Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. E-Hour Speaker Series: Sara Jones (November 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69543 69543-17357980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Sara Jones, a Ross MBA ‘10, was one of the first people named to work on Boeing’s ambitious, future-looking HorizonX organization when it was announced in 2017. Now, her work with the company on creating the next generation of the aerospace industry is getting recognized in the press.

Recently listed among the 40 Under 40 in Seattle by the Puget Sound Business Journal for her contributions to the future of business, Jones is a principal strategist for Boeing’s HorizonX and NeXt teams, which includes three other Michigan and Ross alumni — Michael Hauser, MBA ‘02; Duane Gardner, BSE ‘14; Tyler Jackson, MSE ‘16.

Together, along with a team of about 50 people, they work on identifying, commercializing, and operationalizing, the future technologies and business models that will help Boeing not only stay competitive, but lead innovation in the aerospace industry. Their vision is to bring flight closer to home through initiatives like autonomous passenger and cargo air vehicles, hybrid electric airplanes and the ecosystems that will support them.

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Presentation Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:03:58 -0500 2019-11-22T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sara Jones - Senior Manager, Disruptive Innovation & Ventures - Boeing HorizonX
Saturday Morning Physics | Scientific Publishing: How Wrong is it to Publish in the Right Journals? (November 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66289 66289-16725807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Scholars need to communicate their research in order to advance science and to promote the understanding of the human experience. The future of scientific publishing may very well rest on our ability to flip the current model that serves the interests of a few for-profit publishers to a model that has incentives to serve the interests of humanity. This talk will introduce a number of strategies that might be employed to create a more just and sustaining scientific publishing system.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:26:46 -0400 2019-11-23T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-23T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar UMich Law Library
UM Psychology Community Talk: The Science of Choking Under Pressure: Why we fail and how to succeed when it matters (November 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67441 67441-16855672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Just in that moment when we want to do our best and the pressure is on, we often fail to live up to our potential. From sports to public-speaking to test-taking, many of us have experienced and witnessed "choking under pressure". What is happening in your brain and body when you choke in stressful situations? Is there anything we can do about it? In this talk, UM Psychology Professor Taraz Lee shares insights from the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience that shed light on the phenomenon of "choking under pressure" including some of the psychological tools you can use to perform at your best when it matters most.

Bio: Taraz Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Area and the head of the Cognition, Control, and Action (CoCoA) Lab. Using a variety of techniques such as functional neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, behavioral studies, and computational modeling, Prof. Lee and his lab study how motivation and executive control processes both help and hurt performance in a variety of domains. Many people have the intuition that exerting too much control over well-learned actions can be harmful, especially when under pressure to perform. At the same time, most day-to-day activities clearly benefit from goal-directed control and enhanced motivation. The CoCoA Lab is interested in understanding this apparent paradox. How do the mechanisms of executive control and motivation both support and potentially hamper the activity of neural systems needed for successful performance?

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Presentation Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:04:34 -0400 2019-11-25T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Taraz Lee
E-Hour Speaker Series: Nex Cubed (December 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69865 69865-17474750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Kelsey Morgan Pasqualichio is a co-Founder and Venture Portfolio Manager of Nex Cubed, a frontier technology investment firm whose target investment areas include artificial intelligence, aerospace and defense, digital healthcare and fintech.

Prior to Nex Cubed, she was Managing Director for NextGen Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund with offices in DC, NYC, Boston, Chicago, and Austin. While at NextGen she launched the NYC office, helped spearhead their first $22 million fund, led investments for NYC and the Bay Area, and built a coalition of 100+ technologists, capital partners, and angel investors who act as venture partners.

She has an extensive background in private equity and M&A, including experience with The Carlyle Group, 3i Group, and Credit Suisse. Over the course of her career, she has completed transactions totaling more than $20 billion.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:43:50 -0500 2019-12-06T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Kelsey Morgan Pasqualichio
Saturday Morning Physics | Black Holes: Facts, Myths and Mysteries (December 7, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66291 66291-16725808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

This talk will be a journey through the concept of astrophysical black holes: from Einstein's theory to the discovery of the first stellar mass black hole in our Galaxy, all the way to the four- million-solar-mass black hole that is hiding at its center.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:31:07 -0400 2019-12-07T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-07T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Black Hole from Event Horizon Telescope
MiTSO Speaker Series (December 9, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70044 70044-17499553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

MiTSO will be hosting a speaker from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Mr. Michael Townley is MDOT's Research Project Administration Manager and will be giving an overview of the structure of national and local DOT organizations and how their research is conducted, as well as presenting on the award-winning research projects happening currently at MDOT, including:

-Wireless Data Collection Retrievals of Bridge Inspection/Management Information
-Meeting the Transportation Needs of Michigan’s Aging Population
-Development of Secondary Route Bridge Design Plan Guide Drawings
-Effect of Pile-Driving Induced Vibrations on Nearby Structures

Food will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:46:04 -0500 2019-12-09T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:20:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Flyer with info
UM Psychology Community Talk: 7 Ways Children's Storytelling Skills Impact Literacy Development (December 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66998 66998-16794255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Did you know that by the time a child is two or three years old they can tell a simple story? These early storytelling skills can help children develop a strong foundation for building later reading and writing skills. Research suggests that opportunities to practice telling stories helps children develop stronger language skills and a better understanding of how stories are structured. This presentation will review seven ways that young children's storytelling skills can impact their literacy development. The presentation will also share tips on how best to support young children to become better storytellers.

Bio: Nicole Gardner-Neblett, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on the individual and contextual factors that promote children’s language and literacy development. She adopts a strengths-based approach to understanding children’s development and identifying effective practices to transform the early learning experiences of young children. In particular, Dr. Gardner-Neblett’s work examines the oral narrative, or storytelling, skills of African American children and the implications for literacy development and educational practice.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:18:54 -0400 2019-12-09T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Nicole Gardner-Neblett
Brown Bag: "The Radical Visual Rhetoric of Early Abolition" (December 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68700 68700-17138821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. Phillip Troutman will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Reese Fellowship in the Print Culture of the Americas. Dr. Troutman is a 2018-2019 Smithsonian Senior Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Writing and of History at the George Washington University. He is working on a book, drawing on visual theory, rhetoric, history, and art history to provide the first assessment of the American Anti-Slavery Society's visual program of periodicals, pamphlets, prints, and books in the 1830s, their formative decade. In contrast to other scholars of anti-slavery images, he argues that the AASS's visual rhetoric in the 1830s was innovative, specific, and radical, especially in its depiction of the subjectivity and agency of African Americans.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:37:19 -0400 2019-12-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "The Anti-Slavery Record," February 1836, courtesy American Antiquarian Society
Positive Links Speaker Series (December 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65990 65990-16678392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Authenticity on One’s Own Terms
Patricia Faison Hewlin

Thursday, December 12, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/yKKPW

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
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:
The exhortation to be true to oneself is often intended to empower, but it can actually promote apprehension because instructions are rarely provided. Thus, many shy away from what is true to self, take on inauthentic behaviors to fit into their work environments, or at worst, turn to harsh transparency, alienating those around them. In this session, Hewlin will share how people can be authentic “on their own terms” by identifying their thresholds of authenticity as well as personal values that can be integrated into the workplace to: increase work engagement, foster positive relationships, and enhance overall personal well-being.

About Hewlin:
Patricia Faison Hewlin is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, and Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. She is also a visiting professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China. Prior to joining academia, she was a Vice President for Citi, where she managed financial centers in New York City.

Hewlin conducts research on how organization members and leaders engage in authentic expression, as well as factors that impede authenticity in the workplace. Her research has primarily centered on employee silence, and the degree to which members suppress personal values and pretend to embrace organizational values, a behavior she terms as “creating facades of conformity.” Her most recent research explores authenticity from a cross-cultural perspective, and how organizations, particularly leaders can leverage diverse and divergent authentic self-expressions among followers, while promoting positive work interactions and productivity.

Hewlin is published in several academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Chinese Management. She has also contributed to the Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, Getting Smart, and Harvard Business Review.

On a personal note, Hewlin enjoys traveling, solving puzzles, and quiet moments with her family.

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 University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:51:43 -0400 2019-12-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Patricia Faison Hewlin
Saturday Morning Physics | Climate Change Opportunities and Challenges for Michigan (December 14, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66293 66293-16725810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 14, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Climate change is already impacting the planet in dramatic ways, including in the U.S. and in the Great Lakes region. The impacts in Michigan, although not negligible, are modest compared to much of the country, and thus our state could become a go-to destination for many businesses and people fleeing more severe climate change impacts in other parts of the country. However, if climate change is not curbed, Michigan also runs the risk of becoming a sacrifice zone; thus quick action on climate change could be a win-win for our state.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:38:06 -0400 2019-12-14T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-14T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Flooding in Dearborn Spring 2019
In Conversation: Travel into Infinity with artist Chul Hyun Ahn (January 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69276 69276-17279444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Korean artist Chul Hyun Ahn uses mirrors and light to create geometric shapes that repeat infinitely into the distance. Ahn’s repetitions of circles, squares, and lines resonate with Zen Buddhist ink painting, which aims to transmit complex teachings through minimalist brushstrokes and basic shapes. In this informal gallery talk, Ahn will discuss the techniques and concepts behind his mesmerizing works which have fascinated many visitors to the UMMA exhibition Copies and Invention in East Asia. The exhibition challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation, through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:16:51 -0500 2020-01-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Storytime at the Museum: Korea (January 11, 2020 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68745 68745-17147133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. Join us as we travel around the world and look at art from different countries. We read a story in the galleries and include a fun, age-appropriate, hands-on activity related to it. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet in front of the UMMA Shop.

Please note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

Storytime is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:16:41 -0500 2020-01-11T11:15:00-05:00 2020-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
FellowSpeak: "The Roman-period Theater as Cognitive Microecology: Setting, Seating, and Costume" (January 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69968 69968-17489275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk examines the Roman-period theater as a cognitive ecology, one that supported and engaged different modes of thinking and learning by its occupants during nondramatic, civic and political gatherings. Using cognitive theory as a heuristic framework, this talk argues that the architecture and sculptural displays worked in tandem with controlled seating and specific manners of dress to promote effective learning about social class and cultural and civic identities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-01-14T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Roman theater at Sabratha, Libya
MIPSE Seminar | Will this Thruster Get Us to Europa? Modeling Ion Engine Erosion and Quantifying Lifetime Margins and Uncertainty (January 15, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70791 70791-17644316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Solar electric propulsion (EP) is a key technology for human and robotic space missions, and is part of NASA’s vision for expanding human presence beyond low earth orbit. The high specific impulse of EP enables reductions in propellant mass, but at the price of long burn times. Deep space missions re-quire operating times of many 104 hours. Demonstrating that the thruster meets this requirement is a challenge. Multiple life tests of the full mission duration are not practical. The life capability must be demonstrated by combining physics-based modeling and short duration testing.
JPL developed the CEX2D and CEX3D codes to model erosion of ion accelerator systems in ion engines, a dominant failure mechanism. The codes model a primary ion beamlet and charge exchange (CEX) ions from the beamlet. Impingement of main, beamlet, and CEX ions on the grids then determine erosion rates. The models predict time-to-failure, but key questions include: What is the uncertainty in those estimates? How much margin is needed to account for the uncertainties? Estimating uncertainty in experiments is routine, but the modeling community is still developing techniques for estimating errors. In this talk we discuss the physical processes of ion engine grid erosion, how they are modeled, and methods for quantifying model uncertainty and required life margins.

About the speaker:
Dr. Polk is a Principal Engineer in the Propulsion, Materials, and Thermal Engineering Section at the Jet Propulsion Lab, and a lecturer in Aerospace Engr. at Caltech. He received a BS in Aero. Engr. at Georgia Tech and a PhD in Mech. & Aero. Engr. from Princeton. Dr. Polk is an expert in high-current cathode physics, EP wear processes, high power EP, and probabilistic methods to analyze engine life. He was the task manager for an 8200 hour wear test of a 2.3 kW ion engine as used on the Deep Space 1 mission, was a co-investigator in the Next Generation Ion Propulsion Program and principal investigator of the Nuclear Electric Xenon Ion System program. From 1997 to 2001 he was supervisor of the Advanced Propulsion Group at JPL. He now manages JPL’s high power EP tasks and is the Deputy Ion Propulsion System Lead for the Advanced EP System for the Lunar Gateway. He has authored over 100 papers and has received 7 best paper awards at the Intl. EP Conference and the Joint Propulsion Conference.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=mbd38de4eb55d697d214347b83b23fbd7
Meeting number: 621 559 684
Password: MIPSE20

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:20:47 -0500 2020-01-15T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-15T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Jay Polk
DCMB Weekly Seminar (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70964 70964-17760238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Synchronization occurs all around us. It underlies how fireflies flash as one, how human heart cells beat in unison, and how superconductors conduct electricity with no resistance. Synchronization is present in the precision of the cell cycle, and we can explore how breakdown of precision leads to disease. The many unique and fundamental functions of different cell types are achieved over and over independently, through a form of synchronization involving choreography of many proteins and genes. I will share a general historic and descriptive introduction to synchrony, including the classic work of Alan Turing. I will present some new work done jointly with Cleve Moler (MathWorks) and Steve Smale (UC Berkeley), where biology has inspired us to build new mathematical techniques to explore synchrony and its breakdown.

BlueJeans Livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:39:08 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70342 70342-17584117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Social Excellence: Detect it, Learn from It, Create It
Robert E. Quinn

Thursday, January 16, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/social-excellence-detect-it-learn-from-it-create-it

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
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:
The field of Positive Organizational Scholarship asks what people, groups, and organizations are like when at their very best. Researchers in the field scientifically examine the best of the human condition. This means researchers use science to learn from excellence. For 18 years, Quinn has been teaching executives how to understand and apply these accumulating scientific findings. In the process, he has become increasingly aware that in the world of practice, like the world of science, most people do not attend to or learn from excellence. They learn from failure while seeking to reproduce order. In this participative session, Quinn will explore three questions:
1. What does it mean to learn from excellence?
2. How does learning from excellence alter leadership and culture?
3. What can we do to learn from and create social excellence?

About Quinn:
Robert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research and writing focus on purpose, leadership, culture, and change. He is one of the co-founders of the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship and a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations.

In terms of research, he is in the top 1% of professors cited in organizational behavior textbooks. He has published 18 books. As a teacher, Quinn is the recipient of multiple awards. In a recent global survey, he was named one of the top speakers in the world on the topic of organizational culture and related issues. Last year, his talk on personal purpose went viral on Facebook and has been viewed over 16 million times.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/social-excellence-detect-it-learn-from-it-create-it

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:58:34 -0500 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Robert E. Quinn
MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research: Perspectives from New Scholars (January 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70636 70636-17611219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Institute for Social Research, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the Program for Research on Black Americans present:

MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research:
Perspectives from New Scholars

Jan 20 || 2:30 pm
ISR 1430 Thompson
Reception immediately following panel discussion

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Lloyd M. Talley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Social Work

Taylor W. Hargrove, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DeAnnah R. Byrd, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

MODERATED BY:
David C. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Delaware

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:03:54 -0500 2020-01-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Q & A: Raquel Salas Rivera (January 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64530 64530-16386893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Raquel Salas Rivera is Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, winner of the 2018 Ambroggio Prize, & winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.

Free to attend and open to all!

We invite all to join in this event; if you have any accessibility questions or requests about attending, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:36:32 -0500 2020-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Poet Raquel Salas Rivera wearing a floral shirt and hoop earrings
A Modern-day Witch Hunt? A Historical Examination of Impeachment. (January 21, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71473 71473-17829920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan History Club

The History Club presents “A Modern-day Witch Hunt? A Historical Examination of Impeachment.” During the event, we seek to answer questions undergraduates have regarding presidential impeachment while situating the process in a deeper historical context. Our esteemed panelists come from a variety of backgrounds to offer students a nuanced view of impeachment today. We are excited to welcome Dr. Valerie Kivelson, Dr. Matthew Lassiter, and Charles Adside, Esquire.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:53:41 -0500 2020-01-21T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall University of Michigan History Club Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Digitizing Archives of Abolitionists: The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society Papers (January 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70024 70024-17497480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Rochester (NY) Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers (1848-1868) consist of the society's incoming correspondence about slavery, fugitive slaves, the conditions of freemen, and other progressive issues; printed annual reports; and other items. Abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Julia Wilbur, Julia Griffiths, and others are among the collection's writers. The William L. Clements Library selected this collection to be fully digitized and made accessible online in a new digitized manuscripts platform that launched in 2019: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/r/rochester/

In this presentation, Curator of Manuscripts Cheney J. Schopieray will provide an overview of the collection and digitization process, as well as an opportunity to examine some of the materials in person.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:48:00 -0500 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Detail from the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers
Artist Talk with Cullen Washington, Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68749 68749-17147137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Cullen Washington, Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing together seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses non-representational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality – a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction.

In the exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora”— the ancient Greek public space — as a "gathering place" for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city. Washington describes the contemporary agora as an “area of convergence, where the displaced can find a place.”

Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Saatchi Gallery London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yaddo, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. He is also a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Co-presented by the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25 - May 17, 2020.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:16:55 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Cullen Washington Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70387 70387-17594434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Cullen Washington Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses nonrepresentational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality — a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction. In the exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square,his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora” — the ancient Greek public space — as a central “gathering place” for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city, where the displaced can find a place. Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum in New York, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Yaddo artists’ community in New York, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has also received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Presented in partnership with UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25–May 17, 2020.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Department of the History of Art.

Image: Cullen Washington, Jr., “Agora 1,” 2017, mixed media collage on canvas. Courtesy the artist. © Cullen Washington, Jr. Photography: Andrea Feldman

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:46:44 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Washington2.jpg
AIAA Distinguished Lecture Series | Exploring Pluto and Beyond (January 23, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71485 71485-17834198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Pizza, salad, soda provided at 6:30
Lecture and discussion to begin at 7:00

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:55:17 -0500 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Department of Physics Lecture / Discussion GG Brown Laboratory
Family Art Studio: Imaginary Places (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68752 68752-17147140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of abstract paintings in UMMA's Collection Ensemble installation, as well as work by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, followed by a hands-on workshop where you will create an abstract painting of your own! Led by local artist and UMMA docent Susan Clinthorne.

Please note:  Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:17:17 -0500 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Imaginary Places (January 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68753 68753-17147141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

DescriptionFamilies with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of abstract paintings in UMMA's Collection Ensemble installation, as well as work by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, followed by a hands-on workshop where you will create an abstract painting of your own! Led by local artist and UMMA docent Susan Clinthorne.

Please note:  Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:17:17 -0500 2020-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
In Conversation: Disability and Power with Dessa Cosma (January 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68755 68755-17147143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Dessa Cosma is a social justice activist and the founding director of Detroit Disability Power, which works to bridge the gap between the disability community and social justice movements. For Cosma, disability is a key part of her identity and of critical importance socially and politically—just like race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. In this informal gallery talk, she will respond to the works of Japanese artist Mari Katayama and reflect upon her experiences and political expression as a disability activist. Mari Katayama uses her disabled body as the subject in her provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Katayama was born with two fingers on one hand and had both of her legs amputated by the age of nine; she has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and her physicality in the context of contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art.   

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:17:21 -0500 2020-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
UM Psychology Community Talk: That's the Power of Love: Compassion, Love, and Transformation in Urban America (January 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71220 71220-17791919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: The words "urban" and "inner city" typically conjure up images of densely populated neighborhoods, crime, mean streets, isolation, and human struggle. Popular media plays on these representations. Missing from this familiar story are the everyday stories of goodness that occur in cities. This presentation draws on interviews with people who live in urban areas, including highly under-resourced urban areas, to explore how the human capacity for love, forgiveness and compassion emerges in everyday life in urban America. I use these stories to explore how we are all transformed by everyday encounters with love and human goodness.

Bio: Jacqueline S. Mattis, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of African American and Afri-Caribbean youth and adults, and on the factors that are associated with positive psychological development of urban residing African Americans and Afri-Caribbeans. In particular, she explores the factors that contribute to altruism, compassion, empathy, forgiveness and optimism among urban-residing African American people.

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Presentation Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:01:34 -0500 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jaqueline Mattis
FellowSpeak: "Down and Out and Pregnant in Medieval France" (January 28, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69972 69972-17491319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk will address the meaning and consequences of extramarital pregnancy for women in medieval France, married and unmarried, low and high status, nuns, wives, widows, prostitutes, wet nurses, and domestic servants.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:54:13 -0500 2020-01-28T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Diane chassent Callisto, Ovide moralisé 1380-1395 Lyon, BM, 0742 (0648), f. 030
Cognitive Diversity and Collective Intelligence (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72096 72096-17937823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

In 2019 Dr. Page was named John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management. He also is the Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration and professor of management and organizations in the Ross School, and a professor of political science, complex systems and economics in LSA.

Dr. Page will be one of three recipients to receive their awards and give their talks at this time. The other two speakers are: John M. Carethers, whose presentation is titled “Human Conditions from Defective DNA Mismatch Repair” and Anna Suk-Fong Lok, whose presentation is titled “Elimination of Viral Hepatitis: A Tale of Two Viruses.” See link below for Record article about the three recipients.

A reception will follow the talks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:29:20 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Scott E. Page
DCMB Seminar Series (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71998 71998-17911963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Experimental and computational strategies to aid compound identification and quantitation in metabolomics

Abstract: Over the past two decades, metabolomics as a technique has moved from the primary domain of analytical chemists to more widespread acceptance by biologists, clinicians and bioinformaticians alike. Metabolomics offers systems-level insights into the critical roles small molecules play in routine cellular processes and myriad disease states. However, certain unique analytical challenges remain prominent in metabolomics as compared to the other ‘omics sciences. These include the difficulty of identifying unknown features in untargeted metabolomics data, and challenges maintaining reliable quantitation within lengthy studies that may span multiple laboratories. Unlike genomics and transcriptomics data in which nearly every quantifiable feature is confidently identified as a matter of course, in typical untargeted metabolomics studies over 80% of features are frequently not mapped to a specific chemical compound. Further, although many metabolomics studies have begun to stretch over a timeframe of years, data quantitation and normalization strategies have not always kept up with the requirements for such large studies. Fortunately, both experimental and computational strategies are emerging to tackle these long-standing challenges. We will report on several techniques in development in our laboratory, ranging from chromatographic fractionation and high-sensitivity data acquisition, to computational strategies to aid in tandem mass spectrometric spectral interpretation. These developments serve to facilitate analysis for both experts and novice users, which should ultimately help improve the biological insight and impact gained from metabolomics data.

BlueJeans livestreaming link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:07:13 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
E-Hour Speaker Series: Sam Schillace (January 31, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72243 72243-17963883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Sam Schillace, now a VP of engineering at Google, was previously the SVP of engineering at Box, where he was responsible for the engineering and QA teams. He is one of the founders of Writely, which he sold to Google in 2006 to become one of the first pieces of Google Docs. For the next four years, Sam was an engineering director, initially overseeing Google Docs and building out the team, but eventually working on Sites, Reader, Blogger, Picasa, Google Groups, Gmail, Page Creator, and other internal projects.

Before Google, Sam was a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for 20 years, working on projects as diverse as video games, early Web page creation software, word processors, and application engines (server-side JavaScript before it was cool!). Sam has experience with product design, technical design, hands-on coding, and engineering management, and likes to do all of them at once, typically.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:46:47 -0500 2020-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sam Schillace
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joy Saniyah (February 3, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71943 71943-17903278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

We're kicking off Health and Wellness Week with a very special keynote speaker, Dr. Joy Saniyah! She will be presenting based on the question: "what is right with you?" and talking about what you can do to improve your overall wellness while focusing on your strengths. Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

Joy Saniyah, Ph.D. (she/her) is the Founder & Director of Integrative Empowerment Group, PLLC (IEG). IEG is a multidisciplinary mental health and wellness group practice that aims to provide a safe space for clients to feel heard, understood, and empowered regardless of their identities, beliefs, and ways of living and loving. As a queer woman of color, Joy is passionate about working with those who are traditionally marginalized in society and underrepresented in help seeking environments. She has extensive experience working with people of color and clients who identify as LGBTQA. Joy is an advocate for those exploring gender identity including transition support. Finally, she is an experienced Kink and Poly Knowledgeable professional. Joy graduated with a Master's Degree in Organizational Psychology from Teacher's College at Columbia University and a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University in New York City. Joy has over 13 years of experience working with college students at several major universities including three years at Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Joy is passionate about integrative approaches to healing and as such is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200), a Certified Kemetic Yoga Teacher, and a Reiki Level II Practitioner.

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:47:12 -0500 2020-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-03T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A photo of Dr. Joy Saniyah, a Black woman with red loc'd hair, glasses, and earrings. Date, time, and location is listed to the left of it.
Three Common Assumptions about Chronic Inflammation that area Probably Wrong (February 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72465 72465-18009370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:06:55 -0500 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion
Neuro Imaging Initiative: Temporal dynamics of brain activity - an application to pain (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72244 72244-17963881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:10:34 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Featured Speaker: Dr. Brett Kruzsch (February 5, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71939 71939-17903276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Dr. Brett Krutzsch presents "Queer Martyrdom: The Religious and Sexual Politics of LGBTQ Inclusion." Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

This talk will compare the LGBTQ murder that generated the most media attention in the country’s history—the killing of white, gay, college student Matthew Shepard in 1998—with a similar LGBTQ murder that received considerably less attention—the killing of Native American, two-spirit, high school student F.C. Martinez in 2001. We will explore how activists used both deaths for political purposes and why Shepard became a more popular political emblem. We will also consider how religion shaped the activism surrounding their deaths and how LGBTQ activists used religion to promote greater acceptance of queer Americans.

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

About the speaker:
Dr. Brett Krutzsch is a scholar in the Center for Religion and Media at NYU. He is an expert on LGBTQ politics and religion in the United States. He is the author of the 2019 book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics from Oxford University Press. His writing has appeared in several scholarly journals as well as The Washington Post, Newsday, The Advocate, and he has been featured on NPR.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:36:01 -0500 2020-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A photo of Brett Krutzsch, a white man with brown hair, next to a shortened version of his bio.
Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara: Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer, A Performance Piece and Lecture (February 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71938 71938-17903273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a native Angelino Chicano musician, singer and songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock and roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist. His newly published book Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (University of California Press, 2018) is a moving memoir of his life and a compelling counter-history of the city of Los Angeles.

“It is as if Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara, polymath Azteca warrior and Chicano superhero, rose with the first East Los Angeles Aztlȧn sun that gave creative light to the barrio.” – Louie Pérez, musician, songwriter with Los Lobos

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:03:57 -0500 2020-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T21:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara 2.6.20
E-Hour Speaker Series: Samir Kaul (February 7, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72245 72245-17963884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Samir is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on health, sustainability, food, and advanced technology investments. Samir led the firm’s investments in Editas Medicine, EtaGen, Guardant Health, Impossible Foods, Nutanix, Oscar, Pymetrics, and View, among others.

Previously, Samir was at Flagship Ventures where he founded and invested in early-stage biotechnology companies, and Craig Venter’s Institute for Genomic Research where he led the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative. He is active in philanthropy and has been a longstanding member of the leadership committee of the Tipping Point Community and a board member of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:00:50 -0500 2020-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Samir Kaul
Saturday Morning Physics | The Universe Caught Speeding: Dark Energy, Two Decades After (February 8, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70879 70879-17726703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery, honored with the Physics Nobel Prize in 2011, has generated waves in the field of cosmology and presents us with a grand mystery: what is the origin and nature of dark energy, the stuff that causes the accelerated expansion? Professor Huterer will review the exciting new developments in this field, including hints for new physics lurking in the data, and the upcoming ground and space telescopes dedicated to solve the dark energy mystery.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:43:26 -0500 2020-02-08T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark matter density (left) transitioning to gas density (right). Credit: Illustris Simulations
Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68758 68758-17147146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's second exhibition of Inuit Art, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Guided by local artist Sajeev Vadakoottu, participants will make a drawing of an image from their own imagination directly on a screen, essentially creating a stencil, and use that stencil to make prints on paper, bags or t-shirts. (Please bring your own canvas bags or t-shirts!) 

Please note: Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:17:23 -0500 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us (February 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68759 68759-17147147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's second exhibition of Inuit Art, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Guided by local artist Sajeev Vadakoottu, participants will make a drawing of an image from their own imagination directly on a screen, essentially creating a stencil, and use that stencil to make prints on paper, bags or t-shirts. (Please bring your own canvas bags or t-shirts!)

Please note: Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive mroe than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:16:58 -0500 2020-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
OS Hosts Douglas Guthrie (February 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72169 72169-17948639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Doug Guthrie is an organizational sociologist and China scholar. As a former senior executive with Apple in China (2014-19), he will be on campus to provide his experience and insight on organizational strategy and structure.

Talk Title: Organizational Strategy and Structure in the Era of Xi Jinping: The Case of Apple in China

China is a critical location for multinational corporations for a number of reasons: It is the world’s most populous nation, arguably the world’s largest market, and it is home to the world’s most innovative supply chain. After a decade of the Chinese government’s laissez-faire attitude toward foreign corporations operating in China (under Hu Jintao), in 2013, the political environment changed significantly with the ascension of Xi Jinping. Many foreign corporations were caught off guard, and some paid a heavy price. How companies responded to this new political environment is a question of organizational strategy, structure, and design — issues that are at the core of organizational research. In this talk, drawing on decades of China research, and five years as a senior executive working for Apple in China (2014-19), I will use the Apple case to discuss the complexities of navigating China’s current political environment. We will explore Apple’s unique organizational structure — both internally and externally — and its strategy for approaching this critical challenge.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:42:39 -0500 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T14:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Presentation doug githrie
Three common assumptions about chronic inflammation that are probably wrong (February 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72643 72643-18035589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:50:26 -0500 2020-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation McDade
FellowSpeak: "Terminal Regions: Queer Environmental Ethics in the Absence of Futurity" (February 11, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69977 69977-17491331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk asks what contemporary environmentalism’s (seemingly necessary) emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable. By reading queer texts whose animating conditions require their protagonists to bracket questions of futurity as normatively lived, I trace paradigms of relationality, practices of care, political affects, temporal modes, and forms of solidarity that as yet have not found their way into ecocritical conversations and practices of environmental stewardship.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:11:43 -0500 2020-02-11T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion The Babushkas of Chernobyl
Signs of Disability: Faculty, Accommodations and Access at Work (February 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72355 72355-17998138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:32:14 -0500 2020-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Quartering the British Army in Revolutionary America (February 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71155 71155-17783465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the decades before the Revolution, British soldiers were a common sight in America. They lived in private houses in Trenton, marched up Broadway in New York, and came to blows with colonists in Boston. What was it like to live in this world?

Drawing on his new book "Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution" (which he largely researched at the Clements Library), John McCurdy explains how the colonists made room for redcoats by reimagining places like home, city, and empire. They insisted on a right to privacy in their houses and civilian control of troops stationed in their cities, both of which they achieved through the Quartering Act. McCurdy also explores how protests by the Sons of Liberty and events like the Boston Massacre caused the civilian-martial comity to unravel such that Americans ultimately declared the “quartering of large bodies of armed troops among us” to be a reason for independence.

This lecture is presented in collaboration with the U-M Eisenberg Institute, which supported McCurdy's work on this book through a Residency Research Grant. John G. McCurdy is Professor of History and Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:47:28 -0500 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Boston Massacre Engraving by Paul Revere, 1770
2020 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | Tracking the Motion Inside Molecules with X-Ray Lasers (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70890 70890-17732907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The last decade marked the development of a new kind of powerful research laser that can deliver a trillion 1-Angstrom x-rays in a femtosecond or even less. This x-ray free-electron laser is revolutionizing the way scientists observe dynamics on the quantum scale in the laboratory. We are beginning to learn how to track the relative motion of atoms inside molecules. Professor Bucksbaum will discuss the current efforts and future opportunities to employ these sources for molecular movies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:51:38 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar electrons streaming
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (DCMB) Weekly Seminar (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72535 72535-18015945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Normal mechanical function of the heart requires that ATP be continuously synthesized at a hydrolysis potential of roughly -60 kJ mol-1. Yet in both the aging and diseased heart the relationships between cardiac work rate and concentrations of ATP, ADP, and inorganic phosphate are altered. Important outstanding questions are: To what extent do changes in metabolite concentrations that occur in aging and heart disease affect metabolic/molecular processes in the myocardium? How are systolic and diastolic functions affected by changes in metabolite concentrations? Does metabolic energy supply represent a limiting factor in determining physiological maximal cardiac power output and exercise capacity? Does the derangement of cardiac energetics that occurs with heart failure cause exercise intolerance?

To answer these questions, we have developed a multi-physics multi-scale model of cardiac energy metabolism and cardiac mechanics that simulates the dependence of myocardial ATP demand on muscle dynamics and the dependence of muscle dynamics on cardiac energetics. Model simulations predict that the maximal rate at which ATP can be synthesized at free energies necessary to drive physiological mechanical function determine maximal heart rate, cardiac output, and cardiac power output in exercise. Furthermore, we find that reductions in cytoplasmic adenine nucleotide, creatine, and phosphate pools that occur with aging impair the myocardial capacity to synthesize ATP at physiological free energy levels, and that the resulting changes to myocardial energetic status play a causal role in contributing to reductions in maximal cardiac power output with aging. Finally, model predictions reveal that reductions in cytoplasmic metabolite pools contribute to energetic dysfunction in heart failure, which in turn contributes to causing systolic dysfunction in heart failure.

BlueJeans Livestream Link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments served in Forum Hall Atrium
4:00 p.m. - Lecture in Forum Hall

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:41:29 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
A Concert for HOPE (February 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71771 71771-17879422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery

Join us along with the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, Adam Foss, JD, and others for a free event at Hill Auditorium on February 12, 2020 to build awareness and support for the HOPE Collaborative at Michigan Medicine.

The HOPE (health equity, opportunity, pipeline, and education) Collaborative’s goals are threefold: develop, strengthen, and study early pipeline and youth educational programs for medicine; broaden Michigan Medicine’s clinical reach and engagement of community partners for at-risk neighborhoods; diversify training programs and trainee recruitment.

Our guest performers and speakers will inspire and build excitement around the opportunities for underrepresented minorities in medicine.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit is an award-winning national model for Creative Youth Development. Founded in 1992,Mosaic annually provides accessible acting and singing training for hundreds of youth from more than 50 Metro Detroit schools. Mosaic's mission is to empower young people to maximize their potential through professional performing arts training and the creation of theatrical and musical art that engages, transforms and inspires. The organization has toured their critically-acclaimed all-teen performances to Europe, Asia, Africa, 25 states throughout the U.S., the White House and The Kennedy Center. At the 2014 World Choir Games in Latvia, Mosaic brought home two gold and two silver medals. Mosaic is proud to report that 95% of their performers have gone on to college. To learn more about Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, visit us online at www.mosaicdetroit.org.

Adam Foss, JD, is a renowned prosecutor and criminal-justice reform advocate who founded Prosecutor Impact – a non-profit focused on training prosecutors to reframe their role in the criminal justice system to focus on metrics beyond “cases won.”

This event is free, but there will be opportunities to support the mission through donations. Funds will be directed towards resources supporting the HOPE Collaborative’s mission.

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Performance Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:45:40 -0500 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T21:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery Performance Impacting HOPE Collaborative
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Danaja Maldeniya (February 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72761 72761-18070594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

PhD candidate Danaja Maldeniya will discuss collaborative crowdsourcing and how the structure and operation of these virtual and loosely knit teams differ from traditional organizations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:50:15 -0500 2020-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Danaja Maldeniya standing in a park.
CANCELED: Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez: Liminal Practice(s) (February 13, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58872 58872-14569980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez presentation scheduled for Thursday, February 13, 2020 has been canceled due to flight delays.

A visual artist who trained as an architect, Amanda Williams’ practice blurs disciplinary distinctions. She employs color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place, and value in cities and raises questions about the state of urban space in America. She has exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. In collaboration with Andres L. Hernandez, an artist-designer-educator based in Chicago, and artist Shani Crowe, Williams installed Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line) at the U.S. Pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Andres L. Hernandez re-imagines the environments we inhabit, and explores the potential of spaces for public dialogue and social action. Hernandez is co-founder of the Revival Arts Collective, and founder and director of the Urban Vacancy Research Initiative. With Williams, he is a member of the design team for the Museum of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Co-presented with the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:16:04 -0500 2020-02-13T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-13T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Williams-Hernandez.jpg
Saturday Morning Physics | Ocean Modeling: Big Computers, Big Science (February 15, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71160 71160-17783477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In this talk, Professor Arbic will describe how ocean circulation models work and how they predict physical motions in the ocean, including currents, eddies, and tides. He will discuss the many applications of ocean models, including short-term ocean forecasting, national security applications, longer-term global change predictions, and preparing for satellite ocean monitoring missions. The talk will focus on the work done in our group here at University of Michigan, with a focus on oceanic eddies and tides.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:29:14 -0500 2020-02-15T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar The Pleiades Supercomputer which some of the models Professor Arbic uses runs on. (NASA)
Framingham Heart Study: Fundamental Concepts of Cardiovascular Disease Risk (February 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72466 72466-18009371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:04:21 -0500 2020-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Ram
Artist Talk with Courtney McClellan: Observer v. Witness, presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA (February 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68761 68761-17147149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Courtney McClellan is an artist and writer from Greensboro, N.C., and the current Roman Witt Artist in Residence at the Stamps School of Art & Design. Her work addresses public ritual, institutional space, and objects that invite or demand speech. Her explorations result in sculpture, performance, installation, writing, and video. Her studio practice includes experimenting with materials, but also reaches to fields like law, theater, and journalism. For the past five years she has studied legal simulation.

At UMMA, McClellan will mount Witness Lab, an architectural courtroom installation and performance series. The facsimile courtroom located in the glassed-in Stenn Gallery will host legal simulations from participating groups including The Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Additionally, court transcript readings and trial advocacy workshops will be performed in the gallery. Stamps students will observe and document the courtroom activity through drawing, text, photography, and video. The accumulated documents will result in a publication. 

Witness Lab offers audiences a complex truth. By studying the courtroom as a space of performance, and the lawyers as agents of justice, participants and passersby consider the physical and social architecture of the law.

 

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:17:18 -0500 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Courtney McClellan: Observer v. Witness (February 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70391 70391-17594438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Monday, February 17, 5:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109

Courtney McClellan is an artist and writer from Greensboro, North Carolina, and the 2019-2020 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence. Her work addresses public ritual, institutional space, and objects that invite or demand speech. Her explorations result in sculpture, performance, installation, writing, and video. Her studio practice includes experimenting with materials, but also reaches into fields such as law, theater, and journalism. For the past five years she has studied legal simulation.

At UMMA, McClellan will mount Witness Lab, an architectural courtroom installation and performance series. The facsimile courtroom located in the glassed-in Stenn Gallery will host legal simulations from participating groups including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Additionally, court transcript readings and trial advocacy workshops will be performed in the gallery. Stamps students will observe and document the courtroom activity through drawing, text, photography, and video. The accumulated documents will result in a publication.

Witness Lab offers audiences a complex truth. By studying the courtroom as a space of performance, and the lawyers as agents of justice, participants and passersby consider the physical and social architecture of the law.

Presented in partnership with University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), presenting Witness Lab, a project by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This courtroom installation is activated from February 15 through May 17, 2020. Lead support for Witness Lab is provided by the University of Michigan Law School and the Office of the Provost.

Image credit: Double Jeopardy, GIF, 2019

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:15:46 -0500 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/McClellan.jpg
FellowSpeak: "Eco Soma: Speculative Performance Experiments" (February 18, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69993 69993-17491337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In her talk, Petra Kuppers will present ecopoetic disability culture work that engages contact zones between human and non-human others. She will focus on art-based methods of envisioning change, and show that disability, traditionally seen as an enemy to environmentalism (with concrete ramps supposedly damaging pristine wildernesses), can instead offer imaginative ways toward living well in climate catastrophe, unrest, and challenge.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:10:20 -0500 2020-02-18T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Screen-shot from “Waking the Green Sound: a dance film for the trees,” directed by Wobbly Dance
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70344 70344-17586171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
How to Create Positive Team and Organizational Hierarchies
Lindy Greer

Tuesday, February 18, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/how-to-create-positive-team-and-organizational-hierarchies

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
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:
Hierarchy is the most ubiquitous way in which human beings organize social interactions. However, hierarchy comes with substantial downsides in terms of inequities and conflicts. As a result, organizations have explored flatter modes of organizing, such as holacracy, which unfortunately have yet to yield much success. In this presentation, Greer will explore the possibility that hierarchy may still be the most effective form of organization but needs to be used wisely. She will discuss data-driven strategies which can allow hierarchy to be a useful and positive organizational tool, including helping leaders learn how to ‘flex’ the hierarchy for bursts of flatness, to humanize the hierarchy through sharing emotions at work, and to reduce competitions around hierarchy by creating areas of individual ownership and autonomy.

About Greer:
Lindy Greer is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Michigan Ross and the Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center. Her research focuses on how to lead effective organizational teams with specific interests in leadership skills in conflict management, diversity and inclusion, vision crafting, and the communication of emotions.

Lindy has published in top management and psychology research outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. Her work has also been covered in well-known media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, and Fast Company. She has received awards for her research from the Academy of Management and American Psychological Association, and she was recently named one of the Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors by Poets and Quants.

Lindy is currently an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, on the boards of seven of the top management and psychology journals, and has served on the boards of professional associations such as the International Association of Conflict Management and the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. Lindy received her BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in social and organizational psychology from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She joined the team at Ross in 2019.

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 University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/how-to-create-positive-team-and-organizational-hierarchies

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:07:29 -0500 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Lindy Greer
Settler Colonial Choreography and the Divided Body: Performing Masculinities Through the Switch Dance at a Native American Prison Powwow (February 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71853 71853-17894529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies Program welcomes Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa, a rising scholar whose innovative work combines Native American Studies and Dance Studies. Wakpa is a scholar and practitioner of Indigenous contemporary dance, North American Hand Talk (Indigenous sign language), martial arts, and yoga. Her research combines community-based, Indigenous and feminist methodologies with critical race theories to examine the politics and practices of dance and embodiment historically and contemporarily in educational and carceral institutions for Indigenous peoples. Her work has been published in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Dance Research Journal. Dr. Wakpa is also the co-founder and co-editor of the academic journal Race & Yoga and a former UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. We invite you to partner with us in supporting this rising scholar and connecting students and the university publics to learn about her current work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:56:43 -0500 2020-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tria Blu Wakpa Poster
From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large Scale Chemical Contaminations (February 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68807 68807-17153411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• MORE SPEAKERS AND BREAKOUT SESSIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED

• Keynote address by Dr. Birnbaum will be livestreamed.

• Registration (free) is required.

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

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:21:01 -0500 2020-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium PBB to PFAS symposium Feb 20 2020
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Julia Mendelsohn (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72978 72978-18120897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

PhD candidate Julia Mendelsohn will discuss the creation of a computational linguistic framework for analyzing dehumanizing language and the application of that framework to discussions of LGBTQ people in the New York Times from 1986 to 2015.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:59:28 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Workshop / Seminar Julia Mendelsohn
David Lang: Music and Bad Manners (February 20, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70392 70392-17594439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Note: This presentation will take place at Rackham Auditorium, 915 Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI.

As one of America’s most performed composers, David Lang has “solidified his standing as an American master,” as The New Yorker puts it. His catalog of work is extensive, and his opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling, and emotionally direct. In 2008, the New York-based composer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion, a score for four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers, based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen. Additionally, Lang’s score for Paolo Sorrentino’s film Youth received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, among others. Other recent work includes man made, a concerto co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony; the loser, an opera based on the novel by Thomas Bernhard, which opened the 2016 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and prisoner of the state, an opera co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, De Doelen concert hall in the Netherlands, the Barbican Centre in London, l’Auditori concert hall in Barcelona, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Concertgebouw in Belgium, and Malmö Opera in Sweden. Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, a New York-based organization dedicated to the support of experimental music.

David Lang’s appearance is courtesy of the William Bolcom Guest Residency at the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:49:49 -0500 2020-02-20T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Lang.jpg
Life In Graduate School Seminar | How to Find a Postdoc Position (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72814 72814-18079325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life in Graduate School Seminars

Three people with postdoc hunting experience in high energy experiment, computational condensed matter and experimental condensed matter will be invited and present their experience and lessons in finding postdoc positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:31:43 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Life in Graduate School Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | The Truth About Entropy (February 22, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71162 71162-17783480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Crystalline forms of matter, from ice to diamond, are highly ordered with atoms lined up neatly in rows. Do these crystals have low or high entropy? We are taught that entropy implies disorder, so crystals must have low entropy...or do they? In this talk, find out how some ordered crystal phases of matter can have more entropy than their disordered phases, and why this matters.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:54:49 -0500 2020-02-22T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Crystalline structures pc: NASA David Weitz
Early Life Influences on Adult Health and Wellbeing (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72467 72467-18009372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:09:29 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Adair
Town Hall Meeting: Socialism and the 2020 elections (February 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73071 73071-18138331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

One word is dominating the 2020 election cycle: socialism.

Donald Trump and his fascist allies declare the US “will never be a socialist country.” Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg proclaim their desire to save the Democratic Party from socialists, while Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) claim socialism means working within the Democratic Party for mild reforms. The ruling class, presiding over a society dominated by inequality, war and state repression, increasingly views socialism as an immediate threat.

The Socialist Equality Party is running in the 2020 elections to explain what socialism really means. Join the SEP’s candidates—Joseph Kishore for President and Norissa Santa Cruz for Vice President—in the historic struggle to unite all workers internationally, independent of the political parties of the ruling class. The working class is the social force that can replace capitalism with international socialism.

This town hall meeting with Joseph Kishore is part of a national series of meetings being held across the United States, hosted by the IYSSE and the SEP.

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Meeting Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:41:37 -0500 2020-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting Joseph Kishore (President) and Norissa Santa Cruz (Vice President), Socialist Equality Party
UM Psychology Community Talk: Failure to Launch or Developmental Launching Pad? Navigating the Transition to Adulthood in the 21st Century (February 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71222 71222-17791921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: What is it about twentysomethings today? Popular media portray young adults as selfish slackers who never want to grow up. Although the concept of delayed adulthood has some basis in reality, it can be argued that an extended period of exploration might be adaptive in the 21st century. In this talk, we will explore the impact of this slower transition to adulthood on the health and well-being of youth today as well as the diversity of their experiences as they seek to define themselves. Dr. Jodl will also offer some practical advice to parents on how to best support their young adults as they navigate the transition to adulthood.

Bio: Kathleen M. Jodl is the Jacquelynne S. Eccles Collegiate Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She joined the Michigan community in 1997 after earning her doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on family influences on adolescent development and the transition to adulthood. Over the last 10+ years, Dr. Jodl has taught thousands of undergraduates in a wide range of courses at UM including a gateway course in developmental psychology, social development, and a popular seminar on emerging adulthood. She brings a wealth of hands-on experience “living the dream” as the mother of four young adults ranging in age from 15 to 21 years.

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Presentation Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:09:00 -0500 2020-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Kathleen Jodl
[MISC Talk] David Nemer (February 25, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73147 73147-18147049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Dr. David Nemer will discuss how WhatsApp became a potent tool for the spread of misinformation during the 2018 Brazilian general election.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:22:46 -0500 2020-02-25T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion David Nemer
LHS Collaboratory (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72208 72208-18035597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"Value Proposition of Learning Health Systems"
Erik Gordon, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 12 pm–1:30 pm
Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons (Lunch is included)

Professor Gordon's areas of interest are entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, the biomedical industry (pharmaceuticals, devices, healthcare big data, and biotechnology), IoT, FinTech, and digital and mobile marketing. He also served on the faculty of University of Michigan Law School. He has served on the faculty and as Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate Division of Business & Management (Carey Business School) at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught in the business and medical schools and at the University of Florida, where he also served as director of the Center for Technology & Science Commercialization Studies and as Director of MBA Programs. He has served as an adviser or co-founder to numerous companies. He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters and other outlets, is a regular contributor to Marketplace Morning Report (in NPR's Morning Edition), Bloomberg Radio, and appears on PBS's Nightly Business Report. His degrees are in economics and law.
Please register in advance, dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory.
Email: LHScollaboratory-info@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:07:52 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
FellowSpeak: "Community Carillon/Corporate Carillon" (February 25, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69994 69994-17491338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout the twentieth century, carillons such as the bells in Burton Memorial Tower were erected by institutions on the promise of uniting harmonious communities and elevating the Everyman’s taste with Western classical music. Thanks to the invisibility of carillonists and of their agency, carillon concerts remain an uncontested musical practice on the social, cultural, architectural, and sonic landscape, while their power to construct exclusionary sonic communities functions in plain view and hearing. This work challenges the racialized and gendered boundaries that have constructed the carillon as a spatio-sonic tool for social harmony. Carillons served governments and corporations in Cold War-era technology development, cultural diplomacy, and corporate expansion, and if we listen carefully, we can hear their colonial entanglements.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:09:44 -0500 2020-02-25T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Construction of the Philips Carillon for Philips Electronics in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (1966)
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism (February 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70972 70972-17760245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism
Wednesday, February 26
10am - 6pm
ISR-Thompson 1430

Morning Session
10am - 12:00pm
Creating Diverse, Joyful, and Productive Working Groups

Working Group Lunches
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Afternoon Session
2pm - 4:30pm
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Racism

Poster Session
4:30pm - 6pm

RacismLab invites you to join in celebrating its five-year anniversary, in conjunction with University-wide MLK 2020 programming, for the 2020 RacismLab Symposium and concurrent Poster Session on Wednesday, February 26.

NETWORKING LUNCH FOR POST-DOCS and FACULTY:
Early-career scholars (i.e., postdocs and assistant professors) are invited to sign up for the networking lunch during the symposium. The networking lunch, led by Dr. Debbie Rivas-Drake, will explore strategies for creating diverse, joyful, and productive research groups. For more information and to sign up for a working lunch roundtable: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemIZfoohv6CHmg99EFgXlSEvfSQYmAJ4cvUUaVsy80hBCp7g/viewform

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:38:30 -0500 2020-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium event flyer
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Ashwin Rajadesingan (February 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73244 73244-18181858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

PhD candidate Ashwin Rajadesingan will discuss two ongoing approaches to depolarize online political discussions: Can priming a superordinate identity such as the American national identity improve conversation quality between partisans? Does individuating users to see beyond partisan identities or highlighting shared social identities improve political discussions online?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:09:09 -0500 2020-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Workshop / Seminar Ashwin Rajadesingan
ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: William D Lopez, PhD (March 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73220 73220-18179627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Presents:

"Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" by William D. Lopez.

In "Separated," Dr. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals.

Dr. Lopez is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Many of you may be familiar with Dr. Lopez and his work from his time in RCGD a few years ago. Dr. Lopez is also Faculty Director of Public Scholarship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity.

Limited copies of the books are available NOW to be signed out at ISR Thomson HR Office #1078 and the Perry Receptionist desk.

It is a pleasure to host Dr. Lopez at ISR for a visit on March 4th to present on his book! This is a special opportunity to meet the author and have your book signed!

Special Author Visit & Talk
Wednesday, March 4th
ISR Thompson 1430
10:00am-11:30am

Book Signing
11:30am-12noon

To purchase Dr. Lopez's book: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=%099781421433318

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:18:25 -0500 2020-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion poster
Women on a Mission 2.0: Leadership, Citizenship & Advocacy (March 6, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73597 73597-18267644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: CEW+

The free morning keynote will be a conversation with Dr. Joy DeGruy, nationally & internationally renowned researcher, educator, author, & presenter, and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, economist, author, social and political commentator, & businesswoman. They will discuss inclusive citizenship and the role of women as transformative change agents for voting rights, economic policy, prison reform, and access to education.

Please note that the keynote lecture (8:30-10:30am at Hill Auditorium) is open to the general public and no registration is required. However, pre-registration is required to attend the full-day WCTF Career Conference workshops and luncheon.

Click here to view the live stream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/cew/cew030620.html

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:45:18 -0500 2020-03-06T08:30:00-05:00 2020-03-06T10:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Julianne Malveaux
On the Perils of Intrauterine Determinism: An Epidemiologic Inquiry into the 2:4 Digit Ratio (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72468 72468-18009373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Evolution & Human Adaptations Program (EHAP)

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:32:49 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Evolution & Human Adaptations Program (EHAP) Presentation Eduardo
FellowSpeak: "Prison Theatre: Performance and Incarceration" (March 10, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69995 69995-17491340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view, despite the many journalistic and cinematic portrayals which try to imagine or rationalize a nation's practices of imprisonment. Inside the walls, prisoners stage their own theatrical productions, articulating their identities and experiences for audiences carefully monitored by gatekeepers. Ashley Lucas’s forthcoming book Prison Theatre: Performance and Incarceration examines performances within prisons across the globe, offering a uniquely international account and exploration of prison theatre. By discussing a range of performance practices tied to incarceration, this book looks at the ways in which arts practitioners and imprisoned people use theatre as a means to build communities, attain professional skills, create social change, and maintain hope.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:11:14 -0500 2020-03-10T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion The cast of Open Hearts Open Minds’ production of A Winter’s Tale at Two Rivers Correctional Facility in Umatilla, Oregon, 2014
My Brothers Empowerment Series (March 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72936 72936-18096962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

My Brothers is a monthly dialogue series for men of color at the University of Michigan. The goal of the program is to empower self-identified men of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, health, and wellness in an open, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all self-identified men of color at the University of Michigan — undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:47:19 -0500 2020-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion My Brothers
U-M Museum Studies Program Presents Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections (March 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73581 73581-18263272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How do Indigenous objects in museum collections speak to those who collect, curate, observe, and claim them?  The observable materials and patterns of construction obviously reflect particular ecosystems, cultures, and technologies, but do these objects also retain memories of the artisans who created them?  Do they wield more than just imagined meaning or distributed agency?  In this talk, Dr. Bruchac discusses strategies for recovering object histories through material analyses, consultation, and critical re-assessments of imposed museological categories (e.g., art, artifact, utilitarian, etc.) that may have distanced objects from their origins and isolated them from others like themselves.  Case histories will feature new research into iconic creations – such as a 17th century wooden war club embedded with re-purposed wampum beads, and a shell band wampum belt with a single glass bead – that function as "object witnesses" to entangled colonial settler/Indigenous encounters.  Through her practice of "reverse ethnography," Bruchac will reveal how, in many cases, memories can be reawakened when otherwise mysterious objects are reconnected with the stories, ecosystems, knowledges, and communities that created them.  Object histories can also be recovered by tracking the desires and actions of non-Indigenous curators and collectors who transported these objects and stories to physically and conceptually distant locales.   Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Associate Faculty in the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania.  Her new book, "Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists," was the winner of the 2018 Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award.

Co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; LSA/Great Lakes Theme Semester; Native American and Indigenous Student Interest Group; Native American Studies Program; Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS); U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; U-M Office of Research; and the U-M Museum of Art.

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Other Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:18 -0400 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Event Update: Location Change - ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: Harriet A. Washington (March 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73221 73221-18179628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Fall Book Selection: A Terrible Thing to Waste; Environmental Racism and It’s Assault on the American Mind

Wednesday, March 11, 2019 (Earth Week)
1:00pm to 3pm
ISR Thompson 1430ABCD

Virtual Live Stream Presentation with: Join us at ISR or online at https://bluejeans.com/569501572

In support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts at the University of Michigan and the Institute of Social Research and School of Public Health we are excited to partner in bringing an award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington.

Washington will join us via livestream to discuss her book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind."

Ms. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the environmental discussion presenting an argument that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, one that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ achievement gap.

The book explains that environmental racism - a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services is terrible for the brain. Ms. Washington investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected -- and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem.

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at
Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus
Nonfiction Award.

Presentation Co-Sponsors: ISR (ISR Reads, SRC Racism Lab and PSC Population Dynamics and Health Programming & School of Public Health

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:34:03 -0400 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch (March 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70792 70792-17644317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Since the 1970s, the semiconductor industry has fabricated electronic circuits using a plasma based pattern-transfer ap-proach that is remarkably reminiscent of the etching artform used centuries ago. Only now, the patterns are a million times smaller and driven by the wafer fab equipment industry. The most advanced plasma etching technique in production today is called atomic layer etching (ALE) in which a single layer is removed in a cyclic manner. This talk will review the ALE ap-proach in comparison to conventional plasma etching tech-niques, such as Reactive Ion Etching (RIE). As RIE reaches its fifth decade, its drawbacks have become apparent. ALE offers better control by isolating steps in time and switching between the steps in a repeatable cycle. To the extent that an ALE pro-cess behaves ideally – with high ALE synergy and self-limiting behavior – the primary benefit is improved uniformity across all length scales: at the surface, between different aspect rati-os, and across the full wafer. Another benefit that will be high-lighted is the atomic-scale smoothness in topography of the surface left behind after etching. The underlying mechanism and benefits of plasma ALE will be described, providing insight into the plasma science behind the ancient art of etching. Overall, ALE is simpler to understand than conventional plasma etch processing, and is proving to be important as we apply the art of etch at the atomic scale.

About the Speaker:
Richard A. Gottscho is Executive VP, Chief Technology Officer at Lam Research since May 2017. He previously was Executive VP, Global Products Group beginning August 2010; and group VP and general manager, Etch Businesses beginning March 2007. He joined Lam in January 1996 and has held various director and VP roles spanning deposition, etch, and clean products. Prior to joining Lam, he was at Bell Laboratories for 15 years, where he headed research departments in electronics materials, electronics packaging, and flat panel displays. In 2016, Dr. Gottscho was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He has received several awards, including the AVS Peter Mark Me-morial Award, AVS Plasma Science and Technology Division Prize, the Dry Process Symposium Nishiza-wa Award, and the Tegal Thinker Award. He is a fellow of the APS and AVS. He has authored numerous papers, patents, and lectures, and has served on journal editorial boards and program committees for major conferences in plasma science and engineering. He served as vice-chair of a National Research Council study on plasma science. Dr. Gottscho earned Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University, respectively.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m470378ee7563bc37fae0bcbb395a7d98
Meeting number: 624 374 412
Password: MIPSE2019

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 07 Mar 2020 09:20:03 -0500 2020-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Rick Gottscho
CANCELED: A reading and conversation with Lacy M. Johnson (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72317 72317-17974669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED AS OF 3/9/2020.

Join us for a reading by Lacy M. Johnson, author of *The Reckonings* and professor of creative non-fiction at Rice University. David Morse, Lecturer at the Ford School's Writing Center, will moderate the conversation.

From the speaker's bio:

Lacy M. Johnson is a Houston-based professor, curator, activist, and is author of *The Reckonings*, which was named a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Criticism and one of the best books of 2018 by Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Autostraddle, Book Riot, and Refinery 29. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Tin House, Guernica, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Sentence, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University(link is external) and is the Founding Director of the Houston Flood Museum.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:59:00 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Lacy M. Johnson
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73002 73002-18123077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

In this talk, some major challenges are reviewed of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the needs of medicine and healthcare. These challenges include technical issues such as data-related and/or algorithmic challenges that the use of AI for medicine would present. The speaker then presents some potential solutions in form of novel algorithmic approaches that may at least partially address some of these challenges.

BlueJeans livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:49:28 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70345 70345-17586172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Is it Really Better to Give than Receive?
Wayne Baker

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
This event will only be live web streamed.

Follow the stream here: http://myumi.ch/518e2

Positive Links:
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.

About the talk:
The greatest barrier to generosity isn't that people are unwilling or unable to help, but that people don't ask for what they need. Requests drive the giving-receiving cycle. Drawing on his new book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, Baker describes the four asking-giving styles, how to assess your style, how to overcome the obstacles to asking, how to make effective requests, and how to figure out who to ask. He will present several tools that individuals, teams, and organizations use to create a robust culture of workplace generosity. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to use the tools in real time.

About Baker:
Wayne Baker is Robert P. Thome Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research. He currently serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Positive Organizations.

His teaching and research focus on social capital, social networks, generosity, positive organizational scholarship, and values. His management and leadership articles appear in venues such as Harvard Business Review, Chief Executive Magazine, and Sloan Management Review. His latest book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, will be published in January 2020.

He puts his knowledge into practice as a frequent guest speaker, management consultant, and as an advisor and board member of Give and Take Inc., developers of the Givitas collaborative technology platform.

Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago business school. He earned his PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University.

Host:
Dave Mayer, Jack D. Sparks-Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:22:08 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Wayne Baker
CANCELLED: Ask an MFA (March 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73714 73714-18328748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

This event has been cancelled.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:50:31 -0400 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 Hopwood Awards Program Workshop / Seminar Three people hold up signs that read "Ask an MFA"
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Lynette Shaw (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73553 73553-18261050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Dr. Lynette Shaw will discuss how the rise of cryptocurrencies has led to a renewed, contemporary confrontation with the fundamentally social processes through which economic value is constructed.

Visit the UMSI event page for more information.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:20:02 -0500 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Workshop / Seminar Dr. Lynette Shaw
Live Event Canceled - Dr. Alex Dehgan: Hacking in the Sixth Extinction (March 12, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70393 70393-17594440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Dr. Alex Dehgan’s contributions to the fight against climate change are prolific, solutions-oriented, and built to a global scale. As CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs, an innovation and technology start-up focused on conservation, Dehgan and his team apply science, technology, open innovation, design, and engineering to try to end human-induced extinction and address the planet’s biggest environmental challenges. Dehgan holds a PhD and master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings. He was chosen as an “Icon of Science” by Seed magazine in 2005, received the World Technology Award for Policy in 2011, and has been recognized through multiple awards from the US Departments of State and Defense, and USAID. In 2013, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) selected Dehgan as one of its 40@40 fellows out of 2,600 AAAS Science Policy Fellows as an individual who has shown “exemplary dedication to applying science to serve society, was a creative, innovative, and collaborative problem solver in addressing global challenges, and was an uncommon ambassador for the role of science and technology.” He is the author of The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (PublicAffairs, 2019).

This event is supported by the U-M Museum of Natural History and is part of the University of Michigan’s Earth Day at 50 celebration. Learn more: earthday.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:43 -0400 2020-03-12T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Deghan.jpg
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18261079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
E-Hour Speaker Series: Jonathan Golden (March 13, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72247 72247-17963886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Jonathan Golden is a Partner at NEA, where he focuses on consumer, marketplace and bottoms-up SaaS investments.

Before joining NEA, Jonathan was Director of Product at Airbnb, where he helped the company scale 100x over six years. As the company’s first product manager, he was instrumental in building out significant parts of the product in the early days, including creating host insurance, launching the platform internationally, and founding and leading the monetization, payments and Airbnb for Work teams.

Jonathan is an angel investor in Bowery Farming, Coinbase, Everlane, Funding Circle, Hipcamp, Tile and Wonderschool.

Prior to Airbnb, Jonathan worked in product at both Dropbox and HubSpot, and was a venture investor at Greylock Partners. Jonathan co-founded StartX, a non-profit dedicated to accelerating top entrepreneurs, while attending the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received an MBA. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:21:33 -0500 2020-03-13T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Jonathan Golden
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18085916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED: Continuing Challenges to Suffrage in Michigan in 2020: Who Still Can’t Vote? (March 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73281 73281-18190698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be livestreamed. Check the event page just before the event for viewing details.

This panel will address the long struggle for women’s right to vote in the U.S., officially secured 100 years ago, and—equally importantly—the continuing struggle to secure full democratic participation in Michigan. Panelists will describe real barriers to voting in Michigan today, as well as efforts to change rules and regulations to expand access to voting, and what it will take to increase access for some groups in the upcoming election.

Panelists are:

-Danielle Atkinson, founding director of Mothering Justice
-Stephanie Chang (MPP/MSW '14), member of the Michigan State Senate and co-founder and past president of Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote-Michigan
-Dessa Cosma, Executive Director of Detroit Disability Power
-Sharon Dolente (MPP ’04), voting rights strategist at Michigan ACLU
-Michael Steinberg (moderator), Professor from Practice, U-M Law School, former legal director, Michigan ACLU

Cosponsored by the Department of Women's Studies, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. For more information on U-M Suffrage 2020, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/umsuffrage2020/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:36:52 -0400 2020-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
CANCELLED Childhood Undernutrition: A Neglected Contributor to High Blood Pressure in Adulthood (March 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72604 72604-18026876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:19:26 -0400 2020-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Strassman
CANCELLED: Ask an MFA (March 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73714 73714-18304812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

This event has been cancelled.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:50:31 -0400 2020-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Workshop / Seminar Three people hold up signs that read "Ask an MFA"
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Quantum Hydrodynamics and Warm Dense Matter (March 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70794 70794-17644319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The experimental and computational investigation of both equilibrium and non-equilibrium strongly coupled systems with partially or fully degenerate electrons is an intellectu-ally stimulating and scientifically challenging problem. Warm dense matter (WDM) is of particular interest since it “exists in the lower-temperature portion of the high energy density (HED) regime, under conditions where the assumptions of both condensed-matter theory and ideal-plasma theory break down, and where quantum mechanics, particle correlations, and electric forces are all important.” [FESAC 2009]. Interiors of giant planets, brown dwarfs, and neutron star envelopes are all examples of WDM. A wide variety of theoretical methods have been developed and are in routine use for studying warm dense matter. This includes density functional theory, time-dependent density functional theory, and quantum kinetic theory. Recently, there has been a resurgence in interest in using a “simpler” approach to investigating WDM based on quantum hydrodynamics. Quantum Hydrodynamics (QHD) has a long and interesting history, dating back to the first developments by Madelung and Bohm. In this talk, we discuss the historical and recent developments in QHD as applied to quantum many-body systems relevant to HED regimes. Recent work involving adding a QHD capability to the radiation hydrodynamics code MIRANDA will be discussed with applications to the electron gas.

About the speaker:
Frank Graziani received a BS in physics from Santa Clara U., and a PhD in physics from UCLA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at U. Colorado and U. Minnesota working in cosmology and particle physics; and worked with NASA on exoplanet dynamics and star formation. Dr. Graziani joined Lawrence Livermore National Lab. in 1989 where he works in radiation transport and plasma physics. He has held many leadership positions at LLNL, including code project lead, group leader, V&V Leader, PI for LDRD-Strategic Initiatives, lead for the National Boost Initiative and Assoc. Division Leader for computational physics. He now directs the High Energy Density Sciences Center. He has won four DOE Defense Program Awards of Excellence, the LLNL Director’s S&T Award and is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. His research interests include the micro-physics of dense plasmas and HED education. Dr. Graziani is editor of two books on computational methods and a book on WDM physics.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:11:38 -0400 2020-03-18T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Frank Graziani
[POSTPONED] History of Photography (March 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72660 72660-18035612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

***Update 3/10/20: This event has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date.***

The Clements Library's photography collection is comprised of over 150,000 images with examples of virtually every popular photographic format in use in America from 1840 into the 20th century. In recent years, the photograph collection has become the library’s fastest growing. Join the Graphics Division as they showcase amazing photographic items from the collections. A wide range of images and photographic technology will be on display as Clements staff explain the evolution of techniques used throughout the decades.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:06:25 -0400 2020-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Curator of Graphics Clayton Lewis shares a photo album.
CANCELED Wallace House Presents Recode’s Kara Swisher interviews former Facebook executive Alex Stamos (March 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70104 70104-17530521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. A handful of tech companies have changed the way we live and built unprecedented industrial bases in the process. Their reach extends far beyond our pocketbooks into privacy, individual liberties, and the fabric of our democracy.

In August 2018, Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos announced he would leave the company following reports of disagreements with other executives over how to address the Russian government’s use of Facebook to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Since his departure he’s advocated for the breakup of the tech giant and co-authored the white paper “Securing American Elections: Prescriptions for Enhancing the Integrity and Independence of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections and Beyond.”

Do we really understand what we are giving away in exchange for speed and convenience? Do the tech giants understand, or care about, their responsibility in this digital age that they created?

Alex Stamos is the former chief security officer at Facebook and is now director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center’s Internet Observatory at Stanford University.

Kara Swisher is the co-founder and executive editor of Recode and host of the weekly interview podcast “Recode Decode.” She is also the co-executive editor of Code Conferences, which feature prominent speakers from the digital industry. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times opinion pages and a Livingston Awards national judge.

This event is co-sponsored by Computer Science and Engineering, the College of Engineering, the Center for Social Media Responsibility, ITS and Dissonance at the University of Michigan and Duo Security.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:05 -0400 2020-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Kara Swisher and Alex Stamos
Canceled: Disability Dialogues (March 19, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73407 73407-18217154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

*** EVENT CANCELED ***

This TED-style event allows students, faculty, and staff to share their personal experiences with disabilities in an inclusive, supportive, educational environment.

Organized by disabled students and students with disabilities from the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) Student Advisory Board, this annual event is a great way for individuals to share their experiences with members of the campus and Ann Arbor community. Come join us for a couple minutes or a couple hours!

We ask that attendees do not wear perfume, cologne or strong scents as others can be sensitive to said fragrances — our main wish is to create an inclusive environment! Also if, during the event, you need to get up, move around the room or leave for whatever reason, you are encouraged to do so. There will be various furniture set-ups throughout the room to hopefully accommodate everyone’s needs.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:02:16 -0400 2020-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion -
Via BlueJeans Dissertation Defense Talk (March 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73595 73595-18267642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Via BlueJeans

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Presentation Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:08:25 -0400 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Sarah Westrick
CANCELLED Constructing an Effective Diversity Statement (March 20, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72356 72356-17998139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 12:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:32:30 -0400 2020-03-20T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
CANCELLED Genomic Imprinting and the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Phenotypes (March 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72605 72605-18026877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:19:57 -0400 2020-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Claudius
CANCELLED: UM Psychology Community Talk: The secret lives of wild primates: The battle of the sexes that doesn't show up on wildlife documentaries (March 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71223 71223-17791922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note: This event has been canceled.

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Presentation Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:33:40 -0400 2020-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jacinta Beehner
LHS Collaboratory Webinar "Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge at Michigan Medicine" (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72652 72652-18035599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1:
"Electronic Health Record (EHR)-Integration for Learning Health Systems"

Michael Lanham, MD
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Fertility and Reproductive Health
University of Michigan

Presentation 2:
“Machine Learning Infrastructure in a Learning Health System”

Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan


Please register in advance, *dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory. *
Email: *LHScollaboratory-info@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:04:19 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
CANCELED FellowSpeak: "E pluribus unum: Out of many voices, one language" (March 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69996 69996-17491341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this talk, Baptista explores how in a multilingual setting, the languages spoken by speakers with different first languages coalesce to give rise to creole languages. She specifically seeks to draw correspondences between linguistic features in the source languages and those of the resulting creoles while examining the processes that give rise to the observable features.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:21 -0400 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Cape Verde islands: Santo Antão
E-Hour Speaker Series: Kathleen Sienko (March 27, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72249 72249-17963889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Kathleen Sienko is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Miller Faculty Scholar, and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky.

She is the co-director of the Center for Socially Engaged Design and directs both the Sensory Augmentation and Rehabilitation Laboratory (SARL) and the Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT). LIGHT focuses on the co-creative design of frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings.

Professor Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has led design ethnography field sites in India, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nicaragua as the Director of the Global Health Design Initiative. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award.

In addition to Professor Sienko’s expertise topics, she consults on Design Process and Professional Development.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:53:29 -0500 2020-03-27T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sienko
CANCELLED A Delicate Balance: Trade-offs, Strategies & Mechanisms of Female Reproduction (March 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72606 72606-18026878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:20:48 -0400 2020-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Virginia
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (April 1, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70795 70795-17644320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental infor-mation about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our com-munications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.
Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft stra-tegically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the far-thest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untagle the effects of the star we live with.

About the speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:50 -0400 2020-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Nicola Fox
CANCELLED Long-Term Impacts of Nutrition Supplementation in Childhood: A 50-Year Study in Guatemala (April 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72607 72607-18026879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:21:29 -0400 2020-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Stein
FellowSpeak: "Syrian Women's Labor and the Early Arab American Peddling Economy" (April 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69997 69997-17491342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The little-known Syrian American peddling economy (1870-1955) is an unexpected site for parsing how American perceptions of Arabs have long been rooted in ideas of their sexual and gender difference. After leaving Ottoman Greater Syria, Syrians sold goods across the U.S. while navigating systems of racism that intertwined with gender and sexual norms. Peddling enabled their survival and transformed their family structure. Syrian women participated robustly in the peddling economy and their diverse forms of labor attracted scrutiny, particularly from social welfare reformers. I read the social welfare archive for the associations between transience, transgressions of women’s roles, sexual non-normativity, and Orientalist tropes of difference in order to consider how Syrian women were racialized through their participation in peddling economies. This analysis shows how Syrian women’s peddling practices were directly at odds with notions of white, middle class femininity and thus a threat to some Syrians’ claims of whiteness. This talk also illuminates internal Syrian dynamics of class and its intersections with gender, examining Syrian women both as “clients” of social welfare and as social reformers themselves.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:10:58 -0500 2020-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Syrian women peddlers and lace-makers in Spring Valley, Illinois circa World War I, Courtesy of the Faris & Yamna Naff Arab American Collection, National Museum of American History
Author Event | Stephen Kesler: Great Lakes Rocks (April 9, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73387 73387-18214928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

***Please note that events at AADL are currently postponed indefinitely.***

The Great Lakes region contains some of Earth’s oldest rocks as well as some of its youngest geologic features. Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region tells this 4 billion-year history starting with the hills, lakes and rivers that we see today and moving back in time through the advance and retreat of the glaciers, the formation of tropical seas and reefs, the rifting that almost split North America into two parts, and ending with the volcanism and mountain building that made one of Earth’s earliest continents. This history includes strange iron-rich and salt-rich oceans, an immense meteorite impact, a super-giant lava flow, and many ore deposits that lured early European settlers into the area. It also helps us predict the geologic future of the Great Lakes region, which will likely include earthquakes, meteorite impacts, changes in our rivers, lakes, and waterfalls and, most of all, in our climate. At this event, Stephen Kesler will showcase rock samples from around the Great Lakes.

Steve Kesler earned a PhD in geology from Stanford University and has taught at Louisiana State University, University of Toronto, Instituto de Recursos Norenovables (Mexico) and University of Michigan. Since joining U-M in 1977, he and many students have gone on field trips over most of the Great Lakes region. In addition to Great Lakes Rocks, he has co-authored several other recent books including Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment; Metals and Society; and Future Global Mineral Resources.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:23:12 -0400 2020-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:29:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Lecture / Discussion Cover image for "Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region," by Stephen E. Kesler
CANCELLED Why the stress response is actually a good thing: Examining survival across a natural disaster in a wild primate (April 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72608 72608-18026880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:22:00 -0400 2020-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Jacinta
CANCELLED: Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 14, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64841 64841-16460978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

This event has been cancelled.

Please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296 with any questions.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:59:38 -0400 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Author Kiese Laymon, an African American man with a shaved head wearing a black zippered shirt.
CANCELLED Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Over the Life Course (April 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72609 72609-18026881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:22:31 -0400 2020-04-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Kerri
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth (April 22, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72596 72596-18024699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
As a fundamental process for converting kinetic to thermal energy, collisionless shocks are ubiquitous throughout the heliosphere and astrophysical systems, from Earth’s magnetosphere to supernova remnants. While these shocks have been studied for decades by spacecraft, telescopes, and numerical simulations, there remain key open questions in shock physics, such as: How do shocks accelerate particles to extremely high energies? or How are particles heated across a shock? Laboratory experiments thus provide a significant opportunity to both complement spacecraft and remote sensing observations with well-controlled and well-diagnosed datasets, and to help benchmark numerical simulations that bridge laboratory and astrophysical systems.
In this talk, I will discuss recent results from experiments and simulations on the formation and evolution of collision-less shocks created through the interaction of a supersonic laser-driven magnetic piston and magnetized ambient plas-ma. Through advanced diagnostics a fast, high-Mach-number shock is observed. Direct probing of particle velocity distributions reveals the coupling between the piston and ambient plasmas that is a key step in forming magnetized collisionless shocks. Particle-in-cell simulations further detail the shock formation process, the role of collisionality, and the dynamics of multi-ion-species ambient plasmas. I will also discuss how this experimental platform complements spacecraft missions and can allow novel investigations of shock heating and particle acceleration.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Schaeffer is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astro-physical Sciences at Princeton University. He received his BA in Physics at Cornell University and his PhD in Physics from UCLA, and did his postdoctoral work at Princeton in high-energy-density laboratory astrophysics. Dr. Schaeffer has extensive experience in experiments involving mag-netized laser plasmas, collisionless shocks, and magnetic reconnection, and a keen interest in bridging laboratory and astronomical observations. He also has expertise in a wide range of di-agnostics, including Thomson scattering, refractive imaging, proton radiography, and x-ray im-aging. He has authored dozens of papers and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:24 -0400 2020-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-22T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Derek Schaeffer
CANCELLED: UM Psychology Community Talk: Sex and the Brain: What Difference does it Make? (April 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71224 71224-17791924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note: This event has been cancelled.

Abstract: Have you ever wondered how males and females come to be different? Is it all cultural? Are the brains of females and males hardwired to be different? In this talk we will explore sex differences in brain and behavior and how the brain becomes individualized in female and males. We will see that during development, genetics, hormones, and the environment all act on the brain to influence neuronal growth and connections. This can result in sex dependent development of the brain, as an individual interacts with the environment during maturation. We will discuss what this means for the brain and for behavior of males and females during childhood, adolescence and adulthood and the implications for cognitive function. Then, we will consider sex differences in the motivation to take drugs of abuse and drug taking behavior. Sex differences in addiction are seen for all classes of abused drugs in humans and animal models. These sex differences in the neural mechanisms of addiction have implications for interventions and treatment that will be discussed.

Bio: Dr. Becker received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the Patricia Y. Gurin Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Research Professor in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, and Senior Neuroscience Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Becker is the author of over 150 articles or chapters and has had numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Becker’s research of the last 30 years has been investigating how gender/sex and ovarian hormones influence brain and behavior. These findings are important for our understanding of the underlying neural processes involved in sex differences in drug abuse and other neurological disorders.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:02:34 -0400 2020-04-27T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jill Becker
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Live Panel Discussion (April 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74437 74437-18714561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: North Quad Programming

Join us Tomorrow Tuesday, April 28 at 1 PM for a 1-hour live panel discussion with UMDPSS Special Victims Unit experts talking about sexual assault and domestic violence during a pandemic followed by Q&A. Panel will feature:

Lead Police Officer Maureen Burke - Outreach Coordinator

Lead Police Officer Margie Pillsbury - Investigations Coordinator

Marlanna Landeros - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
and Student Programs

CLICK HERE TO ENTER LIVE PANEL. TUE APRIL 28, 1PM:
https://meet.google.com/neg-jwca-jmx

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:42:01 -0400 2020-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-28T14:00:00-04:00 North Quad North Quad Programming Lecture / Discussion April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (April 29, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70795 70795-17957293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental infor-mation about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our com-munications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.
Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft stra-tegically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the far-thest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untagle the effects of the star we live with.

About the speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:50 -0400 2020-04-29T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Nicola Fox
The Kids are Not All Right: Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19 (May 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74605 74605-18851154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series:
The Kids are Not All Right: Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19

Presenter: Pamela Davis-Kean, Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at ISR

Wednesday, May 20
11am
https://umich.zoom.us/j/97584475822

With schools closed due to the COVID19 virus, the teaching and learning environments for children have now merged into one place--the home. With schools being the "great equalizer" for education opportunities, what does it mean for families to provide assistance and much of the teaching during the quarantine and what challenges will schools face if they are able to open in the fall? Dr. Davis-Kean will discuss her research on the inequalities in educational opportunities and what that means for families, schools, and children as this unprecedented crisis is potentially increasing achievement gaps across the country.

This webinar is the first in a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 May 2020 14:42:52 -0400 2020-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Webinar: Learning Health Systems in the Time of COVID-19 (June 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74564 74564-18825099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This 90-minute webinar is designed to introduce individuals to the overall concept of learning health systems, focusing on core components of learning cycles and infrastructure. It is appropriate for anyone interested in how health systems function, and particularly for individuals working within health systems. We will use examples that span countries and clinical problems, with special emphasis on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 May 2020 11:05:21 -0400 2020-06-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-02T15:30:00-04:00 Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Corona virus and Collaboratory logo
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (June 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Career Coffee Chat: Jobs, Internships, & COVID-19 (June 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74795 74795-18996303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join Spectrum Center and the University Career Center for our collaborative Coffee Chat!

Talk with a career coach to discuss how to job and internship search amid all of this uncertainty. We will start with a brief presentation and then jump into an AMA and Q+A.

This is for students that are...
1. Searching for a job or internships
2. Questioning if they are doing it the right way
3. Interested in asking questions about what to do now or unsure on how to proceed


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

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:16:30 -0400 2020-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-09T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Careers / Jobs Event details in the style of a browser window and computer desktop, no additional information.
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Ultrafast Charge and Energy Transfer in TMD Heterostructures Using Collinear Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy (June 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74876 74876-19049735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

BlueJeans Link: https://bluejeans.com/937279882

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the most prominent group of optically active van-der-Waals materials and show promising properties such as the potential for high carrier mobility, atomic thickness, and ultrafast charge transfer. The implications of fast charge and energy transfer for optoelectronic, energy-, and light-harvesting applications has made this group of materials one of the most well-studied ones over the past years. However, previous work employed techniques not uniquely suited to study the processes in these materials, especially with respect to the temporal resolution, yielding only insufficient information about the physics of the system.

In this talk, I will give an overview about the technique called multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS) that we employ to study the charge and energy transfer in a MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructure. Using this technique, we are able to infer information about the dominance of charge transfer on a sub-picosecond time-scale in these samples, the underlying time-scales of other processes occurring in the material such as fast decay into dark states, and the high spatial inhomogeneity of these dynamics. We are also able to clearly distinguish between energy and charge transfer dynamics. I will explain how our implementation of MDCS can be combined with existing imaging techniques and how we plan to use this in the future to advance the study of these promising materials for electronic applications.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:49:45 -0400 2020-06-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Conference / Symposium
Wealth and the Persistence of Racial Inequality (June 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74898 74898-19065440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, June 17, 2020
11am EST
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98604209689

As the country grapples with its persistent problem of racial injustice, this ISR Insights talk will focus on one aspect of long-standing racial inequality — gaps in family wealth. Featuring new findings on the depth and persistence of racial wealth gaps, Fabian Pfeffer (Associate Professor, Sociology; Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center, ISR) will also clarify why rising levels of wealth inequality present a major challenge to the economic prosperity and opportunity of most families in this country.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:35:19 -0400 2020-06-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (June 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-17T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (July 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-01T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (July 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Mental Health and Well-being Among Older Americans During the Pandemic: The COVID-19 Coping Study (July 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75039 75039-19175351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Wednesday, July 15, 1pm
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92804413123

COVID-19 has both immediate and long-term consequences for the health and well-being of Americans. Older adults are not only at higher risk for severe illness from the disease, but may also be especially vulnerable to social and emotional harms associated with the pandemic. In this ISR Insights talk, Jessica Finlay (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Social Environment and Health, ISR) and Lindsay Kobayashi (Assistant Professor, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health) will discuss insights from the COVID-19 Coping Study of nearly 7,000 adults aged 55+ from across the country. The talk will share participants’ perspectives and diverse experiences during the first upswing of the pandemic, including major sources of stress and ways of coping.

If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:59:29 -0400 2020-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-15T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion
PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES + DPTV PRESENT STREET ARTIST AND ACTIVIST JOE CASLIN (July 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75218 75218-19338189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

On Friday, July 17 at 8:00 pm ET, tune in at dptv.org or join us on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page to view a presentation by Joe Caslin.

Designboom Magazine has Described the work of Joe Caslin as “towering works of art [that] appear like massive sketch books across the architecture of Ireland’s cities.” Caslin is the recipient of the 2013 Association of Illustrators award for New Talent in Public Realm Illustration. He creates highly accessible work that engages directly with the social issues of modern Ireland. Caslin confronts the subjects of suicide, drug addiction, economic marginalization, marriage equality, stigma in mental health, the Irish asylum system, institutional power, and most recently, sexual consent. The monochrome drawings Caslin creates live with us and against many of us for some time before washing away. They hold a mirror up to the kind of society that we are, while asking us individually what kind of society we want to be a part of. In 2018, Caslin worked with the National Gallery of Ireland to create Finding Power, a huge mural of the writer and activist Stephen Moloney installed in the gallery’s courtyard. His current project, Our Nation’s Sons, aims to persuade entire communities to address the very real problem of young male’s apathy and their mental well-being.

https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/

https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:51:22 -0400 2020-07-17T20:00:00-04:00 2020-07-17T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual Joe Caslin's Artwork
Policing and Protest 2020 (July 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75046 75046-19183194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Note: The webinar has a Q&A format. We welcome your questions before via email (eihswebinar@umich.edu) and during the webinar via Zoom Q&A. This event will be recorded and available for future viewing online.

***Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qVR5E3VGRG2x_xJ4AK47AA

The killing of George Floyd, in the wake of the horrific and obscene history of the killings of unarmed black people by the police, has focused attention like never before on the systemic anti-black racism of the criminal-legal system in the United States. To be sure, the massive expansion and militarization of policing and incarceration are in some ways of comparatively recent origin. Yet they also have a much deeper origin in, and are inextricably connected to, a longer history of the judicial and extra-judicial violence against black people in the continent. The racist inequities of the criminal-legal system, indeed, are not a bug, but a feature.

Our panel of experts, scholars of the United States at the University of Michigan, will help us explore, beyond the headlines, the reach of the long arm of the carceral state in society as well as the challenges and opportunities that have been thrown up by the contemporary protests against the systemic violence of the state. The stakes for understanding the working of the carceral state are documented by the Documenting Criminalization and Confinement project of the University of Michigan’s Carceral State Project. However, the momentous protests against anti-Black racism as well as the broad public support they have received both within the United States and across the world—the clamor heard round the world—have also created a novel opportunity for implementing and imagining futures beyond a blatantly rigged carceral framework.

Panelists:
• Melissa Burch, Anthropology, University of Michigan
• Matthew Countryman, Afroamerican and African History, American Culture, History, University of Michigan
• Matthew Lassiter, History, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
• William D. Lopez, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan

Moderator:
• Mrinalini Sinha, History, University of Michigan

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:07:31 -0400 2020-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Daniel Lobo, "Brionna Taylor" (public domain)
LHS Collaboratory Webinar - Global LHS for COVID-19 (July 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75087 75087-19214577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Please join us for this special webinar session on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 10:00 am - 11:30 pm EDT.  Registration: https://umich-health.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wVDWLBm5QYK79DVK8Tb7_w

This 90-minute webinar is designed to share the work of an international collaboration to develop the foundation for a global Learning Health System addressing COVID-19 and future public health crises. Presenters will share lessons learned from Italy, Spain and the United States, including describing a proposed international comprehensive systemic framework for collection, management, and
analysis of high-quality data to inform decisions in managing the clinical response and social measures to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, presenters will discuss how the results of a pilot project currently under development may illuminate a collaborative path forward for local, regional, and national public health stakeholders worldwide.

Perspectives from Italy:  Paolo Stocco

Perspectives from Spain: Borja Sanchez Garcia, Pablo Rivero, Francisco Ros, Esther Gil Zorzo 

Perspectives from the USA: Charles P. Friedman, Rebecca Kush, Joshua C. Rubin, Douglas Van Houweling

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:22:14 -0400 2020-07-29T10:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo-globe
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (July 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
The American National Election Study: History and Insights from Recent Surveys (August 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75386 75386-19457966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 11:00 a.m. EDT
Join us virtually: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92353673792

Why does America vote as it does on Election Day? Since 1948, the American National Election Studies (ANES) has provided data to inform explanations of election outcomes in the United States. The ANES provides survey data from a nationally representative sample of American adults to give researchers a view of the political world through the eyes of ordinary citizens.

In this ISR Insights talk, Dr. Vincent Hutchings (Professor, Department of Political Science; Research Professor, Center for Political Studies) will discuss the history of ANES and why it remains an essential resource for the social sciences. He will talk about the study’s approach to data collection and instrumentation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes conducting surveys through a combination of Internet, video, and telephone interviews. Dr. Hutchings will also highlight politically-relevant results from recent studies, including attitudes on the Black Lives Matter movement.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:02:54 -0400 2020-08-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-12T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (August 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-08-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-12T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (August 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar Series (September 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76946 76946-19780535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Birth defects that interfere with craniofacial development can result in cognitive, neurosensory, and neuroendocrine defects that create life-long burdens for care. The forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain, five facial prominences, and pituitary gland develop between the first and second month of gestation in humans. Genetic defects that disrupt these processes cause a spectrum of disorders that range from holoprosencephaly (HPE) and septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) to pituitary hormone deficiencies. We screened a large cohort of Argentinean patients with congenital hypopituitarism and related disorders for mutations in known genes and identified novel pathogenic variants and examples of digenic disease. However, the majority of patients did not receive a molecular diagnosis, indicating the high degree of genetic complexity underlying these disorders and the need for additional gene discovery. The majority of known hypopituitarism genes were discovered through basic research in pituitary cell lines and mutant mice. To identify novel regulatory genes for pituitary organogenesis we analyzed differential binding of a key pituitary-specific transcription factor, POU1F1, in cell lines that represent pituitary progenitors and differentiated cells. We discovered that POU1F1 binding is associated with bZIP transcription factors in progenitors and with bHLH factors in differentiated cells. We also applied single cell RNA sequencing technology to analyze gene expression during pituitary organogenesis and discovered novel transcription factors that are candidates for driving cell specification as well as unique, rare cell types that are likely differentiation intermediates. Bioinformatic analyses have played key roles in advancing our knowledge of neuroendocrine birth defects and normal pituitary organogenesis.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:26:42 -0400 2020-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Sally Camper, Ph.D., Margery Shaw Distinguished University Professor of Human Genetics, Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
LHS Collaboratory Seminar Series Virtual Kick-Off: Academic Medical Centers as Learning Health Systems (September 17, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75856 75856-19615923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Learning Health Systems (LHS) methods are now being implemented in interesting and varying ways by academic health centers and their clinical and translational science institutes across the country.
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the following are key attributes of Learning Health
Systems:

• Having leaders who are committed to a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Systematically gathering and applying evidence in real-time to guide care
• Employing IT methods to share new evidence with clinicians to improve decision-making
• Promoting the inclusion of patients as vital members of the learning team
• Capturing and analyzing data and care experiences to improve care
• Continually assessing outcomes, refining processes and training to create a feedback cycle for learning and improvement

The LHS Collaboratory's fall seminar series virtual kick-off event will showcase the LHS experiences of three research-intensive academic centers that have been promoting LHS methods. We will be joined by distinguished senior colleagues from Duke,Vanderbilt, and Washington University, who will describe and discuss their institutions' work in this area. They will discuss strategies employed, investments made, challenges encountered, and successes achieved.

Panelists:
Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FACMI, Vanderbilt University
Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI, Washington University
Michael Pencina, PhD, Duke University
Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH, Duke University

Discussant:
Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS, Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan Medical School, Chief Academic Officer, Michigan Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:45:31 -0400 2020-09-17T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo-blocks
The Clements Bookworm: Sheet Music from the Lynch Archives (September 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76568 76568-19727079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Clements Library Graphics curator Clayton Lewis and collector/archivist Kevin Hugh Lynch will discuss one of the premier private collections of sheet music, the Lynch Archives (firstepoch.com), highlighting rare and unique music title-pages.

The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Please register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:26:03 -0400 2020-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Virtual Seminar featuring Gioele La Manno, Ph.D. (EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research Scholar (ELISIR) (September 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77057 77057-19836073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

I will present our comprehensive single-cell transcriptome atlas of mouse brain development spanning from gastrulation to birth. In this atlasing effort, we identified almost a thousand distinct cellular states, including the initial emergence of the neuroepithelium, different glioblasts, and a rich set of region-specific secondary organizers that we localize spatially. In this context, I will provide an example of how the spatially-resolved transcriptomic data can be particularly useful to interpret the complexity of such complex atlases.

Continuing in this direction, I will show the approach that we recently proposed as a general way to spatially resolve different types of next-generation sequencing data. We designed an imaging-free framework to localize high throughput readouts within a tissue by combining compressive sampling and image reconstruction. Our first implementation of this framework transformed a low-input RNA sequencing protocol into an imaging-free spatial transcriptomics technique (STRP-seq).

Finally, I will showcase the technique with the profiling of the brain of the Australian bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps. With this analysis, we revealed the molecular anatomy of the telencephalon of this lizard and provided evidence for a marked regionalization of the reptilian pallium and subpallium.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:27:53 -0400 2020-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Gioele La Manno, Ph.D. (EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research Scholar (ELISIR) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne ‐ EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)
CCN Forum: Panel on Postdoctoral Positions (September 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77100 77100-19796506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

This forum will be a special panel discussion led by post-docs in CCN and the Weinberg Institute. This is intended to be a professional development event for graduate students.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:54:48 -0400 2020-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation
Rebuild and Empower: The Public Value of Data-Driven Social Science (September 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76009 76009-19649447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Our world faces important challenges at the same time that it has important opportunities for innovation. The social and behavioral sciences offer insights that are not just relevant to these challenges, but are also irreplaceable. This talk will focus on important contributions that data-driven social science is making today. It will also describe new opportunities for social scientists to provide great service to society for years to come.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Sun, 23 Aug 2020 23:57:58 -0400 2020-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Rebuild and Empower: The Public Value of Data-Driven Social Science
The 2020 Presidential Race Mid-Campaign (September 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76116 76116-19663538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

A month after the conventions and with six weeks to go, this talk will focus on the state of the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The background will be the state of public opinion about the state of the country and the impact of Covid 19 on evaluations of the candidates.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:53:04 -0400 2020-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation The 2020 Presidential Race Mid-Campaign
A Quantitative Intersectional Approach to Examining Risk and Resilience Among Young Black Men (September 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76481 76481-19719149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This talk focuses on the identity development of young boys and men of color focusing on Blacks in particular. It also focuses on the linkage of identity formation to multiple outcomes throughout their life course.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:38:18 -0400 2020-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A Quantitative Intersectional Approach to Examining Risk and Resilience Among Young Black Men
Data in Social Media (September 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76399 76399-19711171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Hansen will share some insights having taught the use of data and computation to journalists for the last eight years. He will focus on computation-heavy projects, casting data as a kind of source for journalists.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:07:07 -0400 2020-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Data in Social Media
Virtual Book Launch: Ken Fischer’s Everybody In, Nobody Out (September 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77061 77061-19790569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

When Ken Fischer retired after 30 years as president of the University Musical Society in 2017, many of his friends and colleagues repeatedly told him, “Ken, you should write a book! You have so many great stories.”

Ken took that advice, and we’re delighted to announce that Everybody In, Nobody Out: Inspiring Community at Michigan’s University Musical Society is now available from University of Michigan Press, with a wonderful foreword by Wynton Marsalis.

During this virtual book launch, John U. Bacon, Ann Arbor author, speaker, tv and radio commentator, and longtime friend of Ken’s, will interview Ken about his book, highlighting some of the wonderful stories Ken shares from his three decades at UMS and a lifetime in the arts.

This book launch is co-presented by Literati Bookstore and University of Michigan Press Great Lakes.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:31:26 -0400 2020-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Ken Fischer
State of the Consortium (September 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76439 76439-19717136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

ICPSR reached a new high of 791 member institutions in June 2020. It’s been a productive year for ICPSR, even amidst the turbulence caused by COVID-19, and another active year is on deck. Join ICPSR Director Maggie Levenstein for a conversation covering the state of ICPSR. We’ll talk about our membership, our challenges, our evolving technological infrastructure, new data projects, and more!

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:52:05 -0400 2020-09-23T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation State of the Consortium
Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project (September 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76441 76441-19717138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

ICPSR and the Census Bureau have initiated a joint project to create the largest longitudinal population database in the United States. The Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage project (DCDL) will digitize and link individual records across every census since 1940. The resulting data resource will revolutionize our understanding of human behavior and life in the United States. Staff from ICPSR and the Census Bureau will describe the project's innovative methods of data rescue, record linkage, and restricted data access.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:08:33 -0400 2020-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project
Augmenting Health Research through Secondary Data Use: the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) (September 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76443 76443-19717140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) is a repository of neighborhood contextual measures -- place-based data that quantifies the physical, demographic, economic, and/or social environment -- used to understand the role of neighborhood context and resources for population health. Most NaNDA contextual measures are created using publicly available data, such as from the Census Bureau. So why would a researcher use NaNDA instead of going directly to the primary data to obtain or create their own contextual measures? In this session, we will discuss case studies from the NaNDA repository that augment and recombine publicly available data to create novel measures to study the role of neighborhoods for health and health inequities

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:26:20 -0400 2020-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.
The Real-Life Story of the Just-Released ICPSR Study: New Immigrants Admitted to the United States, Federal Fiscal Years 1972-2000 (September 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76445 76445-19717142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for a unique session that tells the real-life story of how these just-released research data arrived to ICPSR so that they could be shared with our data community! The combined efforts, passion, and funding of a donor, principal investigator (PI), student, and ICPSR leadership came together to gather, curate, and release these important data. Panelists: Andrew Gottesman, Margaret Levenstein, and Sherrie Kossoudji.

And once you have heard the story, you will want to learn all about the data directly from PI, Sherrie Kossoudji, who will describe these data, which include every single person admitted as an immigrant 1972-2000, and give insights into the types of analyses that might be undertaken. Could you be the first to publish using these data?

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:33:34 -0400 2020-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation The Real-Life Story of the Just-Released ICPSR Study: New Immigrants Admitted to the United States, Federal Fiscal Years 1972-2000
Case Studies in Communicating Data in Higher Education: From Awareness to Action (September 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76447 76447-19717143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Dory and Catherine share a few Case Studies in communicating in complex data- and research-rich environment. They will discuss some ways in which strategic communications planning had an immediate, measurable, and far-reaching impact.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:31:21 -0400 2020-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Case Studies in Communicating Data in Higher Education: From Awareness to Action
A Summer Program Like No Other: A Retrospective on the 2020 ICPSR Summer Program (September 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76543 76543-19725090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

For the first time in its history, the ICPSR Summer Program was fully online. How did the program shift so quickly and drastically, and how did it go? What lessons did the staff learn, and what might those lessons mean for future years and possibly keeping an online portion of the program permanently? Mike Traugott, Summer Program Director, looks back on the recently completed 2020 Summer Program.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:04:06 -0400 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A Summer Program Like No Other: A Retrospective on the 2020 ICPSR Summer Program
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Virtual Seminar (September 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77143 77143-19798542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk title: Decision Support System Applications in Dentistry

Dr. Lucia Cevidanes is the Thomas and Doris Graber Professor of Dentistry and Associate Professor at the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Michigan, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. She is a practicing clinician who has published over 150 manuscripts on 3D imaging for which she has received research grants from the American Association of Orthodontics Foundation and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Her work has been recognized by the American Association of Orthodontists Thomas M. Graber Award, the B F Dewel Award, Milo Hellman Award, and the Wuehrmann award from the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. Her interests include Artificial Intelligence and 3D Imaging to solve difficult clinical problems in dentistry, studying current and new treatment approaches and technical procedures, and understanding treatment outcomes for craniofacial anomalies and dentofacial deformities.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:27:53 -0400 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Dr. Lucia Cevidanes is the Thomas and Doris Graber Professor of Dentistry and Associate Professor at the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Michigan
Towards Increasin Equity in Indigenous and Women's Health (September 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76633 76633-19733028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan area proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:48:22 -0400 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Krystal Tsosie
On Why Race Still Matters: Ontological Commitments and Researching Without Numbers (September 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76459 76459-19717154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Race and racism will continue to be topics investigated by qualitative research but uncritically explored as factors impacting the inquiry process in and of itself resulting in both being largely invisible and normalized. Critical discussions of race and racism at the interstice of the inquiry process are largely absent but race still matters because we exist in an environment rife with anti-Black racism and White privilege and as human beings we maintain ontological commitments that influence what we study and how. This session will explore the notion of ontological commitments, what they are, why we need to be attentive to them when researching without numbers.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:43:22 -0400 2020-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation On Why Race Still Matters: Ontological Commitments and Researching Without Numbers
Segregation within Integrated Schools: Racially Disproportionate Student-Teacher Assignments in Middle Schools (September 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76463 76463-19717157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Our study examines trends of racially disproportionate assignment of Black and Hispanic students to less experienced teachers than their white counterparts. Specifically, our analysis shows statistically significant trends in the assignment of less experienced teachers to Black and Hispanic students in middle school math over several years. This study is the first in education to measure the cumulative pattern of racially disproportionate student-teacher assignments over time. We introduce the Cumulative Deficit index as a measure of cumulative patterns of racially disproportionate student-teacher assignment. We concluded student race is correlated with exposure to more experienced teachers over time.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:52:50 -0400 2020-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Segregation within Integrated Schools: Racially Disproportionate Student-Teacher Assignments in Middle Schools
Data Engagement for the Data-Hesitant Librarian (September 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76465 76465-19717158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

In our data-driven world, what are the best ways to engage librarians who are hesitant to work with data-related content and questions? Can we? Must we? Should we? Critical data literacy will be the starting place for the presentation, followed by suggestions for how to engage “non-data” librarians with data training and activities in the library setting. We’ll discuss the issue of how feasible it is to expect universal data savvy, and how to empower librarians to choose their own approaches to the issue, both in the workplace and in their career planning. Finally, we’ll discuss training approaches and availability specifically, and attendees will leave with ideas for a plan of action for future data training in their libraries.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:57:42 -0400 2020-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Data Engagement for the Data-Hesitant Librarian
Using Cannabis Data to Improve Public Health and Promote Social Equity (September 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76468 76468-19717161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Despite liberalization of cannabis laws in 47 states, ongoing federal prohibition makes it difficult to obtain data from users and producers in different locales to better understand their experiences. As more states legalize cannabis markets, regulators must have access to actionable data to make informed decisions regarding product labeling and how to provide ownership access for communities disproportionately impacted by the drug war. The COVID-19 pandemic has also generated questions about how use patterns have been impacted by shelter-in-place orders. The purpose of this session is to share highlights from cannabis research using survey primary and secondary data to answer these questions about cannabis use and policy impacts in different contexts.

This presentation will include:
- Making Sense of Negative Experiences with Cannabis Edibles: Panel Survey Results
- Cannabis Use and Covid-19
- Cannabis Social Equity Programs

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:05:02 -0400 2020-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Using Cannabis Data to Improve Public Health and Promote Social Equity
Celebrating 20 Years of Linking You to Publications that Analyze ICPSR Data (September 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76469 76469-19717162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Need a tool to find and assess data you might want from the huge ICPSR collection? Learn how students, researchers, and instructors/librarians utilize the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature. Meet the ICPSR staff who find publications and link them to the underlying data. Get an understanding of the importance of data citation and how to cite data according to best practice. Help us celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fai

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:11:42 -0400 2020-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Celebrating 20 Years of Linking You to Publications that Analyze ICPSR Data
ICPSR's COVID 19 Data Archive (September 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76472 76472-19717164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Learn about the new COVID-19 Data Repository, a repository for data examining the social, behavioral, public health, and economic impact of the novel coronavirus global pandemic (https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/covid19). Dr. Amy Pienta, Research Scientist and Director of ICPSR's Business and Collection Development, will discuss ICPSR's role in writing international guidelines for sharing COVID-19 data. Senior Data Project Manager Chelsea Goforth will discuss why this archive is important, what you'll find, some ways this data might be used, and how you can contribute. Screen reader support enabled.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:32:24 -0400 2020-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR's COVID 19 Data Archive
Getting to Know the ISR Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (September 25, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76475 76475-19719130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summer Institute faculty and staff will first provide a brief history of the Summer Institute, and then turn to a discussion of the program. Topics include many aspects of survey research including the fundamental principles involved in drawing samples, designing questionnaires, data collection, and design-based analysis of survey data. The SRC Summer Institute is unique in comparison to the ICPSR Summer Program in terms of its focus on the process of research design and data collection (as opposed to analyzing data that have already been collected).

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:02:58 -0400 2020-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Getting to Know the ISR Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques
CCN Forum: Cerebellum and Cognition (September 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77373 77373-19846047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The cerebellum is well-known for its contribution to the control of skilled movement. The mechanisms include connectivity with the motor system and the ability of it’s remarkable circuitry to store motor memories, including those relating to simple conditioned motor responses acquired through Pavlovian conditioning. However, some cerebellar circuitry communicates with the prefrontal cortex – including areas of that have important roles in cognitive function but little to do with motor control. In this lecture I draw from theoretical neurobiology, anatomy, brain evolution and neuroimaging to address the ways in which cerebellar circuits might contribute to the skilled execution of cognitive operations, such as the instrumental learning of contingencies that link decisions with their antecedents and consequences.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:18:29 -0400 2020-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Narender Ramnai
Conceptualizing and Visualizing Conflict Data with Shiny (September 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76479 76479-19719134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join Drs. Dave Armstrong and Christian Davenport for a real-world example of data visualization using Shiny. They discuss conceptualization and measurement of conflict in quantitative data and demonstrate how to produce graphics to convey their findings.

This webinar is part of the 2020 ICPSR Data Fair, "Data in Real Life." More information about the Data Fair can be found at http://myumi.ch/ICPSRdatafair2020. Please note that all attendees for this session must be registered for the ICPSR Data Fair.

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Presentation Tue, 15 Sep 2020 11:16:57 -0400 2020-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Conceptualizing and Visualizing Conflict Data with Shiny
Vehicle to Pavement Sensing for Lateral Lane Position Research Review (September 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76507 76507-19719168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

While autonomous vehicles (AVs) offer significant safety benefits for drivers, to gain widespread approval from the public and road agencies, redundant vehicle to infrastructure capabilities are necessary. This is especially true in areas with adverse weather conditions such as snow and ice.

Existing AV technology is able to send safety messages to roadside units (RSUs) and other vehicles (V2V), but communication with concrete and asphalt requires embedded sensors. This research proposes a passive sensing approach that detects local changes in the pavement’s electromagnetic signature so that vehicles can determine their lateral lane position. This free webinar will include a Q&A session. We hope that you can join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:41:30 -0400 2020-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Neuroimaging Initiative Talk: Reward-Motivated Memory in Younger and Older Adults (September 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77670 77670-19901704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Even healthy aging is associated with neurocognitive changes, yet, affective processing remains relatively intact. I will present a line of work focused on these preserved affective processes and how they may contribute to improved cognitive function in older adults. Specifically, through a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging studies, we have found that older adults are still sensitive to monetary rewards, they engage the reward network to the same extent as younger adults, and that motivational incentives can improve older adults performance on memory tasks. These findings suggest the preserved reward motivation may allow the continued ability to flexibly allocate cognitive resources that prioritize high value information as we age, and may have implications for cognitive and pharmacological interventions.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:48:28 -0400 2020-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Holly Bowen
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (September 30, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
A Taste of History: Cookbooks in the Archives (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76573 76573-19727084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Cookbooks, recipes, and the kitchen can reveal a great deal about women's experiences in the past. Listen to a conversation between curators and historians about what you can find in these oft-overlooked sources, including hints about women’s political engagement.

The Clements Library's Virtual Discover Series: Women's History in the Archives consists of three sessions on consecutive Wednesdays (Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Oct. 7). Please register at myumi.ch/wlnQw

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:27:03 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual “Cucina – Cuisine – Küche – Kichen – Keuken,” color lithograph, 19th century
An integrative genomics approach to population history in Latin America & The Caribbean (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76637 76637-19733030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan area proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:35:28 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Maria A Nieves-Colon
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Virtual Seminar - Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D. (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77549 77549-19883820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: The human genome is organized into small compartments to allow for the proper gene expression regulation in the physiological process. With the advance of next-generation sequencing and imaging technologies, we can now investigate how the genome is folded into 3D space and how the 3D genomic organization regulates gene expression in development and disease. Currently, most of the studies are focusing on CTCF and cohesion complex which partner together to facilitate the formation of topological associated domains (TAD). The presenter will mainly discuss his recently published work on the DNA methylation -3D genomics cross-talk. Unpublished work on the 3D genomics in AML will be discussed as well.

Short bio: Xiaotian Zhang obtained his Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. Margaret Goodell on the role of DNA methylation synergy in leukemia development. He was previously the Van Andel special postdoc fellow in Gerd Pfeifer lab working on the 3D genomics in normal hematopoietic stem cell and leukemia. He is now a Research track faculty (Research Investigator) in Pathology Department under Tomek Cierpicki working on the HOXA regulation in leukemia development. Xiaotian's research focuses on the epigenetic regulation of key pathogenic genes in leukemia, particularly on high order chromatin structure in disease. He published on Nature Genetics, Molecular Cell and Blood as the first author and corresponding authors.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:31:31 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D., Research Investigator in the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan
CCN Forum: Second Year Developmental Talks (October 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77676 77676-19901709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Kristin McGatlin

Title: The effects of feedback on cognition: Friend or foe?

Abstract: Older adults often face stereotypes, especially about their memory and other cognitive abilities. They may internalize those negative beliefs (e.g., “senior moments”; “My memory just isn’t what it used to be”), ironically making them less likely to perform optimally in challenging situations and thus more vulnerable to failure. On the other hand, older adults often show resiliency in the form of the “age-related positivity effect” – an increased tendency for older adults to focus on positive, rather than negative information, compared to young adults (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005). The current research project will examine how different feedback conditions (neutral (no feedback), positive feedback to correct answers, negative feedback to errors) affects cognitive performance as well as subjective measures of motivation and related constructs in younger and older adults.

Eric Martell

Title: The Role of Social Factors on Syntactic Alignment

Abstract: Priming is the tendency to unconsciously repeat words, sentences, sounds, and concepts that we have encountered before (Dell, Burger, & Svec, 1997; Kubovy, 1977; Bock, 1986; Pickering & Garrod, 2004). Alignment is driven by priming and occurs during successful dialogue, that is when two parties have unconsciously constructed shared concepts at different linguistic levels, e.g. lexical or syntactical (Pickering & Garrod, 2004). A picture description task will help us understand if alignment, at the syntactic level, is malleable by social factors and will bring us closer to answering if alignment is a fully automatic process.

Madelyn Quirk

Title: Predicting the Pandemic: Everyone did it and no one was right: A Bayesian latent variable approach to misestimation and Covid-19

Abstract: Six months ago, Covid-19 reared its ugly head and seemed to stump science as we know it. Almost immediately, it felt like nobody knew anything but everybody had an opinion, a dangerous juxtaposition in the face of a public-health crisis. Why did some seem to believe that the virus would be gone in a week’s time, while others erred towards the opposite extreme? We had previously assessed individuals’ ability to predict the anticipated number of cumulative Covid-19 cases 3, 6, and 9 days out after being presented the cumulative number of confirmed cases at five previous dates in various presentation formats. People were very poor at this forecasting overall, but there was also a stark separation between those who overestimated and those who underestimated. So, we revisit the question of interest: What could possibly be driving this separation between the directions of misestimation? To then expand further, do the societal consequences of the two differ? My current model and the basis for this talk will explore the relationship among three latent variables of political conservatism, Covid-related social behavior, and misestimation in an effort to answer these critical questions in such unprecedented times.

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Presentation Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:11:31 -0400 2020-10-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Kristin McGatlin, Eric Martell, Madelyn Quirk
A Virtual Event: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Exposure, Toxicity, and Policy (October 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77430 77430-19854020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:36:19 -0400 2020-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Livestream / Virtual 10.7.20 Poster
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (October 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Building the Archives: Women’s Influence as Librarians, Curators, and Collectors (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76576 76576-19727087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Many institutional histories of rare book and manuscript libraries center on tales of prominent (and typically male) figures - the original collectors, directors, and major donors. But what happens to our understanding of the archive if we shift our perspective to allow for women’s contributions to the library to come to the forefront? Listen to a discussion between Clements Library curators and staff to learn more about how we can achieve this and what it enables.

The Clements Library's Virtual Discover Series: Women's History in the Archives consists of three sessions on consecutive Wednesdays (Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Oct. 7). Please register at myumi.ch/wlnQw

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:32:38 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Georgia Haugh, Clements Library Book Curator 1948-1978
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78232 78232-19996937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: The chromosomes of the human genome are organized in three-dimensions by compartmentalizing the cell nucleus and different genomic loci also interact with each other. However, the principles underlying such nuclear genome organization and its functional impact remain poorly understood. In this talk, I will introduce some of our recent work in developing machine learning methods by utilizing whole-genome mapping data to study the higher-order genome organization. Our methods reveal the spatial localization of chromosome regions and exploit chromatin interactome patterns within the cell nucleus in different cellular conditions, across mammalian species, and also in single-cell resolution. We hope that these algorithms will provide new insights into the principles of nuclear spatial organization.

Bio: Jian Ma is an Associate Professor in the Computational Biology Department within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lab develops algorithms to study the structure and function of the human genome with a focus on nuclear organization, gene regulation, comparative genomics, and single cell biology. He received several awards, including an NSF CAREER award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the Contact PI of a UM1 Center project in the NIH 4D Nucleome Program (Phase 2; 2020-2025). https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jianma/

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:47:39 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Rewriting Human History and Empowering Indigenous Communities with Genome Editing Tools (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76638 76638-19733031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan area proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:40:55 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Keolu Fox
Democracy and the Carceral State: a reading and discussion with poet Dwayne Betts (October 8, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76128 76128-19663591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Quarterly Review

Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts will read from his most recent collection, Felon, and discuss the ways in which incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people are left out of conversations about Democracy. This event will be an opportunity to consider the intersections between free speech, disenfranchisement, and mass incarceration. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A. Co-sponsored by the Democracy and Debate Theme Semester, the Prison Creative Arts Project, and the Michigan Quarterly Review.

Register to attend. The event is free and open to the public. Contact mqr@umich.edu with any accessibility requests.

To register for the event please follow this link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DdBXy41iSVSJDy6VGrjong

To order the Fall 2020 special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review guest edited by Reginald Dwayne Betts visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/

Felon is available for purchase from Literati Bookstore: https://www.literatibookstore.com/book/9780393652147

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:09:05 -0400 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Quarterly Review Livestream / Virtual Reginald Dwayne Betts
Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth (October 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78000 78000-19951595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:49:59 -0400 2020-10-08T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Promotional flyer of the time, date, location, and a picture of Gary Harper. Dr. Harper is wearing a blue quarter-zip sweater over a white collared shirt, posing and smiling at the camera. Text below his photo states that he is a professor for The Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; and Global Public Health
SLSA 2020 Special Event: AI / IA: Promises and Perils of Augmented / Artificial Intelligence (October 8, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77981 77981-19949608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) Special Fall Event on the Promises and Perils of Augmented / Artificial Intelligence is free and open to the public. Registration to this virtual event is required.

Event Program:

* Welcome: David Cecchetto, SLSA Incoming President

* Announcement of Lifetime Achievement Award & Remarks by 2020 recipient Richard Powers

* Katherine Hayles introduces lightning talks: Ed Finn,“How to Imagine AI: Cultural Frames for Thinking with Machines” // Jennifer Rhee, “Histories of AI Futures” // Evan Selinger,“Reject Dual-Use Dogma” // Lightening talks audience Q&A

* Announcement of Bruns Essay Prize

* “Expanding AI: A conversation with artist Stephanie Dinkins and Srimoyee Mitra, Director, Stamps Gallery,” introduced by Irina Aristarkhova

* Announcements of Schachterle Essay Prize and Kendrick Book Prize

* “Using and Musing AI in Books and Postprint,” a conversation between Amaranth Borsuk and Kate Hayles, followed by audience Q&A

Speaker Bios:

Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University where he is an associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He is the author of What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing. He also serves as the academic director of Future Tense, a partnership between ASU, New America, and Slate Magazine, and a co-director of “Emerge,” an annual festival of art, ideas, and the future.

Jennifer Rhee is an associate professor of new media in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She’s written about robotics and artificial intelligence in technology, visual and performance art, literature, and film in her book The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Her work can also be found in journals including Camera Obscura, Configurations, ASAP/Journal, Science Fiction Studies, Mosaic, and Postmodern Culture. She’s currently
working on a book on big data and futurity in technology, literature, and art.

Evan Selinger, Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, is the co-author of Re-Engineering Humanity, selected by the Observer as one of the “Best Books of 2016.” He writes for many periodicals and blogs such as The Nation, Salon, and The Guardian. He is currently a member of the Institute for Defense on Analysis‘s Legal, Moral, and Ethical Working Group, which contributes to a DARPA-funded project that uses artificial intelligence to enhance the autonomy of non-lethal technological systems.

Stephanie Dinkins is a leading transmedia artist who creates platforms for dialog about artificial intelligence to confront questions of bias in AI, consciousness, data sovereignty, and social equity. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to co-create more inclusive, fair, and ethical artificial intelligent ecosystems. Dinkins is a 2019 Creative Capital Grantee as well as Data and Society Research Institute Fellow. She is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University.

Srimoyee Mitra is Director of the Stamps Gallery at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is an award-winning curator and editor of Border Cultures (Windsor Gallery / BlackDog Publishing, 2015). Her research interests lie at the intersection of exhibition-making and participation, migration, globalization, and decolonial aesthetics.

Irina Aristarkhova is Professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Digital Studies Institute, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of Hospitality of the Matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine and Culture and Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art.

Amaranth Borsuk is a poet known for her experiments with textual materiality and digital poetry. She is the coauthor, with Brad Bouse, of a book with visual icons that can only be read with the aid of a computer. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Bothell.

N. Katherine Hayles is a literary and cultural critic who writes on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th- and 21st- centuries. She is the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics. She is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and James B. Duke Professor of Literature Emerita at Duke University.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BXnOBFHmQzq6eF17hns9bw

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Auditions Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:15:14 -0400 2020-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/SLSA_horizontal2.jpg
Open Office Hours with Director Christina Olsen and Museum Staff (October 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78246 78246-19998912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

These office hours are open for drop-in. Registration is not required.: .

There’s a lot to talk about. Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), wants to hear from you. This fall’s edition of Open Office Hours  will focus on hearing your feedback about UMMA’s Commitment to Anti-Racist Action, what you’d like to see UMMA doing in the midst of the pandemic, and your ideas about the future. Meet Tina and one other member of her team over Zoom for a chance to share your views in an informal and intimate setting. Dates and times as follows:

12-1 pm Friday, October 9

12-1 pm Friday, October 16

12-1 pm Friday, November 13

Zoom discussions will take place on a first-come, first-served basis. Individual discussions can be up to 15 minutes. Participants will queue using Zoom’s  “waiting room” feature if another discussion is already underway. The meeting host will message people in the waiting room to keep them informed on approximate wait times.

To drop-in to Open Office Hours use this link: 



Meeting ID: 969 8100 4915

 

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Other Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:15:59 -0400 2020-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition Panel Discussion (October 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77534 77534-19879851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for a virtual panel discussion with Stamps School of Art & Design students as they discuss their work in “Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition” at Stamps Gallery.  This event is moderated by Professional Visual Artist and Stamps Admissions Counselor, Heriberto Palacio III and will be followed by a live Q&A. For the exhibition, Stamps students were invited to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. “Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition” is on view at Stamps Gallery from September 15 - December 4, 2020. Free and open to the public. Registration required.

Stamps events are free and open to the public, and we are committed to making them accessible to all attendees. This event will be online using the Zoom platform with an auto-generated Live Transcript available. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please email jenjkhan@umich.edu at least one week in advance of the scheduled event so we can arrange for your accommodation or an effective alternative. After receiving your request, our team will follow up with you directly.

Image: Natalia Rocafuerte, still from “Immigrants Rights”

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcuyupjgvHNZmE-hLdtIpR0D6VH9-1jvj

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:11 -0400 2020-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Natalia_Rocafuerte_still_from_Immigrants_Rights.png
The State of the 2020 Presidential Campaign with Less than a Month to Go (October 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78169 78169-19987071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, October 14 at 1pm, EDT.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/98481922311

Panelists: Michael Traugott (Research Professor Emeritus; Center for Political Studies, Communication Studies, Department of Political Science), Josh Pasek (Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies Associate Professor; Department of Communication Studies and Political Science), and Stuart Soroka (Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies; Professor of Communication Studies and Professor of Political Science, LSA).

The speakers will provide an update on the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden with an emphasis on the current state of public opinion about the candidates and key issues in the campaign.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:34:36 -0400 2020-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual event flyer
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (October 14, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-10-14T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T17:30:00-04:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78234 78234-19996940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Gaussian processes provide flexible non-parametric models of data and we are using them to model temporal and spatial patterns in gene expression. Single-cell omics measurements are destructive and one cannot follow the high-dimensional dynamics of genes across time in one cell. Similarly, the spatial context of cells is often lost or only known with reduced resolution. Computational methods are widely used to infer pseudo-temporal orderings of cells or to infer spatial locations. We show how Gaussian processes (GPs) can be used to model temporal and spatial relationships between genes and cells in these datasets. As examples I will show how we use Bayesian GPLVMs with informative priors to infer pseudo-temporal orderings for single-cell time course data [1] and branching GPs to identify gene-specific bifurcation points across pseudotime [2]. Gene expression data are often summarized as counts and there may be many zero values in the data due to limited sequencing depth. We therefore recently extended these methods to use negative binomial or zero-inflated negative binomial likelihoods and we show that this can lead to much improved performance over standard Gaussian noise models when identifying spatially varying genes from spatial transcriptomics data [3].

[1] Ahmed, S., Rattray, M., & Boukouvalas, A. (2019). GrandPrix: scaling up the Bayesian GPLVM for single-cell data. Bioinformatics, 35(1), 47-54.

[2] Boukouvalas, A., Hensman, J., & Rattray, M. (2018). BGP: identifying gene-specific branching dynamics from single-cell data with a branching Gaussian process. Genome biology, 19(1), 65.

[3] BinTayyash, N., Georgaka, S., John, S. T., Ahmed, S., Boukouvalas, A., Hensman, J., & Rattray, M. (2020). Non-parametric modelling of temporal and spatial counts data from RNA-seq experiments. Bioarxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.29.227207

Short bio: Magnus Rattray is Professor of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Manchester and Director of the Institute for Data Science & AI. He works on the development of methods for machine learning and Bayesian inference with applications to large-scale biological and medical datasets. He has a long-standing interest in longitudinal data analysis and a more recent interest in modelling single-cell, spatial omics and live cell imaging microscopy data. He is a Fellow of the ELLIS Health Programme and the Alan Turing Institute and his research is funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:35:21 -0400 2020-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Magnus Rattray, PhD (Professor of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Manchester)
Pharmacogenomic variation and implications for evolutionary medicine (October 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76639 76639-19733032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan area proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:06:48 -0400 2020-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Katrina Claw
Open Office Hours with Director Christina Olsen and Museum Staff (October 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78248 78248-19998914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

These office hours are open for drop-in. Registration is not required.: .

There’s a lot to talk about. Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), wants to hear from you. This fall’s edition of Open Office Hours  will focus on hearing your feedback about UMMA’s Commitment to Anti-Racist Action, what you’d like to see UMMA doing in the midst of the pandemic, and your ideas about the future. Meet Tina and one other member of her team over Zoom for a chance to share your views in an informal and intimate setting. Dates and times as follows:

12-1 pm Friday, October 9

12-1 pm Friday, October 16

12-1 pm Friday, November 13

Zoom discussions will take place on a first-come, first-served basis. Individual discussions can be up to 15 minutes. Participants will queue using Zoom’s  “waiting room” feature if another discussion is already underway. The meeting host will message people in the waiting room to keep them informed on approximate wait times.

To drop-in to Open Office Hours use this link: 



Meeting ID: 969 8100 4915

 

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Other Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:16:01 -0400 2020-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CCN Forum: The Role of Control Processes in the Dynamics of Episodic Memory Search (October 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77684 77684-19901717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Thinking of one event often triggers recall of other events experienced nearby in time. We have previously argued that this Temporal Contiguity Effect arises from fundamental memory mechanisms that operate whenever episodic memories are encoded and retrieved. Consistent with this interpretation, the Temporal Contiguity Effect is pervasive and robust: almost without exception, studies that have looked for it, have found it. But perhaps we have not looked hard enough. The vast majority of these studies use deliberate list learning tasks, such tasks likely recruit many strategic control processes that would be unique to rote learning. Thus, one can doubt whether the contiguity effect should be elevated to the status of a general principle of memory as suggested by some theories. To explore this concern, I draw together data from recent work in my lab. This work shows that the Temporal Contiguity Effect is real—it is not a phenomenon of rote learning. However, the work also shows that we are a long way from a full understanding of how temporal associations interact with the control processes that govern memory encoding and search.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:13:19 -0400 2020-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T15:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Karl Healey
Penny Stamps Speaker Series & UMMA Present: Philippa Hughes, Dismantling the Polarization Industrial Complex (October 16, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77117 77117-19798485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

>the Penny Stamps Series Facebook: https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps.

Philippa P.B. Hughes is a social sculptor and creative strategist who produces art-fueled projects that spark humanizing and authentic conversations across political, social, and cultural divides. She is an evangelist for dismantling the polarization industrial complex, one conversation at a time. Hughes has designed and produced hundreds of creative activations since 2007 for curious folks to engage with art and one another in unconventional and meaningful ways. She leads CuriosityConnects.us, a partner in Looking For America, a national series inviting politically diverse guests to break bread and talk to each other face-to-face using art as a starting point for relationship-building conversations. Hughes has engineered numerous public-private collaborations that have been funded by the Kresge Foundation, New American Economy, Center for Inclusion & Belonging, and the DC Office of Planning. She has served as a commissioner on the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities among numerous other boards throughout Washington, D.C., where she is based. Hughes has spoken at TEDxAmericanUniversity, Creative Placemaking Week 2018 in Amsterdam, Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit, TomTom Festival, Smart Growth America’s Intersections. Her work has been featured by CNN, PBS Newshour, CityLab, and The Washington Post, among numerous other media outlets. Her formal training took place at the University of Virginia, which launched her into a six-year legal career that ended with the Washington City Paper declaring 2007 “The Year of Philippa.” Deep curiosity about the world and the people in it provided the education that mattered most.

In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, this event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:15:59 -0400 2020-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Athlete Return-To-Play In Sports During COVID-19 Panel Discussion (October 19, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78544 78544-20060204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Office of Research

Due to COVID-19, many athletes at the professional, collegiate, and high school level have spent time away from training and performing. As athletes begin returning to play, there are concerns about readiness and potential injury risk. In addition, there are worries about close physical contact, not only with the athletes and coaching/training staff, but also with spectators. This panel will examine these issues and discuss strategies for safely resuming sports.

Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uRw5ZuL2TmK7TxKwdBs62w

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:18:45 -0400 2020-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Office of Research Livestream / Virtual Athlete Training
Do You Have Questions About Voting? (October 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78593 78593-20068104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Do you want to make sure your vote counts? Is registering to vote confusing? Join the BLI on Monday, 10/19, for a special voting event with Turn Up Turn Out President Josiah Walker.

Josiah will virtually walk students through how to fill out Michigan's online voter registration if they have a state-ID or driver's license and how to fill out the paper form if they do not. He will also offer tips for what to do as it gets closer to the election date and will answer all of your voting-related questions!

Why October 19?
If you’re registering any other way than in person at your township's clerk's office, in order to vote in the November 3, 2020 election, your completed voter registration application must be received or postmarked by October 19, 2020.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:41:13 -0400 2020-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Presentation Make sure to come check it out!
LHS Collaboratory-LHS as a Driver of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (October 20, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77545 77545-19879862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Healthcare and health remain unconscionably inequitable. This year, the disproportionate toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on those historically least well-served by our health system, has highlighted the pressing societal challenge of health disparities.

Beyond simply striving to do no harm, Learning Health Systems (LHSs) have the potential to serve as forces for justice in healthcare and health; indeed, they can be powerful drivers of diversity, equity, and inclusion. LHSs are anchored in multi-stakeholder consensus Core Values that explicitly incorporate principles such as inclusiveness, transparency, and accessibility. Their proximal goal is "to efficiently and equitably serve the learning needs of all participants, as well as the overall public good."

The October 2020 LHS Collaboratory will share lessons from health advocates working on the front lines to make healthcare and health more equitable. These thought leaders and do-ers will illuminate the transformative power of LHSs - and the diverse and inclusive communities of interest that are collaborating to realize them.

Moderator:
Joshua C. Rubin, JD, MBA, MPP, MPH
Program Officer, Learning Health System Initiatives, Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Luis Belén
Chief Executive Officer of the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved (NHIT Collaborative)

Danielle Brooks, JD
Director of Health Equity, Amerihealth Caritas

Melissa S. Creary, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:18:37 -0400 2020-10-20T11:30:00-04:00 2020-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo puzzle pieces
A Conversation with Trevor Noah (October 20, 2020 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78552 78552-20060211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The Daily Show star Trevor Noah will join the U-M community for a casual and interactive conversation on this pivotal moment that reflects both adversity and possibility.

In this virtual event, Trevor Noah reflects on the state of our nation and discusses how the U-M community can, in spite of isolation, come together around the arts, pursue racial justice, and rise to the challenge of this moment.

The free event is open to the University of Michigan community, as well as UMS and Ford School supporters and event attendees. You must register for this event in advance; the link for the livestream will be sent out on Tuesday, October 20.

Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, is widely known for his social commentary touching upon issues of racism, immigration, incarceration, and the protest movement. Born in South Africa to a Black South African mother and a white European father during apartheid, Noah knows what it means to live in a divided nation, and he brings a unique perspective in his incisive social and political criticism of the larger issues at play in the U.S. and in the world today. In 2019, he launched a podcast series “On Second Thought: The Trevor Noah Podcast” in which he challenges himself, and his listeners, to explore unfamiliar angles, embrace differing viewpoints, and celebrate the contradictions that make our modern world both bewildering and exciting.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:57:53 -0400 2020-10-20T20:30:00-04:00 2020-10-20T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Livestream / Virtual Trevor Noah
Pronouns 101 (October 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78349 78349-20012790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Other IPD happenings: https://bit.ly/SC-PronounsDay

Celebrate International Pronouns Day by learning more about how to use personal pronouns inclusively and tips for correcting mistakes. This event will include a panel of students who are bilingual/multilingual that will share about their experiences with pronouns. This event is a partnership between the International Center and the Spectrum Center.

Learn more about International Pronouns Day: https://pronounsday.org/

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

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:13:57 -0400 2020-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Presentation "Pronouns 101" will be held October 21st from 12:00 to 1:30 PM. Image features Spectrum Center and International Center logos and event information on a blank Spectrum Center pronoun pin design.
CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (October 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78174 78174-19989054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

After a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns virtually this October with Trevor Pawl!

On July 2nd, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer formally announced the launch of the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) with Trevor Pawl named as Chief Mobility Officer. Trevor will provide insight into the creation of OFME, its vision, and its use as a tool for all key mobility stakeholders in Michigan. This webinar will include a Q&A session.
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About the speaker: Trevor Pawl is the Chief Mobility Officer for the State of Michigan, and leads Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. In this position, Pawl is responsible for working across state government, academia and private industry to grow Michigan’s mobility ecosystem through strategic policy recommendations and new support services for companies focused on the future of transportation. Prior to this position, Pawl served as the Senior Vice President of Business Innovation at the MEDC, where he led the official state programs for mobility (PlanetM), supply chain assistance (Pure Michigan Business Connect), export assistance (Michigan International Trade program) and entrepreneurial assistance (Michigan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program). Before joining the MEDC, Pawl brought with him experience in supply chain matchmaking, having led the creation of the economic development program, Connection Point, at the Detroit Regional Chamber, which later became Pure Michigan Business Connect. Trevor has been named Crain’s Detroit Business’s “40 Under 40” and “50 Names to Know in Government”. He’s also been named Development Counsellors International’s “40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Economic Development” and the Great Lakes Women’s Business Council’s “Government Advocate of the Year”. Pawl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Marketing from Grand Valley State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Detroit Mercy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:35:03 -0400 2020-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (October 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T17:30:00-04:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
MIPSE Seminar | Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth (October 21, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76462 76462-19717156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

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

Abstract:
As a fundamental process for converting kinetic to thermal energy, collisionless shocks are ubiquitous throughout the heliosphere and astrophysical systems, from Earth’s magneto-sphere to supernova remnants. While these shocks have been studied for decades by spacecraft, telescopes, and numerical simulations, there remain key open questions in shock physics, such as: How do shocks accelerate particles to extremely high energies? or How are particles heated across a shock? Laboratory experiments thus provide a significant opportunity to both complement spacecraft and remote sensing observations with well-controlled and well-diagnosed datasets, and to help benchmark numerical simulations that bridge laboratory and astrophysical systems.

In this talk, I will discuss recent results from experiments and simulations on the formation and evolution of collision-less shocks created through the interaction of a supersonic laser-driven magnetic piston and magnetized ambient plasma. Through advanced diagnostics a fast, high-Mach-number shock is observed. Direct probing of particle velocity distributions reveals the coupling between the piston and ambient plasmas that is a key step in forming magnetized collisionless shocks. Particle-in-cell simulations further detail the shock formation process, the role of collisionality, and the dynamics of multi-ion-species ambient plasmas. I will also discuss how this experimental platform complements spacecraft missions and can allow novel investigations of shock heating and particle acceleration.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Schaeffer is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He received his BA in Physics at Cornell University and his PhD in Physics from UCLA, and did his postdoctoral work at Princeton in high-energy-density laboratory astrophysics. Dr. Schaeffer has extensive experience in experiments involving magnetized laser plasmas, collisionless shocks, and magnetic reconnection, and a keen interest in bridging laboratory and astronomical observations. He also has expertise in a wide range of diagnostics, including Thomson scattering, refractive imaging, proton radiography, and x-ray imaging. He has authored dozens of papers and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:51:04 -0400 2020-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Livestream / Virtual Dr. Derek Schaeffer
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78531 78531-20058232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract
Although machine learning applications are now pervasive to every industry, adoption into healthcare remains a challenging and arduous process. Barriers to implementation include clinician trust, algorithm credibility and actionability, promoting clinician literacy in machine learning methods, and mitigating unintended consequences.

In the high-risk operating room setting, anesthesiologists are recognized leaders in patient safety, and manage uncertainty through careful considerations of risk and benefit based upon a thorough understanding of disease processes and treatment mechanisms. In this talk, the speaker highlights how obstacles to implementation of machine-learning based healthcare applications can be mitigated, and how an understanding of such applications can be promoted among clinically-minded anesthesiologists who may not necessarily be expert data scientists.

Short Bio:
Dr. Mathis has research interests in improving perioperative care for patients with advanced cardiovascular disease, particularly for patients with heart failure. As part of the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG), an international consortium of perioperative databases for which U-M serves as the coordinating center, he serves as Associate Research Director and plays a lead role in integration of MPOG data with data from national cardiac and thoracic surgery registries. He also has interests in leveraging novel data science methods to understand patterns within highly granular intraoperative physiologic data, studying hemodynamic responses to surgical and anesthetic stimuli as a means for early detection of cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:43:15 -0400 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Image which promotes the content of Dr. Mathis' talk (https://jamanetwork.com/collections/5584/critical-care-medicine)
TBD: (October 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76746 76746-19741055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Department of Anthropology & the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program (EHAP) at the University of Michigan are proud to present our fall 2020 speaker series: Genetics, Evolution and Human Behavior

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Presentation Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:53:51 -0400 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
Perspectives on the 2020 Presidential Election (October 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76324 76324-19687517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Join faculty members from the Center for Political Studies on Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 4 PM Eastern for a panel discussion of the issues shaping the 2020 Presidential Election. Panelists include Jenna Bednar, Vincent Hutchings, and Angela Ocampo. This event is part of the ISR Insights Speaker Series.

Please register for this event at http://myumi.ch/7ZA9g
The event will be live-streamed at http://myumi.ch/YyjAE

Jenna Bednar is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan, a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and the Edie N. Goldenberg Endowed Director of Michigan in Washington. Her research focuses on how collective action builds social goods and the role that government plays in that collaboration. Current work includes: robust system design, especially of federalism; states as innovators in federal systems; out of district campaign contributions; how culture affects the way people respond to laws and norms; transboundary water system governance; and governance to support human flourishing. Her book The Robust Federation: Principles of Design was awarded the APSA Martha Derthick Best Book Award in recognition of its enduring contribution to the study of federalism. In 2020, she was named APSA Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar.

Vincent Hutchings is a Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies and Professor in the Department of Political Science. Professor Hutchings’ general interests include public opinion, elections, voting behavior, and African American politics. He is also interested in the ways that campaign communications can “prime” various group identities and subsequently affect candidate evaluations.

Angela Ocampo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the political incorporation of racial, ethnic and religious minorities both as every-day participants and as political leaders within American institutions. Her current book project investigates the concept of perceived belonging to U.S. society and its influence on political interest and political engagement among Latinas/os/xs.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:13:04 -0400 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer for Perspectives on the 2020 Presidential Election
Penny Stamps Speaker Series & UMMA Present: Live Q&A with ​Philippa Hughes (October 22, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78338 78338-20012744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Please join us for a live question and answer session with Philippa P.B. Hughes. Hughes is a social sculptor and creative strategist who produces art-fueled projects that spark humanizing and authentic conversations across political, social, and cultural divides. She is an evangelist for dismantling the polarization industrial complex, one conversation at a time. Hughes has designed and produced hundreds of creative activations since 2007 for curious folks to engage with art and one another in unconventional and meaningful ways. She leads CuriosityConnects.us, a partner in Looking For America, a national series inviting politically diverse guests to break bread and talk to each other face-to-face using art as a starting point for relationship-building conversations. Hughes has engineered numerous public-private collaborations that have been funded by the Kresge Foundation, New American Economy, Center for Inclusion & Belonging, and the DC Office of Planning. She has served as a commissioner on the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities among numerous other boards throughout Washington, D.C., where she is based. Hughes has spoken at TEDxAmericanUniversity, Creative Placemaking Week 2018 in Amsterdam, Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit, TomTom Festival, Smart Growth America’s Intersections. Her work has been featured by CNN, PBS Newshour, CityLab, and The Washington Post, among numerous other media outlets. Her formal training took place at the University of Virginia, which launched her into a six-year legal career that ended with the Washington City Paper declaring 2007 “The Year of Philippa.” Deep curiosity about the world and the people in it provided the education that mattered most.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email lherbert@umich.edu and chrissti@umich.edu -- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. High quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided. Please make any additional requests no later than October 15.  

In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, this event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, and the Center for World Performance Studies.
 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:15:52 -0400 2020-10-22T17:10:00-04:00 2020-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Bridging the Gap Series: Women in State Government Panel (October 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78591 78591-20068100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leading Women of Tomorrow

Leading Women of Tomorrow at the University of Michigan is hosting the first event in its new Bridging the Gap Series on Thursday, October 22nd from 7-8:30pm!

The first event will be a Women in State Government Panel featuring Michigan State Representatives Christine Greig, Kristy Pagan, and Padma Kuppa. Each representative will introduce themselves followed by an open Q&A.

Please follow the Zoom link to participate. We hope to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:20:21 -0500 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leading Women of Tomorrow Lecture / Discussion LWT - Women in State Gov Panel
Special Physics Presentation | Science Policy: The View from the Trenches (October 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77753 77753-19909895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Presentation Link: http://myumi.ch/zxWXV

What if you could erase the board and redesign APS lobbying and advocacy from scratch? What issues would you work on, what techniques would you deploy? That’s precisely the position the APS Office of Government Affairs found itself in nearly four years ago. The talk will describe the circumstances APS faced, and how we responded, focusing on particular APS campaigns that successfully pushed back against federal proposals for deep cuts to R&D funding and for a new tax on graduate students. The talk will then consider current issues and how APS is now using the grassroots-based approach it developed to advance legislation on STEM visa-reform and to pass legislation in the House of Representatives to address sexual harassment in STEM.

Bio:
Francis Slakey is the Chief External Affairs Officer of the American Physical Society, overseeing the governmental, international, and industrial activities of APS.

Dr. Slakey received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1992 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and was the Upjohn Lecturer on Science and Public Policy at Georgetown University where he founded the Program on Science in the Public Interest. He served in advisory positions for a diverse set of organizations including the National Geographic, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Panel on Solutions to Sustainability, the Creative Coalition, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a MacArthur Scholar, and a Lemelson Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution.

Dr. Slakey became the 28th American to summit Mt. Everest in an unguided environmental expedition that was the subject of the movie "Beyond the Summit", described in his international best-selling adventure memoir “To The Last Breath.” He is the first person in history to both summit the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean. In recognition of his adventures, as part of the 2002 Olympic Games, he carried the Olympic torch from the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:12:32 -0400 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Livestream / Virtual Photo of Francis Slakey
Special Joint Seminar - Hosted by DCMB, Department of Mathematics, and the Smale Institute (October 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78673 78673-20099541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Dr. Leland Hartwell won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for the discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.

“We want our students to have an authentic experience of science. Nearly all science activities designed for schools require the students to demonstrate an established scientific principle by getting the right answer. Getting the “right” answer is not authentic science. Science is the exploration of the unknown – the answer cannot be known.“
- Leland Hartwell

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:04:27 -0400 2020-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Dr. Leland Hartwell, Nobel Laureate
Monumental Friendship: Chinese Ceramics in the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78958 78958-20162586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art for the University of Michigan Museum of Art, will bring to life the incredible James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection of Chinese ceramics in this talk for the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Noon Lecture Series. The collection, consisting of bronze wares, Buddhist sculptures, and other East Asian art works, was donated by Plumer's family and friends in memory of the prominent U-M professor of East Asian art. Plumer (1899 – 1960), who served as a “Monument Man” in the occupied Japan of the post-World War II, developed a phenomenal network of scholars, collectors, and artists, and is known for his research of Jian (Tenmoku) and Yue wares and for his teaching at U-M.  In this talk, Dr. Oyobe will highlight the Chinese ceramics in the Plumer Collection, and illuminate his remarkable scholarship and humanism that connected the people of diverse backgrounds from China, Japan, and the US. 

Natsu Oyobe is Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Specializing in modern and contemporary Japanese art, she has curated numerous Japanese art exhibitions, including Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of 20th-Century Japanese Kimono (2010), Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century (2010), and Mari Katayama (2019). Dr. Oyobe is also involved in cross-cultural projects from a variety of historical periods, including Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930 (2013), Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits (2016) and Copies and Invention in East Asia (2019). She served as the consulting curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new Japan Gallery (2016 – 2017). Dr. Oyobe earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan in 2005.

This event is cosponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
 

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:50 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Student Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) Information Session (October 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77924 77924-19941589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Interested in applying for funding from the Student Academic Innovation Fund (AIF)? Join us on Tuesday, October 27 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. to learn more about the Student AIF and ask questions about the application process ahead of the November 6 application deadline. Student AIF funding is available to U-M student innovators looking to experiment, develop, and scale their ideas.

Student AIF Info Session
10/27, 1-2 p.m.

Join this session to discuss the program, application, and benefits of participation. Learn about previous projects and get answers to frequently asked questions.

The Center for Academic Innovation invites proposals from any University of Michigan Ann Arbor student or student team. Successful proposals will pursue creative work within the broad space of academic innovation, and will present a clear plan regarding how the work will be accomplished, along with the expected impact it will have. We encourage students to browse our website for inspiration from Academic Innovation’s portfolio of work, but also invite proposals that take on challenges that exist outside of these efforts.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:17:41 -0400 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Livestream / Virtual
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (October 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
DCMB / CCMB Seminar (October 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78528 78528-20058229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows researchers to examine the transcriptome at the single-cell resolution and has been increasingly employed as technologies continue to advance. Due to technical and biological reasons unique to scRNA-seq data, clustering and batch effect correction are almost indispensable to ensure valid and powerful data analysis. Multiple methods have been proposed for these two important tasks. For clustering, we have found that different methods, including state-of-the-art methods such as Seurat, SC3, CIDR, SIMLR, t-SNE + k-means, yield varying results in terms of both the number of clusters and actual cluster assignments. We have developed ensemble methods, SAFE-clustering and SAME-clustering, that leverages hyper-graph partitioning algorithms and a mixture model-based approach respectively to produce more robust and accurate ensemble solution on top of clustering results from individual methods. For batch effect correction, we have developed methods based on supervised mutual nearest neighbor detection to harness the power of known cell type labels for certain single cells. We benchmarked all methods in various scRNA-seq datasets to demonstrate their utilities.

Short bio: Yun Li, PhD is an Associate professor of Genetics and Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Li is a statistical geneticist with extensive experiences with method development and application on genotype imputation (developer of MaCH and MaCH-admix), genetic studies of recently admixed population, design and analysis of sequencing-based studies, analyses of multi-omics data including mRNA expression, DNA methylation and chromatin three dimensional organization. Dr. Li has been playing an active role in genetic studies of complex human traits resulting many GWAS and meta-analysis publications, including >30 in Nature, Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics. Dr. Li has been leading multiple R01 projects on statistical method development for complex trait genetics. Dr. Li has also been the Director for the Data Science Core of IDDRC (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center). Dr. Li has received many awards and became the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher due to her high impact scientific work. Specifically, her work has been cited >60,000 times with h-index of 64 and i10-index of 113.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:41:20 -0400 2020-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Yun Li, PhD (Associate Professor of Genetics & Biostatistics; Adjunct Associate Professor, Applied Physical Sciences at School of Medicine, Genetics at University of North Carolina)