Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Prediction Error & Model Evaluation for Space-Time Downscaling: case studies in air pollution during wildfires (October 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68191 68191-17026797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

ABSTRACT:
Public Health Scientists use prediction models to downscale (i.e., interpolate) air pollution exposure where monitoring data is insufficient. This exercise aims to obtain estimates at fine resolutions, so that exposure data may reliably be related to health outcomes. In this setting, substantial research efforts have been dedicated to the development of statistical models capable of integrating heterogenous information to obtain accurate prediction: statistical downscaling models, land use regression, as well as machine learning strategies. However, when presented with the tasks of choosing between models, or averaging models, we find that our understanding of model performance in the absence of independent statistical replications remains insufficient. This lecture is motivated by several studies of air pollution (PM 2.5 and ground-level ozone) during wildfires. We review the basis for cross validation as a strategy for the estimation of the expected prediction error. As these performance measure play a crucial role in model selection and averaging we present a formal characterization of the estimands targeted by different data subsetting strategies, and explore their performance in engineered data settings. A final analysis and a warning about preference inversion is presented in relation to the a 2008 wildfire event in Northern California.

BIO:
Dr. Telesca is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington and spent two years at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include Bayesian methods in multivariate statistics, functional data analysis, statistical methods in bio- and nano-informatics. Dr. Telesca is a member of the California NanoSystems Institute, the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and principal data scientist at Lucid Circuit Inc.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:51:07 -0400 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T14:30:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Donatello Telesca Environmental Statistics Day Lecture
Pizza with Professors (October 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68576 68576-17103242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Program in Biology

The Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) invite you to Pizza with Professors! This is an informal time to chat with MCDB and EEB professors about research, courses, and pre-professional studies over a slice of pizza!

Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/hzpEbWV4SZfpfrkf6

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:54:44 -0400 2019-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Program in Biology Careers / Jobs Join us for Pizza with Professors!
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Graduate Certificate Info Session (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67933 67933-16969022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program

Join us for an information session about the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Graduate Certificate!

Wednesday, October 23rd, 4:00pm-5:00pm
5240 Weill Hall
There will be SNACKS!

Do you want to learn how science and technology policy is made? Are you interested in the social and ethical implications of developments like gene editing and autonomous vehicles? Are you concerned about the increased politicization of science and research funding?

In the STPP graduate certificate program, graduate students from across the University analyze the role of science and technology in the policymaking process, gain experience writing for policymakers, and explore the political and policy landscape of areas such as biotechnology, information technology, energy, and others. Graduates of the STPP certificate have gone on to a range of policy-engaged scientific roles in government, NGOs, and academia.

More information about the program is available at: http://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/graduate-certificate/

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Presentation Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:21:49 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program Presentation Information Session promotional slide
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
FIRST: Future in Research, Science, and Teaching Q&A Panel with Life/Biomedical Science Professors (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69000 69000-17211734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Program in Biology

Are you interested in attending graduate school? Becoming a professor? Running a research lab and teaching? Pursuing a MS or PhD-based career?

Join us for a Q&A panel with Professors Catherine Collins, Monica Dus, Jayakrishnan (JK) Nandakumar, Anthony Vechiarelli, who are faculty members in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:15:11 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Program in Biology Careers / Jobs FIRST Q&A Panel
SLE @ Friends of the Campus Farm Workday (November 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65486 65486-16605642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Friends of the Campus Farm (FCF) is a student group that heads to the farm twice a week to volunteer (and enjoy freshly harvested treats!). Once a month, on second Fridays, SLE collaborates with FCF to arrange a volunteer pick up at Oxford Houses outside the Vandenberg Community Center. Sign up by Wednesday to make sure they send enough cars for everyone! During the winter the group works indoors in the greenhouse or hoophouses. If you love FCF, join their other Friday and Wednesday workdays each week--pick up is usually at the Ginsberg Community Center located at E. University and Hill.

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Community Service Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:37:41 -0400 2019-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T18:00:00-05:00 Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning Sustainable Living Experience Community Service Farm workday
Ripple Effect (November 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-13T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 14, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-14T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Big Weeds and Tiny Microbes: How Do Microbes Influence Invasiveness (November 18, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64784 64784-16444942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A presentation by Wes Bickford, a PhD candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, on the role of microbes in growth and performance of native and non-native Phragmites (a perennial grass).

Presented by MI Botanical Club Huron Valley Chapter

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Presentation Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:05:41 -0400 2019-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 2019-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
Ripple Effect (November 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-21T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Complex Systems Seminar | The competitive exclusion principle in stochastic environments (November 21, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69158 69158-17254953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Abstract: The competitive exclusion principle states that a number of species competing for a smaller number of resources cannot coexist. Even though this is a fundamental principle in ecology, it has been observed empirically that in some settings it will fail. One example is Hutchinson's `paradox of the plankton'. This is an instance where a large number of phytoplankton species coexist while competing for a very limited number of resources. Both experimental and theoretical studies have shown that in some instances (deterministic) temporal fluctuations of the environment can facilitate coexistence for competing species. Hutchinson conjectured that one can get coexistence because non-equilibrium conditions would make it possible for different species to be favored by the environment at different times. In this talk I will look at how environmental noise interacts with competitive exclusion. I will show that, contrary to Hutchinson's explanation, one can switch between two environments in which the same species is favored and still get coexistence.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Nov 2019 09:09:33 -0500 2019-11-21T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Alex Hening
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Ripple Effect (November 21, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-21T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Ripple Effect (November 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T19:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Stewardship Workday with Natural Area Preservation (November 23, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69362 69362-17310314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Sign up to spend some time outdoors with community members stewarding our local natural areas! SLE students will gather with other volunteers to help maintain Barton Nature Area alongside the Huron River, removing invasive species and other activities. Light snacks will be provided. Sign up at bit.ly/SLEsignups!

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Community Service Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:09:52 -0500 2019-11-23T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-23T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Community Service
Bioethics Discussion: Cities (November 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52722 52722-12974154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our new environment.

Readings to consider:
1. Health and Urban Living
2. Urban Bioethics: Adapting Bioethics to the Urban Context
3. The Experience of Living in Cities
4. From the Urban to the Civic: The Moral Possibilities of the City

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/036-cities/.

When roaming the city, please consider roaming the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:53:17 -0400 2019-11-26T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Cities
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (December 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Sensory evolution in the transition from land to sea: how do sea snakes sense their underwater world? (December 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65011 65011-16501309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

Abstract
The senses are our interface with our surrounding world and attuned to specific qualities of prominent signals within the environment. Studying the ways in which senses have changed during evolution can be a marker of how organisms respond to major ecological shifts. Snakes have invaded aquatic habitats multiple times, but, with over 60 fully-aquatic and ecologically diverse species, few groups have been so successful as sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae). I will explore the sensory evolution of sea snakes, with emphasis on two senses that are mediated by the skin: mechanoreception (touch) and tail phototaxis (skin photoreception). Tiny mechanoreceptors on the scales of sea snakes have undergone substantial changes during evolution, I will discuss whether these morphological changes are likely to confer a 'hydrodynamic' function (analogous to the lateral line system of fishes) in sea snakes. Light sensitivity of the paddle-tail in sea snakes (tail phototaxis) is a rare trait among vertebrates and convergent with other elongate, aquatic species (hagfish, lamprey, aquatic salamanders). I explore the evolutionary origins, genetic mechanisms and ecological factors underlying this fascinating sense in sea snakes.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:42:20 -0500 2019-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar sea snake swimming underwater
SEAS Seminar: Forecasting Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity (December 10, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69493 69493-17327228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

Janet Franklin has been in the Department of Botany, University of California at Riverside since 2017. She was previously a Regent's Professor Schools of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University where she was appointed in 2009. From 1988-2009 she was on the faculties of Geography and Biology at San Diego State University. She specializes in Landscape Ecology, Biogeography, and Geographic Information Science. Franklin’s research is focused on in the patterns and dynamics of terrestrial plant communities at the landscape scale. Her work addresses the impacts of human-caused landscape change on the environment. Human land use -- agriculture and urbanization -- and other large-scale human impacts such as climate change, and the introduction of exotic species, often interact with natural disturbance regimes such as fire, flooding and hurricanes, to shape plant community dynamics in forests, shrublands, and other ecosystems.

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Presentation Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:47:54 -0500 2019-12-10T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Program in the Environment (PitE) Presentation Dana Natural Resources Building
Bioethics Discussion: Antinatalism (December 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52723 52723-12974156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the end to our means.

Readings to consider:
1. The Last Messiah
2. Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence
3. Every Conceivable Harm: A Further Defence of Anti-Natalism
4. The Ethics of Procreation and Adoption

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/037-antinatalism/.

Tell your descendants to consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:54:42 -0400 2019-12-10T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Antinatalism
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-11T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-12T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (January 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2020-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 15, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-16T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Being Human in STEM: An Experiment in Partnering with Students to Address Issues of Equity in STEM (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69259 69259-17275351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

When student protesters occupied the Amherst College library for four days in November of 2015, the campus community was transfixed by the painful testimonials shared by marginalized students about their experiences at Amherst as individuals identifying as Black, brown, female, queer, trans, disabled, international, among others. In response to letters from a Black neuroscience major and a non-binary biochemistry and biophysics major, every STEM department wrote a letter of support, pledging to work with students to address their concerns. The following semester, Chemistry professor Sheila Jaswal collaborated with students to develop a project-based course, titled “Being Human in STEM” (HSTEM), to actively engage STEM students and departments in learning about and enhancing inclusion in STEM settings. Now in its sixth iteration, students drive the academic inquiry, investigating both the local experience and the literature on diversity in STEM. They then use that research to design tools and interventions to share with and enhance their own STEM community.  In this seminar, Professor Jaswal will describe how HSTEM course projects and activities have continued the conversation started by students during the Uprising, connected STEM inclusion efforts across the Amherst campus, and produced resources such as the “Inclusive Curricular Practices” handbook, that have been used by STEM educators from high schools, colleges, universities, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence institutions. She will present evidence on the impact of the HSTEM course and practices on students, faculty and staff at Amherst, and provide examples of how a growing network of institutions, including Yale, Brown, Williams, and the University of Utah, are adapting the HSTEM model to their own STEM community needs. 

Please visit website for more information on speaker: http://www.beinghumaninstem.com/sheila-jaswal.html

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:58:03 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
No EEB Thursday Seminar (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71085 71085-17774972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please return on January 23, 2020, for our next seminar!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:03:07 -0500 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium Biological Sciences Building
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-18T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-19T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-19T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
ConEco Seminar: A Role for Developmental/Genetic Mechanisms in Monarch Butterfly Conservation Considerations (January 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71999 71999-17911964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:06:19 -0500 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 25, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-27T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (January 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-29T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
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
U-M Biological Station Information Session (January 30, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70162 70162-17540904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Prospective students: Come learn about how to earn credits, gain research experience, and have the spring/summer of your life at UMBS. Featuring a student panel, dates & deadlines, and financial aid information.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:38:37 -0500 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building University of Michigan Biological Station Rally / Mass Meeting Students on a "plant walk" learn tree species around UMBS.
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (January 31, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
ConEco Seminar: Understanding the Potential of Wild Populations to Adapt to Climate Change: Lessons from Color Molting Mammals (January 31, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72010 72010-17914144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:52:22 -0500 2020-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 2, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
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
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 5, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-05T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Science as Art Contest Submission Deadline (February 5, 2020 11:55am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48786 48786-17963888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:55am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan, ArtsEngine and the Science Learning Center invite you to submit artwork to the 2020 Science as Art exhibition. University of Michigan undergraduate students are invited to submit artwork expressing a scientific principle(s), concept(s), idea(s), process(es), and/or structure(s). The artwork may be visual, literary, musical, video, or performance based. A juried panel using criteria based on both scientific and artistic considerations will choose winning submissions.

Deadline for submissions is Wednesday February 5th!

A number of submissions will be selected for prizes, some of which will be on display and/or performed during the Awards Ceremony and/or displayed in an online Contest Gallery. The entry selected for “Best Overall” will be awarded a cash prize, with smaller cash awards in other categories.

For full information, visit: tinyurl.com/scienceasart2020

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:47:29 -0500 2020-02-05T11:55:00-05:00 2020-02-05T23:59:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Arts at Michigan Exhibition Science as Art logo
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
ConEco Seminar: The Importance of Coastal Wetlands in Generating Unique Biodiversity and Conservation Opportunities (February 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72011 72011-17914147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 07:42:05 -0500 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-12T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
GLACE Mass Meeting (February 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72153 72153-17948626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come learn about GLACE before the February 21 Application Deadline!

GLACE (Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments) is a new, interdisciplinary humanities program held in Northern Michigan during the Spring half-term. UM faculty and other instructors teach four interconnected, two-credit courses: two in English, one in Anthropology, and one in American Culture.

The program takes place at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), a research campus situated on Douglas Lake, amid 10,000 undeveloped acres in Pellston, Michigan. From May 11-June 13, 2020, a small cohort of students will work closely with four faculty exploring such concepts as “place,” “natural history,” and “cultural identity” through an engagement not only with literary and other texts but also, in hands-on ways, with the local landscape and its inhabitants, ecologies, and histories.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:15:36 -0500 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation GLACE poster
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
ConEco Seminar: Managing Landscapes for Change: Conservation Challenges for the Next Century (February 14, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72012 72012-18026874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. This seminar is sponsored by the Institute for Global Change Biology.

Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:30:20 -0500 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 15, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
STS Speaker. ToxiCity: Practices of Living Anthropogenic Seas (February 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70127 70127-17538845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

How might we think about and address the kinds of life that emerge in the wastescapes of cities? In this talk I attend to the social and natural life of Mumbai’s anthropogenic sea. Today, Mumbai’s sea is an uneasy gathering of urban, climactic and agrarian processes. As sewage, fish, birds, coral, and algae interact in dynamic relations, how are fishers, amateur naturalists and scientists negotiating the ambivalent ecologies of the Anthroposea. By attending to their practices, this talk explores emergent ways of thinking, knowing and acting in muddy waters.

Bio: Nikhil Anand is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the political ecology of cities, read through the different lives of water. His award winning book, Hydraulic City, focuses on the everyday ways in which cities and citizens are made through the everyday management of water infrastructure in Mumbai. With Hannah Appel and Akhil Gupta, Dr. Anand is also co-editor of The Promise of Infrastructure, which focuses on how infrastructure provides a generative ground to theorize time and politics. Dr. Anand's new research project, The Urban Sea, attends to the ways coastal cities are actively constituted through social and natural relationships with the sea. Dr. Anand has a Masters in Environmental Science from Yale University and a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:23:21 -0500 2020-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Nikhil Anand
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-19T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
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
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• 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
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
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
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Science as Art Exhibition- Panel discussion & Awards Reception (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38185 38185-17963890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan, ArtsEngine and the Science Learning Center invite you to the Science as Art Contest Exhibition and Awards Reception- Hatcher Graduate Library, Rm 100.

2pm Office Hours for participating artists
3pm Panel Discussion & Reception
4pm Awards Announcements


University of Michigan undergraduate students will have artwork on view expressing a scientific principle, concept, idea, process, or structure. The artwork ranges in media, including visual, literary, musical, video and performance-based art. A juried panel using criteria based on both scientific and artistic considerations will choose winning submissions. This is our fourth year of the exhibition, and we received a record number of submissions, so we hope you'll join us to view the work and give out the awards!

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:57:18 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T16:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Arts at Michigan Exhibition Science as Art logo
ConEco Seminar: Oligotrophication in Lakes Michigan and Huron and Potential Effects on Fisheries (February 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72015 72015-17914154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:17:34 -0500 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
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
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 25, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-25T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Bioethics Discussion: Overpopulation (February 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52727 52727-12974161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on one to(o) many.

Readings to consider:
1. Having Children: Reproductive Ethics in the Face of Overpopulation
2. The Ethics of Controlling Population Growth in the Developing World
3. Overpopulation and the Threat of Ecological Disaster: The Need for Global Bioethics
4. Threats and burdens: Challenging scarcity-driven narratives of “overpopulation”

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/041-overpopulation/.

If it's not too crowded, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:56:30 -0500 2020-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Overpopulation
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
CEW+Inspire Workshop: Who Speaks for Seeds? Respectful Listening – Meaningful Actions (February 27, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69928 69928-17483065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

The workshop is from 2-3:30, followed by a networking reception until 4:00.

The concept of Rematriation as Reconciliation is simple. It is the return of living seeds to their Community of Origin. But issues of trust soon emerge. Who is involved in conceptually framing and prioritizing critical thought and action? Who/what Community Members have both standing and agency to be engaged—ethically, spiritually, and legally? Who speaks for Indigenous Nation’s seeds in museum diaspora? What is “listening” when contributing parties’ paradigms of reality are not fully congruent?

This workshop, co-led by Tribal Partner Mede (Elder) Shannon Martin, will address deep listening skills as a key to trust-building. Shannon is the Director of the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The Heritage Seeds Project and how it grew into the Indigenous Collaborative Garden will be one trust-building example. The challenges of deep listening from an academic perspective are real. Participants should become aware that Reconciliation is about fundamental change – in one’s self.

Dr. David C. Michener is the curator at the U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. Best known to the public for his co-authored book Peony, which made the New York Times 2018 Summer Reading List, his research addresses understanding the complex cross-cultural heritages of ornamental peonies and conserving key living specimens. He has an active program in molecular-evidence of peony relationships with colleagues and students here at U-M and in Belarus. His work with Indigenous Seeds in museum collections is an unanticipated intersection of deep engagement with U-M’s Museum Studies Program (Rackham Graduate School) and an ethical concern with the ‘Voice’ of Indigenous Communities in interpreting native plant collections and landscapes stewarded by the Botanical Gardens & Arboretum. Before coming to Michigan, David earned his BA in Botany (UNC-Chapel Hill), and his PhD (Claremont Graduate School) was followed by a NSF-funded postdoc at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum.

RSVP requested at: cew.umich.edu/events/cewinspire-workshop-who-speaks-for-seeds-respectful-listening-meaningful-actions/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:58:42 -0500 2020-02-27T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T15:30:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar White man with full beard wearing a brown hat, suit and tie
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (February 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-02-29T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-29T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens (March 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 70526-17602864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester, the exhibition "Uncommon Plants" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes.

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:26:58 -0500 2020-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-01T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places
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
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
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
Order and the Underground: Governing the Goldfields of Madagascar (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73591 73591-18267638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Brian Ikaika Klein is a doctoral candidate in environmental science, policy, and management at the University of California, Berkeley. His research integrates the study of social and ecological conditions and processes to understand resource access and governance in extractive frontier settings across the Global South. Prevailing narratives among policymakers and in popular media consistently portray these spaces as unregulated and chaotic.
Klein challenges these representations by documenting and analyzing the complex governance arrangements that order activities, manage conflict, and determine livelihoods on the extractive frontier. He presents ethnographic and historical evidence from Madagascar to elucidate the emergence, evolution, and endurance of governance institutions in gold mining communities on the island, as well as to interrogate the global, national, and local dynamics by which these institutions are shaped.
At the center of his work is a commitment to producing policy-relevant research informed by interdisciplinary political-ecological analysis interested in achieving more equitable and sustainable development outcomes for smallholder resource extractors and rural communities–in Madagascar, and across sub-Saharan Africa.
Klein’s research has won support from the National Science Foundation, UC Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society (among other divisions on campus). His agenda for future research comprises extending this analysis to build a broader comparative project on frontier governance; examining the consequences of Chinese state-corporate investments and interventions in Africa’s extractive resource sectors for local institutions and livelihoods; and investigating the ways in which the growth of industries related to climate change mitigation is generating new globally-networked and locally-embedded mineral economies. He is also collaborating with U4/USAID/WWF as an expert consultant on natural resource governance and corruption in Madagascar.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:40:45 -0500 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
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
CANCELLED: Our Constitution and Our Children in the Era of Climate Crisis: Juliana v. United States (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73028 73028-18129604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

This lecture has been CANCELLED.

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children's Trust, will speak about Juliana v. United States.

This event is free and open to the public.

Julia Olson graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, with a J.D. in 1997. For the first part of her 22-year career, Julia represented grassroots conservation groups working to protect the environment, organic agriculture, and human health. After becoming a mother, and realizing the greatest threat to her children and children everywhere was climate change, she focused her work on representing young people and elevating their voices on the issue that will most determine the quality of their lives and the well-being of all future generations. Julia founded Our Children’s Trust in 2010 to lead this strategic legal campaign on behalf of the world’s youth against governments everywhere. Julia leads Juliana v. the United States, the constitutional climate change case brought by 21 youth against the U.S. government for violating their Fifth Amendment rights to life, liberty, property, and public trust resources. Julia and OCT are recipients of the Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism. She received the Kerry Rydberg Award for Environmental Activism in 2017 and is a member of Rachel's Network Circle of Advisors. To rejuvenate, Julia loves being high up in the mountains with her family and her dog or playing tunes on her ukulele with friends.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:11:27 -0400 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
Natural Disasters: Vulnerability, Resilience, and a Changing World (March 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70486 70486-17600705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Natural disasters losses have accumulated to over four trillion U.S. dollars and nearly three million fatalities in the past four decades. The number of disasters continues to increase, partly due to increases in frequency, size, or extent of the hazards themselves, but also from increasing vulnerability and/or decreasing resiliency of society. This course will explore vulnerability and resiliency to natural hazards, past and future outlooks, and the role of urbanization and corruption, highlighted by several recent earthquakes and hurricanes.
Mr. Hetland is an associate professor in the UM Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, specializing in natural hazards, effects of climate change, and vulnerability. The Study Group for those 50 and over is held Thursdays March 12 through March 26.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:52:14 -0500 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (March 12, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
*CANCELLED* ConEco Seminar: Applications of the Landscape Approach for Conserving Stream Fishes from Current and Future Threats (March 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72954 72954-18096986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

This event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule next year. The remaining Seminars in the SEAS Conservation Ecology Seminar Series will be moved to webinars accessible through BlueJeans. Expect more details on that soon.

Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:52:48 -0400 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (March 19, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
UPDATED: ConEco Webinar: Biocultural Approaches to Resource Management: Community-Researcher Collaborations (March 20, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72955 72955-18096987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series.

This event and the remaining Seminars in the SEAS Conservation Ecology Seminar Series will be moved to webinars accessible through BlueJeans.

Please join us Fridays 3-4pm in BlueJeans Meeting ID 798 256 173
This site has some instructions on using BlueJeans and a link to download the app: https://its.umich.edu/communication/videoconferencing/blue-jeans
Audience members will join with microphone and videos muted. Questions will be moderated through the chat function.

Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:54:43 -0400 2020-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (March 26, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
UPDATED: ConEco Webinar: Migratory Fish, Dams, and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs in Tropical River Systems (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72956 72956-18096988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series.

This event and the remaining Seminars in the SEAS Conservation Ecology Seminar Series will be moved to webinars accessible through BlueJeans.

Please join us Fridays 3-4pm in BlueJeans Meeting ID 798 256 173
This site has some instructions on using BlueJeans and a link to download the app: https://its.umich.edu/communication/videoconferencing/blue-jeans
Audience members will join with microphone and videos muted. Questions will be moderated through the chat function.

Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:55:52 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (April 2, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-04-02T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
ConEco Seminar: Climate reshapes and rewires invertebrate food webs (April 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72957 72957-18096989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series.

Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:41:24 -0500 2020-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Webinar: 2020 MICDE Catalyst Grants Showcase (April 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73858 73858-18367127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

This webinar will showcase some of the game-changing research supported by our Catalyst Grants program.

Session II Speakers:
Stephen Smith (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), "Hierarchical computing for dynamic evolutionary inference of complexity;

Xun Huan (Mechanical Engineering), " Towards Bayesian uncertainty quantification in deep learning models for brain tumor segmentation;

and Monica Valluri (Astronomy), "Probing the nature of dark matter by modeling the Milky Way".

Join the Webinar (via BlueJeans Events)

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:17:00 -0400 2020-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Livestream / Virtual MICDE
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (April 9, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
ConEco Seminar: Conserving Biodiversity in Intensified Agricultural Landscapes (April 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72958 72958-18096990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series.

Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:44:45 -0500 2020-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Rooting for Change: Tiny Talks about Food Justice (April 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74098 74098-18529210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program is excited to present the virtual form of our event. Rooting for Change will feature five minute talks recorded by both graduate and undergraduate students from a variety of schools such as SEAS, Public Health, and Stamps, that will highlight their work, research, experience, and/or creative expression surrounding local, regional, and global approaches to food justice.

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Presentation Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:45:54 -0400 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Presentation RFC Graphic
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (April 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73296 73296-18190734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Sarah Waters, Education Coordinator of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, will explore some of the nation’s best-preserved shipwrecks in the Great lakes and describe how the Sanctuary was designated and became part of the Michigan History Center’s statewide system of museums and historic sites.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:28:05 -0400 2020-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
CANCELLED Neuroscience and Biological Sciences Poster Session (April 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61658 61658-18015958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Program in Biology

You are invited to the 2020 Bio./Neuro. Poster Session in which undergraduate students showcase the results of their theses and independent research projects.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020,
in the Undergraduate Science Building (USB) , 3:00-4:30 pm.

The event is always well-attended and a lot of fun (a chance to socialize with faculty and fellow majors).

All undergraduates, faculty, and staff are invited to stop by!

Interested in presenting?

To present in the poster session, a student must have a completed (or almost completed) an advisor-approved independent research project. Poster sessions are commonly held at scientific conferences; participating in April will allow students to gain valuable professional experience!
Students who wish to participate in the poster session are expected to design and (professionally) print out a poster that they will present to other students, faculty, and guests at the session.
This is a wonderful opportunity for students pursuing an honors degree to present their research in a public forum, but it is also open to anyone with an approved independent research project!

If you are a student interested in participating, please RSVP (by April 10).
https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6SfFBl735zcfFaY

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:45:37 -0400 2020-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T16:30:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Program in Biology Exhibition Poster Session
VIRTUAL EVENT: Confronting our Climate Grief in the time of COVID-19 (May 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68154 68154-17018328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

This workshop will be held via Zoom (link to follow via email prior to the event). For safety and privacy, you must be registered to receive the link.

In 2017, the American Psychological Association, Climate for Health, and ecoAmerica published, “Mental Health and our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance.” In October 2018, the U.N. released a report warning that without “unprecedented” political actions, we will likely see catastrophic conditions by 2040. Globally, most communities are already experiencing effects of climate change, and the poorest members of society remain most vulnerable. In this uncertain context, climate grief is real, particularly as the crisis is largely beyond any individual’s ability to control. As a scholar studying climate change, Sampson has sought emerging evidence-based strategies in hopes of coping and building resiliency. In this workshop, together we will: 1) confront our sometimes silent, biggest fears related to climate change, 2) identify ways our community or current professional work may be climate-affected, and 3) create a personal climate resiliency plan that may include household or community action or policy advocacy strategies.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:22:57 -0400 2020-05-07T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-07T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Natalie Sampson
UMBS Summer Lecture Series: Hann Endowed Lecture in Ornithology (June 30, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74976 74976-19118434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Genital evolution in Birds: Losing the penis and winning the Battle.

Most birds do not have a penis, and most ornithologists have not thought about bird penises much. However, evolutionarily, the loss of the penis in birds is an extremely significant event: why lose an organ that seems so handy to get sperm close to female eggs? Dr. Brennan will discuss some hypotheses as to why this loss may have occurred and talk about her work describing variation in the genitalia of avian species that have retained their ancestral penis, and experimental manipulations that have revealed the surprising role of male-male competition in genital morphology. In addition, Dr. Brennan will talk about her research on how sexual conflict has driven extreme modifications of the female genital morphology in ducks, where females suffer great direct and indirect costs from forced copulations and they have evolved complex vaginas that prevent the full eversion of the penis, and reassert female control over paternity. An evolutionary arms race is playing out in the complex genitalia of waterfowl, with some species having extremely exaggerated genitalia. One possible resolution of such conflict is disarmament, and Dr. Brennan will discuss how the avian penis loss may have been driven by female choice for increased sexual autonomy, giving females the upper hand in the reproductive battle.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:23:19 -0400 2020-06-30T19:00:00-04:00 2020-06-30T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Patricia Brennan holds a male Ruddy Duck.
BioTalk (July 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75131 75131-19279360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

BioTalk seminars provide speakers with experience presenting their research to a broader audience, including researchers and students from other departments. Each seminar is a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Speakers will share a general statement of their research project and a background paper before their talk and will receive feedback on their presentation though an online form.

Please contact biotalk.contact@umich.edu if you would like to give a talk.

The BioTalk workshop is available to undergraduates interested in learning more about bioscience research at the graduate level. Students who participate in four workshops will receive a certificate of completion. These workshops include submitting questions prior to the talk, providing feedback to the presenter through an online form, and writing a short reflection on the content of the talk, including a researched description of one of the experimental techniques used by the speaker in their research project (or their shared publication).

Please see web link section for BioTalk schedule and workshop sign-up.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:21:28 -0400 2020-07-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-07-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar BioTalk
BioTalk (July 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75131 75131-19279361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

BioTalk seminars provide speakers with experience presenting their research to a broader audience, including researchers and students from other departments. Each seminar is a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Speakers will share a general statement of their research project and a background paper before their talk and will receive feedback on their presentation though an online form.

Please contact biotalk.contact@umich.edu if you would like to give a talk.

The BioTalk workshop is available to undergraduates interested in learning more about bioscience research at the graduate level. Students who participate in four workshops will receive a certificate of completion. These workshops include submitting questions prior to the talk, providing feedback to the presenter through an online form, and writing a short reflection on the content of the talk, including a researched description of one of the experimental techniques used by the speaker in their research project (or their shared publication).

Please see web link section for BioTalk schedule and workshop sign-up.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:21:28 -0400 2020-07-24T15:00:00-04:00 2020-07-24T16:00:00-04:00 Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar BioTalk
Looking For Tomorrow Through Yesterday: What Michigan’s Flora In 1840 Can Tell Us About Our Botanical Future (July 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75167 75167-19293146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Dr. Anton Reznicek (Curator of Vascular Plants at the U-M LSA Herbarium) will deliver the annual UMBS Bennett Endowed Lecture in Plant & Fungal Ecology.

It has become routine to predict the future of our biota by starting with present day distributions and broad-brush niches derived from these occurrences. Looking to the past and basing predictions on what has actually happened would seem to be very helpful in understanding the nature of the changes and refining approaches to studying change, but for plants we are typically hampered by lack of past floristic data. This is usually because we have little or no detailed information for floras before large scale European alteration of the landscape. Michigan, however, is unique in that immediately after becoming a State, in 1837, the State legislature, advised by forward thinking scientists, established the First Geological Survey of Michigan. The core idea was to produce detailed information on Michigan’s natural resources to provide a scientific foundation for the development of the State. Because at this time essentially all medicine was plant based, a detailed inventory of the Flora, supported by herbarium specimens, was a major thrust of the First Survey. Collating and studying this material laid the groundwork for understanding of our past flora in unusual depth. Three segments of this knowledge will be the primary focus. First, a review of the First Survey’s collecting activities (and those of a few other early collectors) and what we thus know about Michigan’s Flora in 1840. Second, a review of changes that have occurred that bring us, 180 years later, to the composition of our present day flora. In terms of species loss, this has been driven mostly by direct physical alteration of habitats, either complete elimination or drastic alteration of the hydrology and microhabitat conditions, especially in southern Michigan. Finally, knowing the operation of the past drivers of change, what can we infer about the changes we can expect in the
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:18:25 -0400 2020-07-28T19:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Livestream / Virtual Dr. Anton Reznicek
BioTalk (August 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75131 75131-19279362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

BioTalk seminars provide speakers with experience presenting their research to a broader audience, including researchers and students from other departments. Each seminar is a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Speakers will share a general statement of their research project and a background paper before their talk and will receive feedback on their presentation though an online form.

Please contact biotalk.contact@umich.edu if you would like to give a talk.

The BioTalk workshop is available to undergraduates interested in learning more about bioscience research at the graduate level. Students who participate in four workshops will receive a certificate of completion. These workshops include submitting questions prior to the talk, providing feedback to the presenter through an online form, and writing a short reflection on the content of the talk, including a researched description of one of the experimental techniques used by the speaker in their research project (or their shared publication).

Please see web link section for BioTalk schedule and workshop sign-up.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:21:28 -0400 2020-08-07T15:00:00-04:00 2020-08-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar BioTalk
BioTalk (August 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75131 75131-19279363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

BioTalk seminars provide speakers with experience presenting their research to a broader audience, including researchers and students from other departments. Each seminar is a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Speakers will share a general statement of their research project and a background paper before their talk and will receive feedback on their presentation though an online form.

Please contact biotalk.contact@umich.edu if you would like to give a talk.

The BioTalk workshop is available to undergraduates interested in learning more about bioscience research at the graduate level. Students who participate in four workshops will receive a certificate of completion. These workshops include submitting questions prior to the talk, providing feedback to the presenter through an online form, and writing a short reflection on the content of the talk, including a researched description of one of the experimental techniques used by the speaker in their research project (or their shared publication).

Please see web link section for BioTalk schedule and workshop sign-up.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:21:28 -0400 2020-08-21T15:00:00-04:00 2020-08-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar BioTalk
Adopt-a-Park with GIVE365 (August 29, 2020 9:50am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75686 75686-19566690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 29, 2020 9:50am
Location:
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

This year SLE is adopting South University Park! Meet in Oxford Courtyard to head to South University Park to remove plant overgrowth. Future events with South University Park will involve park design and maintenance as well as native plantings.

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Community Service Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:30:51 -0400 2020-08-29T09:50:00-04:00 2020-08-29T12:00:00-04:00 Sustainable Living Experience Community Service
Identifying Emergency Funds and How to Advocate for Making Room in Your Financial Aid Package (September 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75507 75507-19513173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Advance registration is required; look for the Zoom link at the bottom of your confirmation email after registering.

This session will provide information about how you can seek emergency funds should you experience an emergency situation or one-time, unusual, unforeseen expense while in school. Information about the types of situations that qualify for emergency funds and where to seek funding will be covered during this presentation.

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/identifying-emergency-funds-and-how-to-advocate-for-making-room-in-your-financial-aid-package

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:34 -0400 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual A jar of spilled change
Fuller Park Outdoor Workday (September 12, 2020 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75893 75893-19621849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 1:15pm
Location:
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Meet in the Oxford Courtyard at 1:15pm EST to travel to Fuller Park. Students can choose to walk, bike, take a scooter or other transportation to meet in the Fuller Park parking lot, or travel together on the UM Campus Bus (Campus Connector) to Mitchell Field, a 7 minute walking distance from the Fuller Park parking lot. Plan to arrive at the Fuller Park parking lot by 2pm. There we will work socially distanced and wearing face coverings with Natural Area Preservation to remove invasive species and maintain the health and beauty of Fuller Park! We will depart at 4pm.

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Community Service Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:39:14 -0400 2020-09-12T13:15:00-04:00 2020-09-12T16:30:00-04:00 Sustainable Living Experience Community Service Fuller Park sign
FIRST Mass Meeting (September 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76584 76584-19871824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

FIRST is a group of undergrads, grad students, and postdocs in the sciences. The goal of our org is to prepare undergrads for the grad school application process and research at the graduate level.

FIRST Sign-Up: https://forms.gle/bDBuue63ZhbtZvpg9

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Rally / Mass Meeting Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:11:50 -0400 2020-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 2020-09-20T18:30:00-04:00 Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Rally / Mass Meeting FIRST Logo
Tour of Sandy Acres Farm (September 26, 2020 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76581 76581-19727091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 26, 2020 11:15am
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Professor Joe Trumpey built his strawbale home with his family in Grass Lake, Michigan. Tour the outdoor areas of the farm, and learn about green building, heritage breed animals and their solar power setup. Contingent on safety and approval, bus transportation and pre-packaged lunch will be provided. Please contact emcanosa@umich.edu with any accessibility needs.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:20:31 -0400 2020-09-26T11:15:00-04:00 2020-09-26T15:00:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
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
A Virtual Event: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Exposure, Toxicity, and Policy (October 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77430 77430-19854020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

This M-LEEaD Virtual Symposium will focus on issues related to exposure, toxicity, and policy in the unfolding PFAS contamination across Michigan and globally. Speakers will each focus on one of these topics related to their expertise.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:36:19 -0400 2020-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Livestream / Virtual 10.7.20 Poster
CGIS Virtual Study Abroad Fair (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77893 77893-19943564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Study abroad is not just for juniors. It's not just for language and international studies majors. It's not just for students from certain communities or socioeconomic backgrounds. No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Whether you want to develop the skills you’ll need to compete in a global economy, cultivate your language competencies, or build meaningful connections with people from around the world, this is the best time in your life for a global experience.

Studying abroad often proves to be a pivotal experience, but deciding which program is the best fit can be daunting as you consider questions such as: How will this enhance my course of study? When should I go? For how long? Where? Can I afford it? How do I prepare? Will my credits transfer? The CGIS Study Abroad Virtual Fair is the best time to get all of your questions answered!

During the day of the virtual fair, you'll have instant access to academic advisors, education abroad advisors, Office of Financial Aid & LSA Scholarship Office representatives, and program representatives as well as scheduled events throughout the fair!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:20:17 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Image300
South University Park Workday (October 11, 2020 1:50pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76582 76582-19727092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 11, 2020 1:50pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The Sustainable Living Experience is adopting South University Park! We will return again to remove invasive shrubs and spread wood chips. Please wear a face covering.

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Community Service Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:24:18 -0400 2020-10-11T13:50:00-04:00 2020-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Sustainable Living Experience Community Service
Science Success Series | Overcoming the Fear of Failure in Personal and Academic Pursuits (October 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76330 76330-19687523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

In this workshop, we'll build on the lessons of growth mindset and put failure into practice, with activities that allow us to focus on the learning that goes along with mistakes. This way, we can create environments that allow for innovation, personal, and professional growth.

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/29116

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:08:58 -0400 2020-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
STS Speaker. Timescapes of Behavior: Resilience and Long-Term Ecological Research (October 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77484 77484-19875779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (STeMS) Speaker Series features scholars doing research across the range of STS subject matter. This term:

Are we humans cooperative or warlike, rational or delusional, fixed or flexible? These questions have philosophical bite and political stakes. Indeed, they always have. But recent work in a range of disciplines asks us to go deeper. What if “we humans” are more fiction than fact? If we can’t assume the stability of the human across time and place, what happens to debates about human nature? Humanistic approaches, including actor-network theory, posthuman criticism, and multispecies ethnographies, challenge the idea of an autonomous human nature, while scientific studies of organ development, neuroendocrinology, and the microbiome are revealing how much nature there is inside of us. We explore these questions through a braided history of the human and environmental sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:22:28 -0400 2020-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion
NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Mini Symposium Series: Climate Change, the Environment & Health (October 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77387 77387-19846079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies

It is impossible to ignore the evidence of the past decade - wildfires have made air on the west coast incredibly hazardous and children have been poisoned by drinking water at crucial ages of development. The environment we have created for ourselves is a serious threat to our health.

Eva Feldman, MD, PhD, Director of the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies, will moderate the 30-minute mini symposium that discusses both global and local impacts that the environment has on our health. Along with Dr. Feldman, presentations will be made by Jonathan Overpeck, PhD, Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability, who will address climate change and environmental justice; Stuart Batterman, PhD, a professor from the U-M School of Public Health, who will discuss how contaminants in the air affect your health; and Stephen Goutman, MD, MS, director of the Pranger ALS Clinic, who will talk about the association between environmental pollution and ALS.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:26:08 -0400 2020-10-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Conference / Symposium Climate Change, the Environment & Health Mini Symposium