Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. PiYo (March 6, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80457 80457-20722403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Virtual PiYo combines the muscle-sculpting, core-firming benefits of Pilates with the strength and flexibility advantages of yoga. We also crank up the speed to deliver a true fat-burning, low-impact workout that leaves your body feeling strong and invigorated. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:18:45 -0500 2021-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T11:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Virtual PiYo combines the muscle-sculpting, core-firming benefits of Pilates with the strength and flexibility advantages of yoga.
Yoga Flow (March 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80437 80437-20721816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength. You’ll build muscle and flexibility by using your breath to anchor each movement as you flow from one pose to the next. Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:00:46 -0500 2021-03-06T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength.
Celebrate AmSARC: US Archaeological Projects in Sudan (March 6, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82100 82100-21036674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join the American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center (AmSARC) in a celebration of US archaeological projects in Sudan. Speakers include:

• Mohamed Faroug Ali (International University of Africa) on Butana
• Stuart Tyson Smith (UC Santa Barbara) on Tombos town
• Michele Buzon (Purdue University) on Tombos cemetery
• Sarah Schrader (Leiden University) on Abu Fatima
• Elizabeth Minor (Wellesley College) on es-Selim
• Geoff Emberling (University of Michigan) on Gebel Barkal
• Brenda Baker (Arizona State University) on al-Qinifab
• Pearce Paul Creasman (ACOR and University of Arizona) on Nuri pyramids
• Abagail Breidenstein (University of Zurich) on Nuri cemetery
• Richard Lobban (Rhode Island College) on Abu Erteila

This virtual event is free and all are welcome to attend. To register, please visit amsarc.org

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:03:41 -0500 2021-03-06T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual AmSARC
Nuclear Engineering and Classical Music (March 6, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82752 82752-21171614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Join Conductor Chelsea Gallo and Composer Corey Dundee in a chamber orchestra performance that explores the intersection of classical music and nuclear engineering. Professor Todd Allen, Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, has included this performance in his class with the help of UMS. Students will discuss the performance and how the arts can inform their own discipline.

Livestream info below.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:43:52 -0500 2021-03-06T13:30:00-05:00 2021-03-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Livestream / Virtual Sound Waves
Virtual Saturday Sampler Tour | Religious Practice in the Ancient World (March 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80100 80100-20556878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Saturday Sampler tours are back! We've missed you and are thrilled to begin offering our Saturday Sampler tours virtually! Join us over Zoom to explore the Kelsey Museum from the comfort of your home.

The theme of this week's tour is "Religious Practice in the Ancient World."
Through the ages, religion in its many forms has been a constant part of human society. This live Zoom tour will examine a variety of religious practices in the ancient world. Using the Kelsey's rich collection of artifacts, it will look at how ancient peoples in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome celebrated their gods, treated their dead, prepared for the afterlife, and used religious practices to try to avoid harm.

Zoom link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98615763784

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:20:45 -0500 2021-03-06T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual egyptian mummy scene
Student Recital: Olivia Taylor, violin (March 6, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82831 82831-21181572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM:

The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Violin Sonata in G Minor - Claude Debussy
Violin Partita no. 2 in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-03-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 7, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-07T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: *Stray* (March 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82750 82750-21171584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘Stray'”

About the film:
Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society that allow us an unvarnished portrait of human life — and their own canine culture.

Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on solitary adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds refuge with the security guards who care for her. The disparate lives of Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians who share the streets with them.

Whether they lead us into bustling streets or decrepit ruins, the gaze of these strays act as windows into the overlooked corners of society: women in loveless marriages, protesters without arms, refugees without sanctuary. The film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:44:29 -0500 2021-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: You Will Die at Twenty (March 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82514 82514-21114080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘You Will Die at Twenty'”

About the movie:
NYTimes Critics Pick! Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny. Sudan’s first Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and a moving meditation on what it means to live in the present.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:11:33 -0500 2021-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening You Will Die at Twenty image
UROP Research Scholars Application now open (March 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 82067-21014860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research, a liberal arts education, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.

Apply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:28:28 -0400 2021-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply for Research Scholars
Yoga Core (March 7, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80455 80455-20722379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Yoga Core offers core-strengthening exercises in a flowing format, with concentrated focus on your breath. Awaken your core and become strong both on and off your mat.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:14:09 -0500 2021-03-07T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T11:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Yoga Core offers core-strengthening exercises in a flowing format.
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (March 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Find out what it means to be a Lloyd Scholar!
Meet our Student Leaders!
Ask questions!

Email us at LSWA@umich.edu to receive the Zoom link.

Current LSWA students will present an overview of our program during the following scheduled Zoom information sessions:
FEBRUARY:
Thursday, 2/18 - 6:00 pm
Saturday, 2/20 - 11:00 am
Sunday, 2/21 - 12:00 Noon & 3:00 pm
Monday, 2/22 - 7:00 pm
Saturday, 2/27 - 3:00 pm

MARCH:
Sunday, 3/7 - 12:00 Noon
Sunday, 3/14 - 3:00 pm
Wednesday, 3/17 - 6:00 pm
Friday, 3/19 - 6:00 pm
Sunday, 3/21 - 4:00 pm
Sunday, 3/28 - 4:00 pm

APRIL:
Saturday, 4/10 - 11:00 am
Saturday, 4/17 - 11:00 am
Thursday, 4/22 - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 4/28 - 6:00 pm

MAY:
Sunday, 5/2 - 1:00 pm

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
Mira Awad: A Concert / Conversation (March 7, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82235 82235-21058470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

No cost to attend.
Streaming on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EasternMichU
and YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/emichigan08

Israeli/Palestinian singer, songwriter, actress, artist, and content creator Mira Awad has been a forceful activist for women's rights, for equal citizenship for Palestinians living in Israel, for a two-state solution, and for environmental awareness. Her powerful advocacy for dialogue and co-existence, for peace and solidarity, has brought her considerable praise (and some criticism) across the political spectrum.

Ms. Awad competed in the 2009 Eurovision song contest alongside Israeli singer, Noa (Achinoam Nini). The duo won the NIF Human Rights for Arts and Culture award in 2010. She continues to work in collaboration with a multitude of artists, including guitarist Shay Alon, with whom she will perform this concert.

This lecture is co-sponsored by Hillel at Eastern Michigan University, EMU Campus Life, the Academic Engagement Network, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, and the Gayle & Larry Weiseneck Symposium Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:51:55 -0500 2021-03-07T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Performance Mira Awad: A Concert / Conversation flier
Tabata (March 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80452 80452-20722270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Looking for an intense, time-efficient full-body workout? Tabata is the most result-driven form of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). In this class you will push yourself to the max and achieve full body fitness by completing a variety drills at specific work-rest ratios.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:57:00 -0500 2021-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T16:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Zumba (March 7, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80443 80443-20722012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Ditch the traditional workout and join the party! This Latin-inspired, dance-and-fitness class offers an exciting, exhilarating and effective workout. You’ll develop your stamina and your body tone with easy to follow dance moves, set to the fast and slow rhythms of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop, pop, mambo, rumba, flamenco, calypso and salsaton. No dance experience required.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:23:47 -0500 2021-03-07T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-07T17:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
Yoga Flow (March 7, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80437 80437-20721828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength. You’ll build muscle and flexibility by using your breath to anchor each movement as you flow from one pose to the next. Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:00:46 -0500 2021-03-07T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-07T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength.
Self Care Sundays (March 7, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81874 81874-21090288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join the MLCAs every Sunday from 7 PM - 8 PM for an opportunity to step away from studying and take part in a guided meditation program that also includes a weekly intention setting activity!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:17:07 -0400 2021-03-07T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Flyer sharing information about the self care Sunday program.
University Symphony Orchestra (March 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82792 82792-21179560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kenneth Kiesler and Adrian Slywotzky, conductors

Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Strauss: Serenade Op. 7
Mozart: Adagio from Serenade in E-flat, K. 375
Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto
   Valentin Kovalev, 2021 Graduate Concerto Competition Winner
Milhaud: La création du monde
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 "Paris"

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 8, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-08T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Yoga Flow (March 8, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80437 80437-20721752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength. You’ll build muscle and flexibility by using your breath to anchor each movement as you flow from one pose to the next. Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:00:46 -0500 2021-03-08T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T07:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength.
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: *Stray* (March 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82750 82750-21171585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘Stray'”

About the film:
Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society that allow us an unvarnished portrait of human life — and their own canine culture.

Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on solitary adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds refuge with the security guards who care for her. The disparate lives of Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians who share the streets with them.

Whether they lead us into bustling streets or decrepit ruins, the gaze of these strays act as windows into the overlooked corners of society: women in loveless marriages, protesters without arms, refugees without sanctuary. The film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:44:29 -0500 2021-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: You Will Die at Twenty (March 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82514 82514-21114081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘You Will Die at Twenty'”

About the movie:
NYTimes Critics Pick! Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny. Sudan’s first Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and a moving meditation on what it means to live in the present.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:11:33 -0500 2021-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening You Will Die at Twenty image
UROP Research Scholars Application now open (March 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 82067-21014861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research, a liberal arts education, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.

Apply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:28:28 -0400 2021-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply for Research Scholars
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
Rackham North: Cultural Competencies During the Interview Process (March 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81537 81537-20907694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Attend this session to learn more about inclusive interviewing from both sides. We will talk about how cultural awareness and experiences influence power dynamics during an interview. We will also discuss how employers might structure a culturally competent interview. To this end, you’ll learn and practice responses that center on your authentic self. You’ll also hear what’s universal about the interview process so you can prepare for the conversations. This session is tailored for international and BIPOC students and postdocs and other individuals interested in inclusive hiring and interviewing.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

Explain how cultural awareness impacts the interview processes
Identify culturally competent interviewing practices from the company’s side
Practice responses and phrases to prepare for the interview

Thi Nguyen, Ph.D. (she/hers) is an educator, career coach, community organizer, and founder of InterSECTjobsims.com. She practices inclusive learning principles. She has held positions as associate dean of graduate career development and program director for non-academic careers at universities. She earned B.A.s in psychology and biology from UT Austin and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UT Southwestern.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/NxqX3.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:15:50 -0500 2021-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Sweetland Write-Together (March 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81541 81541-20915558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:15:48 -0500 2021-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Write-Togethers (March 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-20562765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2021-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
CoderSpaces (Mondays) (March 8, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80409 80409-20719679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Are you grappling with a piece of code, trying to compute on a cluster, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.

All members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces in the Winter 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.

The virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty, staff, and students with research methodology, statistics, data science applications, and computational programming for research.

Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.

CoderSpaces provide a casual, productive and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.

Mondays 10:30AM-12PM (drop in)
Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/97155787515)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

with Andrew Hlynka (CSCAR), Charles Antonelli (LSA Tech), Jonathan Golob (Michigan Medicine)

Expertise: 3D graphical applications, C, C++, C#, CMake/GNU Make, Fortran, Git, HPC, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Matlab, mobile app development, MPI, OpenMP, parallelization, performance analysis, PBS, Python, R, reproducible workflows (nextflow), shell, Slurm, SQL, statistical modeling

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Meeting Wed, 27 Jan 2021 07:50:41 -0500 2021-03-08T10:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise, coming to you from a variety of U-M departments and disciplines.
Cardio Core (March 8, 2021 10:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80439 80439-20721841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 10:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Come to this fifty-minute class filled with the perfect balance of cardiovascular training and core conditioning. Our cardio drills will get your heart rate up while core exercises strengthen a variety of your muscle sets. Build your endurance and strength with this challenging and fun class. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Some kind of resistance equipment (e.g. dumbbells, barbell, resistance bands, backpack filled with books, milk jugs filled with water, canned goods, or any other weighted items that can be held).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:08:28 -0500 2021-03-08T10:45:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Resolution Office: Building Community and Relationships Story Circle (March 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81813 81813-20961273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

A Story Circle is a small group of individuals sitting in a circle, sharing stories—usually from their own experience or imagination—focusing on a common theme. As each person in turn shares a story, a richer and more complex story emerges. By the end, people see both real differences and things their stories have in common. Story Circles are often understood as deriving from indigenous traditions. There are many variations (https://usdac.us).
In this session participants will be invited to share a story around the theme of Building Community and Relationships. Staff from the Rackham Resolution Office will serve as facilitators for the process and will end the session by sharing campus resources and information related to the theme.
The prompt for this story circle is: Share a story about what community has been like for you in graduate school.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/WwM89.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:15:56 -0500 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Training Program in Organogenesis Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships - Request for Applications (March 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82789 82789-21179549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

We are pleased to announce a competition for Pre-doctoral and Non-traditional postdoctoral Fellowships in Organogenesis as part of a NIH T32 Training Grant (Training Program in Organogenesis). The goal of the fellowship awards are to provide up to two years of support for outstanding scholars who wish to undertake a research project in the field of organogenesis.

Criteria used to evaluate all applications include the strength of the mentor and strength of the trainee (as evaluated by letters and CVs), the quality of the research project, and the degree to which the project fits the goals of the Training Program, and the Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design (CPOD).

The call for applications are for the following:

NIH T32 Predoctoral Fellowship (applicants must have achieved candidacy by the time of appointment to the training grant)
Dean’s Non-Traditional Postdoctoral Fellowship in Organogenesis (Non-Federally Funded)
The non-traditional postdoctoral fellowships are open to non-citizen and non-permanent residents, and provide partial funding for one (1) year.

Materials Due: Monday, May 17, 2021 5:00 pm Eastern Time.

Submit to Tamika Mohr at: organogenesis@umich.edu

Instructions and Application templates are attached and are available online at : https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/cpod/training-program

Faculty Mentors: If you are NOT a member of the Organogenesis faculty, but wish for a trainee in your lab to apply, you may submit a concurrent application for CPOD membership.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:00:32 -0500 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Careers / Jobs
Weekly Wander: Into the Past (March 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81049 81049-20838701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Whether Women's History Month specific or just something with history near you, take a wander into the past this week!

Wander prompts are released on GooseChase at noon on Mondays, but can be completed anytime throughout the semester.

Participants can join in the game by following these simple steps:
1) Download the GooseChase iOS or Android app from https://www.goosechase.com/download/
2) Choose to play as a guest, or register for a personal account with a username & password.
3) Search by game name (Weekly Wanders) or game code (5DQ4X4) to join the game.
4) Follow the prompts to create an individual player profile. Use uniqname to qualify for incentives!

Currently enrolled U of M students can participate in 8 wanders throughout the semester and be entered to win exciting prizes!

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Well-being Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:25:02 -0500 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Well-being Check out something historical with this week's wander into the past!
Yoga Flow (March 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80437 80437-20721764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength. You’ll build muscle and flexibility by using your breath to anchor each movement as you flow from one pose to the next. Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:00:46 -0500 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength.
Leadership Consulting Drop In Hours (March 8, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81842 81842-20980959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

New for Winter 2021: Leadership Consulting Drop-In Hours!

Are you a student organization member looking for advice, best practices or a third-party to listen and give feedback on your student org ideas? Join CCI's Leadership Consultants, a team of peer-educators with a passion for student org leadership, for open drop-in hours!

No preparation necessary! Drop-in for as long as you need (within our 1-hour windows, see below!) to discuss your student org questions, challenges and if a leadership consultation is right for you! Our drop-in hours this week are:

Monday: 1:30 - 2:30 pm EST

Tuesday: 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST

Wednesday: 5:00 - 6:00 pm EST

Thursday: 12:30 - 1:30 am EST (this session is designed for accessibility for students studying remotely from international locations)

Friday: 12:30 - 1:30 pm EST

Ready to meet? Join us here: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92292352473! 

The Zoom link for Leadership Consulting Drop-In Hours is the same for each occurrence. You will be first placed in a waiting room and then admitted in the order that you arrive if more than one person is waiting. Drop-In Hours will be offered biweekly for Winter 2021!

Can't make it to drop-in hours but still want to meet with us? Visit https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/ideahub/leadership-consulting to learn how to schedule a standard leadership consulting appointment!

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Meeting Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:38:11 -0400 2021-03-08T13:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Meeting Leadership Consultation Drop-Ins
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (March 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-03-08T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79891 79891-20511614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-03-08T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 8, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81510 81510-20903721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics graduate student Wil Gonzales will present proposed work on stop voicing in Hokkien. Title: Age and ethnicity in the perception of Hokkien stop voicing: A proposal.

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

ABSTRACT

Can listeners’ knowledge of socially-condition linguistic variation influence how they perceive the speech of talkers from different social groups? Can the listeners’ perception be conditioned by their own social background? In this talk, I propose a study that hopes to answer these questions in the Sino-Philippine context. I focus on the potential effect of age (young vs. old) and ethnicity (Lannang vs. Mainlander) on the perception of Hokkien stop voicing in individuals with Southern Chinese heritage (SCH) - the Lannangs and the Mainlanders .
I plan to conduct a perception experiment to be administered over PsychoPy. I will subject my participants to a two-alternative forced choice task, where they will be first exposed to stimuli (created using a Hokkien voiced-voiceless stop continuum) and then decide which word they believe they heard from two alternatives on the computer screen. These are minimal pair Hokkien words that differ only by the voicing of the stop onset – /gau35/ ‘smart’ and /kau35/ ‘monkey’. In the experiment, participants will decide on the word based on audiovisual stimuli (social manipulation).
At the level of the talker, I hypothesize that individuals with SCH will differ in their perceptual judgments of stimuli varying along a voiced-to-voiceless stop continuum in ways that are sensitive to expected social characteristics of the talker. I expect there to be an asymmetrical effect: only talker ethnicity and not age will affect the judgments, as ethnicity is ‘socially marked’ in the Manila SCH community whereas age is not (McGowan and Babel 2019; Gonzales 2021). At the listener level, I hypothesize that the age and ethnicity of the listener can predict the perceptual judgments that they make. Young SCH listeners, having more exposure and experience with dialectal variation, may have significantly different /gau/-/kau/ perceptual crossover points in the Lannang and Mainlander talker conditions. Mainlander listeners, with little to no motivation to distinguish themselves from the Lannangs and no motivation to pay attention to the variation, may be inclined to have the similar crossover points for both Mainlander and Lannang talker conditions.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:33:07 -0500 2021-03-08T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
PHD DEFENSE: "Distributionally Robust Optimization in Sequential Decision Making" — Hideaki Nakao (March 8, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81782 81782-20959276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/6352518961?pwd=WGYzdlN6aTVwR2pEWEdFR1VxazJlUT09
Meeting ID: 635 251 8961

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Distributionally Robust Optimization in Sequential Decision Making

CHAIR:
Siqian Shen

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:25:42 -0500 2021-03-08T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Hideaki Nakao
Organ Improvisation Master Class: Bruce Neswick (March 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81786 81786-20959275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bruce Neswick
Canon for Music, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-03-08T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Lower Body Sculpt (March 8, 2021 3:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80440 80440-20721865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 3:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Looking to strengthen and shape your lower body? Exercises will focus on your glutes, hamstrings, quads and calves. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Some kind of resistance equipment (e.g. dumbbells, barbell, resistance bands, backpack filled with books, milk jugs filled with water, canned goods, or any other weighted items that can be held).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:12:11 -0500 2021-03-08T15:45:00-05:00 2021-03-08T16:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Exercises will focus on your glutes, hamstrings, quads and calves.
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Asymmetry of Antimatter in the Proton (March 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82639 82639-21149734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Even after more than 100 years of studies, the proton is puzzling. Questions such as what is the exact size of the proton, how does the spin and the mass of the proton arise, and what is the exact composition of the proton still captivate our field. In the simplest picture, the proton is made of two up and one down quark, in a more comprehensive picture, however, the proton is a strongly-coupled, relativistic, infinite-body system, where quarks and antiquarks come in and out of existence for very short times. Their fleeting existence makes the antiquarks within protons difficult to study, but it is discernible in reactions in which a matter–antimatter quark pair annihilates. In this presentation, I will discuss a recent result published by the SpinQuest collaboration that shows that nature prefers anti-down quarks to anti-up quarks in the proton. This is in contrast to predictions from perturbative QCD where no such antiquark imbalance is expected in the proton.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:15:53 -0500 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA/Ross Dual Degree Info Sessions (March 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80478 80478-20728296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SAA

If you are interested in applying for the Multiple Dependent Degree Program (MDDP) between LSA and the Ross School of Business you must attend an MDDP information session.

All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom at 4 pm on the following days:

January 11,12
February 8,9
March 8,9
April 12,23

The Zoom URL is https://umich.zoom.us/j/93289886804

Presenter-Jeff Harrold, Coordinator for Academic Standards and Special Populations, LSA Student Academic Affairs, jharrold@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:06:50 -0500 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location SAA Workshop / Seminar Computer
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
Minor in Writing Virtual Info Session (March 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81727 81727-20949375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty, or have questions about the application process, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.

RSVP here https://forms.gle/h19vxzqNVTYKd8BD6

The deadline to apply for Fall 2021 is Monday, March 15th at noon.

More info at http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/minor-in-writing/application-process.html

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:29:04 -0500 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering
Cardio Kickboxing (March 8, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80441 80441-20721877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Come punch and kick to the beat of great music! In this quick-paced cardio class, your body will stay in motion as you build strength, endurance, and confidence. People of all fitness levels will get results at this fun and challenging class.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:16:51 -0500 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Metabolic Circuit (March 8, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80444 80444-20722025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Do you want an intense workout? How about an environment that offers the support and encouragement you need to reach your peak performance? Then this class is for you! Metabolic Circuit is based on fun strength and cardio drills. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Some kind of resistance equipment (e.g. dumbbells, barbell, resistance bands, backpack filled with books, milk jugs filled with water, canned goods, or any other weighted items that can be held).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:27:47 -0500 2021-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Metabolic Circuit is based on fun strength and cardio drills.
Zumba (March 8, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80443 80443-20721926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Ditch the traditional workout and join the party! This Latin-inspired, dance-and-fitness class offers an exciting, exhilarating and effective workout. You’ll develop your stamina and your body tone with easy to follow dance moves, set to the fast and slow rhythms of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop, pop, mambo, rumba, flamenco, calypso and salsaton. No dance experience required.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:23:47 -0500 2021-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
Pilates (March 8, 2021 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80445 80445-20722050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 5:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Pilates improves flexibility, builds strength and develops control and endurance in the entire body. It puts emphasis on alignment, breathing, and developing a strong core often called the “powerhouse” in Pilates. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Loop resistance band and small blue ball (other options can be a small pillow or mini foam roller).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:31:35 -0500 2021-03-08T17:45:00-05:00 2021-03-08T18:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Pilates improves flexibility, builds strength and develops control and endurance in the entire body.
Community Creative Arts Workshop (March 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2021-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
The Bee Lady Talks (March 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79961 79961-20519523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Explore the life of the honeybee in and out of the hive. Victoria Dluzen McIntyre is an amateur apiarist whose love of honeybees comes to her naturally - her family name ‘dluzen’ means ‘keeper of the bees’ in Polish.

Known as ‘The Bee Lady’, Victoria has travelled around southeastern Michigan giving talks (The Bee Lady Talks) to schools, garden clubs, and civic groups. Come and learn about the mysteries of the hive and how 50,000 bees work together for one common good.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:55:47 -0500 2021-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
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
STRONG Nation (March 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80447 80447-20722110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

STRONG Nation® is a HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) class that syncs every move to a beat! This class combines bodyweight, cardio, muscle conditioning, and plyometric training moves synced to original music that has been specifically designed to match every single move. Every squat, every lunge, every burpee is driven by the music, helping you make it to that last rep, and maybe even five more. EQUIPMENT NEEDED (optional): Open space with soft flooring for push-ups, planks, etc. (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet)

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:39:06 -0500 2021-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T19:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness STRONG Nation® is a HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) class that syncs every move to a beat!
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Sustainable Infrastructure Trivia Night (March 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82304 82304-21062673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue Student Leaders

Join the Planet Blue Student Leaders on March 8th from 8:00pm-9:00pm for an evening of trivia! You’ll have the opportunity to meet other U-M community members and learn about sustainable infrastructure in a fun way. Register: http://bit.ly/SusInfraTriviaNight

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Recreational / Games Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:43:47 -0500 2021-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Student Leaders Recreational / Games Join the Planet Blue Student Leaders on March 8th from 8:00pm-9:00pm for an evening of trivia!
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 9, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-09T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: *Stray* (March 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82750 82750-21171586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘Stray'”

About the film:
Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society that allow us an unvarnished portrait of human life — and their own canine culture.

Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on solitary adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds refuge with the security guards who care for her. The disparate lives of Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians who share the streets with them.

Whether they lead us into bustling streets or decrepit ruins, the gaze of these strays act as windows into the overlooked corners of society: women in loveless marriages, protesters without arms, refugees without sanctuary. The film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:44:29 -0500 2021-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: You Will Die at Twenty (March 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82514 82514-21114082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘You Will Die at Twenty'”

About the movie:
NYTimes Critics Pick! Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny. Sudan’s first Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and a moving meditation on what it means to live in the present.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:11:33 -0500 2021-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening You Will Die at Twenty image
UROP Research Scholars Application now open (March 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 82067-21014862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research, a liberal arts education, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.

Apply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:28:28 -0400 2021-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply for Research Scholars
UROP Rising Sophomore Applications Open (March 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80546 80546-21203329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Learn more and apply today at http://myumi.ch/uropsophomore

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:56:19 -0400 2021-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (March 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-03-09T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
The Political Power of Optimism (March 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80005 80005-20541134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture will be live streamed

We are in a historical moment when longstanding social problems have taken on new urgency. The Black Lives movement and the Me Too movement emerged out of decade-long frustrations with the persistence of deep racial and gender inequalities. How do we understand the political possibilities for overcoming durable forms of social inequalities? The talk draws on core ideas from sociology to consider the political power of optimism and voice in driving social reform efforts.

Presenter Sandra R. Levitsky is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and
Associate Professor of Sociology. She holds a Ph.D.in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin and a J.D. from the University of
Minnesota. Her research focuses on American social policy, political mobilization, and relationship between law and social change. Her book, Caring for our Own: Why There is No Political Demand for New
American Social Welfare Rights, examines the politics of long- term care. Her current research examines the changing legal environment around Title IX and campus sexual assault.

This is the seventh of ten lectures to be presented once each month from September 2020 through June,2021. The next lecture will be held April 13, 2021. The title is: What the First Amendment Really Means. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you a few days prior to the first session.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:06:08 -0500 2021-03-09T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion distinguished lecture
An Introduction to CJARS: A new data platform for integrated criminal justice research (March 9, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81913 81913-20990885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Webinar and Live Q&A

CJARS is a next generation data platform built on over 2+ billion lines of raw data, looking to transform criminal justice research and statistical reporting as we know it. The system, which grows each and everyday, currently contains over 133 million criminal justice events from arrest to parole, occurring in 18 states, covering over 33 million individuals. All of this data can be integrated at the individual level with extensive, longitudinal socio-economic data in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Topics to include:
- Contents and coverage of CJARS data infrastructure
- Comparison to existing BJS statistical series
- Opportunities for data linkage in the Federal Statistical Research
Data Center network
- Application process to work with CJARS data
- Resources available to support early-stage researchers

Interested researchers should register: https://forms.gle/xgmobvXtbLKKRFSPA
(Event link will be provided after registering)

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:30:48 -0500 2021-03-09T10:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual CJARS - Criminal Justice Administrative Records System
DEI Lecture Series: Driving Change (March 9, 2021 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82382 82382-21090283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 11:15am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Most of us want to live in a society in which we compete and collaborate as equals – neither advantaged nor disadvantaged by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other differences that historically divide privileged and oppressed.

What can we as individuals, as leaders and as engineers do to level the playing field and ensure that everyone is represented among the people choosing the directions of the future?

Our panel comprises three speakers who served as sources for the Six Diversity Myths series:

George Halow, 31-year Ford engineer and professor of practice in aerospace engineering: How can the privileged drive change?

Jennifer Linderman, the Pamela Raymond Collegiate Professor of Engineering and Director of the ADVANCE Program: Why don’t we have enough women and under-represented minorities in leadership positions, and what can we do about it?

David Tarver, President of the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative and lecturer in the Center for Entrepreneurship: How could a new generation of tech-aware entrepreneurs empower the sustainable, equitable and multicultural cities of the future?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:05:38 -0500 2021-03-09T11:15:00-05:00 2021-03-09T12:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Panelists George Halow, Jennifer Linderman and David Tarver.
Complex Systems Seminar "Where models meet morality: What role should complexity science play in addressing racial and socioeconomic disparities in the COVID-19 crisis?" (March 9, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82461 82461-21106111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic and racial inequalities in infection and mortality have been key features of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. While identifying these disparities is critical, it has also become clear that we lack the theoretical and methodological tools to integrate the mechanisms generating these inequities into models of infectious disease transmission. This is a huge gap, as such models have become key tools in developing policy and evaluating the impact of interventions ranging from social distancing to vaccination. In this talk, I will outline some of the work done by my research group that is focused on understanding the mechanistic drivers of spatial and socioeconomic variation in infection and death from SARS-CoV-2 in Michigan (see e.g. covidmapping.org) and conduct a walk-through of an interactive example of a model that attempts to integrate a key driver of infection inequality - residential segregation - into a model of infectious disease transmission. For more information, please visit our lab group site at epibayes.io.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:35:40 -0500 2021-03-09T11:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Jon Zelner, SPH
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
Cardio Kickboxing (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80441 80441-20721890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Come punch and kick to the beat of great music! In this quick-paced cardio class, your body will stay in motion as you build strength, endurance, and confidence. People of all fitness levels will get results at this fun and challenging class.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:16:51 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Depression on College Campuses Conference. Addressing the Dual Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 and Racial Injustice on College Student Mental Health (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81779 81779-20959268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Join us virtually for the 2021 Depression on College Campuses Conference, which will explore the impact of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice on college student mental health, and look at how colleges and universities are responding.

As college students face increasing physical and emotional stressors, including loneliness, anxiety, depression, and trauma, colleges and universities are challenged to find ways to meet the health, safety, and emotional needs of students, particularly those of black, indigenous, and students of color who have been disproportionately affected. Attendees will learn about new research findings, programs, and policies which highlight college student mental health in the context of current events.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:10:02 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Conference / Symposium DoCC banner
Employer Connections: Resume Review with Bath and Body Works, Northwestern Mutual, BP, and PIRGIM (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82713 82713-21163651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

You’ve probably already had your résumé looked at by a peer, Hub coach, professor, mentor etc. Now is your chance to connect with a recruiter to gain feedback from the professionals whose job it is to review résumés. Join the LSA Opportunity Hub and recruiters from Bath and Body Works, Northwestern Mutual, BP, and PIRGIM as they offer their expertise on creating an effective resume. Chat one on one with a talent acquisition team member of your choosing and receive the feedback on how to craft your résumé and build your experience to be competitive applicants.

You should attend this Employer Connection if you are:
- An LSA undergraduate student seeking feedback on professional application materials
- Eager to develop an understanding of how you may fit within an industry

What you’ll gain by attending:
- First hand recruiter knowledge on how to cater your professional materials
- Connections with professionals who lead the recruiting process for leading organizations

RSVP now to reserve your spot as capacity is limited. The zoom link to join the session will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the LSA Opportunity Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:28:57 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Two people reviewing a resume
Energy Equity: Health Impact Assessment of Detroit Energy's Integrated Resource Plan (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82482 82482-21108102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Speakers include Michelle Martinez from the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition; Carina Gronlund from the Social Environment and Health Program, Survey Research Center, UM Institute for Social Research; and Tony Reames from UM's School for Environment & Sustainability.

Webinar Series co-sponsored by Departments of Environmental Health Sciences, & Health Behavior, Health Education DEI committees.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:55:49 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Energy Equity (Detroit) March 9 Webinar
Energy regulation in North America (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82611 82611-21145762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Join us for a conversation with a former energy policymaker and regulator from the largest and most active U.S. state on climate (California) and a leading Canadian academic on North American energy regulation and policy.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DSYrit4lp575kQdkwfiV6UyBg4bzkJlknDkWQ4-SI6k/edit

Former California Public Utility Commissioner Dian Grueneich (Stanford) and Director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy Dr. Monica Gattinger (University of Ottawa) will discuss a range of topics including how regulators approach energy projects that cross national borders, the role of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) in transnational electricity policy, and how climate change and energy policy are becoming increasingly intertwined.
From the speakers' bios

Dian Grueneich is a nationally and internationally recognized energy and regulatory policy expert. Dian served as a Commissioner on the California Public Utilities Commission from 2005 to 2010. She led its work on energy efficiency, transmission planning and permitting, Western energy, smart grid, and implementation of California's climate change law. Dian is affiliated with Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, the Shultz-Stephenson Energy Policy Task Force, and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. In 2016, Dian launched the Stanford Shultz Energy Fellowship program, which places graduate and undergraduate Stanford students in California and Western energy agencies. She also produced and taught the Stanford California and Western Energy Lecture Series and a course on Building Energy Efficiency offered by the Stanford Center for Professional Development. Dian has received numerous awards for her work, including the NARUC Clean Energy Award and eeGlobal Forum's first "Visionary Award" for Leadership in Developing California's Long-Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan. She has also served on external advisory committees to the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Dian is currently a Senior Fellow with the New Buildings Institute and serves on the Board of the Association of Women in Water, Energy and the Environment. She is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a J.D. from Georgetown University.

Monica Gattinger is Director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Full Professor of Political Studies, and Founder/Chair of Positive Energy at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Gattinger is an award-winning researcher and highly sought-after speaker, adviser, and media commentator in the energy and arts/cultural policy sectors. Her innovative research program convenes business, government, Indigenous, civil society and academic leaders to address complex policy, regulatory and governance challenges. She has published widely in the energy and arts/cultural policy fields, with a focus on strengthening decision-making in the context of fast-paced technological change and markets, changing social values, and lower levels of trust in governments, industry, science and expertise. Gattinger is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, board member of the Clean Resource Innovation Network, and serves on advisory boards for the Institute on Governance, the National Research Council Canada, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Pollution Probe, and the University of Calgary. She Chairs the Editorial Board of the University of Ottawa Press and is a columnist for JWN Energy's Daily Oil Bulletin. Monica received the 2020 Clean50 Award for her thought leadership in the energy sector. She holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Carleton University.

North American Colloquium:
This event is part of the 2020-21 North American Colloquium (NAC), organized by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy with generous support from the Meany Family Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and the Center for Research on North America at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The objective of the NAC is to provide a forum that strengthens a wider North American conversation and more fruitful trilateral cooperation between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Sign up for more information about this year's NAC here. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aCc2ko23ecNGbDpYrIFoyM_Vp5LuNfFSqOhsZD-Kv9w/edit

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:24:10 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Dian Grueneich and Monica Gattinger
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cultural Mediations in the Great Wall Frontier: The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80187 80187-20594128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Great Wall regions of northern China have long been characterized as frontiers of political and cultural expansion in which steppe groups were acculturated and assimilated into Chinese society. Yet examinations of individual communities and persons in the frontier demonstrate overarching vacillations of political sovereignties and varied mélanges of cultural practices. This lecture engages historical and archaeological discussions of the Southern Xiongnu (ca.50-200 CE) as one example of local leaders who navigated their presence between exterior competing regimes through a suite of hybrid cultural mediations to successfully maintain independent political power.

Bryan K. Miller received a MA in Archaeology from UCLA and a PhD in East Asian Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. His research investigates the history and archaeology of early empires in East Asia, focusing on intrapolity social and economic developments that occurred over the course of large polities as well as the interaction between regimes of Mongolia and China. His publications include studies of political substrata and the roles of local elites in regional polities, alternate models of interaction for frontier matrices of cultures in contact, functions and configurations of urban settings, and the interplay between local politics and larger processes of globalization. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the Xiongnu Empire for Oxford University Press.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9qILPj9MQa6RuEtKpxd_9g

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:51:15 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Bryan K. Miller, Lecturer in the U-M History of Art Department
Mechanistic Insights into the mRNA Poly(A) Tail Machinery- G. Robert Greenberg Lectureship (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80653 80653-20769631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, will present our annual G. Robert Greenberg Lectureship in Biological Chemistry. This will be a virtual seminar held at 12:00pm on Tuesday March 9th, 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:31:56 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar passmore
Economic Theory (March 9, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81712 81712-20943465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please contact at econ.theory-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:05:34 -0500 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T14:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Engaged Pedagogy: A Panel On Undergraduate Teaching (March 9, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82580 82580-21124021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Featured Speaker:

Dr. P. Nick Kardulias
National Award-Winning Educator
"A Life in Educating: 1980-2020"
Professor Emeritus of Classical Civilizations and Anthropology and Chair, Archaeology, College of Wooster

Moderator and opening comments:
Dr. Debotri Dhar
Author and Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Closing comments:
Dr. Michael Galaty
Professor of Anthropology and Director, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan

Respondents: Dr. Michael Toumazou, Professor of Classics and Affiliated Professor of Art, Davidson College; Dr. Whitney Goodwin, Adjunct Research Associate and Senior Research Specialist, University of Missouri; Dr. Greg Wiles, Professor of Earth Sciences and Chair of Environmental Studies, College of Wooster

Organized for Women's and Gender Studies 330, co-sponsored by UMMAA

Open to all U-M faculty, staff, and students

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:09:12 -0500 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Women's and Gender Studies Department Livestream / Virtual Engaged Pedagogy - A Panel on Undergraduate Teaching
Taubman Institute Healthy You Conversation Webinar (March 9, 2021 1:01pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82477 82477-21108093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 1:01pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Johann Gudjonsson, MD, PhD, the Arthur C. Curtis Professor of Skin Molecular Immunology, an Associate Professor, Dermatology and the Taubman Institute’s Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar, will discuss his work on basic immunological and genetic research on psoriasis, with projects directed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of psoriasis.

Event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Send questions to glenwalk@med.umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:02:39 -0500 2021-03-09T13:01:00-05:00 2021-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Workshop / Seminar Taubman Healthy You Conversations
Coder Spaces (Tuesdays) (March 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80410 80410-20719695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Are you grappling with a piece of code, trying to compute on a cluster, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.

All members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces in the Winter 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.

The virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty, staff, and students with research methodology, statistics, data science applications, and computational programming for research.

Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.

CoderSpaces provide a casual, productive and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.

Tuesdays 2-3:30PM
Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/99832397131)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

with Alexander Gaenko (CSCAR), Chen Chen (PDHP/ISR), Lingxi Li (PDHP/ISR), Paul Schulz (PDHP/ISR), and Chris Fariss (ISR)

Expertise: C/C++, CMake/GNU Make, data management, Fortran, Git, HPC, Julia, Mplus, parallelization, performance analysis, Perl, Python, R, SAS, secure computing enclaves, shell, SQL, Stata, statistical computing, survey methods (hypothesis testing, imputation, modeling, statistics, sampling, questionnaire design, weighting), web scraping

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Meeting Wed, 27 Jan 2021 07:53:54 -0500 2021-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise, coming to you from a variety of U-M departments and disciplines.
Economic History: Voting Rights, Deindustrialization, and Republican Ascendancy in the South (March 9, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81494 81494-20901737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

*To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:32:30 -0500 2021-03-09T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Leadership Consulting Drop In Hours (March 9, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81842 81842-20980960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

New for Winter 2021: Leadership Consulting Drop-In Hours!

Are you a student organization member looking for advice, best practices or a third-party to listen and give feedback on your student org ideas? Join CCI's Leadership Consultants, a team of peer-educators with a passion for student org leadership, for open drop-in hours!

No preparation necessary! Drop-in for as long as you need (within our 1-hour windows, see below!) to discuss your student org questions, challenges and if a leadership consultation is right for you! Our drop-in hours this week are:

Monday: 1:30 - 2:30 pm EST

Tuesday: 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST

Wednesday: 5:00 - 6:00 pm EST

Thursday: 12:30 - 1:30 am EST (this session is designed for accessibility for students studying remotely from international locations)

Friday: 12:30 - 1:30 pm EST

Ready to meet? Join us here: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92292352473! 

The Zoom link for Leadership Consulting Drop-In Hours is the same for each occurrence. You will be first placed in a waiting room and then admitted in the order that you arrive if more than one person is waiting. Drop-In Hours will be offered biweekly for Winter 2021!

Can't make it to drop-in hours but still want to meet with us? Visit https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/ideahub/leadership-consulting to learn how to schedule a standard leadership consulting appointment!

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Meeting Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:38:11 -0400 2021-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Meeting Leadership Consultation Drop-Ins
2021 Henry Russel Lecture (March 9, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81795 81795-20959286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University and Development Events

Join us for the 2021 Henry Russel Lecture "From Socrates to Darwin and Beyond: What Children Can Teach Us About the Human Mind" presented by Susan Gelman, Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Linguistics.

This event will also recognize the 2021 Henry Russel Award Recipients: José Casas, Erin Cech, Matthew Davis, and Johanna Mathieu.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST

Register at https://myumi.ch/lbHenryRussel

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:52:34 -0500 2021-03-09T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University and Development Events Livestream / Virtual 2021 Henry Russel Lecture
"Body Plan Evolution: Hox-dependent morphogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella Vectensis" (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82539 82539-21116090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis is pleased to present a Special Series: Emerging Concepts in Cell Signaling, Regulation, and Science Education with seminar guest Matthew C. Gibson, PhD.

Dr. Gibson is the Dean and Investigator the the Graduate School, Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

The talk is entitled, "Body Plan Evolution: Hox-dependent morphogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella Vectensis."

Trainee Host: Bridget Waas, Ph.D. Candidate

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:45:51 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Parametric Design and Isogeometric Modeling for Complex Engineering Applications (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82791 82791-21179563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Emily L. Johnson
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University

Among many global engineering challenges, two pressing concerns for current and future generations are healthcare and renewable energy production. In particular, cardiac health and wind energy are difficult or prohibitive to study experimentally due to the scale, cost, and accessibility of the structures. With such complex engineering problems, computational methods provide a suitable alternative to empirical scientific investigation. One challenge associated with computational modeling arises from converting computer-aided design models into a suitable format for traditional analysis methods. When isogeometric analysis (IGA) was originally proposed, it addressed this disconnect by incorporating the same representation of the geometry model for both design and analysis. While IGA has been proven to be an efficient method to facilitate the transition from design to analysis, additional strategies are often necessary when simulating complicated structures using IGA. The presented methods address fundamental challenges related to isogeometric modeling for complex engineering applications and demonstrate effective simulation approaches for multi-component heart valves and wind turbine blades. A framework for parametric design and analysis of tricuspid valves demonstrates the advantages of innovative parameter-based modeling techniques and a coupled design-to-analysis approach that can be applied to many engineering problems, including aerospace and wind turbine structures.

About the speaker...

Emily L. Johnson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering and the Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy program at Iowa State University. She received her Bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from St. Olaf College in 2016. At Iowa State, Emily has worked on numerous projects related to isogeometric analysis and computational mechanics for wind turbine blade and heart valve applications. In 2019, Emily received the Graduate College Research Excellence Award in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State, and she recently received an award for the best presentation by a female graduate student at the 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress. Emily's primary research interests are in parametric modeling and computational mechanics, emphasizing computational design and engineering for aerospace structures, wind energy, and biomedical applications.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:17:29 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Emily Johnson
Anti-Racist Community Engagement (For Students): March (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79676 79676-20446300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This interactive virtual workshop will interrogate the role white supremacy often plays in university community engagement experiences and will explore anti-racist approaches to our work in and with communities. The workshop is designed for students with prior knowledge or experience with community engagement who are interested in learning more about how to practice anti-racism in their engaged course, service, project, or research.

Workshop content will build on basic concepts of race, racism, social identity, power, and privilege. If you're newer to those concepts and how they connect to community engagement, we encourage you to complete modules 1 and 2 of the Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change MOOC and/or attend our Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities workshop (see upcoming sessions on our homepage) before signing up for this offering. You may also want to read Tania Mitchell's (2008) “Traditional vs. Critical Service-Learning” before attending. All these links as well as the registration link are available below under "Related Links."

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:17:47 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community graphic (Buildings on top of "C")
Birch Bark and the Writings of Simon Pokagon (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80464 80464-20722417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Simon Pokagon was a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, an author, and a Native American advocate. Join the library’s head of conservation and book repair, Marieka Kaye, as she shares our small collection of Simon Pokagon’s pamphlets printed on birch bark, as well as a selection of his other writings available at the library. She'll also discuss the significance of his use of birch bark, how birch bark was harvested and processed for this type of use, and the historical context in which his birch bark pamphlets were created.

Register and we'll send you a Zoom link via email approximately 24 hours before the event: http://myumi.ch/Nx2WV

Special Collections After Hours is a monthly open house where we share highlights from the unique historical collections held by the Special Collections Research Center.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:47:54 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Reception / Open House A page from The Red Man's Rebuke (1893) by Simon Pokagon
LACS Indigenous Languages Program Event. Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82092 82092-21034704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Register at https://myumi.ch/3q00K

Lecture presented by Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University

Discussant: Laura Pensa, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures, U-M

In the early 1970s, sociologist Orlando Fals Borda combined sociological and historical research with a firm commitment to grassroots social movements in collaboration with the National Association of Peasant Users on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. The presentation examines the development of participatory action research, highlighting Fals Borda's rejection of traditional positivist research frameworks in favor of sharing his own authority as a researcher with peasant activists and preparing accessible materials for a campesino readership, thereby transforming research into a political organizing tool. The fundamental concepts of participatory action research as they were framed by Fals Borda continue to be relevant to engaged social scientists and other researchers in Latin America and beyond.

Joanne Rappaport is a professor of Latin American cultural studies and anthropology at Georgetown University. An anthropologist pursuing dual lines of research in ethnographic history and collaborative ethnography, she previously looked at the role of literacy and historical memory in indigenous activism in Colombia and at the emergence of indigenous intellectuals in Latin America. Her recent work centers on collaborative ethnography that draws equally on academic and nonacademic agendas, theories, and methods. She is the author of *The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada*, *Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, and Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia*, and *Cowards Don′t Make History: Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research* all also published by Duke University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:05:16 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia poster
The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia: Cartography Discover Series, Session 1 (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82184 82184-21050551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, *The History of Cartography Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment* (University of Chicago Press) appeared. A massive reference work of 1651 pages, it comprises 479 entries with 954 full color illustrations, written by 207 contributors from 26 countries. In this webinar series, Co-Editors Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine) and Mary Pedley (Clements Library) enjoy three conversations about the design, contents, and illustrations of this volume.

In session 1, Pedley and Edney discuss the design and rationale for the encyclopedia format of the volume and the challenges and benefits of this structure.

Mary Sponberg Pedley is the Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps at the Clements Library. Her research has focused on French and English map makers and map production in the long eighteenth century.

Matthew H. Edney holds the Osher Chair in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine and is the Director of the History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Register at http://myumi.ch/0W0j3

*This online event is a Zoom Webinar with three sessions (March 9, March 16, March 23). Your microphone will be muted and video turned off automatically. Machine closed captioning will be available during the event. Live attendees will be encouraged to use the chat function to submit questions and comments. After each session, all registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:36:25 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Cover of "The History of Cartography Volume 4"
WCED Roundtable. Reviving Democracy, Globally and Locally (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80977 80977-20824922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

How do we revitalize democracy, both globally and locally? And are there any common threads linking the two?

Hahrie Han is the inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and faculty director of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in the study of organizing, movements, civic engagement, and democracy. Her newest book will be published by the University of Chicago Press in January 2021, entitled *Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in 21st Century America*. She has previously published three books: *How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century*; *Groundbreakers: How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America*; and *Moved to Action: Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics*. Her award-winning work has been published in the *American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),* and numerous other outlets, including the *New York Times, Washington Post*, and elsewhere.

Michael McFaul is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science, director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. He was also the Distinguished Mingde Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University from June to August of 2015. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1995. He is also an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to *The Washington Post*. McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-12), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-14). He has authored several books, most recently the *New York Times* bestseller, *From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia*. Earlier books include *Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should, How We Can*; *Transitions To Democracy: A Comparative Perspective* (eds. with Kathryn Stoner); *Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War* (with James Goldgeier); and *Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin*. His current research interests include American foreign policy; great power relations between China, Russia, and the United States; and the relationship between democracy and development.

Moderated by Dan Slater, WCED Director.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/O4yPQ

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:23:07 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion WCED Roundtable
Zumba (March 9, 2021 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80443 80443-20721939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Ditch the traditional workout and join the party! This Latin-inspired, dance-and-fitness class offers an exciting, exhilarating and effective workout. You’ll develop your stamina and your body tone with easy to follow dance moves, set to the fast and slow rhythms of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop, pop, mambo, rumba, flamenco, calypso and salsaton. No dance experience required.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:23:47 -0500 2021-03-09T16:15:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
John Stuart Mill does not have a harm principle (March 9, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82596 82596-21126017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Open Discourse

Daniel Jacobson, professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will be visiting (virtually) on March 9 to give a lecture to Michigan Open Discourse. He will be exploring the ideas of "classical liberalism", and philosopher John Stuart Mill's theory of the "harm principle" as it relates to freedom of speech.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:21:57 -0500 2021-03-09T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Open Discourse Lecture / Discussion Professor Daniel Jacobson
Minor in Writing Virtual Info Session (March 9, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81727 81727-20949376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty, or have questions about the application process, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.

RSVP here https://forms.gle/h19vxzqNVTYKd8BD6

The deadline to apply for Fall 2021 is Monday, March 15th at noon.

More info at http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/minor-in-writing/application-process.html

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:29:04 -0500 2021-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering
Coping Skills Workshop: Mindfulness (March 9, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80381 80381-20711708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Live virtual wellness group from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Registration is required on the Campus Mind Works website
Zoom link will be accessible in your registration confirmation email the day of the event

These mental health education and support groups are a service of the U-M Depression Center, in partnership with the U-M Engineering’s C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center and are run by staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry.

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Well-being Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:58:13 -0500 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works logo with a navy blue background and white text
Metabolic Circuit (March 9, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80444 80444-20722038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Do you want an intense workout? How about an environment that offers the support and encouragement you need to reach your peak performance? Then this class is for you! Metabolic Circuit is based on fun strength and cardio drills. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Some kind of resistance equipment (e.g. dumbbells, barbell, resistance bands, backpack filled with books, milk jugs filled with water, canned goods, or any other weighted items that can be held).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:27:47 -0500 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Metabolic Circuit is based on fun strength and cardio drills.
Zumba (March 9, 2021 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80443 80443-20721952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 5:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Ditch the traditional workout and join the party! This Latin-inspired, dance-and-fitness class offers an exciting, exhilarating and effective workout. You’ll develop your stamina and your body tone with easy to follow dance moves, set to the fast and slow rhythms of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop, pop, mambo, rumba, flamenco, calypso and salsaton. No dance experience required.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:23:47 -0500 2021-03-09T17:45:00-05:00 2021-03-09T18:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
Exponent Corporate Info Session hosted by SWE (March 9, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80530 80530-20736172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Exponent is a multidisciplinary organization of scientists, physicians, engineers, and regulatory consultants brings together more than 90 technical disciplines to address complicated issues facing industry and government today. We employ the best and the brightest from the major academic institutions around the world as well as technical specialists from a variety of industries. Over 50% of our staff hold a Ph.D. or M.D. in their chosen field of study.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/91621485292

-Majors Recruited: All engineering majors
-Degrees Levels Recruited: PhD
-Positions available: Full Time
-Will the company be collecting resumes at this event?: Yes
-Is the company willing to sponsor students for work authorization?: On occasion

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:26:48 -0500 2021-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs
From Here to There: Rich Liverance’s Creative Career (March 9, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81940 81940-20992889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Moderated by artist and alumnus Stephanie Brown (MFA ‘18), From Here to There brings current Stamps students and Stamps alums together for honest and accessible conversations about the alumni’s creative career path.

Designed to help Stampers navigate their art and design careers, these talks will reveal the “nuts and bolts” of how Stamps alums worked to find a home in their creative career. With a different alumni featured bi-monthly, this live interview will be followed by a Q&A with students. BONUS: From Here to There participants will receive contact information for the alumni speaker, who will welcome follow-up questions via email and/or social media. From Here to There is a great way for students to start their professional networking journey — and get the critical information they need to design their present and their future for the real world. About the Speaker: Rich Liverance, Animation Editor for DreamWorks AnimationSeeing Monsters Inc. at 10 years old was a pivotal moment when Rich Liverance realized the career path he wanted to pursue. The excitement Rich felt watching such a compelling story had him jumping at every opportunity to create during his time in high school. After he graduated, Rich spent four exciting and challenging years at University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design learning the ins and outs of animation, storytelling and design. With the help and encouragement of the Stamps staff, Rich was able to land an internship with Nickelodeon which led to his current job as an Animation Editor for DreamWorks Animation in Los Angeles. Every day Rich is excited knowing that he’s using his passion for animation to inspire the next generation of artists and creators.Stamps events are free and open to the public, and we are committed to making them accessible to all attendees. This event will be online using the Zoom platform with an auto-generated Live Transcript available. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please email John Luther at jonel@umich.edu at least one week in advance of the scheduled event so we can arrange for your accommodation or an effective alternative. After receiving your request, our team will follow up with you directly.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYudO-rqzIpHNUkUsbxRvDPyk1IyrpX5xYe

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Auditions Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:15:11 -0500 2021-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Rich_Liverance.jpeg
Worthy Bodies (March 9, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82717 82717-21163655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

All trans people are beautiful, and that sentiment is not always expressed. In times of isolation and disconnect from community, transgender and nonbinary individuals can lose sight of self-love and body positivity.

In Part 1, we will explore the topic of body positivity through the lens of the wellbeing model. The workshop will focus on collectively building a more trans-inclusive idea of body positivity based on our experiences and identities. By incorporating other transgender and non-binary voices in the workshop, the space will also explore what self-love looks like and how you can build a body-positive self-image.

In Part 2, we will continue diving into how to cultivate a body-positive self-image. Through personal reflection and group conversations, we will explore our own body origin stories and how body policing manifests within transgender and non-binary communities. With a focus on narratives and experiences, the workshop will provide participants with strategies to reframe and cultivate body positivity for ourselves, our relationships and our communities.

Attendance for Part 1 isn't required for Part 2, nor is it a commitment to attend Part 2. For both workshops, participants are encouraged to wear an article of clothing, accessory, or outfit that validates your identity and expression.

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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Well-being Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:16:20 -0500 2021-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Well-being Event information for both Part 1 and Part 2 of Worthy Bodies. Next to the text is an illustration of an individual from the neck down holding a transgender flag draped over their shoulders and wearing a skirt in the nonbinary flag colors. A spotlight shines down on them.
Bioethics Discussion: Infection (March 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58838 58838-14563730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion spreading to others.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings to consider:
––Evidence and Effectiveness in Decision-Making for Quarantine
––The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Insights for the 21st Century
––From SARS to Ebola: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Modern Quarantine
––Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical considerations for conducting controlled human infection studies

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/057-infection/.

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Feel free to stop by the website, not even the blog is viral: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:40:23 -0500 2021-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Infection
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
Yoga Flow (March 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80437 80437-20721777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength. You’ll build muscle and flexibility by using your breath to anchor each movement as you flow from one pose to the next. Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:00:46 -0500 2021-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T19:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength.
#GivingBlueday with LSA Honors (March 10, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82154 82154-21044617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Join us in celebrating what you love about the Honors Program!

Over the week prior and throughout the day, we'll share student stories from our HELA (Honors in Engaged Liberal Arts) candidates, Awesome Honors, and the HSST (Honors Student Socials Team).

Some of the day-long challenges include the following:

First-Time Donor Match
First time U-M donors who give $50 or more will receive a match of $50. Excludes students. First come first served. A maximum of $60,000 will be counted towards this challenge.

Student Donor Match
Current student donors who give $25 or more will receive a match of $25. Excludes alumni. First come first served. A maximum of $50,000 will be counted towards this challenge.

#IGaveBlueDidYou Challenge
Use the #IGaveBlueDidYou and share what cause you supported. Ten winners will be randomly selected, and each will receive an additional $100 toward the fund they supported.

There are also hourly social giving challenges, which even include a WFH challenge:

6am - 9am
Whether you are living abroad or working from home, post a photo of yourself wherever you are celebrating Giving Blueday this year using #GivingBlueday. One photo will be randomly selected.
Prize: $500 for the fund of your choice.

Connect through your favorite social media platform. For more, see the official #GivingBlueday website (right: Related Links). There are two Honors funds listed: HELA funding for upper-division Honors students pursuing their degree and Honors Strategic supporting initiatives across the program.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:05:20 -0500 2021-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Rally / Mass Meeting U-M Giving Blueday Logo
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 10, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-10T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Cardio Core (March 10, 2021 7:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80439 80439-20721854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Come to this fifty-minute class filled with the perfect balance of cardiovascular training and core conditioning. Our cardio drills will get your heart rate up while core exercises strengthen a variety of your muscle sets. Build your endurance and strength with this challenging and fun class. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Some kind of resistance equipment (e.g. dumbbells, barbell, resistance bands, backpack filled with books, milk jugs filled with water, canned goods, or any other weighted items that can be held).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:08:28 -0500 2021-03-10T07:30:00-05:00 2021-03-10T08:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: *Stray* (March 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82750 82750-21171587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘Stray'”

About the film:
Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society that allow us an unvarnished portrait of human life — and their own canine culture.

Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on solitary adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds refuge with the security guards who care for her. The disparate lives of Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians who share the streets with them.

Whether they lead us into bustling streets or decrepit ruins, the gaze of these strays act as windows into the overlooked corners of society: women in loveless marriages, protesters without arms, refugees without sanctuary. The film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:44:29 -0500 2021-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: You Will Die at Twenty (March 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82514 82514-21114083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘You Will Die at Twenty'”

About the movie:
NYTimes Critics Pick! Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny. Sudan’s first Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and a moving meditation on what it means to live in the present.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:11:33 -0500 2021-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening You Will Die at Twenty image
UROP Research Scholars Application now open (March 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 82067-21014863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research, a liberal arts education, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.

Apply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:28:28 -0400 2021-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply for Research Scholars
UROP Rising Sophomore Applications Open (March 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80546 80546-21203330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Learn more and apply today at http://myumi.ch/uropsophomore

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:56:19 -0400 2021-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
Graduate Student Career Pathways: Interviewing for Jobs Beyond the Professoriate (March 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81542 81542-20915559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will meet the needs of those applying for Rackham internship programs, but is open to any graduate students seeking guidance around interviewing for positions beyond tenure track roles, which can differ greatly from the academic job search process. It will focus on preparing graduate students to navigate the interview process, and to effectively answer questions by strategically articulating strengths and skills.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/515DM.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:15:48 -0500 2021-03-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
British Empire in India (March 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79973 79973-20523443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In the year 1600, some British merchants sailed to Asia in search of fortune in trade and built "factories" in India's coastal towns. In the course of time, it expanded into an empire of Britain. Second World War bankrupted Britain and they ceded power in 1947 to two political entities, India and Pakistan.
The lectures will include the history of the conquest, the functioning of the empire and the resulting political, social, economic, and cultural changes, as well as the birth of a modern democracy in India.
Study group leader Venkat Lakshminarayanan has led many OLLI study groups on Indian history, culture and religions.
This study group will meet for seven Wednesdays beginning March 10.
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 10:09:19 -0500 2021-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Unintended Consequences (March 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79979 79979-20523449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Society often tries to fix things, but creates something worse. This is a very important, but not commonly discussed topic.
A leading historian advises that "The law of unintended consequence is the only real law of history."
The course will explore case studies starting with Adam and Eve, and proceed through modern times, dealing with war, economic actions, and law enforcement. The presentation and discussion will compare what was intended with what actually occurred. Participants will come away with a more enlightened way of looking at the events that are continuously occurring around us.

This study group led by Martin Stolzenberg, author of "The Advocacy Newsletter," will meet Wednesday March 10. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:53:47 -0500 2021-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Yoga Flow (March 10, 2021 10:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80437 80437-20721790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:15am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength. You’ll build muscle and flexibility by using your breath to anchor each movement as you flow from one pose to the next. Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:00:46 -0500 2021-03-10T10:15:00-05:00 2021-03-10T11:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength.
Zumba (March 10, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80443 80443-20721965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Ditch the traditional workout and join the party! This Latin-inspired, dance-and-fitness class offers an exciting, exhilarating and effective workout. You’ll develop your stamina and your body tone with easy to follow dance moves, set to the fast and slow rhythms of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop, pop, mambo, rumba, flamenco, calypso and salsaton. No dance experience required.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:23:47 -0500 2021-03-10T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T11:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
Depression on College Campuses Conference. Addressing the Dual Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 and Racial Injustice on College Student Mental Health (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81779 81779-20959269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Join us virtually for the 2021 Depression on College Campuses Conference, which will explore the impact of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice on college student mental health, and look at how colleges and universities are responding.

As college students face increasing physical and emotional stressors, including loneliness, anxiety, depression, and trauma, colleges and universities are challenged to find ways to meet the health, safety, and emotional needs of students, particularly those of black, indigenous, and students of color who have been disproportionately affected. Attendees will learn about new research findings, programs, and policies which highlight college student mental health in the context of current events.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:10:02 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Conference / Symposium DoCC banner
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Loops and Trees in Generic 4d EFT up to operator dimension 8 (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82342 82342-21068624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will talk about the tree and one-loop behavior in a generic 4d EFT of massless scalars, fermions, and vectors, with a particular eye to the high-energy limit of the Standard Model EFT at operator dimensions 6 and 8. First, I will show how to classify the possible Lorentz structures of operators and the subset of these that can arise at tree-level in a weakly coupled UV completion. Then I will show how operators contribute to tree and one-loop helicity amplitudes, exploring the impact of non-renormalization theorems through dimension 8 and helicity selection rules through the full one loop amplitude.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:22:56 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
North Campus Mindfulness Meditation Drop-In (Online) (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40967 40967-20713699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. This is a guided mindfulness meditation drop-in session. No experience necessary. Free and open to all.

Email dmitryb@umich.edu to sign up for the mailing list. You will receive a weekly reminder with the zoom link. Also, you can add the sessions to your Google Calendar: https://tinyurl.com/y3kbkwd6

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Well-being Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:16:48 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being Mindfulness meditation
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
Webinar | Artist Spotlight Stories: Oksana Mirzoyan (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82635 82635-21147756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the short film links and to attend the discussion:

https://myumi.ch/r8gD2

For nearly a decade, the art of Oksana Mirzoyan has been exploring the social and cultural experiences of the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict. The territorial engagement, which began in the 1980s and unfolded across Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabagh was the catalyst for a sequence of pogroms leveled against Armenians living in major cities of the former Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, from Sumgait to Kirovabad (Ganja) and in 1990, the capital city of Baku.

The conflict had a massive influence not only on the cultural and political geography of the South Caucasus but continues to shape the everyday experience of people living in the region today as well as generations of displaced Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Among the millions forced to evacuate the region, thousands arrived in the United States, concentrating in urban and suburban communities, including in Detroit and surrounding Southeast Michigan. Born in Baku, Mirzoyan arrived in Detroit with her family as a result of the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict.

Mirzoyan’s research into the war starts with her passport photo as a refugee being granted asylum in the US in 1991. This discussion will include a screening of her short experimental works that use archival family footage (“Baku 1977”) and capture sceneries or people's lives in the city of Shushi (Swallows flying in the city of Shushi; "Barber of Shushi"). Her intimate knowledge of the region comes from her first-hand experience of walking on its minefields with Halo Trust, teaching filmmaking to students in Stepanakert (the capital city of Artsakh), and collecting the stories of its citizens. Much of Mirzoyan's art is an exploration of the filmmaker's personal trauma tied to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabagh/Artsakh and presents a journey of healing her past through her relationship with the country.

Oksana Mirzoyan is an Armenian-American artist focused on narrative filmmaking as a writer, director, and producer. Mirzoyan’s films have screened and been awarded internationally at festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Camerimage, and Locarno. Her short film“140 Drams" was an honoree of the Cinematographer’s Guild of America and won Best Short Film at Izmir Film Festival. Mirzoyan is based in Detroit where she is a Kresge Artist Fellow. Her experimental and narrative short films "140 Drams," "Sonnet," and "Susanna" were screened in a solo exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Currently, she is working on her first feature, "Abysm" which explores the ongoing conflict in Nagorno-Karabagh. The film has won Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors Prize, along with support from the George Foundation. Mirzoyan has been recently experimenting with sculpture and installation work.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:26:43 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Oksana Mirzoyan, artist and filmmaker
(VIRTUAL): CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness-Guided Sits (March 10, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64874 64874-20517538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds mindful meditation sits virtually on Wednesdays at 12:15.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis and is especially important during these trying times. Psychological stress can damper your overall health, affecting your ability to remain resilient in the face of challenges. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to also reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns.

Free and open to all levels of practice.

After registering, please check your email confirmation for the Zoom link!

Click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtcumtpzIoHNdRoCz-lPKz9X7fb-Jp844o

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:55:12 -0400 2021-03-10T12:15:00-05:00 2021-03-10T12:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Piece of paper that says mindfulness
A Nanoscale Blueprint of the Human Kinetochore and the Functional Limits of its Design (March 10, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82844 82844-21201315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to announce that Alex Kukreja, CDB Ph.D. Candidate will present his dissertation defense during a virtual seminar on March 10, 2021!

Hosted by: Ajit Joglekar

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:34:37 -0500 2021-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual A Nanoscale Blueprint of the Human Kinetochore and the Functional Limits of its Design
CoderSpaces (Wednesdays) (March 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80411 80411-20719744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Are you grappling with a piece of code, trying to compute on a cluster, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.

All members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces in the Winter 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.

The virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty, staff, and students with research methodology, statistics, data science applications, and computational programming for research.

Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.

CoderSpaces provide a casual, productive and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.

Wednesdays 2-3:30PM
Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/96392817699)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

with Armand Burks (ARC-TS/UMSI), Bennet Fauber (ARC-TS), Jule Krüger (ISR/ARC-TS), Meghan Richey (ARC-TS)

Expertise: automation of tasks and workflows, bash, C++, cloud analytics, Git, data analysis, management and visualization, GNU Make, HPC, Java, LaTeX, machine learning (Tensorflow, Keras, convolutional neural networks), Markdown, natural language processing, Python, R, web scraping (Selenium)

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Meeting Wed, 27 Jan 2021 07:50:03 -0500 2021-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise, coming to you from a variety of U-M departments and disciplines.
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79892 79892-20511615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
MIPSE Seminar | Shining a Light on the Complex Physics of Low-temperature Plasmas (March 10, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80222 80222-20601998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

Abstract:
Research into low-temperature plasmas (LTPs) is a thriving area, stimulated not only by the range of applications of LTP devices, but also by the richness and complexity of the physical phenomena which have in recent years become evident in such plasmas - instabilities and self-organization, for example. Understanding such phenomena offers a means of optimizing the performance of existing devices, while also guiding the development of next-generation sources. Such objectives are challenging and will require a combination of advanced numerical, theoretical, and experimental approaches, many of which are still under development.

New experimental approaches applied to LTPs can offer insights into aspects such as particle properties and dynamics, which may be inaccessible to conventional diagnostics. In recent years, highly-sensitive coherent and incoherent Thomson scattering implementations have been achieved for magnetized LTPs, providing evidence for, and information on, instabilities implicated in anomalous transport, and new access to electron properties. In this talk, recent insights gained from Thomson scattering in such plasmas will be discussed, with illustrations of how dialogue between experiments, theory and numerical simulations have improved current understanding.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Sedina Tsikata is a researcher with the CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research, working at the ICARE laboratory in Orléans, France. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees from, respectively, MIT and Ecole Polytechnique, and her postdoctoral research was funded by the French Space Agency. Her main research focuses on understanding phenomena in magnetized plasmas via the development and application of new diagnostics. Dr. Tsikata has received recognitions from the French Physics Society (Prix René Pellat) and from the CNRS (Médaille de Bronze).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:36:16 -0500 2021-03-10T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Sedina Tsikata
Motivation and Identity as Signals of Systemic Problems in Engineering Education (March 10, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82513 82513-21114065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

There is a well-documented history of systemic engineering education problems ranging from a persistently chilly climate to a burgeoning mental health crisis. Outcomes of these problems include but are not limited to increased attrition, decreased learning, and reduced engineering innovation resulting from a homogenous engineering population. While these measures provide concrete evidence of systemic problems, they do not provide clear targets for change or an early warning system of how systemic problems influence students before crucial decision points.

To address the limitations of existing engineering education outcome measures, measures of how students internalize engineering experiences are needed. Students' motivations for engineering tasks and identifications as engineers can fill this gap as they are contextually responsive and connected to educational outcomes such as deep learning, student retention, and task persistence. Additionally, students' educational experiences directly influence their motivations and identities.

Informed by specific theories of motivation and identity (future time perspective and engineering role identity, respectively), this presentation describes how students' motivations and identities are shaped by their engineering education experiences and shape engineering education cultures. Specifically, I will discuss the homogenization of undergraduates' motivations and identities; the connections between motivation and identity and experiences of discrimination and bias; and the identity and motivationally undermining experiences of engineering graduate students. I will conclude by discussing actionable steps to shift engineering education defaults to foster students' motivations and identities.

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the ways students' motivations and identities shape and are shaped by their engineering education experiences. The results of this work seek to implement evidence-based practices to create educational defaults that foster student success and thriving. Adam has a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Bioengineer, and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education from Clemson University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:26:14 -0500 2021-03-10T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Adam Kirn
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series (March 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82479 82479-21108092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Single-cell technologies have transformed biomedical research in the last few years. With single-cell sequencing, we can now simultaneously measure thousands of genomics features in a large number of cells, which provides an ultrahigh resolution phenotypic map for each individual. However, single-cell protocols are complex. Even with the most sensitive platforms, the data are often sparse and noisy. Recent development of single-cell multi-omics and spatial transcriptomics technologies further imposed additional challenges on data integration. In this talk, I will present several machine learning methods that my group recently developed for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data analysis. I will discuss methods for simultaneous denoising, clustering and batch effect correction, single-cell multi-omics data integration, identification of spatially variable genes, generation of super-resolution gene expression, and inference of cell type distribution in spatial transcriptomics. I will illustrate our methods by showing results from ongoing collaborations on cardiometabolic disease and applications to brain and cancer data.
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Biography: Dr. Li’s research interests include statistical genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology. The central theme of her current research is to use statistical and computational approaches to understand cellular heterogeneity in human-disease-relevant tissues, to characterize gene expression diversity across cell types, to study the patterns of cell state transition and crosstalk of various cells using data generated from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics studies, and to translate these findings to the clinics. In addition to methods development, Dr. Li is also interested in collaborating with researchers seeking to identify complex disease susceptibility genes and acting cell types. She is Director of Biostatistics for the Gene Therapy Program at Penn, where she advises biostatistics and bioinformatics analysis for various gene therapy studies. She is also Chair of the Graduate Program in Biostatistics. Dr. Li actively serves in the scientific community. She served as a regular member for the NIH Genomics, Computational Biology and Technology (GCAT) study section for 6 years, and the NHGRI Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) for 3 years. She is an Associate Editor of Annals of Applied Statistics, Statistics in Biosciences, PLOS Computational Biology, and Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:57:46 -0500 2021-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
MCAIM Colloquium | Slowly Chaotic Behavior (March 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82673 82673-21155687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics

How can we understand chaotic behavior mathematically? A well popularized feature of chaotic systems is the butterfly effect: a small variation of initial conditions may lead to a drastically different future evolution, a mechanism at the base of the so-called 'deterministic chaos'. We will introduce and focus on 'slowly chaotic' dynamical systems', for which the butterfly effect happens "slowly" (e.g. at polynomial speed). These include many fundamental examples coming from physics, such as the Ehrenfest billiard and the Novikov model of electrons in a metal. In the talk we will survey some of the recent advances in our understanding of their typical chaotic features as well as common mechanisms for chaos.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:06:16 -0500 2021-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Corinna Ulcigrai, University of Zurich, Institute for Mathematics
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycle (March 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81276 81276-20879915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
This paper studies the transmission of the Global Financial Cycle (GFC) to domestic credit market conditions in a large emerging market, Turkey, over 2003-13. We use administrative data covering the universe of corporate credit transactions matched to bank balance sheets
to document four facts: (1) an easing in global financial conditions leads to lower borrowing costs and an increase in local lending; (2) domestic banks more exposed to international capital markets transmit the GFC locally; (3) the fall in local currency borrowing costs is larger than foreign currency borrowing costs due to the comovement of the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) premium with the GFC over time; (4) data on posted collateral for new loan issuances show that collateral constraints do not relax during the boom phase of the GFC.
*To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:37:31 -0500 2021-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Cardio Hip Hop (March 10, 2021 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80451 80451-20722222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Cardio Hip Hop is a high-intensity dance workout that uses choreographed movements set to Hip Hop and Top 40 music. This non-stop dance party is very similar to Zumba and other dance-aerobic workouts. No dance experience required! EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:51:58 -0500 2021-03-10T16:15:00-05:00 2021-03-10T17:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Leadership Consulting Drop In Hours (March 10, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81842 81842-20980961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

New for Winter 2021: Leadership Consulting Drop-In Hours!

Are you a student organization member looking for advice, best practices or a third-party to listen and give feedback on your student org ideas? Join CCI's Leadership Consultants, a team of peer-educators with a passion for student org leadership, for open drop-in hours!

No preparation necessary! Drop-in for as long as you need (within our 1-hour windows, see below!) to discuss your student org questions, challenges and if a leadership consultation is right for you! Our drop-in hours this week are:

Monday: 1:30 - 2:30 pm EST

Tuesday: 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST

Wednesday: 5:00 - 6:00 pm EST

Thursday: 12:30 - 1:30 am EST (this session is designed for accessibility for students studying remotely from international locations)

Friday: 12:30 - 1:30 pm EST

Ready to meet? Join us here: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92292352473! 

The Zoom link for Leadership Consulting Drop-In Hours is the same for each occurrence. You will be first placed in a waiting room and then admitted in the order that you arrive if more than one person is waiting. Drop-In Hours will be offered biweekly for Winter 2021!

Can't make it to drop-in hours but still want to meet with us? Visit https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/ideahub/leadership-consulting to learn how to schedule a standard leadership consulting appointment!

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Meeting Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:38:11 -0400 2021-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Meeting Leadership Consultation Drop-Ins
Live Healthy Relationships Workshop (March 10, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82720 82720-21163658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC’s Consent, Outreach, and Relationship Education Program (CORE) invites you to participate in a live healthy relationships workshop!

Come practice healthy communication strategies for all relationship types and revisit favorite memories. This event is intended for University of Michigan students.

This workshop is a part of a Healthy Relationship Month series presented by CORE!

Register Here: http://tinyurl.com/5asrtcv5

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Well-being Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:15:49 -0500 2021-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Well-being CORE Healthy Relationships Month Live Workshop
Minor in Writing Virtual Info Session (March 10, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81727 81727-20949377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty, or have questions about the application process, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.

RSVP here https://forms.gle/h19vxzqNVTYKd8BD6

The deadline to apply for Fall 2021 is Monday, March 15th at noon.

More info at http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/minor-in-writing/application-process.html

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:29:04 -0500 2021-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering
Peace Corps Identities Abroad: BIPOC Panel (March 10, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82721 82721-21163661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

This virtual webinar will feature Returned Peace Corps Volunteers sharing their experiences participating in the Peace Corps as a BIPOC volunteer. By attending this webinar, you'll learn more about Peace Corps service and how identities can play a role in being abroad and serving in the Peace Corps.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/Gk9Ro

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:11:59 -0500 2021-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Center Livestream / Virtual Identities Abroad: Serving as a BIPOC Volunteer flyer
Tabata (March 10, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80452 80452-20722247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Looking for an intense, time-efficient full-body workout? Tabata is the most result-driven form of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). In this class you will push yourself to the max and achieve full body fitness by completing a variety drills at specific work-rest ratios.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:57:00 -0500 2021-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-10T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Pilates (March 10, 2021 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80445 80445-20722063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Pilates improves flexibility, builds strength and develops control and endurance in the entire body. It puts emphasis on alignment, breathing, and developing a strong core often called the “powerhouse” in Pilates. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Loop resistance band and small blue ball (other options can be a small pillow or mini foam roller).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:31:35 -0500 2021-03-10T17:45:00-05:00 2021-03-10T18:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Pilates improves flexibility, builds strength and develops control and endurance in the entire body.
Anti-Racism & Food Justice Working Group (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81633 81633-20935512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

UM Sustainable Food Program working groups serve as a creative, free-thinking space where the needs and wishes directly from students can be realized, by students. There are three “themed” working groups: Campus Farm Stand, DEI, and Campus Collaboration. These themes serve as spaces where students are able to meet and collaborate with other people from different majors, interests, and backgrounds to brainstorm about what sustainable food justice and practices should look like at the university and surrounding communities. Working Group meeting times vary by semester. The Anti-Racism & Food Justice Working Group meets bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 6-7pm. Questions? Email emcvanh@umich.edu

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Meeting Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:49:31 -0500 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Meeting Kale to the Victors
Conversation with Socially Conscious Tech Companies: Truepic (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82734 82734-21169593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

Come to Tech for Social Good’s first conversation with a socially conscious tech company: Truepic. Truepic is a company focused on rebuilding trust in photos and videos in a world of photo manipulation and deep fakes by utilizing blockchains. We will be talking with them about what their platform does, what it means for social justice efforts like citizen journalism, and how they balance their company’s mission and values with their business model. One of the speakers will be a UM alum as well! 💙💛 Please RSVP at this link: tinyurl.com/truepic-new-rsvp, the first 20 people who rsvp will get reimbursed for food!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:48:31 -0500 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Livestream / Virtual The image is the poster for the event which includes the date: Wednesday, March 10th at 6 PM, the form to rsvp: tinyurl.com/truepic-new-rsvp, the form to ask questions tinyurl.com/truepic-questions and the zoom link: tinyurl.com/t4sgxtruepic
German Convo Home Edition (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83673 83673-21454158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The "German Convo Home Edition" will provide fun and play games. Silvia Grzeskowiak (sgrzesko@umich.edu) will host the remotely held weekly session. Her Zoom link is: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99570729139.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:58:14 -0400 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual German Convo Home Edition
Membership meeting (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79744 79744-20483907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Members meet to plan and facilitate correspondence workshops and PCAP events

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The Hub presents: The 2021 Grad School Fair (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80163 80163-20572608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The Hub’s annual Grad School Fair is a dedicated forum for LSA students looking to explore or pursue the possibility of graduate education. This year, our Grad School Fair will be held virtually via Career Fair+, a virtual career fair platform that’s conveniently accessible via a smartphone or laptop.

This event brings together graduate program representatives from across the country for an evening of exploring, learning, and networking! It’s a one-stop-shop to learn about the variety of grad programs, understand the realities of grad school, and what to expect throughout the application process.

Register in advance for 1:1 conversations with grad program representatives or attend drop-in group discussions during the event.

To make the most of your experience:
- Access an online Canvas module full of resources and content two weeks before the event to help you prepare for the fair
- Attend our Graduate School Funding Webinar with the Office of Financial Aid, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center to discover funding on- and off-campus funding options
- Attend the Hub’s upcoming BIPOC Graduate Student panel in February to hear from current grad students and those who have recently graduated

You should attend this event if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
- Exploring the possibility of graduate school
- Looking for knowledge and clarity on your post-graduate plans
Intent on securing admission into a grad program

By attending, you will:
- Discover the diverse set of options out there for both graduate schools and degree programs in the US and abroad
- Connect with program representatives to glean actionable insights about the realities of grad school, the career doors it could open, and what makes a competitive candidate
- Develop a plan outlining what your next steps are in the process and establish criteria that can help you determine if a specific school or program can fit your learning and career goals
- Get a better sense of application timelines and requirements, how to secure funding, and more

Interaction Level: Full
- Video and audio presence is strongly encouraged
- The event will mainly be interactive through some combination of full-group interactions, small-group interactions, worksheets, and Q&As
NOTE: Students who cannot participate as recommended are still encouraged to attend

RSVP now to sign up for 1:1 conversations with grad school reps before spots fill up! You must RSVP in order to receive the information required to access this event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:20:27 -0500 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual LSA student graduate
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
Total Body Strength (March 10, 2021 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80453 80453-20722283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Experience strength training like never before! Take this class if you want to strengthen every muscle in one workout. We’ll offer you instruction on how to use free weights effectively and safely. Whether you are an experienced lifter or have never lifted before, this class is right for you! EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Some kind of resistance equipment (e.g. dumbbells, barbell, resistance bands, backpack filled with books, milk jugs filled with water, canned goods, or any other weighted items that can be held)

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:02:52 -0500 2021-03-10T18:45:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Experience strength training like never before!
18th Peter M. Wege Lecture (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80414 80414-20719668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Join us for a casual conversation with Naomi Klein that will touch upon the pivotal moment we are in as we work to address the climate crisis, fight for climate justice, and examine the detrimental impacts that colonialism and capitalism have had on our planet and society. What needs to happen to bring about transformative, systemic change at this critical time? Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author of On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, as well as the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:50:27 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Wege lecture
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81924 81924-20990904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

"Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation” is a Detroit community-based course that welcomes participation by the general public, including college students from both U-M and Wayne State University. The class is hosted and developed by a partnership among: the General Baker Institute (a non-profit community-based organization located in NW Detroit) faculty in the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, and faculty from the Wayne State University Department of African-American Studies and the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. This class is made possible with generous support provided by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, College of LSA & A. Alfred Taubman College of. Architecture and Urban Planning.
The minicourse will explore contemporary and historical intersections between public health and structural racism - both in Detroit and throughout U.S. society more broadly. Each week, we will be joined by Detroit activist-scholars who will help everyone more deeply understand what is happening today in Detroit and in our country more broadly.

In addition to the class content described above, U-M students who register for the 1-credit mini-course will also have the opportunity to meet and to learn from some of the veteran Detroit activists who are building the General Baker Institute (GBI). The organization recently opened its new community center in NW Detroit to honor the legacy of General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the most important labor and community activists in modern Detroit history.

For more information about this public series, please contact Craig Regester, Semester in Detroit Associate Director, at 313-505-5185 or email: regester@umich.edu. Session themes are outlined below, and the speakers will be announced (as well as suggested reading materials) on this website closer to the session dates.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:35:38 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event: "The Historical Jesus in His Jewish Context" (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80033 80033-20548977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Jesus of Nazareth was born, lived, and died as a Jew. But what kind of Jew was he in the diverse world of Second Temple Judaism? How did the movement he initiated within Judaism move into the pagan world and become what we now call Christianity? Specialists Amy-Jill Levine and Gabriele Boccaccini will engage in a conversation about the latest research on the historical Jesus and explore the implication for contemporary Judaic Studies, followed by a response from Jeremiah Cataldo.
Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/7716080595108/WN_srFRJezkTRahuYLDIv0Pow

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:12:44 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Amy-Jill Levin and Gabriele Boccaccini
STRONG Nation (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80447 80447-20722123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

STRONG Nation® is a HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) class that syncs every move to a beat! This class combines bodyweight, cardio, muscle conditioning, and plyometric training moves synced to original music that has been specifically designed to match every single move. Every squat, every lunge, every burpee is driven by the music, helping you make it to that last rep, and maybe even five more. EQUIPMENT NEEDED (optional): Open space with soft flooring for push-ups, planks, etc. (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet)

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:39:06 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness STRONG Nation® is a HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) class that syncs every move to a beat!
UU Weekly - ZoomVivor (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80317 80317-20703792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Ever wanted to audition for Survivor? Now's your chance to prove you can stay on the island (the Zoom island)!

UU Weekly's ZoomVivor will combine trivia, puzzles, riddles, voting, alliance building and more! We will be using the private chat function on Zoom and an online buzzer. Players are also encouraged to come on mic and have their screens on when possible.

Grab a friend or sign up solo and try not to get voted off the island! The game will last the entire two-hour period, from 7 pm to 9 pm.

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Well-being Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:40:54 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Well-being ZoomVivor
Zumba (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80443 80443-20721977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Ditch the traditional workout and join the party! This Latin-inspired, dance-and-fitness class offers an exciting, exhilarating and effective workout. You’ll develop your stamina and your body tone with easy to follow dance moves, set to the fast and slow rhythms of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop, pop, mambo, rumba, flamenco, calypso and salsaton. No dance experience required.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:23:47 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
LSA Student Government General Meeting (March 10, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81248 81248-20879878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Student Government

LSA Student Government holds their weekly general meetings at over Zoom. All members of the public, especially LSA students, are welcome to attend!

Wednesday, April 7th: 6:00 PM over Zoom (https://umich.zoom.us/j/97939439583)
Wednesday, April 14th: 8:00 PM over Zoom (https://umich.zoom.us/j/97939439583)

No meetings will be held from April 21st through September 1st (inclusive).

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Meeting Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:15:42 -0400 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Student Government Meeting All LSA SG meetings are online! See the Zoom link below.
SLE Community Nights (March 10, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-20817006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Leadership Consulting Drop In Hours (March 11, 2021 12:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81842 81842-20980963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

New for Winter 2021: Leadership Consulting Drop-In Hours!

Are you a student organization member looking for advice, best practices or a third-party to listen and give feedback on your student org ideas? Join CCI's Leadership Consultants, a team of peer-educators with a passion for student org leadership, for open drop-in hours!

No preparation necessary! Drop-in for as long as you need (within our 1-hour windows, see below!) to discuss your student org questions, challenges and if a leadership consultation is right for you! Our drop-in hours this week are:

Monday: 1:30 - 2:30 pm EST

Tuesday: 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST

Wednesday: 5:00 - 6:00 pm EST

Thursday: 12:30 - 1:30 am EST (this session is designed for accessibility for students studying remotely from international locations)

Friday: 12:30 - 1:30 pm EST

Ready to meet? Join us here: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92292352473! 

The Zoom link for Leadership Consulting Drop-In Hours is the same for each occurrence. You will be first placed in a waiting room and then admitted in the order that you arrive if more than one person is waiting. Drop-In Hours will be offered biweekly for Winter 2021!

Can't make it to drop-in hours but still want to meet with us? Visit https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/ideahub/leadership-consulting to learn how to schedule a standard leadership consulting appointment!

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Meeting Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:38:11 -0400 2021-03-11T00:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T01:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Meeting Leadership Consultation Drop-Ins
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 11, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-11T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: *Stray* (March 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82750 82750-21171588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘Stray'”

About the film:
Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society that allow us an unvarnished portrait of human life — and their own canine culture.

Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on solitary adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds refuge with the security guards who care for her. The disparate lives of Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians who share the streets with them.

Whether they lead us into bustling streets or decrepit ruins, the gaze of these strays act as windows into the overlooked corners of society: women in loveless marriages, protesters without arms, refugees without sanctuary. The film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:44:29 -0500 2021-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening
CMENAS Virtual Viewing: You Will Die at Twenty (March 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82514 82514-21114084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cmenas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘You Will Die at Twenty'”

About the movie:
NYTimes Critics Pick! Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny. Sudan’s first Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and a moving meditation on what it means to live in the present.

Co-sponsor: Michigan Theatre

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Film Screening Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:11:33 -0500 2021-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening You Will Die at Twenty image
UROP Research Scholars Application now open (March 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 82067-21014864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research, a liberal arts education, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.

Apply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:28:28 -0400 2021-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply for Research Scholars
UROP Rising Sophomore Applications Open (March 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80546 80546-21203331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Learn more and apply today at http://myumi.ch/uropsophomore

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:56:19 -0400 2021-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
Graduate English Welcome Week for MFA Prospective Students (March 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81081 81081-20846540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Welcome Week Events for MFA Prospective Students

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:38:43 -0500 2021-03-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual
MFA Welcome Weekend (March 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78769 78769-20121165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

MFA Virtual Welcome Weekend for Prospective Students.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:34:24 -0400 2021-03-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Reception / Open House
CSAS Film Series | Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director (March 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82550 82550-21116098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Covid response is a documentary on the ongoing global pandemic and how it affects a remote Himalayan state in India. The film is a critical look at the various ways in which people’s suffering- mental, physical and financial, have been worsened by the novel coronavirus.

Munmun Dhalaria is an independent filmmaker and National Geographic Storytelling Explorer, mainly focused on wildlife conservation, gender, science communication and human rights. She deals with her own sense of solastalgia by revealing unseen places and untold stories of people’s perseverance to protect our natural world.

Zoom registration is required to attend the event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArf-CgqjopHdBVcWS3XuiUI17eFTHz3xHf

Prior to the talk with Munmun Dhalaria, the documentary will be available for viewing online from Monday 3/8 until Sunday 3/14. To view it, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu86F5Wjp0nWML3LSPak9wRyVKSG4rSt2Txm2QIL74bQYY5Q/viewform

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:11:02 -0500 2021-03-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director
The Comics Journalism of Josh Neufeld (March 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81148 81148-20856361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture will be live streamed

From its roots in the work of Joe Sacco to the dynamic stories being done today for major publications, comics journalism is all about telling nonfiction stories in comics form. In a presentation featuring a cascade of images, speaker Josh Neufeld will discuss comics’ unique ability to engender empathy — the key to what makes journalistic graphic narratives so effective and compelling. Neufeld will unpack the process behind his many works of long-form comics journalism — many of which made their mark as free online stories.

Josh Neufeld is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist and podcaster. He is known for his nonfiction narratives of political and social upheaval, told through the voices of witnesses. Neufeld has been a Knight-Wallace Fellow in journalism, an Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist, and a Xeric Award winner. His works include the bestsellers “A.D: New Orleans After the Deluge” and “The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media”.

This is the third of a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is Graphic Books and Memes. The next lecture will be on March 25, 2021. The title is: Superhero Therapy: Graphic Medicine and Therapy. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 23 Jan 2021 15:18:31 -0500 2021-03-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday lecture series
AROC Community Conversation: Opportunities for Conversation Subcommittee (March 11, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82753 82753-21171617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Community Conversation is an opportunity for faculty, staff and student to come together weekly to engage on meaningful ways to increase belonging at Michigan Medicine. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. The sessions are designed for space to hear your voice and all are welcome!

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:10:57 -0500 2021-03-11T11:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Brown Bag Discussions with Dr. Tony Waas (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82853 82853-21201324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Attention Undergraduate Students!

Please join Department Chair, Dr. Tony Waas, for an informal discussion this Fall.

Come out and voice the issues that are important to you as an undergrad student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Please bring your questions, concerns, and ideas via Zoom!

See you on March 11th.

No registration needed.

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Meeting Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:29:35 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Meeting Anthony Waas
Building Your Toolbox as an Anti-Racist Advocate in Higher Ed (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81654 81654-20939471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Higher Ed is a particular kind of work and learning space. While it shares characteristics with its primary and secondary counterparts, it is decidedly different in its teaching, student, and administrative contexts. As a result, anti-racist work in higher education settings must look different than it might in K-12 contexts and in other types professional work settings (corporate, non-profit, etc.). This workshop will ask participants to think more closely about the nuances of racial in/justice and in/equity in higher education and how those nuances, along with the cultural and professional norms of academia, impact the frameworks and tools that we might use as racial justice proponents.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/QArPY.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:15:53 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Cardio Kickboxing (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80441 80441-20721903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Come punch and kick to the beat of great music! In this quick-paced cardio class, your body will stay in motion as you build strength, endurance, and confidence. People of all fitness levels will get results at this fun and challenging class.

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:16:51 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Changing Times and Child Health Research (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80749 80749-20783446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

U-M Research Development welcomes Dr. Diana W. Bianchi, Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Dr. Bianchi oversees an annual budget of approximately $1.5 billion in support of NICHD’s mission to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all.

Dr. Bianchi will discuss NIH child health research, the 2020 NICHD Strategic Plan, and what the Biden Administration and incoming legislature might mean for child health.

Dr. Julie Lumeng, Director of MICHR, will host and facilitate Q&A.

Zoom invites will be sent via email after you register.

You may contact Jill Jividen, Director of Research Development, with questions at jjgoff@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:22:41 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Livestream / Virtual U-M Research Development
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79919 79919-20515552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

Genomic and epigenomic features are captured at a genome-wide level by using high-throughput sequencing technologies. Peak calling is one of the first essential steps in analyzing these features by delineating regions such as open chromatin regions and transcription factor binding sites. Our original peak calling software, F-Seq, has been widely used and shown to be the most sensitive and accurate peak caller for DNase I hypersensitive sites sequencing (DNase-seq) data. However, F-Seq lacks support for user-input control dataset nor reporting test statistics, limiting its ability to capture systematic and experimental biases and accurately estimate background distributions. Here we present an improved version, F-Seq2, which combined the power of kernel density estimation and a dynamic “continuous” Poisson distribution to robustly account for local biases and solve ties when ranking candidate peaks. In F-score and motif distance analysis, we demonstrated the superior performance of F-Seq2 than other competing peak callers used by the ENCODE Consortium on simulated and real ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq datasets. The output of F-Seq2 is suitable for irreproducible discovery rate (IDR) analysis as the test statistics calculated for individual candidate summit and ties are robustly solved.

Tool Link: https://github.com/Boyle-Lab/F-Seq2

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:08:59 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Livestream / Virtual
Estate Planning and Gifting (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82315 82315-21066621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Discussion of gifting and plans for your estate.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:50:55 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Livestream / Virtual
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Kaluza-Klein Spectrometry for String Theory Compactifications (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81153 81153-20858315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In this talk, I will present a powerful new method for computing the Kaluza-Klein spectrum of string theory compactifications. This includes geometries with little to no remaining symmetries, hardly accessible to standard methods. I will discuss various applications of this method, including to non-supersymmetric AdS_4 vacua. As I will show, some of these AdS vacua are unstable due to tachyonic Kaluza-Klein modes, while others can be proven to be perturbatively stable. Finally, I will also discuss applications to supersymmetric AdS vacua and the AdS/CFT correspondence

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:10:26 -0400 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
DEI Workshop: Implicit Bias (March 11, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79160 79160-20217718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.*


In this session, participants will learn to:

- Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
- Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
- Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
- Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
- Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

- Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
- Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
- Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
- Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:16:01 -0500 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Light in the U-M Law Quad
Workshop: Managing Your Online Researcher Identity (March 11, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81044 81044-20838695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

There is a lot to consider when crafting an online identity as a researcher. In this session, we’ll talk about the different types of online scholarly engagement and review best practices. We will go over some of the specific platforms that scholars use, such as ORCID, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, Scopus Author ID, Research Gate/Academia.edu, and Twitter.

This online session will be held via Zoom. Zoom information will be sent out to registrants the day prior to the workshop. Register at https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/managing-your-online-researcher-identity-3/

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:01:45 -0500 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar
The Conditions of the Great Lakes (March 11, 2021 1:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82366 82366-21070619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Diana will focus on aquatic animals and their interactions with the environment. He will speak on two major research areas: sustainable aquaculture and its role in feeding the world, and the ecology of natural fish populations, particularly in the Great Lakes region. Dr. Diana's research focuses on the interaction between aquaculture practices and environmental impacts and seeks to find solutions for more sustainable production in the future.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:13:23 -0500 2021-03-11T13:45:00-05:00 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Livestream / Virtual
Alum Connections: Stephanie Mansour (March 11, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82261 82261-21060579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Stephanie Mansour, Health & Fitness Expert and National TV Host of Step It Up with Steph

Dynamic. Passionate. Dedicated. These are just a few words to describe LSA alum Stephanie Mansour. As an entrepreneur and National TV host, Steph knows about the values of hard work, perseverance, and tapping into your network for career progress. Join the Hub on Thursday, March 11 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. for a conversation with Steph about TV and broadcasting, health and fitness, and building your own business.

About Stephanie:
Stephanie Mansour is founder and host of Step It Up with Steph airing nationally on PBS & CREATE TV. She's a regular TV contributor in Chicago and across the globe, reaching more than 52 million viewers per month. Prior to starting her show in 2008, she worked for Marianne Williamson (Oprah’s XM Radio show host), the Dr. Phil show, Lifetime TV, and WNET PBS.

For the past decade, Steph has been helping millions of people to “Step It Up” by providing weight loss tips, lifestyle hacks, and fitness secrets that can up their game. In fact, she coached one reality TV star to lose almost 90 lbs in 3 months! Her first success story was her own, and now she teaches others about the tools to stay and feel healthy.

Stephanie graduated from U-M with her BA in Communications in 2007 with an emphasis on Women’s Studies & Psychology. As a student at U-M, she worked for WOLV-TV, and she created the first ever aerobics TV show, Big House Beat.

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM undergraduate LSA student
Interested in TV & broadcasting, health & fitness, or entrepreneurship
Looking for advice on pursuing internships or other types of in-the-field experiences

What you’ll gain by attending:
Gain first-hand insights into the experiences and competencies needed in broadcasting and building a business
Get tips for identifying and pursuing your interests and bringing them to the forefront of your career
Make a valuable connection with Stephanie and discover internship opportunities with her

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:11:02 -0500 2021-03-11T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Stephanie Mansour Photo
Brown Bag Discussions with Dr. Tony Waas (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82852 82852-21201321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Attention Graduate Students!

Please join us for an informal discussion with Department Chair, Dr. Tony Waas. Come voice the issues that are most important to you as a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Bring your questions, concerns, and your ideas via Zoom!

See you there!

No registration needed.

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Meeting Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:21:49 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Meeting Anthony Waas
CoderSpaces (Thursdays) (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80412 80412-20719728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Are you grappling with a piece of code, trying to compute on a cluster, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.

All members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces in the Winter 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.

The virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty, staff, and students with research methodology, statistics, data science applications, and computational programming for research.

Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.

CoderSpaces provide a casual, productive and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.

Thursdays 3-5PM
Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/92183172919)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

with Erin Ware (SRC/ISR), Saki Kuzushima (LSA Political Science), Shelly Johnson (ARC-TS), Yuki Shiraito (LSA Political Science/CPS)

Expertise: Bash, Bayesian statistics, git, HPC, Linux, natural language processing, OpenMP, PBS, Python, R, Rcpp, SAS, shell, Slurm, statistical modeling, web scraping

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Meeting Wed, 27 Jan 2021 07:52:08 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise, coming to you from a variety of U-M departments and disciplines.
Consulting Career Opportunity (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82889 82889-21211372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Introduction to the Consulting Industry and the opportunities for a Career. All majors welcome especially non business.

CSP is excited to be hosting Deloitte Consulting for our first Power Hour session! During this session, students will be able to learn about Deloitte, the day in the life as a consultant, and hear about the different career opportunities the firm offers to undergraduate students. Please tune in for this session and come ready with any questions you have for these Wolverines who’ve transitioned into Consulting! All are welcome!

RSVP Here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/3560

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:15:01 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comprehensive Studies Program Workshop / Seminar Careers Intern Info All Majors
EEB Virtual Seminar: Socio-eco-evo dynamics: Exploring how society shapes the biology of cities (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80094 80094-20556871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Urban ecosystems are intrinsically heterogenous, characterized by dynamic biotic and abiotic interactions that are not witnessed in non-urban environments. Urban flora and fauna experience a suite of novel disturbances and stressors that have led to remarkable phenotypic strategies and adaptations to cope with urban living. Despite recent groundbreaking discoveries and innovation in the fields of urban ecology and evolution, the drivers of urban heterogeneity that induce biological change are seldom articulated. The spatiotemporal distributions of urban organisms are directly affected by the uneven distribution of resources (e.g., refugia, food, water) across cities, all of which are connected to societal function and governance. Hence, to build a comprehensive understanding of urban systems and wildlife adaptation, we must integrate and reconcile how structural inequality – especially racism and classism – shape urban environmental mosaics. In this seminar talk, Dr. Chris Schell will discuss how structural and systemic inequalities, especially economic and racial inequality, shape ecological and evolutionary outcomes of wildlife. In doing so, he will discuss how leading with an environmental justice and activism framework in the natural sciences can promote conversation, sustainability, and resilience in a human-dominated world.
Join us on Zoom

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:25:47 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Chris Schell field work
Listening Circles (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81411 81411-20893775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Listening Circles are new and free for U-M undergraduates and graduate students!

In this time of COVID-19, many students feel isolated and yearn for deeper connections.

Listening Circles can help create space for students to share experiences and feelings, create connections, and look to the future.

The goal of a listening circle is to create space for shared emotional connection about the impact of pressing issues, such as racism and the pandemic. We aim to support individuals and communities to explore these collective experiences together. Listening circles provide a space for students to connect, share their experiences and look to the future.

Consider joining an upcoming Listening Circle on Thursdays from 3:00 to 4:15 PM on:
February 11, 2021: Well-being and Race
February 25: Loneliness and Connection
March 11: Overwhelm and Stressors of a Remote Year

Please sign-up on Sessions!
https://myumi.ch/kxyOb

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:45:41 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Workshop / Seminar Basset Hound
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Residential College Zoom Chats for Prospective Students (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82001 82001-21004767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Chat with current RC students in a casual setting and learn more about the RC student experience!

>> Friday, 2/26/2021, 4-5pm ET

>> Thursday, 3/11/2021, 3-4pm ET

>> Monday, 4/5/2021, 6-7pm ET

Register via email at visittherc@gmail.com

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:35:11 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Social / Informal Gathering RC Zoom Chats flier
SEMINAR: "Importance Sampling with Stochastic Computer Models: From Theory to Practice" — Eunshin Byon (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82612 82612-21145764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Importance Sampling with Stochastic Computer Models: From Theory to Practice

Abstract:
Importance sampling has been widely used to improve the efficiency of deterministic computer simulations where the simulation output is uniquely determined, given a fixed input. To represent complex system behavior more realistically, however, stochastic computer models are gaining popularity. Unlike deterministic computer simulations, stochastic simulations produce different outputs even at the same input. This extra degree of stochasticity presents a challenge in analyzing engineering system performance. Our study tackles this challenge by addressing two problems. First, we derive the optimal importance sampling density and allocation procedure that minimize the variance of an estimator. Second, we present a non-parametric approach to approximate the optimal importance sampling density with a multivariate input vector when each factor’s contribution is different. The application of our method to a computationally intensive, aeroelastic wind turbine simulator demonstrates the benefits of the proposed approaches.

Bio:
Eunshin Byon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She received her Ph.D. degree in the Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Texas A&M University, College Station, USA in 2010. Dr. Byon’s research interests include data analytics, quality and reliability engineering, system informatics and uncertainty quantification. She has received several Best Paper Awards including the Best Applications Paper Award from IISE Transactions on Quality& Reliability Engineering. Dr. Byon has served the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) subdivision of INFORMS as a chair-elect and chair in 2019-2020. She is a member of IIE, INFORMS and IEEE.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:53:05 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Eunshin Byon
Student-Athletes Abroad (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80557 80557-20738217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

For many student-athletes, the dream of experiencing study abroad seems unattainable. There seems to be a plethora of obstacles to prevent them from engaging in this wonderful experience. This brief debunks that narrative by illustrating the creative ways that programs can make studying abroad work for athletes, and things that athletes can do proactively as well to make this dream a reality. We'll be joined by special guest CGIS Intercultural Advisor Nyanatee Bailey.

RSVP Today: https://myumi.ch/ovPvX

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:48:18 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Lecture / Discussion athletes
The Humanities at Work (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81799 81799-20959295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Today: Peggy McCracken, Director of the Institute for the Humanities, talks to Cassie Miller, Senior Research Analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project.

The Humanities at Work is a new series from the Institute for the Humanities that features the variety of careers pursued by Humanities PhDs. Organized as a series of conversations, these one-hour sessions will include a 30-minute informational interview in which the invited guest traces their trajectory, describes the extent to which graduate education prepared them for their current work, identifies things they wish they'd known or explored as a graduate student, and explains the qualifications their organization would seek in an applicant. We'll also ask our guests to describe how the humanities matter in the work they do. The second half of the hour will be devoted to questions from the audience.

About Cassie Miller:
Cassie Miller is a Senior Research Analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project (www.splcenter.org/intelligence-report), where she arrived in 2016 as a Mellon Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies Public Fellow. She is an expert on the white power movement and political violence. Her work is published on the SPLC’s Hatewatch publication and she regularly speaks on far-right extremism to academic audiences, community groups, religious organizations, and government officials. Miller is frequently cited as an expert in the media and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, both in the United States and abroad. She holds a PhD in History from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:24:21 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Cassie Miller
2021 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture: Dr. Jack Kaye (March 11, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80426 80426-20719761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

The Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering department is very pleased to welcome Dr. Jack Kaye of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as our 2021 Spencer Lecturer.

Dr. Kaye is Associate Director for Research of the Earth Science Division (ESD) in NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD).

"From Alphabet Soup to Gourmet Cuisine - My 30+ Years of Interagency and International Coordination in Earth System Science"

The Earth is a complicated system that is driven by a mix of naturally-occurring and human-induced forcings, and its study requires a variety of integrated approaches addressing multiple Earth system components (atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, lithosphere) and the processes that couple them, now combined into the overall subject of Earth System Science. Besides being simply an object of scientific study, Earth is also our collective home, and its response to natural and human change affects the lives of today’s and tomorrow’s global citizens, making Earth System Science a rich subject for both scientific research and for the application of the results of that research to policy and decision making. The scope and breadth of the topic makes the topic too big to be addressed fully by any one organization, so coordination across organizations, both domestically and internationally, becomes a key consideration in our respective efforts. The resulting coordination affects all aspects, including observations (from space, air, and surface), modeling, process research, assessment, and applications. In the US, this has meant interagency coordination, both bilateral and multilateral, while internationally, the coordination has also involved bilateral and multilateral relationships, the latter including those that are both government-driven and community-driven. In this talk, my experience in interagency and international coordination will be reviewed, along with some highlights, lessons learned, and thoughts about the future. Interagency examples will include the US Global Change Research Program and its National Climate Assessment, the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology and the National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System, while international examples will include the World Climate Research Program, the World Meteorological Organization, and bilateral cooperation with several international partners on Space Shuttle and Satellite programs.

Please join us!

Contact: Laura Hopkins, lhopkins@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:21:07 -0500 2021-03-11T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual 2021 Spencer Lecture 3
Anna Redgrave (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) and Agnit Mukhopadhyay (Climate & Space Sciences & Engineering) (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82557 82557-21116106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

ANNA REDGRAVE: Anna Redgrave began her science career as an undergrad, master’s student, and lab technician studying developmental biology in zebrafish. She became fascinated by how complicated developmental systems are, and joined the Wittkopp lab at U-M for her PhD to investigate one mechanism of complicating developmental systems: gene duplication.

"REGULATORY DIVERGENCE OF DUPLICATED GENES": Gene duplication has long been studied as a mechanism of evolution at the genetic level. Duplicated genes introduce redundant protein-coding sequence, allowing duplicates to acquire novel functions while preserving existing functions. Gene duplication, however, also provides a substrate for non-protein coding, regulatory sequence evolution. Genes are duplicated with varying levels of their native regulatory sequence intact. This prompts the question: how does the degree to which duplication preserves native regulatory sequence affect future evolutionary paths? Here, I investigate this question by comparing the expression profiles of duplicate genes across many environments in two diverging species of yeast.

AGNIT MUKHOPADHYAY: Agnit is a NASA Earth & Space Sciences Fellow at the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering department at the University of Michigan, with a background in Aerospace Engineering. He is co-advised by Drs. Michael Liemohn and Daniel Welling to quantify the nonlinear coupling between the Earth’s atmosphere and it’s near-plasma environment. He loves working with numerical models to assess and predict the impact of extreme natural events on life and technology.

"QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF THE AURORA ON SPACE WEATHER": Conjuring a captivating vista of a colourful nightsky, the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) and australis (Southern Lights) are a byproduct of upper atmospheric ionization by charged particles (plasma) of solar origin. The near-constant drizzling of auroral plasma particles from outer space are excellent drivers of space weather activity caused by solar disruptions like flares and coronal mass ejections that can adversely affect man-made technology like GPS satellites, electrical power grids and oil pipelines. Using a combination of physics-based models, data regression tools, in-situ satellite and ground-based telemetry, we figure out what forms and drives the aurora, how these drivers modify the aurora’s electro-chemical atmospheric modification, and how this system could be predicted during extreme natural events.

Register to receive the Zoom information for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlceutrDIuEtLOgDS3ETaDjFmeDUT9hNU6

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:53:09 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Anna Redgrave and Agnit Mukhopadhyay
BME 500 Seminar: George Christ (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81389 81389-20889819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Despite the well-documented capability of skeletal muscle to repair, regenerate, and remodel following injury, there remain a multitude of diseases, disorders, and traumatic injuries that result in irrecoverable loss of muscle structure and function. For example, volumetric muscle loss (VML) injuries are characterized by a degree of composite muscle tissue loss so severe, that it exceeds the native ability of the muscle to repair, thereby resulting in permanent cosmetic and functional deficits to the limbs, neck, or face. These injuries significantly impact both the civilian and military populations. Current treatment for VML injury involves surgical muscle transfer, although these procedures are often associated with both poor engraftment and donor site morbidity, as well as incomplete cosmesis and functional recovery. Not surprisingly, this unmet medical need has stimulated research efforts to develop new technologies for treatment of VML injuries. Recent attention has focused on development of tissue engineering (TE)/regenerative medicine (RM) technologies to provide more effective treatment options for large scale muscle injuries. A variety of preclinical approaches have been tried that include implantation of synthetic and/or natural extracellular matrices/scaffolds/constructs at the site of VML injury, both with and without a cellular component. Extant data indicate that the inclusion of a cellular component generally leads to a greater degree of functional improvement. Consistent with these preclinical results, recent clinical studies for treatment of VML injury, solely with implanted decellularized extracellular matrix scaffolds, have provided evidence for modest functional recovery but with little de novo muscle tissue regeneration at the injury site. More recently, bio-printed tissue engineered constructs and their potential applications to treatment of VML injury have been reported in the literature. While these initial clinical and preclinical observations are encouraging for the TE/RM paradigm, full structural and functional recovery has yet to be achieved, and thus, there remains significant room for therapeutic advancement. To this end, I will describe our highly collaborative efforts to boost development and evaluation of a range of implantable regenerative therapeutics (biomaterials and tissue engineered constructs) in biologically relevant animal models. The overall goal is to increase the efficiency of clinical translation of TE/RM technologies capable of more complete functional recovery following repair of VML injury.

ZOOM LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94405051853

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:13:19 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Ultralight Coilable Structures for the Space Solar Power Project (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82796 82796-21179584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Sergio Pellegrino
Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist
Co-Director, Space-Based Solar Power Project
California Institute of Technology

In 1968, Peter Glaser envisaged kilometer-scale space systems comprising solar collectors and transmitting antennas that would beam power to the earth from geostationary orbit, but for many years that dream remained elusive. In this talk, I will discuss the Caltech Space Solar Power Project’s pursuit to conceive, design, and demonstrate a scalable vision for a constellation of ultralight, modular spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electrical power, and wirelessly beam electricity to the earth. The basic module of these future solar power systems is a scalable plate-like square spacecraft that can be tightly coiled for launch and reliably deployed in space. Its structural concept combines origami packaging techniques and coilable shell structures built from ultrathin composite laminates that support photovoltaic and antenna elements. I will present our research on the packaging, deployment and stability of these structures of unprecedented lightness. I will conclude by showing proof-of-concept physical models for an upcoming demonstration in space.

About the speaker...

Sergio Pellegrino is the Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, JPL Senior Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Space Solar Power Project. Pellegrino’s general area of research is the mechanics of lightweight structures, focusing on packaging, deployment, shape control and stability. He has authored over 300 technical publications on these topics, including the recently published book Forms and Concepts for Lightweight Structures, co-authored with Koryo Miura. Pellegrino is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of AIAA and a Chartered Structural Engineer. He is currently President of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures and Chairman of the Aerospace Historical Society.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:35:47 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Sergio Pellegrino
Communication and Media Speaker Series (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82880 82880-21209384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Communication and Media

In this talk, UM grad Dr. Amanda Cote will discuss the formation and work of the University of Oregon Esports and Games Research (EGR) Lab, an interdisciplinary, multimethodological research group she co-leads with Dr. Maxwell Foxman. The EGR lab focuses on the study of collegiate esports, a rising force on college campuses that affects student experiences, athletics, university communities, branding, and more. Cote will address how the lab developed, how its nine members bring their varied interests to bear on the shared question of collegiate esports, and some of the group’s initial findings. She will also discuss the opportunities and challenges inherent in running a lab as a qualitative researcher and as a pre-tenure faculty member. This talk will straddle both research and professional development concerns, presenting lessons learned as an early career scholar alongside game studies findings.



Bio: Dr. Amanda Cote (acote@uoregon.edu) is Assistant Professor of Media Studies/Game Studies at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. She explores the industry and culture of video games, with an emphasis on gender, identity, labor, and representation. Her first book, Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games, was published by New York University Press in 2020. Cote has published further work in venues such as Journal of Communication, Convergence, Feminist Media Studies, and edited book collections.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 10:43:06 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion
Economic Development Seminar (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81974 81974-20998843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

*To join the seminar, please contact at fspp-ipc-questions@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:55:00 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
International Economics and Macroeconomics (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82403 82403-21092286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please email to dbartelm@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:20:28 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Minor in Writing Virtual Info Session (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81727 81727-20949378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty, or have questions about the application process, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.

RSVP here https://forms.gle/h19vxzqNVTYKd8BD6

The deadline to apply for Fall 2021 is Monday, March 15th at noon.

More info at http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/minor-in-writing/application-process.html

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:29:04 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering
Quantitative Data Visualization for Academic Partners (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81643 81643-20935529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Sharing and translating data with community partners and community members is critically important to support equitable partnerships. Join us for an introductory virtual workshop on quantitative data visualization. Our focus is on how to interpret and display evidence based data in a visually pleasing and accessible way while also touching on the importance of understanding and working within basic data ethics.

This session is designed for faculty and academic program staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:34:45 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Academic Partnership logo
Yoga Flow (March 11, 2021 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80437 80437-20721804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength. You’ll build muscle and flexibility by using your breath to anchor each movement as you flow from one pose to the next. Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:00:46 -0500 2021-03-11T16:15:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength.
Global Connections: Community Ensembles and Music Learning in Europe (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81378 81378-20889802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Amateur community ensembles are a pillar of European culture. Profs. John Pasquale and Richard Frey talk to Christoph Breithack (conductor of the Musikverein Freiburg, St. Georgen in Freiburg, Germany), Dr. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant (Executive Director of the World Youth and Adult Wind Orchestras in Schladming, Austria), and Dr. Ulrich Nachbauer (President of the Berner Kammerchor in Bern, Switzerland) about the role, significance, and identity of community music making in Europe.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:05 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81374 81374-20887849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. Discussion will follow the movie.

The Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida was supposed to be a place where troubled kids could go to straighten out their lives. What these boys found there would instead leave lasting scars and dozens of unexplained deaths.Deadly Secrets follows the work of forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle from the University of South Florida, who has made it her personal mission to uncover the truth behind these mysterious deaths and disappearances. With unprecedented access to family members, photography and old records, Dr. Kimmerle and reporter Ben Montgomery expose the truth behind Dozier's missing boys, providing closure to families that have been haunted by this nightmare for decades.

DISCUSSANTS
Susan Waltz (Ford School of Public Policy) & Sioban Harlow (School of public health); moderated by Leigh Pearce (School of Public Health).

REGISTRATION REQUIRED
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BiMutdkDRjG81-ZW85-5Og

READINGS & RESOURCES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9iTfwRkpX00Y8BMNMd1Ib9wX-ruDB_3sgv9SXa2io/edit?usp=sharing

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Film Screening Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:31:54 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening March 11 Dozier School for Boys (FL, U.S.)
CogSci Community Speaker Series (March 11, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82908 82908-21217311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This Thursday, Professor of Psychology Stephanie Preston will be presenting for our speaker event. Topics include behavioral neuroscience, neural substrates of decision making, and intrinsic effects of emotion on decision making.

We will release further details within the next day or so watch out for your inbox.

In the meantime, you can check out her research lab Ecological Neuroscience Laboratory and publications page.

Hope to see you there!


Thursday (03/11) 5pm (EST)
Speaker: Stephanie Preston
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92296396266
Meeting ID: 922 9639 6266
Who we are
The Cognitive Science Community is an inclusive undergraduate organization that aims to further interest in cognitive science and related fields.

We meet biweekly Thursdays 5pm (ET) mostly for professor talks, alumni Q&A, paper seminars, or social events. Attendence isn't mandatory, so feel free to join whatever interests you.

At the end of the Winter Semester we hold a Colloquium where students can showcase their research and members can listen to hosted panelists. Undergraduate students are prioritized. Check out previous Colloquiums.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:15:22 -0500 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion csc logo
FinTech Transforming Customer Engagement (March 11, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81953 81953-20996853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Scott Hamerink leads strategy and consultation as an Associate Partner in IBM’s Enterprise Strategy (ES&iX) group. He leads advisory for business, digital transformation, and Fintech investments across Global Financial Services clients in this role. Before IBM, Scott led enterprise transformation efforts at Comerica Bank. A seasoned executive and entrepreneur, he has over 20 years of experience working across large organizations and startups. He founded Social Patient, a mobile health platform and connected devices. His prior leadership roles include Blue Cross and Trinity Health.

Scott has also served on several boards and committees, including Henry Ford Health System Hospital & Health Network Board Trustee, Detroit Historical Society, University of Detroit Jesuit High School Board, and Detroit Athletic Club –Community Outreach and Strategic Planning. Scott received his MBA from The University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. He also holds a B.S: International Business and M.S. in Information Systems from The University of Detroit.

This is a free virtual event. If you would like to sign up for future announcements about the lecture series, get links to past recordings, and/or make suggestions about the topics for future lectures, please sign up on the Interest Form (link to the right.)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:52:30 -0500 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Scott Hamerink: Finance Lecture Series March 2021
Reading and Q&A with Mat Johnson (March 11, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79476 79476-20335630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Mat Johnson has explored the complexities of American racial identity through satire, historical fiction, and graphic novels. Drawing on his experiences as the son of a Black mother and an Irish-American father, Johnson offers readers and audiences a nuanced, challenging view on what it means to be a person of color in America throughout history and today.

Since the publication of his first novel, *Drop*, in 2000, Johnson has established a reputation as a forward-thinking writer with a unique, imaginative perspective on American social norms, which he explores through characters that toe the line between outlandish and instantly recognizable. His follow-up novel, the gentrification satire *Hunting In Harlem*, was highly acclaimed and received the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Novel of the Year.

Johnson’s satirical novel,* Pym*, a brilliant reimagining of a famously enigmatic Edgar Allen Poe story, was named one of the best books of the year by *The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Seattle Times, the Houston Chronicle*, and more. *Loving Day*, his 2016 novel, is a hilarious yet moving story about race, family, and opposites bound in love. Hailed as “Exceptional…To say that *Loving Day* is a book about race is like saying Moby-Dick is a book about whales,” by *the Los Angeles Times*, *Loving Day* was a *New York Times* Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by *the San Francisco Chronicle*, NPR, *Men’s Journal*, and more. Both *Pym* and *Loving Day* (one of *The New York Times’* 100 Notable Books of 2015) are popular choices for common reading experiences across campuses nationwide. Johnson has also brought his sensibility to comics and graphic novels, most notably in *Incognegro*, which combines graphic storytelling, noir mystery, and meticulously-researched history to explore issues of passing in a segregated society and America’s history of lynching.

In lectures that explore race, identity, and the writing process, Johnson unravels the themes that run through his work with humor, scholarship, and insight. He has received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was the first person to be named a James Baldwin Fellow. Johnson is a professor at University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program and English Department.


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:55:41 -0500 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mat Johnson