Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. DISC Distinguished Lecture. Pulling the Past into the Present: Curating Islamic Art in a Changing World (April 15, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77889 77889-19939587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Free and open to the public; register at https://myumi.ch/gjQWq

This year's DISC Distinguished Lecture is the keynote for the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) 2021 Symposium.
https://lsa.umich.edu/histart/hiaa-symposium.html

Demographic and social change presents museums with challenges at various levels. Islam has become a core reference in public discourse, which often also affects, in important ways, views of collective identity and personal political stances. The dominant place of Islam in global debate does not stop at the doors of our museums. The main argument of this presentation is that exhibitions of Islamic art are, whether we like it or not, sites of identity negotiation where relations to ‘me and my world’ are established. Consequentially we could do better to provide visitors with the tools to make the galleries useful to them.

This talk will take a closer look at the concept of culture underlying exhibition spaces and identity formation with regard to ‘Islam.’ In what ways do the social dynamics surrounding the subject of Islam function, and how do these impact museum spaces? What role do museums have in these emerging dynamics? And how do curators respond to the shifting needs of visitors? The classical layout and communication strategies of Islamic art collections were often insufficiently framed to address these layered concerns, despite curators’ knowledge of the rich diversity of Islamicate histories. Thus two main topics will be addressed here: why do we in museums present art, material culture and archaeology of premodern Islamicate societies as detached from transregional and multi-layered networks in closed culturalistic circles, while in research we, hopefully, go beyond these limitations. And why, in exhibitions do we still face enormous challenges in enabling visitors to explore the contents and contexts of our objects through various access points? In many cases we fail institutionally in our efforts to awaken the interest and imaginary power in museum visitors.

During the last few years, different curatorial teams nevertheless have strived to discover better techniques and narratives to convey this timely diversity. The Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin hosts one such team, and I will discuss some successful—and some less successful—examples of experimentation on the ground from the past few years.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:04:06 -0400 2021-04-15T12:15:00-04:00 2021-04-15T13:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
MAS Lecture | The Prehistory of Jackson County, Michigan (April 15, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83549 83549-21420822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Dan Wymer, vice president of the Michigan Archaeological Society, will speak about his lifelong interest in the prehistory of Jackson County, where he has unearthed thousands of artifacts spanning 10,000 years. Dan’s talk will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the area’s past and will provide information for those who are interested in joining him for a chapter-sponsored archaeological excavation later in April. The dig will have a 20-person limit and is restricted to MAS members; members of the Huron Valley Chapter will be first in line.

Join the Zoom meeting:
Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99867098266
Call-in number if the link is not working:
+1 (646) 876-9923 w/ passcode 99867098266#

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit http://www.miarch.org/

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 11:31:07 -0400 2021-04-15T19:30:00-04:00 2021-04-15T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual prehistoric arrowheads
RNA Seminar featuring: Jailson (Jay) Brito Querido, Ph.D. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK (April 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81408 81408-20893767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_78YYOhIhTbOBy2_JSdM7Wg

ABSTRACT: A key step in translational initiation is the recruitment of the 43S pre-initiation complex (43S PIC) by the cap-binding complex (eIF4F) at the 5´ end of mRNA. Eukaryotic initiation factors eIF1, eIF1A, eIF3, eIF5, and the ternary complex (TC) of eIF2–GTP–tRNAiMet bind to the 40S ribosomal subunit to form the 43S PIC. Once assembled, the 43S PIC is recruited to the cap-binding complex eIF4F at the 5´end of mRNA to form a 48S initiation complex (48S). The 48S then scans along the mRNA to locate a start codon. To understand the mechanisms involved, we determined the structure of a reconstituted human 48S using cryo-electron microscopy. The structure reveals insights into early events of translation initiation complex assembly. It reveals how eIF4F interacts with subunits of the eIF3 structural core near the mRNA exit channel in the 43S. The location of eIF4F is consistent with a slotting model of mRNA recruitment and suggests a “blind-region” that would preclude recognition of start sites upstream of the location of the P site at the point of recruitment.

KEYWORDS: mRNA, ribosome, eIF4F, eIF4A, translation

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:58:40 -0400 2021-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Jailson (Jay) Brito Querido, Ph.D.
Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit (April 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83634 83634-21446267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Join us on Zoom as we discuss 'Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality and Health in Detroit' featuring Angela Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation), Stuart Batterman (Environmental Health Sciences, UM SPH), and Amy Schulz (Health Behavior & Health Education, UM SPH). (Rescheduled from Feb 9.)

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96155698295

Webinar series organized by the Community Engagement Core and the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD). Co-sponsored by the DEI Committee of Health Behavior & Health Education and the DEI Committee of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:08:12 -0400 2021-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments in Detroit
GPASS Event. The Bioarchaeology of the Lower Rio Verde, Oaxaca, Mexico (April 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83795 83795-21532311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Link to the event: https://wccnet-edu.zoom.us/s/89151954844
Passcode 09255

Arion T. Mayes is a professor of biological anthropology at San Diego State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2001. She is a Research Associate with the New York African Burial Ground and the San Diego Museum of Man. Her work entails both national and international fieldwork in Oklahoma, California, and Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as the revitalization of unstudied museum collections. Her research in bioarchaeology and dental anthropology focuses on the effect of subsistence strategies on population health with an emphasis on transitional dietary regimes, and population variation as evidenced through morphological change, occupational stress, and disease processes. As one of the earliest regions of independent domestication of plants in the world, Oaxaca allows for temporally extensive studies of biocultural adaptations and the biological history of a region. She has authored several articles and one book chapter regarding the early people of the lower Rio Verde of Oaxaca, as well several articles on population and dental variation in New World populations. Dr. Mayes has received and participated in research grants and awards including the National Geographic Society, SDSU University Grants Program, NSF, and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

The Global Project in Applied Social Sciences (GPASS) is a collaboration between area studies centers at the International Institute and Washtenaw Community College with the goal of developing new curriculum related to applied social sciences through global studies content. Participating area studies centers are: the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This project is funded in part by three Title VI National Resource Center Grants from the US Department of Education.

Co-sponsors:
Washtenaw Community College
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:26:05 -0400 2021-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual Event image
102 Years of Local Food: the past, present, and future of the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market (April 21, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79827 79827-20507634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

As much of Ann Arbor has become unrecognizable to long-time residents, the Ann Arbor Farmers Market is a mainstay, both as a provider of local produce and products and a gathering space. Learn about the history of the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market, how the global pandemic has impacted operations, and how we plan on bringing this vibrant market and community space into the future.

Presenter Stefanie T. Stauffer, PhD has been the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market Manager since May 2020, bringing 12 years of local food expertise to the role. She is the former Program Manager of Tilian Farm Development Center, a now defunct incubator for beginning farmers in Ann Arbor Township. She has also taught the Sociology of Race and Ethnic Relations at Washtenaw Community College since 2015, with an emphasis on food sovereignty and environmental justice movements. As a veteran Ypsilanti Farmer’s Markets vendor who sells her products at Argus Farm Stop and to local restaurants as well, she has been feeding our community since 2010 as Nightshade Farm. She is also a board member of Growing Hope, a former Greenbelt Advisory Commissioner, and a former board member of the Ypsilanti Food Cooperative. As a farmer, farmer’s market vendor, educator, activist, and beginning farmer mentor, she has been deeply rooted in our local food system since her dissertation project on sustainable agriculture brought her back to Michigan in 2008.

In 2014, she traveled to Slow Food International’s Salone del Gusto e Terra Madre in Torino, Italy as a US delegate representing Southeast Michigan family farmers, food artisans, and Slow Food Ark of Taste producers.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the presentation will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 10 Dec 2020 07:10:54 -0500 2021-04-21T15:30:00-04:00 2021-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
AIA Lecture | Rediscovering Napata—Capital City of Ancient Kush (April 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83771 83771-21501088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Napata (modern Jebel Barkal), located on the Middle Nile in what is now northern Sudan, was an urban center for nearly 2,000 years, at least 1500 BCE to 250 CE. While earlier generations of research at the site focused on the monumental pyramids, temples, and palaces that are its most visible remains, a new project at the site aims to reconceptualize these scattered monuments as parts of an ancient city. Magnetometry and test excavation in 2019 and 2020 have identified a previously unrecognized area of settlement (a "lost city") and begin to allow us to evaluate the local environment and economy.

This lecture is presented by the Archaeological Institute of America, Southern Nevada chapter.

For more information, go to:
https://www.archaeological.org/event/rediscovering-napata-capital-city-of-ancient-kush/

If you are unable to attend this lecture, Geoff Emberling will be giving a similar lecture on May 14 at 7:00 p.m. For more details, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/news-events/all-events.detail.html/83772-21501089.html

A recording of this lecture will be freely available for a limited time. If you would like to receive an email with a link to the recording after the talk, please email Geoff Emberling at geoffe@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:24:54 -0400 2021-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Jebel Barkal
Special Joint Seminar between DCMB, Mathematics, MIDAS, and Smale Institute (April 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83615 83615-21491327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

The quest to understand consciousness, once the purview of philosophers and theologians, is now actively pursued by scientists of many stripes. This talk looks at consciousness from the perspective of theoretical computer science. It formalizes the Global Workspace Theory (GWT) originated by cognitive neuroscientist Bernard Baars and further developed by him, Stanislas Dehaene, and others. Our major contribution lies in the precise formal definition of a Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), also called a Conscious AI. We define the CTM in the spirit of Alan Turing’s simple yet powerful definition of a computer, the Turing Machine (TM). We are not looking for a complex model of the brain nor of cognition but for a simple model of (the admittedly complex concept of) consciousness. After formally defining CTM, we give a formal definition of consciousness in CTM. We then suggest why the CTM has the feeling of consciousness. The reasonableness of the definitions and explanations can be judged by how well they agree with commonly accepted intuitive concepts of human consciousness, the range of related concepts that the model explains easily and naturally, and the extent of its agreement with scientific evidence.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/95135773568

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:17:45 -0400 2021-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
The Boston Massacre: A Family History (April 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83424 83424-21377655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The story of the Boston Massacre is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, most accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British troops as they are dispatched from Ireland to Boston in 1768 to subdue the increasingly rebellious colonists. She reveals a forgotten world hidden in plain sight: the many regimental wives and children who accompanied the armies. We see these families jostling with Bostonians for living space, finding common cause in the search for a lost child, trading barbs, and sharing baptisms. When soldiers shot unarmed citizens in the street, it was these intensely human and now broken bonds that fueled what quickly became a bitterly fought American Revolution.

Serena Zabin’s book "The Boston Massacre: A Family History" was awarded the 2020 Book of the Year Prize from the Journal of the American Revolution. She is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Carleton College.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:17:29 -0400 2021-04-22T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Book Cover, "The Boston Massacre: A Family History"
U-M Structure Seminar: "Structure and substrate selection of Saccharomyces cerevisiae pseudouridine synthase 7" (April 23, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76221 76221-19677550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Meredith Purchal
Graduate Student
Markos Koutmos Lab
University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Apr 2021 10:25:40 -0400 2021-04-23T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Structural Biology Livestream / Virtual UM Structure Seminars
20th Annual James V. Neel Lectureship (April 23, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83872 83872-21561727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GENETICS - 20TH ANNUAL JAMES V. NEEL LECTURESHIP

“Remembrance of Things Past: Reactivation of Fetal Hemoglobin for Therapy.”

Presented by:
Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.
David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Harvard Medical School

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2021
12:00PM - 3:00PM EST
Zoom Meeting ID: 983 1136 4189
Zoom Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98311364189

Sponsored by:
The Department of Human Genetics
University of Michigan Medical School
Event Website: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/human-genetics/events/202105/20th-annual-james-v-neel-lectureship

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:02:42 -0400 2021-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion 2021 JAMES V. NEEL LECTURESHIP FLYER
IISS Lecture Series. A Spiderweb Story: The Faint but Numerous Strands of an Interconnected Middle Ages in Varqa & Golshah (April 23, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83578 83578-21430606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar is pleased to announce a new public lecture "A Spiderweb Story: The Faint but Numerous Strands of an Interconnected Middle Ages in Varqa & Golshah" with Professor Cameron Cross on April 23 at 1:00-2:30 PM.

The Abstract:

The story of Varqa and Golshah, the oldest extant romance in the New Persian language, offers a fascinating glimpse into the interconnected literary histories of the Middle East. At first glance, the poem is evidently an adaptation of a well-known love-story within the Arabic literature of the Abbasid period, but the story quickly gets more complicated. By looking at the internal development of the narrative within the Arabic corpus, we can trace the gradual accretion of "romance" motifs to its plot, bringing it closer within the generic worlds of (parts of) the Thousand and One Nights and Persian love-stories like Bizhan and Manizheh. These same motifs, however, point at a deeper layer of thematic interconnectivity, namely the long accounts of love and adventure written in Greek in the first to fifth centuries CE. The adaptation of Varqa and Golshah into Persian, then, suggests not a "beginning" but a "re-beginning" of romance in the eleventh century, a continuation of Hellenistic models in dialogue with Arabic and Iranian traditions. In fact, the most notable innovation in the Persian tale is not the addition of romance but of epic, with extended battles interposed between the scenes of courtship and separation. These battle scenes, along with the "surprise" ending of a resurrection and mass conversion, bring the romance squarely into the fold of political and sacred history. In this regard, the romance finds a close analogue in one of the earliest and most widely translated romances of the Byzantine and Western European cultural blocs, Floris and Blancheflor. The structural and motival similarities between these two narratives not only point to a common set of literary practices, due to their shared Hellenistic heritage, but also to a certain convergence of historical factors in the eleventh and especially the thirteenth century, an era of intense transregional exchange through trade, pilgrimage, and holy war. Like a spiderweb viewed in the right light, Varqa and Golshah illuminates these many strands, faint but strong, that connect the histories of the Middle East and Mediterranean world.

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qd-uprjsuHtxNIsfTOnqZn4pk8xzGgD0h

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:05:50 -0400 2021-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (April 23, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79801 79801-20499790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join Katherine Nelson of the Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and walk through an interactive slideshow presentation of the Federal Reserve. Among the areas covered by the tour are the following:
• The Federal Reserve System’s history and structure.
• The Fed’s dual mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices.
• The Fed’s role in financial regulation, payment systems and monetary policy.
• The Fed’s actions in response to the economic downturn caused by COVID-19.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the virtual tour will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:50:54 -0500 2021-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Stress and Health in Context: The Role of Negative Relationships (April 28, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83765 83765-21501085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Stress and Health in Context: The Role of Negative Relationships
Wednesday, April 28, 1pm EDT: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98477632981

A burgeoning literature shows social ties are integral for health and survival. Kira Birditt‘s program of research focuses on negative aspects of relationships including the extent to which they are irritating, critical, or demanding. In this talk she will discuss the findings from her program of research showing that: 1) There is a great deal of variability in negative aspects of relationships within and between individuals, 2) Negative aspects of relationships have important implications for health that often vary by the context of stress, and 3) The implications of relationships and stress vary race/ethnicity. She will also discuss the Aging and Biopsychosocial Innovations program that she leads and directions for future research.

Kira Birditt earned a PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from Pennsylvania State University and B.A. and M.S. degrees in Psychology from Western Washington University. She serves as a Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center and the Director of the Aging and Biopsychosocial Innovations Program. She is currently PI on three R01 projects funded by NIA examining: 1) racial health disparities in stress, social ties and health, 2) racial inequities in health among Alzheimer’s caregivers, and 3) alcohol use and cardiovascular health among aging couples.

This webinar is part of a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu. This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:59:00 -0400 2021-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-28T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
RNA Seminar featuring: Olivia Rissland, University of Colorado School of Medicine (May 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81302 81302-20881902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vA9zYS5nSEenf8Zmt1f-qA


ABSTRACT: The maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT) is a conserved step in animal development, where control is passed from the maternal to the zygotic genome. Although the MZT is typically considered from its impact on the transcriptome, we previously found that three maternally deposited Drosophila RNA binding proteins (ME31B, Trailer Hitch [TRAL], and Cup) are also cleared during the MZT by unknown mechanisms. Here, we show that these proteins are degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Marie Kondo, an E2 conjugating enzyme, and the E3 CTLH ligase are required for the destruction of ME31B, TRAL, and Cup. Structure modeling of the Drosophila CTLH complex suggests that substrate recognition is different than orthologous complexes. Despite occurring hours earlier, egg activation mediates clearance of these proteins through the Pan Gu kinase, which stimulates translation of Kondo mRNA. Clearance of the maternal protein dowry thus appears to be a coordinated, but as-yet underappreciated, aspect of the MZT.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Apr 2021 16:07:11 -0400 2021-05-03T16:00:00-04:00 2021-05-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Olivia Rissland, Ph.D.
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century (May 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83554 83554-21422778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies—daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses—enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images that advanced campaigns for black rights.

In this talk based on his book "Visualizing Identity," (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James Presley Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for racial equality, black political leadership, and freedom from slavery. Moreover, these activist artists’ networks of transatlantic patronage and travels to Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa reveal their extensive involvement in the most pressing concerns for black people in the Atlantic world. Their work demonstrates how images became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics during the 19th century.

Register at myumi.ch/0WEk3

Aston Gonzalez is a historian of African American culture and politics during the long 19th century. He is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University. Gonzalez earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:51:18 -0400 2021-05-05T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Visualizing Equality Book Cover
U-M Structure Seminar: "Investigation of RNA 3D Structure & Small Molecule Interactions by a Multidisciplinary Approach" (May 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77785 77785-19931610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Elizabeth Tidwell
Graduate Student
Koutmos Lab
University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:28:36 -0400 2021-05-07T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-07T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Structural Biology Livestream / Virtual UM Structure Seminars
Flash Talk | Fragmentation and Fragility at the Origins of Rome (and Other Iron Age Italian States) (May 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83425 83425-21375697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Archaeology is radically changing our understanding of the origins of Rome (and other Iron Age Italian states). The highly centralized foundation narratives based on the written sources are being replaced by a picture of fragmentation, in which elite groups diffidently came to live together on future city sites. State institutions developed only very slowly and tentatively, and frequently fell apart.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students who discuss their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94856640990
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:01:52 -0400 2021-05-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-07T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual early Italian statuette
Beyond the Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Changes in Education (May 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83937 83937-21619168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Beyond the Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Changes in Education
Wednesday, May 12 at 1pm EDT
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96351558688

At the end of the school year in 2020 parents, educators, and researchers, wondered how to deal with the “COVID slide” related to achievement and gains in learning due to schools shifting to virtual learning across the country. What we did not know at the time is that many schools would struggle to open at all in the Fall of 2020 and online and remote learning would continue to be one of the primary ways that children were educated for the rest of the 2020-21 school year. Today, the question remains: What will parents, educators, and researchers need to consider regarding achievement and learning gains as children are likely to return to in-person schooling in Fall 2021? Dr. Pamela Davis-Kean will discuss her research on how homeschooling was discussed on social media, the issues related to “holding back” or repeating a grade in primary school, and how new proposed policies for free community college may be important for helping those in secondary education get extra time to develop skills for entry into a four-year college.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:44:15 -0400 2021-05-12T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Lagranian Control at Large and Local Scales in Mixed Autonomy Traffic Flows (May 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83812 83812-21538223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns this May with Professor Alexandre Bayen, the Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley! This talk investigates Lagrangian (mobile) control of traffic flow at local scale (vehicular level), and how self-driving vehicles will change traffic flow patterns. Professor Bayen describes approaches based on deep, reinforcement learning presented in the context of enabling mixed-autonomy mobility. This lecture also explores the gradual and complex integration of automated vehicles into the existing traffic system. Attendees will learn the potential impact of a small fraction of automated vehicles on low-level traffic flow dynamics, using novel techniques in model-free, deep reinforcement learning, in which the automated vehicles act as mobile (Lagrangian) controllers to traffic flow.

Illustrative examples will be presented in the context of a new, open-source computational platform called FLOW, which integrates state-of-the-art microsimulation tools with deep-RL libraries on AWS EC2. Interesting behavior of mixed autonomy traffic will be revealed in the context of emergent behavior of traffic: https://flow-project.github.io/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:42:19 -0400 2021-05-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
AIA Lecture | The Rise and Fall of Napata, an Ancient City along the Nile (May 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83772 83772-21501089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Napata (modern Jebel Barkal), located on the Middle Nile in what is now northern Sudan, was an urban center for nearly 2,000 years, at least 1500 BCE to 250 CE. While earlier generations of research at the site focused on the monumental pyramids, temples, and palaces that are its most visible remains, a new project at the site aims to reconceptualize these scattered monuments as parts of an ancient city. Magnetometry and test excavation in 2019 and 2020 have identified a previously unrecognized area of settlement (a "lost city") and begin to allow us to evaluate the local environment and economy.

This lecture is presented by the Archaeological Institute of America-Toledo Society, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Toledo.

For more information, go to:
https://www.toledomuseum.org/visit/events

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 10 May 2021 10:54:40 -0400 2021-05-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Jebel Barkal
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
RNA Seminar featuring: Thomas Martinez, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (May 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81303 81303-20881903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_90RkcQTGQZa7ifQ8kbSdNQ

KEYOWORDS: microprotein, smORF, ribosome profiling

ABSTRACT: Functional protein-coding small open reading frames (smORFs) are emerging as an important class of genes. Several smORF-encoded microproteins have been characterized and implicated in a variety of critical processes, including regulation of mRNA decay, DNA repair, and muscle formation. Thus, rigorous and comprehensive annotation of protein-coding smORFs is critical to our understanding of basic biology and physiology, as well as disease. We recently developed an improved workflow that integrates de novo transcriptome assembly and ribosome profiling to overcome obstacles with previous methods to more confidently annotate thousands of novel smORFs across multiple human cell lines, including hundreds encoded on putative non-coding RNAs. Over 1,500 smORFs are found in two or more cell lines, and ~40% lack a canonical AUG start codon. Evolutionary conservation analyses suggest that hundreds of smORF-encoded microproteins are likely functional. We also find that smORF-derived peptides are detectable on human leukocyte antigen complexes, positioning smORFs as a source of novel antigens. The annotation of protein-coding smORFs radically alters the current view of the human genome’s coding capacity and will provide a rich pool of unexplored, functional human genes.

BIO: Thomas received his B.S. in Biological Engineering from MIT and trained in Prof. JoAnne Stubbe’s laboratory, where he studied the mechanism of ribonucleotide reductase. He then recieved his Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics from Caltech as an NIH NRSA predoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Prof. Peter Dervan. His thesis work focused primarily on characterizing the effects of DNA binding pyrrole-imidazole polyamides on DNA replication in prostate cancer cells. Thomas is currently an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Alan Saghatelian’s laboratory, where he has developed an integrative platform combining ribosome profiling and de novo transcriptome assembly to discover functional smORF encoded microproteins in the human genome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:39:54 -0400 2021-05-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-05-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Thomas Martinez, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
A Band for all Ages (May 19, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79828 79828-20507635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Little Bands Music School is an innovative music program in which students learn music from a constructivist perspective. The program serves all ages including children as young as four and adults.

The foundation of the program is the multi-instrumental band program. Students join a 5-piece band. The instrumentation of the band is piano, guitar, bass, drums and voice. Students follow a detailed curriculum of songs and compose their own songs. Every student learns every song on every instrument. This method is designed to facilitate an environment in which students understand music from different perspectives, learn to collaborate, and experience what goes into a piece of music and how to compose their own music.

Teachers in Little Bands School work with private students and students in public and private schools in Southeast Michigan. We particularly love helping people who have always wanted to play an instrument and never had the chance.

Presenter Joshua Grekin is a musician and educator with experience teaching all ages and genres. Trained as a jazz trumpet player, he is also proficient on piano, guitar, bass, drums, and other orchestral instruments. Joshua has a BA in music from the Berklee College of Music, a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music and is currently finishing his PhD at Oakland University.

He is the creator and director of the Little Bands School, a tech-enabled music education program which offers a unique and innovative K-12 instrumental curriculum. A songwriter as well, Joshua writes music for musicals, film, commercials, bands, and the Little Bands School curriculum.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the presentation will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 10 Dec 2020 07:15:03 -0500 2021-05-19T15:30:00-04:00 2021-05-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
MAS Lecture | How to Find a Lost French Fort (and What to Do with It Once You Do) (May 20, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84035 84035-21619628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

When archaeologists from Western Michigan University first discovered Fort St. Joseph in 1998, they had no idea that the site would consume their efforts for more than two decades. Archaeological investigations, interpretations, and public involvement demonstrate that the site contains important information of broad interest to students, professionals, and history enthusiasts alike. In this presentation, the principal investigator, Michael S. Nassaney, discusses how the team located and excavated Fort St. Joseph, what they learned, and the need for partnerships to sustain Michigan's archaeological heritage for future generations.

Join us for a live Zoom lecture followed by Q&A.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91923584822
Passcode: MASHVC

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit miarch.org.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 12 May 2021 11:52:42 -0400 2021-05-20T19:30:00-04:00 2021-05-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Artist's rendition of how Fort St. Joseph may have appeared
Big Hearted Stories: Generations (May 27, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84133 84133-21620373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 27, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Big Hearts for Seniors will present Big Hearted Stories: Generations, a free (donations welcome) virtual event. This engaging program will provide a platform for talented local storytellers to share their heart-warming, true-life experiences. These compelling stories will bring laughter, inspiration, and maybe even a few tears. Special guests include emcee Vic Strecher, Ph.D. MPH, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education in the U-M School of Public Health, and former University of Michigan Men’s Basketball Head Coach John Beilein.

Other speakers include: Tuyishime Claire Gasamagera; Margarita Gurri, CSP; Jerry Lemenu; and Tyler Phillips, all gifted storytellers.

BHS is comprised of five community-supported programs of Michigan Medicine that serve older adults. Together, Ann Arbor Meals on Wheels, Housing Bureau for Seniors, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Silver Club Memory Programs, and the Turner Senior Wellness Program help seniors seeking access to home-delivered meals, sustainable housing options, support to remain independent, learning in retirement opportunities, relief from social isolation, and programs for those with dementia. All funds raised during the event are used to provide needed services to older adults.

Registration is required for this event. Please visit the Michigan Medicine website: https://friends.umich.edu/site/Ecommerce;jsessionid=00000000.app206a?store_id=3081&NONCE_TOKEN=450A05C5E823AB55B647EA76067F3A5B to register and for more details about this event.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 26 May 2021 09:03:21 -0400 2021-05-27T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Event
Alden B. Dow and Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Southeast Michigan (May 28, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79800 79800-20499789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 28, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This presentation by Craig McDonald, Director of the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio and the Foundation Representative of the Alden and Vada Dow Family Foundations, will focus on Dow’s architectural achievements in southeast Michigan, including Ann Arbor.

Dow was the architect of Ann Arbor’s City Hall, Downtown Public Library, and the UM Administration Building. When OLLI resumes in-person travel, we look forward to scheduling a day trip to Midland to view, first hand, Dow’s home, studio, and gardens and other architectural accomplishments in Midland.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the virtual tour will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:48:26 -0500 2021-05-28T15:00:00-04:00 2021-05-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Flash Talk | What is Kawara and Why Was It Important in Human Subsistence in Ancient Egypt? (June 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84005 84005-21619374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In science and archaeology, we make assumptions to help us begin to interpret the scattered evidence of the past. But re-examining these assumptions can often reveal something new. In this talk, Richard Redding discusses how, in re-examining his own assumptions, he uncovered new insights into the diet of laborers at Giza in ancient Egypt.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96551052011
Meeting ID: 965 5105 2011
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:07:20 -0400 2021-06-04T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-04T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Richard Redding enjoying a bowl of kawara.
Cybersecurity: Personal, Corporate and Governmental Risk and Strategies for Addressing Vulnerabilities (June 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84134 84134-21620374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

News of extensive Russian hacking of a number of U.S. government agencies and major corporations broke recently, prompting many questions about the strength of our cybersecurity. Why was the Russian hacking not detected by any of the government agencies that have cybersecurity roles? Is our reliance on private companies for our nation’s cybersecurity strategy appropriate, or does this pose a vulnerability?

Our speaker, Kristin Judge, is founder of the nonprofit Cybercrime Support Network. The Cybercrime Support Network works with federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies to help consumers and small businesses affected by cybercrime.

Ms. Judge’s extensive background includes her role as Director of Government Affairs at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) where she worked with Google, FTC, FBI, SBA, DHS, NIST, congressional leaders and other key stakeholders across the country to educate consumers and businesses on how to protect sensitive data.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you a few days prior to the first lecture.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 26 May 2021 09:05:02 -0400 2021-06-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Urgent and Critical Issues
The Unexpected Power of Selflessness: Giving back for Father’s Day (June 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84075 84075-21619817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

What if your path to a more successful, healthy, and satisfying life is actually not about you?

Seven years ago, Richard Lui walked into his supervisor’s office at NBC’s 30 Rock headquarters, prepared to give up his dream news anchor job. Having just learned of his father’s Alzheimer’s, the journalist wanted to be with him during his important last years, even if it meant setting aside his career. Lui reduced his work hours and joined 53 million Americans in becoming a family caregiver. His book, Enough About Me, is inspired by that decision to live to take care of someone else.

As we look toward celebrating Father’s Day soon, we invite you to join us for this heartfelt fireside chat hosted by Julia Lee Cunningham, where Lui shares how one of the big ideas of our time is more in reach than we thought. How small choices toward selflessness are not a compromise. And as we celebrate the love and learnings that fathers and father figures contribute to our lives, Father’s Day can also be a day for everyone to show that choice by choice, step by step, we can do something bigger than ourselves.

About Lui
Author Richard Lui is a veteran and award-winning journalist with more than 30 years in television, film, technology, and business. Currently at MSNBC and previously with CNN Worldwide, he is the first Asian American man to anchor a daily national cable news program, and a team Emmy and Peabody winner. He has just completed an Oscars Qualifying documentary on student caregivers in military families that will hit national broadcast and mainstream streaming in late spring 2021. In addition, Richard’s 15-year business career involves a fintech patent and launching six tech brands over three business cycles. Richard has lived, worked, and volunteered on every continent.

Host
Julia Lee Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Michigan Ross

Free, registration required to obtain login information: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/2021-summer-series-registration-richard-lui/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 May 2021 16:40:03 -0400 2021-06-08T14:00:00-04:00 2021-06-08T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual 2021 Summer Series with Richard Lui
Safety Assessment of Autonomous Vehicles with a Naturalistic and Adversarial Driving Environment (June 9, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84039 84039-21619637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Safety performance testing is critical to the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs). The prevailing approach life-like simulations of our driving environment. However, due to its high dimensionality and the rareness of safety-critical events, hundreds of millions of miles would be required to demonstrate an AV's safety performance.

The research in this presentation proposes a naturalistic and adversarial driving environment that can significantly reduce the required number of miles driven while simultaneously maintaining unbiasedness. Drs. Henry Liu and Shuo Feng will demonstrate the effectiveness of this in a highway-driving simulation.

Learn more about the proposed research: https://myumi.ch/BoQ2Q

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About the speakers:
Dr. Henry Liu is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), and the Director for the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). Professor Liu conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of transportation engineering, automotive engineering, and artificial intelligence. Specifically, his scholarly interests concern traffic flow monitoring, modeling, and control, as well as testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). He has published more than 120 refereed journal papers on these topics and his work has been widely recognized in the public media for promoting smart transportation innovations. He has appeared on media outlets including CNBC, Forbes, Technode, and more. In 2019, Professor Liu was invited to testify on the nation's transportation research agenda in front of the US House Subcommittee on Research and Technology. Professor Liu has nurtured a new generation of scholars, and some of his Ph.D. students and postdocs have joined first-class universities such as Columbia, Purdue, and RPI. Professor Liu is also the managing editor of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Dr. Shuo Feng is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, China, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan from 2017 to 2019. His research interests lie in the testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), cooperative automation, and traffic environment modeling. Dr. Feng has published around 20 articles in refereed journals including Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. He has served as a member in the SAE ORAD V&V committee and workshop organizer of the IEEE 2021 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. He received the “Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award” from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) in 2020.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 13:32:49 -0400 2021-06-09T13:00:00-04:00 2021-06-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image of the CCAT Research Review which features the speaker's headshots
No Food for Thought: Food Insecurity and Health Outcomes Across the Life Course (June 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84138 84138-21620430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Food insecurity has been a persistent social and health concern in the U.S. for the past several decades. This presentation will discuss the negative health outcomes associated with food insecurity for various populations across the life course, how national food insecurity has changed as a result of the COVID pandemic, and how our food assistance programs have responded to alleviating food insecurity at the national level.

Our speaker Dr. Cindy Leung, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences, is a nutrition epidemiologist at U of M School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the experience of food insecurity and its negative influence on health. She is especially interested in using this research to inform the development of federal programs and policies to help alleviate food insecurity and promote good health for vulnerable populations. Dr. Leung earned her M.P.H. from UC Berkeley and her Sc.D. in Nutrition and Epidemiology from Harvard University.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone (734-998-9351). A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you a few days prior to the lecture.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 May 2021 09:45:01 -0400 2021-06-10T10:00:00-04:00 2021-06-10T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Thursday Lectures
RNA Innovation Seminar featuring Rising Scholars: Khan & McMillan (June 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83934 83934-21619166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uLz-ONHVQPuRINMYUNvBJQ

“CCR5 as a model to examine reporter assays in evaluating translational phenomena”
Yousuf Khan
Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Stanford University

KEYWORDS: dual luciferase, frameshifting, recoding, CCR5
ABSTRACT: During the decoding of a subset of mRNAs, a proportion of ribosomes productively shift to the −1 reading frame at specific slippage-prone sites in a phenomenon known as programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting (−1 PRF) to generate a frameshifted, C-terminally unique protein. The first experimentally verified occurrence of functionally utilized non-retroelement derived −1 PRF in humans has been reported in the mRNA encoding the immune-functioning C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5). Here, we show that frameshifting does not occur during CCR5 decoding. Apart from its importance in understanding expression of a gene relevant to cancer, an HIV-1 receptor (and the associated claimed rationale for generating the first humans derived from genetically modified embryos), the findings imply that caution is appropriate in assessing results from translational reporter assays.

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“Intersection between RNA methylation and TDP43-mediated toxicity in ALS”
Michael McMillan
Ph.D. candidate
Cellular and Molecular Biology
University of Michigan

KEYWORDS: TDP43, m6A, ALS, RNA stability
ABSTRACT: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease resulting in the death of upper and lower motor neurons. ALS has no known cure and limited therapeutic options, and the underlying pathological mechanisms remain unclear. Despite considerable variability in clinical presentation, over 95% of ALS cases exhibit cytoplasmic inclusions of the RNA binding protein TDP43. Emerging evidence suggests that TDP43 is crucial for RNA stability, and that dysregulation of RNA homeostasis may contribute to ALS pathogenesis.
Methylation of RNA at the 6th position nitrogen (N6-methyladenosine methylation, or m6A) by methyltransferases (writers) or removal of methyl groups by demethylases (erasers) has dramatic effects on RNA stability and translation mediated by a family of RNA biding proteins that recognize methylated RNA (readers). m6A writers and erasers specifically localize to nuclear speckles, membraneless nuclear organelles rich in RNA binding proteins and splicing factors, including TDP43. Together with our data showing that TDP43 regulates RNA stability, these observations suggest that TDP43 may destabilize m6A modified RNA. Here, we show that methylated RNA co-purified with TDP43 from cultured cells via RNA immunoprecipitation, and abrogation of methylation sites disrupted TDP43 binding, suggesting that TDP43 recognizes m6A modified RNA in cellulo. We also noted profound and widespread hypermethylation of coding and non-coding transcripts in ALS spinal cord, many overlapping with confirmed TDP43 target transcripts. Consistent with a central role for m6A modification in TDP43-mediated toxicity, we identified several factors operating within the m6A pathway that enhance or suppress the toxicity of TDP43 in rodent primary cortical neurons via a single-cell CRISPR/Cas9 candidate-based screen. Genetic knockout of the established m6A reader YTHDF2 rescued TDP43 toxicity in primary neurons, and YTHDF2 was also upregulated in ALS postmortem sections. Together, these data imply a fundamental link between m6A RNA modifications and ALS pathogenesis, potentially mediated by TDP43-dependent RNA destabilization.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 May 2021 14:31:45 -0400 2021-06-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Yousuf Khan (Stanford) & Mike McMillan (U-M)
HEARD AROUND TOWN: Michigan Speak (June 16, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79829 79829-20507636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

“Do you say ‘pop’ or ‘soda’ or ‘soft drink’? Do you know what a ‘Michigan left’ is? Did you know ‘Yooper’ is now in some standard dictionaries? Come hear about what is happening to English in Michigan and share the changes you’re hearing in the language.”

Presenter Anne Curzan, dean of LSA at University of Michigan is a trained linguist and studies the history of the English language. She describes herself as a fount of random linguistic information about how English got to be the way it is—information she shares every Sunday on the show “That’s What They Say” on Michigan Public Radio. She has also dedicated one major strand of her career to helping students and the broader public understand linguistic diversity as part of cultural diversity, and language change as a natural part of living languages.

Dr. Curzan has received university awards for outstanding research and undergraduate teaching, including the Henry Russel Award and the John Dewey Award. She is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, and Education.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the presentation will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 10 Dec 2020 07:19:07 -0500 2021-06-16T15:30:00-04:00 2021-06-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
Fair Food Network: Hungry People, Local Farmers, and Vulnerable Communities (June 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84139 84139-21620431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Our speaker, Ms. Kate Krauss, Executive Director of the Fair Food Network (FFN), will provide an overview of FFN’s work toward greater equity in our food economy, increased access to healthy food for everyone, and a more sustainable ecological future. She will describe its Double Up Food Bucks program that matches locally grown, fruit and vegetable purchases up to $20 a day for individuals eligible for SNAP funds (formerly “food stamps”).

The FFN, started in southeastern Michigan in 2009, works with community partners in almost every county in Michigan and has expanded its programs across the US.

Ms. Krauss became Fair Food Network’s (FFN) Executive Director in 2019 after four years as the organization’s COO. Before joining FFN, Kate was Managing Director of Slow Food USA. She recently re-joined Slow Food as a member of its national board of directors. Kate, who has over twenty years of non-profit experience, began her career in television journalism. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone (734-998-9351). A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you a few days prior to the lecture.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 May 2021 09:53:39 -0400 2021-06-17T10:00:00-04:00 2021-06-17T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Thursday Lectures
2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modeling (June 21, 2021 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83965 83965-21619227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 21, 2021 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

ISTDM 2021 aims to gather transportation researchers and practitioners across the globe for exploring the frontiers of big data, modeling, and simulation to advance transportation research to support the connected, cooperative, and automated mobility. With a greater focus on emerging technologies, ISTDM 2021 rebrands the two long-standing transportation symposia: International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS), and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS).

The conference program can be found at https://limos.engin.umich.edu/istdm2021/schedule/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 May 2021 10:27:16 -0400 2021-06-21T08:45:00-04:00 2021-06-21T12:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Banner Image for ISTDM 2021. It features headshots of the keynote speakers
2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modeling (June 22, 2021 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83965 83965-21619228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

ISTDM 2021 aims to gather transportation researchers and practitioners across the globe for exploring the frontiers of big data, modeling, and simulation to advance transportation research to support the connected, cooperative, and automated mobility. With a greater focus on emerging technologies, ISTDM 2021 rebrands the two long-standing transportation symposia: International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS), and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS).

The conference program can be found at https://limos.engin.umich.edu/istdm2021/schedule/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 May 2021 10:27:16 -0400 2021-06-22T08:45:00-04:00 2021-06-22T12:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Banner Image for ISTDM 2021. It features headshots of the keynote speakers
Pandemics and Academics: COVID’s Impact on Women Scholars (June 22, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84279 84279-21621024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) of the Department of Aerospace Engineering is hosting an educational diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) event to gain a deeper understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on women in academia. The event features Dr. Jessica Calarco, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and expert on inequality in education and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Calarco’s talk will be followed by a Q&A open to audience members. We hope that this event will shed light on the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on women academics, and encourage you to empower and uplift women and other groups marginalized by the pandemic. The event will be hosted via Zoom and is open to faculty, staff, and students.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:37:42 -0400 2021-06-22T13:30:00-04:00 2021-06-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Flyer
2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modeling (June 23, 2021 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83965 83965-21619229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

ISTDM 2021 aims to gather transportation researchers and practitioners across the globe for exploring the frontiers of big data, modeling, and simulation to advance transportation research to support the connected, cooperative, and automated mobility. With a greater focus on emerging technologies, ISTDM 2021 rebrands the two long-standing transportation symposia: International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS), and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS).

The conference program can be found at https://limos.engin.umich.edu/istdm2021/schedule/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 May 2021 10:27:16 -0400 2021-06-23T08:45:00-04:00 2021-06-23T12:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Banner Image for ISTDM 2021. It features headshots of the keynote speakers
2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modeling (June 24, 2021 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83965 83965-21619230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

ISTDM 2021 aims to gather transportation researchers and practitioners across the globe for exploring the frontiers of big data, modeling, and simulation to advance transportation research to support the connected, cooperative, and automated mobility. With a greater focus on emerging technologies, ISTDM 2021 rebrands the two long-standing transportation symposia: International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS), and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS).

The conference program can be found at https://limos.engin.umich.edu/istdm2021/schedule/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 May 2021 10:27:16 -0400 2021-06-24T08:45:00-04:00 2021-06-24T12:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Banner Image for ISTDM 2021. It features headshots of the keynote speakers
Key Organizations Serving Food Insecure People in Washtenaw County (June 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84140 84140-21620432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Washtenaw County is wealthy: Median household income is $76,500, 28% above the Michigan average and 17% above the U.S. average. However, there are significant pockets of poverty in the county: About 11% of the population is below the poverty line. Similarly, 11% is food insecure, a percentage close to the national average. The Coronavirus pandemic has greatly worsened the problem. Since March 2020, county food distribution agencies reported 30-300% increases in visitors. To quote one agency head, “[T]he pandemic created a perfect storm of food insecurity... We have never seen anything like it; there was a drastic increase in people needing help.”

This panel discussion will feature leaders of three front-line organizations doing battle against food insecurity: Food Gatherers represented by Eileen Spring, serving all of Washtenaw County; Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels represented by Alison Foreman; and We The People Opportunity Farm in Ypsilanti, represented by Melvin Parson. Each leader will describe their organization, its target audience, operations, etc. The moderator will then present topics and questions for further discussion

Eileen Spring, recently named 2021 Woman of the Year by the United Way of Washtenaw County, has spent 27 years at Food Gatherers and is currently President and CEO. Ms. Spring helped develop and steward a community-wide Food Security Plan that has dramatically improved the amount of fresh produce and protein available to individuals struggling with food insecurity in Washtenaw County. She has been active on the board of the Food Bank Council of Michigan, has participated at the national level with Feeding America, and is a founding member of the Washtenaw Housing Alliance. She received her bachelor's degree from Hofstra University and a master's degree from the University of Michigan.

Food Gatherers was the first food rescue program in Michigan, and the sixth nationwide. The food bank serves all of Washtenaw County and provides millions of pounds of free or low-cost food to a network of 170 hunger relief pantries. Food Gatherers also provides direct food assistance in the form of hot meals, nutritious snacks, or emergency groceries to low-income adults, seniors and children. It operates the Community Kitchen/Job Training Program at the Delonis Center, as well as Summer Food Service and Healthy School Pantry programs.

Alison Foreman, Executive Director of Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels (YMOW), has worked with Ypsilanti area non-profit organizations for more than 15 years. Ms. Foreman serves on the boards of the Ypsilanti Area Community Fund, Washtenaw Leaders Advisory and the Area Agency on Aging 1B Diabetes Program Advisory Group, and is a former member of the SOS community services board. She has appeared as a guest on NPR's “All Things Considered” and CNN's “The Lead.” Prior to YMOW Alison worked with the Michigan State Housing Development Authority and the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. She received her bachelor’s degree in juvenile justice and a master’s degree in public administration from Eastern Michigan University.

YMOW provides nutritious meals, social contact and other services to homebound elderly, ill and disabled persons in eastern Washtenaw County, to enable them to enjoy healthier, safer, and more independent lives. YMOW’s vision is a community where every senior feels nourished, valued and supported.

Melvin Parson (AKA Farmer Parson) spent approximately 13 years of his life incarcerated, was homeless on three separate occasions, and battled with substance abuse for many years. He has experienced many of the challenges that come with being on parole or probation. In 2015, while he was earning a BSW from Eastern Michigan University, he co-founded a mentor program for men and women returning home from incarceration called A Brighter Way. In 2018 Mr. Parson founded a nonprofit organization, We The People Opportunity Farm (WTPOF), to create a sustainable farming system that can support a workforce of formerly incarcerated persons. He believes a main factor for people returning to prison is their inability to find meaningful employment or enrichment opportunities. One of his goals is to provide a paid internship program that will act as a springboard to future employment, continued education, and meaningful strides towards caring about themselves, others and their community.

WTPOF’s mission is to break the cycle of incarceration in Washtenaw County. Its Paid Internship Program includes farming activities, as well as literacy and learning related to organic foods, career-building workshops, financial literacy, and home rehabilitation. In addition, it offers employment and/or educational opportunities and ongoing support. In 2020, WTPOF started a Food Distribution Program, and has given over 1,200 lbs. of food to 300 neighbors.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone (734-998-9351). A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you a few days prior to the lecture.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 May 2021 10:09:36 -0400 2021-06-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-06-24T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Thursday Lectures
LHS Collaboratory-Summer Workshop (June 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83809 83809-21538171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This virtual workshop will review the basic concepts behind Learning Health Systems including the learning cycle, infrastructure, and learning communities.  Participants will engage in a collaborative activity to design a learning cycle.

Registration for this virtual event is limited-
please register early!

Charles P. Friedman

Department Chair of Learning Health Sciences
Josiah Macy Jr. Professor of Medical Education
Professor of Information
Professor of Public Health
University of Michigan

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:17:48 -0400 2021-06-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-06-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Workshop / Seminar LHS Collaboratory logo
RNA Collaborative Seminar (June 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84166 84166-21620522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6OEQ6sDAQ0-21GHm6d7VEQ

“Dynamic multivalent interactions drive mammalian RNA regulation”
Sethu Pitchiaya, Ph.D.
Dept of Urology

and

"Characterizing cellular RNA-protein interaction networks with chemical probes"
Chase Weidmann, Ph.D.
Dept of Biological Chemistry

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jun 2021 15:28:29 -0400 2021-06-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Sethu Pitchiaya & Chase Weidmann
Philip S. Brachman Memorial Lecture (July 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84447 84447-21623997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan School of Public Health

Wednesday, July 14 at 12:15 PM

Topic: When Germs Travel: Coronavirus and the Long History of Contagious Crises

Howard Markel, MD, PhDMerkel
George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine
& Director, Center for the History of Medicine,
The University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:34:12 -0400 2021-07-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-07-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion Howard Markel
Philip S. Brachman Memorial Lecture (July 14, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84447 84447-21623996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan School of Public Health

Wednesday, July 14 at 12:15 PM

Topic: When Germs Travel: Coronavirus and the Long History of Contagious Crises

Howard Markel, MD, PhDMerkel
George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine
& Director, Center for the History of Medicine,
The University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:34:12 -0400 2021-07-14T12:15:00-04:00 2021-07-14T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion Howard Markel
How to Use TransPop Data: The first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States (July 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84448 84448-21623998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for a virtual presentation of TransPop, the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States. During this presentation you'll learn how to use these data to reach your own groundbreaking results.

The TransPop study not only describes the demographic make-up of the transgender population and their experiences related to identity and transition, but also aims to provide information on areas like health outcomes, health care access, quality of life, and experiences with discrimination.

In addition to being the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States, it also includes a comparative cisgender sample. A primary goal of this study was to provide researchers with a representative sample of transgender people in the United States. The study examines a variety of health-relevant domains including health outcomes and health behaviors, experiences with interpersonal and institutional discrimination, identity, transition-related experiences, and basic demographic characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, religion, political party affiliation, marital status, employment, income, location, sex, gender, and education).

The TransPop study is available at https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37938.v1.

This webinar is free and open to the public. A live transcript will be available. The webinar will be recorded, and the recording and slides will be sent to all registrants after the webinar.

Zoom FAQs for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

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Presentation Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:31:28 -0400 2021-07-22T14:00:00-04:00 2021-07-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for TransPop data webinar from ICPSR featuring transgender flag on white background
Dimensions of Public Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act, 2010 through 2017 (July 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84699 84699-21624454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30 pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:31:13 -0400 2021-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures 2021
Analyzing Open-Ended Responses for Understanding Opinions About Presidential Candidates (July 28, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84698 84698-21624453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:28:58 -0400 2021-07-28T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Blalock Lecture series 2021
Understanding Network Structures (July 29, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84697 84697-21624452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 29, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:25:28 -0400 2021-07-29T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2021
Harnessing Big Data for Health and Social Science Research (August 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84713 84713-21624468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This lecture will be pre-recorded and available two weeks before this session on the ICPSR Summer Program YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q

Please join us for this live Q&A session with the presenter on 8/3/21 at 12pm EDT at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock.

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:03:54 -0400 2021-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-08-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
Flash Talk | "That nothing be lost to the Most Sacred Treasury": Motivating the State in Roman Egypt (August 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84745 84745-21624860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Petitioning one's government is nothing new. In a papyrus from 210/11 CE Roman Egypt, a group of landowners and renters petitioned their government to help with a local water management issue. The papyrus clearly illustrates the deep entanglement between state power and local society in the management of the Fayum's rural countryside and shines a light on the mechanism(s) by which country farmers could motivate the state to intervene in local affairs. Join Prof. Brendan Haug as he explores these issues and the power of the ancient people.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96551052011
Meeting ID: 965 5105 2011
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:05:02 -0400 2021-08-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-08-06T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual P.Mich.inv. 2920
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics || Weekly Seminar Series (September 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86237 86237-21632210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Structural variants (SVs) are a source of pathogenic variants in a clinical referral population, however, they are often under-reported due to technical limitations of detection and difficulty with clinical interpretation. For example, mobile element insertions (MEIs) are estimated to lead to a positive finding in 1 out of 1000 rare genetic disease cases, yet the numbers are far lower in clinical diagnostic laboratories. Targeted NGS with short insert size libraries, unlike genome sequencing, will have very few discordant read pairs to indicate the presence of an SV. We, therefore, developed an SV detection tool called SCRAMble (Soft Clipped Read Alignment Mapper) to identify SV breakpoints in targeted NGS.

We applied SCRAMble to a prospective clinical referral cohort for exome sequencing to identify deletions and MEIs. We also applied SCRAMble to a hereditary cancer panel assay for the identification of a large inversion involving the MSH2 gene that causes Lynch syndrome. Adding breakpoint detection to clinical targeted sequencing identifies positive findings which were missed by prior testing and by other variant callers. Detecting breakpoints allows for more precise interpretation and for more targeted confirmation assays. By applying SV breakpoint detection, we are able to diagnose ~0.3% more cases. While this is a modest gain in diagnostic yield, for the patients and families involved, a positive diagnosis, even after prior testing, can have a meaningful impact on their lives.

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:28:18 -0400 2021-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Rebecca Torene, Associate Director of Genomics Research | Data Science at GeneDx
Flash Talk | The Bouleuterion at Notion (September 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85035 85035-21625489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This recorded lecture is available to view on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jVraZNW1edQ

The Bouleuterion (Council House) at Notion is one of a number of similar structures in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) of comparable plan, size, and location. Their identification as Bouleuteria is based largely on the latter two characteristics; they enclose large auditoria, capable of holding significant numbers of people, and they are situated on or near public squares. The history of this building type is conventionally traced back to the Old and New Bouleuteria of Athens, dated to the late 6th and late 5th centuries respectively, but all the comparable buildings in Asia Minor are considerably later; the earliest securely dated example is the Bouleuterion at Miletus, constructed according to the dedicatory inscription to Antiochus IV between 175 and 164 BC. Thus while the Athenian Bouleuteria may indeed have served as precedents, and the New Bouleuterion at Athens was in fact also renovated in the 2nd c. BC, the building type exemplified by the Bouleuterion at Notion was essentially a Hellenistic creation.

The Bouleuterion at Notion was partially excavated by Mustafa Büyükkolancı in 1994, and has recently been cleaned and documented by a U-M archaeological team. Rectangular both in external outline and in its internal seating arrangement, it is larger in plan (24.2 x 30.5 m) than any other comparable building—considerably larger than the Bouleuteria of Priene and Heracleia, for example, and larger also than both the Old and the New Bouleuteria at Athens. It can be reconstructed in detail both in plan and in section, thanks to its remarkably transparent design; the whole building is based on a unit of 16 Attic/Ionic feet. In its design, construction, and urban setting, the Bouleuterion at Notion adds new detail not only to the history of the local community, but also to the development of the preeminent civic building type of Hellenistic architecture.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96551052011
Meeting ID: 965 5105 2011
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:35:43 -0400 2021-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Bouleuterion
Human Genetics Annual Retreat - Keynote Seminar (September 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86250 86250-21632243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
BSRB KAHN AUDITORIUM
109 ZINA PITCHER PL, ANN ARBOR

HOSTED BY:
Jacob Mueller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Genetics
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Associate Professor of Urology
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:36:15 -0400 2021-09-10T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T15:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion DHG RETREAT 2021_Keynote Speaker Flyer
Smith Lecture: Reading Molecular Messages: Structural Elucidation of the Marine Environmental Metabolome (September 10, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83650 83650-21452142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The exchange of metabolites between algae and bacteria is essential for maintaining ecosystem structure and function.Numerous organic molecules have been shown to facilitate ecologically important partnerships, including signaling molecules used for cell-cell communication and the exchange of organic nutrients as sources of energy, carbon and essential metabolites. In addition, the 600 Gt C marine dissolved organic matter reservoir harbors slow degrading molecules whose sources are poorly known, in part because the composition of this reservoir remains enigmatic. In this talk I will describe some of the different analytical approaches we are taking to elucidate the organic currencies involved in maintaining ecosystem interactions and modulating global carbon cycling.

Those wishing to attend remotely should log in to Zoom ID#989 8458 7392

Please note:
Before entering any U-M building, all visitors, contractors and vendors are required to complete a preliminary health screening via the guest version of ResponsiBLUE. The questionnaire includes information about U-M's face covering policy and expectations for unvaccinated individuals to continue to mask and distance while indoors on any of U-M's campuses.

Go to: https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/prevention-testing-care/prevention/responsiblue/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:11:40 -0400 2021-09-10T15:30:00-04:00 2021-09-10T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CSEAS Lecture. How Governments Declare Disasters: Thoughts from Southeast Asia (September 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86168 86168-21631762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Open to the public. Register at https://myumi.ch/DEAXr

This event is followed by:
1:30-2:30 PM EST: Career Talk: A Discussion with Dr. A. Michael Stern on career building in Asian Studies"
In Person at Weiser Hall 1010- see listing on our events page.

Governments most often declare disasters in response to natural events (storms, flooding, earthquakes, etc.) and to a lesser degree other human-generated crises (e.g., internal violent conflicts that cause people to be displaced from their villages). International guidance and the literature on the decision to declare a disaster and appeal for international assistance are mainly technically oriented. However, the political dimensions of these decisions are crucial to understanding what motivates a disaster declaration and when governments are willing to take the sometimes sensitive step of accepting outside help to address the disaster. This talk will draw on the presenter's practical experience with disaster responses internationally, offering thoughts on this question, using examples from Southeast Asia, and addressing the significant intersections between governance and disaster management.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Aaron "Michael" Stern (PhD, University of Michigan) is currently a foreign service officer with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He joined USAID in 2007 and has served in Washington, the Philippines, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Frankfurt (supporting Iraq), and Madagascar. He is currently the deputy country representative for USAID in Laos. He received his BA from Columbia University (Economics), his masters from the University of Washington in Seattle (public administration and international relations), and his doctorate from the University of Michigan (political science, comparative politics). He is a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship alumnus and also received a fellowship from the Ford Foundation for area studies work while at the University of Michigan. Before joining USAID, he worked at the US Department of Energy, the University of Michigan, and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). He also worked as a Researcher at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Asian Studies in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:22:08 -0400 2021-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
RNA Innovation Seminar (September 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86155 86155-21631746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

"Recent improvements in modeling and design of RNA-only structures"

ABSTRACT: The discovery and design of biologically important RNA molecules is outpacing three-structural characterization. I'll describe results from my and Wah Chiu's groups that demonstrate that cryo-electron microscopy can resolve maps of several kinds of RNA-only systems. These maps enable subnanometer-resolution 3D coordinate estimation when complemented with multidimensional chemical mapping and Rosetta DRRAFTER computational modeling. If time allows, I'll describe work from the Eterna project to stabilize mRNA molecules to help accelerate worldwide COVID immunization.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:54:16 -0400 2021-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Rhiju Das, Stanford University
Voting, Trust, and the Constitution (September 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86320 86320-21632717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

The University of Michigan commemorates Constitution Day with a talk on voting, trust, and the Constitution, featuring Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Rich Friedman.

Reception immediately following.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:53:46 -0400 2021-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Intro to the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) (September 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85327 85327-21626235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 1: Intro to CVFS
Wednesday, September 15, 2-3pm EDT
Presenters: William Axinn and Dirgha Ghimire

This webinar will explain the purpose of the CVFS and give an overview of data collection from study launch to present day. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpf-qtpjojGteGYl9ntT4cBx7X9TPZtB6H

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:59:26 -0400 2021-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
The Future of Mobility & Connected Transportation with Smart Infrastructure (September 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85754 85754-21628677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Cavnue was founded with the vision of bringing mobility to everyone. In order to do that, we must expand the autonomous driving capabilities of vehicles beyond where they are today. We believe that simplifying road designs and connecting vehicles to the infrastructure will be an important element in bringing autonomous technology to scale and making safer roads for everyone.

Billions have been invested to date, yet all we see are a few autonomous vehicle pilots running in cities across the country. How will fully driverless cars change mobility forever? What makes the technology so hard? How will connected vehicles and smart infrastructure play a part in bringing this technology to the world? This talk will create a conversation around these questions.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:53:46 -0400 2021-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image to promote Distinguished Lecture Series with Jaime Waydo. It features Jaime's headshot as well as the presentation title
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar Series (September 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86598 86598-21635116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Chromosomal instability (CIN) results in the accumulation of large-scale losses, gains, and rearrangements of DNA. The broad genomic complexity caused by CIN is a hallmark of cancer, however, there is no systematic framework to measure different types of CIN and their impact on clinical phenotypes. Here, we evaluate the extent, diversity and origin of chromosomal instability across 7,880 tumors representing 33 cancer types from the TCGA collection. We present a compendium of 17 copy number signatures characterizing specific types of CIN, with putative aetiologies supported by multiple independent data sources. The signatures predict drug response and identify new drug targets. Our framework refines the understanding of impaired homologous recombination, one of the most therapeutically targetable types of CIN. Our results illuminate a fundamental structure underlying genomic complexity and provide a resource to guide future CIN
research in human cancers.

Bio:

Florian Markowetz is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) in Computational Biology from Free University Berlin, for which he was awarded an Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. His group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute combines computational work on cancer evolution and image analysis of the tumor tissue with experimental work on understanding key cancer mechanisms like the estrogen receptor.

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:24:05 -0400 2021-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Florian Markowetz (Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
AIA Lecture | The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: Thirty Years of Research in Petra, Jordan (September 16, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83354 83354-21346233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In a visually stunning presentation, Professor Paradise discusses thirty years of research in the magical ruined city of Petra, Jordan. Coming from a diverse background in geology, materials conservation, climatology, and architecture, Paradise addresses his work in the Valley of Petra since 1990, discussing the melding of the geosciences, cultural heritage management, history, architecture, and politics that have driven his research. From understanding deterioration of 2,000-year-old sandstone structures, the effects of tourism at this UNESCO site, to new findings on architectural alignments to the sun, many answers to haunting questions regarding Petra will be examined.

This lecture is sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.
To learn more about the AIA, please visit archaeological.org.

Register for this Zoom webinar here:
https://myumi.ch/mneYg

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:05:19 -0400 2021-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 2021-09-16T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Petra, Jordan
Smith Lecture: Chronicles of the 2018 Kīlauea Volcano Eruption: Causes, Consequences, and Community Efforts to Document an Unprecedented Geologic Event (September 17, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83651 83651-21452143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The 2018 flank eruption and summit collapse of Kīlauea volcano, one of the largest volcanic events in Hawaiʻi in 200 years, was an event of stunning sequences and epic destruction. At 5:00PM HST on May 3, 2018, the first of 24 eruptive fissures tore open along the lower East Rift Zone (LERZ) of Kīlauea volcano. Nineteen hours later, a M6.9 earthquake, the largest event in 43 years, displaced a substantial section of Kīlauea’s south flank ~1-3 m seaward. For several days to weeks following this event, unprecendented subsidence of Kīlauea’s summit accelerated due to partial draining of the underlying magma system. Accompanying this remarkable deformation event were several impressive explosions and over 50 near-daily ~M5 summit collapse events. Concurrently, lava erupted on the LERZ with a variety of styles and compositions, producing lava flows covering 35 km2 and adding 3.5 km2 of new shoreline to Hawaiʻi Island. By August 4 however, summit collapse ceased and the major LERZ eruption also came to an end. This spectacular 3-month sequence of events provided an unprecedented opportunity to image volcanic and tectonic deformation in near-real time and to advance community hazard response and recovery efforts, in preparation for the next major event to strike Earthʻs most active volcano.

Those wishing to attend remotely should log in to Zoom ID#989 8458 7392

Please note:
Before entering any U-M building, all visitors, contractors and vendors are required to complete a preliminary health screening via the guest version of ResponsiBLUE. The questionnaire includes information about U-M's face covering policy and expectations for unvaccinated individuals to continue to mask and distance while indoors on any of U-M's campuses.

Go to: https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/prevention-testing-care/prevention/responsiblue/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:29:41 -0400 2021-09-17T15:30:00-04:00 2021-09-17T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
The Futurescape of Medicine Lecture Series (September 21, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85070 85070-21625544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The goal of this lecture series is to provide educational insights about future developments in five different areas of medical care.

Lecture #1 is Healthcare Financing - A Broken System in need of Repair. The speaker is Mark Frederick, MD.

Attention will be paid to current best practices, ethical implications of new technologies, promotion of consumer education and choices, and financial aspects of delivery in the context of value-based care. A lively discussion is anticipated for each lecture regarding the many issues raised by these trends and technologies.”

The series will take place every other Tuesday from 10-11:30 starting September 21. 2021, and ending November 16.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:14:45 -0400 2021-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Futurescape of Medicine
Building Toward Flooding Resilience: Perspectives from the Field (September 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86206 86206-21632182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Panelists include: Ricky Ackerman (Eastside Community Network), Erma Leaphart (Sierra Club), and Peter Larson (Lecturer, Epidemiology & Researcher, Institute for Social Research; Univ of MI), Moderator: Angie Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation). ZOOM https://umich.zoom.us/j/94323672749

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:25:11 -0400 2021-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion R&R: Residents and Researchers Tuesday Talks at 12 on environment, health, and community
Using Network Analysis to Understand Teamwork in Engineering: Novel Approaches, Limitations, and Future Directions (September 22, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87143 87143-21639089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Curricular and co-curricular design experiences are an increasingly popular mechanism for delivering opportunities for students to connect technical engineering knowledge to professional skills, such as teamwork, fabrication, communication, and design ability. As such, ensuring equal participation in design activities is a critical aspect of team-based pedagogies. In this research, using data from 12 student design teams in a first-year cornerstone design course, I describe a novel approach to examining the nature of working relationships in student teams. I use the multilayer exponential random graph model (ERGM) to examine perceptions of contributions (i.e., whether one is contributing ideas to their team) and enactments (i.e., whether one’s ideas are being utilized).

The purpose of this talk is both to introduce the multilayer ERGM as novel approach to understanding teamwork in engineering, as well as to draw on this method to describe processes of inequity in undergraduate engineering education experiences. I conclude with implications for future
research and practice.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Trevion Henderson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Michigan, as well as his M.A. in Higher Education and Student Affairs and his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University. Dr. Henderson holds secondary appointments in the STEM Education program in the Department of Education and the Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI). As a first-year professor at Tufts, Dr. Henderson teaches courses on engineering design education and engineering education research methods.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:53:52 -0400 2021-09-22T10:30:00-04:00 2021-09-22T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
Afghanistan Series. Flowers, Love and the Landscape of Violence: Queering War in Afghanistan (September 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86696 86696-21635595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Join us on Wednesday, September 22nd at 1:00 PM ET for a conversation with Dr. Ahmad Qais Munhazim on Flowers, Love and the Landscape of Violence: Queering War in Afghanistan.

This event is free and open to all. Register at https://myumi.ch/wlkNq

In the last two decades, representation of Afghans and Afghanistan has been rendered to a people and landscape in void of love and life. In the heteropatriarchal and orientalist depictions, Afghan women have remained as the historically oppressed and devotedly loveless while Afghan men move between the violently masculine and categorically weak. The non-binary, trans and queer Afghans have remained invisible. These depictions have justified the continued war in Afghanistan and its subsequent everyday violence. Through a de/colonial and visual ethnography of Afghans and Afghanistan , Flowers, Love and the Landscape of Violence queers the war and Afghans’ lived experiences of violence in the country. Dr. Ahmad Qais Munhazim will offer alternative lenses and methodologies to understand Afghan masculinities, femininities, queerness and the in-betweens.

Dr. Ahmad Qais Munhazim, genderqueer, Afghan, Muslim and perpetually displaced, is an assistant professor of global studies at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Qais was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan. Qais’ work troubles borders of academia, activism and art while exploring everyday experiences of displacements and war/conflicts in the lives of queer and trans Afghans.

This event is a part of a series on Afghanistan, presented by the Global Islamic Studies Center; cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Arab and Muslim American Studies, and American Culture, the Center for South Asian Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, The Spectrum Center, the Department Communication & Media, and Middle East Studies.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit https://ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:45:43 -0400 2021-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Flowers, Love and the Landscape of Violence: Queering War in Afghanistan
Working in Clay: The Motawi Tileworks Story (September 22, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85030 85030-21625472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Motawi Tileworks was founded in 1992, and it has grown into a company employing more than 40 people, who specialize in handcrafted tiles in Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, and Midcentury Modern aesthetics, as well as other unique designs.

Motawi art tiles are currently sold in more than 300 locations in the U.S. and Canada, and Motawi tile installations grace homes and public spaces worldwide.

After graduating from the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Nawal Motawi moved to Detroit to learn tile-making at the renowned Pewabic Pottery. She later returned to Ann Arbor, where she began creating historically inspired tile in her garage and selling it at the local farmer’s market. And that’s only the beginning of her story!

Nawal Motawi, owner and artistic director of Motawi Tileworks in Ann Arbor, will share with us her stories of the company’s unique history and early beginnings, creative process and business strategies. She’ll share the company’s philosophy and how Motawi Tileworks has become a creative beacon of light in our community and around the world.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:10:37 -0400 2021-09-22T15:30:00-04:00 2021-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (September 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87282 87282-21640718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Histones are small proteins that package DNA into chromosomes, and a large number of studies have showed that several post-translational modification (PTM) sites on the histones are associated with both gene activation and silencing. Along with DNA and small non-coding RNA, histone PTMs make up epigenetic mechanisms that control gene expression patterns outside of DNA sequence mutations. Dysregulation of these chromatin networks underlie several human diseases such as cancer. Here I will give an update on technology advancements that have allowed for high-throughput quantitative analyses of histone PTMs and chromatin structure, and how we are applying these methods to understand epigenetic reprogramming found in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs). MPNST is an aggressive sarcoma with recurrent loss of function alterations in polycomb-repressive complex 2 (PRC2), a histone-modifying complex involved in transcriptional silencing.

Zoom Link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:27:41 -0400 2021-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Diego Rivera and the Detroit Industry Murals at the DIA (September 24, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85047 85047-21625504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Carlene VanVoorhies, DIA Docent, will take us on a virtual tour to learn the complex and intriguing story behind Diego Rivera and his Detroit Industry Murals. The “Detroit Industry Murals” (1932-1933) are a series of frescoes by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, consisting of twenty-seven panels depicting industry at the Ford Motor Company and in Detroit.

Together they surround the interior Rivera Court in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Painted between 1932 and 1933, they were considered by Rivera to be his most successful work. On 23 April 2014, the “Detroit Industry Murals” were designated by the Department of Interior as a National Historic Landmark.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:39:06 -0400 2021-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Smith Lecture: Silver & Gold New Insights to Wire Formation (September 24, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83652 83652-21452144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Much more common in silver than in gold, the unusual morphology know as a “wire” can resemble the finest of threads to the strongest of ropes. Although they have adorned the shelves of mineral collections for centuries, very little has been known about wire specimens until recently. Are they single crystals or bundles of many fibrous crystals? How do they grow? Some have suggested extrusion. Answers to these questions and discovery of unexpected and yet unexplained isotope compositions have resulted from our work.

Those wishing to attend remotely should log in to Zoom ID#989 8458 7392

Please note:
Before entering any U-M building, all visitors, contractors and vendors are required to complete a preliminary health screening via the guest version of ResponsiBLUE. The questionnaire includes information about U-M's face covering policy and expectations for unvaccinated individuals to continue to mask and distance while indoors on any of U-M's campuses.

Go to: https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/prevention-testing-care/prevention/responsiblue/

Dr. John Rakovan is a professor of mineralogy at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. John received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996 and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Virginia Tech before starting at Miami. He has broad research interests including crystal growth, structural and morphologic crystallography, mineral-water interface geochemistry, and mineral deposit formation.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:42:15 -0400 2021-09-24T15:30:00-04:00 2021-09-24T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
How the Measurement and Meaning of Family Structure Shape Research on Young Adult Racial Inequality (September 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86249 86249-21632226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Abstract:
At the population level, Black and White youth in the United States enter adulthood after a lifetime of divergent family structure experiences. A substantial social science literature has investigated whether this variation in childhood family structure contributes to racial disparities in the timing, sequence, and context of events in the transition into adulthood. This discussion adopts a critical perspective on mainstream research on this topic. The panelists highlight opportunities in family demography, social stratification, human development, and race and ethnic studies to advance theory, measurement, and empirical modeling in order to more accurately reflect Black family organization and to situate Black and White families in the a broader context of racialized social, economic, and political inequality.

Speakers:
Paula Fomby is a research associate professor in the Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in social demography from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research considers how family composition and family process contribute to variation in child and young adult well-being, particularly in the context of social inequality. Fomby is the associate director of the UM Population Studies Center, a co-investigator on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the associate director of the PSID Child Development Supplement.

Christina Cross is a postdoctoral fellow and incoming assistant professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She completed her PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at University of Michigan. Her research examines how family structure, change, and dynamics influence individual wellbeing across the life course, particularly among minority and/or low-income populations. Much of her work has focused on childhood as a key stage in the life course for the emergence and accumulation of social advantages or disadvantages.

Bethany Letiecq is an associate professor in the Human Development and Family Science program at George Mason University. - She received her PhD in health education/family studies and her MS in family and community development from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Letiecq employs community-based participatory and action research approaches to conduct research in partnership with families systematically marginalized by society to promote family health and justice. She is keenly interested in how social policies and practices facilitate or hinder family functioning and health across all families.

This event is an ISR Inclusive Research Matters presentation, sponsored by the Education Programs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team, the Population Studies Center and the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:45:07 -0400 2021-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Neighborhood Greening for Stormwater Management: What Matters for Residents (September 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86956 86956-21637625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Panelists: Kenyetta Campbell (Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance), Barb Matney (Warrendale Community Organization), Joan Nassauer (Univ of MI), and Natalie Sampson (Univ of MI Dearborn). Moderated by Amy Schulz (Univ of MI).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:47:14 -0400 2021-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar R&R: Residents and Researchers Tuesday Talks at 12 on environment, health, and community
Positive Links Speaker Series (September 29, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86990 86990-21637993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the talk:
Remote or hybrid work is not new—domestic and global companies have had virtual work arrangements for nearly 30 years. However, the rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by COVID-19 have accelerated these transitions, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to remote work in a matter of weeks, leaving managers and employees scrambling to adjust.

On one hand, companies have seen opportunities that remote work can afford them: nonexistent commute times, lower operational costs, and a larger pool of global job applicants. Many are planning to permanently incorporate remote days into their long-term routines or even give their employees the option to work from home full-time. On the other hand, these circumstances have brought to light many challenges that are inherent with virtual arrangements: employees feel lost, isolated, and out of sync and out of sight.

People are looking for insights; they want to know how to keep their teams motivated, what digital tools they’ll need, how to keep track of employee productivity, how to maintain connections without face-to-face interactions, and how to combat the draining feelings of tech exhaustion. Based on nearly two decades of experience working with virtual and global teams, Neeley provides evidence-based answers to the most pressing questions about how teams can feel more connected and be well-prepared to deliver optimal results.

About Neeley:
Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large scale-change that involves global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile.

Host:
Jane Dutton, Center for Positive Organizations Co-Founder; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

Free, registration required to obtain login information: https://myumi.ch/dOmD5

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:17:44 -0400 2021-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Positive Links Speaker Series
Unprecedented: The Expansion of the Social Safety Net During the COVID Era and Its Impacts on Poverty and Hardship (September 29, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84891 84891-21625249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series
Unprecedented: The Expansion of the Social Safety Net During the COVID Era and Its Impacts on Poverty and Hardship
Wednesday, September 29 at 11am EDT, ISR Thompson Rm 1430 and online: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94299595467

Speaker: H. Luke Shaefer (Director of Poverty Solutions; Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Polic; Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Social Work; Faculty Associate at PSC & SRC)

A major economic crisis accompanied the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in response the federal government mounted the largest and most comprehensive expansion of the social safety net in modern times. In this talk, H. Luke Shaefer will review research on the impacts of this safety net expansion, and where the nation goes from here.

This webinar is part of a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu. This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:58:40 -0400 2021-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Clinical Simulation Center Brown Bag Discussion (Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinic) (September 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86120 86120-21631718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Clinical Simulation Center

The clinical practice of medicine often involves stressors and interruptions that negatively impact performance. However, increased stress can also enhance some memory formation which may enhance learning. During this presentation, we will discuss what is known about the impact of stress on performance and memory with a focus on the implications this has for using stress during experiential learning.

Biosketch: Torrey A. Laack, M.D., is a consultant in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Laack is Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center. He joined the staff of Mayo Clinic in 2002 and holds the academic rank of associate professor of emergency medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.

Dr. Laack attended Calvin College for his undergraduate degree in biology and earned his M.D. from Loma Linda University’s School of Medicine. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center.

Dr. Laack has been the medical director for the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center since 2013. In that role, he provides leadership of a busy, multidisciplinary simulation center with approximately 25 staff and more than 8000 learners annually that provides high-quality learning experiences through experiential education for medical students, nurses, residents, and faculty. He has worked collaboratively to grow experiential learning across the Mayo Clinic enterprise. This has included expanding Mayo Clinic's leadership in simulation education research and procedural skills training. Dr. Laack serves as chair of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Directors Section, made up of more than 900 simulation center directors from around the world.

Dr. Laack has authored articles that have been published in prominent peer-reviewed journals such as Simulation in Healthcare, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, and The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. He also holds reviewer responsibilities for Western Journal of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education.

In recognition of his work, Dr. Laack has received Excellence in Teaching awards conferred by Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, as well as the Quarterly Clinical Excellence Award, the Faculty Recognition Award, and the Faculty Appreciation Award for Simulation Education conferred by the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Laack provides mentorship to medical students, residents, and fellows. He has been nationally recognized for his leadership of the Emergency Medicine Clerkship. He is a leader in care review and quality improvement. His clinical expertise includes envenomation injuries and international emergency medicine. Dr. Laack has provided medical care to patients in Kenya, India, and Mexico in addition to being a team leader for Mayo Clinic Haiti Disaster Relief teams.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:31:42 -0400 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Clinical Simulation Center Lecture / Discussion Dr. Torrey Laack
IISS Lecture Series. Sacred Relics, Insignia, and Kingship: the Ottoman Case in Comparative Perspective (September 29, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86830 86830-21636903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

IISS is pleased to announce the public lecture "Sacred Relics, Insignia, and Kingship: the Ottoman Case in Comparative Perspective" by Professor Gottfried Hagen (Department of Middle East Studies, University of Michigan)

Sultan Murād III rode into the Battle of Mezőkeresztes in 1596 behind the the Holy Banner of the Prophet Muḥammad, and had the Prophet’s Mantle carried alongside. Did the possession of these and other vestiges make the Ottoman sultan a sacred king, placing him “in a mimetic relationship to the Divine” (A. Al-Azmeh)? In this lecture, we will look at the ways relic and vestiges have been used and displayed in liturgical and political contexts, as icons and insignia, in Islamic and Christian monarchies, to come to a better understanding of the sacred dimension of Ottoman kingship".

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:30:11 -0400 2021-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Sacred Relics, Insignia, and Kingship: the Ottoman Case in Comparative Perspective
Measures of Mental Health - Using Life History Calendars to Improve Measurement of Lifetime Experience With Trauma and Psychiatric Disorders: The Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal (September 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85328 85328-21626240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 2: Measures of Mental Health - Using Life History Calendars to Improve Measurement of Lifetime Experience With Trauma and Psychiatric Disorders: The Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal

Wednesday, September 29, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenters: William Axinn and Stephanie Chardoul

This webinar will describe the work to create a Nepal-specific Composite International Diagnostic Interview and the application of life history calendars to improve measurements of individual exposures to potentially traumatic experiences and psychiatric disorders. Results from initial analyses of these new CVFS measures will be used to illustrate the potential of this approach to advance population health research. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpcuCgrDkoGNXE4HjrkkEHwVmbZPMq3F0b

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:11:55 -0400 2021-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (September 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87515 87515-21642906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Human complex traits result from genetic and environmental factors, and from their interactions. Many of these effects are mediated by changes in gene regulation. Indeed, most genetic variants associated with complex trait variation in humans are in regulatory regions. I will present some of our recent studies on gene-environment interactions in gene regulation, with a specific focus on cardiovascular health. I will present evidence that gene-environment interactions in molecular phenotypes are frequent, account for a substantial portion of complex trait variation and modify genetic risk for disease.

Research Focus:

My lab is interested in understanding the genetic and molecular basis of inter-individual and inter-population differences in complex phenotypes. We combine evolutionary and functional genomics approaches to study intermediate phenotypes (e.g.: transcription factor binding, gene expression, protein secretion, etc.) and how they are affected by gene-environment interactions. Our research is funded by the NIH.

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:01:53 -0400 2021-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Francesca Luca, PhD (Wayne State University)
LHS Collaboratory 2021-2022 Kick-off Session (September 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84725 84725-21624492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1
The Learning Health (Record) System

Speaker:
Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FAIMBE, FIAHSI
Janet and Bernard Becker Professor and Director, Institute for Informatics (I2), Associate Dean for Health information and Data Science, Chief Data Scientist, at Washington University in St. Louis

This presentation will explore the ways in Biomedical Data Science and Informatics research are helping to realize the potential of EHR technologies in the context of creating an LHS, from the optimization of workflow and human factors, to the generation of reproducible and systematic clinical phenotypes, to the delivery of emergent knowledge to both providers and patients via advance clinical decision support systems.

Presentation 2
Techniques and Challenges for EHR Phenotyping

Speaker:
Lisa Bastarache, MS
Research Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics,
Vanderbilt University

Electronic health records (EHR) contain a wealth of real world data that can be used for research purposes. However, extracting phenotype information from EHRs can be challenging. EHR phenotyping can be divided into two types: (1) Fast phenotyping which seeks to capture a broad swath of the medical phenome, and is often accomplished using coded EHR data (e.g. billing codes) and (2) slow phenotyping that seeks to achieve high precision and recall for a single phenotype, and often uses multiple EHR data types (e.g. medications, text, lab results). This talk will describe specific use-cases for both fast and slow phenotyping, and review challenges that are commonly encountered in creating research-grade EHR phenotypes.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:13:17 -0400 2021-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo
Hybrid FAST Lecture | The Archaeology of Western Anatolia, ca. 1200–133 BCE (September 30, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87555 87555-21643886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

FAST, or the Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays, is usually hosted in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. However, due to space restrictions, this lecture will take place in the Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall), and will also be streamed live via Zoom (see link below). Please feel free to choose the attendance method that suits you best.

Our speaker is IPCAA core faculty member Dr. Chris Ratté, whose lecture is entitled “The Archaeology of Western Anatolia, ca. 1200-133 BCE.” His research focuses on the role played by the built environment, from individual monuments to regional settlement patterns, in the articulation of social and cultural identity, especially in regions on the peripheries of the Greek and Roman worlds.

While typically FAST lectures are known for the plentiful provision of food and drink, for the time being, there will be no food or drink provided. Our deepest apologies to those disappointed by the decision—it seems the most prudent choice, given the circumstances.

Physical Attendance Location:
Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall)

Virtual Attendance Location:
Zoom Meeting ID: 977 7669 0432
Passcode: 747615

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 26 Sep 2021 20:39:08 -0400 2021-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T19:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion West coast of Anatolia.
"Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide" by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (October 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85050 85050-21625507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare—and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go to healthcare. What are we paying for, exactly?

Healthcare policy is notoriously complex, but what Americans want is simple: good healthcare that's easy to use and doesn't break the bank.

Medicare for All is the leading proposal to achieve universal health coverage in America. But what is it exactly? How would it work? More importantly, is it practical or practicable?

“Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide” goes beyond partisan talking points to offer a serious examination of how Medicare for All would transform the way we give, receive, and pay for healthcare in America.

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, educator, author, speaker, and podcast host. His newsletter, “The Incision”, cuts to the heart of the trends shaping our moment. He is a commentator at CNN. In addition to “Medicare for All” he has written “Healing Politics”, calling for a politics of empathy to cure our epidemic of insecurity. He is the host of “America Dissected,” a podcast by Crooked Media, which goes beyond the headlines to explore what really matters for our health. He is a Senior Fellow at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Wayne State University and American University, teaching at the intersection of public health, public policy, and politics. He is formerly the Health Director for the City of Detroit and candidate for Governor of Michigan in 2018.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:06:03 -0400 2021-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
Flash Talk | Once Upon a Time, There Was a River: The Environmental History of the Tiber Valley before Rome, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (October 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84215 84215-21620769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Due to a bad internet connection, this Flash Talk could not take place in July as originally scheduled. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you can join us on October 1 for a do-over!

It is entrenched in much of the historical and archaeological literature that the success of Rome was due to its favorable location along the major river in peninsular Italy. Is this assumption true? Indeed, we know little about the natural settings of the Tiber before it was encroached upon and urbanized during the late Republic and Imperial periods, creating an “eternal” image of the landscape. Recent investigations have instead revealed important changes in the local vegetation and a very dynamic fluvial environment, possibly affected by tectonic episodes, between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96551052011
Meeting ID: 965 5105 2011
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:18:56 -0400 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual The Vatican City at the Heart of Rome
Active Data Collection, Hypothesis Testing, and Learning (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87360 87360-21641516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Tara Javidi is the 2020 ECE Distinguished Educator award winner.

This talk revisits the problem of active hypothesis testing: a classical problem in statistics in which a decision maker is responsible to actively and dynamically collect data/samples so as to enhance the information about an underlying phenomena of interest while accounting for the cost of communication, sensing, or data collection. This talk, specifically, explores an often overlooked connection between active hypothesis testing and a wide variety of problems in engineering and the next generation artificial intelligence. This connection, we argue, has significant implications for next generation of information acquisition and machine learning algorithms where data is collected actively and/or by cooperative yet local agents.

In the first part of the talk, we discuss the history of active hypothesis testing (and experiment design) in statistics and the seminal contributions by Blackwell, Chernoff, De Groot, and Stein. In the second part of the talk, we discuss the information theoretic view of feedback and actions. We will illustrate the utility of this information theoretic analysis in a number of practically relevant problems in the design of next generation of networks.

Bio:

Tara Javidi received her MS degrees in electrical engineering (systems) and in applied mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science in 2002. She is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a founding co-director of the Center for Machine-Intelligence, Computing and Security at the University of California, San Diego. She is also a co-PI at The NSF AI Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS).

Tara Javidi’s research interests are in theory of active learning and statistical inference, information theory with feedback, stochastic control theory, and wireless communications and communication networks.

Tara Javidi is a Fellow of IEEE. She and her Phd students are recipients of the 2021 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. She was awarded University of Michigan ECE’s 2021 Distinguished Alumni Educator Award. She also received the 2018 and 2019 Qualcomm Faculty Award for her contributions to wireless technology. Tara Javidi was a recipient of the National Science Foundation early career award (CAREER) in 2004, Barbour Graduate Scholarship, University of Michigan, in 1999, and the Presidential and Ministerial Recognitions for Excellence in the National Entrance Exam, Iran, in 1992. At UCSD, she has also received awards for her exceptional University service/leadership and contributions to diversity.

This is being offered as a hybrid event. U-M authentication is required to join the webinar.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99392452117

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:28:10 -0400 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Recital: The Complete Organ Works of Nicolaus Bruhns 2021 Organ Conference (October 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87244 87244-21640664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Jackson Merrill, Graduate Student in Organ Performance, University of Michigan

Watch on Zoom at https://myumi.ch/lx4dk

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:15 -0400 2021-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Recital: The Complete Organ Works of Nicolaus Bruhns 2021 Organ Conference
Faculty Lecture-Recital: “New” Bach Organ Works - James Kibbie 2021 Organ Conference (October 4, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87246 87246-21640666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch on Zoom https://myumi.ch/ZQBYK

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:16 -0400 2021-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Faculty Lecture-Recital: “New” Bach Organ Works - James Kibbie 2021 Organ Conference
Lecture: Recent Polish Carillon Music – New Artistic Approaches to Historical Instruments 2021 Organ Conference (October 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87247 87247-21640667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Monika Kaźmierczak, City Carillonist, Gdańsk, Poland

Watch on Zoom https://myumi.ch/AxO1P

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:16 -0400 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Lecture: Recent Polish Carillon Music – New Artistic Approaches to Historical Instruments 2021 Organ Conference
RNA Innovation Seminar (October 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86162 86162-21631753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

"Fluorescent nucleoside analogues with new properties"

HYBRID EVENT
in-person: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__vvE2dtHQi-R3h05JUHBzQ

ABSTRACT
Fluorescent nucleoside analogues (FNAs) are powerful probes for studying the structure and dynamics of nucleic acids, which are vital to understanding RNA function, DNA damage repair, nucleic acid–protein interactions, regulatory mechanisms for gene expression, and other aspects of nucleic acid function. Existing FNAs are prone to quenching by base pairing and stacking, are clustered at the blue–green end of the visible spectrum, and have limited brightness as compared with conventional fluorophores. Studies of nucleic acid function would benefit greatly from overcoming these limitations. We have designed, synthesized, and studied a series of fluorescent pyrimidine analogues, aiming to address these limitations and develop a detailed understanding of the relationships between chemical structure and fluorescent responses to local environment in nucleic acids. Included in this series is a tricyclic cytidine analogue DEAtC that is nearly non-fluorescent as a nucleoside, but responds to matched base pairing and stacking with a fluorescence turn-on. A chlorinated tricyclic cytidine 8-Cl-tCO reports on local environment by changes in the vibrational fine structure of its emission spectra. To address the problem of limited brightness, we have design and synthesized a new NFA that we call ABN, which has a conjugated push–pull system similar to those found in bright fluorophores such as rhodamines. ABN is the brightest known FNA when present in duplex nucleic acids, and it is readily detected in single-molecule fluorescence measurements using both 1-photon and 2-photon excitation. Collectively, these FNAs offer new capabilities for biophysical studies on nucleic acids. Comparisons of their structure and properties help to reveal mechanisms for fluorescence changes in response to local environment in nucleic acids.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:29:04 -0400 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Byron Purse, San Diego State University
The Futurescape of Medicine Lecture Series (October 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85071 85071-21625545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The goal of this lecture series is to provide educational insights about future developments in five different areas of medical care.

Lecture #2 - Current and Future Surgical Options for Hip and Knee Replacements. Brian Hallstrom is our speaker.

Attention will be paid to current best practices, ethical implications of new technologies, promotion of consumer education and choices, and financial aspects of delivery in the context of value-based care. A lively discussion is anticipated for each lecture regarding the many issues raised by these trends and technologies.”

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:15:40 -0400 2021-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Futurescape of Medicine
Lecture: “Voices of Vitality: Inspiring Stories from Michigan Organ Alumni and their Students 2021 Organ Conference (October 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87250 87250-21640670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Darlene Kuperus, Director of Music & Worship, Nardin Park United Methodist Church, Farmington Hills; Visiting Faculty Member in Organ and Sacred Music, University of Michigan, 2020-21

Watch on Zoom https://myumi.ch/4pBvM

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:17 -0400 2021-10-05T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Lecture: “Voices of Vitality: Inspiring Stories from Michigan Organ Alumni and their Students 2021 Organ Conference
Virtual Recital: ORIGEN – early music and flamenco dance inspired in ancient dances, painting a bridge that connects both worlds 2021 Organ Conference (October 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87251 87251-21640671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Ignacio Prego, Concert Harpsichordist and Master Teacher, Madrid, Spain with Joseph Gascho
https://myumi.ch/DEA1d

Watch on Zoom

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:15:17 -0400 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Virtual Recital: ORIGEN – early music and flamenco dance inspired in ancient dances, painting a bridge that connects both worlds 2021 Organ Conference
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Ecologies of Empire: Ottoman Arabia, the Indian Ocean Hajj, and the Global Crisis of Cholera (October 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87017 87017-21638136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2020 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibition."

Please register to attend at https://myumi.ch/xmYj4

About the Presentation:
Between 1831 and 1914, cholera spread from India to Mecca and the Hijaz on at least forty separate occasions. This talk traces the development of Ottoman and international quarantine and public health controls in the Hijaz, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf between 1865 and World War I. Low argues that pandemic cholera and the inter-imperial public health and travel regulations that its reign of terror spawned were foundational to the creation of the modern system of mass pilgrimage that we know today. In light of our current global crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic and its role in Saudi Arabia’s difficult decision to dramatically restrict hajj and umrah travel over the past two years, the relevance of Mecca’s pandemic past raises urgent new questions for understanding the present and future of pilgrimage management and even wider questions of mass mobility, travel restrictions, and border management in both the Global North and South.

About the Speaker:
Michael Christopher Low is Assistant Professor of History. Low received his PhD from Columbia University in 2015. He is the author of Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (Columbia University Press, 2020). Imperial Mecca will soon be available in translation in Arabic and Turkish. Low is also the co-editor of The Subjects of Ottoman International Law (Indian University Press, 2020). In 2020-2021, Low was a Senior Humanities Research Fellow for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu.

Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:45:20 -0400 2021-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series
Lecture-recital: “Woman of the Apocalypse Crowned with Stars” – The Organ Works of Jiří Teml 2021 Organ Conference (October 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87256 87256-21640676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Marijim Thoene, Organist-Choirmaster, First Presbyterian Church, Ypsilanti, MI

Watch on Zoom https://myumi.ch/ME1N2

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:19 -0400 2021-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Lecture-recital: “Woman of the Apocalypse Crowned with Stars” – The Organ Works of Jiří Teml 2021 Organ Conference
Lecture: Using Cognitive Accessibility to Improve Clear Communication for All 2021 Organ Conference (October 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87255 87255-21640675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Laura Marie Rueslåtten, Carillonist at Oslo City Hall and Uranienborg kirke, Oslo, Norway

A longtime advocate for understanding, respecting, and providing equal opportunity to members of the neurodiverse community, Laura-Marie Rueslåtten will discuss her personal experiences of living with an invisible chronic condition as a carillonist and collaborative musician. She will present new strategies for one-on-one communication to facilitate ease and clarity in communications between many different types of brains. She will also provide some practical suggestions for inclusive public relations.

This lecture is only available online and can be viewed on Zoom https://myumi.ch/VPvKj

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:15:16 -0400 2021-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Lecture: Using Cognitive Accessibility to Improve Clear Communication for All 2021 Organ Conference
“This is Our Lane: talking with Patients about Racism” and “Structural Racism & the Impact on Incarcerated Midlife Women” (October 6, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87467 87467-21642281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Registration required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7wXT6ve8S2qqy4dAKi1ckA

Moderators: Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School; and Gloria Bachmann, MD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Speakers: “This is Our Lane: talking with Patients about Racism” with Michelle S. Diop, MD, ScM, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School; and Sascha N. Murillo MD, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School; and “Structural Racism and the Impact on Incarcerated Midlife Women” with Juana Hutchinson-Colas, MD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Location: This will be an online event. Please register for more information.

Sponsored by: Women’s Midlife Health (journal), Center for Midlife Science at the University of Michigan, Massachusetts General Hospital Department if Medicine Diversity and Inclusion Board.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:27:30 -0400 2021-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Lecture / Discussion Webinar Series on Structural Racism and Midlife Health
Smith Lecture: Probing the Earth’s Deep Oxygen Cycle with Vanadium (October 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83654 83654-21452146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions. For Fall Term 2021, Smith Lectures will be presented as Zoom Webinars, open to the public. Login information will be provided in each event listing as it becomes available.

Those wishing to attend remotely should log in to Zoom ID#989 8458 7392

Please note:
Before entering any U-M building, all visitors, contractors and vendors are required to complete a preliminary health screening via the guest version of ResponsiBLUE. The questionnaire includes information about U-M's face covering policy and expectations for unvaccinated individuals to continue to mask and distance while indoors on any of U-M's campuses.

Go to: https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/prevention-testing-care/prevention/responsiblue/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:02:41 -0400 2021-10-08T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T15:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (October 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87904 87904-21647586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Psychology graduate student Soo Ryu and Weinberg Institute Director Rick Lewis will present on transformers as integrative psycholinguistic models.

ABSTRACT

Transformers as integrative psycholinguistic models that combine expectation-based and memory-based accounts

Transformers are neural network attention-based architectures that represent the state of the art in natural language processing—completely transforming the field in less than two years, and enabling qualitative advances across multiple NL tasks. In this talk, we will describe an unexpected dividend for psycholinguistics. We show that Transformers provide a theoretical integration of two prominent classes of theories in sentence processing: expectation-based (surprisal) and memory-based (specifically, cue-based retrieval) theories. We first explain how and why Transformers can serve this integrative theoretical role, providing visualizations and analyses that show the learned internal attention-patterns in Transformers correspond to memory retrieval patterns expected in cue-based interference models of parsing. We then show that Transformers provide accounts of several interesting sentence processing phenomena that have previously resisted theoretically coherent surprisal or memory-based accounts. We conclude with a novel finding of attention-derived entropy effects in a large scale eye-tracking corpus.

For Zoom access information, please email
cogsci-seminar-requests@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:44:40 -0400 2021-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Elliot S. Valenstein Distinguished Lecture (October 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85756 85756-21628679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Talk title: Detecting covert cognitive states from neural population recordings in prefrontal cortex

Abstract: The neural mechanisms underlying decision-making are typically examined by statistical analysis of large numbers of trials from sequentially recorded single neurons. Averaging across sequential recordings, however, obscures important aspects of decision-making such as 'changes of mind' (CoM) that occur at variable times on different trials. I will show that the covert decision variables (DV) can be tracked dynamically on single behavioral trials via simultaneous recording of large neural populations in prefrontal cortex. Vacillations of the neural DV, in turn, identify candidate CoM in monkeys, which closely match the known properties of human CoM. Thus simultaneous population recordings can provide insight into transient, internal cognitive states that are otherwise undetectable.

*Note: This talk will be available via Zoom livestream and will also be recorded.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:19:37 -0400 2021-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Newsome_Bill
Examining the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey Presented by the Urban Institute (October 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87749 87749-21645527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) on October 12 at 2:00 pm EDT for a free webinar, “Examining the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey Presented by the Urban Institute” featuring Stephan Zuckerman and Michael Karpman. The webinar is hosted by HMCA, a data repository funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Participants will get an overview of the surveys, learn about key findings from the latest data, and discover ways these studies can be used in health research. Participants will learn about the resources available on the RWJF and HMCA websites and have the opportunity to ask questions.

Register with this link: https://myumi.ch/YyEe2

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:44:15 -0400 2021-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Webinar Announcement with the Urban Institute and the Institute for Social Research on the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Public Health Under Siege: A View from the Gaza Strip (October 13, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87019 87019-21638138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."

Please register to attend at https://myumi.ch/dOmPw

About the Speaker:
Somdeep Sen is an Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research focuses include spatial politics, race, and racism in international relations, liberation movements, settler colonialism, postcolonial studies, and migration. He is the author of *Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial* (Cornell University Press, 2020) and the co-editor of *Globalizing Collateral Language: From 9/11 to Endless Wars* (University of Georgia Press, 2021). His work has also appeared in *The Washington Post*, *Al Jazeera English*, *Foreign Policy*, *The Huffington Post*, *Open Democracy*, *Jacobin*, *The London Review of Books*, *The Palestine Chronicle*, and *The Disorder of Things*.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:10:09 -0400 2021-10-13T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series
Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond (October 13, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85329 85329-21626241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 3: Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond

Wednesday, October 13, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Emily Treleaven and Adrienne Epstein

This webinar will give an overview of how to link observations across CVFS files, link individuals to households and neighborhoods, and link external data sources to CVFS. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYld-yoqDorGtBK9EJBUYvQIBWBKTJUlhn1

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:10:17 -0400 2021-10-13T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
MIPSE Seminar | Scaling Intense Laser-Atom Interactions from Low to High Frequency (October 13, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86289 86289-21632590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Over the past three decades, the tailoring of a light field for manipulating the dynamics of a system at the quantum level has taken a prevalent role in modern atomic, molecular and optical physics. As first described by L. V. Keldysh, the ionization of an atom by an intense laser field will evolve depending upon the light characteristics and atomic binding energy. Numerous experiments have systematically investigated the dependence of the intensity and pulse duration on the ionization dynamics. However, exploration of the wavelength dependence has been mainly confined to wavelengths near 1 μm, or in the language of Keldysh to the multiphoton or mixed ionization regime. It is technically possible to perform more thorough test the strong-field limit (tunneling), and exploit the scaling laws at wavelengths greater than 1 μm. In addition, the emergence of XFELs has broadened the scope into the x-ray regime. This new perspective on strong-field interactions is driving a renewed interest in the fundamental physics and a renaissance in applications. This talk will examine the implication of the strong-field scaling as it pertains to the production of energetic particles, the generation of attosecond pulses and molecular imaging.

About the Speaker:
Louis F. DiMauro is Professor of Physics and Hagenlocker Chair at the Ohio State University (OSU). He received his BA (1975) from Hunter College, CUNY and his Ph.D. from University of Connecticut in 1980 and was a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY Stony Brook before arriving at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981. He joined the staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1988 rising to the rank of senior scientist. In 2004 he joined the faculty at OSU. He was awarded 2004 BNL/BSA Science & Technology Prize, 2012 OSU Distinguish Scholar Award, the 2013 OSA Meggers Prize and the 2017 APS Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of American and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on numerous national and international committees, government panels, as the 2010 APS DAMOP chair, vice-chair of the NAS CAMOS committee and currently serves on the NAS Board of Physics and Astronomy. His research interests are in experimental ultra-fast and strong-field physics. In 1993, he and his collaborators introduced the widely accepted semi-classical model in strong-field physics. His current work is focused on the generation, measurement and application of attosecond x-ray pulses and the study of fundamental scaling of strong field physics.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for additional information and requirements for in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2122.php

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:57:53 -0400 2021-10-13T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-13T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Louis DiMauro
2021 Ta You Wu Lecture in Physics | A Nocturnal Discovery that Triggered a Revolution in International Metrology (October 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84775 84775-21624933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The quantum Hall effect, an unexpected discovery at 2 a.m. on the 5th of February 1980 led to my Nobel Prize in 1985 and to a realization of a resistance standard based on fundamental constants. Since fundamental constants are the most stable quantities in our universe, a new international system of units based on constants of nature was introduced in 2019. The talk presents an overview of the quantum Hall effect and this importance for our new definition of the mass unit kilogram.

Doors to the fourth floor Rackham Amphitheatre will open at 3:00 pm for seating. Please come early! Per University policy, each guest will need to wear a face-covering and respond to the ResponsiBLUE COVID Screening Check via their smartphone: https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in

This will be an in-person event and will also be live-streamed. Livestreamed on YouTube, https://myumi.ch/r8Dlz.

More information on the Ta-You Wu event webpage: https://myumi.ch/xmvm8

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Presentation Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:31:49 -0400 2021-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Presentation Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in the cryostat lab
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (October 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86441 86441-21634316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Understanding the genetic and molecular architecture of human disease is accelerated by robust model development and large-scale molecular profiling. I will present two studies leveraging big data analytics or automated machine learning to dissect human disease complexities: 1) Molecular and clinical signatures of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the US marines. This analysis revealed strong antiviral innate immunity set point in females contributing to sex differences in both molecular and clinical response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. A set of accurate biomarkers capable of detecting PCR false negative infections was implemented on small footprint devices. 2) Automated machine learning to interpret the effects of genetic variants. An automated framework, AMBER, was developed for efficiently searching neural network architectures to model genomic sequences. AMBER is useful in various biological applications, including fine mapping variants, partitioning genetic heritability, and in personalized medicine enabled by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Together, these efforts demonstrate quantitative methods coupled with large-scale biomedical data as an effective avenue to decode human regulatory and disease biology.

Short Bio:

Frank Zhang is a Flatiron research fellow with Olga Troyanskaya at the Simons Foundation and Princeton University since 2019. Prior to that, he obtained his PhD at UCLA with Yi Xing. His research focuses on machine learning and statistical method developments for the prediction and interpretation of human molecular and genetic variations using biological big data. Recently, he works on adopting and developing cutting-edge neural architecture search methods to automate the design of deep neural networks in genomics. He is also interested in making deep learning in biomedicine more interpretable and equitable.

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:45:38 -0400 2021-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
19th Peter M. Wege Lecture on Sustainability (October 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86828 86828-21636901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Join us virtually for an engaging conversation with Gina McCarthy, the country’s first National Climate Advisor. As the president's chief advisor on domestic climate policy, McCarthy leads the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy focused on mobilizing a whole-of-government approach to tackling the climate crisis, creating good-paying, union jobs, and securing environmental justice. Having served as the 13th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and then as President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), McCarthy is one of the nation’s most trusted and accomplished voices on climate issues—and has been at the forefront of environmental and public health progress in a variety of leading roles for over three decades.

Moderated by Tony Reames, Senior Advisor: Office of Economic Impact and Diversity U.S. Department of Energy, Assistant Professor: U-M School for Environment and Sustainability

Followed by a Q & A with Kyle Whyte, George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at University of Michigan, White House Environmental Advisory Council

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:00:38 -0400 2021-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Gina McCarthy
2021 Liszt Society Festival (October 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87258 87258-21640678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The American Liszt Society will hold its 2021 Festival, “Liszt and Hungary,” at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance from October 15 through 18, showcasing the music of Liszt and of numerous other Hungarian composers, and highlighting the music and dance of the Romani people, commonly known as “gypsies.”

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

The opening event, on October 15th at 4:00 p.m., will be the world premiere of the film Piano Lessons: the Art and Life of German Diez Nieto, a musical descendant of Liszt and protégé of Claudio Arrau. The formal opening, a performance of George Batyi and the Gypsy Stringz, will take place at 8:00 p.m. that evening. Subsequent events begin at 9:00 each morning and conclude each evening with a concert at 8:00 p.m. Programming runs from 19th through 21st century music, ranging from the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies to the Rhapsody in Blue, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and beyond. Programs will also feature the influence of music of the Romani people, not only in Hungary but across Europe.

Festival attendees will be able to attend presentations by leading experts on the varying manifestations of style hongrois (Hungarian style) in Western music, observe Hungarian dance steps, enjoy Hungarian food, take in performances of Hungarian solo piano, chamber, and vocal repertoire, and much more!

Performers and lecturers will include national and international artists and scholars as well as faculty and students from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:33:38 -0400 2021-10-15T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium 2021 Liszt Society Festival
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The 1918 influenza pandemic in Indonesia and comparisons with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (October 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87096 87096-21638697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to public. Register at https://myumi.ch/NxPrv

The 1918 influenza pandemic had a profound impact on Indonesia. This presentation highlights research on pandemic impacts on various aspects of key demographic aggregates in Indonesia. These include estimates of the toll of the pandemic in the absence of reliable birth and death registration data, the timing, size, and geographic spread of waves of infection and mortality, and the impacts of the pandemic on health policy in Indonesia. Where relevant, comparisons are made with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

About the Speaker:
Siddharth Chandra is professor and director of the Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University. His research interests include pandemics, the intersection of economics, health, and history in Asia, behavior and policy relating to addictive substances, and applications of portfolio theory to fields outside finance, for which the theory was originally developed. Much of his research is spatial and historical in nature. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for his historical research, which has appeared or will appear in a variety of journals including the *American Journal of Public Health*, the *American Journal of Epidemiology*, *Emerging Infectious Diseases,* *Demography, the Journal of Global* *History, the Journal of Economic History*, and the *Journal of Asian Studies*. His recent research on the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 in Asia and the USA has been featured on BBC World as well as in a variety of newspapers and magazines worldwide. Professor Chandra received his PhD in economics from Cornell University, his AM (Ph.D. pass) in economics from the University of Chicago, and his BA (with honors) in economics from Brandeis University. Prior to joining Michigan State University, he was director of the Asian Studies Center and associate professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact cseas@umich.edu.

Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:18:18 -0400 2021-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion The 1918 influenza pandemic in Indonesia and comparisons with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
Smith Lecture: Thermodynamics and the Microbial Colonization of Earth’s Suburface (October 15, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83655 83655-21452147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Geoscientists appreciate, if only from undergraduate textbooks, that functional groups of microbes in Earth’s subsurface arrange themselves into zones according to an energetic hierarchy, or a “thermodynamic ladder.” According to the theory of competitive exclusion, the functional group that derives the most chemical energy from its environment outcompetes other groups there, coming to overtake its habitat. We might observe sediments near an aquifer’s recharge populated by aerobes, followed downgradient by zones hosting iron-reducing bacteria, sulfate-reducers, and finally methanogens.

In this study we return to the Middendorf Aquifer in South Carolina—birthplace of the competitive exclusion theory—and the Mahomet-Teays Aquifer in central Illinois. There, we compile evidence of the nature of microbial zoning and the distribution of energy available to chemolithostatic life. Our field observations combined with a theoretical analysis of the effects of energetics on microbial kinetics, a set of long term laboratory experiments, and a series of bioreactive transport models portray the controls on the distribution of subsurface microbial life in a compelling, if surprising new light.

Those wishing to attend remotely should log in to Zoom ID#989 8458 7392

Please note:
Before entering any U-M building, all visitors, contractors and vendors are required to complete a preliminary health screening via the guest version of ResponsiBLUE. The questionnaire includes information about U-M's face covering policy and expectations for unvaccinated individuals to continue to mask and distance while indoors on any of U-M's campuses.

Go to: https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/prevention-testing-care/prevention/responsiblue/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:43:11 -0400 2021-10-15T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-15T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
2021 Liszt Society Festival (October 16, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87258 87258-21640679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 16, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The American Liszt Society will hold its 2021 Festival, “Liszt and Hungary,” at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance from October 15 through 18, showcasing the music of Liszt and of numerous other Hungarian composers, and highlighting the music and dance of the Romani people, commonly known as “gypsies.”

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

The opening event, on October 15th at 4:00 p.m., will be the world premiere of the film Piano Lessons: the Art and Life of German Diez Nieto, a musical descendant of Liszt and protégé of Claudio Arrau. The formal opening, a performance of George Batyi and the Gypsy Stringz, will take place at 8:00 p.m. that evening. Subsequent events begin at 9:00 each morning and conclude each evening with a concert at 8:00 p.m. Programming runs from 19th through 21st century music, ranging from the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies to the Rhapsody in Blue, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and beyond. Programs will also feature the influence of music of the Romani people, not only in Hungary but across Europe.

Festival attendees will be able to attend presentations by leading experts on the varying manifestations of style hongrois (Hungarian style) in Western music, observe Hungarian dance steps, enjoy Hungarian food, take in performances of Hungarian solo piano, chamber, and vocal repertoire, and much more!

Performers and lecturers will include national and international artists and scholars as well as faculty and students from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:33:38 -0400 2021-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium 2021 Liszt Society Festival
2021 Liszt Society Festival (October 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87258 87258-21640680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The American Liszt Society will hold its 2021 Festival, “Liszt and Hungary,” at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance from October 15 through 18, showcasing the music of Liszt and of numerous other Hungarian composers, and highlighting the music and dance of the Romani people, commonly known as “gypsies.”

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

The opening event, on October 15th at 4:00 p.m., will be the world premiere of the film Piano Lessons: the Art and Life of German Diez Nieto, a musical descendant of Liszt and protégé of Claudio Arrau. The formal opening, a performance of George Batyi and the Gypsy Stringz, will take place at 8:00 p.m. that evening. Subsequent events begin at 9:00 each morning and conclude each evening with a concert at 8:00 p.m. Programming runs from 19th through 21st century music, ranging from the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies to the Rhapsody in Blue, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and beyond. Programs will also feature the influence of music of the Romani people, not only in Hungary but across Europe.

Festival attendees will be able to attend presentations by leading experts on the varying manifestations of style hongrois (Hungarian style) in Western music, observe Hungarian dance steps, enjoy Hungarian food, take in performances of Hungarian solo piano, chamber, and vocal repertoire, and much more!

Performers and lecturers will include national and international artists and scholars as well as faculty and students from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:33:38 -0400 2021-10-17T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium 2021 Liszt Society Festival
2021 Liszt Society Festival (October 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87258 87258-21640681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The American Liszt Society will hold its 2021 Festival, “Liszt and Hungary,” at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance from October 15 through 18, showcasing the music of Liszt and of numerous other Hungarian composers, and highlighting the music and dance of the Romani people, commonly known as “gypsies.”

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

The opening event, on October 15th at 4:00 p.m., will be the world premiere of the film Piano Lessons: the Art and Life of German Diez Nieto, a musical descendant of Liszt and protégé of Claudio Arrau. The formal opening, a performance of George Batyi and the Gypsy Stringz, will take place at 8:00 p.m. that evening. Subsequent events begin at 9:00 each morning and conclude each evening with a concert at 8:00 p.m. Programming runs from 19th through 21st century music, ranging from the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies to the Rhapsody in Blue, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and beyond. Programs will also feature the influence of music of the Romani people, not only in Hungary but across Europe.

Festival attendees will be able to attend presentations by leading experts on the varying manifestations of style hongrois (Hungarian style) in Western music, observe Hungarian dance steps, enjoy Hungarian food, take in performances of Hungarian solo piano, chamber, and vocal repertoire, and much more!

Performers and lecturers will include national and international artists and scholars as well as faculty and students from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:33:38 -0400 2021-10-18T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium 2021 Liszt Society Festival
Positive Links Speaker Series (October 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87335 87335-21641175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

EVENT CANCELED

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must regrettably cancel our October 18, 2021 Positive Links event with Katy Milkman.

Details about a possible rescheduling of this event will be shared once they are available. Questions can be directed to cpo-events@umich.edu.

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About the Positive Links Speaker Series:

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:

Whether you’re a manager, coach, or teacher aiming to help others change for the better or are struggling to kick-start change yourself, this conversation can help. Katy Milkman and host Julia Lee Cunningham will talk about How to Change, a science-based guide to achieving your goals, once and for all, and helping others do the same.

About Milkman:

Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the author of the bestselling book How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. She is the former president of the international Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change.

Over the course of her career, Katy has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change, including Google, the White House, Walmart, the American Red Cross, 24 Hour Fitness, and Morningstar. An award-winning scholar and teacher, Katy writes frequently about behavioral science for major media outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, and Scientific American. She earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University (summa cum laude), where she studied Operations Research and American Studies, and her PhD from Harvard University, where she studied Computer Science and Business.

Free, registration required to obtain login information.

Host:

Julia Lee Cunningham, Center for Positive Organizations Faculty Co-Director; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:

Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:43:27 -0400 2021-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Katy Milkman
RNA Innovation Seminar: Tim Stasevich, Ph.D., Colorado State University (October 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86166 86166-21631758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

KEYWORDS: translational regulation, gene expression, fluorescence microscopy, intrabodies, single-molecule imaging

ABSTRACT: My lab is creating technology to image mRNA translation in real time and with single-molecule precision in living cells. In this talk, I will introduce our technology and describe how it can be used to amplify fluorescence from newly synthesized proteins as they are being translated from single mRNAs. I will show how we quantify these signals to determine the size, shape, subcellular localization, and mobilities of mRNA translation sites, as well as their protein synthesis dynamics. I will then highlight a few recent applications of our technology, focusing mainly on a new biosensor we have developed to quantify how individual regulatory factors impact single mRNA translation dynamics. Using this biosensor, we provide evidence that human Argonaute2 (Ago2) shuts down translation by down regulating translation initiation on the minutes timescale and helping usher translationally silent mRNAs into P-bodies on the hours timescale. I will conclude by discussing new fluorescent intrabodies my lab is engineering to light up nascent and mature proteins in multiple colors. As these intrabodies can be encoded on plasmids, they can easily be adapted by other labs to image gene activity in diverse living systems.
Timothy J. Stasevich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University (CSU). His lab uses a combination of advanced fluorescence microscopy, genetic engineering, and computational modeling to study the dynamics of gene regulation in living mammalian cells. His lab helped pioneer the imaging of real-time single-mRNA translation dynamics in living cells1. Dr. Stasevich received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Dearborn, and his Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He transitioned into experimental biophysics as a post-doctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. James G. McNally at the National Cancer Institute. During this time, he developed technology based on fluorescence microscopy to help establish gold-standard measurements of live-cell protein dynamics. Dr. Stasevich next moved to Osaka University, where he worked with Dr. Hiroshi Kimura as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Foreign Postdoctoral Research Fellow. While there, he helped create technology to image endogenous proteins and their post-translation modifications in vivo. This allowed him to image the live-cell dynamics of epigenetic histone modifications during gene activation for the first time2. Before joining the faculty at CSU, Dr. Stasevich spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus, where he applied superresolution fluorescence microscopy to improve the spatiotemporal resolution of endogenous protein imaging in live cells.
1. Morisaki, T. et al. Real-time quantification of single RNA translation dynamics in living cells. Science 352, 1425–1429 (2016).
2. Stasevich, T. J. et al. Regulation of RNA polymerase II activation by histone acetylation in single living cells. Nature 516, 272–275 (2014).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:17:54 -0400 2021-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Tim Stasevich, Colorado State University
The Futurescape of Medicine Lecture Series (October 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85073 85073-21625547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Futurescape of Medicine Lecture Series
The goal of this lecture series is to provide educational insights about future developments in five different areas of medical care.

Lecture #3 - The Role of 3D Printing in Organ Regeneration.
Our speaker is Jan Stegermann, PhD.

Attention will be paid to current best practices, ethical implications of new technologies, promotion of consumer education and choices, and financial aspects of delivery in the context of value-based care. A lively discussion is anticipated for each lecture regarding the many issues raised by these trends and technologies".

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:19:57 -0400 2021-10-19T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Futurescape of Medicine
LHS Collaboratory (October 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87559 87559-21644084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Unlike structured data, unstructured data are often buried within free text clinical narratives that are difficult to analyze and interpret to derive useful insights. Free text cannot be easily categorized in the same way that a structured, numerical data point can, and unstructured data often have nuances that are not easily captured or represented in structured data.

This session will cover methods and techniques for interpreting and converting unstructured text into useful research data using two related, but distinct approaches: (1) Natural Language Processing (NLP), a specialized branch of AI focused on the interpretation and manipulation of human-generated spoken or written data; and (2) information retrieval, which often underlies many search engine technologies. This session will also highlight EMERSE, an open-source information retrieval tool that has been designed to help everyday users work with the free text documents (i.e., clinical notes) in medical records that is now being adopted by other academic medical centers.

Finally, attendees will hear directly from researchers about how they have used these methods and tools to enhance their research by accessing and harnessing the power of unstructured data.

Speakers:
David A. Hanauer, MD, MS, FACMI, FAMIA
Director of MICHR Informatics Program
Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences


BRINGING DATA TO THE PEOPLE: HOW A SECURE, SELF-SERVICE, FREE-TEXT SEARCH TOOL CAN EMPOWER CLINICAL RESEARCH TEAMS AND IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY

VG Vinod Vydiswaran, PhD
Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Associate Professor School of Information

PROMISE OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA

Discussants:
Christina Angeles, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery (General Surgery)
Assistant Professor, Dermatology

Xu Shi, Ph.D.
CCMB Affiliate Faculty
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health


Leslie Yuan, MPH
Chief Information Officer, Clinical and Translational Science
(CTSI) , University of California San Francisco

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:21:27 -0400 2021-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual Collaboratory logo
Understanding the Productive Beginnings of Engineering Judgement (October 20, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87988 87988-21648635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 10:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In 200- and 300-level engineering science courses, students are traditionally asked to use mathematical models to solve well-defined textbook homework problems. While these problems are important for practicing mathematical problem-solving, they lack the complexity of ill-defined, sociotechnical engineering projects in the real world. In my current research I seek to bridge this gap between the engineering classroom and engineering workplace by understanding how students engage in the productive beginnings of professional practices and how instructors can support these productive beginnings.   This seminar will focus on one particular practice, engineering judgment, which is the use of mathematical models in design and analysis. I will begin by discussing my background and own personal motivation for this interpretivist research. I will then present my work in progress on the development of a new theoretical framework of the productive beginnings of engineering judgment. This research has been conducted symbiotically with a new innovative type of assignment in which students model a real-world system by making and justifying their own assumptions. I will conclude by outlining my future work on students’ development of macroethical reasoning and formative assessment strategies instructors can use to engage students in the productive beginnings of professional practices.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:32:51 -0400 2021-10-20T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-20T11:45:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Professor Aaron Johnson
IISS Lecture Series. Shi'a Islam, Politics, and Resistance in Iran: From Tobacco Protest until Today (October 20, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87986 87986-21648223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The lecture will examine the role of Shia Islam in Iran's Tobacco Protest (1890-91) and Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), in the support of Mohammad Mosaddegh (1951-1953) and Iran's Islamic Revolution (1979), as well as Shia Islam and politics in Iran today.

Register at
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcOCurz4vHNzmzBoGPeWSUGIBaGwQiJ5j

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:33:39 -0400 2021-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Shi'a Islam, Politics, and Resistance in Iran: From Tobacco Protest until Today
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Gender differences in Approaches to Pandemics in the MENA Region (October 20, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87020 87020-21638139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."

Please register to attend at https://myumi.ch/QAkor.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu.

Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:07:31 -0400 2021-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series
MIPSE Seminar | A New Regime of HED Physics: Coupling High-Rep-Rate Lasers with Cognitive Simulation (October 20, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86293 86293-21632602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
As high-intensity short-pulse lasers that can operate at high-repetition-rate (HRR) (>10 Hz) come online around the world, the high-energy-density (HED) science they enable will experience a radical paradigm shift. The >103 increase in shot rate over today’s shot-per-hour drivers translates into dramatically faster data acquisition and more experiments, and thus the potential to significantly accelerate the advancement of HED science. However, to fully realize the potential benefits of HRR facilities requires a fundamental shift in how they are operated, and in fact, how the experiments performed on them are designed and executed. Current energetic driver facilities depend on the ability to manually tune the lasers, the targets, the diagnostics settings, and more, between single shots or sets of shots through a manual feedback loop of data collection, data analysis, and optimization largely driven by experience and intuition. At 10 Hz, this paradigm is no longer sustainable as more complex data is collected more quickly than is possible to analyze manually. Simultaneously, on-the-fly optimization of experiments will become ever more crucial as higher repetition rates will lead to more deliberate inter-shot variations and the improved operational range to allow exploration over larger regions of phase space. Consequently, it is likely that the next generation of laser facilities will be limited not by their hardware but by our ability to use that hardware effectively. We will present the vision and ongoing work to realize a HRR framework for rapidly delivered optimal experiments coupled to cognitive simulation to provide new insights in HED science.

About the Speaker: Dr. Tammy Ma is the Advanced Photon Technologies Program Element Leader for High-Intensity Laser High Energy Density (HED) Science within NIF & Photon Sciences at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Her group pioneers use of the highest intensity lasers in the world to investigate novel high energy density states of matter, generate energetic beams of particles, study laboratory astrophysics, and explore fusion physics. Dr. Ma graduated with a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the U of California at San Diego. She has authored or co-authored over 185 refereed journal publications, and currently sits on the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), providing advice to the U.S. DOE’s Office of Science on issues related to fusion energy and plasma research. She is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE), the APS Thomas H. Stix Award for her work in quantifying hydrodynamic in-stability mix in ICF implosions, and the DOE Early Career Research Award. She currently also serves as LLNL’s Deputy Director for Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) Program.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for additional information and requirements for in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2122.php

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:30:42 -0400 2021-10-20T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-20T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Tammy Ma
The University of Michigan Carillons (October 20, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85031 85031-21625473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We all are transfixed whenever we hear beautiful music emanating from either of the University’s two carillons on campus. And the simple sight of the towers housing the Baird and Lurie Carillons leave us awestruck. Have you ever wondered how our University was fortunate enough to acquire two carillons? Have you wondered how they were played? How were the bells made? Or who was the person (carillonneur) creating the music, and how do they make the huge bells ring out? How and when were the Baird and Lurie Carillons built on the UofM campus, and who were some of their notable carillonneurs? How do you play a carillon? I’ll bet you can’t guess!
We’ll learn about the origins of carillons in the 16th century to the future of carillon composing and performance in modern times.

Eva Albalghiti is a carillonneur at the University of Michigan. Eva began playing the carillon at Yale University, and was a member of the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs. She was also recognized for her talent through membership in the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America. After pursuing a two-year research opportunity in Beijing, China, she began her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the U of M. Eva plays a weekly carillon recital at Lurie Tower on UM’s North Campus. I’ll bet the view from the top is spectacular!

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:19:37 -0400 2021-10-20T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (October 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88315 88315-21652404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

The Ye lab is focused on harnessing the power of single cell and computational genomics to understand how immune cells sense and respond to their environment. Utilizing new experimental methods we have developed to enable multiplexed single-cell sequencing, I will describe results from sequencing 1.2M cells from ~250 samples to understand the cellular and molecular bases of systemic lupus erythmatosus and COVID-19. I will also describe how population scale single cell sequencing can enable dissection of the genetic architecture of gene expression and annotation of disease associated variants. Finally, I’ll touch on novel experimental workflows to further increase the throughput of single-cell genomics and for encoding orthogonal information into single-cell sequencing assays.

Research Overview:

The Ye lab is interested in how the interaction between genetics and environment affect human variation at the level of molecular phenotypes. To study these interactions, the lab couples high-throughput sequencing approaches that measure cellular response under environmental challenges with population genetics where such measurements are collected and analyzed across large patient cohorts. The lab develops novel experimental approaches that enable the large-scale collection of functional genomic data *en masse* and computational approaches that translate the data into novel biological insights. This approach is used to initially study primary human immune cells in both healthy and diseased patients to understand host pathogen interactions and its role in autoimmunity.

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:50:45 -0400 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series (October 20, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88055 88055-21649058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

This month we host "Setting Change in Motion: The Power in Communities and Storytelling" where we explore the power of communities and stories in civic engagement. We are honored to host award-winning journalist and MSNBC/CNN news anchor, Richard Lui, and Executive Director of Inclusive Action for the City, Rudy Espinoza. The event will be moderated by Erika Hayasaki, independent journalist and writer based in Southern California and current U-M Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow. The virtual event will be hosted Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 5:30-7pm

Register at https://myumi.ch/mneE3

We have copies of Richard Lui's latest copy "Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness" available for the first registered 30 students.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:28:00 -0400 2021-10-20T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Speakers Richard Lui and Rudy Espinoza
NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Mini Symposium Series: The Mind & Music (October 21, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88351 88351-21653429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies

"Music is to the mind as air is to the body." (Plato)

The next installment of the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Mini Symposium Series explores the idea of music as the medicine of the mind, from its physical effects to the emotions it elicits. It culminates with a look at how Mott Children’s Hospital is using music therapy to bring.

When: Thursday, October 21, 2:00 PM-2:30 PM
Where: ZOOM
Register: https://michmed.org/O525W

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:24:57 -0400 2021-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Lecture / Discussion Flier for The Mind & Music
Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Charles Bell, author of Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety (October 21, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88237 88237-21651569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Thursday, October 21, 2021
6:00pm -7:00pm
East Quadrangle Keene Theater
701 East University, Ann Arbor, 48109

ABOUT THE EVENT

Please join us for an engaging presentation and interactive discussion with Detroit native and Illinois State University Professor Charles Bell. Drawing on his personal life experience and over 150 interviews, Dr. Bell illuminates how carceral-inspired, punitive school-based disciplinary practices harm Black students, disrupt their parents' employment, and violate state and federal laws, demanding that we reimagine our approaches to school safety and discipline.

Charles will have copies of his brand new book, Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety, available at the event, is free and open to the public.

The event is hosted by the Residential College and co-sponsored by the Sociology Department, Educational Studies, the Prison Creative Arts Project, and the Semester in the Detroit program.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Becca Pickus at rpickus@umich.edu.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:45:13 -0400 2021-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Suspended Book Cover
The Wandering Palestinian: A Conversation with Writer & Activist Dr. Anan Ameri (October 21, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86411 86411-21634187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Dr. Anan Ameri is an activist, scholar, author, and founding director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and the Palestine Aid Society of America. She is also the co-founder of many progressive political and cultural coalitions in the US. For over four decades, Ameri has advocated for social justice and for immigrants’ rightful place in the US. She is the author of many books and articles.

Anan Ameri was born in 1944 in Damascus Syria to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother. She grew up in Amman, Jordan. She received her B.A. in sociology at the University of Jordan, Amman; her M.A. in sociology at Cairo University in Egypt; and her Ph.D. in sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Dr. Ameri is the recipient of numerous local and national awards in recognition of her work within the Arab American community as well as society at large including 2006 Michiganian of the Year, and 2020 Arab American of the Year. In 2016, she was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

Ameri has served as acting director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies in Jerusalem; visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies; the founding director and national president of the Palestine Aid Society of America, and the Founding Director of the Arab American National Museum. Prior to immigrating to the US in 1974, she worked as a program producer at Jordanian Television and a researcher at the Palestine Research Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Anan Ameri is the author of numerous books and articles including the two-volume memoir The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus (2017, Interlink Publishing) and The Wondering Palestinian, (2020, BHC Press)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:51:05 -0400 2021-10-21T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-21T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Anan Ameri
Naomi Mburu Research Presentation (October 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88257 88257-21651938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Naomi Mburu is a DPhil Candidate in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford focusing on heat transfer for nuclear fusion reactors as a Rhodes Scholar. She is also a former NextProf participant and NERS visitor.

Abstract
The development of robust plasma facing components (PFCs) is one of the outstanding challenges to the realisation of electricity generation from nuclear fusion. The PFCs within a commercial tokamak fusion reactor will need to withstand extreme thermal and mechanical loads as well as neutron irradiation for extended periods of time. Currently, liquid metals are being studied as a promising replacement for solid wall PFC’s because they are self-healing and have the ability to absorb plasma discharge that would otherwise reduce the efficiency of the core plasma. Extensive theoretical and experimental work is still needed to fully characterize the tokamak environment on liquid metal flows. Preliminary theoretical work has shown that under fusion-relevant conditions, the poloidal magnetic field has a much stronger effect on the thin-film flow of liquid metal than the toroidal field. However, the comparative magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects on the flow of thin-film liquid metal through poloidal and toroidal magnetic fields have yet to be experimentally quantified.

This talk details the design of an experimental facility to characterize the flow of a free surface, thin-film (1 mm) of liquid metal in the presence of a poloidal and toroidal magnetic field of the order of 0.2 Tesla. A Helmholtz Coil is designed and manufactured to produce a region of roughly uniform magnetic field, and the liquid metal Galinstan is used as the working fluid. The preservation of the Hartmann number (Ha), Reynolds number (Re) and aspect ratio (ε) at fusion relevant conditions guides the development of the physical parameters of this experiment. The experiment is designed to allow for high resolution liquid metal surface and depth analysis, and eventually to explore the added effects of temperature gradients on liquid metal flow in thermoelectric magnetohydrodynamic (TEMHD) conditions.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:07:14 -0400 2021-10-22T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Naomi Mburu
Smith Lecture: Using Iron Isotopes to Understand Planetary Formation and Evolution (October 22, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83656 83656-21452148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Originated from similar building materials in the Solar System, Earth, other terrestrial planets, and large asteroids are widely different from each other as a result of distinct formation, differentiation, and evolution processes they experienced. Understanding these processes is vital to deciphering how planets achieved their current internal structure and chemical composition, the fate of volatiles throughout the geological history of a planet, and ultimately the favorable conditions leading to the development of habitable worlds. Recent advancement in mass spectrometry techniques enabled rapid exploitation in non-traditional isotope systems such as Fe and Cu, which brought us new ways to study planetary differentiation and evolution. In this talk, I will show how Fe isotopes can be used to understand planetary core crystallization and to trace deep subduction on Earth.

Those wishing to attend remotely should log in to Zoom ID#989 8458 7392

Please note:
Before entering any U-M building, all visitors, contractors and vendors are required to complete a preliminary health screening via the guest version of ResponsiBLUE. The questionnaire includes information about U-M's face covering policy and expectations for unvaccinated individuals to continue to mask and distance while indoors on any of U-M's campuses.

Go to: https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/prevention-testing-care/prevention/responsiblue/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:44:10 -0400 2021-10-22T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-22T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Musicology Lecture: “Naming and Counting Whiteness:   Fred Astaire, Stephen Sondheim, and Race in the American Musical” - Dr. Todd Decker (October 22, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87752 87752-21645625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Todd Decker (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2007) is the Paul Tietjens Professor of Music, American Culture Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Racial segregation pervades the American stage and screen musical from its origins to the present. And while the black-cast musical is usually named as such, the necessary complement on the other side of the color line—the white-cast musical—is typically granted the unmodified moniker “the musical.” (Eliding race in this way is, of course, a classic expression of whiteness.) This talk names the white-cast musical as such by identifying aesthetic, structural, and industrial forms of whiteness in the output of two major figures: Fred Astaire and Stephen Sondheim. Drawing on forthcoming work on both men, I use a variety of methods to identify and describe Astaire’s and Sondheim’s distinct and particular types of whiteness. Adding precision to this inquiry, I draw on digital humanities methods that quantify the extent to which whiteness dominates the history of the American musical. 

Watch via Zoom https://myumi.ch/gjwZq
passcode 422436

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:15:14 -0400 2021-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
CANCELLED: SAVE THE DATE 11th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (October 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84621 84621-21631581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

With the current state of things we have decide to cancel the Save the Date for the CPOD International Symposium.

We will update you with the new details as soon as we have a new date.

Thank you for your understanding as we work to make adjustments with the safety of all participants in mind.

Questions/Comments please contact us at: organogenesis@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:40:09 -0400 2021-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Conference / Symposium CPOD Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design
Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic Containment Efforts (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88052 88052-21648952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This talk examines the impact of mobile phone access on the containment of an epidemic. Speaker Elisa Maffioli et al. study this question in the context of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia. They found that having access to cell phone coverage leads to a 10.8 percentage point reduction in the likelihood that a village has an EVD case. Results from this novel survey collected following the epidemic suggest that this is mostly explained by cellphone access facilitating emergency care provision rather than improving access to outbreak-related information.

Dr. Maffioli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Management and Policy, at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research is in development economics, health economics and political economy, with a focus on infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and nutrition in lower income countries. She is currently working in Liberia, Myanmar, Brazil, Mozambique and Nigeria, and has also conducted research in Lesotho, Kenya and India.


Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:02:51 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
The Trichloroethylene Metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine Suppresses Inflammatory Pathways in a Macrophage Cell Model: Implications for Immunosuppression During Pregnancy (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88558 88558-21655081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

https://umich.zoom.us/s/95313929320

The goal of the environmental research seminar/webinar is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for sharing and critiquing research proposals and preliminary study results.

Dr. Harris is a Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Dr. Harris earned his PhD in environmental toxicology from the University of Washington, where he conducted his dissertation research in male reproductive toxicology. As part of his research he helped to develop an in vitro testis cell culture model for studying male reproductive toxicants. He now studies female reproductive toxicology, using a combination of approaches including primary tissue culture models, transcriptomics and metabolomics to investigate molecular mechanisms of toxicant effects on the placenta and fetal membranes. His research aims to advance our understanding of how environmental toxicants contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes.

https://umich.zoom.us/s/95313929320

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:02:57 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Sean Harris Oct 26 Environmental Research Webinar
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD-Variations In Biology Seminar Series (October 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87459 87459-21642270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design alongside The Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology departments and the Cell and Molecular Biology CMB/Genetics Training Programs are proud to present:

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD
Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer
Stowers Institute

Faculty Host(s):
Carole Parent, PhD, CMB Faculty Coordinator
Trainee Host(s):
Hannah Bell, Wesley Huang, Ansley Semack, and Yi-Ju Lulu Tseng

For more information/questions email:
Laura Buttitta, PhD buttitta@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:44:46 -0400 2021-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Workshop / Seminar Variations In Biology
Impact of response styles on inclusive measurement (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86252 86252-21640716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Impact of response styles on inclusive measurement
Wednesday, October 27, noon to 1:10pm ET via Zoom

Speakers:
Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton
(PhD Candidate, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan)

Sunghee Lee
(Research Associate Professor, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan)

Rachel Davis
(Associate Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina)

Abstracts:

Negated and Polar Opposite Items for Balanced Scale construction: An Empirical Cross-Cultural Assessment

Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton

Acquiescent Response Style (ARS) is a culturally patterned measurement error in surveys that threatens comparisons across groups with different cultural backgrounds potentially undermining inclusivity estimating attitudes and beliefs in a population. Balanced scales blend items written in different directions and are hypothesized as a method for controlling ARS. This study examined the differences in measurement properties between two types of balanced scales. The first balanced scale type included negated items, which were item reversals formed by inserting a negation, such as, “no” and “not.” The second type included polar opposite items, which used antonyms or opposite terms to reverse the item direction (e.g., “unhappy” as the opposite of “satisfied”). Participants were recruited to a Web survey and randomly assigned to (1) unbalanced, (2) negated balanced or (3) polar opposite balanced scales. Participants came from three groups with different ARS tendencies to contrast the effects of scale wording in mitigating ARS across groups and improving measurement across cultural subgroups. These groups were: Non-Hispanic White respondents, Hispanic respondents in Mexico and Hispanic respondents in the US. Both types of balanced scales outperformed unbalanced scales in convergent validity, with higher correlations between scale scores and validation variables for balanced than unbalanced scales. No statistical differences were observed between negated and polar opposite scales in fit indices of factor models, reliability measures or convergent validity for any group. These findings suggest that negated and polar opposite balanced scales are equivalent for ARS control, and that they yield adequate measurement properties for all groups included in the study.

Response Style and Measurement of Satisfaction with Life

Sunghee Lee

Satisfaction with Life (SWL), a five-item scale, is designed to assess global judgment about one’s satisfaction with life as a whole rather than specific domains of life. Popularly used by many organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it has been translated into over 30 languages. However, with its standard version using a 7-point Likert response scale, it is subject to measurement error due to response style and measurement non-comparability across groups associated with systematically different response styles. More importantly, whether and how this is addressed in research may have implications for its inclusivity. This study examines the utility of balancing the SWL scale experimentally with multiple racial/ethnic/linguistic groups in the US: Latinx dominant in English, Latinx dominant in Spanish, non- Latinx Whites, non-Latinx Blacks, non-Latinx Koreans dominant in English and non-Latinx Koreans dominant in Korean. The results suggest the benefit of balancing measurement scales but not for groups that engage in middle response style.

Reducing Acquiescent Response Style with Conversational Interviewing

Rachel Davis

Acquiescent response style (ARS), the tendency for survey respondents to select positive answers such as “Strongly Agree,” is of particular concern for increasing measurement error in surveys with populations who are more likely to acquiesce, such as U.S. Latinx respondents. This study enrolled 891 Latinx telephone survey respondents in an experiment to address two questions: (1) Does administering a questionnaire using conversational interviewing (CI) yield less ARS than standardized interviewing (SI)? (2) Do item-specific (IS) response scales reduce ARS when compared to disagree/agree (DA) response formats? No difference was observed in ARS between the DA and IS response scales. However, CI yielded significantly lower ARS than SI, likely due to the CI interviewers' efforts to clarify questions and help with response mapping. Findings from this study suggest that using CI to administer survey questions may decrease use of ARS and improve data quality among survey respondents who are more likely to engage in ARS.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:06:36 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Do We Speak COVID-19? Language and Translation in the Era of Global Crises (October 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87022 87022-21638143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."

Please register to attend at https://myumi.ch/r8MB9.

About the Presentation:
COVID-19 pandemic’s effects have been witnessed everywhere including language. New lexical items and sociolinguistic changes have been created in the wake of this global crisis. Some speakers have used several linguistic devices, such as neologisms or collocations, for dealing with COVID-19 through using affixation, compounding, blending, clipping, acronyms, and abbreviation. Other speakers adopted euphemistic and dysphemistic techniques to express what they intend to say and to reflect what they appreciate or depreciate. In addition, presidents and politicians referred to strong language and war metaphors in their daily speeches to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as to shape their fellow countrymen’s thoughts and view.

The effects of COVID-19 pandemic have been also found in the area of Translation Studies (TS). The pandemic produced an enormous amount of COVID-19 health information which urgently needs to be translated into different languages. Thus, translators play an influential role in the global response against COVID-19 by rendering and disseminating reliable information in a language the general public can understand. In response to this critical situation, translators have used modern translation technologies and online resources, but they have faced different financial and occupational challenges.

About the Speaker:
Sameer Naser Olimat is an assistant professor of translation and linguistics in the English Department, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan. He received his PhD in Translation Studies and Computational Linguists from the University of Leeds, UK, in 2019. He is interested in the areas of English-Arabic and Arabic-English translation, Qur'an translation, crisis translation, computational linguistics, and sociolinguistic. He is the founder of Leeds Corpus of Euphemisms in the Qur’an http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/euphemismolimat/. He participated in national and international peer-reviewed conferences. He published several articles in peer-reviewed and specialized journals.

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*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:06:56 -0400 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion CMENAS Colloquium Series 2021
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (October 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88276 88276-21652019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Molecular classification has transformed the diagnosis and treatment of diffuse gliomas, creating targets for precision therapies. However, timely and efficient access to molecular diagnostic methods remains difficult, causing a significant barrier to deliver molecularly-targeted therapies. We aim to develop an innovative point-of-care diagnostic screening method that provides rapid and accurate molecular classification of diffuse gliomas through artificial intelligence and optical imaging in order to improve the comprehensive care of brain tumor patients.

Bio:
Dr. Todd Hollon is a neurosurgeon and research scientist who specializes in brain tumors. He is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery. He completed his postdoctoral training in the UM Translational Molecular Imaging Laboratory under the supervision of Drs. Daniel Orringer and Honglak Lee. His postdoctoral work focused on the application of deep neural networks to advanced imaging methods to improve the speed and accuracy of intraoperative brain tumor diagnosis. He hopes to be part of the next generation of young scientists that uses computation and machine learning to make scientific breakthroughs.

Host: Josh Welch, PhD

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

In-Person: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:26:31 -0400 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
“Disparities in Reproductive Aging & Midlife Health between Black & White Women” and “Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race & Ethnicity” (October 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87494 87494-21642885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Please register for more information and Zoom link.
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JiZPRVJaStK7yNbArsSubA

The webinar, hosted by the Center for Midlife Science, features papers that will appear in a special series for the journal, Women's Midlife Health.

Talk #1 “Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White Women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)” with Tené T. Lewis, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University; and Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan.

Talk #2: “Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race and Ethnicity: The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)” with Shawna Follis, PhD, MS (Dept. of Medicine, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine); Monik C. Jiménez, ScD, SM, FAHA, (Harvard Medical School and T.H. Chan School of Public Health); and Lorena Garcia, MPH, DrPH, (Division of Epidemiology, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine).

Moderators: Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School; and Gloria Bachmann, MD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Sponsored by the journal, Women’s Midlife Health; Center for Midlife Science at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health; Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine Diversity and Inclusion Board. SWAN is funded by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Office of Research on Women's Health. WHI is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:04:41 -0400 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Lecture / Discussion Webinar Series on Structural Racism and Midlife Health
Hybrid FAST Lecture | The Greek Colonization of Southern Italy: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Cultural Encounters (October 28, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88573 88573-21655184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

FAST, or the Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays, is usually hosted in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. However, due to space restrictions, this lecture will take place in the Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall), and will also be streamed live via Zoom (see link below). Please feel free to choose the attendance method that suits you best.

Our speaker is Giulia Saltini Semerari, a research affiliate of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA). Her lecture is entitled “The Greek Colonization of Southern Italy: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Cultural Encounters.” Dr. Saltini Semerari's research seeks to harness the Mediterranean’s rich archaeological record to reconstruct and model diverse aspects of cultural contact. In particular, she is interested in understanding how small and large-scale socioeconomic dynamics affect long-term fluctuations in connectivity.

While typically FAST lectures are known for the plentiful provision of food and drink, for the time being, there will be no food or drink provided. Our deepest apologies to those disappointed by the decision—it seems the most prudent choice, given the circumstances.

Physical Attendance Location:
Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall)

Virtual Attendance Location:
Zoom Meeting ID: 984 5928 9799
Passcode: 706013

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Oct 2021 22:21:08 -0400 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T19:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion excavation in southern Italy
Smith Lecture: Human evolution in South Africa: carbonates, chronologies and decolonisation (October 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83657 83657-21452149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

South Africa has an extraordinary record of human evolution. Knowing how old sites are is a critical piece of the puzzle and my own work has focused on adapting the U-series chronometer to be applicable to a range of South African sites of varying ages. In the Cradle of Humankind, fossil bearing sediments are interbedded with speleothems. U-Pb dating of these flowstones provides the first direct chronology for this region, allows for different fossil beds to be correlated and suggests a palaeoenvironmental control over the nature of cave deposits. After a well over a decade of research, it is possible to interrogate this U-Pb speleothem database to access factors controlling age quality, ranging from diagenesis to initial Pb conditions. Human evolution research in South Africa has received international attention for nearly a century and is vast and broad in terms of research foci. However, the leading researchers have been almost entirely men, with women and people of colour under-represented, and black women largely absent. The Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has set out to disrupting, transform and decolonise this patriarchal narrative of human evolution in South Africa

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:39:48 -0400 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Special Physics Presentation | Journey into the World of Particle Physics and the Cosmos — and a Call for a More Just Practice of Science (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84413 84413-21623899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department Colloquia

This presentation will live stream on the U-M Poverty Solutions Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaca6llnjhs

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's research focuses on theoretical work at the intersection of particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics. She is interested in scalar dark matter candidates such as axions and axion-like particles, as well as neutron stars and inflationary cosmology. She is a member of the LSST Dark Matter Group and the STROBE-X Science Working Group, where she leads Team STROBE-Ax. Before coming to the University of New Hampshire, she held a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship at Goddard Space Flight Center, a Martin Luther King Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physics at MIT, and was a research associate at the University of Washington.

In her book, "The Disordered Cosmos", Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter — all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.

One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a Ph.D. from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions.

Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, sexism, and other dehumanizing systems. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society that begins with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the Poverty Solutions of the U-M and the U-M Department of Physics.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:20:30 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department Colloquia Livestream / Virtual Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's new book!
Consequences of Receiving Versus Being Denied a Wanted Abortion (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86164 86164-21631757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Michigan Population Studies Center Brown Bag seminars presents:

Diana Greene Foster will discuss the context and findings of The Turnaway Study. The Turnaway Study answers the question, Does abortion hurt women? and the converse, What are the harms when women are unable to get a wanted abortion? Dr. Foster will review the challenges of studying abortion and what has happened in the absence of rigorous data. She will describe the study design of the Turnaway Study and present its major findings about women’s mental health, physical health and the wellbeing of their children. She will describe the reasons people give for seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy and what that tells us about whether one can trust women’s decision-making abilities around pregnancy.

Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies and the effect of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. She is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of Research at the UCSF ANSIRH Program. She led the Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion in the United States. She is currently collaborating with scientists on an NIH-funded Turnaway Study in Nepal. Dr. Foster received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, her MA and PhD in Demography and Public Policy from Princeton University. She is the author of the 2020 book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion. She is the recipient of the 2021 Harriet B. Presser Award for the study of gender and demography from the Population Association of America.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:46:51 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Diana Greene Foster
Methods for estimating time-varying exposures during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88560 88560-21655083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Howard Chang, PhD, is a Professor of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Environmental Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

The goal of Environmental Statistics Week is to disseminate knowledge of advanced statistical methods most relevant to environmental health research with expert-led discussions on statistical concepts.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:27:34 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion 2021 Environmental Statistics Week
The Futurescape of Medicine Lecture Series (November 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85074 85074-21625548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The goal of this lecture series is to provide educational insights about future developments in five different areas of medical care.

Lecture #4 - New Approaches to the Treatment of Gynecologic Cancers.
Our speakers will be Claire Friedman, MD and Alison Schram, MD.

Attention will be paid to current best practices, ethical implications of new technologies, promotion of consumer education and choices, and financial aspects of delivery in the context of value-based care. A lively discussion is anticipated for each lecture regarding the many issues raised by these trends and technologies.”

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:24:12 -0400 2021-11-02T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Futurescape of Medicine
Bayesian models for mercury effects on multiple outcomes in the Seychelles Child Development Study (November 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88561 88561-21655084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Sally W. Thurston, PhD is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester, Dept of Biostatistics and Computational Biology.

ABSTRACT: The Seychelles Child Development Study (SCDS) Main Cohort was recruited to investigate the association between prenatal mercury (Hg) exposure from maternal fish consumption and the children’s subsequent development. Multiple neurodevelopmental outcomes were measured at several discrete ages. These outcomes can be grouped into different classes or "domains", such as cognition, motor, or memory. Associations of Hg and covariates may differ across outcomes and domains. Motivated by the SCDS, I will first discuss a model for multiple outcomes at a single age under the assumption that each outcome belongs to one domain and domain memberships are known. I will then briefly describe two extensions: a model in which outcomes may have partial domain membership in more than one domain, and a longitudinal multiple outcomes model for cognition when the tests of cognition change with the age of the child.

The goal of Environmental Statistics Week is to disseminate knowledge of advanced statistical methods most relevant to environmental health research with expert-led discussions on statistical concepts.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:34:57 -0400 2021-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion 2021 Environmental Statistics Week
How close and how much? Linking health outcomes to spatial distributions of built environment features (November 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88562 88562-21655085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Veronica Berrocal, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of California at Irvine.

Built environment features (BEFs) refer to aspects of the human constructed environment, which may in turn support or restrict health related behaviors and thus impact health. In this talk we are interested in understanding whether the spatial distribution and quantity of fast food restaurants (FFRs) influence the risk of obesity in schoolchildren. Our analysis on the influence of patterns of FFR occurrence on obesity among Californian schoolchildren has indicated that, in 2010, among schools that are consistently assigned to a cluster, there is a lower odds of obesity amongst 9th graders who attend schools with most distant FFR occurrences in a 1-mile radius as compared to others.

The goal of Environmental Statistics Week is to disseminate knowledge of advanced statistical methods most relevant to environmental health research with expert-led discussions on statistical concepts.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:42:53 -0400 2021-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion 2021 Environmental Statistics Week
Rod Little - On the Definition of Response Propensity – MPSM JPSM Seminar Series (November 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88318 88318-21652407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Rod Little is Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, where he also holds appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Institute for Social Research. He has over 250 publications, notably on methods for the analysis of data with missing values and model-based survey inference, and the application of statistics to diverse scientific areas, including medicine, demography, economics, psychiatry, aging and the environment. Little is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2005, Little was awarded the American Statistical Association’s Wilks Medal for research contributions, and he gave the President’s Invited Address at the Joint Statistical Meetings. He was the COPSS Fisher Lecturer at the 2012 Joint Statistics Meetings.

On the Definition of Response Propensity

Nonresponse propensities play a central role in unit nonresponse adjustments from both design and model-based perspectives, but are often not clearly defined because of lack of clarity about the variables on which the propensities are conditioned. I propose a definition of response propensity for the purpose of nonresponse adjustments, where the conditioning is restricted to include the variables measured in the survey as well as design and auxiliary variables measured for respondents and nonrespondents. The proposed definition is justified from both design-based and model-based perspectives. The role of the missing at random assumption is discussed for both perspectives, for cross-sectional surveys and longitudinal surveys with attrition.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:53:30 -0400 2021-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Rod Little - On the Definition of Response Propensity – MPSM JPSM Seminar Series
Detecting white supremacist speech on social media (November 3, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88358 88358-21653508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Detecting white supremacist speech on social media
Wednesday, November 3, 1pm ET

Social media have been repeatedly shown to harbor white supremacist networks, enabling far-right extremists to find one another, recruit and radicalize new members, and normalize their hate. In order to address the problem of white supremacist speech on social media, platforms must first be able to identify it.

In this talk, Libby Hemphill will present research to understand what white supremacist speech looks like, especially how it’s different from general or commonplace speech, and to determine whether white supremacists try to adapt to avoid detection from social media platforms’ current content moderation systems.

ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:25:09 -0400 2021-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Panic, Pestilence and Religious Coping; Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A psychological Perspective on Arab Countries (November 3, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87026 87026-21638147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."

Please register to attend at https://myumi.ch/2D3NM.

About the Presentations:

*Panic, Pestilence and Religious Coping*
Positive religious coping has frequently been associated with better mental health outcomes when dealing with stressful life events (e.g., natural disasters, domestic abuse, divorce). The COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated infection prevention and control measures (curfew, quarantine, restricted travel, social distancing), represent a society-wide stressor. This presentation will explored positive religious coping in general with a particular focus on Muslims. It will look at research examining responses to the early stages of the pandemic among religious and secular communities. We will argue that among some religious communities, positive religious coping was inversely related to the development of psychopathology during the pandemic. We conclude that positive (but not negative) religious coping during infectious disease outbreaks may help some individuals reduce their risk of mental health problems. National pandemic preparedness plans may benefit from including a focus on religion and religious coping

*Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A psychological Perspective on Arab Countries*
COVID-19 pandemic’s mental health impact on Arab countries is under-researched. The goal of this presentation is to share the results of two studies conducted longitudinally in Arab countries. The first study was conducted on 7 Arab countries (N=1743; conducted from 4/28/2020 to 5/25/2020.), and the second on 11 Arab countries (N=2734; conducted from January to March 2021, 10 months after the first study). A questionnaire including measures of COVID-19 traumatic stress, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and cumulative stressors and trauma was distributed anonymously online, both times. ANOVA results indicated significant differences in COVID19 traumatic stress, PTSD, depression, and anxiety between the countries. Post-hoc analysis indicated that Egypt is significantly higher than all the other Arab countries in COVID-19 traumatic stress, PTSD, anxiety, and depression due, at least in part, to higher density, lower socioeconomic status, and the actual higher rates of infection. The subsample from Palestine and Iraq had a significantly higher cumulative trauma load than the other Arab countries but did not have higher levels of COVID-19 traumatic stress or PTSD. Hierarchical regression indicated that COVID-19 traumatic stress accounted for significant variance above and beyond the variance accounted for by previous cumulative stressors and traumas. In the second study, which was conducted ten months later, we found that the level of infection skyrocketed; however, the level of PTSD, depression and anxiety were almost stable or slightly decreased. The level of COVID-19 stressors slightly decreased, but Egypt still had the highest COVID-19 stressors. The results reflect increased adjustment over time, even with increased infection and mortality.

About the Speakers:

Justin Thomas is professor of experimental psychology with an interest in the interface between culture, religion and psychopathology/wellbeing

Ibrahim A. Kira, PhD, is the director of Center for Cumulative Trauma Studies, Stone, GA, & affiliate of Center for Stress, Trauma and Resiliency, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. His research interest focuses on the dynamics of cumulative stressors/traumas and Stressors/traumas proliferation. He is the lead developer of the developmentally based trauma framework (DBTF) that focuses on the conceptual development and empirical validation of a novel conceptual paradigm of the dynamics of stressors/ traumas, especially in multiply traumatized populations. He is the first author of over 85 articles and chapter books on the subject.

The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise:If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu.

Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:10:32 -0400 2021-11-03T14:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series
MIPSE Seminar | Physics Impacts to Plasma Wave Thruster Design (November 3, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86296 86296-21632604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The allure of electrodeless, rf based thrusters is fairly obvious in the abstract: long life due to no electrode sputtering, multi-propellant operation (in some cases), higher plasma density. Examples include capacitive, inductive, and wave-based thrusters. Generally, the fundamental application of these concepts is an rf heated plasma, expanded through a divergent magnetic nozzle. When a wave is proposed as the plasma generation mechanism, certain physical parameters are proscribed by the dispersion relation, which serves to relate plasma parameters to the thruster design. Some considerations of these impacts on plasma sources can be examined in basic models of the wave dispersion, absorption, and coupling. The conservation laws in these sources provide additional constraints. The interaction of these phenomena will be discussed from a modeling and experimental perspective for a helicon source in terms of the scaling of density with power, geometry, and coupling, with implications for wave-based thrusters.

About the Speaker:
Dr. James Gilland is a Senior Scientist at the Ohio Aerospace Institute, specializing in advanced plasma propulsion (300 W to 300 MW), including Hall thrusters (HTs), magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters, and plasma wave thrusters. He currently supports NASA Solar Electric Propulsion HT development for the NASA Gateway. Dr. Gilland has performed system and mission analyses of a range of nuclear and solar electric propulsion systems; and served as the Lead Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) Engineer in NASA’s Nuclear Propulsion Office, performing analysis of multimegawatt NEP power and propulsion systems for human space exploration. He is a past NASA Innovative and Advanced Concepts Fellow for his work on propellantless propulsion using Alfven plasma waves. He served on the NASEM panel for Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies in 2020, and on several NASA advisory panels, including the High Energy Power & Propulsion Capabilities Roadmap Team. Dr. Gilland has an MS in Aerospace Engr. from Princeton U. and a PhD in Nuclear Engr. & Engr. Physics from U. of Wisconsin.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for additional information and requirements for in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2122.php

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:36:48 -0400 2021-11-03T15:30:00-04:00 2021-11-03T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. James Gilland
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (November 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88449 88449-21654119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract
My research group works in the area of mathematical oncology, where we use mathematical models to decipher the complex networks of reactions inside of cancer cells and interactions between cells. Immune cells use hundreds of biochemical reactions to respond to their environment, become activated, and kill cancer cells. Understanding the complexity of these reaction networks requires computational tools and mathematical models. We combine detailed, mechanistic modeling with machine learning to study these networks, better understand cancer and immune cells, and predict ways to control tumor growth. In this talk, I will present our recent work aimed at predicting the dynamics of immune cell behaviors across three scales: intracellular signaling pathways in CAR T cells, the collective behavior of a heterogeneous population of immune cells, and tumor-immune interactions at the tissue scale. Our models generate novel mechanistic insight into immune cell activation and predict the effects of immunotherapeutic strategies.


Biography
Stacey D. Finley is the Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Dr. Finley received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Florida A & M University and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. She completed postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Finley joined the faculty at USC in 2013, and she leads the Computational Systems Biology Laboratory. Dr. Finley has joint appointments in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Quantitative and Computational Biology, and she is a member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Finley is also the Founding Director of the Center for Computational Modeling of Cancer at USC. Her research is supported by grants from NSF, NIH, and the American Cancer Society.

Selected honors. 2016 NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award; 2016 Young Innovator by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering journal; Leah Edelstein-Keshet Prize from the Society of Mathematical Biology; Junior Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; the Hanna Reisler Mentorship Award; 2018 AACR NextGen Star; 2018 Orange County Engineering Council Outstanding Young Engineer; Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2021)

Hosted by: Alan Boyle, PhD

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:54:50 -0400 2021-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Stacey D. Finley, Ph.D. (USC)
Mentorship, Finance, and Legacy Building (November 3, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88413 88413-21653783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

TDLS: Finance and Mentoring - Cheh Kim, Sr. Information Specialist for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) & Nick Khouri, City of Detroit Economic Development Chief and former Michigan State Treasurer (2015-2018)

Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series (TDLS) is designed to increase healthy discourse and learning throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note. Our goal is to bring together bright minds with talks that are idea-focused on a wide range of subjects to foster wonder and provoke conversations that matter to students.

For this month's Trotter Distinguished Leaders Series event, we are excited to present Mentorship, Finance, and Legacy Building featuring U-M alumni Cheh Kim and Nick Khouri, financial service professionals with vast experience across the sector. We will be joined by moderator Josh Thurman as we hear their perspectives on finance and government, their personal path to finance, the importance of mentorship, and building legacies across different careers. The virtual event will be hosted Wednesday, November 3, 2021 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm. Can’t wait to see you there!


About the Speakers:

Nick Khouri: Nick is a retired finance executive who spent more than 30 years in both the public and private sectors, including both as Michigan’s 46th State Treasurer and Senior Vice President of DTE Energy, a Fortune 300 diversified energy company headquartered in Detroit. Michigan Treasury is responsible for maintaining the State of Michigan’s overall financial health - a $56b a year enterprise. As Treasurer, Nick was responsible for advising the Governor on all tax and revenue policy, collecting and administering over $22b in state taxes, acted as the sole fiduciary of a $70b pension plan, monitoring and intervening in the fiscal health of Michigan’s local governments and schools, and was the key liaison with the financial markets. Nick earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Cheh Kim: Cheh Kim has over 30 years in federal service working in the legislative and executive branches in a variety of senior-level roles on financial services, housing, veterans programs, small business, taxes, and economic development. Cheh is an experienced mentor, recruiter, and Chairs the Career Development Committee for the University of Michigan Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Alumni Club. He is also a Certified Career Services Provider. Born and raised in Michigan, Cheh earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Michigan.
Josh Thurman: Josh Thurman (he/him) is an advocate and educator committed to supporting individuals’ holistic development. A proud Detroiter and University of Michigan twice alum, Josh has nearly 10 years cultivating inclusive learning communities in educational settings: currently serving as the Program Manager for Cultural Engagement, Interfaith, and Intercultural Programs at Trotter Multicultural Center. He has extensive experience coaching and supporting over 500 students, staff/faculty, and executive leaders to develop their intercultural competence as a licensed consultant of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and Intercultural Conflict Styles (ICS) Assessment.


Register at: https://myumi.ch/mneE3

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:37:35 -0400 2021-11-03T17:30:00-04:00 2021-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
Perspectives on the Role of Engineering in Society (November 3, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88891 88891-21658825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Donald Winter is an independent consultant, and former Professor of Engineering Practice in the departments of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he taught graduate level courses on systems engineering, satellite design, and maritime policy. He served as the 74th Secretary of the Navy from January 2006 to March 2009. As Secretary of the Navy, he led America's Navy and Marine Corps Team and was responsible for an annual budget in excess of $125 billion and almost 900,000 people. Dr. Winter currently serves as the chair of Australia's Naval Shipbuilding Advisory Board, providing advice to Ministers and the National Security Committee of Cabinet regarding their plans to reconstruct the Royal Australian Navy's fleet and establish a sustainable shipbuilding capability. He also is a Special Government Employee in the US Department of Defense where he serves as the Senior Defense Industry Advisor for Ukraine.

Dr. Winter’s business career in the aerospace and defense industry spanned over 30 years as a systems engineer, program manager and corporate executive. From 2000 to 2005, he was President and CEO of TRW Systems (later Northrop Grumman Mission Systems), which he joined in 1972. In that position he oversaw operation of the business and its 18,000 employees, providing information technology systems and services; systems engineering and analysis; systems development and integration; scientific, engineering, and technical services; and enterprise management services. He also served on the company's corporate policy council. Previously, he served as vice president and deputy general manager for group development of TRW’s Space and Electronics business; and vice president and general manager of the defense systems division of TRW. From 1980 to 1982, he was with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as program manager for space acquisition, tracking, and pointing programs.

Dr. Winter was elected to the NAE in 2002 for pioneering contributions to high-powered laser technology and defense applications. He is a member of National Academies' Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine and Public Policy, and the Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG). He has served as a member of the NAE Committee on Membership, member and vice chair of the Special Fields and Interdisciplinary Engineering Peer Committee, and as peer committee vice chair of the Section 12 Executive Committee. Dr. Winter chaired the National Academies’ Committee on the Analysis of Causes of the Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Fire, and Oil Spill to Identify Measures to Prevent Similar Accidents in the Future (B0119); and the Committee on Options for Implementing the Requirement of Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations.

He received his BS in physics from the University of Rochester in 1969, and his MS in 1970 and PhD in 1972, both in physics from University of Michigan. Dr. Winter is also a graduate of the University of Southern California Management Policy Institute, the UCLA Executive Program, and the Harvard University Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:01:26 -0400 2021-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Don Winter
Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind: From sharp shooters to earthmovers, roaming dogs, helicopters in the sky, quarantines and men that fly (November 3, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87560 87560-21644076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Latina/o Studies welcomes you for a conversation with Virginia Grise where she will discuss the developmental process of adapting Helena María Viramontes' novel Their Dogs Came with Them for the stage, a story about the destruction and displacement of a Mexican American community when six intersecting freeways are built right through the heart of the neighborhood. In 2018, Grise adapted and staged Their Dogs Came with Them at a medium security women’s prison in Goodyear, Arizona with a team of collaborators from both inside and outside the prison. Six months later, the play was staged site-specifically under the I-19 Freeway in Tucson, Arizona with a community cast of scholars, organizers and actors.

Virginia Grise is a recipient of the Yale Drama Award, Whiting Writers' Award, the Princess Grace Award in Theatre Directing, and the Playwrights’ Center’s Jerome Fellowship. Her published work includes Your Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press), blu (Yale University Press), The Panza Monologues co-written with Irma Mayorga (University of Texas Press) and an edited volume of Zapatista communiqués titled Conversations with Don Durito (Autonomedia Press).

In addition to plays, she has created a body of work that is interdisciplinary and includes multimedia performance, dance theater, performance installations, guerilla theater, site specific interventions, and community gatherings. Virginia has taught writing for performance at the university level, as a public school teacher, in community centers, women’s prisons, and in the juvenile correction system. She holds an MFA in Writing for Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and is the Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Cara Mía Theatre in Dallas, Texas and a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University.

November 3rd, 2021
6:00pm - 7:30pm
3512 Haven Hall

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Presentation Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:14:37 -0400 2021-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Presentation Virginia Grise
Whither Capitalism? (November 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88248 88248-21651843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is part of the Thursday Morning Lecture Series on Our Changing Economic Landscape.

What is capitalism? What forms does it take in the world today? What forms did it take in the past? What forms will it take in the future? As economic systems go, has it performed well or poorly?

In this lecture, Professor Jim Adams will discuss the meaning of capitalism, the criteria we might use to evaluate capitalism, and the varieties of capitalism that have existed over time and across the globe. One lesson to emerge from this exercise will be a recognition that governments and markets are not opposites: The varieties of capitalism consist of diverse ways of combining government and market mechanisms to achieve socially desirable outcomes. Important measures of "outcome" include not only GDP per capita but also the distribution of health, happiness, income, and wealth.

Born in New York City and raised in East Lansing, Michigan, Professor Adams received three degrees in economics (AB summa cum laude, AM, and PhD) from Harvard University. In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where his current title is Shorey Peterson Professor of Industrial Organization, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, and Professor of Economics. Adams has held numerous administrative positions, including chair of his department, associate dean of his college, director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and director of the Center for West European Studies. He has held visiting professorships at six European universities, including the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Paris Dauphine.

He has advised the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Ambassador to France, and several foreign policy departments of the U.S. government. The father of two grown sons, he is married to a professor emerita of pediatric rheumatology.

Pre-registration for this event is required. A link to access the lecture will be provided shortly before the date of the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:45:10 -0400 2021-11-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Thursday Lectures
What do we learn from the environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 on and off campus? (November 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88563 88563-21655086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Chuanwu Xi, PhD, is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Global Public Health in the School of Public Health, University of Michigan.

The goal of Environmental Statistics Week is to disseminate knowledge of advanced statistical methods most relevant to environmental health research with expert-led discussions on statistical concepts.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:48:21 -0400 2021-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion 2021 Environmental Statistics Week
An electrical engineer’s guide to research and development at Corning Incorporated (November 4, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88126 88126-21650406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Donnell Walton is the 2021 ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Alumni Lectureship recipient.

Abstract

I will discuss the past, present and future of electrical-engineering-related research at Corning Incorporated. I will overview Corning’s historical industry-defining contributions in areas comprising light bulbs, vacuum tubes and cathode ray tubes.I will provide an overview of our current work in wireless networks for autonomous vehicles, adaptive optics and electronics for active optical couplers, and novel materials for high-frequency printed circuit boards. I will conclude the talk with some ruminations and lessons on industrial research.

Bio

Dr. Donnell Walton is the director of the Corning Technology Center Silicon Valley. In this role, he leads research and business development efforts to match Corning’s existing and emerging capabilities and opportunities in the western United States, in particular, the Silicon Valley region of California.

Walton joined Corning in 1999 as a senior research scientist in Science & Technology, where he performed and led research in optical fiber amplifiers and lasers. In 2004, Walton led Corning’s research and development efforts to a world leadership position in high-power (kW) fiber lasers. Then in 2006, he managed the Silicon on Glass (SiOG) platform expansion project, which demonstrated non-display applications of SiOG including imagers and photovoltaics. In 2008, Walton joined the Corning® Gorilla® Glass team as a senior applications engineer, where he extended the Gorilla Glass value proposition to form factors larger than handheld devices. In 2010, Walton was appointed manager of worldwide applications engineering for Gorilla Glass.

Prior to joining Corning, Walton was a physics professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he won the National Science Foundation’s Young Investigator (CAREER) Award.

Walton earned a Ph.D. in applied physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor after graduating summa cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in physics and electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. He completed the Stanford Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business in 2019. He serves on the board of the National Society of Black Physicists, the research advisory board of the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center and the corporate affiliate boards at the Universities of California in Santa Barbara and San Diego. Walton has authored or co-authored 22 U.S. patents and more than 60 technical reports.

The ECE Dr. Willie Hobbs Moore Alumni Lecture is given by ECE alumni from traditionally underrepresented groups in Electrical and Computer Engineering who are leaders in their field and serve as role models for the ECE community through their leadership, impact on society, service to the community, or other contributions.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:14:32 -0400 2021-11-04T15:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion speaker headshot
"The Fortunes" by Peter Ho Davies (November 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85051 85051-21625508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Peter Ho Davies novel “The Fortunes” has been aptly described as “sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured.” “The Fortunes” expands the notion of a multigenerational novel by moving beyond the saga of a single family to the story of Chinese Americans beginning in the 1860’s - - - Ah Ling, a laundryman and railway worker in the1860’s; Anna May Wong a film star in 1920’s and 30’s; Vincent Chin, a young man beaten to death by two auto workers in Detroit in 1982; and finally, a Chinese American and his wife who travel to China to adopt a baby girl.

Joyce Carol Oates describes it as “A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty…”

The Times Literary Supplement said The Fortunes “Should take its place as a seminal, defining text on the Chinese-American experience.”

“The Fortunes” was a New York Times Notable Book, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Chautauqua Prize, and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Peter Ho Davies is a contemporary writer of Welsh and Chinese descent. He was born and raised in Coventry, England. He studied physics at Manchester University and then English at Cambridge University. In 1992, he moved to the United States to study in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University.

He has taught at the University of Oregon and at Emory University and is currently the Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature in the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novels “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself” (2021), “The Fortunes” (2016) and “The Welsh Girl” (2007), as well as the story collections “The Ugliest House in the World” (1997) and “Equal Love” (2000).

He has won numerous prizes for his short stories as well as his novels. Professor Davies lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and son.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:09:46 -0400 2021-11-05T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
CSEAS Lecture Series. Is the Philippines Asia's Banana Republic? Vertical Disintegration After Empire (November 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87095 87095-21638696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public. Please register at https://myumi.ch/PlgjR

The term “banana republic,” a racializing pejorative used to describe Central American economies, does not usually conjure images of Asia. Yet it has become a common moniker for the state of the Philippines’ political and economic systems. Both journalistic and academic writing have used the label to characterize every administration from Ferdinand Marcos (1965 - 1986) to Rodrigo Duterte (2016 - current), citing U.S. intervention in politics, a state of bloodshed and rebellion, the persistence of kleptocracy in high office, the lack of government accountability, and the rampancy of inequality. These popular references suggest that notions of a “Philippine banana republic” have little to do with the tropical commodity on which the metaphor is based. This paper, in response, turns to the export banana zones of southeastern Mindanao as both the metaphoric root and a material source of the power asymmetries that envelop the agrarian landscape of the Philippine south. It offers historical comparisons between the Southeast Asian nation and Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras to demonstrate how scholarly understandings of the “banana republics” shift in the Asian context. Focusing on (1) new land control schemes devised by the same American fruit conglomerates; (2) foundational ties to import markets in Japan, rather than to the U.S. and Europe; and (3) a history of peri-colonialism in Mindanao, this paper shows the role that the industry has played both in shaping local political and economic conditions, and in differentiating Philippine banana trade from networks in the same commodity elsewhere in the world.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact cseas@umich.edu.

Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:08:04 -0400 2021-11-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Is the Philippines Asia's Banana Republic? Vertical Disintegration After Empire
Flash Talk | Live from Giza! Life in the Field (November 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87727 87727-21645397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ever wonder what life is like on an archaeological excavation? Dr. Richard Redding joins us live from his field project in Giza, Egypt, to speak about his experience living and working in the field.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96551052011
Meeting ID: 965 5105 2011
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:49:36 -0400 2021-11-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Fieldwork at Giza
Heating Up for the Press (November 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88703 88703-21656855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Presentations by Jessie DeGrado, Kelsie Ehalt, & Paige Milligan

Friday November 5th, 1:00pm to 2:30pm EST

North Quad Space 2435

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:02:51 -0400 2021-11-05T13:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Heating Up for the Press Poster
Smith Lecture: Geological Applications of Metal and Transition Metal Isotope Analysis (November 5, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83658 83658-21452150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The talk will focus on how metal and transition metal isotope geochemistry can be used in various applications. Specifically, the talk will focus on Cu, Ag, and Sn isotope compositions of waters, rocks, ores and artifacts to address fundamental questions in the discipline. Case studies from the Pebble Cu-Au deposit in Alaska, Dexing Cu-Mo deposit in China, bronze artifacts of eastern Europe, and several more will be discussed.

Those wishing to attend remotely should log in to Zoom ID#989 8458 7392

Please note:
Before entering any U-M building, all visitors, contractors and vendors are required to complete a preliminary health screening via the guest version of ResponsiBLUE. The questionnaire includes information about U-M's face covering policy and expectations for unvaccinated individuals to continue to mask and distance while indoors on any of U-M's campuses.

Go to: https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/prevention-testing-care/prevention/responsiblue/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Oct 2021 08:59:40 -0400 2021-11-05T15:30:00-04:00 2021-11-05T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture (November 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88934 88934-21659129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

13th Annual Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture Featuring Vijay Kumar

Join us Friday, November 5th from 4-5pm for this year's lecture entitled, "Swarms of Small, Flying Robots."

The lecture will take place in the Chesebrough Auditorium in the Chrysler Center on North Campus.

Abstract:
The last decade has seen rapid advances in computation, sensing, and communication, leading to new opportunities for aerial robotics. Dr. Kumar will describe our recent work on developing small, autonomous flying robots in complex, GPS-denied environments, with applications to precision agriculture, first response, and mining. Nature provides many examples of collective behaviors where swarms exhibit capabilities well beyond those individuals. He will discuss the challenges in creating flying robot swarms, and his research on perception-action-communication feedback loops to enable collective behaviors.

Vijay Kumar Bio:
Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering with appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1987. He has been on the Faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania since 1987.

In addition to holding many administrative positions at Penn, Kumar has served as the assistant director of robotics and cyber-physical systems at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2012 – 2013). His lab has spun off many startups in robotics - he is the founder of Exyn Technologies and serves on the boards of Treeswift, IQ Motion Control, WeRobotics, and O2Micro. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Dr. Kumar has won best paper awards at DARS 2002, ICRA 2004, ICRA 2011, RSS 2011, RSS 2013, ICRA 2014, BICT 2015, and MARSS 2016 and has advised doctoral students who have won Best Student Paper Awards at ICRA 2008, RSS 2009, and DARS 2010. He is the recipient of the 2012 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award, the 2012 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award, a 2012 World Technology Network (wtn.net) award, a 2013 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, a 2014 Engelberger Robotics Award, the 2017 IEEE Robotics, and Automation Society George Saridis Leadership Award, the 2017 ASME Robert E. Abbott Award, the 2018 IEEE Robotics, and Automation Pioneer Award, and the 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Field Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013, the American Philosophical Society in 2018, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:08:32 -0400 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture - Entitled "Swarms of small, flying robots" by Vijay Kumar. Taking place Nov. 5th at 4pm in the Chesebrough Auditorium.
RNA Innovation Seminar (November 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86167 86167-21631759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

"Harnessing diverse compact CRISPR-Cas3 for long-range genome engineering"
Zhonggang Hou, Ph.D.
Research Investigator
Biological Chemistry

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"Microscopic Examination of Spatial Transcriptome through Seq-Scope"
Jun Hee Lee, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular & Integrative Physiology

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:33:17 -0400 2021-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Zhonggang Hou, Biological Chemistry & Jun Hee Lee, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
MESA Anti-Racism Teach In (November 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88422 88422-21653868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Racial justice begins with anti-racism. Anti-racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies, practices, and attitudes so that power is redistributed and shared equitably (University of Calgary). This peer-led teach-in will engage analytical frameworks for examining systemic cultural, social, economic, and political forces in the community along with individual reflection. Our hope is to raise critical consciousness, understand the opportunity for actions, and how our resources can be distributed.

Click here to register!:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pd-6orTspGtNVS9tfm0PZlvZu-ESdRizb

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:47:13 -0400 2021-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Workshop / Seminar Event Description
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Women’s Reproductive Health: Findings from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (November 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88884 88884-21658815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

https://umich.zoom.us/s/97831201308

Dr. Ding is a postdoctoral research fellow focusing on environmental epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan.

The goal of the environmental research seminar/webinar is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for sharing and critiquing research proposals and preliminary study results.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:04:20 -0400 2021-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Ning Ding ER Seminar (11-09-2021)
Representative Research: Assessing Diversity in Online Samples (November 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86292 86292-21640719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Representative Research: Assessing Diversity in Online Samples
Wednesday, November 10, noon to 1:10pm Eastern via Zoom

Speaker: Frances Barlas
Vice President, Research Methods at Ipsos Public Affairs

In 2020, we saw a broader awakening to the continued systemic racism throughout all aspects of our society and heard renewed calls for racial justice. For the survey and market research industries, this has renewed questions about how well our industry does to ensure that our public opinion research captures the full set of diverse voices that make up the United States. These questions were reinforced in the wake of the 2020 election with the scrutiny faced by the polling industry and the role that voters of color played in the election. In this talk, we’ll consider how well online samples represent people of color in the United States. Results from studies that use both KnowledgePanel – a probability-based online panel – and non-probability online samples will be shared. We’ll discuss some strategies for ways to improve our sample quality.

Dr. Frances Barlas is a Senior Vice President and the lead KnowledgePanel Methodologist for Ipsos. She has worked in the survey and market research industries for 20 years. In her current role, she is charged with overseeing and advancing the statistical integrity and operational efficiency of KnowledgePanel, the largest probability-based panel in the US, and other Ipsos research assets. Her research interests focus on survey measurement and online survey data quality. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Temple University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:18:12 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T13:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion poster
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Obesity in Schoolchildren and its Link to Chronic Diseases; Weight and Body Image in the Middle East: Perspectives from 2021 (November 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87030 87030-21638149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."

Please register to attend at https://myumi.ch/7ZQRX.

About the speakers:

Huda M. Al Hourani is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics at Hashemite University. She received her PhD in Nutrition from Oxford Brookes University and has taught a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate nutrition and dietetics courses. In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, hospitals, and colleges, she took part in a number of courses and training workshops. WHO has named her Regional Facilitator for the new WHO Growth Standard. Obesity and its effects on people's lives have been the subject of several publications she has written.

Sarah Trainer is a medical anthropologist. Her previous work has included ethnographic research in the United Arab Emirates, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast and focuses on experiences around weight, body image, food, stigma, and health. Her recent book (2021), Extreme weight loss: Life before and after bariatric surgery, explores the ways in which experiences around health, stigma, and weight change for people who undergo weight-loss surgery. She is currently the Research & Program Coordinator for a National Science Foundation–funded ADVANCE Program at Seattle University.

The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise:If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu.

Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:39:07 -0400 2021-11-10T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion CMENAS Colloquium Series.
Health Policy Research Using CVFS/ISER-N Infrastructure (November 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85337 85337-21626250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 5: Health Policy Research Using CVFS/ISER-N Infrastructure
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Yubraj Acharya

The webinar is targeted to doctoral students and junior researchers in development economics/health economics intending to conduct their research using the CVFS/ISER infrastructure. I will share experience from a recent field experiment among health workers, focusing on resources on research administration available at ISER. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrc-upqj4pHtKxK1qRZWxg3TDlfFgZn_xM

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:30:12 -0400 2021-11-10T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (November 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88540 88540-21654960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Subspace classifiers have been around for a long time, beginning with feature selection, which in essence was a subspace selection technique. This talk will discuss the kind of subspace classifiers that Bledsoe and Browning presented in their 1959 paper and from which there have been a variety of extensions which we will discuss.

The Bledsoe and Browning subspace classifier quantizes measurement space. Each quantized observation tuple corresponds to a cell in measurement space. A collection of subspaces are selected at random. In the original form the subspaces were mutually exclusive. For each class, each cell of a subspace contained a number dependent on the number of observations of the training data that fell into that cell. For each class those numbers were combined in ways not dissimilar to random forests. For a given observation tuple, the class with the highest vote count was selected as the assigned class.

We will discuss a variety of principled extensions of the technique and make some comparisons with Neural Networks.

Research Interests:

High-dimensional space clustering, pattern recognition, knowledge discovery and artificial intelligence

Professor Haralick began his work as one of the principal investigators of the NASA ERTS satellite data doing remote sensing image analysis.

He has made a series of contributions in the field of computer vision. In the high-level vision area, he has worked on inferring 3D geometry from one or more perspective projection views.] He has also identified a variety of vision problems which are special cases of the consistent labeling problem. His papers on consistent labeling, arrangements, relation homomorphism, matching, and tree search translate some specific computer vision problems to the more general combinatorial consistent labeling problem and then discuss the theory of the look-ahead operators that speed up the tree search. The most basic of these is called Forward Checking. This gives a framework for the control structure required in high-level vision problems. He has also extended the forward-checking tree search technique to propositional logic.

Zoom: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:28:27 -0400 2021-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Robert M. Haralick, PhD (City University of New York)
Stryker CEO to Address Challenges, Opportunities in Emerging Markets (November 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88543 88543-21654966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Healthcare expenditure in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is soaring. This can result in significant health improvements while creating new opportunities for businesses operating in these markets in the coming decades. Innovations in medical technology, improved access and delivery of care are all factors in the growth, which show no signs of slowing.
The possibility and interest in serving these markets and helping to make healthcare better creates opportunities for job seekers, companies and healthcare professionals. However, organizations face significant challenges in developing business models that can provide quality products and services and do so profitably. As more companies are successful, the local communities and patients will continue to benefit.

The keynote speaker, Kevin Lobo, Chair and CEO of Stryker, will provide perspective and insights for innovating and driving growth in LMICs. With globalization as part of the company’s strategy, Lobo has continued to focus resources and talent on key global markets since becoming CEO of Stryker in 2012. Lobo’s talk will focus on “Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare Companies in Emerging Markets.”

Headquartered in Kalamazoo, MI, Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, offering innovative products and services in orthopaedics, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology and spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.

Time/Date: 6 pm, Nov. 10.

Venue: Zoom. Please register here.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:20:02 -0400 2021-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William Davidson Institute Livestream / Virtual A Discussion with Stryker CEO Kevin Lobo
Coming to America: Translating Arabic Fiction in the Age of Global Liberation (November 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88348 88348-21653427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join Comparative Literature as we welcome Nancy Roberts, free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor on November 11th, 2021 @ 4:30pm in room 4310 of the Modern Languages Building.

Translators of literary works perform numerous functions simultaneously in relation to both a written work and its author. These functions include the linguistic, the cultural, the socio-political and the personal. Varied though they are, these functions might be summed up in the words “partner” and “mouthpiece.” After a brief detour into how her life trajectory led her to the field of Arabic-English translation, Nancy Roberts will relate her attempts to serve as “partner” and “mouthpiece” in the process of translating works originating in Palestine (Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses [زمن الخيول البيضاء], Lanterns of the King of Galilee [قناديل ملك الجليل] and Gaza Weddings [أعراس آمنة], and Ahlam Bsharat’s Codename: Butterfly [اسمي الحركي فراشة]) and Libya (Najwa Bin Shatwan’s, The Slave Yards [زرايب العبيد], and Ibrahim al-Koni’s The Night Will Have Its Say [كلمة الليل في حق النهار]).

Nancy Roberts is a free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor with experience in the areas of modern Arabic literature, politics and education; international development; Arab women’s economic and political empowerment; Islamic jurisprudence and theology; Islamist thought and movements; and interreligious dialogue. Literary translations include works by Ghada Samman, Ahlem Mostaghanemi, Naguib Mahjouz, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Ibrahim al-Koni, Salman al-Farsi, Laila Al Johani, and Haji Jabir, among others. Her translation of Ghada Samman’s Beirut ’75 won the 1994 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award; her rendition of Salwa Bakr's The Man From Bashmour (Cairo: AUC Press, 2007) was awarded a commendation in the 2008 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation, while her English translations of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Gaza Weddings (Cairo: Hoopoe Press, 2017), Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2015) and Time of White Horses (Cairo: Hoopoe Reprint, 2016) won her the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. She is based in Wheaton, Illinois.

This event will be held IN PERSON.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:45:08 -0400 2021-11-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Nancy Roberts
Mongolia: From the Capital to the Gobi Desert (November 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85048 85048-21625505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join photographer, Ann O’Hagan, for a visual journey through the highlights of Mongolia, a developing Asian country sandwiched between Russia and China. Once under the yoke of China then Russia, the republic transitioned to independence and democracy during a bloodless revolution in 1990.

View ancient and modern architecture in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Take in beautiful snowcapped mountain landscapes, Lake Khovsgol on the Siberian border, and the Flaming Cliffs of the Gobi Desert.

Learn about the herding life of nomadic people and explore their countryside accommodations called gers, known as yurts in Russia. Experience the cultural reverence for Genghis Kahn and his warrior horsemen who established the largest land empire the world has ever known.

Through the camera lens, you’ll glimpse everything from Buddhist temples and shamanistic rituals to bands of horses and dromedary camels.
Don’t miss this opportunity for a photographic tour from the comfort of your living room.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:48:51 -0400 2021-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Smith Lecture: What Controls Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in Marsh-Dominated Estuaries? (November 12, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83659 83659-21452151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a large and complex mixture of compounds with source inputs that differ with location, season, and environmental conditions. We investigated how DOM composition changes both spatially and temporally along a marsh-dominated estuary off the southeastern U.S., and how it influences microbial processing. Surface samples were collected throughout the estuary from September 2015 to January 2018, and bulk, optical, and molecular analyses were conducted on samples before and after dark incubations. Results showed that river discharge was the primary driver changing the DOM composition at the mouth of the Altamaha River. For discharge higher than ~ 150 m3 s-1, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations and the terrigenous character of the DOM increased approximately linearly with river flow. For low discharge conditions, a clear signature of salt marsh-derived compounds was observed in the river. The Georgia coast was hit by Hurricane Matthew in October 2016 and Hurricane Irma in September 2017, which resulted in a large input of carbon to the estuary. The DOC concentration was ~ 4 times higher than average values and DOM composition was more aromatic with a stronger terrigenous signature compared to the seasonal maximum. Interesting, microbial degradation of DOC was strongly influenced by DOM composition, with increased degradation rates for DOM with a larger terrigenous character. This suggests that extreme events substantially impact DOM quantity and quality in estuarine regions. Since storm events are becoming more common in the area, the results of this study have implications for composition and processing of DOM prior to export to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:40:22 -0400 2021-11-12T15:30:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88724 88724-21656974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Monday, November 15, 2021
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Rescheduled from an original October date
Free, registration required to obtain login information: https://myumi.ch/PlgdD

Positive Links:

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:

Whether you’re a manager, coach, or teacher aiming to help others change for the better or are struggling to kick-start change yourself, this conversation can help. Katy Milkman and host Julia Lee Cunningham will talk about How to Change, a science-based guide to achieving your goals, once and for all, and helping others do the same.

About Milkman:

Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the author of the bestselling book How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. She is the former president of the international Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change.

Over the course of her career, Katy has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change, including Google, the White House, Walmart, the American Red Cross, 24 Hour Fitness, and Morningstar. An award-winning scholar and teacher, Katy writes frequently about behavioral science for major media outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, and Scientific American. She earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University (summa cum laude), where she studied Operations Research and American Studies, and her PhD from Harvard University, where she studied Computer Science and Business.

Host:

Julia Lee Cunningham, Center for Positive Organizations Faculty Co-Director; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:

Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:57:00 -0400 2021-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Katy Milkman
The Futurescape of Medicine Lecture Series (November 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85075 85075-21625549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Futurescape of Medicine Lecture Series
The goal of this lecture series is to provide educational insights about future developments in five different areas of medical care.

Lecture #5 - Advances in Depression Research and Treatment: Now and For the Future. Our speaker is John F. Greden M.D.

Attention will be paid to current best practices, ethical implications of new technologies, promotion of consumer education and choices, and financial aspects of delivery in the context of value-based care. A lively discussion is anticipated for each lecture regarding the many issues raised by these trends and technologies.”

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:28:30 -0400 2021-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Futurescape of Medicine
The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. BOOK TALK: The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier: The Yazıcıoğlu Family (November 17, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87981 87981-21648222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

This study follows the lives and ideas of the Yazıcıoğlu brothers Mehmed Yazıcıoğlu and Ahmed Bican, Sufis of the frontier city of Gelibolu and authors of the most popular religious writings in Ottoman Turkish. The book explores early Ottoman popular piety through the lens of the Yazıcıoğlu brothers. This is the first book-length study in English on the Yazıcıoğlu brothers, among the most popular vernacular religious writers and thinkers of the early Ottoman period. It also reconstructs the Yazıcıoğlus’ biographies, assesses the heritage of their language and ideas and analyses the ways these were adapted to their distinct setting. The book furthermore argues that Ottoman popular orthodoxy emerged as a synthesis of a cosmopolitan Islamic canon to address the needs of Turcophone Muslims of the Ottoman lands. It is a contribution to the study of non-elite intellectual life of Ottoman Muslims at the dawn of an imperial age.

Carlos Grenier is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University. He recently earned his doctorate in History at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on religion and politics in the late medieval and early modern Islamic worlds. At FIU, he currently teaches on Islam and other Abrahamic religions. He recently published a number of articles on Ottoman Islam in journals such as Turcica and Archivum Ottomanicum. He is preparing future projects on Sufism and statecraft, and on sacred-historical narratives in the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Islamic lands.

Register at: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocO6vqTksHtVAyufTKPx5zS6xG7hr7Ndo

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:25:53 -0400 2021-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier: The Yazıcıoğlu Family
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Alcohol Harm Reduction in Lebanon: The Context, The Industry and the Young Consumer; The Role of Islam in Public Health Policy on Smoking Cessation (November 17, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87031 87031-21638150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."

Please register to attend at https://myumi.ch/mnDk3, and a Zoom link will be emailed to you.

About the Presentations:

*Alcohol harm reduction in Lebanon: The Context, the iIndustry and the Young Consumer*
Alcohol is a recognized global public health and sustainable development issue. The Arab world includes 22 diverse countries stretching from North Africa to Western Asia having varying dispositions with regards to alcohol sale and consumption. The talk will summarize the state of alcohol use research in the Arab world, and its implications; describe the experiences/views of Arab adolescents with regards to behavioral and structural determinants of underage drinking; and discuss effective harm reduction strategies and key implementation considerations.

*The Role of Islam in Public Health Policy on Smoking Cessation*
In the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office some 14 years ago, a ‘religiously inspired approach’ was proposed to combat tobacco use. This promoted a useful debate in the region. The purpose of this talk is to argue the need to identify the role which Islamic beliefs and teachings play (1) in influencing individual motivation to quit smoking and (2) in gaining support for public policies to reduce smoking. Ramadan and Hajj are taken as key points. These, it is argued, are times when Muslim religious motivation to abstain from smoking is strongest. I will suggest that the evidence base is not strong enough to adopt such an approach, which would be unique to this region. Rather, all of civil society, including Muslim religious authorities, should support the efforts of health professionals to encourage smoking cessation.

About the Speakers:
Lilian A. Ghandour is a tenured associate professor of epidemiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a PhD from the Department of Mental Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and a Master of Public Health from AUB. Her research focuses on examining the epidemiology of substance use and mental health in youth, namely underage drinking, prescription drug abuse, and cannabis. Most recently, her research work has focused on generating local evidence (and mobilize key stakeholders) to push for alcohol harm reduction policies—regulating alcohol availability, affordability, marketing/advertising and drink-driving. Her work is published in high-tier international journals, and has been disseminated in various global conferences.

Peter Walton graduated with masters degrees from both the University of Edinburgh and the University of London, in History and Latin American Studies respectively. He has taught English as a Foreign Language in Chile (1971-2), in Portugal and later in Preston College and in Manchester, both in the UK. At Preston College, he was a lecturer on the outreach programme for local Muslim schools.

His interests are in the fields of public health and education. He co-authored with Saudi colleagues an article in 2018 in the *Journal of Religion and Health* entitled 'Islam and Motivation to Quit Smoking: Public Health Policy Implications. Last year, he published 'Virtues of the Educator'—a translation and commentary on an address given by Paulo Freire, the Brazilian activist and educator.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu.

Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:48:27 -0400 2021-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series
Forbidden Fruit: Traveling through Cuba by Motorcycle (November 17, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85032 85032-21625474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

For the first half of the 20th century, Cuba was known as an exotic get-a-way for wealthy Americans, mobsters, and Ernest Hemingway. This ended with the American embargo imposed by President Kennedy in 1962, eased a bit with President Obama’s “Cuban thaw” in December, 2015, only to be re-imposed by the Trump administration in 2019.

During the thaw, our presenter spent a month in Cuba studying Spanish, volunteering in an after-school program, and exploring the island on a motorcycle. What did he learn about our “forbidden neighbor”, and how can Americans again sample the spice of Cuba? Find out during this photo presentation and discussion.

John Deikis caught the travel bug working on an ocean-going ship in the 1960’s. He later spent a year wandering to the southern tip of South America, Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, the North Cape of arctic Europe, and the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. Interrupted by an unexpected adulthood, he returned to traveling when he retired from a career as a clinical psychologist 10 years ago. His preferred mode of travel is now by motorcycle.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:25:00 -0400 2021-11-17T15:30:00-05:00 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
MIPSE Seminar | The Plasma-Water Interface: Modern Challenges and New Software Tools (November 17, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86297 86297-21632605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The interaction of low-temperature plasmas with liquid water is a fundamental problem in many applications, from plasma medicine to chemical processing, and more generally where the generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and/or of solvated electrons is of utmost importance. However, characterization of the plasma-liquid interface presents several challenges, both experimentally and computationally, due to the multiscale and multiphysics nature of the problem. In this seminar we provide an overview of recent modeling developments on plasma-liquid interfaces, presenting the new software package Zapdos-CRANE, based on the MOOSE finite-element framework. We provide a brief overview of the software, showing few case studies of interest. The model was used to study a humid argon DC plasma over a water surface, operated in both cathodic and anodic modes. In this system, one of the reactions of interest is the formation and dissolution of hydroxide (OH) radicals, which subsequently produce hydrogen peroxide. The model allows the investigation of the main plasma-chemistry reaction mechanisms for peroxide production with the plasma. The analysis reveals that hydrogen peroxide is increased during anodic plasma treatment due to elevated water vapor dissociation reactions near the interface. Finally, the role of solvated electrons generated during cathodic plasma operations is discussed, showing how they directly degrade hydrogen peroxide in the aqueous phase, inhibiting its accumulation.

About the Speaker:
Davide Curreli is Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Dr. Curreli leads the Laboratory for Computational Plasma Physics at Illinois. His research activities focus on computational modeling of plasma material interactions and plasma chemistry of low-temperature plasmas for fusion and nuclear applications. Among his current research activities, Dr. Curreli is coordinator of the Nuclear Fireball Plasma Chemistry activities within the University Research Alliance funded by DOD DTRA. His group actively works on multiple projects in Fusion Energy Sciences. Dr. Curreli is Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for additional information and requirements for in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2122.php

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:44:13 -0400 2021-11-17T15:30:00-05:00 2021-11-17T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Davide Curreli
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar Series (November 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89137 89137-21660643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk title: Clinical Trajectory analysis to determine risk-factors of Copd: A COPDGene Study

Abstract:

Background

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presents significant clinical heterogeneity and a wide variety of progression trajectories [1]. Clinical trajectory analysis (ClinTrajAn) is a powerful tool based on elastic principal graphs for the calculation of trajectories from large cross-sectional clinical data sets [2].

Aims and objectives

Our objective was to determine potential risk-factors by evaluate progression trajectories in COPD using ClinTrajAn on the COPDGene Phase I (baseline visit) dataset.

Methods

7883 participants, current and former smokers with GOLD 0 thru 4 COPD, from Phase I of the COPDGene study, were utilized for this work. 55 features were obtained for each subject, including demographics, spirometry, smoking history and computed tomography (CT), which included Parametric Response Mapping (PRM). Developed by our group, PRM is capable of simultaneously measuring small airways disease and emphysema which are the main contributors of airflow limitations in COPD. The resulting data matrix was analyzed with ClinTrajAn.

Results

A principal tree, with 13 branch segments and 8 termini, was generated (Figure 1). There was a clearly recognized trajectory from healthier subjects through decreasing lung function and increasing age (Figure 1 A), increasing in GOLD (Figure 1 B), to an emphysema high terminus (Figure 1 C). Notably this method illustrated numerous branching points along this trajectory.

Conclusions

In this study we used ClinTrajAn to obtain a map of disease progression trajectories in COPD including clinically recognized pathogenesis. Our next steps will be to further validate this approach using longitudinal data from the COPDGene follow-up visits.

References

1. Han MK, Agusti A, Calverley PM, Celli BR, Criner G, Curtis JL, Fabbri LM, Goldin JG, Jones PW, MacNee W, Make BJ. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes: the future of COPD. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2010 Sep 1;182(5):598-604.

2. Golovenkin SE, Bac J, Chervov A, Mirkes EM, Orlova YV, Barillot E, Gorban AN, Zinovyev A. Trajectories, bifurcations, and pseudo-time in large clinical datasets: applications to myocardial infarction and diabetes data. GigaScience. 2020 Nov;9(11):giaa128.

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Nov 2021 09:47:40 -0500 2021-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event: “When Patronage was ‘Matronage’: How Jewish Women’s Money Supported the Early Jesus Movement” (November 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88653 88653-21656497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Stuart and Barbara Padnos Foundation has provided a gift to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies to establish the Padnos Engagement on Jewish Learning fund. The initiative, which commenced last year, will facilitate annual public educational activities in Jewish Studies throughout the State of Michigan with a focus on the western part of the state.

The Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event, to take place on November 17 at 7 pm, will feature Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld, Frankel Institute Fellow, University of Michigan, and Honorary Research Fellow, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (SIIBS). Dr. Sheinfeld will present a lecture called “When Patronage was ‘Matronage’: How Jewish Women’s Money Supported the Early Jesus Movement” at the Loosemore Auditorium at the Richard M. Devos Center on Grand Valley State University's Campus. The event will also be virtually simulcast. Immediately following the lecture at approximately 8:30 there will be a light reception in the adjacent Lubbers Exhibition Hall.

Dr. Sheinfeld prefaces her discussion: "From the beginning of his ministry, women were followers of Jesus. While his followers came from every strata of life, women were essential for the financial and social support that this early Jewish movement saw. The Gospel of Mark mentions Mary Magdalene and Salome who provided for Jesus; Luke talks about Martha who hosts Jesus and his disciples in her home; in Acts, Lydia welcomes the apostle Paul and his cohort to her home where they stay while in Thyatira. These women were not unusual, however, in their active financial and social support of causes they were committed to. This talk will explore and contextualize these women among other Jewish women as possessors of capital and as active actors in the social, political, and religious world in which they lived."

Register for the livestream here: https://myumi.ch/WQVjd

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:09:37 -0400 2021-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld
Tax Policy and Wealth Inequality in the US: Trends and Remedies (November 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88280 88280-21652023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is part of the Thursday Morning Lecture Series on Our Changing Economic Landscape.

What is the relationship between tax policy and the economy; in particular, what policies tend to stimulate economic growth and employment? We will learn about U.S. trends in both income and corporate tax policies in recent years, reasons for these trends, and how they have contributed to our increasing wealth inequality.

We will further explore a design for a more equitable income and corporate tax system for the US that could substantially reduce wealth inequality.

Our speaker, Professor Reuven S. Avi-Yonah specializes in corporate and international taxation. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on tax competition, and is a member of the steering group for OECD's International Network for Tax Research.

He also is a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the American College of Tax Counsel, and an international research fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Business Taxation. In addition to prior teaching appointments at Harvard University (law) and Boston College (history), he practiced law with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York; with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York; and with Ropes & Gray in Boston.

He has published more than 250 books and articles, including Advanced Introduction to International Tax Law (Elgar, 2019), Global Perspectives on Income Taxation Law (Oxford University Press, 2011), and International Tax as International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed shortly before the date of the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:03:25 -0400 2021-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Thursday Lectures
Alan J. Hunt Memorial Lecture: "Moving takes energy: the intersection of cell motility with cellular metabolism" (November 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89276 89276-21661669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

2021 Alan J. Hunt Memorial Lecture

"Moving takes energy: the intersection of cell motility with cellular metabolism"

Cynthia Reinhart-King, Ph.D.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University

November 19, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Please save the date and RSVP below for the 2021 Alan J. Hunt Memorial Lecture on Friday, November 19, 2021, from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM. The lecture will take place in 1130 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (classroom) featuring Cynthia Reinhart-King, Ph.D. the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Following the lecture, a reception will be held in the BME Commons.

Details:
DATE: Friday, November 19, 2021
TIME: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Reception; 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM)
LOCATION: 1130 Lurie Biomedical Engineering; A reception will follow in the BME Commons

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:16:23 -0500 2021-11-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Alan J Hunt
Smith Lecture: Marine Iodine cycling and Redox Implications in Modern and Ancient Oxygen Minimum Zones (November 19, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83660 83660-21452152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Iodine is a redox-sensitive element and its abundance in sedimentary rocks and foraminifera is used as a paleoredox proxy. This includes redox transitions on scales varying from the Great Oxidation Event in the Precambrian to Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles. However, ancient applications and a modern understanding of dissolved iodine distribution are ultimately limited by a scarcity of empirical rates and an incomplete understanding of the mechanisms driving iodine oxidation and reduction in seawater today. In this talk, I will trace iodine cycling from seawater to sediments, including insights from oxygen minimum zones, laboratory and shipboard radioisotope (iodine-129) tracer experiments, diagenetic environments, and modeling into the controls on the distribution of iodine speciation in the ocean today. We will overview the implications for iodine and related elemental cycles as well as the redox state of ancient oceans across key events in Earth history.

Those wishing to attend remotely should log in to Zoom ID#989 8458 7392

Please note:
Before entering any U-M building, all visitors, contractors and vendors are required to complete a preliminary health screening via the guest version of ResponsiBLUE. The questionnaire includes information about U-M's face covering policy and expectations for unvaccinated individuals to continue to mask and distance while indoors on any of U-M's campuses.

Go to: https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/prevention-testing-care/prevention/responsiblue/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:43:57 -0400 2021-11-19T15:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
“Songs As Unique Artefacts of Cultural Layers: The Legacy of a Misunderstood Troubadour  ” - Manuel Pedro Ferreira (November 19, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87753 87753-21645626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Professor, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Songs As Unique Artefacts of Cultural Layers: The Legacy of a Misunderstood Troubadour  
 
This talk will focus on songs by Alfonso X (1221-1284), King of Castile and León, as unique artefacts that reveal multiple layers of courtly, urban, and sacred culture. Alfonso devised hundreds of Cantigas de Santa Maria to fuel his larger political aspirations and engage productively with aspects of the surrounding Arab-Andalusian civilization. He was a descendent of two Iberian dynasties, but also related to the Roman-Germanic and Byzantine emperors, as well as the Kings of England and France. Notably, he was a great-great-grandson of the first known troubadour, William, the 9th Duke of Aquitaine.  The language of courtly song in most of the Iberian Peninsula during the thirteenth century was Galician-Portuguese. What is often overlooked is that King Alfonso was perhaps the leading Galician-Portuguese troubadour of his era. He embarked on his most significant, innovative, and enduring personal project when in his forties and residing in or near Seville in Southern Spain. Embracing devotional song, he substituted the Virgin Mary for the idealized earthly ladies typically desired and praised by the troubadours.


Watch via Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/j/98113406630 passcode 092205

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:15:13 -0500 2021-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual “Songs As Unique Artefacts of Cultural Layers: The Legacy of a Misunderstood Troubadour  ” - Manuel Pedro Ferreira
NAHM presents: Firekeeper's Daughter, Author Presentation with Angeline Boulley (November 19, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88521 88521-21654672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Come join us as we engage with Angeline Boulley, author for the #1 NYT Bestseller novel, Firekeeper's Daughter.

This event will provide a free book and meal pickup available at the Michigan Union for those that register.

Angeline Boulley is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel, and was an instant #1 NYT Bestseller.

Register here!:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocOmurz4pGtPqbX0aurjqQNkuiMUNZETZ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:46:03 -0500 2021-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Presentation Event Description
American Historical Print Collectors Society 2021 Webinar (November 20, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89090 89090-21660467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join the American Historical Print Collectors Society for a fascinating look at maritime history in historic prints, maps and charts. Open to the general public as well as AHPCS members. Free; co-sponsored by the U-M William L. Clements Library.

Register at http://myumi.ch/51nbp

HOST: Clayton Lewis, Curator of Graphics Material, William L. Clements Library and AHPCS Vice President.

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

"Shaping A New Course: Chart Making in America, 1694-1815" with Richard Malley, Curator of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, CT.

As American colonists in the 17th-18th centuries gradually developed home-grown approaches to political, social and economic challenges, so too did mariners, mathematicians and scholars in creating an impressive body of local and regional charting. This talk examines a number of New England-based pioneers whose work contributed to American seaborne success in the colonial and Early National periods. It is an outgrowth of a collections assessment of Mystic Seaport Museum’s map and chart collection conducted by Malley, 2015-2016.

"The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington" with James Brust, Vice President, AHPCS.

Lithographer and publisher Nathanael Currier’s first significant success was with the 1840 disaster lithograph "The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington." Collector/scholar James Brust examines the truth and the legends surrounding this image’s many forms, including appearances in the “penny-press” New York Sun days after the event. Brust collaborated with the late Wendy Shadwell for much of his research.

"Coastal Views of Fitz Henry Lane" with Georgia Barnhill, Curator of Graphic Arts Emerita at American Antiquarian Society.

Georgia Barnhill’s presentation will focus on New England coastal views by American Luminist painter and printmaker Fitz Henry Lane. Lane grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where his father was a sailmaker. Barnhill will discuss some of the precursors to Lane’s views and will examine several closely.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:06:01 -0500 2021-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington," (1840) courtesy of James Brust.
Sustaining a Healthy Nail Salon Workforce in Michigan (November 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89270 89270-21661657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration required
https://umich.zoom.us/s/98595068138

Aurora Le, PhD, MPH, CPH, CSP (John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan) and Marie-Anne Rosemberg, PhD, MN, RN, FAAOHN (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Systems, Populations and Leadership, School of Nursing, University of Michigan), co-lead the Michigan Healthy Nail Salon Cooperative. The goal of the environmental research seminar/webinar is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for sharing and critiquing research proposals and preliminary study results.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:38:28 -0500 2021-11-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Nov 30 Environmental Research Webinar
The Gender Gap in Summer Work Interruptions (November 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86412 86412-21634272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Gender Gap in Summer Work Interruptions
Monday, November 29
12-1:10 pm ET via zoom
Speaker: Melanie Wasserman (University of California, Los Angeles)

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

Dr. Melanie Wasserman, Assistant Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, will discuss her work on "The Gender Gap in Summer Work Interruptions".

Dr. Melanie Wasserman's research investigates the mechanisms underlying gender differences in labor market and educational outcomes. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Population Studies Center after completing her Ph.D. in economics at MIT.

https://www.melaniewasserman.com/

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:37:45 -0400 2021-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T13:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Exploring students’ expectations towards and experiences with a new engineering interdisciplinary curriculum (December 1, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89044 89044-21660326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

The University College London (UCL) Centre for Engineering Education is a joint venture between Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the Institute of Education (IoE). Through research and active engagement, it aims to encourage the study of engineering and allied subjects and drive curriculum innovations to help create the next generation of engineering graduates needed to address complex global challenges. The Centre for Engineering Education is heavily involved in the running and dissemination of UCL Engineering's Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP) – one of the four case studies described in the MIT report “Reimagining and rethinking engineering education” – a pedagogical framework by which undergraduate students study using innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. In this session, I will focus on CEE’s research with IEP students and recent graduates to understand their experiences in the programme. Findings suggest gender differences in the awareness of the societal impact of engineering, and that communication skills are essential to engineering practice. Finally, I will highlight contributions for future longitudinal research on engineering student learning and career pathways in the UK.

Register here: tinyurl.com/eerseminar-direito

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:23:40 -0500 2021-12-01T10:30:00-05:00 2021-12-01T11:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Inês Direito
Genetic Study Design in CVFS (December 1, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85338 85338-21626251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 6: Genetic Study Design in CVFS
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Colter Mitchell

This webinar will provide an overview of the design of the genetic data in CVFS, planned research activities, and potential uses. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctdOChrj4rGN3gN0TKhn3r6F1bAMYUyA3A

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:33:56 -0400 2021-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (December 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88514 88514-21654664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Epigenetic control of gene expression is highly cell-type- and context-specific. Yet, despite its complexity, gene regulatory logic can be broken down into modular components consisting of a transcription factor (TF) activating or repressing the expression of a target gene through its binding to a cis-regulatory region. Recent advances in joint profiling of transcription and chromatin accessibility with single-cell resolution offer unprecedented opportunities to interrogate such regulatory logic. Here, we propose a nonparametric approach, TRIPOD, to detect and characterize three-way relationships between a TF, its target gene, and the accessibility of the TF’s binding site, using single-cell RNA and ATAC multiomic data. We apply TRIPOD to interrogate cell-type-specific regulatory logic in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and contrast our results to detections from enhancer databases, cis-eQTL studies, ChIP-seq experiments, and TF knockdown/knockout studies. We then apply TRIPOD to mouse embryonic brain data during neurogenesis and gliogenesis and identified known and novel putative regulatory relationships, validated by ChIP-seq and PLAC-seq. Finally, we demonstrate TRIPOD on SHARE-seq data of differentiating mouse hair follicle cells and identify lineage-specific regulation supported by histone marks for gene activation and super-enhancer annotations.

Hosted by: Joshua Welch, PhD

Speaker will be in-person and the seminar will be live-streamed via Zoom.

Zoom: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:55:35 -0400 2021-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Yuchao Jiang (Assistant Professor in the Departments of Biostatistics and Genetics at UNC)
Wealth Redistribution, Innovations, and Sustainability (December 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88281 88281-21652024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is part of the Thursday Morning Lecture Series on Our Changing Economic Landscape.

We will consider how migration is transforming societies around the globe. Are receiving countries better or worse off when they welcome new immigrants? How can migrant-receiving societies do a better job welcoming immigrants? How do sending countries fare when their citizens leave? How can sending countries best harness international migration opportunities for development back home? Overall, is a world with international migration better off than a world without it?

Our speaker, Dean Yang is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research agenda spans international migration, microfinance, health, disasters, and political economy. His fieldwork locations include El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, and the Philippines, as well as migrant populations worldwide.

He teaches courses in development economics at the Ph.D., master, and undergraduate levels. A native of the Philippines, he received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed shortly before the date of the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:08:29 -0400 2021-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Thursday Lectures
Hybrid FAST Lecture | Living around a Byzantine Capital: Ravenna and Its Hinterland after the End of the Roman Period; Landscape, Settlements, and Environment (December 2, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89433 89433-21663104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

FAST, or the Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays, is usually hosted in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. However, due to space restrictions, this lecture will take place in the Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall), and will also be streamed live via Zoom (see link below). Please feel free to choose the attendance method that suits you best.

Our speaker is Marco Cavalazzi of the University of Bologna, an EU-funded Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Michigan Department of Classics. His lecture is entitled “Living around a Byzantine Capital: Ravenna and Its Hinterland after the End of the Roman Period; Landscape, Settlements, and Environment.” Dr. Cavalazzi's research focuses on the history of rural landscape in late antiquity and the Medieval period. His current project centers on furthering 3D integration in the recording of archaeological features (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101029015).

While FAST lectures are typically known for the plentiful provision of food and drink, for the time being, there will be no food or drink provided. Our deepest apologies to those disappointed by the decision—it seems the most prudent choice, given the circumstances.

Physical Attendance Location:
Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall)

Virtual Attendance Location:
Zoom Meeting ID: 925 9548 8851
No passcode needed

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:42:23 -0500 2021-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T19:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Ravenna coastland, the archaeological site of the abandoned city of the Cervia, 11th-17th c. CE
Flash Talk | Archaeology with the Department of Defense (December 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89385 89385-21662512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is an agency within the United States Department of Defense whose mission is to recover United States military personnel who are listed as prisoners of war or missing in action. In this Flash Talk, Arianna Zapelloni Pavia (IPCAA PhD 2020), casualty resolution officer for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, discusses the mission of this agency, how they conduct excavations, and some of the difficulties they may encounter along the way.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96551052011
Meeting ID: 965 5105 2011
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:32:44 -0500 2021-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual DOD POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Smith Lecture: Novel Uses of Non-traditional Stable Isotopes to Geochemical Kinetics with Applications to Geological Carbon Sequestration (December 3, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83661 83661-21452153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

In this presentation, I will show the link between novel applications of non-traditional stable isotopes to geochemical kinetics and its application to carbon capture and storage (CCS). To meet the goal of limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius calls for storing hundreds of billion tons of CO2 in aquifers. Stored CO2 will partially dissolve into water and acidify the water. The acidified water will, in turn, react with minerals strongly. To predict the fate of stored CO2 thousands or tens of thousands of years after injection, therefore, needs an understanding of the chemical kinetics of the geochemical reactions at the most fundamental level. In recent years, my students, collaborators, and I have developed an innovative isotope tracer method and have broken new ground in near-equilibrium reaction kinetics, which fill in a critical knowledge gap relevant to CO2 storage. This presentation will give an overview of geological carbon sequestration efforts and an application of geochemical kinetics to the Sleipner Project in Norway, the world's first industrial-scale CO2 storage project. The overlap between basic science and the societal need for climate change mitigation becomes clear through this example.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:20:52 -0500 2021-12-03T15:30:00-05:00 2021-12-03T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
What The F Presents: A Discussion on Art and Feminism with Prof. Holly Hughes (December 5, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89663 89663-21664753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Passionate about feminism? Art? UofM? If you said yes to any or all of those then clear your calendar to hear University of Michigan Professor, Holly Hughes, talk about her involvement in the feminist community as a queer artist.

Starts at 6 pm | Sunday, Dec. 5 | Michigan Union Anderson Room D

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:15:27 -0500 2021-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 2021-12-05T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion What The F Presents: A Discussion on Art and Feminism with Prof. Holly Hughes
Great Lakes Seminar Series (December 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89700 89700-21665015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)

Please join us for a Great Lakes Seminar Series presentation:
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm EST
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Michael McKay – Executive Director and Professor; Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research; University of Windsor
Title: Life under ice: The rise and fall of Lake Erie’s winter algal bloom

Webinar Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1935127688355002379

About the presentation: Ice cover presents a logistical obstacle to our full understanding of function of north temperate ecosystems. Reflecting this, ecosystem models frequently underestimate, or even neglect biological parameters associated with ice cover. Despite the perceived inhospitable environment imposed by cold temperatures and ice cover during winter in Lake Erie, work over the past decade has revealed numerous examples of high biological activity with abundant phytoplankton biomass dominated by psychrophilic, filamentous diatoms. The diatoms are physiologically robust and the diatom bloom persists through early spring, eventually contributing to carbon export in Lake Erie’s central basin. During mild winters, the bloom is reduced, likely due to light limitation coincident with deep wind-aided mixing. These surveys have demonstrated that diatom assemblages possess ice nucleating abilities, a characteristic promoting ice formation and which enables the winter diatoms to maintain a favorable position in the photic zone when the lake is ice covered. Our recent efforts have focused on mechanisms of bloom decline where chytrid parasites and other pathogens are implicated. Broadening the impact of this research has been a unique partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard promoting citizen science in support of winter data collection.

About the speaker: In 2019, Mike McKay joined the University of Windsor where he serves as the Executive Director of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and Professor in the School of the Environment. Mike received undergraduate- and graduate degrees in Biology from Queen’s University at Kingston and McGill University (Montréal), respectively. Upon completion of his doctoral work, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and with the University of Delaware where he served concurrently at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY. It was during this period that Mike became active in research on aquatic nutrient cycling through his involvement with the ecosystem-scale ocean iron fertilization projects being conducted by scientific personnel from Brookhaven at that time. Mike’s research expanded to include large lakes on his arrival to Bowling Green State University where he served on the faculty for over 21 years studying the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, phytoplankton and bacterial community dynamics and more recently, winter limnology involving research coordination with icebreaking programs of Canadian- and U.S. Coast Guards.

Among Mike’s research honors, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship in 2005 where he was resident at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany) and in 2013, was named Visiting Scholar at the Large Lakes Observatory of the University of Minnesota. He is the author of over 95 peer-reviewed manuscripts, is a co-recipient of the 2019 John Martin award from ASLO and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Great Lakes Research.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:35:31 -0500 2021-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) Lecture / Discussion Seminar series flyer
LHS Collaboratory (December 7, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88230 88230-21651558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR)
University of California San Francisco

Interoperability is considered a key capability of a high-performing healthcare system and has been a top policy priority for more than a decade. Implementing interoperability is, however, a complex undertaking – requiring stakeholder coordination that tackles incentives, governance, technology, standards, and more. In this talk, Dr. Adler-Milstein will describe current approaches to interoperability and where we stand with respect to current levels of national adoption. She will then discuss the implications for Learning Health System efforts at different levels of scale.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:59:31 -0400 2021-12-07T12:30:00-05:00 2021-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual Collaboratory logo
Navigating the impacts of COVID-19 on education in Michigan (December 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89394 89394-21662566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Please join us for this panel discussion about the profound effects of COVID-19 on the state of education in Michigan. Research from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University has looked at shifts in enrollment numbers, indicators of student achievement, and qualitative effects on students and families. Eighteen months into the pandemic, what measurable effects have we seen, what are the long-term implications, and what lessons can be learned from this unique set of challenges?

Speakers:

Delsa Chapman, Michigan Department of Education Deputy Superintendent of Educator, Student, and School Support

Sarah Lenhoff, WSU Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Kevin Stange, U-M Professor of Public Policy

Katharine Strunk, MSU Professor of Education

Moderated by Ron French, Bridge Michigan Senior Writer and Associate Editor

This event is hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Education Policy Initiative, and co-sponsored by Bridge Michigan and University Research Corridor.

Visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2021/navigating-impacts-covid-19-education-michigan for more info and viewing details.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Dec 2021 10:12:55 -0500 2021-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion L-R: Chapman, Stange, Strunk, and Lenhoff