Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Winter 2021 Colloquia Series (April 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80817 80817-20793347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Zoom login info is below. Non-U-M Community members can email brownsu@umich.edu to request access.

Jan 22: Jake DeWitte, Oklo Inc.
Oklo Microreactor Development

Jan 29: Rui Qiu, Tsinghua University
Multi-scale Radiation Dosimetry with Computational Human Phantoms

Feb 5: Kate Turner, MIT Media Lab
Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Feb 12: Raluca Scarlat, UC Berkeley
The Relevance of Chemical Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts to Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Feb 19: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reactor Antineutrinos for Nuclear Safeguards

Feb 26: Scott Baalrud, U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Mar 5: Ronnie Shepard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploring Energy Transport at Stellar Inner Conditions Utilizing Ultrashort Pulse Lasers

Mar 12: Peter Yarsky, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
A Nuclear Engineer’s Approach to Modeling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 19: Dawn Montgomery, Clemson University
An Integrative Approach to Environmental Radiation Protection: Plant Influence on Radionuclide Transport, Plant Uptake, and Non-Human Biota Dosimetry

Mar 26: Dr. Heather J. Maclean Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory
Challenges and Solutions for Examining Irradiated Fuels and Materials in a Harsh Environment

Apr 2: Lara Pierpoint, Actuate
Electric Utility Innovation

Apr 9: Denia Djokić, Fastest Path to Zero Initiative
Reflections on Risk and Trust: Commemorating Fukushima and Chernobyl During Covid-19

Apr 16: John Jackson, Idaho National Laboratory
DOE Microreactor Program: Technology to Enable Microreactor Development, Deployment and Commercialization

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:45:38 -0400 2021-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
Biopsychology Colloquium: Phenotypic variation in hormone-modulated adult neuroplasticity (April 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83574 83574-21430600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: More details forthcoming.

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Presentation Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:39:40 -0400 2021-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Farrah N. Madison
Biopsychology Colloquium: History of Psychology: The Psychological Origins of the Scientific Method (September 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86198 86198-21632081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The idea of a single scientific method, based in hypothesis-testing and shared across sub-fields, is about a hundred years old. In this talk, Dr. Cowles grounds this view of science in the early history of evolutionary psychology, showing how an account of animal learning was put into practice in the classroom and eventually solidified into "the scientific method" still widely invoked today. Based on his recent book (The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey), the talk concludes with thoughts on the fate of this view of science in an age of alternative facts.

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Presentation Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:40:57 -0400 2021-09-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-07T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Cowles
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (September 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (September 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Biopsychology Colloquium: How Squirrels Sleep: Neuroethology and the Development of Countermeasures for Astronauts (September 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86590 86590-21635105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

There is a strong need for more relevant animal models that behave like humans to better understand how physiology is altered in analog environments (e.g., long-duration space flight). The free-living squirrel is one such candidate, as they are diurnal, non-hibernating mammals that engage in complex social and physical behaviors in a three-dimensional arboreal landscape. My interest focuses on the potential neuromodulatory countermeasures that could be realized during sleep, specifically, the closed-loop enhancement of slow-wave activity (or “deep sleep”). I will first show how squirrels sleep through a 6-year retrospective study on accelerometer data from the Canadian Yukon. Next, I will introduce a wireless, implantable bio-logger toolset I developed at Michigan to record neural activity and then present preliminary, first-of-their-kind data from freely behaving squirrels. Finally, I will describe my audio-based countermeasure deployment and my aims to measure its effect.

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Presentation Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:04:44 -0400 2021-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Matthew Gaidica
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (September 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Biopsychology Colloquium: Loss of Control in Addiction: The Search for an Adequate Theory and the Case for Intellectual Humility (September 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86591 86591-21635107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Some theorists say that addiction involves loss of control over using drugs while others say control is preserved. In this chapter, I disagree with both sides, not so much in substance, but rather in epistemic tenor. Both sides, I argue, run well ahead of what the evidence allows. I frame the discussion in terms of a key division in human motivational architecture: We not only have desires, we also have powerful capacities to exercise top-down regulation over these desires. I review a number of influential theories of addiction, both ones that favor loss of control and ones that deny it, and I find that they all have a massive gap: They lack an adequate explanation for when and how top-down regulation over inappropriate desires succeeds and fails. Without this critical piece, we simply cannot have much confidence in these views.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:12:49 -0400 2021-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Chandra Sripada
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
Linguistics Colloquium: "Are there broken Languages for broken people?"" (October 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85980 85980-21630638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Guest speaker Dr. Jonathan Henner (UNC Greensboro) will give a talk titled "Are there broken languages for broken people?"

ASL interpreters and CART captioning will be available.

ABSTRACT
Variationist sociolinguistics has examined linguistic variation based on geography, age, gender, and more recently race. The goal behind this field of linguistics is to support the notion that language variation is natural and good. Yet, even within variationist studies, there is still limited discussion on disability as a category for variation. The impact of disability on languaging is still often framed as atypical and deviant, with research focused either on identifying the deviancy (e.g. is it an SLI), or repairing it. From this perspective, that means not all variation is good. The purpose of this colloquium is to discuss the role of disability in language variation and to examine if variation caused by disability should be an acceptable facet of languaging.

About Jonathan Henner: My work thus far has taken three strands: a) I examine how different factors impact the development of language and cognitive skills in deaf and hard of hearing, b) I look at how to best assess and measure the language skills of deaf and hard of hearing populations, and c) I examine how frameworks that linguists and other scientists use contribute to ableist perspectives on language use

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:13:53 -0400 2021-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Jon Henner
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (October 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 1, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-02T10:30:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
Biopsychology Colloquium: Capuchins, cognition, and conservation: Introducing the Taboga Research Exchange (October 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86592 86592-21635108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Some Capuchins are notable for their relatively large brains, complex social traditions, and tool use. These traits are absent in some of their closest phylogenetic relatives, making capuchins an important taxon for understanding why some primates (like humans) favored cognitive solutions to their social and ecological challenges. However, we know surprisingly little about how capuchins use cognition in the wild. With this new project, we focus on the use of social cognition in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) of Costa Rica. We use a combination of observation and playback experiments to understand both the depth (how detailed is their social knowledge?) and breadth (how far does their social knowledge extend?) within and between social groups. We take advantage of our newly established field site, the Taboga Research Exchange (T-REX) where ~10 capuchin groups live in an isolated ‘island’ of tropical dry forest surrounded by sugar-cane farms. The self-contained nature of the forest allows us to precisely track multiple monkey groups, while the available facilities (electricity, internet, endocrine laboratory) enable us to operate much like a captive laboratory with real time analysis. In addition to the capuchin research, we are developing T-REX as the first of its kind: a net-zero field station and field school where we, along with our colleagues from the Universidad Técnica Nacional and SEAS, are piloting and demonstrating sustainable solutions and biological methods.

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Presentation Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:09:02 -0400 2021-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Capuchins
Elliot S. Valenstein Distinguished Lecture (October 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85756 85756-21628679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:44:15 -0400 2021-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Webinar Announcement with the Urban Institute and the Institute for Social Research on the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey
Linguistics Colloquium (October 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85981 85981-21630640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department welcomes Tracy Conner, Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Northwestern University. She will present "Investigating the Language of Gaslighting."

ABSTRACT
Gaslighting has been defined as “a type of psychological abuse aimed at making victims seem or feel ‘crazy,’ creating a ‘surreal’ interpersonal environment” (Sweet 2019:1). The concept has gained popularity in the public sphere through online articles and videos, though the bulk of the research on the topic has come from the field of Psychology, and Sociology only more recently. Though gaslighting can take many forms from action to inaction, one primary vehicle relates to a particular type of manipulative language use. In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Goffman argues that in order to participate in face-to-face talk, we make inferences about what people mean in interactions (1959:2–3). Based on a Gricean paradigm, the inferences we make to attribute meaning to utterances are based on the assumption that our interlocutor’s intent is to be maximally cooperative (Grice, 1975). In gaslighting, we know that speakers are crucially not being cooperative, but this is generally only interpretable by the victim of the abuse. What makes gaslighting so difficult to identify, and what can linguistic tools help us uncover to lead us closer to understanding this phenomenon? I argue that in some forms of gaslighting, utterances appear cooperative and follow Gricean maxims through the exploitation of linguistic ambiguity and the difference between logical form and illocutionary force. Ultimately, the damaging effects for victims of gaslighting are rooted in issues of language and power.

This talk seeks to establish a unifying definition of gaslighting examining our notion of who we researchers deem experts in the discussion. Furthermore, the talk evaluates data collected through convenience sampling from online sources, emails, and audio recordings to identify the linguistic and pragmatic discursive strategies employed. I make the case that one salient pragmatic strategy in gaslighting is systematic and repetitive avoidance of the Question Under Discussion (QUD) which I define as topic shift. I make the case that topic shift contributes to why victims frequently feel “crazy” as accepting the new topic in conversation forces them to agree with realities that are not germane or true for them, and any attempt to reintroduce the original QUD makes the victim appear uncooperative.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:50:40 -0400 2021-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Tracy Conner
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (October 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Biopsychology Colloquium: Neuroimaging insights into substance abuse (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86593 86593-21635109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The adolescent period is a time when most substance use is initiated and also a time when neural alterations in frontal control and subcortical incentive systems are taking place. Evidence from cross-sectional studies is accumulating for an imbalance between subcortical, dopamine-related activation and prefrontal control, which has been proposed to underlie the impulsive, risky decision making associated with adolescence. Adult substance abusers have alterations in this circuitry, but it remains unclear whether these alterations reflect pre-existing traits predisposing to substance use or are secondary to substance exposure. The talk will focus on research that probes the neural systems hypothesized to underlie the development of risk for substance use disorders. Findings from the Michigan Longitudinal Study, a prospective high-risk family study, will be presented, and the nationwide Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study will be discussed.

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Presentation Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:49:48 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Heitzig
Slavic Colloquium — Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin (Slavic PhD students) (October 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88625 88625-21656213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Slouching Towards Sevastopol: Tolstoy and Writing the Crimean War
with Sara Ruiz and Valentin Rasputin and the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life with Michael Martin:

This presentation features Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin, Ph.D. students in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Sara will argue that Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Stories enact a performance of a war story that is purposefully contradictory and deeply ambivalent in regards to the societal function and meaning of an individual soldier’s wartime experience. Michael examines how Valentin Rasputin’s body of work is centrally concerned with the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life. While his later output paints a Russo-centric image of the region, his early works betray a much less stable notion of local belonging rooted in a personal, rather than cultural, connection. This colloquium is organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Kindly RSVP to receive the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96120613090?pwd=RXN6K29QY3VqdDVld2F4ODdGMFY1Zz09.
Questions? Please contact Tricia Kalosa (triciak@umich.edu)
For more information, visit our website at https://lsa.umich.edu/slavic

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:30:17 -0400 2021-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation Colloquium with Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (October 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Linguistics Department Colloquium (November 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85982 85982-21630641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department welcomes Emily M. Bender, professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington and faculty director of the Professional Masters in Computational Linguistics (CLMS) program. Her research interests include the interaction of linguistics and NLP, computational semantics, multilingual NLP, and the societal impact of language technology. She will present "Meaning making with artificial interlocutors and risks of language technology."

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

ABSTRACT
Humans make sense of language in context, bringing to bear their own understanding of the world including their model of their interlocutor's understanding of the world. In this talk, I will explore various potential risks that arise when we as humans bring this sense-making capacity to interactions with artificial interlocutors. That is, I will ask what happens in conversations where one party has no (or extremely limited) access to meaning and all of the interpretative work rests with the other, and briefly explore what this entails for the design of language technology.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 09:22:56 -0400 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Emily M. Bender
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (November 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Biopsychology Colloquium: Experience-dependent changes to striatal circuit function and implications for goal-directed learning (November 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86595 86595-21635111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Psychology

A range of experiences including drug use, particular diets or exposure to chronic stress promote habitual behavioural control. Habits provide a rapid, efficient means for decision making however, this comes with a loss in behavioural flexibility. Although goal-directed learning and habit learning are known to rely on parallel but distinct striatal circuits, little is known about how experiences that accelerate habit learning alter activity in these circuits to promote premature habitual control. The shift from flexible to habitual control could be the result of direct effects on the habit system which strengthen stimulus-response learning. Alternatively, the effects could be indirect, acting instead to undermine function of, and control by the goal-directed system thus allowing early control by the habit system. These possibilities are difficult to differentiate with behavioural tools alone. Using a task that distinguishes flexible actions from habits, we have found that chronic access to an obseogenic diet promotes habitual behavioural control. I will discuss our investigations into changes to glia and neurons in dorsomedial (DMS) and dorsolateral striatum (DLS), regions known to control flexible and habitual behaviours, respectively. Diet-induced changes are largely confined to the DMS suggesting that diet dysregulates the normal function of the goal-directed DMS system potentially allowing early habitual control mediated by the DLS circuit. Distinguishing between excessive habitual control and weakened goal-directed control has important implications for understanding failures of behavioural control and the development of strategies for improving behavioural flexibility.

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Presentation Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:58:45 -0400 2021-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Department of Psychology Presentation Corbit
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (November 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Biopsychology Colloquium: Benefits and limits of ketamine therapy in depression (November 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89203 89203-21661117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Biopsychology

Clinical depression can be highly treatment resistant in some cases, but ketamine has been shown to relieve depressive symptoms in even many treatment-refractory cases. Ketamine appears to work via a novel mechanism since it 1) treats many patients not affected by other treatments and 2) has a temporal profile of action unlike any other medication: a drug metabolized within hours has rapid-onset action that lasts for days. However, despite it's efficacy over initial weeks of treatment, over months, it's efficacy falls off and further work is needed to best determine how to use this short and medium term efficacy, or to determine how to lengthen it. Importantly, the new mechanism of action of ketamine opens up new avenues to understand the mechanisms of depression, which may lead to yet more novel therapies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:35:55 -0500 2021-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Biopsychology Lecture / Discussion Watson
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (November 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Biopsychology Colloquium: Neural mechanisms for making sense of sound (December 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86636 86636-21664754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Rapid and efficient processing of sensory cues is critical for adaptive behavior and cognitive function. In particular, sound processing supports everyday human behaviors such as communicating with others, avoiding oncoming traffic, learning from a scientific talk and enjoying music and dance. Many non-human animals also rely on sound processing for communication, danger avoidance, food-seeking and learning. The neural mechanisms supporting such complex functions must integrate the physical attributes of incoming sounds with behavioral context, sound meaning and previous experience. In this talk I will provide an overview of a few projects in our lab that aim to reveal the neural mechanisms supporting behavior-, time- and learning- dependent sound processing.

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Presentation Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:16:27 -0500 2021-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Psychology Presentation Rothschild
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquium (December 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88100 88100-21650292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics graduate students Justin Craft and Danielle Burgess will present their research.

Danielle Burgess:
Investigating the NegFirst Bias in Learning and Communication

ABSTRACT
In response to the apparent tendency for standard negation markers to appear in preverbal position or to "gravitate leftward" across the world's languages, Horn (1989: 452) postulated a "NegFirst principle". Tendencies for negation to appear early in the sentence have been observed by scholars working in typology, language contact, and language acquisition. However, it remains uncertain if it is necessary to postulate and motivate an independent NegFirst preference, or whether the observed tendencies can broadly be explained by other cognitive and linguistic biases which may play a role in basic constituent order patterns, grammaticalization, and language acquisition. In the current study, I use an Artificial Language Learning paradigm to test the existence of a behavioral bias consistent with NegFirst in the behavior of English speakers, and incorporate a dyadic director-matcher task in order to investigate a hypothesis that the NegFirst principle is driven by communicative factors. This study contributes to a growing body of research which aims to corroborate typological tendencies with behavioral evidence at the individual level. In this talk, I will share preliminary results which suggest that English-speaking learners do show behavior consistent with a NegFirst bias, and discuss plans to extend this research to Japanese speakers in the future.

Justin Craft:
The Effect of Listener Experience and Social Expectation on Illusory Percepts

ABSTRACT
Perceptual recalibration research has been central in demonstrating that listeners readily adapt to accented speech as listeners gain experience with accented speakers. Likewise, the sociophonetic literature has demonstrated that listener expectations and experience established through visual or contextual means also appears to drive listener percepts and inferentially aid in efforts to resolve socially conditioned phonetic ambiguities. In this talk, I'll present preliminary results from one of my dissertation experiments that utilizes McGurk stimuli to probe whether these expectational and recalibratory effects persist in illusory percepts. By breaking the audio-visual integration characteristic of typical speech processing, the use of illusory stimuli targets whether the percepts listeners experience, when stripped of socially meaningful acoustic cues, still show evidence of sociophonetic knowledge that otherwise reflects the variation found in congruent veridical audio-visual signals in the world.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:46:54 -0500 2021-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Danielle Burgess and Justin Craft
Linguistics MLK Colloquium: "Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice" (January 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88619 88619-21656207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Join us virtually for a presentation by Anne H. Charity Hudley, PhD, Professor of Education at Stanford University. She will present "Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice."

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

ABSTRACT
Critical knowledge about language and culture is an integral part of the quest for educational equity and empowerment, not only in PreK-12 but also in higher education. As Black students transition from high school to college, they seek to add their voices and perspectives to academic discourse and to the scholarly community in a way that is both advantageous and authentic.

The Talking College Project is a Black student and Black studies centered way to learn more about the particular linguistic choices of Black students while empowering them to be proud of their cultural and linguistic heritage. Black students took introductory educational linguistics courses that examined the role of language in the Black college experience and collected information from college students through both interviews and ethnography. We valued the perspectives of undergraduates from a range of disciplinary backgrounds as researchers, and we had a special focus on how our findings can immediately improve their own educational and linguistic experiences.

One key question of The Talking College Project was: how does the acquisition of different varieties of Black language and culture overlap with identity development, particularly intersectional racial identity development? To answer this question, we used a community-based participatory research methodology to conduct over 100 interviews with Black students at numerous Minority-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges, and Predominantly White Universities across the U.S. We also conducted ethnographic research on over 10 college campuses. Based on information collected from the interviews and our ethnographies, it is evident that Black students often face linguistic bias and may need additional support and guidance as they navigate the linguistic terrain of higher education. In this presentation, I present themes and examples from the interviews that illustrate the linguistic pathways that students choose, largely without direct sociolinguistic support that could help guide their decisions.

To address the greater need to share information about Black language with students, I highlight our findings from interviews with Black students who have taken courses in educational linguistics to demonstrate the impact of education about Black language and culture on Black students’ academic opportunities and social lives. We have a focus on how this information particularly influenced those who went on to be educators. These findings serve to help us create an equity-based model of assessment for what educational linguistic information Black students need in order to be successful in higher education and how faculty can help to establish opportunities for students to access content about language, culture, and education within the college curriculum. I address the work we need to do as educators and linguists to provide more Black college students with information that both empowers them raciolinguistically AND respects their developing identity choices.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Jan 2022 10:05:04 -0500 2022-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2022-01-14T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Anne H. Charity Hudley
Biopsychology Colloquium: Selective forces shaping the evolution of intelligence (January 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89990 89990-21667433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Intelligence should evolve to help animals solve problems posed by the environment, but it remains unclear how complexity or novelty in the animal’s environment might facilitate evolutionary enhancement of cognition, or whether domain-general intelligence evolves in response to domain-specific selection pressures. The social complexity hypothesis, which posits that intelligence evolved to cope with the labile behavior of group-mates, has been strongly supported by work on the socio-cognitive abilities of primates and other animals. I review the remarkable convergence in social complexity between old-world primates and spotted hyenas, and describe our tests of the social complexity hypothesis in regard to both cognition and brain size in hyenas. Behavioral and morphological data indicate remarkable convergence between primates and hyenas with respect to their abilities in the domain of social cognition. However, social complexity fails to predict either brain volume or frontal cortex volume in a large array of mammalian carnivores. To inquire whether social complexity can explain the evolution of domain-general intelligence, we presented simple puzzles to members of 41 zoo-housed carnivore species, and found that species with larger relative brain size were better at solving the puzzles. However, social complexity failed to predict success in this task. Although social complexity appears to enhance social cognition, there are no clear causal links between social complexity and either brain size or performance in problem-solving tasks outside the social domain in mammalian carnivores, suggesting that foraging complexity, or complexity in other aspects of the physical environment, also likely affects the evolution of intelligence.

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Presentation Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:59:34 -0500 2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Kay Holekamp
Biopsychology Colloquium (619 Presentation): Hormonal contraceptives: depression, motivation, and the stress response (February 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91743 91743-21682697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Please note this talk will be in person and also via Zoom.

Motivational changes and a dysregulated stress system are two dissociable aspects of depression. Both are regulated by gonadal hormones, specifically estrogen and progesterone. Given that 85% of women use oral contraceptives, the most common type of hormonal contraceptives (HCs), for an average of five years, a key knowledge gap is understanding the impact of HCs on the brain. For some people, HCs increase the risk for depression, likely via the impact of HCs on stress-related responses. Nevertheless, there is little known about the mechanisms by which this occurs. The overall goal of my research is to utilize a mouse model recently developed in our laboratory to understand how HCs contribute to the vulnerability to depression. There is consistent evidence that HCs blunt hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to acute stress. Moreover, there is strong evidence that both estradiol and progestins (and metabolites) modify motivational processes. By using a mouse model of HC exposure to study these questions, we will be able to systematically study the impact of HCs on specific psychological and physiological components of depression, including anhedonia, motivation, and stress. We will also examine the effects of different HC formulations and determine underlying changes in circuit activation and stress-related signaling in the brain after HC exposure. This would improve personalized medicine allowing patients to be prescribed the HC formulation that is most effective while simultaneously limiting side effects.

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Presentation Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:43:12 -0500 2022-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Schuh
Biopsychology Colloquium (619 Presentation) - Vulnerable for addiction-like behavior: Disrupted cholinergic signaling and (neuro)immune response in sign-tracking rats (February 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91973 91973-21684710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Some rats (sign-trackers; STs) are prone to attribute incentive salience to reward cues, which can manifest as a propensity to approach and contact Pavlovian cues, and for addiction-like behavior. STs also exhibit poor attentional performance, relative to their counterparts, the goal-trackers (GTs), mediated by attenuated cholinergic activity. Poor cholinergic-attentional control contributes to the propensity of STs to approach and utilize Pavlovian drug cues. In STs, increases in neuronal activity fail to translocate choline transporters (CHTs) into synaptosomal plasma membrane, thereby limiting the capacity of cholinergic terminals to sustain cholinergic activity. Here we investigated post-translational modifications responsible for disrupted CHT trafficking in STs, and the hypothesis that attenuated cholinergic activity in STs causes exaggerated (neuro)immune responses. We determined levels of ubiquitinylated CHTs because ubiquitin-mediated processes can account for attenuated externalization of intracellular CHTs, ranging from proteolysis to enhanced internalization or alternative compartmentalization. The proportion of ubiquitinylated CHTs, extracted from cortex and striatum, was robustly higher in STs than in GTs, with no overlap in the data from the two phenotypes. Moreover, modified CHTs located in intracellular domains, but not in synaptosomal plasma membrane, completely accounted for the phenotype-specific ubiquitylation levels. Ongoing experiments suggest elevated spleen levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in unchallenged STs. Following a systemic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) immune challenge, brain levels of certain cytokines were not elevated based on phenotype. Moreover, following LPS challenge, ubiquitinylation levels of CHTs from the cortex and striatum were drastically increased in GTs, but not STs, suggesting that in unchallenged STs, ubiquitinylated CHTs already are at maximum levels and unresponsive to an additional immune challenge. Together, this evidence supports potentially escalating, bidirectional interactions between disrupted cholinergic signaling and (neuro)immune responses as an integral component of the cognitive-motivational trait indexed by sign-tracking.

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Presentation Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:29:02 -0500 2022-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Hanna Carmon
Biopsychology Colloquium (619 Presentation): The development of learning and inference in macaques (February 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91989 91989-21684839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:28:16 -0500 2022-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Yiyun Huang
Linguistics Colloquium (February 18, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88620 88620-21656209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Janet G. van Hell, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University, and co-director of the Center for Language Science. She will present "Understanding accented speech: the role of speaker identity and listener experience."

ABSTRACT
Current everyday communication is a cultural and linguistic melting pot. There are hundreds of millions of speakers of English as a second language in the world, so we are likely to encounter speakers who have a non-native accent when speaking English. We are also likely to interact with people from different backgrounds, whose accent may be similar or different from one’s own accent. Research has shown that non-native accented speech can challenge language comprehension. Although behavioral studies indicate that listeners adapt quickly to non-native accented speech, neurocognitive studies have shown distinct neural mechanisms in processing non-native accented sentences relative to native accented sentences. I will present a series of recent behavioral and EEG/ERP experiments in which we examined how speaker identity and listener experience affect the comprehension of non-native accented and native accented sentences. More specifically, we studied how listeners’ experience with non-native accented speech modulates accented speech comprehension by testing different groups of listeners (young and older adult monolinguals with little experience with non-native accented speech, listeners immersed in non-native accented speech, and bilingual (non-native accented) listeners). We also examined how faces cuing the speaker’s ethnicity (e.g., Asian face) create language expectations (here, Chinese-accented English), and how these biases impact the neural and cognitive mechanisms associated with the comprehension of American- and Chinese-accented English sentences. Implications of the findings will be discussed by integrating neuropsychological theories of language comprehension with linguistic theories on the role of socio-indexical cues in speech comprehension.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:23:21 -0500 2022-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Janet van Hell
Biopsychology Colloquium (619 Presentation): Processing of self-generated sounds in the auditory - perirhinal cortical circuit (February 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92578 92578-21692649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The ability to rapidly and efficiently process sensory stimuli, and in particular sounds, during locomotion is critical for survival and adaptive behaviour. Some incoming sounds during locomotion originate from external sources (such as the sound of a passing car) while others are self-generated (such as the sound of our own footsteps). While self-generated sounds are predictable and uninformative in some cases, in other situations they carry rich behaviourally-relevant information, such as the substrate we are walking on, our locomotion speed, and our location. Indeed, human studies show that self-generated locomotion sounds can influence behaviour in an ongoing manner. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the encoding, usage, and memory of self-generated sounds are poorly understood. To address this gap, I have designed a novel experimental setup to simultaneously record self-generated sounds and neural activity in freely-moving rats that learn to traverse a track with varying sounds. By recording neural activity in two monosynaptically connected key brain regions for context- and memory-dependent sound processing, the auditory cortex and the perirhinal cortex, I aim to identify the neural mechanisms that underlie encoding and remembering behaviourally-relevant self-generated sounds.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:49:27 -0500 2022-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Mekhala_Kumar
Biopsychology Colloquium (619 Presentation) - The Ontogeny of ‘twitter’ Calls in White Faced Capuchins: Usage and Context (March 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93007 93007-21699099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Humans have a unique ability to learn and modify language throughout their lives. Primate vocalisations appear fixed and innate in comparison, which creates an evolutionary puzzle. However, primates do show evidence of developmental plasticity within their use of calls and the contexts in which they vocalise, suggesting a potential evolutionary connection to the flexibility of language. To better understand these possible connections, I investigated a capuchin call, the twitter, which is a call that appears to show developmental changes. I collected observational focal data and acoustic data on wild white-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica. I examined which behavioural states and specific behaviours were associated with twitters, and whether this showed differences across age groups. I also examined the acoustic structure of twitter calls, looking at whether there were changes across in the acoustic parameters of the call. I found evidence of age-related differences in capuchin twitter calls, which suggests more flexibility in vocal ontogeny and the usage of calls than previously assumed. There appear to be interesting acoustic shifts as well, which suggest greater flexibility in primate vocal development. This call appears to broaden to a whole new context later in life, which is beyond what has been seen before.

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Presentation Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:01:57 -0500 2022-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Nicki_Guisneuf
Colloquium: Lessons learned while searching for syntax in the brain (March 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93118 93118-21700880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Jon Brennnan, Associate Professor of Linguistics, will present "Lessons learned while searching for syntax in the brain" on Friday, March 11, at 4 pm via Zoom.

ABSTRACT

“[T]here is absolutely no mapping to date that we understand in even the most vague sense.” So writes David Poeppel in 2012 about the connection between Linguistics and neurobiology. I discuss our attempts to meet this challenge in the domain of syntax and give some reasons to be (slightly) optimistic. This optimism is underwritten by the hard lessons learned over the last decade of research by ourselves and others that have forced us to (i) confront that the term “syntax” does not neatly map to neurobiology, (ii) reconcile apparently competing theoretical frameworks for memory and prediction, and (iii) carefully tease apart the multifaceted linguistic causes of neural effects that we measure in the lab.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:55:09 -0500 2022-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Jon Brennan
Biopsychology Colloquium: The role of the striatum in habits (March 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93175 93175-21701387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Habits are a fundamental part of animal life. In the brain, areas that form a network with the dorsolateral striatum have been shown to be critical for the formation and execution of habits. In this talk, I will outline our efforts to help understand how exactly the striatum participates in habits and how habits themselves might be detected and observed. First, patterns of neural activity recorded in animals during learning show that the striatum represents habits with, in part, a burst of energy at the beginning of a behavior. We find that this activity causes behavior to be fast and vigorous, with behavioral vigor emerging as a key defining characteristic of habits. The increased activity in the striatum also causes behavior to be insensitive to the value of the behavioral outcome, a traditional measure of habits. However, additional studies show that the outcome-value assay of habits is highly context-dependent, thus casting doubt on how it can be used. Further studies test the question of whether this striatum activity works in a forward-planning manner to help behavior be optimal and adaptive, or instead if it serves to allow animals to keep doing what has worked in the past. Initial evidence finds somewhat surprising support for the first possibility. Collectively, the data presented will hopefully shine some new light into the process by which habits might best be studied in the lab as well further clarify the role that the striatum serves for habits.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:09:55 -0500 2022-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Kyle Smith
Integrating intersectionality into Environmental Health Sciences (March 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92997 92997-21698985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

*Registered required.

Ami Zota, ScD, MS, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at George Washington University's Milken School of Public Health. Dr. Zota’s work seeks to secure environmental justice and improve health equity through advancements in science, policy, and clinical practice. Her research identifies novel pathways linking social disparities, environmental exposures, and reproductive and children’s health.

The environmental research seminar series is organized by the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD). More information about M-LEEaD and upcoming events can be found here: http://mleead.umich.edu/index.php

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Mar 2022 09:34:10 -0500 2022-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Integrating intersectionality into Environmental Health Sciences
Biopsychology Colloquium: Towards understanding and breaking legacies of stress (March 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93843 93843-21708643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Historical events have generated data indicating that stressors experienced by populations, affect not only the individuals directly exposed to them, but also descendants. My talk will shed light on the nature and mechanisms by which legacies of stress perpetuate across generations, and how we may begin to break them.

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Presentation Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:24:35 -0400 2022-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Brian Dias
Linguistics Department Colloquium (April 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88624 88624-21656212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Annette D'Onofrio is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at Northwestern University. She will present "Perceiving sound change reversal: Age-based dynamics in Chicago's Northern Cities Vowel Shift"

ABSTRACT
Sound changes in progress are often hallmark features of regional dialects, becoming linked with local speakers and local social meanings. These changes are can be examined in apparent time through both age-based differences in production, and through listener age differences in perception. However, little is known about the ways in which sound changes that have moved from advancing to reversing in production over time are perceived by community members. In this talk, I explore how listeners of various ages within one U.S. community in Chicago produce and perceive vowels implicated in the region’s characteristic Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCS), which is undergoing reversal over time. Findings suggest that sociolinguistic perception is not simply a reflection of an individual’s static social position within a community, from which matched production and perceptual patterns are derived. Instead, a listener’s own positionality, experience, and ideas about others in their community, can condition not only their sociolinguistic productions as speakers, but also their expectations as listeners.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:13:01 -0400 2022-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Annette D'Onofrio
Biopsychology Colloquium: Amygdala neuronal mechanisms of 'wanting what hurts' (April 5, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94246 94246-21726702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Incentive motivation that is dissociated from actual outcome value can lead to maladaptive attractions, such as in the case of a rat that pursues a painful shock-delivering object. We have previously shown that optogenetic channelrhodopsin (ChR2) stimulation of the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA), when paired with the presence of a painful shockrod, causes laboratory rats to repeatedly self-inflict shocks. However, the CeA is a heterogeneous structure and the contributions of its individual neuronal subpopulations in creating shockrod attraction is not known. Here, in laboratory rats, CeA neurons expressing D1, adenosine 2a (A2a), or corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) receptors were optogenetically stimulated via ChR2 in the presence of a shockrod. In another group, CeA neurons were targeted non-selectively with the hSyn promoter. Over multiple test days, hSyn and D1 ChR2-stimulated rats displayed intense attraction for the shockrod, repeatedly self-inflicting shocks and even overcoming an occluding barrier to do so. In a separate experiment, we tested whether CeA ChR2 activation is capable of controlling preference for a laser-paired over a non-laser-paired reward in a choice test scenario. Here, CeA ChR2 activation paired with remifentanil was preferred over sucrose alone, and sucrose paired with CeA ChR2 activation was preferred over remifentanil alone. Together, these results reveal that CeA ChR2 activation can make particular rewards ‘wanted’ over available alternative rewards, and can even make harmful stimuli attractive and desirable. Our findings may have important implications for understanding the brain mechanisms of disorders in which individuals maladaptively pursue particular stimuli, such as in addictions, obsessive compulsion, and self-harm.

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Presentation Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:39:34 -0400 2022-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation David Nguyen
PSC/GFP Colloquium: Gender and Race Gatekeeping (April 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94477 94477-21741771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In this talk, Dr. Hebl focuses on the notion of gatekeepers, or people or policies that act to prevent others from gaining access to knowledge, opportunities, and/or employment. By reviewing a number of empirical-based studies, Dr. Hebl will review the many ways in which others gatekeep women. Such differences-are not only gender-based but are also race-based; and she describes some recent research looking at gatekeeping that shows within (not just between) race-based differences.

About the speaker: Dr. Mikki Hebl graduated with her B.A. from Smith College and Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. She joined the faculty at Rice University in 1998, and is currently the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychology with a joint appointment in the Jones School. Dr. Hebl's research focuses on workplace discrimination and the ways both individuals and organizations can remediate such discrimination and successfully manage diversity. She has approximately 175 publications, 21 teaching awards (including the most prestigious national award called the Cherry Award), research grants from NSF and NIH, and several gender-related research awards. For instance, in 2014, she was honored with the Academy of Management’s Sage Award for lifetime achievement in research advancing knowledge of gender and diversity in organizations, and in 2018, she was selected as the recipient of the Woman in Academia with Outstanding Career Award from the business school at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:42:26 -0400 2022-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-14T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Mikki Hebl
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquium (April 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93441 93441-21704496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD students Wil Gonzales and Felicia Bisnath will present their research.

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, University of Michigan
Sociolinguistic variation in a mixed language? A corpus-based analysis of Lánnang-uè conjunctions and prepositions


ABSTRACT
For several decades, research has shown that sociolinguistic factors play an important role in language variation (Weinreich et al. 1968; Eckert 2005). However, prior sociolinguistic research has primarily focused on well-documented varieties in Western contexts (e.g., American English).

In this presentation, I analyze the variation in a low-resource, previously undocumented “mixed language” in the Philippines called Lánnang-uè – a variety that systematically derives linguistic elements from Hokkien (Southern Min), Mandarin, English, and Tagalog (Gonzales 2018; Gonzales and Starr 2020; Gonzales 2022a). Specifically, I focus on the patterns of variation in two lexical categories: conjunction and prepositions – two categories that show higher rates of variation compared to other features in Lánnang-uè.
Using a mix of quantitative (i.e., corpus-based, computational) and qualitative (i.e., ethnographic) approaches, this analysis investigates the impact of four factors – age, sex, self-reported language proficiency in the source languages, and language attitudes – on the variation observed. I pre-processed, machine-tagged, and statistically analyzed conjunction and preposition data from the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp) (Gonzales 2022b) – a self-compiled 375,000-word corpus of Lánnang-uè, acquired from 135 Lánnang-uè speakers. I also analyzed metalinguistic commentary from a subset of these speakers in an attempt to provide a more holistic explanation for potential sociolinguistic patterns.

The findings indicate that variation in the use of conjunctions and prepositions can be explained by at least one of the four enumerated sociolinguistic factors, corroborating my previous work on Lánnang-uè (Gonzales 2018; Gonzales and Starr 2020) and other research on related contact varieties in East Asia (Hansen Edwards 2019; Starr and Balasubramaniam 2019; Lee 2014). However, I also found that the effects of age, sex, language proficiency, and attitudes varied depending on many context-specific factors (e.g., degree of awareness, stylistic practices unique to a particular social group). I discuss the sociolinguistic patterns uncovered in my presentation in light of cognitive, sociolinguistic, and contact linguistics theories, and conclude by briefly identifying potential avenues for future research.


Felicia Bisnath, University of Michigan
Mouthing constructions in 37 signed languages: typology, ecology and ideology

ABSTRACT
Sign languages – like creoles and other contact languages– are minoritised in their communities and in linguistics. This makes perspectives on creoles potentially illuminating to the study of sign languages. A common way that sign languages are categorised, based on social criteria, is into deaf and rural sign languages. This distinction highlights relationships between social and linguistic properties. This paper investigates one such relationship motivated by the literature: namely whether the extent of contact with spoken language(s) via institutionalised education translates into a higher prevalence of the silent articulation of spoken words, mouthing. Across 37 sign languages (26 deaf; 11 rural), mouthing was found to be prevalent regardless of language type, having been reported in 35 languages (25 deaf; 10 rural). This suggests that differences in contexts of language emergence that have been used to motivate a typological separation between deaf and rural sign languages does not equate to a structural difference in terms of the structural property, mouthing.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:17:47 -0400 2022-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion