Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The complete tree species of Panama (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69211 69211-17269216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 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 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:07:42 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar View of trees and water in Panama
Food Literacy for All (January 28, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 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 2020-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Carbon Mineralization in Fractured Basalt (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70027 70027-17497483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The need to meet rising energy demands while mitigating climate change driven by associated CO2 emissions has motivated the development of geologic carbon storage systems. Until recently, most research focused on sedimentary reservoirs that rely primarily on short-term solubility and physical trapping mechanisms, where CO2 can migrate if structural security is compromised. This inherent leakage risk could be eliminated by leveraging the natural reactivity of basalt reservoirs, which are abundant in silicate minerals that dissolve rapidly under acidic conditions and can ultimately trap dissolved CO2 as solid carbonate minerals. However, our fundamental understanding of the conditions under which CO2 mineralization occurs and its viability as a permanent carbon sequestration pathway remain limited. This talk will highlight series of high-pressure core flooding experiments and complementary reactive transport modeling designed to evaluate the effects of temperature, fluid chemistry, and transport regimes on basalt dissolution and carbonate precipitation. Results indicate that basalts can effectively mineralize CO2 at representative subsurface stress conditions, but predominantly within buffered diffusion-limited zones (e.g. dead-end fractures) where reaction fronts developed from competing geochemical gradients. Carbonate precipitation was highly localized on reactive silicate minerals contributing key divalent cations and was significantly enhanced by elevated temperature and alkalinity. In combination, this work reveals how complex interactions between reservoir geochemistry and transport conditions drive the extent and spatial distribution of carbon mineralization reactions in basalt fractures, which will inform selection of storage sites and injection.

Anne Menefee in a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Anne received her B.S.E. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Viginia. Her reserach is focused on improving our knowledge of fluid transport and geochemical controls for enhancing CO2 mineral carbonation in fractured basalt reservoirs.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:44:27 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Complex Systems Seminar | "Using a wetland community-ecosystem model to explore ecosystem interactions and dynamics from a perspective of complex adaptive systems" (January 30, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71625 71625-17846977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The Seminar is presented as part of UM "Earth Day at 50" and the LSA "Great Lakes Theme Semester".

Abstract: In the complexity research community, ecosystems are often considered to be examples of complex adaptive systems. However, complexity researchers often focus on species interactions in a community but exclude phenomena that ecosystem scientists view as central, such as carbon balance, water flows, and nutrient cycling. Ecosystem process models can provide a bridge between these fields. These models capture and represent our scientific understanding of ecosystem processes and their complex interactions and responses to external drivers. Some of these models also include the dynamics of individual species. In this seminar the Mondrian model will be examined, a community-ecosystem model of Great Lakes coastal wetlands developed by Currie and others here at Michigan. Model results and behavior will be examined from a perspective of complex adaptive systems. Mondrian is a complex, individual-based model that simulates thousands of individual plants of four species and their spatially-explicit competition, while strongly coupling the plant species functionality and competition to balanced ecosystem-level fluxes of carbon and nitrogen as well as water flows through a wetland. The model will be used to examine emergence and in nutrient cycling and community dynamics and to test hypotheses related to attractor behaviors in these variables on a range of time scales. The seminar will also touch on applied questions that the Mondrian model is used to address in coastal wetlands including nutrient retention, carbon storage, biodiversity and invasive plant species.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:05:00 -0500 2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar William S. Currie
A Meditation on Juliana v. United States (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70163 70163-17540919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Professor Lisa Heinzerling from Georgetown Law will deliver a lecture entitled, "A Meditation on Juliana v. United States."

This event is free and open to the public.

Lisa Heinzerling is the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her specialties include administrative law, environmental law, food law, and torts. She has published several books, including a leading casebook on environmental law and a widely cited critique of the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy (Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:30:24 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
EEB Thursday Seminar: River capture promotes evolutionary diversification in continental freshwaters (January 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69040 69040-17220021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Neotropical freshwaters house one of the greatest concentration of species and phenotypes on Earth, with more than 8,000 fish species representing approximately 10% of all living vertebrates combined, compressed into a tiny volume of aquatic habitat. The diversity of Neotropical freshwater fishes long predates the geological formation of the modern Amazon and Orinoco river basins, and the unparalleled diversity we observe today arose from an excess of speciation over extinction rates operating over a lengthy time period of tens of millions of years. In this paper we summarize the major phylogenetic and biogeographic dimensions of the Neotropical ichthyofauna, and review recent advances in understanding the roles of paleogeography, river capture, and other landscape evolution processes contributing to the formation of this singular fauna.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/1Qsk76-KDDk

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:02:04 -0400 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Dr. James Albert map of distribution
EEB Museums Friday Seminar: Historical ecology of Neotropical freshwater fishes (January 31, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71087 71087-17774974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

This talk will provide a synoptic overview of a new book project now being prepared by the community of Neotropical ichthyologists entitled Historical Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes. The humid Neotropics is home to the greatest concentration of biodiversity on Earth for many groups of organisms, including continental (or freshwater) fishes. The full dimensions of Neotropical freshwater fish (NFF) diversity have only come to be appreciated in recent years. As of this writing we have described about 6,088 NFF species, in 854 genera, 95 families and 39 orders. From torrential headwaters cascading off the Andean cordilleras and upland cratonic shields, to the murky waters of large lowland river channels, floodplains and swamps, NFFs thrive in astonishing abundance and diversity. NFFs in fact represent the most species-rich – and species-dense – continental fauna on Earth. Recent years have also seen rapid increase in our knowledge of the phylogenetic and ecological dimensions of NFF diversity, and the adoption of many innovative methods to study and understand the historical ecology of this singular fauna. NFF species inhabit a broad range of aquatic habitats, ecoregions and climate zones, displaying a bewildering array of organismal phenotypes that potentially confer functional advantages. Many NFFs possess ecophysiological and behavioral traits and tolerances that promote co-existence in species-rich local assemblages, some of which may also enhance evolutionary diversification. Other specialized phenotypes of sexual communication systems, including sensory cues and courtship displays, inhibit species from hybridizing and therefore promote higher species richness of local assemblages. The goals of this book are to synthesize current information on the historical ecology of NFF taxa, and to document the phylogenetic history of the many distinctive ecophysiological phenotypes of these fishes adapted to diverse habitat, dietary and other life-history specializations.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:54:51 -0500 2020-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 Research Museums Center Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium Graphic of freshwater fish
Science Forum Demo (February 1, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 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 2020-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Science Forum Demo (February 2, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 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 2020-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Complex Systems Seminar | "Human and Ecological System Characteristics Influence Gains from Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management" (February 4, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71748 71748-17877266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The Seminar is presented as part of UM "Earth Day at 50"

Ecosystem-based fisheries management has emerged as a new approach to fisheries management, broadening the scope beyond the traditional single-fishery management paradigm. A broader scope, however, necessitates additional information on system components and new methodologies to design management approaches that consider ecological, human, and human-ecological connections. Although there have been calls for increased consideration of system linkages and ecological and socioeconomic components and outcomes, relatively little work has been done to-date. In this paper we develop a dynamic, integrated, human-ecological model. It incorporates ecological connectivity between species in the form of a foodweb, a human system comprised of fishers who choose among multiple fisheries to fish in subject to management program design, and fisher harvest linking the ecological and human components. We identify the human and ecological conditions under which gains from management approaches that account for the system connectivity relative to traditional single-fishery management policies are greatest, providing insight into when the returns to using more complex models to design fisheries management policies will be greatest.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:37:14 -0500 2020-02-04T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Kailin Kroetz
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Using long-term enrichment experiments and existing nutrient gradients to determine the nutrient controls on carbon storage in an understudied seagrass ecosystem (February 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69212 69212-17269217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 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, 24 Jan 2020 09:26:48 -0500 2020-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar underwater cinder block reef and seagrass
Food Literacy for All (February 4, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 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 2020-02-04T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Lateral circulation and its role in disrupting the classical pattern of intra-tidal stratification in estuaries (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70028 70028-17499522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The tidal cycle variability of stratification in an estuary is controlled by the interaction between tidal flows, bathymetry, and the estuary's longitudinal salt gradient. Two-dimensional analysis (in the vertical-longitudinal plane) of a straight, estuarine channel yields the classical theory of periodic stratification from tidal straining, and this mechanism typically works to enhance stratification on ebb tides and break it down through active mixing on flood tides. Ecological implications of mixing relative to tidal phase include whether sediment can reach perimeter habitats high in the tidal prism, whether phytoplankton reach sunlight, and whether hypoxia at depth persists longer than biology can tolerate. This pattern of stratification can be disrupted by density-driven exchange with shallow regions lining the channel: differential advection over channel-shoal bathymetry sets up lateral gradients in velocity, straining the salinity field and driving an input of fresher water at the surface of the channel during flood tides. Here, we present analytical scaling groups to weigh the contributions of longitudinal and lateral tidal straining and explore the conditions which lead to flood-tide stratification through this lateral exchange mechanism. Idealized, fully three-dimensional model results from the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) are used to explore the parameter space described by the scaling groups.

Lissa MacVean is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research is focused on the physics of water in lakes, estuaries, and marine coastal environments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:47:33 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Designing Business Models for Carbon Capture and Utilization Technologies (February 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71978 71978-17905486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

The +Impact Studio at Michigan Ross in partnership with the U-M Global CO2 Initiative and the Erb Institute is excited to offer an innovative workshop in which students will use design thinking methodologies to create business models for carbon capture and utilization technologies. Award-winning U-M faculty will share their research on these technologies in an informal setting, and participating students will have the opportunity to learn and apply the business model canvas to them. This process will result in ideas for sustainable businesses that work to meaningfully combat climate change, and further ways to get involved and potentially pursue these business ideas will be shared.

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/MKnvLLPYMyTr2mg86

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:59:23 -0500 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Global CO2 Initiative
EEB Thursday Seminar: Variable immunity and its consequences for parasite dynamics (February 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69041 69041-17220022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Infectious disease results from interactions between parasites and susceptible hosts in the environment. For many populations, we have a limited understanding of the mechanisms that shape host susceptibility and how those mechanisms interact with ecological factors to regulate the spread of disease. Focusing on a simple one-host one-parasite system with environmental transmission, I use theoretical and empirical methods to explore the causes and consequences of variable host immunity. I demonstrate how integrating immune defenses into host-parasite interactions can improve our understanding of disease spread in natural systems.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/g2rVoE-lFwM

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:02:51 -0400 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Daphnia specimen depicted.
Food Literacy for All (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-18033414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
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 2020-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
NERS Colloquium: How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation (February 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70140 70140-17540913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Solar energy’s path to widespread adoption provides a successful model that can be applied to other technologies we will need to address climate change.

Solar photovoltaics (PV) has become a substantial global industry—a truly disruptive technology that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. But,

How did solar become inexpensive? And why did it take so long?
As a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow I had the opportunity to dive deeply into these questions, drawing on new data sets, analyses, and interviewing 75 individuals in 18 countries. The concept of National Innovation Systems provides a theoretical structure for this assessment and helps explain that PV’s success has been the result of distinct contributions mainly by the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China—in that sequence. Flows of knowledge from one country to another—often embodied in equipment, and also as tacit knowledge in the heads of internationally mobile individuals—have been central to solar’s progress. One payoff from understanding the reasons for solar’s success is that it can serve as a model for other low-carbon technologies. I focus on direct air carbon capture and small nuclear reactors. However other technologies would have to progress much faster than PV to be helpful for climate change. Possible approaches for accelerating innovation include: dynamic R&D foci, codification of knowledge, public procurement, robust markets, enhancing knowledge mobility, and addressing political economy considerations.

Speaker: Professor Gregory F. Nemet, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gregory Nemet is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs. He teaches courses in policy analysis, energy systems, and international environmental policy. Nemet's research focuses on understanding the process of technological change and the ways in which public policy can affect it. He received his doctorate in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley. His A.B. is in geography and economics from Dartmouth College. He received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and used it to write a book on how solar PV provides lessons for the development of other low-carbon technologies: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation” (Routledge 2019). He was awarded the inaugural World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance by APPAM in 2019. He is currently a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:56:16 -0500 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Professor Gregory F. Nemet
Science Forum Demo (February 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 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 2020-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Science Forum Demo (February 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 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 2020-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Living in community: microbial eco-evolutionary dynamics (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69215 69215-17269220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 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, 05 Feb 2020 16:01:59 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar magnified view of microbes
"De-colonizing Food Journalism" (February 11, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72672 72672-18044326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Zahir Janmohamed, co-founder of the James Beard nominated podcast Racist Sandwich, will speak about what has, and has not, changed in food media since he and Soleil Ho began their show in 2016. He will speak about why he thinks the subjects of race, gender, class cannot be separated from discussions about food and will offer advice, and lessons learned, from his successes, and failures, to get traditional media to center their stories around non-white, non-male voices.

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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 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 16:06:56 -0500 2020-02-11T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Zahir Janmohamed
Food Literacy for All (February 11, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 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 2020-02-11T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Rethinking America’s Urban Water Infrastructure: Resource Efficiency, Access, and Public Health (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70029 70029-17499523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Water infrastructure renewal is receiving significant attention today as many of our systems are meeting (or exceeding) design life. Cities in countries with well developed economies like the U.S. enjoy economic prosperity in part due to the development of heavily centralized water systems that create high levels of water quality and public health, on average. While centralized water infrastructure has served us well, I argue that we should not be constrained to applying 20th century thinking as we plan for the future. The current revolution in information technologies (IT: software, hardware and devices) has the potential to transform urban water infrastructure by creating more resilient and flexible hybrid systems comprised of an interacting collection of centralized and decentralized physical IT systems. I contend that the development of IT-enabled “smart” hybrid water system solutions has the potential to: improve the efficiency with which we use resources (e.g., water, power,
nutrients); enhance equitable access to water services; change consumer and provider behavior around water; and ensure that we sustain a high level of public health, even as more people live in close proximity to each other. In this talk and through the use of case studies from across different regions around the globe, I will explore these scenarios and the changing ways in which people live. As an example, one case study will include the development of “smart” distributed nutrient recovery systems that have been deployed and are being tested at the University of Michigan.

Nancy Love is the Borchardt and Glysson Collegiate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Nancy research focuses are on assessing and advancing public and environmental health using chemical, biological and analytical approaches applied to water systems using both physical experiments and computational models.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:48:22 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
EEB Thursday Seminar: Ecosystem entanglement and spooky ecological actions (instability) at a distance (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69042 69042-17220023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The world is experiencing unprecedented transformation of nutrient flows through human action, with impacts accelerating including fisheries collapse, hypoxic dead zones, and polluted drinking water. Clearly, nutrient application produces a series of entangled and unintended consequences that suggests a fundamental imbalance in how we manage the planet. Interestingly, awareness that things are not what they might seem with nutrients appeared 50 years ago in the pages of Science, with Michael Rosenzweig’s seminal paper on the “Paradox of Enrichment “. Here, pushed by recent empirical findings of ecosystem imbalance occurring on the landscape we revisit Rosenzweig’s paradox of enrichment results from a more wholistic food web perspective and a large spatial perspective (meta-ecosystems). While many have argued against any empirical evidence for Rosenzweig’s paradox of enrichment in nature, when we broaden his work to include multiple types of instability in space we find that spatial food web theory suggests we expect to find ecosystem imbalances often at great distances from the local source of nutrient enrichment given natures vast transport systems (e.g., stream, rivers, oceanic currents, wind, mass migration events). The results also suggest an analog to network food web theory that stabilization of these large spatially distant ecosystem imbalances can occur by muting key spatial pathways of nutrient transport in meta-ecosystems.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/5JPKQndjmjY

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:03:41 -0400 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Ecosystems entaglement - McCann
Michigan Environmental Justice Summit 2020 (February 13, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68931 68931-17197028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The School for Environment and Sustainability honors the 30th Anniversary of the “Incidence of Environmental Hazards Conference,” which helped put environmental justice (EJ) on the national radar for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Building on the momentum of the 1990 conference, the University of Michigan soon became the first university to establish environmental justice as an academic field of study.

Looking forward, the Michigan Environmental Justice Summit 2020 will take lessons from the past and look towards the future. The event will highlight the challenges and opportunities now—and for the future—of environmental justice, and how YOU can make an impact and create a more equitable, inclusive future.

As part of U-M’s year-long series “Earth Day at 50,” the university is working with local and regional partners to catalyze a mass movement for climate and environmental justice. Now more than ever, justice must be at the center of today’s movement in order to bring about true transformative change.

Join us for a dynamic discussion with our panel of environmental justice game changers:

Michelle Martinez (MS ’08) SEAS alumna
Panel Moderator
Coordinator, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Detroit-based EJ activist, speaker, writer, and mother

Robert Bullard
Known as the “Father of Environmental Justice”
Named one of 13 Environmental Leaders of the Century (Newsweek, 2008)

Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Policy Director, New Consensus
An architect of the Green New Deal

Charles Lee
Senior Policy Advisor, EPA
EJ pioneer and principal author of the landmark report, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States

Regina Strong
Environmental Justice Public Advocate,
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy

Sponsors: College of Literature, Science , and the Arts (Program in the Environment); School of Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education); The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Taubman College (Urban and Regional planning Program); Erb Institute; Office of the President; The Law School (Environmental Law & Policy Program)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:08:20 -0500 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion EJ logo
SEAS 2020 Michigan Environmental Justice Summit (February 13, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70372 70372-17592357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

The School for Environment and Sustainability honors the 30th Anniversary of the “Incidence of Environmental Hazards Conference,” which helped put environmental justice (EJ) on the national radar for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Building on the momentum of the 1990 conference, the University of Michigan soon became the first university to establish environmental justice as an academic field of study. Join us for a dynamic discussion with our panel of environmental justice game-changers:

- Robert Bullard, 'Father of Environmental Justice"; named one of 13 Environmental Leaders of the Century by Newsweek

- Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Policy Director, New Consensus; An architect of the Green New Deal

- Charles Lee, Senior Policy Advisor, EPA; EJ pioneer and principal author of the landmark report, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States

- Regina Strong, Environmental Justice Public Advocate, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy

- Michelle Martinez (MS '08), Panel Moderator; Coordinator, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, Detroit-based EJ activist, speaker, writer, and mother

For tickets, follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michigan-environmental-justice-summit-2020-tickets-84740474039

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Presentation Tue, 17 Dec 2019 09:40:17 -0500 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Program in the Environment (PitE) Presentation Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
EEB Museums Friday Seminar - How do quantitative genetics enhance our understanding of morphological evolution (February 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72448 72448-18007182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary quantitative genetics provides a strong theoretical framework for connecting evolutionary processes, the underlying genetic architecture of traits, described in terms of variances and covariances, and the pace and direction of multivariate evolution. In this talk I will discuss the importance of considering a multidimensional phenotype and the within-species (co)variation to understand trait dynamics in populations, in terms of evolvability (i.e., the ability of a biological system to respond to selection) and evolutionary constraints. I will explore the evolution of the cranial covariance structure and the average morphology in the most noteworthy example of adaptive radiation in mammals, the New World leaf-nosed bats, by combining phylogenetic comparative methods and quantitative genetic approaches.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:48:15 -0500 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation Details of event
Science Forum Demo (February 15, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 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 2020-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Science Forum Demo (February 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 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 2020-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
EEB dissertation defense: When does gene flow stop? A mechanistic approach to the formation of phylogeographic breaks in nature (February 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72023 72023-17914210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Iris defends her doctoral dissertation

Image credit: Alison Davis Rabosky and Christian Cox

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Presentation Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:14:16 -0500 2020-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation Four sonora snakes curled up near each other, orange with black stripes, white with black stripes, a solid orange and a solid brown
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the gaudy grasshopper family Pyrgomorphidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) (February 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69217 69217-17269221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 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 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:48:00 -0500 2020-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar grasshopper with striped body (bluish green and gold stripes over black with red appendanges and orange and black flecked wings) sitting outside with grass in background
POSTPONED INDEFINITELY: Faculty Research for Impact: Addressing UN SDG #13 – Climate Action (February 18, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71976 71976-17905485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

How are Ross faculty members advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through business research? Each month, Business+Impact hosts an interactive design session themed around one of these goals. During the month of February, we will address Goal 13: Climate Action.  Several award-winning Ross faculty members (Ekaterina Astashkina, Andrew Hoffman, and Dana Muir) will share their research in an informal setting, and students will have the opportunity to brainstorm possible next steps for how the research can be applied to real-world applications that make a positive impact.

This limited-size two-hour workshop will feature:

Faculty presentations on key research insights
Discussion
Activity using design tools for opportunity identification

Due to high interest in these workshops, we must cap attendance at 25. We aim to keep the numbers of participants at a size that can accommodate the space capacity of the +Impact Studio and provide meaningful group discussion.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:32:34 -0400 2020-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T19:30:00-05:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar UN SDG #13
Food Literacy for All (February 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 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 2020-02-18T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Science Café: Something Fishy in Lake Michigan (February 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70934 70934-17757984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Great Lakes fisheries are managed intensively to reduce nutrients from fertilizer runoff and to increase game fish populations such as trout and salmon. When you add invasive species such as non-native mussels and the possibility of carp, we have a very fragile system. Join us to discuss the past, present, and possible futures of Lake Michigan fisheries with Bo Bunnell of the U.S.G.S. Great Lakes Science Center and U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Yu-Chun Kao of MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and Ed Rutherford of the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab.

Science Cafés provide an opportunity for audiences to discuss current research topics with experts in an informal setting. Hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 p.m.; program 6:00-7:30 p.m. Seating is limited—come early.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 07:50:30 -0500 2020-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Fish in Lake Michigan
The River and The Wall (February 19, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72419 72419-18000491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Planet Blue Ambassador

On Wednesday, February 19 at 6pm, the Planet Blue Ambassador program along with the Library Sustainability Group and the People of the Global Majority for the Environment at SEAS will be hosting a screening of the film The River and The Wall, which documents the journey of five friends as they come face to face with the impacts a border wall along the US-Mexico border would have on not only immigration and the residents along the wall but also the ecosystems and natural landscapes.

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Film Screening Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:26:01 -0500 2020-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Planet Blue Ambassador Film Screening The River and The Wall Documentary Film
No Defense: The U.S. Government's War on Water (February 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72213 72213-17957434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

In conjunction with the Feb 20 symposium, "From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large-Scale Chemical Contaminations" this FREE event is sponsored by the National Wildlife Foundation and the Michigan League of Conservation Voters.

"No Defense" is a documentary that tells the story of the Americans who are fighting against one of the largest-known polluters in the country — the United States government. Since the 1990s, it’s been documented that a category of chemicals known as perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) are harmful to life, yet the government continues to mandate its use at hundreds of sites across the country, contaminating surface water and drinking water, with no plan in place to clean it up. This film highlights the people who are suffering, who are blowing the whistle, and who are fighting the United States military’s war on water.

The film focuses on the PFAS contamination problem in Oscoda, Michigan, as a case study into how the U.S. military has failed to protect human health and the environment around the nation and the world. The PFAS contamination in Oscoda was discovered nearly 10 years ago, making it the first PFAS site in Michigan and the first PFAS military site in the world. The film's director, Sara Ganim, is a former CNN correspondent who won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal at Penn State; she also has done extensive reporting on water issues in other communities in the U.S, including Flint.

Documentary. 270 min. Including Filmmaker Q&A. NR.

No Defense is directed by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Sara Ganim. Produced by Emmy-award winning journalist Lennart Bourin. Executive Producer Robert P. Ufer.

Film will be followed by a Filmmaker Q&A.

*Admission is free, but you're encouraged to reserve tickets at this link: https://bit.ly/2RUYYWU

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Film Screening Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:29:58 -0500 2020-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Film Screening No Defense: The US Government's War on Water (PFAS documentary)
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large Scale Chemical Contaminations (February 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68807 68807-17153411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The PBB to PFAS Symposium will provide a unique venue for fostering collaboration between researchers and community members with:

• Keynote address by Dr. Linda Birnbaum (Director NIEHS, retired);

• Presentations by community residents and academic researchers working on PBB and PFAS health impacts;

• Breakout groups focused on strategies for building effective community-academic collaborations;

• Organized by UM's Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD), Central Michigan University's Dept of History, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Emory University’s HERCULES Exposome Research Center;

• ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS: Michele Marcus, PhD, Emory University’s Michigan PBB Registry; Jane Keon, Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force; Francis Spaniola, former Michigan State Representative; Tony Spaniola, JD, creator Michigan Cancer Registry; Courtney Carignan, PhD, Michigan State University; Monica Lewis-Patrick, President & CEO, River Network and We The People of Detroit

• COMMUNITY PANELISTS: Sandy Wynn-Stelt, Rockford; Theresa Landrum, Detroit; Lawrence Reynolds, Flint; Donele Wilkins, Detroit; Tim Neyer, Mt. Pleasant

• MORE SPEAKERS AND BREAKOUT SESSIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED

• Keynote address by Dr. Birnbaum will be livestreamed.

• Registration (free) is required.

• Register for the IN-PERSON Event in Ann Arbor: http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_FromPBBtoPFAS_Register.php?Attendance=InPerson
OR
• Register for the Keynote LIVESTREAM: http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_FromPBBtoPFAS_Register.php?Attendance=LiveStream

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:21:01 -0500 2020-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium PBB to PFAS symposium Feb 20 2020
EEB Thursday Seminar: Approaches to diversifying who does Ecology & Evolution: from undergraduate to faculty (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69043 69043-17220024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

There is a growing body of literature demonstrating the barriers and solutions to improve the successful selection, retention, and development of underrepresented (UR = low income, minority, and first generation) students in ecology and evolutionary biology & STEM fields in general. A model undergraduate training program will be presented that focuses on a growth mindset over traditional skim programs. This will be followed by recommendations for DEI around graduate school selection & training, and the last section of the talk will address on-going approaches to hiring diverse faculty, retention, and ways to establish DEI receipts for all populations.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/GWhJgeJ-kbE

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:04:27 -0400 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Corey Welch at Grand Canyon
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
Symposium: Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions (February 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72076 72076-17933534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

This symposium frames discourses emerging from a relational study of four transatlantic urban regions that display acute asymmetries of concurrent growth and socio-economic decline in the midst of larger economic restructuring: the Detroit Metropolitan Region; the Ruhr Valley; the Innovation Region “Rheinisches Revier” (Aachen-Cologne); and the deindustrializing hinterland of the southern U.S. Eastern Seaboard. The successive cycles of urban transformation have created uneven, landscapes which consist of fissures, empty gaps and vacated spaces interspersed amongst and between developed zones of concentrated and thriving activities. The resulting leftover spaces are latent sites of contestation and uncertainty where rival actors compete for a semblance of control with their own visions of re-use ranging from spontaneous and temporary to deliberate and semi-permanent.

Organized around four different thematic sessions, symposium participants will challenge the notion that all sites of abandonment suffer an identical fate. Examining these four regions as grounds for speculation and a platform for broader reflection engaging other global geographies, participants will engage in discussions regarding the intricate relationship between the simultaneous, incremental erasure of the built environment vis-a-vis ongoing urban projects that instigate, appropriate, produce and reproduce these weak urbanities while projecting more sustainable futures.

This event is co-sponsored by the Seminar Series program at the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) and the University of Michigan Taubman College, and is part of an interinstitutional initiative between the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and RWTH Aachen University.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:30:42 -0500 2020-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Emerging Urbanisms header
Emerging Urbanisms Keynote: Matthew Gandy (February 21, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72079 72079-17933537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and is an award-winning documentary film maker. His research interests span landscape, infrastructure, and biodiversity. His books including Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City (The MIT Press, 2002), Urban constellations (Jovis, 2011), The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination (The MIT Press, 2014), The acoustic city (Jovis, 2014), and Moth (Reaktion, 2016). He is currently writing a book about urban biodiversity.

Professor Gandy's lecture is part of the symposium: Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:42:11 -0500 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Matthew Gandy
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
Science Forum Demo (February 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 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 2020-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
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

TDB

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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
Location:
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