAS faculty research pitch session. Find out about exciting data science research that is happening at U-M, explore collaboration opportunities and student research opportunities. Faculty members will each give a 3-minute lightning talk, and there will be a 30-minute networking session. All U-M faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend.

Faculty Presenters:

Peter Adriaens, Professor, Civil & Environmental Eng/Business/SeAS
Syagnik Banerjee, Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, School of Management, University of Michigan Flint
Shan Bao, Associate Professor, UMTRI; UM-Dearborn
Albert Berahas, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Lei Chen, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering at UM-Dearborn
Keyvn Collins-Thompson, Associate Professor, School of Information
Paramveer Dhillon, Assistant Professor, School of Information
Ivo Dinov, Professor, Nursing/Medicine
Salar Fattahi, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Fred Feng, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Jaerock Kwan, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, EECS
Robert Manduca, Assistant Professor, Sociology, LSA
Murali Mani, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Michigan, Flint
Charles Mayo, Professor, Radiation Oncology
Mark Van Oyen, Professor, IOE, College of Engineering
Atul Prakash, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Greg Rybarczyk, Associate Professor, University of Michigan-Flint
Perry Samson, Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Engineering
Yulia Sevryugina, Senior Associate Librarian, Library

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:38:16 -0400 2020-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 2020-09-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion MIDAS Faculty Research Pitch
EER Seminar Series (September 9, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76055 76055-19661498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

There is a significant knowledge gap regarding factors that influence the participation of Black and Hispanic women in computer science, and Dr. Ross has engaged in research to address this gap. She works to critically examine efforts and initiatives that aim to broaden participation in computer science by listening to voices of individuals who are often unheard. The outcomes of Dr. Ross’ research have the potential to reshape the community’s perceptions of what and who are computer scientists, and as well as to crack the code to diversifying this lucrative and impactful discipline. This talk will describe Dr. Ross’ research journey and will present preliminary results.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Monique Ross, Assistant Professor in the School of Computing & Information Sciences and in the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University, earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She has a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College, an M.S. degree in Computer Science & Software Engineering from Auburn University, eleven years of experience in industry as a software engineer, and four years of experience as a full-time faculty member in computer science and engineering. Dr. Ross’ interests focus on broadening participation in computing through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research (with a focus on computer science and computer engineering courses) in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award, and she uses her scholarship to challenge the perceptions of who belongs in computing.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:42:16 -0400 2020-09-09T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Monique Ross, Florida International University
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar Series (September 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76946 76946-19780535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Birth defects that interfere with craniofacial development can result in cognitive, neurosensory, and neuroendocrine defects that create life-long burdens for care. The forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain, five facial prominences, and pituitary gland develop between the first and second month of gestation in humans. Genetic defects that disrupt these processes cause a spectrum of disorders that range from holoprosencephaly (HPE) and septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) to pituitary hormone deficiencies. We screened a large cohort of Argentinean patients with congenital hypopituitarism and related disorders for mutations in known genes and identified novel pathogenic variants and examples of digenic disease. However, the majority of patients did not receive a molecular diagnosis, indicating the high degree of genetic complexity underlying these disorders and the need for additional gene discovery. The majority of known hypopituitarism genes were discovered through basic research in pituitary cell lines and mutant mice. To identify novel regulatory genes for pituitary organogenesis we analyzed differential binding of a key pituitary-specific transcription factor, POU1F1, in cell lines that represent pituitary progenitors and differentiated cells. We discovered that POU1F1 binding is associated with bZIP transcription factors in progenitors and with bHLH factors in differentiated cells. We also applied single cell RNA sequencing technology to analyze gene expression during pituitary organogenesis and discovered novel transcription factors that are candidates for driving cell specification as well as unique, rare cell types that are likely differentiation intermediates. Bioinformatic analyses have played key roles in advancing our knowledge of neuroendocrine birth defects and normal pituitary organogenesis.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:26:42 -0400 2020-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Sally Camper, Ph.D., Margery Shaw Distinguished University Professor of Human Genetics, Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
RNA Collaborative Seminar featuring: Sue Hammoud, Human Genetics & Justin Colacino, Environmental Health Sciences (September 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75865 75865-19615931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GjVNcoWtRG6OkzxSDmfb8A

"Same Same Different: Single cell RNAseq identifies conserved and divergent features of mammalian spermatogenesis"
Sue Hammoud, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics
Website: https://hammoud.lab.medicine.umich.edu/

~and~

"Single cell transcriptomic profiling to understand breast stem cell heterogeneity in development and cancer disparities"
Justin Colacino. Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Website: https://www.colacinolab.com/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:44:32 -0400 2020-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion RNA Collaborative
Science Success Series- Growth and Grit: Developing a Mindset For Success (September 9, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76309 76309-19685536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

What if your ability to succeed in your classes was determined in part before you even stepped into the classroom? What is the one quality you need to overcome adversity academically and in life? This workshop will detail the research of Dr. Carol Dweck and her groundbreaking work on the concept of mindset. Students will learn how to abandon a debilitating fixed mindset in favor of a growth mindset, leading to success in areas they once considered too difficult. The workshop will also introduce students to the research of Dr. Angela Duckworth, and how a growth mindset can lead to the development of grit, an essential characteristic to overcoming our fear of failure.

Register on Sessions, and we'll see you there. Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions. https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/29113

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:54:44 -0400 2020-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 2020-09-09T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Lecture / Discussion
Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit (September 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76869 76869-19772602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Join the ENGAGE team for a discussion featuring prominent water justice activists Monica Lewis Patrick and Bryce Detroit to discuss their work, how water injustice is tied to historic and systemic discrimination, and how lack of access to clean, safe water has exacerbated our current public health crises

Monica Lewis Patrick is Chief Executive Officer of We the People Detroit and a long-time water justice advocate.

Bryce Detroit is CEO and Founder of Detroit Recordings LLC and a long-time water justice advocate.

Attending this session provides field credits. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information.

This session is approved for CE Contact Hours. RSVP at the link to the right to receive Zoom link.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:24:16 -0400 2020-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit
Behind the Scenes: Pivoting from a UM Presidential Debate in Ann Arbor . What we can expect from UM this fall as the political season heats up (September 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75707 75707-19568682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Cynthia Willbanks was the Co-Chair of the committee that was organizing the Presidential Debate in Ann Arbor that was scheduled for this fall. That event has now been cancelled. She will discuss her involvement in attracting the debate to Ann Arbor and the cancellation, as well as provide us with an update on the plans UM has in participating in the political discussion this fall.

This presentation is for all UM Retirees. Go to the UMRA.HR.umich.edu website for details.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:07:12 -0400 2020-09-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit (September 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76870 76870-19772604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

With our power, resources, and knowledge - what can we do about water injustice as a school? All discussions and ideas are welcome - whether it be proposing new field placements that focus on water and environmental justice, integrating more course content on how water injustice is tied to systemic and historic discrimination, or current advocacy efforts demanding access to safe, clean, water is a human right.

Attending this session provides field credits. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information. RSVP at the link to the right to receive Zoom link.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:23:06 -0400 2020-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit
Michigan EARTH Virtual Welcome (September 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74999 74999-19136101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

A Zoom webinar for faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences to introduce new members, make announcements, and share ongoing projects. Login information will be provided when it becomes available.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:33:24 -0400 2020-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Opening Event: Taking the Measure of the Liberal Arts (September 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76059 76059-19661502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Join us for a year-long series of virtual panel discussions and seminars exploring the values, dimensions, and outcomes of liberal arts education, and how they might be measured. Academic leaders, researchers, faculty members, and national experts will gather to consider issues long central to liberal arts education, as well as its status in the current climate.

Zoom - Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X00MpyNdQNaCb4zLw0CGPw

Opening Event Speakers:

Anne Curzan
Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English
Language and Literature, Linguistics, and Education
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
University of Michigan

Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean
Professor of English and Medieval Studies
University of Minnesota Morris

Chris Long
Dean, College of Arts & Letters
Professor of Philosophy
Michigan State University

Jacqueline Mattis
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences (SASN)
Professor of Psychology
Rutgers University – Newark

Visit the College and Beyond II: Liberal Arts and Life Colloquium Series website for more information on this and all upcoming events: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/liberalarts

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:07:50 -0400 2020-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion
Bioethics Discussion: The Theory of Mind (September 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58827 58827-14563718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on what we think others think.

A few readings we will consider:
––Theory of Mind
––Theory of mind: The state of the art
––Theory of Mind and the Self
––Why psychological accounts of personal identity can accept a brain death criterion and biological definition of death

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit: http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/046-the-theory-of-mind/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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I have a theory you wouldn't mind the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:08:46 -0400 2020-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Theory of Mind
LHS Collaboratory Seminar Series Virtual Kick-Off: Academic Medical Centers as Learning Health Systems (September 17, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75856 75856-19615923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Learning Health Systems (LHS) methods are now being implemented in interesting and varying ways by academic health centers and their clinical and translational science institutes across the country.
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the following are key attributes of Learning Health
Systems:

• Having leaders who are committed to a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Systematically gathering and applying evidence in real-time to guide care
• Employing IT methods to share new evidence with clinicians to improve decision-making
• Promoting the inclusion of patients as vital members of the learning team
• Capturing and analyzing data and care experiences to improve care
• Continually assessing outcomes, refining processes and training to create a feedback cycle for learning and improvement

The LHS Collaboratory's fall seminar series virtual kick-off event will showcase the LHS experiences of three research-intensive academic centers that have been promoting LHS methods. We will be joined by distinguished senior colleagues from Duke,Vanderbilt, and Washington University, who will describe and discuss their institutions' work in this area. They will discuss strategies employed, investments made, challenges encountered, and successes achieved.

Panelists:
Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FACMI, Vanderbilt University
Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI, Washington University
Michael Pencina, PhD, Duke University
Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH, Duke University

Discussant:
Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS, Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan Medical School, Chief Academic Officer, Michigan Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:45:31 -0400 2020-09-17T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo-blocks
The Questions We Don’t Know to Ask: Studying Poverty in 21st Century America (September 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75645 75645-19552865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Our speaker, Professor H. Luke Shaefer will present on the work of Poverty Solutions, a University of Michigan presidential initiative that partners scholars with communities to find new ways to prevent and alleviate poverty, stressing the initiative’s systems-level approach to addressing poverty.

H. Luke Shaefer is the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Work, and Director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan.

This is the second of a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is: Poverty, Inequity and Disparity. The next lecture will be September 24, 2020. The title is: Access and Equity in US School Systems.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:57:29 -0400 2020-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
Presidential Impeachment, from Johnson to Trump: What Have We Learned? (September 17, 2020 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75859 75859-19615925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join us for UM's annual commemoration of Constitution Day. Professor Michael Gerhardt (UNC School of Law) and Professor Jonathan Turley (GWU Law School)- two of the four scholars who testified, one on each side, on constitutional standards for impeachment before the House Judiciary Committee during President Trump's impeachment- will debate. MLaw Professor Rich Friedman will moderate.

Join via Zoom at https://umich.zoom.us/j/97622039094

Michael Gerhardt (https://law.unc.edu/people/michael-j-gerhardt/) serves as the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill School of Law. His teaching and research focuses on constitutional conflicts between presidents and Congress. Gerhardt is the author of seven books, including “Lincoln’s Mentors” (Harper Collins, 2021), and leading treatises on impeachment, appointments, presidential power, Supreme Court precedent, and separation of powers.

Jonathan Turley (https://www.law.gwu.edu/jonathan-turley) is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, the Director of the Environmental Law Advocacy Center, and the Executive Director of the Project for Older Prisoners at the George Washington University Law School. He is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law.

Read Professor Gerhardt's written testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on “Constitutional Processes for Addressing Presidential Misconduct" at: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190712/109768/HHRG-116-JU00-Wstate-GerhardtM-20190712.pdf

Read Professor Turley's written testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on “The Impeachment Inquiry Into President Donald J. Trump: The Constitutional Basis For Presidential Impeachment” at:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6547-jonathan-turley-s-opening-stat/739d3374f20a9ed69157/optimized/full.pdf

Read both Professor Gerhardt's and Professor Turley's prepared statements for the hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution for the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton at:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc3/pdf/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc3-20.pdf

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:42:07 -0400 2020-09-17T16:10:00-04:00 2020-09-17T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Reading and Q&A with Poet Eduardo C. Corral (September 17, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75395 75395-19463852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Eduardo C. Corral’s latest book of poetry, *Guillotine* (Graywolf, 2020), gives voice and depth to undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and scorned lovers through dramatic portraits of contradiction, survival, and deeply human, relentless interiority.

Corral is also the author of *Slow Lightning*, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the first Latinx poet to win this competition. Corral is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Hodder Fellowship and the National Holmes Poetry Prize, both from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University.

Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral’s poems hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience. Guillotine, his second book, traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, the border itself—great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. With extraordinary lyric imagination, these poems wonder about being unwanted or renounced. What do we do with unrequited love? Is it with or without it that we would waste away?


The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:30:50 -0400 2020-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Eduardo C. Corral
2020 Dewey Lecture: Building a Civic Temper (September 18, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73527 73527-18252294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 8:30am
Location:
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The Edward Ginsberg Center, in partnership with University of Michigan Museum of Art, warmly invite UM faculty, staff, students and community partners to join us for our biannual event.

The Ginsberg Center’s Dewey Series recognizes the enduring legacy of philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey, who taught at U of M in the 1890’s, and later, went on to found the New School for Social Research. Chief among Dewey’s enduring ideas were that thought is the means through which we come to understand and connect with the world around us, and, that universal education is the key to teaching people how to abandon their habits and think creatively via learning through doing.

This year's theme is inspired by William James' 1906 Essay, 'The Moral Equivalent of War.' While some of James' assertions are cause for critique, his primary observation that we need to focus on building our shared public life remains more important than ever.

Acknowledging that the events unfolding--locally and nationally--are on our minds, and after careful reflection, we have modified the agenda for this year’s Dewey Lecture. We’re breaking the event into two parts, with this Friday’s part focused on building community and engaging with one another through a facilitated discussion activity. Our planned panel will be part 2, convened later this year.

Register today!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:45:17 -0400 2020-09-18T08:30:00-04:00 2020-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 Ginsberg Center Lecture / Discussion Image of John Dewey with quote
Craft Lecture: Three Ways to Activate Attentiveness (September 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75396 75396-19463853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Poets read, keep notebooks, and revise. These activities are some of the ways we pay attention to the world and to language. In this craft lecture, we will discuss a few strategies to activate reading, notebooking, and the revision process.


Eduardo C. Corral’s latest book of poetry, *Guillotine* (Graywolf, 2020), gives voice and depth to undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and scorned lovers through dramatic portraits of contradiction, survival, and deeply human, relentless interiority.

Corral is also the author of *Slow Lightning*, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the first Latinx poet to win this competition. Corral is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Hodder Fellowship and the National Holmes Poetry Prize, both from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University.

Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral’s poems hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience. Guillotine, his second book, traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, the border itself—great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. With extraordinary lyric imagination, these poems wonder about being unwanted or renounced. What do we do with unrequited love? Is it with or without it that we would waste away?


The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:07:21 -0400 2020-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Eduardo C. Corral
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Virtual Seminar featuring Gioele La Manno, Ph.D. (EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research Scholar (ELISIR) (September 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77057 77057-19836073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

I will present our comprehensive single-cell transcriptome atlas of mouse brain development spanning from gastrulation to birth. In this atlasing effort, we identified almost a thousand distinct cellular states, including the initial emergence of the neuroepithelium, different glioblasts, and a rich set of region-specific secondary organizers that we localize spatially. In this context, I will provide an example of how the spatially-resolved transcriptomic data can be particularly useful to interpret the complexity of such complex atlases.

Continuing in this direction, I will show the approach that we recently proposed as a general way to spatially resolve different types of next-generation sequencing data. We designed an imaging-free framework to localize high throughput readouts within a tissue by combining compressive sampling and image reconstruction. Our first implementation of this framework transformed a low-input RNA sequencing protocol into an imaging-free spatial transcriptomics technique (STRP-seq).

Finally, I will showcase the technique with the profiling of the brain of the Australian bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps. With this analysis, we revealed the molecular anatomy of the telencephalon of this lizard and provided evidence for a marked regionalization of the reptilian pallium and subpallium.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:27:53 -0400 2020-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Gioele La Manno, Ph.D. (EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research Scholar (ELISIR) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne ‐ EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)
Smith Lecture: Imbalance of carbon production and removal processes in the offshore California Current Ecosystem (September 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75001 75001-19136103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 91433095773
Several existing studies suggest that lateral export of nutrients, organic matter, and organisms connects nearshore upwelling regions to offshore oligotrophic environments in the California Current Ecosystem (CCE). Using data from cruises conducted in the CCE between 2006-2017, the trophic state of the surface ocean determined from traditional (grazing) and microbial food webs were compared. The results support a nearshore, net autotrophic region that can transition to an offshore, net oligotrophic region. A small overall net primary production surplus of roughly 42 mmol C m-2 d-1 remained after supporting zooplankton grazing but estimated dissolved organic carbon released by phytoplankton and zooplankton processes was insufficient to support bacterial carbon demand in much of the CCE. Close examination of a westward propagating filament supports the hypothesis that the transport of excess organic matter laterally in mesoscale features may differentially support bacterioplankton and zooplankton communities and explain the observed imbalance in the offshore. Additionally, microbial community composition from amplicon sequencing suggests community progression within the filament. Interactions between members were identified and visualized via microbial correlation networks. These relationships were further evaluated in the context of regional chemotypes as detected by environmental metabolomics. The integration of biogeochemical measurements with community composition enabled us to examine how relationships between primary and secondary producers shifted across gradients in nutrient status and carbon production as the filament was propagated offshore.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:36:30 -0400 2020-09-18T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-18T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
New Frontiers in Black Music Studies - Panel Discussion (September 19, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76876 76876-19774576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Introduction: Christi-Anne Castro, Chair, Musicology Department, University of Michigan
Moderator: Kyra Gaunt, University of Albany
Panel: Tammy Kernodle, Miami University of Ohio
Alisha L. Jones, Indiana University
Christopher Brooks, Virginia Commonwealth University
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., University of Pennsylvania

Since the first African American Symposium of 1985, Black music research has surged with no sign of waning. What at one time represented a niche interest in the academy is now recognized as one of the most energized, rigorous, and popular fields of inquiry in the millennium. The studies on this panel showcase new and on-going scholarship on Black musicians who have made an indelible mark on the American musical landscape from the nineteenth century to the present.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:15:06 -0400 2020-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Panel Discussion: 1963 NBC broadcast of Ahmal and the Night Visitors (September 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76708 76708-19737042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The cast of the NBC 1963 broadcast of Amahl and the Night Visitors, Richard Cross, and Kurt Yaghjian reunite for a conversation with Willis Patterson about this historic production. Moderated by Arthur White, Michigan Opera Theater’s Director of External Affairs.
Introduction: Scott Piper, Chair, Voice Department, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
RNA Seminar featuring: Andrey Krasilnikov, Penn State (September 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75802 75802-19608017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_obckKUCLT4mXI7kPskzc-Q

KEYWORDS: Ribozymes, RNase P, RNase MRP, ribonucleoprotein complexes, RNA-driven protein remodelling

ABSTRACT: Ribonuclease (RNase) P is a ribozyme-based catalytic ribonucleoprotein complex involved primarily in the maturation of tRNA in all three domains of life. In the course of evolution, the size and complexity of RNase P grew as the catalytic RNA moiety recruited additional protein components. In eukaryotes, the RNase P lineage has split, giving rise to a related RNP enzyme called RNase MRP, which shares multiple structural features (including most of the protein components) with the eukaryotic RNase P, but has a distinct and non-overlapping specificity. We report the recently solved cryo-EM structure of the 450 kDa yeast RNase MRP holoenzyme and compare it with the structure of its progenitor RNP, RNase P. We show that, surprisingly, several of the proteins shared by RNase MRP and RNase P undergo RNA-driven structural remodeling, allowing the same proteins to function in distinct structural contexts. This remodeling, combined with altered peripheral RNA elements, results in the functional diversification of the two closely related RNPs, in spite of the structural conservation of the nearly identical catalytic cores, demonstrating structural underpinnings of the acquisition of new functions by catalytic RNPs.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:12:03 -0400 2020-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Andrey Krasilnikov, Penn State
Older Adults, Tech Use, and Social Well-Being during COVID-19 and Beyond (September 21, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77493 77493-19875791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)

Nearly one in three older adults in the U.S. experienced some form of loneliness in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly restricted older adults’ (ages 65+) in-person social interactions, likely increasing loneliness among this demographic. Due to these restrictions, older adults have started to change their relationships with technology to communicate with family and friends at a distance using smartphones and computers. However, these technologies may not be accessible for all older adults. Voice-based technologies such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant can be more accessible to those with motor challenges or vision loss/blindness, yet have not been studied in-depth for how they can support older adult’s well-being. In this talk, I will discuss (1) a recent interview study with older adults COVID-19 technology use and (2) a recent analysis of more than 50,000 queries older adults made to the Amazon Alexa for social well-being. Early findings point to positive and negative aspects of using technology for well-being and aging.

Robin Brewer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She also holds a courtesy appointment in Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Brewer’s research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) asks (1) how experiences with technology can be more accessible to digitally constrained communities and (2) how these communities use technology for social well-being. Much of her work focuses on older adults and people with vision impairments. Dr. Brewer holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Social Behavior from Northwestern University, M.S. in Human-Centered Computing from University of Maryland - Baltimore County, and B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland - College Park.

This seminar series is presented by the U-M Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS): Our mission is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery through a multi-disciplinary, systems-engineering approach. For the Zoom link and password and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please RSVP. For additional questions, contact CHEPSseminar@umich.edu. Photographs and video taken at this event may be used to promote CHEPS, College of Engineering, and the University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:54:41 -0400 2020-09-21T16:30:00-04:00 2020-09-21T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Lecture / Discussion photo of speaker with event information
WCED Panel. Democratic Survival in the Muslim World (September 22, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71586 71586-19719160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Moderator: Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani, WCED visiting associate, U-M, and overseas postdoctoral fellow, National University of Singapore.
Panelists: Jaimie Bleck, associate professor of political science, University of Notre Dame; Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Honorary Fellow, Alwaleed Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding, Georgetown University; Şebnem Yardımcı-Geyikçi, Assistant Professor of Politics, Hacettepe University, WCED visiting associate 2019-20; Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science, U-M.

Democracy has emerged in many Muslim-majority countries in recent decades; but like in many other parts of the world, Muslim-majority democracies have experienced substantial democratic erosion and confront a growing threat of total democratic breakdown. Amid these worrisome global trends, what are the common and specific challenges for democratic consolidation across Muslim-majority countries? Our panel brings together scholars working on the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and Southeast Asia to examine the prospects for democratic survival in the Muslim world.

The panel will be broadcast on Zoom. Registration is required at http://myumi.ch/Gkzvm.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:18:24 -0400 2020-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion fatih-yurur
Modern approaches to revisit unsolved mysteries of the spermatogenesis program. (September 23, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77005 77005-19790534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Sue Hammoud, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, to the 2020 Cell & Developmental Biology Zoom conference on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.

Hosted by: Doug Engel

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:30:58 -0400 2020-09-23T09:30:00-04:00 2020-09-23T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Sue Hammoud, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
“An Engineered Immunological Niche for Early Detection of Metastatic Cancer (and other diseases with immune dysregulation)” (September 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77310 77310-19838088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is pleased to present our first talk of Fall 2020.

Dr. Jacqueline Jeruss is Professor of Surgery, Professor of Pathology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Lonnie Shea is Professor & Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

The talk is entitled, “An Engineered Immunological Niche for Early Detection of Metastatic Cancer (and other diseases with immune dysregulation)”

Moderator: Filip Bednar, MD, PhD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery

Zoom Information:
Zoom Link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/92442599246
Passcode: 163126

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:17:29 -0400 2020-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Jeruss Shea Cross Talk Flyer
EER Seminar Series (September 23, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77085 77085-19796480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Much of the conversation on equity and inclusion centers on the need to “increase” something—the marginalized student population, mentoring programs, engagement opportunities, “knowledge” of topics like white privilege. However, few conversations focus on a much harder truth—that the culture of whiteness and maleness in engineering limits sustained improvement in equity and inclusion efforts of most institutions. Using preliminary findings from their current NSF-funded project called “I-MATTER,” Drs. Masta and Pawley examine how engineering culture has normalized racism and sexism for underrepresented students in engineering contexts. Through their discussion, they will highlight the strong need for more BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) researchers in white spaces, and encourage white researchers to “stay in their lanes” when approaching equity and inclusion research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:15:05 -0400 2020-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Drs. Stephanie Masta & Alice Pawley
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Virtual Seminar (September 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77143 77143-19798542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk title: Decision Support System Applications in Dentistry

Dr. Lucia Cevidanes is the Thomas and Doris Graber Professor of Dentistry and Associate Professor at the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Michigan, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. She is a practicing clinician who has published over 150 manuscripts on 3D imaging for which she has received research grants from the American Association of Orthodontics Foundation and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Her work has been recognized by the American Association of Orthodontists Thomas M. Graber Award, the B F Dewel Award, Milo Hellman Award, and the Wuehrmann award from the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. Her interests include Artificial Intelligence and 3D Imaging to solve difficult clinical problems in dentistry, studying current and new treatment approaches and technical procedures, and understanding treatment outcomes for craniofacial anomalies and dentofacial deformities.

Zoom Link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:27:53 -0400 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Dr. Lucia Cevidanes is the Thomas and Doris Graber Professor of Dentistry and Associate Professor at the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Michigan
Access and Equity in US School Systems (September 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75646 75646-19552866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will investigate what happens to students’ aspirations and goals from the start of middle school until college graduation, looking in particular at how these trajectories are impacted by socio-economic factors (SES).

We will study the socially constructed barriers that obstruct access to opportunities for lower SES students and the opportunities and supports that are, conversely, offered to higher SES students. Examining the systemic nature of these will help to illuminate the fallacy of the idea of a meritocratic system. We will investigate data, and strategize about what can be done to make good on the promises we make to our nation’s students about what and who they can be. We will orient our work toward finding strategies to address systems of oppression and privilege that structure education opportunities.

Our speaker, Dr. Simona Goldin teaches about the sociology, history, and policy of schooling in the United States, at the University of Michigan’s School of Education. She has studied ways to transform the preparation of beginning teachers to teach in more equitable ways, and has elaborated the teaching practices that bridge children’s work in schools on academic content with their home and community-based experiences.

This is the third of a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is: Poverty, Inequity and Disparity. The next lecture will be October 1, 2020. The title is: The Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts of Health Care Access for Low Income Americans.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:59:30 -0400 2020-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
Postdoc Appreciation Seminars at the School of Dentistry (September 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77254 77254-19828126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Jessica A. Ferreira – Bottino Lab
Jingwen Yang – Mishina Lab
Veronica Mendoza-Reinoso – McCauley/Roca Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:49:10 -0400 2020-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion flyer
Communication and Media Speaker Series (September 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77307 77307-19838054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Communication and Media

Professor Nicole Ellison, Karl E Weick Collegiate Professor of Information and Professor of Information,School of Information.

Abstract:
Scholarship on well-being outcomes of social media use highlights two key mechanisms: social comparison (associated with viewing social media content) and social connectedness (enhanced by direct interaction facilitated by social media platforms). This literature often characterizes view-based social media practices as passive use, contrasting it with more desirable, interactive active use such as clicking. However, we lack deep understanding of how users experience viewing and clicking practices and the empirical relationship between them. Employing a combination of eye tracking, survey, and interview methods, our study (N=42) investigates the non-click—instances where people intentionally and thoughtfully withhold from clicking on content they spend time viewing. Counterintuitively, we find no difference in viewing duration (as measured by eye gaze) to clicked versus non-clicked Facebook content. We find that use motivations and Facebook feed content are significant predictors of click behavior but measures of overall use, such as network size or minutes of use per day, are not. Our interview data reveal three audience-related concerns that contribute to deliberate non-clicking and illustrate how non-clicked content contributes to social connectedness when imported into other channels. We discuss implications for researchers, users, and designers.

Ellison, N.B., Triệu, P., Schoenebeck, S. Y., Brewer, R.N., & Israni, A. (In press). Why we don’t click: Interrogating the relationship between viewing and clicking in social media contexts by exploring the ‘non-click.’ To appear in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:33:27 -0400 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion
RNA Journal Club (September 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76895 76895-19774601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Zoom meeting link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93910966695

The RNA Journal Club meets to prepare for seminars and engage with their presenters. The Club studies and reviews the articles relating to upcoming talks.

In preparation for 9/28/20 Seminar with guest speaker: Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo https://events.umich.edu/event/75805

Publication to review: "Ribosomal Formation of Thioamide Bonds in Polypeptide Synthesis" Rumit Maini, Hiroyuki Kimura, Ryo Takatsuji, Takayuki Katoh, Yuki Goto, and Hiroaki Suga

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.9b11097

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:16:23 -0400 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Laptop glasses notebook desk
Be Informed: How to Sort Fact From Fiction Before the Election (September 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77314 77314-19838095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Join us for a program that will help you develop your critical thinking skills so you can better evaluate what you see, hear, and read. Does it often seem to you like news outlets are reporting widely different stories about the same thing? Conflicting information can make it difficult to feel like you know what’s going on in the world. Become an informed voter before November 3rd!

U-M Librarian Jo Angela Oehrli takes part in this Zoom event presented by the Ypsilanti District Library.

Click the "Join in Browser" or "Join in Zoom" link and use the passcode 275338.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:11:44 -0400 2020-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion Street sign listing internet, television, radio, magazines, newspapers
Making Michigan: "The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the U-M's Jewish Students, 1897-1945" (September 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76665 76665-19735028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Learn about the evolution of Jewish life on the U-M campus from the late 1890s to the end of World War II. Join us for this *Making Michigan* event, as Terry McDonald and Gary Krenz from the Bentley Historical Library talk with authors Andrei Markovits and Kenneth Garner about their new book, *The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan's Jewish Students from 1897-1945.* The conversation will cover how Jewish students lived at the University of Michigan, how they were integrated by and large, how they made U-M a good place for them but also how there were limits to this bliss, as the University's commendable pluralism in terms of accepting others, Jews in particular, had its serious limits when it came to Jewish students from the East Coast with leftist political preferences.

This conversation is the first in the 2020-21 Making Michigan series.

Registration is required. To register, please visit https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZLn_cYMlT5W8K9rJE0-j3g

To learn more about *Making Michigan,* go to https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/making-michigan-series/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:32:16 -0400 2020-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of event poster, with title and pictures of authors Markovits and Garner.
The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945 (September 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76897 76897-19774596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

U-M Professor of Political Science Andrei S. Markovits presents his new book, The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945 (Ann Arbor: Maize Books, 2020) [with Kenneth Garner].

Learn in great detail what student life was like at the University of Michigan in the first four decades of the 20th century. Hear about how Jewish students lived at the University of Michigan, how they were integrated by and large, how they made this a good place for them but also how there were limits to this bliss. Discover how the University’s commendable pluralism in terms of accepting others, Jews in particular, had its serious limits when it came to Jewish students from the East Coast with leftist political preferences.

https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/making-michigan-series/

Andrei S. Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies as well as an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:43:52 -0400 2020-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Professor Andrei S. Markovits
HET Seminar | Modularity of supersymmetric partition functions (September 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77378 77378-19846060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In this talk, I will present a novel modular property of 4d N=1 supersymmetric partition functions of supersymmetric theories with R-symmetry. It is a generalization of the modular invariance of the supersymmetric partition function of two-dimensional supersymmetric theories on a torus i.e. of the elliptic genus. It comes from requiring consistency of partition functions under gluing and, among other things, can be used to rederive the supersymmetric Cardy formula for four-dimensional gauge theories that has played a key role in computing the entropy of supersymmetric black holes.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:12:34 -0400 2020-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Leadership Lunch: GEO Strike, What Comes Next? (September 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77616 77616-19887834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Join the BLI for an open table discussion with GEO president, Sumeet Patwardhan. This is your opportunity to ask any questions you have about the GEO strike. Are you curious about,

What role did the media play in your communication with supporters?
What challenges did you face organizing a strike during a pandemic?
How did the Anti-Policing become part of your demands?
And now that the strike is over, What happens next?

This is YOUR chance to ask the questions in a casual, safe, and inclusive environment. Please note, this event is intended for Barger Leadership Institute members. Interested in joining the BLI? Click here: https://umforms.tfaforms.net/113

Speaker: Sumeet Patwardhan
President, Graduate Employees' Organization
AFT-MI Local 3550, AFL-CIO
pronouns: he/they

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:19:10 -0400 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLI Lunch and Learn
Professional Cultures & Inequality in STEM (September 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73559 73559-19598152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Professional Cultures & Inequality in STEM, presented by Dr. Erin Cech, U-M LSA

Cultural norms get passed from one generation to the next - both the good...and the not-so-good. What is getting passed down in professional STEM culture?

University of Michigan Engineering is excited to welcome Prof. Erin Cech to our DEI lecture series for the month of March. Her lecture will be focused on three cultural ideologies at play in perpetuating disadvantages in professional STEM culture:

1. Schemas of scientific excellence
2. Depoliticization
3. Meritocracy

Drawing from several NSF-funded survey and interview-based studies, Prof. Cech explores how these three concepts create disadvantages for women, racial/ethnic minorities and LGBTQ persons.

Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:00:47 -0400 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Cech headshot
Virtual Earth Week (ViEW) and Fall Preview Event (September 25, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75002 75002-19136104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 3:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

A virtual presentation of Department research projects intended for potential graduate students.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:12:54 -0400 2020-09-25T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-25T16:30:00-04:00 Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Colloquium: "Rethinking Race and Place and its Role in Achieving Social Justice in Linguistics" (virtual) (September 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76110 76110-19663534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department colloquium series begins Friday, September 25, with a virtual talk by Sharese King, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Dr. King will present "Rethinking Race and Place and its Role in Achieving Social Justice in Linguistics."

Dr. King is a sociolinguist interested in the relationship between race, place, and language variation. She explores how African Americans use language to construct multidimensional identities and how these constructions are perceived and evaluated across different listener populations. Drawing on both ethnographic and experimental techniques, her work explores both the linguistic construction of race and the ways in which language is racialized.

ABSTRACT

Recent explorations of regional variation across African American speech communities have brought to the forefront the linguistic heterogeneity across African American Language (AAL). Having problematized the presentation of AAL as a uniform variety (Wolfram 2007; 2015), intra-group analyses highlight the diverse social and linguistic constructions among African American speakers. In this talk, I zoom in on three personae local to the African American community in Rochester, New York, contextualizing each style against the backdrop of a post-industrial city in the Rustbelt region. I investigate how the three personae, The Mobile Professional, The Hood Kid, and The Biker recruit or reject vocalic patterns of the Northern Cities Shift, as well as to construct identities relevant to their social landscape. The findings challenge how we define the dialect, while also complicating our understanding of the relationship between race, identity, and language. Further, this work imagines more ways to enact social justice in the study of variationism by expanding our representation of African Americans' multidimensional identities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:31:16 -0400 2020-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Sharese King
RNA Seminar featuring: Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo (September 28, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75805 75805-19608020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PBHPayAvR8WobaSf3z0AUA

ABSTRACT: Macrocyclic peptides possess a number of pharmacological characteristics distinct from other well-established therapeutic molecular classes, resulting in a versatile drug modality with a unique profile of advantages. Macrocyclic peptides are accessible by not only chemical synthesis but also ribosomal synthesis. Particularly, recent inventions of the genetic code reprogramming integrated with an in vitro display format, referred to as RaPID (Random non-standard Peptides Integrated Discovery) system, have enabled us to screen mass libraries (>1 trillion members) of non-standard peptides containing multiple non-proteinogenic amino acids, giving unique properties of peptides distinct from conventional peptides, e.g. greater proteolytic stability, higher affinity (low nM to sub nM dissociation constants similar to antibodies), and superior pharmacokinetics. The field is rapidly growing evidenced by increasing interests from industrial sectors, including small start-ups as well as mega-pharmas, toward drug development efforts on macrocyclic peptides, which has led to several de novo discovered peptides entering clinical trials. This lecture discusses the aforementioned screening technology involving the method of “genetic code reprogramming” powered by flexizymes, and several showcases of therapeutic potentials of macrocyclic peptides.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:22:07 -0400 2020-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo
A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on Healthcare Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (September 28, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77054 77054-19790563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is influenced by many factors, such as provider expertise, patient trust, access, financing, policies and evolving technology. Improving how healthcare is delivered in LMICs requires a strong understanding of the various disciplinary approaches to care and how they can vary between cultures. With leading faculty from the U-M Medical School, the School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy and School of Public Health, this panel will explore: *“A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on Healthcare in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.”*

This virtual public session will also serve as the opening discussion of a course with the same name (BA620) offered in the second half of the Fall semester.

For questions about the roundtable discussion or the course, please contact Ekta Jhaveri at ekta@umich.edu

Panelists include:
Vicki Ellingrod, College of Pharmacy
Joe Kolars, U-M Medical School
Jody Lori, School of Nursing
Abram L. Wagner, School of Public Health

Moderator: Paul Clyde, WDI & Michigan Ross

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:52:46 -0400 2020-09-28T16:30:00-04:00 2020-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Image with event details and headshots of panelists
CLINICAL SIMULATION CENTER BROWN BAG SERIES (September 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77752 77752-19909894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

All Michigan Medicine faculty and staff are invited to attend the next installment of the Clinical Simulation Center Brown Bag series.

The series is designed to promote collaboration and best practices in simulation-based education and research and will allow faculty, staff and learners the opportunity to learn and share best practices in simulation-based education and assessment.

The next event, which will be held at noon on Tuesday, September 29th. James Cooke, MD, will discuss "Overarching Themes from ACS-AEI Accreditation Survey Best Practices 2011-2019.”

Click here for more information: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/clinical-simulation-center/events/202009/csc-brown-bag-series-september-2020-part-ii

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:43:35 -0400 2020-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Adult resuscitation training at CSC
ENGAGE: The Power of Your Vote (September 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77828 77828-19941576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: School of Social Work

This is a monumental year in our political history, with the upcoming election in November having the power to address various human and civil rights issues. Join us for a special virtual discussion on the power of your vote, how voting can combat supremacy and hate, the logistics of voting during a pandemic, and voter suppression. This session will feature special guests including Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Inclusion, Equity and Social Responsibility Partner at Honigman LLP and member of the Detroit NAACP, Attorney Khaliah Spencer. This session will be moderated by long-time voting justice advocate and Executive Director of Detroit Action, Branden Snyder. School of Social Work students will also have the ability to ask panelists questions about voting and voting rights.
ENGAGE is an initiative that connects the School of Social Work to community issues and movements for greater equity and social change.
RSVP and a zoom link will be sent out the morning of the event.
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W130

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:50:56 -0400 2020-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Inclusion, Equity and Social Responsibility Partner at Honigman LLP and member of the Detroit NAACP, Attorney Khaliah Spencer and Executive Director of Detroit Action, Branden Snyder
Critical Conversations: "Health" (September 29, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76480 76480-19719135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2020-21. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

This semester's series will be entirely online -- please RSVP to receive the Zoom link (see "Related Links" for RSVP form).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:59:07 -0400 2020-09-29T12:30:00-04:00 2020-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Black Students in Aerospace [BSA] Movie Event (September 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77826 77826-19941591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The Black Students in Aerospace (BSA), a new student organization within the Department of Aerospace engineering, would like to invite you to attend our upcoming movie night event.

Over the course of this summer, there has been a resurgence of support, activism, and protests for Black Lives Matter and other human rights issues that have cast a spotlight on the systemic racism present in society. Our organization felt it was important to tie these issues back to the department in order to continue the discourse as well as to bring visibility to the ways their peers are affected.

Because of this, we decided to host a viewing of the documentary I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin. The movie will be followed by a guided discussion with a panel of Black engineering students, alumni, and professors from U-M including Alec D. Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering. 

Friday October 2nd
Movie: 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Eastern Time)
Panel: 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Eastern Time)

Please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/bsa-movie-night

***It is important to note that the film includes brief moments of graphic images, specifically images of lynchings and police brutality.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:22:25 -0400 2020-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion [BSA] Upcoming Movie Event Flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Artificial Intelligence (September 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58828 58828-14563719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on how we know machines know.

Here are a few readings to consider:
––Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
––Regulatory responses to medical machine learning
––Will artificial intelligence solve the human resource crisis in healthcare?
––Medical ethics considerations on artificial intelligence

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/047-artificial-intelligence/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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One's intelligence might be artificially enhanced by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:09:51 -0400 2020-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Artificial Intelligence
HET BROWN BAG | New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap (September 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77301 77301-19836071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In this talk I will demonstrate the potential of the black hole mass gap to probe new physics. The mass gap, in which no black holes can be formed, is a standard prediction of stellar structure theory. I will show that new physics that couples to the Standard Model can act as an additional source of energy loss in the cores of population-III stars, dramatically altering their evolution, resulting in large shifts of the gap. The gravitational wave observations by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration will bring the edges of the black hole mass gap in sight in the coming years, making this a promising novel probe of new physics.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:11:20 -0400 2020-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Preparing for Success in Your Law School Journey: A Guide to LSAC Diversity Initiatives (September 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77444 77444-19854028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

The LSAC is committed to promoting quality, access, and equity in law and education. Join us to learn more about LSAC DEI services and resources that can support you in your journey to become a lawyer. Find the link to register in advance for this Zoom session in your Handshake account: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/555694

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:23:27 -0400 2020-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Lecture / Discussion Pre-Law Logo
Cybersecurity: Threats, policy, and responses (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76130 76130-19663684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Over the last decade cybersecurity issues have risen in prominence in both the public and private spheres—there have been near daily reports regarding cyber operations launched by nation states, hacking groups and criminal organizations. Cybersecurity was a key issue in the 2016 Presidential election, and as we head toward the 2020 election during the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic it remains at the forefront. In this conversation, Paul Abbate, Associate Deputy Director of the FBI, and Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector, will discuss some of the challenges in addressing current cybersecurity threats, formulating policy, and calibrating responses. Javed Ali, Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School, will moderate the discussion.

For more information visit http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/cybersecurity-threats-policy-and-responses

From the speakers' bios:

Paul M. Abbate is the associate deputy director of the FBI. In this position, he is responsible for the management of all FBI personnel, budget, administration, and infrastructure. Prior to his appointment in 2018, Abbate was the executive assistant director for the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing all FBI criminal and cyber investigations worldwide, international operations, critical incident response, and victim assistance.

Abbate began his FBI career in March 1996 as a special agent assigned to the New York Field Office, where he worked in the Criminal Division and served as a member of the SWAT Team. He has since worked in many positions within the FBI, including deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, serving as a supervisory special agent within the Newark Division’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, and special agent in charge of the Detroit Division, covering the state of Michigan. He also served as assistant section chief in the Counterterrorism Division, providing national-level oversight and guidance of all United States-based international terrorism investigations, among other positions.

Teresa Carlson leads the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector business, which includes state, local, central and regional governments; educational institutions and Ed Techs; non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGO); and she advises Amazon Public Policy on global policy issues.

Since starting AWS’s public sector business in 2010, Carlson has driven the business’ growth, which today accounts for 2,300 government, 7,000 education, and 22,000 nonprofit customers, and a vast partner ecosystem across all geographies. Carlson has received many honors over the years, including being named as one of Business Insider’s Most Important People in Cloud Computing, Washington Life’s Power 100 list, Washingtonian Tech Titan, and is a recipient of the 2016 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which recognizes individuals who have made it their mission to share with those less fortunate their wealth of knowledge, indomitable courage, boundless compassion. Prior to joining AWS, Carlson served as Vice President of Microsoft Federal Government, where she led the company’s US Federal Government business. Before moving into technology, Carlson worked in health care, as a practitioner and consultant initially, then as a business manager and area vice president, responsible for national accounts, marketing, and business development.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:00:34 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Paul Abbate and Teresa Carlson
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Virtual Seminar - Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D. (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77549 77549-19883820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: The human genome is organized into small compartments to allow for the proper gene expression regulation in the physiological process. With the advance of next-generation sequencing and imaging technologies, we can now investigate how the genome is folded into 3D space and how the 3D genomic organization regulates gene expression in development and disease. Currently, most of the studies are focusing on CTCF and cohesion complex which partner together to facilitate the formation of topological associated domains (TAD). The presenter will mainly discuss his recently published work on the DNA methylation -3D genomics cross-talk. Unpublished work on the 3D genomics in AML will be discussed as well.

Short bio: Xiaotian Zhang obtained his Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. Margaret Goodell on the role of DNA methylation synergy in leukemia development. He was previously the Van Andel special postdoc fellow in Gerd Pfeifer lab working on the 3D genomics in normal hematopoietic stem cell and leukemia. He is now a Research track faculty (Research Investigator) in Pathology Department under Tomek Cierpicki working on the HOXA regulation in leukemia development. Xiaotian's research focuses on the epigenetic regulation of key pathogenic genes in leukemia, particularly on high order chromatin structure in disease. He published on Nature Genetics, Molecular Cell and Blood as the first author and corresponding authors.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:31:31 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D., Research Investigator in the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan
The Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts of Health Care Access for Low Income Americans (October 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75674 75674-19560796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Over the past 50 years, the United States has implemented policies to improve access to health care for low-income adults and children, including through the Medicaid program and, most recently, the Affordable Care Act. The recent COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of such care access, not only for beneficiaries themselves, but for public health within our communities. To what extent have these policies been successful in improving access to care, and what are the implications of these policies for the health of our most vulnerable residents in the future?

Dr. Sarah Miller received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois in 2012. She joined the University of Michigan in 2014 after being an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Miller is currently a professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Her work examines the effect of health care policies on economic and health outcomes.

This is the fourth of a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is: Poverty, Inequity and Disparity. The next lecture will be October 8, 2020. The title is: Building and Preserving Affordable Housing in the United States: Federal Resources and Local Efforts.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:01:07 -0400 2020-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-01T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
Measuring a Liberal Education and its Relationship with Labor Market Outcomes: An Exploratory Analysis (Seminar 1 on Measuring the Liberal Arts) (October 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77427 77427-19852035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Join us for a year-long series of virtual panel discussions and seminars exploring the values, dimensions, and outcomes of liberal arts education, and how they might be measured. Academic leaders, researchers, faculty members, and national experts will gather to consider issues long central to liberal arts education, as well as its status in the current climate.

Zoom – Registration Required
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ekiDjiAzRj2szeBhTN-qpQ

Visit the College and Beyond II: Liberal Arts and Life Colloquium Series website for more information on this and all upcoming events: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/liberalarts

Seminar 2 on Measuring the Liberal Arts Speakers:

Rayane Alamuddin
Associate Director for Research and Evaluation, Ithaka S+R

Daniel Rossman
Researcher, Ithaka S+R

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:55:54 -0400 2020-10-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture: Diversifying oceanography: The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana (October 2, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75003 75003-19136105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 91739279815
Modeling and observing the global ocean environment requires a coordinated global effort. Yet, as in most STEM disciplines, Africans are under-represented in the global oceanography enterprise. The need, and the potential, for changing this is clear. The coastal resources of Africa, the world's second-largest continent, face many pressures including erosion due to sea-level rise, offshore oil drilling, increased shipping, overfishing, piracy, and others. At the same time, Africa has a young, rapidly growing population, and has several of the world's fastest-growing economies. The time is ripe for developing STEM partnerships between Africa and the rest of the world, and a more diverse global scientific community will benefit everyone.

With the above motivations in mind, we developed the Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana. Following an exploratory trip in 2014, during which we met potential partnering institutions, we have been running the school for one week every August since 2015. The hosting Ghana institution alternates between Regional Maritime University (RMU), which trains West Africans for careers in shipping, port management, and other marine sector careers, and the University of Ghana (UG), which has a marine and fisheries sciences department. Over time the school curriculum has grown to include hands-on labs, a boat trip, instrument deployments, field trips to beaches and ports, and short research projects, in addition to lectures. From 2016-2019, about 100 West Africans participated per year. The school has a regional impact; an increasing number of participants come from Nigeria and other countries outside of Ghana. Instruction is done by resource persons from Ghana, the US, and Europe. Global north participants have included undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and professors/research scientists.

We will briefly discuss school success stories, our experience running the school virtually in 2020 (for about 60-70 participants), funding challenges, and our vision for the future of the school.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:26:27 -0400 2020-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-02T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
"I Am Not Your Negro" Viewing and Panel Discussion (October 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77803 77803-19931628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Black Students in Aerospace

The Black Students in Aerospace (BSA), a new student organization within the Department of Aerospace engineering, would like to invite you to attend our upcoming movie night event.

Over the course of this summer, there has been a resurgence of support, activism, and protests for Black Lives Matter and other human rights issues that have cast a spotlight on the systemic racism present in society. Our organization felt it was important to tie these issues back to campus in order to continue the discourse as well as to bring visibility to the ways their peers are affected.

Because of this, we decided to host of a viewing the documentary I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin. The movie will be followed by a guided discussion with a panel of Black engineering students, alumni, and professors from UM.

See the attached poster for more details (also listed here)

Friday October 2nd
Movie: 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Eastern Time)
Panel: 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Eastern Time)

Please RSVP at
https://tinyurl.com/bsa-movie-night

It is important to note that the film includes brief moments of graphic images, specifically images of lynchings and police brutality.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:52:07 -0400 2020-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Black Students in Aerospace Lecture / Discussion Event details and panelists
Black Students in Aerospace [BSA] Movie Event (October 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77826 77826-19933615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The Black Students in Aerospace (BSA), a new student organization within the Department of Aerospace engineering, would like to invite you to attend our upcoming movie night event.

Over the course of this summer, there has been a resurgence of support, activism, and protests for Black Lives Matter and other human rights issues that have cast a spotlight on the systemic racism present in society. Our organization felt it was important to tie these issues back to the department in order to continue the discourse as well as to bring visibility to the ways their peers are affected.

Because of this, we decided to host a viewing of the documentary I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin. The movie will be followed by a guided discussion with a panel of Black engineering students, alumni, and professors from U-M including Alec D. Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering. 

Friday October 2nd
Movie: 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Eastern Time)
Panel: 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Eastern Time)

Please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/bsa-movie-night

***It is important to note that the film includes brief moments of graphic images, specifically images of lynchings and police brutality.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:22:25 -0400 2020-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion [BSA] Upcoming Movie Event Flyer
Friday Night AI (October 2, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77588 77588-19885834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Invited speakers:
Profs. Ceren Budak (School of Information) and Rada Mihalcea (Michigan AI)
Organizer: Michigan AI Lab in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library
Moderator: Prof. Benjamin Kuipers, Michigan AI

Pre-registration required by Oct. 1.

The proliferation of misleading information in everyday access media outlets such as social media feeds, news blogs, and online newspapers has made it challenging to identify trustworthy news sources. Over the past few months, the amount of misinformation shared online has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic (which has sometime been also referred to as an infodemic) as well as by the ongoing political debates and the upcoming federal elections. Artificial Intelligence provides ways to identify misinformative content online, and to potentially curb its spread. Join us for a conversation with Michigan experts Prof. Ceren Budak and Prof. Rada Mihalcea, who will discuss how Artificial Intelligence can be used to address fake news and misinformation.

What are the ways that AI may be used to identify misinformation and fake news?
What are the challenges encountered when developing such AI systems?
What are the benefits and risks of using automated ways to fight misinformation?

About the panelists:
Ceren Budak is an Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research interests lie in the area of computational social science. She is particularly interested in the use of large scale data sets and computational techniques to study problems with policy, social and political implications.
Rada Mihalcea is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, multilingual natural language processing, and computational social sciences. Together with her research lab and collaborators, she has worked on the problem of automatic deception detection for more than ten years, addressing among others the detection of deception in language and multimodal streams, the identification of fake news, and identity deception. She is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009) and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2019).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:36:26 -0400 2020-10-02T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lecture / Discussion Friday Night AI
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: ​Ken Burns & Isabel Wilkerson, In Conversation (October 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77115 77115-19798483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Our lens on history powerfully influences how we envision and shape the future. Join two of our country's most accomplished storytellers, Ken Burns and Isabel Wilkerson, as they discuss the complexities of the American narrative and how grappling with the past might lead us forward. 

Journalist Isabel Wilkerson was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2016 “for championing the stories of an unsung history.” The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, her book The Warmth of Other Suns, a sweeping and intimate examination of the Great Migration, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, examines the entrenched hierarchies that shape American life. Told through intimate personal narratives and deeply researched history, Wilkerson examines the ties between the American caste system and those in India and Nazi Germany, and points to ways America can move beyond our artificial and destructive human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; Jackie Robinson; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The Vietnam War; The Central Park Five; and Country Music. His films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, two Oscar nominations; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. His new website UNUM rearranges clips from his past films into playlists to add historical context to the present.

This conversation will be moderated by Lynette Clemetson, Director of Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan. A longtime journalist, she was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and Asia, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and senior director of strategy and new initiatives at NPR. Wallace House works to sustain and elevate the careers of journalists, foster civic engagement, and uphold the role of a free press in democratic society. 

This event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester with support from Wallace House and UMMA.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:16:01 -0400 2020-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Computational Biology Guest Speaker Series (October 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77654 77654-19895767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Genes in Diseases and Symptoms

Genes in Diseases and Symptoms is hosting guest speakers over Zoom! You'll learn about different pathways in healthcare, especially those that involve technology/computing. Healthcare professionals will tell us about their journey, projects/research, and give us advice on what we can do to succeed in our future careers. Our first guest speaker is Dr. Michael Boehnke on Oct 3, 1-2 PM EDT.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:37:28 -0400 2020-10-03T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-03T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Genes in Diseases and Symptoms Lecture / Discussion
RNA Seminar featuring: Chase Weidmann, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (October 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76147 76147-19665691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y9HTFl5RSOSJTJ5qtlhVcw

Keywords: mRNA regulation, noncoding RNA, RNA Structure, RNP granules

Abstract:
Chase Weidmann, Ph.D. has contributed broadly to the field of RNA Biology during his career, studying mechanisms of codon bias during translation, post-transcriptional regulation of mRNAs by RNA-binding proteins, the folding of long non-coding RNAs, and how RNA-protein interaction networks contribute to the function and assembly of functional RNP particles. Chase developed a chemical probing strategy and next-gen sequencing technology, called RNP-MaP, that maps the location of and cooperation between multi-protein networks on RNAs in live cells. Going forward, Chase is interested in understanding how alterations in RNA-binding protein profiles, a cell’s “RBPome”, confer deleterious activities onto noncoding RNAs in human disease, especially in cancer. To further empower this work and his future research program, Chase is now generating and integrating protein mass spectrometry data into his RBPome projects.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:01:52 -0400 2020-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion photo
Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy (October 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76225 76225-19677557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

David Frum discusses his new book, Trumpocalypse, and the impact of the Trump presidency on the political culture and democracy of the United States with moderator Megan Tompkins-Stange. Frum, writer at The Atlantic and former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, provides a look at impact the Trump presidency has had on partisanship and political culture.

About the book:

A huge swath of Americans has put their faith in Trump, and Trump only, because they see the rest of the country building a future that doesn’t have a place for them. If they would risk their lives for Trump in a pandemic, they will certainly risk the stability of American democracy. They brought the Trumpocalypse upon the country, and a post-Trumpocalypse country will have to find a way either to reconcile them to democracy - or to protect democracy from them.

In Trumpocalypse, David Frum looks at what happens when a third of the electorate refuses to abandon Donald Trump, no matter what he does. Those voters aren’t looking for policy wins. They’re seeking cultural revenge. Americans can do better. David Frum shows how—and inspires all readers of all points of view to believe again in the possibilities of American life. Trumpocalypse is both a warning of danger and a guide to reform.

For more information visit http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/trumpocalypse-restoring-american-democracy

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:56:41 -0400 2020-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Book cover
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (October 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77774 77774-19919781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Registration Required: myumi.ch/O4P30

Join members of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) community as they explore the meanings and implications of Wilkerson's work.

Moderator
Earl Lewis
Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy; Director, Center for Social Solutions

Panelists
Aliyah Khan
Associate Professor of English and
Afroamerican and African Studies

Karyn Lacy
Associate Professor of Sociology

Magdalena Zaborowska
Professor of American Culture and
Afroamerican and African Studies

Damani Partridge
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies

Renée Pitter
DAAS Alum, Research Program Manager for the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities, U-M School of Nursing

This live, virtual conversation will occur as a community engagement opportunity following the Penny Stamps Speakers Series Event Ken Burns & Isabel Wilkerson: In Conversation on Friday, October 2 at 8:00 p.m. More information: pennystampsevents.org.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:03:09 -0400 2020-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality (October 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75663 75663-19558810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In Undermining Racial Justice, Matthew Johnson (Texas Tech University) contends that over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible.

Focusing on the University of Michigan, Johnson argues that U-M leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. As Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide.

Join the author for a discussion of Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality. Angela Dillard (University of Michigan) will serve as interlocutor.

Matthew Johnson is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow working on a book about the impact of urban campus police forces on Black communities and students.

Angela Dillard is the Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History, and in the Residential College. She specializes in American and African American intellectual history, particularly around issues of race, religion, and politics—on both the Left and the Right sides of the political spectrum—and maintains an active interest in urban studies.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a90DMOeVRZy18VWjsPyc_A

This event is presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:17:02 -0400 2020-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Undermining Racial Justice cover
WCED Panel. Flashpoint: Lebanon (October 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77455 77455-19854043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Panelists: Jean Lachapelle, postdoctoral fellow, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute, University of Gothenburg; Lama Mourad, assistant professor of international affairs, Carleton University; Sarah Parkinson, Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Christiana Parreira, postdoctoral research associate in Near Eastern studies, Princeton University. Moderator: Matthew Cebul, WCED postdoctoral fellow.

For nearly a year, Lebanon has been engulfed in crisis. Popular frustrations with government corruption boiled over into protest in October 2019, and have since been compounded by worsening economic collapse, the covid-19 pandemic, and most recently, the Beirut port explosion. This panel convenes in light of these ongoing events. Panelists will speak to the origins of Lebanese unrest, and identify pathways and obstacles towards recovery and reform.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/88PnG.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Global Islamic Studies Center.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:52:21 -0400 2020-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Lebanon, photo by Rashid Khreiss (unsplash)
2020 Organ Conference: Organists as Innovators (October 6, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76696 76696-19737030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Barone, Pipedreams, American Public Media

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
EER Seminar Series (Engineering Education Research) (October 7, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77660 77660-19899719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity has been a persistent challenge in engineering. Over the last 40 years, hundreds of papers and more than 25 national reports have been published focusing on broadening participation in STEM. Simultaneously, people throughout the U.S. have been working endlessly to solve this problem. Yet, we have seen only incremental progress, suggesting that there is a need to take a step back and re-examine what has been done, in terms of both research and practice. To support this effort, Dr. Lee’s research focuses on critically evaluating the research-to-practice cycle as it relates to broadening participation. In this seminar, he will discuss an ongoing project focused on the participation of Black Americans in engineering and computer science. The goals of this project are to advance our understanding of the disconnect between research and practice, to identify barriers to progress, and to set a national agenda for broadening the participation of Black Americans in engineering and computer science.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:41:43 -0400 2020-10-07T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-07T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Walter Lee
Maya MacGuineas and Lawrence H. Summers: Is the federal deficit unsustainable? (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76227 76227-19677559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The federal deficit has reached historic levels in recent years, even before Congress passed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) in March 2020. Join us for a conversation with Lawrence H. Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, on whether the growing federal deficit is sustainable for the United States economy. Betsey Stevenson, professor of economics and public policy, will moderate the discussion. Panelists will discuss the growing debate among economists and policymakers about whether the federal deficit presents a danger to the overall health of the U.S. economy.

For more information visit http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/federal-deficit-unsustainable

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:11:40 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Lawrence Summers and Maya MacGuineas
Special Arts Webinar: Studio Visit and Conversation with Artist Wang Qingsong (October 7, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78180 78180-19989042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Please register for the Zoom seminar here.: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XMq9X-i0RRCdr5IUM7GQSQ.

Moderator: Dorinda Elliott--Senior Vice President for Programming, China Institute

Guest Panelist: Barbara Pollack--Journalist and Art Critic, co-founder and co-director of Art at a Time Like This Inc.  

Introductions: Carol Stepanchuk--Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan; Natsu Oyobe--Curator of Asian Art, Museum of Art, University of Michigan

Translator: Banyi Huang, Columbia University

Wang Qingsong is a contemporary Chinese artist whose large-format photographs address the rapidly changing society of China. Although he was trained as a painter, Wang began taking photographs in the 1990s as a way to better document the tension of cultural shifts and global change.

In 2018, community participants from Metro Detroit and Ann Arbor were brought together in Wang's collaborative art installation on land reform, presented in the exhibition Wang Qinsong / Detroit / Beijing at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. In this webinar, we are invited to take a tour of Wang's latest exhibition, "On the Field of Hope," at Tang Contemporary, Beijing, followed by an insider's visit to his Beijing studio. The featured guest panelist, Barbara Pollack, has written extensively on contemporary Chinese art for such publications as Artnews, Art & Auction, the Village Voice, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times.  Her latest book is Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.  She will be joined by China correspondent & China Institute's vice president of programming, Dorinda Elliott, to provide a multi-faceted view of China today and the contemporary visual arts scene.

Co-sponsored by China Institute, New York; U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

Attendees will be able to submit written questions through Zoom during the session which will be answered at the Q&A period following the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:16:01 -0400 2020-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
2020 Organ Conference: Panel Discussion (October 7, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76697 76697-19737031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Music and Message: A Case Study in Spiritual Programming for College Students
Dr. José “Peppie” Calvar, Syracuse University
Rev. Brian Konkol, Syracuse University
Dr. Anne Laver, Syracuse University

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Building and Preserving Affordable Housing in the United States: Federal Resources and Local Efforts (October 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75675 75675-19560797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In the United States only one out of every four eligible low-income households is able to live in a subsidized housing unit. This limited supply of affordable housing is also shrinking. This talk will first provide an overview of the major federal affordable housing programs. Using Detroit as an example, it will then examine the recent efforts of producing and preserving affordable housing under the country’s largest affordable housing production program, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.

Lan Deng is an Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. She studies housing and real estate development in both the U.S. and China. In both countries she has conducted extensive research to examine the different types of interventions directed towards housing and real estate development. Her research seeks to examine the outcomes of these interventions and how they were shaped by both market forces as well as institutional choices.

This is the fIfth of a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is: Poverty, Inequity and Disparity. The next lecture will be October 15, 2020. The title is: From the Edge of the Ghetto: The Quest of Small City African-Americans to Survive Post-Industrialism.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:02:48 -0400 2020-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures