Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Jeopardy with American Culture (November 1, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78183 78183-19989047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Jeopardy w/ American Culture: In honor of Election Day coming this Tuesday, we will host a game based on the popular TV quiz show Jeopardy with questions about American culture. Join us as we learn more about the history and culture of the United States. https://www.jeopardy.com/
REGISTER HERE: https://myumi.ch/yKD2n

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Recreational / Games Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:08:28 -0400 2020-11-01T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-01T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Recreational / Games Flag
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (November 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-11-01T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
I Wish to Say: Share Your Message With the Next President (November 1, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77906 77906-19941572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Sheryl Oring returns to University of Michigan for virtual performances of “I Wish to Say” from September 29-November 1, 2020 as part of the university’s Democracy & Debate Theme Semester in collaboration with Stamps Gallery and Wayne State University.

In this project, Oring invites participants to dictate a message to the next president of the United States of America. Oring was last on the Ann Arbor campus in 2017 as part of the Stamps Gallery exhibition Vital Signs for a New America, curated by Srimoyee Mitra. For the 2020 iteration of the project, Oring collaborates with students at Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, who will meet with members of the general public via Zoom to take dictation of the public’s messages to the next president. Students will type these messages on mid-century manual typewriters on the Zoom call in a performative fashion. The typed postcards will be mailed directly to the White House on the participant’s behalf after the inauguration.

Share Your Message With the Next President
Tuesday, September 29-Sunday, November 1, 2020
Tuesdays, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm
Sundays, 1 pm-3 pm
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyxLWgxP5xfr3kfXsYIq967LJ1pYugURLoZ8wp8fnuLdX_-g/viewform?goal=0_bdbfe3b682-228ac41d6c-425050129

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyxLWgxP5xfr3kfXsYIq967LJ1pYugURLoZ8wp8fnuLdX_-g/viewform?goal=0_bdbfe3b682-228ac41d6c-425050129

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:51:04 -0400 2020-11-01T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-01T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/I-wish-To-Say-2020.jpg
Zumba (November 1, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78792 78792-20123173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
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. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:53:57 -0400 2020-11-01T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-01T16:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
Yoga Flow (November 1, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78785 78785-20131215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 5:00pm
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 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:24:08 -0400 2020-11-01T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-01T17:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Students focus on clarity and well-being in Yoga Flow.
Feasting for our Ancestors: Ghost Supper & Dia de los Muertos Celebration Latinx & Native American Heritage Month Collaboration (November 1, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78754 78754-20119188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Feasting for our Ancestors: Ghost Supper & Dia de los Muertos Celebration Latinx & Native American Heritage Month Collaboration

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/7Z1PK

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:37:48 -0400 2020-11-01T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-01T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Native American Heritage Month
Symphony Band Chamber Winds (November 1, 2020 8:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79078 79078-20186315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 8:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Courtney Synder, conductor
Kimberly Fleming and Nicholas Balla, graduate student conductors
PROGRAM: Septet Paul Hindemith
More than words... Kevin Day
Sun Flower Slow Drag Scott Joplin
The Entertainer Scott Joplin

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:15:05 -0400 2020-11-01T20:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Cardio Kickboxing (November 2, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78812 78812-20129181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 7:00am
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. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:57:23 -0400 2020-11-02T07:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T07:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
John Lewis: Good Trouble (SOLD OUT) (November 2, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78378 78378-20107414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

REDEMPTIONS ARE SOLD OUT! For those who purchased before 12/15, you will have access to view the film until 12/31/20.

Synopsis:
An intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’ life, legacy and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism — from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse he was throughout his career. After Lewis petitioned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown of Troy, Alabama, King sent “the boy from Troy” a round trip bus ticket to meet with him. From that meeting onward, Lewis became one of King’s closest allies. He organized Freedom Rides that left him bloodied or jailed, and stood at the front lines in the historic marches on Washington and Selma. He never lost the spirit of the “boy from Troy” and called on his fellow Americans to get into “good trouble” until his passing on July 17, 2020.

96 Minutes.

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Film Screening Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:22:50 -0500 2020-11-02T07:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Film Screening Theatrical one-sheet for JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Applications Open (November 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77975 77975-19947563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (DCERP) is a UROP summer U-M undergraduate research fellowship.

Priority Deadline: December 4, 2020
Application Deadline: January 18, 2021

http://myumi.ch/erK95

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:33:53 -0400 2020-11-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Sweetland Write-Together (November 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77473 77473-19865901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 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, 20 Sep 2020 00:16:13 -0400 2020-11-02T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Write-Togethers (November 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 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 2020-11-02T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
Fighting Change Fatigue and Developing Change Resilience OL21FCFDCR01 (November 2, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78885 78885-20133220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

With so much change taking place in our organization, employees are struggling to adapt and are looking for support from their leaders. This has led to a realization that we need to help employees develop their resilience. Work resilience has to be built by practicing specific behaviors and through support from the organization and its leaders. Leaders first need to help build resilience within themselves, then their team by implementing resilience techniques. This webinar is being provided as part of the Leading in Change and Transition webinar series.

Audience:
Anyone in an entry to mid-level leadership role experiencing departmental changes or organizational uncertainty

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:41:10 -0400 2020-11-02T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
CoderSpaces (Mondays) (November 2, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79002 79002-20170566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 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 for the remainder of 2020 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
Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/93486820846)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Andrew Hlynka (CSCAR), Charles Antonelli (LSA Tech), Erin Ware (SRC/ISR), Jonathan Golob (Michigan Medicine)

Expertise: 3D graphical applications, C, C++, C#, data management, HPC, Java, JavaScript, Matlab, mobile app development, Python, R, reproducible workflows (nextflow), SAS, Slurm, statistical modeling

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Meeting Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:04:50 -0500 2020-11-02T10:30:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 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.
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (November 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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*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. Contact mirs-info@umich.edu*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-11-02T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
Metabolic Circuit (November 2, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78806 78806-20129140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 11:30am
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:39:41 -0400 2020-11-02T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78910 78910-20152764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTALEtuLRdiO6kd8TjtaCA

In Manufacturing Celebrity, Vanessa Díaz pulls the curtain back on Hollywood, tracing the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary American celebrity culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Díaz examines the racialized and gendered labor involved in manufacturing and selling relatable celebrity personas. The predominantly male Latino paparazzi can face life-threatening situations and endure vilification that echoes anti-immigrant rhetoric. On the other hand, celebrity reporters, most of whom are white women, are expected to leverage their sexuality to generate coverage, which makes them vulnerable to sexual exploitation and assault. In pointing out the precarity of those who hustle to make a living by generating the bulk of celebrity media, Díaz highlights the profound inequities of the systems that provide consumers with 24/7 coverage of their favorite stars. Highlighting the highly visual nature of Manufacturing Celebrity, this talk explores the main themes and theoretical frameworks of the book while engaging with several of the images that fill its pages.

Vanessa Díaz is a multimedia ethnographer and journalist whose work focuses on issues of race, gender, and labor in popular culture across the Americas. Grounded in her experience as a red carpet reporter for People magazine, Díaz’s first book Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood focuses on hierarchies of labor as well as racial and gender politics in the production of celebrity-focused media. Díaz is a co-author of UCLA’s 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report, director of the film Cuban HipHop: Desde el Principio, and the media editor for Transforming Anthropology. Her research has been profiled in such outlets as the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and NBC News. Díaz is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:20:57 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
Online Gentle Stretching and Meditation (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76712 76712-19737068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Please join Paola Savvidou for online weekly sessions consisting of approximately 20 minutes of stretching followed by 10 minutes of meditation. Suitable for beginners!

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exercise / Fitness
Rackham North: Demonstrating a Commitment to Diversity (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76137 76137-19665681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) aptitude is now highly valued by many employers, both within and beyond academe. This interactive workshop will 1) show how employers are evaluating DEI in job interviews, 2) provide opportunities for reflection on how you demonstrate your commitment to DEI, and 3) provide time for students to practice answering common interview questions related to DEI. This workshop is designed primarily for graduate students seeking jobs beyond the professoriate.
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/yKMwj.
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 Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:15:47 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote (November 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77531 77531-19879818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by AIGA in partnership with League of Women Voters

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of ALL women protected and enforced, and intimidation tactics progressively eliminated.  The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, organized by AIGA in partnership with the League of Women Voters, commemorates this milestone. A core group of invited women of design submitted the first 65 non-partisan posters, to launch the initiative with their vision and voices. Through the posters, these women joined forces to collectively contribute to dialogue in design and society. This moment in history is an incredible opportunity to catalyze women in design, voting rights, citizenship, community, and diversity. The collection aspires to not only support present day voter participation, but to also serve as a backdrop for discourse and examination of the history of voting rights and women’s fight for equality.  The poster initiative continues at aiga.org/vote, where AIGA members can contribute posters to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2020 general election, as well as local elections to come. Posters are available for free download online.

The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery includes a selection of the 65 posters chosen by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery. The exhibition includes posters by Audrey Bennett, Johanna Björk, Karen Cheng, Emily Comfort, Jenny El-Shamy, Dinah Fried, Karin Fong, Anne M. Giangiulio, Annabelle Gould, Brockett Horne, Meena Khalili, nicole killian + shawné michaelain holloway, Karen Kurycki, Marty Maxwell Lane, Zuzana Licko, Ana Llorente, Beatriz Lozano, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Rebeca Mendez, Lana Rigsby, Kaleena Sales, Renee Seward, Laurel Shoemaker, Nancy Sklolos,  Hannah Smotrich, Shanti Sparrow, Jennifer Sterling, Fearn de Vicq, Cymone Wilder, and Lynne Yun.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:52:24 -0400 2020-11-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2020_gotv_header-02.jpg
Hub Workshop: Exploring Your Career Interests (November 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77095 77095-19796501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The overarching purpose of this workshop is to help you articulate the answer to this question: “What are you going to do with that degree?” This session will help jumpstart your exploration of the countless career possibilities open to LSA degree holders.

This workshop consists of two parts: an online Canvas module followed by a live, virtual workshop. In the online Canvas module, you’ll begin to identify what you want in a career and tentatively explore career options most suited to your interests, skills, and values. The live coach-led workshop will support you in establishing your next steps in pursuing your career options. To maximize the experience, please plan to set aside one hour to complete the Canvas module which will be available on October 28, prior to the live virtual session on November 4.

You should attend this workshop if you are:

- A liberal arts and sciences student
- Exploring potential academic majors and minors, interests, and professions or have a clear idea of all three
- Looking for internship opportunities to help clarify career pathways to pursue
Interested in developing professional skills that will make you career-ready

By taking these online Canvas modules, you will:

- Identify your pre-existing skills and determine competencies you want to cultivate
- Uncover your career values or what you want out of your career in terms of time commitment, type of work, location, and climate
- Learn how to research career options that match your values, skills, and interests

By attending the live virtual workshop, you will:

- Articulate your career interests or what work you find viable, meaningful, and enjoyable
- Get deeper insights into the variety of career paths an LSA degree can carve out
- Connect with peers to brainstorm together different ways to meet your career goals

RSVP today to reserve your spot for this upcoming workshop. Once your RSVP is complete, you’ll receive a confirmation email with the event details and a link to access the online Canvas modules a week before the workshop takes place.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:02:12 -0400 2020-11-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Hub staff speaking with student
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 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 2020-11-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76919 76919-19776583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 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.
Zoom Meeting ID: 981 5994 7930
For more information on what the Resolution Officer has to offer visit https://myumi.ch/PlPB4.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:15:43 -0400 2020-11-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition (November 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77530 77530-19879794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.

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Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
September 15, 2020 – December 4, 2020

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.


Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Auditions Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-11-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Respond.jpg
Auditing for Bias in Resume Search Engines (November 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78328 78328-20010766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

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

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 09:17:55 -0400 2020-11-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation https://umich.zoom.us/j/95382333953
CMENAS Colloquium Series. The Unintended Consequences of International Support for Civil Resistance Campaigns: Evidence from Syria (November 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75970 75970-19629770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2020 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "The Arab Spring: 10 Years Later."
(Please register at http://myumi.ch/jxDBz; a Zoom link will be emailed to you the day of the event.)

About the Presentation:
How does international engagement influence the course of nonviolent campaigns against repressive dictatorships? In this week’s CMENAS colloquium, Matthew Cebul considers this question in the aftermath of the 2011 Syrian Revolution. Matthew contends that international encouragement for peaceful protest may shape protesters' behavior in ways that counterintuitively increase the likelihood of violent conflict onset, with implications for ongoing U.S. efforts to support pro-democracy movements.

About the Speaker:
Matthew Cebul is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2019-21. His research agenda lies at the intersection of international security and comparative politics, with a regional focus on the Middle East. Matthew’s dissertation and book project, “Repression and Rebellion in the Shadow of Foreign Intervention,” investigates two puzzling aspects of mass resistance to autocratic regimes: (1) why opposition mobilization sometimes persists despite extreme repression; and (2) why some resistance movements remain nonviolent, while others embrace armed rebellion. Whereas existing scholarship attributes this variation to a number of domestic factors, Matthew analyzes how the possibility of international support conditions the opposition’s response to regime violence. Drawing on original interview and survey data from the 2011 Syrian Revolution, the project reveals a troubling relationship: while the expectation of foreign support can encourage nonviolent mobilization, emboldened movements are also more likely to experience excessive exposure to repression, and are consequently at greater risk of violent radicalization. As a postdoctoral fellow, Matthew will continue to develop his book manuscript, incorporating data from both contemporary and historical cases of resistance to autocracy. He will also advance a series of related projects, including research exploring how dissidents assess the likelihood of repression, the effects of sectarian geographies on the efficacy of repression, and U.S. support for democratization as a function of opposition structure.

*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. Contact: Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:15:20 -0400 2020-11-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Livestream / Virtual CMENAS Virtual Colloquium poster
HEP-Astro Seminar | First Evidence for Higgs Boson Decay to Muons (November 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77200 77200-19822146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

Probing the Higgs boson coupling to the muon is one of the last experimentally accessible frontiers In the direct measurement of Higgs boson couplings at the LHC. This seminar will highlight the first evidence for the rare Higgs boson decay to muons, achieved by the CMS Collaboration using the full dataset collected at 13 TeV during Run-2 of the LHC. This milestone was achieved earlier than expected thanks to the excellent performance of the CMS detector, with high-precision tracking and muon reconstruction systems, and also through the development of novel analysis strategies that include intensive use of machine learning techniques. The first set of measurements of the Higgs boson properties through the muon decay channel is also presented, with the observed signal well consistent with the standard model predictions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-11-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Well-being and Civic Engagement Drop-In Sessions (November 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78615 78615-20075963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Wolverine Wellness, in partnership with the Ginsberg Center, will host weekly virtual drop-in sessions focused on well-being and civic engagement, before and after the election.

Topics:
10/19: Brave Conversations
10/26: Media Literacy & Social Media Overload
11/2: Self-care and Mindful Awareness
11/9: Well-being Practices Moving Forward

Weekly, we will provide:
• A brief presentation and Q & A
• Facilitated dialogue focusing on:
o the challenges and stressors of the political climate
o developing self-care skills and coping mechanisms for remaining mindfully involved in civic engagement
o connecting with other students who may have similar experiences

Sign up at: https://uhs.umich.edu/wellness-coaching

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Well-being Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:53:48 -0400 2020-11-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Well-being Flowers and details for drop-in sessions
Strength & Sculpt (November 2, 2020 4:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78793 78793-20123200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Let the music move you in Strength & Sculpt. This beats-driven class combines cardio intervals and body weight training to provide you with a workout experience designed to fit your goals and desires. From squats and burpees to planks and push-ups, Strength & Sculpt syncs music and movement to target major muscle groups. You will leave sweating and stronger!

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:02:46 -0400 2020-11-02T16:45:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This beats-driven class combines cardio intervals and body weight training.
Total Body Strength (November 2, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78786 78786-20129105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 5:00pm
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:26:20 -0400 2020-11-02T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Experience strength training like never before!
High Fitness (November 2, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78803 78803-20129082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

HIGH Fitness is a hardcore, fun fitness class that incorporates aerobic interval training with music you love and intense, easy-to-follow fitness choreography. It combines FUN (pop songs of old and new that everyone knows) with INTENSITY (intervals, plyometrics, and cardio) with CONSISTENCY (each song has specific, simple moves taught the same by all instructors). HIGH Fitness produces full-body toning through its carefully formulated choreography that alternates between intense cardio peaks and toning tracks. Get Addicted to being fit! EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None.

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:18:27 -0400 2020-11-02T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-02T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Rightsizing Prenatal Care: Tailoring Prenatal Services to Match Patients’ Needs (November 2, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78743 78743-20115267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)

Please note the seminar starts at 5:30 PM EST, an hour later than our usual seminar time.

Each year, nearly 4 million women who give birth in the United States receive prenatal care—a crucial preventive service that improves pregnancy outcomes for mothers and their children. National guidelines currently recommend 12 to 14 in-person prenatal visits for all patients regardless of medical or social needs. This schedule recommends more care for low-risk women than peer countries with better outcomes that the U.S., and has remained unchanged since 1930, failing to adapt to the needs of modern patients. Current prenatal care has also failed to address significant inequities in maternity care: low-income and black patients less likely to receive recommended services before delivery, and are more likely to suffer from severe maternal morbidity and mortality in pregnancy.

Although we know that prenatal care services (e.g. laboratory tests and vaccinations) are evidence based, these evidence-based services can be delivered in fewer than 14 visits. There is also evidence that patients do not need to visit clinics in person to receive all maternity services. This schedule results in overutilization of care for low-risk pregnant patients, and potential access issues for patients with more intense needs in pregnancy. In this talk, we will review the evidence supporting prenatal care and new delivery models. We will then introduce a new conceptual model for redesigning prenatal care to meet patients’ diverse medical and social needs, and demonstrate how this model can be used to test new models of prenatal care to drive appropriate resource allocation. We will conclude with early findings from new models that were launched during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on ensuring new prenatal care delivery is effective, efficient and equitable.

Dr. Alex Peahl is an Obstetrician Gynecologist and physician-investigator in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on how to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of reproductive health care through developing, studying and disseminating high-quality maternity care interventions. She is a nationally recognized expert on prenatal care redesign and innovation and has completed seminal studies and thought pieces on how to best incorporate patients’ preferences and needs into rightsized prenatal care plans: plans that match patients’ needs to services delivered. She is the research lead for prenatal care redesign at the University of Michigan, and new guidelines driven by her team were recognized by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as the example for nationwide practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently leading the Michigan Plan for Appropriate, Tailored Healthcare in Pregnancy, a national consensus process to develop new prenatal care guidelines in pregnancy.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:28:03 -0400 2020-11-02T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-02T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Lecture / Discussion Alex Peahl, MD, MSc
Barre Above (November 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78765 78765-20129127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Challenge and sculpt your body without risk of injury from overuse by using a sequence of movements within different ranges of motion. No barre necessarily required and minimal equipment is used.

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:25:14 -0400 2020-11-02T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T18:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Students sculpt their bodies in Barre Above
Community Creative Arts Workshop (November 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75276 75276-19401027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Open to All

The Community Workshop is meeting online!

The PCAP Community Workshop, formerly called the Reentry Workshop, is now meeting on Monday evenings from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Currently in its fourth year, members of the community meet with formerly-incarcerated people to share creative arts and have fun!

Interested?
Send an email to Mary: mheinen@umich.edu,
or text 734-474-7799

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:43:44 -0400 2020-11-02T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Group of workshop participants
Zumba (November 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78792 78792-20123177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
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. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:53:57 -0400 2020-11-02T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T18:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
Gentle Yoga (November 2, 2020 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78804 78804-20129093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 6:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class combines gentle flowing sequences and restorative poses to decrease stress and improve range of motion and joint mobility. Restorative poses are deep stretches that are typically held for one to three minutes to loosen connective tissue. This soothing class will leave you feeling grounded and at peace. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:29:11 -0400 2020-11-02T18:15:00-05:00 2020-11-02T19:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class combines gentle flowing sequences and restorative poses.
Pre-Election Anxieties' Dialogue (November 2, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79066 79066-20184350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join Diversity and Inclusion’s MLCCAs for a dialogue in an open space about our anxieties and concerns regarding the upcoming election. Residents from all communities are welcome!

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Meeting Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:16:11 -0400 2020-11-02T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Meeting Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Symphony Band Chamber Winds (November 2, 2020 8:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79079 79079-20186316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 8:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Courtney Snyder, conductor
Christine Lundahl, graduate student conductor
PROGRAM:
The Battell Suite - William Byrd
Drama - Guo Wenjing
Serenade in C Minor, KV 388 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:15:05 -0400 2020-11-02T20:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
DANCE FOR DEMOCRACY (November 2, 2020 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78507 78507-20052329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

The night before the 2020 General Election, let’s gather for a virtual dance party with music, PSAs and special guest appearances to celebrate democratic engagement across the partisan divide. Featuring performances by local favorite Sabbatical Bob, Kektus, Nova Zaii with Kultur Grenade, and the legendary Detroit-based techno-wizards Inner City.

For those that voted early and for those headed to the polls on November 3rd -- push your furniture aside, keep socially-distanced, and remember we’re all Wolverines on the virtual dance floor.

Sponsors include Democracy & Debate Theme Semester, the Residential College, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, UMMA, the Ginsberg Center, and MUSIC Matters.

This event is free and open to all members of the U-M community and the general public. Check out myumi.ch/O4DVE for the band schedule a week before the show and for the YouTube Live event stream on November 2, 9:00pm to midnight.

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Performance Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:10:00 -0400 2020-11-02T21:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Dance for Democracy
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Barre Above (November 3, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78765 78765-20129131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Challenge and sculpt your body without risk of injury from overuse by using a sequence of movements within different ranges of motion. No barre necessarily required and minimal equipment is used.

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:25:14 -0400 2020-11-03T07:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T07:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Students sculpt their bodies in Barre Above
John Lewis: Good Trouble (SOLD OUT) (November 3, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78378 78378-20186325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

REDEMPTIONS ARE SOLD OUT! For those who purchased before 12/15, you will have access to view the film until 12/31/20.

Synopsis:
An intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’ life, legacy and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism — from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse he was throughout his career. After Lewis petitioned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown of Troy, Alabama, King sent “the boy from Troy” a round trip bus ticket to meet with him. From that meeting onward, Lewis became one of King’s closest allies. He organized Freedom Rides that left him bloodied or jailed, and stood at the front lines in the historic marches on Washington and Selma. He never lost the spirit of the “boy from Troy” and called on his fellow Americans to get into “good trouble” until his passing on July 17, 2020.

96 Minutes.

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Film Screening Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:22:50 -0500 2020-11-03T07:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Film Screening Theatrical one-sheet for JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Applications Open (November 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77975 77975-19947564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (DCERP) is a UROP summer U-M undergraduate research fellowship.

Priority Deadline: December 4, 2020
Application Deadline: January 18, 2021

http://myumi.ch/erK95

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:33:53 -0400 2020-11-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Great Riddles in Archeology (November 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75860 75860-19615926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

From the knights of King Arthur's roundtable to the deepest depths of Atlantis, some of the world's greatest archaeological riddles have eluded us for centuries. Discover and explore these mind-boggling riddles in the Penn Museum's popular monthly lecture series presented by current archaeologists and scholars.
We will be viewing and discussing three of these lectures: (1) Otzi the Iceman, a frozen body discovered in the South Tyrolean Alps, (2) discovering the true story of Noah's Ark, and (3) Atlantis, the Lost Continent. The facilitator for these lectures will be Sydney Kaufman.
The Study Group meets on Tuesdays Nov. 3 to Nov. 17 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access this Study Group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:48:03 -0400 2020-11-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 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 2020-11-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Human Capital, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): Demand Shocks, Staffing Decisions, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Introduction of a Food Delivery Platform in Colombia (November 3, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78920 78920-20154730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

To join the seminar, please visit the following webpage.
https://sites.google.com/view/h2d2/seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:59:09 -0400 2020-11-03T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-03T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The City in the Present Tense: Writing the Urban Landscape in Eleventh-Century China" (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76229 76229-19677560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

During the eleventh century, literati tried for the first time to capture the living urban landscape in writing. As a new literary subject, the urban streetscape afforded scope for original effects, but literati also wrote the city for ideological reasons. On the written page, they could set themselves apart—as individuals in the anonymous crowd, as connoisseurs among spendthrift nobles—as they could not in the streets and markets of the dense metropolis, and they could conform the confusing movement of people, goods, and money to a moral economy of perfect circulation and equitable distribution, as they could not in practical administration.

Christian de Pee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries" (2007) and co-editor of "Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and the Southern Song, 1127-1279" (2017). He is currently writing a history of eleventh-century China for a general audience, "The Chinese Renaissance: How the Song Dynasty Changed China and the World in the Eleventh Century."

Zoom webinar registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qxUG36ZlQwiehkKBTK0Rtw

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:50:35 -0500 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Christian de Pee, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Transfer to LSA Information Session (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76779 76779-19743053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Recruitment

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

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Presentation Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:33:50 -0400 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Recruitment Presentation Transfer Student Center
Understanding Metabolic Limitations of Cancer Cell Proliferation- Department of Biological Chemistry Jourdian Lecture (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77976 77976-19947641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Matthew Vander Heiden will present the annual Jourdian Lectureship on Tuesday November 3rd, 2020. This will be a virtual seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:59:19 -0400 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar
Gallery Walks, Dutch Treats (November 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75799 75799-19608014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This group will concentrate its first three sessions on the life and works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Eyck, focusing more closely on Rembrandt's self-portraits, Vermeer's technique, and Van Eyck's symbolism. The fourth session will be devoted to an artist chosen by the group, provided that he or she is Dutch.
Instructor Mike Kapetan is an artist of great versatility. He has created liturgical images for 65 Christian churches of all denominations, and a Synagogue. His abstract sculpture explores timeless themes. His solar sculpture links science and art. He taught art and art history twenty years at UM.
The Study Group meets on Tuesdays Nov. 3 to Nov. 24 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access this Study Group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:57:34 -0400 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
CoderSpaces (Tuesdays) (November 3, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79003 79003-20170573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 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 for the remainder of 2020 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)

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 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:05:31 -0500 2020-11-03T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T15:30:00-05:00 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.
Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations by Heidi Kumao (November 3, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77532 77532-19879841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to present Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations, a solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and experimental animations by Stamps Professor Heidi Kumao.

Using fabric cutouts and machine and hand stitching on industrial felt, Kumao gives physical form to the intangible dynamics underlying ordinary conversations and relationships from a feminist perspective. Intentionally minimal, each image distills an interaction, traumatic incident, or power imbalance into an accessible visual narrative. Recognizable objects such as chairs, roots, ladders, or spotlights set the stage for the story to unfold. Events are captured midstream, suspended in time like a felt film still.

The exhibition is inspired, in part, by the courage, testimony, and experiences of women (like Christine Blasey Ford) who publicly report assault, harassment, or misconduct. The #MeToo movement gave voice to thousands of women to tell their personal stories, but also exposed a hostile backlash meant to silence them. The title, “Real and Imagined,” is a deliberate contradiction; if one is true, the other must not be. In practice, however, both terms are used to reference a woman’s testimony and determine how it is publicly interpreted. Her account is accepted as truthful by many and simultaneously dismissed as imaginary by the court of public opinion: “her memory is wrong,” “she imagined it.”

The works in “Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations” make difficult conversations and relationships tangible by stripping them down to their essentials.

Wordless physical gestures highlight the psychological and emotional forces at play behind even the smallest of interactions.

Biography
Heidi Kumao has created award-winning experimental films, video installations, cinema machines, electronic clothing, and kinetic sculptures. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including shows at Art Science Museum Singapore, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), and Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo). She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-11-03T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/HK-Real-and-Imagined-email-header-01.jpg
PHD SEMINAR: "Genetic Testing Strategies and Flexible Treatment Plans for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases" — Wesley J. Marrero (November 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78023 78023-19955549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Genetic Testing Strategies and Flexible Treatment Plans for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases

Abstract:
Cardiovascular diseases are considered the leading cause of death in the US and worldwide. The management of cardiovascular diseases can be improved by (1) incorporating novel procedures, such as genetic testing, and (2) providing physicians and their patients with flexibility in the implementation of protocols. To understand the clinical and policy implications of genetic testing in cardiovascular diseases, I present a thoroughly validated simulation model to evaluate the impact of genetic information across different populations in the US. Building upon this work, I illustrate a framework that combines dynamic programming with value of information analysis to simultaneously determine optimal cholesterol treatment and genetic testing decisions. To benefit from experts’ opinions and allow for users’ preferences in the implementation of mathematical models, I next introduce a framework that integrates approximate dynamic programming and statistical multiple comparisons to obtain sets of near-optimal treatment choices. By analyzing the structure of the sets, I characterize their behavior with respect to the modeling data and identify when they can be ordered according to the context of the problem. I show how this method can be applied in medical practice by finding hypertension treatment plans for a large population in the US. To conclude my talk, I will discuss future opportunities at the intersection of operations research and statistics to support medical decision-making in practice.

Bio:
Wesley’s research interest lies at the intersection of operations research and statistics, with an emphasis on stochastic simulation and optimization to support decision-making in practice. His current research addresses healthcare applications at a population and patient level. Using population-level data, he focuses on modeling future supply, demand, and allocation of organs for transplantation. Using patient-level data, he develops personalized treatment plans and testing strategies for cardiovascular diseases. Wesley has an ongoing collaboration with the University of Michigan Hospital Medical School, the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Wesley is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Throughout his Ph.D. studies, he has also received the Judith Liebman Award and an honorable mention in the Minority Issues forum from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, an American Statistical Association sponsored best poster award at the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences, as well as a Rackham Merit Fellowship. In addition to his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering, Wesley is partaking in the dual master’s program offered by the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:09:49 -0400 2020-11-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Wesley J. Marrero
Digital Scholarship Office Hours (November 3, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77716 77716-19907695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Attending our office hours is a great way to meet people who work on digital scholarship projects across the library and university.

No prior experience is needed to join us. We welcome all students, faculty, and staff.

Virtual office hours
Stop by our virtual office hours, held on the first and third Thursdays of every month from 3:30–4:30 p.m. ET.

We’re happy to discuss your digital project, help you develop digital learning activities and assignments, and work with and troubleshoot digital tools and methods — whether you’re working with data, are building a digital exhibit, or something completely different.

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Other Fri, 25 Sep 2020 11:01:41 -0400 2020-11-03T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-03T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Office Hours
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 2 (November 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77843 77843-19933641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

How Milk Became "Ethnic" in China: Koumiss Rituals of the Qing and Its Contemporary Legacies

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:51:42 -0400 2020-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Koumiss-fermented mare's milk
Cardio Kickboxing (November 3, 2020 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78812 78812-20129185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 5:15pm
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. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:57:23 -0400 2020-11-03T17:15:00-05:00 2020-11-03T18:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Cardio Core (November 3, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78814 78814-20131155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 5:30pm
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:05:53 -0400 2020-11-03T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-03T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Pilates (November 3, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78815 78815-20131159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 6:00pm
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). NOTE: Instructor will provide a playlist link so please either use your laptop for Zoom or have another device ready to play music if you are using your phone.

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:10:46 -0400 2020-11-03T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T18:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
SCOR Live Election Night Watch Event (November 3, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79015 79015-20172566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR) will host an election night watch event on their IG live (@scor_umich) to watch the results of the election come in. Participants will receive delivery via Pizza House if they so choose. If you plan to participate in the virtual election night watch and would like to receive delivery via Pizza House, please fill out the pizza order form by Sunday, November 1, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:15:40 -0400 2020-11-03T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Yoga Flow (November 3, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78785 78785-20129114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 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 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:24:08 -0400 2020-11-03T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T19:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Students focus on clarity and well-being in Yoga Flow.
Cardio Hip Hop (November 3, 2020 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78809 78809-20129158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 7:15pm
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:47:36 -0400 2020-11-03T19:15:00-05:00 2020-11-03T20:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
John Lewis: Good Trouble (SOLD OUT) (November 4, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78378 78378-20186326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

REDEMPTIONS ARE SOLD OUT! For those who purchased before 12/15, you will have access to view the film until 12/31/20.

Synopsis:
An intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’ life, legacy and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism — from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse he was throughout his career. After Lewis petitioned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown of Troy, Alabama, King sent “the boy from Troy” a round trip bus ticket to meet with him. From that meeting onward, Lewis became one of King’s closest allies. He organized Freedom Rides that left him bloodied or jailed, and stood at the front lines in the historic marches on Washington and Selma. He never lost the spirit of the “boy from Troy” and called on his fellow Americans to get into “good trouble” until his passing on July 17, 2020.

96 Minutes.

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Film Screening Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:22:50 -0500 2020-11-04T07:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Film Screening Theatrical one-sheet for JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Yoga Core (November 4, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78846 78846-20131223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 7:00am
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. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:20:20 -0400 2020-11-04T07:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T07:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Yoga Core offers core-strengthening exercises in a flowing format.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Applications Open (November 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77975 77975-19947565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (DCERP) is a UROP summer U-M undergraduate research fellowship.

Priority Deadline: December 4, 2020
Application Deadline: January 18, 2021

http://myumi.ch/erK95

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:33:53 -0400 2020-11-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Post-Election Debrief (November 4, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78901 78901-20152758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Everyone is talking about the election now, and these conversations will continue after Election Day, November 3. Is it possible to engage in civil conversation around politics in academic and professional contexts? This workshop happens to fall on the date after all voting in the Fall 2020 U.S. election is completed. This workshop is an opportunity to talk about (and to explore how we can talk about) what we’ve seen in the news, in our local communities, on social media, and in conversations with friends and colleagues and to practice language for commiserating and sharing potentially opposing perspectives.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/2D9GG

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:35:14 -0400 2020-11-04T08:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Zumba (November 4, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78792 78792-20123183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
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. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:53:57 -0400 2020-11-04T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T12:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
"Epithelial Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer" (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78215 78215-19991040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center of Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is proud to present our Translational Cross Talks series with speakers Filip Bednar, MD, PhD, FACS, & Howard Crawford, PhD.

Dr. Bednar is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Crawford is a Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

The talk is entitled, “Epithelial Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer”.

Moderator: Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD, Professor of General Surgery

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:45:03 -0400 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
HET Brown Bag | Detecting terrestrial dark matter traffic jams (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79063 79063-20184347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Subcomponent dark matter having large interactions with the standard model or with itself can accumulate terrestrially over the age of the earth leading to massive build-ups. This thermalized population is too cold to be visible in traditional direct detection. In this talk I outline a few detection strategies including accelerating this slow dark matter with metastable nuclear isomers or with electrostatic accelerators like LUNA. Intriguingly such a terrestrial component could explain the neutron bottle-beam anomaly and can cause anomalous heating in cryogenic detectors.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:52:45 -0500 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Mid-Career Advancement Program: Q&A with NSF Program Director (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78924 78924-20154736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

U-M Research Development welcomes Dr. Leslie J. Rissler, Program Director in the Directorate for Biological Sciences, will speak to U-M about the new NSF Mid-Career Advancement program solicitation (NSF 21-516). Interested faculty and staff should RSVP and submit questions in advance.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:19:53 -0400 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Livestream / Virtual U-M Research
North Campus Mindfulness Meditation Drop-In (Online) (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40967 40967-19373549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 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 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being Mindfulness meditation
Online Yoga with Catherine Matuza (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76711 76711-19737053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The SMTD Wellness Initiative is offering online yoga sessions to anyone needing a few moments of peace!

Join online: http://myumi.ch/E3Nq5

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:15:03 -0500 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T12:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exercise / Fitness
Getting Started with ArcGIS Online (November 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77714 77714-19907682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

ArcGIS Online is a simple yet powerful interactive, web-based mapping tool to which everyone at the University of Michigan has access. ArcGIS Online can be used to visualize data, analyze spatial patterns, and present materials in a professional-looking app.

In this hands-on workshop, we will learn how to use ArcGIS Online to easily turn a spreadsheet into a map, discover and add data from authoritative sources to the map, customize the map’s appearance, and publish the map for sharing, all on the web. We will also look at some of the options for analyzing and presenting map data, as well as some of the tools and technologies available for collecting geographic datasets.

(This will be a virtual workshop; Zoom connection info will be sent to registered participants shortly before the workshop.)
Register: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/getting-started-with-arcgis-online-3/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:27:39 -0400 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Map
Webinar: Baby FACES 2018: Access and Use Data from the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (November 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78455 78455-20046387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

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

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Presentation Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:23:12 -0400 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement of webinar on Head Start Baby FACES data on November 4 2020 from ICPSR
Hope, Tea, and Advocacy (November 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79089 79089-20188327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Join Rackham Student Government on for an hour of post-election de-stress. This will be an outlet for students to reflect on their feelings and learn how to advocate for themselves and others in the new year.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96187671293.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:15:40 -0400 2020-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76920 76920-19776584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 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.
Zoom Meeting ID: 981 5994 7930
For more information on what the Resolution Officer has to offer visit https://myumi.ch/PlPB4.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:15:43 -0400 2020-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
MIPSE Seminar | Quantum Hydrodynamics and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (November 4, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76466 76466-19717159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 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:
Matter at extreme pressures, temperatures, and densities characterizes a wide variety of natural and man-made phenomena, including interiors of Jovian size planets, hyper-velocity meteor impacts, the burning core of stars, thermonuclear burning inertial confinement fusion capsules. Matter at these conditions defines the exciting and challenging field of High Energy Density Physics (HEDP). Besides vast experimental resources, there exists a rich set of computational tools that model the micro to macro regimes of HEDP. Recently, there has been a resurgence in interest in using a “simpler” approach to investigating HEDP based on quantum hydrodynamics. Quantum Hydrodynamics (QHD) has a long and interesting history, dating back to the first developments by Madelung and Bohm. In this talk, we discuss the historical and recent developments in QHD, including pitfalls, as applied to quantum many-body systems relevant to HEDP regimes. We will present three different approaches to deriving the QHD equations-Madelung, Bloch, and Wigner and discuss their pros and cons. Finally, the role that Rayleigh-Taylor hydrodynamic instabilities play is discussed within the QHD formalism.

About the Speaker:
Frank Graziani received a BS in physics from Santa Clara U., and a PhD in physics from UCLA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at U. Colorado and U. Minnesota working in cosmology and particle physics; and worked with NASA on exoplanet dynamics and star formation. Dr. Graziani joined Lawrence Livermore National Lab. in 1989 where he worked in radiation transport and plasma physics. He has held many leadership positions at LLNL, including group leader, V&V Leader, PI for LDRD-Strategic Initiatives, lead for the National Boost Initiative and Assoc. Division Leader for computational physics. He now directs the High Energy Density Sciences Center. He has won four DOE Defense Program Awards of Excellence, the LLNL Director’s S&T Award and is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. His research interests include the micro-physics of dense plasmas and HED education. Dr. Graziani is editor of two books on computational methods and a book on warm dense matter physics.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:59:54 -0400 2020-11-04T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Livestream / Virtual Dr. Frank Graziani
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78770 78770-20121164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Metabolomics is a powerful approach to characterize small molecules produced in cells, tissues, and other biological systems. Metabolites are direct products of enzymatic reactions and provide a snapshot of cellular activities. Metabolomics-based research has already had a profound impact on biomarker discovery, nutritional analysis, and other biomedical and biological discoveries. The most pressing problem in metabolomics however is identifying compounds in the sample-under-study from the metabolomics measurements. Current analysis tools are capable of annotating only a small portion of sample measurements.

In this talk, we present machine learning solutions to three challenges related to the interpretation of metabolomics data. To mimic the function of a mass spectrometer in generating a mass spectrum, we use graph neural networks to translate a molecular structure into its respective spectral signature. To interpret the biological measurements in the context of the biological sample, we use Bayesan learning to deduce the likelihood of pathway activities. To suggest putative candidate molecules that are biologically relevant matches to the measured spectra, we explore several methods for predicting possible enzymatic products. We discuss several results, highlighting the value of using machine learning for advancing metabolomics analysis.

Short bio: Soha Hassoun is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Soha received her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, the Master's degree from MIT, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington in Seattle. Soha’s lab uses Machine Learning to develop analysis and discovery tools for synthetic and systems biology, with a focus on enzyme promiscuity prediction and metabolomics analysis. Soha was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and several technical and service awards from various professional societies. She provided technical leadership for several conferences including ICCAD and DAC. She co-founded the International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation in 2009. Soha serves on the board of the Computing Research Association's Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:33:23 -0400 2020-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics (November 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79058 79058-20184340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Details to Come.

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

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Other Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Other Econ Umich
Science Success Series- Wealth Beyond Health (November 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75971 75971-19631730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

There are limitless options for a pre-med student beyond medical school and a traditional career as a doctor. Join us on Zoom for a virtual exploration of other career tracks with alumni and experts. There is a world of options to apply skills in science, critical problem solving, and a desire to help people. Find your option for wealth beyond health.

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/28203

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with questions

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:14:33 -0400 2020-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Careers / Jobs
Hatha Yoga (November 4, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78811 78811-20129172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class will combine yoga poses (asanas) with breathing exercises (pranayama) to help align and calm your body, mind, and spirit in preparation for meditation. Hatha can be translated to mean balance or literally “sun” (ha) and “moon” (tha). Traditional asanas are held in accurate alignment. It develops strength, flexibility, endurance, and steadiness, bringing greater balance on all levels (body, mind and spirit). 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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:52:01 -0400 2020-11-04T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class will combine yoga poses (asanas) with breathing exercises (pranayama) to help align and calm your body, mind, and spirit.
CAS Webinar | Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in Armenia’s Soviet Factories (November 4, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76664 76664-19735024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here:
http://myumi.ch/MERKz
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

The factory ruins that litter Armenia’s urban outskirts constitute a colossal agglomeration of what Ann Stoler calls “imperial debris”. In the wake of the Soviet collapse, they are remnants of a process of aggressive industrialization that thrust Armenia headlong into the age of high modernity. Like other modern ruins, from a distance, these industrial carcasses stand as poignant allegories of failed utopian projects, both socialist and capitalist. But up close, they are sites of improbable livelihood practices that defy familiar critique. Based on archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in decommissioned Soviet factories across Armenia, this research examines deviant projects at the margins of global capitalism to retain industrial lifeways and make a living under conditions of ruination. ‘Trials of ruination’ refers to the struggle to unlock or forgo the salvage value of Soviet machines and factories undergoing slow, irreversible decay. These trials enlist people into acts of constant improvisation. A ‘life extempore’ is one in which the primary tactic for capturing or forestalling salvage value is perpetual extemporization, doing things one never planned or was trained to do. This talk focuses on the improvisational practices of two extemporists in the cities of Yerevan and Yeghegnadzor, and their efforts to revalue the anachronistic but persistent material world of Soviet industry, a massive accumulation of displaced socialist things out of proper time.

Lori Khatchadourian is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. Her research centers on the relationship between imperialism and the vast world of material things. As both an archaeologist of Armenia and the Near East, as well as a scholar of the Soviet and post-Soviet Caucasus, Dr. Khatchadourian pursues this concern with the materiality of empire across temporal and disciplinary boundaries—ancient and modern, archaeological and ethnographic. She is the author of “Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires” (UC Press, 2016). Her current book project centers on the ruins of modernity in Armenia. Dr. Khatchadourian is co-director of Project ArAGATS and directs the Afterlife of Socialist Modernity project.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:47:22 -0400 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Lori Khatchadourian, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Dialogue with your DPE: What's Next (November 4, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79075 79075-20184359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The North Quad DPE is offering a safe space to process and unpack the 2020 president election. A safe space to explore the next steps of the political process and the future.

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Meeting Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:49:12 -0400 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Meeting Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Entrepreneurial Meetup (November 4, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78532 78532-20058233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

Are you interested in connecting with other entrepreneurs?

Have you founded a startup or want to join one?

Don’t miss out on the final Entrepreneurial Meetup for the semester!

[11/4 from 5 to 6:30 PM | RSVP Now!]

During this virtual event you’ll discover University of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, network with other student entrepreneurs while sharing your next big idea, and meet Brian Moore Co-Founder of Voxel 51, one of Ann Arbor’s most exciting high-tech startups.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:53:28 -0400 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Social / Informal Gathering Meet others interested in entrepreneurship and innovation
Pilates (November 4, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78815 78815-20131163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:00pm
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). NOTE: Instructor will provide a playlist link so please either use your laptop for Zoom or have another device ready to play music if you are using your phone.

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:10:46 -0400 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Zumba (November 4, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78792 78792-20123187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
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. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:53:57 -0400 2020-11-04T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (November 4, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78832 78832-20131196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the second class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

This class addresses grassroots efforts to organize against police crimes and abuses during the 1970s. In particular, we will examine Detroit’s anti-STRESS movement, the rise of “community policing” during the Young and Bradley administrations in Detroit and L.A., and the relationship between the violence of deindustrialization, austerity, and globalization, community policing, and the rise of the carceral state.

(Speakers TBA - please check our website for further information)

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:46:20 -0400 2020-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
Dialogue with your DPE (November 4, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79084 79084-20186321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPEs of East Quad are planning a safe space to process, have a dialogue, and come together as a community.

This program is specifically for East Quad residents.

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Meeting Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:28:29 -0400 2020-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Meeting Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Tabata (November 4, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78788 78788-20131211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Description:Instructor - Connor
Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
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. 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 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:42:46 -0400 2020-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T18:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Tabata is the most result-driven form of HIIT.
Hard Core (November 4, 2020 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78848 78848-20131228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Instructor - Abra
Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
In this class you will develop your six-pack while working the obliques, back muscles, as well as the hips and glutes to develop a stronger, healthier core. 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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:23:18 -0400 2020-11-04T18:15:00-05:00 2020-11-04T19:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Gentle Yoga (November 4, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78804 78804-20129097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class combines gentle flowing sequences and restorative poses to decrease stress and improve range of motion and joint mobility. Restorative poses are deep stretches that are typically held for one to three minutes to loosen connective tissue. This soothing class will leave you feeling grounded and at peace. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:29:11 -0400 2020-11-04T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T19:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class combines gentle flowing sequences and restorative poses.
Nike Training Club (November 4, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78817 78817-20131171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Instructor - Maddy
Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
Nike Training Club (NTC) is your ultimate training class that challenges you with strength, endurance and mobility drills. Each week changes with a mix of exercises, varying from bodyweight to full equipment. Get ready to work together, incorporating team/partner drills. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Loop resistance band and 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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:15:20 -0400 2020-11-04T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T19:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Guided Meditation (November 4, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79067 79067-20184351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

With the hectic midterm season, let's get together for a relaxing evening spent meditating! Our MLCCAs will be running this guided meditation session to help ease your stress and anxieties.

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Meeting Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:29:42 -0500 2020-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Meeting Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
STRONG Nation (November 4, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78818 78818-20131176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Instructor - Sarah
Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:17:16 -0400 2020-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T19:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
SLE Community Nights (November 4, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 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 2020-11-04T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
John Lewis: Good Trouble (SOLD OUT) (November 5, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78378 78378-20186327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

REDEMPTIONS ARE SOLD OUT! For those who purchased before 12/15, you will have access to view the film until 12/31/20.

Synopsis:
An intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’ life, legacy and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism — from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse he was throughout his career. After Lewis petitioned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown of Troy, Alabama, King sent “the boy from Troy” a round trip bus ticket to meet with him. From that meeting onward, Lewis became one of King’s closest allies. He organized Freedom Rides that left him bloodied or jailed, and stood at the front lines in the historic marches on Washington and Selma. He never lost the spirit of the “boy from Troy” and called on his fellow Americans to get into “good trouble” until his passing on July 17, 2020.

96 Minutes.

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Film Screening Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:22:50 -0500 2020-11-05T07:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Film Screening Theatrical one-sheet for JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Applications Open (November 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77975 77975-19947566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (DCERP) is a UROP summer U-M undergraduate research fellowship.

Priority Deadline: December 4, 2020
Application Deadline: January 18, 2021

http://myumi.ch/erK95

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:33:53 -0400 2020-11-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Creating Common Ground for a Kinder, Better Future: Growing the Capacity to Listen and Connect in Politically Charged Times DEIOL2125 (November 5, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78995 78995-20168554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Holding a civil, productive conversation with individuals who may not agree with you is always a challenge. This year, it seems to be an even bigger challenge, but it is still an important skill to continuously improve. Political or personal values conversations are an important part of civil discourse, especially if each party is willing to listen and connect with mutual respect and a goal to seek common ground. This session will provide a framework for better conversations around very complicated and potentially emotional topics.

Audience:
Any U-M faculty or staff who would like to connect and create common ground with others during difficult conversations

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:50:43 -0400 2020-11-05T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
In-Between the World and Dreams (November 5, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-11-05T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
CoderSpaces (Thursdays) (November 5, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79004 79004-20170593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:30am
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 for the remainder of 2020 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 9:30-11AM
Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/92842605766)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Armand Burks (ARC-TS/UMSI), 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 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:06:02 -0500 2020-11-05T09:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T11:00:00-05:00 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.
2020 Election Community Conversation(s): Inform, Reflect, and Plan (November 5, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78891 78891-20139088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

With Election Day quickly approaching, the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion is working hard to support civic engagement and resources to explore diversity of thought. We will be holding Community Conversations to provide space for dialogue.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:30:25 -0400 2020-11-05T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversations Image
Barre Above (November 5, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78765 78765-20121159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Challenge and sculpt your body without risk of injury from overuse by using a sequence of movements within different ranges of motion. No barre necessarily required and minimal equipment is used.

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:25:14 -0400 2020-11-05T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T12:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Students sculpt their bodies in Barre Above
Black College Student Mental Health: What institutions need to know and do to support healing and thriving in a time of racial crisis (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78024 78024-19955553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Along with academic impacts, college contexts can serve to support or challenge students’ personal development and well-being in important ways. Increasingly, researchers and higher education institutions are paying attention to college student mental health, but less of this focus has considered the specific contextual experiences, challenges, and supports relevant to Black students’ mental health as they enter and navigate predominantly White institutions (PWI). College student research shows that, along with the social and academic challenges of college experienced by most/all students, Black students routinely report negative race-related experiences in their PWI settings - microaggressions and discrimination; biased stereotype-based treatment, low expectations; and both isolation/exclusion and hypervisibility (over-monitoring as suspicious or dangerous) due to race. Black students’ racially marginalizing experiences are sometimes tied to students’ multiple identities (e.g., their race along with their ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, or sexual orientations, among other identities). Such devaluing experiences have been linked to poorer academic achievement and persistence outcomes, but these experiences likely function to undermine mental health as well.


Now more than ever, a focus on Black college student mental health is critical. In 2020, Black students are entering their college campuses (in-person or remotely) after a summer of widespread protests against anti-Black police violence and systemic racism, sparked by public witnessing of videos depicting murders and brutalizing of Black Americans by police. Many Black students are also coming from communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the knowledge that these differential impacts are directly and indirectly due to systemic racism. Thus, while Black students bring many personal and cultural strengths to their campuses that can be leveraged to support their positive college adjustment, they also experience unique challenges and vulnerabilities due to racism - both on their campuses and in the broader society - that can undermine their well-being and thriving on campus. Higher education must be accountable in understanding Black student experiences and, importantly, acting on this knowledge to meet the goals of supporting and serving all students equitably.


This webinar will feature the research of three scholars actively engaged in research on the positive mental health of Black college students. All are grant recipients of the 2020 National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Pop-Up Grant program cycle, themed around Mental Health among Marginalized Communities, and co-sponsored in partnership with The Steve Fund. Each scholar will share research findings yielded from their grant projects and outline specific implications and recommendations for research and action.

Moderator/Facilitator:

· Tabbye Chavous, *NCID Director and Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Michigan*


Panelists:

· Seanna Leath, *Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia*

· Martinique Jones, *Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, University of North Texas*

· Carmen McCallum, *Department of Leadership and Counseling, Eastern Michigan University*

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:28:58 -0400 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual We're better when we're united
CEW+ Lunch and Learn | A Roadmap to Virtual Home Learning Success: Tips for Student Parents (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79111 79111-20209849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Click to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link by email: cew.umich.edu/events/cew-lunch-and-learn-a-roadmap-to-virtual-home-learning-success-tips-for-student-parents

The pandemic has brought many challenges for parents who have children in virtual school-at-home situations while the parents are also still working – either in the office, from home, and/or in school. Join us for a Lunch and Learn session where we will provide tips to keep your students, engaged and on track, along with strategies to combat Zoom fatigue.

This workshop will feature:

Home school design strategies (physical space, monitoring participation, supplies list);
Ways to create COVID-compliant community support groups;
Self-help tips to navigate important conversations with school representatives as you advocate for your student’s needs;
U-M Policies & Resources for managing discussions with your professor/supervisor regarding flex schedules and release time; and
Opportunities to network with other student parents and share successful best practices.

PRESENTERS:
Dana M. Banks, MPH, Regulatory Analyst, IRBMED

With over 15 years of experience planning, creating, and implementing youth programming in an urban school district, Dana brings a wealth of knowledge in youth development best practices. In her various roles with Flint Community Schools, she was responsible for training staff to use evidence-based strategies to create high-quality out-of-school time programs. Dana is currently navigating the challenges of virtual school with three of her daughters who attend Ann Arbor Public Schools in the 6th, 11th, and 12th grades. She is a native of Flint, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan for both her Bachelor of Arts (’95) and Master of Public Health (‘18) degrees.

Dana currently works in the UM Medical School’s Office of Research Institutional Review Board as a Regulatory Analyst. Attending the University of Michigan is a family tradition, as her husband is also a graduate of UM School of Social Work and her oldest daughter is a Junior at UM Ford School of Public Policy. Go Blue!

LaVashia Mundy, M.A., Student Program Coordinator

As the Student Program Coordinator in CEW+ LaVashia supports U-M students through the development and facilitation of programs, workshops, and other interventions as part of the Center’s overall mission to empower women and underserved individuals in the U-M and surrounding community. LaVashia is originally from Detroit, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan and went on to earn a graduate degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Eastern Michigan University. The majority of her professional work has focused on student success by helping them meet their academic, personal, and social goals.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:39:58 -0500 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Parent and child
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Voice as Talisman: Theorizing Sound in Medieval Japanese Treatises on Sutra Chanting (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75381 75381-19450119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

How material a thing is the human voice? Music provides a place for the early theorization of sound as an active force operating in registers that are at once spiritual (accounting for the summoning of unseen gods and spirits), scientific (producing hypotheses regarding the principles underlying action at a distance), aesthetic (conceptualizing how and why people may be more or less affectively moved), and deeply embodied (positing figurations of the human form as a resonance chamber). In this talk, I focus on the chanting of Buddhist sacred text in medieval Japan, in order to excavate Buddhist theories of sound – and particularly human-produced sound – as capable of acting on and in the space-time of lived reality.

Charlotte Eubanks is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Penn State. They study the material culture of books and word/image relations, with a focus on Japanese literature from the medieval period to the present. Their first book, entitled *Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan* (University of California Press, 2011), examines the relationship between human body and sacred text in the Buddhist literary tradition, focusing on reading as a performance-based act which bridges the text-flesh barrier. Their second book (*The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan*, U Hawai'i Press, 2020) moves to the 20th century. Through a microhistory of the artist Akamatsu Toshiko (Maruki Toshi, 1912-2000), the book outlines the possibilities for anti-war and anti-colonial thought in imperial Japan. Their third book will return to the medieval Buddhist world, with a phenomenological examination of the literary corpus of the 13th century Zen master Dōgen. Their articles have appeared in venues including *Book History, The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Ars Orientalis, The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, PMLA*, and *Word & Image*. Charlotte is Head of the Department of Comparative Literature, founding president of the MLA Japan to 1900 forum, and Associate Editor of *Verge: Studies in Global Asias*.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lnQ7ENyPQ_uOK9bZmgknOg

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:18:34 -0400 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Charlotte Eubanks, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State
Democracy & Debate Theme Semester Events Series (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79182 79182-20225560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

This webinar is an opportunity to hear from in-house LSA experts about what happened on election day, where things stand in the days immediately following, and what the longer-term impacts might be.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Matthew Countryman, Chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, and History, and faculty panelists include:

Jenna Bednar
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Edie N. Goldenberg Endowed Director of the Michigan in Washington Program

Deborah Beim
Assistant Professor of Political Science

Angela Dillard
Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies, History, and in the Residential College

Vincent Hutchings
Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Hanes Walton, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:30:51 -0500 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Democracy & Debate
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
The Hedgehog Concept in Developing Dental Ultrasonography Research (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79141 79141-20225568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Hsun-Liang (Albert) Chan, DDS, MS
Clinical Associate Professor
Diplomate, American Board of Periodontology
Assistant Program Director, Periodontics Graduate Program
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Class / Instruction Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:06:40 -0500 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Class / Instruction Albert Chan
Boren Awards Information Session (November 5, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78728 78728-20113299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Join our Boren Award Info Session!

Boren Awards provide undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships to study a wide range of critical languages in world areas underrepresented in study abroad to those committed to public service. Awards up to $30,000 can be offered to spend up to 12 months learning a critical language in selected countries!

Join U-M campus representative Melissa Vert and International Institute of Education Boren Program Advisor Kyle Cox as they discuss opportunities, awards, and the general application process. Please be sure to register at https://forms.gle/69vJkbJaWC182L226!

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Melissa at mjfvert@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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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:07:18 -0500 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Workshop / Seminar Boren Awards
LSI Seminar Series: Yves Chiswili Chabu, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia (November 5, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78701 78701-20107391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:

Oncogenic RAS mutations are associated with tumor resistance to radiation therapy. The underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Emergent cell-cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment (TME) profoundly influence therapy outcomes. The nature of these interactions and their role in Ras tumor radioresistance remain unclear. Using Drosophila and human Ras cancer cells we discovered that oncogenic Ras co-opts genotoxic stress-induced p53 function to drive tumor recurrence via paracrine JAK/STAT signaling in the TME.
p53 is heterogeneously activated in Ras tumor tissues in response to irradiation. This mosaicism allows high p53-expressing Ras clones to stimulate JAK/STAT cytokines, which activate JAK/STAT in the nearby low p53-expressing resistant Ras clones, leading to robust tumor re-establishment. Blocking any part of this cell-cell communication loop re-sensitizes Ras tumor cells to irradiation. This finding suggests that coupling STAT inhibitors to radiotherapy might improve clinical outcomes for Ras cancer patients.

Speaker:
Yves Chiswili Chabu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri-Columbia

Yves Chiswili Chabu received his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon. He did his postdoctoral work and Fellowship at Yale University where he used Drosophila and human tissue culture models to understand how intercellular RAS signaling evolves in the tumor microenvironement. Chabu is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the scientific director of the Cancer Research Center in Columbia Missouri. His research interests at the University of Missouri includes delineating therapy resistance mechanisms in EGFR/RAS-driven tumors and understanding how these signals emerge and support disease progression.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:51:21 -0400 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
Natural Disasters: Vulnerability, Resilience, and a Changing World (November 5, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75522 75522-19515166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Naturally occurring hazards, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, occur every year and affect nearly every part of the Earth. Their cumulative cost can be extreme in terms of both dollars and lives lost. While less frequent, pandemics have also resulted in staggering losses. The loss depends not only on the severity of the effects, but also on the vulnerability and resiliency of the affected society. The number and cost of disasters have been increasing over the last few decades, a pattern which is likely to continue. This increase may be due both to hazards increasing in frequency, size, or extent, and to an increasing vulnerability and/or decreasing resiliency of populations at risk.

This course will start with an examination of the trends and patterns of past disasters, discussing socioeconomic factors that increase vulnerability. We will then discuss the role of corruption and government effectiveness in exacerbating vulnerability, the differences between vulnerability and resiliency on a local scale, and why resiliency is so difficult to quantify. Finally, we will discuss the role of global demographics trends and changing climate with regard to future hazards and our increasing vulnerability to them. We will use the Sichuan, China (2008), L’Aquila, Italy (2009), and Haiti (2010) earthquakes, hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), Harvey (2017), and Maria (2017), and the current COVID-19 pandemic as case studies.

Eric Hetland is an associate professor in the UM Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, specializing in earthquakes and volcanoes. Eric also develops statistical tools to tackle problems ranging from climate change to vulnerability.

This study group will be held on Thursdays from November 5 through 19.

Pre-registration 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 Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:16:37 -0400 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (November 5, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-11-05T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
EEB Virtual Seminar: How walking is a lot like slithering (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76575 76575-19727086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor Revzen presents this week's seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:38:27 -0400 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual drawing of a red ant on a blue background with yellow, blue and white dots on tips of legs and thorax
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-20270771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 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 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
SEMINAR: "Sparse Estimation: Closing the Gap Between L0 and L1 Models" — Alper Atamturk (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76453 76453-19717149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 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:
Sparse Estimation: Closing the Gap Between L0 and L1 Models

Abstract:
Sparse statistical estimators are increasingly prevalent due to their ease of interpretability and superior out-of-sample performance. However, sparse estimation problems with an L0 constraint, restricting the support of the estimators, are challenging (typically NP-hard, but not always) non-convex optimization problems. Consequently, academics and practitioners commonly turn to convex L1 proxies, such as Lasso and its variants, as a remedy. Although the L1 models are solved fast, they may lead to biased and/or dense estimators and require substantial cross-validation for calibration.

In this talk, we focus on two estimation problems: i) sparse regression and ii) sparse and smooth signal recovery. The first one is known to be NP-hard; we show that the second one is equivalent to a submodular minimization problem and, hence, is polynomially solvable. For both problems, we derive a sequence of strong convex relaxations. These relaxations are based on the ideal (convex-hull) formulations for rank-one/pairwise quadratic terms with indicator variables. The new relaxations can be formulated as conic quadratic or semidefinite optimization problems in an extended space; they are stronger and more general than the state-of-the-art models with the reverse Huber penalty and the minimax concave penalty functions. Furthermore, the proposed rank-one strengthening can be interpreted as a non-separable, non-convex, unbiased sparsity-inducing regularizer, which dynamically adjusts its penalty according to the shape of the estimation error function without inducing bias for the sparse solutions. Computational experiments with benchmark datasets show that the proposed conic formulations are solved fast and result in near-optimal estimators for non-convex L0-problems. Moreover, the resulting estimators also outperform L1 approaches from a statistical perspective, achieving high prediction accuracy and good interpretability.

This talk is based on the following papers with Andres Gomez & Shaoning Han:

https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/rank-one.pdf
https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/screening.pdf
https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/signal-estimation.pdf

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:38:58 -0400 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899)
The Scholar as Translator (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76189 76189-19671620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join Chana Kronfeld, renowned translator of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry, for a discussion of her scholarship and translations. Kronfeld explores translation as an intertextual practice, emphasizing the significance of gender in/of translation. Her talk draws on examples from the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Benjamin Harshav and others to discuss the politics and poetics of translation.

Chana Kronfeld is the Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative, Hebrew, and Yiddish Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of "On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics" (1997), a co-translation (with Chana Bloch z”l) of Yehuda Amichai’s "Open Closed Open" (2006), "Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch," co-translation and annotated edition (with Chana Bloch z”l, 2011). Kronfeld is the author, most recently, of "The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai" (Stanford, 2016).

Advance Registration Required: https://forms.gle/uK5FEVE4PaWrrbRa8
The Zoom Webinar link and password will be sent to registrants shortly before the event.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:16:04 -0400 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Chana Kronfeld Portrait
CLASP Seminar Series: Lulu Zhao, of U-M CLASP (November 5, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76505 76505-19719166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Lulu Zhao, of U-M CLASP will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92764378588?pwd=VE8zZWpGOTBjaWd1N2VvNWZvNmN0QT09
Meeting ID: 927 6437 8588
Passcode: 421507

TITLE: Solar Energetic Particles

ABSTRACT: Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are the most powerful solar explosive events occurred on the Sun. In large solar flares, a wide range of electromagnetic waves ranging from the kilometric radio wave to the Gamma-rays are released in a short period of time and a gigantic amount of ionized gas is ejected in the coronal mass ejections. In those processes, solar energetic particles can be accelerated to near-relativistic energies and injected into the interplanetary space. When traveling in the interplanetary space, they impose a serious radiation hazard to human lives on the earth, the orbiting astronauts, spacecraft, and our future space exploration missions. However, the underlying acceleration mechanisms in those events and the particles’ transport process from the sun to the interplanetary space is still under debate. I investigate the behaviors of those energetic particles with observational analysis, and model their behavior using numerical simulations. In particular, I modeled the acceleration and transport process of energetic particles by solving the Fokker-Planck equation numerically and evaluate the temporal and spatial distribution profiles, energy spectra, and element abundances of energetic particles with the measurement made by various spacecraft. Because of their great impact to the space radiation environment and the growing demand for space travel and exploration, a successful forecast of the occurrence and flux of solar energetic particles is urgent. Both numerical models and machine learning techniques are utilized in my current approach to predict the occurrence and flux of solar energetic particles.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:31:39 -0400 2020-11-05T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
BME Seminar Series: Lori Setton (November 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75909 75909-19623827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Join us for our virtual seminar series on Thursdays from 4-5pm!
These events will take place on BlueJeans at this link: https://bluejeans.com/628109990

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:14:30 -0400 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Battling TBI: High-Rate Deformation of Polymeric Cellular Solids (November 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76191 76191-19671624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Leslie Lamberson
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Colorado School of Mines

Polymer foams, a cellular solid comprising of a gas and solid phase, are used extensively for impact protection applications due to their light weight and high energy absorption. One specific application of interest is their use in combat helmet liners to protect service members from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), although they are also heavily leveraged in the packing industry, medical, aerospace and automotive fields, to name a few. These protective applications all have the common characteristic of dynamically applied loading leading to high strain-rate material deformation. Typically, polymer foams have low impedance and exhibit strong rate-dependent mechanical behavior; consequently, novel dynamic experimental techniques and metrologies need to be implemented and aid in the development of physics-based constitutive models for these cellular systems in loading regimes of real-world interest. As such, this talk focuses on quantitative microstructural characterization of open cell polyurethane foams and its relation to bulk response, their compressive behavior across six orders of magnitude in strain rates and utilizing a non-parametric formulation of the Virtual Fields Method to extract dynamic material behavior. How these efforts are leading us to explore the design space of microarchitected materials for next-generation protective systems will also be discussed.

About the speaker...

Leslie Lamberson is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering with affiliation in Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines. Her area of expertise is in mechanics of materials under extreme conditions. She earned her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and B.A. in Dance Performance from the University of Michigan, her M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to her faculty position, Dr. Lamberson was a postdoctoral research scholar with K.T. Ramesh in the Center for Advanced Metallic and Ceramic Systems at the Johns Hopkins University. A former Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” engineer, in 2013 Leslie was a NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow in the Materials and Structures under Extreme Conditions Division. She is the recipient of an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2017, an NSF CAREER award in 2018, and is currently an Associate Editor for the journal Strain.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:32:52 -0400 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Leslie Lamberson
Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities Respectfully - November (November 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75348 75348-19442250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This interactive virtual workshop introduces principles and practices for thoughtfully engaging with communities, including motivations, impact of social identities, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal, ethical, and respectful ways.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:56:47 -0400 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community graphic (Buildings on top of "C")
Yoga Flow (November 5, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78785 78785-20123150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:30pm
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 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:24:08 -0400 2020-11-05T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Students focus on clarity and well-being in Yoga Flow.
Reading and Q&A with Poet Patricia Smith (November 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75556 75556-19521130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

Patricia Smith's latest book of poetry, *Incendiary Art* (Triquarterly Books, 2017), showcases her mastery of poetic forms— from her Motown crown of sonnets to elegant ghazals— and fearlessly engages with America’s continuous war on black bodies.

Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, including *Incendiary Art*, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; *Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah* (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press, 2008), a National Book Award finalist; and *Gotta Go, Gotta Flow* (CityFiles Press, 2015), a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes *Teahouse of the Almighty* (Coffee House Press, 2006), *Close to Death* (Zoland Books, 1998), *Big Towns Big Talk* (Zoland Books, 2002), *Life According to Motown* (Tia Chucha, 1991); the children's book *Janna and the Kings* (Lee & Low, 2013), and the history *Africans in America* (Mariner, 1999), a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in *Poetry*, *The Paris Review*, *The Baffler*, *The Washington Post*, *The New York Times*, *Tin House* and in *Best American Poetry*, *Best American Essays* and *Best American Mystery Stories*. She co-edited *The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks* (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), and edited the crime fiction anthology *Staten Island Noir* (Akashic Books, 2012).

Writing about *Incendiary Art*, *Publisher’s Weekly* praised Smith’s “razor-sharp linguistic sensibilities that give her scenes a cinematic flair and her lines a momentum that buoys their emotional weight.” Smith is a Guggenheim fellow, a Civitellian, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history.

Smith is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program.


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 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:55:15 -0400 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Patricia Smith
Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-Reward Object-Interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment (November 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79137 79137-20215738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

First-person object-interaction tasks in high-fidelity, 3D, simulated environments such as the AI2Thor virtual home-environment pose significant sample-efficiency challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) agents learning from sparse task rewards. To alleviate these challenges, prior work has provided extensive supervision via a combination of reward-shaping, ground-truth object-information, and expert demonstrations. In this work, we show that one can learn object-interaction tasks from scratch without supervision by learning an attentive object-model as an auxiliary task during task learning with an object-centric relational RL agent. Our key insight is that learning an object-model that incorporates object-relationships into forward prediction provides a dense learning signal for unsupervised representation learning of both objects and their relationships. This, in turn, enables faster policy learning for an object-centric relational RL agent. We demonstrate our agent by introducing a set of challenging object-interaction tasks in the AI2Thor environment where learning with our attentive object-model is key to strong performance. Specifically, by comparing our agent and relational RL agents with alternative auxiliary tasks with a relational RL agent equipped with ground-truth object-information, we find that learning with our object-model best closes the performance gap in terms of both learning speed and maximum success rate. Additionally, we find that incorporating object-relationships into an object-model's forward predictions is key to learning representations that capture object-category and object-state.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99927591266
Meeting ID: 999 2759 1266
Password: cogsci

Wilka Carvalho is currently a PhD student studying machine learning at UM. Check out his website for research publications, experiences, helpful resources in machine learning or pursuing grad/PhD, and ways to reach out.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Nov 2020 07:31:35 -0500 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC logo
Total Body Strength (November 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78786 78786-20123156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:00pm
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:26:20 -0400 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Experience strength training like never before!
Tabata (November 5, 2020 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78788 78788-20123163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Description:Instructor - Connor
Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
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. 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 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:42:46 -0400 2020-11-05T17:15:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Tabata is the most result-driven form of HIIT.
Living Remotely: How to Stay Connected and Maintain Wellbeing (November 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78187 78187-19989050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Campus Mind Works, in collaboration with Munger Graduate Residences, is excited to offer free mental health education and support groups for graduate and professional students! These groups will discuss different factors specific to graduate and professional students that can impact mental health and provide space to share your experience with others.

These groups are facilitated by a U-M employee. The first half is an educational presentation on a mental health topic and a support group follows during the second half. Topics change every month depending on student needs.

For fall 2020, all groups will be held virtually through Zoom. Registration per event is required.

Following the live group presentation, the asynchronous presentation will be updated at www.campusmindworks.org.

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Well-being Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:25:30 -0400 2020-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Blue and white rectangle logo that says Campus Mind Works
November Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings (November 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78682 78682-20101509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

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

The Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings are a collaboration between MESA and the Spectrum Center focusing on centering the experiences of Queer, Trans, Black/Indigenous/Students of Color through sharing meals, discussions, and creating connections with people in the QTBIPOC community at UM and in the surrounding areas.

This event's host will be Krishna Han (he/him/his). Krishna's professional student affairs journey in the US took him from Oberlin College to Bowling Green State University (BGSU) prior to joining University of Michigan. Originally, from Cambodia, Krishna graduated from the Royal University of Phnom Penh with a dual degree in Biology and Education. After completing a master degree in Community Forestry at Shinshu University, Japan he pursued and earned a Ph.D. in Regional Environmental Resources Management at Hokkaido University, Japan.

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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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:14:28 -0400 2020-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering November's Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings event will be held Thursday the 5th from 5:30 to 7:00 PM and will be hosted by Krishna Han, who is pictured in the advertisement. Krishna is a brown-skinned Asian man with side-parted short black hair smiling widely and looking at something off-camera. He is wearing a white collared shirt with pink flower designs.
Zumba (November 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78792 78792-20123169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Location - Virtual (in Zoom)
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. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:53:57 -0400 2020-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Ditch the traditional workout and join the party!
CWE Game Night: Virtual Escape Rooms w/ Central Campus (November 5, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79095 79095-20207876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join the SQ, NQ, EQ, WQ, and Barbour/Newberry Community Wellness Educators (CWEs) for a virtual game night over Zoom as a way to destress, have some fun, and meet new people!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:37:12 -0500 2020-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering
Mechanical Engineering Research Info Session, Hosted by TBP (November 5, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78726 78726-20109389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Come learn about research opportunities within Mechanical Engineering! There will be a short presentation by Julie Tashjian, an academic advisor in ME, and time for questions after.

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 955 7472 9910
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Find your local number: https://umich.zoom.us/u/abOi0wteHp

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:29:17 -0400 2020-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs
Strength & Sculpt (November 5, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78793 78793-20123192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Let the music move you in Strength & Sculpt. This beats-driven class combines cardio intervals and body weight training to provide you with a workout experience designed to fit your goals and desires. From squats and burpees to planks and push-ups, Strength & Sculpt syncs music and movement to target major muscle groups. You will leave sweating and stronger!

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:02:46 -0400 2020-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This beats-driven class combines cardio intervals and body weight training.
Bystander Intervention Game Night (November 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79081 79081-20186318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Have fun and learn about sexual violence prevention!

Join SAPAC BICE (Bystander Intervention & Community Engagement) Volunteers to play virtual games like Kahoot and Jeopardy! View the Zoom details: https://tinyurl.com/bicegamenight

Open to all UM Students!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:37:45 -0400 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Livestream / Virtual Bystander Intervention Game Night presented by SAPAC BICE Volunteers
Fall 2020 Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience (November 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78838 78838-20131203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience is back for the Fall 2020 semester - this time in a virtual format!

This third session in the 6-part series is a workshop by Christy Giizigad. It will include traditional & modern interpretations of Great Lakes indigenous dance.

Register to receive Zoom links to each of the sessions: https://forms.gle/o4MwA1ju5FBw8exd7

As usual, these events are free & open to the public!

All sessions take place from 7pm-8:30pm.

These workshops are coordinated by Semester in Detroit faculty member Diana WasaAnung'gokwe Seales. If you have any questions, please email semesterindetroit@umich.edu.

What is Healing Justice?
According to Cara Page, Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.

What is Cultural Organizing?

Cultural organizing places culture at the center of an organizing strategy. It can be done to unite people through the humanity of culture and the democracy of participation. This series explores the ways in which healing justice, creativity and arts enhance cultural organizing through a series of unique workshops led by Detroiters that are at the forefront of this movement. This type of creative organizing empowers communities to come together in celebration of culture while developing valuable skills that challenge power and oppression.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:24:10 -0400 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Poster including titles for each of the Healing Justice sessions this fall
High Fitness (November 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78803 78803-20129085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

HIGH Fitness is a hardcore, fun fitness class that incorporates aerobic interval training with music you love and intense, easy-to-follow fitness choreography. It combines FUN (pop songs of old and new that everyone knows) with INTENSITY (intervals, plyometrics, and cardio) with CONSISTENCY (each song has specific, simple moves taught the same by all instructors). HIGH Fitness produces full-body toning through its carefully formulated choreography that alternates between intense cardio peaks and toning tracks. Get Addicted to being fit! EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None.

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:18:27 -0400 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T19:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Yenching Academy Scholars Program (November 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78797 78797-20123206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

We are excited to host Brent Haas, Director of Admissions, for this in-depth look at the Yenching Academy Scholars Program!

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

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The Yenching Academy provides full-tuition plus a generous stipend to cover travel and living expenses for a 2-year Masters program in China Studies at Peking University in Beijing. The first-year curriculum offers an intensive program of interdisciplinary classroom and field study of Chinese history and culture, as well as real-time issues in China’s development. The second-year provides a living stipend to complete a thesis, an internship, and other immersive experiences.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/global/yenching-academy.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:10:47 -0400 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Yenching Academy Scholars Program
Gentle Yoga (November 5, 2020 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78804 78804-20129089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class combines gentle flowing sequences and restorative poses to decrease stress and improve range of motion and joint mobility. Restorative poses are deep stretches that are typically held for one to three minutes to loosen connective tissue. This soothing class will leave you feeling grounded and at peace. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet).

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:29:11 -0400 2020-11-05T19:15:00-05:00 2020-11-05T20:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class combines gentle flowing sequences and restorative poses.
CWE Post-Election Game Night: Oxford, Bursley, and Markley (November 5, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79085 79085-20186323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join the Oxford, Bursley, and Markley Community Wellness Educators (CWEs) for a virtual game night over Zoom as a way to destress, have some fun, and meet new people!

Zoom Link - https://umich.zoom.us/s/92315303291

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:50:10 -0400 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering
Oboe Studio Recital (November 5, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78244 78244-19998910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Oboe students of Professor Nancy Ambrose King perform in recital

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Performance Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Taking Care of Maize and You! (November 5, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79088 79088-20186370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Want to meet new people while taking a study break? Join First Year Experience (FYE)'s undergraduate Program Facilitators for Taking Care of Maize and You! We'll practice self-care strategies, participate in a gratitude scavenger hunt, and play virtual games while connecting with others! Registration is required, and a Zoom link will be sent the morning of the event!

Register here: https://myumi.ch/xmjD8

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Well-being Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:07:04 -0400 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location First Year Experience Programs Well-being Taking Care of Maize and You Flyer
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
John Lewis: Good Trouble (SOLD OUT) (November 6, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78378 78378-20186328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

REDEMPTIONS ARE SOLD OUT! For those who purchased before 12/15, you will have access to view the film until 12/31/20.

Synopsis:
An intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’ life, legacy and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism — from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse he was throughout his career. After Lewis petitioned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown of Troy, Alabama, King sent “the boy from Troy” a round trip bus ticket to meet with him. From that meeting onward, Lewis became one of King’s closest allies. He organized Freedom Rides that left him bloodied or jailed, and stood at the front lines in the historic marches on Washington and Selma. He never lost the spirit of the “boy from Troy” and called on his fellow Americans to get into “good trouble” until his passing on July 17, 2020.

96 Minutes.

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Film Screening Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:22:50 -0500 2020-11-06T07:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Film Screening Theatrical one-sheet for JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Applications Open (November 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77975 77975-19947567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (DCERP) is a UROP summer U-M undergraduate research fellowship.

Priority Deadline: December 4, 2020
Application Deadline: January 18, 2021

http://myumi.ch/erK95

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:33:53 -0400 2020-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Lecture Series: The Latest Technology and Innovations in the Maritime Industry (November 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78473 78473-20050328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Lecture series for experts, professors and industry leaders in the maritime sector.

Registration: https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/Integrated_Power_Systems_for_Electrified_Ships_Realtime_Control_and_Optimization_9051

Electrification is a major trend for both military and commercial ships, bringing in enormous opportunities for energy saving, environmental protection, and mission expansion. Integrated power systems (IPS) have been a critical enabling technology for vehicle electrification, particularly for all-electric ships. In this presentation, we will explore the special characteristics of the IPS and discuss the challenges and solutions from the perspectives of control and real-time decision making.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:52:14 -0400 2020-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion NAME Happening at UM
In-Between the World and Dreams (November 6, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
BME PhD Defense: Zhonghua (Aileen) Ouyang (November 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78398 78398-20022735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

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

Zoom: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94734899583?pwd=MDNEMjE3QU5xVGgwZzNQajE4UlJQUT09

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a highly prevalent condition which negatively affects the physical and mental health of millions of people worldwide. Sacral neuromodulation (SNM), currently serving ~300,000 patients worldwide, is a promising third-line therapy that provides improved efficacy and minimum adherence issue compared to conventional treatments. While current SNM is delivered in an open-loop fashion, the therapy could have improved clinical efficacy by adopting a closed-loop stimulation paradigm that uses objective physiological feedback. Therefore, this dissertation work focuses on using sacral level dorsal root ganglia neural signals to provide sensory feedback for adaptive SNM a feline model.

This work began with exploring machine learning algorithms and feature selection methods for bladder pressure decoding. A Kalman filter delivered the highest performance based on correlation coefficient between the pressure measurements and algorithm estimation. Additionally, firing rate normalization significantly contributed to lowering the normalized error, and a correlation coefficient-based channel selection method provided the lowest error compared to other channel selection methods.

Following algorithm optimization, this work implemented the optimized algorithm and feature selection method in real-time in anesthetized healthy and simulated OAB feline models. A 0.88 ± 0.16 correlation coefficient fit was achieved by the decoding algorithm across 35 normal and simulated OAB bladder fills in five experiments. Closed-loop neuromodulation was demonstrated using the estimated pressure to trigger pudendal nerve stimulation, which increased bladder capacity by 40% in two trials.

Finally, closed-loop SNM stimulation with DRG sensory feedback was performed in a series of anesthetized experiments. It increased bladder capacity by 13.8% over no stimulation (p < 0.001). While there was no statistical difference in bladder capacity between closed-loop and continuous stimulation (p = 0.80), closed-loop stimulation reduced stimulation time by 57.7%. Interestingly, bladder single units had a reduced sensitivity during stimulation, suggesting a potential mechanism of SNM.

Overall, this work demonstrated that sacral level DRG are a viable sensory feedback target for adaptive SNM. Validation in awake and chronic experiments is a crucial step prior to clinical translation of this method.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:08:12 -0400 2020-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Craft Lecture: Writing The Terrifying During Terrifying Times (November 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75557 75557-19521131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

Patricia Smith's latest book of poetry, *Incendiary Art* (Triquarterly Books, 2017), showcases her mastery of poetic forms— from her Motown crown of sonnets to elegant ghazals— and fearlessly engages with America’s continuous war on black bodies.

Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, including *Incendiary Art*, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; *Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah* (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press, 2008), a National Book Award finalist; and *Gotta Go, Gotta Flow* (CityFiles Press, 2015), a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes *Teahouse of the Almighty* (Coffee House Press, 2006), *Close to Death* (Zoland Books, 1998), *Big Towns Big Talk* (Zoland Books, 2002), *Life According to Motown* (Tia Chucha, 1991); the children's book *Janna and the Kings* (Lee & Low, 2013), and the history *Africans in America* (Mariner, 1999), a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in *Poetry*, *The Paris Review*, *The Baffler*, *The Washington Post*, *The New York Times*, *Tin House* and in *Best American Poetry*, *Best American Essays* and *Best American Mystery Stories*. She co-edited *The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks* (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), and edited the crime fiction anthology *Staten Island Noir* (Akashic Books, 2012).

Writing about *Incendiary Art*, *Publisher’s Weekly* praised Smith’s “razor-sharp linguistic sensibilities that give her scenes a cinematic flair and her lines a momentum that buoys their emotional weight.” Smith is a Guggenheim fellow, a Civitellian, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history.

Smith is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program.


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 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:55:48 -0400 2020-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Patricia Smith
Total Body Strength (November 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78786 78786-20129101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 10:00am
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:26:20 -0400 2020-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T10:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Experience strength training like never before!
Q&A with Poetry Editor Jeff Shotts (Graywolf Press) and Prof. Khaled Mattawa (November 6, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75599 75599-19542914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

This student-moderated Q&A will focus on the editing and publishing process, with particular emphasis on the interactions between Prof. Mattawa and Jeff Shotts of Graywolf Press in the publication of Prof. Mattawa's forthcoming book of poetry, *Fugitive Atlas*.

Jeff Shotts is Executive Editor at Graywolf Press, where for more than twenty years he has acquired and edited many works of poetry, nonfiction, translation, and multi-genre forms that resist categorization. He has worked with many authors including Kaveh Akbar, Elizabeth Alexander, Mary Jo Bang, Eula Biss, Eduardo C. Corral, Natalie Diaz, Tarfia Faizullah, Fanny Howe, Leslie Jamison, Ilya Kaminsky, Donika Kelly, Layli Long Soldier, Khaled Mattawa, Carl Phillips, D. A. Powell, Claudia Rankine, Erika L. Sánchez, Vijay Seshadri, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Mai Der Vang, Jenny Xie, Monica Youn, and Kevin Young. Books that he has acquired and edited have received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other honors, and authors whose works he has acquired and edited have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. Shotts received the 2017 Editor’s Award from *Poets & Writers* and was named a 2017 Notable Person of the Year in *Publishers Weekly*. He lives in Minneapolis with his family.

Khaled Mattawa is the author of five books of poetry; his latest, *Fugitive Atlas*, is forthcoming from Graywolf in October 2020. He is also the author of *Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation*, a critical study of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, recently published by Syracuse University Press; and *How Long Have You Been with Us: Essays on Poetry* (University of Michigan Press, 2016).


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. Live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:12:35 -0400 2020-11-06T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Khaled Mattawa and Jeff Shotts
Yoga Flow (November 6, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78785 78785-20129110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 11:30am
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 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:24:08 -0400 2020-11-06T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T12:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Students focus on clarity and well-being in Yoga Flow.
Biophysics Seminar Series (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77920 77920-19941585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

The Biophysics Virtual Seminar Series presents:

Dr. Nozomi Ando - Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University

*"Protein Allostery: Evolution and Correlated Motions"*

Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99976448506

ABSTRACT: Understanding the relationship between protein sequence, structure, dynamics, and function is the ultimate goal of structural biology. For this reason, my lab studies protein allostery - a special property of macromolecules that connects molecular motion and action. In this talk, I'll present two stories. First, I'll talk about how the evolution of allosteric mechanisms and the tools of structural biology can teach us about the relationship between protein sequence and function. In the second story, I'll talk about how one can learn about correlated motions that give rise to allostery.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:56:44 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Biophysics Livestream / Virtual Dr. Nozomi Ando
DCERP Information Session (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78702 78702-20107389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Register at http://myumi.ch/kx9r8 to speak live with the DCERP Director and DCERP Alumni.

"Open House" Info Sessions will be held January 6th - January 15th. Weekdays at noon, via Zoom.

Learn about the 2021 Summer Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program. This program includes:
- Working for a nonprofit on the environment, food security, health equity, neighborhood revitalization and more!
-Receive a stipend ($2,500 or more) and housing in Detroit (tentative)
- Be part of a fun learning community that will get to know about Detroit, social justice and each other! For the nine weeks of the fellowship and beyond.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 09:43:12 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Livestream / Virtual DCERP
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Getting a PhD in Slavic Studies: What it’s like and how to apply (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78955 78955-20162588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

A Workshop Series to help you decide whether graduate study in Slavic Studies at the University of Michigan is right for you. Tips and tricks on how to apply and what to expect during your time as a Ph.D. student — with University of Michigan graduate students and faculty!

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

Friday, November 6, 12 PM
What makes the U-M Slavic Department so unique?
Explore our holistic, interdisciplinary Ph.D. curriculum, as well as our Russian Study Abroad Program. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov, and current graduate student, Michael Martin

Friday, November 13, 1 PM
How can I afford graduate studies?
Learn about our competitive funding packages we provide to our graduate students, as well as additional fellowship opportunities and teaching positions available. Hosted by: Professors Benjamin Paloff and Misha Krutikov, and Director of Language Studies, Svitlana Rogovyk

Friday, November 20, 1 PM
What is it like to be a graduate student in today’s world?
Hear from our current graduate students about zoom dynamics, navigating virtual library systems, online meetings, and related topics. Hosted by: Current students Michael Martin, Tanya Silverman, and Aleks Marciniak, and Professor Misha Krutikov.

Friday, December 4, 1 PM
I have a Ph.D., now what?
Our faculty will help you explore various career options in Slavic Studies. Hosted by: Professors Michael Makin, Misha Krutikov, and Benjamin Paloff

Friday, December 11, 1 PM
What tips and tricks can I learn to apply to your program?
Learn from our Director of Graduate Studies and a current graduate student the tricks and tips in making your application robust, and complete. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov and current graduate student, Katie Kasperian

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

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:10:25 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
Honors Seminar Series: Dr. Reshma Jagsi (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75961 75961-19629762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., is the Newman Family Professor and Deputy Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan. An internationally recognized clinical trialist and health services researcher in the field of breast cancer, Dr. Jagsi has coauthored over 300 publications. She has also devoted a substantial portion of her scholarly effort to investigations regarding bioethics and gender equity in academic medicine. Her investigations of women’s under-representation in senior positions in academic medicine and the mechanisms that must be targeted to promote equity have been funded by multiple large grants from the National Institutes of Health and philanthropic foundations. Frequently invited as a keynote speaker, she has delivered invited talks at over 50 institutions and professional societies, including the AAMC, the NIH, and the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. Active in organized medicine, she has served on the Steering Committee of the AAMC's Group on Women in Medicine in Science, which recently awarded her its Leadership Award. Her work is frequently featured in the popular media, including coverage by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, and national network nightly news. A fellow of ASCO, ASTRO, and the Hastings Center, her contributions have also been recognized with her election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation. In this interactive lunchtime session, hear her describe her unconventional career, the challenges she has encountered, and advice in an interview with Henry Dyson, followed by the opportunity for open discussion.

To register for this seminar here: https://myumi.ch/0W1Op

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:44:38 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar Photo of Dr. Reshma Jagsi
Inclusive Leadership (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77776 77776-19921756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

There is a lot of talk about “Inclusive Leadership” but many are left asking: What is it? Why is it important? How can I do it? This workshop will address these questions by presenting research on the specific traits, elements, and styles of inclusive leaders. Participants will be able to reflect on and share their own experiences and times that they have witnessed others modeling inclusive leadership. We will discuss the benefits of inclusive leadership at the individual and organizational level. The presenter will also share resources and best practices on inclusive leadership frameworks. This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Deborah S. Willis.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/O4PPK.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. A limited number of spaces will also be made available for Rackham alumni. For the alumni registration link, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
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, 27 Sep 2020 00:16:11 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social Science Methodology (I3SM) (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76393 76393-19711164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The primary function of this workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for students and faculty to present their current projects and to receive feedback on either the methodological component of their project or a methodology under development. Presenters can also present new research questions and ideas and receive ideas about which methodologies would work best to tackle such questions. We define methodology broadly as the approaches to which data is collected and/or organized to give empirical content to social science research. It includes both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

To join the meeting via Zoom, email skuzushi@umich.edu for the meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:21:51 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Methodology
LAGS Seminar | My Private Sector Journey and Activities after Grad' School (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78856 78856-20133191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

After graduating from the University of Michigan, I moved from a traditional academic career path to working in the private sector. There are so many options out there after graduate school, that are worth mentioning. A few projects that I have worked on at my company will be presented. These projects have applications in remote sensing. The pros and cons of working in my company and some of my activities with other organizations will be shared.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:15:32 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LUNCH & LEARN: "Human-Machine Teaming in Aviation Operations: How and Why It Breaks Down" — Nadine Sarter (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77428 77428-19854011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Human-Machine Teaming in Aviation Operations: How and Why It Breaks Down

Abstract:
Breakdowns in human-machine teaming have resulted in numerous aviation incidents and accidents. In this talk, Dr. Sarter will use examples of recent mishaps as well as research in her laboratory to illustrate how technology-centered design contributes to problems with human-machine collaboration and how resulting accidents and inefficiencies can be avoided by employing a systems engineering approach that applies knowledge and techniques from cognitive ergonomics, interface design and behavioral science throughout system design and development.

Bio:
Nadine Sarter is a Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan where she also serves as Director of the Center for Ergonomics. Her primary research interests include (1) human-machine teaming, (2) operator trust in autonomous systems, (3) adaptive function allocation, (4) attention management, (5) multimodal interface design, (6) and the design of decision aids for high-tempo operations. She has conducted her work in a variety of application domains, including aviation and space, medicine, military operations, and the automotive industry. Dr. Sarter is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:28:52 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nadine Sarter
MCDB Virtual: Olfactory Navigation in Drosophila--Algorithms and Circuits (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77405 77405-19848067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Josie Clowney

Abstract: Olfactory navigation provides a tractable model for studying the circuit basis of sensori-motor transformations and goal-directed behavior. Macroscopic organisms typically navigate in odor plumes that provide a noisy and uncertain signal about the location of an odor source. Work in many species has suggested that animals accomplish this task by combining temporal processing of dynamic odor information with an estimate of wind direction.

Our lab has been using adult walking Drosophila to understand both the computational algorithms and the neural circuits that support navigation in a plume of attractive food odor. We developed a high-throughput paradigm to study behavioral responses to temporally-controlled odor and wind stimuli. Using this paradigm we found that flies respond to a food odor (apple cider vinegar) with two behaviors: during the odor they run upwind, while after odor loss they perform a local search. A simple computational model based one these two responses is sufficient to replicate many aspects of fly behavior in a natural turbulent plume.

In on-going work, we are seeking to identify the neural circuits and biophysical mechanisms that perform the computations delineated by our model. Using electrophysiology, we have identified mechanosensory neurons that compute wind direction from movements of the two antennae, and central mechanosensory neurons that encode wind direction are involved in generating a stable downwind orientation. Using optogenetic activation, we have traced olfactory circuits capable of evoking upwind orientation and offset search from the periphery, through the mushroom body and lateral horn, to the central complex. Most recently, connectomic analysis has suggested a plausible model for how wind and odor information might be integrated in the central complex to allow flies to flexibly alter their orientation to wind. Our work illustrates how the tools available in fruit fly can be applied to dissect the mechanisms underlying a complex goal-directed behavior.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:53:06 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Katherine Nagel with lab view behind her
Native American Graves and Repatriation Act: A Roundtable Discussion (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79064 79064-20184348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This event will highlight the collaboration and cooperation between Tribes and the University of Michigan as the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) nears the 30th year since its passing. This legislation provides a process for the return of Native American human remains, funerary and sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony from museums and federal agencies to federally recognized Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. This roundtable will engage four panelists, including members of the Michigan Anishinabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance (MACPRA), to consider past NAGPRA work, and the work that lies ahead.

Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/j/96225720948

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:46:16 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion UMMAA_11.6 bb image
Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77494 77494-19875792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions introduces the key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through a virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. The series explores interdisciplinary, real-world poverty solutions from a wide variety of perspectives and encourages the formation of a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.

The series features different guest speakers each Friday at noon beginning September 18, 2020. Speakers are national and global experts drawn from university, business, and community contexts who explore interdisciplinary real-world poverty solutions from a wide variety of perspectives.

Lectures are free and open to the public, and students can enroll in a course to receive one credit for attending the speaker series.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:52:12 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Livestream / Virtual Speaker Series graphic
We Voted. What's Next? BLI Leadership Lunch (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79178 79178-20225557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

A lot has happened — and is still happening — in the 2020 presidential election.

Join the BLI students to discuss the 2020 election in a safe and welcoming space. There will be two speakers, Erin Byrnes — lead for the Big Ten Voting Challenge at the Ginsberg Center, Getty Kasole — Cofounder of ACTIVE:CHI, who will share what civic engagement looks like beyond voting and how to create change in your communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:07:38 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLI Leadership Lunch
Psychology Department Faculty Meeting (November 6, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75304 75304-19408895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Psychology department monthly faculty meeting

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Meeting Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:43:50 -0400 2020-11-06T12:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Meeting
24th Annual U(M) Mathematics Career & Graduate Programs Conference (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78613 78613-20075959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

2020 has created many changes in education and the workforce. Here is your chance to talk with real companies and graduate programs about the challenges & benefits of graduating with a Math Degree in this weird new world!

We will have representatives from Jane Street, Maxar Technologies, Ford Motor Co, & AAA to name a few! We will also have representatives from graduate programs. Come prepared with questions! Register below & be sure to add this to your calendar!

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:22:39 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Mathematics Careers / Jobs Career Conference
Economics at Work (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78079 78079-19957578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

To join the seminar, please register from the following link.
https://forms.gle/QYre9DYYtmq8Wpe89

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:25:52 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Minicolloquium | Exploring and Engineering New Electronic Behavior in Two-Dimensional Materials (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78773 78773-20123133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

The electronic properties of most everyday materials can be well understood in the single-particle picture, that of independent electrons interacting with their environment. When interactions between electrons are important, however, the collective and correlated behavior of electrons can be beautiful, complicated, counter-intuitive, and sometimes even useful. I will outline how we can engineer and search for new correlated electronic states starting from ‘Scotch tape exfoliation’ of atomically thin materials (such as graphene) as a basis for new types of devices. Then, I will discuss how my research group plans to use low-temperature electronic transport and spatially-resolved magnetic measurements to uniquely demonstrate the behavior of correlated electrons in 2D materials, highlighting some of my previous work on the fractional quantum Hall effect and superconductivity as concrete examples.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Phondi Discussion Group (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77892 77892-19939595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:39:05 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series | Rebecca Liao (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78987 78987-20168493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series presents:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more information:

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

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Presentation Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:29:38 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Rebecca Liao
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Expectations, Perceptions and Prejudice in the Workplace, Karen Albrecht, Retired Lockheed Martin Executive (November 6, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79138 79138-20215739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Karen Albrecht
Lockheed Martin Executive (retired)

As you begin your career in the Workplace, you enter with certain expectations, and perceptions about what it will be in the Engineering Workplace. This course will provide insight on how your personal expectations and perceptions can be different than others and different from the organization. We will explore how each person’s personal prejudices can add/or detract to an expectation or perception that is not anywhere near the reality of the situation. This class will be interactive and will include viewing a video prior to the class, taking a survey a few minutes before the class and it will include polls during the class. There will be an opportunity to ask questions through the chat mode. Karen will use experiences from her nearly 40 year career as examples. As this course includes examples from a phenomenal career, there can be no pictures or video taken except for the “official” UM Aero Video that will be used only for AE 285 students in this class.

About the speaker...

Karen’s illustrious career as an Aerospace Engineer began at NASA JSC where she developed analytic methods for composite primary structure under fatigue and fracture mechanics for Space Shuttle. Karen participated in the Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (LSAH).

At Lockheed Martin, she worked on Missile Launching Systems, Basic Research, Commercial Aircraft, Undersea Systems, SMART Structures, Robotics and high performance Military Aircraft. She developed embedded fiber optics technology. She is a Master Black Belt in 6-sigma and Lean Engineering.

Karen serves on several university engineering and non-profit boards. Karen is the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus –Aerospace for the UM.

Karen is now CEO of Karen Albrecht Enterprises a Career and Personal Development Organization. Karen has delivered over 200 seminars for courses she developed and gives her time and knowledge to help students navigate career fairs and resume. Karen has set up an endowment fund for Aerospace undergraduate education and provides scholarships for Aerospace Engineering students who need the support to finish their education at the University of Michigan. She has already given out 10 scholarships to Aero students.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:55:08 -0500 2020-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Karen Albrecht
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77454 77454-19854041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

During the Fall Term, CSAS will make the documentaries from the 2020 Film South Asia film festival available to our community.

Following the agreement with the copyright holders, each film will be available for 12 hours, from 2 pm of the day, until 2 am the morning after.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/9BfAKE3QqvC5f5xi9

Friday, September 25, 2020
We Have Not Come Here to Die by Deepa Dhanraj, India, 78 mins

Friday, October 2, 2020
Scratches on Stone by Amit Mahanti, India, 66 mins + Listen by Min Min Hein, Myanmar, 13 mins

Friday, October 16, 2020
The Winter Tap by Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Nepal, 12 mins + Badshah Lear by Anant Raina, India, 61 mins

Friday, October 23, 2020
In Fact by Debalina Majumder, India, 51 mins + Chai Darbari by Prateek Shekhar, India, 29 mins

Friday, November 06, 2020
Facing the Dragon by Sedika Mojadidi, Afghanistan, 82 mins

Friday, November 20, 2020
Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India, 53 mins + Memoirs of Saira and Salim by Eshwarya Grover, India, 14 mins + And What is the Summer Saying by Payal Kapadia, India, 23 mins

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:12 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Travelling Film South Asia 2020 Film Series
Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77531 77531-19879819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by AIGA in partnership with League of Women Voters

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of ALL women protected and enforced, and intimidation tactics progressively eliminated.  The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, organized by AIGA in partnership with the League of Women Voters, commemorates this milestone. A core group of invited women of design submitted the first 65 non-partisan posters, to launch the initiative with their vision and voices. Through the posters, these women joined forces to collectively contribute to dialogue in design and society. This moment in history is an incredible opportunity to catalyze women in design, voting rights, citizenship, community, and diversity. The collection aspires to not only support present day voter participation, but to also serve as a backdrop for discourse and examination of the history of voting rights and women’s fight for equality.  The poster initiative continues at aiga.org/vote, where AIGA members can contribute posters to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2020 general election, as well as local elections to come. Posters are available for free download online.

The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery includes a selection of the 65 posters chosen by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery. The exhibition includes posters by Audrey Bennett, Johanna Björk, Karen Cheng, Emily Comfort, Jenny El-Shamy, Dinah Fried, Karin Fong, Anne M. Giangiulio, Annabelle Gould, Brockett Horne, Meena Khalili, nicole killian + shawné michaelain holloway, Karen Kurycki, Marty Maxwell Lane, Zuzana Licko, Ana Llorente, Beatriz Lozano, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Rebeca Mendez, Lana Rigsby, Kaleena Sales, Renee Seward, Laurel Shoemaker, Nancy Sklolos,  Hannah Smotrich, Shanti Sparrow, Jennifer Sterling, Fearn de Vicq, Cymone Wilder, and Lynne Yun.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:52:24 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2020_gotv_header-02.jpg
HistLing Discussion Group: Discussion of Explanation in Typology (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77832 77832-19933622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Assistant Professor Savi Namboodiripad and Linguistics graduate student Alex Kramer will present "Discussion of Explanation in Typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations, and the nature of evidence."

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:29:20 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Rackham 101: Communicating Across Differences (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77777 77777-19921757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Learn the art of understanding and communicating with others who share different experiences and backgrounds. Learning this skill will help work towards building positive relationships and dialogue.
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/NxznV.
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, 27 Sep 2020 00:16:12 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76921 76921-19776585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 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.
Zoom Meeting ID: 981 5994 7930
For more information on what the Resolution Officer has to offer visit https://myumi.ch/PlPB4.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:15:43 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations by Heidi Kumao (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77532 77532-19879842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to present Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations, a solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and experimental animations by Stamps Professor Heidi Kumao.

Using fabric cutouts and machine and hand stitching on industrial felt, Kumao gives physical form to the intangible dynamics underlying ordinary conversations and relationships from a feminist perspective. Intentionally minimal, each image distills an interaction, traumatic incident, or power imbalance into an accessible visual narrative. Recognizable objects such as chairs, roots, ladders, or spotlights set the stage for the story to unfold. Events are captured midstream, suspended in time like a felt film still.

The exhibition is inspired, in part, by the courage, testimony, and experiences of women (like Christine Blasey Ford) who publicly report assault, harassment, or misconduct. The #MeToo movement gave voice to thousands of women to tell their personal stories, but also exposed a hostile backlash meant to silence them. The title, “Real and Imagined,” is a deliberate contradiction; if one is true, the other must not be. In practice, however, both terms are used to reference a woman’s testimony and determine how it is publicly interpreted. Her account is accepted as truthful by many and simultaneously dismissed as imaginary by the court of public opinion: “her memory is wrong,” “she imagined it.”

The works in “Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations” make difficult conversations and relationships tangible by stripping them down to their essentials.

Wordless physical gestures highlight the psychological and emotional forces at play behind even the smallest of interactions.

Biography
Heidi Kumao has created award-winning experimental films, video installations, cinema machines, electronic clothing, and kinetic sculptures. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including shows at Art Science Museum Singapore, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), and Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo). She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/HK-Real-and-Imagined-email-header-01.jpg
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77530 77530-19879795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.

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Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
September 15, 2020 – December 4, 2020

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.


Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Auditions Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Respond.jpg
Economic Theory: Persuading Statisticians (November 6, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81680 81680-20941464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
A decision maker (DM) contemplates whether to take a costly action. The DM does not know the action's value and relies on data and unbiased statistical inference to estimate it. The data are Bernoulli experiments governed by the action's value. A designer, who wishes the DM to take the action, controls the size of the data, i.e., the sample size, available to the DM. We establish that in many environments the designer's optimal sample size is the largest one satisfying that either a single --- or a simple majority --- of favorable realizations would persuade the DM to take the action.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:53:54 -0500 2020-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (November 6, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78450 78450-20044413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

The Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:37:00 -0400 2020-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Feng
HET Seminar | Direct Detection Signals from Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77382 77382-19846065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

Absorption of fermionic dark matter leads to a range of distinct and novel signatures at dark matter direct detection and neutrino experiments. We study the possible signals from fermionic absorption by nuclear or electron targets, which we divide into two classes of four Fermi operators: neutral and charged current. In the neutral current signal, dark matter is absorbed by a target nucleus or electron and a neutrino is emitted. For nuclear targets, this results in a characteristically different nuclear recoil energy spectrum from that of elastic scattering. For electron targets, we calculate electron recoil spectra in xenon-based detectors for sub-MeV dark matter. The charged current channel is specific to nuclear targets and leads to induced beta decays in isotopes which are stable in vacuum as well as shifts of the kinematic endpoint of beta spectra in unstable isotopes. Last, we present UV completions of the four Fermi operators which give rise to these signals and study the prospects of seeing an absorption signal in light of other constraints, such as dark matter decays and mediator searches.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:23:29 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Supporting Your Student Organization in the Post Election Season (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79045 79045-20178460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

How will the post-election season impact your student organization? Spend time with Ginsberg Center team to process your own reactions to the election, and develop strategies to lead your student organization in inclusive and supportive ways. This drop-in session will take place twice in the weeks following the November 3rd election.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:50:55 -0500 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar event name with stars on flags
SynSem Discussion Group (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77836 77836-19933628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:20:15 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Writing Graduate School Application Statements (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78947 78947-20160622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

What to include/avoid and how to frame your story while writing academic and personal statements for research-based grad programs.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/No9TpCrotxxuPk1B8

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:39:48 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar
Rob Van der Voo Lecture: Some Observations on the Evolution of the Earth System: Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, Paleoclimate, and Paleobiogeography (November 6, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75008 75008-19136110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 98989652032
We'll discuss:
•The Earth System:  Plate Tectonics, Land, Air, Sea, Climate, Ice, & Life
•Earth System Connections (~ 24 important linkages)
•Change Through Time: Plate Tectonic Animation, Paleogeographic Animation, Rainfall Animation, Temperature Animation
•Icehouse to Hothouse Transitions
•Global Warming the Next 300 Years
•How has the Earth changed through time?
•How have changes in each Earth System affected the other Earth Systems
•Can we build a computer model that describes these changes and interactions? (Earth System Model)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:59:23 -0400 2020-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Colloquium: MI Diaries: Tracking language change during a pandemic (November 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77623 77623-19893759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguists Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Wagner of Michigan State University will present their project "MI Diaries: Tracking language change during a pandemic."

ABSTRACT
Face-to-face interaction has long been hypothesized to be a central component of both sociolinguistic development for individuals as well as of language change across an entire community. The social distancing conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic introduced a deep and long term disruption to typical face-to-face interaction for Michiganders, which in turn enables researchers to test precisely how these widescale disruptions to face-to-face interactions impact sociolinguistic development for children and participation in lifespan change for adults. In this talk, we introduce the MI-Diaries project, which has been tracking audio diaries from participants since the beginning of the pandemic. We highlight some of the major theoretical goals of the project, as well as discuss some of the methodological innovations necessary for conducting sociolinguistic fieldwork during a pandemic.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:57:57 -0500 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual Event promotion
Nam Center Artist Residency | “AGE OF FIRE: Women of the Scarred Earth” (November 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78605 78605-20073992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Registration for Zoom Webinar is required: http://myumi.ch/88MpK

Peggy Choy’s lifetime of dance has become a means to frame and navigate the dangerous times in which we live. While life and our environment can inform dance, Choy also examines the converse, that dance can inform our life and environment. Join Professor Choy for a live discussion of her own dance stories—both spoken and performed.

Peggy Myo-Young Choy’s dance alchemy of focused mind and moving body is fueled by Asian dance, martial arts, as well as urban vernacular dance forms. Choy’s seminal solos include, “Comfort Woman” and “Wild Rice.” She has also created solos around the themes—“Sea Series” and “Blood Series.” Her women-centered stories created since the mid-1990s, integrate her foundations in Korean dance, Javanese dance, and martial arts.

Choy is an associate professor of Dance and Asian-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison and is director of PEGGY CHOY DANCE company. Her company has performed around the world—at New York’s Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama E.T.C., and Alvin Ailey Studio, DC’s Kennedy Center, Dance Place and the Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy Theater in Honolulu, Utan Kayu in Jakarta, Seoul Art Center in Korea, Danza Teatro Retazos in Havana, and Baráčnická Rychta in Prague, and the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin.

Choy's national and international awards include an NEA/Atlantic Center for the Arts fellowship, Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative, Princeton and Cornell University commissions, and commissions from the Kintari Foundation, Seoul Selection, and Cafe Intarsia.

This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2016-OLU-2240001).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:30:35 -0400 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Peggy Myo-Young Choy (Dance and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
NERS Colloquia: Structural Materials Degradation in Molten Salt Reactor Environments (November 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75535 75535-19519135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
The liquid fueled MSR is among the advanced reactor concepts being considered for development by the U.S. Department of Energy. Key attributes of this reactor concept include: (i) high degree of passive safety, (ii) atmospheric pressure operation, (iii) high thermal efficiency due to high volumetric heat capacity and thermal conductivity of liquid salts, (iv) lower spent fuel per unit of energy, (v) high solubility of most fission products in liquid salts and (vi) absence of fuel assemblies. Materials selection for liquid fueled MSRs is based on ASME Sec III Div 5 and thus present unique challenges because of the high Cr content of current qualified alloys. Consequently, and considering the short-term deployment of MSRs, it is necessary to independently improve corrosion resistance of current code codified alloys by surface treatments. On the other hand, if one considers long-term deployment of MSRs, novel code certified alloys would need to be developed. Indeed, although Hastelloy-N, a low Cr, high Mo alloy developed during the MSRE program, has shown remarkable corrosion resistance in molten fluoride salts, this alloy has limited creep-rupture strength, irradiation damage resistance and has shown corrosion induced embrittlement. Consequently, this study focuses on the down-selection of a series of cladded 316H stainless steels (SS) and novel alloys based on corrosion resistance in molten FLiNaK at 700°C for up to 1000 hours. Finally, specific separate effects experiments are conducted to assess the influence of the experimental conditions on corrosion and mass transport.

Bio
Dr. Adrien Couet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he manages the MAterials Degradation under COrrosion and Radiation (MADCOR) laboratory. Previously, he worked as a nuclear materials research engineer at EDF (Electricité de France) in France, focusing on high-temperature aqueous corrosion and modeling corrosion of nuclear materials. He got hired at EDF after graduating in 2014 with a PhD in Nuclear and Mechnical Engineering from Penn State University. Over the last five years, Dr. Couet has worked on developing his research group around fundamental understanding of materials degradation and alloy design for extreme environments. MADCOR research programs evolves around fuel cladding corrosion in LWRs, developing structural materials and cladding for molten salt reactors and designing novel radiation resistant compositionally complex alloys. Dr. Couet also co-manages the UW Ion Beam Laboratory and is a co-organizer of the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp, which aims at training future entrepreneurs in the nuclear field.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:25:49 -0400 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing (November 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78493 78493-20052312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Writing in graduate school calls on students to work in a variety of new genres and challenges writers to expand on their skills as communicators. This workshop will help early graduate student writers identify critical practices and strategies to enhance their writing. We will focus on how to become more strategic readers, and examine patterns of inquiry across disciplines, including the practice of asking good questions and the importance of topic construction. We will also focus on the variety of communication forms graduate writing can take, and what these genres entail. The workshop will conclude by offering a variety of good writing habits and processes to develop in your early graduate student years.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:40:38 -0400 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar
Barre Above (November 6, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78765 78765-20129119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Challenge and sculpt your body without risk of injury from overuse by using a sequence of movements within different ranges of motion. No barre necessarily required and minimal equipment is used.

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:25:14 -0400 2020-11-06T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Students sculpt their bodies in Barre Above
Metabolic Circuit (November 6, 2020 4:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78806 78806-20129136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:45pm
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:39:41 -0400 2020-11-06T16:45:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
ECE Research Info Session, Hosted by TBP (November 6, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78782 78782-20123145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Come learn about research opportunities within Electrical and Computer Engineering! Professors Mingyan Liu, the ECE Department Chair, and P.C. Ku, the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs, will be there to discuss research opportunities within ECE.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96228255502

Meeting ID: 962 2825 5502

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:02:52 -0400 2020-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs
Peace Corps Application Workshop (November 6, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77286 77286-19830138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

Join us for a Peace Corps application workshop. At this workshop, you will:
- Meet with Peace Corps Recruiters
- Learn more about the application process
- Understand how to make yourself a stronger applicant

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:44:56 -0400 2020-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Center Workshop / Seminar
Lower Body Sculpt (November 6, 2020 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78808 78808-20129145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 5:15pm
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:44:06 -0400 2020-11-06T17:15:00-05:00 2020-11-06T18:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Cardio Hip Hop (November 6, 2020 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78809 78809-20129150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 5:45pm
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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:47:36 -0400 2020-11-06T17:45:00-05:00 2020-11-06T18:35:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness
Hatha Yoga (November 6, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78811 78811-20129163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

This class will combine yoga poses (asanas) with breathing exercises (pranayama) to help align and calm your body, mind, and spirit in preparation for meditation. Hatha can be translated to mean balance or literally “sun” (ha) and “moon” (tha). Traditional asanas are held in accurate alignment. It develops strength, flexibility, endurance, and steadiness, bringing greater balance on all levels (body, mind and spirit). 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 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:52:01 -0400 2020-11-06T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T19:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness This class will combine yoga poses (asanas) with breathing exercises (pranayama) to help align and calm your body, mind, and spirit.