Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Science Forum Demo (February 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Home to 84% of North American surface fresh water, complex ecosystems, and more than 30 million people, the Great Lakes are the backdrop for all life on both of Michigan’s peninsulas. Explore their natural history, current human impact, and the challenges for the future. Can you guess where the oldest fossils are? Or how much of the world’s accessible fresh water the Lakes contain? Join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
2020 Borchardt Conference (February 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72196 72196-17955069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Every three years the Michigan-based Borchardt Conference brings together a diverse group of engineers, scientists, public health specialists and students to present and discuss the latest issues and advances in water and wastewater technology. The This premier triennial event emphasizes applied research and real life experience in environmental engineering and water utility operations. The Borchardt Conference is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, MI-AWWA, MWEA and EGLE. CECs and PDHs will be awarded for this conference.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:39:52 -0500 2020-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Borchart Conference
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The impact of within-host priority effects on disease dynamics in coinfected populations (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69218 69218-17269222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:18:25 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar dentifera under magnification on black background
Food Literacy for All (February 25, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
2020 Borchardt Conference (February 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72196 72196-18085925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Every three years the Michigan-based Borchardt Conference brings together a diverse group of engineers, scientists, public health specialists and students to present and discuss the latest issues and advances in water and wastewater technology. The This premier triennial event emphasizes applied research and real life experience in environmental engineering and water utility operations. The Borchardt Conference is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, MI-AWWA, MWEA and EGLE. CECs and PDHs will be awarded for this conference.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:39:52 -0500 2020-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Borchart Conference
EEB Thursday Seminar: Probing the structure of fitness landscapes with experimental evolution (February 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69044 69044-17220025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The ability to evolve and adapt is a fundamental property of living systems. In many populations, the process of adaptive evolution can be thought of as an uphill walk of a population on a "fitness landscape" where mutations are steps and fitness is altitude. Understanding the structure of fitness landscapes is a fundamental open problem in evolutionary biology. I will discuss our efforts to probe the fitness landscapes and the adaptive walks on them using experimental microbial populations. I will show some interesting and perhaps somewhat counterintuitive patterns that we found. If time permits, I will say a few words about our initial attempts to build a theory that might help us understand these patterns.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/BAMcA5yz8I8

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:13:09 -0400 2020-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Dr. Kryazhimskiy image of fitness landscape
Lake Sturgeon: Past, present, and future of an ancient fish (February 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71565 71565-17842669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

6:00 p.m. - Hors d’oeuvres reception and gallery visit to Survivor: The long journey of lake sturgeon temporary exhibition with live music performed by an ensemble from the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance. Museum of Natural History Lower Level
7:00 p.m. - Panel discussion, Room 1060 Biological Sciences Building

Sturgeon are ancient fishes, tracing their lineage back more than 100 million years. In the Great Lakes system, lake sturgeon are not only the largest indigenous freshwater fishes, they are also important players in complex aquatic food webs. Their remarkable past has given way to a tenuous future as overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution threaten their survival. Today, there is hope in efforts to restore lake sturgeon populations and spawning grounds, as well as in public awareness initiatives that share the cultural and ecological significance of this species. Thanks to the leadership of Michigan Native American Tribes and other organizations, lake sturgeon are beginning to make a comeback. Join a panel of experts as we explore the past, present, and future of this extraordinary endemic fish:

Matt Friedman, Director, U-M Museum of Paleontology and Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Karen Alofs, Assistant Professor, U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
Doug Craven, Director, Natural Resources Department, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

This program and the temporary exhibition, Survivor: The long journey of lake sturgeon, are offered as part of the LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, https://lsa.umich.edu/greatlakes.

This event honors the memory of Dr. William R. Farrand, who served as director of the U-M Exhibit Museum of Natural History for seven years (July 1993-June 2000), and who enjoyed a long career as a professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Geological Sciences. Numerous friends, colleagues, and family members contributed to an endowment fund to ensure that this annual honorary lecture will be offered in perpetuity.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:49:40 -0500 2020-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Sturgeon
Science Forum Demo (February 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Home to 84% of North American surface fresh water, complex ecosystems, and more than 30 million people, the Great Lakes are the backdrop for all life on both of Michigan’s peninsulas. Explore their natural history, current human impact, and the challenges for the future. Can you guess where the oldest fossils are? Or how much of the world’s accessible fresh water the Lakes contain? Join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-29T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-29T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-03-02T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-03-03T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today (March 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69219 69219-17269223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Tuesday Lunch Seminars return on March 10, 2020.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:45:24 -0500 2020-03-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-03-03T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
Great Lakes Seminar Series (March 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73185 73185-18155745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)

Please join us for a Great Lakes Seminar Series presentation!
Date: Tuesday, March 3
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm EDT
Attend In-Person: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Lake Superior Hall* (Directions)
Attend Remotely: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4302585117583410187

Presenter: Maureen Coleman, University of Chicago
Title: Linking microbial communities and biogeochemistry across the Laurentian Great Lakes

About the presentation: The Laurentian Great Lakes hold 20% of Earth’s surface freshwater and provide essential ecosystem services. Moreover, as an interconnected waterway that spans strong environmental gradients, the Great Lakes represent a unique natural laboratory for understanding how physical, chemical, and biological forces interact to shape microbial communities and biogeochemistry. Here we explore the drivers of microbial diversity and activity across the Great Lakes, using samples collected as part of an ongoing multi-year time series. First we characterized community composition across lakes, depths, seasons, and years. We found that depth and light are strong drivers of community structure in stratified water columns. Across surface waters, we found distinct microbial signatures in each of the Great Lakes, reflecting their biogeochemical variability. To explore metabolic functions, we reconstructed hundreds of microbial genomes and created a microbial tree of life for the Laurentian Great Lakes. We mapped ecological distribution patterns for these genomes and found distinct distributions for taxa and metabolisms across lakes and depths. We focus here on two important groups for ecology and biogeochemistry, the cyanobacteria and nitrifying Bacteria and Archaea. Our work represents the first picture of microbial diversity across the entire Laurentian Great Lakes and is an essential baseline from which to monitor future ecosystem change.

About the speaker: Dr. Coleman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is a microbial ecologist who studies the causes and consequences of microbial diversity in aquatic systems. Currently her lab is busy characterizing microbial communities, genomic diversity, and biogeochemistry across the Laurentian Great Lakes. She is also cultivating new microbial lineages and developing genetic tools to study their biology. She holds an undergraduate degree in biology from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT. She was a postdoc at MIT & Caltech before joining the University of Chicago in 2012.

**Registration is not required to attend in-person, however please note important visitor information below**

Important Visitor Information
All in-person seminar attendees are required to receive a visitor badge from the front desk at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory facility. Seminar attendees need to present a valid U.S. photo ID or green card. If you are a Foreign National, advance notification of at least 48 hours is needed so that security guidelines are followed. You will need to present your passport (a copy will NOT work). For questions regarding building access, or assistance in obtaining Foreign National clearance, please call 734-741-2394. Email contact: Scott.Purdy@noaa.gov
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Questions? Contact Mary Ogdahl: ogdahlm@umich.edu
Visit ciglr.seas.umich.edu for more information.

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Presentation Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:13:30 -0500 2020-03-03T13:00:00-05:00 2020-03-03T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) Presentation Great Lakes Seminar Series Flyer
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-03-05T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-03-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-03-07T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-03-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-09T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day Teach-In: Prof. Mark Moldwin (March 9, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73625 73625-18272036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 10:30am
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

As part of the U-M's Earth Day at 50 celebration, CLASP Prof. Mark Moldwin will lead a Teach-In titled "The Climate Consequences of Nuclear War."
Please join us in room CSRB 2238 of the Climate and Space Research Building.

With the end of the Cold War, fear of nuclear war has receded from the consciousness of much of society. With the Trump administration’s foreign policy (withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal, saber-rattling and then negotiations with North Korea, the attack of post-WWII international organizations and alliances, and the recent withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Force agreement with Russia) the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock ahead to 100 seconds to midnight (the closest to catastrophe the clock has been since 1953 when the USSR first detonated a hydrogen bomb). This discussion-based seminar describes the climate and space weather consequences of nuclear war to remind us of the apocalyptic fate of civilization that nuclear weapons can unleash and examines what we can do to reduce this threat.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:42:13 -0500 2020-03-09T10:30:00-04:00 2020-03-09T12:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Earth Day Teach-In graphic
Teach-in on auto efficiency and CO2 emissions (March 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73345 73345-18206117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

John DeCicco of the U-M Energy Institute will host a panel of experts for a teach-in on "Automobile Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities for Addressing a Major Part of CO2 Emissions." This event will bring you up-to-date on the status of automobile efficiency and CO2 emissions, examining market trends and policy challenges. It will highlight opportunities for improvement and discuss what is needed to speed progress on this crucial climate action front. Join us on Monday, March 9, 2020, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, in Room 1690 at the School of Public Health (SPH I).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:22:29 -0500 2020-03-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T14:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower University of Michigan Energy Institute Lecture / Discussion Car exhausts cook the planet!
"FossilFools" (March 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73089 73089-18140502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Mark Tucker, Art Director of the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program at U-M and founder of FestiFools and FoolMoon, invites you to come make LED Luminary Sculptures in celebration of UM’s Teach-In for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day on March 9 and March 10 at Palmer Commons (3rd floor, Main Lobby)

Students, staff, faculty and community members are invited to this FREE, fun, hands-on, environmentally supportive art workshop. Make and bring home your very own LED light up sculpture mobile!

Then join FoolMoon for a magical Luminary Processional which will step off from UMMA on April 3 at 8pm, arriving in Kerrytown for a magical light-filled extravaganza of community-made art, music, and street festivities. (Friday, April 3, 8pm-11pm).

FREE Luminary Sculpting Workshops (Drop-in):
Palmer Commons, 3rd Floor, Lobby Area
Monday, March 9, 2-6pm
Tuesday, March 10, 8-10pm


FREE FoolMoon Event (Dusk to Midnight, Kerrytown, Ann Arbor)
FoolMoon processional to Kerrytown: Bring your Luminary Sculpture to State street in front of the U-M Art Museum, Friday, April 3 at 8pm. (Arriving at Kerrytown, 8:30pm)

For more information, contact Mark Tucker at marktuck@umich.edu

Photo credit: Myra Klarman

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:29:34 -0500 2020-03-09T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T18:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Workshop / Seminar Previous FoolMoon processional with people carrying luminaries
Financing the Sustainability Enterprise (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73394 73394-18214938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sustainability (environmental, social & governance values) is not 'a thing' but 'the way we do things'. It is about mainstreaming sustainability. To communicate this we will be talking about integration of sustainability metrics and values at three levels of implementation:
1. Within the fence of an organization: How are sustainable principles implemented at the unit level?
2. Outside the fence of the organization: How are sustainability principles implemented across supply chains?
3. Conditioning capital investment in sustainability: What is sustainable capital, how is capital deployment impacted by sustainability metrics?

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:26:06 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Peter Adriaens Teach-In
Freshwater Stories: Optics, Governance, and Adaptation around the Great Lakes (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70301 70301-17564375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

There is a plausible bright future for communities in the Great Lakes basin. Holding over 20% of the world’s fresh water, the much-maligned Rust Belt could transform into the Water Belt marked by innovation in agriculture and production and welcoming to waves of climate migrants. Yet no framework of regulation, governance, or funding currently exists to ensure such outcomes. Instead public subsidy of extractive and polluting corporations persists. Along with lax enforcement of regulation, there are no mechanisms to deal with agricultural runoff, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. How to get from here to the Water Belt?

Rachel Havrelock’s work shows how the necessary knowledge about water systems resides at the local level where community members struggle with particular forms of privatization, extraction, and pollution. Not only do stories about these contests over water illuminate global processes, but they also chart a course forward. Reflecting on stories she has collected across the Great Lakes basin, Havrelock will share prominent ideas about life around the remarkable freshwater seas.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:27:13 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Great Lakes Graphic
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-10T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Achieving One Water and the Circular Economy (March 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73395 73395-18214939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The One Water concept is the integrated planning and management of finite water resources to meet the long term needs of both society and our ecosystems. As a society we need to not only improve the management of our water resources, we should also explore how valuable resources can be recovered from our water. This teach-in will explore the connections between our drinking water, wastewater, and natural water systems in order to better manage our water resources and recover valuable products. In recent years researchers have focused on recovering valuable products such as fertilizers from our waste streams in order to develop more sustainable products and conserve finite resources. We will explore this topic and many more in this teach-in. Specifically, this program will dive in to interesting topics such as:
--Current resource recovery opportunities such as nutrient recycling
--New and emerging resource recovery and water reuse technologies
--Tangible steps that you can take within your household to improve your impact on the water cycle

You can expect to learn about the engineered water cycle, how you can reduce your food/water waste, nutrient recycling, and new technologies and approaches to recover valuable resources from our water and wastewater!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:09:39 -0500 2020-03-10T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nancy Love Teach-In
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The origin of baleen in whales: inferring soft tissue from bony structures (March 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69220 69220-17269224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:03:10 -0500 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Carlos Peredo working on fossilized bone
Forum on "Climate Change and Health: Readiness and Resilience" (March 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72763 72763-18070598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Towsley Center for Cont. Med Ed
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

*Please register by going to http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2020.php*

Our climate is our planet’s life support system. Climate change influences human health and disease in numerous ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and disease carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks. As described in the Lancet Countdown report, some existing health threats will intensify and new health threats will emerge. Not everyone is equally at risk, and children are especially at risk. Preventive and adaptive actions are needed.

The keynote speaker is an emergency medicine physician who co-authored the U.S. portion of the Lancet Countdown report and Health and Care Delivery in the New England Journal of Medicine. A panel of experts will present solutions from a variety of other universities who are reducing their carbon footprint in response to the urgent public health need.

Welcome: Joseph C. Kolars, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives, UM Medical School

Keynote: "Climate Action: Children’s Health Drives Need for Urgent Action" Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS, Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and emergency medicine physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

Schedule
11:00-11:45 am | Registration outside of Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center for Continuing Medical Education, Michigan Medicine
11:00-11:45 am | Lunch in Towsley Center Dining Room for registered guests
12:00-1:30 pm | Program in Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center (also will be live streamed)
1:30-2:00 pm | Reception in Towsley Center Dining Room

*Please register by going to http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2020.php*

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:52:24 -0500 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:30:00-04:00 Towsley Center for Cont. Med Ed Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium Climate Change and Health: Readiness and Resilience
Recent Advances in Performance-Based Wind Engineering (March 10, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73710 73710-18302646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:18:53 -0400 2020-03-10T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T17:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar wind
"Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty" (March 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72675 72675-18044329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices - from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative and the CSA - have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence against African-American farmers has led to our decline from 14 percent of all growers in 1920 to less than 2 percent today, with a corresponding loss of over 14 million acres of land. Further, Black communities suffer disproportionately from illnesses related to lack of access to fresh food and healthy natural ecosystems. Soul Fire Farm, cofounded by author, activist, and farmer Leah Penniman, is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system. Through programs such as the Black-Indigenous Farmers Immersion, a sliding-scale farmshare CSA, and Youth Food Justice leadership training, Soul Fire Farm is part of a global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, and end food apartheid. Join us to learn how you too can be part of the movement for food sovereignty and help build a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community.

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:24:35 -0500 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Leah Penniman
Food Literacy for All (March 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
"FossilFools" (March 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73089 73089-18140503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Mark Tucker, Art Director of the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program at U-M and founder of FestiFools and FoolMoon, invites you to come make LED Luminary Sculptures in celebration of UM’s Teach-In for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day on March 9 and March 10 at Palmer Commons (3rd floor, Main Lobby)

Students, staff, faculty and community members are invited to this FREE, fun, hands-on, environmentally supportive art workshop. Make and bring home your very own LED light up sculpture mobile!

Then join FoolMoon for a magical Luminary Processional which will step off from UMMA on April 3 at 8pm, arriving in Kerrytown for a magical light-filled extravaganza of community-made art, music, and street festivities. (Friday, April 3, 8pm-11pm).

FREE Luminary Sculpting Workshops (Drop-in):
Palmer Commons, 3rd Floor, Lobby Area
Monday, March 9, 2-6pm
Tuesday, March 10, 8-10pm


FREE FoolMoon Event (Dusk to Midnight, Kerrytown, Ann Arbor)
FoolMoon processional to Kerrytown: Bring your Luminary Sculpture to State street in front of the U-M Art Museum, Friday, April 3 at 8pm. (Arriving at Kerrytown, 8:30pm)

For more information, contact Mark Tucker at marktuck@umich.edu

Photo credit: Myra Klarman

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:29:34 -0500 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T22:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Workshop / Seminar Previous FoolMoon processional with people carrying luminaries
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-11T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Climate Change Mitigation Strategies: CO2 Utilization & Sequestration Through Engineering Solutions (March 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73396 73396-18214940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Combating climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing today’s society, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering has recognized the need to mitigate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as one of this century’s grand engineering challenges. Such action is needed to prevent potentially catastrophic shifts in regional temperatures, precipitation patterns, and sea level rise. This teach-in will introduce several emerging opportunities to (1) sequester human-derived CO2 emissions and (2) directly utilize CO2 to create value-added products. Topics will include geologic sequestration of CO2, use of CO2 to produce geothermal energy and store surplus renewable energy in subsurface reservoirs, and direct utilization of CO2 in durable concrete infrastructure products. The presentation will include several hands-on activities to explore these processes and discuss how we can leverage such engineering solutions to slow climate change.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:30:28 -0500 2020-03-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T09:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Brian Ellis Teach-In
Picking collaboration over fighting: Climate Change & the Natural and the Built Environment (March 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73397 73397-18214941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The built environment is responsible for over half of all man-made CO2 emissions. In this teach-in, we will explore the impacts of the built environment on climate change, and the impacts of climate change on the built environment. We will learn how various policy, design, and technologies may be deployed to mitigate these impacts. The teach-in will include a combination of presentations and panel interaction with participants. Speakers include Missy Stults, Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor; Matt Grocoff, Principal of THRIVE Collaborative; Devki Desai, project engineer in HOK’s structural engineering group in New York City; and Victor Li, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U-M.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:11:24 -0400 2020-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Victor Li Teach-In
Environmental Action for Survival: The History and Legacies of U-M's 1970 Teach-In on the Environment (March 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72336 72336-17974688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment & Sustainability

The March 1970 Teach-In on the Environment (the model for the first Earth Day) was organized by the U-M student organization Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT). The success of this four-day event on the U-M campus and in the Ann Arbor community is legendary, and many ENACT members went on to make significant impacts in the environmental and sustainability fields. Six leaders of ENACT and of the national Earth Day planning committee will hold a panel discussion that honors the rich history of U-M's Teach-In on the Environment. They will also share insights on the evolution of the movement--and the ongoing work they are involved in today.https://events.umich.edu/manage/event/72336/edit/details


Barbara R. Alexander (BA ’68) - Consumer Affairs Consultant, Former Director, Consumer Assistance Division, Maine Public Utilities Commission

Barbara R. Alexander graduated from the University of Michigan (B.A., LS&A) in 1968. After working on the Robert F. Kennedy campaign in Indiana, Oregon, and California, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she joined The Conservation Foundation and was recommended for the nascent Earth Day 1970 staff. Barb was the Midwestern Coordinator for Earth Day. Following her marriage to Donald Alexander and a move to Maine in 1973, Barb received a J.D. from the U. of Maine School of Law in 1976, and was appointed Superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection (1979-1983) and then from 1986-1996 the Director, Consumer Assistance Division, at the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

David Allan (PhD) - Professor Emeritus, U-M, Former acting dean, U-M’s School for Environment and Sustainability

David Allan is Professor Emeritus in the School for Environment and Sustainability at The University of Michigan, where he has served as Professor and Dean. Dave’s research interests are in freshwater ecology, including the many threats to and benefits from healthy ecosystems. He received his BSc from the University of British Columbia (1966) and PhD from the University of Michigan (1971. In 1969-70, when he should have been working on his doctoral thesis, Dave joined with other students and supportive faculty to launch the ambitiously titled, “Environmental Action for Survival”, fortunately shortened to “Enact”, and helped to organize UM’s first earth day. Following graduation, he spent a post-doctoral year at the University of Chicago, then joined the Department of Zoology of the University of Maryland before returning to the University of Michigan in 1990. He retired in 2015 but remains professionally active, at present completing a third edition of his textbook entitled “Stream Ecology”. Allan has served on various committees advisory to the U.S. and Canada on freshwater protection, and on the boards of American Rivers and The Nature Conservancy. Professor Allan is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Society for Freshwater Science. He has been recognized by the University of Michigan with the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award and by the Society for Freshwater Science with the Award of Excellence.

George Coling - Occupational health and environmental justice advocate, Former Executive Director, National Fuel Funds Network

George Coling enrolled in the University of Michigan School of Public Health in the fall of 1969 after obtaining a Biology degree from the University of Rochester. He soon became involved in ENACT, the campus student group organizing events for the March 1970 Environmental Teach-In. After the Teach-In, he was one of the founders of the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor and then moved to Washington to work for Environmental Resources, the affiliate of Environmental Action, which organized Earth Day nationally. George worked in Washington until 2015, when he and his wife, Marcia Coling, moved to Western Massachusetts. George and Marcia have two sons and two grandchildren. In those years in Washington, George worked for the national organization of ecology centers, the American Public Health Association; the Urban Environment Conference, Inc.; Rural Coalition; Environmental Defense Fund and Sierra Club. Much of his work focused on the issues of occupational health and of environmental justice and on building grassroots networks to address these issues. He also did consulting for numerous environmental, community and labor organizations. From 1997 until his 2012 retirement, George was Executive Director of the National Fuel Funds Network, an organization of privately-funded energy assistance programs and an advocate for increased federal funding home energy assistance for people with low incomes.

Arthur Hanson (PhD) - Canadian global and regional ecologist, professor, Distinguished Fellow and former President, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Arthur Hanson is a Canadian ecologist working globally, regionally and with more than 20 countries on environment and sustainable development science and policy. Much of his work has taken place in North America and Asia, especially China and Indonesia. Dr. Hanson resides in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the former President (1992-1998) and now a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), an independent research organization headquartered in Canada. Art lived in Indonesia (1972-1977) affiliated with the Ford Foundation. Later, during the 1980s he established a number of major research and institutional development efforts there. From 1992 until the present he has worked with China and the international community at very senior levels to promote transformative policies and actions consistent with sustainable development. From 2002-2019 he was the International Chief Advisor of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).

Elizabeth Grant Kingwill -Mental health counselor, Former Board of Directors member, Sierra Club local chapter

In the fall of 1969, Elizabeth Grant (Kingwill) was a graduate student in Rackham, the School of Natural Resources, in the Environmental Education Program. In her first semester in SNR, she saw an opportunity to include the local community of Ann Arbor and the State of Michigan in the planning for the ENACT Teach-In and took on the responsibility of Chairmanship of Community Relations. After the ENACT Teach-In in March 1970, she stayed in Ann Arbor for the summer where she was hired to help start the Ann Arbor Ecology Center as a non-profit. She found the building to house the offices of the Center and hired the first director. Her intention was to have the Center be a place that environmental groups could come together, work, meet and hopefully begin to cooperate on common goals. In 1972, Elizabeth worked as a U of M Consultant for her master’s thesis with the Girl Scouts of Metropolitan Detroit. Her role there included writing environmental manuals, directing an environmental program for girls, and conducting leadership training for their adult leaders. Thousands of girls and women were involved in the program. Elizabeth went back to school in Durango, Colorado in 1976, completing an undergraduate and masters degree in Psychology. Her work as a change agent moved from organizing environmental groups to changing minds and healing hearts. She was also Vice-President of a local environmental group, and later served on the Board of Directors of the local chapter of the Sierra Club. She moved to Jackson, Wyoming in 1980. She worked for the local Mental Health Center for nine years and has been in private practice as a counselor for the last thirty years. Creating the Ecology Center as a non-profit inspired a lifetime of working for and running non-profits in Colorado and Wyoming.

Doug Scott (BS '66) - Career strategist and lobbyist for conservation and environment, Former Associate Executive Director, Sierra Club

Doug Scott grew up in Oregon where he enjoyed camping, hiking, and climbing in the Cascade Mountains. A summer job at Carlsbad Caverns National Park led him to think he’d like to be a National Park Service ranger, so he chose to study in the School of Natural Resources [now the School of Environment and Sustainability] at the University of Michigan. While there he co-chaired the group that organized the March 1970 ENACT Teach-In on the Environment. He also served with Senator Gaylord Nelson on the board of directors of the national Earth Day organizing group. His involvement in environmental politics led his to a career as a strategist and lobbyist, working with The Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club (where he became Associate Executive Director), and the Pew Charitable Trusts to persuade Congress to protect many more national parks, national wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas. He now lives in Palm Springs, California.

Matt Lassiter (PhD) - Panel Moderator, U-M Professor of History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Award-winning author

Matt Lassiter is Professor of History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He has directed multiple public engagement projects with UM undergraduate researchers, including the Fall 2017 “Michigan in the World” course that created “Give Earth a Chance: Environmental Activism in Michigan.” This multimedia exhibit chronicles the history of the four-day Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT) Teach-In at the University of Michigan in March 1970, the national Earth Day mobilization in April, the formation of the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, and related environmental campaigns in the state of Michigan during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:41:08 -0500 2020-03-11T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T19:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment & Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Earth Day Poster
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-12T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Thursday Seminar: The plant mating system and the evolution of resistance (March 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69045 69045-17220026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The mating system, or who mates with whom, and how often, is a critical trait that influences the distribution of genetic variation among populations as well as fitness and the ability of populations to respond to selection. Although we know that the plant mating system is strongly influenced by environmental factors, we do not understand if and how the mating system may be shaped by anthropogenic forces. In this talk, I give a brief overview of the ongoing ecological genetics/genomics projects within the lab and focus on our attempts to understand how the mating system may evolve given regimes of strong human-mediated selection.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:08:19 -0400 2020-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Baucom - Plant mating systems photo
Cancelled: Earth Day at 50, Engineering for the Next 50 (March 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73367 73367-18208331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Engineering is the application of science to the optimum conversion
of the resources of nature to the uses of humankind. So what does
that mean for engineers trying to build clean energy systems? This
talk will outline the challenges required to build cleaner energy
systems and what that means for engineers from Earth Day +50 and the
following 50 years.

Speaker: Todd Allen, Chair and Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:17:50 -0400 2020-03-12T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Earth Day
Earth Day 2020: Rise up for the Environment Rally - CANCELLED (Some Live Streams) (March 12, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71458 71458-17827810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Peter M. Wege Lecture & Earth Day 2020: Rise Up for the Environment double-event is part of the university & community-wide commemoration of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary—when U-M held the nation’s first “Environmental Teach-In” in 1970. The Wege event brings environmentalist Philippe Cousteau, to the stage. Inspired by his grandfather, Jacques Cousteau, he is a multi-Emmy-Nominated TV host, producer, author, and social entrepreneur. Earth Day 2020 features musical performances, and dynamic sustainability and environmental justice leaders to inspire audiences to rise up to the environmental challenges of our time and take action. Speakers include Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Heather McTeer Toney, Abdul El-Sayed, Bryan Newland, and others.

https://seas.umich.edu/events/10_29_2019/18th_peter_m_wege_lecture_sustainability_featuring_philippe_cousteau

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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:42:40 -0400 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Presentation Earth Day 2020: Rise up for the Environment Rally
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Cancelled: Fastest Path to Zero Carbon Emissions: Building an Exemplar for Deploying Clean Energy (March 13, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73187 73187-18155747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:30am
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Deploying clean energy is a complex multi-disciplinary task and, to be most successful, requires approaches that combine the best technology, acceptable costs, public policy approaches, and social decisions.

The teach-in will:
-Describe the current state of community acceptance of the deployment of renewable energy in Michigan
-Describe the national state of the deployment of a new generation of advanced nuclear energy
-Engage in facilitated conversations about the use of technology for the public good

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:18:04 -0400 2020-03-13T09:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T11:30:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Michigan from Space
Earth Day Teach-In: How the Power Grid Works (March 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73342 73342-18206109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Presented by:

Prof. Johanna Mathieu (organizer), Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ian Hiskens, Vennema Professor of Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Prof. Michael Craig, Energy Systems

Electric power grids are facing a number of new challenges due to the integration of nontraditional sources of electricity including wind and solar power, which produce power intermittently instead of on-demand like traditional sources. This teach-in will cover the basics of how electric power grids work and the challenges in integrating renewable energy sources. We will also discuss a variety of proposed solutions to enable very high penetrations of renewable energy.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Mar 2020 08:18:42 -0500 2020-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Workshop / Seminar Earth Day header
A2 Drinking Water Treatment Plant Tour (March 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73036 73036-18129634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue Ambassador

The Planet Blue Ambassador (PBA) Program is organizing a tour of the Ann Arbor Drinking Water Treatment Plant on March 13th from 1:30-3:00 pm. The tour will be mostly an introduction of the treatment process though the goal is to communicate the scope and complexity of drinking water treatment and to provide a space for people to ask their own questions. It will also touch on some issues of water health, such as PFAS, 1,4-Dioxane, and algae blooms. This is one of many Teach Ins that are a part of Earth Day 2020.

Please RSVP by March 11th.

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Other Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:31:15 -0500 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Ambassador Other
CANCELLED: Animals for Environmental Justice: (March 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73621 73621-18269849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

CANCELLED: This teach-in explores the action of several animals who are active in addressing environment degradation including beavers, mussels, wombats, cows and mushrooms. The idea that their work is work for environmental justice will be explored.

This teach-in will be led by Trevor Bechtel, Lecturer in the School of Social Work, and staff at Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. Bechtel is an editor of Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More than Human World, and the Creative Director of the Anabaptist Bestiary Project.


Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled. Email betrevor@umich.edu for more inquiries about the content of this teach-in. Learn more here about the University of Michigan's new university wide measures regarding classes and events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:27:43 -0400 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Wombat
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
POSTPONED until fall 2020: EEB Early Career Scientists Symposium | Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation (March 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70505 70505-17602796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Watch for updates later this year.

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is pleased to present Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation, an exciting symposium about innovative and unconventional uses of biological collections across scientific disciplines. The symposium events will take place from the 13-15 March 2020, on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

When biologists think of natural history collections, most tend to think of taxonomy and systematics, yet many are unaware of the uses of biological collections beyond those traditional fields. These studies span the breadth of the tree of life and address broad subjects that span comparative genomics to bioengineering and climate change to historical pathogen dynamics, among many, many more. As stewards of one of the largest university-based biological collections in the world, we are in an extraordinary position to leverage our holdings of biological material from the last century or more. We envision this symposium as a way to showcase the often-unrealized opportunities and non-traditional avenues of research that our collections make possible to the entire scientific community, and emphasize some of the interdisciplinary ways in which our collections are being or could be used. We hope to foster a broader understanding and expanded use of an incomparable resource that the University of Michigan has cultivated for the past two hundred years.

The symposium will feature both established and novel uses of natural history collections across a wide range of taxonomic groups, systems, and time. Our goal is to create a program with contributions from all corners of ecology and evolutionary biology. The program will include two keynote talks by senior speakers and additional talks by early-career speakers.

Thank you!

ECSS 2020 Committee
Jenna Crowe-Riddell
Sonal Gupta
Hernán Lopez-Fernandez, chair
Benjamin Nicholas
Teresa Pegan
Brad Ruhfel
Cody Thompson
Taylor West

Administrative Support
Event coordination: Linda Garcia & Molly Hunter
Event promotion: Gail Kuhnlein
Graphic design/art: John Megahan
Photography: Dale Austin

Image credits:
Painted meadow grasshopper, western rattlesnake, burrowing owl: Eric LoPresti. Moon snail, plant, rabbit skull: John Megahan. Mushrooms: Tim James. Background cabinet: Linda Garcia. Design: John Megahan.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:24:06 -0400 2020-03-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium Background of collections drawers with boxes on top containing the following: moon snail, painted meadow grasshopper, plant, mushrooms, western rattlesnake, burrowing owl, rabbit skull
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Specialization through timing: How temporal resource overlap and interacting phenologies drive specialization in pollinators (March 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69221 69221-17269225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:21:33 -0400 2020-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar chart showing 4 pollinators on one side with lines connecting and overlapping to 4 different flowers on the other side
"Meat, antibiotics, and the power of consumer pressure" (March 17, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72676 72676-18044330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:30pm
Location:
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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In the early 1950s, farmers began adding small doses of antibiotics to the diets of livestock. The drugs caused animals to put on weight more quickly and protected them against diseases, laying the foundation for modern intensive meat production — but they also fostered the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria that became a profound human health threat. Reversing that history mistake took decades of research and policy maneuvering, but what really turned the tide was neither better science not tougher regulations: It was the power of consumer coalitions forcing the meat industry to change.

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:47:04 -0400 2020-03-17T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Maryn McKenna
Food Literacy for All (March 17, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-03-17T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 19, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
CANCELLED: Piloting to a Sustainable Campus (March 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73542 73542-18258843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Office of Campus Sustainability

What works? Let's find out! Office of Campus Sustainability staff will share lessons from composting and energy conservation pilots. Join us for a mid-morning coffee break and an insider look at experiments in making campus more sustainable.

Coffee will be provided. For questions, please contact ocs_contact@umich.edu

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:49:19 -0400 2020-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Office of Campus Sustainability Presentation Event information
Canceled: EEB Thursday Seminar (March 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69046 69046-17220027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:22:38 -0400 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 20, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
CANCELED: EEB Museums Friday Seminar - Negotiating Academic/Tribal Research Agendas Involving Plants, Properties, and a Sustainable Future: UM as an emerging case of national significance (March 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73639 73639-18276407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Herbarium

The diverse ‘museum and museum-like’ collections of Tier 1 Research Universities, as those at RMC and the Matthaei-Nichols, have pivotal roles in the emerging protocols of Tribally-engaged research outside the biomedical sciences. At UM, in addition to each unit’s intellectual and disciplinary agendas, our Tribal engagements profoundly influence other core functions of the university: from undergraduate recruitment to donor and foundation relationships. Based on more than 15 years of relationship-building, Michener has developed UM Matthaei-Nichols as a key partner in broadening and refocusing plant- and environmental justice-centered research relationships with Michigan’s Tribal partners. The ways forward include deepening engagement with the research divisions at RMC. By mutual agreement with Tribal partners, little of this work has been discussed in public venues until recently. Today’s talk will focus on specific Tribally-engaged research activities at the Matthaei-Nichols, their immediate objectives, and the anticipated impacts for all partners.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:59:26 -0400 2020-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Herbarium Lecture / Discussion 2:00 PM - Friday March 20, RMC Rm 1006
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 21, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 23, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 24, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: Tuesday Lunch Seminar (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69222 69222-17269226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:25:53 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
"To Impossible and Beyond: Are the new plant based burgers too good to be true” (March 24, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72677 72677-18044331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:16:22 -0400 2020-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All
Food Literacy for All (March 24, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 25, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Thursday Seminar (March 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69047 69047-17220028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

TBD

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:27:46 -0400 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-29T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
EEB student evaluation seminar: Climate-smart agriculture and international climate policy: does farm spatial scale affect biodiversity? (March 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73913 73913-18401452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Alexa presents her preliminary seminar.

Watch the seminar via BlueJeans ID 661 626 323 4

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Presentation Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:37:56 -0400 2020-03-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation Blue mountain coffee farm in Jamaica
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 31, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar (March 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69223 69223-17269227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:34:52 -0400 2020-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
"Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System" (March 31, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72678 72678-18044332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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The US charitable food system is a network of food banks, food pantries, and meal programs that distributes billions of pounds of food to households experiencing food insecurity. Historically, the primary metric of success within this system was the number of pounds of food distributed, with limited attention to nutritional quality. However, in recognition of the high rates of diet-related illnesses among the people receiving this food, there is a growing movement to measure nutritional quality and promote healthier options. This presentation will describe efforts at the national, state, local, and community levels to measure and encourage the distribution of healthier foods, as well as research strategies to evaluate the impact of these changes. Finally, lessons learned and friendly advice for new researchers interested in this topic will be shared.

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:15:16 -0400 2020-03-31T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Marlene Schwartz
Food Literacy for All (March 31, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-03-31T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
CANCELLED - New Horizons in Conservation Conference (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71792 71792-17885875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The New Horizons in Conservation Conference is an annual gathering of students and young professionals from underrepresented backgrounds in the environmental field and/or are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field. This conference gives the opportunity to connect with peers, network, engage in hands-on workshops and training, and hear from a diverse range of leaders and visionaries.
Features of this year’s conference include:

- Keynote addresses from Beverly Wright and Gregory Jenkins.

- A spotlight conversation on Environment, Equity, and Community Engagement in Michigan with Kyle Powys Whyte, Mona Munroe-Younis, Nayyirah Shariff, and Donele Wilkins.

- A discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Environmental Organizations from Annie Leonard, Deeohn Ferris, Eva-Hernandez Simmons, and Rosita Scarborough
.- Workshops on a variety of topics including community engagement and advocacy, policymaking, granting writing, and negotiating salaries.

- Opportunities to explore conservation and justice work in southeast Michigan through field trips. Registration is now open and please see the conference website for more information.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Mar 2020 06:29:59 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union School for Environment and Sustainability Conference / Symposium New Horizons
CANCELLED - New Horizons in Conservation Conference (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71792 71792-17885876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The New Horizons in Conservation Conference is an annual gathering of students and young professionals from underrepresented backgrounds in the environmental field and/or are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field. This conference gives the opportunity to connect with peers, network, engage in hands-on workshops and training, and hear from a diverse range of leaders and visionaries.
Features of this year’s conference include:

- Keynote addresses from Beverly Wright and Gregory Jenkins.

- A spotlight conversation on Environment, Equity, and Community Engagement in Michigan with Kyle Powys Whyte, Mona Munroe-Younis, Nayyirah Shariff, and Donele Wilkins.

- A discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Environmental Organizations from Annie Leonard, Deeohn Ferris, Eva-Hernandez Simmons, and Rosita Scarborough
.- Workshops on a variety of topics including community engagement and advocacy, policymaking, granting writing, and negotiating salaries.

- Opportunities to explore conservation and justice work in southeast Michigan through field trips. Registration is now open and please see the conference website for more information.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Mar 2020 06:29:59 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union School for Environment and Sustainability Conference / Symposium New Horizons
CANCELED: EEB Thursday Seminar: Ecological drivers of plant mating system evolution (April 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69048 69048-17220029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The events that occur during reproduction play a critical role in determining the distribution of genetic and phenotypic variance within populations and thus their potential to adapt and persist. Understanding the forces shaping the evolution of mating patterns and the diversity of traits that influence mating success in the natural world is a fundamental problem in evolutionary biology. Plants, in particular, show an impressive amount of diversity in floral form and the degree to which they outcross or self-pollinate. In this seminar, I will share a series of empirical and modeling studies investigating how the pollination environment drives the evolution of floral traits that promote either outcrossing or selfing.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:51:12 -0400 2020-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
CANCELLED - New Horizons in Conservation Conference (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71792 71792-17885877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The New Horizons in Conservation Conference is an annual gathering of students and young professionals from underrepresented backgrounds in the environmental field and/or are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field. This conference gives the opportunity to connect with peers, network, engage in hands-on workshops and training, and hear from a diverse range of leaders and visionaries.
Features of this year’s conference include:

- Keynote addresses from Beverly Wright and Gregory Jenkins.

- A spotlight conversation on Environment, Equity, and Community Engagement in Michigan with Kyle Powys Whyte, Mona Munroe-Younis, Nayyirah Shariff, and Donele Wilkins.

- A discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Environmental Organizations from Annie Leonard, Deeohn Ferris, Eva-Hernandez Simmons, and Rosita Scarborough
.- Workshops on a variety of topics including community engagement and advocacy, policymaking, granting writing, and negotiating salaries.

- Opportunities to explore conservation and justice work in southeast Michigan through field trips. Registration is now open and please see the conference website for more information.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Mar 2020 06:29:59 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union School for Environment and Sustainability Conference / Symposium New Horizons
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-06T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-07T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar (April 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69226 69226-17269228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:39:36 -0400 2020-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
Food Literacy for All (April 7, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-04-07T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
The Farm Bill and National Food Policy (April 7, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72679 72679-18044333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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The bipartisan 2018 Farm Bill supports the one in four jobs related to food and agriculture in Michigan. It provides five years of certainty for Michigan’s farmers, fuel opportunity in rural communities and grow small businesses. It continues historic investments in land, water and wildlife conservation, will grow Michigan local food economies, and will support families working hard to make ends meet.

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:16:54 -0400 2020-04-07T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-08T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Thursday Seminar: Sex differences in immune function: probing ultimate drivers, and exploring consequences (April 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69049 69049-18206121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Humans, like many other species, show striking sex differences in immune function. While the proximate determinants of sex differences across species can include both chromosomal and hormonal differences, the ultimate evolutionary determinants will be rooted in differences in investments in competing and caring between the sexes. Ultimate explanations have classically been framed in terms of quantitative sex differences in immune function (with males typically the ‘weaker’ sex), but have failed to account for qualitative sex differences in immune function. We model immune trade-offs that might underpin these differences. Once the dangerous side of immunity is accounted for, two distinct immunological profiles emerge as peaks on a fitness landscape, one aligned with investment in pathogen detection and the other with investment in pathogen killing. Intriguingly, alignment of these fitness peaks with observed sex differences in birds and mammals – where females typically favor detection – cannot be explained by selection pressures emerging from models including immunity trade-offs alone. Age-specific patterns of infection, and/or maternal transfer of immunity (e.g., maternal antibodies) are also required. The characterization of immune function underlying these predictions is necessarily a simplified caricature of the true complexity. We develop projections of the scope of expectations of this simplified caricature in terms of the development of immunity across the life course in the two sexes.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:47:30 -0400 2020-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Sex differences in immune function - graphs
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-10T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
EEB thesis defense: Unraveling the roles of genotype and environment in the expression of plant defense phenotypes (April 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73568 73568-18261078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Abigail defends her master's thesis

BlueJeans ID: 156 386 641

Image: Abigail Potts

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:29:43 -0400 2020-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual A common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, purple flower, large green leaves.
Nuclear Energy Grand Challenge Pitch Competition (April 10, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72087 72087-17937815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:45:06 -0400 2020-04-10T13:30:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Presentation Pitch Competition
EEB student evaluation seminar: Dissecting impacts of host-microbiome symbiosis on the maintenance of microbiome diversity and host productivity (April 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74096 74096-18518835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jinny presents her preliminary seminar

Via BlueJeans # 351234418

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:32:35 -0400 2020-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Jinny's study algal species Chlorella sorokiniana
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-11T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-12T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar (April 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69227 69227-17269230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please come join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:40:25 -0400 2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda taxes and public policy (April 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72680 72680-18044334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:15:59 -0400 2020-04-14T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Jennifer Falbe
Food Literacy for All (April 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-04-14T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-15T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Thursday Seminar: Chuck Davis (April 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69050 69050-17220031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

To be postponed at this time.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:07:59 -0400 2020-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
CANCELED: Environmental Awareness and Compassionate Action (April 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73358 73358-18208323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

With the existential crisis of our time, climate change, bearing down upon us, there is a need to develop constructive and sustainable solutions. Great strides have been made in generating awareness about climate change, overpopulation, mass extinction of species and other stressors on the environment. In 2019, the City of Ann Arbor declared a Climate Emergency. But how can we as individuals make a difference? Buddhism has always emphasized the interdependence of all living beings and the benefit of interacting compassionately.

The inaugural Jewel Heart Annual Earth Day Forum will present a dialogue between Tibetan Buddhist scholar and teacher, Demo Rinpoche, and eminent scientists and activists. The Forum will address the human and spiritual dimension of sustaining life on this planet.

Participants:

Demo Rinpoche – Jewel Heart Tibetan Buddhist Center
Mark Hunter – UM Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Anthony King – UM Department of Psychiatry
MaryCarol Hunter - UM School for Environment and Sustainability
Avik Basu - UM School for Environment and Sustainability
Rebecca Hardin - UM School for Environment and Sustainability
Isabelle Osawamick - Native American Anishinaabemowin Language Specialist
Jonathan Rose – The Garrison Institute

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:50:50 -0400 2020-04-18T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Event ad with background image of mountains, grassy hills and water, photo of Demo Rimpoche
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 19, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-19T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 20, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-20T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 21, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar (April 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69229 69229-17269231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:41:34 -0400 2020-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
Food Literacy for All (April 21, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-04-21T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Food Literacy for All Course Conclusions (April 21, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72681 72681-18044335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Center for Academic Innovation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:11:52 -0400 2020-04-21T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
UROP Spring Research Symposium - CANCELED (April 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72418 72418-18000490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Spring Research Symposium has been canceled.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:58:42 -0400 2020-04-22T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium UROP Symposium Canceled
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 23, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 24, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-24T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 25, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-26T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-27T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Canceled: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar (April 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69230 69230-17269232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Tuesday Lunch Seminars will resume next Fall semester.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:43:19 -0400 2020-04-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-29T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (April 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (May 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-05-01T00:00:00-04:00 2020-05-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
EEB dissertation defense: Virus prevalence in pollinator communities: The role of communities, environments, and host interactions on multi-host–multi-pathogen dynamics (May 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74280 74280-18617481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Michelle presents her dissertation

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:30:25 -0400 2020-05-01T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-01T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual A bee pollinating pink flowers on a tree, blue sky
Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out (May 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73274 73274-18188474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On April 22, 2020, our world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event meant to bring people together from across the world in protest, solidarity, and conversation about how we can collectively fight for a sustainable and just world. In this Teach-Out, you will explore the origins of Earth Day 1970 with student activists from Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT), an environmental student group from the University of Michigan, whose efforts led to a massive “Teach-In on the Environment” which drew tens of thousands of people. This was just one of many teach-in events that took place in 1970 and kicked-off Earth Day as we know it.

50 years later, you are invited to this “Teach-Out” to engage in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversion about what sustainability means across different sectors, disciplines, and lived experiences. You will explore themes including global sustainability efforts, climate change, environmental justice, and more, to inspire you to take action on Earth Day and beyond. Together, we will collectively develop visions for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:52:57 -0500 2020-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 2020-05-02T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
EEB dissertation defense: Range expansion since the 20th Century – ecology and population genetics of the Virginia opossum (May 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74028 74028-18491690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Lisa presents her doctoral dissertation

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

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Presentation Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:08:39 -0400 2020-05-04T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-04T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation opossum image superimposed on a map of the United States showing their distribution
EEB thesis defense: Behavioral variation in fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) along an urbanization gradient (May 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73304 73304-18190736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Charlotte defends her master's thesis.

Image: Corey Seeman

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:12:31 -0400 2020-05-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-05-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual squirrel in a tree with green tags on ears
EEB dissertation defense: Exploring the roles of models and natural history in macroevolution (May 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74273 74273-18617475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Michael presents his dissertation

Image: Rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria), Los Amigos Biological Station, southern Peru by Michael Grundler.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 May 2020 09:29:32 -0400 2020-05-12T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Orange snake with black circles and spots on it, tongue out, entering image from left side. Rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria) taken at the Los Amigos Biological Station in southern Peru.
EEB dissertation defense: Testing the proximate mechanisms of character displacement in the evolution of root traits (May 19, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73544 73544-18258846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Sara defends her doctoral dissertation

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 11 May 2020 13:25:36 -0400 2020-05-19T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-19T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual hand holding up a small green plant and roots with tag, black background
Cultures of Ice (June 23, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74966 74966-19112546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This experimental art film weaves stories of Michigan kite skiers, ice fishers, and international scientists studying the Russian Arctic, exploring the hidden bridges between people and places.

Join us for a showing of this 15-minute film and a discussion panel to hear tales from the field, and a Q&A with Arctic scientists and connoisseurs of Michigan ice!

Brought to you by the University of Michigan Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biology on Tap - Lansing.

An @TTphilos production

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Film Screening Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:22:21 -0400 2020-06-23T19:30:00-04:00 2020-06-23T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Film Screening Kite skier
EEB student evaluation seminar: Trait-performance relationships: influence of leaf traits on plant growth and mortality (July 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75126 75126-19275437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Chau presents her preliminary seminar

Image: Leaf in sunlight, from Alana Gordon, Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/digital-daze/9882552935/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jul 2020 11:43:35 -0400 2020-07-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-07-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Leaf in sunlight, from Alana Gordon, Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/digital-daze/9882552935/
EEB dissertation defense: Frog trophic and morphological diversity: phylogenetic and spatial patterns (August 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74419 74419-18690319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Joanna defends her dissertation

Joanna's favorite frog, Sphaenorhynchus lacteus. Image credit: Consuelo Alarcon Rodriguez.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:48:30 -0400 2020-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-10T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Joanna's favorite frog: Sphaenorhynchus lacteus. Photo credit: Consuelo Alarcon Rodriguez
EEB dissertation defense: The diversity of mycoviruses in early-diverging fungi, and their evolutionary implications (August 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75206 75206-19332297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jill presents her dissertation

watercolor image inspired by one of Jill's study organisms, Allomyces, painted by her Mom

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:42:52 -0400 2020-08-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-08-13T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual watercolor image inspired by one of Jill's study organisms, Allomyces, painted by her Mom
EEB dissertation defense: Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of complex host-parasite communities (August 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75352 75352-19442256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Camden presents his dissertation

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:43:08 -0400 2020-08-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual infected Daphnia
EEB thesis defense: Carnivore trophic and spatial ecology in the urban ecosystem (August 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75453 75453-19495323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 3:00pm
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Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Siria defends her thesis

Image credit: Nyeema Harris, Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:28:22 -0400 2020-08-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T16:00:00-04:00 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual camera trap image of a coyote in the snow, closeup
POSTPONED: EEB Virtual Seminar: Community ecology as a collection of coupled oscillators (September 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76152 76152-19669622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor Vandermeer will present on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:18:48 -0400 2020-09-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual graph of coupled oscillators
EEB dissertation defense: Past, present, and future: fungal community responses to disturbances in north temperate forests (September 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76106 76106-19663520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Buck defends his dissertation

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:57:34 -0400 2020-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Forest control burn
EEB Virtual Seminar: Belowground uptake strategies: how fine-root traits determine tree growth (September 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76951 76951-19780539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Monique presents this week's seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:32:36 -0400 2020-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Forest study site
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2020 (September 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72207 72207-19655364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

The 2020 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will explore innovative and creative research already taking place using unique model systems, and consider all we have yet to learn from the innumerable unexplored model systems — many of which are disappearing at alarming rates as a result of global climate change.

Schedule: Tuesday, September 29

2:00 p.m. | Welcome

Talk Session 1: Human Adaptation and Evolution
2:10 p.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Genomic evolution and adaptation in Africa: Implications for health and disease
Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ph.D.
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Departments of Genetics and Biology; Director, Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Talk Session 2: Social Biomimicry
3:10 p.m. | Towards living robots: Using biology to make better machines (full lecture)
Barry A. Trimmer, Ph.D.
Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Neuromechanics and Biomimetic Devices Laboratory, Tufts University

4:05 p.m. | How the physics of slithering can teach multilegged robots to walk (short talk)
Shai Revzen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

4:25 p.m. | What wasps can teach us about the evolution of animal minds (full lecture)
Elizabeth Tibbetts, Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Chair for Research Facilities, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

5:20 p.m. | Day 1 Closing Remarks


Schedule: Wednesday, September 30

9:00 a.m. | Welcome

Talk Session 3: Biological Control of Disease Vectors
9:05 a.m. | Breaking up Anopheles-Plasmodium interactions for malaria control (full lecture)
Flaminia Catteruccia, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard University

10:00 a.m. | Cryopreservation of multicellular animals: Lessons from extreme insects (short talk)
Nicholas Teets, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky

10:20 a.m. | Break

10:35 a.m. | Transgenic fungi for mosquito control (full lecture)
Raymond St. Leger, Ph.D.
Professor, Entomology, University of Maryland

11:30 a.m. | Recombination versus mutation as the fuel for rapid evolution across the fungal tree of life (short talk)
Timothy James, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer Professor in the Taxonomy of Fungi, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

11:50 a.m. | Building a moving wall: Maintaining cell wall polarity during tip growth (short talk)
Cora MacAlister, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

12:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:23:00 -0400 2020-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Conference / Symposium Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium: Biodiversity in Biological Research
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2020 (September 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72207 72207-17957294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

The 2020 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will explore innovative and creative research already taking place using unique model systems, and consider all we have yet to learn from the innumerable unexplored model systems — many of which are disappearing at alarming rates as a result of global climate change.

Schedule: Tuesday, September 29

2:00 p.m. | Welcome

Talk Session 1: Human Adaptation and Evolution
2:10 p.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Genomic evolution and adaptation in Africa: Implications for health and disease
Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ph.D.
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Departments of Genetics and Biology; Director, Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Talk Session 2: Social Biomimicry
3:10 p.m. | Towards living robots: Using biology to make better machines (full lecture)
Barry A. Trimmer, Ph.D.
Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Neuromechanics and Biomimetic Devices Laboratory, Tufts University

4:05 p.m. | How the physics of slithering can teach multilegged robots to walk (short talk)
Shai Revzen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

4:25 p.m. | What wasps can teach us about the evolution of animal minds (full lecture)
Elizabeth Tibbetts, Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Chair for Research Facilities, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

5:20 p.m. | Day 1 Closing Remarks


Schedule: Wednesday, September 30

9:00 a.m. | Welcome

Talk Session 3: Biological Control of Disease Vectors
9:05 a.m. | Breaking up Anopheles-Plasmodium interactions for malaria control (full lecture)
Flaminia Catteruccia, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard University

10:00 a.m. | Cryopreservation of multicellular animals: Lessons from extreme insects (short talk)
Nicholas Teets, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky

10:20 a.m. | Break

10:35 a.m. | Transgenic fungi for mosquito control (full lecture)
Raymond St. Leger, Ph.D.
Professor, Entomology, University of Maryland

11:30 a.m. | Recombination versus mutation as the fuel for rapid evolution across the fungal tree of life (short talk)
Timothy James, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer Professor in the Taxonomy of Fungi, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

11:50 a.m. | Building a moving wall: Maintaining cell wall polarity during tip growth (short talk)
Cora MacAlister, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

12:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:23:00 -0400 2020-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T12:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Conference / Symposium Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium: Biodiversity in Biological Research
EEB Virtual Seminar: Global inequity in species names and who they honor (October 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76574 76574-19727085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Shane presents this week's virtual seminar.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:34:38 -0400 2020-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual World map showing number of bird species descriptions since 1950
EEB Virtual Seminar: Community ecology as a collection of coupled oscillators (October 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77050 77050-19790558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

John Vandermeer presents this week's seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:20:44 -0400 2020-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual graph of coupled oscillators
Brave Blue World (October 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78497 78497-20052316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Narrated by Liam Neeson, the documentary Brave Blue World challenges some of the commonly held myths and assumptions about water, and introduces the pioneers and innovators at the front-line addressing global water and sanitation challenges in new and creative ways. The film includes interviews with leading water activists and researchers, including Matt Damon and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Glen Daigger.

After the screening, a panel of experts on water and policy will answer questions and discuss their vision for the future of water in Michigan and beyond.

PANEL
-Eleanor Allen: CEO, Water For People
-Glen Daigger: Professor, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
-Debbie Dingell: U.S. Congresswoman (MI-12)
-Rebecca Esselman: Executive Director, Huron River Watershed Council
-Paul O’Callaghan: CEO, BlueTech Research; Producer, Brave Blue World
-Jen Read (Moderator): Water Center Director, Graham Sustainability Institute

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Film Screening Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:49:23 -0400 2020-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Film Screening Lighthouse
EEB Virtual Seminar: How walking is a lot like slithering (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76575 76575-19727086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor Revzen presents this week's seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:38:27 -0400 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual drawing of a red ant on a blue background with yellow, blue and white dots on tips of legs and thorax
EEB Virtual Seminar: Bridging the gap between statics and dynamics in community ecology (November 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77309 77309-19838058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Understanding the processes that shape ecological communities is one of the main goals of ecology. Multiple dynamic models of ecological communities have been developed, but they are typically tested by examining static patterns such as Species Abundance Distributions. Much less is known about the ability of these theories to explain the actual dynamics that are observed in ecological communities.

I focused on the two most minimalistic models of community dynamics, the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity (NTB) and Dynamic Equilibrium theory (DE). For both theories, I asked: 1) can the model explain observed patterns of community dynamics? 2) if not, what processes need to be added to explain community dynamics?

I have found that the magnitude of changes in abundances and species composition in the Barro Colorado Island forest community is considerably larger than expected under NTB. However, incorporating environmental fluctuations into the theory allows explaining patterns of richness, commonness and rarity, and dynamics in that forest. In my work on DE, I have used a novel methodology to show that both the assumptions and the predictions of the theory are violated in thousands of communities worldwide. I have found that there are larger temporal changes in species richness than expected, which are associated with a positive covariance between species, representing the shared response to environmental changes.

Overall, while most previous work in community ecology has emphasized the role of competition in shaping ecological communities, my results demonstrate the crucial role of environmental changes as a driver of community assembly.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:39:34 -0500 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual small purple, white and yellow flowers
EEB Virtual Seminar: Using a community assembly framework to decrease vulnerability to biological invasions in temperate forests & Phenology and flowering overlap drive specialization in pollinator networks (December 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76577 76577-19727088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Laís and Paul present this week's virtual seminar.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:12:05 -0500 2020-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Bee overlaid on graphs and trees