Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Sweetland Coffee & Donut Break (September 21, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42717 42717-9651117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

All U-M students are invited the Peer Writing Center (Angell Hall G219) on Thursday, September 21st between 9:30am and noon for free coffee and donuts courtesy of Sweetland Center for Writing.

While your there check out our Writing Center, talk to an undergraduate peer tutor, and find out how we can help you with your essays, research papers, and other writing projects in the coming year.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:48:27 -0400 2017-09-21T09:30:00-04:00 2017-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering Flyer
9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline (September 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40173 40173-8509056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

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Other Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:57:17 -0400 2017-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Other
Diversity of Thought in Drug Product Development (September 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43930 43930-9855169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Brought to you by Industry Pharmacy Organization (IPhO).

Dr. Sharon Watling, a former PharmD student at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, now a Principle Consultant with Boston Biomedical Associates, where she serves as a clinical development consultant for small molecules, gene, and cell therapies. Dr. Watling will speak about the various steps involved in drug product development, starting from the pre-clinical phase all the way through the post marketing phase. She will also explain the diversity of thought present throughout the drug development process as well as the diversity of instrumental roles that pharmacists can play in the process. For questions, please contact ipho.info@umich.edu. Please RSVP.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:44:54 -0400 2017-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 1100 North University Building U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Robust Resources for Student-Parents (September 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44395 44395-9911821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Rackham Graduate School strives to makes its programs and services as parent-friendly as possible. During this panel, representatives from Rackham Graduate School, the Center for the Education of Women, and the Work-Life Resource Center will discuss the different programs, policies, and resources to assist you and your family during your time on campus.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=455.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:44:36 -0400 2017-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools (September 21, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44485 44485-9920279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: International Policy Center

Authors: Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim I Khwaja, Selcuk Ozyurt, Niharika Singh

Quantifying the impact of market failures that prevent parents and schools from reaching their desired educational goals is central to our understanding of the sector. Using an experimental design, we examine how alleviating one such market failure--access to finance--affects school profitability, enrollment and test scores. Specifically, we randomly assigned 851 private schools across 266 villages in rural Pakistan to one of two types of financial treatments: (i) `High Intensity', where all private schools in the village received an unconditional grant of \$500 each and (ii) `Low' intensity where one private schools is randomly chosen to receive the grant. In the low intensity treatment, revenues increased substantially due to higher enrollments, but there was no increase in test scores or fees. In the high intensity treatment, revenues increased both due to greater enrollment and increased fees that accompanied higher test scores. While the returns exceeded market interest rates in both cases, because higher quality was obtained through greater remuneration for teachers--a variable, rather than a fixed cost--the private returns were lower in the high intensity arm.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:52:29 -0400 2017-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) International Policy Center Workshop / Seminar
Community of Scholars 2017 Symposium (September 22, 2017 9:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43264 43264-9748064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 9:10am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Please register if you plan to stay for lunch: tinyurl.com/COS-Symposium

The Community of Scholars is comprised of recipients of 2017 summer fellowships from IRWG and the Rackham Graduate School for graduate students pursuing research, scholarship, or creative activities focusing on women and/or gender.

To encourage cross-disciplinary exchange, the fellows participated in a weekly seminar in May and June, during which they discussed their work-in-progress. In July and August, they dispersed for research and writing. They reconvene for the annual Community of Scholars Symposium, to share the product of their summer’s work with each other and a broader audience.

The fellows have designed the panels for this symposium to showcase the conversations across disciplines and fields about scholarship on women and gender that emerged during the summer seminar.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Opening Remarks (9:00-9:10am): Associate Professor Victor Mendoza

9:10 - 10:40 pm • Finding work
Panel Chair: Kathleen Canning, Professor of History, Women’s Studies, and German
Allison Caine
Mary Hennessy
Sangita Saha

10:40 am - 12:10 pm • Unruly Methods
Panel Chair: Diana Louis, Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies
Filipa Melo Lopes
Jennifer Rubin
Lauren Benjamin

12:10 LUNCH

1 - 2:30 pm • Borders/Boundaries
Panel Chair: Maria Cotera, Assoc. Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies
Severina Scott
Hoda Bandeh-Ahmadi
Annie Bolotin

2:30 - 4 pm • Attachments
Panel Chair: Sara McClelland, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies
Vivian Luong
ToniAnn Treviño
Spencer Garrison

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:35:40 -0400 2017-09-22T09:10:00-04:00 2017-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion abstract blue image
2017 ARC Collaborative Research Seminar - Fall Series (September 22, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44841 44841-9989217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 9:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Automotive Research Center

Talk 1. Fast Numerical Algorithms for High-fidelity Simulation of Terramechanics
Dr. Shravan Veerapaneni, Assoc. Prof. Mathematics, University of Michigan
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~shravan/

Abstract: The discrete element method (DEM) is one of the most widely used approaches to simulate the dynamics of multiple rigid bodies, specially in terramechanics applications. While the classical DEMs are based on applying penalty forces to handle contact, novel complementarity constraint based approaches (DEM-C) are emerging as promising alternatives that ameliorate the numerical stability issues plaguing the penalty methods. Motivated by prior work at TARDEC, we are interested in developing fast and scalable algorithms for solving the constrained optimization problem that arises in DEM-C. I will discuss the progress by our group in the past year, the challenges that lay ahead and the broader impacts of this direction of research.

Talk 2: Towards Kinematic Reconstruction of Roadway Scenes from Single-Camera Input
Dr. Jason Corso, Assoc. Prof. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~jjcorso/

Abstract: Creating simulation environments takes ample well-annotated data. The recent trend moving toward machine learning-based construction and use of simulations has increased the need for such data. However, acquiring such well-annotated data is a challenge, especially in the case of rare traffic events like crashes. Surprisingly, web-uploaded open-source videos acquired from simple devices like dash cameras already contain ample examples. Yet, their 3d kinematic and dynamic parameters are not known. In this talk, I will describe our recent efforts in inferring such parameters for third-person view dash-camera acquired video. Our works implement human-in-the-loop deep network architectures to reconstruct vehicle pose from a single viewpoint and to request input from a human to help with this process.

Refreshments will be served 9:15 - 9:30am. Talks will begin promptly at 9:30am.
ARC seminars are free and open to the general public.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:42:20 -0400 2017-09-22T09:30:00-04:00 2017-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Automotive Research Center Workshop / Seminar Automotive Research Center - A U.S. Army Center of Excellence for Modeling and Simulation of Ground Vehicles led by the University of Michigan
9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline (September 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40173 40173-8509057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

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Other Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:57:17 -0400 2017-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Other
Applying to Psychology PhD Programs (September 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43466 43466-9771953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Join us for a presentation and panel to discuss with current Psych PhD students:
-How to prepare as an undergraduate?
-Apply now or later?
-What does the application process look like? Timeline?
-How do I find a program?
-Clinical interviews and recruitment weekend

Please register for this event through Sessions @ UM: https://myumi.ch/6OzGG

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Presentation Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:16:38 -0400 2017-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation PhD Panel Information
Organelle Traffic and Synaptic Neuropeptide Release (September 22, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42644 42644-9622468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Hosts: Cathy Collins & John Kuwada

Levitan is Professor and Vice Chair of Research,
Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:13:50 -0400 2017-09-22T12:15:00-04:00 2017-09-22T13:15:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar diagram of dcvs on neuron
The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Newborn Screening (September 25, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43249 43249-9748036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Advances in prenatal screening and genetic manipulation have the potential to all but eliminate birth defects and genetic disorders. For example, prenatal genetic testing in Iceland has almost completely erased incidents of down’s syndrome in newborns. This has led to growing concerns over creating designer babies, hyperbole about the potential for a new era of eugenics, and broader questions about whether science is outstripping societal or ethical norms in regards to human genetic diversity.

Join Joselin Linder, author of “The Family Gene”, and Jodyn Platt, assistant professor in the U-M Medical School in a panel discussion about the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and newborn screening. The conversation will be moderated by Kayte Spector-Bagdady, assistant professor in the U-M Medical School and chief of the research ethics service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:18:18 -0400 2017-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T19:15:00-04:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Newborn Screening
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Long-term dynamics of Hudson River bivalve populations: invasions and responses (September 26, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42876 42876-9675053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar. Note later start time so you can attend #ScientistsTakeAKnee on the U-M Diag at noon.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:58:48 -0400 2017-09-26T12:15:00-04:00 2017-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars Workshop / Seminar Fog over water
Training for the Marathon: How YOU Can Engage in Proactive Career Planning (September 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44397 44397-9911825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

During this workshop you will learn important steps you can take to jump start your career options as a first-year student at Rackham. This session will also expose you to the multiple resources and options you can receive through the University Career Center and the Rackham Graduate School. The session will conclude with a panel of Ph.D.s who have successfully engaged in career planning in early stages of their studies.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=456.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:45:35 -0400 2017-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T14:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Writing a Diversity Statement (September 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44399 44399-9911827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a "diversity statement" as part of the faculty job application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine sample statements, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=436.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:48:52 -0400 2017-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
DAAD Undergraduate & Graduate Funding for Studies, Internships, or Research in Germany (2018/2019) (September 28, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44332 44332-9908952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

In this webinar, learn about DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - German Academic Exchange Service) funding available to undergraduates and graduates to study, intern and research in Germany in 2018/19.

DAAD offers financial support to over 120,000 highly qualified students and faculty for international research and study per year. This is your chance to find out more about all undergraduate and graduate funding available for the academic year 2018/19. After the presentation, you will be able to ask DAAD Program Officers question about DAAD funding, but also study, internship and research in Germany.

This webinar will be recorded. All registered attendees will receive a follow-up mail with the recording link and information on where to download the presentation. Feel free to register, even if you cannot join live. For questions about the webinar send an email to Hanni Geist daadsf@daad.org.

Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4873262418602113025

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:33:26 -0400 2017-09-28T12:30:00-04:00 2017-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Other
Transformative Thinking: A Conference on Jacques Derrida's Seminars (September 29, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43926 43926-9855165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This conferences addresses the French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida’s recently published seminars on Martin Heidegger (dating from 1964-65, titled Heidegger: The Question of Being and History) and Karl Marx (Théorie et pratique: Cours de l’ENS-Ulm 1975-1976). Of particular interest for this meeting is the evaluation of their importance for contemporary political thought, under conditions of globalization and the crisis of liberal democracy, not so much in reference to the way Derrida remains faithful to the philosophers he approaches, but to the way in which his reading shifts the very ground of our thinking regarding the relation between historicity, the history of Being, and our understanding of the the limitations of the political.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:46:43 -0400 2017-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Transformative Thinking Conference
How To Watch Them Watching You (September 29, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44806 44806-9980576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

LIVESTREAM: http://myumi.ch/LRzw3

Auditing Algorithms: Adding Accountability to Automated Authority is a group of events designed to produce a white paper that will help to define and develop the emerging research community for “algorithm auditing.” Algorithmic Auditing is a research design that has shown promise in diagnosing the unwanted consequences of algorithmic systems.

Automated software-based systems in finance, media, information, transportation, learning, or any application of computing can easily create outcomes that are unforeseeable by their designers, so algorithm auditing has the potential to improve the design of these systems by making their consequences visible. Auditing in this sense takes its name from the social scientific “audit study” where one feature is manipulated in a field experiment, although it is also reminiscent of a financial audit.

These events and the resulting white paper proposes to coalesce this new area of inquiry and to produce a report characterizing the state of the art and potential future directions. Participants and white paper co-authors will have opportunities to clarify the potential dangers of algorithmic systems, to specify these dangers as new research problems, to articulate challenges that they face as researchers interested in this area, to present existing methods for auditing or needs for new methods, and to propose research agendas that can provide new insights that advance science and benefit society.

This initiative is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and co-organized by the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and Harvard University. Events are hosted at the University of Michigan.

Speakers:

Eric Gilbert, University of Michigan
Cedric Langbort, University of Illinois
Casey Pierce, University of Michigan
Ashkan Soltani, former CTO, US Federal Trade Commission
Christo Wilson, Northeastern University

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:41:09 -0400 2017-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
Folding Tissues: Cell-based Origami (September 29, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42645 42645-9622469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Ann Miller

Martin is:
Associate Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:19:29 -0400 2017-09-29T12:15:00-04:00 2017-09-29T13:15:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscopic image of tissue
Mediating the Modern: Sound/Image/Text (September 29, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41145 41145-8983783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Mediating the Modern: Sound/Image/Text
2017 Graduate Student Conference
Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan
September 29-30
Keynote Speaker: Sean Franzel (University of Missouri)
Presented in Conjunction with the Ann​ual Grilk Lecture: Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt)

During the 1980s German media theorist Friedrich Kittler published a series of highly influential books and essays outlining a materialist approach to literary and cultural history, one freed from hermeneutic fantasies of immediacy and focused instead on the medial conditions that made thought possible in the first place, the hardware that enabled it to be recorded, processed, and transmitted. Over the last few decades, scholars in German, Film, Music, and Literary Studies, and beyond, have continued to expand on Kittler’s initial insights into the material nature of sound, image, and text, and the medial operations they entail. Both borrowing from and looking beyond Kittler, this conference seeks to explore productive points of contact between contemporary media theory, on the one hand, and the literary and cultural histories of mediation, remediation, and intermediation, on the other.

From Herder’s origins of language and Kant’s public sphere to Nazi propaganda and Siegert’s Kulturtechniken​ , media and mediation have remained central concepts for understanding German modernities. Social and political transformations, in conjunction with technological innovations around 1800/1900/2000 exerted pressure on​ ​existing notions of sound, image, and text and vice versa: this feedback loop serves as the springboard for our conference, “Mediating the Modern: Sound/Image/Text.”

Sean Franzel of the University of Missouri will give the conference keynote address on Friday afternoon, September 29. Preceding the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to attend the annual Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies, given by Celia Applegate, on Thursday evening, September 28. Professor Applegate will conduct a workshop for University of Michigan graduate students and conference participants on Friday morning.

Friday, September 29
1:30-1:45 — Conference Welcome & Opening Remarks
1:45-3:15 — Keynote Address: Professor Sean Franzel, University of Missouri, Columbia "Les Cris de Paris: Mediating the Urban Soundscape around 1800"
3:30-5:30 — Panel 1: Theorizing Sound
Katie Wataha, University of Michigan, "Mediating the Inaudible: A Multispecies History of Time-Axis Manipulation"
Syamala Roberts, University of Cambridge, "Rilke and Mann Listening to the Gramophone"

Saturday, September 30
10:00-12:00 — Panel 2: Materiality 1800/1900/2000
Willi Barthold, Georgetown, "Modernity, Media, Manga: The Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Eiichirō Oda’s One Piece"
Rita Laszlo, University of Toronto, "Understanding Kunstempfinden in Ver Sacrum, the Seminal Magazine of the Vienna Secession"
Xuxu Song, UC Irvine, "Sympoesie: Frühromantiker and their Athenäum
1:30-3:30 — Panel 3: Violent Images, Auditory Objects
Rebecca Smith, University of Michigan, "Architectural Representation and the Auditory Object"
Naomi Vaughan, University of Michigan, "Witnesses of a Future Ruin: Alexander Kluge’s Intermedial Demolition of the Nazi Past in Brutalität in Stein"
Sascha Hosters, Rutgers University, "The Image as Projectile: Abstract and Concrete Violence in Michael Haneke’s Caché"
4:00-6:00 — Panel 4: Intermediations: Film, Literature, Photography
Elizabeth McNeill, University of Michigan, "Envisioning Modernity: Watching Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Through Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari"
Melissa Elliot, Michigan State University, "Aesthetic, Medial, and Cultural Border-Crossing in Jakob der Lügner"
Mary Hennessy, University of Michigan, "Photography and the Politics of the Image from Sander to Schanelec"
6:00-6:15 — Closing Remarks

Conference organizers: Domenic Desocio, Emily Gauld, and Mary Hennessy, PhD Candidates in Germanic Languages and Literatures
Please contact mediatingthemodern@gmail.com for further informaion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this conference, please contact the German department, germandept@umich.edu or 734-764-8018, at least 5 days in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:09:02 -0400 2017-09-29T13:30:00-04:00 2017-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Germanic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium mediating the modern conference 9/29-30
Transformative Thinking: A Conference on Jacques Derrida's Seminars (September 30, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43926 43926-9855166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This conferences addresses the French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida’s recently published seminars on Martin Heidegger (dating from 1964-65, titled Heidegger: The Question of Being and History) and Karl Marx (Théorie et pratique: Cours de l’ENS-Ulm 1975-1976). Of particular interest for this meeting is the evaluation of their importance for contemporary political thought, under conditions of globalization and the crisis of liberal democracy, not so much in reference to the way Derrida remains faithful to the philosophers he approaches, but to the way in which his reading shifts the very ground of our thinking regarding the relation between historicity, the history of Being, and our understanding of the the limitations of the political.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:46:43 -0400 2017-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Transformative Thinking Conference
Mediating the Modern: Sound/Image/Text (September 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41145 41145-8983784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Mediating the Modern: Sound/Image/Text
2017 Graduate Student Conference
Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan
September 29-30
Keynote Speaker: Sean Franzel (University of Missouri)
Presented in Conjunction with the Ann​ual Grilk Lecture: Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt)

During the 1980s German media theorist Friedrich Kittler published a series of highly influential books and essays outlining a materialist approach to literary and cultural history, one freed from hermeneutic fantasies of immediacy and focused instead on the medial conditions that made thought possible in the first place, the hardware that enabled it to be recorded, processed, and transmitted. Over the last few decades, scholars in German, Film, Music, and Literary Studies, and beyond, have continued to expand on Kittler’s initial insights into the material nature of sound, image, and text, and the medial operations they entail. Both borrowing from and looking beyond Kittler, this conference seeks to explore productive points of contact between contemporary media theory, on the one hand, and the literary and cultural histories of mediation, remediation, and intermediation, on the other.

From Herder’s origins of language and Kant’s public sphere to Nazi propaganda and Siegert’s Kulturtechniken​ , media and mediation have remained central concepts for understanding German modernities. Social and political transformations, in conjunction with technological innovations around 1800/1900/2000 exerted pressure on​ ​existing notions of sound, image, and text and vice versa: this feedback loop serves as the springboard for our conference, “Mediating the Modern: Sound/Image/Text.”

Sean Franzel of the University of Missouri will give the conference keynote address on Friday afternoon, September 29. Preceding the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to attend the annual Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies, given by Celia Applegate, on Thursday evening, September 28. Professor Applegate will conduct a workshop for University of Michigan graduate students and conference participants on Friday morning.

Friday, September 29
1:30-1:45 — Conference Welcome & Opening Remarks
1:45-3:15 — Keynote Address: Professor Sean Franzel, University of Missouri, Columbia "Les Cris de Paris: Mediating the Urban Soundscape around 1800"
3:30-5:30 — Panel 1: Theorizing Sound
Katie Wataha, University of Michigan, "Mediating the Inaudible: A Multispecies History of Time-Axis Manipulation"
Syamala Roberts, University of Cambridge, "Rilke and Mann Listening to the Gramophone"

Saturday, September 30
10:00-12:00 — Panel 2: Materiality 1800/1900/2000
Willi Barthold, Georgetown, "Modernity, Media, Manga: The Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Eiichirō Oda’s One Piece"
Rita Laszlo, University of Toronto, "Understanding Kunstempfinden in Ver Sacrum, the Seminal Magazine of the Vienna Secession"
Xuxu Song, UC Irvine, "Sympoesie: Frühromantiker and their Athenäum
1:30-3:30 — Panel 3: Violent Images, Auditory Objects
Rebecca Smith, University of Michigan, "Architectural Representation and the Auditory Object"
Naomi Vaughan, University of Michigan, "Witnesses of a Future Ruin: Alexander Kluge’s Intermedial Demolition of the Nazi Past in Brutalität in Stein"
Sascha Hosters, Rutgers University, "The Image as Projectile: Abstract and Concrete Violence in Michael Haneke’s Caché"
4:00-6:00 — Panel 4: Intermediations: Film, Literature, Photography
Elizabeth McNeill, University of Michigan, "Envisioning Modernity: Watching Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Through Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari"
Melissa Elliot, Michigan State University, "Aesthetic, Medial, and Cultural Border-Crossing in Jakob der Lügner"
Mary Hennessy, University of Michigan, "Photography and the Politics of the Image from Sander to Schanelec"
6:00-6:15 — Closing Remarks

Conference organizers: Domenic Desocio, Emily Gauld, and Mary Hennessy, PhD Candidates in Germanic Languages and Literatures
Please contact mediatingthemodern@gmail.com for further informaion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this conference, please contact the German department, germandept@umich.edu or 734-764-8018, at least 5 days in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:09:02 -0400 2017-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T18:15:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Germanic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium mediating the modern conference 9/29-30
STS Speaker. Representations as Material Forms: Developing a Materialist Perspective on Digital Information (October 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42858 42858-9672382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The dominant rhetoric of information technology is that of the virtual and immaterial. STS scholars might observe (and computer scientists admit) that these virtual worlds, virtual objects, and virtual experiences are built on a solidly material foundation, such as server farms, cable routes, power generators and air conditioning units. Notwithstanding the materiality of digital infrastructures, though, materialist accounts have generally had little purchase on the content of the digital. In this talk, I will show how we can build on STS and software studies to offer a materialist account of information representations, drawing attention to the constraints and consequences of representational strategies in databases, network protocols, and other digital forms.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:23:23 -0400 2017-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Paul Dourish
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Speciation and the assembly of global vertebrate diversity (October 3, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42877 42877-9675054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:43:26 -0400 2017-10-03T12:10:00-04:00 2017-10-03T13:00:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars Workshop / Seminar green snake
Bicentennial Davis, Markert, Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture (October 3, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41067 41067-9552281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Faculty Senate

The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:20:00 -0400 2017-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Michael Mann
Translational Research Symposium (October 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39751 39751-8284183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)

Learn from translational research experts at the University of Michigan and beyond.

This event is sponsored by the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR), the U-M Office of Research, and the Medical School Office of Research.

Register or learn more here: https://umtranslationalresearchsymposium2017.splashthat.com/

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:29:01 -0400 2017-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) Conference / Symposium North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Genetics Training Program Annual Retreat (October 4, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45054 45054-10075737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

We are excited to welcome Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D. from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine as our keynote speaker at this year's annual retreat. Dr. Wynshaw Boris is a world expert on the study of neurogenetic disease. His talk is entitled “Modeling Human Neurogenetic Diseases in Mice and Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells."

Dr. Wynshaw-Boris received his MD and PhD degrees from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH. Under the direction of Dr. Richard Hanson, his thesis research elucidated the mechanism of transcriptional regulation of the key enzyme in gluconeogenesis, PEPCK. Following a residency in Pediatrics at Cleveland’s Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, he obtained a medical genetics fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital and postdoctoral training in mouse models of developmental disorders at Harvard Medical School under the direction of Dr. Philip Leder. As an independent investigator Dr. Wynshaw-Boris has held positions at the National Human Genome Research Institute, University of California San Diego, and University of California San Francisco, before returning to Case to become the Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences in 2013.

His research is focused on understanding genetic and biochemical pathways important for the development and function of the mammalian central nervous system. He uses genetically engineered mice and human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to define pathways disrupted in neurologic diseases. He has made important contributions to understanding the genetics and pathophysiology of autism, brain overgrowth and microcephaly, and neurodegeneration caused by mutations in DNA repair and checkpoint genes. He has served as Executive Editor of the journal Human Molecular Genetics since 2005, and together with Charles Epstein and Robert Erickson, he co-authored a comprehensive book “Inborn Errors of Development” which is now in its third edition.

The program will begin at 2:00 with 20-minute talks by three senior Genetics Training Program trainees (Irene Park, Marcella Nidiffer, and John McCrone). The keynote lecture will begin at 3:00 followed by a poster session and reception in the BSRB A,B,C Seminar Rooms from 4:00-5:00.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:23:42 -0400 2017-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion Anthony Wynshaw-Boris
Primary Health Care Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities (October 4, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44877 44877-10000726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

The WDI Global Impact Speaker Series kicks off for the academic year by exploring the role that good supply chains play in ensuring health products reach their intended recipients in Africa and India, how technology is making a difference and why having a motivated and dedicated staff is critical. The Oct. 4 talk featuring David Sarley, senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, also will highlight how graduating students can make a difference in global public health.

Sarley’s talk, “Primary Health Care Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities,” will be held at 5 p.m. in Room R2220 at the Ross School of Business. It is free and open to the public.

The WDI Global Impact Speaker Series features thought leaders and practitioners who do innovative work in low- and middle-income countries. They share their experience, provoke thought, and stimulate discussion around the opportunities and challenges of international development.

Over the last five years at the Gates Foundation, Sarley has created and managed investments across multiple delivery teams tasked with strengthening supply chains, and recently joined the Innovation and Strategy team in Vaccine Delivery.

“David has a deep understanding of the needs, opportunities and challenges that many countries face ensuring that their citizens have access to a reliable supply of lifesaving health commodities,” said Michael Krautmann, senior research associate with WDI’s Healthcare Initiative, who has worked with Sarley on Gates-funded projects. “Through his work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, David is at the forefront of technological and organizational solutions to these challenges, and his talk will be insightful for students, faculty and all those who are interested in improving global access to medicines.”

WDI has collaborated with the Gates Foundation on several projects, and Sarley served as program officer on a large healthcare project, “Developing a Common Vision of Effective and Efficient Global Health Supply Chains,” that had a number of sub-components.

One element of the large project was creating executive communications materials to increase global donors’ investment in supply chain, and convey key supply chain challenges and opportunities in global health. Another part of the project resulted in a WDI report, “Designing Global Health Supply Chains for the Future,” that proposed a series of initiatives that governments, global development agencies, and those in the private sector should undertake immediately in order to build supply chain capacity to anticipate these increasing demands in the coming decades.

WDI’s engagement with Gates also studied facilitating data-driven supply chain policy decisions by developing a model that incorporates performance tradeoffs and stakeholder priorities into formal cost effectiveness analysis. And, designing and initializing a supply chain resource center in West Africa that provides direct strategy support to governments to help transform their healthcare.

Sarley has nearly 35 years experience in investment and development in emerging markets. He has worked for 15 years in public health supply chain management, including 10 years with USAID grantee John Snow Inc. (JSI) and five at the Gates Foundation. Prior to JSI, he worked in economics consultancy for 16 years in trade, transport, finance and health economics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:12:50 -0400 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Health Supply Chain
7TH Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter, MD Lecture in Medical Genetics (October 5, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43689 43689-9832604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

This annual lectureship honors Dr. Thomas D. Gelehrter, a leader within the human genetics community and internationally recognized as an expert in human genetics. Dr. Gelehrter served as chair of the Department of Human Genetics for 17 years, from 1987 to 2004. He is currently an active Professor Emeritus in the department. The Lectureship builds upon Dr. Gelehrter's career dedicated to promoting excellence in research, education, and care in medical genetics and will be an enduring legacy that continues to raise awareness about the importance of medical genetics and improve this vital field.

Jim Evans, MD, PhD, is the Bryson Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He directs Adult and Cancer Genetics Services and is clinically active in Medical Genetics and General Internal Medicine. He is Editor in Chief of Genetics in Medicine, the preeminent clinically focused Medical Genetics Journal and the official journal of The American College of Genetics and Genomics. Dr. Evans's research focus primarily on clinical applications of emerging genomic analytic technologies and how genetic information is used and perceived by patients, the public and medical professionals.

He has been involved in policy issues both nationally and internationally. He was an advisor to the US Secretary of Health and Human Services on the subject of “Genetics, Health and Society” from 2004-2010 and has been actively involved in the education of high court judges about Genetics and Science, as described in the New York Times in July of 2008.

Link to the live web stream on Adobe Connect for this event at: https://connect.umms.med.umich.edu/dhg/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:21:25 -0400 2017-10-05T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion James P. Evans, MD, PhD
ASC Lecture. 2017-2018 UMAPS Colloquium Series (October 5, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44121 44121-9888976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

Each UMAPS fellow will have the chance to present their scholarly work in a session of an ongoing monthly series. Talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to increase skills in effective communications, to promote dialogue on topics, and to share the research with the larger U-M community. All are invited to attend to grasp the range and depth of work occurring through the UMAPS partnerships. 

10/5, UMAPS Colloquium (#1)—Social Sciences I (Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League)
VERONICA DZOMEKU, Nursing, KNUST, Ghana
“Exploration of Expectations and Experiences of Mothers toward Childbirth Care”

THELMA FENNIE, Psychology, University of the Westewrn Cape, South Africa
“Exploring Psychological Effects of Adolescent Girls’ Experiences of Menarche & Menstruation in School Settings”

AUDREY KALINDI, Population Studies, University of Zambia
“Factors that Affect Use of Maternal Health Services, HIV Testing and Linkage to Medical Care in Zambia”

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10/12, UMAPS Colloquium (#2)—STEM I (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
DEBELA GEMEDA BEDANE, Pharmacology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Antidepressant Drug Response”

MTHOKOZISI SIMELANE, Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
“Ursolic Acid Acetate as a Promising Agent for Malarial Chemotherapy”

MESTEWAT DEBASU MOGNHODIE, Biochemistry, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Exploration and Utilization of Glycan-Based Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy in Ethiopia”

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11/ 9, UMAPS Colloquium (#3)—Humanities (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

PAMELA KHANAKWA, History, Makerere University, Uganda
“Bagisu Men Don’t Cry: Imbalu and the Construction of Masculinities in Uganda”

YIKUNNOAMLAK MEZGEBU, Literature, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
“From Competition to Composition:  Languages, Regions and Religions in an Ethiopian Literature”

PAUL CONWAY & KELLY ASKEW, University of Michigan “Radio, Cyberspace, and the Repatriation of African Musical Heritage”

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12/7, UMAPS Colloquium (#4)—STEM II (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
OLUWAKEMI ROTIMI, Biochemistry, Covenant University, Nigeria
“The Role of Epigenetics in the Toxicity of Environmental Exposures”

ZEWDU JIMA TAKLE, Physiology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Molecular Signaling Mechanisms in the Vessel Wall after Stroke and Pathways Mediated by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)”

SENYO ADZEI, Music, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
“Processes in Shrine Music of the Awudome People of Ghana–An Ethnomusicolowgical Inquiry”

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1/ 11, UMAPS Colloquium (#5)—Social Sciences II (Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union)
ODUR BENARD, Statistics, Makerere University, Uganda
“A Retrospective Analysis of Progression in Neonatal and Infant Mortality Drivers in Uganda (1995-2016)”

PRECIOUS NDLOVU, Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
“The Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Africa’s Regional Competition Law Frameworks: An Examination of the COMESA Competition Commission”

MOSES MUHUMUZA, Human Ecology, Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda
“Holistic Community-based Biodiversity Conservation in National Parks in Rural Africa”

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2/8, UMAPS Colloquium (#6)—STEM III (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

KALILU DONZO, Biology, University of Liberia
“Advanced Training in Molecular Biology Techniques: Introducing Research-based Techniques at the University of Liberia”

MELESSEW NIGUSSIE GEREME, Physics, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
“Investigation of Triggering Mechanisms of Ionospheric Irregularities in the Equatorial Ionosphere”

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Presentation Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:26:52 -0500 2017-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Presentation
“What Should We Do About Global Poverty?” (October 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44864 44864-9992119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan will host an Oct. 5 speech and discussion with Sir Angus Deaton, a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose work has changed how many think about both global wealth and poverty.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. in Robertson Auditorium at U-M’s Ross School of Business. A discussion and question/answer period will follow Deaton’s talk.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:05:26 -0400 2017-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Angus Deaton
Barclays FinTech Information Session (October 5, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45105 45105-10092992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Society of Global Engineers

Electronic trading. Blockchain. Automation. Big data. Cybersecurity.
These are all critically important to investment banks like Barclays.
Working at the intersection of technology and finance requires the
smartest, most creative technologists. Are you one of them? Then attend our event!

Join us for an evening of inspiration where our tech experts will discuss the new technologies that are impacting the FinTech industry and what that means for your career. Here, you’ll learn how you can help define The Next Reality.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:40:32 -0400 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T18:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Society of Global Engineers Careers / Jobs Herbert H. Dow Building
Upper Midwest Biomaterials Day (October 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43350 43350-9751079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Society For Biomaterials

Biomaterials Day is a 1.5-day symposium hosted by UofM consisting of student oral/poster presentations, a keynote speaker and other invited speakers, and career development panels centered on recent advances in biomaterials and will receive participation from undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty from 20 universities in the upper midwest.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:02:33 -0400 2017-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T18:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Society For Biomaterials Conference / Symposium SFB-Logo
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (October 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43938 43938-9855178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour of the renovated Library to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation about our new space and an opportunity to view the current exhibit, The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers. The Pioneer Americanists is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. This exhibit is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:17:19 -0400 2017-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition William L. Clements Library
Pain Regulation by Non-Neuronal Cells and Cancer (October 6, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42649 42649-9622471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Bo Duan

Ru-Rong Ji
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Neurobiology
Duke University

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:22:21 -0400 2017-10-06T12:15:00-04:00 2017-10-06T13:15:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Fragments Workshop. A CONQUEST KOINE: The Oral and Written Transmission of Reports on the Islamic Conquest of Duin (October 6, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43614 43614-9821485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Commentators: Manan Ahmed (Columbia U) and Matt Mosca (U Washington).

The earliest extant Arabic histories describing the rise of Islam and the Caliphate date to the ninth century, some two centuries after the events they purport to describe. This has prompted a strong tendency towards skepticism among historians of early Islam who suggest that perhaps these histories reveal more about ʿAbbasid-era realities than about conquest- or Umayyad-era events. Accordingly, a number of scholars have turned to non-Arabic sources to corroborate or challenge the data culled from Arabic histories.

This paper questions the use of non-Arabic sources as independent checks on the Arabic. In particular, it examines the accounts of the seventh-century Arab conquest of Armenia and specifically Dabīl/Duin, the Sasanian and caliphal capital of Armenia, to forward suggestions about how we might trace oral transmission of historical reports in multilingual communities of the medieval Near East.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:24:37 -0400 2017-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
Combining Survey Social Science with Data Science Methods: Fragile Families Challenge & Beyond (October 6, 2017 3:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45308 45308-10152988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 3:10pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

New Data Science methods and mass collaborations pose both exciting opportunities and important challenges for social science research. This panel will explore the relationship between these new approaches and traditional survey methodology. Can they coexist, even enrich one another? Dr. Mathew Salganik is one of the lead organizers of the Fragile Families Challenge, which uses data science approaches such as predictive modeling, mass collaboration, and ensemble techniques in the context of the long-running Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing panel survey. Dr. Jeremy Freese is co-PI of the General Social Survey and of a project on collaborative research in the social sciences. Dr. Colter Mitchell is research faculty at the Institute for Social Research and has done innovative work combining biological data and methods with Fragile Families and other survey data sets.

Sponsored by:
Computational Social Science RIW
Population Studies Center
Michigan Institute for Data Science

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:10:15 -0400 2017-10-06T15:10:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Conference / Symposium Event flyer
Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan: Prospective Student Open House (October 9, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42835 42835-9664415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Students from all institutions are invited to attend this one-day open house. Participants will learn about the engineering education research graduate program at University of Michigan and about career opportunities for graduates in this field, meet with faculty, postdocs, and graduate students in the program, and tour the campus and EER lab spaces. Note that applicants to the EER graduate program must have a Bachelor's and Master's degree in a traditional engineering discipline.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:17:18 -0400 2017-10-09T08:30:00-04:00 2017-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar EER Flyer
Cuts Pt 1: Responding to Student Climate Concerns (October 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44857 44857-9992101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Though the University of Michigan aspires to cultivate a climate that is welcoming to the members of its diverse student, faculty, and staff bodies, we know that the lived experiences of many in our communities don't always align with these aspirations. Join the CRLT Players for Cuts: Responding to Student Climate Concerns, a two-session series, that invites participants to think together about the many forces that can shape campus climate both positively and negatively. Built around a series of vignettes that explore students' experiences of marginalization, each session offers a space where participants can practice engaging in difficult conversations about and across differences in identity while also reflecting on their personal responsibilities to cultivating inclusive and equitable spaces within and outside of the classroom.

In the first session, participants will:

- Analyze a series of bias incidents from the perspective of a targeted student

- Reflect on their own experiences of marginalizing behavior-- as target, aggressor, or bystander

- Explore strategies for intervening effectively when they observe marginalizing behavior and for responding productively when a concern about their own behavior is raised

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=438.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:54:00 -0400 2017-10-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Open House (October 9, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44404 44404-9911830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 6:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

You are invited to attend the University of Michigan - Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences Joint Open House! You will have an opportunity to learn about the graduate (PhD) training opportunities in these areas while also learning about the research that is being conducted by faculty and graduate students.

The evening will begin with an overview presentation regarding both programs and will be followed by an informal and interactive research poster session where you will meet graduate students and faculty members from both programs. Pizza and refreshments will be provided.

We hope that you will join us to learn about the exciting educational and career opportunities in drug discovery and development!

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Reception / Open House Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:44:31 -0400 2017-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T20:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building U-M College of Pharmacy Reception / Open House Event Flyer
NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today (October 10, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42878 42878-9675055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars

No seminar today, see you in two weeks (next week is fall study break)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:27:32 -0400 2017-10-10T12:10:00-04:00 2017-10-10T13:00:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars Workshop / Seminar Ruthven Museums Building
"How Did Hagar Become Black?" (October 10, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45006 45006-10047037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Hagar is known as the wife of Abraham and the mother of Ishmael within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. While many biblical characters are depicted as Europeans within Western art, literature, and biblical interpretation, some interpreters have reimagined Hagar as a Black woman. In this lecture, Dr. Junior will discuss how and why Hagar has been appropriated as Black within some communities. This is a preview of her current book-length project Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and the Bible (forthcoming with Oxford University Press). Join us and follow the conversation at #ReHagar.

Dr. Nyasha Junior is an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. She holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary. She is the author of An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation (Westminster John Knox Press, 2015). Visit nyashajunior.com and follow her on Twitter @NyashaJunior.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:40:19 -0400 2017-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion How Did Hagar Become Black?
A Data-Driven World: Potentials and Pitfalls (October 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42894 42894-9675069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Please join us for the Michigan Institute for Data Science Annual Symposium, “A Data-Driven World: Potential and Pitfalls.” The symposium will feature preeminent data scientists whose work is on the leading edge of innovation and discovery in data-intensive science, as well as a poster session highlighting data science research at U-M.

KEYNOTE
Cathy O’Neil is the author of the New York Times bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, which was also a semifinalist for the National Book Award.

SPEAKERS
* Daniela Witten, Assoc. Prof. of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington
* James Pennebaker, Prof. of Psychology, University of Texas
* Francesca Dominici, Prof. of Biostatistics, Harvard
* Nadya Bliss, Director, Global Security Initiative, Arizona State University

POSTER SESSION
Posters will be on display featuring data science research from across the University

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:03:42 -0400 2017-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium MIDAS logo
Artist Lecture: Sophia Brueckner (October 11, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45029 45029-10069976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Sophia Brueckner, futurist artist, designer, and engineer gives an artist lecture. As an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, her ongoing objective is to combine her background in design and engineering with the perspective of an artist to create technologies that inspire a more positive future.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:08:23 -0400 2017-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T15:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Emergent Research
ASC Lecture. 2017-2018 UMAPS Colloquium Series (October 12, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44121 44121-9888977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

Each UMAPS fellow will have the chance to present their scholarly work in a session of an ongoing monthly series. Talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to increase skills in effective communications, to promote dialogue on topics, and to share the research with the larger U-M community. All are invited to attend to grasp the range and depth of work occurring through the UMAPS partnerships. 

10/5, UMAPS Colloquium (#1)—Social Sciences I (Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League)
VERONICA DZOMEKU, Nursing, KNUST, Ghana
“Exploration of Expectations and Experiences of Mothers toward Childbirth Care”

THELMA FENNIE, Psychology, University of the Westewrn Cape, South Africa
“Exploring Psychological Effects of Adolescent Girls’ Experiences of Menarche & Menstruation in School Settings”

AUDREY KALINDI, Population Studies, University of Zambia
“Factors that Affect Use of Maternal Health Services, HIV Testing and Linkage to Medical Care in Zambia”

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10/12, UMAPS Colloquium (#2)—STEM I (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
DEBELA GEMEDA BEDANE, Pharmacology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Antidepressant Drug Response”

MTHOKOZISI SIMELANE, Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
“Ursolic Acid Acetate as a Promising Agent for Malarial Chemotherapy”

MESTEWAT DEBASU MOGNHODIE, Biochemistry, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Exploration and Utilization of Glycan-Based Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy in Ethiopia”

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11/ 9, UMAPS Colloquium (#3)—Humanities (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

PAMELA KHANAKWA, History, Makerere University, Uganda
“Bagisu Men Don’t Cry: Imbalu and the Construction of Masculinities in Uganda”

YIKUNNOAMLAK MEZGEBU, Literature, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
“From Competition to Composition:  Languages, Regions and Religions in an Ethiopian Literature”

PAUL CONWAY & KELLY ASKEW, University of Michigan “Radio, Cyberspace, and the Repatriation of African Musical Heritage”

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12/7, UMAPS Colloquium (#4)—STEM II (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
OLUWAKEMI ROTIMI, Biochemistry, Covenant University, Nigeria
“The Role of Epigenetics in the Toxicity of Environmental Exposures”

ZEWDU JIMA TAKLE, Physiology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Molecular Signaling Mechanisms in the Vessel Wall after Stroke and Pathways Mediated by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)”

SENYO ADZEI, Music, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
“Processes in Shrine Music of the Awudome People of Ghana–An Ethnomusicolowgical Inquiry”

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1/ 11, UMAPS Colloquium (#5)—Social Sciences II (Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union)
ODUR BENARD, Statistics, Makerere University, Uganda
“A Retrospective Analysis of Progression in Neonatal and Infant Mortality Drivers in Uganda (1995-2016)”

PRECIOUS NDLOVU, Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
“The Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Africa’s Regional Competition Law Frameworks: An Examination of the COMESA Competition Commission”

MOSES MUHUMUZA, Human Ecology, Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda
“Holistic Community-based Biodiversity Conservation in National Parks in Rural Africa”

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2/8, UMAPS Colloquium (#6)—STEM III (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

KALILU DONZO, Biology, University of Liberia
“Advanced Training in Molecular Biology Techniques: Introducing Research-based Techniques at the University of Liberia”

MELESSEW NIGUSSIE GEREME, Physics, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
“Investigation of Triggering Mechanisms of Ionospheric Irregularities in the Equatorial Ionosphere”

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Presentation Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:26:52 -0500 2017-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Presentation
Reading the Qur'an Backwards: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Seventeenth-Century Italy (October 12, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45025 45025-10069968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: History of Art

Lecture held Thursday, October 12, 2017 from 4-6pm in the RLL Commons.

This paper is an exercise in the history of reading and textual production across early
modern Europe and the Muslim world. Through the analysis of a very short and fascinating miscellaneous manuscript, I aim to disentangle the complex and intertwined relations between European orientalism, Italian intellectual history and Muslim exegesis of the Qur’an in seventeenth-century Florence. Despite its fragmentary nature,
the material, linguistic and doctrinal features of this miscellaneous manuscript
shed a new light on the scholarly practices of the early modern world. This document,
I argue, offers an in-depth understanding of a crucial moment in the development of European orientalism.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:34:04 -0400 2017-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building History of Art Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
Supporting Your Candidate During the Dissertation Process (October 12, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45636 45636-10242982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop is designed for partners, relatives, friends, and colleagues of doctoral candidates. This panel will discuss strategies for supporting your student through their dissertation process. Candidates are also encouraged to attend!

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=499.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:30:33 -0400 2017-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Sorting in the Endosomal System (October 13, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42650 42650-9622475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Ming Li

Christopher Burd, Ph.D.
Professor & Deputy Chair
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:29:37 -0400 2017-10-13T12:15:00-04:00 2017-10-13T13:15:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar diagram of golgi pathway
Cuts Pt 2: Responding to Student Climate Concerns (October 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44859 44859-9992103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Though the University of Michigan aspires to cultivate a climate that is welcoming to the members of its diverse student, faculty, and staff bodies, we know that the lived experiences of many in our communities don't always align with these aspirations. Join the CRLT Players for Cuts:Responding to Student Climate Concerns, a two-session series, that invites participants to think together about the many forces that can shape campus climate both positively and negatively. Built around a series of vignettes that explore students' experiences of marginalization, each session offers a space where participants can practice engaging in difficult conversations about and across differences in identity while also reflecting on their personal responsibilities to cultivating inclusive and equitable spaces within and outside of the classroom.

In the second session, participants will:

- Consider the impacts of an 'isolated' bias incident on a targeted student

- Reflect on the ways they listen to others' stories about negative experiences of climate at U-M

- Develop strategies for responding to concerns shared with them in ways that might mitigate rather than exacerbate existing climate concerns

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=440.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:55:49 -0400 2017-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Self-Care During the Dissertation Process (October 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45637 45637-10242983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This session will cover several main focus areas: setting boundaries, calibrating your student-life balance, and how to work with wellness coaches at the University of Michigan.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=491.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:34:20 -0400 2017-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Copyright and Your Dissertation (October 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45909 45909-10330194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will help you navigate copyright issues when writing the dissertation. Topics covered will be avoiding plagiarism, avoiding copyright infringement, obtained permissions, depositing your dissertation, and publishing your dissertation.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=493.

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Presentation Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:44:11 -0400 2017-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Presentation Rackham Logo
Navigating the Academic Interview and Negotiation Process (October 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44542 44542-9923134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The academic interviewing process encompasses three different stages of interviewing, each presenting its own challenges. This workshop will help job seekers in all academic disciplines in their search for faculty positions. Detailed information and practical tips on interviewing and negotiating future offers will help you prepare for your future career.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=441.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:18:43 -0400 2017-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Alumni Insights with Medicinal Chemistry Prof. Jane Aldrich (October 18, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45638 45638-10242987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join us for a career conversation with Rackham Alum, Jane V. Aldrich. Dr. Aldrich earned her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan in 1983. In 2015 she joined the College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida where she is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry. She specializes in peptide chemistry and its use as potential treatments for drug abuse, pain, and cancer. Dr. Aldrich was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota and a faculty member at the University of Kansas (2001-2015) and the University of Maryland - Baltimore (1995-2001). Dr. Aldrich will share research advice with current graduate students, as well as insights from her years working in the field of medicinal chemistry.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=500.

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:43:02 -0400 2017-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T15:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Careers / Jobs Rackham Logo
Modernism and the Little Glass Dress (October 19, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45527 45527-10217630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Preceding the Little Black Dress was another aesthetic, less noticeable if only by virtue of its material properties: The Little Glass Dress. This aesthetic exploited the female body’s relation to its environment in terms that were literally transparent: beginning with aisthesis as an opportunity for architectural display, but extending its relationship to encasement in multiple forms. This talk contends that the Little Glass Dress begins with the evolution of the department store, glimpsed through Zola’s 1883 novel The Ladies’ Paradise, and continues through to incarnations ranging from the late 19th century Manet painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. It then jumps into the 20th century through the looking glass of Coco Chanel’s mirrored atelier staircase, and runs alongside the avant-garde Italian couturière Elsa Schiaparelli and some later 20th and 21st century contemporary artists and couturiers. In all, we see what feminist scholars have tracked as “the opacity of femininity” take the shape of an increasingly less protean mode: one that cuts increasingly closer if not to the bone, then to that scrim where world stops and skin begins.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:09:07 -0400 2017-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Transforming the Continent: Natives, Settlers, Empires, and States. (October 19, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42108 42108-9550254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join Alan Taylor as he discusses his book, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804. Taylor will examine the way we think about the American Revolution and provides a fresh portrayal of the events surrounding our nation’s founding.

Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of many acclaimed books in early American history and has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History; in 1996 for "William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic" and in 2014 for "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832."

Books will be available for purchase.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:11:57 -0400 2017-10-19T18:30:00-04:00 2017-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804."
"Beating Multiple Sclerosis: A Story of B-cells, from Bench to Bedside and Back Again" (October 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45782 45782-10276755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

The A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute’s 2017 symposium will feature the presentation of the $100,000 Taubman Prize to University of California-San Francisco physician-scientist Stephen L. Hauser, M.D., in recognition of his decades of research which led to the first-ever drug therapy for patients with advanced multiple sclerosis.
Hauser will deliver his keynote talk, “Beating Multiple Sclerosis: A Story of B-cells, From Bench to Bedside and Back Again,” at the symposium, which will be held on Friday, Oct. 20.
The symposium will also feature a commemoration of the Taubman Institute’s 10th anniversary since its founding by late philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman.
Light refreshments, networking and a poster session will be held from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. in the BSRB lobby. The lecture and Taubman tribute will be held from 10 a.m. – noon in the Kahn Auditorium of BSRB.
All Michigan Medicine community members are welcome to attend and no registration is required.
The Taubman Institute looks forward to seeing you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:57:58 -0400 2017-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Lecture / Discussion
Stressed! How Plants Cope Through Dynamic Responses (October 20, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42679 42679-9622512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Cora MacAlister

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:16:08 -0400 2017-10-20T12:15:00-04:00 2017-10-20T13:15:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar plant growing in a box with a glass side so the roots are exposed
Poster Project (October 20, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41873 41873-9487261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 1:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

RC Students display posters depicting their academic research and talk about their work

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Other Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:21:55 -0400 2017-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Other RC 50th
Green Life Sciences Symposium (October 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44392 44392-9911820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The 2017 Green Life Science symposium at the University of Michigan will bring together nationally- and internationally-known experts in green life sciences (including U-M alumni) to talk with and to U-M students and faculty about the latest developments in genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Participants may choose from a variety of talks and join experts in the field and fellow scholars for a lively discussion of modern plant science and the role of GMOs.

Our renowned guests will also be available to meet with interested students to provide academic and industry career advice. Faculty, industry professionals, and students are encouraged to network, establishing connections that will benefit future work in the field.

This symposium aims to inform our community, provide a forum for intellectual debate, and foster collaboration among faculty and students in the natural science, environmental sciences, health sciences, and engineering.

REGISTRATION IS FREE & RECOMMENDED, see web link below. Or visit: http://myumi.ch/LRz8E

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:41:13 -0400 2017-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium Seedling growth IStock image
The Premodern Colloquium. Pisanello and the Archaeology of a Name (October 22, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43876 43876-9852274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its thirty-eighth year. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discuss work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles, and dissertation chapters.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:33:08 -0400 2017-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Nursing Clio: Making Archives Public (October 23, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42138 42138-9560528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Nursing Clio is an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project led by Jacqueline Antonovich (PhD Candidate in History) that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine. This roundtable discussion for graduate students and faculty explores the politics and practices of academic blogging; how this national project sits at the intersection of public, collaborative, and digital publishing worlds; and how it connects anti-racist, feminist, and queer archival projects with the public, both within and beyond academia.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:24:35 -0400 2017-10-23T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Nursing Clio
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Connecting micro- and macroevolution using comparative genomics (October 24, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42893 42893-9675068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:50:03 -0400 2017-10-24T12:10:00-04:00 2017-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Tityra semifasciata speciation rate graph
When looks count: the function and distribution of LOOK-AT in American Sign Language (October 24, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45681 45681-10254216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Lynn Hou (UCSD) will give a research presentation in the Sign Language Linguistics course taught by Natasha Abner. Hou is also a finalist in the Linguistic Society of America's Five-Minute Linguist competition.

When looks count: the function and distribution of LOOK-AT in American Sign Language
Lynn Hou (UCSD)

In this paper, I analyze the function and distribution of the ASL verb look-at in a dataset of 14h 15m of naturalistic ASL, using a construction-theoretic, usage-based approach. The data come from videos posted on the Internet, grouped into three genres: face-to-face conversations, monologues, and news reportage from an ASL radio show, The Daily Moth.

The dataset yielded 800 tokens of look-at. There is much morpho-phonological variation among look-at tokens. I coded tokens both for their lexico-grammatical function (‘look at’, ‘observe’, ‘look down on’, etc.) and for their phonetic properties (handshape, use of one or two hands, path movement, repetition, English mouthing, type of facial expressions).

Tokens with path movement patterns are often two-handed, and are typically associated with physical acts of looking at a referent or the state of affairs; they also map onto cognitive states such as admiration, contempt, anticipation, and retrospection. Many look-at tokens occur with reduced path movement or without path movement altogether; these signs appear in contexts relating to the signer’s subjective experience, whether understanding, thinking about, or reacting to a situation. These subjective verbs are often accompanied by affective facial expressions, are prototypically one-handed, and are often signed with the thumb abducted.

Many tokens of subjective look-at are followed by another cognitive verb such as the reaction sign oh-i-see and feel or a clausal complement analogous to subordinating BE- like [“and I was like?”] in colloquial English. I propose this variant of look-at has been grammaticalized from a perception verb to a cognition verb. This is reflected not only in its specialized semantics and distribution. i.e., introduces clausal complements with affective facial expressions, but also in its reduced form, i.e., no path movement, thumb abducted, one-handed. This finding is in line with the robust tendency for phonetic reduction and semantic shift to differentially affect high-frequency words.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:56:52 -0400 2017-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Jindrich Toman: The Jewish Town as Represented Space: Prague, 1820s-1830s (October 24, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43899 43899-9852331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Jindrich Toman: The Jewish Town as Represented Space: Prague, 1820s-1830s

Early decades of the nineteenth century provide a number of journalistic and literary sources that describe Prague's Jewish Town. The present talk uses them to determine the range of strategies used in the social construction of urban territoriality. Analysis is based on texts written by local Gentile authors, Czech and German, but also on nostalgic descriptions by Jewish authors who were actually born in the Jewish Town. Based on this, a contrast between insiders and outsiders, or participation and observation, can be worked out. Other perspectives revolve around the concept of the border and its subversion.

The event will start at 6:30pm with a light supper followed by the presentation at 7pm. Please RSVP to slavic@umich.edu

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Slavic department (slavic@umich.edu or 734-764-5355) at least 4 days in advance. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for U-M to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:06:41 -0400 2017-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 2017-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion event infographic
Alumni Insights Lunch: Working in a Government Lab (October 26, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44544 44544-9923135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join us for lunch and a career conversation with Rackham alum, Victor Marquez. Dr. Marquez graduated with his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1970 and worked for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for one year of postdoctoral training. He then returned to his home country of Venezuela for five years before rejoining the NCI as a visiting scientist in 1977. He was awarded tenure as a principle investigator in 1987 and became a lab chief in 2001. Dr. Marquez uses nucleoside chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry to design and discover antitumor and antiviral agents. During his fellowship with the National Institutes of Health in the early 70s, his work contributed to the design of the active brain antitumor agent, spiromustine. Dr. Marquez currently has more than 400 publications and holds 29 U.S. patents. Dr. Marquez will share research advice with current graduate students, as well as valuable lessons learned along the way.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=442.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:57:20 -0400 2017-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Rackham Logo
President’s Bicentennial Colloquium III: “The Campus of the Future” (October 26, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41566 41566-9364972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

A yearlong competition, "The Campus of the Future," asks students to collaborate on projects that reimagine methods and spaces for teaching and learning at a residential research university. The design competition is the final of three colloquia sponsored by the Office of the President during the bicentennial year.

Projects will be on display at the Duderstadt Center from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Final judging and the award ceremony will take place at the Power Center from 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:22:17 -0400 2017-10-26T16:30:00-04:00 2017-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Bicentennial Office Conference / Symposium Campus of the Future
Summer Research Opportunities in STEM (October 26, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45256 45256-10144522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Science Learning Center

If you want to expand your research experience next summer, check out this workshop panel that will highlight a variety of research experiences available to you and other UM students. We will highlight UM and other domestic programs, as well as research abroad opportunities. Come join us and discover what great research opportunities await you!

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 01 Oct 2017 20:18:45 -0400 2017-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T19:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Mister Clements and his Magnificent Library Tour (October 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41585 41585-9841065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The University of Michigan is home to one of the world’s premiere American History libraries, the William L. Clements Library. Immerse yourself in history and join us for a tour of the newly renovated Clements Library to learn more about Mr. Clements, his Magnificent Library and our Collections.

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:10:00 -0400 2017-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The William L. Clements Library
Alumni Insights Lunch: Diverse Careers in STEM (October 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44545 44545-9923137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join us for lunch and a panel on careers in STEM with Rackham alumni, Dr. Scott Betts, Dr. Anne Juggernauth, Dr. Sabrina Peczonczyk, and Dr. Chris Vlahos. Dr. Betts completed his Ph.D. from Rackham in 1996 studying Cellular and Molecular Biology and currently serves as a program leader at DuPont Pioneer in Iowa. He has contributed extensively to the field of research surrounding agricultural plant science, physiology, and biotechnology. Dr. Anne Juggernauth completed her Ph.D. in 2013 from Rackham in the Macromolecular Science and Engineering program. After spending 3 years at Avery Dennison focused on novel material development both internally and assessing external opportunities, she returned to the Office of Technology Transfer at U-M where she currently serves as a Licensing Specialist and manages a program working with current graduate students and postdocs. Dr. Peczonczyk received her Ph.D. in 2014 in Chemistry and joined Ford Motor Company’s Research and Advanced Engineering Organization later that year. She is currently a Research Scientist in the Surface Science and Engineering Group. Her current research efforts include automotive coatings and interfaces, with special interest in transparent, durable functional coatings for autonomous vehicles, next generation paint technology, surface treatments to improve structural bonding, and advanced materials for lithium ion batteries. Dr. Chris Vlahos earned his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry in 1987 and currently serves as the director of global external research and development at Eli Lilly, a biotechnology company focused on medicine. These Rackham alumni will share their career experiences with current graduate students and offer advice about entering the workforce after graduate school. This panel is a collaboration between Rackham and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the Medical School.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=443.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:53:39 -0400 2017-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T13:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Rackham Logo
A Neural Circuit that Regulates Cortical State and Enhances Plasticity (October 27, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42680 42680-9622513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Sara Aton

Stryker is:
Professor
Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Departments of Physiology and Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:21:22 -0400 2017-10-27T12:15:00-04:00 2017-10-27T13:15:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar diagram of responses in the brain when running vs stationary
A Conversation with M-BARC (October 27, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35626 35626-5280607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

An opportunity to meet the students who are designing and building M-BARC, the Michigan Bicentennial Archive, with plans to launch a time capsule into space for a 100-year orbit. Part of the UMich200 Fall Festival. Learn more at m-barc.com.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:37:30 -0400 2017-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Bicentennial Office Lecture / Discussion M-Barc
Thesis defense: Spatial variation in niche attributes of an expanding generalist carnivore (October 27, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45069 45069-10081471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB graduate student, Shawn Colborn, defends his thesis.

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Presentation Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:44:26 -0400 2017-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation coyote camera trap image
Mister Clements and his Magnificent Library Tour (October 27, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41585 41585-9841066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 2:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The University of Michigan is home to one of the world’s premiere American History libraries, the William L. Clements Library. Immerse yourself in history and join us for a tour of the newly renovated Clements Library to learn more about Mr. Clements, his Magnificent Library and our Collections.

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:10:00 -0400 2017-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The William L. Clements Library
Mister Clements and his Magnificent Library Tour (October 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41585 41585-9841067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The University of Michigan is home to one of the world’s premiere American History libraries, the William L. Clements Library. Immerse yourself in history and join us for a tour of the newly renovated Clements Library to learn more about Mr. Clements, his Magnificent Library and our Collections.

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:10:00 -0400 2017-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The William L. Clements Library
Transferable Skills for Ph.D. Students (October 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44546 44546-9923138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Do you struggle with identifying the skills and strengths that you have gained through academic and professional experiences? Articulating transferable skills and strengths is a key part of the career development process. Come and learn from the University Career Center and Rackham's Professional and Academic Development Office about how to effectively identify your skill-set using My IDP and Imagine PhD.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=444.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:31:27 -0400 2017-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 Student Activities Building Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Thesis defense: Behavior and bacteria: insights into the dynamic impact and interactions of Michigan's coyotes (October 30, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45277 45277-10150118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Corbin Kuntze defends his thesis

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Presentation Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:07:48 -0400 2017-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation An outline of a wolf filled with bacteria superimposed over map of Michigan and graph
Clean Heat & Energy Justice: assessing equitable transitions to clean air in NYC (Environmental Research Seminar) (October 31, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46163 46163-10407019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Environmental Research Seminar Series sponsored by the Integrated Health Sciences Core of M-LEEaD (Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:59:39 -0400 2017-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Oct 31 Seminar D.Hernandez
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Changing the face of conservation: The Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at the University of Michigan (October 31, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42881 42881-9675058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:23:37 -0400 2017-10-31T12:10:00-04:00 2017-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars Workshop / Seminar Doris Duke Conservations Scholars
2017 MCubed Symposium (November 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44480 44480-9920273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Mcubed

Get ready to participate in this dynamic showcase of research and scholarship at the University of Michigan, from snake robots and the human microbiome to big data and public art. More than 250 interdisciplinary faculty and student teams, or “cubes,” will present their work through storytelling, demonstrations, and posters.

We’ll launch the event with a timely keynote address from Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health. Formerly a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Michigan, Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project. Don’t miss his thoughts about the most strategic approaches to today’s research environment!

Learn something new. Access the professional network of a lifetime. And hail the next chapter in Michigan’s legacy of uncommon innovation.

Limited seating, with required registration by October 20, 2017. Register at mcubed.umich.edu/symposium/registration

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:37:22 -0400 2017-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Mcubed Conference / Symposium Symposium image
2017 MCubed Symposium (November 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44480 44480-9920276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Mcubed

Get ready to participate in this dynamic showcase of research and scholarship at the University of Michigan, from snake robots and the human microbiome to big data and public art. More than 250 interdisciplinary faculty and student teams, or “cubes,” will present their work through storytelling, demonstrations, and posters.

We’ll launch the event with a timely keynote address from Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health. Formerly a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Michigan, Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project. Don’t miss his thoughts about the most strategic approaches to today’s research environment!

Learn something new. Access the professional network of a lifetime. And hail the next chapter in Michigan’s legacy of uncommon innovation.

Limited seating, with required registration by October 20, 2017. Register at mcubed.umich.edu/symposium/registration

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:37:22 -0400 2017-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Mcubed Conference / Symposium Symposium image
Examining engineering concepts in practice: Is conceptual understanding relevant to practice? (November 1, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45717 45717-10265455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Concepts are ubiquitous in engineering education in many forms. Engineering educators have developed multiple concept inventories that are widely used to assess student learning and frequently have discussions about the importance of knowing the concepts. Academic artifacts such as textbooks are normally organized around engineering concepts. Although there is comfort in utilizing concepts as the organizing framework for engineering education, substantial evidence from multiple perspectives suggests that it may not be optimal for student learning or for preparation for engineering practice. Concepts at their core definition imply a sanitized transferable entity, that transcends context. However, theoretical perspectives of situated cognition suggest that concepts may not be the fundamental organizing schema for practitioners. Rather, project constraints and contexts may be an alternative lens for how engineers organize their knowledge. This research implemented two methodologies to examine the role of concepts in engineering practice, gathering concept inventory responses from practicing civil engineers, and studying the use of concepts in the design of a roundabout. Students perform better than practicing engineers on statics, fluid mechanics, and mechanics of materials concept inventory questions. Concepts in engineering practice related to roundabout design do not have static abstracted representations, but are continuously negotiated, abstracted, and represented in multiple forms. The explicit and implicit organization of concepts in engineering education may not be ideal for learning or preparation for the engineering workplace.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:51:35 -0400 2017-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Shane Brown Photo
The Road to Graduate Success (November 2, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45207 45207-10110353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Graduate school can be daunting. It’s often an extended exercise in not being told about the things you’d better know. The path to success is seldom smooth nor clear, populated by busy people and opaque processes. Alas, here is a forum for graduate students to hear from their senior colleagues about challenges in their academic journeys and how they overcame them. We asked an interdisciplinary group of these busy people to devote two hours of their time to answering your questions. Join us to gain insight from their hindsight!

Edible fare and refreshments to be served!

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 30 Sep 2017 13:50:04 -0400 2017-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Event poster
Crushing conferences: Networking & elevator pitches for STEM grads (November 2, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45970 45970-10341702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

This interactive workshop focuses on improving "conversational" public speaking skills relevant to grad students, including poster presentations and general networking at research conferences and professional meetings. Professors David Dowling and Ellen Arruda (Mechanical Engineering) will share strategies for creating effective "elevator speeches" and ways to re-tool them for specific audiences. The speakers will then guide you through workshopping "lightning" versions of your research with your peers. Dinner will be served!! Please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crushing-conferences-networking-elevator-pitches-for-stem-grads-registration-38916842323

Contact Anne Menefee (amenefee@umich.edu) with questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:32:27 -0400 2017-11-02T17:30:00-04:00 2017-11-02T19:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (November 3, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-11-03T10:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Mister Clements and his Magnificent Library Tour (November 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41585 41585-9367015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The University of Michigan is home to one of the world’s premiere American History libraries, the William L. Clements Library. Immerse yourself in history and join us for a tour of the newly renovated Clements Library to learn more about Mr. Clements, his Magnificent Library and our Collections.

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:10:00 -0400 2017-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The William L. Clements Library
Mechanisms Underlying DNA Polymerase Management in Bacteria (November 3, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42681 42681-9622514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Lyle Simmons

Sutton is Professor, Department of Biochemistry
University of Buffalo

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:26:32 -0400 2017-11-03T12:15:00-04:00 2017-11-03T13:15:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar diagram of dna polymerase
Mister Clements and his Magnificent Library Tour (November 3, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41585 41585-9367016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 2:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The University of Michigan is home to one of the world’s premiere American History libraries, the William L. Clements Library. Immerse yourself in history and join us for a tour of the newly renovated Clements Library to learn more about Mr. Clements, his Magnificent Library and our Collections.

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:10:00 -0400 2017-11-03T14:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The William L. Clements Library
Whistling Vivaldi: Claude Steele's Research on Stereotype Threat (November 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45984 45984-10344522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

In this session we will discuss some of the research on stereotype threat in Steele's book, Whistling Vivaldi. After a brief introduction, we will discuss strategies for overcoming stereotype threat. We will conclude with a conversation with faculty on how to create identity safe environments and guidance on mentoring across difference.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=501.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:26:21 -0400 2017-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Digital Pedagogies Lightning Talks and Workshop (November 6, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45428 45428-10175523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Have you been thinking about integrating digital technologies, social media, and/or other kinds of pedagogical initiatives using digital platforms into a new or existing course? Would you like to learn about innovations in classroom projects in a peer-facilitated setting?

In this workshop, doctoral students in the humanities will deliver 8-minute lightning talks on their pedagogical innovations. Participants will also interact with presenters and explore key ideas in break-out sessions after the lightning talks. Register here: https://crlt.umich.edu/events/digital-pedagogies-lightning-talks-and-workshop-0

Participation in the entirety of this workshop can count toward Requirement ‘B2’ of the Graduate Teacher Certificate (GTC) or Requirement ‘G’ of the Graduate Teacher Plus Certificate in Digital Media (GTC+).

Facilitators:
Tazin Daniels (CRLT)
Kush Patel (Institute for the Humanities)

Student Presentations:

"Assigning the Podcast Essay to Amplify Student Voice" by Emily R. Sabo (Linguistics)

This talk is about creating podcasts in the undergraduate classroom. It is especially relevant for teachers who want to either give their students a new way of thinking about writing or inspire them to take more ownership of their own ideas. Resources to be discussed include freesounds.com, ClipGrab software, Audacity, and sample podcasts databases.

"Integrating Student Podcasts with Other Forms of Digital Reflection" by Jana Wilbricht (Communication Studies)

For my Spring 2018 course Indigenous Media — Production, Regulation, and Social Activism, students will create an e-portfolio, reflecting creatively on their thoughts, questions, and learning processes through text, image, video, and sound. Given the focus on media production, students will also create a podcast based on their interviews with Indigenous media producers who will visit our course as guest speakers.

"Speaking with the Dead: Digital Oral History for the Premodern Classroom" by Paula R. Curtis (History)

This presentation will consider how premodern specialists can integrate skills in public scholarship and digital media pedagogies into their undergraduate classrooms by combining “traditional” primary source analyses with innovative content creation through digital publishing platforms such as Scalar.

"Student as Knowledge-Maker: Digital Pedagogy in the Early Modern Classroom" by Amrita Dhar (English)

This talk will explore the use of digital tools and methods towards students' connections with and ownership of challenging historical material. In particular, it will explore the role of transcriptions and digital corpus-creation in a course on early women's writing.

"Where are you from? Combining Maps, Text And Multimedia Content To Make Afro Presence Visible in Argentina" by Marisol Fila (Spanish)

This talk is about integrating maps with narrative text, images and multimedia content in the context of an undergraduate course. I will discuss the use of the platform Story Maps to create a digital project that will serve as the final assignment for a Spanish course about the Afro presence in Argentina.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Nov 2017 09:42:30 -0400 2017-11-06T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Digital Pedagogies
The role of science and technology policy in developing countries (November 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45113 45113-10084377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website just before the event for viewing details.


Join us as we welcome Dr. T. Ramasami, former secretary of science and technology for India, as he discusses the role of science and technology policy in developing countries.

From the speaker's bio:

Dr. T. Ramasami (born 1948) served the Government of India as the Secretary in the Department of Science and Technology during May 2006- 2014. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board on Education an Outreach for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, The Netherlands and Honorary professor in seven Universities and Institutes of National Importance in India.

In recent times he has been working in the science policy space with special focus on low resource setting and Research and Development for Public and Social good with pro-poor orientation to technology and affordability of innovations. He makes a compelling case also for marrying collaborative excellence to competitive excellence models. Trilogy of Excellence, Relevance and Sustenance is his current theme of research interest. He is a scientist who transformed himself into a civil servant and policy professional.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:35:12 -0400 2017-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Dr. T. Ramasami
Design Expo Registration Deadline (November 6, 2017 11:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45631 45631-10242986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 11:59pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

The College of Engineering Design Expo is held twice a year to provide a public forum for engineering students to demonstrate applications of their studies to real-life needs. Students gain valuable experience by presenting their work.

Through this venue, the greater University community and general public has the opportunity to learn how Michigan's students are contributing in significant ways to solving major technology challenges across various disciplines.

Student groups that would like to present projects must register by November 6th, 2017 at 11:59 pm. If you have any questions, please contact Lindsey Dowswell in the Multidisciplinary Design Program office at lindsd@umich.edu or (734) 763-0818.

These student projects consist of internal University of Michigan projects, non-profit community projects and industry-sponsored projects. Most of these projects are part of Senior Design Project Courses, but other project groups are welcome and encouraged to participate.

The goal of the Undergraduate Engineering Office is to have participation from all departments within the College of Engineering (and eventually across university schools and colleges) to promote cross-disciplinary cooperation as well as high school outreach.

This event is held in multiple North Campus locations including the Duderstadt Center, Bob & Betty Beyster Building, Pierpont Commons, EECS Building, and Chrysler Center.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:40:07 -0400 2017-11-06T23:59:00-05:00 2017-11-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multidisciplinary Design Program Conference / Symposium Student Project Presentation
Liberating Structures with Amanda Healy (November 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45102 45102-10084367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Learn flexible facilitation techniques that maximize inclusion and participation in meetings, classrooms, and community discussions. These structures can help you center participant voices by expanding your repertoire beyond familiar discussion formats (open discussion, small group, think-pair-share).

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=446.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:56:29 -0400 2017-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Reconnecting landscapes for ecological systems (November 7, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42882 42882-9675059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:55:40 -0400 2017-11-07T12:10:00-05:00 2017-11-07T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars Workshop / Seminar corridor experimental site
Indigenous Self-Determination for Sovereign Games (November 8, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46058 46058-10356063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

From Invaders (an Indigenous take on the classic arcade game Space Invaders that parallels imagined 8-bit alien invasion with the very real process of colonization in Turtle Island) to Thunderbird Strike (a lightning-searing, talon-tearing attack on oil consumption), Elizabeth LaPensée's games offer alternative gameplay from an Indigenous worldview. She will speak to these games and more with an emphasis on their intentions, self-determined design, inclusive development process, and community-focused distribution in the hopes of reifying sovereignty through games.

LaPensée, Ph.D. is an award-winning writer, designer, and artist of games, comics, transmedia, and animation. She is Anishinaabe, Métis, and Irish, living near the Great Lakes as an Assistant Professor of Media & Information and Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures at Michigan State University. Most recently, she designed and created art for Manoominike (2016), a motion game about practices of wild ricing, as well as Honour Water (2016), an Anishinaabe singing game for healing the water. She designed and programmed Invaders (2015), a remix of the arcade classic Space Invaders. She also designed The Gift of Food (2014), a board game about Northwest Native traditional foods. She is currently working on Thunderbird Strike, a side-scrolling lightning-searing, talon-tearing attack on oil operations.

Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:10:48 -0400 2017-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T15:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Emergent Research image
Prechter Bipolar Research Program Lecture (November 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45841 45841-10310522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

*Featured Speaker Marya Hornbacher
*Panel discussion about the present and future of research in bipolar disorder
*Reception

The University of Michigan Psychiatry Department is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative. 2 CE Clock Hours for social workers are available for continuing education for this event. Approved provider number for social work: MICEC-0063.

This event is free and open to the public - but pre-registration is required: http://www.prechterfund.org/lecture/

If you are unable to attend in person, you can join via live webcast at 6:00 p.m. EST on 11/8/2017 using this link: michmed.org/Erapv

The book will be available for purchase at the event. Marya will sign books during the reception.

Sponsored By:
The Bruce C. Abrams Foundation
Holbrook’s Roofing

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:40:13 -0400 2017-11-08T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Lecture / Discussion Marya Hornbacher
Impact on Inequality (November 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35924 35924-5374860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UMich200

The University of Michigan has long been a leader in social science research on the many dimensions of social inequality. This bicentennial symposium will highlight these contributions by focusing on the work of distinguished social scientists who were trained at the University of Michigan. An illustrious group of Michigan graduates from fields such as economics, education, political science, psychology, public policy, social work, sociology, and women’s studies will discuss past, present, and future research on issues related to gender, race, poverty, inequality, and economic mobility.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:52:56 -0400 2017-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UMich200 Conference / Symposium ISR Bicentennial Image
Update from the U-M Office of Research: Current and Future U-M Research Initiatives (November 9, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44931 44931-10012461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Hu oversees the U-M Office of Research, which promotes interdisciplinary research, develops and implements research policy, provides central administrative services in support of faculty research, innovations and economic outreach, and manages activities related to compliance and the responsible conduct of research.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:34:41 -0400 2017-11-09T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
ASC Lecture. 2017-2018 UMAPS Colloquium Series (November 9, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44121 44121-9888978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

Each UMAPS fellow will have the chance to present their scholarly work in a session of an ongoing monthly series. Talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to increase skills in effective communications, to promote dialogue on topics, and to share the research with the larger U-M community. All are invited to attend to grasp the range and depth of work occurring through the UMAPS partnerships. 

10/5, UMAPS Colloquium (#1)—Social Sciences I (Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League)
VERONICA DZOMEKU, Nursing, KNUST, Ghana
“Exploration of Expectations and Experiences of Mothers toward Childbirth Care”

THELMA FENNIE, Psychology, University of the Westewrn Cape, South Africa
“Exploring Psychological Effects of Adolescent Girls’ Experiences of Menarche & Menstruation in School Settings”

AUDREY KALINDI, Population Studies, University of Zambia
“Factors that Affect Use of Maternal Health Services, HIV Testing and Linkage to Medical Care in Zambia”

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10/12, UMAPS Colloquium (#2)—STEM I (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
DEBELA GEMEDA BEDANE, Pharmacology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Antidepressant Drug Response”

MTHOKOZISI SIMELANE, Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
“Ursolic Acid Acetate as a Promising Agent for Malarial Chemotherapy”

MESTEWAT DEBASU MOGNHODIE, Biochemistry, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Exploration and Utilization of Glycan-Based Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy in Ethiopia”

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11/ 9, UMAPS Colloquium (#3)—Humanities (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

PAMELA KHANAKWA, History, Makerere University, Uganda
“Bagisu Men Don’t Cry: Imbalu and the Construction of Masculinities in Uganda”

YIKUNNOAMLAK MEZGEBU, Literature, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
“From Competition to Composition:  Languages, Regions and Religions in an Ethiopian Literature”

PAUL CONWAY & KELLY ASKEW, University of Michigan “Radio, Cyberspace, and the Repatriation of African Musical Heritage”

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12/7, UMAPS Colloquium (#4)—STEM II (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
OLUWAKEMI ROTIMI, Biochemistry, Covenant University, Nigeria
“The Role of Epigenetics in the Toxicity of Environmental Exposures”

ZEWDU JIMA TAKLE, Physiology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Molecular Signaling Mechanisms in the Vessel Wall after Stroke and Pathways Mediated by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)”

SENYO ADZEI, Music, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
“Processes in Shrine Music of the Awudome People of Ghana–An Ethnomusicolowgical Inquiry”

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1/ 11, UMAPS Colloquium (#5)—Social Sciences II (Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union)
ODUR BENARD, Statistics, Makerere University, Uganda
“A Retrospective Analysis of Progression in Neonatal and Infant Mortality Drivers in Uganda (1995-2016)”

PRECIOUS NDLOVU, Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
“The Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Africa’s Regional Competition Law Frameworks: An Examination of the COMESA Competition Commission”

MOSES MUHUMUZA, Human Ecology, Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda
“Holistic Community-based Biodiversity Conservation in National Parks in Rural Africa”

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2/8, UMAPS Colloquium (#6)—STEM III (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

KALILU DONZO, Biology, University of Liberia
“Advanced Training in Molecular Biology Techniques: Introducing Research-based Techniques at the University of Liberia”

MELESSEW NIGUSSIE GEREME, Physics, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
“Investigation of Triggering Mechanisms of Ionospheric Irregularities in the Equatorial Ionosphere”

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Presentation Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:26:52 -0500 2017-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Presentation
Engineering Graduate Symposium (November 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43413 43413-9759944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Graduate Symposium Committee

The 12th Annual Engineering Graduate Symposium (EGS 2017) will be held on Friday, November 10, 2017. EGS is a University of Michigan College of Engineering initiative to recognize and award our graduate students for their research. It is an exciting technical and social gathering on North Campus of current graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and industrial sponsors from different engineering disciplines.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 01 Nov 2017 07:44:46 -0400 2017-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Graduate Symposium Committee Conference / Symposium EGS participant presenting her research poster
Impact on Inequality (November 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35924 35924-5374861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UMich200

The University of Michigan has long been a leader in social science research on the many dimensions of social inequality. This bicentennial symposium will highlight these contributions by focusing on the work of distinguished social scientists who were trained at the University of Michigan. An illustrious group of Michigan graduates from fields such as economics, education, political science, psychology, public policy, social work, sociology, and women’s studies will discuss past, present, and future research on issues related to gender, race, poverty, inequality, and economic mobility.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:52:56 -0400 2017-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UMich200 Conference / Symposium ISR Bicentennial Image
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (November 10, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Michigan Cardiovascular Innovation & Translation Workshop (M-CRIT) (November 10, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43462 43462-9766083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

The University of Michigan is offering a hands-on workshop on novel technologies for translational cardiovascular research specifically geared towards the medical device industry and academia.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:45:24 -0400 2017-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Michigan Cardiovascular Innovation and Translation
Getting Bacteria into Shape: Regulation of the Cell Wall Synthesis Machinery (November 10, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42682 42682-9622515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Jim Bardwell

Thomas G. Bernhardt
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar
Harvard Medical School

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:33:14 -0400 2017-11-10T12:15:00-05:00 2017-11-10T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar bacteria
LNF Users Symposium (November 10, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46731 46731-10592257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lurie Nanofabrication Facility

Building upon the success of past events, we continue our annual tradition of bringing the whole LNF community together to learn about each other’s work and celebrate the wide variety of research being done at the LNF.
The symposium is free and open to all but please register – Online registration is available. In addition, LNF tours can be scheduled at the end of the symposium for those interested. Food will be provided.
If you are an LNF user, participate in the poster contest and share your research! There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Tentative agenda
10:00am: Welcome from Professor Wei Lu, LNF Director
10:15am – 11:15am: Keynote Speaker, Professor Euisik Yoon, Biointerface Technologies: Where Engineering Meets Science and Medicine
11:15am – 1:20pm: LNF Users Poster Sessions with over 40 posters and excellent food!
Vendor Exhibition!
LNF Users Tech Talks, part I
2:30pm – 2:45pm: Coffee Break
LNF Users Tech Talks, part II
4:05pm: Poster Prizes and Wrap Up
4:30pm: Adjourn and LNF tours for those who signed up

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:46:17 -0500 2017-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lurie Nanofabrication Facility Conference / Symposium LNF Users Symposium
LNF Users Symposium (November 10, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46731 46731-10592258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lurie Nanofabrication Facility

Building upon the success of past events, we continue our annual tradition of bringing the whole LNF community together to learn about each other’s work and celebrate the wide variety of research being done at the LNF.
The symposium is free and open to all but please register – Online registration is available. In addition, LNF tours can be scheduled at the end of the symposium for those interested. Food will be provided.
If you are an LNF user, participate in the poster contest and share your research! There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Tentative agenda
10:00am: Welcome from Professor Wei Lu, LNF Director
10:15am – 11:15am: Keynote Speaker, Professor Euisik Yoon, Biointerface Technologies: Where Engineering Meets Science and Medicine
11:15am – 1:20pm: LNF Users Poster Sessions with over 40 posters and excellent food!
Vendor Exhibition!
LNF Users Tech Talks, part I
2:30pm – 2:45pm: Coffee Break
LNF Users Tech Talks, part II
4:05pm: Poster Prizes and Wrap Up
4:30pm: Adjourn and LNF tours for those who signed up

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:46:17 -0500 2017-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lurie Nanofabrication Facility Conference / Symposium LNF Users Symposium
The Premodern Colloquim. Giordano Bruno and the Phaedrus: Pegasus, Asinitas, and Merkabah (November 12, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43877 43877-9852275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 12, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its thirty-eighth year. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discuss work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles, and dissertation chapters.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:54:26 -0400 2017-11-12T15:30:00-05:00 2017-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Trans* In College: Personal Pathways To and Through The Research Process (November 13, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45818 45818-10310366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 12:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join us in welcoming Z Nicolazzo (pronouns: ze/hir) to campus. Ze is an
assistant professor and faculty associate at Northern Illinois University. Hir
research focuses on mapping gender across college contexts, with a
particular emphasis on affirmative and resilience-based research alongside
trans* students. Ze recently published a book titled Trans* in College:
Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the
Institutional Politics of Inclusion.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:49:21 -0400 2017-11-13T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar A flyer describing the event, with a picture of ze smiling.
STS Speaker. Satisfied Callers: Police and Corporate Customer Service Technology in India (November 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42860 42860-9672384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

State organizations are infamous for their insatiable appetites for documentation, but sometimes they refuse to produce documents. In India, police officers often refuse to register complaints and initiate proceedings. A recent project by the police in the Indian state of Punjab has aimed to eliminate this practice. The state hired a private corporation to run a call center to take emergency calls to the police. Young, middle-class, educated women staff the phones and act as case coordinators, dispatching police in locations across the state and monitoring the progress of cases through an elaborate database that logs communications from victims and police documents. Procedures embedded in corporation software translates the government procedure into the language of customer service.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:03:39 -0400 2017-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Matthew S. Hull
Academic Innovation Initiative Summit (November 14, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43098 43098-9726218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

This Academic Innovation Initiative Summit will provide opportunities for faculty, students, staff, and alumni to interact with each other to explore the future of education on campus and beyond. Summit activities will highlight initiatives throughout the past year as well as new opportunities for the U-M community to examine how teaching and learning can be enhanced by ubiquitous access to digital content, by unprecedented opportunities for connection, and by an explosion of data about learners, educators and their interactions.

The Academic Innovation Initiative Summit will include a variety of unique activities and opportunities for discussion. Visit http://ai.umich.edu/event/academic-innovation-initiative-summit/ for more details.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:11:08 -0400 2017-11-14T08:30:00-05:00 2017-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Academic Innovation Conference / Symposium U-M Academic Innovation
Brown Bag: David Bates Douglass Papers (November 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42556 42556-9611972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This lecture examines the more than 600 new manuscript additions to the David Bates Douglass Papers and provides a glimpse of an early nineteenth-century American family.

"Getting to work with the David Bates Douglass Papers has helped deepen my understanding of the ways that librarians, information technology specialists, and archivists shape historical work. For example, as a historian who always incorporates gender and class in my scholarship, I could use those skills to identify elements of gender and class within the overall collection, thus showing how much broader the collection is in its scope. Therefore, one of the most important aspects of this experience, for me, was learning the significance of bringing diverse people and skills to the work of organizing and preserving the objects that connect us to the the past, and that make up the material historians use for its interpretation."

-Katie LaPlant

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:20:18 -0400 2017-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Brown Bag: David Bates Douglass Papers
Medieval Lunch. It Happened Earlier Than You Think: Jewish-Christian Disputations in Late Antiquity (November 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43770 43770-9841061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Sep 2017 08:57:42 -0400 2017-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Disputation in Late Antiquity
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Influence of large-scale biodiversity loss on local ecosystem function clarified using a mainland-island model (November 14, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42883 42883-9675060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Nov 2017 13:03:49 -0500 2017-11-14T12:10:00-05:00 2017-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars Workshop / Seminar graphs of environmental fluctuation
U-M Biological Station Information Session (November 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46229 46229-10421233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Anyone who wants to learn more about earning credits and gaining research experience next spring and/or summer should attend this information session. We will discuss our 2018 course offerings and have past students explain why our field courses are among their favorite Michigan experiences.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:31:23 -0500 2017-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T19:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building University of Michigan Biological Station Workshop / Seminar Students in the field collecting worms from leaf litter
Great Expectations: Mentoring Graduate Students (November 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45110 45110-10084373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Great Expectations: Mentoring Graduate Students explores common tensions that can arise between advisors and their advisees. The sketch depicts two different mentoring relationships, allowing a comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. It also raises questions about the ways in which problems that emerge within a mentoring dyad might affect departmental climate more generally.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=447.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:40:31 -0400 2017-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Public Health Major Info Sessions (November 15, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41583 41583-9367007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 3:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: School of Public Health

Learn more about the public health major and requirements for admission. Why should you study public health at Michigan?

What public health degrees does Michigan offer and what careers can you find after graduation?

These 30-minute interactive presentations are followed by time for questions and discussion. Register online at sph.umich.edu/undergrad.

Public health refers to all organized measures—both public and private—that promote health, prevent illness and disease, and prolong the quality and years of life for the population as a whole. Public health creates conditions under which people can live a healthy lifestyle and, when treatment is necessary, it ensures equitable access to safe and effective health care.

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, we offer engaged learning opportunities through interdisciplinary education with top faculty, access to innovative laboratory and field settings, and community-based and entrepreneurial training. We provide Michigan students with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed as leaders in the field of public health

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Presentation Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:56:58 -0400 2017-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower School of Public Health Presentation Public health students researching, planning, serving
RSQE's 65th Annual Economic Outlook Conference (November 16, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45670 45670-10251409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Economics

The 65th Annual Economic Outlook Conference will take place on November 16-17, 2017

The 2017 Conference Program includes:

U.S. Economic Outlook, Consumer Spending from Big Data, Trends in the Distribution of Household Income, The 2017 Housing Bubble, Home Mortgage Lending, The Infrastructure Crisis, Economics and Epistemology of America's Looming Crisis of Governance, Michigan Economic Outlook, Balancing the State Budget, and Building Tomorrow's Workforce.

The 2017 Conference Speakers are:

David W. Berson, Gabriel M. Ehrlich, Eric Lupher, Charles Marohn, Kevin Perese, Philip Power, Stephen Oliner, Claudia Sahm, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Aditi Thapar.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:01:07 -0400 2017-11-16T08:30:00-05:00 2017-11-16T20:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Economics Conference / Symposium rsqe social
“Squish and squeeze – Nuclear mechanics and mechanotransduction in physiology and disease” (November 16, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46686 46686-10581043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Jan Lammerding, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology
Cornell University

“Squish and squeeze – Nuclear mechanics and mechanotransduction in physiology and disease”
ABSTRACT: The nucleus is the characteristic feature of eukaryotic cells and houses the genomic information of the cell. The nucleus and the nuclear envelope, which separates the nucleus from the cytoplasm, have traditionally been viewed primarily from a biochemical perspective in providing a distinct intracellular compartment for DNA transcription and replication. Only recently have the biophysical and biomechanical properties of the nucleus emerged as crucial regulators of cellular function. My laboratory is combining cell and molecular biology approaches with microfabricated devices that mimic physiological environments, live-cell microscopy, and in vivo models to investigate how physical forces acting on the nucleus, for example, in contracting muscle cells or during migration of cells through tight interstitial spaces, can challenge the integrity of the nucleus, alter its structure, and cause genomic and transcriptional changes. These processes play important roles in cellular mechanotransduction, i.e., the ability of cells to convert mechanical stimuli into biochemical signals, but can also contribute to various diseases when the nuclear structure is perturbed by mutations or altered protein expression. In particular, mutations in the nuclear envelope proteins lamin A/C are responsible for a broad spectrum of diseases (laminopathies), including Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) and dilated cardiomyopathy. Despite extensive research efforts over the past two decades, the molecular mechanisms underlying these diseases remain incompletely understood. The fact that most mutations result in highly tissue-specific disease phenotypes primarily affecting skeletal and cardiac muscles, in spite of the near ubiquitous expression of lamins A/C, suggest that lamin mutations may render cells more sensitive to mechanical stress, which then causes progressive cell failure in mechanically stressed tissues. We have previously demonstrated that lamin A/C mutations that cause muscular dystrophy and dilated cardiomyopathy often result in impaired nuclear stability, disrupted nucleo-cytoskeletal coupling, and impaired activation of mechanosensitive genes. I will discuss new findings in this research area that highlight the importance of lamins A/C in mediating nuclear stability and mechanotransduction in mechanically stressed cells and tissues. At the same time, increased nuclear deformability, caused for example by reduced levels of lamins A/C, can promote cell migration through tight spaces with cross-sections smaller than the nuclear diameter, where the large size and rigidity of the nucleus can constitute a rate-limiting factor. I will present recent findings that demonstrate the importance of nuclear mechanics during cell migration in confined environments in vitro and in vivo, as well as the functional consequences of cells having to squeeze their large nuclei through tight interstitial spaces and small pores in the extracellular matrix network. Our studies indicate that the intracellular stresses acting on the cell nucleus during confined migration can result in transient nuclear envelope rupture and DNA damage, which is highly relevant to cancer cell migration but could also impact the function of immune cells. Our recent findings reveal specific differences in nuclear deformability and nuclear envelope composition in particularly aggressive breast cancer cells, as well as new insights governing the biophysical mechanisms by which cells are able to squeeze their large nucleus through tight spaces.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:36:56 -0500 2017-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME Logo
RSQE's 65th Annual Economic Outlook Conference (November 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45670 45670-10251410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Economics

The 65th Annual Economic Outlook Conference will take place on November 16-17, 2017

The 2017 Conference Program includes:

U.S. Economic Outlook, Consumer Spending from Big Data, Trends in the Distribution of Household Income, The 2017 Housing Bubble, Home Mortgage Lending, The Infrastructure Crisis, Economics and Epistemology of America's Looming Crisis of Governance, Michigan Economic Outlook, Balancing the State Budget, and Building Tomorrow's Workforce.

The 2017 Conference Speakers are:

David W. Berson, Gabriel M. Ehrlich, Eric Lupher, Charles Marohn, Kevin Perese, Philip Power, Stephen Oliner, Claudia Sahm, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Aditi Thapar.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:01:07 -0400 2017-11-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Economics Conference / Symposium rsqe social
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (November 17, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (November 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43938 43938-10262634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour of the renovated Library to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation about our new space and an opportunity to view the current exhibit, The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers. The Pioneer Americanists is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. This exhibit is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:17:19 -0400 2017-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition William L. Clements Library
The RB Tumor Suppressor Pathway: E2F Functions in Development and Cancer (November 17, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42683 42683-9622516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Laura Buttitta

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:53:00 -0400 2017-11-17T12:15:00-05:00 2017-11-17T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar expression patterns
2017 Michigan IT Symposium Poster Preview and Reception (November 20, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46708 46708-10589414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan IT

Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a poster reception on Monday, November 20 to better understand how the work of information technology staff is enriching the U-M experience and advancing the missions of the university.

More than 50 IT staff from U-M schools and colleges, Michigan Medicine, and administrative units will present posters on topics including enabling research, transforming patient care, innovations in teaching and learning, and supporting the people side of technology change.

Refreshments will be served and attendees will get the opportunity to ask questions and engage in deeper conversations with poster creators.

The 2017 IT Symposium is co-sponsored by the offices of Kelli Trosvig, vice president for IT and chief information officer, and Andrew Rosenberg, M.D., chief information officer for Michigan Medicine.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:57:20 -0500 2017-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 2017-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan IT Reception / Open House 2017 Michigan IT Symposium
CV Writing Workshop (November 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45104 45104-10084368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop helps you think through strategies for writing academic CVs by looking at examples from a wide range of fields and considering the effects of their writers' rhetorical choices. We'll also share some insights about effective CVs from senior faculty members and administrators, the documents' main audience.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=448.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:19:50 -0400 2017-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today (November 21, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42885 42885-9675061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars

See you next week

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:47:25 -0500 2017-11-21T12:10:00-05:00 2017-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars Workshop / Seminar Ruthven Museums Building
Writer to Writer with Special Guest Dr. Howard Markel (November 21, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46647 46647-10569824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Center for Writing's Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Each semester, Writer to Writer pairs one esteemed University professor with a Sweetland faculty member for a conversation about writing.

This month Writer to Writer welcomes Dr. Howard Markel. Acclaimed medical historian, Dr. Howard Markel is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is a professor of pediatrics, psychiatry, public health management and policy, history, and English literature and language. His work reaches a wide range of audiences and has had a broad impact on national and international health policy and on the public’s understanding of medicine.

Dr. Markel serves as editor-in-chief of the health policy journal The Milbank Quarterly and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, PBS NewsHour.org, and national radio and television shows. From 2006 to 2015, he served as the principal historical consultant on pandemic preparedness for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His historical epidemiological work has influenced strategies employed by the WHO, the CDC, and the Mexican Ministry of Health.

Dr. Markel is the author, co-author, or co-editor of ten books, including the award-winning Quarantine! and the national bestseller An Anatomy of Addiction. He has written over 450 articles and book chapters for scholarly and popular publications. He was a regular contributor on NPR’s Science Friday and has appeared in several acclaimed film documentaries, including, most recently, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies on PBS.

Dr. Markel has delivered lectures across the United States and in Europe and has spoken at U.S. government agencies, departments and the White House. His work has been recognized with numerous grants, honors and awards. In 2008 he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2015 was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship.

A native of Detroit, he earned his bachelor’s (1982) and medical degrees (1986) at the University of Michigan. He completed his pediatrics residency and fellowship and Ph.D. in the history of medicine, science and technology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School. In Fall, 2018, Pantheon/Random House will publish his new book, Corn Flakes, about Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who invented the concept of “wellness,” and his brother, cereal magnate Will Kellogg.

Writer to Writer takes place at the Literati bookstore and are broadcast live on WCBN radio. These conversations offer students a rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom. You can hear instructors from various disciplines describe how they handle the same challenges student writers face, from finding a thesis to managing deadlines. Professors will also discuss what they want from student writers in their courses, and will take questions put forth by students and by other members of the University community. If there's anything you've ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Writer to Writer gives you the chance.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:13:38 -0500 2017-11-21T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion Howard Markel
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (November 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-11-24T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-24T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Symposium (November 27, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46867 46867-10658850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Office of the Executive VP of Medical Affairs

The 2017 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Symposium, co-hosted by the National Academy of Medicine and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will focus on how challenges associated with managing acute and chronic pain have led to an explosion in the abuse of prescription pain medications and a nationwide epidemic. Panelists will consider how to inform health care policies that impact the opioid epidemic by asking:

• How can we use the wealth of epidemiological, clinical, and basic science information about the biology of pain and addiction to stem the opioid epidemic?
• What can be done now?
• What should be done in the longer term?

Pioneering pain researcher, Dr. Allan Basbaum, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, and member of the National Academy of Medicine, will describe the current understanding of the neurobiology of pain and discuss opportunities to translate knowledge about basic research into treatments for various types of pain, as the country continues to confront real life challenges.

The plenary lecture will be followed by a panel of University of Michigan faculty who will address various facets of the opioid epidemic across a wide range of disciplines.

• Dr. John Traynor, Edward F Domino Research Professor; Associate Chair for Research, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan
• Dr. Shelly B. Flagel, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry Research Associate Professor, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
• Dr. Chad M. Brummett, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; Director, Clinical Anesthesia Research; Co-Director, Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (Michigan OPEN); University of Michigan
• Dr. Richard Miech, Research Professor; Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:03:10 -0500 2017-11-27T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 Taubman Center Office of the Executive VP of Medical Affairs Lecture / Discussion
Giving BlueDay at Rackham (November 28, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46899 46899-10670081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 11:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Join Interim Dean Michael J. Solomon and other Rackham staff for lunch, sign postcards thanking our generous donors, and learn more about how emergency funding helps graduate students in difficult situations. Gifts of all sizes make a difference, so if you would like to make a Giving Blueday contribution to an area within Rackham that is especially close to your heart, we would be happy to help you do that.​ Every gift matters!

Registration required: myumi.ch/6e41n

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Meeting Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:34:55 -0500 2017-11-28T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-28T14:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Meeting Rackham Logo
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: On the top of world: human adaptation to high altitude (November 28, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42887 42887-9675063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:08:23 -0500 2017-11-28T12:10:00-05:00 2017-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar llama
Marching Forward: A Research and Scholarship Symposium (November 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45149 45149-10095910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

As part of the U-M Fall 2017 Marching Forward series, we invite you to engage across disciplines, generations, and communities to advance research and scholarship that explores political, social, and economic injustices, and/or advances strategies for effective social justice mobilization.

Through this symposium, we aim to engage the U-M community and the public in further understanding critical historical topics and fostering an intellectual community to explore the civil rights issues of today.

See the agenda, including a list of presenters, here: http://myumi.ch/L4OYg

See details about small presentations and winners & honorable mentions from the comic contest here: http://myumi.ch/aA2N1

RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/Jl2nm

This symposium takes place two days after the anticipated visit of Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell to the University of Michigan (Nov 27th, Hill Auditorium). Their acclaimed graphic novel trilogy, March, recounts Lewis's experiences throughout the Civil Rights Movement. In protest marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, John Lewis and 600 other marchers drew attention to the importance of voting rights for all African Americans. The marchers were brutally attacked by state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. John Lewis and the marchers did not abandon their cause, but instead propelled the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

This event is co-presented by the International Institute’s Conflict and Peace Initiative, Department of Psychology, National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship. For questions regarding the symposium, please email: MarchingForward@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:18:01 -0500 2017-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Conference / Symposium Marching Forward Call for Proposals, Due Date: Oct. 23
Self-Assembled Supramolecular Nanosystems for Smart Diagnosis and Targeted Therapy of Intractable Diseases (November 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46734 46734-10592251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

The College of Pharmacy invites you to the 22nd Annual John G. Wagner Memorial Lecture, presented by Dr. Kazunori Kataoka, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion, and Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The University of Tokyo.

Nanotechnology-based medicine (Nanomedicine) has received progressive interest for the treatment of intractable diseases, such as cancer, as well as for the non-invasive diagnosis through various imaging modalities. Engineered polymeric nanosystems with smart functions play a key role in nanomedicine as drug carriers, gene vectors, and imaging probes. This presentation focuses present status and future trends of self-assembled nanosystems from block copolymers for the therapy and the non-invasive diagnosis of intractable diseases. Nanosystems with 10 to 100 nm in size can be prepared by programmed self-assembly of block copolymers in aqueous entity. Most typical example is polymeric micelles (PMs) with distinctive core-shell architecture. Compared with conventional formulations, such as liposomes, PMs have several advantages, including controlled drug release, tissue penetrating ability and reduced toxicity [1,2]. Notable anti-tumor efficacy against intractable and metastatic cancer, including pancreatic cancer [3], glioblastoma [4,5], and cancer stem cells [6], of antitumor drug incorporated PMs with pH- and/or redox potential responding properties was demonstrated, emphasizing their promising utility in cancer treatment. Versatility in drug incorporation is another feasibility of PMs. Loading of imaging reagents makes PMs with theranostic functions [7].

These results demonstrate the promising features of PMs as platform nanosystems for molecular therapy of various intractable diseases. Very recently, we developed PMs decorated with glucose to crossing blood-brain barrier by recognizing glucose-transporter overexpressing on brain endothelial cells, opening new avenue to deliver versatile drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease [8].

References
[1] H. Cabral, K. Kataoka, J. Contrl. Rel. 190, 70 (2014).
[2] Y. Matsumoto, et al, Nature Nanotech. 11, 533 (2016).
[3] H. Cabral, et al, ACS Nano 9, 4957 (2015).
[4] K. Katsushima, et al, Nature Commun. 7, 13616 (2016).
[5] S. Quader, et al, J. Contrl. Rel. 258, 56 (2017).
[6] H. Kinoh, et al, ACS Nano 10, 5643 (2016).
[7] P. Mi, et al, Nature Nanotech. 11, 724 (2016).
[8] Y. Anraku, et al, Nature Commun. 8, 1001 (2017).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:38:29 -0500 2017-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 1100 North University Building U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion Dr. Kataoka
Change It Up! Bystander Intervention Skills (November 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45109 45109-10084372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Change it Up! brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful, and safe communities. It is based on a nationally recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals, organizations, and the campus community.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=457.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:26:26 -0500 2017-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
World AIDS Day 2017: Progress and prospects in HIV/AIDS (November 30, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46921 46921-10694792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 6:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Spectrum Center

This panel, composed of University of Michigan researchers from various schools and centers, will discuss what has worked in HIV/AIDS prevention and care in the last decade in the U.S. and beyond. Using their work as examples, the panelists will share their experience with research, advocacy, and bridging policy and practice. The panelists will also touch on the barriers to scaling up effective interventions and the role students, researchers, and educators can play in helping to end an epidemic. Panel discussion organized by the Spectrum Center Programming Board and Center for Sexuality & Health Disparities.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:25:35 -0500 2017-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T19:30:00-05:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A black and red flyer describing the event with logos for the sponsors located on the bottom
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (December 1, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
MORE Mentoring Plan Workshop (December 1, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46901 46901-10670083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 10:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The goal of the Mentoring Plan Workshop is to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. During this workshop, students and faculty will have the opportunity to develop a mentoring plan. A mentoring plan is a two-way agreement about goals, needs, and expectations; it is co-written by the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. It is an excellent way to establish and support mentor-mentee relationships.

Because this program is aimed to enhance the mentoring relationship, mentors and students are expected to attend the workshop together. (Please note: If a faculty mentor has previously attended, he/she may opt to only attend the mentor-student team meeting time to develop the mentoring plan.)

Pre-registration is required of both the student and faculty mentor at https://goo.gl/forms/Tl3wUziXy7IexAy82).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:45:44 -0500 2017-12-01T10:30:00-05:00 2017-12-01T12:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (December 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43938 43938-10262635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour of the renovated Library to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation about our new space and an opportunity to view the current exhibit, The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers. The Pioneer Americanists is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. This exhibit is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:17:19 -0400 2017-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition William L. Clements Library
Methods for Improving MRI-Based Conductivity Mapping (December 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46968 46968-10711286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

The electrical properties - permittivity and conductivity - of a material describe how electromagnetic waves behave in that material. Electrical properties are frequency-dependent parameters and, for a liquid sample, are measured with a dielectric probe and a network analyzer. This measurement technique is not feasible in vivo, but methods have been developed to make these measurements using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This work focuses on measuring conductivity, or the ability to conduct electric current. Mapping the electrical properties within the human body can provide important information for MRI safety and diagnostic applications. First, the specific absorption rate (SAR) in an MRI scan is proportional to conductivity, and limited to minimize the risk of heating in a subject. Knowledge of subject-specific conductivity maps could lead to better, subject-specific SAR estimation. Second, several small studies in recent years have shown that conductivity is elevated in malignant tumors as compared to healthy tissue. There are open research questions regarding the correlation between conductivity and other diagnostic metrics. Both of these applications benefit from accurate conductivity maps. In this work we describe three different methods for improving the accuracy of conductivity maps. The first is a novel regularized, model-based approach which we refer to as the Inverse Laplacian method. The Inverse Laplacian method resulted in lower reconstruction bias and error due to noise in simulations than the conventional filtering method. The Inverse Laplacian method also produced conductivity maps closer to the measured values in a phantom and with reduced noise in the human brain, as compared to the filtering method. The second is a method for combining multi-coil MRI data for conductivity mapping, because the use of multi-coil receivers can drastically improve the SNR in conductivity maps. The noise in the combined phase data using the proposed method was slightly elevated as compared to the optimal combination method, but the conductivity uniformity in a uniform gel phantom was greater than that of the optimal combination method. Furthermore, by visual inspection, the human brain conductivity calculated from data combined using the proposed method had minimal bias and noise amplification. Finally, we present a method for mapping conductivity tensors, as opposed to scalar values, which provides an additional layer of information to conductivity maps. Our proposed mathematical framework yields accurate tensor quantities provided the object can rotate 90 degrees in any direction. However, restricting the object rotation to mimic the constraints on a human subject yields slightly inaccurate results. We also present a dictionary-based approach to tensor calculations to try to improve the tensor estimates using restricted rotations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:04:53 -0500 2017-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Power and Oppression in Groups (December 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44620 44620-9934443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Deepening consideration of social identity and its influences, participants spend time not only understanding how to mitigate and resolve situations that may be damaging, but also how group dynamics may create preference for some identities over others, as well as engaging in thinking on how to reduce these effects. In collaboration with The Program on Intergroup Relations.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=487.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:21:11 -0400 2017-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: P4 - interactions among Africa's top predator, people, parasites and their prey (December 5, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42888 42888-9675064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:33:24 -0500 2017-12-05T12:10:00-05:00 2017-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar P4 logo
LNF Users Symposium (December 6, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46731 46731-10592249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 10:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Lurie Nanofabrication Facility

Building upon the success of past events, we continue our annual tradition of bringing the whole LNF community together to learn about each other’s work and celebrate the wide variety of research being done at the LNF.
The symposium is free and open to all but please register – Online registration is available. In addition, LNF tours can be scheduled at the end of the symposium for those interested. Food will be provided.
If you are an LNF user, participate in the poster contest and share your research! There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Tentative agenda
10:00am: Welcome from Professor Wei Lu, LNF Director
10:15am – 11:15am: Keynote Speaker, Professor Euisik Yoon, Biointerface Technologies: Where Engineering Meets Science and Medicine
11:15am – 1:20pm: LNF Users Poster Sessions with over 40 posters and excellent food!
Vendor Exhibition!
LNF Users Tech Talks, part I
2:30pm – 2:45pm: Coffee Break
LNF Users Tech Talks, part II
4:05pm: Poster Prizes and Wrap Up
4:30pm: Adjourn and LNF tours for those who signed up

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:46:17 -0500 2017-12-06T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Lurie Nanofabrication Facility Conference / Symposium LNF Users Symposium
LinkedIn for Graduate Students (December 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46902 46902-10670084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LinkedIn can be a great tool for professional branding, networking, and exploration. The University Career Center will provide a hands-on workshop that allows Ph.D. students to learn to effectively use LinkedIn to accomplish their career development goals. Sponsored by the University Career Center.

Pre-registration is required at https://umich.joinhandshake.com/login.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:48:52 -0500 2017-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Michigan Engineering Design Expo (December 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45634 45634-10242981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

See how Michigan Engineering students are designing solutions to our world's challenges.

The College of Engineering Design Expo is held twice a year to provide a public forum for engineering students to demonstrate applications of their studies to real-life needs. Students gain valuable experience by presenting their work.

Through this venue, the greater University community and general public has the opportunity to learn how Michigan's students are contributing in significant ways to solving major technology challenges across various disciplines.

These student projects consist of internal University of Michigan projects, non-profit community projects and industry-sponsored projects. Most of these projects are part of Senior Design Project Courses, but other project groups are welcome and encouraged to participate.

The goal of the Undergraduate Engineering Office is to have participation from all departments within the College of Engineering (and eventually across university schools and colleges) to promote cross-disciplinary cooperation as well as high school outreach.

Industry sponsors have been a large part of promoting this within the college through sponsorship of projects and financial support of the event itself.

The Fall 2017 Design Expo is sponsored by Toyota.

This event is held in multiple North Campus locations including the Duderstadt Center, Bob & Betty Beyster Building, Pierpont Commons, EECS Building, and Chrysler Center.

For more information, contact Lindsey Dowswell in the Multidisciplinary Design Program office at lindsd@umich.edu or (734) 763-0818.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:24:19 -0400 2017-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 BBB Multidisciplinary Design Program Conference / Symposium Student Project Presentation
ASC Lecture. 2017-2018 UMAPS Colloquium Series (December 7, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44121 44121-9888979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

Each UMAPS fellow will have the chance to present their scholarly work in a session of an ongoing monthly series. Talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to increase skills in effective communications, to promote dialogue on topics, and to share the research with the larger U-M community. All are invited to attend to grasp the range and depth of work occurring through the UMAPS partnerships. 

10/5, UMAPS Colloquium (#1)—Social Sciences I (Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League)
VERONICA DZOMEKU, Nursing, KNUST, Ghana
“Exploration of Expectations and Experiences of Mothers toward Childbirth Care”

THELMA FENNIE, Psychology, University of the Westewrn Cape, South Africa
“Exploring Psychological Effects of Adolescent Girls’ Experiences of Menarche & Menstruation in School Settings”

AUDREY KALINDI, Population Studies, University of Zambia
“Factors that Affect Use of Maternal Health Services, HIV Testing and Linkage to Medical Care in Zambia”

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10/12, UMAPS Colloquium (#2)—STEM I (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
DEBELA GEMEDA BEDANE, Pharmacology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Antidepressant Drug Response”

MTHOKOZISI SIMELANE, Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
“Ursolic Acid Acetate as a Promising Agent for Malarial Chemotherapy”

MESTEWAT DEBASU MOGNHODIE, Biochemistry, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Exploration and Utilization of Glycan-Based Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy in Ethiopia”

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11/ 9, UMAPS Colloquium (#3)—Humanities (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

PAMELA KHANAKWA, History, Makerere University, Uganda
“Bagisu Men Don’t Cry: Imbalu and the Construction of Masculinities in Uganda”

YIKUNNOAMLAK MEZGEBU, Literature, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
“From Competition to Composition:  Languages, Regions and Religions in an Ethiopian Literature”

PAUL CONWAY & KELLY ASKEW, University of Michigan “Radio, Cyberspace, and the Repatriation of African Musical Heritage”

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12/7, UMAPS Colloquium (#4)—STEM II (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
OLUWAKEMI ROTIMI, Biochemistry, Covenant University, Nigeria
“The Role of Epigenetics in the Toxicity of Environmental Exposures”

ZEWDU JIMA TAKLE, Physiology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Molecular Signaling Mechanisms in the Vessel Wall after Stroke and Pathways Mediated by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)”

SENYO ADZEI, Music, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
“Processes in Shrine Music of the Awudome People of Ghana–An Ethnomusicolowgical Inquiry”

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1/ 11, UMAPS Colloquium (#5)—Social Sciences II (Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union)
ODUR BENARD, Statistics, Makerere University, Uganda
“A Retrospective Analysis of Progression in Neonatal and Infant Mortality Drivers in Uganda (1995-2016)”

PRECIOUS NDLOVU, Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
“The Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Africa’s Regional Competition Law Frameworks: An Examination of the COMESA Competition Commission”

MOSES MUHUMUZA, Human Ecology, Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda
“Holistic Community-based Biodiversity Conservation in National Parks in Rural Africa”

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2/8, UMAPS Colloquium (#6)—STEM III (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

KALILU DONZO, Biology, University of Liberia
“Advanced Training in Molecular Biology Techniques: Introducing Research-based Techniques at the University of Liberia”

MELESSEW NIGUSSIE GEREME, Physics, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
“Investigation of Triggering Mechanisms of Ionospheric Irregularities in the Equatorial Ionosphere”

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Presentation Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:26:52 -0500 2017-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Presentation
EEB Thursday Seminar: The role of Beringia in high latitude faunal diversification (December 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46828 46828-10647793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Beringian Coevolution Project (BCP), a field program underway in the high northern latitudes since 1999, focuses on building basic scientific infrastructure for integrated specimen-based studies on mammals and their associated parasites. BCP has contributed new insights across temporal and spatial scales into how ancient climate and environmental change have shaped faunas, emphasizing processes of assembly, persistence and diversification across the vast Beringian region. BCP collections also represent baseline records of biotic diversity from across the northern high latitudes at a time of accelerated environmental change. Because of the dual focus on hosts and parasites, the BCP record also provides a foundation for comparative analyses that can document the effects of dynamic change on the geographic distribution, transmission dynamics, and emergence of pathogens. Using specific examples from carnivores, shrews, lagomorphs, rodents and their associated parasites, I show how broad, integrated field collections provide permanent infrastructure to explore the effect of climate change on natural populations and inform policy regarding human impacts on these environments.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/wC72vyA14xY

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:32:55 -0500 2017-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Beringia map
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (December 8, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
POSTPONED to Jan. 26, 2018 : Time and Motivation (December 8, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46562 46562-10547332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Our seminar speaker has been invited to the Nobel ceremony so we are postponing this seminar. New date: January 26, 2018
Host: Orie Shafer

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:26:32 -0500 2017-12-08T12:15:00-05:00 2017-12-08T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
The Premodern Colloquium. The Agreed Upon Counterfeit: Forgery Culture and Documentary Authenticity in Medieval Japanese Society (December 10, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43879 43879-9852278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 10, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its thirty-eighth year. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discuss work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles, and dissertation chapters.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:07:04 -0400 2017-12-10T15:30:00-05:00 2017-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
STS Speaker. Dissonant Infrastructures: Tensions between Science and Public Health Embedded in Sickle Cell Disease in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (December 11, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42861 42861-9672385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Epistemic authority for knowledge production about sickle cell disease (SCD) in Brazil lay mostly at the feet of elite scientists associated with established institutions. These gatekeepers often focus on the biological and medical processes that take place within the body. SCD activists embedded in the public health infrastructure in Salvador, discursively deem the interest from scientists to be based in a paradigm that treats the person living with SCD as a commodity to clinical science. What occurs when social infrastructures that “emphasize the durability and permanence of social systems within which biomedical knowledge production and labor occur,” (Dent, 2016) are at odds with each other? What takes place when the social milieu of place erodes these infrastructures? This presentation will explore the ways in which activists in the municipal public health department for Salvador circumvent modes of elite knowledge production and reconfigure how SCD is defined by situating the discourse from “inside the body” to “outside” and from biological to cultural.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:10:11 -0400 2017-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-11T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Melissa Creary
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: 3-D digital morphology: bringing plant (paleo)biology into the light (December 12, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42890 42890-9675066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:06:39 -0500 2017-12-12T12:10:00-05:00 2017-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar plant 3-D digital morphology
A Global Leader in Data Access, Stewardship and Training: ICPSR (December 12, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47395 47395-10888278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Linda Detterman will discuss why ICPSR matters to you:

• How is ICPSR assisting scientists from over and research projects from over 40 disciplines to demonstrate research impact?

• Why do over 51,700 unique data users download over 2.5 million datasets from among the 76,000 datasets available (8,200 studies) available from ICPSR in a typical year?

• Why do nearly 1,000 participate in ICPSR’s Summer Program each year?

• Why are 763 institutions members of ICPSR paying an annual fee?

• Why do over 20 agencies, foundations, journals, and research projects utilize ICPSR’s infrastructure to share their on-demand and restricted-use data?

ANSWER:
Data Curation – ICPSR’s data are organized, described, cleaned, enhanced, and preserved by ICPSR Staff for future use by scientists today and years from today. Curated data are monitored, tracked, and linked to research works inspired by those data. This session will introduce how it’s done and provide additional answers to the questions above.

Refreshments provided!

BIO:
Linda Detterman, ICPSR’s Marketing and Membership Director. In this role, she plans and manages outreach and product development activities of the ICPSR with the goal of increasing membership value and use of ICPSR data. Linda came to ICPSR from MORPACE International, a market research and consulting firm located in Farmington Hills, MI, where she was a Vice President of Planning and Research. She has also held marketing and strategic planning positions at Doner Advertising and The Los Angeles Times. She received her MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and BA from Alma College.

All Welcome. Hosted by the ISR DACD Perspectives Committee.

If you need accommodations to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:19:14 -0500 2017-12-12T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T03:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event poster
Public Health Major Info Sessions (December 13, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41583 41583-9367008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: School of Public Health

Learn more about the public health major and requirements for admission. Why should you study public health at Michigan?

What public health degrees does Michigan offer and what careers can you find after graduation?

These 30-minute interactive presentations are followed by time for questions and discussion. Register online at sph.umich.edu/undergrad.

Public health refers to all organized measures—both public and private—that promote health, prevent illness and disease, and prolong the quality and years of life for the population as a whole. Public health creates conditions under which people can live a healthy lifestyle and, when treatment is necessary, it ensures equitable access to safe and effective health care.

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, we offer engaged learning opportunities through interdisciplinary education with top faculty, access to innovative laboratory and field settings, and community-based and entrepreneurial training. We provide Michigan students with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed as leaders in the field of public health

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Presentation Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:56:58 -0400 2017-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall School of Public Health Presentation Public health students researching, planning, serving
The Flight of the Firebee: Drones in the Frontier (December 13, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46057 46057-10356062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Library's Emergent Research Working Group presents this talk by Iván Chaar-López, PhD candidate in the U-M Department of American Culture.

Cold War historians have explored the ways that the United States government and military mobilized national security rationales in the development of science and technology. This talk contributes to this conversation by exploring a different range of politics or rationales co-constituting technological development. It examines the biopolitical scripts coded in drone operations in the U.S. borderlands from 1948 to 1970. Informed by a frontier ethos, U.S. military and technicians embedded ideas about the nation and its enemies in the development and deployment of drones. The talk makes use of archival and film materials produced by Ryan Aeronautical to analyze the role drones played in demarcating the boundaries of belonging on the ground and on people's bodies.

Chaar-López's dissertation project, "Drone Technopolitics: A History of 'Intrusion' on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1948-2010," traces the development of unmanned aerial systems and their uses in the U.S. borderlands.

Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:35:36 -0400 2017-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T15:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Emergent Research image
First Step Sessions (December 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47537 47537-10942726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer. Additional sessions will be held the first two weeks of school from 12-12:30pm in Suite 255, Weiser Hall.

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Meeting Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:49:11 -0500 2017-12-14T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting FirstStep
EEB Thursday Seminar: How to eat something bigger than your head - microbial community assembly at the micron scale (December 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47318 47318-10866128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

In this talk I will present our work showing how ecological interactions control the assembly and function of microbial communities at micro-scales. Using model marine particles composed of a variety of biopolymers commonly found in the ocean, I will show how microbial interactions such as cross-feeding and social cheating lead to rapid successional community assembly on particles. By comparing successions on different biopolymer particles, I’ll show how the bow tie structure of metabolic networks can lead to highly reproducible, convergent community dynamics that are independent of the initial carbon source. Finally, I will argue that community composition, in particular the load of primary degraders to cross-feeders, plays a fundamental role in controlling community function, i.e. the rates of particle turnover in the environment.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/6cl0D2LPCmY

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:34:24 -0500 2017-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion microbial community
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (December 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-12-15T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-15T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
No EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar (December 19, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42891 42891-9675067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you in January.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:54:31 -0400 2017-12-19T12:10:00-05:00 2017-12-19T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Ruthven Museums Building
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (December 22, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-12-22T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-22T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (December 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43938 43938-10262636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour of the renovated Library to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation about our new space and an opportunity to view the current exhibit, The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers. The Pioneer Americanists is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. This exhibit is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:17:19 -0400 2017-12-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-22T12:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition William L. Clements Library
Traditional and Non-Traditional Inputs to the Vestibular System (January 4, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48083 48083-11178040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

One of the primary functions of the vestibular system is to provide stabilizing reflexes to the eye, head, and body. These reflexes are often coordinated with inputs from the visual and proprioceptive systems. More recently, research has shown that other, non-traditional, stimuli also effect the vestibular system, though the scope of this research has been limited. This thesis explores the effect of both traditional and non-traditional inputs on the vestibular system by characterizing their influence compensatory eye, head, and body movements.

We begin by looking at the influence of the vestibular periphery and efference copy of motor commands on compensatory eye movements (Chapter 2). While each of these has been described individually (as the vestibular-ocular reflex (VOR) and pre-programmed eye movements (PPEM) respectively), there has been controversy in the field as to how these two inputs interact with each other. We propose a model of gaze stability in which VOR and PPEM work cooperatively, and we test model predictions against data we collected as well as from previous findings. We found that our model accurately predicted eye movements during a variety of behavioral contexts. In Chapter 3, we describe the effect of single high-intensity noise exposure on the vestibular system by evaluating eye and head stability. We found that after noise exposure ocular stability showed marginal loss, while head stability showed greater deficits. However, the exact nature of this deficit was not as expected and the influence of cervical pathways after vestibular lesion is discussed. Finally, in Chapter 4, we examine the effect of galvanic vestibular stimulation and optokinetic stimulation on standing posture. We propose a model of postural stability inspired by the velocity storage model of ocular stability and test model predictions against body movements elicited from standing subjects. We found that, while simple, our model could correctly predict the nature of subjects’ responses to both stimuli, suggesting that the body interprets and uses sensory information for postural stability in a manner similar to that for ocular stability.

Taken together these findings demonstrate that the influence of non-traditional inputs and pathways to vestibular system is substantial and should be considered both in laboratory and clinical settings. We also show that the vestibular system allows researchers and clinicians to leverage methods and findings from across disciplines and species. Models traditionally used to describe gaze stability in primates can be used to predict eye movements in rodents as well as postural responses in humans and paradigms used in hearing research can be used to interpret noise-induced vestibular loss. Thus, the multifaceted nature of the vestibular system both requires, and allows for, multifaceted exploration.

Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: 2813/17 Med Sci II
Chair: Dr. William King

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Presentation Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:37:02 -0500 2018-01-04T13:30:00-05:00 2018-01-04T14:30:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Logo
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (January 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-01-05T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Dissertation Defense: Ribonuclease H function in Bacillus subtilis (January 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48121 48121-11180664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Mentor: Lyle Simmons

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:02:17 -0500 2018-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Optimal sensors in random environments (January 9, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47739 47739-11004725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

** note location change to 411 West Hall **

Abstract: The efficient coding hypothesis has revolutionized theoretical neuroscience. I would argue that its next-generation instantiation is best understood using rate-distortion theory. I use rate-distortion theory to inspire a simple model of sensory adaptation. In randomly drawn, fluctuating environments, this model explains the absence of sensory neurogenesis and predicts that biological sensors are poised to just barely confuse ``minimal confounds'' in the environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:47:10 -0500 2018-01-09T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Sarah Merzen headshot
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Coordinated stochastic expressions of neighboring genes drive the evolution of chromosomal clustering of GAL genes in yeast (January 9, 2018 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47261 47261-10855071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:44:48 -0500 2018-01-09T12:10:00-05:00 2018-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar yeast
IPE Priority Application Deadline for Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Sweden (January 10, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48150 48150-11180779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 12:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: International Programs in Engineering

Priority Deadline Applications for the IPE Undergraduate Research Program in Lund, Sweden are due today by midnight!

For more information and to apply: https://mcompass.umich.edu/?go=IPElund

Other IPE Summer Program Info and Deadlines: https://ipe.engin.umich.edu/ipe-summer-programs/

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Other Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:55:14 -0500 2018-01-10T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T23:59:00-05:00 Chrysler Center International Programs in Engineering Other IPE
IPE Summer Study Abroad Early Application Deadline (January 10, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47049 47049-10777005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 12:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: International Programs in Engineering

Applications for select IPE summer study abroad programs are due tonight at midnight!

For more information and to apply: https://ipe.engin.umich.edu/ipe-summer-programs-application-deadlines/

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Other Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:18:26 -0400 2018-01-10T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T23:59:00-05:00 Chrysler Center International Programs in Engineering Other IPE
Investigation of the Performance of Photon Counting Arrays Based on Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistors (January 10, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48082 48082-11178039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Projection x-ray imaging is commonly employed to visualize internal human anatomy in order to diagnose medical conditions and facilitate medical procedures. Modern projection imaging is typically performed using an active matrix, flat panel imager that is comprised of a converter layer overlying a monolithic, large-area pixelated array fabricated using a thin-film amorphous silicon process. The images are formed by converting x-ray photons into electrical signals, and then integrating those signals over a frame time – a method referred to as fluence integration.

Recently, imagers employing a different method for creating x-ray images – referred to as photon counting – have been developed and used clinically to perform mammographic imaging (a form of projection imaging). Photon counting involves measuring the energy of each interacting x-ray photon and digitally recording the number of times photons exceed one or more energy thresholds. Because the imaging information is stored digitally, photon counting imagers are less susceptible to noise than fluence-integrating imagers – potentially improving image quality and/or decreasing the amount of radiation required to acquire an image.

Current photon counting imagers are based on crystalline silicon and have limited detection areas. An imager with larger detection area would allow photon counting to be used in other projection imaging modalities – such as radiography (which produces, for example, chest x-ray images) and fluoroscopy (which is used, for example, to non-invasively insert stents and other medical devices). However, strategies to increase detection area, such as tiling multiple arrays, result in increased imager complexity and/or cost. For this reason, our group has been exploring the possibility of creating photon counting arrays using a different semiconductor material, referred to as low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si). This material is fabricated using another thin-film process (which also allows the economic manufacture of monolithic, large-area arrays) and has favorable properties for creating complex, high speed circuits.

Using poly-Si, a set of prototype arrays have been designed and fabricated. The pixels of the arrays have a pitch of 1 mm and consist of four components: an amplifier, a comparator, a clock generator, and a counter. Several circuit variations were created for each component, and circuit simulations were performed in order to determine the energy resolution and count rate capability of each variation of each component.

For the amplifier component, all circuit variations were determined to have an energy resolution of ~10% when presented with a 70 keV input x-ray (a typical x‑ray energy used in diagnostic imaging). This degree of energy resolution is comparable to that reported for photon counting imagers fabricated using crystalline silicon. In addition, while count rates for the amplifier component were determined to be roughly one order of magnitude too low for radiographic and fluoroscopic applications (which require rates on the order of 1 million counts per second per square millimeter [cps/mm2]), a hypothetical poly-Si amplifier circuit variation was identified and determined to have count rate capabilities suitable for these applications (with energy resolution similar to that of the prototype designs). In addition, the count rates for the comparator, clock generator, and counter circuit variations were found to range from 100 to 3000 kcps/mm2. Finally, due to on-going improvements in the poly-Si fabrication process (driven largely by the display industry), future photon counting arrays employing poly-Si could have pixel pitches as small as 250 um – a size suitable for radiographic and fluoroscopic imaging.

Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: 2210 Lurie Engineering Center (LEC)
Chair: Dr. Larry E. Antonuk

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Presentation Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:32:29 -0500 2018-01-10T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Logo
Working Towards a More Resilient Nation (January 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48344 48344-11222716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join Missy Stults for an interactive discussion of the meaning of “resilience” and how cities around the U.S. are using the term to guide their planning and implementation efforts. We'll explore how the federal government and states are supporting or limiting efforts to enhance place-based resilience.

Some analysts predict that the word of the year for 2017 will be resilience. But what does it mean, how is it operationalized (or not), and what do we need to do across scales and sectors to create a more resilient nation?

Stults works with local authorities on climate resilience and sustainability initiatives. She was one of the authors of the Adaptation Chapter of the 3rd National Climate Assessment and a contributing author to the Urban Technical Input. Previously, she was the national Climate Director for ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, where she worked with more than 600 local governments around the nation to advance their climate mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability efforts. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in urban resilience, her M.A. in Climate and Society from Columbia University, and her B.S. in Marine Biology and Environmental Science from the University of New England. She serves on the City of Ann Arbor Transportation Commission, is a Board Member of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP), and serves as co-chair of the Ethics Working Group of ASAP.

Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:10:52 -0500 2018-01-10T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T15:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Emergent Research image
Writing a Diversity Statement (January 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46904 46904-10670086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

With the increased visibility of issues of DEI, employers are beginning to consider how their employees contribute to the diversity of the institution. Many academic employers have begun to request a diversity statement as part of the application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine sample statements, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=496.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:04:07 -0500 2018-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
ASC Lecture. 2017-2018 UMAPS Colloquium Series (January 11, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44121 44121-9888980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: African Studies Center

Each UMAPS fellow will have the chance to present their scholarly work in a session of an ongoing monthly series. Talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to increase skills in effective communications, to promote dialogue on topics, and to share the research with the larger U-M community. All are invited to attend to grasp the range and depth of work occurring through the UMAPS partnerships. 

10/5, UMAPS Colloquium (#1)—Social Sciences I (Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League)
VERONICA DZOMEKU, Nursing, KNUST, Ghana
“Exploration of Expectations and Experiences of Mothers toward Childbirth Care”

THELMA FENNIE, Psychology, University of the Westewrn Cape, South Africa
“Exploring Psychological Effects of Adolescent Girls’ Experiences of Menarche & Menstruation in School Settings”

AUDREY KALINDI, Population Studies, University of Zambia
“Factors that Affect Use of Maternal Health Services, HIV Testing and Linkage to Medical Care in Zambia”

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10/12, UMAPS Colloquium (#2)—STEM I (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
DEBELA GEMEDA BEDANE, Pharmacology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Antidepressant Drug Response”

MTHOKOZISI SIMELANE, Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
“Ursolic Acid Acetate as a Promising Agent for Malarial Chemotherapy”

MESTEWAT DEBASU MOGNHODIE, Biochemistry, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Exploration and Utilization of Glycan-Based Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy in Ethiopia”

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11/ 9, UMAPS Colloquium (#3)—Humanities (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

PAMELA KHANAKWA, History, Makerere University, Uganda
“Bagisu Men Don’t Cry: Imbalu and the Construction of Masculinities in Uganda”

YIKUNNOAMLAK MEZGEBU, Literature, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
“From Competition to Composition:  Languages, Regions and Religions in an Ethiopian Literature”

PAUL CONWAY & KELLY ASKEW, University of Michigan “Radio, Cyberspace, and the Repatriation of African Musical Heritage”

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12/7, UMAPS Colloquium (#4)—STEM II (Koessler Room, Michigan League)
OLUWAKEMI ROTIMI, Biochemistry, Covenant University, Nigeria
“The Role of Epigenetics in the Toxicity of Environmental Exposures”

ZEWDU JIMA TAKLE, Physiology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
“The Molecular Signaling Mechanisms in the Vessel Wall after Stroke and Pathways Mediated by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)”

SENYO ADZEI, Music, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
“Processes in Shrine Music of the Awudome People of Ghana–An Ethnomusicolowgical Inquiry”

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1/ 11, UMAPS Colloquium (#5)—Social Sciences II (Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union)
ODUR BENARD, Statistics, Makerere University, Uganda
“A Retrospective Analysis of Progression in Neonatal and Infant Mortality Drivers in Uganda (1995-2016)”

PRECIOUS NDLOVU, Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
“The Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Africa’s Regional Competition Law Frameworks: An Examination of the COMESA Competition Commission”

MOSES MUHUMUZA, Human Ecology, Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda
“Holistic Community-based Biodiversity Conservation in National Parks in Rural Africa”

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2/8, UMAPS Colloquium (#6)—STEM III (Koessler Room, Michigan League)

KALILU DONZO, Biology, University of Liberia
“Advanced Training in Molecular Biology Techniques: Introducing Research-based Techniques at the University of Liberia”

MELESSEW NIGUSSIE GEREME, Physics, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
“Investigation of Triggering Mechanisms of Ionospheric Irregularities in the Equatorial Ionosphere”

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Presentation Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:26:52 -0500 2018-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union African Studies Center Presentation Michigan Union
“Bioelectronics for tissue and organ interfaces: from tissue-like electronics to genetically-targeted biosynthetic electrodes” (January 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48079 48079-11178036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Jia Liu, Ph.D.
BME Faculty Candidate and Guest Speaker
Stanford University

Abstract:
Rapid progress in materials science and electronics has blurred the distinction between man-made electronic devices and biological systems. Seamless integration of electronic devices with living systems could contribute substantially to basic biology as well as to clinical diagnostics and therapeutics through tissue-electronics interfaces. In this presentation, I will first introduce a syringe-injectable tissue-like mesh electronics for merging nanoelectronic arrays and circuits with the brain in three-dimension (3D). The injectable mesh electronics has micrometer feature size and effective bending stiffness values similar to neural tissues. These unprecedented features lead to the gliosis-free and 3D interpenetrated electronics-neuron network, enabling the chronically stable neuron activity recording at single-neuron resolution in behaving animals. Second, I will describe a fully stretchable electronic sensor array through the development of multiple chemically-orthogonal and intrinsically stretchable polymeric electronic materials. The fully stretchable sensor array has modulus similar to biological tissues, allowing an intimate mechanical coupling with heart for a stable and anatomically precise electrophysiological recording. Its application for high-throughput and high-density mapping of 3D cardiac arrhythmogenic activities on the porcine model with a chronic atrial fibrillation will be discussed. Third, I will present a fundamentally new approach for a direct formation of electrical connections with genetically-targeted cells. This approach is accomplished through the convergence of genome engineering, in situ enzymatic reaction and polymer chemistry. These genetically-targeted electrodes are inherently assembled to the subcellular-specific region of neurons throughout the intact functional neural tissue and in stem cell-derived human brain organoids. Importantly, this system also enables the cellular-resolution tuning of local neuronal activity and bridging of brain regions to external devices for the targeted recording. Finally, I will briefly discuss the prospects for future advances in bioelectronics to overcome challenges in neuroscience and cardiology through the development of “cyborg animals” with single-cell resolution and cell-type specificity.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:14:23 -0500 2018-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME Logo
From Archive to Article (January 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48070 48070-11177988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

A discussion with Alix Beeston on the entire publication process and graduate student professionalization.
Email stoneaa@umich.edu or akgreene@umich.edu for suggested precirculated article.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:20:39 -0500 2018-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (January 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (January 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43938 43938-10973767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour of the renovated Library to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation about our new space and an opportunity to view the current exhibit, The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers. The Pioneer Americanists is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. This exhibit is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:17:19 -0400 2018-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition William L. Clements Library
Cell Cycle Regulation of Cell Invasive Behavior (January 12, 2018 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47193 47193-10813710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Hosts: Laura Buttitta and Gyorgyi Csankovszki

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:14:31 -0500 2018-01-12T12:15:00-05:00 2018-01-12T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscopic image
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Patterns and processes in tropical tree diversification: using genomics to understand the history of neotropical forests (January 16, 2018 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47264 47264-10855074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:35:05 -0500 2018-01-16T12:10:00-05:00 2018-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Tropical trees
INNOVATE Kickoff Event (January 17, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48670 48670-11265204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Central Student Government

Are you interested in helping out your community and getting more involved on campus? Are you currently working on a project, but have no clue how to fund it or take it to the next level?

Sign up for INNOVATE, a public service pitch competition hosted by Central Student Government! INNOVATE focuses on supporting students in any field of study by providing them with mentors, weekly info guides on idea development and campus resources, and funding up to $10,000! No previous experience in entrepreneurship necessary!

Join us January 17th from 7-9 p.m. in the League Ballroom to enjoy FREE dinner, meet teammates, listen to student speakers talk about their experiences, and learn more about the competition. Hope to see you there!

Check out our Facebook event to learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/2009342979324527/
Sign up at: tinyurl.com/innovatesignups

Further Questions? Check out csg.umich.edu or email CSGinnovate@umich.edu

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Rally / Mass Meeting Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:56:15 -0500 2018-01-17T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Central Student Government Rally / Mass Meeting INNOVATE
WISE-sponsored Software Carpentry Workshop (January 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48501 48501-11320038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

WISE Office, 3236 USB
Thursday January 18 and Friday January 19 9am-4pm

**Please register ONLY if you can attend BOTH days.

Registration and Full Information: https://umswc.github.io/2018-01-18-UMWISE/

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

This workshop is aimed at UM graduate and post doctoral women in science and engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:21:50 -0500 2018-01-18T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar
Psychology Accelerated Master's Degree Program Info Session (January 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47897 47897-11043657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

-Are you a jr./sr. interested in pursuing research with a mentor in the Department of Psychology?
-Are you interested in extending your training, and investigating specializations for graduate study?
-Are you considering doctoral programs, but need more courses and research training before applying?

Come to an AMDP informational session to find out if it is right for you! This info session is perfect for application questions for the FA18/WN19 admissions cycle (applications are due 2/1/18), and soph./jr. students interested in learning more.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:44:07 -0500 2018-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T14:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Meeting AMDP Psych
Lost (and Found) in Translation: Perception and Expression across Borders and Languages (January 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48048 48048-11170226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

In 1922, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein declared that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." With the globally-connected community at the University of Michigan in mind, we invite you to an exploration of the cross-cultural academic expressive production that accompanies thinking and writing from a non-English background. Taking the University of Michigan as a case study, we hope to engage questions of scholarship and public expression incubated in the globalized environment that is the contemporary American university. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of English as a Second Language or as a lingua franca, we seek a discussion around scholarly expression in a multicultural, globalized academia. How does an American academic culture of expression interact with the increasingly international body of authors on campus? And, what does it mean to think and write from a non-normative background? Please join us for a scholarly conversation on multilingualism and the pleasures and difficulties of translation.

Speakers:
Pär Cassel (History & International Relations)
Gottfried Hagen (Near Eastern Studies)
Se-Mi Oh (Asian Languages & Cultures)
Benjamin Paloff (Comparative & Slavic Literature)
Will Thomson (Anthropology & Architecture)

Hors d'oeuvres to be served

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:16:05 -0500 2018-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Event poster
WISE-sponsored Software Carpentry Workshop (January 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48501 48501-11320040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

WISE Office, 3236 USB
Thursday January 18 and Friday January 19 9am-4pm

**Please register ONLY if you can attend BOTH days.

Registration and Full Information: https://umswc.github.io/2018-01-18-UMWISE/

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

This workshop is aimed at UM graduate and post doctoral women in science and engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:21:50 -0500 2018-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (January 19, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-01-19T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Nutrient Regulation of Signaling and Transcription by O-GlcNAcylation (January 19, 2018 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47194 47194-10813711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Yanzhuang Wang

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:15:57 -0500 2018-01-19T12:15:00-05:00 2018-01-19T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar diagram of signaling pathway
CSAAW MEETING WITH PATRICK GRIM (January 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48996 48996-11342283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The goal of CSAAW is to support graduate students interested in complex systems research. Through our regular meetings, students discuss their own work and receive feedback from other students, faculty, and researchers. For some meetings, students present "tutorials" on various complex systems related topics or methodology. Other meetings consist of talks by and discussions with invited speakers who are active in complex systems research.

Professor Patrick Grim has taught for Complex Systems for several years, and organizes many research groups with students - a great mentor to our Complex Systems flock. Professor Grim is a retired Emeritus Philosophy Professor from SUNY at Stoneybrook.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:22:05 -0500 2018-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Patrick Grim headshot
Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) MS Program Open House (January 22, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48516 48516-11294865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 5:30pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

The HILS Program is the first graduate program in the nation to focus on the science and methods of Learning Health Systems with the goal to improve the health of individuals and populations by developing practitioners who design, implement, and evaluate innovative change and continuous improvement. Meet with current faculty and students to learn more about the program, implementation projects and application process.
https://medicine.umich.edu/dlhs-hils

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-HPFP3Sol8zwYtd8lwKDLfnLkHIAey6B6L9sTkXbJwiWd7A/viewform

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Presentation Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:23:43 -0500 2018-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 V. Vaughan Department of Learning Health Sciences Presentation
Optimizing self-assembly kinetics for biomolecules and complex nanostructures. (January 23, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47712 47712-11002092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Abstract:
In a heterogeneous system, such as a large biomolecule or complex nanostructure, there is no guarantee that the lowest-free-energy state will form via self-assembly. Defects and mis-interactions among subunits often arise during a self-assembly reaction, particularly when these systems comprise many distinct components. As a result, if we wish to assemble complex nanostructures reliably, we need to design robust kinetic pathways to the target structures. I shall describe a theoretical approach for predicting self-assembly pathways in both engineered nanostructures and natural biomolecules. First, I shall discuss design principles that can be used to tune the nucleation and growth rates of colloidal nanostructures, with implications for achieving low-defect self-assembly and designing time-dependent experimental protocols. Then, turning to biological examples of kinetic optimization, I shall discuss how analogous principles have shaped the evolution of variable ribosome translation rates in order to optimize the folding of nascent proteins.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:51:43 -0500 2018-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar headshot
ITiMS application due, March 1! (January 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 49197-11386633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)

* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.

ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.

Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department

Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.

Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!

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Other Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:20:06 -0500 2018-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Other Flyer
ITiMS application due, March 1! (January 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 49197-11386634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)

* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.

ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.

Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department

Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.

Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!

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Other Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:20:06 -0500 2018-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Other Flyer
King Talks (January 23, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48544 48544-11246442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

In our inaugural King Talks, five Rackham students present Ted-style overviews of their research, echoing the theme of this year’s U-M MLK Symposium, “The Fierce Urgency of Now.” More information: myumi.ch/6wv5N

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Presentation Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:07:30 -0500 2018-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Presentation King Talks Image with Information
ITiMS application due, March 1! (January 24, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 49197-11386635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)

* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.

ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.

Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department

Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.

Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!

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Other Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:20:06 -0500 2018-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Other Flyer
EEB Thursday Seminar: Ecological impacts of chemical cues in marine systems (January 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47817 47817-11015156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Among the many pressures that marine organisms face, intense competition and predation have contributed to the evolution of chemical defenses and the ability to sense chemical cues. Chemical ecologists have long sought to understand the identities, functions, and consequences of these compounds in the marine environment. However, traditional approaches to connect naturally occurring chemical compounds with ecological outcomes have often been unsatisfactory, especially for cases in which chemical cues and signaling molecules are waterborne and unstable; yields are low or variable; multiple compounds act synergistically or additively; and behavioral assays are labor-intensive or consume considerable amounts of a scarce molecule. We have developed a metabolomics-based strategy to take advantage of the natural variation in production of chemical cues across different environmental conditions towards identifying ecologically important waterborne molecules and their effects on organism behavior and physiology. As expected, marine organisms respond to a diversity of chemical species in their watery worlds, exhibiting dramatic behavioral and physiological changes when exposed to predators and competitors.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/7JkJ9ehjpoU

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:39:14 -0500 2018-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion lady on tank
ITiMS application due, March 1! (January 25, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 49197-11386636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)

* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.

ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.

Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department

Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.

Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!

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Other Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:20:06 -0500 2018-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Other Flyer
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (January 26, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-01-26T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Time and Motivation (January 26, 2018 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47195 47195-10813712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Orie Shafer

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:30:31 -0500 2018-01-26T12:15:00-05:00 2018-01-26T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar sleeping woman, domenico fetti
ITiMS application due, March 1! (January 26, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 49197-11386637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)

* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.

ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.

Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department

Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.

Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!

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Other Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:20:06 -0500 2018-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T18:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Other Flyer
ITiMS application due, March 1! (January 27, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 49197-11386638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)

* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.

ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.

Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department

Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.

Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!

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Other Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:20:06 -0500 2018-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Other Flyer
ITiMS application due, March 1! (January 28, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 49197-11386639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)

* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.

ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.

Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department

Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.

Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!

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Other Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:20:06 -0500 2018-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Other Flyer
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 29, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47959 47959-11159783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Monday, January 29, 2018
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Colloquium, 6th Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Register: http://myumi.ch/6jrlV

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
We live in a world of extraordinary pain and suffering. Public confidence in major corporations is at an all-time low. Why? Too many businesses exploit their people and harm their communities for short-term profit. If we are not consciously part of the healing, we are probably part of the hurting. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Business can become the primary agent for healing society. This is not about healing businesses; it is about business as healing. Business can take wounded people, broken communities, and damaged ecosystems and make them whole again – and businesses that operate in this way will be more successful and profitable over time. In this session, Sisodia will share stories of such businesses and extract lessons from them.

About Sisodia:
Raj Sisodia is the FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College. He is also Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc.

He has a PhD in Marketing from Columbia University. Raj has published ten books and over 100 academic articles. His books include Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, and Shakti Leadership: Embracing the Feminine and Masculine Future of Business. He is on the Board of Directors at The Container Store, and a trustee of Conscious Capitalism Inc.

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

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Cascade Engineering, 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 2017-18 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:29:49 -0500 2018-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Raj Sisodia
ITiMS application due, March 1! (January 29, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 49197-11386640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)

* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.

ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.

Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department

Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.

Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!

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Other Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:20:06 -0500 2018-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T18:00:00-05:00 Public Health II Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Other Flyer
Meet SLE Faculty in Residence (January 29, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49353 49353-11442623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

SLE's new “faculty in residence” program aims to support students in making direct connections with diverse faculty members. Our first featured faculty member is Professor Ray De Young (School for the Environment and Sustainability), a trained psychologist, engineer and planner. Professor De Young’s research includes behavioral entrepreneurship, including current research on psychological and organizational principles in selling locally grown food.

Come meet Professor De Young in Noble Lounge between 5:30 and 6:30pm!

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Social / Informal Gathering Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:51:36 -0500 2018-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-29T18:30:00-05:00 Oxford Housing Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Null models for cultural and social evolution (January 30, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49243 49243-11397819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Analogies between biological and cultural evolution date back to Darwin, yet the analogies have remained loose. Neutral evolution, known to be important in biology, has been proposed as a null model for cultural change, but has not been developed into tests for selection on cultural features. Using inference in time series of alternative word forms and grammatical constructions, I demonstrate a cultural analog of natural selection on a background of neutral evolution. Social evolution, on the other hand, implies selection in a social environment and therefore cannot be described with a neutral model. I propose a model of pure frequency-dependent selection as a generic null model for social evolution, and use inference under the model to illustrate diverse effects of social selection. I show complex forms of frequency dependent selection---including positive and negative frequency-dependent selection at different frequencies---in the copying of baby names, the fashions of dog breeds, and the use of rare languages.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:23:19 -0500 2018-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Mitchell Newberry CSCS talk flyer
Medieval Lunch. Notions of Race in Medieval Europe. (January 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48781 48781-11306111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Hussein Fancy, U-M History
"The Race of History and the History of Race in Spanish Medievalism"

Annika Pattenaude, U-M English Language & Literature
"'I don't think that I was even born then': A Case for 'Race' in the Fables of Marie de France"

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:14:20 -0500 2018-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, ca. 1275-1300, MS 3142 fol. 256. Source: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55003999w/f523.item