Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Clinical Science Brown Bag: Examining the Role of Affect in the Relationship Between Discrimination and Depression (March 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82383 82383-21090284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
This research talk will discuss the role that affect plays in the relationship between racial discrimination and depressive symptoms in Black college students. The data used in this study is taken from a longitudinal sample of 171 college students (69% female). This presentation will be discussing theoretical frameworks that inform the course of research, preliminary findings from the research study, as well as clinical and population-specific implications for working with Black college students.

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:28:27 -0500 2021-03-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T21:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Aaron Neal
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Simine Vazire, Psychology, University of Melbourne (March 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81079 81079-20846537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

How can we tell which scientific findings are credible? Peer-reviewed journals, even prestigious ones, do not provide much assurance regarding the credibility of any individual report. Ideally, we would read each report carefully when deciding what to trust, but this is often impossible (e.g., when we lack the expertise to evaluate the methods) or impractical (e.g., when we need to evaluate research at scale). Moreover, rather than each of us making private judgments, we would all benefit from collecting and sharing evaluations from a range of experts with different areas of expertise and different blind spots and biases. The ideal would be to validate a rubric for eliciting structured quantitative ratings of quality along a wide range of dimensions, and collect and make publicly available ratings from many different and diverse experts. These scores could be combined into a variety of metrics, or “Quality Factors” (QFs), that vary in the weight placed on different qualities. These QFs would provide easily digestible and flexible quality ratings of individual scientific papers that could be useful to other scientists, to journalists and policymakers, and to the public. QFs would also help incentivize authors to “get it right” rather than just get published in prestigious journals, because rewards and recognition could be tied to these more transparent, accountable, and valid metrics rather than to journal prestige. In this talk, I discuss what this could look like for my home discipline of psychology, and describe some progress towards producing Quality Factors for psychology papers.


Simine Vazire is an associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Melbourne. She is the director of the Personality and Self-Knowledge laboratory. She is the co-founder and current president of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, a senior editor at Collabra: Psychology, and editor in chief of Social Psychological and Personality Science. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation, and examines accuracy and bias in people’s perceptions of their own behavior and personality. She also conducts meta-science examining how people interpret scientific findings, and tracking trends in the methods and results of published studies in psychology over time. She teaches and blogs about research methods and reproducibility.

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Presentation Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:17:46 -0500 2021-03-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Simine Vazire
Café Shapiro with Guest Hosts! (March 1, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81065 81065-20840670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, will read their own poems and short stories. The quality is high! For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

This year we have celebrity hosts! Get more info about our hosts and our student presenters here: https://myumi.ch/ovPEl

MARCH 1 PRESENTERS
Meghan Chou (short story), senior
Aelita Klausmeier (poetry), sophomore
Erika Woo (poetry), senior
Alex Aisner (op-ed), freshman
Nicole Tooley (poetry), sophomore
Eli Neumann (poetry), junior
Dylan Gilbert (poetry), senior
Malin Andersson (poetry), junior
Madeline Bacolor (poetry), senior
Andrew Warrick (fiction), senior

MARCH 2 PRESENTERS
Hayley Yu (fiction), senior
Nayiri Sagherian (fiction), sophomore
Tess Klygis (short poems), freshman
Lily Price (fiction), freshman
Ellie Katz (creative nonfiction essay)
Jee-In Kwon (poetry)
Sabrina Nash (fiction)
Harper Klotz (poetry)
Kellie M. Beck (fiction or poetry?)
Carly Cooper (short screenplay)

MARCH 8 PRESENTERS
Jade Wurst (poetry), junior
Charles-Alexandria Goodrum (essay), freshman
Victoria Murphy (poetry), freshman
Simone McCants (fictional short story), senior
Nicholas Moore (poetry), junior
Roshni Veeramachaneni (fiction), freshman
Rachna Iyer (poetry), sophomore
Soumya Tejam (short story), sophomore
Hannah Martin (poetry), junior
Aniyah Fisher (essay), freshman

MARCH 9 PRESENTERS
Hussein Alkadhim (lyric essay), sophomore
Lia Baldori (short fiction story),senior
Hiba Dagher (poetry), junior
Jack Doyle (fiction), junior
Milisa Carter (essay), freshman
Fareah Fysudeen (fiction), senior
Thomas Griffith (poetry), sophomore
Kaleb Brown (fiction), senior
Max Hernand (fiction short story), junior

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Presentation Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:39:08 -0500 2021-03-01T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Presentation Detail from Café Shapiro anthology
Facilitating Community-wide Clean Energy Improvements using PACE financing (March 2, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82459 82459-21106109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

While clean energy improvements save utility customers money over time, some property owners find it challenging to finance the upfront costs of energy efficiency upgrades or renewable energy projects. Local governments can help building owners overcome this hurdle by creating a PACE (or Property Assessed Clean Energy) district, which allows building owners to access longer-term loans through a voluntary special assessment on their property tax bill. In this session you can learn about PACE financing from Lean & Green Michigan, a public-private partnership that serves as the statewide administrator of the PACE program for 47 local governments around the state.

Register on the EGLE Energy Webinars page to attend this free event!

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:56:22 -0500 2021-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Presentation EGLE-Graham
Biopsychology Colloquium: Game of Hormones: Why Sex Matters for Brain Health (March 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82230 82230-21058464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
As anyone who has gone through adolescence, pregnancy, or aging can attest: hormones can exert powerful effects on brain and behavior. My laboratory has focused primarily on three main areas of research: how sex, sex and stress hormones affect neuroplasticity, cognition and emotional behaviors. Why do I study sex differences in cognition? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not so Google employees can write manifestos. Men and women differ in their vulnerability to develop neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases, many of which are also associated with sex differences in the severity of cognitive disruptions and neural manifestations of the disease. For example, women have a greater lifetime risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and major depressive disorder and also greater cognitive disruption with both these diseases compared to men. However, men are more likely to present with greater cognitive disturbances with schizophrenia. Hence, to gain a better understanding of how to effectively treat cognitive symptoms in both men and women, it is important to acknowledge and study differences that might arise between both sexes in response to environmental perturbations. The hippocampus produces new neurons throughout the lifespan in rodents and humans and adult neurogenesis plays a crucial role for pattern separation and for spatial long-term memory. I will show different examples of sex differences in hippocampal neurogenesis under basal conditions but also in response to sex hormones and to spatial training. It is important to establish how neurogenesis in the hippocampus may be involved in hippocampus-dependent cognition in both males and females given the sex differences in cognitive disruptions following diseases that impact the hippocampus. Work in my laboratory has shown that there are sex differences in performance favoring males or females depending on the task and strategy use in spatial navigation and pattern separation. Furthermore, sex and strategy use affected the survival and activity of new neurons in response to memory. We also see multiple examples of sex differences in neurogenesis in the hippocampus that imply differential functional perturbances of neuroplasticity. Finally, I will speak briefly, on preliminary evidence on sex differences in hippocampal neurogenesis using a rodent model of Alzheimer’s disease and how, a uniquely female event, motherhood, can have long lasting effects on the hippocampus and cognition. These findings emphasize the importance of studying biological sex on hippocampal function and neuroplasticity and have implications for neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders that target the hippocampus and affect cognition differentially in women versus men.

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:17:11 -0500 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Liisa Galea
Café Shapiro with Guest Hosts! (March 2, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81065 81065-20840671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, will read their own poems and short stories. The quality is high! For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

This year we have celebrity hosts! Get more info about our hosts and our student presenters here: https://myumi.ch/ovPEl

MARCH 1 PRESENTERS
Meghan Chou (short story), senior
Aelita Klausmeier (poetry), sophomore
Erika Woo (poetry), senior
Alex Aisner (op-ed), freshman
Nicole Tooley (poetry), sophomore
Eli Neumann (poetry), junior
Dylan Gilbert (poetry), senior
Malin Andersson (poetry), junior
Madeline Bacolor (poetry), senior
Andrew Warrick (fiction), senior

MARCH 2 PRESENTERS
Hayley Yu (fiction), senior
Nayiri Sagherian (fiction), sophomore
Tess Klygis (short poems), freshman
Lily Price (fiction), freshman
Ellie Katz (creative nonfiction essay)
Jee-In Kwon (poetry)
Sabrina Nash (fiction)
Harper Klotz (poetry)
Kellie M. Beck (fiction or poetry?)
Carly Cooper (short screenplay)

MARCH 8 PRESENTERS
Jade Wurst (poetry), junior
Charles-Alexandria Goodrum (essay), freshman
Victoria Murphy (poetry), freshman
Simone McCants (fictional short story), senior
Nicholas Moore (poetry), junior
Roshni Veeramachaneni (fiction), freshman
Rachna Iyer (poetry), sophomore
Soumya Tejam (short story), sophomore
Hannah Martin (poetry), junior
Aniyah Fisher (essay), freshman

MARCH 9 PRESENTERS
Hussein Alkadhim (lyric essay), sophomore
Lia Baldori (short fiction story),senior
Hiba Dagher (poetry), junior
Jack Doyle (fiction), junior
Milisa Carter (essay), freshman
Fareah Fysudeen (fiction), senior
Thomas Griffith (poetry), sophomore
Kaleb Brown (fiction), senior
Max Hernand (fiction short story), junior

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Presentation Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:39:08 -0500 2021-03-02T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Presentation Detail from Café Shapiro anthology
Social Psychology Brown Bag: (March 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82455 82455-21100209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Susannah

Title:
Face-to-face versus social media confrontation and the role of relationship closeness

Abstract:
In this talk, I will discuss and compare how two communication contexts -- face-to-face and on social media -- may differentially influence how people engage in confrontation, as well as the role of relationship closeness in influencing these effects. To this end, I will describe a series of experimental studies and one crowdsourcing study using Twitter data.

Laura

Title:
What We Would (but Shouldn't) Do for Those We Love: Universalism versus Partiality in Responding to Others' Moral Transgressions

Abstract:
Previous work shows that people say they are more likely to protect a close (versus distant) other who commits a serious moral transgression. But do people believe it is morally right to preferentially protect close others in this way? Across four studies, we show that people believe they should protect close others more than distant others. However, we also document a striking discrepancy between how people think they actually would act, and what they morally should do, when it comes to protecting close others. This suggests that moral decisions involving close relationships may be a context in which people are particularly likely to fail to do what they think is right.

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:20:46 -0500 2021-03-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Susannah and Laura
CCN Forum: Probing cortical inhibition in visual cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation (March 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80340 80340-20705798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive method to stimulate localized brain regions and is a useful tool for examining GABA-mediated inhibitory function. Despite widespread use in motor cortex, paired-pulse TMS is seldom performed in sensory areas due to variable, qualitative metrics. In this talk, I will discuss a project in which we assessed the reliability and validity of tracing TMS-induced phosphenes (short-lived artificial percepts) to investigate the stimulation parameters necessary to elicit decreased visual cortex excitability with paired-pulse TMS. I will then present preliminary data exploring how this newly developed measure of visual cortical inhibition relates to Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy measures of GABA concentration, and how it can be applied to the study of aging. Previous literature reveals that GABA concentration declines with age across many brain regions; I will therefore also provide preliminary results that investigate age differences in this TMS measure of visual inhibitory activity.

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Presentation Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:07:27 -0500 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dalia Khammash
Clinical Brown Bag: Associations Between Exposure to Community Violence and Neural Responses to Reward (March 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82613 82613-21145763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
An extensive literature has shown that exposure to adversity broadly, and to community violence specifically, is linked to maladaptive behavioral outcomes. However, research is only beginning to link adversity to brain function and little research has examined whether exposure to community violence predicts neural function. The current study examines associations between exposure to community violence and neural reactivity during reward processing in 451 twins sampled from neighborhoods with above average levels of poverty. Moreover, by leveraging a twin design, the study examines the extent to which these associations are environmental in origin.

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Presentation Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:04:54 -0500 2021-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T09:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Heidi Westerman
MIDAS Seminar Series and Michigan AI Initiative Co-Present: Heng Ji, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (March 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81082 81082-20846538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

To combat COVID-19, clinicians and scientists all need to digest the vast amount of relevant biomedical knowledge in literature to understand the disease mechanism and the related biological functions. The first challenge is quantity. For example, nearly 2.7K new papers are published at PubMed per day. This knowledge bottleneck causes significant delay in the development of vaccines and drugs for COVID-19. The second challenge is quality due to the rise and rapid, extensive publications of preprint manuscripts without pre-publication peer review. Many research results about coronavirus from different research labs and sources are redundant, complementary or event conflicting with each other.

Let’s consider drug repurposing as a case study. Besides the long process of clinical trial and biomedical experiments, another major cause for the long process is the complexity of the problem involved and the difficulty in drug discovery in general. The current clinical trials for drug re-purposing mainly rely on symptoms by considering drugs that can treat diseases with similar symptoms. However, there are too many drug candidates and too much misinformation published from multiple sources. In addition to a ranked list of drugs, clinicians and scientists also aim to gain new insights into the underlying molecular cellular mechanisms on Covid-19, and which pre-existing conditions may affect the mortality and severity of this disease.

To tackle these two challenges, we have developed a novel and comprehensive knowledge discovery framework, COVID-KG, to accelerate scientific discovery and build a bridge between clinicians and biology scientists. COVID-KG starts by reading existing papers to build multimedia knowledge graphs (KGs), in which nodes are entities/concepts and edges represent relations involving these entities, extracted from both text and images. Given the KGs enriched with path ranking and evidence mining, COVID-KG answers natural language questions effectively. Using drug repurposing as a case study, for 11 typical questions that human experts aim to explore, we integrate our techniques to generate a comprehensive report for each candidate drug. Preliminary assessment by expert clinicians and medical school students show our generated reports are informative and sound. I will also talk about our ongoing work to extend this framework to other domains including molecular synthesis and agriculture.

Bio:

Heng Ji is a professor at Computer Science Department, and an affiliated faculty member at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an Amazon Scholar. She received her B.A. and M. A. in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Her research interests focus on Natural Language Processing, especially on Multimedia Multilingual Information Extraction, Knowledge Base Population and Knowledge-driven Generation. She was selected as “Young Scientist” and a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Computing by the World Economic Forum in 2016 and 2017. The awards she received include “AI’s 10 to Watch” Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, NSF CAREER award in 2009, Google Research Award in 2009 and 2014, IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012 and 2014 and Bosch Research Award in 2014-2018, and ACL2020 Best Demo Paper Award. She was invited by the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force and AFRL to join Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030. She is the lead of many multi-institution projects and tasks, including the U.S. ARL projects on information fusion and knowledge networks construction, DARPA DEFT Tinker Bell team and DARPA KAIROS RESIN team. She has coordinated the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She has served as the Program Committee Co-Chair of many conferences including NAACL-HLT2018. She is elected as the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) secretary 2020-2021. Her research has been widely supported by the U.S. government agencies (DARPA, ARL, IARPA, NSF, AFRL, DHS) and industry (Amazon, Google, Bosch, IBM, Disney).

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Presentation Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:32:08 -0500 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Heng Li
Café Shapiro with Guest Hosts! (March 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81065 81065-20840672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, will read their own poems and short stories. The quality is high! For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

This year we have celebrity hosts! Get more info about our hosts and our student presenters here: https://myumi.ch/ovPEl

MARCH 1 PRESENTERS
Meghan Chou (short story), senior
Aelita Klausmeier (poetry), sophomore
Erika Woo (poetry), senior
Alex Aisner (op-ed), freshman
Nicole Tooley (poetry), sophomore
Eli Neumann (poetry), junior
Dylan Gilbert (poetry), senior
Malin Andersson (poetry), junior
Madeline Bacolor (poetry), senior
Andrew Warrick (fiction), senior

MARCH 2 PRESENTERS
Hayley Yu (fiction), senior
Nayiri Sagherian (fiction), sophomore
Tess Klygis (short poems), freshman
Lily Price (fiction), freshman
Ellie Katz (creative nonfiction essay)
Jee-In Kwon (poetry)
Sabrina Nash (fiction)
Harper Klotz (poetry)
Kellie M. Beck (fiction or poetry?)
Carly Cooper (short screenplay)

MARCH 8 PRESENTERS
Jade Wurst (poetry), junior
Charles-Alexandria Goodrum (essay), freshman
Victoria Murphy (poetry), freshman
Simone McCants (fictional short story), senior
Nicholas Moore (poetry), junior
Roshni Veeramachaneni (fiction), freshman
Rachna Iyer (poetry), sophomore
Soumya Tejam (short story), sophomore
Hannah Martin (poetry), junior
Aniyah Fisher (essay), freshman

MARCH 9 PRESENTERS
Hussein Alkadhim (lyric essay), sophomore
Lia Baldori (short fiction story),senior
Hiba Dagher (poetry), junior
Jack Doyle (fiction), junior
Milisa Carter (essay), freshman
Fareah Fysudeen (fiction), senior
Thomas Griffith (poetry), sophomore
Kaleb Brown (fiction), senior
Max Hernand (fiction short story), junior

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Presentation Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:39:08 -0500 2021-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Presentation Detail from Café Shapiro anthology
Biopsychology Colloquium: neuronal regulation of pre-sleep behaviors (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80347 80347-20705810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The transition from wakefulness to sleep requires a striking alteration in brain activity and behavior. Animals shift from actively responding to and interacting with the environment to a quiescent state in which they are less responsive to the environment and their brain activity shows different oscillatory patterns. How do animals achieve this remarkable wake-to-sleep transition? Prior to sleep onset, animals ranging from bees to humans display a stereotypic repertoire of behaviors. These include finding a safe location, performing hygiene-related behaviors, preparing a space in which to sleep, and adopting a sleeping posture. It has been suggested that the pre-sleep phase is a transitional phase in which engaging in a specific behavioral repertoire de-arouses the brain and facilitates the transition from wakefulness to sleep, yet causal evidence for this premise is lacking. In this talk, I will describe our lab’s recent work to fill this knowledge gap.

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Presentation Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:04:27 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Ada Eban-Rothschild
Café Shapiro with Guest Hosts! (March 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81065 81065-20840673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, will read their own poems and short stories. The quality is high! For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

This year we have celebrity hosts! Get more info about our hosts and our student presenters here: https://myumi.ch/ovPEl

MARCH 1 PRESENTERS
Meghan Chou (short story), senior
Aelita Klausmeier (poetry), sophomore
Erika Woo (poetry), senior
Alex Aisner (op-ed), freshman
Nicole Tooley (poetry), sophomore
Eli Neumann (poetry), junior
Dylan Gilbert (poetry), senior
Malin Andersson (poetry), junior
Madeline Bacolor (poetry), senior
Andrew Warrick (fiction), senior

MARCH 2 PRESENTERS
Hayley Yu (fiction), senior
Nayiri Sagherian (fiction), sophomore
Tess Klygis (short poems), freshman
Lily Price (fiction), freshman
Ellie Katz (creative nonfiction essay)
Jee-In Kwon (poetry)
Sabrina Nash (fiction)
Harper Klotz (poetry)
Kellie M. Beck (fiction or poetry?)
Carly Cooper (short screenplay)

MARCH 8 PRESENTERS
Jade Wurst (poetry), junior
Charles-Alexandria Goodrum (essay), freshman
Victoria Murphy (poetry), freshman
Simone McCants (fictional short story), senior
Nicholas Moore (poetry), junior
Roshni Veeramachaneni (fiction), freshman
Rachna Iyer (poetry), sophomore
Soumya Tejam (short story), sophomore
Hannah Martin (poetry), junior
Aniyah Fisher (essay), freshman

MARCH 9 PRESENTERS
Hussein Alkadhim (lyric essay), sophomore
Lia Baldori (short fiction story),senior
Hiba Dagher (poetry), junior
Jack Doyle (fiction), junior
Milisa Carter (essay), freshman
Fareah Fysudeen (fiction), senior
Thomas Griffith (poetry), sophomore
Kaleb Brown (fiction), senior
Max Hernand (fiction short story), junior

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Presentation Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:39:08 -0500 2021-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Presentation Detail from Café Shapiro anthology
Social Psychology Brown Bag: (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82724 82724-21163662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Soyeon

Title:
College kids vs. the world: What differentially predicted social distancing behavior for college students and the general population early in the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract:
Social distancing is critical in preventing COVID-19, which mainly spreads among people who come in close contact. Public health authorities have encouraged social distancing and provided guidance on how to effectively keep your distance. However, there is wide variation in the extent to which someone follows the recommendations to limit physical contact with others. In this talk, I will examine what predicts social distancing behavior (a) across different populations (college students vs. community members) and (b) across time, mainly focusing on how being informed about COVID-19 versus being emotionally threatened about COVID-19 predicts social distancing behaviors.

Julia

Title:
Bad is More Specific Than Good

Abstract:
Previous research suggests that "bad is stronger than good" in the sense that negative stimuli and events are more psychologically impactful than their positive counterparts. In this talk, I will present evidence that bad is also more specific than good. In four studies, we found that when we asked participants rated their dislikes and challenges as being more specific than their likes and advantages.

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Presentation Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:59:52 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Soyeon Choi and Julia Smith
Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82401 82401-21092284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Can inanimate objects store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed? This talk examines 'folk art' made by non-professional Polish artists – many of them village laborers – documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. Made largely in the 1960s and 70s, these objects are uncanny: at times deeply moving, at others grotesque, they can also be disturbing for the ways they impose Catholic idioms on Jewish suffering, or upend accepted roles of victim, perpetrator, and bystander.

Zoom webinar - please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-Sy-1p-TFaoBD7VbWgcMA

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:03:59 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Slawomir Kosiniak, Untitled, ca. 1948, Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, photo by Wojciech Wilczyk
Transfer to LSA Information Session (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80698 80698-20775559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 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.

Registration is required. Register with the link to the right to receive the Zoom log in information.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:08:14 -0500 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation LSA Transfer Student Center
Methods Hour: Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI): A discussion on understanding and analyzing white matter tracts (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80377 80377-20711703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a structural imaging technique that measures the orientation and direction of white matter fiber tracts in the brain. DTI is a useful tool to study white matter microstructure as it pertains to topics such as brain maturation, behavioral outcomes, and cognitive functioning. However, DTI has unique methodological challenges and a complex workflow. This presentation will provide a big picture overview of DTI, its research and clinical applications, and a walk-through of best practices for experimental analysis. Discussion topics will include quality control issues and troubleshooting, as well as the pros and cons of various DTI processing tools.

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Presentation Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:15:54 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Methods Hours
CCN Forum: Cognition without language: The primate roots of human thought (March 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80746 80746-20783438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Many domains of human thought—from social cognition to logical
reasoning—may draw on or be influenced by language. Given that, how do non-linguistic animals think? Comparative research examining the minds of our closest primate relatives is uniquely positioned to provide new insights into the cognitive consequences of language. I will synthesize research on social attention, metacognition, and decision-making across different primate species to address shared versus unique components of the human mind.

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Presentation Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:00:26 -0500 2021-03-12T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Alexandra Rosati
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (March 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75956 75956-19627791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 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 Matthew Wamser [Fiction] and Dur e Aziz Amna [Fiction]. 

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, 13 Mar 2021 00:15:49 -0500 2021-03-12T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
SAS Virtual Open House (March 12, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-12T21:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T23:59:59-05:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
SAS Virtual Open House (March 12, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81380 81380-20889809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Astronomical Society

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program).

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Presentation Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:04:53 -0500 2021-03-12T21:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Astronomical Society Presentation SAS Virtual Open House Flier
SAS Virtual Open House (March 13, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-13T00:00:00-05:00 2021-03-13T23:59:59-05:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
SAS Virtual Open House (March 14, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 14, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-14T00:00:00-05:00 2021-03-14T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
SAS Virtual Open House (March 15, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Clinical Brown Bag: Qualitative Evaluation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale (March 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82846 82846-21201317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: "The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), based on the DSM-5 criteria for substance use disorder, is the most commonly used measure of food addiction world wide. The YFAS has been quantitatively validated in numerous populations and consistently demonstrates strong psychometric properties including convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity across studies. However, the YFAS has never been examined qualitatively to determine if the scale accurately captures the lived experience of food addiction. The goals of the current study were threefold: 1.) To determine if the subjective understanding of individual items on the YFAS are being interpreted in a manner consistent with the clinical conceptualization of substance use disorder, 2.) To identify important aspects of the lived experience of food addiction that are NOT being captured by the YFAS, and 3.) To determine if items on the YFAS do not accurately reflect or are irrelevant to the lived experience of food addiction. Seventeen individuals who self-identified as addicted to food and met criteria for food addiction on the YFAS completed in-depth, qualitative interviews concerning their lived experience of food addiction as well as their experience completing the YFAS. Thematic analysis was used to identify prominent themes across interviews."

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Presentation Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:17:49 -0500 2021-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Emma Schiestl
Developmental Brown Bag: Neurobiology of Fear Inhibition and Trauma Exposure during Development: Role of Caregivers (March 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82311 82311-21066619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Trauma exposure is pervasive, with over 70% of people globally exposed to at least one traumatic event in their lifetimes and an average of >3 trauma exposures per person. These exposures have wide-ranging effects and are linked to neural, behavioral, epigenetic, physiological, and mental health effects in trauma-exposed individuals. The timing of trauma exposure is associated with long term risk, such that childhood trauma has particularly pervasive effects on neurobiology and health outcomes. A growing body of evidence now indicates the importance of caregivers trauma may also have intergenerational effects, such that parents’ trauma exposure can impact their offspring. Although a substantial body of evidence
suggests a link between parental trauma exposure and adverse child outcomes, the relevant mechanisms of transmission are still unclear. This presentation will describe neurobiological correlates of trauma exposure in children, focusing on fear circuitry and behavioral and psychophysiological measures of fear inhibition. The talk will include data from children’s direct exposure to violence, as well as the intergenerational impact of caregiver trauma. Potential buffering effects of caregivers will also be discussed.

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:04:08 -0500 2021-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Tanja Jovanovic
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Lancaster University (March 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82623 82623-21147749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The field of Digital Humanities, and particularly the increasing accessibility of digital resources, has opened a significant number of opportunities for the study of sources that can be highly relevant to history and archaeology. These opportunities include the use of methodologies from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics and the application of a diversity of techniques and methods for the large-scale analysis and exploration of collections of historical documents.

In the case of the early colonial history of Mexico, there is an enormous variety of historical documents related to the economic, social and political life at that time. An example of this is the sixteenth-century Relaciones Geográficas de Nueva España (the Geographic Reports of New Spain). Created from the responses to a questionnaire ordered by Philip II’s and obtained between 1577 and 1585, the Geographic Reports sought to compile all the information available on the American territories under Spanish rule. Due to its essential content, these reports have been the object of study by a large number of researchers, and are frequently used in the analysis of the political, social, territorial and economic situation at the time. Although numerous studies seek to understand the shifting territorial situation in New Spain, two enormous challenges have remained. The first one is the considerable size or volume of information to be analysed and compared. The second has been the precise identification of the places mentioned in these reports, especially on a large scale.

In this presentation, I will introduce the project sponsored by the Transatlantic Platform for the Humanities and Social Sciences (T-AP) called “Digging into Early Colonial Mexico: a large-scale computational analysis of historical documents”, and some of its results. Taking as a basis the historical corpus of the Geographic Reports of New Spain, the project main objectives have been: 1) to adapt and develop techniques from Artificial Intelligence, including aspects of Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Geographic Information Systems for the extraction and analysis of historical information from this source, and 2) to design computational methodologies for the identification of possible large-scale historical patterns. This research is allowing us to clarify some of the essential geographic questions related to the period and the colonial situation in this territory. I will also present a methodology termed Geographical Text Analysis and some of the most critical outputs from this project. These include software developed to carry out this type of analysis, the first sixteenth-century digital gazetteer of Mexico and Guatemala, and the first experiments using Natural Language Processing to automatically annotate the Relaciones corpus.

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Presentation Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:19:07 -0500 2021-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Patricia Murrieta-Flores
SAS Virtual Open House (March 16, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Biopsychology Colloquium: Dissertation Defense - Limbic Generators of Incentive Motivation and Aversive Motivation (March 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82904 82904-21211387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Striatal-level structures such as the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and central amygdala (CeA) are capable of generating intense incentive and aversive motivated behaviors (Baumgartner et al. 2020; Warlow et al. 2020). NAc may have two modes for motivation, as inhibition and excitation of NAc can both produce motivated behaviors. For example, NAc medial shell inhibition through AMPA receptor antagonist (DNQX) microinjections can produce both intense eating and defensive behaviors (Baumgartner et al., 2020). Chapter 2 of this dissertation investigates the inhibition hypothesis of accumbens motivation generation by testing whether local pairing of optogenetic excitation can disrupt ‘desire’ and ‘dread’ behaviors generated by DNQX microinjections.

Incentive and aversive motivation generated by NAc and other limbic structures are flexible and able to respond to external stressors. Chapter 3 therefore investigates a previously untested neuronal population in NAc that expresses corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), a stress-related peptide heavily implicated in aversive motivation and distressing drug-withdrawal states in CeA and bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BNST). Like NAc, the CeA is also capable of producing intense positive and negative motivated behaviors and we investigate the flexibility of incentive or aversive motivation in CRF neurons using new Crh-Cre+ rats to optogenetically stimulate NAc, CeA, or BNST CRF-containing neurons. This work finds that excitation of CRF-expressing neurons is capable of biasing and amplifying motivation for sucrose rewards in both NAc shell and lateral CeA (Baumgartner et al. 2021). Conversely, it also demonstrates that optogenetic excitation of pallidal-like bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BNST) CRF-containing neurons produces only negative affect and aversive motivation, filling the traditional role that CRF has been hypothesized to play in aversive withdrawal and affect (Koob 2013).

Following the demonstrated positive role of NAc and CeA CRF-containing neurons for sucrose rewards, Chapter 4 of this dissertation examines whether this influence on incentive motivation also applies to drug rewards. CRF in CeA and BNST is posited to underlie aversive withdrawal states, causing negative distress that leads to addictive relapse through attempts at hedonic self-medication to relieve this state (Koob 2013). Chapter 4 therefore tests whether optogenetic excitation of CRF neurons in NAc, CeA, and BNST are capable of biasing and amplifying motivation for self-administered intravenous cocaine infusions. Understanding whether CRF-mediated incentive motivation also can drive drug motivation is therefore integral. We find that NAc and CeA CRF-expressing neurons are indeed capable of biasing motivation for cocaine infusions, while rats given the option between BNST CRF-containing neuron-paired cocaine and cocaine alone show no drug escalation or preferences between cocaine options.

Altogether this dissertation demonstrates the limbic generation of intense motivation in structures such as NAc and CeA, and how both incentive and aversive motivation can be modulated by stress and brain CRF systems. The neural mechanisms underlying these different motivational valences provide important insight into cases where motivation can become pathological, such as in addiction, schizophrenia, and other psychological disorders.

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Presentation Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:10:20 -0500 2021-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Hannah Baumgartner
OS Info Night (March 16, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82632 82632-21147758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 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. OS Info Night is an informational session for those students (typically first-years) that are interested in learning more about OS as a possible major.


OS Director Mark Mizruchi will give a brief overview of the program, and OS staff provide information on the curriculum, opportunities, admissions process, and possible career paths available to OS majors.


Do you think you would enjoy a small community of dedicated and ambitious students with access to top-notch faculty and an engaged alumni network? Then the OS major may be for you!


Please register to attend! The virtual link will be provided after registration.

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Presentation Tue, 31 May 2022 14:14:59 -0400 2021-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Studies Program (OS) Presentation OS Info Night
Opening Celebration: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82427 82427-21100198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us for our opening celebration on YouTube with presentations from curators and exhibition artists who have returned from prison.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:23:14 -0500 2021-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T19:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Event Flyer
SAS Virtual Open House (March 17, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Helping Facilitate Rooftop Solar in Your Community (March 17, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82899 82899-21211381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

The cost of solar panels has dramatically decreased over the last few years, making rooftop (or small ground-mounted) solar energy accessible to more Michiganders. But many homeowners may be unaware of this changing landscape or unsure where to start. This session will highlight a successful bulk-buy program called Solarize and a new toolkit that communities can use to bring the benefits of distributed generation to more households.
Make sure to register for this free webinar!

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Presentation Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:17:48 -0500 2021-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Presentation U-M and EGLE
Social Area Brown Bag: A Dyadic Perspective on Stress in Romantic Relationships (March 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82730 82730-21169588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Romantic relationships are one of the primary sources of support in adulthood. Prior work on stress in couples has primarily focused on understanding situations in which one partner is experiencing stress and the other partner is acting as the support provider, such as when one partner is taking a big exam, experiencing a chronic illness, or undergoing a stressor in the lab. In real life, however, couples are likely to also experience stress simultaneously, such as when two working parents have to juggle work, kids, and household duties. This concurrent stress creates potentially difficult situations in which both partners need to receive and provide support. In this talk, I present data on the role of concurrent stress in romantic relationships both before and during the pandemic. I also present a novel lab paradigm designed to help us understand how couples actually navigate these potential pain points in relationships.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:58:13 -0500 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Amie Gordon
SAS Virtual Open House (March 18, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Graham Scholars Info Session (March 18, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83004 83004-21235294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Sophomores, get the scoop on how to apply to the Graham Sustainability Scholars Program:
- Learn about support for sustainability-related field experience (local-global)
- What it's like to collaborate with colleagues across campus
- Interact with organizations focusing on climate, food, energy, water, and other issues
- Graham Institute experts and current Scholars will answer questions about the program, and the application and selection process
- First-generation and transfer students are welcome and encouraged to apply!

Register at: https://graham.umich.edu/events/graham-scholars-info-session

At the Graham Sustainability Institute, our dedication to academic excellence for the public good is inseparable from our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our mission of engaging, empowering, and supporting faculty, staff, and students to foster sustainability solutions includes ensuring that each member of our community thrives. We believe that diversity is key to empowerment, and the advancement of sustainability knowledge, learning, and leadership.

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Presentation Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:59:28 -0500 2021-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Presentation Undergraduate Sustainability Scholar Program
SAS Virtual Open House (March 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Methods Hour: Problematizing the Native Speaker in Psycholinguistics: Replacing vague and harmful terminology with inclusive and accurate measures (March 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80378 80378-20711704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:02:53 -0500 2021-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Methods Hour
CCN Workshop: Exploring Alternative Career Options: Strategies & Resources (March 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82845 82845-21201316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:08:18 -0400 2021-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Kirsten Elling
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (March 19, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75957 75957-19627792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 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 Anna Majeski [Fiction] and Nadia Mota [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, 19 Mar 2021 18:15:41 -0400 2021-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
SAS Virtual Open House (March 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-20T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
SAS Virtual Open House (March 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-21T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
SAS Virtual Open House (March 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Financial Worry and White Matter Hyperintensities in Diverse Older Adults (March 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83033 83033-21257030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Socioeconomic status is known to affect brain health, and white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in particular, through stress, inflammatory, and metabolic pathways. WMH reflect underlying small vessel ischemic damage and cardiovascular disease and are an important predictor for cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Interestingly, prior research indicates that the association between socioeconomic status and WMH differs across race and ethnicity. This study examines how a unique measure of socioeconomic status - financial worry - is associated with WMH and whether these associations differ across race and ethnicity in a sample of older non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White adults in northern Manhattan. Theoretical background, findings, and implications of the results will be discussed.

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Presentation Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:01:51 -0400 2021-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Emily Morris
Developmental Brown Bag: Navigating Fraught Claims and Science Communication: The Politics of Doing Social Justice in Developmental Psychology (March 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82312 82312-21066620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Scientific research often promises a better life, and increasingly, is being used to understand social problems such as poverty and inequality. Researchers who address questions with social and political significance may find themselves in fraught positions where they must defend their ethics and morality, disciplinary training, and status as objective investigators. In this talk, I show how a subfield of researchers who have strong moral and social obligations to improving the lives of vulnerable children through scientific research become the center of controversy, drawing criticism from both progressives and conservatives alike. These neuroscientists and developmental psychologists study the impact of poverty and adversity on the developing brain and suggest that children’s cognitive abilities and mental health are affected by experiences in early childhood; they argue that their studies are powerful evidence that add to the literature on the social determinants of health. Despite these good intentions, scientists face criticism from progressives that their research is racist and eugenicist, and from conservatives that they are hijacking objective science to further their political ends. I detail the different ways that scientists respond to these claims using conceptions of hope, plasticity, and anti-determinism. Their experiences suggest that scientists doing research with great social and political significance are likely to face controversy where their objectivity and morality are questioned. I argue we should not back away from contentious topics, but instead engage with expert communities and lay publics to negotiate the kinds of political science and social justice we conduct in the university.

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:21:30 -0500 2021-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Kasia Tolwinski
Journey Through the Dissertation (March 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83130 83130-21274911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

This multidisciplinary panel of doctoral students will share insights from their dissertation writing journeys. Panelists will discuss their own writing processes, challenges they have encountered, and strategies and resources they are using to advance and complete their dissertations. Whether you are just beginning your first chapter or finishing your last, you will hear how other writers approach their dissertations and takeaway insights into how you can make your own dissertation writing process successful.

Register at
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iK2Z7AtZR1KqyTbqu-sgwA

Katie Dimmery does ethnographic work on histories of art practices and ethnicity in southwest China. She is finishing a dual PhD in Anthropology and Asian Languages and Cultures, and will graduate next year.

Marisol Fila is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation “Content and Form: Twenty-First Century Black Press and Articulations of Blackness in Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Lisbon” explores how the twenty-first century black presses of these three cities reveal different articulations between black/diasporic and national identities. She plans to defend her dissertation in May 2022.

John Finkelberg is a PhD Candidate in History and a Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. His dissertation, “Becoming a Man in the Age of Fashion: Gender and Menswear in Nineteenth-Century France,” traces the production, sale, use, and representation of menswear in France from the July Revolution of 1830 to the collapse of the Second French Empire in 1870. He plans to defend his dissertation in May 2022.

Sarah Kearns is a recent graduate from the Program of Chemical Biology. She defended her thesis work characterizing “molecular road signs,” aka chemical modifications to microtubules, in December 2020. Currently, she is a freelance science writer.

Louis Cicciarelli, Moderator, Sweetland Center for Writing

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Presentation Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:03:15 -0400 2021-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Presentation
MIDAS Seminar Series and Michigan AI Initiative Co-Present: Mona Diab, Computer Science, George Washington University (March 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81039 81039-20838681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Advances in machine learning have led to quite fluent natural language generation technologies. Most of our current optimizations and evaluations focus on accuracy in output. Faithful generation is considered a nice to have, a luxury. In this talk I make the argument that faithful generation is crucial to our generation technologies especially given the scale and impact NLP technologies have on people’s lives.

Mona Diab is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the George Washington University where she directs the Care4Lang NLP lab. She is also Research Scientist with Facebook AI. She conducts research in Statistical Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a rapidly growing, exciting field of research in artificial intelligence and computer science. Interdisciplinarity is inherent to NLP, drawing on the fields of computer algorithms, software engineering, statistics, machine learning, linguistics, pragmatics, information technology, etc. In NLP, researchers model language and its use, and build both analytical models and predictive ones. In Professor Diab’s NLP lab, they address problems in social media processing, building robust enabling technologies such as syntactic and semantic processing tools for written texts in different languages, information extraction tools for large data, multilingual processing, machine translation, and computational sociolinguistic processing. Professor Diab has a special interest in Arabic NLP, where the emphasis has been on investigating Arabic dialect processing where there are very few available automated resources.

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Presentation Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:13:10 -0500 2021-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Mona Diab
SAS Virtual Open House (March 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Neuroimaging Initiative Talk: Searching for the cortical basis of vibration perception (March 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83144 83144-21280848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
When we run our fingers over surfaces to discern their textures, this exploratory movement produces complex vibrations in the skin. Our ability to identify and distinguish textures relies on the spectral analysis of these complex skin vibrations, just as our ability to perceive natural sounds relies on the analysis of acoustic signal contents. Surprisingly little is known regarding how the frequency content of vibrations are encoded and analyzed in the primate brain. In this talk, I will recount our efforts to search for the cortical basis of vibration perception. I will first present the clues revealed by multisensory interactions between touch and audition. I will then describe recently uncovered evidence for vibration frequency tuning in the human brain. Lastly, I will show how we leveraged knowledge about vibration tuning to establish principles underlying bimanual cue integration. Collectively, this work hints at the existence of a somatosensory cortical system dedicated to the encoding and elaboration of environmental vibrations.

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Presentation Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:12:24 -0400 2021-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Jeff Yau
CCU Research Night (March 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83205 83205-21308548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

On Tuesday, 3/23 during 7-8pm EST, GCISA is hosting the carbon capture research night! Our featured guests are Dr. Miki Banu, a research associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, David Kitto, a graduate student working in the Kamcev Research Lab, and Dr. Alan Taub, a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. All are helping lead multidisciplinary research in the topics listed below:Green technology and sustainable manufacturing using bamboo fibers to reinforce thermoplastic and thermoset compositesIon exchange membranes for water treatment and energy generation/storage applicationsThe effect of carbon nanotube and graphene additions to polymer composites utilizing electrical and magnetic fields to produce oriented particles for improved mechanical properties Please join us for this event at this Zoom link to learn more about research happening at the University of Michigan related to carbon capture and utilization. Feel free to submit this Google Form with questions you would like to ask these professors, comments for discussion, or if you have any research you would like to discuss as well. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Presentation Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:00:06 -0400 2021-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
SAS Virtual Open House (March 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Social Area Brown Bag: Leader Emotional Unpredictability Tears Teams Apart: Effects on Power Struggles and Team Performance (March 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82731 82731-21169589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Emotional displays of leaders convey social information to followers that can help bolster their motivation and understanding of the situation, thereby facilitating team performance. An implicit assumption in previous theorizing and research using this social-functional approach to leader emotions has been that leaders’ emotional expressions logically follow from the situation for followers and thus help followers who observe these expressions to better understand the situation. However, leaders’ emotional expressions are not always predictable to followers. We extend the social-functional approach by investigating what happens when leader emotional displays are perceived as unpredictable by followers. We propose that leader emotional unpredictability sparks uncertainty among followers about how the leader allocates ranks and resources within the team, which triggers intra-team power struggles. Such power struggles—intra-team conflicts over resources among followers—in turn undermine team performance. Using a multi-method approach, we find support for our model in three studies, including two laboratory experiments and a field study of 246 retail teams. The findings inform our understanding of how leaders’ emotional displays influence team performance, extending the social-functional approach to emotion by illuminating how the perceived unpredictability of leaders’ emotional expressions can be dysfunctional for teams.

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Presentation Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:08:34 -0500 2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Lindy Greer
SAS Virtual Open House (March 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Pre-Law 101 (March 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80544 80544-20738143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Pre-Law

Your first step in your exploration of a legal career, the Pre-Law Advisors from the Newnan Advising Center will review the law school admission process and provide tips on how to submit a strong application on the following dates and times:

January 27 from 5-6 pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91045245128
February 26 from 11am -12 pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93105959405
March 25 from 5-6pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95032790268

Students at all levels are welcome. No registration is required.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:18:30 -0400 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Pre-Law Presentation Law library at U. Michigan.
SAS Virtual Open House (March 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T23:59:59-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Methods Hour: Zoom Lab: Implications and questions to consider when moving research online (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80379 80379-20711705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted many researchers to quickly move lab operations online. For many, this was a first foray into working with participants remotely. Throughout the past year, there have been articles, webinars, conference sessions, and informal discussions centered on issues related to online research, including how to streamline recruitment and data collection practices to mirror those used in lab settings. This presentation will provide an overview of helpful resources demonstrating best practices for online behavioral research (particularly with children) and highlight ways online studies can complement those conducted in more traditional lab settings. Discussion topics will include: 1) the trades offs made when moving research online, 2) the extent to which online research can support multi-site recruitment and reproducible science efforts, and 3) opportunities to evaluate the limits of what we can and cannot do via online (synchronous and asynchronous) research.

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Presentation Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:30:19 -0400 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Methods Hour
CCN Forum: Motivated movement planning (March 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80748 80748-20783440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

Abstract:
Human movement is sensitive to motivational factors such as
the benefits of success and the costs of failure. However, the neural,
psychological, and computational mechanisms that connect prospective value with subsequent performance remain poorly understood. In this talk, I will discuss three studies investigating the role of advanced planning in incentive-motivated action. In the first study, we examine whether reward sharpens cortical representations of action during movement preparation. In the second study, we investigate the possible optimal and sub-optimal strategies that guide people’s visuomotor decisions under risk. And in the third study, we look at the impact of reward on the competition between habitual and goal-directed action. Results across these studies indicate that reward reduces noise in the preparation of goal-directed actions and that this may be a key mechanism underlying incentive-motivated performance.

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Presentation Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:22:25 -0400 2021-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Presentation Tyler Adkins
SAS Virtual Open House (March 26, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81400 81400-20891794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T23:00:00-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
SAS Virtual Open House (March 26, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81380 81380-20889810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Astronomical Society

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program).

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Presentation Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:04:53 -0500 2021-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Astronomical Society Presentation SAS Virtual Open House Flier
SAS Virtual Open House (March 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81399 81399-21348198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0400 2021-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T23:00:00-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Developmental Brown Bag: (March 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83053 83053-21259024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Lexie

Title:
Early Grammatical Marking Development in Mandarin-speaking Toddlers

Abstract:
The current study examined specific and in-depth early grammatical marking development in a relatively understudied language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CCDI-P) with two waves of data collection including 338 monolingual children (17-36 months; 143 females) at Time 1 and 308 children (32-55 months; 139 females) at Time 2. Our data showed a clear order of grammatical marking acquisition among these children and supported findings on the linguistic-specificity of morphological development such that early-and late-acquired markers in English are not acquired in that same order in Mandarin. Negative mei2, bu4, Posessive -de, Classifiers, and the Aspect marker- le were the earliest acquired markers, followed by Modal, Negative bie2, Adverb, Sentence Final Particles, Resultative Verb Compound, and Aspect markers guo4 and yao4. Complex Clauses and the Aspect marker zheng4 were acquired the latest. Furthermore, consistent with previous cross-linguistic studies, the development patterns of a wide range of Mandarin grammatical markers indicate that markers that are more perceptually salient, obligatory, have clear form-meaning mappings and often appear in isolation or utterance-final position ware acquired earlier than others.

Chi-Lin

Title:
Theory-of-Mind Development in Young Deaf Children With Early Hearing Provisions

Abstract:
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children born to hearing parents have
profound theory-of-mind (ToM) delays, yet little is known about how providing hearing assistance early in life, through cochlear implants and hearing aids, influences their ToM development. We thus addressed (a) whether young DHH children with early hearing provision developed ToM differently than older children did in previous research and (b) what ToM understandings characterize this understudied population. Findings from 84 three- to six-year-old DHH
children primarily acquiring spoken language demonstrated that accumulated hearing experience influenced their ToM, as measured by a five- step ToM scale. Moreover, language abilities mediated this developmental relationship: Children with more advanced language abilities, because of more time using cochlear implants and hearing aids, had better ToM growth. These findings demonstrate the crucial relationships among hearing, language, and ToM for DHH children
acquiring spoken language, thereby addressing theoretical and practical questions about ToM development.

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Presentation Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:17:55 -0400 2021-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Lexie Huang and Chi-Lin Yu
Transfer to LSA Information Session (March 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80702 80702-20775562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 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.

Registration is required. Register with the link to the right to receive the Zoom log in information.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:23:41 -0500 2021-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation LSA Transfer Student
Using Artificial Intelligence for Optimal Truck Platooning under Uncertainties (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82674 82674-21155688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Truck platooning is the process of using connected vehicle technology to join two or more trucks in a convoy. Platooning is associated with two, major societal benefits: environmental, through lowered fuel consumption, CO2 emission, and traffic efficiency, and safety improvement, through automated driving. Quantification of fuel consumption in platoons depends on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of the system, specifically the resistance or drag force of trucks. While optimization of fuel consumption is pivotal in truck platooning, analysis of CFD is computationally expensive, especially when uncertainties are present, due to geometrical variability of trucks and platoons as well as in wind magnitude and direction.

This research proposes an artificial intelligence-based surrogate model which enables near real-time optimization of platoon configurations based on fuel consumption and impacts on pavement conditions. Attendees will learn how a deep neural network (DNN) model can be trained using data from CFD simulations that utilize high-performance computing (HPC) resources.

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Presentation Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:26:18 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image
openICPSR: ICPSR's Self-Publishing Repository (April 1, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81792 81792-20959282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Register here: https://myumi.ch/pd5Ee

In this webinar, we will present about openICPSR, a no-cost, self-publishing repository for social, behavioral, and health sciences research data. Come learn about what makes openICPSR unique, including how it is well-suited for researchers to share replication data sets. We will also discuss openICPSR Repositories, a fully-host, branded research data-sharing service developed to meet the needs of organizations sharing social, behavioral, and health sciences research data, including journals, research centers, and professional associations.

This webinar is free and open to the public. The webinar will be recorded, and the slides and recording will be sent to all webinar registrants.

New to Zoom? Please visit Zoom FAQ for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo.

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Presentation Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:26:26 -0500 2021-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Blue image with bright dots behind announcement of openICPSR webinar
Clinical Science Brown Bag: EEG Indices of Affective Impulsivity in Bipolar Disorder (April 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83047 83047-21259018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract
Bipolar I Disorder (BD) is characterized by emotion lability and behavior with high potential for negative consequences (e.g., unrestrained spending, risky financial decisions, sexual indiscretions, recklessness, substance use). These behaviors, which often persist into the euthymic phase of BD, lead to severe functional impairment in individuals with BD. However, limited knowledge about neurobiological mechanisms associated with BD presents significant challenges for developing appropriate and precise treatments for improving clinical and functional outcomes. Extant literature suggests that impulsivity, especially in emotional contexts, contributes to these features of BD. Impulsivity can be conceptualized as a deficit in response inhibition, which is impaired in BD during behavioral Go-NoGo tasks. Theta band EEG activity is a psychophysiological marker which has been shown to index response inhibition in traditional Go-NoGo paradigms, but has yet to be examined in affective contexts in BD. This study aims to delineate the role of theta activity in the context of affective response inhibition in individuals with bipolar I disorder relative to healthy control participants utilizing an emotional Go-NoGo paradigm. Further, this study will explore potential relevance of theta activity for clinical and functional outcomes in BD. Implications of these analyses for targeted interventions to improve clinical and functional outcomes will be discussed.

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Presentation Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:12:02 -0400 2021-04-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Carolyn Andrews
MIDAS Webinar Series Presents: Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota (April 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81083 81083-20846543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Bio:

Vipin Kumar is a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the William Norris Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Kumar received the B.E. degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (formerly, University of Roorkee), India, in 1977, the M.E. degree in Electronics Engineering from Philips International Institute, Eindhoven, Netherlands, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1982. He also served as the Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department from 2005 to 2015 and the Director of Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) from 1998 to 2005.

Kumar’s current research interests span data mining, high-performance computing, and their applications in Climate/Ecosystems and health care. His research has resulted in the development of the concept of isoefficiency metric for evaluating the scalability of parallel algorithms, as well as highly efficient parallel algorithms and software for sparse matrix factorization (PSPASES) and graph partitioning (METIS, ParMetis, hMetis). He has authored over 300 research articles, and has coedited or coauthored 10 books including two text books “Introduction to Parallel Computing” and “Introduction to Data Mining”, that are used world-wide and have been translated into many languages. Kumar’s current major research focus is on bringing the power of big data and machine learning to understand the impact of human induced changes on the Earth and its environment. Kumar served as the Lead PI of a 5-year, $10 Million project,”Understanding Climate Change – A Data Driven Approach”, funded by the NSF’s Expeditions in Computing program that is aimed at pushing the boundaries of computer science research.

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Presentation Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:38:20 -0500 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Vipin Kumar
Homelessness and Mental Health Impacts (April 5, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83353 83353-21346232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Co-Sponsored with the student organization Michigan Movement, this event features a panel on Homelessness and Mental Health Impacts.

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Presentation Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:16:54 -0400 2021-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Presentation
Transfer to LSA Information Session (April 5, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80703 80703-20775564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 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.

Registration is required. Register with the link to the right to receive the Zoom log in information.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:29:05 -0500 2021-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation LSA Transfer Student Center
Biopsychology Colloquium: Mechanisms of variation in reproduction traits in red squirrels (April 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83527 83527-21399325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Individuals use cues in their environment to make decisions about optimal life history strategies in changing environments. Recent work has identified hormones as key regulatory molecules to transduce external environmental cues into adaptive behavioral responses. However, most work has focused on the role of a single environmental cue and its relevant hormonal pathways, despite the fact that individuals likely must integrate cues from multiple sources to make adaptive decisions in the wild. Here, I investigate how two important environmental cues, social density and food availability are integrated to influence life-history plasticity in red squirrels. We used long term data to identify sources of variation in reproductive traits. I then explore a potential hormonal mechanism underlying this variation. I will discuss my preliminary findings and explore future directions for understanding how multiple hormone pathways interact to elicit behavioral responses in the wild.

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Presentation Mon, 05 Apr 2021 17:19:19 -0400 2021-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Matthew Whalen
Social Area Brown Bag: (April 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83050 83050-21259021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Imani

Title:
Investigating the Role of Black Parents’ Challenge Mindsets in Shaping Children’s Outcomes

Abstract:
Black families have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, making Black children especially vulnerable to experiencing poorer wellbeing and academic outcomes. However, parents’ beliefs about and responses to adversity can alleviate the negative consequences that stressors have on children, largely due to parents’ socialization practices. In this talk, I will be presenting preliminary findings from a study examining whether Black parents’ endorsements of challenge mindset (i.e., the belief that experiencing adversity promotes personal growth and strength) predict more positive changes in children’s mood, behavior, and academics since the pandemic began (i.e., March 2020). Lastly, I will share results investigating whether Black parents’ socialization of challenge mindset beliefs mediate the relationship between parents’ endorsements of challenge mindset and children’s outcomes. Next steps for this study will be discussed at the end of this talk.

Julisa

Title:
Omissions and Commissions: The Impact of Perceived Discrimination on Natives' Psychological Wellbeing

Abstract:
Representations of Native Peoples are routinely omitted from consequential domains of society, and in the rare cases Natives are represented, they are portrayed in ways that are both stereotypical and historical. For example, less than 1% of characters on television, films, book and video games are Native American, of those characters, they are primarily depicted as historical. Recent theorizing suggests that both acts of omission (e.g., no representations) and commission (e.g., negative or inaccurate representations) have consequences for the everyday experiences of Native Peoples. To explore this, across two nationally representative samples, we tested whether perceptions of omissions and perceptions of commissions are related to psychological wellbeing outcomes, and whether these relationships are mediated by perceptions of discrimination.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:21:30 -0400 2021-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Imani Burris, Julisa Lopez
Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Information Webinar (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83180 83180-21288792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Learn about opportunities to earn a Masters or Doctoral degree in Survey and Data Science. Students in the program receive theoretical grounding in all aspects of survey methodology, from sample design and measurement, to data collection, extraction and wrangling, data visualization, statistical estimation, and probability and distribution theory. Students have the opportunity to explore novel ways to develop applications of survey methodology in a wide variety of field.

Advance registration is required, bit.ly/38YZLj1

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Presentation Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:09:33 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Presentation Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Information Webinar
CCN Forum: Developing a community resource for natural language neuroimaging (April 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83522 83522-21397364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Cognitive neuroscientists are trained to use clever experimental manipulations to decompose complex cognitive phenomena—like language—into simpler, more manageable components. This approach relies on the assumption that we can recompose our piecemeal models into a satisfying understanding of ecological brain function. Drawing parallels with machine learning and evolutionary theory, we challenge this assumption and argue that ecological considerations should play a more central role in cognitive neuroscience. One critical step in this direction is the development of well-curated public datasets that can serve as benchmarks for model evaluation. With this in mind, we present the “Narratives” data collection—a naturalistic fMRI dataset comprising over 800 scans acquired while participants listened to a variety of spoken stories. We discuss both opportunities and challenges that arise in scaling up to a more community-based paradigm for model development in naturalistic neuroimaging.

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Presentation Fri, 02 Apr 2021 11:26:05 -0400 2021-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Sam Nastase
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (April 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75958 75958-19627793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 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 Lauren Morrow [Fiction] and David Freeman [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 Apr 2021 18:15:28 -0400 2021-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
SAS Virtual Open House (April 9, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81401 81401-20891795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program). 

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Presentation Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:00:09 -0400 2021-04-09T21:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T23:00:00-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
SAS Virtual Open House (April 9, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81380 81380-20889811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Astronomical Society

SAS Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities for anyone to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe through an interactive virtual experience. At each open house, members of SAS will offer educational mini-lectures and tours of the night sky through Stellarium (a virtual planetarium program).

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Presentation Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:04:53 -0500 2021-04-09T21:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Astronomical Society Presentation SAS Virtual Open House Flier
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Event-related potentials during affective response inhibition in individuals with bipolar I disorder & schizophrenia (April 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83048 83048-21259019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Individuals with bipolar I disorder and psychotic disorders experience difficulties with executive control, relative to healthy individuals without a psychiatric diagnosis. Prior research suggests that impairments in response inhibition, a subcomponent of executive control, contribute to clinical symptoms and adverse outcomes. Alterations in event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited during response inhibition tasks (e.g. go/no-go) hold promise for informing shared and disorder-specific neural and cognitive mechanisms of these disorders. The current study examines the N200 and P300 ERPs during an emotional face go/no-go task in healthy individuals and individuals diagnosed with bipolar I disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophrenia. Findings can inform similarities and differences across these disorders as well as targeted intervention to improve inhibitory control. Background, methodology, preliminary results, next directions, and implications will be discussed.

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Presentation Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:26:02 -0400 2021-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Margo Menkes
Developmental Brown Bag: Social Neuroscience of Racial Bias (April 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80708 80708-20775569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Currently and historically, there exists an inequitable and unfair division of burdens and rewards based on social group membership. Major barriers that contribute to these disparities include prejudice and stereotyping. In this talk, I will focus on factors that give rise to these disparities and potential mechanisms for intervention, drawing from research in affective science, social psychology, and neuroscience. Using EEG, I investigate the time course of intergroup impression formation, providing evidence that individuals process social group membership quickly even when other socially relevant information is available. Next, I discuss intergroup decision-making, demonstrating that individuals punish negative behavior of minority members even when doing so comes at a personal cost. Given that social group membership influences impression formation and our decisions about others, it becomes paramount to address potential ways to mitigate intergroup disparities. To this end, I will review my research exploring promising intervention techniques aimed at diminishing negative intergroup evaluations.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:37:00 -0500 2021-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Jennifer Kubotka
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Vicki Bogan, Economics and Management, Cornell University (April 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82466 82466-21106115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

We provide empirical evidence that visceral factors affect financial risk taking by showing that exposure to mass shootings alters mutual fund managers’ risk taking decisions. Funds that are exposed to mass shootings subsequently decrease risk relative to their peers. The effect that we document is temporary, lasting approximately one quarter before reverting to normal levels and is strongest among managers with demographics shown to express greater fear from mass shootings. Together with the literature on laboratory studies that show that market downturns induce fear, our findings suggest that fear could exacerbate variation in risk taking, generating the highly volatile countercyclical risk premiums shown to exist in markets.

Bio:

Vicki Bogan’s research interests are in the areas of financial economics, behavioral finance, and applied microeconomics centering on issues involving investment decision making behavior and financial markets. She explores questions relating to investment decision making (corporate and individual) and household portfolio allocation with the goal of shedding light on how to better model observed behavior.

Bogan has published numerous journal articles and book chapters including a book chapter on “Household Investment Decisions,” in Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing. Bogan’s research has received considerable media attention including radio interviews and coverage in Forbes.com, the Wall Street Journal website, NPR’s Marketplace Tech, PsychologyToday.com, and the Harvard Business Review Blog. She also has been featured on the PBS News Hour – Paul Solman’s Making Sense, the Lou Hutt Show on Sirius XM radio, and Knowledge@Wharton on Sirius XM radio.

Bogan currently serves as Co-Editor for Financial Planning Review. She is the founder and director for the Institute for Behavioral and Household Finance. She also worked as a consultant for Hartford Funds Management Group, Inc.

Prof. Bogan teaches finance courses for master’s and undergraduate students in the Dyson School of Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. She has received two outstanding educator awards and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Bogan holds a Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Brown University, an M.B.A. in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Economics from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University. She also has held a visiting fellow appointment at Princeton University.

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:25:34 -0500 2021-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Vicki Bogan
Biopsychology Colloquium: Dissecting dopamine function in stress-related sleep disturbances (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83528 83528-21399326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Proper sleep is essential for well-being, yet it is disrupted in many neuropsychiatric conditions, including major depressive disorder. Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric disease and among the leading causes of disability worldwide. Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent in individuals suffering from depression, and it is currently understood that the strong association between sleep disturbances and depression stems from a common mechanistic origin. The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is a potential key brain structure to link sleep dysregulation and depression–as the VTA has a central role in sleep/wake regulation, and its activity is altered during wakefulness in depression. Nonetheless, it remains unresolved if activity in VTA neurons is altered during sleep in depression, and if sleep disturbances during depression are inducing depression-related symptoms. My project aims to fill this knowledge gap. My core hypothesis is that chronic alterations in VTA neuron activity during sleep induce sleep/wake disturbances, which result in depression-related symptoms. I am currently testing this hypothesis by defining the alterations in VTA dopaminergic neuron activity during sleep in a mouse model for depression. During this talk, I will discuss my preliminary findings and future research directions.

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Presentation Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:25:53 -0400 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Su Wang
Transfer to LSA Information Session (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80704 80704-20775565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 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.

Registration is required. Register with the link to the right to receive the Zoom log in information.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:33:07 -0500 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation LSA Transfer Student Center
Social Area Brown Bag: (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83051 83051-21259022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Ariana

Title:
Examining witnesses’ backlash against the target’s response to gender microaggressions

Abstract:
Research on witnessing microaggressions has found that people who witness gender microaggressions against a target subsequently evaluate the target more negatively (e.g., less competent). Relatedly, previous work has found that when targets respond to or confront the microaggression, their response is often criticized (e.g., they are seen as overreacting or troublemakers). In this talk, I will present results from a pilot study that investigated witnesses’ criticism of a target’s response to gender microaggressions and whether that criticism predicted more negative evaluations about the target. I also examine whether the witness’ gender plays a role in the kinds of criticism given (e.g., should have defended herself, took things personally) and in the evaluations they make (e.g., competence, negative agency).

Desiree

Title:
Assessing Men’s Proclivity to Recognizing Subtle Gender Bias Against Women in STEM

Abstract:
Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) frequently encounter gender bias (e.g., questioning of their STEM ability, assignment to secretarial roles). Given the subtle and ambiguous nature of contemporary sexism, people vary in their likelihood of recognizing subtly sexist interactions. Past research demonstrates that women are more sensitive to gender bias and more readily recognize it when it occurs. However, there remains a dearth of research related to men’s experiences in witnessing bias. In the present research, we ask: (1) what are the individual difference measures that contribute to men’s proclivity in recognizing subtle gender bias, (2) what are the affective consequences of recognizing subtle gender bias during group tasks, and (3) how do men’s affective states after witnessing subtle gender bias influence their interest in working with women in mixed-gendered groups? STEM-identified men read a fake transcript depicting a conversation between 3 STEM-identified college students (1 woman, 2 men). Participants were exposed to a transcript in which a man demonstrates subtle gender bias against a woman. After reading the transcript, participants completed measures related to their affect (state and collective), their impressions of the interaction (open and closed-ended), and behavioral measures related to the students in the transcript. Open-ended responses were coded to determine recognition of bias. Findings and implications for this work are discussed.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:52:28 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Ariana Munoz-Salgado, Desiree Aleibar
Online Presentation - Ziibimijwang Farm:  Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty (April 14, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83649 83649-21452141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Ziibimijwang Farm is helping restore food sovereignty for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and other communities throughout the northern Great Lakes region.

What opportunities and benefits are there for Native American Tribes and Communities in operating a sustainable, community-based farm?  What are the challenges associated with this approach and how can they be successfully managed?  How can collaboration with tribal and non-tribal institutions, such as the University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, help promote Ziibimijwang’s mission?

Please join us as Joe Van Alstine will discuss ways in which Ziibimijwang is working to provide a reliable food source for tribal community members independent of the larger food system, encourage healthy eating, and enhance people’s knowledge of how to raise their own food. Matthaei-Nichols Curator David Michener and Campus Farm Program Manager  Jeremy Moghtadar will also be part of the discussion panel.

Register/Webinar link can be found at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DFmTFvx2S62udpTJsgDvqA

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Presentation Fri, 09 Apr 2021 08:45:46 -0400 2021-04-14T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation Food sovereignty presentation flier
UM Flipped Science Fair (April 15, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83596 83596-21436486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

UM Sessions for the event:

The UM Flipped Science Fair Team is a student-led organization at the University of Michigan funded by Research!America. Our goal is to increase public engagement with science and science-policy.

We are hosting a virtual outreach event on April 15th 3-5pm EST aimed at the local Ann Arbor community: undergraduates, community leaders, and the general public. Our goal is to demystify the scientific research process and facilitate discussions about how science and society can fruitfully engage with one another.

The event will consist of two parts:




3:00-4:30 pm:
A 1.5 hour “flipped science fair” where several researchers from the University of Michigan present cutting-edge research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of what scientific research entails, how it can be used to inform public policy, and its importance in our community.

4:30-5:00 pm:
A 30 minute community discussion on the societal implications of the presented research, and how our community can capitalize on it. Community members and leaders at all levels are welcome to engage with us and explore avenues through which scientific findings can address public issues.

Please go to this link for further information and to register.
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/42319

After you register you will receive the zoom link to the event.

Attendees will receive a free t-shirt while supplies last! Unisex sizes XS-4XL.

All attendees can enter a free raffle to win an interview and virtual shadowing experience with a current graduate student.

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Presentation Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:07:59 -0400 2021-04-15T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Flipped Science Fair Logo
Digital Studies Research Meeting (April 16, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82911 82911-21219287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Li Cornfeld: The Digital Tech Expo

In January 2020, more than 170,000 people traveled from around the world to the Las Vegas Strip for CES, the global tech industry’s massive annual convention. In January 2021, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic pushed the event entirely online. Drawing on research conducted both on the ground at CES in the years prior to the pandemic as well as recent research of this year’s “all digital” event, this presentation asks what these dual modes of exhibition suggest about the role of liveness in tech demonstration. This research is in development as part of a book project, tentatively titled The Theater of Invention: Live Performance in the Tech Industry, which explores tech expos and conventions as ritual practices dedicated to legitimizing the industrial imagination of emerging technology.

Sarah Murray: Fashioning Intelligent Bodies: Mid-Century Smart Working Women and Wearability Before the Wearable

Quick, what do Winnie the Welder, Hildy Johnson, and Claire McCardell have in common? This mix of fictional and real figures represent some of the well-dressed women anchoring the U.S. workforce in the early 20th century. In a period shaped by wartime progress, deep nationalism, and technological development, the definition of a fashionable body changed to accommodate anxieties around white working women, class, and new industrial standards. It is not uncommon to trace the history of artificial intelligence to midcentury war efforts in code-breaking, cybernetics, military computing, and early machine learning. This talk offers a different prelude to ordinary A.I., one at the convergence of fashion, women, and work. What does smart mean before it becomes associated with machine intelligence and contemporary consumer tech? What was the idea of intelligence before ‘thinking machines’ were introduced to the public and became a preoccupation of science, industry, and government? The answers are threaded, quite literally, through the design of clothes for work. Widespread connotations associated smart with neat, efficient bodies connected to work outside the home, skill with new machinery, and sensible, store-bought styles. Long before the wearable, an emergent wearability established the properly outfitted worker as a safe site for the union of technology, gender, and labor and signaled a re-coordination of bodies to accommodate shifting meanings of intelligence.

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Presentation Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:37:39 -0400 2021-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Presentation
LSA Travel Pre-Departure Orientation (April 16, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83552 83552-21422775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA International Travel

Are you receiving funding from an LSA department to travel abroad this spring / summer?

Are you an LSA student who is going abroad to do thesis research or study / intern abroad on a non-UM program?

If either of the above apply to you, we invite you to attend one of the LSATravel Pre-Departure Orientations! The LSATravel Team wishes to help you prepare for your time abroad, whether you are doing independent research, interning with other UM students, or studying on a non-UM program.

Addressing your health and safety concerns are even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic and we will discuss requirement changes and situations to consider when abroad. In addition, we'll also discuss the basics of the UM international health insurance, registering your travel, managing your health, how to stay safe abroad, identity-specific resources, and more.

To attend, register on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/2Dbpe

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Presentation Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:45:22 -0400 2021-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA International Travel Presentation
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Developmental Cascade Models Linking Contextual Risks, Parenting, and Internalizing Symptoms: A 17-year Longitudinal Study from Early Childhood to Emerging Adulthood (April 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83049 83049-21259020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Internalizing problems, such as depression and anxiety, are the most common forms of psychological distress among adolescents and young adults. Although internalizing symptoms have a rapid spike in adolescence, they have precursors in multiple risk domains established during childhood and early adolescence. Therefore, exploring childhood pathways to depression and anxiety in early adulthood is an important research issue that has strong implications for prevention. In the current prospective longitudinal study, I examined cascading pathways leading to depression and anxiety symptoms from early childhood to emerging adulthood. Using an ecological-transactional framework, I focused on mediation pathways across different risk domains, including environmental adversities that affected the entire family, parenting quality, and child and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Findings suggest a nuanced picture of developmental pathways leading to depression and anxiety and provide hints for early identification and prevention. Theoretical background, findings, and implications of the results will be discussed.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:04:30 -0400 2021-04-19T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sujin Lee
Developmental Brown Bag: (April 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83421 83421-21375693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Sarah

Title:
Eye can Help! A Novel Tool for Exploring Infant Prosocial Behavior

Abstract:
While helping typically begins in the toddler years, little is known about prosocial behavior in infancy: are infants motivated to help others and simply unable to due to their poor motor skills? To explore this question, I have developed a novel tool for studying helping in infancy that utilizes eye-tracking and gaze-contingency. In this talk, I will discuss the development of this gaze-contingent paradigm, where infants can "help" an on-screen character by looking at particular buttons on the screen. While data collection for this study has been paused due to COVID-19, I will discuss initial insights from our first 30 pilot participants and plans for future directions.

Kaitlin

Title:
Mothers’ socioeconomic status and non-violent discipline use: A longitudinal multilevel examination.

Abstract:
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has called for member states to promote parental nonviolent discipline use across the globe. However, scant research has explored the predictors of nonviolent discipline use, and even less has explored how parents’ nonviolent discipline use changes across early childhood. This study examines 1) the associations between mothers’ socioeconomic status (SES) and nonviolent discipline use, and 2) the trajectory of mothers’ nonviolent discipline use across early childhood (i.e., child ages 3, 5, and 9). Data came from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,898) and were analyzed using longitudinal multilevel ordinal logistic regression. SES was measured using maternal educational attainment, maternal-reported household income, and maternal employment status. Nonviolent forms of discipline included verbal reasoning, taking away privileges, time-out, and distraction. Results showed higher maternal educational attainment was related to greater use of all nonviolent forms of discipline; household income was associated with greater use of verbal reasoning, time-out, and distraction; and maternal employment was associated with greater use of verbal reasoning. On average, mothers’ nonviolent discipline use was highest at child ages 3 and 5, and lowest at child age 9. Results suggest maternal education may be a particularly important socioeconomic predictor of nonviolent discipline use. Results also suggest mothers’ nonviolent discipline use is nonlinear across early childhood. To inform parenting policies and interventions, further research is needed to examine the mechanisms linking mothers’ SES and nonviolent discipline use.

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Presentation Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:52:56 -0400 2021-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sarah Probst, Kaitlin P. Ward
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Ben Wellington, Quantitative Analyst, Two Sigma (April 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81088 81088-20846549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Ben Wellington is a Quantitative Analyst at Two Sigma and the creator of I Quant NY, a data science and policy blog that focuses on insights drawn from New York City’s public data, and advocates for the expansion and improvement of that data. His data science has influenced local government policy including changes in NYC street infrastructure, the way New Yorkers pay for cabs and the design of NYC subway vending machines. Ben is a contributor to the New Yorker, and a visiting assistant professor in the City & Regional Planning program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he teaches statistics using urban open data and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University.

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Presentation Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:05:47 -0500 2021-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Ben Wellington
Biopsychology Colloquium: Phenotypic variation in hormone-modulated adult neuroplasticity (April 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83574 83574-21430600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: More details forthcoming.

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Presentation Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:39:40 -0400 2021-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Farrah N. Madison
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative Talk: Readiness to remember: Predicting variability in episodic memory (April 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83764 83764-21499133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Episodic memory is fundamental to our lives, so why do we sometimes remember and sometimes forget, and why do some individuals remember better than others? While answers to these questions often focus on processes at the time of learning (memory encoding) or during the act of retrieval, a wealth of evidence now indicates that neurocognitive states that precede attempts to remember also have powerful influences on whether those imminent attempts will succeed or fail. Here, I present recent work from functional neuroimaging, electroencephalography, pupillometry, and behavioral science to propose an integrative framework that explains variance in remembering in the moment and across individuals as a function of interactions among preparatory attention, goal coding, and mnemonic processes. I also consider how this "readiness to remember" framework can partially explain variance in other functions of memory, such as prospection and creative thinking, at state and trait levels, as well as mnemonic disruptions linked to aging and everyday multitasking with media. I conclude by discussing implications of quantifying and harnessing preparatory interactions.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:34:40 -0400 2021-04-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Kevin Madore
Transfer to LSA Information Session (April 20, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80705 80705-20775566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 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.

Registration is required. Register with the link to the right to receive the Zoom log in information.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:37:16 -0500 2021-04-20T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation LSA Transfer Student Center
Social Area Brown Bag: (April 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83052 83052-21259023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Jamie Yellowtail

Title:
Explanations for sexual violence: Do they differ for Native and White women?

Abstract:
Native American women experience higher rates of sexual violence than women of any other race or ethnicity in the United States. Over half of Native American women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime and approximately 1 in 3 Native American women have been raped, a rate almost twice that reported by non-Hispanic White women (Rosay, 2016). Yet, Native women are often overlooked in national conversations about sexual violence (e.g., the #MeToo movement). This omission precludes understanding of why Native women face disproportionately high rates of violence and what interventions are needed to end this violence. We theorized that the reluctance to address the disproportionate sexual violence Native women experience stems in part from differences in how people explain experiences of rape among Native compared to other women. For example, prior research demonstrates that negative racial stereotypes shape the extent to which people perceive women of color to be “legitimate” victims. We anticipated that explanations of Native (compared to White) women’s experiences of rape would similarly reflect racial biases. Using a mixed method design, we explored individuals’ beliefs about why Native (versus White) women experience high rates of sexual violence. Although data collection is still ongoing (target N = 600 non-Native US adults), this talk will showcase preliminary findings and implications for support for action, reform, and resources for victims.

Savannah Adams

Title:
Investigating the roles of moral dimensions in social selection

Abstract:
The goal of this research is to investigate how people consider morality when choosing individuals to fill the various social roles in their lives. Current research on morality recognizes the existence of various dimensions of moral behavior, however the implications of these moral motivations for behavior pose new questions about what effects these might have on selecting good social partners. For example, are some morality dimensions more important than others when forming social judgments? Additionally, in the instance of potential conflict between these moral dimensions, are certain moral dimensions given priority when forming opinions of others? This talk will explore these questions and present the current state of stimuli development for a chain of studies that aims to glean how morality informs social selection across contexts.

Tong Suo

Title:
Will Purpose in Life Buffer Stress? Moderation by Culture and Social Status

Abstract:
Prior evidence suggests that people who hold a purpose in life are more resilient to adversity. So far, however, this evidence is limited to either self-reported negative emotion or lab-based physiological assessment. It is thus unclear whether purpose in life might predict
reduced physiological stress responses in daily life. Moreover, little is known about who might benefit most from the purpose in life. Here, we addressed these gaps by examining the flattening of diurnal cortisol slopes in Americans and Japanese (N = 989 in total). For Americans, purpose in life predicted a steeper diurnal cortisol slope (indicative of lower daily stress). Moreover, this effect was particularly pronounced for those low in social status. For Japanese, there was no effect of purpose regardless of social status. Our evidence shows that purpose in life can buffer stress, but its stress-buffering potential depends crucially on both culture and social status.

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Presentation Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:47:17 -0400 2021-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jamie Yellowtail, Savannah Adams, Tong Suo
Introduction to MDRC’s The Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trial (THE-RCT) (April 21, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83439 83439-21379660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Register here: https://myumi.ch/jxjNV

In this webinar, Michael Weiss and John Diamond will discuss MDRC’s The Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trial (THE-RCT) restricted-access dataset, recently released at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). THE-RCT is the largest individual-participant dataset from higher education randomized controlled trials to date, containing de-identified data from more than 25 MDRC random assignment evaluations encompassing 50 higher education institutions and 65,000 students! MDRC researchers are currently using this database to explore research questions such as:

• What happens to program effects after the program ends?
• Which program components (for example, enhanced advising, financial support, or tutoring) are associated with larger improvements in student success?
• What sized improvements in student success can various programs reasonably expect to achieve?

MDRC and ICPSR hope this dataset will inspire new scholarship that will help improve outcomes for low-income, underrepresented, and underprepared students, who have long been a focus of MDRC’s higher education studies. The dataset will continue to grow as MDRC and other organizations conduct additional higher education RCT studies, making it a more useful resource over time. We hope that you can attend this webinar to learn more about this exciting new resource!

This webinar is free and open to the public. This webinar will be recorded. The recording will be available on the ICPSR YouTube page.

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Presentation Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:11:32 -0400 2021-04-21T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Image of graduation cap on top of stacked books behind announcement of THE-RTC webinar
Data Science Coast to Coast: Data Equity and Open Science (April 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83774 83774-21503041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Please register: https://academicdatascience.org/resources/coast2coastseminar

H. V. Jagadish, Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science; Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

Data Equity: A Core Requirement for Responsible Data Science

It was only recently that we regularly used to hear statements like “Let the data speak for themselves”. Today, we instead hear worries about fairness of data-driven systems and AI. Nevertheless, a focus on a specific formulation of fairness in one data science step is far too narrow to be the whole story. We need to address inequitable representation in the data record, inequities due to the data scientist’s world view being reflected in the model, inequities in the resulting outcomes, and inequities in access to fruits of the analysis. In this talk, I will lay out a research agenda in this direction, and invite you to join me.

Ciera Martinez, Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences Lead, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California – Berkeley

Open science in the wild: principles to build reproducible and collaborative data analysis workflows

The academic research system is not built to incentivize open science practices, but transparency and reproducible methodology allows researchers to critically assess and build upon results to fuel scientific discovery and supports a more collaborative and equitable research community. Open science and data practices are often presented as ideals, but rarely do we train for how to handle the intricacies that emerge from every unique research project life cycle. In this talk I will present the ERP (Explore, Refine, and Produce) workflow – a three-phase data analysis workflow that guides researchers to create reproducible and responsible data analysis workflows. Each phase is centered on how to make decisions based on the audience the research is communicated, the research products created, and the career aspirations of the researchers involved. We hope this work helps create a community of practice for how we design and train for reproducible data intensive research and helps demystify data analysis for both students new to research and current researchers who are new to data-intensive work.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:53:35 -0400 2021-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Data Equity and Open Science
Examining the impact of COVID-19 on adults with physical disabilities from marginalized communities (April 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83637 83637-21446269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This webinar will present the findings from a recent study on the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults with physical disabilities from marginalized communities in Southeast Michigan, one of the early pandemic epicenters in the United States. Interviews with 16 adults revealed how participants either had to engage in risky behavior to have their needs met or avoid risk and not have those needs met. They contribute to understandings of risk, its impact on physical and psychological health, and the importance of accommodations. The study expands insight into early responses to the pandemic among individuals with long-term physical disabilities from marginalized communities. It helps elucidate how socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity can differentially impact the lives of adults with physical disabilities and further marginalize a population that is “always already” vulnerable. This knowledge can expand awareness and appreciation of how social, economic, and political systems are structured and integrated into future clinical guidelines and emergency response policies and more adequately addressed.

This webinar is free and open to the public. Communication Access Realtime Translation services will be available to provide live closed captions for the event.

The content of this webinar has been developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR #90RTHF0001). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this webinar do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, or HHS and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8RIqY8GES1q8EeoSya0JCQ.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:28:26 -0400 2021-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Blue and white promotional flyer for UofM IDEAL RRTC Webinar - Examining Impact of COVID19 on Adults with Physical Disability from Marginalized Communities
OS Honors Symposium (April 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83093 83093-21266978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Join us virtually as our 2021 honors students, Rachel Klein and Brianne VanDyke, present their research and findings to the OS community.

For any questions, contact Honors Advisor Dr. Lisa Fein (lisafein@umich.edu)
Zoom link will be provided to those that register.

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Presentation Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:04:00 -0400 2021-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Studies Program (OS) Presentation OS honors symposium event image
Transfer to LSA Information Session (April 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80707 80707-20775567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 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.

Registration is required. Register with the link to the right to receive the Zoom log in information.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:40:45 -0500 2021-04-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation LSA Transfer Student Center
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
The Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account: New Statistics for 2018 & 2019 (May 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83936 83936-21619170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us on May 19 at 1:00 pm ET for a free webinar, “The Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account: New Statistics for 2018 and 2019,” featuring Section Chief Paul Kern with the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The webinar is hosted by the National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture (NADAC), a data repository funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Participants will get an overview of the ACPSA, learn about key findings from the latest 2019 data, and discover ways ACPSA can be used in arts research. Finally, participants will learn about the ACPSA resources available on the NEA and NADAC websites and have the opportunity to ask questions.

Link to register: https://myumi.ch/gjPWr

#nadacArtsData

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-05-19T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation NADAC Webinar May 19, 2021
Microbial Masterpieces (May 19, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83989 83989-21619308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

The recipient of the Experiments in Translation Grant, “Microbial Masterpieces” is a continuously evolving project aiming to communicate the importance of microorganisms to humanity and the planet. Our featured attraction is a giant Winogradsky Panel in the Duderstadt Center Gallery, which houses a brightly colored, continuously changing biofilm. In this presentation, we will share beautiful images and time lapses of the Winogradsky Panel; discuss the science underlying the Panel; and reflect on the importance of art in science communication. Additionally, we will share our progress in trying to make our project accessible to the blind and visually-impaired community through tactile and audio experiences.

The MM team includes: Erica Gardner (School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Engineering); Anna Urso (School for Environment and Sustainability); Bruna lunes Sanches (Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning)

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vm_HuWMRSMyE31cZzwCv7Q

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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Presentation Thu, 06 May 2021 18:25:54 -0400 2021-05-19T15:30:00-04:00 2021-05-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Media Commons Presentation Winogradsky Panel
Western UP Wind Energy Webinar (May 19, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84000 84000-21619330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

On Wednesday, May 19th at 6:30 pm, Dr. Sarah Mills from the University of Michigan and Bradley Neumann from Michigan State University Extension will offer a webinar on the local impacts of wind energy projects, specifically geared toward the Western UP.

As part of a grant from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), the University of Michigan has created extensive online resources to help communities as they plan and zone for wind energy. The aim of these resources is to help communities understand the positive and negative impacts of wind projects so that they can make informed decisions about whether and where renewable energy might be appropriate in their township. Among the resources included is a sample zoning ordinance developed by MSU Extension. The University of Michigan has also been offering a multitude of webinars on planning and zoning through the EGLE/UM Clean Energy & Energy Management Webinar Series, including this special webinar tailored specifically to the Western UP.

To join the Zoom webinar, follow this link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91379805981.

Or, dial in: (301) 715-8592 and enter webinar ID: 913 7980 5981 #.

Attendees who join online (through the link above) will be able to submit questions during the webinar, but you can also submit questions ahead of time through the Webinar Question Form (under Related Links) so that they can be addressed in the presentation.

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Presentation Fri, 07 May 2021 15:07:19 -0400 2021-05-19T18:30:00-04:00 2021-05-19T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Presentation EGLE-Graham
Prechter-Tam Bipolar Seminar Series: Pluripotent Stem Cell Models to Study Bipolar Disorder (May 20, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83971 83971-21619270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program

"Characterization of stem cell-derived exosomes in bipolar disorder and their impact on recipient cells."

Bipolar disorder is a condition that involves the human brain. There is no easy access to brain tissue from living people.  Using induced pluripotent stem cells offers the first opportunity to model the activity of brain and nerve cells from individuals with bipolar disorder. Samples from skin are ‘induced’ to form pluripotent stem cells that can subsequently be prompted to grow into nerve cells.  Shortly after this technology was developed, the Prechter Bipolar Research Program expanded to include Sue O’Shea, PhD, Professor, in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology who works on pluripotent stem cells.  Individuals with a history of bipolar disorder and non-bipolar controls provided skin samples that were grown into stem cells and then nerve cells.  Over the past decade this work has expanded to include a multisite collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, the Salk Institute, Sanford Burnham Institute, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals.  Several significant findings have included the consistent characteristic of premature excitability of nerve cells derived from individuals with bipolar disorder, the abnormal behaviors of astrocytes, and the apparent dysfunction of exosomes.  These patterns are leading towards the identification of target pathways that may be suitable for pharmaceutical intervention. 

U-M PANEL DISCUSSION

Panel Moderator: Melvin G. McInnis, M.D., FRCPsych -
Director, Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program

Jianping Fu, Ph.D. - Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Paul Jenkins, Ph.D. - Professor, Pharmacology

Stephanie Bielas, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Human Genetics

SPECIAL GUESTS

Kristen Brennand, Ph.D. - Professor of Medicine, Yale University

Paola Arlotta, Ph.D. - Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

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Presentation Wed, 05 May 2021 12:52:06 -0400 2021-05-20T11:30:00-04:00 2021-05-20T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program Presentation Prechter-Tam Bipolar Seminar Banner
CGIS Winter Advising (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Mindfulness in the Museum (May 21, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83891 83891-21597365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 21, 2021 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ehwrxos4f0d29912.

Have you ever wished you could have a more meaningful connection with art at UMMA? In this virtual experience, we will explore a more contemplative approach to looking at art with a variety of guided mindfulness practices. As we rest our attention on our breath, the body and heart relax while the mind quiets. We can experience what’s before with more spaciousness and also learn to trust our own experience. Led by meditation teacher and UMMA docent Laura Seligman. Beginner and experienced meditators welcome. The May sessions of Mindfulness at the Museum are presented by UMMA, in partnership with MHealth and University Human Resources, in honor of Mental Health Month. This year, it's more important than ever to find ways to nurture and sustain meaningful connections. If you could benefit from talking to someone, support is available year-round for all faculty and staff. Looking for support for students? Check out the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) offices for students: CAPS Ann Arbor, CAPS Dearborn, CAPS Flint.

 

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Presentation Fri, 21 May 2021 12:15:14 -0400 2021-05-21T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-21T11:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Mindfulness in the Museum (May 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83892 83892-21597366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ehwryeqv9f461cc1.

Have you ever wished you could have a more meaningful connection with art at UMMA? In this virtual experience, we will explore a more contemplative approach to looking at art with a variety of guided mindfulness practices. As we rest our attention on our breath, the body and heart relax while the mind quiets. We can experience what’s before with more spaciousness and also learn to trust our own experience. Led by meditation teacher and UMMA docent Laura Seligman. Beginner and experienced meditators welcome. The May sessions of Mindfulness at the Museum are presented by UMMA, in partnership with MHealth and University Human Resources, in honor of Mental Health Month. This year, it's more important than ever to find ways to nurture and sustain meaningful connections. If you could benefit from talking to someone, support is available year-round for all faculty and staff. Looking for support for students? Check out the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) offices for students: CAPS Ann Arbor, CAPS Dearborn, CAPS Flint.

 

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Presentation Mon, 24 May 2021 12:15:14 -0400 2021-05-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Transfer to LSA Information Session (June 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84115 84115-21620314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkfuGqqzsrHdNgSKxBfg1xE3oDJ4ag_dNY

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:24:03 -0400 2021-06-01T18:00:00-04:00 2021-06-01T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Transfer Transitions: Transfer Student Communities and Programming (June 2, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84179 84179-21620701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Please join the LSA Transfer Student Center over the summer for Transfer Transitions to learn how you can build on the skills you already possess to make a smooth transition in your first semester and discover all the opportunities available for you. Every other week we will feature a group of opportunities and resources centered on a topic.

This week we feature optiMize, Transfer Connections, and the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Serving transfer students is at the core of these three programs, all of which offer extensive opportunities to join in the transfer student community in addition to their other programming

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:59:43 -0400 2021-06-02T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Center
Transfer to LSA Information Session (June 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84116 84116-21620315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdO-grDguHtfZdBnYJ62DWOx8P5h57-mt

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:25:42 -0400 2021-06-09T14:00:00-04:00 2021-06-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Summer Sensations with Kaylah and Jake! (June 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84231 84231-21620790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Hi, we are Jake and Kaylah, two of the LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors. Join us every other week on Wednesdays for informal chats covering a variety of topics. We have set a topic for each week, but we want you to feel free to ask us anything that you want so if we stray from the topic that will be perfectly fine.

The first week we will focus on how to get off to a great start in your classes this fall including advice on how to adjust to the pace of classes, understanding the structure of U-M classes, how to declare your major, and anything else you want to talk about

Here’s our schedule for the rest of the summer:
*June 23* - Community Building
*July 7* - Food and Housing
*July 21* - Academic Well Being
*August 4* - Music, Recreation, Entertainment, Sports
*August 18* - Campus Activism

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:43:43 -0400 2021-06-09T19:00:00-04:00 2021-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Summer Sensations
U-M 2021 Juneteenth Symposium: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in University of Michigan Museum of Arts’s Collections with Ozi Uduma (June 16, 2021 10:25am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84254 84254-21620818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:25am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://rackham.umich.edu/juneteenth-symposium/.

Join Ozi Uduma, assistant curator of global contemporary art at UMMA, for this special virtual tour on the occasion of U-M’s inaugural campus-wide Juneteenth Symposium. The Symposium will explore the theme of “Celebrating Black Joy, Hope, and Healing.” A partnership between U-M and the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, this Juneteenth observance aims to celebrate and recognize the liberation of all Black people from slavery, made official by the emancipation on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas. Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is celebrated throughout the nation and as a state holiday in Michigan. It is also officially observed in Ann Arbor.

Ozi Uduma is the assistant curator of global contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Uduma is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She was born and raised in Detroit and is of Nigerian descent. Uduma is the curator of the exhibition Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (opening fall 2021) and the co-curator of We Write to You About Africa (opening fall 2021). Uduma’s art interest mostly focuses on modern and contemporary Black artists.

The 2021 U-M Juneteenth Symposium will run June 14-18. For more information, click here. 

The U-M Juneteenth Symposium is organized by Rackham’s Strategic Action Lead Team, the NAACP Ann Arbor Branch, Association of Black Social Work Students, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Center for Social Solutions, in collaboration with Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the CEW+ Women of Color Task Force.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:15:21 -0400 2021-06-16T10:25:00-04:00 2021-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Transfer Transitions: Academic Support (June 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84181 84181-21620702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Please join the LSA Transfer Student Center over the summer for Transfer Transitions to learn how you can build on the skills you already possess to make a smooth transition in your first semester and discover all the opportunities available for you. Every other week we will feature a group of opportunities and resources centered on a topic.

These programs offer academic and transition support to help you succeed in your courses as you transition to U-M and on through completing your bachelor’s degree.

>> Science Learning Center
>> Making the Most of Michigan
>> University Libraries
>> Sweetland Center for Writing
>> Language Resource Center
>> Honors Program
>> Transfer Interest Groups in the Transfer Student Center

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jun 2021 10:04:45 -0400 2021-06-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-16T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Center
Transfer to LSA Information Session (June 16, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84117 84117-21620316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrc--tpjMuHdajBqRcJ2u57rbKatnx5RUN

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:27:34 -0400 2021-06-16T18:00:00-04:00 2021-06-16T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Clean Energy Financing Through Michigan Saves (June 17, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84216 84216-21620770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

In this session, learn about the nation's first nonprofit green bank, Michigan Saves. Originally established through a Michigan Public Service Commission grant, this now independent bank provides energy consumers with low-interest financing for their efficiency improvements through partnerships with private-sector lenders. Hear the details from a Michigan Saves expert as well as real community experiences from local municipalities.

Register for this free event using the link on the right!

This webinar is presented by the University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE).

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Presentation Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:59:57 -0400 2021-06-17T11:00:00-04:00 2021-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Presentation EGLE - UM
Transfer to LSA Information Session (June 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84127 84127-21620327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItduqrrDktGNw73hAZIZWcLgZwQLlzAEt0

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:45:36 -0400 2021-06-24T14:00:00-04:00 2021-06-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
BME Master's Defense: Spencer Morris (June 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84342 84342-21623372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Acquiring accurate measurements for blood flow is a clinically relevant problem of interest. Three-dimensional color flow with partial volume correction (PVC) is a relatively new method for measuring blood flow that accounts for beams located partially outside of the blood vessel. Recent work has shown that the relationship between color flow power and partially perfused voxels is nonlinear. This work investigates the statistics of color power measurements in simulated plug flow to help explain this nonlinear behavior. Data was acquired using Field II simulations in which a 3.75 MHz mechanically swept linear array obtained RF data of blood moving through a vessel. Blood in the vessel exhibited plug flow, and tissue backscatter was set to 40 dB below blood. The statistics of color power at each point in the processing chain were analyzed using histograms, established results in ultrasound statistics, and derived probability density functions (pdfs). For locations completely inside the beam, power before additional processing showed exponential behavior, whereas the square root of power, i.e., amplitude, was Rician distributed. After implementing the Kasai algorithm, the power values could be estimated with a gamma distribution with a shape parameter of 2.21. Kasai powers corresponding to tissue could also be fitted with a gamma distribution, albeit with a shape parameter close to 1, indicating close to exponential behavior. Kasai powers for partial volume data were intermediate between the tissue and blood data. A method for estimating partial volume weight from the skewness and kurtosis of samples taken from the same location is also discussed.

Date: Monday, June 28, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97162930417
Chair: Dr. Oliver Kripfgans

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Presentation Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:48:21 -0400 2021-06-28T10:00:00-04:00 2021-06-28T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
Transfer Transitions: Off-Campus Programs (June 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84182 84182-21620703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Please join the LSA Transfer Student Center over the summer for Transfer Transitions to learn how you can build on the skills you already possess to make a smooth transition in your first semester and discover all the opportunities available for you. Every other week we will feature a group of opportunities and resources centered on a topic.

Learn more about LSA programs that give you the opportunity to earn credits while engaging with communities outside of Ann Arbor and all over the world.

This week features:
Semester in Detroit
Camp Davis
Biological Station
New England Literature Program
Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments
Michigan in Washington
Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jun 2021 10:09:12 -0400 2021-06-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-30T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Center
Examining the Risk of Potentially Preventable Hospitalization in Adults with Congenital and Acquired Disabilities (July 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84312 84312-21623271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Link to registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0EcJEoE7QP-KtRCtxJnRqw

Adults with pediatric-onset (cerebral palsy/spina bifida (CP/SB)) or acquired disabilities (spinal cord injury (SCI) or multiple sclerosis (MS)) are more likely than those without disability to develop medical complications. Little is known about potentially preventable hospitalizations (PPH) among adults with disabilities. PPHs are preventable if a patient had timely access to care. The objective of this study was to examine potential risk and protective factors for PPH, comparing adults with aforementioned disabilities to people without. Our results indicate that adults with disabilities were at greater odds for PPH compared to people without disabilities. Use of preventative services such as annual wellness visit had substantial protective association against PPH. Attendees will learn: (1) how to work with administrative claims data and medical codes to identify appropriate case and control groups; (2) how to define covariates and outcome measures in claims data; (3) how to use various modeling techniques to test a hypothesis; (4) how to interpret the results and develop policy implications.

This webinar is free and open to the public. Communication Access Realtime Translation services will be available to provide live closed captions for the event.

The content of this webinar has been developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR #90RTHF0001). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this webinar do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, or HHS and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:07:45 -0400 2021-07-08T14:00:00-04:00 2021-07-08T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation IDEAL RRTC July 8 2021 Webinar
Transfer to LSA Information Session (July 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84128 84128-21620328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqce2qqTkiEtDmqKVT13QvT7X7dNiNXv02

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:47:24 -0400 2021-07-08T18:00:00-04:00 2021-07-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Transfer to LSA Information Session (July 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84129 84129-21620329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkdumtrDsoHdxV-o0pRlIny0ws86yQef-i

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:48:57 -0400 2021-07-12T14:00:00-04:00 2021-07-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Transfer Transitions: Community Engagement and Leadership Development (July 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84183 84183-21620704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Please join the LSA Transfer Student Center over the summer for Transfer Transitions to learn how you can build on the skills you already possess to make a smooth transition in your first semester and discover all the opportunities available for you. Every other week we will feature a group of opportunities and resources centered on a topic.

Do you have an interest in social justice and community engagement? These programs partner with students to help you build the leadership skills to change the world.

This week features:
Ginsberg Center
Barger Leadership Institute
optiMize
Donia Human Rights Center
Prison Creative Arts Project
Intergroup Relations

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jun 2021 10:13:24 -0400 2021-07-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-07-14T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation LSA Transfer Student Center
Transfer to LSA Information Session (July 19, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84130 84130-21620330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 19, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkfuipqTstH9BYc3O0v4vAeP7YRyiS_3v4

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:50:23 -0400 2021-07-19T18:00:00-04:00 2021-07-19T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
BME Ph.D. Defense: Michael Bregenzer (July 21, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84438 84438-21623984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

High grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the deadliest gynecological malignancy. Despite successful first line therapies, most patients relapse and develop more chemoresistant disease. This recurrence and development of chemoresistance is attributed to a rare population of tumor cells, termed cancer stem cells (CSCs), which are more chemoresistant, have the capacity to self-renew, and can repopulate the entire tumor. Research has shown that CSCs are maintained by the non-cancer cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME), such as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), endothelial cells (ECs), and immune cells. Furthermore, the role of non-cancer cells in clinical outcomes and chemoresistance has been highlighted by recent evidence showing that classification of HGSOC molecular subtypes, which have variable clinical prognoses, are influenced by the presence of non-cancer cells in the tumor. However, it is currently unclear exactly how CSCs and the nuanced cell composition of the TME work together to promote chemoresistance. Current models used to study these phenomena either suffer from a lack of cellular complexity in the case of many in vitro models or impractical experimental constraints such as long latency periods and poor control over cell composition in patient-derived xenografts. To better understand the role of CSCs and the TME cells in chemoresistance, practical in vitro model systems that more closely represent in vivo processes and microenvironments are needed. We hypothesize that the development of these in vitro model systems will contribute novel insights into TME-mediated CSC regulation and the development of chemoresistance in HGSOC.

In aim 1 we examined the emergence of chemoresistance in the context of CSCs by developing a 3D in vitro serial passaging model system that allows for long term culture of patient-derived tumor cells with periodic evaluation of stemness and chemoresistance. Using this model system, we demonstrated increased proliferation, expression of CSC markers, tumorigenicity, and chemoresistance over the course of long-term passaging, reflective of emerging chemoresistance in vivo. Furthermore, this system enabled us to define a malignant gene expression signature that is associated with chemoresistance, tumorigenicity, and stemness and to evaluate patient-specific chemoresistance development following treatment. Finally, we demonstrated the translational value of this model system by showing that Metformin treatment can hinder CSC driven development of chemoresistance in a phase II clinical trial.

In aim 2 we developed a heterogeneous tumoroid culture system that enabled culture of patient-derived tumor cells with controlled ratios of MSCs, ECs, and immune cells to study TME-mediated maintenance of CSCs and chemoresistance. Using this model, we found that changes in CD133+/-ALDH+/- CSC phenotypes in response to TME cells varied depending on the patient sample. We also observed increased tumorigenicity and chemoresistance in tumoroids compared to spheroids cultured with patient-derived tumor cells alone. Furthermore, we found evidence of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in tumoroids accompanied by altered CSC phenotypes and a malignant matrisome signature. All of this together supports idea that the non-cancer cells in the TME contribute to the development of advanced, chemoresistant disease and implicates EMT, changes in CSC phenotypes, and matrix remodeling as the primary culprits.

Finally, in aim 3, we utilized this tumoroid system to generate tumoroids with 23 different cell compositions to evaluate the role of TME cell composition in response to therapy. Drug assays with novel and traditional chemotherapies revealed that tumoroids with different compositions respond differently to therapy and that the number of monocytes included in the culture was associated with the greatest resistance to therapy. Furthermore, our random forest models trained on the drug responses of each cell composition were able to predict drug response with moderate success. With these models we identified that nuanced differences in cell composition can influence drug response and that the strongest predictor of response to therapy was the total quantity of non-cancer cells. Overall, this model demonstrates the potential of using the TME composition to predict patient drug response and direct clinical management.

In these aims we demonstrate the clear utility of complex and realistic, yet practical in vitro model systems in the study of chemoresistance and CSC maintenance in ovarian cancer. Specifically, we identified the link between CSCs and the development of chemoresistance in long term 3D in vitro serial passage culture. Furthermore, we showed that the non-cancer cells in the TME can confer chemoresistance and promote EMT associated with altered CSC phenotypes and matrix remodeling. Lastly, we demonstrated the potential of TME composition in predicting drug response. Overall, the model systems presented in this study provide platforms that can be used to better understand the role of CSCs and the TME in chemoresistance and poor clinical outcomes. This could ultimately lead to the development of novel therapies, enhanced clinical management, and improved clinical outcomes.

Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96111622879
Password: 326862
Chair: Dr. Geeta Mehta

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Presentation Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:13:44 -0400 2021-07-21T09:00:00-04:00 2021-07-21T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
Precision Health Graduate Certificate Program (July 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84318 84318-21623289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

The new U-M Precision Health Graduate Certificate Program has arrived to educate current and future practitioners and researchers in this emerging field so they can become better equipped to customize patient care.

**Only 12 credits of graduate coursework required
**Great opportunity for graduate students to design their own plan
**Network with other precision health students and faculty at seminars and professional development workshops

**Mentoring with faculty

The certificate is open to all graduate students enrolled at U-M. Application deadline is August 1.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:24:55 -0400 2021-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 2021-07-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Presentation researchers, learners and health professional in lab, classroom and clinic setting
BME Ph.D. Defense: Yuan Li (July 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84452 84452-21624017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor in adults and has a poor prognosis with a median survival of approximately 14 months. Clinical standard assessment of therapy response and tumor progression is based upon post-contrast T1-weighted (T1W) and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) T2-weighted (T2W) magnetic resonance images (MRI).  However, contrast enhancement observed on the post-contrast T1W MRI is affected not only by tumor growth but also effects of radiation, anti-angiogenesis drugs and chemotherapy, due to the fact that it represents blood-brain barrier disruption. Another problem is that abnormality on T2W FLAIR images is influenced by T2 changes of tumor cells as well as edema and necrosis that always co-exist within GBM. Diffusion weighted (DW) imaging has been proposed to overcome these limitations. Conventional DW images quantify apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) with b-values between 0 and 1000 s/mm2 using a mono-exponential decay. One limitation is that co-existence of edema in clinical GBM elevates ADC.
 
In diffusion MRI, there are three dimensions of parameter spaces that we could explore in research —b value, diffusion time (t) and echo time (TE). Hence, we investigated and developed high order diffusion models in these three spaces and evaluated whether they could reveal more features of GBM.
 
In the b-value space, we investigated a microstructure model (MSM), in which modulation of diffusion gradient with cell size is considered, with high b-value diffusion images in the patients with GBM pre-radiation therapy (RT). We found apparent cell size (ARS), extracellular diffusion coefficient (Dex) and intracellular fractional volume (Vin) in tumor were significantly greater than ones in normal tissue and edema. In addition, we investigated diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in GBM pre-RT and mid-RT, and found pre-RT mean kurtosis of the tumor could provide a predictive value of overall survival (OS) additional to clinical prognostic factors.
 
In the TE space, T2-Relaxation-Diffusion correlation experiments can be powerful in resolving water compartments with respect to their size and chemical composition, but the problem is ill-posed. We simplified the T2-Relaxation-Diffusion correlation to consider the T2 values and diffusion coefficients in a 2x2 fashion. We found that there were significant differences between fast and slow diffusion coefficients and between associated T2 values in tumor, cortex, deep GM, and edema. Multivariate Cox model showed the fractional volume of slow component (Vs) mid-RT may add a predictive value to clinical factors.
 
In diffusion time space, we applied three different diffusion times using pulsed diffusion gradients (PG) and oscillating gradients at frequencies of 30 Hz (OS30) and 50 Hz (OS50) using a prototype sequence. Using a random walk with barriers model, we estimated cell diameter, unrestricted diffusion coefficient (D0) at a short time limit, bulk diffusion coefficient (Dinf) at a long time limit, cell membrane permeability and effective restriction in the contrast-enhanced tumor. Those parameters provide microstructural information in the GBM and need to be further investigated and validated with pathology.
 
Previous studies have mainly investigated high order diffusion models in prostate cancer and xenograft tumor models, and only a few studies investigated GBM. The current knowledge about the relationship between model parameters and physiological/pathological features in GBM are still limited. Our research in GBM could lead to better imaging means for GBM diagnosis, tumor target definition for radiation therapy, and therapy response assessment.
 
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96213084276

Chair: Dr. Yue Cao

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Presentation Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:47:02 -0400 2021-07-22T14:00:00-04:00 2021-07-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
How to Use TransPop Data: The first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States (July 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84448 84448-21623998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for a virtual presentation of TransPop, the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States. During this presentation you'll learn how to use these data to reach your own groundbreaking results.

The TransPop study not only describes the demographic make-up of the transgender population and their experiences related to identity and transition, but also aims to provide information on areas like health outcomes, health care access, quality of life, and experiences with discrimination.

In addition to being the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States, it also includes a comparative cisgender sample. A primary goal of this study was to provide researchers with a representative sample of transgender people in the United States. The study examines a variety of health-relevant domains including health outcomes and health behaviors, experiences with interpersonal and institutional discrimination, identity, transition-related experiences, and basic demographic characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, religion, political party affiliation, marital status, employment, income, location, sex, gender, and education).

The TransPop study is available at https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37938.v1.

This webinar is free and open to the public. A live transcript will be available. The webinar will be recorded, and the recording and slides will be sent to all registrants after the webinar.

Zoom FAQs for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

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Presentation Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:31:28 -0400 2021-07-22T14:00:00-04:00 2021-07-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for TransPop data webinar from ICPSR featuring transgender flag on white background
Transfer to LSA Information Session (July 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84122 84122-21620322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocu-gqj8qGdIVq3nMlvNauQ-MeYUQgqlz

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:36:33 -0400 2021-07-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-07-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Contextualized Monitoring in the Marine Environment (July 27, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84744 84744-21624859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Co-Chair:
Kira Barton & Alex Shorter

Abstract:
Marine mammal monitoring has seen improvements in the last few decades with advances made to both the monitoring hardware and post-processing computation methods. However, these improvements have primarily been focused on and implemented in wild animal tracking, with less attention paid to the managed environment. This is a particularly important deficiency, as the cooperative nature of institutionally managed animals allows for research on swimming kinematics and energetics behavior with an intricacy that is difficult to achieve in the wild. This dissertation uses robotics-inspired physical kinematics and localization techniques to address two primary limitations in marine mammal monitoring: 1) the lack of persistent, absolute estimates of animal swimming energetics and kinematics, and 2) the lack of a robust, precise localization method for managed cetaceans. To resolve these, the hardware and animal tracking methods developed to enable the rest of the dissertation are first defined. Next, a physics-based approach to directly monitor cetacean swimming energetics is both presented and implemented to study animal propulsion patterns under varying effort conditions. Finally, a high-fidelity 3D monitoring framework is introduced for tracking institutionally managed cetaceans, and is applied alongside the energetics estimation method to provide a first look at the potential of spatially-contextualized animal monitoring.

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Presentation Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:13:20 -0400 2021-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 2021-07-27T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Presentation A dolphin with monitoring equipment.
Dimensions of Public Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act, 2010 through 2017 (July 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84699 84699-21624454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30 pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:31:13 -0400 2021-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures 2021
Dimensions of Public Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act, 2010 through 2017 (July 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84752 84752-21624872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:12:05 -0400 2021-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
Transfer Transitions: Opportunity Hub (July 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84184 84184-21620705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Please join the LSA Transfer Student Center over the summer for Transfer Transitions to learn how you can build on the skills you already possess to make a smooth transition in your first semester and discover all the opportunities available for you. Every other week we will feature a group of opportunities and resources centered on a topic.

Because the LSA Opportunity Hub can be such an essential part of your success in LSA we dedicate an entire week to introducing all they offer. The Opportunity Hub partners with you to develop your interests, uncover your values, and navigate different experiences to reach your personal and professional goals. The Hub does this through coaching, interactive classes, alumni-hosted internships, internship scholarships, and opportunities to build important relationships with alumni and employers.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jun 2021 10:18:42 -0400 2021-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation LSA Transfer Student Center
Analyzing Open-Ended Responses for Understanding Opinions About Presidential Candidates (July 28, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84698 84698-21624453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:28:58 -0400 2021-07-28T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Blalock Lecture series 2021
Understanding Network Structures (July 29, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84697 84697-21624452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 29, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:25:28 -0400 2021-07-29T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2021
BME Ph.D. Defense: Alyse Krausz (July 30, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84644 84644-21624348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Diagnostic and monitoring devices based on protein biomarker measurements have the potential to inform courses of treatment in acute conditions and to help manage and prevent disease progression in chronic conditions. The importance of diagnostic and monitoring devices cannot be overstated as medicine is blind without them. However, prevalent conditions such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) lack adequate diagnostic and monitoring tools. 
 
Assessment of TBI is typically done through neurological examination and neuroimaging techniques. While these methods can identify direct tissue damage to the brain, they cannot assess the secondary damage stemming from the initial injury. The primary tissue damage sets off a cascade of secondary injuries, such as neuronal cell death, blood brain barrier breakdown, edema, and upregulation of inflammatory markers. Protein biomarkers have been proposed as a way of monitoring the progression of secondary TBI injury and of providing more sensitive diagnostic measures when used in conjunction with imaging and physical examination. However, FDA authorized biomarkers, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin c-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), can currently only be measured in a hospital laboratory. Analyzing TBI biomarker data in field and pre-hospital settings would enable rapid diagnosis and delivery of care, so we developed a glass and silicon microfluidic device for quantification of TBI protein biomarkers via bead-based immunoassay. The device consists of a single channel with a variable height profile fabricated by slowly lowering a glass wafer into hydrofluoric acid. The device can capture and separate beads with diameters ranging from 1 to 5 micrometers. We also developed bead-based quantum dot-linked immunosorbent assays (QLISAs) for GFAP, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and interleukin-8 (IL-8) by conjugating appropriate antibodies to 2.8, 4.5, and 1 micrometer diameter beads, respectively. We used the variable height device to passively separate a mixture of assay beads with completed immunocomplexes into distinct bands where the diameter of the beads matched the height of the channel. The fluorescent intensity of each band was used to quantify a different biomarker concentration, resulting in a customizable brain injury barcode. By changing out the bead size and antibodies used for each immunoassay, the variable height device can keep pace with the developing field of TBI biomarker discovery and validation or be applied to biomarkers for another condition of interest. 
 
We also developed an assay system to monitor CKD, which is one of the ten most common chronic conditions in adults aged 65 and older. Clinical guidelines currently recommend that the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) be measured once a year to monitor disease progression. However, measuring the ACR at home can enable patients to self-identify the early signs of disease progression and consult their physicians, potentially leading to improved outcomes. We designed and analytically validated inexpensive, colorimetric assays for urinary albumin and creatinine intended to be used in a 3D-printed, disposable microfluidic device. Discrepancies between the results from the colorimetric albumin assay and the hospital albumin assay when clinical urine samples were tested highlight the importance of incorporating analytical validation as a checkpoint in the development of microfluidic monitoring systems. 
 
Overall, this work presents a novel method of multiplexing immunoassays in microfluidic systems that can be applied to measure protein biomarkers for TBI or another condition of interest and highlights the importance of integrating assay design with microfluidic device design to promote clinical translation.
 
Date: Friday, July 30, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpdu2rrjsqH9LM0c4DZ8bs8Uj0BdggOEeE (pre-registration required)
Chair: Dr. Mark Burns

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Presentation Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:02:10 -0400 2021-07-30T10:00:00-04:00 2021-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
BME PhD Defense: Emine Sumeyra Turali-Emre (August 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84794 84794-21624994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs) are bio-inspired inorganic nanoscale materials that replicate some biological nanostructures functionalities including self-assembly, catalysis, and enzyme inhibition. These functionalities are being investigated for and, in some cases, are being utilized in optics and electronics such as chemical sensors, superhydrophobic coatings, and antireflective surfaces. This thesis examines the utilization of biomimetic inorganic NPs for various problems in biomedical engineering.

Specifically, in the first part of this thesis, I address the problem on controversial explanations of the antibacterial and other biological activity of zinc oxide NPs that are frequently utilized in cosmetics, textiles, and biomedical fields. In the second part of the thesis, I explore the self-organization of NPs into biomimetic supraparticles (SPs) for nucleic acid delivery that can be exploited as drug delivery agents.

NPs have been used in the antimicrobial field for a long time; however, their antibacterial mechanism of action against different types of bacteria remains unclear and, in many cases, misinterpreted. Most of the studies on antimicrobial NPs suggest reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation, ion release, and membrane damage as the primary source of antibacterial activity. In Chapter 2, we show that the mechanism of antibacterial activity for Staphylococcus aureus is remarkably more complex than generating ROS or the release of Zn2+ ions and is based on formation of biomimetic complexes of NPs with proteins. Gene expression analysis demonstrated that ZnO-NPs significantly affect carbohydrate metabolism and cell energetics, where the uridine monophosphate (UMP) biosynthesis pathway is highly upregulated. In Chapter 3, we explore the ZnO-NP mode of entry into S. aureus and the cell metabolism. Here, we showed that NPs enter the cells within 5 minutes of exposure and induce minimal membrane damage. We note that cells do not depolarize until 60 min post-NPs exposure. Thereby, we highlight that membrane damage is not the primary mechanism of action but rather a downstream effect of ZnO-NPs exposure to bacterial cells. Taken together, causing minimal ROS production and significant changes in carbohydrate metabolism and bioenergetics along with cell entry without immediate membrane damage imply the biomimetic function of these NPs. Further investigation into the antimicrobial mechanisms of biomimetic NPs is essential for future clinical translation.

Over the past few decades, there has been considerable interest in developing nanoscale constructs as effective delivery tools for high molecular weight drugs. In chapter 4, I explore the self-assembly of NPs into compartmentalized SPs, which mimics the structure of a virus to deliver nucleic acid into cells. The time-dependent self-assembly mechanism reveals that these SPs are formed from nanocup intermediates. We found that this intermediate stage is essential for the utilization of SP compartments. Nucleic acid is added to the system at this stage before SP formation, and high encapsulation is achieved. Similar to virus infections, once cells uptake the SP, SP disassociates in endosomes and releases the cargo.

Overall, the work presented in this thesis investigates and highlights the strong potential of biomimetic inorganic NPs use in next-generation biomedical applications.

Date: Monday, August 2, 2021
TIme: 1:00PM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95043183845
Chair: Prof. Nicholas Kotov

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Presentation Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:34:40 -0400 2021-08-02T13:00:00-04:00 2021-08-02T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
Harnessing Big Data for Health and Social Science Research (August 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84713 84713-21624468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This lecture will be pre-recorded and available two weeks before this session on the ICPSR Summer Program YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q

Please join us for this live Q&A session with the presenter on 8/3/21 at 12pm EDT at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock.

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:03:54 -0400 2021-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-08-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
Transfer to LSA Information Session (August 3, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84123 84123-21620323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUud-qgpj0pG9WQE66qOYqKBDfO5EWaQYhu

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:38:25 -0400 2021-08-03T18:00:00-04:00 2021-08-03T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
BME PhD Defense: Daniel Clough (August 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84844 84844-21625176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Type 1 diabetes is caused by the autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing β-cells, resulting in a chronic metabolic disorder typically treated with exogenous insulin. Even with the aid of advanced insulin pumps and real time feedback systems, blood glucose levels still deviate outside of the range maintained by native islets, which places the individual at risk for vascular complications and life-threatening hypoglycemic events. Cell replacement therapies have demonstrated the capacity to tightly control blood glucose levels. The wide adoption of cell replacement therapy is hindered by limited availability of donor islets, and the lack of effective methods to support the long-term function of these cells within a clinically accessible site. The results presented in this thesis address these limitations: through studying maturation of human pluripotent progenitor cell (hPPC) derived β cells within a transplantable biomaterial platform, and evaluating novel approaches to the implantation and support of these cells during their continued maturation in vivo.

First, I present a study that examined delivery of hPPC-derived pancreatic progenitors within microporous PLG scaffolds into the epididymal fat pad, the murine surrogate for the clinically relevant omental pouch. Kidney capsule injection, the site most commonly utilized to test stem cell-derived β cell function in murine models, was the comparison condition. We observed that the microporous scaffolds supported cell engraftment, however the levels of circulating C-peptide were lower when compared to the kidney capsule condition. The scaffolds were subsequently modified to provide sustained release of exendin-4, which led to significantly increased C-peptide production. Image analysis revealed that exendin-4 releasing scaffolds enhanced the proportion of pancreatic progenitors that matured to monohormonal insulin producing cells.

Next I present my findings from studying how hPPC-derived β cells mature and function within three transplantation sites: the i) scaffold delivery into the epididymal fat pad, ii) scaffold delivery into the subcutaneous space, and iii) the kidney capsule injection (control). Additionally, we investigated the impact of blood glucose levels on maturation of the hPPC-derived β cells by transplanting mice with pre- or post-engraftment diabetes induction. Hyperglycemia was ameliorated in the cohorts of mice that received scaffolds into the epididymal fat pad, following a period of in vivo maturation. The function of these cells was demonstrated by the reduction in blood glucose levels, healthy increase in weight, therapeutic levels of circulating human insulin, and healthy responses to glucose challenge tests. The function from the epididymal fat pad was superior to the subcutaneous space and was observed to be comparable to the kidney capsule. No differences were observed in graft function between the cohorts whose grafts matured in a diabetic or non-diabetic environment, yet several differences in gene expression were observed.

Many of the current differentiation protocols culture the cells above a feeder layer in monolayer, or in suspension within a bioreactor. Typically, these protocols require the disruption of the cell niche during key differentiation stages or pre-transplantation handling. Biomaterial scaffolds maintain the integrity of cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix connections by providing both a space for cell niche development as well as a vehicle for transplantation into the body. Herein, I present results from testing the developmental stage in which progenitors are seeded into the 3D niche, and two differentiation strategies prior to seeding: monolayer and suspension culture. Maturation was characterized via gene expression analysis, glucose stimulated insulin secretion assay, and nondestructive microscopy utilizing a sfGFP-C-peptide cell line that reports C-peptide production and secretion. We observed that seeding clusters during the key transition phase from pancreatic progenitor to pancreatic endocrine enhanced commitment to the final beta cell fate.

This work enhances our understanding of hPPC-derived beta cell manufacturing within scaffolds, and delivery to an extrahepatic site to achieve normoglycemic blood glucose levels.

Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98009467275
Password: betacell
Chair: Dr. Lonnie Shea

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Presentation Mon, 02 Aug 2021 10:58:53 -0400 2021-08-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
The Youth Policy Lab: Partnership Driven Research to Improve the Lives of Young Michiganders (August 4, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84714 84714-21624469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:37:47 -0400 2021-08-04T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-04T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
BME PhD Defense: Dorsa Haji Ghaffari (August 5, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84795 84795-21624995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 5, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Retinal prostheses have restored a sense of vision in patients blinded by photoreceptor degeneration. These electronic implants operate by electrically stimulating the remaining retinal cells. While retinal prosthesis users report improvements in light perception and performing basic visual tasks, their ability to perceive shapes and letters remains limited. Investigating stimulation strategies to reduce perceptual thresholds and create focal, non-overlapping phosphenes will increase the resolution of retinal prostheses and improve the overall patient outcomes. In this thesis I explore two main strategies for electrode-specific optimization of stimulation parameters: 1) a novel pulse paradigm for threshold reduction, and 2) an automated closed-loop method for adjusting stimulation parameters to create a focal retinal activation area.

I combined human subject testing and computational modeling to investigate the effect of waveform asymmetry on perception shapes and thresholds with epiretinal stimulation. Threshold measurement and phosphene shape analysis was performed on four Argus II users. A computational model of a retinal ganglion cell (RGC) was created in the NEURON simulation environment to allow for a more thorough parameter testing and to gain insight into the biophysical mechanisms. Our human subject results suggest that asymmetric waveforms could increase perception probabilities compared to a standard symmetric pulse, and this effect can be intensified by addition of an interphase gap (IPG). Our in silico model predicts that the most effective pulse for threshold reduction is asymmetric anodic-first stimulation with small duration ratios (≤ 5) and long IPGs (≥ 2 ms). Phosphene shape analysis revealed no significant difference in percept elongation with different pulse types. Average phosphene area was larger with asymmetric anodic-first stimulation compared to other pulse types.

Prosthetic vision quality is highly dependent on the capability to precisely activate target neurons and avoid off-target activation. However, studies show elongated and inconsistent responses to single electrode stimulation, indicating unintended stimulation of off-target neurons and electrode-specific activation patterns. While tuning stimulation parameters can transform the spatial RGC activity, a manual search for optimal parameters can be time consuming and tiring for patients. I developed a process for automatic optimization of stimulation parameters in silico, which involved training neural networks for quantifying the relationship between pulse parameters and spatial response descriptors, and a closed-loop algorithm to search for optimal parameters. Using this process, I was able to guide the parameter search effectively and converge to an optimal response within a few iterations.

Finally, I presented a process for automatic optimization of stimulation parameters in vitro using calcium imaging in mouse retina. This process involved training neural networks at each iteration based on a few images, using an interior point algorithm to find the optimal parameters, and classifying the resulting calcium images with a CNN trained on previous data. Our results indicate that we can converge to optimal stimulation parameters that create focal RGC activity by sampling less than 1/3 of the parameter space. This approach can shorten the exploration time significantly compared to a manual search, especially when the parameter space is large. Findings of this project could lead to the development of a clinically applicable system for electrode-specific optimization of stimulation protocol, improving the overall outcome of artificial vision.

Date: Thursday, August 5, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93552322970
Chair: Dr. James Weiland

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Presentation Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:42:01 -0400 2021-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2021-08-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
Data Collection Methods in the Age of Data Science: Where Are We Headed? (August 5, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84715 84715-21624470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 5, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:39:39 -0400 2021-08-05T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-05T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
BME PhD Defense: Ahmet Emre (August 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84859 84859-21625204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Energy storage is an integral part of life. Living creatures have developed a distributed and structural energy storage system to survive under various and sometimes extreme conditions. Similarly, energy storage is critical for modern life to power from small biomedical instruments to large aircraft. There are still several challenges against efficient and safe energy storage utilization due to the mechanical, chemical, and physical limitations of existing materials. Inspired by biological structures, we present multifunctional nanocomposites from aramid nanofibers (ANF), a nanoscale version of Kevlar, to address the safety and efficiency of various battery chemistries and enable structural energy storage to increase energy density. High mechanical properties of ANF suppress dendrite formation, and tunability with different copolymers and fabrication methods allow ANF-based nanocomposites to meet specific needs of different battery chemistries.

In the first part of this thesis, we engineered biomimetic solid electrolyte from ANF and polyethylene oxide for zinc batteries inspired by the cartilage structure. These strong nanocomposites can block stiff zinc dendrite and prevent short circuits over cycles. Resilience to plastic deformation and damage while having no leaking fluids or cracks is essential for the safety of, for instance, electrical vehicles employing such batteries. These load-bearing batteries can be used as a structural component and increase energy density by simply avoiding inactive parts. As a proof of concept, we utilized this battery on a commercial drone as an auxiliary energy storage unit to extend flight endurance by about 20%.

The second part of the thesis addresses a specific polysulfide shuttle problem in lithium-sulfur batteries utilizing bioinspired ANF nanocomposites. Mimicking ion channels on the cell membrane, we engineered biomimetic nanochannels (1nm diameter) for selectively allowing lithium-ion passage while physically blocking lithium polysulfide species (>2nm) on the cathode side. Selective ion transport through nanochannels is also modeled by finite element analysis, COMSOL. These ion channels allow us to reach >3500 cycles.

In addition to previous solid and liquid electrolyte systems, here in the last part of the thesis, we present a tunable quasi-solid polymer electrolyte to take advantage of both electrolyte features while minimizing their individual risks and drawbacks. Similar to the kidney filtration system, specifically the glomerular basement membrane, this gel electrolyte filters ions depending on their size and charge. Selective permeability and regulated ion transport provide safe and stable charge/discharge cycles. High mechanical properties keep functionality under extreme conditions, including high temperature and nail penetration. We integrated pouch cells in various prototypes to show practical utilization of our structural batteries, including health monitoring devices, robotic prosthetics, and electric vehicles.

Taken together, mimicking structural and functional properties of multifunctional biological materials, i.e., cartilage, we present a novel multifunctional nanocomposite system that can be tailored to the specific needs of numerous structural energy storage applications.

Date: Monday, August 9, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92570283886
Chair: Prof. Nicholas Kotov

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Presentation Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:53:44 -0400 2021-08-09T14:00:00-04:00 2021-08-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
BME PhD Defense: Steven Cutlip (August 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84858 84858-21625203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

For the sensorimotor system to complete motor tasks it controls the body, it controls objects that the sensorimotor system acts upon within the environment, and it anticipates future states of the environment. The sensorimotor system is known to adapt and improve in performance with practice in response to predictable phenomena. The literature explains motor adaptation and performance improvement in terms of models, called internal models, of future loads. The theory of internal models has been investigated in the neuroscience and human motor behavior communities, where electrophysiological data and motor performance experiments have yielded rich data in support of the role of predictive modeling.

Internal models can be divided into two types: internal models of the plant and internal models of exogenous processes. While internal models of the plant have a rich history and have been studied extensively, literature on internal models of exogenous processes is less developed. This dissertation introduces the Internal Model Principle (IMP) as a tool for modeling internal models of exogenous processes. This dissertation further extends the usefulness of the IMP for modeling human motor control by extending the model to handle sensorimotor tasks that feature signal blanking.

Haptic feedback can be considered as an exogenous signal (a disturbance) whose features can be predicted because they are produced by the plant under control. Haptic feedback is an information signal providing the receiver feedback about the state of the system. However, haptic feedback is also a power signal; sufficient force due to haptic feedback can backdrive the biomechanics of a participant. In this dissertation these topics are explored in two studies, one in the context of driving oscillations in a spring-mass system and the other in the context of shared control design for semi-autonomous vehicles.

Date: Monday, August 9, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97211413457
Chair: Brent Gillespie

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Presentation Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:46:34 -0400 2021-08-09T14:00:00-04:00 2021-08-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
BME Master's Defense: Hind AlYahya (August 10, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84890 84890-21625248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a disorder that restricts the blood flow in arteries that carry blood to the limbs; it frequently affects the legs. This restriction occurs due to severe atherosclerosis (stenosis), an accumulation of fatty materials in the vessel lumen. Stents are used to manage this disease. However, in-stent restenosis can occur at an unpredictable time, leading to emergency hospitalization or death.

The wireless magnetoelastic monitoring system showed its potential to detect restenosis. The main components of this system are a miniaturized wireless sensor integrated into the stent and a bias magnet. The purpose of using a magnet is to provide a uniform magnetic field for the sensor to operate. This work aims to improve the design of the system components to be compatible with the commercial self-expanding vascular stents. The magnetoelastic sensor was designed to fit with a conventional self-expanding stent (e.g., Innova™ from Boston Scientific Corp.) used to treat superficial femoral artery lesions. It is designed to be a single layer of MetglasTM 2826MB (12 mm x 0.85 mm x 29 um). However, the sensor could be damaged during the stent deployment. As a result, it is necessary to encapsulate the sensor. A polymeric package was designed to house the sensor and the biasing magnet. The package is attached to the stent structure by two helical wires made of nitinol material. The biasing magnet is a strip of ArnokromeTM 5 (13.2 mm x 0.85 mm x 50 um). FEA tool was used to evaluate the performance of the sensor and the magnetic strip. The results showed that the sensor vibrates at 149 kHz. The magnetic field distribution confirmed that the ArnokromeTM 5 generates a sufficient magnetic field strength for the sensor to operate. This work also covers an analytical analysis of using electromagnetic coils to provide DC bias for the system. However, the results showed that the heat dissipated from the coils could be hard to manage.

If implanting this package is successful *in vivo* experiments, the detection of restenosis will be achieved in an earlier stage, saving the patient from undergoing another surgery. Therefore, the wireless monitoring system can reduce emergency surgeries and mortality that results from PAD, leading to healthier patients and a lower burden on hospital resources.

Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99281419966
Chair: Prof. Yogesh B. Gianchandani

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Presentation Tue, 03 Aug 2021 10:09:05 -0400 2021-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 2021-08-10T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Event
Measuring Exposure to News and Political Information in the Digital Age (August 10, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84716 84716-21624471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:44:49 -0400 2021-08-10T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-10T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
The Post-API Age Reconsidered: Social Media Research in the '20s and Beyond (August 11, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84717 84717-21624472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This lecture will be pre-recorded and available two weeks before this session on the ICPSR Summer Program YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q

Please join us for this live Q&A session with the presenter on 8/11/21 at 12pm EDT at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock.

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:30:58 -0400 2021-08-11T12:30:00-04:00 2021-08-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
Transfer to LSA Information Session (August 11, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84124 84124-21620324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvc-ytpzMvHNA8EZr5GPkK_TSSCS9_0bpo

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:40:41 -0400 2021-08-11T14:00:00-04:00 2021-08-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Measuring White Racial Solidarity and Examining its Relationship to Political Attitudes and Preferences (August 12, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84718 84718-21624473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 12, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:29:27 -0400 2021-08-12T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
Transfer to LSA Information Session (August 18, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84125 84125-21620325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctd-yoqDwsGNQa6Qgkfs-xQC2-_JaPENq0

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:42:10 -0400 2021-08-18T18:00:00-04:00 2021-08-18T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Transfer to LSA Information Session (August 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84126 84126-21620326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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.

To register, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdOCvpj4vEtANhwQAXQq0BiVsQ9y9yTKQ

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Presentation Tue, 25 May 2021 14:43:42 -0400 2021-08-26T14:00:00-04:00 2021-08-26T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Transfer Transitions (August 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85671 85671-21628185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Join us the Friday before classes begin for Transfer Transitions to discover all the amazing opportunities available for you. Whether this fall is your first semester at U-M or you started during one of the pandemic semesters, we want to help you get off to a great start on your return to campus. Our campus partners will be on hand to answer your questions about how you can get the most out of your time at the University of Michigan. Get started early learning about all of the co-curricular opportunities and academic support.

Register and you will receive a free T-shirt

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Presentation Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:19:20 -0400 2021-08-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-08-27T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall LSA Transfer Student Center Presentation Transfer Student Center
Curator-led tour of Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data (August 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85136 85136-21625613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery Director and curator Srimoyee Mitra will lead an exhibition tour of Stamps Gallery’s fall exhibition featuring works by renowned transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins. Join us for an intimate look at Dinkins’ first survey exhibition entitled On Love & Data that develops a powerful dialogue on Artificial Intelligence (AI), algorithms and building a just and equitable future. Spaces are Limited. Please reserve your ticket here.Tour participants are requested to wear masks, maintain social distancing and follow Stamps Gallery’s COVID-19 policies.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-08-28T14:00:00-04:00 2021-08-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation http://stamps-web.s3.amazonaws.com/images/events/Secret-Garden_Web_Still_0013-with-orbs-SQUARE.jpg
Artscapade! (August 28, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84810 84810-21625050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 28, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA and Arts at Michigan celebrate Welcome Week by introducing new University of Michigan students to the Museum of Art for an evening of  live music, performances, dance, poetry, film, games, prize raffle, and a variety of art-making activities.  During the event, students will  have the opportunity to become familiar with the Museum and everything it has to offer, as well as experience the wide array of possibilities for arts participation across campus. 

All students, faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor (including Michigan Medicine), Dearborn and Flint campuses are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and submit their vaccination information by August 30. In addition, masks will be required in all indoor spaces and social distancing guidelines will be in place.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

 

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Presentation Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:15:49 -0400 2021-08-28T18:00:00-04:00 2021-08-28T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Biopsychology Colloquium: History of Psychology: The Psychological Origins of the Scientific Method (September 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86198 86198-21632081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The idea of a single scientific method, based in hypothesis-testing and shared across sub-fields, is about a hundred years old. In this talk, Dr. Cowles grounds this view of science in the early history of evolutionary psychology, showing how an account of animal learning was put into practice in the classroom and eventually solidified into "the scientific method" still widely invoked today. Based on his recent book (The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey), the talk concludes with thoughts on the fate of this view of science in an age of alternative facts.

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Presentation Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:40:57 -0400 2021-09-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-07T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Cowles
HAALSI - Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (September 9, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85067 85067-21625537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

HAALSI is a longitudinal, population-based survey implemented by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, and is funded by the National Institutes on Aging.

HAALSI aims to examine and characterize a cohort of 5,059 men and women ≥ 40 years of age in rural South Africa with respect to health, physical and cognitive function, aging, and well-being, and is designed to be harmonized with other international HRS sister studies.

This webinar will feature the HAALSI research team: Dr. Julia Rohr – Research Scientist/Project Director; Dr. Elyse Jennings - Research Scientist; David Kapaon – Research Assistant.

During this webinar, we will:
Provide an overview of the HAALSI project
Describe the importance of the data that have been collected.
Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.
This webinar will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.
Zoom FAQ for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

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Presentation Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:23:00 -0400 2021-09-09T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for Health and Aging in Africa HAALSI webinar at ICPSR
Clinical Brown Bag: Clinical Supervision: best practices in a clinical science program (September 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85775 85775-21628983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Clinical supervision provides a vital foundation for effective clinical training during graduate school. In fact, all trainees will undergo thousands of supervised hours during years of training before being license eligible. Supervision is recognized as a core competency domain for psychologists and a distinct activity in the literature. However, little empirical attention has been given to the process, content and outcomes of clinical supervision. This talk will discuss current guidelines for clinical supervision, highlight some key points of high-quality supervision, and discuss opportunities for UM students to learn more about supervision during graduate school.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:40:40 -0400 2021-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sarah Jonovich
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series | Sam McCleery (September 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86955 86955-21637626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Sam McCleery is an Emmy award winning executive who has been in the forefront of innovation for several popular sports brands. He founded a company that pioneered the First-and-Ten Yellow Line in football and has worked for Prince Tennis, Cablevision, adidas, ESPN and most recently at Under Armour. At Under Armour he ran the Open Innovation teams and later served in Corporate Development.

Sam is an industry-recognized and proven executive specializing in forming product, markets and businesses around new and emerging technologies. He excels at bridging the gap between technology and business, providing unique management expertise when developing product strategies and go-to-market plans.

Sam will present 'ESPN as an Innovation,' which focuses on the founding of an All-American brand and delivers a case study on how it became a part of our entertainment, sports and social culture.

FOR WEBINAR LINK: https://myumi.ch/R5Y1D

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 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 dianak@umich.edu
Visit the visit tauber.umich.edu
Follow Tauber on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr

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Presentation Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:00:35 -0400 2021-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-14T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Sam McCleery
Social Brown Bag: (September 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86042 86042-21631233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Yuyan

Title:
The Role of Guessing in the Mismeasure of Expertise

Abstract:
Under traditional testing methods, luck in guessing can lead some people to display both false expertise in their performance and apparent bias in self-assessments of that performance. Some people guess their way to top performance but understand that they are merely guessing, and so appear to underestimate their expertise. Conversely, because some people guess wrong, traditional testing methods make them appear overconfident even though they are perfectly aware of their poor knowledge. With a revised performance measure that takes guessing into account, we examined biased self-assessment, focusing on the Dunning-Kruger effect, in which people—particularly poor performers—misestimate their expertise. Via mathematical simulations and eight empirical studies (n = 1041), we tested how much the effect is produced because lucky or unlucky guessing generates performance levels that stray from self-aware judgments of that performance. After accounting for guessing, the effect is partially reduced, especially for top performers, but not eliminated. Overall, the Dunning Kruger effect arose more when participants were “misinformed” (i.e., reaching wrong answers through faulty beliefs or reasoning) than when they were “uninformed” (i.e., wrong because they were merely guessing).

Cristina

Title:
Relational Mobility Predicts a Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study

Abstract:
It has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 is transmitted between individuals. It stands to reason that the spread of the virus depends on sociocultural ecologies that facilitate or inhibit social contact. In particular, the community-level tendency to engage with strangers and freely choose friends, called relational mobility, creates increased opportunities to interact with a larger and more variable range of other people. It may therefore be associated with a faster spread of infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Here, we tested this possibility by analyzing growth curves of confirmed cases of and deaths due to COVID-19 in the first 30 days of the outbreaks in 39 countries. We found that growth was significantly accelerated as a function of a country-wise measure of relational mobility. This relationship was robust either with or without a set of control variables, including demographic variables, reporting bias, testing availability, and cultural dimensions of individualism, tightness, and government efficiency. Policy implications are also discussed.

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Presentation Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:18:16 -0400 2021-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation
Intro to the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) (September 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85327 85327-21626235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 1: Intro to CVFS
Wednesday, September 15, 2-3pm EDT
Presenters: William Axinn and Dirgha Ghimire

This webinar will explain the purpose of the CVFS and give an overview of data collection from study launch to present day. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpf-qtpjojGteGYl9ntT4cBx7X9TPZtB6H

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:59:26 -0400 2021-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
MBLGTACC Info Session #3 (September 16, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86321 86321-21632718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Apply to go: https://bit.ly/UM-MBLGTACC-2021

The University of Michigan Spectrum Center is putting on three sessions offering information about the 2021 Midwest Bi, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Asexual College Conference, a long-running yearly conference run primarily by students and featuring student, faculty, staff, professional, and activist voices. (https://mblgtacc.org/). The session will overview the point of the conference, what can be gained from attending, and opportunities for students to attend as part of a delegation.

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 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 13:03:29 -0400 2021-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 2021-09-16T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Presentation MBLGTACC 2021 will take place in Madison, Wisconsin from October 8th through the 10th. There are also virtual options. Washtenaw Community College's and Eastern Michigan University's LGBT Resource Center's logos are featured as the info sessions are open to them as well. The deadline to apply to go with the UM delegation is September 16th at 11:59 PM.
CCN Workshop: An Introduction to GitHub (September 17, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86032 86032-21631137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In this workshop we will introduce GitHub, explain why and how it is used, and compare against other related technologies and services.
We will describe the traditional uses of this tool and from there explore other novel use cases.

Throughout the workshop, there will be exercises attendees are encouraged to participate in on their own computer.

Together, we will work through creating a first repository, making and committing changes, reverting changes, collaborating with others, and publishing a live running website.

We will have time for both group discussion and questions throughout.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Mark Champe
Coronavirus Politics: politics & the implications for public health (September 17, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85354 85354-21626294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Global Public Health

Join the editors of the recently published book Coronavirus Politics: The comparative politics and policy of COVID-19 for a discussion about what we have learned so far from various government public health and social policy responses around the world. The speakers will present broader lessons learned and implications for global public health. They will also highlight specific cases, such as Brazil, Russia, and the European Union.

Coronavirus Politics: The comparative politics and policy of COVID-19 was published by the University of Michigan Press in April, 2021. The ebook version can be downloaded free of charge at https://doi.org/f7hg.

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Presentation Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:08:09 -0400 2021-09-17T14:30:00-04:00 2021-09-17T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Global Public Health Presentation Event Flyer
Clinical Brown Bag: Why? (September 20, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85776 85776-21628984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
I will present an updated version of my SRP presidential address that reflects on the state of the field, reviews my work and looks to the future.

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Presentation Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:34:43 -0400 2021-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Patty Deldin
Biopsychology Colloquium: How Squirrels Sleep: Neuroethology and the Development of Countermeasures for Astronauts (September 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86590 86590-21635105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

There is a strong need for more relevant animal models that behave like humans to better understand how physiology is altered in analog environments (e.g., long-duration space flight). The free-living squirrel is one such candidate, as they are diurnal, non-hibernating mammals that engage in complex social and physical behaviors in a three-dimensional arboreal landscape. My interest focuses on the potential neuromodulatory countermeasures that could be realized during sleep, specifically, the closed-loop enhancement of slow-wave activity (or “deep sleep”). I will first show how squirrels sleep through a 6-year retrospective study on accelerometer data from the Canadian Yukon. Next, I will introduce a wireless, implantable bio-logger toolset I developed at Michigan to record neural activity and then present preliminary, first-of-their-kind data from freely behaving squirrels. Finally, I will describe my audio-based countermeasure deployment and my aims to measure its effect.

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Presentation Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:04:44 -0400 2021-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Matthew Gaidica
Reproductive tradeoffs for male baboons: competing versus caring (September 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86886 86886-21637075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan is proud to present our fall 2021 speaker series:

Abstract:
In virtually all human societies, men and women form stable pair bonds, male reproductive skew is low, children receive considerable care and resources from both of their parents, and nuclear families are part of a set progressively larger social units that commonly include kin, affines, and unrelated members of the same ethnic group. Understanding of the evolution of this suite of traits is problematic because the most recent common ancestor of humans and the genus Pan probably did not share any of these features. However, a growing body of data from studies of living primates suggest that there may be multiple pathways to the evolution of male paternal care and extended breeding bonds, and provide a broader foundation for thinking about the evolution of human reproductive strategies. My research group has been exploring the trade-offs between mating and parenting effort for male olive baboons, a species with relatively high male reproductive skew and a polygynadrous mating system. Our data provide evidence of behavioural trade-offs between mating effort and parenting effort in wild primates, changes in allocation of mating and parenting effort across the life course, and the existence of enduring reproductive bonds. I will describe these data and their implications for understanding the evolution of the unusual set of traits that characterize our own species.

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Presentation Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:50:51 -0400 2021-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T13:15:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Joan Silk
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (September 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85310 85310-21626212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

This presentation will be given remotely, with the livestream available for group viewing in 2036 Palmer Commons. There will also be a remote viewing option via Zoom.

URL for remote viewing: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94886745590?pwd=LzhLU243K2ZhbXNzU1BJRHQ5V25BZz09

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Presentation Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:24:07 -0400 2021-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Presentation
Out of Place (September 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87173 87173-21639233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

"Being within the lawful boundaries of confinement and not attempting to escape, but in a location without the proper authorization to be there; absent from where one is required to be; being outside assigned housing unit without prisoner identification card; being absent from required location during count."

Filmed by Asia Johnson, a 2021 Brennan Center for Justice Fellow

Moderated by Jacqueline "Jacq" Williams, a campaign strategist and trauma expert

Panelists include Asia Johnson, Kayla Mach, Danyele Stewart, Felicia
Dyer, and Jessica Hoolsema of the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional
Facility

Guests entering the Keene Theater must provide proof of vaccination and a photo ID, complete a health screening, and wear a face covering. There are no exceptions to this policy.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Presentation Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:08:44 -0400 2021-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Out of Place
Psychology Methods Hour: Comparing methods for analyzing intensive longitudinal data: Inferences from regressions, multilevel models, and networks (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85809 85809-21629104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Intensive longitudinal methods (ILMs) involve repeatedly assessing individuals over short periods of time often in the context of their everyday lives. These are the methods used in intensive longitudinal, ecological momentary assessment, and time series studies. ILMs have the potential to uncover temporal change in daily processes, intraindividual variability, and even person-specific effects, but they are rarely used in these ways, especially in psychological research. This presentation will illustrate three different techniques for the analysis of illustrative data from a 75-day intensive longitudinal study on daily cognition, personality, and health. The results provide insight into how regressions, multilevel models, and person-specific temporal network analyses of these data lead to disparate inferences about daily processes and individual differences.

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Presentation Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:15:47 -0400 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Methods Hour
CCN Forum: How We Integrate Motivational Value to Guide Cognitive Control (September 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86036 86036-21631227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Motivation is a powerful process that shapes decision-making and goal-directed behavior in daily life, yet the precise neural and computational mechanisms that underlie the interaction between motivation and cognitive control are not well understood. An outstanding question relates to the integrated and dissociable influences of diverse incentives on cognitive control allocation. In my talk, I will present data from two lines of research that address the following questions: 1) How are different categories of incentives (e.g., primary, secondary) integrated to influence cognitive control task performance? And 2) To what extent does the valence of incentives (e.g., positive vs negative) differentially influence the type of effort strategy utilized during cognitive control allocation? First, I will present findings from a human fMRI study utilizing a novel incentive integration paradigm which provides a powerful investigative tool to examine the integrated influence of monetary rewards and liquid incentives (e.g., juice, neutral solution, saltwater) on cognitive task performance. We find evidence that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex encodes the subjective motivational value signal of “bundled” incentives (i.e., a “neural common currency” reflecting the combined value from monetary and liquid incentives) to modulate motivated task performance. Next, I will present results from behavioral and fMRI studies utilizing an innovative self-paced incentivized Stroop task examining how monetary rewards versus penalties guide divergent strategies for adaptive control allocation. Using a normative model based on the Expected Value of Control, we find a striking dissociation in that reward incentives facilitate attention-related strategies (increased drift rate), whereas penalty incentives facilitate inhibition-related strategies (increased threshold). Preliminary fMRI results suggest dissociable neural mechanisms underlie both attention-related and inhibition-related strategies. Finally, I highlight current directions investigating how such motivation-control interactions change across the adult lifespan, and how a greater understanding of these interactions may help inform motivation-related impairments in psychiatric disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety).

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Presentation Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:01:15 -0400 2021-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Yee
Developmental Brown Bag: Racism and Health: Reflections on Psychology, Public Health and Developmental Science (September 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87064 87064-21638558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Research on racism and health is critical to optimizing the health and development of Black American young people. Through research that integrates psychology, biology, developmental and family science, and public health, we have: 1) advanced our understanding of racism experiences among Black American youth; 2) delineated mechanisms that mitigate or exacerbate the health sequelae of racism; and 3) tested a biopsychosocial model of racism-related stress to identify opportunities for intervention and the eradication of racism. In this presentation, I will highlight recent key findings and reflect on the value of combining racism, public health, and developmental science frameworks to inform the next generation of research, alleviate the health consequences of racism, and promote health equity for Black and other marginalized youth.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:07:54 -0400 2021-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Enrique Neblett
Environmental Career Chat (September 27, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86849 86849-21636923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

Environmental Career Chats are informal networking opportunities for U-M students to connect with environmental professionals about their career journeys. September’s virtual Environmental Career Chat is focused on Sustainability in Business with Carolyn Hwang, Sr. Global Product Manager.

Carolyn is a Program in the Environment alum (’05) who wrote her thesis on local perceptions of a marine reserve in Belize. In the Peace Corps, she worked with community leaders in Peru on environmental and public health awareness programs. Later, she joined Root Capital, a social impact investor that finances small sustainable businesses in Latin America and Africa. There, she helped the organization grow strategically in her capacity as human resources manager. She returned to the University of Michigan to get her MBA and currently works in marketing with Medtronic, a medical device company, where she launches diabetes technologies around the world. Originally an East Coaster, she currently lives in Los Angeles with two spoiled rescue cats.

To attend this event, please RSVP via this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSed4NAOCLfOv936agwQzGo93c_Lctxsxxkhcw1eEdcN5tH3fA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Presentation Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:14:00 -0400 2021-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in the Environment (PitE) Presentation
Biosciences Community Celebration (September 27, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86802 86802-21636602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Celebration of the progress of the Biosciences Initiative. We will hear from two new Scientific Research Initiative Directors and publicly congratulate our inaugural MBioFAR scholars.

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Presentation Sun, 12 Sep 2021 15:00:54 -0400 2021-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Biosciences Initiative Presentation BSI Community Celebration Invitation
Biopsychology Colloquium: Loss of Control in Addiction: The Search for an Adequate Theory and the Case for Intellectual Humility (September 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86591 86591-21635107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Some theorists say that addiction involves loss of control over using drugs while others say control is preserved. In this chapter, I disagree with both sides, not so much in substance, but rather in epistemic tenor. Both sides, I argue, run well ahead of what the evidence allows. I frame the discussion in terms of a key division in human motivational architecture: We not only have desires, we also have powerful capacities to exercise top-down regulation over these desires. I review a number of influential theories of addiction, both ones that favor loss of control and ones that deny it, and I find that they all have a massive gap: They lack an adequate explanation for when and how top-down regulation over inappropriate desires succeeds and fails. Without this critical piece, we simply cannot have much confidence in these views.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:12:49 -0400 2021-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Chandra Sripada
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series | Sam McCleery (September 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87513 87513-21642904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Sam McCleery is an Emmy award-winning executive who has been at the forefront of innovation for several popular sports brands. He founded a company that pioneered the First-and-Ten Yellow Line in football and has worked for Prince Tennis, Cablevision, Adidas, ESPN and most recently at Under Armour. At Under Armour, he ran the Open Innovation teams and later served in Corporate Development.

Sam is an industry-recognized and proven executive specializing in forming products, markets, and businesses around new and emerging technologies. He excels at bridging the gap between technology and business, providing unique management expertise when developing product strategies and go-to-market plans.

Sam will present 'ESPN as an Innovation,' which focuses on the founding of an All-American brand and delivers a case study on how it became a part of our entertainment, sports, and social culture.

FOR WEBINAR LINK: https://myumi.ch/xm1vz

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 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 dianak@umich.edu
Visit the visit tauber.umich.edu
Follow Tauber on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr

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Presentation Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:32:18 -0400 2021-09-28T18:30:00-04:00 2021-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Sam McCleery
Social Brown Bag: How does culture shape responses to immoral behavior? (September 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86051 86051-21631242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Imagine witnessing your best friend committing a crime. Would you act out of loyalty to your friend, by protecting them from punishment, or loyalty to your society, by punishing their crime? Moral norms help us balance between the needs of the group and those of individuals, and societies across the globe vary in the balance they strike. Among Americans, the answer is clear: people reliably choose to protect close others who commit moral transgressions, thereby prioritizing individuals at the expense of society. How might this differ in collectivist cultural contexts? Decades of cultural psychology research present two compelling possibilities. On one hand, people in collectivist contexts may perceive outcomes to be shared among close others. Therefore, to avoid negative consequences for the self, they may protect close others even more strongly than Americans. On the other hand, people in collectivist contexts may prioritize the group over any individual, which would predict a weaker tendency to protect close others. Across three studies, we provide self-report and narrative evidence supporting the latter hypothesis. In Studies 1 and 2, we show that Japanese (vs. Americans) are more punitive toward close others who commit crimes, and that this is driven by societal (vs. individual) concerns. In Study 3, we show that this cultural difference disappears when society is less implicated in the crime. Together, this work underscores the importance of context in shaping interpersonal moral decisions.

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Presentation Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:39:02 -0400 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Martha Berg
Learning Analytics and Education Research Data (September 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86438 86438-21634314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The PEERS Learning Analytics and Education Research Data webinar focus on using learning analytics data for STEM education research. The webinar will inform researchers about the potential of learning analytics data for their research, strategies for accessing learning analytics data, and relevant tools for analysis.

The presentations will cover topics such as learning sciences, access points of higher education data, relationships between cognitive theories of human learning, human-computer interactions, psychological theories of student engagement, and what goes on in college classes.

This webinar will feature the following researcher: Ben Motz (Indiana University), Rene Kizilcec (Cornell University), Xu Wang (University of Michigan), and James Russell (Unizin)

During this webinar, we will:
Define learning analytics
Describe the methods and importance of the research that have been conducted
Discuss how to access and work with the learning analytics datasets
Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.
This webinar will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.
Zoom FAQ for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

Sponsored by the PEERS Data Hub: www.PeersDataHub.net

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Presentation Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:31:32 -0400 2021-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for ICPSR webinar featuring teacher and student with green background
Measures of Mental Health - Using Life History Calendars to Improve Measurement of Lifetime Experience With Trauma and Psychiatric Disorders: The Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal (September 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85328 85328-21626240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 2: Measures of Mental Health - Using Life History Calendars to Improve Measurement of Lifetime Experience With Trauma and Psychiatric Disorders: The Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal

Wednesday, September 29, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenters: William Axinn and Stephanie Chardoul

This webinar will describe the work to create a Nepal-specific Composite International Diagnostic Interview and the application of life history calendars to improve measurements of individual exposures to potentially traumatic experiences and psychiatric disorders. Results from initial analyses of these new CVFS measures will be used to illustrate the potential of this approach to advance population health research. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpcuCgrDkoGNXE4HjrkkEHwVmbZPMq3F0b

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:11:55 -0400 2021-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (September 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85355 85355-21626295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

This presentation will be held in 2036 Palmer Commons. There will also be a remote viewing option via Zoom.

URL for remote viewing: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94886745590?pwd=LzhLU243K2ZhbXNzU1BJRHQ5V25BZz09

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Presentation Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:19:10 -0400 2021-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Presentation
CCN Forum: Is there a difference between I don’t know and I don't remember? Phenomenological states associated with retrieval failures (October 1, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86037 86037-21631229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

When information is remembered or accessed, several measures attempt to tap the phenomenology of that experience (e.g., feeling of knowing, remember/know). But, what about retrieval failures? I'll be presenting a novel and parsimonious method for examining the extent to which individuals can discriminate between what is not available and what is merely inaccessible in their knowledge bases. We first examined this type of metamemory in both younger and older adults and with a wide range of general knowledge difficulty. Current work, funded by an NSF CAREER Award, focuses furthering the theoretical understanding of retrieval failure experiences and ultimately, developing ways to stabilize access to prior knowledge across the lifespan, alongside teaching initiatives that bring this research to older and younger adults together in the classroom.

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Presentation Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:44:45 -0400 2021-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sharda Umanath
Translation and Migration: A Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87136 87136-21639082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join us from 3-4:30 pm via zoom on October 1, 2021 for a virtual conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio about translation and migration in her debut book of creative non-fiction, The Undocumented Americans.

To kick off the tenth annual Translate-a-thon at the University of Michigan, Professor William Stroebel will sit down and talk with Villavicencio about the roles, methods, and uses of translation lurking behind and inside the pages of her book: translation between languages, translation between dialects and registers, translation between spoken and written media, translation between genres of translation like interpretation in legal or journalistic settings and literary translation, along with her current attempts to translate the book into Spanish.

Her book breaks many things. It breaks boundaries between genres, mixing the rhythms of rock and the cadences of hip hop and the political anger of punk and the slow contemplation of lyric poetry into the burning advocacy of its prose reportage (along with a little dose of magical realism to boot). The book also breaks the mold of representation traditionally deployed by advocates and allies, who elevate the gifted DREAMers of DACA into poster children above a faceless, nameless mass of day-laborers, cleaners, construction workers, factory hands, deliverymen, dish washers and dog walkers.

These are the ones who take center stage in her book, and tell their stories as beautifully imperfect, hardworking, weird, and “just people,” sorting through the trauma of an oppressive system built and sustained by their exploitation and terrorization and invisibility. Villavicencio breaks through this invisibility and the taboos of representation and in doing so she calls upon its readers to break the system: “it’s time to fuck some shit up.” But amidst the great praise that this finalist for the National Book Award has won, very little has been said about another thing that her avant-gardism breaks: conventions of translation.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Language Resource Center at the University of Michigan, with support from the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

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Presentation Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:41:25 -0400 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Presentation Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Clinical Brown Bag: Distinct Patterns of Functional Brain Network Connectivity in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder versus Anxiety Disorders (October 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85777 85777-21628985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Despite the similarities across anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder, little is known about the neurobiological differences that might distinguish these two types of disorders. In this study, we directly compared the functional connectivity patterns of large-scale brain networks in a group of youth with OCD to a group of youth with non-OCD anxiety. Specifically, resting-state functional connectivity was used to determine connectivity strength within and between the orbitofrontal-striatal-thalamic (OST) circuit, the cingulo-opercular network (CON), and the default mode network (DMN). The results of the current study identified greater functional connectivity within the CON, as well as between the CON and OST, in the OCD group as compared to the anxiety and healthy control groups. These findings indicate that previously noted network connectivity differences in pediatric patients with OCD were likely not attributable to co-morbid anxiety disorders. Additional conclusions from these analyses and their relevance for improving clinical outcomes will be discussed, as well as limitations of the current project. This talk will also include a discussion of ongoing and future projects that are designed to build from this work, specifically exploring questions about the neurobiological correlates of psychopathology using alternative classification frameworks.

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Presentation Thu, 23 Sep 2021 08:24:25 -0400 2021-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Hannah Becker
Biopsychology Colloquium: Capuchins, cognition, and conservation: Introducing the Taboga Research Exchange (October 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86592 86592-21635108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Some Capuchins are notable for their relatively large brains, complex social traditions, and tool use. These traits are absent in some of their closest phylogenetic relatives, making capuchins an important taxon for understanding why some primates (like humans) favored cognitive solutions to their social and ecological challenges. However, we know surprisingly little about how capuchins use cognition in the wild. With this new project, we focus on the use of social cognition in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) of Costa Rica. We use a combination of observation and playback experiments to understand both the depth (how detailed is their social knowledge?) and breadth (how far does their social knowledge extend?) within and between social groups. We take advantage of our newly established field site, the Taboga Research Exchange (T-REX) where ~10 capuchin groups live in an isolated ‘island’ of tropical dry forest surrounded by sugar-cane farms. The self-contained nature of the forest allows us to precisely track multiple monkey groups, while the available facilities (electricity, internet, endocrine laboratory) enable us to operate much like a captive laboratory with real time analysis. In addition to the capuchin research, we are developing T-REX as the first of its kind: a net-zero field station and field school where we, along with our colleagues from the Universidad Técnica Nacional and SEAS, are piloting and demonstrating sustainable solutions and biological methods.

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Presentation Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:09:02 -0400 2021-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Capuchins
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 6, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-06T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
Social Brown Bag: Regulatory Focus Theory as a Lens to Advance Indigenous Suicide Intervention Research (October 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86052 86052-21631243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaskan Natives (AIAN) aged 15-24, and suicide rates among AIAN adolescents are highest of any US racial/ethnic group. To address this disparity, researchers often partner with tribal nations and institutions to develop and test suicide prevention interventions. Importantly, these interventions differ along the dimension of promotion-orientation (increasing and maintaining overall mental wellbeing) vs prevention-orientation (surveillance and early identification of those at highest risk). Regulatory focus theory specifies that the regulatory system motivates complex behaviors through promotion-focus (hopes and gains), or prevention-focus (safety and responsibility). This talk will explore results from two applications of Regulatory Focus Theory in this area: (1) A systematic review of interventions to prevent suicide in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities, comparing prevention versus promotion focused self-regulatory approaches for fit effects and examining alignment between interventions’ regulatory focus and respective outcomes selected. (2) A secondary data analysis of associations between beliefs about suicide prevention and self-reported promotion and/or prevention actions in a primarily Alaska Native sample.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:35:29 -0400 2021-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Lauren White
Spring/Summer Study Abroad Advising Fair (October 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87444 87444-21642148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students during this pandemic, particularly for Spring/Summer 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Spring/Summer Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health to name a few. We'll also have interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia.

On top of the multiple sessions we'll be offering, we'll also have open advising hours where you can speak with CGIS advisors, LSA Scholarship Office advisors, and various partners who will be happy to discuss various program options. First Step sessions will also take place both days. Keep in mind that attending a First Step session is a required step to the application process.

Zoom links for the event will be sent out the day before the event!

Spring/Summer applications open October 1st!

RSVP Today @ myumi.ch/qgVzw

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Presentation Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:34:56 -0400 2021-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Advising Fair
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 7, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-07T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (October 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85356 85356-21626297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

This presentation will be given remotely, with the livestream available for group viewing in 2036 Palmer Commons. There will also be a remote viewing option via Zoom.

URL for remote viewing: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94886745590?pwd=LzhLU243K2ZhbXNzU1BJRHQ5V25BZz09

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Presentation Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:17:29 -0400 2021-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Presentation
Spring/Summer Study Abroad Advising Fair (October 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87444 87444-21642149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students during this pandemic, particularly for Spring/Summer 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Spring/Summer Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health to name a few. We'll also have interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia.

On top of the multiple sessions we'll be offering, we'll also have open advising hours where you can speak with CGIS advisors, LSA Scholarship Office advisors, and various partners who will be happy to discuss various program options. First Step sessions will also take place both days. Keep in mind that attending a First Step session is a required step to the application process.

Zoom links for the event will be sent out the day before the event!

Spring/Summer applications open October 1st!

RSVP Today @ myumi.ch/qgVzw

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Presentation Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:34:56 -0400 2021-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Advising Fair
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 8, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-08T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
CANCELLED! (To be re-scheduled) Public History Without Borders: A Case Study of Working with Johannesburg's Constitution Hill (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87602 87602-21644219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

How do public history, government-funded economic development, and social justice intersect? What opportunities and conflicts present themselves when scholars work with communities and partner institutions distant from their own? And what happens when scholars encounter prejudices within their partner institutions that are antithetical to the work they are doing together?

This event is presented in hybrid format, taking place in 2435 North Quad and online via Zoom (registration required).
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oilrO5DRQWmiIfP4Tmq6wQ

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Presentation Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:38:15 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Museum Studies Program Presentation Johannesburg's Constitution Hill
Psychology Methods Hour: What is preregistering a study, and how do I do it for my type of study? (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85810 85810-21629105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
In this talk, Dr. Davis-Kean will discuss the goal of preregistration and why it is a useful tool for documenting the process of how you construct a paper from theory or research question to findings and discussion. She will also review different types of preregistration templates that are available for various types of studies. During the presentation and discussion, she will also overview the pros and cons of preregistration as well as how they differ from Registered Reports. The goal of this presentation is to provide information on these techniques and answer questions or concerns for those using them. Ultimately, these techniques were designed to help increase the rigor and transparency of our research so that we can increase the confidence in the robustness of our findings.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:22:37 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Psychology Methods
CCN Forum: A Parallel Task-Set Account of Why We Cannot Always Control Our Respond To Familiar Stimuli (October 8, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86039 86039-21631230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Please note time of talk is from 2:30-3:30 pm

Abstract:
How do memory retrieval processes lead to overt responses in strategic recognition tasks (responding “old” to one class of familiar stimulus items and “new” to another)? Current theories of memory retrieval ignore the response requirements in such memory tasks and instead model them using memory processes alone (e.g., familiarity and recollection; Jacoby 1991). We argue that strategic recognition involves conflict in response processing similar to canonical conflict tasks (e.g., Stroop and Flanker tasks). In this talk I will present experimental evidence from behavioral, psychophysiological, and brain imaging measures that could not be easily explained by standard recognition memory theories. Instead, I will argue that the Parallel Task-Set model (Seymour, 2001) is a better account of performance in this task, and is supported by computational modeling using the EPIC architecture (Meyer & Kieras 1997).

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:32:06 -0400 2021-10-08T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Travis Seymour
First-Year Writing Requirement in Dublin, Ireland Info Session (October 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87861 87861-21647167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS is partnering with the Sweetland Center for Writing to provide this unique opportunity to complete the First-Year Writing Requirement abroad during the Summer, using the art and architecture of Dublin to enhance students' understanding of various forms of academic writing. Join Center for Global & Intercultural Study's Associate Director, Pardip Bolina & Sweetland Center for Writing Lecturer, Cat Cassel to learn more about what you can expect from the program! 

All students on the program will take two classes and earn three credits for each class. One course fulfills the FYWR, while the other fulfills a social science distribution requirement. The program includes a variety of cultural excursions in Dublin, including an Irish music and dance lesson, walking tours, and lessons in Gaelic. Students will also participate in a day trip to Belfast, where they will experience George's Market (where locals shop for food, art, and gifts) and learn the historical context of the Troubles of Northern Ireland.

The deadline to apply is Friday, November 1st @ 11:59pm!

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Presentation Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:48:04 -0400 2021-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation FYWR
Clinical Brown Bag: Co-Occurrence of Food Addiction, High-Risk Substance Use, and Parental History of High-Risk Alcohol Use: Evidence for an Addictive-Like Eating Phenotype (October 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85804 85804-21629099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
An ongoing debate surrounds the existence of a phenotype for addiction to rewarding, highly processed (HP) food (commonly referred to as food addiction). The identification of shared risk factors for and high rates of co-occurrence between gambling and high-risk substance use was foundational to the recategorization of gambling as an addiction. Investigating shared risk factors such as family history of high-risk substance use and co-occurrence between food addiction and high-risk substance use may be an important area of research for informing whether this eating phenotype is consistent with an addictive model. In this study (n=357), we investigate rates of co-occurrence among food addiction, high-risk substance use (i.e., alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes, nicotine vaping), parental history of high-risk alcohol use, and obesity. Modified Poisson regression was used to calculate risk ratios unadjusted and adjusted for socio demographic covariates. Results of the current study indicated that risk of food addiction was higher in participants with high-risk alcohol use, cannabis use, smoking, vaping, and parental history of high-risk alcohol use. Obesity, in contrast, was not significantly associated with high-risk substance use and parental history of high-risk alcohol use indicating that food addiction and obesity are distinct phenotypes. Findings from this study support the conceptualization of food addiction as an addictive disorder and suggest that inclusion of food addiction as an addictive disorder in diagnostic frameworks is an important area for future consideration. This talk will include further discussion of conclusions from this study, including strengths and weaknesses of the current project, and future directions for work on this and related topics.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:29:05 -0400 2021-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Lindzey Hoover
Developmental Brown Bag: Positive Development and Well-Being among Black Youth: Reflections from the Field (October 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87065 87065-21638559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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During this Brown Bag, Dr. Shauna M. Cooper will highlight thematic contributions of research on Black families, children, and youth. In particular, this talk will emphasize key advancements in research that examines familial and fathering contexts of development. This talk will also highlight remaining gaps and recommendations for advancing developmental science research with Black families and racially- and ethnically-diverse children and families, more broadly.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:20:17 -0400 2021-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Shauna Cooper
Examining the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey Presented by the Urban Institute (October 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87749 87749-21645527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) on October 12 at 2:00 pm EDT for a free webinar, “Examining the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey Presented by the Urban Institute” featuring Stephan Zuckerman and Michael Karpman. The webinar is hosted by HMCA, a data repository funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Participants will get an overview of the surveys, learn about key findings from the latest data, and discover ways these studies can be used in health research. Participants will learn about the resources available on the RWJF and HMCA websites and have the opportunity to ask questions.

Register with this link: https://myumi.ch/YyEe2

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:44:15 -0400 2021-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Webinar Announcement with the Urban Institute and the Institute for Social Research on the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey
Social Brown Bag: Adherence to Norms for Emotions is Greater in more Individualist Cultures: Re-evaluating Cultural Individualism using large Cross-Cultural Datasets (October 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86053 86053-21631244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Social norms are the unwritten rules shared by members of a culture which guide social coordination and whose violation can lead to social sanctions. Adherence to social norms has been assumed to be weaker in more individualist cultures, which purportedly prioritize the individual over the group. However, an alternative perspective is that individualism is characterized by valuing subjective states such as emotions. If this perspective is correct, adherence to norms for emotions should be greater in more individualist cultures. I will present evidence from studies across several dozen countries and 200,000+ participants showing that: 1) adherence to emotion norms is greater in more individualist cultures; 2) deviating from the emotion norms of one’s culture is more detrimental to well-being in more individualist cultures; and 3) Immigrants from more individualist cultures adopt the emotion norms of natives faster. A final study further demonstrates that the association between individualism-collectivism and adherence to five distinct social norms is highly variable. Taken together, these findings suggest that individualism is characterized more by valuing and attending to subjective states than by prioritizing the individual over the group.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:31:41 -0400 2021-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Allon Vishkin
The social genome and primate evolution (October 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86640 86640-21635264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan is proud to present our fall 2021 speaker series:

Abstract:
Like other traits, social behavior is partially shaped by genes. Unlike many other types of traits, social behavior can have powerful reciprocal effects on the genome. In this talk, I will discuss the intimate ties between genes and social behavior using examples from my lab’s research on wild and captive primates. Our work on social regulation of the genome highlights how genomic approaches contribute to understanding the links between social interactions, health, and fitness, including the distinct pathways that respond to competitive versus affiliative social relationships. Meanwhile, our work on hybridization in wild baboons illustrates the value of behavioral data for interpreting patterns embedded in the genome. Integrating genomic and behavioral data can therefore unify organismal perspectives on life history and evolution with molecular approaches that provide insight unattainable via observational methods.

*Note: This talk will be available via Zoom livestream and also in person.

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Presentation Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:26:29 -0400 2021-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T13:15:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Psychology Presentation Tung
Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond (October 13, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85329 85329-21626241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 3: Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond

Wednesday, October 13, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Emily Treleaven and Adrienne Epstein

This webinar will give an overview of how to link observations across CVFS files, link individuals to households and neighborhoods, and link external data sources to CVFS. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYld-yoqDorGtBK9EJBUYvQIBWBKTJUlhn1

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:10:17 -0400 2021-10-13T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
2021 Ta You Wu Lecture in Physics | A Nocturnal Discovery that Triggered a Revolution in International Metrology (October 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84775 84775-21624933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The quantum Hall effect, an unexpected discovery at 2 a.m. on the 5th of February 1980 led to my Nobel Prize in 1985 and to a realization of a resistance standard based on fundamental constants. Since fundamental constants are the most stable quantities in our universe, a new international system of units based on constants of nature was introduced in 2019. The talk presents an overview of the quantum Hall effect and this importance for our new definition of the mass unit kilogram.

Doors to the fourth floor Rackham Amphitheatre will open at 3:00 pm for seating. Please come early! Per University policy, each guest will need to wear a face-covering and respond to the ResponsiBLUE COVID Screening Check via their smartphone: https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in

This will be an in-person event and will also be live-streamed. Livestreamed on YouTube, https://myumi.ch/r8Dlz.

More information on the Ta-You Wu event webpage: https://myumi.ch/xmvm8

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Presentation Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:31:49 -0400 2021-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Presentation Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in the cryostat lab
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (October 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85358 85358-21626298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

In the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC), we seek to understand the acute exercise response at the molecular level. In our first multi-omics dataset—a 15 tissue dataset from 6-month-old rats—there was evidence that circadian rhythms were contributing to data signatures, and thus, our ability to differentiate these circadian patterns from our primary measurement—the acute exercise response. To quantify the effects, we created distinct models for acute exercise response and circadian rhythm. We combined the models and allowed them to simultaneously compete for the percent variance explained of gene expression patterns in bulk RNA sequencing data. Analyses were performed on every gene and every tissue. Preliminary evidence suggests that our models were on the right track; for instance, the variances of many known circadian genes (in human and mouse) were primarily explained by the circadian model. However, more analyses are required to rigorously vet these models. We hope these techniques of competing models encourage others to employ similar strategies to distinguish unintended cofounding factors in experiments.

This presentation will be held in 2036 Palmer Commons. There will also be a remote viewing option via Zoom.

URL for remote viewing: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94886745590?pwd=LzhLU243K2ZhbXNzU1BJRHQ5V25BZz09

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Presentation Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:26:28 -0400 2021-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Presentation