Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Submit a Research Project Proposal (September 29, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-09-29T07:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
PD Soros Fellowship for New Americans (September 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75316 75316-19434382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans provides up to two years of graduate study in any field and in any graduate degree-granting program in the United States. Each award is for up to $25,000 in stipend support, as well as 50 percent of required tuition and fees, up to $20,000 per year, for two years. The total value of the fellowship is $90,000.

Register: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-states/the-paul---daisy-soros-fellowships.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:19:56 -0400 2020-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual PD Soros Fellows 2020
Submit a Research Project Proposal (September 30, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-09-30T07:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Refining Your PhD Application Statement of Purpose (SOP) (October 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76243 76243-19679541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

(For seniors and graduate students applying to PhD programs)

A strong Statement of Purpose is a key component of a successful PhD application. Are you trying to figure out how to organize and narrow down all that you might write in your Statement of Purpose (SOP)? How does an SOP differ from a Personal Statement? We will explore organizational strategies for your SOP and how to find the words to articulate why you are a great match for the program(s) you are applying to.

Bring a list of ideas, a draft outline, or a draft SOP to work on during the workshop. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

Zoom link provided after registration: https://myumi.ch/yKM4n

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:46:20 -0400 2020-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-01T09:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
How shall we drug the MAPK pathway in Head and Neck Cancer? From exceptional responses to Immunogenomics (October 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77492 77492-19875790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Vivian Wai Yan Lui, PhD
Associate Professor and Deputy Chief
(Cancer Biology and Experimental Therapeutics)
Pharmacogenomics Working Group,
National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC), USA
Joint CUHK-NTEC Clinical Research Ethics Committee, CUHK
SBS College Coordinator, United College, CUHK
School of Biomedical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Presentation Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:49:50 -0400 2020-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation seminar flyer
Write-Togethers (October 5, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2020-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) (October 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78060 78060-19957558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

Full-funded language study! Each summer, CLS provides rigorous academic instruction in fifteen languages that are critical to America's national security and economic prosperity. CLS participants are citizen ambassadors, sharing American values and promoting American influence abroad. Applications due November 17, 8:00 pm EDT.

Languages offered:
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/summer-programs/critical-language-scholarships.html

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:47:59 -0400 2020-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual CLS Logo
Using TED Talks to Enhance Speaking, Listening, and Pronunciation (October 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76244 76244-19679542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

TED Talks are everywhere. The most popular ones attract millions of viewers, and they are impacting the way public speakers present their ideas and themselves in and outside academia. In this hands-on workshop, we will explore a range of strategies for exploiting the rich array of ways you can use TED Talks to take your advanced English to the next level. We will look at resources for improving speaking, listening, and pronunciation.

Please come prepared to join in online conversations with other participants.

Zoom link provided after registration: https://myumi.ch/yKM4n

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:54:20 -0400 2020-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T09:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Engineering an immunological niche for early detection of immune dysfunction (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77515 77515-19877791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Lonnie Shea, PhD
William and Valerie Hall Chair
Steven A. Goldstein Collegiate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan

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Presentation Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:40:07 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation flyer
Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth (October 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78000 78000-19951595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
All National Coming Out Week events: https://bit.ly/SC-NCOW

Young people who identify as LGBTQ+ face significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues than their peers who are not sexual or gender minorities. Gary Harper, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education and Global Public Health at the School of Public Health, and his team are working to ensure that primary care clinics in the US are equipped to screen at-risk LGBTQ+ youth and provide them with welcoming, competent, and high-quality care. Listen to Dr. Harper as he talks about his research and advocacy to improve policy for LGBTQ+ youth.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:49:59 -0400 2020-10-08T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Promotional flyer of the time, date, location, and a picture of Gary Harper. Dr. Harper is wearing a blue quarter-zip sweater over a white collared shirt, posing and smiling at the camera. Text below his photo states that he is a professor for The Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; and Global Public Health
Write-Togethers (October 12, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2020-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
How to Get Stuff Done: Strategies to Improve Motivation (October 13, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78168 78168-19987072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Campus Mind Works wellness groups are free drop-in wellness groups for U-M students that provide mental health education and support. These groups are facilitated by a U-M employee. The first half is an educational presentation on a mental health topic and a support group follows during the second half. Topics change every month depending on student needs.

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact mental health, share strategies for managing the stress of college and graduate life, and speak with other students about challenges and successes.

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

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

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Well-being Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:42:22 -0400 2020-10-13T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-13T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Blue and white rectangle logo that states Campus Mind Works
3D organization of human genome in development and disease – A perspective from 3D genome engineering (October 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78431 78431-20044394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Xiaotian Zhang, PhD
Research Investigator
Department of Pathology
Tomasz Cierpicki/Jolanta Grembecka lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:04:51 -0400 2020-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Zhang
Navigating an Uncertain Future: Live Discussion (October 15, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78186 78186-19989049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

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

Watch the 30-minute asynchronous presentation of Navigating an Uncertain Future prior to the live group discussion. Join the virtual discussion group to ask questions and connect with other students about their experience! Pre-registration is required.

**Navigating an Uncertain Future presentation is available under Related Links

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Well-being Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:20:34 -0400 2020-10-15T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Blue and white rectangle logo that says Campus Mind Works
Getting Ready for the Election (October 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78359 78359-20012806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Still working on your plan to support student voting and election engagement? This session is designed to be a one-stop shop for election preparation basics. We'll share resources to help your students get out to vote and discuss strategies for helping your students reflect on the impact of the election.

This is the 1st in a series to help faculty, academic program staff and GSIs prepare for the lead up to and after the election. You can opt in for one or all of the sessions. Learn more about Sessions 2 & 3 under Related Links below.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:55:46 -0400 2020-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Roll of I Voted stickers on a white background. Photo by Element 5 Digital on Unsplash.
Game Day Bingo (October 24, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78571 78571-20066107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 24, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

No matter where you are watching the Michigan/Indiana football game, register here to get your Bingo card sent to you: https://mfbc.us/v/e9v2jw9

We'll play along with the football game, marking off our bingo spaces as the game goes along (think: Michigan scores a field goal, score tied at 7, etc.), don't forget to mark off your free space!

Prizes for Game Day Bingo winners! Pre-registration is required to get your bingo card (register here: https://mfbc.us/v/e9v2jw9). Please check the discussion tab our Facebook event for how to win and game-related announcements!

Updates posted to our Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1306692606346946/?active_tab=discussion

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Well-being Sat, 07 Nov 2020 11:15:54 -0500 2020-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 2020-10-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Well-being Game Day Bingo
Write-Togethers (October 26, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2020-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
IOE Research Info Session, Hosted by TBP (October 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78724 78724-20109387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Come learn about research opportunities within Industrial and Operations Engineering! There will be a short presentation by Professor Brian Denton, the IOE department chair, and time for questions after.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/92423730538

Meeting ID: 924 2373 0538
One tap mobile
+16468769923,,92423730538# US (New York)
+13017158592,,92423730538# US (Germantown)

Find your local number: https://umich.zoom.us/u/acIDrzzd2P

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:19:52 -0400 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T16:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs
NERS Research Info Session, Hosted by TBP (October 26, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78725 78725-20109388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Come learn about research opportunities within Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences! There will be a short presentation by Professor Todd Allen, the NERS department chair, and time for questions after.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/99426301460

Meeting ID: 994 2630 1460
One tap mobile
+13126266799,,99426301460# US (Chicago)
+16468769923,,99426301460# US (New York)

Find your local number: [https://umich.zoom.us/u/ab2lJFnN4Y]
(https://umich.zoom.us/u/ab2lJFnN4Y)

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:23:18 -0400 2020-10-26T18:30:00-04:00 2020-10-26T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs
Gates-Cambridge Scholarship (October 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78015 78015-19955537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was established in 2000 and provides a full-cost scholarship and living stipend for graduate study (Master’s or Doctorate) in any field of study available at the University of Cambridge. Scholars are selected for their outstanding intellectual ability, leadership potential, and commitment to improving the lives of others as well as fit for the proposed program of study at Cambridge.

The aim of the Gates Cambridge program is to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-kingdom/gates-cambridge-scholarship.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:59:52 -0400 2020-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Anna Forringer-Beal, two-time Gates Cambridge Recipient 2016 & 2019
How to Get Stuff Done: Strategies to Improve Motivation (October 27, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78170 78170-19987073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Campus Mind Works wellness groups are free drop-in wellness groups for U-M students that provide mental health education and support. These groups are facilitated by a U-M employee. The first half is an educational presentation on a mental health topic and a support group follows during the second half. Topics change every month depending on student needs.

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact mental health, share strategies for managing the stress of college and graduate life, and speak with other students about challenges and successes.

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

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

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Well-being Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:46:14 -0400 2020-10-27T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Blue and white rectangle logo that says Campus Mind Works
LGBTQ+ Graduate & Professional Student Mixer (October 28, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78545 78545-20060205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/SChappening

Our annual LGBTQ+ graduate student mixer, now virtual! Thank you for your patience as we rescheduled this event, we're so excited to finally get the chance to meet you (and have you meet one another!) Come hang out with other graduate and professional students in the community and start making connections! Plus, get a chance to learn more and ask questions about opportunities available to you via the Spectrum Center or Rackham, such as mentorship programs, upcoming events, and funding!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:30:46 -0400 2020-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering The rescheduled LGBTQ+ Graduate & Professional Student Mixer will be 5:30 to 7 PM on Wednesday, October 28th. Co-hosted by Rackham Graduate School and the Spectrum Center.
Entering, Engaging & Exiting Communities: An Introduction for Graduate Students (October 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78796 78796-20123205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This workshop will introduce graduate students to principles and practices for thoughtfully engaging with communities, including motivations, impact of social identities, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal, ethical, and respectful ways. Particularly useful for students interested in community engagement, social justice, democratic engagement, advocacy, activism, and philanthropy.

This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and counts towards Rackham's DEI Certificate.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:00:56 -0400 2020-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Learning in Community logo
Managing Election Conversations (October 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78484 78484-20050345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The 2020 Presidential Election is one of the most highly charged elections in recent U.S. history. Regardless of the outcome, we know there will be strong reactions from our students and colleagues on campus. In this session, we will discuss guidelines for acknowledging strong emotions in a nonpartisan way. Participants will experience several strategies for facilitating discussions with their students.

This is the 2nd of a 3-part series to help faculty, academic program staff and GSIs prepare for the lead up to and after the election. You can opt in for one or all of the sessions. Read about Part 1 and Part 3 below.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:56:04 -0400 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Roll of I Voted stickers on a white background. Photo by Element 5 Digital on Unsplash.
Write-Togethers (November 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2020-11-02T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
Auditing for Bias in Resume Search Engines (November 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78328 78328-20010766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

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

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 09:17:55 -0400 2020-11-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation https://umich.zoom.us/j/95382333953
Living Remotely: How to Stay Connected and Maintain Wellbeing (November 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78187 78187-19989050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

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

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

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

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

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Well-being Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:25:30 -0400 2020-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Blue and white rectangle logo that says Campus Mind Works
Mechanical Engineering Research Info Session, Hosted by TBP (November 5, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78726 78726-20109389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

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

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95574729910

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

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:29:17 -0400 2020-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs
Game Day Snack Packs (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79187 79187-20225564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

On Friday, November 6, 2020, from 3:00pm-5:00pm, a limited number of Game Day Spirit Packages are available for students as they prepare to cheer on Michigan Wolverines football against Indiana University on Saturday, November 7th at 12 Noon. The packages include a variety of individually-packaged snacks and Michigan spirit items.

Register on Sessions to reserve yours! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/7450

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Well-being Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:45:28 -0500 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Center for Campus Involvement Well-being Game Day Snack Packs
Writing Graduate School Application Statements (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78947 78947-20160622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

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

RSVP: https://forms.gle/No9TpCrotxxuPk1B8

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:39:48 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar
ECE Research Info Session, Hosted by TBP (November 6, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78782 78782-20123145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

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

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

Meeting ID: 962 2825 5502

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Find your local number: https://umich.zoom.us/u/aeDnHKgyAM

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:02:52 -0400 2020-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs
Game Day Bingo (November 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78571 78571-20217728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

No matter where you are watching the Michigan/Indiana football game, register here to get your Bingo card sent to you: https://mfbc.us/v/e9v2jw9

We'll play along with the football game, marking off our bingo spaces as the game goes along (think: Michigan scores a field goal, score tied at 7, etc.), don't forget to mark off your free space!

Prizes for Game Day Bingo winners! Pre-registration is required to get your bingo card (register here: https://mfbc.us/v/e9v2jw9). Please check the discussion tab our Facebook event for how to win and game-related announcements!

Updates posted to our Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1306692606346946/?active_tab=discussion

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Well-being Sat, 07 Nov 2020 11:15:54 -0500 2020-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Well-being Game Day Bingo
Write-Togethers (November 9, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2020-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020 (November 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75640 75640-19552851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Fully virtual. November 10th-11th

Keynote Speakers:
CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO
Assistant Professor, Urban Science & Planning
Director, Data + Feminism Lab
Department of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT

LAUREN KLEIN
Associate Professor, English, Quantitative Theory and Methods
Emory University

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) invites submission of 1) abstracts for presentations and 2) proposals for workshops, for the 2020 U-M Data Science Symposium.

As the focal point of data science at U-M, MIDAS facilitates the work of the broad U-M data science community, advances cross-cutting data science methodologies and applications, promotes the use of data science to benefit society, builds data science training pipelines, and develops partnerships with industry, academia and community. The annual symposium showcases the breadth and depth of U-M data science, shares research ideas that will lead to the next breakthroughs, and builds collaboration.

Presentations at the symposium should cover one or more of the following areas of data science:

Theoretical foundations
Methodology and tools
Real-world application in any domain
The ethics and societal impact of data science
Emerging areas of data science
WE INVITE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1. Proposals for mini-workshops. New this year, the symposium will include 3-5 mini-workshops on the afternoon of Nov. 10 as parallel sessions. Each workshop will be two hours long and for 50-100 attendees. They can be research discussion sessions, tutorials or hack sessions. Proposals should include the theme, format, organizer and potential presenters, as well as how the proposed mini-workshop brings out the strengths across multiple U-M research units and its benefit to U-M data science research and/or to the larger community. If your theme is selected, the symposium program committee will discuss with you further to help finalize the plan, and MIDAS will provide logistics support.

Some examples of possible themes: Mobilizing data science for crisis response; Data preparation for multi-party computing; Introduction of data science to attendees from non-profit organizations; Data science for wearables/mobile health.

If you would like to discuss your mini-workshop idea with the symposium committee before submission, please email Jing Liu, MIDAS Managing Director (ljing@umich.edu),

2. Abstracts for Research Talks (20 minutes including Q&A). The talks should discuss exciting research ideas, provide vision and context for challenging data science questions, stimulate discussions, and lay out collaboration opportunities. These talks should not simply be technical reports of projects.

3. Abstracts for Posters. The Posters can be used as technical reports of projects. Posters with students as first authors will be automatically entered in the poster competition.

DEADLINES:
Mini-workshop proposal submission: 11:59 pm, July 31, 2020; notification: Aug. 14, 2020
Talks and posters abstract submission: 11:59 pm, Sept. 18, 2020; notification: Oct. 9, 2020

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
At least one author/presenter should have a U-M affiliation.
Please do not include figures, tables or bibliography in the abstract.
To submit proposals for mini-workshops:
Please include a title, list of organizers/potential presenters and their affiliations.
The main body of the submission should be no more than 300 words.
Please include the theme, format, how it features the strengths from multiple U-M research units, and its impact.
To submit abstracts for research talks and posters:
Please include a title, list of authors/presenters and their affiliations.
The main body of the submission should be no more than 300 words.
For research talks, please include a brief summary of the research idea and its context, potential methods and impact, and how it can benefit from collaboration.
For posters, please include a brief summary of the research, methods, main results and impact.
For questions, please contact midas-research@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:29:30 -0400 2020-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020
The Testing Paradox for COVID-19 (November 10, 2020 10:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79203 79203-20231444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:10am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Reported case-counts for coronavirus are wrinkled with data errors, namely misclassification of the tests and selection bias associated with who got tested. The number of covert or unascertained infections is large across the world. How can one determine optimal testing strategies with such imperfect data? In this talk, we propose an optimization algorithm for allocating diagnostic/surveillance tests when your objective is estimating the true population prevalence or detecting an outbreak. Infectious disease models and survey sampling techniques are used jointly to come up with these strategies

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:29:08 -0500 2020-11-10T10:10:00-05:00 2020-11-10T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Professor Bhramar Muherjee
Students’ mobility patterns on campus and the implications for the recovery of campus activities post-pandemic (November 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79204 79204-20231445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This research project uses location data gathered from WiFi access points on campus to model the mobility patterns of students in order to inform the planning of educational activities that can minimize the transmission risk.
The first aim is to understand the general mobility patterns of students on campus to identify physical spaces associating with a high-risk of transmission. For example, we can extract insights from WiFi data about which locations are the busiest during which time of the day, how much time was typically spent at each location, and how do these mobility patterns change over time. The second aim is to understand how students share the same physical spaces on campus (e.g. attending a lecture, meeting in the same room, sharing the same dorm). Students are presumably in a close proximity when they are connected to the same WiFi access point. We model a student-to-student network from their co-location activities and use its network centrality measures as proxies of transmission risk (i.e. students in the center of a network would have a higher chance of getting exposed to COVID-19 than those in the periphery). We then correlate network centrality measures with academic information (e.g. class schedule, course enrollment, study major, year of study, gender, ethnicity) to determine whether certain features of the academic record are related to transmission risk. For example, we can identify which groups of students are more vulnerable to potential infections by associating with a high network centrality. Insights from this research project will inform the University of Michigan’s strategies for the recovery of educational activities post-pandemic with empirical evidence of students’ mobility pattern on campus as well as factors that associate with a high-risk of transmission.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:35:37 -0500 2020-11-10T10:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T10:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Quan Nguyen
Modeling the Perceived Truthfulness of Public Statements on COVID-19: A New Model for Pairwise Comparisons of Objects with Multidimensional Latent Attributes (November 10, 2020 10:50am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79205 79205-20231446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:50am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

What is more important for how individuals perceive the truthfulness of statements about COVID-19: a) the objective truthfulness of the statements, or b) the partisanship of the individual and the partisanship of the people making the statements? To answer this question, we develop a novel model for pairwise comparisons data that allows for a richer structure of both the latent attributes of the objects being compared and rater-specific perceptual differences than standard models. We use the model to analyze survey data that we collected in the summer of 2020. This survey asked respondents to compare the truthfulness of pairs of statements about COVID-19. These statements were taken from the fact-checked statements on https://www.politifact.com. We thus have an independent measure of the truthfulness of each statement. We find that the actual truthfulness of a statement explains very little of the variability in individuals’ perceptions of truthfulness. Instead, we find that the partisanship of the speaker and the partisanship of the rater account for the majority of the variation in perceived truthfulness, with statements made by co-partisans being viewed as more truthful.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:49:47 -0500 2020-11-10T10:50:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Qiushi Yu and Kevin Quinn
Computational Neuroscience, Time Complexity, and Spacetime Analytics (November 10, 2020 11:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79206 79206-20231447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:10am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The proliferation of digital information in all human experiences presents difficult challenges and offers unique opportunities of managing, modeling, analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing heterogeneous data. There is a substantial need to develop, validate, productize, and support novel mathematical techniques, advanced statistical computing algorithms, transdisciplinary tools, and effective artificial intelligence apps.

Spacekime analytics is a new technique for modeling high-dimensional longitudinal data, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This approach relies on extending the notions of time, events, particles, and wave functions to complex-time (kime), complex-events (kevents), data and inference-functions, respectively. This talk will illustrate how the kime-magnitude (longitudinal time order) and kime-direction (phase) affect the subsequent predictive analytics and the induced scientific inference. The mathematical foundation of spacekime calculus reveals various statistical implications including inferential uncertainty and a Bayesian formulation of spacekime analytics. Complexifying time allows the lifting of all commonly observed processes from the classical 4D Minkowski spacetime to a 5D spacetime manifold, where a number of interesting mathematical problems arise.

Spacekime analytics transforms time-varying data, such as time-series observations, into higher-dimensional manifolds representing complex-valued and kime-indexed surfaces (kime-surfaces). This process uncovers some of the intricate structure in high-dimensional data that may be intractable in the classical space-time representation of the data. In addition, the spacekime representation facilitates the development of innovative data science analytical methods for model-based and model-free scientific inference, derived computed phenotyping, and statistical forecasting. Direct neuroscience science applications of spacekime analytics will be demonstrated using simulated data and clinical observations (e.g., UK Biobank).

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:57:23 -0500 2020-11-10T11:10:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Professor Ivo Dinov
Challenges in dynamic mode decomposition (November 10, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79207 79207-20231448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) is a powerful tool in extracting spatio-temporal patterns from multi-dimensional time series. DMD takes in time series data and computes eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a finite-dimensional linear model that approximates the infinite-dimensional Koopman operator which encodes the dynamics. DMD is used successfully in many fields: fluid mechanics, robotics, neuroscience, and more. Two of the main challenges remaining in DMD research are noise sensitivity and issues related to Krylov space closure when modeling nonlinear systems. In our work, we encountered great difficulty in reconstructing time series from multilegged robot data. These are oscillatory systems with slow transients, which decay only slightly faster than a period.
Here we present an investigation of possible sources of difficulty by studying a class of systems with linear latent dynamics which are observed via multinomial observables. We explore the influences of dataset metrics, the spectrum of the latent dynamics, the normality of the system matrix, and the geometry of the dynamics. Our numerical models include system and measurement noise. Our results show that even for these very mildly nonlinear conditions, DMD methods often fail to recover the spectrum and can have poor predictive ability. We show that for a system with a well-posed system matrix, having a dataset with more initial conditions and shorter trajectories can significantly improve the prediction. With a slightly ill-conditioned system matrix, a moderate trajectory length improves the spectrum recovery. Our work provides a self-contained framework on analyzing noise and nonlinearity, and gives generalizable insights dataset properties for DMD analysis.
Work was funded by ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 and the Kahn Foundation.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:02:20 -0500 2020-11-10T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Ziyou Wu
Debriefing the Election: What Now? (November 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78486 78486-20050346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Given the high stakes of the 2020 Presidential Election, this session will provide a space to debrief and discuss next steps after the election. We will offer multiple tools and strategies for helping students process and move towards action, on campus and beyond.

This is the 3rd of a 3-part series to help faculty, academic program staff and GSIs prepare for the lead up to and after the election. You can opt in for one or all of the sessions. Read about Part 1 and Part 2 below.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:56:23 -0400 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Roll of I Voted stickers on a white background Photo by On Unsplash.
Agent-Based Modeling and Systemic Racism (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79217 79217-20231458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

In this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of systemic bias and how algorithms may continue to promote inequity. Participants will learn about agent based methods, a tool which can be used to examine algorithmic fairness. There will be opportunities to brainstorm ideas for new research projects within the participants’ fields.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:39:43 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Data Science and Natural Language Processing to Find Rare Classes of Entities From Text (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79220 79220-20231459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Natural language processing (NLP) and Data Science methods, including recently popular deep learning-based approaches, can unlock information from narrative text and have received great attention in the medical domain. Many NLP methods have been developed and showed promising results in various information extraction tasks, especially for rare classes of named entities. These methods have also been successfully applied to facilitate clinical research. In this workshop, we will highlight some methods and technologies to identify rare concepts and entities in text in the medical domain as well as other “open” domains.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:46:39 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Intro to Python for Community Members and K-12 Teachers and Students (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79222 79222-20231462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This hands-on workshop is tailored to audiences who do not have prior programming experience. The first half of the workshop covers Python programming basics and the second half covers performing data analysis and visualization in Python with real-world data. The audiences are encouraged to follow along with the examples on their own computer. We will use an online browser-based environment (Google Colab), and no software installations on your computer are required. Attendees will need a Google account and will sign in to their browser in order to use this cloud-based tool during the workshop.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:51:28 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Mini-Workshops at the MIDAS symposium (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78763 78763-20121154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

There will be six workshops to choose from:
- Agent-based modeling and systemic racism
- Introduction to Python for community members and K-12 teachers and students
- Natural Language Processing for free text analysis
- Scrubbing and cleaning of sensitive data
- Stitching Together the Fabric of 21st Century Social Science
- Video coding and its research applications

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:33:12 -0400 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar MIDAS Symposium 2020
Scrubbing and Cleaning of Sensitive Data (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79223 79223-20231463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Before analysis, data must be retrieved, scrubbed of identifiable information, cleaned (e.g., addressed missing data, reshaped appropriately), and delivered. Using biomedical and transportation datasets as examples of how this generalizable process works, this workshop will walk attendees through a real-world pipeline used to process and deliver datasets. Documentation and code will be made available through GitLab to allow for coding along with the demonstration. As a result of this workshop, attendees will leave with a practical template for implementing their own a data science pipeline.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:57:27 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Stitching Together the Fabric of 21st Century Social Science (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79225 79225-20231464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Today’s pressing questions of social science and public policy demand an unprecedented degree of data scope and integration as we recognize the cross-cutting dynamics of economics, political science, sociology, demography, and psychology. This panel features four UM researchers who are pushing the frontier of data construction and linkage in coordination with partners at the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:01:06 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
The State of the Art in Automated and Semi-Automated Video Coding (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79226 79226-20231465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Video is being acquired at an alarming rate across domains, including social research, healthcare, entertainment, sporting and more. The ability to code this video—attribute certain properties, labels, and other annotations—in support of analytical domain-relevant questions is critical; otherwise, human coding is required. Human coding, however, is laborious, expensive, not repeatable, and, worse, often error prone. Video coding, an area within artificial intelligence and computer vision, seeks automated and semi-automated methods to support more effective and robust video coding. This workshop will review the state of the art in video coding from a capabilities, limitations and tooling perspective and present real-world use-cases.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:04:31 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:16:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Resilient Leadership for a Dynamic World featuring Tonya Allen, CEO of The Skillman Foundation (November 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79258 79258-20241312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

In our dynamic world, the pursuit of health equity is both valiant and never complete. Generations of public health leaders have devoted themselves to the ultimate goal of a healthier, more equitable world for all. Bringing contemporary leaders to share their insights, vision, and perseverance is the principle of Ahead of the Curve, a new speaker series from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The series launches in the fall of 2020 with a focus on personal storytelling from dynamic leaders during a pandemic and beyond.

All events are free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:42:14 -0500 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion image of Tonya Allen smiling in her office at the Skillman Foundation
Navigating Academic & Personal Relationships During COVID (November 10, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78171 78171-19987074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Campus Mind Works wellness groups are free drop-in wellness groups for U-M students that provide mental health education and support. These groups are facilitated by a U-M employee. The first half is an educational presentation on a mental health topic and a support group follows during the second half. Topics change every month depending on student needs.

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact mental health, share strategies for managing the stress of college and graduate life, and speak with other students about challenges and successes.

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

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

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Well-being Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:49:51 -0400 2020-11-10T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Blue and white rectangle logo that says Campus Mind Works
Novel Tools to Increase the Reliability and Reproducibility of Population Genetics Research (November 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79208 79208-20231449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Advances in population genetic research have the potential to create numerous important advances in the science of population dynamics. The interplay of micro-level biology and macro-level social sciences documents gene–environment–phenotype interactions and allows us to examine how genetics relates to child health and wellbeing. However, traditional genetics research is based on nonrepresentative samples that deviate from the target population, such as convenience and volunteer samples. This lack of representativeness may distort association studies. Recent findings have provoked concern about misinterpretation, irreproducibility and lack of generalizability, exemplifying the need to leverage survey research with genetics for population-based research. This project is motivated by the research team’s collaborative work on the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, which present these common problems in population genetics studies, to advance the integration of genetic science into population dynamics research. The project will evaluate sample selection effects, identify population heterogeneity in polygenic score analysis, and develop strategies to adjust for selection bias in the association studies of educational attainment, cognition status and substance use for child health and wellbeing. This interdisciplinary project will strengthen the validity and generalizability of population genetics research, deepen new understandings of human behavior and facilitate advances in population science.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:08:06 -0500 2020-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T09:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Yajuan Si
U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020 (November 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75640 75640-19552852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Fully virtual. November 10th-11th

Keynote Speakers:
CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO
Assistant Professor, Urban Science & Planning
Director, Data + Feminism Lab
Department of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT

LAUREN KLEIN
Associate Professor, English, Quantitative Theory and Methods
Emory University

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) invites submission of 1) abstracts for presentations and 2) proposals for workshops, for the 2020 U-M Data Science Symposium.

As the focal point of data science at U-M, MIDAS facilitates the work of the broad U-M data science community, advances cross-cutting data science methodologies and applications, promotes the use of data science to benefit society, builds data science training pipelines, and develops partnerships with industry, academia and community. The annual symposium showcases the breadth and depth of U-M data science, shares research ideas that will lead to the next breakthroughs, and builds collaboration.

Presentations at the symposium should cover one or more of the following areas of data science:

Theoretical foundations
Methodology and tools
Real-world application in any domain
The ethics and societal impact of data science
Emerging areas of data science
WE INVITE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1. Proposals for mini-workshops. New this year, the symposium will include 3-5 mini-workshops on the afternoon of Nov. 10 as parallel sessions. Each workshop will be two hours long and for 50-100 attendees. They can be research discussion sessions, tutorials or hack sessions. Proposals should include the theme, format, organizer and potential presenters, as well as how the proposed mini-workshop brings out the strengths across multiple U-M research units and its benefit to U-M data science research and/or to the larger community. If your theme is selected, the symposium program committee will discuss with you further to help finalize the plan, and MIDAS will provide logistics support.

Some examples of possible themes: Mobilizing data science for crisis response; Data preparation for multi-party computing; Introduction of data science to attendees from non-profit organizations; Data science for wearables/mobile health.

If you would like to discuss your mini-workshop idea with the symposium committee before submission, please email Jing Liu, MIDAS Managing Director (ljing@umich.edu),

2. Abstracts for Research Talks (20 minutes including Q&A). The talks should discuss exciting research ideas, provide vision and context for challenging data science questions, stimulate discussions, and lay out collaboration opportunities. These talks should not simply be technical reports of projects.

3. Abstracts for Posters. The Posters can be used as technical reports of projects. Posters with students as first authors will be automatically entered in the poster competition.

DEADLINES:
Mini-workshop proposal submission: 11:59 pm, July 31, 2020; notification: Aug. 14, 2020
Talks and posters abstract submission: 11:59 pm, Sept. 18, 2020; notification: Oct. 9, 2020

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
At least one author/presenter should have a U-M affiliation.
Please do not include figures, tables or bibliography in the abstract.
To submit proposals for mini-workshops:
Please include a title, list of organizers/potential presenters and their affiliations.
The main body of the submission should be no more than 300 words.
Please include the theme, format, how it features the strengths from multiple U-M research units, and its impact.
To submit abstracts for research talks and posters:
Please include a title, list of authors/presenters and their affiliations.
The main body of the submission should be no more than 300 words.
For research talks, please include a brief summary of the research idea and its context, potential methods and impact, and how it can benefit from collaboration.
For posters, please include a brief summary of the research, methods, main results and impact.
For questions, please contact midas-research@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:29:30 -0400 2020-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020
An end-to-end deep learning system for rapid analysis of the breath metabolome with applications in critical care illness and beyond (November 11, 2020 9:20am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79211 79211-20231452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:20am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The metabolome is the set of low-molecular-weight metabolites and its quantification represents a summary of the physiological state of an organism. Metabolite concentration levels in biospecimens are important for many critical care health illnesses like sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Sepsis is responsible for 35% of patients who die in the hospital and ARDS has a mortality rate of 40%. Missing data is a common challenge in metabolomics datasets. Many metabolomics investigators impute fixed values for missing metabolite concentrations and this imputation approach leads to lower statistical power, biased parameter estimates, and reduced prediction accuracy. Certain applications of metabolomics data, like breath analysis by gas chromatography, used for the prediction or detection of ARDS, can be done without the quantification of individual metabolites. This would circumvent the quantification step of individual metabolites, eliminating the missing data problem. Our team has developed a rapid gas chromatography breath analyzer, which has been challenged by missing data, a time-consuming process of breath signature alignment, and the following quantification of metabolites across patients. Analyzing the breath signal directly could eliminate these challenges. End-to-end deep learning systems are neural networks that operate directly on a raw data source and make a prediction directly for the target application. These systems have been successful in diverse fields from speech recognition to medicine. We envision an end-to-end deep learning that leverages transfer learning, from the collection of many healthy samples, that could rapidly multiply the applications of our breath analyzer. The end-to-end deep learning system will enhance our breath analyzer so it could be used more efficiently in areas of the intensive care unit to the battlefield to identity patients or soldiers with critical illnesses like sepsis and ARDS and monitor longitudinal changes in breath metabolites.

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Performance Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:18:18 -0500 2020-11-11T09:20:00-05:00 2020-11-11T09:40:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Performance Christopher Gillies
Machine learning-guided equations for the on-demand prediction of natural gas storage capacities of materials for vehicular applications (November 11, 2020 9:40am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79212 79212-20231453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:40am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Transportation is responsible for nearly one-third of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emission because of burning fossil fuel. While we dream for zero-carbon vehicles, future projections suggest little decline in fossil fuel consumption by the transportation sector until 2050. Therefore, ‘bending the curve’ of CO2 emission prompts the adoption of low-cost and reduced-emission alternative fuels. Natural gas (NG), the most abundant fossil fuel on earth, is such an alternative with nearly 25% lower carbon footprint and lower price compared to its gasoline counterpart. However, the widespread adoption of natural gas as a vehicular fuel is hindered by the scarcity of high-capacity, light-weight, low-cost, and safe storage systems. Recently, materials-based natural gas storage for vehicular applications have become one of the most viable options. Especially, nanoporous materials (NPMs) are in the spotlight of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) because of their exceptional energy storage capacities. However, the number of such NPMs is nearly infinite. It is unknown, a priori, which materials would have the expected natural gas storage capacity. Therefore, searching a high-performing material is like ‘finding a needle in a haystack’ that slows down the speed of materials discovery against growing technological demand. Here we present a novel approach of developing machine learning-guided equations for the on-demand prediction of energy storage capacities of NPMs using a few physically meaningful structural properties. These equations provide users the ability to calculate energy storage capacity of an arbitrary NPM rapidly using only paper and pencil. We show the utility of these equations by predicting NG storage of over 500,000 covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), a class of NPMs. We discovered a COF with record-setting NG storage capacity, surpassing the unmet target set by DOE. In principle, the data-driven approach presented here might be relevant to other disciplines including science, engineering, and health care.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:22:47 -0500 2020-11-11T09:40:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Alauddin Ahmed
Fusing Computer Vision And Space Weather Modeling (November 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79214 79214-20231455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Space weather has impacts on Earth ranging from rare, immensely disruptive events (e.g., electrical blackouts caused by solar flares and coronal mass ejections) to more frequent impacts (e.g., satellite GPS interference from fluctuations in the Earth’s ionosphere caused by rapid variations in the solar extreme UV emission). Earth-impacting events are driven by changes in the Sun’s magnetic field; we now have myriad instruments capturing petabytes worth of images of the Sun at a variety of wavelengths, resolutions, and vantage points. These data present opportunities for learning-based computer vision since the massive, well-calibrated image archive is often accompanied by physical models. This talk will describe some of the work that we have been doing to start integrating computer vision and space physics by learning mappings from one image or representation of the Sun to another. I will center the talk on a new system we have developed that emulates parts of the data processing pipeline of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI). This pipeline produces data products that help study and serve as boundary conditions for solar models of the energetic events alluded to above. Our deep-learning-based system emulates a key component hundreds of times faster than the current method, potentially opening doors to new applications in near-real-time space weather modeling. In keeping with the goals of the symposium, however, I will focus on some of the benefits close collaboration has enabled in terms of understanding how to frame the problem, measure success of the model, and even set up the deep network.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:27:08 -0500 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation David Fouhey
Decoding the Environment of Most Energetic Sources in the Universe (November 11, 2020 10:20am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79215 79215-20231456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 10:20am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Astrophysics has always been at the forefront of data analysis. It has led to advancements in image processing and numerical simulations. The coming decade is bringing qualitatively new and larger datasets than ever before. The next generation of observational facilities will produce an explosion in the quantity and quality of data for the most distant sources, such as the first galaxies and first quasars. Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe, reaching luminosity up to 10^14 that of the Sun. Their emission is powered by giant black holes that convert matter into energy according to the famous Einstein’s equation E = mc^2. The largest progress will occur in quasar spectroscopy. Detailed measurements of spectrum of quasar light, as it is being emitted near the central black hole and partially absorbed by clouds of gas on the way to the observer on Earth, allows for a particularly powerful probe of quasar environment. Because spectra of different chemical elements are unique, spectroscopy allows to study not only the overall properties of matter such as density and temperature, but also the detailed chemical composition of the intervening matter. However, the interpretation of these spectra is made very challenging by the many sources contributing to the absorption of light. In order to take a full advantage of this new window into the nature of supermassive black holes we need detailed theoretical understanding of the origin of quasar spectral features. In a MIDAS PODS project we are applying machine learning to model and extract such features. We are training the models using data from the state-of-the-art numerical simulations of the early universe. This approach is fundamentally different from traditional astronomical data analysis. We have only started learning what information can be extracted and still looking for a new framework to interpret these data.

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Performance Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:31:24 -0500 2020-11-11T10:20:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:40:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Performance Oleg Gnedin
Fireside Chat with Eric Horvitz (November 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78764 78764-20121155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Fireside Chat with Eric Horvitz, Microsoft, Chief Scientific Officer, November 11th, 11:00

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:23:02 -0400 2020-11-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion Eric Horvitz
All in the Family: How Colonial Policies Attempted to Make Indigenous Kinship into American Family (November 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79349 79349-20280660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Out In Public FSPP

Out in Public welcomes DeLesslin George-Warren (he/they) for an incredibly short survey of how colonial governments have attempted to restructure systems of kinship in Indigenous communities through the creation and enforcement of binary gender, enforcement of gendered property inheritance, and punishment of family structures that lie outside the 'Atomic American Family'. Most importantly we will discuss how Indigenous communities have resisted and continue to resist these policies.

Register here: https://forms.gle/PYqkUFcjLDAjywze6

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:54:56 -0500 2020-11-11T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Out In Public FSPP Livestream / Virtual All in the Family: How colonial policies attempted to make Indigenous kinship into American Family. November 17 from 6 to 7 pm. DeLesslin George-Warren discusses how colonial governments used the gender binary to restructure systems of kinship in Indigenous communities and most importantly how communities resist these policies. A photo of DeLesslin, a white-passing, late 20s man
A New Perspective on Amelogenesis and Dental Diagnoses (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79191 79191-20225570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

James P. Simmer, DDS, PhD Professor of Dentistry
Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:24:08 -0500 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Simmer
Write-Togethers (November 16, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2020-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
Communicating Effectively in Zoom Rooms (November 18, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78902 78902-20152759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Back by popular demand! Whether learning on campus or from a distance, most of us are spending a lot of time on Zoom and other video conferencing platforms. Being able to participate effectively in online discussions will likely be essential for a long time to come. In this fun, interactive workshop, we will practice a range of features of effective video communication: ways to get a turn to speak, to communicate clearly, and to respond effectively to others. Come ready to practice with one another and to identify strategies for practicing on your own. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:49:48 -0400 2020-11-18T08:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Chemosensory pathways involved in periodontitis and odontogenic pain (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79190 79190-20225569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Marco Tizzano, PhD
Assistant Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Basic & Translational Sciences - Penn Dental Medicine

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:19:42 -0500 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Tizzano
Bringing the Actual Science of Reading to Policy and Practice (November 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78944 78944-20160619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Education Policy Initiative

Free and open to the public

The Science of Reading has recently been a hot topic in education policy and practice. What does it mean for students and teachers in classrooms? What can it mean for moving the needle on literacy instruction nationwide? Come learn from four stakeholders renowned for their experience and expertise in improving children's literacy; two professors of education, an education reporter, and the head of one of Michigan's school administrator associations.

About the Panelists:

Karin Chenoweth
Karin Chenoweth is writer-in-residence at The Education Trust, a national education advocacy organization that works to improve the academic achievement of all children, particularly children of color and children who live in poverty. She is the author of several books published by Harvard Education Press, including the forthcoming Districts that Succeed: Breaking the correlation between race, poverty, and achievement (spring, 2021). She is also the creator of the ExtraOrdinary Districts podcast and its pandemic spinoff, ExtraOrdinary Districts in Extraordinary Times. A long-time education writer, she wrote a weekly column on schools and education for The Washington Post for five years.

Nell Duke
Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., is a professor in literacy, language, and culture and also in the combined program in education and psychology at the University of Michigan. Duke’s work focuses on early literacy development, particularly among children living in economic poverty. In 2018 Duke received the International Literacy Association's William S. Gray Citation of Merit for outstanding contributions to research, theory, practice, and policy. Among other roles, she currently serves as advisor for the Public Broadcasting Service/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Ready to Learn initiative and an advisor to the Council of Chief State School Officers Early Literacy Networked Improvement Community. Her Twitter handle is @nellkduke.

Paul Liabenow
Paul Liabenow has spent 38 years in education, serving Michigan’s youth. With degrees from Michigan State University and Central Michigan University, Paul first worked in Cadillac Area Public Schools where he started as a teacher and went on to become a building leader, principal and district superintendent. Today, Paul serves as the Executive Director of the Michigan Association of Elementary and Middle School Principals (MEMSPA) - building a community of educators who advocate, lead, and learn together. He also serves as Treasurer of Michigan Association of After School Partnerships, President of The Center for Education Improvement, and Board Member of the Michigan Assessment Consortium. Paul is co-author of Visioning Onward providing guidance for school leaders on the visioning process.

Pamela Mason
Pamela A. Mason is director of the Language and Literacy Master's program and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab and a senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her professional and research interests encompass the interaction of text complexity and background knowledge, the interaction of literacy learning, culture, and multilingualism, and school-wide literacy program implementation and evaluation, using qualitative and quantitative measures. She has extensive experience as a reading/language arts curriculum coordinator for several local school districts and as an elementary school principal.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:20:43 -0500 2020-11-19T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Education Policy Initiative Conference / Symposium Small Group Instruction
Women + Data Science (November 19, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78621 78621-20075975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Michigan State University & University of Michigan invite you to their joint monthly webinar & meetup series for Fall 2020! Please register for access to the Zoom link.

Keynote speaker - Maria Chikina
Lightning talk speakers - Anna Yannakopoulos, MSU | Kayla Johnson, MSU | Stephanie Hickey, MSU

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Presentation Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:47:06 -0400 2020-11-19T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Women + Data Science
TRACKING THE ‘MOOD’ OF U.S. MEDIA COVERAGE, 1990-2020 (November 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79451 79451-20327786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: Survey research has for many years tracking the ‘mood’ of the country. That measure has been useful for understanding trends in economic and political behavior. But where does ‘mood’ come from? And are there other ways to capture the mood of the country? This presentation explores the potential for a media-based measure of mood, explored both as a driver and reflection of pubic attitudes. Media mood is estimating using automated content analytic techniques on a very large corpus of full-text news content. Time series analysis is used to explore differences across news outlets, and the relationship between media content and public opinion from 1990 to the present.

Bio: Stuart Soroka is the Michael W. Traugott Collegiate Professor of Communication and Media & Political Science, and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. His research focuses on political communication, the sources and/or structure of public preferences for policy, and the relationships between public policy, public opinion, and mass media.

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Presentation Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:54:47 -0500 2020-11-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Stuart Soroka
Write-Togethers (November 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2020-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
Plan Your English Self-Study Program for the Winter Break (December 2, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78907 78907-20152762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

All U-M classes will have gone virtual after November 20th. Classes won’t start up again until Tuesday January 19th. What will you be doing to continue communicating in English over this two-month period? Come to this workshop to gather new ideas and to share your own about ways to continue practicing and improving your English during the long break. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:17:58 -0400 2020-12-02T08:30:00-05:00 2020-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Is the End in Sight? An Inside Look at the COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Approval Process (December 2, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79570 79570-20388901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

Join infectious disease expert Dr. Arnold Monto in a discussion about the COVID-19 vaccine development and approval process. Dr. Monto, a professor of epidemiology and global public health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, serves as acting chair of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which provides advice to the Food and Drug Administration on the authorization and licensure of vaccines to prevent COVID-19. Throughout his career spanning seven decades, Dr. Monto has been involved in pandemic planning and emergency response to influenza and other respiratory virus outbreaks, including the 1968 Hong Kong influenza pandemic, avian influenza, SARS, MERS and the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Emily Martin, an associate professor of epidemiology at Michigan Public Health, will join Dr. Monto for a Q&A session, in which the experts will also address attendee questions as time permits. Dr. Monto and Dr. Martin co-lead the Michigan Influenza Center, one of five centers across the country that collects data for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Register here: http://myumi.ch/R5oBM

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:04:12 -0500 2020-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Livestream / Virtual Is the End in Sight? Image of a bottle of vaccine and image of Dr. Arnold Monto
“Mesenchymal Regulation of Tooth Root Formation and Eruption” (December 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79611 79611-20430435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Wanida Ono, PhD
Assistant Professor, Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:33 -0500 2020-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Workshop / Seminar Ono
Combating Impostor Syndrome (December 3, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78189 78189-19989051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

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

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

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

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

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Well-being Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:28:25 -0400 2020-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 2020-12-03T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Blue and white rectangle logo that says Campus Mind Works
Write-Togethers (December 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-19615893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2020-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
GENOMIC DATA SHARING: THE PRIVACY RISK AND TECHNICAL MITIGATIONS (December 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79452 79452-20327787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Personalized medicine makes use of rich and multi-modality individual health data for the promise of better diagnosis, improved health, and a high quality and longer life. The human genome is a key piece in the puzzle. The collection and sharing of personal genomics for research alsobring an increasing concern about privacy, and the risk of discrimination and stigmatization. There are important ethical, legal, and social implications, for example, individual genome information is known to be uniquely identifiable, which is also highly associated with relatives. Trust, accountability, and equity are critical pillars to enable responsible data sharing.

In this talk, I will overview the genomic privacy risks to show various kinds of vulnerability, covering linkage attack, membership attack, and other inference attacks. Then, I will introduce some technical mitigation strategies including secure outsourcing, multiparty computing, and privacy-preserving output perturbation. I hope that this talk will contribute to the awareness of our community with respect to the magnitude of the challenge and the necessity to develop effective and practical solutions.

Bio:

Dr. Jiang is a Christopher Sarofim family professor and center director of Secure Artificial intelligence For hEalthcare (SAFE) in the School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Before joining UTHealth in 2018, he was an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at UCSD. He is an associate editor of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making and serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association. His expertise is primarily in health data privacy and predictive models in biomedicine based on his Computer Science Ph.D. training from Carnegie Mellon University. He received NIH R00, R13, R21, R01, U01 grants as PI, obtained career awards like CPRIT Rising Stars and UT Stars, and won several best and distinguished paper awards from American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Joint Summits on Translational Science (2012, 2013, 2016). He is one of the organizers of the iDASH Genome Privacy competition (2014 – present), which was reported by Nature News and GenomeWeb.

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Presentation Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:09:49 -0500 2020-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Xiaoqian Jiang
Control Allocation of Flexible Aircraft for Load Alleviation (December 8, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79628 79628-20486026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 2:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

As wing designs aim for higher aerodynamic efficiency, the underlying aircraft structure becomes more flexible, requiring additional features to alleviate the loads encountered from gusts and maneuvers. While alleviating loads, it is desirable to minimize the deviations from the original flight trajectory.

In this work, a dynamic control allocation method which exploits redundant control effectors for maneuver and gust load alleviation is proposed for flexible aircraft. The control architecture decouples the two objectives of load alleviation and rigid body trajectory tracking by exploiting the null space between the input and the rigid body output. A reduced-dimensional null space input is established, which affects the flexible output (but not the rigid body output) when passed through a null space filter to generate incremental control signals. This null space input is determined to maintain the flexible output of the aircraft within specified values, thereby achieving load alleviation.

A receding horizon approach to generate the trajectory of the null space input is developed based on linear aircraft models. This receding horizon approach then informs a model predictive control-based control allocator function which can be used as an add-on scheme to a nominal controller. Numerical simulations are used to show that the proposed load alleviation system can successfully avoid the violation of load bounds in the presence of both gust disturbances and maneuvers and with minimal effect on the trajectory tracking performance.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 16:34:21 -0500 2020-12-08T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-08T15:30:00-05:00 Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual PhD candidate John Hansen
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Eric Xing – Carnegie Mellon University (December 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79453 79453-20327788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist, Petuum Inc.

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Presentation Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:17:42 -0500 2020-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Eric Xing
College of Engineering Stressbusters - Wilderness Survival 101 (December 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79941 79941-20517548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center

The most important aspect of survival is to be prepared – both with appropriate supplies and the ability to work with your environment in critical situations. Increase your knowledge of fire and shelter building, practice cooperation and team decision-making skills, and expand your capacity for resourcefulness in the outdoors.

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Recreational / Games Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:03:47 -0500 2020-12-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center Recreational / Games Stressbusters - Wilderness Survival 101
Research & Writing During the Pandemic (December 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79683 79683-20454247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Are you working on your dissertation or another project during the pandemic? Are you feeling isolated or unmotivated? Are you struggling to access archival materials? Join Sober Postdoctoral Fellows Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg and Ross Martin for a discussion about research and writing strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic. They will offer tips, tricks, and ways to pivot when things don't go according to plan. This event will also include group discussion, connection, and shared solidarity.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:53:28 -0500 2020-12-15T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg and Ross Martin
Data Science Coast to Coast Presents: Dr. Jeanne Holm (December 15, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78800 78800-20125167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The DS C2C seminar series, hosted jointly by six academic data science institutes, provides a unique opportunity to foster a broad-reaching data science community.

This fall, the series features important figures in data science, who will provide insight on the transformative use of data science in traditional research disciplines, future breakthroughs in data science research, data science entrepreneurship, and advocacy and national policies for a data-enabled and just society.

Speakers throughout the winter and spring will include faculty members and postdoctoral fellows at the six universities whose research spans the theory and methodology of data science, and their application in arts and humanities, engineering, biomedical, natural, physical and social sciences.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:08:05 -0400 2020-12-15T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Data Science: Coast 2 Coast
College of Engineering Stressbusters - Orienteering with Map & Compass (December 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79942 79942-20517550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center

***This event will be postponed till early Winter 21***

Take your outdoor skills in a new direction by learning to navigate without a GPS unit or cell phones. Discover the parts of a compass, measure your pace, and try triangulation. Once you’ve gotten your bearings, complete a practice course to solidify your skills and work to solve a puzzle!

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Class / Instruction Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:28:13 -0500 2020-12-16T15:30:00-05:00 2020-12-16T16:30:00-05:00 Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center Class / Instruction Stressbusters - Orienteering with Map & Compass
Graph Theoretic Algorithms Adaptable to Quantum Computing (December 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79629 79629-20432433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

This thesis is the first effort towards solving scientific computing problems using graph-based algorithms amenable to quantum computers and specifically, quantum annealers.

Many engineering problems, when considered in a discrete computational setting, can be reduced to a graph coloring problem. Examples range from systems design, image segmentation to pattern recognition where energy cost functions with discrete variables are extremized.

However, graph techniques remain under-utilized in scientific computing. However, we have recently witnessed great advancements in quantum computing where physical devices are available that can solve discrete optimization problems faster than most well-known classical algorithms.

This warrants further investigation into re-formulation of scientific computation problems as graph theoretic problems, and thus enable rapid engineering simulations in a soon-to-be quantum computing world. The computational techniques developed in this thesis allow representation of surface scalars like perimeter and area using discrete variables in a graph. With this framework, several quantities important to engineering applications can be represented in graph based algorithms.

These include: surface energy of cracks for fracture prediction, grain boundary energy to model microstructure evolution, estimate surface areas (of grains, fibers) to generate conformal meshes of microstructures, etc. Combinatorial optimization problems for these applications are first presented.

The last two chapters of the thesis describes two new graph coloring algorithms implemented on a physical quantum computing device: the D-wave quantum annealer. The first algorithm describes a functional minimization approach to solve differential equations. The second algorithm describes a realization of Boltzmann machine learning algorithm on a quantum annealer, with open source codes available on GitHub. The latter allows generative and discriminative learning of data which has vast applications in many fields.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:10:48 -0500 2020-12-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Representative figure
Multidisciplinary Study of Soft Shape Morphing Systems (December 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80090 80090-20556868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Nature abounds with examples of shape morphing systems where an entity either gradually grows into a complex 3-D shape pattern or rapidly morphs into a new configuration. Inspired by the shape shifting capabilities of biological systems, we study the response of natural and synthetic morphing systems through a few examples. These include the in vitro adaptive contraction of a cardiac muscle cell inside a constraining hydrogel, inflation of architectured rubber membranes, and a shape morphing soft robot.

Cardiac muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) have an intrinsic mechano-chemo-transduction (MCT) mechanism that enable them to automatically convert mechanical loads into biochemical signals to actively regulate their amplitude and speed of contraction. At the molecular level, this is attributed to the morphing of regulatory and motor proteins (actin and myosin filaments) to facilitate muscle contraction. The underlying MCT mechanisms, however, are unclear and currently under investigation. To help decipher these mechanisms, we develop a mathematical model, as a companion tool for the experimental in vitro Cell-in-Gel system of our collaborators, to analyze the time-dependent, 3-D strains and stresses within a cardiomyocyte contracting in a viscoelastic medium. The model utilizes the exact analytical solution of the viscoelastic Eshelby inclusion boundary value problem as an efficient computational tool to simulate the mechanical fields inside and outside the cardiomyocyte.

In a second study, we investigate the inflation of shape morphing synthetic soft composites with architectured geometry and material properties. Such shape morphing systems could have desirable applications in space deployable systems where there is a growing demand for energy-efficient lightweight and low-cost structures. These structures possess an exceptionally high mechanical packaging efficiency and very small stowage volume, which makes them attractive candidates for space applications including antenna reflectors, solar arrays, inflatable rovers, re-entry equipment, and human habitats. In particular, we explore several feasible 3-D shapes that can be achieved through the inflation of an initially flat rubber membrane with nonuniform geometrical and material properties. Our rubber-based prototypes provide a convenient basis for conceptual scientific and design explorations in shape morphing inflatable structures.

In a third study, we explore the idea of shape shifting in the design and fabrication of synthetic soft robots with active components. Motivated by the swimming mechanisms of jellyfish, we develop a novel concept for a soft biomimetic underwater robot that imitates the shape and kinematics of the typical animal. The robot swims by harnessing the buckling instability of its soft body to quickly morph from an initially flat into a deformed dome-shaped configuration, which generates the required thrust for underwater locomotion. Joule heating of an embedded pre-stretched shape memory alloy spring serves as an artificial muscle for the robot to make this shape morphing possible. The proposed synthetic shape morphing system introduces a new idea in design of simple, compact, and biomimetic robots with smart artificial muscles.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:38:05 -0500 2020-12-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Headshot of Mohammad Kazemi
THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF BIOMEDICAL DATA COLLECTIONS (December 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79454 79454-20327789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract:

The landscape of biomedical data is incredibly complex, rich, and rapidly changing, especially as we navigate the influx of data from the COVID-19 pandemic. More and more data is moving to the cloud, both existing and newly generated, with multiple cloud providers adding to the complexity. The data includes Electronic Health Records (EHRs), genomic data, and imaging/sensed data (e.g., pictures of tumors, lungs, cells, gas chromatographs), and all this data is enabling us to delve much deeper into complex biological concepts, for example, the relationship between phenotypes and genotypes. The NHLBI BioData Catalyst project is one example of a coordinated effort to move vast amounts of data into the cloud, navigating the complexities of data ingestion, diverse and widespread teams, and multiple cloud providers/environments.

On top of the massive shift to being able to apply huge amounts of data to better understand individuals, populations and, ultimately, life itself, we need a way to organize all this information. The activities in the NCATS Biomedical Data Translator project can be viewed as a constantly evolving analysis of the relationships of disparate data sets. In a sense, Translator is like Google for searching biomedical data.

My talk will introduce both projects and their respective impacts on biomedical research.

Bio:

Dr. Stan Ahalt is the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC-Chapel Hill. As Director, he leads a team of research scientists, software and network engineers, data science specialists, and visualization experts who work closely with faculty research teams at UNC, Duke, NCSU, and partners across the country. Dr. Ahalt is also a Professor in UNC’s Department of Computer Science and the Associate Director of Informatics and Data Science (IDSci) in the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS), UNC’s CTSA award; in this role, Dr. Ahalt leverages the expertise and resources of RENCI to foster clinical and translational research across UNC’s campus. Dr. Ahalt earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clemson University and has over 30 years of experience in data science, signal and image processing, and pattern recognition/ML.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Nov 2020 12:01:11 -0500 2020-12-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Stan Ahalt
Michigan IT 2021 Student Career Fair (January 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79929 79929-20515561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Attention U-M students looking for more experience in information technology! The Michigan IT community is hiring for winter and summer positions!

Register today for the virtual 2021 Michigan IT Student Career Fair on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 from 2 to 4 p.m. Speak directly with the U-M schools, colleges, and units hiring for IT related positions! Learn more and register for the event at the Michigan IT Student Career Fair website.

Who is Michigan IT? Michigan IT is not a department. It’s a community of more than 2,600 IT professional staff across the University of Michigan schools, colleges, libraries, research institutes, Michigan Medicine, and administrative units.

For questions, contact MichiganIT-StuCareerFair@umich.edu.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:58:21 -0500 2021-01-12T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Careers / Jobs Michigan IT 2021 Student Career Fair, January 12, 2021 from 2-4 p.m.
Student Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 14, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79816 79816-20501758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

Designed for students, this event (the first of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards students. It will be hosted by the Student Sustainability Coalition. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:48:41 -0500 2021-01-14T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
Modeling basal cell carcinoma: stem cell origin, drug response and tumor dormancy (January 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80883 80883-20816992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Associate Professor of Dermatology and Associate Professor of Cell and Development Biology, University of Michigan Medical School

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:44:33 -0500 2021-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Workshop / Seminar Sunny Wong
KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION TO ACCELERATE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (January 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79534 79534-20373071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

To combat COVID-19, clinicians and scientists all need to digest the vast amount of relevant biomedical knowledge in literature to understand the disease mechanism and the related biological functions. The first challenge is quantity. For example, nearly 2.7K new papers are published at PubMed per day. This knowledge bottleneck causes significant delay in the development of vaccines and drugs for COVID-19. The second challenge is quality due to the rise and rapid, extensive publications of preprint manuscripts without pre-publication peer review. Many research results about coronavirus from different research labs and sources are redundant, complementary or event conflicting with each other.

Let’s consider drug repurposing as a case study. Besides the long process of clinical trial and biomedical experiments, another major cause for the long process is the complexity of the problem involved and the difficulty in drug discovery in general. The current clinical trials for drug re-purposing mainly rely on symptoms by considering drugs that can treat diseases with similar symptoms. However, there are too many drug candidates and too much misinformation published from multiple sources. In addition to a ranked list of drugs, clinicians and scientists also aim to gain new insights into the underlying molecular cellular mechanisms on Covid-19, and which pre-existing conditions may affect the mortality and severity of this disease.

To tackle these two challenges, we have developed a novel and comprehensive knowledge discovery framework, COVID-KG, to accelerate scientific discovery and build a bridge between clinicians and biology scientists. COVID-KG starts by reading existing papers to build multimedia knowledge graphs (KGs), in which nodes are entities/concepts and edges represent relations involving these entities, extracted from both text and images. Given the KGs enriched with path ranking and evidence mining, COVID-KG answers natural language questions effectively. Using drug repurposing as a case study, for 11 typical questions that human experts aim to explore, we integrate our techniques to generate a comprehensive report for each candidate drug. Preliminary assessment by expert clinicians and medical school students show our generated reports are informative and sound. I will also talk about our ongoing work to extend this framework to other domains including molecular synthesis and agriculture.

Bio:

Heng Ji is a professor at Computer Science Department, and an affiliated faculty member at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an Amazon Scholar. She received her B.A. and M. A. in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Her research interests focus on Natural Language Processing, especially on Multimedia Multilingual Information Extraction, Knowledge Base Population and Knowledge-driven Generation. She was selected as “Young Scientist” and a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Computing by the World Economic Forum in 2016 and 2017. The awards she received include “AI’s 10 to Watch” Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, NSF CAREER award in 2009, Google Research Award in 2009 and 2014, IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012 and 2014 and Bosch Research Award in 2014-2018, and ACL2020 Best Demo Paper Award. She was invited by the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force and AFRL to join Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030. She is the lead of many multi-institution projects and tasks, including the U.S. ARL projects on information fusion and knowledge networks construction, DARPA DEFT Tinker Bell team and DARPA KAIROS RESIN team. She has coordinated the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She has served as the Program Committee Co-Chair of many conferences including NAACL-HLT2018. She is elected as the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) secretary 2020-2021. Her research has been widely supported by the U.S. government agencies (DARPA, ARL, IARPA, NSF, AFRL, DHS) and industry (Amazon, Google, Bosch, IBM, Disney).

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Performance Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:48:55 -0500 2021-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Performance Heng Li
Student Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 20, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79819 79819-20501764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

Designed for students, this event (the second of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards students. It will be hosted by the Student Sustainability Coalition. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:49:09 -0500 2021-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
MIDAS seminar series presents: Arya Farahi, MIDAS fellow (January 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81037 81037-20838679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Arya Farahi is a Data Science Fellow at the University of Michigan

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Presentation Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:33:38 -0500 2021-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Arya Farahi
To Travel a Different Road: The Translation of African-American Poetry into Yiddish, 1925-1936 (January 21, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80077 80077-20556854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

In 1936, a Yiddish-language anthology Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike (Negro-Poetry in America) was published in Moscow. It was compiled and translated by the Kiev-born, American educated Robert Magidoff, and remains to this day the most extensive corpus of African-Diasporic poetry in Yiddish translation. The presentation will examine the anthology’s position amongst different notions of “the folk” in Soviet Yiddish ethnography and folkloristics, the writings of James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois, with whom Magidoff corresponded, and the Yiddish modernist poetry of Shmuel Halkin, who edited the book series in which the anthology appears. When placed alongside DuBois's and others' visits to the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the appearance of African-American poetry in Yiddish translation shows how a transatlantic Jewish avant-garde interpreted and embedded itself within Soviet-African-American contacts in between the Two World Wars. Magidoff served as a Soviet correspondent for NBC and the Associated Press from 1935.
He was accused of espionage and expelled from the USSR in 1948. In 1963 he defended a PhD in Russian literature at the University of Michigan Slavic Department.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:40:39 -0500 2021-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Eli Rosenblatt received his PhD in Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019-20, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
Write-Togethers (January 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-20562759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2021-01-25T09:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
COMPUTER VISION: WHO IS HELPED AND WHO IS HARMED? (January 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79537 79537-20373074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Computer vision has ceased to be a purely academic endeavor. From law enforcement, to border control, to employment, healthcare diagnostics, and assigning trust scores, computer vision systems are being rapidly integrated into all aspects of society. In research, there are works that purport to determine a person’s sexuality from their social network profile images, others that claim to classify “violent individuals” from drone footage. These works were published in high impact journals, and some were presented at workshops in top tier computer vision conferences such as CVPR.

A critical public discourse surrounding the use of computer-vision based technologies has also been mounting. For example, the use of facial recognition technologies by policing agencies has been heavily critiqued and, in response, companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM have pulled or paused their facial recognition software services. Gender Shades showed that commercial gender classification systems have high disparities in error rates by skin-type and gender, and other works discuss the harms caused by the mere existence of automatic gender recognition systems. Recent papers have also exposed shockingly racist and sexist labels in popular computer vision datasets–resulting in the removal of some. In this talk, I will highlight some of these issues and proposed solutions to mitigate bias, as well as how some of the proposed fixes could exacerbate the problem rather than mitigate it.

Bio:

Timnit Gebru is a senior research scientist at Google co-leading the Ethical Artificial Intelligence research team. Her work focuses on mitigating the potential negative impacts of machine learning based systems. Timnit is also the co-founder of Black in AI, a non profit supporting Black researchers and practitioners in artificial intelligence. Prior to this, she did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Transparency Accountability and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying any data mining project. She received her Ph.D. from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, studying computer vision under Fei-Fei Li. Prior to joining Fei-Fei’s lab, she worked at Apple designing circuits and signal processing algorithms for various Apple products including the first iPad.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:00:32 -0500 2021-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Timnit Gebru
Leadership to Inspire Global Change: Ahead of the Curve Speaker Series (January 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80752 80752-20783451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

In our dynamic world, the pursuit of health equity is both valiant and never complete. Generations of public health leaders have devoted themselves to the ultimate goal of a healthier, more equitable world for all. Bringing contemporary leaders to share their insights, vision, and perseverance is the principle of Ahead of the Curve, a new speaker series from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

A fourth-generation physician whose paternal grandparents fled Germany in the early 1930s to build a new life in Mexico, Julio Frenk catalyzed his deep gratitude for the kindness of strangers into a lifelong mission to improve the health, education, and well-being of people around the world. Dr. Frenk currently serves as president of the University of Miami. He began his presidency in August of 2015 following nearly seven years as dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Frenk has an extensive professional record spanning three decades and a career that has included leadership positions in all relevant aspects of public health and higher education: research, teaching, analysis of public policies, institution-building, international cooperation, and national public service.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:17:44 -0500 2021-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Livestream / Virtual Julio Frenk, smiling and wearing glasses with silver hair and an orange tie, with a University of Miami pin on his lapel
Winter Blues and Depression (January 26, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80371 80371-20711699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Live virtual wellness group from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Registration is required on the Campus Mind Works website
Zoom link will be accessible in your registration confirmation email the day of the event

These mental health education and support groups are a service of the U-M Depression Center, in partnership with the U-M Engineering’s C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center and are run by staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry.

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Well-being Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:47:51 -0500 2021-01-26T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works logo with a navy blue background and white text
WISE Coffee Chat- Gear Your Career (January 27, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80999 80999-20832760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Join WISE for an informal coffee chat for grad students to share their questions, experiences, and challenges in networking in a fully remote environment. This event is a follow up to the Rackham workshop Gear Your Career on building a professional network online.

Zoom link- https://umich.zoom.us/j/98072660460

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:17:36 -0500 2021-01-27T13:30:00-05:00 2021-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Social / Informal Gathering
Write-Togethers (February 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-20562760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2021-02-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
Representative Roundtable Day 1 (February 1, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81236 81236-20877908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Join State Representative Yousef Rabhi, and Council Members Elizabeth Nelson, Jeff Hayner, and Washtenaw County Commissioner Sue Shink for an evening on February 1 for the Representative Roundtable. During this virtual event, U-M students will have a chance to ask questions about the relationship between the University and local policymakers, student affordability in Ann Arbor, and other issues most relevant to University students.

Link for registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UHayXE-dTiKtMz4MmJIdkg

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:29:32 -0500 2021-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Conference / Symposium
Winterfest 2021 (February 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80605 80605-20761743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

“Discover and connect with hundreds of student organizations and find your community at Winterfest! Winterfest is the annual student organization involvement fair that occurs in the beginning of the Winter semester. Historically held in the Michigan Union, Winterfest 2021 will be held virtually in order to ensure the health and safety of the Michigan community!

Want to join a student org, but not sure where to start? Winterfest is your ticket to meeting virtually with hundreds of student organizations looking to recruit new members like you! Meet with one or several, ask questions and meet student organization leaders by video call!

Learn more and watch a helpful walk-through video at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021.

Winterfest will be held Monday, February 1 - Friday, February 5, 2021 (6-8 p.m. EST each day). Different student orgs will be tabling each day. Visit the Winterfest site (tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021) to see what day organizations you’re interested in will be there!”

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:24:16 -0500 2021-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Fair / Festival Winterfest 2021. Learn more at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021
Representative Roundtable Day 2 (February 2, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81237 81237-20877909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Join Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, State Senator Jeff Irwin, Representative Donna Lasinski, and Council Members Lisa Disch and Erica Briggs for our second Representative Roundtable of the Series. During this virtual event, U-M students will have a chance to discuss the relationship between the University and local policymakers and ask questions to the panelists about issues most relevant to University students.

Link to Register: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6yVZBtlTceP_R22sjp6Bg

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:17:04 -0500 2021-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Conference / Symposium Panelists
Winterfest 2021 (February 2, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80605 80605-20761744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

“Discover and connect with hundreds of student organizations and find your community at Winterfest! Winterfest is the annual student organization involvement fair that occurs in the beginning of the Winter semester. Historically held in the Michigan Union, Winterfest 2021 will be held virtually in order to ensure the health and safety of the Michigan community!

Want to join a student org, but not sure where to start? Winterfest is your ticket to meeting virtually with hundreds of student organizations looking to recruit new members like you! Meet with one or several, ask questions and meet student organization leaders by video call!

Learn more and watch a helpful walk-through video at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021.

Winterfest will be held Monday, February 1 - Friday, February 5, 2021 (6-8 p.m. EST each day). Different student orgs will be tabling each day. Visit the Winterfest site (tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021) to see what day organizations you’re interested in will be there!”

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:24:16 -0500 2021-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Fair / Festival Winterfest 2021. Learn more at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021
College of Engineering Stressbusters - Virtual Problem Solving (February 2, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79944 79944-20903740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center

The world looks different now, and our ability to handle difficult or unexpected problems over virtual platforms has become critical. Join us for a Zoom video meeting unlike any other - assess situations, navigate challenges, and identify solutions as a group through exercises that are both engaging and fun!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:50:32 -0500 2021-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center Livestream / Virtual Stressbusters - Virtual Problem Solving
Executive Decision Making (February 3, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81238 81238-20877910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Please join Dean Michael Barr, Professor Barbara McQuade, and Towsley Policymaker Javed Ali to discuss how these past weeks in our nation have unfolded and opportunities for Americans to move forward. Join us as they provide insight into fundamental questions regarding the effects of government policymaking on civic life and opportunities for bipartisanship

Link to Register: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mzGM3JgrSUKeOfEri9Fksw

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:11:49 -0500 2021-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Conference / Symposium Panelists
Winterfest 2021 (February 3, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80605 80605-20761745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

“Discover and connect with hundreds of student organizations and find your community at Winterfest! Winterfest is the annual student organization involvement fair that occurs in the beginning of the Winter semester. Historically held in the Michigan Union, Winterfest 2021 will be held virtually in order to ensure the health and safety of the Michigan community!

Want to join a student org, but not sure where to start? Winterfest is your ticket to meeting virtually with hundreds of student organizations looking to recruit new members like you! Meet with one or several, ask questions and meet student organization leaders by video call!

Learn more and watch a helpful walk-through video at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021.

Winterfest will be held Monday, February 1 - Friday, February 5, 2021 (6-8 p.m. EST each day). Different student orgs will be tabling each day. Visit the Winterfest site (tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021) to see what day organizations you’re interested in will be there!”

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:24:16 -0500 2021-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Fair / Festival Winterfest 2021. Learn more at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021
Oral Health Sciences Semianr (February 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81685 81685-20943434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

YUYING XIE, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering; Department of Statistics and Probability
Michigan State University

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Presentation Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:08:29 -0500 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation Yuying Xie
Winterfest 2021 (February 4, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80605 80605-20761746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

“Discover and connect with hundreds of student organizations and find your community at Winterfest! Winterfest is the annual student organization involvement fair that occurs in the beginning of the Winter semester. Historically held in the Michigan Union, Winterfest 2021 will be held virtually in order to ensure the health and safety of the Michigan community!

Want to join a student org, but not sure where to start? Winterfest is your ticket to meeting virtually with hundreds of student organizations looking to recruit new members like you! Meet with one or several, ask questions and meet student organization leaders by video call!

Learn more and watch a helpful walk-through video at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021.

Winterfest will be held Monday, February 1 - Friday, February 5, 2021 (6-8 p.m. EST each day). Different student orgs will be tabling each day. Visit the Winterfest site (tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021) to see what day organizations you’re interested in will be there!”

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:24:16 -0500 2021-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Fair / Festival Winterfest 2021. Learn more at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021
Creating A Vision of Greatness by ZingTrain (February 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80807 80807-20793318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

FIRST TEN U-M STUDENTS TO REGISTER WILL RECIEVE FREE PASSES TO THE ANN ARBOR FOLK FESTIVAL!

What’s a vision? It’s an answer to the simple—yet radical—question: “When we’re really successful in our work/lives at a particular point in the future, what will our organization/lives look like?” Visioning is a tool that can help clarify what is most important. A way to define the destination we’re aiming for so that we can better prioritize how to spend our time and other resources (including our physical and emotional energy) on a day-to-day basis.
Learn how effective visioning has been an important part of Zingerman’s success and how you can use this powerful tool to fuel your own personal development.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:48:23 -0500 2021-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Workshop / Seminar ZingTrain logo for the workshop presented by Center for Campus Involvement.
Winterfest 2021 (February 5, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80605 80605-20761747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

“Discover and connect with hundreds of student organizations and find your community at Winterfest! Winterfest is the annual student organization involvement fair that occurs in the beginning of the Winter semester. Historically held in the Michigan Union, Winterfest 2021 will be held virtually in order to ensure the health and safety of the Michigan community!

Want to join a student org, but not sure where to start? Winterfest is your ticket to meeting virtually with hundreds of student organizations looking to recruit new members like you! Meet with one or several, ask questions and meet student organization leaders by video call!

Learn more and watch a helpful walk-through video at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021.

Winterfest will be held Monday, February 1 - Friday, February 5, 2021 (6-8 p.m. EST each day). Different student orgs will be tabling each day. Visit the Winterfest site (tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021) to see what day organizations you’re interested in will be there!”

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:24:16 -0500 2021-02-05T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Fair / Festival Winterfest 2021. Learn more at tinyurl.com/umwinterfest2021
Michigan Trivia (February 7, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81473 81473-20895801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 7, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Do you want to learn more about Michigan culture? We will play a trivia game via the online platform Kahoot to learn more about Michigan, both our school and the state itself!
Register Here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8039

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Recreational / Games Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:47:07 -0500 2021-02-07T09:30:00-05:00 2021-02-07T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Recreational / Games State of Michigan
Write-Togethers (February 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-20562761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2021-02-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
MIDAS Seminar Series and ICPSR Co-present: Misty Heggeness, Research Economist, US Census Bureau (February 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81038 81038-20838680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

I examine the impact of the COVID-19 shock on parents’ labor supply during the initial stages of the pandemic. Using difference-in-difference estimation and monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), I compare labor market attachment, non-work activity, hours worked, and earnings and wages of those in areas with early school closures and stay-in-place orders with those in areas with delayed or no pandemic closures. While there was no immediate impact on detachment or unemployment, mothers with jobs in early closure states were 68.8 percent more likely than mothers in late closure states to have a job but not be working as a result of early shutdowns. There was no effect on working fathers or working women without school age children. Mothers who continued working increased their work hours relative to comparable fathers; this effect, however, appears entirely driven by a reduction in fathers’ hours worked. Overall, the pandemic appears to have induced a unique immediate juggling act for working parents of school age children. Mothers took a week of leave from formal work; fathers working fulltime, for example, reduced their hours worked by 0.53 hours over the week. While experiences were different for mothers and fathers, each are vulnerable to scarring and stunted opportunities for career growth and advancement due to the pandemic.

Misty Heggeness is Principal Economist and Senior Advisor for Evaluations and Experiments at the U.S. Census Bureau. Dr. Heggeness has a PhD from the University of Minnesota. She has worked as a research economist in the U.S. federal government since 2010 and also held positions at the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Labor. She teaches a course on policy analysis and evaluation at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on survey response quality, poverty & inequality, gender, and the high skilled workforce and has appeared in outlets like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Nature, and Science. At the Census Bureau, she leads a high-profile initiative to integrate the Census Bureau’s major frames and co-leads a 2020 administrative records census project.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:38:52 -0500 2021-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Misty Heggeness
Preparing a Strong CEW+ Scholarship Application (February 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81171 81171-20870028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Presenter: Erin Lane, CEW+ Events & Funding Application Coordinator

Join the CEW+ Funding team for a virtual information session about the CEW+ Scholarship Program. This workshop will offer tips on strengthening your application and provide insights into the review and selection process. Bring your questions about eligibility, funding timelines, navigating the application platform, and more.

The CEW+ Scholarship Application is open now and will close on April 1, 2021, for funding available during the 2021-2022 academic year.

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/preparing-a-strong-cew-scholarship-application-2

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Presentation Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:31:16 -0500 2021-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Presentation Black female student looking focused at computer in library
How to Cope: Learning Different Strategies (February 9, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80373 80373-20711701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Live virtual wellness group from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Registration is required on the Campus Mind Works website
Zoom link will be accessible in your registration confirmation email the day of the event

These mental health education and support groups are a service of the U-M Depression Center, in partnership with the U-M Engineering’s C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center and are run by staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry.

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Well-being Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:42:31 -0500 2021-02-09T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works logo with a navy blue background and white text
Meals of Meaning (February 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
MIPSE Seminar | Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report (February 10, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81665 81665-20941450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

Abstract:
A long-range plan for DOE Fusion Energy Sciences has been created to accelerate the development of fusion energy and advance plasma science. This plan is based on substantial input from the re-search community, which conveyed a wealth of creative ideas and its passion to accelerate fusion energy development and advance plasma science over an intensive two-year process. The FESAC Long Range Planning Report provides a decade-long vision for the field of fusion energy and plasma science, presenting a path to a promising future of new scientific discoveries, industrial applications, and ultimately the delivery of fusion energy.

About the Speaker:
Troy Carter is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof. Carter is the Director of the Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF), a collaborative research facility for plasma science supported by DOE and NSF. He is also the Director of the Plasma Science at Technology Institute (PSTI) at UCLA. His research focuses on experimental studies of fundamental processes in magnetized plasmas and is motivated by current issues in magnetic confinement fusion energy research and in space and astrophysical plasmas including magnetic reconnection, turbulence and transport in magnetized plasmas, and the nonlinear physics of Alfvén waves. He was a co-recipient of the 2002 APS DPP Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Award and is a Fellow of the APS. Prof. Carter received BS degrees in Physics and Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1995 and a PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 2001.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:23:51 -0500 2021-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Troy Carter
CEW+ Community Building: A Virtual Open House for Nontraditional Students (February 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80781 80781-20998845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: CEW+

Welcome to the University of Michigan! Here at CEW+, we have a rich history of celebrating and supporting nontraditional students. What does it mean to be nontraditional? If you’re a transfer student, a person of color, married, have children, are older than the ‘typical’ college student, are a caregiver, commuter, or any number of other characteristics where you feel “different” from other students, or support nontraditional students – we welcome you to attend this event! Enjoy this opportunity to meet other students with similar stories and experience tools that will support your success. In addition, learn more about events and opportunities that the CEW+ provides to help you thrive academically and personally.

Register now to receive the Zoom link via email: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-community-building-a-virtual-open-house-for-nontrad-students/

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Reception / Open House Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:58:41 -0500 2021-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 CEW+ Reception / Open House Woman walking down stairs with child and textbooks
Oral Health Sciences Seminar Series (February 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81688 81688-20943436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Lola Eniola-Adefeso, Ph.D.
University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Chemical Engineering
Vice-Chair for Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Miller Faculty Scholar
Director, Cell Adhesion and Drug Delivery Lab
Associate Director, NIH Cellular Biotechnology Training Grant
University of Michigan

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Presentation Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:25:38 -0500 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation Lola Eniola-Adefeso, Ph.D.
Racial Justice in the Age of Data and AI - A Community Forum (February 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81549 81549-20925393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This community forum is a follow-up event of Timnit Gebru’s recent seminar, “Computer vision: who is helped and who is harmed?” (watch video). The record-breaking attendance of the seminar and the active participation of the audience reflected the significance of this topic to our data science community. Three faculty members will moderate the forum, where attendees can share their observations and insights, and thoughts on how data scientists can be part of the solution for racial justice in the age of data and AI.

Moderators:
Dr. H. V. Jagadish, Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy and Women’s Studies, Director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Dr. Sarita Schoenebeck, Associate Professor, School of Information
Dr. Apryl Williams, Assistant Professor, Communication & Media

For more information and a reading/watch list for a deeping understanding, please visit the calendar listing on the MIDAS website. (link to the right)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:33:03 -0500 2021-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion is AI racist?
CEW+ Community Building: A Virtual Open House for Nontraditional Students (February 12, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80781 80781-20791338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Welcome to the University of Michigan! Here at CEW+, we have a rich history of celebrating and supporting nontraditional students. What does it mean to be nontraditional? If you’re a transfer student, a person of color, married, have children, are older than the ‘typical’ college student, are a caregiver, commuter, or any number of other characteristics where you feel “different” from other students, or support nontraditional students – we welcome you to attend this event! Enjoy this opportunity to meet other students with similar stories and experience tools that will support your success. In addition, learn more about events and opportunities that the CEW+ provides to help you thrive academically and personally.

Register now to receive the Zoom link via email: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-community-building-a-virtual-open-house-for-nontrad-students/

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Reception / Open House Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:58:41 -0500 2021-02-12T11:30:00-05:00 2021-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Reception / Open House Woman walking down stairs with child and textbooks
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 13, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 13, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-13T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 14, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 14, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-14T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-14T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-15T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Write-Togethers (February 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-20562762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2021-02-15T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
Student Venture Showcase (February 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82123 82123-21036717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

An evening of promising student projects and ventures looking to highlight their ideas and recruit new members. 14 hand-selected projects and ventures will have 6 minutes to present their ideas and answer audience questions.

This is a must attend event for those looking to network with other student entrepreneurs or to join a team. RSVP at bit.ly/ENTRshowcase

Featured Student Ventures
Drone Autonomy
EQuity Social Venture
CLOVO Brand
RoadEye
BreezeBubble
Blakbord
Swahili
Slide
Autonomous Wagon
The Future Company
Make Fashion Clean
Neo
Wander
GastroKnowMi

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:12:09 -0500 2021-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Center for Entrepreneurship Social / Informal Gathering Student Venture Showcase
Meals of Meaning (February 15, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-02-15T18:30:00-05:00 2021-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 16, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-16T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Meals of Meaning (February 16, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-02-16T18:30:00-05:00 2021-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 17, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Jeopardy w/ American Culture (February 17, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81475 81475-20895803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Come join us as we host a game based on the popular TV quiz show Jeopardy with questions about American culture. Join us as we learn more about the history and culture of the United States!
Register Here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8039

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Recreational / Games Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:42:15 -0500 2021-02-17T20:30:00-05:00 2021-02-17T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Recreational / Games Jeopardy w/ American Culture
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 18, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-18T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Reproductive Health and Justice: Context and Care of Incarcerated Women (February 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81939 81939-20990923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: MI MED Scholars

You are invited to the first talk of the Incarceration and Health Lecture Series with Dr. Deb Landis Lewis, Associate Program Director for the OB/Gyn residency at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital.

Reproductive Health and Justice: Context and Care of Incarcerated Women
Thursday, February 18, 12-1 pm

RSVP required: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdT7MeIJpYqXQB6_pdq9MNUiD1uqOdg7Jp3tziCsU_hVZ2XAA/viewform

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:10:37 -0500 2021-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 MI MED Scholars Lecture / Discussion Lecture flyer
Powering through Uncertainty (February 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80885 80885-20816994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Platform Architect, Intel & Founder, Timouns

Dr. Simon is a biomedical engineer, author and inventor who graduated from the University of Michigan Biomedical Engineering PhD program and was a School of Dentistry T32-TEAM Training Grant trainee. Her keynote seminar titled "Powering through Uncertainty" will encourage and inspire our students, faculty and staff as we strive to meet our mission of advancing health through education, service, research and discovery.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:05:48 -0500 2021-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Livestream / Virtual Keynote Speaker, Arlyne Simon
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing (February 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81235 81235-20877907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

What kinds of arguments can graduate students make as they proceed through their coursework, professional development, and dissertation process? This presentation will focus on how to conceptualize and scaffold arguments to develop and shape scholarly work across the whole of one's graduate career.

Presenter: Raymond McDaniel, Sweetland Center for Writing

Rackham / Sweetland Workshops, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School and held in the Fall and Winter terms, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:51:03 -0500 2021-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar
Meals of Meaning (February 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 19, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-19T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 19, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Global Citizenship in Practice (February 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81567 81567-20927553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Scholars Program

Global Scholars Program's Annual Conference

Global citizenship is a popular idea among many of us, yet we do not always conceptualize or actualize it in the same ways. This conference is an opportunity to share interdisciplinary approaches to global citizenship, with emphasis on how we put this idea into practice.

Global Scholars Alumnx Panelists:
Cachet Colvard, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Munmun Khan, Centers for Disease Control, U.S.
Ariana Paredes-Vincent, Centers for Disease Control, South Africa

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:20:47 -0500 2021-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Scholars Program Livestream / Virtual GSP GCIP
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 20, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-20T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 20, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Saturday Morning Physics VIRTUAL Event | Weighing and Counting Giants in the Sky (February 20, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80680 80680-20775536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Maria Elidaiana da Silva Pereira will give a "live" lecture with a "live" Q&A after the talk.
Virtual Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h8l_Pl9xLQ (Link will be active at 10:30 am on 02/20/21.)

Galaxy Clusters are the largest astronomical objects in the Universe. These cosmic giants are bound together by gravity and are formed by galaxies, hot gas, and mysterious dark matter. By counting them and measuring their masses, we can understand the content and evolution of the Universe. In this talk, I will present how we can use light for weighing galaxy clusters. I will also show how the Dark Energy Survey uses them to measure the quantity of dark matter and properties of the even more mysterious component, the dark energy.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:48:00 -0500 2021-02-20T10:30:00-05:00 2021-02-20T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Photo of Maria Elidaiana da Silva Pereira
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 21, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-21T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 21, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 22, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-22T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 22, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Write-Togethers (February 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-20562763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2021-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
MIDAS Seminar Series, MiCHAMP, and Precision Health Co-Present: Casey Greene, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81040 81040-20838682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract:

Biomedical research disciplines are awash in data. These data, generated by new technologies as well as old approaches, provide the opportunity to systematically extract biological patterns that were previously difficult to observe. I’ll share vignettes focusing on three areas: 1) how we can use large-scale public data to better understand data for which few observations are available; 2) some work to understand why large-scale integrative analyses are beneficial; and 3) how machine learning can help to produce more datasets suitable for integration while maintaining participant privacy.

Dr. Casey Greene is an Associate Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, powered by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. His lab develops machine learning methods that integrate distinct large-scale datasets to extract the rich and intrinsic information embedded in such integrated data. This approach reveals underlying principles of genetics, cellular environments, and cellular responses to that environment. Casey’s devotion to the analysis of publicly available data doesn’t stop in the lab. In 2016, Casey established the “Research Parasite Awards” after an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine deemed scientists who analyze other scientists’ data “research parasites.” These honors, accompanied by a cash prize, are awarded to scientists who rigorously reanalyze other people’s data to learn something new.

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Presentation Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:51:43 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Casey Greene
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 23, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-23T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
College of Engineering Stressbusters: Coffee Chat (February 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81972 81972-20998838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center

Life has been anything but normal this past year and many of you have found some amazing new hobbies, workshops, and virtual tours to occupy your time at home.

Join the Engineering C.A.R.E. Center team on Tuesday, February 23rd at 8 AM virtually with your coffee, tea, or favorite muffin as we discuss the fun and creative ways that we have been occupying our time during repeated lockdowns and quarantines.

Sign up to join the chat and share your pandemic passion!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1TjTHCJWIa8HF4rM6H3ElsxLqf9AyQvTaUSNHAWgtbf_kXg/viewform

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:13:14 -0500 2021-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center Livestream / Virtual Stressbusters: Coffee Chat
Poster Presentations: Interacting Fluently with Your Audience (February 23, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80023 80023-20547015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

We often frame poster presentations at academic conferences and symposia as “easier” and less high-stakes than presenting a paper or participating in a panel, but poster presentations are about 10% presenting and 90% interacting with one’s “audience” of a few people crowded around the poster in a busy, noisy conference space. With more virtual conferences, we also need to be ready for videoconference visitors. Finally, over the past year, poster presenters have also been asked to record brief video presentations open to conference attendees over several days or weeks. Each of these modes of communication presents unique challenges and opportunities. In this workshop, we will not be working on poster design. Instead, we’ll work on strategies for fluent communication with visitors to your poster, whether in-person or virtual. If you have a poster presentation coming up, be ready to share a draft image of your poster so that you can practice taking questions from others at the workshop. Otherwise, come ready to practice formulating and responding to typical question types in poster presentations.
REGISTER HERE: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/7677

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:42:45 -0500 2021-02-23T08:30:00-05:00 2021-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
How to Cope: Learning Different Strategies (February 23, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80376 80376-20711707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Live virtual wellness group from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Registration is required on the Campus Mind Works website
Zoom link will be accessible in your registration confirmation email the day of the event

These mental health education and support groups are a service of the U-M Depression Center, in partnership with the U-M Engineering’s C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center and are run by staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry.

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Well-being Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:55:38 -0500 2021-02-23T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works logo with a navy blue background and white text
Meals of Meaning (February 23, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-02-23T18:30:00-05:00 2021-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
Meals of Meaning (February 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 24, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-24T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-24T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Toxic Equilibrium: Structural Racism and Population Health Inequities (February 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81748 81748-20949404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

February 24, 2021
10:00am – 6:30pm
Eastern Time

The American social structure is composed of a resilient, symbiotic network of the formal and informal institutions that operate to maintain an equilibrium toward White privilege. Across time and place, changes in one institution can reverberate through other institutions, and importantly, when we attempt to intervene toward equity in one institution, other institutions can move to restore this toxic equilibrium. Cultural racism, which encompasses the socially accepted ideologies, values, and behavioral norms determined by the dominant power group, sets this equilibrium. Particularly insidious as it operates on the level of our shared social subconscious, the processes that comprise cultural racism are invisible to many because they are our “givens”, our assumptions, our defaults – but the result shapes our answers to the question: Whose life counts?

For our 6th annual University of Michigan RacismLab Symposium on the Study of Racism, we pay tribute to the legacy of Dr. James Jackson, whose mentorship guided our 1st annual symposium in 2015 and resulted in our guest edited Social Science and Medicine special issue on cultural and structural racism. In the introduction to this special issue, we called for all scholarship on race and health to be grounded in interdisciplinary frameworks of cultural and structural racism and critical race theory.

Our annual symposium continues to be sponsored by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. For our virtual meeting in 2021, we partner with the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) to move our discussions to a national stage. As we move to a national, interdisciplinary discussion, we are honored that a pioneer in the study of structural racism, Dr. Eduardo Bonilla Silva will serve as the keynote speaker this year.

Please register for this event: https://iaphs.org/tools-for-success/online-events/racismlab/racismlab-registration/

Event link will be provided upon registration.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:24:54 -0500 2021-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium poster
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 25, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-25T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Data for Public Good Symposium (February 25, 2021 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81262 81262-20879894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

As both consumers and purveyors of information, how we interact with data is ever evolving. Now, more than ever, data for good represents a diverse and interdisciplinary effort to engage, educate, and empower the world around us. Statistics in the Community (STATCOM), the Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER), and the Community Technical Assistance Collaborative (CTAC) invite you to attend the 4th annual Data for Public Good Symposium hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science. The symposium will launch virtually on Thursday, February 25, 2021 and will showcase the many research efforts and university/community partnerships that focus on improving humanity by using data for the public good.

Data for Good in Changing Times

This year’s symposium will focus on how data can help us best predict, catalyze, or respond to large-scale societal and environmental change. As we currently navigate these changes in several key areas, this symposium offers an opportunity to learn about the data-driven work that is being done to address the following challenges and develop skills to implement your own data-driven work in these spaces:

Public health and medicine
Social justice and equity
Politics and civic engagement
K-12 and higher education
Climate change and sustainability

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:07:14 -0500 2021-02-25T09:45:00-05:00 2021-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Conference / Symposium 4th Annual Data for Public Good Symposium
Meals of Meaning (February 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
You Deserve Care (February 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82128 82128-21036723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

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

Centering the needs of QTBIPOC therapy-seekers, this workshop aims to help you to learn more about accessing and navigating therapy, the green and red flags of a therapist, and how to ask the right questions to find the right fit for you.

Our workshop presenter will be Kulky Nakai Psy.D. LP (they/them/theirs), a therapist practicing with Integrative Empowerment Group PLLC. In their work, they bring a creative, synergistic, and vibrant energy to the therapy room. They earned their doctorate in clinical psychology at Adler University in Chicago, IL and their masters in counseling psychology at Argosy University in San Diego, CA. Identifying as a fat and tattooed queer femme of color, Kulky has also experienced marginalization, discrimination, and oppression for these intersecting identities throughout their life. They understand the deep impact that prejudice and stigma has on one’s mental health and wellbeing, and they are committed to socio-political and cultural change in efforts towards social justice and equality. After years of professional training and personal exploration, they are not only fulfilling their calling but are also building their legacy. Accordingly, Kulky is intentional about helping to cultivate meaningful, healing, and transformative therapeutic relationships so that their clients may become their own compassionate caregiver and agent of change to live an authentic, value-guided, and worthwhile life.

Read their full bio at https://www.integrativeempowerment.com/kulky

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:14:00 -0500 2021-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Time / date information, event description, plus logos for LGBTQ Health and Wellness Season, Spectrum Center, and Integrative Empowerment Group PLLC logos alongside a photo of Kulky. Kulky is a medium-skinned South Asian individual with shoulder-length black hair and clear-framed classes. They are smiling at the camera and are in a forest of some kind.
Meals of Meaning (February 25, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 26, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-26T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Data for Public Good Symposium (February 26, 2021 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81262 81262-20879895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 9:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

As both consumers and purveyors of information, how we interact with data is ever evolving. Now, more than ever, data for good represents a diverse and interdisciplinary effort to engage, educate, and empower the world around us. Statistics in the Community (STATCOM), the Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER), and the Community Technical Assistance Collaborative (CTAC) invite you to attend the 4th annual Data for Public Good Symposium hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science. The symposium will launch virtually on Thursday, February 25, 2021 and will showcase the many research efforts and university/community partnerships that focus on improving humanity by using data for the public good.

Data for Good in Changing Times

This year’s symposium will focus on how data can help us best predict, catalyze, or respond to large-scale societal and environmental change. As we currently navigate these changes in several key areas, this symposium offers an opportunity to learn about the data-driven work that is being done to address the following challenges and develop skills to implement your own data-driven work in these spaces:

Public health and medicine
Social justice and equity
Politics and civic engagement
K-12 and higher education
Climate change and sustainability

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:07:14 -0500 2021-02-26T09:45:00-05:00 2021-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Conference / Symposium 4th Annual Data for Public Good Symposium
"I'm So Overwhelmed I Probably Won't Even Come to this Session..." (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82070 82070-21015024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

This session is for you. We will discuss techniques and approaches for getting through times that feel overwhelming and stressful. You are not alone. You can feel overwhelmed, and still attend to your well-being. It is possible.

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/39606

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Well-being Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:24:56 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Well-being New Year, Knew YOU!
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (February 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 27, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-27T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (February 28, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-02-28T07:00:00-05:00 2021-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (February 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 1, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-01T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Write-Togethers (March 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-20562764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2021-03-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Simine Vazire, Psychology, University of Melbourne (March 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81079 81079-20846537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

How can we tell which scientific findings are credible? Peer-reviewed journals, even prestigious ones, do not provide much assurance regarding the credibility of any individual report. Ideally, we would read each report carefully when deciding what to trust, but this is often impossible (e.g., when we lack the expertise to evaluate the methods) or impractical (e.g., when we need to evaluate research at scale). Moreover, rather than each of us making private judgments, we would all benefit from collecting and sharing evaluations from a range of experts with different areas of expertise and different blind spots and biases. The ideal would be to validate a rubric for eliciting structured quantitative ratings of quality along a wide range of dimensions, and collect and make publicly available ratings from many different and diverse experts. These scores could be combined into a variety of metrics, or “Quality Factors” (QFs), that vary in the weight placed on different qualities. These QFs would provide easily digestible and flexible quality ratings of individual scientific papers that could be useful to other scientists, to journalists and policymakers, and to the public. QFs would also help incentivize authors to “get it right” rather than just get published in prestigious journals, because rewards and recognition could be tied to these more transparent, accountable, and valid metrics rather than to journal prestige. In this talk, I discuss what this could look like for my home discipline of psychology, and describe some progress towards producing Quality Factors for psychology papers.


Simine Vazire is an associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Melbourne. She is the director of the Personality and Self-Knowledge laboratory. She is the co-founder and current president of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, a senior editor at Collabra: Psychology, and editor in chief of Social Psychological and Personality Science. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation, and examines accuracy and bias in people’s perceptions of their own behavior and personality. She also conducts meta-science examining how people interpret scientific findings, and tracking trends in the methods and results of published studies in psychology over time. She teaches and blogs about research methods and reproducibility.

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Presentation Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:17:46 -0500 2021-03-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Simine Vazire
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 2, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-02T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 2, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-02T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 3, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-03T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 3, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Meals of Meaning (March 3, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-03-03T19:30:00-05:00 2021-03-03T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
Picture Story Game (March 3, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81476 81476-20895804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Have you ever wanted to try writing a novel or children’s book? Join us to test your story telling ability—with a night filled with twists and turns! You definitely don’t want to miss this!
Register Here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8039

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Recreational / Games Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:22:46 -0500 2021-03-03T20:30:00-05:00 2021-03-03T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Recreational / Games Picture Story
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 4, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-04T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 4, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 4, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-04T08:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
The Movement for Economic Equity in Detroit (March 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82043 82043-21012679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

From the fight for a fair wage, to business closures during a pandemic, to a historic lack of job opportunities for Black individuals, race-based mechanisms of economic and social suppression have been systemically and strategically created in Detroit.
This virtual discussion focuses on the work of Detroit activists and leaders who have dedicated their lives to creating a more economically just and mobile city.

Special guests include Eboni Taylor, Michigan Executive Director of Mothering Justice; DeWayne Wells, Executive Director of the Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan; and Dr. Alicia Farris, Chief Operations Officer of the Restaurant Opportunities Center.

RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W207

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:22:04 -0500 2021-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion The Movement for Economic Equity in Detroit
Virtual Gathering of Community-Engaged Instructors (March 4, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81629 81629-20935500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you teaching or supporting a virtual community-engaged course this semester (or beyond)? Looking to connect with and learn from others who are too?

The Ginsberg Center invites you to join us for a lightly facilitated virtual community of practice on community-engaged course design and instruction. These gatherings are designed to encourage connections, troubleshooting, and resource sharing as we prepare for virtual teaching and engagement during Covid-19. For the last 30 minutes, Ginsberg Center staff will be available to answer questions.

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Meeting Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:00:48 -0500 2021-03-04T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Meeting Circular logo with multi-colored segments that read Connect, Prepare, Design, and Research around the phrase "Equitable Impact"
Meals of Meaning (March 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81516 81516-20903738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

In times of heightened tension, division, and expressions of hate, faith, spiritual and secular communities have a vital role to play in being stewards of resilience, collective courage, and creating braver space in the presence of difference. Meals of Meaning provide an opportunity for students to come together for a virtual dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability, and explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives. Sign up for a day/time that works for you.

When you register, select the mealtime that works for you! Each mealtime has a designated pick up time for food and location associated with it, so please check the details to see when and where to pick up your meal.

Registration is OPEN now! Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

Unless otherwise noted, all meals are open to any student. If you are unable to pick-up a meal for any reason, but would still like to participate in the discussion, please simply note "No Meal" in the question section.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:22:10 -0500 2021-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering Meals of Meaning, presented by UM Interfaith Program, CCI and Trotter
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 5, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-05T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 5, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
German Studies Departmental Colloquium (March 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81365 81365-20887840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Open to all members of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:27:39 -0500 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion
Healing Justice: Fabric of Community (March 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82340 82340-21068622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Gain some perspective as we dig deep into the power of Meaning! How do you find meaning in your life, and how do different identities we hold play a role in how we find meaning? We will be exploring this through two separate workshops led by CAPS "Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care During Challenging Times ".

U-M Counseling and Psychological Services will offer two workshops (“Healing Justice in the Fabric of Community” and “Healing Justice: Rediscovering Spirit” ) which focus on components of Loretta Pyles’ (2018) Healing Justice: Self-Care for Change Makers.

This Fabric of Community session will work towards defining ourselves through the health and wealth of our neighbors, community and planet. There is an emphasis on 1) healing one's community while in community; 2) community resilience; and 3) collective efficacy--the belief that neighbors or groups of citizens can change their situations and be effective in organized community action.

All students (undergraduate, graduate and professional) are invited to attend this powerful session!

To be true to healing justice, it’s vital to highlight its origins. The movement was originally created by queer folx, BIPOC, women and those with disabilities starting from the 60s with a resurgence in the late 2000s. U-M participants will learn ways of healing “a sense of brokenness or disconnection that may be a result of trauma, oppressive socio-cultural narratives and practices or the ways in which humans may lose touch with each other and themselves.”

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Well-being Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:05:25 -0500 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Well-being New Year, Knew YOU!
Student Venture Showcase (March 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82123 82123-21036716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

An evening of promising student projects and ventures looking to highlight their ideas and recruit new members. 14 hand-selected projects and ventures will have 6 minutes to present their ideas and answer audience questions.

This is a must attend event for those looking to network with other student entrepreneurs or to join a team. RSVP at bit.ly/ENTRshowcase

Featured Student Ventures
Drone Autonomy
EQuity Social Venture
CLOVO Brand
RoadEye
BreezeBubble
Blakbord
Swahili
Slide
Autonomous Wagon
The Future Company
Make Fashion Clean
Neo
Wander
GastroKnowMi

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:12:09 -0500 2021-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Social / Informal Gathering Student Venture Showcase
Wolverine Feud (March 5, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82402 82402-21092285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Big Ticket Productions / UAC, CCI and Tech Shop (Provided by ITS) are so excited to announce our SECOND Wolverine Feud!
A spin-off of the classic game show Family Feud, this virtual tournament will have you working together with 3-5 friends to guess the answers to survey questions from the University of Michigan community. Every member of the ultimate winning team winning a pair of their choice of AirPods Pro, Powerbeats Pro, or Bose SoundSport Wireless Earbuds!
The event will take place on March 5th at 6pm over Zoom.

Sign ups are closed! We'll be streaming the competition live at: https://www.twitch.tv/bigticketproductions

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Recreational / Games Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:49:45 -0500 2021-03-05T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Recreational / Games Wolverine Feud
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 6, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-06T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 6, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-06T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 7, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-07T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 8, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-08T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor
Become a UROP Spring Symposium Judge (March 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82064 82064-21014692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Provide your expertise during the 2021 Virtual Spring Research Symposium on April 22nd. UROP is looking for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff who are interested in awarding undergraduate researchers with a blue ribbon honors for their UROP presentation during symposium.

Become a UROP Symposium judge at: https://myumi.ch/ovPb9

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:32:12 -0400 2021-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Spring Symposium Judge - Blue Ribbon Award
Write-Togethers (March 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75828 75828-20562765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

More information available at
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Other Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:27 -0500 2021-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Other
MIDAS Seminar Series and Michigan AI Initiative Co-Present: Heng Ji, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (March 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81082 81082-20846538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

To combat COVID-19, clinicians and scientists all need to digest the vast amount of relevant biomedical knowledge in literature to understand the disease mechanism and the related biological functions. The first challenge is quantity. For example, nearly 2.7K new papers are published at PubMed per day. This knowledge bottleneck causes significant delay in the development of vaccines and drugs for COVID-19. The second challenge is quality due to the rise and rapid, extensive publications of preprint manuscripts without pre-publication peer review. Many research results about coronavirus from different research labs and sources are redundant, complementary or event conflicting with each other.

Let’s consider drug repurposing as a case study. Besides the long process of clinical trial and biomedical experiments, another major cause for the long process is the complexity of the problem involved and the difficulty in drug discovery in general. The current clinical trials for drug re-purposing mainly rely on symptoms by considering drugs that can treat diseases with similar symptoms. However, there are too many drug candidates and too much misinformation published from multiple sources. In addition to a ranked list of drugs, clinicians and scientists also aim to gain new insights into the underlying molecular cellular mechanisms on Covid-19, and which pre-existing conditions may affect the mortality and severity of this disease.

To tackle these two challenges, we have developed a novel and comprehensive knowledge discovery framework, COVID-KG, to accelerate scientific discovery and build a bridge between clinicians and biology scientists. COVID-KG starts by reading existing papers to build multimedia knowledge graphs (KGs), in which nodes are entities/concepts and edges represent relations involving these entities, extracted from both text and images. Given the KGs enriched with path ranking and evidence mining, COVID-KG answers natural language questions effectively. Using drug repurposing as a case study, for 11 typical questions that human experts aim to explore, we integrate our techniques to generate a comprehensive report for each candidate drug. Preliminary assessment by expert clinicians and medical school students show our generated reports are informative and sound. I will also talk about our ongoing work to extend this framework to other domains including molecular synthesis and agriculture.

Bio:

Heng Ji is a professor at Computer Science Department, and an affiliated faculty member at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an Amazon Scholar. She received her B.A. and M. A. in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Her research interests focus on Natural Language Processing, especially on Multimedia Multilingual Information Extraction, Knowledge Base Population and Knowledge-driven Generation. She was selected as “Young Scientist” and a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Computing by the World Economic Forum in 2016 and 2017. The awards she received include “AI’s 10 to Watch” Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, NSF CAREER award in 2009, Google Research Award in 2009 and 2014, IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012 and 2014 and Bosch Research Award in 2014-2018, and ACL2020 Best Demo Paper Award. She was invited by the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force and AFRL to join Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030. She is the lead of many multi-institution projects and tasks, including the U.S. ARL projects on information fusion and knowledge networks construction, DARPA DEFT Tinker Bell team and DARPA KAIROS RESIN team. She has coordinated the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She has served as the Program Committee Co-Chair of many conferences including NAACL-HLT2018. She is elected as the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) secretary 2020-2021. Her research has been widely supported by the U.S. government agencies (DARPA, ARL, IARPA, NSF, AFRL, DHS) and industry (Amazon, Google, Bosch, IBM, Disney).

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Presentation Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:32:08 -0500 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Heng Li
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Become a UROP Summer Research Mentor (March 9, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82262 82262-21060598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Summer research mentors will collaborate with UROP students participating in 10-week full time Summer Fellowships.

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Other Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:33 -0400 2021-03-09T07:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Become a UROP Mentor