Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Via BlueJeans - Biopsychology Colloquium: Vocal flexibility in gelada monkeys (April 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73805 73805-18322356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Missy's 619 talk will be accessible by this BlueJeans link: see below

Humans are remarkable vocal learners. The language we learn to speak as children is entirely based on the speech we hear around us, and as adults, we even match our pronunciations to those of others in our social groups. What are the evolutionary origins of this vocal flexibility? Our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates, are born with the ability to produce all of their vocalizations. However, they may adjust their vocalizations in more subtle ways to match those of others in their social groups, just as humans do. Using acoustic analysis methods, I assessed whether the calls of gelada monkeys, a highly vocal primate species, differed across social groups. In this talk, I will share my findings and discuss a possible spatial cohesion function for vocal matching in this species.

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Presentation Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:23:14 -0400 2020-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Missy Painter
Witness Lab Event: Supreme Court 101 with Chief Justice Bridget McCormack (April 7, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70567 70567-17604960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Chief Justice Bridget McCormack teaches the basics of the Michigan Supreme Court. Using famous Michigan cases, McCormack will illuminate today’s important judicial decisions. Attend one or both.

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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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:07 -0400 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Lauren Groff, Writer in Residence (April 7, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70568 70568-17604961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the  Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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. 
 
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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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:17:09 -0400 2020-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-07T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED Social Brown Bag: (April 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73453 73453-18241309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event has been cancelled.

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Presentation Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:09:50 -0400 2020-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Lauren White, Desiree Aleibar and Ariana Munoz-Salgado
CANCELLED: P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: (April 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70182 70182-17540938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event has been cancelled.

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:16:34 -0400 2020-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Kelsie Thorne
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program - Museums at Noon presentation (April 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72171 72171-17948641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Susan Dine (PhD candidate, History of Art)

This talk will present analyses of the history and functions of museums studied from two perspectives: that of museum visitor studies compared to museums’ presentations in popular visual culture. It will address how the latter can both reflect and shape cultural perspectives.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:27:01 -0400 2020-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Museums and Movies
AIM Student Showcase (VIRTUAL) (April 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71753 71753-18441327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us virtually in the afternoon on Thursday, April 9 for the AIM Student Showcase, where we will hear from the student fellows that drive innovation within the Center for Academic Innovation (CAI). Given the current covid-19 crisis, this event will be virtual, via our social media channels as well as the Center for Academic Innovation website. See below for details.

Primary Center for Academic Innovation platforms that will be used for this event include:

- Twitter – twitter.com/UMichiganAI
- Event Page on website – ai.umich.edu/events
- YouTube Channel – http://myumi.ch/4pYq7

Student presentations will be shared on the Center for Academic Innovation Twitter account (@UMichiganAI) beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 9. Presentations will be shared every 15-20 minutes in a “lightning-talk” format throughout the afternoon. Virtual attendees will also be encouraged to visit the AIM Student Showcase event page, which will feature a virtual poster session. More than 20 student fellows will contribute posters and a brief description to be highlighted on this page.

We will continue to further highlight our student fellow’s work via our social media channels throughout the month of April.

Other platforms that may feature AIM Student Showcase content include:

- Facebook – facebook.com/michiganonline
- Instagram – instagram.com/michigan.online

AIM Showcases feature Academic Innovation initiatives highlighting main themes of our work such as student fellow accomplishments, research and data, software tools, online learning experiences, public engagement, and/or diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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.

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Presentation Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:21:26 -0400 2020-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T16:30:00-04:00 Center for Academic Innovation Presentation AIM Showcases
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Lauren Groff, Writer in Residence, In Conversation with ​Akil Kumarasamy (April 9, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70570 70570-17604963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the  Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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. 
 
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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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:17:09 -0400 2020-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (April 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73268 73268-18184070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The presenter will discuss the development of an educational outreach program and curation of a local heritage exhibit at the El Kurru Community Heritage Center in Sudan. The International Kurru Archaeological Project, Sudanese archaeologists, and local stakeholders are preparing programming and exhibitions about the site’s archaeology and the local culture.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:27:36 -0400 2020-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Drone photograph of El-Kurru
Nuclear Energy Grand Challenge Pitch Competition (April 10, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72087 72087-17937815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Nuclear power is an essential tool in the fight against climate change—producing massive amounts of energy without any greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, deploying nuclear power at scale worldwide represents the most efficient path to deep decarbonization. Despite this potential, the nuclear power industry is hindered by social, political, and economic challenges in many parts of the world. The Nuclear Energy Grand Challenge represents a series of prize competitions organized by the Energy Impact Center to spur a new approach to nuclear power deployment on a time frame that can make a difference.

The first prize competition, Reimagining Nuclear Waste, is taking place over the Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 semesters in partnership with the University of Michigan. It was designed to advance the clean energy economy by engaging collegiate innovators and entrepreneurs to tackle one of the most unique challenges facing the nuclear energy industry—the perception of nuclear waste.

The nuclear industry has historically responded to calls against its “waste” by offering solutions around concentrating, storing indefinitely, and separating it from humans, which only further—albeit counterintuitively—deepens the public’s distrust, misunderstanding, and wariness of the energy source at large. This prize competition represents the first of several efforts to flip the script on the byproducts of nuclear energy generation, by identifying new commercial opportunities to transform nuclear “waste” from a liability into an asset.

Interdisciplinary student teams were challenged to create technical business plan proposals to productize nuclear waste and incentivize the creation of new markets/uses that re-imagine how spent nuclear fuel can be utilized. At this public event, the teams will present their proposals to a panel of judges.

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Presentation Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:45:06 -0400 2020-04-10T13:30:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Presentation Pitch Competition
Witness Lab Event: Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State: Gallery Discussion with Courtney McClellan: The Art & Science of Witnessing (April 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70571 70571-17604964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How do we arrive at an understanding of truth within our courts and justice system? What constitutes witnessing in our current tech and data saturated context? Courtney McClellan, the 2019-2020 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence, will discuss Witness Lab, an installation and performance project that investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and examines the relationship between performance and law. She will be joined by an international group of science and technology studies (STS) scholars—humanists and social scientists who study the relationships between science, technology, politics, and society—for an informal conversation that explores the role of science and technology in our understanding of witnessing and the construction of standards of truth.   Following the gallery discussion, please join us for a film screening of El Panóptico Ciego (The Blind Panopticon) at 5:30 p.m. in UMMA’s Helmut Stern Auditorium.

This program is presented in partnership with the conference “Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State,” co-organized by the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the University of Michigan.
 

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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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:07 -0400 2020-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Rooting for Change: Tiny Talks about Food Justice (April 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74098 74098-18529210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program is excited to present the virtual form of our event. Rooting for Change will feature five minute talks recorded by both graduate and undergraduate students from a variety of schools such as SEAS, Public Health, and Stamps, that will highlight their work, research, experience, and/or creative expression surrounding local, regional, and global approaches to food justice.

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Presentation Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:45:54 -0400 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Presentation RFC Graphic
The Power Family Program for Inuit Art Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70156 70156-17540896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Our second exhibition on Inuit art explores the serene expressions of day-to-day activities found in mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints and sculptures. Donors inspired by the Power gift and the development of a Power Program for Inuit Art at UMMA contributed to this exhibition with diffuse offerings to incorporate into our holdings, or with loans to expand our conversations. 

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:50 -0400 2020-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED Why the stress response is actually a good thing: Examining survival across a natural disaster in a wild primate (April 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72608 72608-18026880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:22:00 -0400 2020-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Jacinta
Via BlueJeans: Biopsychology Talk: Reward Roles of Neurons in Nucleus Accumbens and Central Amygdala (April 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73806 73806-18576566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

See link below for talk:

Abstract:

The nucleus accumbens shell (NAc) and the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) are robust generators of intense reward-related motivation. Both structures contain two distinct populations of neurons that respectively have either D1-type receptors for dopamine or D2-type of receptors. I sought to examine the reward roles of D1 versus D2 neuron populations in NAc shell and in CeA, by comparing optogenetic self-stimulation as laser excitation of either D1 neuron or D2 neurons in each structure (using D1-Cre and A2A/D2-Cre rats developed by Ferrario/Berke labs). My results suggest a strong role of D1 neurons in reward motivation in both NAc and CeA. My results also suggest at least moderate reward roles for D2 neurons, especially in CeA but also to some extent in NAc shell (at least under certain conditions).

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Presentation Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:17:07 -0400 2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Shayan Abtahi
Canceled - Package Bee Installation (April 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72813 72813-18079319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A2B2 members discuss the all-important step of installing a package of bees.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:01:22 -0400 2020-04-14T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:45:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
CANCELLED Social Brown Bag: (April 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73454 73454-18241310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event has been cancelled.

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Presentation Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:10:31 -0400 2020-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Stephan Bartz and Amelie Rossmaier
What Does Democracy Looks Like? A collaboration with U-M’s WeListen (April 15, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70573 70573-17604966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA is partnering with WeListen, a grassroots campus organization focused on building empathy across the political spectrum with the goal of creating listeners across the country, to catalyze a conversation about the fundamental building blocks of our society. This interactive dialogue will take up questions like: what is democracy and what role do citizens really play in shaping their government? What values should guide our government and how have your experiences shaped your beliefs? Has the United States government expanded too far beyond its purpose? Or should it do more to fulfill the needs of its citizens? Join us to discuss all of these questions and more!

Arrive at 7:30 p.m. for light refreshments and a chance to preview the gallery. Program to begin at 8 p.m.  

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Office of the President, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:08 -0400 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (April 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73296 73296-18190734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Sarah Waters, Education Coordinator of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, will explore some of the nation’s best-preserved shipwrecks in the Great lakes and describe how the Sanctuary was designated and became part of the Michigan History Center’s statewide system of museums and historic sites.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:28:05 -0400 2020-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Collection Ensemble (April 19, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70736 70736-17621676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:55 -0400 2020-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED Clinical Brown Bag: (April 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69605 69605-17368320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event has been cancelled.

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Presentation Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:33:03 -0400 2020-04-20T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Roberts
CANCELLED Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Over the Life Course (April 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72609 72609-18026881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:22:31 -0400 2020-04-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Kerri
Canceled - Modern Systematics and Illuminating Hidden Relationships of Plants (April 20, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72815 72815-18079320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A review and update by U-M Herbarium vascular plant curator Tony Reznicek of the impact on Michigan Flora and plant classification generally of recent work in molecular systematics.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:01:01 -0400 2020-04-20T19:30:00-04:00 2020-04-20T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
Value the Voice: It took my village… (April 21, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71103 71103-17777064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members). 

Value the Voice is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:10 -0400 2020-04-21T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Canceled - Adventures in Volunteering: Sierra Club Service Trips (April 21, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72816 72816-18079321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A presentation by Huron Valley Group member, volunteer, and activist Janet Kahan, who recently returned from co-leading a Sierra Club service project in Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:00:38 -0400 2020-04-21T19:30:00-04:00 2020-04-21T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
On The Spot Queen Rearing (April 25, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72818 72818-18079322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A presentation by Mel Disselkoen, who developed the on-the-spot technique. Then take a trip to the apiary at Matthaei for demonstrations. Q&A follows.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:29:01 -0500 2020-04-25T13:30:00-04:00 2020-04-25T15:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square (April 26, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70154 70154-17540894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Office of the President, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:50 -0400 2020-04-26T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED: UM Psychology Community Talk: Sex and the Brain: What Difference does it Make? (April 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71224 71224-17791924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note: This event has been cancelled.

Abstract: Have you ever wondered how males and females come to be different? Is it all cultural? Are the brains of females and males hardwired to be different? In this talk we will explore sex differences in brain and behavior and how the brain becomes individualized in female and males. We will see that during development, genetics, hormones, and the environment all act on the brain to influence neuronal growth and connections. This can result in sex dependent development of the brain, as an individual interacts with the environment during maturation. We will discuss what this means for the brain and for behavior of males and females during childhood, adolescence and adulthood and the implications for cognitive function. Then, we will consider sex differences in the motivation to take drugs of abuse and drug taking behavior. Sex differences in addiction are seen for all classes of abused drugs in humans and animal models. These sex differences in the neural mechanisms of addiction have implications for interventions and treatment that will be discussed.

Bio: Dr. Becker received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the Patricia Y. Gurin Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Research Professor in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, and Senior Neuroscience Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Becker is the author of over 150 articles or chapters and has had numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Becker’s research of the last 30 years has been investigating how gender/sex and ovarian hormones influence brain and behavior. These findings are important for our understanding of the underlying neural processes involved in sex differences in drug abuse and other neurological disorders.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:02:34 -0400 2020-04-27T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jill Becker
Collection Ensemble (May 3, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73019 73019-18125283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 3, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Presentation Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:17:21 -0500 2020-05-03T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-03T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
EEB dissertation defense: Range expansion since the 20th Century – ecology and population genetics of the Virginia opossum (May 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74028 74028-18491690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Lisa presents her doctoral dissertation

Possum image credit: Maury Walsh. Image composition: John Megahan

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Presentation Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:08:39 -0400 2020-05-04T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-04T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation opossum image superimposed on a map of the United States showing their distribution
The Power Family Program for Inuit Art Reflections: An Ordinary Day (May 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73018 73018-18125282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Our second exhibition on Inuit art explores the serene expressions of day-to-day activities found in mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints and sculptures. Donors inspired by the Power gift and the development of a Power Program for Inuit Art at UMMA contributed to this exhibition with diffuse offerings to incorporate into our holdings, or with loans to expand our conversations. 

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Presentation Fri, 08 May 2020 12:15:19 -0400 2020-05-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-10T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square (May 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73021 73021-18125285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Office of the President, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Presentation Mon, 11 May 2020 12:15:17 -0400 2020-05-17T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-17T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: Kaleidoscope (May 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73016 73016-18125280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape. Join an UMMA docent on a tour through this eye-opening exhibition. 

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund.

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Presentation Mon, 11 May 2020 12:15:16 -0400 2020-05-24T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-24T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
NIA Data Management Plans - Help and Resources for Researchers (May 28, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74592 74592-18845183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 28, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Need help creating a data management plan as part of NIH requirements? We are here to help!

For the first time since 2003, NIH is implementing new data sharing requirements for funded researchers. These changes are sweeping and can vary across NIH centers. NACDA, the ICPSR repository for data on aging, is funded by NIH’s National Institute on Aging (NIA) to provide research support to the gerontological community. NACDA is hosting this free webinar to help researchers understand new NIH and NIA guidelines in preparing their data management plans related to gerontological funding applications. The webinar will provide an overview of data sharing requirements, how the NACDA repository can serve as a resource for your project, and feature examples and tools available from NACDA and ICPSR. Our guest speaker, Dr. Partha Bhattacharyya, will provide NIA’s perspective and expectations in relation to these new data sharing requirements.

Dr. Partha Bhattacharyya is the Director of The Office of Research Resources (ORR) and also serves as a Program Director in the Population and Social Processes (PSP) Branch within the Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR). As the Director for ORR, Dr. Bhattacharyya coordinates, directs, and implements initiatives related to research data and resources supported by BSR and the National Institute on Aging (NIA). He advises NIA leadership on new developments in data collection, analysis, and data sharing, supporting the NIA mission.


This webinar will feature:
- Tips on how to prepare your data for sharing
- Resources available from NACDA and ICPSR
- Guidance from Dr. Partha Bhattacharyya - Director of The Office of Research Resources (ORR) and Program Director in the Population and Social Processes (PSP) Branch within the Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR)

Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.

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Presentation Wed, 13 May 2020 18:26:25 -0400 2020-05-28T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement of NIA data management plans webinar
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Tara Faircloth (May 28, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74629 74629-18884938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 28, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This session is designed for independent artists, performers, or contract creatives with irregular income. Join acclaimed stage director Tara Faircloth for a workshop on budgeting for the freelance lifestyle, using a systematic approach to finances that will help you plan for the pitfalls of the up-and-down income inherent in a contract worker’s life.

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Presentation Mon, 18 May 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 2020-05-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation
Hidden Gems of ICPSR - A Peek Into the Data Vault (June 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74694 74694-18910813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us to learn about data from the ICPSR vault!

We'll look deep into the ICPSR archive for hidden data gems you didn't know existed.

This webinar will demonstrate data available for free to ICPSR members (the University of Michigan is a member institution).

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Presentation Fri, 22 May 2020 01:58:19 -0400 2020-06-03T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement for Hidden Gems of ICPSR data webinar
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Ryan Muncy & Tanya Kalmanovitch (June 3, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74630 74630-18884939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This conversational session features two versatile, dynamic figures from the NYC music scene, exploring their enterprising careers, the changes they are seeing in the field, and advice for young artists on the cusp of transitioning into professional life. Ryan Muncy is a long-time member of International Contemporary Ensemble, where he also serves as Grants Director and Co-Director of their OpenICE initiative. Tanya Kalmanovitch is a Canadian violist, ethnomusicologist, and author, notably named to the 2018 Grist 50 Fixers, a group of diverse innovators with bold solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges.

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Presentation Mon, 18 May 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-06-03T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation
Collection Ensemble (June 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73020 73020-18125284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Presentation Mon, 11 May 2020 12:15:17 -0400 2020-06-07T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-07T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Akropolis Reed Quintet & Julie Nakagawa (June 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74631 74631-18884940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Join Matt and Kari Landry, co-founders of Akropolis Reed Quintet, and Julie Nakagawa, Artistic Director of DanceWorks Chicago, as they share experiences building these vibrant organizations from the ground up. This conversation will explore some of the key challenges they have overcome, and share insights for sustaining enterprises beyond volatile circumstances. 

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Presentation Mon, 18 May 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-06-10T16:00:00-04:00 2020-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation
Webinar: Moving beyond the title: Evaluating the data you find (June 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74859 74859-19018185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

You've searched the catalog and found 4 studies that look promising for your project. How do you choose? The one that comes up first in the search results? The one with the most publications? Oops, one is restricted, now you're down to 3... This presentation will demonstrate how to use the information provided about each study to help choose the one that best fits your research needs. We will talk about some of the important metadata fields, the difference between restricted and public-use files, and how to use the codebook and online analysis tools to help evaluate what you've found in the context of your project.

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Presentation Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:28:16 -0400 2020-06-17T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Webinar announcement for Evaluating the Data You Find from ICPSR June 2020
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Amy K. Bormet & The Balance Duo (June 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74632 74632-18884941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 18, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Three dynamic freelance jazz musicians will share how they are navigating the realities facing freelancers, and how they stay inspired to develop new work in creative ways. Amy K. Bormet is an in-demand pianist, vocalist, and composer based in Washington, DC. An advocate for women in music, Amy created the Washington Women in Jazz Festival. Balance Duo is a collaboration between saxophonist Marcus Elliot and pianist Michael Malis, who have been called “two of Detroit’s most important young jazz musicians” by the Detroit Free Press.

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Presentation Mon, 18 May 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-06-18T18:30:00-04:00 2020-06-18T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: Kaleidoscope (June 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73017 73017-18125281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape. Join an UMMA docent on a tour through this eye-opening exhibition. 

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund.

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Presentation Mon, 11 May 2020 12:15:17 -0400 2020-06-21T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-21T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Sarah Whitney & Todd Buonopane (June 25, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74633 74633-18884942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 25, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Acclaimed Sybarite5 violinist and musicians coach Sarah Whitney joins forces with Broadway and TV veteran Todd Buonopane to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of managing a busy artistic life. How do you stay balanced when you have multiple projects in the works? How can you stay motivated when your performing arts schedule becomes suddenly upended? Join us for an engaging, practical conversation that breaks down these topics and more.

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Presentation Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:15:07 -0400 2020-06-25T15:00:00-04:00 2020-06-25T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation
Webinar: How to Access and Use the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Study Restricted-use Data Sets (June 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74901 74901-19067404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) Study provides a national picture of MSHS programs, centers, families, and children. The MSHS Study was designed through extensive engagement and input from the MSHS community to better understand:
- characteristics of MSHS programs, centers, staff, families, and children;
- services that MSHS provides;
- instructional practices in MSHS classrooms; and
- MSHS supports for child, parent, and family well-being.

The webinar will provide researchers and analysts with:
- An overview of MSHS and the MSHS Study;
- Study design, sample, and measures;
- Primary datasets and documentation;
- Representativeness and weights;
- Illustration of MSHS analyses and findings; and
- Guidance on accessing the dataset, including ICPSR’s standard application process and the submission of the signed data use agreement.

Click here (https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/migrant-and-seasonal-head-start-study-2017-data-tables) for more information about the MSHS Study methodology, sample, measures, and findings.

Hosts: Child & Family Data Archive at ICPSR, Abt Associates, and the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation

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Presentation Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:19:48 -0400 2020-06-30T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-30T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Study webinar announcement
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Donia Jarrar & Rosy Simas (July 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74634 74634-18884943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This session probes strategies for crafting work around your personal identity, avoiding pitfalls around sensitive topics, and framing your artistic voice in ways that resonate with others. Dr. Donia Jarrar is an Arab and Muslim-American composer, pianist, and interdisciplinary artist, recently awarded the 2019 Discovery Grant for Female Composers from the National Opera Center of America for her work Seamstress, a documentary multimedia opera based on oral history interviews conducted with Palestinian women and girls from her community. Rosy Simas is a dance artist, administrator, and advocate. Director of Rosy Simas Danse, her work is centered around Native cultural and political persistence, informed by her roots as part of an intertribal urban Native community.

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Presentation Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:30:30 -0400 2020-07-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-07-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation Donia Jarrar and Rosy Simas
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Omari Rush & Laura Zabel (July 15, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74635 74635-18884944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

These two leading arts executives will share their perspective on what the future may hold for the artists and local non-profits, and how leading service organizations are imagining what new resources and/or programming might need to come into focus in order to sustain the arts in our communities. Omari Rush serves as Executive Director of CultureSource in Detroit and as the governor-appointed chairman of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Laura Zabel is Executive DIrector of Springboard for the Arts in Minneapolis, and, as a 2014 Bush Foundation Fellow, was named one of the 50 most influential people in the U.S. Nonprofit Arts.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:15:04 -0400 2020-07-15T15:00:00-04:00 2020-07-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation Laura Zabel and Omari Rush
Theorizing the Web Presents: Surveillance of Black Lives (July 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75117 75117-19269550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Dr. Allissa Richardson and Mutale Nkonde will discuss the layered and multifaceted impact of surveillance on Black people in the context of the Movement for Black Lives and the Covid-19 pandemic. Moderated by TtW Committee member and professor of Digital Studies, Dr. Apryl Williams, this talk will demonstrate how facial recognition systems used in policing; tracing software associated with the pandemic; and Black death imagery have created a treacherous techno-mediascape that extends both state matrices of power and systems of racialized, anti-Black oppression in the United States. This discussion will be streamed live on the TtW YouTube page and on Zoom. A recording will be available on our website. You can sign up here to receive the Zoom link and reminders about future episodes of TtW Presents:

https://theorizingtheweb.org/p/p2020/schedule/

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:04:08 -0400 2020-07-16T19:00:00-04:00 2020-07-16T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Presentation ttw
Surveying Voters on Election Day: Methodological Issues in Exit Polling (July 16, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75222 75222-19340151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 16, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

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 (https://sociology.unc.edu/hubert-morse-blalock-jr/), a distinguished statistician and sociologist who was an Official Representative to the Consortium and a member of its Executive Council.

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

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:39:27 -0400 2020-07-16T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-16T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
Choices and Challenges in Pre-election Polling (July 21, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75223 75223-19340153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:04:35 -0400 2020-07-21T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
Research Developments in the Study of Racialized Resentment (July 22, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75224 75224-19340154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:48:58 -0400 2020-07-22T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-22T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Gabriela Lena Frank (July 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74636 74636-18884945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Celebrated composer, educator, and arts advocate Gabriela Lena Frank explores the social dimension of her art-making, including how lessons learned from her own inspired efforts could translate into socially-informed projects today. Currently serving as Composer-in-Residence with the storied Philadelphia Orchestra, she has been recognized with many significant awards, has been included in the Washington Post's list of the 35 most significant women composers in history, and leads the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, a multifaceted organization that highlights the power of creativity and arts citizenship as it supports and incubates a diverse cohort of music-makers.

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Presentation Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:37:11 -0400 2020-07-23T15:00:00-04:00 2020-07-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation Gabriela Lena Frank
The American National Election Study and Archived Data at ICPSR (July 28, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75225 75225-19340157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:03:49 -0400 2020-07-28T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
IT4U Webinar--Accessibility in Action: Inclusivity of Videoconferences (July 29, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75123 75123-19275434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

How can we meet U-M accessibility requirements in a videoconferencing world? Assistive Technology Manager Jane Berliss-Vincent walks you through practical steps for easily improving the accessibility of any online meeting. Wednesday, 7/29/20, 9-9:45 am. Register in Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/ycudo278

IT4U is a regular series of 30- and 45-minute interactive webinars brought to you by Information & Technology Services. Learn and apply tips and techniques for working with ITS tools, products, and services. See our MiVideo page to view webinar recordings.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:43:00 -0400 2020-07-29T09:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T09:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Presentation video conference screenshot
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Bill Kalinkos & Katherine Banks (July 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74637 74637-18884946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This session features two artists with dynamic professional portfolios, exploring the ways that their work has shifted in light of recent disruptions. This conversation will highlight challenges and opportunities for adaptation, and the possibilities of repurposing transferable skills towards new professional activity. Bill Kalinkos enjoys a diverse musical career as a member of critically acclaimed groups such as Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Signal, Deviant Septet, Eco Ensemble, and Splinter Reeds. Katherine Banks is a Midwest based actor and educator. Last season, she reprised her role as Joanne in Mindhunter (Netflix) directed by David Fincher. She has performed widely across the Midwest in award-winning productions, teaches at Greenhills Middle School in Ann Arbor, and works as a freelance corporate spokesperson and communication trainer.

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Presentation Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:41:00 -0400 2020-07-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation Katherine Banks and Bill Kalinkos
Citizen Forecasting: The Formation of Voter Expectations and Their Aggregate Accuracy (July 29, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75228 75228-19340158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:07:53 -0400 2020-07-29T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
Preparing to Teach for the First (or Second) Time (July 30, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75229 75229-19340159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 30, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:11:31 -0400 2020-07-30T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-30T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
Statistical Models of Election Outcomes (August 4, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75230 75230-19340160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:14:55 -0400 2020-08-04T19:30:00-04:00 2020-08-04T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
Health Disparities across the Life Cycle (August 5, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75231 75231-19340161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:17:59 -0400 2020-08-05T19:30:00-04:00 2020-08-05T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries Series: Leah Claiborne & Sydnie Mosley (August 6, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74638 74638-18884947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 6, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Two artists with deep community engagement practices share ways to interface with communities around them in genuine, beneficial, and healing ways. The conversation will also address practical tips for how to begin fostering this type of work in your own communities. Pianist, scholar, and educator, Dr. Leah Claiborne, promotes diversity in the arts by championing piano music by Black composers in her performances, research, and teaching. Dr. Claiborne is the coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the University of the District of Columbia. Sydnie L. Mosley is an award winning artist-activist and educator who is interested in creative work that is both artistically sound and socially aware. She produces experiential dance works with her collective SLMDances. Through their choreographic work, the collective works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice.

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Presentation Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:41:53 -0400 2020-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 2020-08-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation Leah Claiborne and Sydnie Mosley
Detroit Metropolitan Area Community Study and Archived Data at ICPSR (August 6, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75232 75232-19340162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 6, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:20:23 -0400 2020-08-06T19:30:00-04:00 2020-08-06T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
The Chitwan Valley Family Study and Archived Data at ICPSR (August 11, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75233 75233-19340163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:22:36 -0400 2020-08-11T19:30:00-04:00 2020-08-11T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
Identity Development among Young Black Men (August 12, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75234 75234-19340164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:25:17 -0400 2020-08-12T19:30:00-04:00 2020-08-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
Navigating Longitudinal Collections with Colectica Portals (August 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75428 75428-19489352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Do you love exploring longitudinal data collections? For more than 30 years, NACDA, the aging archive within ICPSR, has been sharing data on aging populations - most of which is longitudinal data.. In this webinar, we will highlight our most widely used longitudinal collections, and demonstrate the online portal tool from Colectica.

The Colectica Portal is a web application which enables data and metadata publication and discovery and has a foundation in DDI-Lifecycle.

This tool is particularly great for longitudinal data, since it is built to search and display data documentation for longitudinal and repeated data collections. Users can view variables included in collections across time, side by side. The founders of Colectica, Jeremy Iverson and Dan Smith, will be joining us to talk about key features and use.

Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.

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Presentation Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:02:57 -0400 2020-08-20T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-20T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation NACDA ICPSR webinar August 2020
State of Department Address (September 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76412 76412-19711206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

This year's talk will be delivered via a virtual format.
ZOOM: https://umich.zoom.us/my/davidgerdes

*We regret to announce that the reception that typically takes place before the State of the Department has been canceled this year.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:02:02 -0400 2020-09-02T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Presentation
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Kaveh Akbar, Janey Lack Visiting Writer in Poetry (September 3, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76478 76478-19719133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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. Please note, Craft Lectures to follow on Fridays. 

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the  Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:15:30 -0400 2020-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Phi Sigma Pi Mass Meeting #1 (September 9, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76200 76200-19673596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us to hear about Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity! You will learn about our pillars of scholarship, leadership, and fellowship while hearing about your responsibilities as a brother. This is a great opportunity to get to know current brothers and see if Phi Sigma Pi is right for you!

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Presentation Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:00:07 -0400 2020-09-09T18:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T19:00:00-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Pre-Pharmacy Student Organization (PPSO) Mass Meeting (September 9, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75509 75509-19515136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Zoom password: pharmacyYou won't want to miss our first mass meeting of the year! We will share updates about PPSO for 2020-2021, including: updated points requirements, dues, attendance, and more.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:00:06 -0400 2020-09-09T18:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T19:00:00-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Landscape of Study Abroad During a Pandemic (September 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76467 76467-19717160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The world has changed dramatically since UM brought students home in March. If you are thinking of studying abroad during the year to come, we invite you to attend and learn about what changes to expect in study abroad and what will impact whether programs will be able to run. No RSVP is required.

You must be logged into your UM account to access the event on Zoom. Access info: umich.zoom.us/J/95095756906.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:05:47 -0400 2020-09-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation flyer for event
Phi Sigma Pi Mass Meeting #2 (September 13, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76201 76201-19673597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us to hear about Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity! You will learn about our pillars of scholarship, leadership, and fellowship while hearing about your responsibilities as a brother. This is a great opportunity to get to know current brothers and see if Phi Sigma Pi is right for you!

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Presentation Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:00:07 -0400 2020-09-13T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Ford School Policy Talk with Cecilia Muñoz, Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council (September 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77110 77110-19798478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Please join the Ford School for a virtual discussion with Cecilia Muñoz, Vice President, New America Foundation, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Ford School professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes will moderate this discussion.


On September 15, 2020 the Ford School will present More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise. The event is from 4:00 to 5:00pm EST.


Cecilia Muñoz (AB '84) is Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives at New America. Prior to joining New America in 2017, she served for eight years on President Obama’s senior staff, first as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs followed by five years as Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Before working in government, she was Senior Vice President at the National Council of La Raza (now UNIDOS US), the nation’s largest Hispanic policy and advocacy organization, where she served for 20 years. Muñoz is also a Senior Fellow at Results for America, a nonprofit that advances the use of data and evidence in policy making. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000 for her work on immigration and civil rights, and serves on the Boards of the Open Society, MacArthur and Kresge Foundations, as well as the nonprofit Protect Democracy Project. She is the author of More than Ready: Be Strong and Be you....and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise.

For more information and to register, visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/more-ready


Please contact fspp-events@umich.edu if you have additional questions.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:16:06 -0400 2020-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Presentation Cecilia Muñoz
Attendee Orientation: ICPSR Data Fair (September 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77135 77135-19798503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

In preparation for the conference, the Data Fair committee will host an optional orientation session open to all attendees.

During this session, we will:

- discuss the history of the ICPSR Data Fair,

- answer final questions about attending, and

- allow space for attendees to meet one another!



The first 20 minutes will include a brief history of the Data Fair and time for Q&A. The remaining time will be dedicated to informal socializing and networking. Attendance is optional, but encouraged.

For security purposes, the password to this session will be emailed separately. Attendees will enter the session in a "waiting room" and will be automatically entered into the meeting after being verified as Data Fair attendees.

Please note that this is the only Data Fair session where, if you choose, other attendees will be able to see and hear you. When you enter the Zoom meeting, your microphone will be muted and your camera will be off. Attendees may turn on cameras at any time. The hosts will individually invite attendees to unmute microphones for Q&A following the presentation. If you'd like to review what a Zoom session is like before joining this event, visit https://zoom.us/test

This event is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:54:16 -0400 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Attendee Orientation: ICPSR Data Fair
Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition 2020 (September 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76967 76967-19782528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition is a competitive presentation of operations and manufacturing solutions developed by Tauber Institute student teams from their 14-week team projects. At Spotlight!, students showcase their project results and compete for academic scholarships.

Spotlight! is an excellent opportunity to establish relationships with students and corporate partners, expand your university presence, and see many new ideas in operations and manufacturing.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:30:43 -0400 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Spotlight! 2020
CCN Forum: Panel on Postdoctoral Positions (September 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77100 77100-19796506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This forum will be a special panel discussion led by post-docs in CCN and the Weinberg Institute. This is intended to be a professional development event for graduate students.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:54:48 -0400 2020-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation
Radio Broadcast: Willis Patterson in song (September 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76705 76705-19737039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Afternoon Classics on WGTE with Brad Cresswell – featuring the jazz and classical performances of Willis Patterson

African American Music Conference

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Presentation Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Presentation
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Inclusivity in Admissions and Training: Key to Workforce Diversification (September 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76317 76317-19687510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Inclusive Admissions and Training

There is a gaping under-representation of minorities (Hispanic and African American, in particular) among practicing psychologists, which can compound the problem of mental health disparities in underserved communities (SAMSHA, 2018). National data from accredited doctoral programs offers little reassurance the phenomenon will resolve on its own (Callahan et al., 2018). Studies of the psychologist workforce pipeline make clear that graduate admissions is a major point of diversity constriction, although issues occur with retention as well. Programs within and beyond our discipline have tried multiple strategies to reverse this trend, but data on their efficacy varies in quality and scope. We selectively review findings on some of these strategies, present a case study from the clinical psychology program at UNT, and review how the program has sought to connect the issue of inclusiveness in graduate training with mental health disparities in federally designated health professional shortage areas in our community.

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Presentation Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:22:58 -0400 2020-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Jennifer Callahan and Camilo Ruggero
Rebuild and Empower: The Public Value of Data-Driven Social Science (September 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76009 76009-19649447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Our world faces important challenges at the same time that it has important opportunities for innovation. The social and behavioral sciences offer insights that are not just relevant to these challenges, but are also irreplaceable. This talk will focus on important contributions that data-driven social science is making today. It will also describe new opportunities for social scientists to provide great service to society for years to come.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Sun, 23 Aug 2020 23:57:58 -0400 2020-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Rebuild and Empower: The Public Value of Data-Driven Social Science
IRIS: Five Years of Creating Trusted Independent Data About the Impact of Research (September 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76377 76377-19711143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) is a member consortium of universities anchored by an IRB-approved data repository hosted at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. IRIS was founded in 2015 with support from the Alfred P. Sloan and Ewing Marion Kauffman foundations.

IRIS collects record level administrative data from its members to produce a de-identified dataset for research and reporting that will improve our ability to understand, explain and improve the public value of research. Its mission is to be a trusted resource for high quality data that supports independent, frontier research on science and innovation in the service of the public interest.

This year, IRIS created a new tool called the Impact Finder, which allows for easy browsing of our uniquely powerful dataset based on geographic area, subject matter, funding agency, and time period.

The Impact Finder allows non-data-trained users to search our unique database to find story leads that align with your institution's communications priorities.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:48:13 -0400 2020-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation IRIS: Five Years of Creating Trusted Independent Data About the Impact of Research
The 2020 Presidential Race Mid-Campaign (September 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76116 76116-19663538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

A month after the conventions and with six weeks to go, this talk will focus on the state of the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The background will be the state of public opinion about the state of the country and the impact of Covid 19 on evaluations of the candidates.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:53:04 -0400 2020-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation The 2020 Presidential Race Mid-Campaign
Redistricting Math: Using Computers to Stop Gerrymandering (September 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76355 76355-19709153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

In the last several years, mathematicians and computer scientists have become increasingly involved in the fight against gerrymandering. In particular, they have been using sampling algorithms to generate large collections of district maps, against which to compare a challenged map. If the challenged map is an outlier across several metrics that may be evidence of an unconstitutional gerrymander. These methods have been used in gerrymandering litigation and are expected to play an even bigger part in redistricting lawsuits after the release of the decennial census data next year. In this talk we will look at the basics of some map-sampling techniques as well as the data required for the analysis. We'll also discuss the biggest challenges to data collection and processing in redistricting work.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:00:39 -0400 2020-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Redistricting Math: Using Computers to Stop Gerrymandering
Methods and Analytic Approaches for Physically Disabled Persons Using Administrative Claims Dataset (September 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76387 76387-19711155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Administrative claims datasets present both challenges and benefits in the analysis of outcomes, cost, and comorbidity burden facing physically disabled individuals. The increasing use of administrative claims represents one of many plausible answers to concerns related to small sample and single institution studies. Longitudinal data analysis as well as outcomes and cost (insurance reimbursement and patient out-of-pocket cost as a form of financial burden) can be carefully studied using administrative claims datasets. In this webinar, we will highlight the strengths and analytic approaches in current work from the IDEAL RRTC. We will also carefully consider potential limitations in using these analytic approaches. Two different case studies will be considered with a cursory treatment of analytic approaches and population identification with inclusion and exclusion criteria with justification and rationale for these decisions. Applications of survival analysis, propensity score matching, and generalized linear models with respect to dichotomous and continuous and skewed outcomes will be discussed within the contexts of these case studies. The webinar will culminate with a summarization of the value of these studies, why they should continue to be pursued, and next steps in the evolution of claims-based research for the disabled population. The presenters, Dr. Elham Mahmoudi and Mr. Neil Kamdar, are both health services researchers with extensive experience working with administrative claims as well as other secondary data sources with a focus on applied econometric and statistical methods.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:11:58 -0400 2020-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Methods and Analytic Approaches for Physically Disabled Persons Using Administrative Claims Dataset
A Quantitative Intersectional Approach to Examining Risk and Resilience Among Young Black Men (September 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76481 76481-19719149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This talk focuses on the identity development of young boys and men of color focusing on Blacks in particular. It also focuses on the linkage of identity formation to multiple outcomes throughout their life course.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:38:18 -0400 2020-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A Quantitative Intersectional Approach to Examining Risk and Resilience Among Young Black Men
Analyst, Creator, Consultant: Models of Undergraduate Experiential Data Learning (September 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76388 76388-19711156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Presenters will describe three successful models for engaging undergraduate students in experiential learning with data at Virginia Tech. Nathaniel Porter will discuss Introduction to Data in Social Context, a general education course that integrates critical data studies with applied data analysis. Tom Ewing will describe Topics in Data in Social Context, an upper-division course where students collaborated with the National Library of Medicine to collect and study alternative data on the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. Anne M. Brown will share the model of DataBridge, a student data consulting program based in the University Libraries that provides research credits for new students interested in working with real-life data and potential employment assisting faculty, students and community members with data. Presentations will focus on the process and challenges of implementing and scaling the models, and time will be reserved for discussion of audience questions.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:38:14 -0400 2020-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Analyst, Creator, Consultant: Models of Undergraduate Experiential Data Learning
Damned Lies and Coronavirus Statistics (September 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76390 76390-19711158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

A key skill in thinking critically involves understanding that statistics are socially constructed. That is, it is important to ask questions such as: Who counted?; What did they count?; Why did they count?; and How did they go about counting? Interpreting the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the importance of a constructionist approach, as people continue to struggle with measuring and interpreting the disease's effects.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:41:35 -0400 2020-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Damned Lies and Coronavirus Statistics
Capturing the Lived Experience of Subgroups in the US (September 22, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76394 76394-19711167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join David Thomas, Senior Data Project Manager at ICPSR, for a tour of available data regarding the experience of subgroups in the US including race, gender, income level, and more.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:20:05 -0400 2020-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Capturing the Lived Experience of Subgroups in the US
Quantifying Gender Identities and Behaviors (September 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76395 76395-19711168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

In this session we will review some of the challenges in creating gender inclusive categories in surveys using real world examples. Key issues include:1) identifying correlations with non-binary gender data (what if your sample has 1 trans person and everyone else is cis male/female, for example?) and 2) challenges related to time order with transgender populations (what it means to be visibly transgender in relation to discrimination can vary so much over the life course, for example). We will also discuss how researchers, particularly grad students and undergrads, are using social media to target distribution of surveys to transgender populations. The methodological implications of these transparent dialogues between researcher and researched populations are fascinating. This topic may actually be the most controversial between positivist-leaning and cultural sociologist attendees. We look forward to audience participation on this one!

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:49:17 -0400 2020-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Quantifying Gender Identities and Behaviors
Data in Social Media (September 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76399 76399-19711171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Hansen will share some insights having taught the use of data and computation to journalists for the last eight years. He will focus on computation-heavy projects, casting data as a kind of source for journalists.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:07:07 -0400 2020-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Data in Social Media
Topic Data Quality Challenges for Census 2020: How will we know and what can we do? (September 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77193 77193-19820177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

What are the challenges around data quality of the census in 2020? Join us for a conversation with:

John H. Thompson, former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau

D'Vera Cohn, senior writer, and editor at Pew Research Center

Dr. Joseph Hotz, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Duke University

Moderated by Dr. Mark Hansen, Director of the Brown Institute of Media Innovation at Columbia University

Presented by:

D’Vera Cohn
Senior Writer and Editor at Pew Research Center

D’Vera Cohn is a senior writer and editor at Pew Research Center. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the census. Cohn was a Washington Post reporter for 21 years, mainly writing about demographics, and was the newspaper’s lead reporter for the 2000 census. Before joining Pew Research Center, she served as a consultant and freelance writer for the Brookings Institution and Population Reference Bureau. Cohn is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and is a former Nieman Fellow. She is an author of studies on the marriage and birth rates in the United States, migration between the U.S. and Mexico, and U.S. population projections. Cohn manages Pew Research Center’s @allthingscensus Twitter account. She has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories and often talks about the Center’s findings in print and broadcast media.

Dr. Joseph Hotz
Distinguished Professor of Economics at Duke University

Professor Hotz specializes in the subjects of applied econometrics, labor economics, economic demography, and economics of the family. His studies have investigated the impacts of social programs, such as welfare-to-work training; the relationship between childbearing patterns and labor force participation of U.S. women; the effects of teenage pregnancy; the child care market; the Earned Income Tax Credit; and other such subjects. He began conducting his studies in 1977 and has since published his work extensively in books and leading academic journals. Many of his projects have been funded by grants awarded by the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation. He is currently completing a project with Duncan Thomas on, “Preference and Economic Decision-Making” under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His recent works also include, “Tax Policy and Low-Wage Labor Markets: New Work on Employment, Effectiveness, and Administration” with John Karl Scholz and Charles Mullin; and “Designing New Models to Explain Family Change and Variation” with S. Philip Morgan. Along with his duties as an independent researcher, Professor Hotz has also held positions as a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Poverty Center, the Institute for the Study of Labor, and the Institute for Research on Poverty. He is presently a member of the Committee on National Statistics for the National Academy of Sciences’ Research Council.

John H. Thompson
Distinguished Institute Fellow at the University of Virginia and former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau
John H. Thompson is a Distinguished Institute Fellow with the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative at the University of Virginia. He also is currently an independent consultant with a focus on survey methodology, executive leadership, the Federal Statistical System, and decennial census. Thompson was director of the U.S. Census Bureau, and most recently, the Executive Director of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, an organization whose focus is to advocate for the production and use of high-quality statistics to support good governance and economic growth. Thompson is nationally recognized for his innovative leadership, significant impact on government and academic research, and vision to advance excellence in federal statistics and modernize the federal statistical system.

Thompson spent close to 10 years in two separate, distinctive executive leadership positions with the U.S. Census Bureau. From 1997 to 2002, he was the senior career executive responsible for all aspects of the 2000 Decennial Census and spearheaded the transformation of large-scale complex surveys through innovation. As the executive leader of the 2000 Decennial Census, the U.S. government’s largest peacetime mobilization, he managed a budget of $6.5 billion and a workforce of more than 500,000 people. He received accolades for his outstanding work from the National Academy of Sciences Panel evaluating the census, among others. From 2013 to 2017, Thompson was the director of the Census Bureau where he successfully worked with the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, including the White House and Congress, to transform the Bureau into a forward-looking 21st century statistical agency. His accomplishments include a redesign of the 2020 Decennial Census to achieve great efficiencies through the use of modern geospatial tools, the Internet, and mobile technology; and implementation of a research program to support mission critical activities – both of which have had a profound impact on the federal statistical system.

Thompson was President and Executive Vice President of the (National Opinion Research Center) NORC at the University of Chicago, a national nonprofit organization that conducts high-quality social science research in the public interest. Between 2002 and 2012, he led the organization to nearly 50 percent growth in revenue, implemented new initiatives to improve and advance federal statistics, and oversaw major research projects, including the National Immunization Survey conducted on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Thompson is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a member of the 2013 Virginia Tech College of Science Hall of Distinction inaugural class, and received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive in 2001. The Department of Commerce recognized his cumulative impact on federal statistics with the bronze medal in 1988, silver medal in 1998, and gold medal in 2000.

Mark Hanson (Moderator)

Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation @Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Mark Hansen is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation. His special interest is the intersection of data, art, and technology. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach to data science, drawing on various branches of applied mathematics, information theory, and new media arts. Hansen is also a current member of the ICPSR Council. Within the field of journalism, Hansen has promoted coding literacy for journalists.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Mon, 14 Sep 2020 10:22:51 -0400 2020-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Topic Data Quality Challenges for Census 2020: How will we know and what can we do?
State of the Consortium (September 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76439 76439-19717136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

ICPSR reached a new high of 791 member institutions in June 2020. It’s been a productive year for ICPSR, even amidst the turbulence caused by COVID-19, and another active year is on deck. Join ICPSR Director Maggie Levenstein for a conversation covering the state of ICPSR. We’ll talk about our membership, our challenges, our evolving technological infrastructure, new data projects, and more!

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:52:05 -0400 2020-09-23T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation State of the Consortium
Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project (September 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76441 76441-19717138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

ICPSR and the Census Bureau have initiated a joint project to create the largest longitudinal population database in the United States. The Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage project (DCDL) will digitize and link individual records across every census since 1940. The resulting data resource will revolutionize our understanding of human behavior and life in the United States. Staff from ICPSR and the Census Bureau will describe the project's innovative methods of data rescue, record linkage, and restricted data access.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:08:33 -0400 2020-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project
Augmenting Health Research through Secondary Data Use: the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) (September 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76443 76443-19717140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) is a repository of neighborhood contextual measures -- place-based data that quantifies the physical, demographic, economic, and/or social environment -- used to understand the role of neighborhood context and resources for population health. Most NaNDA contextual measures are created using publicly available data, such as from the Census Bureau. So why would a researcher use NaNDA instead of going directly to the primary data to obtain or create their own contextual measures? In this session, we will discuss case studies from the NaNDA repository that augment and recombine publicly available data to create novel measures to study the role of neighborhoods for health and health inequities

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:26:20 -0400 2020-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.
The Real-Life Story of the Just-Released ICPSR Study: New Immigrants Admitted to the United States, Federal Fiscal Years 1972-2000 (September 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76445 76445-19717142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for a unique session that tells the real-life story of how these just-released research data arrived to ICPSR so that they could be shared with our data community! The combined efforts, passion, and funding of a donor, principal investigator (PI), student, and ICPSR leadership came together to gather, curate, and release these important data. Panelists: Andrew Gottesman, Margaret Levenstein, and Sherrie Kossoudji.

And once you have heard the story, you will want to learn all about the data directly from PI, Sherrie Kossoudji, who will describe these data, which include every single person admitted as an immigrant 1972-2000, and give insights into the types of analyses that might be undertaken. Could you be the first to publish using these data?

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:33:34 -0400 2020-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation The Real-Life Story of the Just-Released ICPSR Study: New Immigrants Admitted to the United States, Federal Fiscal Years 1972-2000
Case Studies in Communicating Data in Higher Education: From Awareness to Action (September 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76447 76447-19717143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Dory and Catherine share a few Case Studies in communicating in complex data- and research-rich environment. They will discuss some ways in which strategic communications planning had an immediate, measurable, and far-reaching impact.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:31:21 -0400 2020-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Case Studies in Communicating Data in Higher Education: From Awareness to Action
A Summer Program Like No Other: A Retrospective on the 2020 ICPSR Summer Program (September 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76543 76543-19725090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

For the first time in its history, the ICPSR Summer Program was fully online. How did the program shift so quickly and drastically, and how did it go? What lessons did the staff learn, and what might those lessons mean for future years and possibly keeping an online portion of the program permanently? Mike Traugott, Summer Program Director, looks back on the recently completed 2020 Summer Program.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:04:06 -0400 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A Summer Program Like No Other: A Retrospective on the 2020 ICPSR Summer Program
Towards Increasin Equity in Indigenous and Women's Health (September 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76633 76633-19733028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan area proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:48:22 -0400 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Krystal Tsosie
On Why Race Still Matters: Ontological Commitments and Researching Without Numbers (September 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76459 76459-19717154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Race and racism will continue to be topics investigated by qualitative research but uncritically explored as factors impacting the inquiry process in and of itself resulting in both being largely invisible and normalized. Critical discussions of race and racism at the interstice of the inquiry process are largely absent but race still matters because we exist in an environment rife with anti-Black racism and White privilege and as human beings we maintain ontological commitments that influence what we study and how. This session will explore the notion of ontological commitments, what they are, why we need to be attentive to them when researching without numbers.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:43:22 -0400 2020-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation On Why Race Still Matters: Ontological Commitments and Researching Without Numbers
Segregation within Integrated Schools: Racially Disproportionate Student-Teacher Assignments in Middle Schools (September 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76463 76463-19717157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Our study examines trends of racially disproportionate assignment of Black and Hispanic students to less experienced teachers than their white counterparts. Specifically, our analysis shows statistically significant trends in the assignment of less experienced teachers to Black and Hispanic students in middle school math over several years. This study is the first in education to measure the cumulative pattern of racially disproportionate student-teacher assignments over time. We introduce the Cumulative Deficit index as a measure of cumulative patterns of racially disproportionate student-teacher assignment. We concluded student race is correlated with exposure to more experienced teachers over time.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:52:50 -0400 2020-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Segregation within Integrated Schools: Racially Disproportionate Student-Teacher Assignments in Middle Schools
Data Engagement for the Data-Hesitant Librarian (September 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76465 76465-19717158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

In our data-driven world, what are the best ways to engage librarians who are hesitant to work with data-related content and questions? Can we? Must we? Should we? Critical data literacy will be the starting place for the presentation, followed by suggestions for how to engage “non-data” librarians with data training and activities in the library setting. We’ll discuss the issue of how feasible it is to expect universal data savvy, and how to empower librarians to choose their own approaches to the issue, both in the workplace and in their career planning. Finally, we’ll discuss training approaches and availability specifically, and attendees will leave with ideas for a plan of action for future data training in their libraries.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:57:42 -0400 2020-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Data Engagement for the Data-Hesitant Librarian
Using Cannabis Data to Improve Public Health and Promote Social Equity (September 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76468 76468-19717161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Despite liberalization of cannabis laws in 47 states, ongoing federal prohibition makes it difficult to obtain data from users and producers in different locales to better understand their experiences. As more states legalize cannabis markets, regulators must have access to actionable data to make informed decisions regarding product labeling and how to provide ownership access for communities disproportionately impacted by the drug war. The COVID-19 pandemic has also generated questions about how use patterns have been impacted by shelter-in-place orders. The purpose of this session is to share highlights from cannabis research using survey primary and secondary data to answer these questions about cannabis use and policy impacts in different contexts.

This presentation will include:
- Making Sense of Negative Experiences with Cannabis Edibles: Panel Survey Results
- Cannabis Use and Covid-19
- Cannabis Social Equity Programs

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:05:02 -0400 2020-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Using Cannabis Data to Improve Public Health and Promote Social Equity
Celebrating 20 Years of Linking You to Publications that Analyze ICPSR Data (September 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76469 76469-19717162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Need a tool to find and assess data you might want from the huge ICPSR collection? Learn how students, researchers, and instructors/librarians utilize the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature. Meet the ICPSR staff who find publications and link them to the underlying data. Get an understanding of the importance of data citation and how to cite data according to best practice. Help us celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fai

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:11:42 -0400 2020-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Celebrating 20 Years of Linking You to Publications that Analyze ICPSR Data
Data for Real Life: ICPSR for research, data in the classroom and more (September 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77008 77008-19788466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

A look at ICPSR's resources including featured data, resources for remote teaching, and a sneak peek at what's coming up from Membership Director Linda Detterman and Membership Experience Manager Annalee Shelton

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:42:10 -0400 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Data for Real Life: ICPSR for research, data in the classroom and more
ICPSR's COVID 19 Data Archive (September 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76472 76472-19717164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Learn about the new COVID-19 Data Repository, a repository for data examining the social, behavioral, public health, and economic impact of the novel coronavirus global pandemic (https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/covid19). Dr. Amy Pienta, Research Scientist and Director of ICPSR's Business and Collection Development, will discuss ICPSR's role in writing international guidelines for sharing COVID-19 data. Senior Data Project Manager Chelsea Goforth will discuss why this archive is important, what you'll find, some ways this data might be used, and how you can contribute. Screen reader support enabled.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:32:24 -0400 2020-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR's COVID 19 Data Archive
Challenges for Census 2020 The impact on data quality - ICPSR Data Fair 2020 (September 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77144 77144-19798545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for a conversation regarding the 2020 Census. Speakers will include two Chief Statisticians of the United States (emeritae), an expert on the development of statistical data systems (particularly the census), and a demographer who has experienced the community impact of the census. Topics will include mail delays at the USPS, political appointees, COVID-19, and other factors affecting the 2020 Census.

Moderated by Katherine Wallman, former Chief Statistician at the United States

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:51:54 -0400 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Challenges for Census 2020 The impact on data quality - ICPSR Data Fair 2020
Getting to Know the ISR Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (September 25, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76475 76475-19719130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summer Institute faculty and staff will first provide a brief history of the Summer Institute, and then turn to a discussion of the program. Topics include many aspects of survey research including the fundamental principles involved in drawing samples, designing questionnaires, data collection, and design-based analysis of survey data. The SRC Summer Institute is unique in comparison to the ICPSR Summer Program in terms of its focus on the process of research design and data collection (as opposed to analyzing data that have already been collected).

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:02:58 -0400 2020-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Getting to Know the ISR Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques
CCN Forum: Cerebellum and Cognition (September 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77373 77373-19846047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The cerebellum is well-known for its contribution to the control of skilled movement. The mechanisms include connectivity with the motor system and the ability of it’s remarkable circuitry to store motor memories, including those relating to simple conditioned motor responses acquired through Pavlovian conditioning. However, some cerebellar circuitry communicates with the prefrontal cortex – including areas of that have important roles in cognitive function but little to do with motor control. In this lecture I draw from theoretical neurobiology, anatomy, brain evolution and neuroimaging to address the ways in which cerebellar circuits might contribute to the skilled execution of cognitive operations, such as the instrumental learning of contingencies that link decisions with their antecedents and consequences.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:18:29 -0400 2020-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Narender Ramnai
Conceptualizing and Visualizing Conflict Data with Shiny (September 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76479 76479-19719134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join Drs. Dave Armstrong and Christian Davenport for a real-world example of data visualization using Shiny. They discuss conceptualization and measurement of conflict in quantitative data and demonstrate how to produce graphics to convey their findings.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 15 Sep 2020 11:16:57 -0400 2020-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Conceptualizing and Visualizing Conflict Data with Shiny
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (September 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75948 75948-19627783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. Tune in to enjoy work from the next generation of authors.

This week's reading features Julia Argy [Fiction] and Sara Afshar [Poetry].

Organized by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts David Freeman (dfrman@umich.edu) or Lauren Morrow (lmmorrow@umich.edu).

This event is free and open to the public.
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. 
 
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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Presentation Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:16:16 -0400 2020-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Developmental Brown Bag: Gender Identity Development: A Social, Cognitive, Biological, and Contextual Journey (September 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77389 77389-19846077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

In this presentation I illustrate my background and training in socio-cognitive development and critical feminist theory by describing two of my previous published works. The first project is a qualitative analysis of the influence of gender and gender typicality on adolescent friendship dissolution. The second project is a qualitative analysis of young men’s narratives of resisting masculine gender norms. I finish the presentation with a brief description of the biological and contextual directions I am tackling here at the University of Michigan.

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Presentation Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:40:09 -0400 2020-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Matthew Nielson
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (September 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76644 76644-19733040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

September 29, 11-12pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93308250046

October 21, 4-5pm (Geared toward Transfer Students): https://umich.zoom.us/j/91068199152

November 16, 5-6pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94802355758

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Presentation Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:58:01 -0400 2020-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Pre-Law Logo
Bringing Early Education to Young Refugee Children in Countries Affected by Humanitarian Crisis (September 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77009 77009-19788467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Education Policy Initiative

Please join the Education Policy Initiative in welcoming Hirokazu Yoshikawa, the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU, and Co-Director (with J. Lawrence Aber) of the Global TIES for Children center at NYU, for a virtual education policy talk. Professor Yoshikawa is a core faculty member of the Psychology of Social Intervention and Human Development and Social Intervention programs at Steinhardt. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He will discuss Global TIES for Children's research on young children's development in humanitarian settings, including young children affected by the Rohingya and Syrian crises.

About the Sesame Workshop / International Rescue Committee and BRAC Refugee Response project (Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Bangladesh):

In two historic partnerships aimed at changing how education is valued and delivered in humanitarian crises, Sesame Workshop, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and BRAC have launched the largest early-childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response with groundbreaking grants from the MacArthur Foundation and LEGO Foundation. In homes, centers, and other settings, Sesame Workshop, the IRC and BRAC are bringing playful lessons and nurturing care to thousands of displaced children in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon, with millions more reached through television and mobile devices. Additionally, Sesame is partnering with BRAC to support children affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis, bringing early education grounded in the power of play to hundreds of thousands of children in and around the massive refugee settlement at Cox’s Bazar. Learn more about the historic Global TIES partnerships and Sesame Workshop intervention work.

This event is sponsored by the Education Policy Initiative and co-sponsored by the Ford School, the School of Education, and Equity in Early Learning Lab. Free and open to the public, but RSVP required.

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Presentation Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:48:23 -0400 2020-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Education Policy Initiative Presentation Yoshikawa
Neuroimaging Initiative Talk: Reward-Motivated Memory in Younger and Older Adults (September 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77670 77670-19901704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Even healthy aging is associated with neurocognitive changes, yet, affective processing remains relatively intact. I will present a line of work focused on these preserved affective processes and how they may contribute to improved cognitive function in older adults. Specifically, through a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging studies, we have found that older adults are still sensitive to monetary rewards, they engage the reward network to the same extent as younger adults, and that motivational incentives can improve older adults performance on memory tasks. These findings suggest the preserved reward motivation may allow the continued ability to flexibly allocate cognitive resources that prioritize high value information as we age, and may have implications for cognitive and pharmacological interventions.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:48:28 -0400 2020-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Holly Bowen
How Social Workers Can Support Parents and Children During Covid-19 (September 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77551 77551-19883823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

During Covid-19, parents face new challenges managing family, work and economic demands. In this first session of the Parenting in Context webinar series Shawna J. Lee, U-M SSW associate professor and director of Parenting in Context Research Lab, will present research on parenting, mental health, and coping during the pandemic.

One free social work CE is available to those who participate in the live webinar.

This webinar is recommended for both research and practice audiences and will address:
--What research says about parents' mental health during Covid-19
--How parents are supporting their children's educational needs
--Parents’ coping strategies and activities with their children
--The impact of social distancing on parenting

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Presentation Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:28:50 -0400 2020-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Presentation Shawna Lee
Social Brown Bag: (September 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77672 77672-19901706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Irene Melani

Title:
Knowing more than one can see: Investigating the apparent negligence of context for European Americans

Abstract:
The cumulative evidence in social psychology suggests that people engaged in Western cultures (Westerners) are typically negligent of contextual information while perceiving a focal object. However, the cognitive mechanism underlying this phenomenon has remained largely unexplored. In the present research, we proposed a directional activation hypothesis to suggest that, for Westerners, the activation of an object in cognition may be sufficient to activate the contextual inferences associated with the object. To test our hypothesis, we examined 24 European Americans within an EEG-based priming paradigm. In an object-prime condition, participants were first shown an object (e.g., an image of a crab), followed by a context that is either typical or atypical of the object (e.g., an image of a parking lot or ocean). In a context-prime condition, however, participants were first shown a context, followed by an object that is either typical or atypical of the context. We tested the event-related potential component of N400, which indexes the detection of violations of semantic expectations. In the context-prime condition, the typicality of the target objects showed no effect on the magnitude of N400, thus replicating prior evidence. However, in the object-prime condition, the N400 was significantly greater in magnitude when target contexts were atypical of the object primes than when they were typical of the latter. We concluded that the negligence of context, typically observed for Westerners, is partly because the object takes priority in perception to inform about relevant contexts. From their phenomenal point of view, they have inferred what the appropriate context is for a given object, even before seeing it.

Lauren White

Title:
Integrating Theory for Community Based Suicide Prevention

Abstract:
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans aged 10-34 and US suicide rates are increasing across almost every demographic. This is particularly apparent in American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities, where suicide rates are up to 20 times the national US average; some of the highest in the world. Despite increasing investments in suicide prevention via research and practice, the US suicide rate has increased 35% in the last 40 years. I assert that new approaches which foster the capacity of community support systems to address vulnerabilities of persons—ideally before they are suicidal—are desperately needed. I will share a brief background of US suicide trends and prevention approaches; a note on how Social Work Practice and Social Psychology theories may come together to inform new ways of thinking about community driven suicide prevention; and two studies from my work in the last year that demonstrate the promise of integrating theory across disciplines in the work with AIAN communities to promote mental wellness and prevent suicide.

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Presentation Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:37:38 -0400 2020-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T13:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Irene Melani and Lauren White
An integrative genomics approach to population history in Latin America & The Caribbean (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76637 76637-19733030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan area proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:35:28 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Maria A Nieves-Colon
Physics Special Department Colloquium | Scientific Espionage, Open Exchange, and American Competitiveness (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76450 76450-19717145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

In 2015, Xiaoxing Xi was wrongfully arrested by the FBI in a case of alleged racial profiling. Since speaking out about his experience and the consequences for academic freedom, he was awarded the 2020 Andrei Sakharov Prize from the American Physical Society, which is awarded biannually to human rights advocates in the physics community.

Presentation abstract:
Amid rapidly escalating tension between the United States and China, professors, scientists, and students of Chinese ethnic origin as well as those engaging in academic collaborations with China are under heightened scrutiny by the federal government. Law enforcement officials consider collaborating with Chinese colleagues “by definition conveying sensitive information to the Chinese.” In 2015, I became a casualty of this campaign despite being innocent. This experience gave me insights into the challenges Chinese scientists face and the immediate threat to the open environment in fundamental research on university campuses.

In this talk, I will highlight the JASON Report on Fundamental Research Security, commissioned and endorsed by the National Science Foundation. It opposes profiling Chinese scholars based on the actions of the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party, supports reaffirmation of NSDD-189, which made unrestricted fundamental research a federal policy and proposes addressing foreign influence on US research within the framework of research integrity. I urge the audience to rally around the JASON Report and speak up to defend liberty and safeguard America's research enterprise.

Co-sponsored by Indigo: The LSA Asian and Asian-American Faculty Alliance and the U-M Association of Chinese Professors.

Please register here for the webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ZfAAGdLTgylS04ds7ayuw

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Presentation Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:13:32 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Presentation Event Poster
How shall we drug the MAPK pathway in Head and Neck Cancer? From exceptional responses to Immunogenomics (October 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77492 77492-19875790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Vivian Wai Yan Lui, PhD
Associate Professor and Deputy Chief
(Cancer Biology and Experimental Therapeutics)
Pharmacogenomics Working Group,
National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC), USA
Joint CUHK-NTEC Clinical Research Ethics Committee, CUHK
SBS College Coordinator, United College, CUHK
School of Biomedical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Presentation Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:49:50 -0400 2020-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation seminar flyer
CCN Forum: Second Year Developmental Talks (October 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77676 77676-19901709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Kristin McGatlin

Title: The effects of feedback on cognition: Friend or foe?

Abstract: Older adults often face stereotypes, especially about their memory and other cognitive abilities. They may internalize those negative beliefs (e.g., “senior moments”; “My memory just isn’t what it used to be”), ironically making them less likely to perform optimally in challenging situations and thus more vulnerable to failure. On the other hand, older adults often show resiliency in the form of the “age-related positivity effect” – an increased tendency for older adults to focus on positive, rather than negative information, compared to young adults (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005). The current research project will examine how different feedback conditions (neutral (no feedback), positive feedback to correct answers, negative feedback to errors) affects cognitive performance as well as subjective measures of motivation and related constructs in younger and older adults.

Eric Martell

Title: The Role of Social Factors on Syntactic Alignment

Abstract: Priming is the tendency to unconsciously repeat words, sentences, sounds, and concepts that we have encountered before (Dell, Burger, & Svec, 1997; Kubovy, 1977; Bock, 1986; Pickering & Garrod, 2004). Alignment is driven by priming and occurs during successful dialogue, that is when two parties have unconsciously constructed shared concepts at different linguistic levels, e.g. lexical or syntactical (Pickering & Garrod, 2004). A picture description task will help us understand if alignment, at the syntactic level, is malleable by social factors and will bring us closer to answering if alignment is a fully automatic process.

Madelyn Quirk

Title: Predicting the Pandemic: Everyone did it and no one was right: A Bayesian latent variable approach to misestimation and Covid-19

Abstract: Six months ago, Covid-19 reared its ugly head and seemed to stump science as we know it. Almost immediately, it felt like nobody knew anything but everybody had an opinion, a dangerous juxtaposition in the face of a public-health crisis. Why did some seem to believe that the virus would be gone in a week’s time, while others erred towards the opposite extreme? We had previously assessed individuals’ ability to predict the anticipated number of cumulative Covid-19 cases 3, 6, and 9 days out after being presented the cumulative number of confirmed cases at five previous dates in various presentation formats. People were very poor at this forecasting overall, but there was also a stark separation between those who overestimated and those who underestimated. So, we revisit the question of interest: What could possibly be driving this separation between the directions of misestimation? To then expand further, do the societal consequences of the two differ? My current model and the basis for this talk will explore the relationship among three latent variables of political conservatism, Covid-related social behavior, and misestimation in an effort to answer these critical questions in such unprecedented times.

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Presentation Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:11:31 -0400 2020-10-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Kristin McGatlin, Eric Martell, Madelyn Quirk
Biopsychology Colloquium: Exploring Alternative Career Options: Strategies & Resources (October 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78039 78039-19957530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore careers outside of the professoriate, as well as strategies to best position yourself for these types of careers. We will cover transferable skills, approaches to networking, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate careers, and there will be time allotted for both hands on work and questions.

Dr. Elling is the University Career Center's Coordinator for Graduate Student Career Advancement, and is embedded in Rackham to ensure easy access for graduate students to both UCC and Rackham resources. She provides individual career counseling to Ph.D. students, programming for Rackham Master's and Ph.D. students, and consults and collaborates with U-M faculty in support of graduate student career development. Prior to joining UCC/Rackham, Dr. Elling served as the Associate Director at U-M's CEW+, Interim Assistant Dean & Director for Counseling Services at Albion College, and Training Director at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Counseling Services. A U-M alumna (Bachelor’s degree in Psychology), she received her Master’s degree and PhD in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Elling has a longstanding interest in women's and diversity, equity and inclusion issues, and enjoys working with people at all stages of their careers and educational journeys.

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Presentation Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:16:31 -0400 2020-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Kirsten Elling
Social Brown Bag: (October 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77673 77673-19901707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Koji Takahashi

Title:
Extraneous affect and selective attention to health information

Abstract:
Health messages often fail to reach their intended audiences. A major reason is that health messages evoke negative emotions, motivating people to divert their attention. Many efforts to promote attention involve changing message content to make information less threatening. For some information, however, the topic itself evokes negative emotions, making it difficult or impossible to remove threat from the messages. In this talk, I will discuss evidence that extraneous affect, or emotional states unrelated to a message, can be leveraged to promote attention to health messages. I will present results from four studies showing that using guided meditation to induce low-arousal positive affect leads to greater attention to and comprehension of health messages. Importantly, we find that the valence and arousal of extraneous affect impact message processing in different ways and that these effects do not depend on how threatening people otherwise find the health information.


Iris Wang

Title
Covid at the Ballot Box: How Covid-19 impacts perceptions of voting

Abstract
The Covid-19 outbreak has greatly challenged many aspects of American life, including its electoral system. One large debate that has stemmed from the crisis is how the 2020 election should be held in a safe way, given that the polls are socially dense places with high likelihood of disease transmission. Previous work on the behavioral immune system, a set of behaviors that are designed to prevent people from coming into contact with infectious disease, has shown that disease threat increases crowding perceptions of socially dense situations. In a recent study, we tested the hypothesis that Covid-19 threat would increase people's perceptions of polling places as dangerously crowded, and therefore increase people's support for alternative voting methods such as mail-in and extended early voting. This brownbag explores the findings from this recent study.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:07:40 -0400 2020-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T13:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Koji Takashashi and Iris Wang
Nam Center for Korean Studies Chuseok Festival: UMMA Virtual Tour & Charye Activity (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77706 77706-19903728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

click here to register.: http://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_10V1K5z8RAWhSP_eN3mFlQ.

Please join a collaboration between the Nam Center for Korean Studies and the University of Michigan Museum of Art as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020!

The UMMA docents will guide participants through a live chu-seok experience, also known as Korean Thanksgiving or Harvest Festival. The interactive webinar will focus on objects used in cha-rye, a ritual used to honor ancestors often practiced during major holidays in Korea. Participants will even have the chance to set up their own cha-rye tables from the comfort of home! For more information, including an illustrated PDF to download, please visit the Nam Center for Korean Studies' website. 

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Presentation Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:16:01 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Rewriting Human History and Empowering Indigenous Communities with Genome Editing Tools (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76638 76638-19733031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
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The Department of Anthropology & The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan area proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:40:55 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Keolu Fox
Engineering an immunological niche for early detection of immune dysfunction (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77515 77515-19877791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Lonnie Shea, PhD
William and Valerie Hall Chair
Steven A. Goldstein Collegiate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan

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Presentation Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:40:07 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation flyer
CFE TechLab Programs Info Session (October 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77446 77446-19854031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

This is your opportunity to ask TechLab staff and instructors anything and everything! During this info session, we’ll go deeper into program specifics and have you leave with a better understanding of how TechLab Climate Change and TechLab at Mcity can help you with your entrepreneurial career goals.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:31:58 -0400 2020-10-08T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Students visiting IA Ventures in D.C.
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (October 9, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75949 75949-19627784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to login. : https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries.

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. Tune in to enjoy work from the next generation of authors.

This week's reading features Drew Nelles [Fiction] and Julia McDaniel [Poetry]. ​ Organized by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts David Freeman (dfrman@umich.edu) or Lauren Morrow (lmmorrow@umich.edu).

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Presentation Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:15:58 -0400 2020-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Ask-a-Docent: Ibrahim Mahama (October 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77982 77982-19949609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with experienced museum docents, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours. 

 

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Presentation Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:15:58 -0400 2020-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Developmental Brown Bag: The effect of Foreigner Talk on Children's Evaluations of Addressees and Speakers (October 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78101 78101-19965450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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A growing literature suggests accent serves as an important social category for infants and young children. Children show early social preferences for native over non-native speakers, and this tendency may lay the foundation for future accent prejudice observed in adulthood. However, children do not hear non-native accents in a vacuum; instead, their experiences with accent are informed by a number of factors within a broader communicative context. One factor that may be of particular importance is the speech register typically associated with native speakers talking to non-native speakers-- a register known as Foreigner Talk. This talk reports on three studies that examine whether Foreigner Talk affects children's (ages 5-10, N = 308) and adults' (N = 216) evaluations of those speaking and receiving Foreigner Talk. The findings provide insight into how conversational choices may impact children's developing conceptions of non-native speakers specifically, and outgroup members more broadly.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:45:17 -0400 2020-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Danielle Labotka
The Evolution of Basketball with Data Science (October 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78271 78271-20002854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

For the last couple of decades, most industries have grown to take advantage of the information gained from data collection. As that happened, professional sports teams started to catch on. Baseball took the lead thanks to the amount of data collected over the years, which dates to the 1800s, but a lot of other professional sports followed and put more attention to their data collection. With technological advancements, particularly high-speed cameras, storage capacities and image recognition, more dynamic sports started to collect richer and richer data. The insights derived from this data started shifting the way the game is played and the way players are evaluated. This talk will take you through the evolution of data science in basketball and give examples of how data is shifting the way teams make decisions on and off the court.

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Presentation Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:55:02 -0400 2020-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation https://umich.zoom.us/j/94496488704
Resilient Leadership in a Dynamic World featuring Tonya Allen, CEO of The Skillman Foundation (October 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78353 78353-20012792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan School of Public Health

Tonya Allen, MPH and MSW '96, President and CEO of The Skillman Foundation brings her insights to leadership in a conversation with School of Public Health Dean DuBois Bowman.

In our dynamic world, the pursuit of health equity is both valiant and never complete. Generations of public health leaders have devoted themselves to the ultimate goal of a healthier, more equitable world for all. Bringing contemporary leaders to share their insights, vision, and perseverance is the principle of Ahead of the Curve, a new speaker series from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The series launches in the fall of 2020 with a focus on personal storytelling from dynamic leaders during a pandemic and beyond.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:05:02 -0400 2020-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan School of Public Health Presentation image of Tonya Allen smiling in her office at the Skillman Foundation
Social Brown Bag: (October 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77674 77674-19901708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Julisa Lopez

Title
Racialized Representations: Differences in the Acceptability of Redface and Blackface

Abstract
There have been several high-profile instances of individuals being called out and sanctioned for the use of racialized representations -- representations that reflect stereotypical, caricaturizations of racial groups, such as blackface and redface. Notably, the incidents which led to the fiercest backlash were instances of blackface. Indeed, from 2014 to 2019, 104,097 news article titles included the term “blackface”, while only 614 news article titles include the term “redface”. This is especially concerning given the voracity at which Native people protest the continued use of redface every sport season. The current research explores how the lack of understanding of the lived experiences of Native people (i.e., viewing Natives as frozen in the past, denying Natives experiences with discrimination and racism) helps explain why blackface is understood as unacceptable, while redface is given far less attention and incur less social disapproval.

Amelie Rossmaier

Title
Do people conform more with the group during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Abstract
The current pandemic poses a threat to virtually everyone while producing enormous uncertainty in life. According to classic theories of social influence, the combination of an external threat and uncertainty should foster conformity to majority views. Here, we tested this possibility by taking advantage of a study on conformity of attitudes conducted in the fall of 2019 on a group of American undergraduates. We repeated this study in April 2020 during the pandemic. As predicted, we observed a significant increase of attitude shifts toward the national means during the pandemic, compared to the pre-pandemic period. We will discuss reasons for and possible implications of this effect and look at other factors that might make us conform more or less.

Imani Burris

Title
Challenge Mindset: Leveraging Adversity as a Source of Strength

Abstract
Although adversity often undermines long-term wellbeing, successfully making meaning of adversity (i.e., understanding why adversity occurs) mitigates these negative effects. In the current work, I propose challenge mindset (i.e., the belief that adversity creates opportunities for personal growth and functions as a source of strength to confront future challenges) as a form of successful meaning-making. In particular, I theorize that endorsing a challenge mindset helps people cope with and, when possible, overcome adverse experiences. In this talk, I present two correlational studies (N = 522), which provide empirical evidence that challenge mindset is a reliable and valid construct. Further, I show that challenge mindset endorsements are meaningfully related to past and ongoing adverse experiences, as well as the use of adaptive coping strategies. I conclude my talk by discussing next steps and the practical implications of challenge mindset endorsements.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:56:32 -0400 2020-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T13:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Julia Lopez, Amelie Rossmaier, Imani Burris
Pharmacogenomic variation and implications for evolutionary medicine (October 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76639 76639-19733032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan area proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:06:48 -0400 2020-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Katrina Claw
Honors Grand Rounds with Mohammed Moursi, MD (October 14, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76326 76326-19687519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Join Stephanie Chervin, Honors premed advisor, for a virtual live discussion with Honors alum Mohammed Moursi, MD; Chief of Vascular Surgery University of Arkansas. This program is for current LSA Honors Program students only. A link to the virtual event will be sent to all registrants before the event.

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Presentation Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:29:24 -0400 2020-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Presentation Dr. Moursi
Ask-a-Student: Ibrahim Mahama (October 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78306 78306-20006824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with UMMA Student Engagement Council members. They will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work on a drop-in basis. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:16:01 -0400 2020-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CCN Forum: The Role of Control Processes in the Dynamics of Episodic Memory Search (October 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77684 77684-19901717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Thinking of one event often triggers recall of other events experienced nearby in time. We have previously argued that this Temporal Contiguity Effect arises from fundamental memory mechanisms that operate whenever episodic memories are encoded and retrieved. Consistent with this interpretation, the Temporal Contiguity Effect is pervasive and robust: almost without exception, studies that have looked for it, have found it. But perhaps we have not looked hard enough. The vast majority of these studies use deliberate list learning tasks, such tasks likely recruit many strategic control processes that would be unique to rote learning. Thus, one can doubt whether the contiguity effect should be elevated to the status of a general principle of memory as suggested by some theories. To explore this concern, I draw together data from recent work in my lab. This work shows that the Temporal Contiguity Effect is real—it is not a phenomenon of rote learning. However, the work also shows that we are a long way from a full understanding of how temporal associations interact with the control processes that govern memory encoding and search.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:13:19 -0400 2020-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T15:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Karl Healey
Ask-a-Docent: Ibrahim Mahama (October 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77997 77997-19951592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with experienced museum docents, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:15:56 -0400 2020-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Clinical Brown Bag: Applying a HiTOP(ian) approach to understanding clinical bias: Borderline personality disorder diagnosis among (SGM) Sexual and Gender Minority populations. (October 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78130 78130-19965482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is considered a severe form of psychopathology associated with a host of negative outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests high prevalence of BPD diagnosis among sexual and gender minority samples. Non-cisgender identity has been historically equated with BPD diagnosis, the improper diagnosis of which imposes potential barriers to accessing appropriate gender affirming care. In addition, sexual and gender minority populations contend with greater psychosocial stress and exhibit higher rates of common forms of psychopathology than their heterosexual cisgender peers. Limited evidence suggests that higher prevalence of BPD diagnosis among sexual and gender minority individuals might not accurately index underlying BPD-pathology levels among these populations. Further, current conceptualization and treatment recommendations for BPD diagnosis diverge in subtle, yet potentially detrimental, ways from evidence-based treatment principles for sexual and gender minority individuals. In the current talk, I will present the results from 3 studies incorporating a transdiagnostic factors approach—consistent with the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) model—to examining bias in the diagnosis of BPD among sexual and gender minority individuals.

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Presentation Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:42:47 -0400 2020-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Craig Rodriguez-Seijas
Developmental Brown Bag: (October 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78102 78102-19965452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 12:00pm
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Presentation Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:20:56 -0400 2020-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Trina R. Shanks
Do You Have Questions About Voting? (October 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78593 78593-20068104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Do you want to make sure your vote counts? Is registering to vote confusing? Join the BLI on Monday, 10/19, for a special voting event with Turn Up Turn Out President Josiah Walker.

Josiah will virtually walk students through how to fill out Michigan's online voter registration if they have a state-ID or driver's license and how to fill out the paper form if they do not. He will also offer tips for what to do as it gets closer to the election date and will answer all of your voting-related questions!

Why October 19?
If you’re registering any other way than in person at your township's clerk's office, in order to vote in the November 3, 2020 election, your completed voter registration application must be received or postmarked by October 19, 2020.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:41:13 -0400 2020-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Presentation Make sure to come check it out!
Towards an Artificial Intuition: Conversational Markers of (Anti)Social Dynamics (October 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78274 78274-20002858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Can conversational dynamics—the nature of the back and forth between people—predict outcomes of social interactions? This talk will describe efforts on developing an artificial intuition about ongoing conversations, by modeling the subtle pragmatic and rhetorical choices of the participants.
The resulting framework distills emerging conversational patterns that can point to the nature of the social relation between interlocutors, as well as to the future trajectory of this relation. For example, I will discuss how interactional dynamics can be used to foretell whether an online conversation will stay on track or eventually derail into personal attacks, providing community moderators several hours of prior notice before an anti-social event is likely to occur.
The data and code are available through the Cornell Conversational Analysis Toolkit (ConvoKit): http://convokit.cornell.edu
This talk includes joint work with Jonathan P. Chang, Lucas Dixon, Liye Fu, Yiqing Hua, Dan Jurafsky, Lillian Lee, Jure Leskovec, Vlad Niculae, Chris Potts, Arthur Spirling, Dario Taraborelli, Nithum Thain, and Justine Zhang.

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Presentation Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:03:41 -0400 2020-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation https://umich.zoom.us/j/95443347994
Biopsychology Colloquium: Synaptic mechanisms maintaining persistent cocaine craving (October 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78070 78070-19957568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The major challenge in treating drug addiction is that recovering addicts remain vulnerable to drug craving and relapse even after long periods of abstinence. The goal of the Wolf lab is to understand synaptic mechanisms that maintain this persistent vulnerability to relapse.

Most of our studies use the incubation of craving model. Incubation refers to the progressive increase in cue-induced craving that develops after discontinuing drug self-administration. Craving remains at high (incubated) levels for months. Incubation of craving also occurs in humans.

Our work has focused on excitatory synapses in the nucleus accumbens, a key brain region for motivated behavior. My talk will describe published and unpublished work showing profound alterations in all of the major glutamate receptors in the NAc (AMPA, NMDA and metabotropic glutamate receptors) after incubation of cocaine craving and the role of protein translation in mediating this plasticity.

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Presentation Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:29:33 -0400 2020-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Marina Wolf
Pronouns 101 (October 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78349 78349-20012790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Other IPD happenings: https://bit.ly/SC-PronounsDay

Celebrate International Pronouns Day by learning more about how to use personal pronouns inclusively and tips for correcting mistakes. This event will include a panel of students who are bilingual/multilingual that will share about their experiences with pronouns. This event is a partnership between the International Center and the Spectrum Center.

Learn more about International Pronouns Day: https://pronounsday.org/

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:13:57 -0400 2020-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Presentation "Pronouns 101" will be held October 21st from 12:00 to 1:30 PM. Image features Spectrum Center and International Center logos and event information on a blank Spectrum Center pronoun pin design.
Ask-a-Student: Ibrahim Mahama (October 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78307 78307-20006825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with UMMA Student Engagement Council members. They will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work on a drop-in basis. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:15:53 -0400 2020-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Data Science Coast to Coast Presents: Talitha Washington (October 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78280 78280-20002864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The DS C2C seminar series, hosted jointly by six academic data science institutes, provides a unique opportunity to foster a broad-reaching data science community.

Speakers include faculty members and postdoctoral fellows at the six institutes whose research spans the theory and methodology of data science, and their application in arts and humanities, engineering, biomedical, natural, physical and social sciences.

In addition, the series features some of the most important figures in data science, who will provide insight on the transformative use of data science in traditional research disciplines, future breakthroughs in data science research, data science entrepreneurship, and advocacy and national policies for a data-enabled and just society.

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Presentation Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:23:52 -0400 2020-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation https://umich.zoom.us/j/93769972428
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (October 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76644 76644-19733041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

September 29, 11-12pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93308250046

October 21, 4-5pm (Geared toward Transfer Students): https://umich.zoom.us/j/91068199152

November 16, 5-6pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94802355758

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Presentation Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:58:01 -0400 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Pre-Law Logo
TBD: (October 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76746 76746-19741055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan are proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:53:51 -0400 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
Clean Energy Trust: Co_Invest Cleantech 2020, 10/22/2020, 2PM CT (October 22, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78218 78218-19994962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

Join nonprofit Clean Energy Trust on the cutting edge of cleantech innovation at Co_Invest Cleantech 2020 on Thursday, October 22nd at 2 PM CT – free and online! Hear from Clean Energy Trust’s early-stage cleantech portfolio companies, their newest sustainable investments, and witness a live recording of the My Climate Journey podcast with special guest, Rodrigo Prudencio who leads investments for Amazon’s $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund. Register here:
https://pheedloop.com/register/coinvestcleantech/attendee/

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Presentation Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:55:34 -0400 2020-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Co-Invest Cleantech
[Aero Homecoming] 2020 State of the Department Address and Award Ceremony (October 23, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78262 78262-19998928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Tony Waas is the Richard A. Auhll Department Chair and Felix Pawlowski Professor of Aerospace Engineering. On October 23rd at 12:30 PM, Dr. Waas will share the current state of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and his vision for the academic year with alumni, faculty, and students. Alumni and student award recipients will be recognized during a special award ceremony directly following the Department address.

Please register for these and other Homecoming Events by Monday, October 19th, 2020.

Registration link: https://bit.ly/33y6KgC

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Presentation Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:01:26 -0400 2020-10-23T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Presentation Dr. Tony Waas, Aerospace Engineering Department Chair Photo
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (October 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75950 75950-19627785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. Tune in to enjoy work from the next generation of authors.

This week's reading features Maya Dobjensky [Fiction] and Serena Dobson [Poetry]. 

Organized by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts David Freeman (dfrman@umich.edu) or Lauren Morrow (lmmorrow@umich.edu).

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Presentation Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:15:51 -0400 2020-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Ask-a-Docent: Ibrahim Mahama (October 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77998 77998-19951593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with experienced museum docents, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Sat, 24 Oct 2020 18:15:51 -0400 2020-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Finland-MI Energy Circle Webinars (October 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78372 78372-20018695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The State of Michigan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland recently expressed their official interest to collaborate on clean technologies. Experts include U-M faculty Anna Stefanopoulou, Jason Siegel, David Kwabi, Tulga Ersal, Neil Dasgupta, Jeff Sakamoto, Bart Bartlett, and Wei Lu, who will present in a series of webinars on October 26-29 and November 10-12. Registration is free and open to the public. Topics include battery degradation and recycling, flow batteries, and fuel cells. Registration is free.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:18:46 -0400 2020-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Finland-Michigan Energy Circle
Fair Ranking with Biased Data (October 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78276 78276-20002859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Search engines and recommender systems have become the dominant matchmaker for a wide range of human endeavors — from online retail to finding romantic partners. Consequently, they carry immense power in shaping markets and allocating opportunity to the participants. In this talk, I will discuss how the machine learning algorithms underlying these systems can produce unfair ranking policies for both exogenous and endogenous reasons. Exogenous reasons often manifest themselves as biases in the training data, which then get reflected in the learned ranking policy and lead to rich-get-richer dynamics. But even when trained with unbiased data, reasons endogenous to the algorithms can lead to unfair or undesirable allocation of opportunity. To overcome these challenges, I will present new machine learning algorithms that directly address both endogenous and exogenous unfairness.

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Presentation Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:09:21 -0400 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation https://umich.zoom.us/j/93790126046
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series | Ram Kuppuswamy (October 26, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78845 78845-20131231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Ram shares insights from his experiences in leading teams at organizations like Walmart, Nokia, and Airtel as they faced seismic strategic changes, volatile business environments, and unprecedented operational pressures. “There are common leadership themes that emerge for successful teams in the midst of these challenges which have helped them be resilient and grow stronger. Over the years, I have had the incredible opportunity to learn through my personal failures and success stories.”

Join us as we explore these common themes and discuss the value of leading disruptive change!

Who should attend? Free webinar is open to the public.

Ram Kuppuswamy is a global leader with 20+ years of experience in senior-level executive roles and accomplishments across Fortune 100 Technology and Retail companies. He started his career as a consultant and served as Principal in the Operations and Retail Practice at Kearney, New York. Since then, Ram has been leading supply chain and operations transformations for technology and telecommunications leaders across the world — as Managing Director of Operations at Nokia HQ in Salo (Finland), where he launched the first Windows Phone (Lumia) in record time, Senior Director and Head of Sourcing at Microsoft in Beijing (China), and Global CPO at Airtel, where he managed a $12B supply chain for the second-largest telecom network in the world with operations in 17 countries across South-Asia and Africa. Currently, he is leading sales for strategic accounts in Asia-Pacific and Japan as Field Commerce Executive at VMWare (Dell Technologies).

Given this rich blend of experiences within a vast spectrum of geographies and industries, Ram is truly a Leader in Global Operations. He has led large and highly diverse teams of varied competencies, cultures, and educational backgrounds from all over the world. His operational expertise includes planning, manufacturing ecosystems, sourcing, logistics, transportation, customer fulfillment, and optimizing supply chains.

LINK TO WEBINAR AND QUESTIONS FOR SPEAKER: http://myumi.ch/yKGoW

CAN'T ATTEND? In the event that this Tauber Leadership Speaker Series is recorded, it would be added to the Leadership Speaker Series post-session

UPCOMING MEETINGS: Check the Tauber Leadership Speaker Series for upcoming events: http://myumi.ch/VPx4z

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact Shreya Agawal (MSE-IOE 2022) shreyaa@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series is a student-organized initiative to bring in top leaders from industry to the University of Michigan. These high-level executives are invited to share insights on their own careers, the qualities needed in today's global economy for strong leadership, and tangible steps to achieve excellence in one's own career path.

For more information:

Email TLSS organizer Shreya Agrawal shreyaa@umich.edu
Visit the visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Follow Tauber on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr

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Presentation Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:10:40 -0400 2020-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Ram Kuppuswamy, Field Commerce Executive, VMware, Inc.
Transfer to LSA Information Session (October 26, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76778 76778-19743052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Join the LSA Student Recruitment Team for our weekly virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits. Each session includes a Q & A featuring the Transfer Student Ambassadors. For any questions about this session, please email us at LSATransferCenter@umich.edu.

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Presentation Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:30:16 -0400 2020-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation Transfer Student Center
Finland-MI Energy Circle Webinars (October 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78372 78372-20018713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The State of Michigan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland recently expressed their official interest to collaborate on clean technologies. Experts include U-M faculty Anna Stefanopoulou, Jason Siegel, David Kwabi, Tulga Ersal, Neil Dasgupta, Jeff Sakamoto, Bart Bartlett, and Wei Lu, who will present in a series of webinars on October 26-29 and November 10-12. Registration is free and open to the public. Topics include battery degradation and recycling, flow batteries, and fuel cells. Registration is free.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:18:46 -0400 2020-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Finland-Michigan Energy Circle
Biopsychology Colloquium: Writing a Diversity Statement for the Faculty Job Search (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78072 78072-19957570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a “diversity statement” as part of the faculty job application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine a sample statement, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.

Gina Shereda is the Program Lead for STEM Professional Development at Rackham. She works with the Professional and Academic Development team to develop innovative programming including workshops, seminars, networking events, panels, job simulations, and career treks for U-M graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. Prior to joining Rackham, she held roles at U-M as an instructional consultant at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching and as the Associate Director of the Science Learning Center.

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Presentation Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:00:42 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Gina Shereda
OS Info Night (October 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77960 77960-19943587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Want to learn more about Organizational Studies?

Join us to hear more about this interdisciplinary major based in social sciences where students customize their own education. Enjoy a small community of dedicated and ambitious students with access to top-notch faculty and an engaged alumni network.

You'll have the opportunity to hear from the Program Director, Major Advisor, Prospective Student Advisors, and a diverse panel of OS students!

You must register to attend!

Feel free to visit our website in the meantime for more information on the curriculum, application, or to sign-up for a prospective student advising meeting!

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Presentation Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:08:53 -0400 2020-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Studies Program (OS) Presentation OS Info Night
Voter Engagement Seminar (October 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78900 78900-20152756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Your vote matters! Learn about how to register to and cast your vote, candidate information, and supporting BIPOC issues in your ballot.

Registration is required, and you can register here: https://myumi.ch/WwVD2. A Zoom link will be sent to those registered Tuesday morning!

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Presentation Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:33:25 -0400 2020-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location First Year Experience Programs Presentation dije flyer
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (October 27, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78465 78465-20050319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: http://myumi.ch/PlNqD

T. Ayo Alston teaches and practices a signature theatrical style of West African drum and dance culture that captures the strength and power of women and community. Ayo is the founder, executive director, composer, and choreographer of Ayodele Drum and Dance, a performance training organization created for women to affirm their self-confidence and strength. Through Ayodele, she has performed, educated, fostered interpersonal healing, and created artistic work from a foundation of traditional African cultures fused with contemporary dance styles.

Throughout her career Ayo has taught, choreographed, and performed at schools and universities locally and nationally, as well as in African and Brazilian countries, as an independent artist and as a member of other companies and organizations, such as Dance Africa, Drum Cafe West, Le Bagatae Company of Guinea, Les Ballets Africans, and Muntu Dance Theatre.

In the last two years Ayo has been focused on fine-tuning and sharing her ability to compose music on African instruments, such as the kalimba. This resulted in her accepting a role as a lead actress in and musical composer for Mies Julie at Victory Gardens Theater and as a composer and musician for The Lion King Jr. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

Ayo serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago and on the Dance faculty at Chicago High School of the Arts. She also has developed drum and dance programs that are thriving in prestigious schools, such as Jones College Prep and Walter Payton College Prep, where Ayodele has trained dancers to teach and gain professional artistic skills and experience.

In the new virtual series, PERFORMING THE MOVEMENT, PERFORMING THE MOMENT, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Each guest will give a 30 minute presentation, and then engage in 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

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

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Presentation Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:22:54 -0400 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 2020-10-27T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Ayodele
Finland-MI Energy Circle Webinars (October 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78372 78372-20018697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The State of Michigan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland recently expressed their official interest to collaborate on clean technologies. Experts include U-M faculty Anna Stefanopoulou, Jason Siegel, David Kwabi, Tulga Ersal, Neil Dasgupta, Jeff Sakamoto, Bart Bartlett, and Wei Lu, who will present in a series of webinars on October 26-29 and November 10-12. Registration is free and open to the public. Topics include battery degradation and recycling, flow batteries, and fuel cells. Registration is free.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:18:46 -0400 2020-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Finland-Michigan Energy Circle
Social Brown Bag: Black and White Meets Blue: How Institutional Interactions Erode Police-Community Trust Across Race (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77688 77688-19901722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Each year, approximately 19 million Americans are pulled over by the police. How do these everyday contacts contribute to persistent racial gaps in police-community trust in the U.S.? And how can we intervene to build trust between law enforcement and communities of color? I use a novel source of data — police body camera footage— to reveal racial disparities in police officers' interpersonal communication and their causal effects on citizens' institutional trust in the police. In turn, community members evaluate officers’ language and tone through the lens of their trust in law enforcement. I conclude with ongoing research on these cycles of racial inequity- and how we might break them.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:05:11 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Nick Camp
Measuring hair & skin: the importance of phenotypes in evolutionary genomics (October 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77104 77104-19798459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan are proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:13:08 -0400 2020-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Tina Lasisi
Thinking of declaring Mechanical Engineering? (October 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78618 78618-20075968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering

Come to this virtual information session to learn more about the Mechanical Engineering Department from the ME advisors, and ask your questions during the current ME student and alum panel.

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Presentation Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:15:58 -0400 2020-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering Presentation Info session details
QMSS Minor Info Night (October 28, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78510 78510-20052331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

QMSS faculty will Zoom live with updates on the minor and engage participants in another round of 'would you rather?'

Preregister here: https://forms.gle/VMrMmxoe3UCxdqXCA

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Presentation Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:11:37 -0400 2020-10-28T19:30:00-04:00 2020-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Presentation QMSS Fall Info Night Flyer
Finland-MI Energy Circle Webinars (October 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78372 78372-20018698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The State of Michigan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland recently expressed their official interest to collaborate on clean technologies. Experts include U-M faculty Anna Stefanopoulou, Jason Siegel, David Kwabi, Tulga Ersal, Neil Dasgupta, Jeff Sakamoto, Bart Bartlett, and Wei Lu, who will present in a series of webinars on October 26-29 and November 10-12. Registration is free and open to the public. Topics include battery degradation and recycling, flow batteries, and fuel cells. Registration is free.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:18:46 -0400 2020-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Finland-Michigan Energy Circle
CCN Forum: Processing collocations in first and second languages (October 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78129 78129-19965481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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In our daily usage of language, certain word combinations are more likely to appear than others, e.g., “drink” frequently co-occur with “coffee” but not with “soup”; “dark” frequently co-occur with
“chocolate” but not with “coffee”. These frequent lexical patterns -- which are dictated more by convention within the language than by grammatical or semantic restrictions -- are called collocations (Wolter & Yamashita, 2013). During my talk, I will present preliminary data from a dual lexical decision task (LDT) where we examine the processing advantage of collocations over unconnected word pairs in both native and nonnative speakers. I will discuss what we have
learned so far about the underlying factors, such as word frequency, collocation frequency, and first language influence, which collectively and interactively impact the processing of collocation in speakers varying in language proficiency and dominance.

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Presentation Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:05:53 -0400 2020-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Wendy Guo
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Polygenic Risk and Social Support in Predicting Depression Under Stress (November 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76748 76748-19743019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Depression is one of the leading causes of disability in US adults. Potential contributors to depressive symptoms have been identified at the genomic and environmental levels, though the mechanisms by which these factors independently and jointly influence depression risk remain unclear. Although the recent development of genomic technology has fueled substantial progress in identifying the genomic variation associated with major depression, genes alone do not fully predict who will develop depression. As responsivity to social support varies between individuals, sensitivity to the social environment may be one mechanism linking identified genomic variation and depressive symptoms. This talk will present the results of two studies assessing whether changes in social support affect the likelihood of depression development differently across the spectrum of genomic risk, and discuss implications for understanding depressive symptom etiology and clinical practice.

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Presentation Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:16:12 -0400 2020-11-02T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T09:50:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Jenny Cleary
Auditing for Bias in Resume Search Engines (November 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78328 78328-20010766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

There is growing awareness and concern about the role of automation in hiring, and the potential for these tools to reinforce historic inequalities in the labor market. I will present the results of an algorithm audit of the resume search engines offered by several of the largest online hiring platforms, to understand the relationship between a candidate’s gender and their rank in search results. We audited these platform with respect to individual and group fairness, as well as indirect and direct discrimination. I conclude with a brief discussion of the social and policy implications of our study.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 09:17:55 -0400 2020-11-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation https://umich.zoom.us/j/95382333953
Transfer to LSA Information Session (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76779 76779-19743053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Join the LSA Student Recruitment Team for our weekly virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits. Each session includes a Q & A featuring the Transfer Student Ambassadors. For any questions about this session, please email us at LSATransferCenter@umich.edu.

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Presentation Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:33:50 -0400 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation Transfer Student Center
Social Brown Bag: (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77692 77692-19901725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Rachel Fine:

Title: Boys Will Be Boys?: How gender essentialism relates to prejudice against gender nonconforming children

Abstract: With a study of 120 urban and 120 rural children, we found that more endorsement of gender essentialism (a belief that gender is an innate category) relates to more prejudice against gender nonconforming children. Although urban children were significantly less gender essentialist than their rural peers, and older children were less gender essentialist than younger children, we consistently found the main effect of higher gender essentialism relating to prejudice. Furthermore, essentialist beliefs about the immutability of gender were the most significant component of essentialism that relates to prejudice. These findings support the possibility that interventions can be created to lower gender essentialist beliefs in order reduce the prejudice against gender nonconforming children.

Bio: Rachel investigates how children and adults perceive non-discrete identities (for ex.being multiracial, gender nonconforming or a dual national) and how this relates to their beliefs about race, gender and nationality.

Zachery Reese:

Title: Competition within Relationships

Abstract: People in the U.S. strive for achievement, individuality, and glory while simultaneously striving to build and maintain close relationships. What happens when our desire to be "top dog" conflicts with our desire to support our loved ones? In this presentation, I will discuss several studies examining the roles competition and dominance play in our close relationships.

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Presentation Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:38:56 -0400 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Rachel Fine, Zach Reese
Webinar: Baby FACES 2018: Access and Use Data from the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (November 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78455 78455-20046387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This webinar provides researchers and analysts with an overview of Early Head Start Baby FACES, as well as information on the Baby FACES 2018 methods, measures, potential research questions and considerations, data files and documentation, sampling weights, and data access.

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Presentation Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:23:12 -0400 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement of webinar on Head Start Baby FACES data on November 4 2020 from ICPSR
Ancestry and Genomics Through a Bioethical Lens (November 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77106 77106-19798473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan are proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:11:22 -0400 2020-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Shawneequa Callier
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series | Rebecca Liao (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78987 78987-20168493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series presents:

"Leadership Lessons in Times of Radical Change"
A keynote presentation and panel discussion

Who should attend? The webinar is free and open to the public.

The Tauber Institute welcomes keynote speaker Rebecca Liao to highlight her experiences and perspectives on the theme of The New Normal, as well as how today’s trends will impact operations in the coming decade.

She was a member of Secretary Clinton’s foreign policy team for her 2016 presidential campaign, focusing on Asia trade and economic policy. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The National Interest, Bloomberg View, n+1, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Democracy Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Chinafile, The Diplomat, Huffington Post, Dissent Magazine, The New Inquiry, the LA Review of Books, The China Story Journal, Tea Leaf Nation, San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Classical Voice. She regularly comments on China for Deutsche Welle and Channel NewsAsia and has also appeared on HuffPost Live and SiriusXM Radio. She is a contributing editor at SupChina. Read more > http://myumi.ch/1p9xO

Panel: Role of Digitization on the Road to Supply Chain Recovery Post-COVID

Ayush Marthur, Senior Business Efficiency Consultant, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Josh Mellinger, Fresh Food Supply Chain leader, Deloitte
Anil Sebastian, Analytics & Digital Transformation, Microsoft
Matt Schnugg, Vice President of Engineering, GE Digital

Moderator: Professor M.S. Krishnan, Associate Dean, Executive Education and Executive-MBA, Ross School of Business

RSVP FOR WEBINAR LINK AND QUESTIONS FOR SPEAKER: http://myumi.ch/QAx1E

CAN'T ATTEND? In the event that this Tauber Leadership Speaker Series is recorded, it would be added to the Leadership Speaker Series post-session.

UPCOMING MEETINGS: Check the Tauber Leadership Speaker Series for upcoming events: http://myumi.ch/VPx4z

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact Sasanka Mouli Neti (MSE-IOE 2022) at or visit tauber.umich.edu.

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series is a student-organized initiative to bring in top leaders from industry to the University of Michigan. These high-level executives are invited to share insights on their own careers, the qualities needed in today's global economy for strong leadership, and tangible steps to achieve excellence in one's own career path.

For more information:

Email TLSS organizer sneti@umich.edu - MSE-IOE 2022
Visit the visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Follow Tauber on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr

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Presentation Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:29:38 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Rebecca Liao
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (November 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75951 75951-19627786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. Tune in to enjoy work from the next generation of authors.

This week's reading features Connor Greer [Fiction] and Mary Spooner [Poetry]. 

Organized by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts David Freeman (dfrman@umich.edu) or Lauren Morrow (lmmorrow@umich.edu).

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Presentation Sat, 07 Nov 2020 00:15:40 -0500 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Developmental Brown Bag: (November 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78107 78107-19965465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Jessica Montoro:

Title:
Latinx Adolescents Facing Multiple Daily Stressors and the Protective Role of Familismo

Abstract:
Familism, or familismo, is a highly endorsed Latinx cultural value that encompasses using family members as attitudinal and behavioral exemplars, turning to family members as sources of support, and prioritizing the family’s well-being over the individual’s (Stein et al., 2014). Although several studies have examined whether familismo protects youth from one type of stressor at a time (e.g. community violence exposure, discrimination, substance abuse), few scholars have compared the differential effects of both general and cultural stressors on Latinx youth’s psychological functioning (Ayón et al., 2010; Stein et al., 2012). This study examined the potentially protective effects of familismo among Latinx adolescents facing a myriad of stressors, both cultural and general. Survey data for this study were drawn from a sample of 224 low-income, Latinx 9th graders (age M = 14.5) attending 3 high schools in the Northeastern United States. When both cultural and general stressors were accounted for, greater material need was associated with increased depressive symptoms and a less positive future orientation. Moreover, familismo endorsement protected adolescents from depressive symptoms linked to material hardship. Results suggest that cultural stressors may be less distressing to Latinx adolescents than more general stressors, like financial hardship, and familismo is an important cultural value that may help Latinx adolescents navigate various types of stressors.

Yeonjee Bae:

Title:
Do firstborn children’s responses to mothers interacting with a baby doll predict jealousy of a newborn sibling?

Abstract:
The birth of an infant sibling is a normative life experience for many young children. Parents are particularly interested in how their firstborn children will react to the birth of the infant sibling, yet few resources exist to assist parents in managing their children’s jealousy across the transition to siblinghood. The current study used an infant doll simulator as a social rival during a mother-child-doll laboratory task to elicit children’s jealousy reactions which were then used to predict children’s jealousy of their 1-month-old newborn sibling. Thirty pregnant mothers and their firstborn children participated in a short-term longitudinal study using the infant doll simulator in the lab before the birth (Time 1) and home observations of mother-child-baby 1 month after the birth (Time 2). There were differences in children’s behaviors across the two times and children’s reactions to the baby doll did not appear to predict their reactions to their newborn sibling, suggesting there is little predictive validity in the use of a baby simulator to understand children’s jealousy of an infant sibling.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:12:14 -0500 2020-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Jessica Montoro, Yeonjee Bae
Envisioning an Anti-Racist World Creative Challenge: Information Session (November 9, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79096 79096-20207878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

How do you imagine a vision for an Anti-Racist World (campus, community, neighborhood, city, state, country), that truly embodies the ideals of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice for the future? In line with the work many members of the University’s community have been doing, and that has come into sharp focus in recent months with calls for action throughout the country and world, the Envisioning an Anti-Racist World Creative Challenge invites students to imagine a future world–and a future campus– that is anti-racist. We invite undergraduate and graduate students to research and share ideas while contributing to probing conversations and sharing experiences about racial inequality and the complex history of white supremacy as a process of imagining the world we want to build at UM.

Students can join as individuals then form interdisciplinary teams through the challenge process to take on the semester-long challenge taking place Winter 2021. Taking forward the core DEI values of the University and its community, teams will design the future, asking:

How would you envision the world you want to build?
What issue do you want to resolve?
What societal impact do you want to make?

Learn more at the info session on November 9, 12:30-1:30 EST. Sign up for the info session: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816026009312/WN__HqVddZcS263OMxKYwTfmg

Register to join the Creative Challenge, starting Winter 2021 here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cVuFoSCu3Ftp6MyAZdPtsLENuaoZj0hghu_oawHyfro/

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Presentation Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:28:06 -0500 2020-11-09T12:30:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Presentation Creative Challenge banner
Finland-MI Energy Circle Webinars (November 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78372 78372-20018710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The State of Michigan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland recently expressed their official interest to collaborate on clean technologies. Experts include U-M faculty Anna Stefanopoulou, Jason Siegel, David Kwabi, Tulga Ersal, Neil Dasgupta, Jeff Sakamoto, Bart Bartlett, and Wei Lu, who will present in a series of webinars on October 26-29 and November 10-12. Registration is free and open to the public. Topics include battery degradation and recycling, flow batteries, and fuel cells. Registration is free.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:18:46 -0400 2020-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Finland-Michigan Energy Circle
The Testing Paradox for COVID-19 (November 10, 2020 10:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79203 79203-20231444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:10am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Reported case-counts for coronavirus are wrinkled with data errors, namely misclassification of the tests and selection bias associated with who got tested. The number of covert or unascertained infections is large across the world. How can one determine optimal testing strategies with such imperfect data? In this talk, we propose an optimization algorithm for allocating diagnostic/surveillance tests when your objective is estimating the true population prevalence or detecting an outbreak. Infectious disease models and survey sampling techniques are used jointly to come up with these strategies

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:29:08 -0500 2020-11-10T10:10:00-05:00 2020-11-10T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Professor Bhramar Muherjee
Students’ mobility patterns on campus and the implications for the recovery of campus activities post-pandemic (November 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79204 79204-20231445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This research project uses location data gathered from WiFi access points on campus to model the mobility patterns of students in order to inform the planning of educational activities that can minimize the transmission risk.
The first aim is to understand the general mobility patterns of students on campus to identify physical spaces associating with a high-risk of transmission. For example, we can extract insights from WiFi data about which locations are the busiest during which time of the day, how much time was typically spent at each location, and how do these mobility patterns change over time. The second aim is to understand how students share the same physical spaces on campus (e.g. attending a lecture, meeting in the same room, sharing the same dorm). Students are presumably in a close proximity when they are connected to the same WiFi access point. We model a student-to-student network from their co-location activities and use its network centrality measures as proxies of transmission risk (i.e. students in the center of a network would have a higher chance of getting exposed to COVID-19 than those in the periphery). We then correlate network centrality measures with academic information (e.g. class schedule, course enrollment, study major, year of study, gender, ethnicity) to determine whether certain features of the academic record are related to transmission risk. For example, we can identify which groups of students are more vulnerable to potential infections by associating with a high network centrality. Insights from this research project will inform the University of Michigan’s strategies for the recovery of educational activities post-pandemic with empirical evidence of students’ mobility pattern on campus as well as factors that associate with a high-risk of transmission.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:35:37 -0500 2020-11-10T10:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T10:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Quan Nguyen
Modeling the Perceived Truthfulness of Public Statements on COVID-19: A New Model for Pairwise Comparisons of Objects with Multidimensional Latent Attributes (November 10, 2020 10:50am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79205 79205-20231446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:50am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

What is more important for how individuals perceive the truthfulness of statements about COVID-19: a) the objective truthfulness of the statements, or b) the partisanship of the individual and the partisanship of the people making the statements? To answer this question, we develop a novel model for pairwise comparisons data that allows for a richer structure of both the latent attributes of the objects being compared and rater-specific perceptual differences than standard models. We use the model to analyze survey data that we collected in the summer of 2020. This survey asked respondents to compare the truthfulness of pairs of statements about COVID-19. These statements were taken from the fact-checked statements on https://www.politifact.com. We thus have an independent measure of the truthfulness of each statement. We find that the actual truthfulness of a statement explains very little of the variability in individuals’ perceptions of truthfulness. Instead, we find that the partisanship of the speaker and the partisanship of the rater account for the majority of the variation in perceived truthfulness, with statements made by co-partisans being viewed as more truthful.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:49:47 -0500 2020-11-10T10:50:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Qiushi Yu and Kevin Quinn
Computational Neuroscience, Time Complexity, and Spacetime Analytics (November 10, 2020 11:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79206 79206-20231447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:10am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The proliferation of digital information in all human experiences presents difficult challenges and offers unique opportunities of managing, modeling, analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing heterogeneous data. There is a substantial need to develop, validate, productize, and support novel mathematical techniques, advanced statistical computing algorithms, transdisciplinary tools, and effective artificial intelligence apps.

Spacekime analytics is a new technique for modeling high-dimensional longitudinal data, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This approach relies on extending the notions of time, events, particles, and wave functions to complex-time (kime), complex-events (kevents), data and inference-functions, respectively. This talk will illustrate how the kime-magnitude (longitudinal time order) and kime-direction (phase) affect the subsequent predictive analytics and the induced scientific inference. The mathematical foundation of spacekime calculus reveals various statistical implications including inferential uncertainty and a Bayesian formulation of spacekime analytics. Complexifying time allows the lifting of all commonly observed processes from the classical 4D Minkowski spacetime to a 5D spacetime manifold, where a number of interesting mathematical problems arise.

Spacekime analytics transforms time-varying data, such as time-series observations, into higher-dimensional manifolds representing complex-valued and kime-indexed surfaces (kime-surfaces). This process uncovers some of the intricate structure in high-dimensional data that may be intractable in the classical space-time representation of the data. In addition, the spacekime representation facilitates the development of innovative data science analytical methods for model-based and model-free scientific inference, derived computed phenotyping, and statistical forecasting. Direct neuroscience science applications of spacekime analytics will be demonstrated using simulated data and clinical observations (e.g., UK Biobank).

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:57:23 -0500 2020-11-10T11:10:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Professor Ivo Dinov
Challenges in dynamic mode decomposition (November 10, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79207 79207-20231448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) is a powerful tool in extracting spatio-temporal patterns from multi-dimensional time series. DMD takes in time series data and computes eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a finite-dimensional linear model that approximates the infinite-dimensional Koopman operator which encodes the dynamics. DMD is used successfully in many fields: fluid mechanics, robotics, neuroscience, and more. Two of the main challenges remaining in DMD research are noise sensitivity and issues related to Krylov space closure when modeling nonlinear systems. In our work, we encountered great difficulty in reconstructing time series from multilegged robot data. These are oscillatory systems with slow transients, which decay only slightly faster than a period.
Here we present an investigation of possible sources of difficulty by studying a class of systems with linear latent dynamics which are observed via multinomial observables. We explore the influences of dataset metrics, the spectrum of the latent dynamics, the normality of the system matrix, and the geometry of the dynamics. Our numerical models include system and measurement noise. Our results show that even for these very mildly nonlinear conditions, DMD methods often fail to recover the spectrum and can have poor predictive ability. We show that for a system with a well-posed system matrix, having a dataset with more initial conditions and shorter trajectories can significantly improve the prediction. With a slightly ill-conditioned system matrix, a moderate trajectory length improves the spectrum recovery. Our work provides a self-contained framework on analyzing noise and nonlinearity, and gives generalizable insights dataset properties for DMD analysis.
Work was funded by ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 and the Kahn Foundation.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:02:20 -0500 2020-11-10T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Ziyou Wu
Biopsychology Colloquium: Intraoperative Neuromonitoring: Applied Neuroscience in the Operating Room (November 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78124 78124-19965474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) is frequently utilized during surgical procedures that place the brain, spine, or other neural elements at risk. The goals of neuromonitoring are first, to provide neuroprotection to the patient by warning the surgical team of impending injury so that permanent damage can be prevented, and second, to assist with neuronavigation. The ability to ascertain the functional integrity of the nervous system during complex procedures permits surgical approaches that can facilitate safer and more complete treatment of patients. This presentation will give an overview of some fundamental concepts found universally in IONM and then describe more specialized methods utilized in less-frequently encountered procedures. Finally, we will focus our discussion on the use of IONM methods to explore hypotheses concerning the mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) therapy for movement disorders.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:37:28 -0500 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Vincent Martinez
Transfer to LSA Information Session (November 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76780 76780-19743054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

Join the LSA Student Recruitment Team for our weekly virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits. Each session includes a Q & A featuring the Transfer Student Ambassadors. For any questions about this session, please email us at LSATransferCenter@umich.edu.

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Presentation Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:34:09 -0400 2020-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation Transfer Student Center
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (November 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78470 78470-20050324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: http://myumi.ch/BoVkl

"The fire raced along the fuse line and incensed;
We rose to burn it all down."

Across the nation and the globe, we all-knowing and all-conquering human beings find ourselves - for lack of a better way to phrase it - in a corner. In the corner, on a universally ordered timeout like misbehaving children. We were sent from schools, workplaces, nightclubs, bars, and places to eat to our homes to wait, like Didi and Gogo in Becketts' Waiting for Godot— awaiting the arrival of Godot, who never arrives. We were sent home to wait for a safer moment in time for our collective existence, which has yet to come. Sent home to sit in timeout to reflect, reevaluate, and heal as a people and a nation. Dumbfoundedly, we watched the drafted news reports of lives lost to COVID-19 awe-struck by our leaders' indifference to the severity of the moment. Yet, with all those pots boiling over, we heard of a woman who lost her life when startled from slumber in Louisville, we watched one human-being gunned down while jogging in Georgia, and yet another human-being deliberately robbed of breath for 8m46sec in Minnesota. As if the death of all those individual lives lost to COVID-19 thus far were not enough, we return to extinguishing Black lives.

"As an Afro-Dominican American, it is interesting to exist in a world designed to erase your existence. As a brown-skinned actor, it is devastating to come to terms with my role in that process of self-erasure. I have navigated between theatrical parts that reinforce negative stereotypes and those that made me question if my performance training would be enough to overcome the cultural discrepancy between myself and the character. It is a question that most often comes up when assuming non-white character roles, which underscores my complicity in my self-erasure. When the color of one's skin and the racially discriminatory experiences lived is drowned by the loud narratives that support– despite evidence— that racism does not exist. What does one do? When one's cultural background is not enough to garner a role or bring authenticity and truth to a character of perhaps African American descent, what does the actor do? When does Black equate to one's culture, and when does it not? Why am I at first glance considered black and then by some not black enough? This presentation aims to address performing one's culture within the context of racial consciousness. Performing an Afro-Dominican-American in New York City."

Antonio Disla, aka Antonio Garcia, is an Afro-Caribbean Dominican-American theatre practitioner, born and raised in New York City. He holds an M.F.A. in Performance from The Ohio State University. Since 2012, Antonio has taught at State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, in both the Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Communication. As a Solo Artist, he has written and devised both site-specific and staged works dealing with identity and race. Of his works, the notables to date are Nobody, a solo piece about race, and Travel, which deals with identity and destiny. As a performing company member of The Shakespeare Forum, he has lead workshops in the New York City Public Schools and co-taught Shakespeare for their Youth Forum program. Antonio has proudly worked with The Black Lady Theater, an African American community theatre company based in Brooklyn, in such productions as From the Brought of Brooklyn and Bone Soup.

In the new virtual series, PERFORMING THE MOVEMENT, PERFORMING THE MOMENT, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Each guest will give a 30 minute presentation, and then engage in 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

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

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Presentation Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:43:08 -0400 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Disla
Honors Grand Rounds with Xiao Wang, MD (November 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76327 76327-19687520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Join Stephanie Chervin, Honors premed advisor, for a virtual live discussion with Honors alum Xiao Wang, MD; internal medicine University of Pennsylvania Health System. This program is for current LSA Honors Program students only. A link to the virtual event will be sent to all registrants before the event.

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Presentation Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:47:52 -0400 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Presentation Dr. Wang at Hopkins graduation
Finland-MI Energy Circle Webinars (November 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78372 78372-20018711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The State of Michigan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland recently expressed their official interest to collaborate on clean technologies. Experts include U-M faculty Anna Stefanopoulou, Jason Siegel, David Kwabi, Tulga Ersal, Neil Dasgupta, Jeff Sakamoto, Bart Bartlett, and Wei Lu, who will present in a series of webinars on October 26-29 and November 10-12. Registration is free and open to the public. Topics include battery degradation and recycling, flow batteries, and fuel cells. Registration is free.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:18:46 -0400 2020-11-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Finland-Michigan Energy Circle
Novel Tools to Increase the Reliability and Reproducibility of Population Genetics Research (November 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79208 79208-20231449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Advances in population genetic research have the potential to create numerous important advances in the science of population dynamics. The interplay of micro-level biology and macro-level social sciences documents gene–environment–phenotype interactions and allows us to examine how genetics relates to child health and wellbeing. However, traditional genetics research is based on nonrepresentative samples that deviate from the target population, such as convenience and volunteer samples. This lack of representativeness may distort association studies. Recent findings have provoked concern about misinterpretation, irreproducibility and lack of generalizability, exemplifying the need to leverage survey research with genetics for population-based research. This project is motivated by the research team’s collaborative work on the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, which present these common problems in population genetics studies, to advance the integration of genetic science into population dynamics research. The project will evaluate sample selection effects, identify population heterogeneity in polygenic score analysis, and develop strategies to adjust for selection bias in the association studies of educational attainment, cognition status and substance use for child health and wellbeing. This interdisciplinary project will strengthen the validity and generalizability of population genetics research, deepen new understandings of human behavior and facilitate advances in population science.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:08:06 -0500 2020-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T09:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Yajuan Si
Machine learning-guided equations for the on-demand prediction of natural gas storage capacities of materials for vehicular applications (November 11, 2020 9:40am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79212 79212-20231453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:40am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Transportation is responsible for nearly one-third of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emission because of burning fossil fuel. While we dream for zero-carbon vehicles, future projections suggest little decline in fossil fuel consumption by the transportation sector until 2050. Therefore, ‘bending the curve’ of CO2 emission prompts the adoption of low-cost and reduced-emission alternative fuels. Natural gas (NG), the most abundant fossil fuel on earth, is such an alternative with nearly 25% lower carbon footprint and lower price compared to its gasoline counterpart. However, the widespread adoption of natural gas as a vehicular fuel is hindered by the scarcity of high-capacity, light-weight, low-cost, and safe storage systems. Recently, materials-based natural gas storage for vehicular applications have become one of the most viable options. Especially, nanoporous materials (NPMs) are in the spotlight of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) because of their exceptional energy storage capacities. However, the number of such NPMs is nearly infinite. It is unknown, a priori, which materials would have the expected natural gas storage capacity. Therefore, searching a high-performing material is like ‘finding a needle in a haystack’ that slows down the speed of materials discovery against growing technological demand. Here we present a novel approach of developing machine learning-guided equations for the on-demand prediction of energy storage capacities of NPMs using a few physically meaningful structural properties. These equations provide users the ability to calculate energy storage capacity of an arbitrary NPM rapidly using only paper and pencil. We show the utility of these equations by predicting NG storage of over 500,000 covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), a class of NPMs. We discovered a COF with record-setting NG storage capacity, surpassing the unmet target set by DOE. In principle, the data-driven approach presented here might be relevant to other disciplines including science, engineering, and health care.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:22:47 -0500 2020-11-11T09:40:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Alauddin Ahmed
Fusing Computer Vision And Space Weather Modeling (November 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79214 79214-20231455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Space weather has impacts on Earth ranging from rare, immensely disruptive events (e.g., electrical blackouts caused by solar flares and coronal mass ejections) to more frequent impacts (e.g., satellite GPS interference from fluctuations in the Earth’s ionosphere caused by rapid variations in the solar extreme UV emission). Earth-impacting events are driven by changes in the Sun’s magnetic field; we now have myriad instruments capturing petabytes worth of images of the Sun at a variety of wavelengths, resolutions, and vantage points. These data present opportunities for learning-based computer vision since the massive, well-calibrated image archive is often accompanied by physical models. This talk will describe some of the work that we have been doing to start integrating computer vision and space physics by learning mappings from one image or representation of the Sun to another. I will center the talk on a new system we have developed that emulates parts of the data processing pipeline of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI). This pipeline produces data products that help study and serve as boundary conditions for solar models of the energetic events alluded to above. Our deep-learning-based system emulates a key component hundreds of times faster than the current method, potentially opening doors to new applications in near-real-time space weather modeling. In keeping with the goals of the symposium, however, I will focus on some of the benefits close collaboration has enabled in terms of understanding how to frame the problem, measure success of the model, and even set up the deep network.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:27:08 -0500 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation David Fouhey
Social Brown Bag: (November 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77694 77694-19901727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Qinggang Yu

Title: Racial residential segregation and economic disparity jointly exacerbate the COVID-19 fatality in large American cities

Abstract:
The disproportionately high rates of both infections and deaths of underprivileged racial minorities in the U.S. during the current COVID-19 pandemic show that structural inequality can be lethal. However, the nature of this structural inequality is poorly understood in the context of the current pandemic. Here, we hypothesized that two features of the structural inequality, racial residential segregation and income inequality, contribute to numerous health-compromising conditions, which in turn exacerbate COVID-19 fatalities. These two features are particularly lethal when combined. To test this hypothesis, we examined the growth rate of both confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in an early period of the outbreak in the counties located in each of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. The growth curve for cases and deaths was steeper in counties located in metropolitan areas that residentially segregate Blacks and Hispanics. Moreover, this effect of racial residential segregation was augmented by income inequality within each county. The current evidence highlights the role of racial and economic disparity in producing the devastating human toll of the pandemic. It also offers important policy implications for making virus-resilient cities.


Yuyan Han

Title: Are Experts Aware Of What They Don’t Know?
Subtitle: A meta-calibration study on psychologists

Abstract:
The Confucius said, “When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.” Experts are usually found having more accurate self-assessment of knowledge compared to the rest. What drives their better calibration? Simply a larger amount of knowledge, or superior meta-knowledge as the Confucius asserted? In the current study, we compared the self-assessment performance between psychologists recruited from the SPSP 2020 Conference and UM undergraduates through Intro Psych Subject Pool on the topic of P value in research.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:15:13 -0500 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T13:30:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Qinggang Yu, Yuyan Han
BLI Capstone Experience Info Session (November 11, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79179 79179-20225558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

What would you do with an idea and $10,000?

The Capstone Experience at the Barger Leadership Institute (BLI) supports undergraduate students in designing and implementing evidence-based, collaborative projects that seek to bring about small (and big) wins for the complex, ambiguous problems that exist in our deeply interconnected world.

Join the BLI to learn more about Capstone Experience and meet like-minded students with ideas and skills to collaborate with. Teams, individuals, or those just interested in learning more are all welcome — you do not have to be a current BLI member to participate in this info session.

Whether your project is still an idea or an existing project that has approached a hurdle or is considering growth, the BLI Capstone Experience will provide teams with the funding — a minimum of $10,000 — and mentorship necessary to make your vision a reality.

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Presentation Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:03:01 -0500 2020-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Presentation BLI Capstone
Love & Zombies & Literature: What makes Genre Writing Literary? (November 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79154 79154-20217710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join RC Creative Writing faculty Christopher Matthews and Avi Steinberg for a discussion and Q & A about how speculative fiction and the romance genre intersect with literary fiction. If writers such as Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler have proven that genre writing can also be literature, how do the publishing industry and creative writing programs distinguish between commercial and literary markets? Our panelists will read from their own work and offer their perspective on what makes genre literary.

>> Avi Steinberg is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction published by Knopf Doubleday: Running the Books (2010), The Lost Book of Mormon (2014), and The Happily Ever After (2020). His books have been translated into five languages and cited as Best of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the New Yorker, among others. He is currently at work on a biography of the writer and political activist, Grace Paley, which will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and on a translation of the biblical story of David, which will be published by Norton/Liveright. In 2019, he was awarded a writing residency at Yaddo. He is a contributor to the New Yorker’s Culture Desk, and a regular features writer for the New York Times Magazine. His essays and reportage have also appeared in the Guardian magazine (‘The Long-Read’), Salon, the Paris Review, and n+1. He has been leading creative nonfiction workshops in the Residential College since 2018.

>> Christopher Matthews is a poet, fiction writer, and sometime scholar of nineteenth-century literature with an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD from the University of Michigan. Raised in California and schooled in Michigan, he has taught at Kalamazoo College, Washington & Lee University in Virginia, and now the Residential College. His creative, scholarly, and teaching interests include lyrical and discursive poetry, storytelling and narrative theory, film, monsters, ghosts, studies in race/class/gender/sexuality, and more. Chris’ creative work has appeared widely in such journals as The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Cortland Review, and has been recognized with three Pushcart nominations and two features in Ted Kooser’s syndicated "American Life in Poetry" project. His scholarship has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Studies and Victorian Studies, among others.

>> Join the event at http://myumi.ch/yK195

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Presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2020 13:54:21 -0500 2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Presentation Love & Zombies & Literature poster
Finland-MI Energy Circle Webinars (November 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78372 78372-20018712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The State of Michigan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland recently expressed their official interest to collaborate on clean technologies. Experts include U-M faculty Anna Stefanopoulou, Jason Siegel, David Kwabi, Tulga Ersal, Neil Dasgupta, Jeff Sakamoto, Bart Bartlett, and Wei Lu, who will present in a series of webinars on October 26-29 and November 10-12. Registration is free and open to the public. Topics include battery degradation and recycling, flow batteries, and fuel cells. Registration is free.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:18:46 -0400 2020-11-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Finland-Michigan Energy Circle
Webinar: Drawing a Portrait of Arts and Culture in the U.S. with the latest data from NADAC (November 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78592 78592-20068101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Register: http://myumi.ch/erdzq

Please join us for the upcoming tour around the latest data on arts and culture, freely available to researchers and the general public at the National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture. Your guides will introduce you to NADAC’s recently released studies covering a wealth of topics including public participation in the arts in the United States; the impact of arts and cultural production on the United States economy; data on employment and income for those employed in the arts; information on the amount of time that people spend doing various arts activities; unique and amazing dance history data, and more!

The webinar takes place on November 12 at 11 am EST and is hosted by ICPSR, with presenters including NADAC Project Manager Anya Ovchinnikova; Data Project Manager, David Thomas; and featuring special guest Sunil Iyengar, the Director of the Office of Research & Analysis of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thanks to the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, this webinar is free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:47:05 -0500 2020-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement of webinar arts and culture data November 4 2020 from ICPSR
Access Internships in Asia and Europe! (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78794 78794-20123203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Interested in interning with an organization in Asia or Europe next summer? Join the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, Center for Japanese Studies, and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies to learn about our internship initiatives, funding opportunities, and how to apply.

Registration is required at http://myumi.ch/88MKV.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:41:45 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Presentation Access Internships 2020
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79009 79009-20170604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

How do curatorial works and memorial sites simultaneously serve as tools for constructing national identities and as materials in a state’s claim for transnational reputation? How can we frame these questions in the context of post-dictatorial nations and their contested heritage? Looking at the two different cases of Ukraine and Spain, this presentation will unravel the multiplicity of ways in which cultural artifacts and narratives become the very sites for these discussions and crystalize the impact of these often violent legacies.
Co-presentation by Grace Mahoney (PhD candidate, Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Felix Zamora-Gomez (PhD candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures)

Complete details here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/museum-narratives-and-transnational-reputations-history-state-legitimacy-and-contested-heritage-in-ukraine-and-spain/

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Presentation Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:09:02 -0400 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Museums at Noon
CCN Forum: Understanding Computations in Humans and Machines: My journey into data science as a cognitive scientist (November 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79117 79117-20209854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:

In this talk, I will discuss the value and merits of both the formal and informal training that prepared me for a career in data science. I will highlight the intersection of my previous research in developing methods to understand the brain-behavior dynamics during reading with my contributions to the MNE project and the Brain Imaging Data Structure. I will also provide some recommendations of practical skills development for early career researchers.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:05:04 -0500 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Teon L. Brooks, Ph.D.
Developmental Brown Bag: The way “we” talk: Generic pronouns convey messages of togetherness (November 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78117 78117-19965466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Key to a well-functioning society is having rules of conduct that apply to everyone. This becomes especially important in times of crisis, when shared behaviors can protect the most vulnerable. How can we promote group norms over personal desires? In this talk I will present data from two studies showing that the generic pronouns “you” and “we” (“you/we always eat turkey at Thanksgiving”) might provide an effective way to convey such message. Adults and children (age 6-7 and 8-9) regard speakers using generic pronouns as conforming to group norms (Study 1) and showing greater compassion (Study 2) compared to speakers using specific pronouns (“I” or “she). These findings suggest that subtle shifts in the way “we” talk can dramatically change the message, from one of selfishness to one of togetherness.

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Presentation Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:32:17 -0500 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Giulia Ellia, Ph.D.
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (November 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76644 76644-19733042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

September 29, 11-12pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93308250046

October 21, 4-5pm (Geared toward Transfer Students): https://umich.zoom.us/j/91068199152

November 16, 5-6pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94802355758

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Presentation Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:58:01 -0400 2020-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Pre-Law Logo
Biopsychology Colloquium: Life history trade-offs as a balancing demographic mechanism for reproductive success during ecological adversity (November 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78125 78125-19965475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Life history trade-offs represent constrains in the life of organisms. However, they can also contribute to balancing reproductive success. Here, I analyze how chronic and acute ecological burdens affect the demography of Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques and propose life history trade-offs as a potential mechanism for maintaining fitness when experiencing ecological adversity. Specifically, I decompose the effects of population density and hurricanes on population growth rate into survival and reproduction and quantify the life cycle transitions contributing the most to population fitness. My analysis shows that females exhibit a reduced reproductive output when experiencing these ecological adversities as a result of an overall decrease in mean age-specific fertility and a delay in sexual maturity. Yet, these females exhibit the survival and lifetime reproductive success expected from other females that did not experience the same level of adversity in life. My analysis supports trade-offs between survival and reproduction as a mechanism that allows females to suppress fertility during particular years and allocate more energy to growth or survival, in order to ensure future reproductive potential.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:38:13 -0500 2020-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Raisa Hernández Pacheco
Neuroimaging Interest Group Talk Series: I can hear what you see (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79366 79366-20286537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Almost one-quarter of the brain is normally devoted to processing visual information: reading text, recognizing faces, following the Sunday football match, and much more. The brain’s visual cortex contains specialized regions devoted to processing motion, text, faces etc. In congenitally blind individuals, much of the ‘visual’ cortex responds strongly to auditory and tactile input rather than to visual stimuli, a phenomenon known as cross-modal plasticity. Here I will discuss what our laboratory has discovered about the representation of sound in early blind individuals, and what this reveals about the plasticity of the human brain.

Meeting ID: 970 5999 8818
See Zoom Link Below

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Presentation Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:51:28 -0500 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:30:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Ione Fine, Ph.D.
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (November 17, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78476 78476-20050333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: http://myumi.ch/mnblz

Salakastar will be performing selections from ALL BLUE: PART ONE (MAJORELLE!) , her debut experimental R+B album and performance series. It consists of poetic healing rituals in the form of vibrant sounds, visuals, and mantras. AB: P1(M!) is a response to the urgent needs of people of color for recording and sharing untold narratives of self, land, and belonging.

Salakastar channels her ancestral spirit Majorelle to expand the African-American tradition of rhythm+blues and its lineage in relation to the generational depression experienced by descendants of the survivors of the Middle Passage and the souls that still exist in the deep blue of the Atlantic Ocean. She extends the healing quality of the color blue as it relates to the 5th chakra at the throat associated with Truth, voice, communication, and purification.

Salakastar is a Detroit born and based actor, singer-songwriter, poet, and teaching artist working in theatre, television, film, and music. She earned her BFA and completed her classical acting training at the State University of New York at Purchase College. She is an artist-in-residence at Poetic Societies, a member of the touring company of I, Too, Sing America at the Michigan Opera Theatre and a founding member of iii Sisters, a Detroit-based feminist writing ensemble. She is a 2018 Gilda Award Winner and a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow in Live Arts awarded by the Kresge foundation.

In the new virtual series, PERFORMING THE MOVEMENT, PERFORMING THE MOMENT, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Each guest will give a 30 minute presentation, and then engage in 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

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

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Presentation Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:34:44 -0400 2020-11-17T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Salakastar