Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 7, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-07T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-07T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Win or a Loss? A New Measure of Protest Success (July 7, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95946 95946-21791482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:41:25 -0400 2022-07-07T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-07T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion ICPSR Summer Program promotional image for Blalock Lecture with Kimberly Turner
Carsie Blanton (July 7, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93524 93524-21705226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

You may have encountered Carsie Blanton through her great John Prine tribute that circulated a couple of years ago, but there's a lot more to this New Orleans songstress than that. "Like the singer-songwriters she admires, Carsie Blanton is making folk-based music that prizes wordplay and an antic sense of humor. You can hear jazz, Motown and power pop in her melodies and phrasing, which makes her stuff delightfully surprising but doesn't help her in commercial categorization," says Ken Tucker of NPR. "Her tone never becomes cute because she phrases with such purpose. And what she's talking about is almost always earthy if not downright down and dirty." Carsie has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe since 2006, as a headliner and as support for Paul Simon, The Wood Brothers, The Weepies, Shawn Colvin and many more. Her live performances, which include material from every album, have been praised for their wit, humor, and captivating charm. Carsie Blanton writes anthems for a world worth saving. Inspired by artists including Prine and Nina Simone, Carsie delivers every song with an equal dose of moxie and mischief, bringing her audience together in joyful celebration of everything worth fighting for. She comes to The Ark with new music!
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Proof of COVID vaccination required for entry. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.

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Performance Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:56:15 -0400 2022-07-07T20:00:00-04:00 2022-07-07T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Carsie Blanton at The Ark
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 8, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-08T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21690998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-08T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-08T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
David Schottenfeld Lecture (July 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95837 95837-21791683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

Wednesday, July 20 at 12:15 PM

Topic: Maladjusted Epidemiology and Iatrogenic Health Disparities

Jay Kaufman, PhD
Professor Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health McGill University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:13:19 -0400 2022-07-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion Lecture flyer
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Heartfulness Guided Meditation (July 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88544 88544-21791386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly, drop-in program designed to help you nourish your spirit and heal your body and mind.

All U-M students, faculty, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required.

Advanced Wellness techniques are taught on the first Friday of the Month and that session will be about 45 mins.

*What will you learn?*

The guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation.

Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice.

*Why Meditate?*

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony.

*Event Details*

Heartfulness Guided Meditation
Fridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)
Join the Zoom Meeting: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94465693508
Meeting ID: 944 6569 3508
Register to receive Passcode (see “Related links”)



This wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.

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Well-being Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:54:06 -0500 2022-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Well-being Advanced Wellness Techniques - Wellness in 3 steps
Go Blue! Tips for surviving and Thriving at U-M: Mental health tips (July 8, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95193 95193-21788748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Getting to Know Michigan

Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) provides free and confidential short-term counseling to help enrolled students manage and navigate mental health concerns. CAPS strives to provide services in an atmosphere that is safe, welcoming, and affirming. In this session, you will hear from CAPS staff about transitioning to college, common student mental health concerns, specific services that CAPS provides, how to make an appointment at CAPS, and learn about other mental health resources.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 May 2022 16:01:38 -0400 2022-07-08T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Getting to Know Michigan Livestream / Virtual Getting to Know Michigan
Academic Peer Advising: Drop-in Hours (July 8, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95611 95611-21790463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

LSA Newnan Academic Peer Advisors (APA) are here to answer questions that you have about making the transition from high school or another college to LSA and U-M.
You're welcome to log in and log out as needed. No appointment is necessary.
You can "drop-in" with a quick question, or you're welcome to stay longer to chat.
The format of the Main Room is group discussion, but APAs can create Breakout Rooms if you'd rather have a one-on-one conversation.
Drop-in advising times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Zoom link (same for all drop-in sessions): https://umich.zoom.us/j/91722226401

Date: Friday, July 8, 2022
Time: 1:30-2:45 pm
Peer Advisors: TBA

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Other Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:42:33 -0400 2022-07-08T13:30:00-04:00 2022-07-08T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Other
Academic Peer Advising: Drop-in Hours (July 8, 2022 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95613 95613-21790465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

LSA Newnan Academic Peer Advisors (APA) are here to answer questions that you have about making the transition from high school or another college to LSA and U-M.
You're welcome to log in and log out as needed. No appointment is necessary.
You can "drop-in" with a quick question, or you're welcome to stay longer to chat.
The format of the Main Room is group discussion, but APAs can create Breakout Rooms if you'd rather have a one-on-one conversation.
Drop-in advising times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Zoom link (same for all drop-in sessions): https://umich.zoom.us/j/91722226401

Date: Friday, July 8, 2022
Time: 2:45-4:00 pm
Peer Advisors: TBA

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Other Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:57:43 -0400 2022-07-08T14:45:00-04:00 2022-07-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Other
Summer Social (with GRIN) (July 8, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95787 95787-21790903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

The long awaited Sun is finally out, and the temperature has soared above 70 degrees after almost 7 months.
And with this GRIN is excited to host an outdoor social for all the students.

We have reserved the back patio of Casa Dominick's where we will bond over appetizers (on the house) and board games.

Location: Casa Dominick's (https://goo.gl/maps/AmLWzxdoEU3xfBhv9)
Date: Friday, July 8th
Time: 6pm-9pm

All students (domestic and international) are welcome.

RSVP link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfH3fDz0GmuDuqs0iJrxUMysce8Z_yQJFOmFwpV4KFhgkqjA/viewform

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Social / Informal Gathering Sun, 26 Jun 2022 22:27:45 -0400 2022-07-08T18:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graduate Rackham International Social / Informal Gathering Summer Social at Dominicks
Nicki Bluhm (July 8, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93269 93269-21702115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

California native Nicki Bluhm currently resides in Nashville, re-invigorated as a songwriter and performer. Embarking on her second decade of releasing albums, Nicki stepped out on her own with the 2018 release of ‘To Rise You Gotta Fall’, a collection of songs exploring old endings and new beginnings. Eager to try new things in unfamiliar places, Nicki decided to record at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording Services in Memphis, TN and enlisted producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Calexico) to take the helm. After a year of virtual performing, Nicki is excited to return to the road playing live shows as a solo artist, with her Nashville band and with a variety of musicians and longtime friends in new and creative iterations. Having also shared the stage with such luminaries as the Infamous Stringdusters, The Wood Brothers, Geroge Porter Jr. and Phil Lesh, and opened for several other artists at The Ark, she brings new bright-eyed interpretations of her existing catalog while working on fresh material to be released in the near future.
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Proof of COVID vaccination required for entry. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.

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Performance Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:08:27 -0400 2022-07-08T20:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Nicki Bluhm at The Ark
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 9, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 9, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-09T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21690999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 9, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-09T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-09T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 9, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-09T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-09T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 9, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 9, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-09T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 9, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 9, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-09T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 10, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-10T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-10T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-10T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-10T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-10T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Parsonsfield (July 10, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93516 93516-21705219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Parsonsfield is a four-piece alt/folk band from Massachusetts that infuses a rowdy, rock 'n' roll spirit into its bluegrass and folk influences, blowing away any preconception of what you think banjos and mandolins should sound like. They weren't always called Parsonsfield—the band started out as Poor Old Shine. The new name was born of the inspired experiences recording two albums in beautiful, rural Parsonsfield, Maine. "We owe a lot to what happened there," they say. "It pulled us from being a more traditional string band to something that felt much more uniquely ourselves. It made us the band we are today." The joy is palpable when this band takes the stage, and NPR says they make "the most jubilant and danceable indie roots music this side of the Carolinas."
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Proof of COVID vaccination required for entry. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.

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Performance Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:43:14 -0400 2022-07-10T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-10T22:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Parsonsfield at The Ark
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 11, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-11T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-11T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-11T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Academic Peer Advising Panel: Transfer Students - Making the Transition to U-M (July 11, 2022 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95622 95622-21790475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

APAs will introduce you to a broad range of academic and co-curricular opportunities, on-campus and off-campus programs, and LSA and U-M offices. They'll share their personal experiences and insights to help you make the most of your time at U-M.

After each APA gives a short presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion.

Panel presentation times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Date: Monday, July 11, 2022
Time: 8:45-10:00 am
Topic: Transfer Students: Making the Transition to U-M
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99777006135
Peer Advisors: Premma, Princess, Qi, and Zaynab
Description:
Confused about transfer policies? Eager to expand your social circle? Don't know what to expect with class workload? Or do you just want to talk about life as a new transfer student at U-M? We're here to help!
We'll share our experiences with transfer policies, connecting to other students, getting involved on-campus, how to succeed in classes, and more. Go blue!

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Other Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:53:40 -0400 2022-07-11T08:45:00-04:00 2022-07-11T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Other
Academic Peer Advising: Drop-in Hours (July 11, 2022 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95614 95614-21790466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

LSA Newnan Academic Peer Advisors (APA) are here to answer questions that you have about making the transition from high school or another college to LSA and U-M.
You're welcome to log in and log out as needed. No appointment is necessary.
You can "drop-in" with a quick question, or you're welcome to stay longer to chat.
The format of the Main Room is group discussion, but APAs can create Breakout Rooms if you'd rather have a one-on-one conversation.
Drop-in advising times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Zoom link (same for all drop-in sessions): https://umich.zoom.us/j/91722226401

Date: Monday, July 11, 2022
Time: 8:45-10:00 am
Peer Advisors: Chenrui, Elashia, Ihsan, Jackson, and Vikram

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Other Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:59:56 -0400 2022-07-11T08:45:00-04:00 2022-07-11T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Other
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-11T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 11, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-11T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
TRANSITIONS: Ready, Set, Letting Go! (July 11, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95194 95194-21788749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Getting to Know Michigan

Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) provides free and confidential short-term counseling to help enrolled students manage and navigate mental health concerns. CAPS strives to provide services in an atmosphere that is safe, welcoming, and affirming. In this session, you will hear from CAPS staff about transitioning to college, common student mental health concerns, specific services that CAPS provides, how to make an appointment at CAPS, and learn about other mental health resources.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 May 2022 16:01:48 -0400 2022-07-11T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Getting to Know Michigan Livestream / Virtual Getting to Know Michigan
MCSP Q&A Session (July 11, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95552 95552-21790106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

Join MCSP staff for an informal drop-in session to get all your questions answered about registering for MCSP courses, participating in summer programming, preparing for Welcome Week, and West Quad in the Fall.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:20:23 -0400 2022-07-11T15:30:00-04:00 2022-07-11T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Social / Informal Gathering
Richard Giszczak, carillon (July 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95748 95748-21790864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The country's most prolific arranger for carillon today, former weekly U-M carillon recitalist Richard Giszczak returns to Ann Arbor to perform a concert of familiar and eminently singable tunes and hymns on the Lurie Carillon ranging from African American spirituals to "Over the Rainbow."


**Please note that metered visitor parking behind the Walgreen Drama Center may be limited due to construction. Additional street parking along Bonisteel Blvd. is available after business hours, and metered visitor parking is available by the E.V. Moore Building (lot NC10), the North Campus Recreation Building (lot NC44), and the Art & Architecture Building (lot NC43).

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Performance Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:21:41 -0400 2022-07-11T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Richard Giszczak, carillon
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 12, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-12T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-12T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-12T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Tuesdays, 9:30-11am) (July 12, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94931 94931-21786494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

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

With Erin Ware (SRC) and Jon Reader (MADRC)

Expertise at this session includes: automation of tasks & workflows, Bash, bioinformatics, conda (anaconda/miniconda), data analysis, data management, data visualization, git, GitHub, GitLab, GNU Make, high performance computing (HPC), LaTeX, Linux, machine learning, macOS, natural language processing, pandas, PySpark, Python, Python Requests, Python Selenium, R, R Markdown, R tidyverse, REDCap, SAS, social sciences, SPSS, SQL, statistics, survey data, text analysis, time-series analysis, web scraping, Windows

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Meeting Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:37:05 -0400 2022-07-12T09:30:00-04:00 2022-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-12T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
MCommunity Transformation Project Online Drop-in Office Hours (July 12, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95906 95906-21791423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

The MCommunity directory, powered by Information and Technology Services (ITS), is getting a major upgrade.

Beginning July 31, a number of enhancements and changes will be available, including a more intuitive and accessible interface, the ability to set personal pronouns, the option to add a name pronunciation with NameCoach, and support for all ITS-supported browsers, devices, and screen sizes. The university community will also have more control over their own profile privacy and a QR code will be available for ease of sharing or adding contact information.

Bring your questions to the MCommunity Transformation online drop-in office hours.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Jul 12, 2022 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: MCommunity Office Hours

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PsTPBS7jSwqJbJJqHD6zUg. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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Meeting Wed, 06 Jul 2022 07:20:34 -0400 2022-07-12T11:30:00-04:00 2022-07-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting MCommunity is getting an upgrade on July 31! You may add your pronouns, a profile photo, and preferred name! Manage your profile privacy settings too.
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Tuesdays, 2-3:30pm) (July 12, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94933 94933-21786510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/98917021399)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Charles Antonelli (LSA Tech), Jonathan Golob (Division of Infectious Disease), and Shelly Johnson (ARC)

Expertise at this session includes: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ARC Armis, ARC Great Lakes, Bash, bash shell scripting, C , C++, CMake, conda (anaconda/miniconda), CUDA, Fortran, git, GitHub, GitLab, GNU Make, Google Cloud Platform, GPU, HDF5, high performance computing (HPC), Julia, LaTeX, Linux, Lmod modules, macOS, MATLAB, MPI, NVIDIA, OpenACC, OpenMP, pandas, parallelization, performance analysis, Perl, Python, Python BeautifulSoup, Python Requests, Python Selenium, R, R devtools, Rcpp, SLURM, software compilation & installation on Linux, software development, tensorflow, test-driven development, venv, web scraping, XSEDE

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Meeting Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:38:50 -0400 2022-07-12T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-12T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Using the Arts to Flip Understanding (July 12, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95844 95844-21791184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: a2ru (Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities)

When you’re on a mental “hamster wheel,” running faster doesn’t help. Slowing down, stepping to the side, and seeing from another perspective does.

In our work as faculty, practitioners, and researchers, we may find ourselves getting stuck in the same places, finding that our familiar approaches fail to move us forward. How do we refresh and jumpstart inspiration? To get “unstuck,” we need to try new perspectives and approaches. In this workshop, we use arts-based activities to open up new neural pathways. We refresh our thinking and jumpstart inspiration with poetry, visual art, and movement. This class calls upon a range of intelligences and skills inherent in us all – no formal arts training required.


Experimenting with new materials can provoke new insight.

What to expect:

*immersive, artistic exploration
*guided critical reflection
*one-on-one discussion with peers
*two hours that fly by

What you’ll get:

*a refreshed perspective on an area or question that’s important to you
*a dedicated time and space for exploring that area in new ways

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:47:29 -0400 2022-07-12T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location a2ru (Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities) Workshop / Seminar New materials can spark new solutions.
Measuring societal change: the General Social Survey (July 12, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95971 95971-21791509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:30:24 -0400 2022-07-12T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Measuring societal change: the General Social Survey (ICPSR Blalock Lecture)
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 13, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-13T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-13T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-13T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework-Part 1- Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95464 95464-21789949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework-Part 1

Webinar open for registration!

July 13, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
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This first webinar in a two-part series on implementing interventions in a responsive design framework will discuss a variety of potential RSD interventions. Many of these have been implemented experimentally, and the course will include evaluations of those experiments. The importance of experimental evaluations in early phases of RSD will be discussed. Methods for implementing interventions will also be discussed, including implementation of experiments aimed at evaluating new interventions. Strategies for implementing these interventions with both interviewer-mediated and self-administered (e.g., web and mail) surveys will be discussed. Methods for the evaluation of the results of the interventions (experimental and otherwise) will be considered. These evaluations will include measures of both costs and errors.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Brady T. West

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:24:20 -0400 2022-07-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Getting to Know Trotter Multicultural Center (July 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95195 95195-21788750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Getting to Know Michigan

Started by student activism, Trotter Multicultural Center works to enhance multicultural awareness across campus through our facilities, programs, and partnership. Trotter is a place where students can build community, enhance their learning, and find support. This session will teach you more about the history of Trotter, our programs, and more ways to get involved in the Michigan community.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 May 2022 16:02:02 -0400 2022-07-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Getting to Know Michigan Livestream / Virtual Getting to Know Michigan
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 13, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-13T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 13, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-13T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 13, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-13T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
North Campus Mindfulness Meditation Drop-In (Online) (July 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40967 40967-21788205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 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 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being Mindfulness meditation
Philip S. Brachman Memorial Lecture (July 13, 2022 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95836 95836-21791047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

Wednesday, July 13 at 12:15 PM

Topic: "Beyond Magic Bullets: White Race as Social Determinant of Opioid Crisis"?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:43:39 -0400 2022-07-13T12:15:00-04:00 2022-07-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion Lecture flyer
The Effect of Media Frames on Public Attitudes about Policy (July 13, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95972 95972-21791510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:34:12 -0400 2022-07-13T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The Effect of Media Frames on Public Attitudes about Policy - ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2022
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 14, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-14T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-14T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-14T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Thursdays, 9:30-11am) (July 14, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94979 94979-21788190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/93123907853)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Huchen Liu (PDHP/ISR), Kelly Sovacool (DCMB), and Paul Schulz (PDHP/ISR)

Expertise at this session includes: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ARC Armis, ARC Great Lakes, automation of tasks & workflows, Bash, bash shell scripting, bioinformatics, C , conda (anaconda/miniconda), data analysis, data management, data visualization, git, GitHub, Google Cloud Platform, HDF5, high performance computing (HPC), JavaScript, LaTeX, Linux, machine learning, macOS, mamba, microbiome, Nextflow, package development, pandas, parallelization, performance analysis, Python, Python Requests, R, R devtools, R Markdown, R tidyverse, REDCap, SAS, SLURM, Snakemake, social sciences, software compilation & installation on Linux, software development, SPSS, SQL, Stata, statistics, survey data, test-driven development, text analysis, time-series analysis, unit testing, venv, web scraping, Windows

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Meeting Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:39:53 -0400 2022-07-14T09:30:00-04:00 2022-07-14T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-14T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-14T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-14T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
DEI Film Discussion | "Searching for Justice: Life after Lockup" (July 14, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95984 95984-21791525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion

There are now more than 1 million persons in U.S. prisons -- the highest incarceration rate of any other country in the world. This 2022 PBS NewsHour documentary focuses on the many challenges individuals face after incarceration -- from reconnecting with family, to finding work and housing, to staying out of prison or jail. A crucial look at the impact of mass incarceration in the country. It is FREE to stream on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp8SF2Ky_bM This conversation is open to all, but please register to receive the Zoom link beforehand.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 21:15:51 -0400 2022-07-14T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Silhouetted figure against a sky at sunrise
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Thursdays, 2-3:30pm) (July 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94934 94934-21786526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/96475145533)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Bennet Fauber (ARC), Meghan Dailey (ARC), Sara Lafia (ICPSR)

Expertise at this session includes: ARC Armis, ARC Great Lakes, Bash, bash shell scripting, C , C++, conda (anaconda/miniconda), CUDA, data analysis, data management, data visualization, git, GitHub, GitLab, GPU, high performance computing (HPC), Java, keras, Linux, Lmod modules, machine learning, macOS, MATLAB, natural language processing, pandas, Python, SLURM, social sciences, software compilation & installation on Linux, software development, spatial data analysis, Stata, tensorflow, text analysis, Windows

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Meeting Tue, 03 May 2022 12:22:15 -0400 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
Exploring the Intersections of Person and Place: Healthy Aging for Adults with Long-Term Physical Disabilities (July 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95798 95798-21790920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Registration is required to attend: bit.ly/JulyRRTC

Please join us for an interactive, dynamic conversation about healthy aging for people with long-term physical disabilities. Our interdisciplinary panel of experts includes those with lived experience. Together, they will consider the importance of environmental factors, such as the built, attitudinal, and policy environments. They will discuss high-priority concerns of people aging with disabilities, such as housing, social disconnectedness and isolation, and home and community-based supports. These experts will also focus on how individuals and communities can take steps to enhance outcomes. We invite you to participate by including your questions for the panelists on the registration form and during the webinar itself.

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

For more information, please visit the following link: https://myumi.ch/84kPZ.

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

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Presentation Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:33:07 -0400 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation IDEAL RRTC July 14 2022 Webinar Flyer
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
We Bear: Behind the Scenes (July 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95328 95328-21789168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Thursday, July 14 - 2PM EST / 7PM GMT

Here's your opportunity to get an exclusive look into the makings of the compelling international collaboration, We Bear, where people in prison in the US and UK responded to folk art paintings of chained bears.

Hear from Faye Claridge, project creator, and a recently released participant, along with commissioners Coventry Biennial and UK prison education provider Novus.

Hosting the discussion and inviting your questions is the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), who supported artists taking part during extremely difficult lockdown conditions and who are now hosting the international debut, We Bear US, at the Ann Arbor Art Fair on July 21-23.

Speakers:
Faye Claridge - Artist, We Bear Creator
George Rogers - UK Artist
Sarah Hartley - National Lead Creative Strategies, Novus
Ryan Hughes - Artistic Director, Coventry Biennial
Nora Krinitsky - Lecturer, Residential College/Director, PCAP
Serge Tkachenko - US Artist

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 25 Jun 2022 22:41:10 -0400 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Parker Ayers, We Bear, 2021
Webinar: Listen In: Acoustic Monitoring of Estuarine Communities Facing Ecosystem Change (July 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95542 95542-21790090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Soundscape ecology is a promising new field that studies the sounds produced above and below water using a variety of acoustic sensors. Passive acoustic monitoring records sound produced over multiple levels of biological complexity which can be used to investigate and monitor biodiversity, behaviors such as feeding and spawning, and anthropogenic noise. By implementing acoustic monitoring, scientists and managers can identify key habitats for protection and measure how ecological communities respond to environmental changes (e.g. storm events, coastal development, eutrophication) in a cost-effective and low-impact manner.

This project brought together academic leaders in bioacoustics, estuarine ecology, and fisheries ecology with managers and staff from the Mission-Aransas, Rookery Bay, and North Inlet-Winyah Bay reserves. The goal was to develop a framework for a new acoustic monitoring program that could be integrated with reserve programs throughout the region, including: long-term system monitoring; targeted research, e.g. oyster reefs; stewardship applications, e.g. visitor use and anthropogenic noise; and education programs such as TOTE. In this webinar, project lead Chris Biggs will talk about the project approach and management context, share lessons learned from the project, and discuss the value of active acoustic monitoring as a component of ecosystem stewardship.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:09:44 -0400 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Workshop / Seminar
Michigan Community Scholars Program Pack & Play (July 14, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95677 95677-21790544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

Join MCSP student leaders and incoming FY students for virtual fun and games, as well as some time to plan your move-in to your new home in West Quad.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:28:22 -0400 2022-07-14T19:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Social / Informal Gathering
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) as a Resource for Scholars of Elections, Opinion, and Behavior (July 14, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95973 95973-21791511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:38:22 -0400 2022-07-14T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-14T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) as a Resource for Scholars of Elections, Opinion, and Behavior - ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Sonny Landreth - Rescheduled from 11/11/21 (July 14, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73509 73509-18252273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

After a dozen acclaimed albums, virtuoso slide guitarist and bandleader Sonny Landreth found himself at an artistic crossroads. He wanted to finally create the full-length acoustic collection his fans had long requested. But he was also itching to capture the sound of his stalwart electric trio augmented by a couple of his favorite collaborators. And the time was certainly right for an elastic, career-spanning double-live album. So Sonny and his longtime friends decided to do it all. "Recorded Live in Lafayette" is a 16-song opus that covers more musical ground than any single album ever could, as the singer and songwriter’s work stretches and twists across 93 minutes of full-band acoustic and electric bottleneck lightning. You can get a taste of the magic without going to Lafayette right here at The Ark—Sonny Landreth is one of the great live guitarists of our time!

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Performance Wed, 13 Oct 2021 11:37:46 -0400 2022-07-14T20:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Sonny Landreth at The Ark
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 15, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-15T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-15T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-15T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework-Part 2- Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95466 95466-21789951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework-Part 2

Webinar open for registration!

July 15, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
F

This second webinar in a two-part series on implementing interventions in a responsive design framework will walk participants through several real-world examples of interventions that have been applied to real surveys. Participants will also be able to work on small-group exercises designed to develop original interventions in different survey contexts.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Brady T. West

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:23:34 -0400 2022-07-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
The Clements Bookworm: Classic Food and Restaurants of the Upper Peninsula (July 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95502 95502-21790014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a veritable cornucopia of delicious dishes. Over the centuries, the shared food knowledge and passion of Native Americans and immigrants of all kinds produced the region’s iconic foods and beloved restaurants. Mackinac Island remains the epicenter for fine food. Here one can dine on freshly caught trout and whitefish at the Grand Hotel before tracking down the island’s celebrated fudge for dessert.

Afield of the island, visitors and residents alike can attend a Friday night fish fry virtually anywhere in the area, savor a juicy “Big C” burger at one of the many Clyde’s Drive-In locations or just have a refreshing glass of beer at Tahquamenon Brew Pub in aptly named Paradise. Author and award-winning historian Russell M. Magnaghi delves into the delectable food history of the Upper Peninsula.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

This episode of the Clements Bookworm is generously sponsored by Barbara and Wally Prince.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:56:37 -0400 2022-07-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation Russell Magnaghi pictured with a Pasty, and the cover of his book, "Classic Food and Restaurants of the Upper Peninsula"
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Informational Webinar (July 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95952 95952-21791489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

A U-M Fulbright Program Advisor will present information about the current Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition and U-M application process.

Required registration for this Zoom webinar is at: https://myumi.ch/pZyp9

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:25:01 -0400 2022-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual Fulbright U.S. Student Program Informational Webinar
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Heartfulness Guided Meditation (July 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88544 88544-21791387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly, drop-in program designed to help you nourish your spirit and heal your body and mind.

All U-M students, faculty, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required.

Advanced Wellness techniques are taught on the first Friday of the Month and that session will be about 45 mins.

*What will you learn?*

The guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation.

Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice.

*Why Meditate?*

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony.

*Event Details*

Heartfulness Guided Meditation
Fridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)
Join the Zoom Meeting: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94465693508
Meeting ID: 944 6569 3508
Register to receive Passcode (see “Related links”)



This wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.

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Well-being Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:54:06 -0500 2022-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Well-being Advanced Wellness Techniques - Wellness in 3 steps
Academic Peer Advising Panel: Unique Opportunities Outside the Classroom (July 15, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95623 95623-21790476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

APAs will introduce you to a broad range of academic and co-curricular opportunities, on-campus and off-campus programs, and LSA and U-M offices. They'll share their personal experiences and insights to help you make the most of your time at U-M.

After each APA gives a short presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion.

Panel presentation times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022
Time: 1:30-2:45 pm
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99617723580
Topic: Unique Opportunities Outside the Classroom
Peer Advisors: Andy, Daniel, Giovanni, and Tommy
Description:
Make the most of your education by learning outside of the classroom!
Learn how you can pursue opportunities like conducting research, securing internships and jobs, engaging in community service, and studying off-campus (within the U.S. and internationally).

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Other Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:56:00 -0400 2022-07-15T13:30:00-04:00 2022-07-15T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Other
Academic Peer Advising: Drop-in Hours (July 15, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95615 95615-21790467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

LSA Newnan Academic Peer Advisors (APA) are here to answer questions that you have about making the transition from high school or another college to LSA and U-M.
You're welcome to log in and log out as needed. No appointment is necessary.
You can "drop-in" with a quick question, or you're welcome to stay longer to chat.
The format of the Main Room is group discussion, but APAs can create Breakout Rooms if you'd rather have a one-on-one conversation.
Drop-in advising times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Zoom link (same for all drop-in sessions): https://umich.zoom.us/j/91722226401

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022
Time: 1:30-2:45 pm
Peer Advisors: Abby, Andrew, Bediere, and Olivia

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Other Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:10:37 -0400 2022-07-15T13:30:00-04:00 2022-07-15T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Other
Academic Peer Advising Panel: Making a Big University Feel Smaller (July 15, 2022 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95624 95624-21790477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

APAs will introduce you to a broad range of academic and co-curricular opportunities, on-campus and off-campus programs, and LSA and U-M offices. They'll share their personal experiences and insights to help you make the most of your time at U-M.

After each APA gives a short presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion.

Panel presentation times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022
Time: 2:45-4:00 pm
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95826056806
Topic: Making a Big University Feel Smaller
Peer Advisors: Chloe, Jamy, Lillith, and Shivangi
Description:
U-M is home to over 1,000 student organizations (orgs) and even more undergraduates (over 18,000 in LSA alone). Just figuring out where to start finding student orgs and connecting with people can feel overwhelming.
We're here to help you make it more manageable. Learn how you can make a large university feel smaller and how you can take care of yourself during this big transition.

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Other Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:58:51 -0400 2022-07-15T14:45:00-04:00 2022-07-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Other
Academic Peer Advising: Drop-in Hours (July 15, 2022 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95616 95616-21790468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

LSA Newnan Academic Peer Advisors (APA) are here to answer questions that you have about making the transition from high school or another college to LSA and U-M.
You're welcome to log in and log out as needed. No appointment is necessary.
You can "drop-in" with a quick question, or you're welcome to stay longer to chat.
The format of the Main Room is group discussion, but APAs can create Breakout Rooms if you'd rather have a one-on-one conversation.
Drop-in advising times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Zoom link (same for all drop-in sessions): https://umich.zoom.us/j/91722226401

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022
Time: 2:45-4:00 pm
Peer Advisors: Alyssa, Joyce, Qi, and Yining

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Other Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:12:07 -0400 2022-07-15T14:45:00-04:00 2022-07-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Other
Getting to Know Fraternity & Sorority Life: Join Us! (July 15, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95196 95196-21788751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Getting to Know Michigan

Fraternities & sororities have a long, rich history at the University of Michigan. offering diverse experiences to over 5,000 students in chapters from four governing councils; Interfraternity Council (IFC), Multicultural Greek Council (MGC), National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), and Panhellenic Association (Panhel). This session will provide incoming students and families with an overview of Fraternity & Sorority Life, the recognized chapters, and information about how to get involved.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 May 2022 16:10:59 -0400 2022-07-15T17:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Getting to Know Michigan Livestream / Virtual Getting to Know Michigan
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 16, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-16T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 16, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-16T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-16T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 16, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-16T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-16T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 16, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 16, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-16T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 16, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 16, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-16T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
Virtual Saturday Sampler Tour | Greek Mythology in Daily Life (July 16, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93492 93492-21790030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 16, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

*Rescheduled from May 21.*

Have you ever wondered how the ancient Greeks and Romans incorporated their gods and mythological creatures into their daily lives? If you’ve read and enjoyed such books as "Circe" by Madeline Miller, "Mythos" or "Heroes" by Stephen Fry, the Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan, or have listened to podcasts like “Greeking Out,” this is the tour for you! We’ll look at artifacts such as coins, vases, statues, and funerary equipment to find out how myths were incorporated into daily life in ancient Greece and Rome.

The Kelsey Museum's Virtual Saturday Sampler tours are a great way to explore the ancient world from the comfort of your home.

Join us via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99653784621
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:32:41 -0400 2022-07-16T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Attic black figure vase with Herakles
Willy Porter (July 16, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93527 93527-21705231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 16, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Guitarist and singer/songwriter Willy Porter has been turning first time listeners into die-hard fans for more than two decades, and he's an Ark favorite. Willy's signature finger-picking guitar work and rich songwriting creates a one-of-a-kind musical ride that has energized audiences all over the world from stages shared with icons such as Jethro Tull, Tori Amos, Paul Simon, and Jeff Beck. Willy's grooves add fresh layers and new depth in every show. His live shows are guitar driven events—equal parts grit, soul, and muscle—that are electrifying, dynamic, and wholly original in the way that his voice blends and fuses with his virtuoso fretwork.
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Proof of COVID vaccination required for entry. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.

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Performance Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:04:53 -0400 2022-07-16T20:00:00-04:00 2022-07-16T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Willy Porter at The Ark
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 17, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-17T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-17T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-17T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-17T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-17T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 18, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-18T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-18T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-18T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-18T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Data Visualization for Active Monitoring-Part 1 - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95467 95467-21789952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Data Visualization for Active Monitoring-Part 1

Webinar open for registration!

July 18, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
M

This first webinar in a two-part webinar series on data visualization for production monitoring will cover basic concepts for the design and use of “dashboards” for monitoring survey data collection. We will begin with a detailed discussion of how to design dashboards from an RSD perspective. This will include concrete discussions of how relevant data may be collected and summarized across a variety of production environments. We will also discuss how these dashboards can be used to implement RSD interventions on an ongoing basis.

Not for academic credit.

Instructors: Brad Edwards & Victoria Vignare

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:42:15 -0400 2022-07-18T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-18T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95709 95709-21790759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers

Course open for registration!

July 18-19, 2022
1:00pm-5:00pm
M/T

This short course will offer a very practical introduction to data gathering geared at social scientists and survey researchers. This course begins with an overview of web scraping discussing some basic technical jargon, types of web data and various methods for scraping. The course also includes a discussion and illustration of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) use for gathering web data when they are available. Some websites are designed to be easily accessible by web crawlers or scraping algorithms while others require much more advanced, custom programming. And some web data can be accessed using an API that is provided by the website. In this course we will illustrate how participants can discern these differences as well as presenting several motivating examples of the various ways web scraped data can be used throughout a study’s lifecycle from design to calibration to analysis. We provide an extensive introduction to a suite of freeware programs that allow virtually syntax free, but customizable, web scraping capabilities. We contrast this type of gathered data access to APIs for some websites like Zillow or Twitter and discuss pros and cons of using web scraping or APIs to gather this type of web data. The course concludes with specific focus on the import.io tool where we demonstrate its capabilities and provide several, hands-on practical examples for participants to begin scraping several websites of increasing complexity. We will also illustrate API calls in R for Zillow, the Census and others as time permits.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:50:13 -0400 2022-07-18T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers
MCSP Q&A Session (July 18, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95552 95552-21790107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

Join MCSP staff for an informal drop-in session to get all your questions answered about registering for MCSP courses, participating in summer programming, preparing for Welcome Week, and West Quad in the Fall.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:20:23 -0400 2022-07-18T15:30:00-04:00 2022-07-18T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Social / Informal Gathering
Getting Involved: Student Organizations and Events (July 18, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95197 95197-21788752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Getting to Know Michigan

Through meaningful involvement, the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) creates transformative experiences, a vibrant community, and lifelong memories for University of Michigan students. In this session, you will hear about ways to get involved on campus, including how to join a great student organization and find great events going on throughout the semester!

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 May 2022 16:13:44 -0400 2022-07-18T16:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Getting to Know Michigan Livestream / Virtual Getting to Know Michigan
Anna Kasprzycka, carillon (July 18, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95749 95749-21790865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Anna Kasprzycka, a carillonist and sound engineer from Gdańsk, Poland known for her international tours and world premieres of music by contemporary Polish composers, returns to U-M to share her latest repertoire. Kasprzycka is also active in attracting new audiences with mobile carillon performances.


**Please note that metered visitor parking behind the Walgreen Drama Center may be limited due to construction. Additional street parking along Bonisteel Blvd. is available after business hours, and metered visitor parking is available by the E.V. Moore Building (lot NC10), the North Campus Recreation Building (lot NC44), and the Art & Architecture Building (lot NC43).

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Performance Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:25:30 -0400 2022-07-18T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Anna Kasprzycka, carillon
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 19, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-19T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 19, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-19T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 19, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-19T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-19T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Tuesdays, 9:30-11am) (July 19, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94931 94931-21786495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

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

With Erin Ware (SRC) and Jon Reader (MADRC)

Expertise at this session includes: automation of tasks & workflows, Bash, bioinformatics, conda (anaconda/miniconda), data analysis, data management, data visualization, git, GitHub, GitLab, GNU Make, high performance computing (HPC), LaTeX, Linux, machine learning, macOS, natural language processing, pandas, PySpark, Python, Python Requests, Python Selenium, R, R Markdown, R tidyverse, REDCap, SAS, social sciences, SPSS, SQL, statistics, survey data, text analysis, time-series analysis, web scraping, Windows

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Meeting Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:37:05 -0400 2022-07-19T09:30:00-04:00 2022-07-19T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-19T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95709 95709-21790760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers

Course open for registration!

July 18-19, 2022
1:00pm-5:00pm
M/T

This short course will offer a very practical introduction to data gathering geared at social scientists and survey researchers. This course begins with an overview of web scraping discussing some basic technical jargon, types of web data and various methods for scraping. The course also includes a discussion and illustration of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) use for gathering web data when they are available. Some websites are designed to be easily accessible by web crawlers or scraping algorithms while others require much more advanced, custom programming. And some web data can be accessed using an API that is provided by the website. In this course we will illustrate how participants can discern these differences as well as presenting several motivating examples of the various ways web scraped data can be used throughout a study’s lifecycle from design to calibration to analysis. We provide an extensive introduction to a suite of freeware programs that allow virtually syntax free, but customizable, web scraping capabilities. We contrast this type of gathered data access to APIs for some websites like Zillow or Twitter and discuss pros and cons of using web scraping or APIs to gather this type of web data. The course concludes with specific focus on the import.io tool where we demonstrate its capabilities and provide several, hands-on practical examples for participants to begin scraping several websites of increasing complexity. We will also illustrate API calls in R for Zillow, the Census and others as time permits.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:50:13 -0400 2022-07-19T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Tuesdays, 2-3:30pm) (July 19, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94933 94933-21786511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/98917021399)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Charles Antonelli (LSA Tech), Jonathan Golob (Division of Infectious Disease), and Shelly Johnson (ARC)

Expertise at this session includes: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ARC Armis, ARC Great Lakes, Bash, bash shell scripting, C , C++, CMake, conda (anaconda/miniconda), CUDA, Fortran, git, GitHub, GitLab, GNU Make, Google Cloud Platform, GPU, HDF5, high performance computing (HPC), Julia, LaTeX, Linux, Lmod modules, macOS, MATLAB, MPI, NVIDIA, OpenACC, OpenMP, pandas, parallelization, performance analysis, Perl, Python, Python BeautifulSoup, Python Requests, Python Selenium, R, R devtools, Rcpp, SLURM, software compilation & installation on Linux, software development, tensorflow, test-driven development, venv, web scraping, XSEDE

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Meeting Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:38:50 -0400 2022-07-19T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
Virtual Southeast Asian Languages & Scholarships Information Session (July 19, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95922 95922-21791438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Want to learn about all the Southeast Asian languages we offer? Want to learn about opportunities to work in Southeast Asia and scholarships for these languages? Attend this information session!

-Graduate students and undergraduate students of all levels and backgrounds welcome.
-Talk directly to our Filipino, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese instructors & students
-Get answers about applying for a First-Year Language Scholarship and FLAS Fellowship
-Enjoy a virtual showcase of Southeast Asian unique cultures
-Play games and win prizes! (T-shirts, tote bags, notebooks, and Amazon gift cards!)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:09:59 -0400 2022-07-19T14:30:00-04:00 2022-07-19T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Click image to expand image and scan QR Code or Click RSVP Link to Register
Using the Health and Retirement Study for Research on Aging in the United States (July 19, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95974 95974-21791512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:44:16 -0400 2022-07-19T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-19T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Using the Health and Retirement Study for Research on Aging in the United States - ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2022
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 20, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-20T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-20T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-20T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-20T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Data Visualization for Active Monitoring-Part 2 - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95468 95468-21789953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Data Visualization for Active Monitoring-Part 2

Webinar open for registration!

July 20, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
W

This second webinar in a two-part webinar series on data visualization for production monitoring will demonstrate concepts from the first webinar using examples from actual dashboards. We will briefly explore methods for modeling incoming paradata in order to detect outliers. We will then consider practical issues associated with the development of dashboards, including software alternatives. Finally, we will demonstrate how to update dashboards using data reflecting the results of ongoing fieldwork. Participants will be provided with template spreadsheet dashboards for their own applications.

Not for academic credit.

Instructors: Brad Edwards & Victoria Vignare

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:41:12 -0400 2022-07-20T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Clinical Simulation Center Lunch and Learn (July 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95923 95923-21791439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Dr. Owens' team helped to develop the Stanford Virtual Heart (SVH), a virtual reality curriculum to teach normal cardiac anatomy as well as 6 basic congenital heart defects (CHDs). Multi-center prospective studies have shown that the SVH improves pediatric residents' as well as medical students' knowledge on CHDs. Future initiatives include developing a virtual reality curriculum for more complex lesions (such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome).

Join her presentation and subsequent discussion on Zoom.

Join Zoom Meeting:
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Presentation Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:11:10 -0400 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Presentation Picture source: https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/innovation/virtual-reality/stanford-virtual-heart
North Campus Mindfulness Meditation Drop-In (Online) (July 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40967 40967-21788206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 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 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being Mindfulness meditation
An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95710 95710-21790763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 20-22, 2022
1:00pm – 5:00pm
M/Th/F

The amount of data generated as a by-product in society is growing fast including data from satellites, sensors, transactions, social media and smartphones, just to name a few. Such data are often referred to as “big data”, and can be used to create value in different areas such as health and crime prevention, commerce and fraud detection. An emerging practice in many areas is to append or link big data sources with more specific and smaller scale sources that often contain much more limited information. This practice has been used for some time by survey researchers in constructing frames by appending auxiliary information that is often not directly available on the frame, but can be obtained from an external source. Using Big Data has the potential to go beyond the sampling phase for survey researchers and in fact has the potential to influence the social sciences in general. Big Data is of interest for public opinion researchers and agencies that produce statistics to find alternative data sources either to reduce costs, to improve estimates or to produce estimates in a more timely fashion. However, Big Data pose several interesting and new challenges to survey researchers and social scientists among others who want to extract information from data. As Robert Groves (2012) pointedly commented, the era is “appropriately called Big Data and not Big Information”, because there is a lot of work for analysts before information can be gained from “auxiliary traces of some process that is going on in society.”

This course offers participants a broad overview of big data sources, opportunities and examples motivated within the survey and social science contexts including the use of social media data, para data and other such sources. This course also offers a detailed, practical introduction to four common machine learning methods that can be applied to big and small data alike at various aspects of a study’s lifecycle from design to nonresponse adjustments to propensity score matching to weighting and evaluation and analysis. The machine learning methods will be demonstrated in R and we will provide several different examples of using these methods along with multiple packages in R that offer these methods.

Not for academic credit

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:06:23 -0400 2022-07-20T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists
Starting or Continuing Key Conversations with Your Student (July 20, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95258 95258-21789096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Getting to Know Michigan

We will cover important topics related to student life and well-being on campus and address top public health concerns for college students, including healthy relationships, alcohol and other drug use, and mental health and well-being. We will frame these topics around how you, as a parent or family member of an incoming student, can lend ongoing support and guidance to your student as they acclimate to U-M’s campus.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 24 May 2022 11:51:08 -0400 2022-07-20T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Getting to Know Michigan Livestream / Virtual Getting to Know Michigan
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 21, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-21T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-21T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-21T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-21T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Thursdays, 9:30-11am) (July 21, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94979 94979-21788191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/93123907853)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Huchen Liu (PDHP/ISR), Kelly Sovacool (DCMB), and Paul Schulz (PDHP/ISR)

Expertise at this session includes: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ARC Armis, ARC Great Lakes, automation of tasks & workflows, Bash, bash shell scripting, bioinformatics, C , conda (anaconda/miniconda), data analysis, data management, data visualization, git, GitHub, Google Cloud Platform, HDF5, high performance computing (HPC), JavaScript, LaTeX, Linux, machine learning, macOS, mamba, microbiome, Nextflow, package development, pandas, parallelization, performance analysis, Python, Python Requests, R, R devtools, R Markdown, R tidyverse, REDCap, SAS, SLURM, Snakemake, social sciences, software compilation & installation on Linux, software development, SPSS, SQL, Stata, statistics, survey data, test-driven development, text analysis, time-series analysis, unit testing, venv, web scraping, Windows

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Meeting Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:39:53 -0400 2022-07-21T09:30:00-04:00 2022-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
We Bear US (July 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95329 95329-21789169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 21 – 23, 2022

Location: Main Street & Liberty
Thursday, July 21 • 10AM – 9PM
Friday, July 22 • 10AM – 9PM
Saturday, July 23 • 10AM – 8PM

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Fair / Festival Thu, 26 May 2022 17:15:53 -0400 2022-07-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Fair / Festival We Bear by Parker Ayers
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95710 95710-21790764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 20-22, 2022
1:00pm – 5:00pm
M/Th/F

The amount of data generated as a by-product in society is growing fast including data from satellites, sensors, transactions, social media and smartphones, just to name a few. Such data are often referred to as “big data”, and can be used to create value in different areas such as health and crime prevention, commerce and fraud detection. An emerging practice in many areas is to append or link big data sources with more specific and smaller scale sources that often contain much more limited information. This practice has been used for some time by survey researchers in constructing frames by appending auxiliary information that is often not directly available on the frame, but can be obtained from an external source. Using Big Data has the potential to go beyond the sampling phase for survey researchers and in fact has the potential to influence the social sciences in general. Big Data is of interest for public opinion researchers and agencies that produce statistics to find alternative data sources either to reduce costs, to improve estimates or to produce estimates in a more timely fashion. However, Big Data pose several interesting and new challenges to survey researchers and social scientists among others who want to extract information from data. As Robert Groves (2012) pointedly commented, the era is “appropriately called Big Data and not Big Information”, because there is a lot of work for analysts before information can be gained from “auxiliary traces of some process that is going on in society.”

This course offers participants a broad overview of big data sources, opportunities and examples motivated within the survey and social science contexts including the use of social media data, para data and other such sources. This course also offers a detailed, practical introduction to four common machine learning methods that can be applied to big and small data alike at various aspects of a study’s lifecycle from design to nonresponse adjustments to propensity score matching to weighting and evaluation and analysis. The machine learning methods will be demonstrated in R and we will provide several different examples of using these methods along with multiple packages in R that offer these methods.

Not for academic credit

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:06:23 -0400 2022-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists
Certifiable Autonomous Systems Through Online Verification — CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (July 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95889 95889-21791378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Engineers and computer scientists are currently developing autonomous systems whose entire set of behaviors in future, untested situations is unknown. For instance, how can a designer foresee all situations that an autonomous vehicle will face? Keeping in mind that many autonomous systems are safety-critical or operation-critical, it is irresponsible to deploy such systems without testing all possible situations---this, however, seems impossible since even the most important possible situations are often unmanageably many. This presentation proposes a paradigm shift that will make it possible to guarantee safety in unforeseeable situations (under mild model assumptions): Instead of verifying the correctness of a system before deployment, we propose online verification, a new verification paradigm where a system continuously checks the correctness of its next action by itself in its current environment (and only in it) in a just-in-time manner. The usefulness of this method will be demonstrated primarily for autonomous driving and robotics.

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About the speaker: Matthias Althoff received a diploma in Mechatronics and Information Technology from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2005. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing./Univ. Tokio Martin Buss in 2010. From 2010 - 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, with a joint appointment in electrical engineering and the Robotics Institute. He joined the Computer Science Department at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, in 2012 as Assistant Professor for Automation Systems. Since 2013 Matthias Althoff is a Professor in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich.

His research interests include the design and analysis of cyber-physical systems, formal verification of continuous and hybrid systems, reachability analysis, planning algorithms, and robust and fault-tolerant control. The main applications of his research are automated vehicles, robotics, and power systems.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:30:53 -0400 2022-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Matthias Althoff. It features the presentation title 'Certifiable Autonomous Systems Through Online Verification', Professor Althoff's headshot, and an image of an Autonomous Vehicle.
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Thursdays, 2-3:30pm) (July 21, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94934 94934-21786527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/96475145533)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Bennet Fauber (ARC), Meghan Dailey (ARC), Sara Lafia (ICPSR)

Expertise at this session includes: ARC Armis, ARC Great Lakes, Bash, bash shell scripting, C , C++, conda (anaconda/miniconda), CUDA, data analysis, data management, data visualization, git, GitHub, GitLab, GPU, high performance computing (HPC), Java, keras, Linux, Lmod modules, machine learning, macOS, MATLAB, natural language processing, pandas, Python, SLURM, social sciences, software compilation & installation on Linux, software development, spatial data analysis, Stata, tensorflow, text analysis, Windows

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Meeting Tue, 03 May 2022 12:22:15 -0400 2022-07-21T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
HIPAA: protection and use of US health information (July 21, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95975 95975-21791513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:50:14 -0400 2022-07-21T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion HIPAA: protection and use of US health information - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 22, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-22T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-22T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
We Bear US (July 22, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95329 95329-21789170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 21 – 23, 2022

Location: Main Street & Liberty
Thursday, July 21 • 10AM – 9PM
Friday, July 22 • 10AM – 9PM
Saturday, July 23 • 10AM – 8PM

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Fair / Festival Thu, 26 May 2022 17:15:53 -0400 2022-07-22T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Fair / Festival We Bear by Parker Ayers
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Heartfulness Guided Meditation (July 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88544 88544-21791388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly, drop-in program designed to help you nourish your spirit and heal your body and mind.

All U-M students, faculty, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required.

Advanced Wellness techniques are taught on the first Friday of the Month and that session will be about 45 mins.

*What will you learn?*

The guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation.

Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice.

*Why Meditate?*

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony.

*Event Details*

Heartfulness Guided Meditation
Fridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)
Join the Zoom Meeting: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94465693508
Meeting ID: 944 6569 3508
Register to receive Passcode (see “Related links”)



This wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.

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Well-being Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:54:06 -0500 2022-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Well-being Advanced Wellness Techniques - Wellness in 3 steps
An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95710 95710-21790765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 20-22, 2022
1:00pm – 5:00pm
M/Th/F

The amount of data generated as a by-product in society is growing fast including data from satellites, sensors, transactions, social media and smartphones, just to name a few. Such data are often referred to as “big data”, and can be used to create value in different areas such as health and crime prevention, commerce and fraud detection. An emerging practice in many areas is to append or link big data sources with more specific and smaller scale sources that often contain much more limited information. This practice has been used for some time by survey researchers in constructing frames by appending auxiliary information that is often not directly available on the frame, but can be obtained from an external source. Using Big Data has the potential to go beyond the sampling phase for survey researchers and in fact has the potential to influence the social sciences in general. Big Data is of interest for public opinion researchers and agencies that produce statistics to find alternative data sources either to reduce costs, to improve estimates or to produce estimates in a more timely fashion. However, Big Data pose several interesting and new challenges to survey researchers and social scientists among others who want to extract information from data. As Robert Groves (2012) pointedly commented, the era is “appropriately called Big Data and not Big Information”, because there is a lot of work for analysts before information can be gained from “auxiliary traces of some process that is going on in society.”

This course offers participants a broad overview of big data sources, opportunities and examples motivated within the survey and social science contexts including the use of social media data, para data and other such sources. This course also offers a detailed, practical introduction to four common machine learning methods that can be applied to big and small data alike at various aspects of a study’s lifecycle from design to nonresponse adjustments to propensity score matching to weighting and evaluation and analysis. The machine learning methods will be demonstrated in R and we will provide several different examples of using these methods along with multiple packages in R that offer these methods.

Not for academic credit

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:06:23 -0400 2022-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists
Community and Civic Engagement at UM (July 22, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95259 95259-21789097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Getting to Know Michigan

As you make the University of Michigan your new home, there are many opportunities for you to connect to the Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County communities. Whether you’ve always had a passion for community service, or are looking for other ways to engage with the local community, join the Ginsberg Center as we provide an introduction to Washtenaw County and discuss the various ways you can connect meaningfully as a UM student.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 24 May 2022 11:55:19 -0400 2022-07-22T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Getting to Know Michigan Livestream / Virtual Getting to Know Michigan
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 23, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 23, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-23T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 23, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 23, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
We Bear US (July 23, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95329 95329-21789171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 23, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 21 – 23, 2022

Location: Main Street & Liberty
Thursday, July 21 • 10AM – 9PM
Friday, July 22 • 10AM – 9PM
Saturday, July 23 • 10AM – 8PM

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Fair / Festival Thu, 26 May 2022 17:15:53 -0400 2022-07-23T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Fair / Festival We Bear by Parker Ayers
Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy (July 23, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94852 94852-21777270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 23, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, Nucera expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.
Mother Cyborg states, “This work aims to return a sense of wonder and magic to all of us, and rekindle the awe we may have first felt when using a geolocating star map, or being able to video call a person across borders. Crafting our Digital Legacy looks at the way in which art can unpack how living at the whim of invisible wifi connections, engaging ‘power cycling’ (turning on and off) computers and phones to ‘fix’ them, modern experiences of technology run the gamut from resigned faith to proselytizing zealotry. In our weariness of the state of technology, we fail to notice that the ‘same’ data, taken from all of us, has the power to rewrite and mutate the prior century’s worst inequalities into a blueprint for the future. These psychedelic quilts mesmerize while spotlighting surveillance tactics embedded within society bringing into focus the information and questions we should be asking of the future.”
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:15:08 -0400 2022-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a patchwork quilt featuring a geometric pattern in bright colors - orange, green, cyan, and magenta
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place (July 23, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94838 94838-21776800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 23, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“One thing that is very clear to me is that my life and my work are very intertwined. For me the creation of my art, be it painting, drawing or printmaking, integrates my life experiences, my beliefs and my heritage. I hope that my viewers will also bring their own lenses created by their identity, their family history and their experiences.”
- Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place brings together over 25 works that span six decades of the artist’s practice as a painter and printmaker. It features iconic works from Weisberg’s artistic career - Waterborne (1973), A Year Passes (1985) and Questioning Veronese (2011) - where she explored the interconnectedness and continuity of successive generations. Anchored in themes of personal and familial memory; ancestral knowledge embedded in her Jewish heritage, and admiration for Western art history, her unframed canvases, and works on paper create liminal spaces that collapse the time and space, where family, friends from the present and past share space with great painters and Holocaust survivors and those who perished. The Shtetl, A Journey and Memorial, a limited- edition artist book that she wrote and illustrated comprising 9 intaglio prints in 1971, lies at the heart of the exhibition. In it she paid homage to the small Jewish towns in Poland (where her ancestors are from) before the Holocaust. This significant work was a touchstone for her artistic and professional career as it propelled her move from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1969.

Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of artists as an artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg was the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities, and the founder of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She and Judy Chicago were the first two artists exhibited at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles. Their solo exhibitions inaugurated that venue. Weisberg has had more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions internationally, including a major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective, at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles as well as a solo exhibition at the Huntington in San Marino. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, some notable ones are the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015 and the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 May 2022 18:15:04 -0400 2022-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image of a print by Ruth Weisberg, showing a group of young women in coats and headscarfs. The image is layered with bands of color, notably a blue field that covers the figures completely.
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 24, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 24, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-24T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 24, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 24, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-24T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 24, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 24, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-24T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 25, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-25T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Contributions to Quantile and Superquantile Regression (July 25, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96201 96201-21792033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics Dissertation Defenses

Abstract: Understanding the heterogeneous covariate-response relationship is central to modern data analysis. Beyond the usual descriptors such as the mean and variance, quantile and superquantile (also known as the expected shortfall or conditional value-at-risk) regression can capture the differential covariate effects on the upper or lower tails of the response distribution. This dissertation studies some fundamental aspects of the statistical inference of quantile and super quantile regression.

In the first part of the dissertation, we propose a novel approach to superquantile regression with a critical modification of an optimization formulation in the recent literature. Most existing approaches for superquantile regression rely explicitly on the modeling of the conditional quantile function. In this dissertation, we offer new insights into an optimization formulation for the superquantile, based on which we provide and validate a direct approach to superquantile regression estimation without relying on additional quantile regression modeling. Operationally, the approach can be well approximated by fitting a linear quantile regression to an array of pre-estimated conditional superquantile processes. This approach achieves implicit weighting of the data, which is found to be automatically adaptive to data heterogeneity in a variety of scenarios. With certain initial estimators based on binning of the covariate space, we show the proposed superquantile regression estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal. Via theoretical and numerical comparisons, we show that the proposed approach has competitive, and often superior, performance relative to other common approaches in the literature.

In the second part of the dissertation, we study pseudo-Bayesian inference for possibly sparse quantile regression models. We find that by coupling the asymmetric Laplace working likelihood with appropriate shrinkage priors, we can deliver pseudo-Bayesian inference that adapts automatically to the possible sparsity in quantile regression analysis. After a suitable adjustment on the posterior variance, the proposed method provides asymptotically valid inference under heterogeneity. Furthermore, the proposed approach leads to oracle asymptotic efficiency for the active (nonzero) quantile regression coefficients and super-efficiency for the non-active ones. We also discuss the theoretical extension when the covariate dimension increases with the sample size at a controlled rate. By avoiding the need to pursue dichotomous variable selection as well as nuisance parameter estimation, the Bayesian computational framework demonstrates desirable inferential stability.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Jul 2022 10:06:45 -0400 2022-07-25T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Dissertation Defenses Presentation
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95712 95712-21790769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Design and Implementation of Web Surveys

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 25-29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm,
M/T/W/Th/F

his one-week course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing what is unique about web surveys and when their use is most appropriate, followed by an introduction to survey errors that can affect the quality of web survey data. Small groups of students will each develop a research problem and a questionnaire to address their problem, designed for online administration. They will pretest the question wording, program the questionnaire using a web survey development platform (no programming experience is required), and assess users’ (respondents’) experience while interacting with the web-based instrument. Students will also develop basic plans for data collection and analysis. Finally, each group will present its problem, online questionnaire, evaluation, and plans to the rest of the class.

Why take this course?

· To gain an understanding of what should go into creating a web-based questionnaire

· To gain experience weighing the pros and cons of different web questionnaire features

· To gain experience building a web questionnaire on a standard platform

· To gain experience evaluating survey questions and their usability in an online questionnaire

Not for academic credit

Instructors: Frederick Conrad, Florian Keusch and Christopher Antoun

All 2022 courses will we held in an alternative remote format.
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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:26:09 -0400 2022-07-25T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
Getting to Know Spectrum Center (July 25, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95260 95260-21789098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Getting to Know Michigan

Spectrum Center is a campus resource center dedicated to serving and supporting members of the U-M LGBTQIA2S+ communities. Through education, advocacy, and community building, the center works to enhance campus climate, increase students' sense of belonging, and help students thrive. In this session you will learn about LGBTQIA2S+ life at U-M, including clubs and orgs, events and programs, support services, and ways to navigate campus!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 24 May 2022 12:02:35 -0400 2022-07-25T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T13:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Getting to Know Michigan Livestream / Virtual Getting to Know Michigan
MCSP Q&A Session (July 25, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95552 95552-21790108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

Join MCSP staff for an informal drop-in session to get all your questions answered about registering for MCSP courses, participating in summer programming, preparing for Welcome Week, and West Quad in the Fall.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:20:23 -0400 2022-07-25T15:30:00-04:00 2022-07-25T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Social / Informal Gathering
FYE Summer Series: Time Management (July 25, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96134 96134-21791950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Looking to build your time management skills? In this program, we assess how you currently spend your time, set goals for how you want to spend your time in the future, and take steps to get there. Learn how to create a structure and schedule for yourself and find ways to create a productive learning space for yourself at home. Additionally, get tips to effectively manage your time to be successful academically, personally, and organizationally!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:05:20 -0400 2022-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location First Year Experience Programs Social / Informal Gathering First Year Experience
UROP 2022-2023 Rising Sophomore Applications Open (July 26, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89571 89571-21664360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Rising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:21:00 -0500 2022-07-26T07:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Rising Sophomore Application
Apply to Changing Gears (July 26, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92406 92406-21691016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Changing Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills, applying these skills to their research project, academics, and future career opportunities, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Learn more about Changing Gears at: myumi.ch/uropcg

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:24 -0500 2022-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Changing Gears
UROP Research Scholars Program Application Open (July 26, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91080 91080-21676600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year cohort open February 14th.
Priority Deadline for the applications is March 18th

Learn more at: myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:58:07 -0500 2022-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs Apply to Research Scholars
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 26, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95712 95712-21790770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Design and Implementation of Web Surveys

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 25-29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm,
M/T/W/Th/F

his one-week course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing what is unique about web surveys and when their use is most appropriate, followed by an introduction to survey errors that can affect the quality of web survey data. Small groups of students will each develop a research problem and a questionnaire to address their problem, designed for online administration. They will pretest the question wording, program the questionnaire using a web survey development platform (no programming experience is required), and assess users’ (respondents’) experience while interacting with the web-based instrument. Students will also develop basic plans for data collection and analysis. Finally, each group will present its problem, online questionnaire, evaluation, and plans to the rest of the class.

Why take this course?

· To gain an understanding of what should go into creating a web-based questionnaire

· To gain experience weighing the pros and cons of different web questionnaire features

· To gain experience building a web questionnaire on a standard platform

· To gain experience evaluating survey questions and their usability in an online questionnaire

Not for academic credit

Instructors: Frederick Conrad, Florian Keusch and Christopher Antoun

All 2022 courses will we held in an alternative remote format.
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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:26:09 -0400 2022-07-26T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Tuesdays, 9:30-11am) (July 26, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94931 94931-21786496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

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

With Erin Ware (SRC) and Jon Reader (MADRC)

Expertise at this session includes: automation of tasks & workflows, Bash, bioinformatics, conda (anaconda/miniconda), data analysis, data management, data visualization, git, GitHub, GitLab, GNU Make, high performance computing (HPC), LaTeX, Linux, machine learning, macOS, natural language processing, pandas, PySpark, Python, Python Requests, Python Selenium, R, R Markdown, R tidyverse, REDCap, SAS, social sciences, SPSS, SQL, statistics, survey data, text analysis, time-series analysis, web scraping, Windows

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Meeting Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:37:05 -0400 2022-07-26T09:30:00-04:00 2022-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
How to identify waste in process and start making improvements (July 26, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96150 96150-21791966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Excellence

Join us on July 26th at 10 a.m. EST as we discuss identifying waste in processes. Waste is defined as any action or resource that doesn't add value to those you serve. Identifying waste provides a great starting point toward continuous improvement projects. Join us to learn more!

See Registration (https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/6418) to receive the livestream link.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:12:14 -0400 2022-07-26T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Excellence Livestream / Virtual Three lit sparklers with a black background
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 26, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-26T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95200 95200-21788805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

The Summer Institute offers courses on (1) research design and sample selection, (2) measurement, (3) qualitative methods in survey research design, (4) data collection, and (5) analysis.

Multi-week courses provide more in-depth coverage of a topic, include readings, homework, and examinations, and often providing participants with an opportunity to practice survey techniques. One-week courses give an overview of a methodology topic, including readings and homework. One-day workshops are offered for those who need to learn a specific technique or method in a short period of time.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:17 -0400 2022-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Courses and Workshops
FYE Summer Series: Navigating Your Involvement (July 26, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96135 96135-21791951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Looking to learn more about where you can get involved on campus? Or curious to find out more about student organizations that fit your areas of interest? FYE facilitators are here to help you navigate your involvement on campus!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:07:40 -0400 2022-07-26T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location First Year Experience Programs Social / Informal Gathering First Year Experience
BusinessObjects 4.3 Training (July 26, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96240 96240-21792158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Do you have questions about the upcoming changes to BusinessObjects? Save time for one of our live webinars to hear about the upgrade impacts and to get a preview of the upgraded system, including demonstrations of the system’s new look and feel along with some new features. The demonstrations will cover the new UI, running reports, creating reports, and exporting data.

Opportunities will be available during the webinar to ask questions.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:42:59 -0400 2022-07-26T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Class / Instruction
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Informational Webinar (July 26, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95954 95954-21791490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

A U-M Fulbright Program Advisor will present information about the current Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition and U-M application process.

Required registration for this Zoom webinar is at: https://myumi.ch/XV1JJ

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:28:15 -0400 2022-07-26T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual Fulbright U.S. Student Program Informational Webinar
CoderSpaces, Virtual Office Hours (Tuesdays, 2-3:30pm) (July 26, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94933 94933-21786512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 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 University 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, Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the Summer 2022 term to get research support and connect with others.

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

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

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

Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/98917021399)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

With Charles Antonelli (LSA Tech), Jonathan Golob (Division of Infectious Disease), and Shelly Johnson (ARC)

Expertise at this session includes: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ARC Armis, ARC Great Lakes, Bash, bash shell scripting, C , C++, CMake, conda (anaconda/miniconda), CUDA, Fortran, git, GitHub, GitLab, GNU Make, Google Cloud Platform, GPU, HDF5, high performance computing (HPC), Julia, LaTeX, Linux, Lmod modules, macOS, MATLAB, MPI, NVIDIA, OpenACC, OpenMP, pandas, parallelization, performance analysis, Perl, Python, Python BeautifulSoup, Python Requests, Python Selenium, R, R devtools, Rcpp, SLURM, software compilation & installation on Linux, software development, tensorflow, test-driven development, venv, web scraping, XSEDE

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Meeting Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:38:50 -0400 2022-07-26T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.