Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Fall 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000" (September 16, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97655 97655-21794868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Gayle S. Rubin

"The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000"

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

September 16, 2022 | Leather: the Emergence of a Subculture

October 7, 2022 | A Short History of Perversion

November 7, 2022 | Sex and the City: Urban Geographies of Sexual Space

December 2, 2022 | The Future of the Queer City

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

"Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Gayle Rubin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:35:04 -0400 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Professor Gayle S, Rubin
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid: Molecular early burst associated with the diversification of birds at the K–Pg boundary (September 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97014 97014-21793691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Abstract
A key factor limiting our understanding of early crown bird evolution is a complex history of molecular evolution linked to the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction and associated changes in life history parameters. Here, we assess molecular heterogeneity across crown bird phylogeny using a new technique, enabling inferred sequence substitution models to transition across the history of a clade. Our approach identifies contrasting patterns among exons, introns, untranslated regions, and mitochondrial genomes that reflect distinct regimes of molecular evolution across the avian phylogeny. Up to fifteen molecular shifts map to rapidly diversifying clades near the end-Cretaceous boundary, demonstrating an "early burst" of genomic disparity. Using simulation and machine learning techniques, we show that shifts in developmental mode or adult body mass best explain transitions in the mode of nucleotide substitution. We further connect these patterns to macroevolutionary shifts in the allometric scaling relationship between basal metabolic rate and body mass. In agreement with theoretical predictions, we show that this scaling relationship became weaker across the end-Cretaceous transition. Thus, our study provides evidence that the Chicxulub bolide impact triggered integrated patterns of evolution across avian genomes, physiology, and life history that structured the evolutionary potential of modern birds.

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page). Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

Image: Steve Day CC BY-SA 2.0

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:32:51 -0400 2022-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Detail of the painted ceiling in Waltham Abbey parish church, depicting the two-faced god Janus (photo by Steve Day CC BY-SA 2.0)
Equitable Virtual and Hybrid Researcher-Community Partnerships (September 22, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98437 98437-21796658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Building on equitable partnership principles to advance social change for the public good, this session will explore how scholars have maintained and created community partnerships during the pandemic. Panelists will share best practices and reflect on how to build trust virtually while recognizing power differences, leverage online tools to create community-identified priorities, and embrace hybrid approaches towards collective impact.

Moderator:

Amy J. Schulz, Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan

Panelists:

Rebecca Bratspies, Law Professor at the City University of New York and Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform

Walter Dogan, Community Partner & Leader, New York

Sammy Kayed, Managing Director and Co-Founder of the Environment Academy at the American University of Beirut

Mira Homeidan, Community Partner & Leader, Btekhnay (in the mountains of Lebanon)


CORRECT event link for day-of: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99791943763

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:23:46 -0400 2022-09-22T14:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Thumbnail that states the title of the event
EEB Thursday Seminar: CANCELLED (September 22, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96692 96692-21793090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you next week!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:27:13 -0400 2022-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid: Daphnia - the master of trade-offs (September 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97015 97015-21793692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page). Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for password at least two hours prior to the event.

Abstract
Every organism is confronted with endless amount of challenges during its lifetime. Some of the challenges can be avoided, for others the organism is prepared for (due to evolutionary adaptation), but most of those challenges turn out to be costly to confront. In such cases the focal organism frequently faces a trade-off – necessity to pay for improvement in one trait with deterioration in another trait.

Daphnia is almost constantly found between a rock and a hard place, and yet it is ubiquitous and dominates most of the lakes and ponds. It’s resilience to variety of environmental challenges stems from some impressive adaptations, enormous phenotypic plasticity, and mastery in performing beneficial trade-offs. During the seminar I will present some of the fascinating ways in which Daphnia avoids or mitigates threats like changing climate, parasitism or predation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:41:41 -0400 2022-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Drawing of a large fish behind a worried looking Daphnia behind some smaller organisms. Illustration: Marcin Dziuba
Heberle Award & Lecture (September 28, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92330 92330-21690193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join us virtually for Professor Cheng's lecture, “Against Use: Asian American Masculinity and the Telos of Utilitarianism.”

What does a concept like “Ornamentalism” have to teach us about Asian American masculinity? Does Asian American masculinity, normally excluded from the realm of aesthetic consideration, have anything to do with ornamentality at all? This talk explores the tension between beauty and ugliness, between usefulness and uselessness, embedded in and provoked by the ornament for the specter of Asiatic masculinity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:35:55 -0400 2022-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Professor Cheng
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Genetic conflict and the evolution of genome integrity (September 29, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96693 96693-21793091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
A single genome appears to be a cohesive community of distinct genes with common incentives. Across development, genes collaborate to build a robust and fertile individual. Across evolution, genes accumulate adaptive DNA sequence changes that build an even more robust, and even more fertile, individual. The more robust and fertile the individual, the more copies of all these genes in the next generation. In this way, our genome’s distinct genes contribute to a communal good. However, much of our DNA actually serves no beneficial function. Most of this DNA has minimal effect on our health and fertility; consequently, natural selection fails to efficiently purge it from our genome. Some of this DNA harms us. This so-called “selfish DNA” acts akin to viruses, hijacking our cell’s machinery to make more copies of itself. While most viruses achieve evolutionary success upon transmission from one individual to another, these selfish elements achieve evolutionary success by increasing their own genomic copy number from one generation to another. When selfish elements win, the rest of the genome loses. Compromised Darwinian fitness puts evolutionary pressure on our genome to police these elements. Selfish DNA fights back with counter-adaptations, escalating a “molecular arms race.” In my seminar, I will describe my lab’s efforts to define the identity, molecular mechanisms, and biological consequences of such genetic conflicts between genomic hijackers and genomic guardians. To gain these insights, we generate interspecies swaps of adaptively evolving proteins that package the rapidly evolving repetitive DNA around
the telomeres and centromeres of Drosophila melanogaster. Using cell biology, next generation sequencing, and classical genetics, we probe how intra-genomic conflict between genes and DNA repeats shapes the evolution of genome integrity.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:19:06 -0400 2022-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Telomeres being studied by the lab. Photo Credit: Mia Levine
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid: Character evolution and homoplasy in the New World milkvetches (Astragalus, Fabaceae) (October 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97016 97016-21793693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Abstract
Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) is possibly the most species-rich genus of seed plants with more than 3,000 recognized species. Almost 500 of those species (commonly called milkvetches or locoweeds) in the Americas are part of a clade called Neo-Astragalus and are estimated to have shared a common ancestor as recently as 4.5 million years ago. However, as largely temperate, perennial herbaceous plants, these species are rather ecologically similar compared to classic examples of plant adaptive radiations. Using phylogenies estimated from whole chloroplast genomes and nuclear ribosomal DNA, I will explore cryptic (or difficult to observe) differentiation in Neo-Astragalus by examining character evolution and homoplasy in morphological traits as well as the accumulation of selenium. About two dozen Neo-Astragalus species are selenium hyperaccumulators that are not only restricted to soils already rich in the element but also accumulate it to the point they are highly toxic to most herbivores. Convergent evolution in this trait could be indicative of other kinds of cryptic but ecologically important disparity that may have developed during the evolution of Neo-Astragalus in the Americas and in Astragalus as a whole.

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for password at least two hours prior to the event.

Image credit: Joseph Charboneau

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:52:32 -0400 2022-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Astragalus sophoroides (Painted Desert milkvetch) in the Navajo Nation in Arizona. Image credit: Joseph Charboneau
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Global impacts of the amphibian-killing fungus: a functional genomic view (October 6, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96694 96694-21793092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
Two fungal pathogens have had devastating effects on amphibian biodiversity at a global scale. I will review some of these impacts and explore, through functional genomic studies, the mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions that underlie resistance or susceptibility in host species. I will then describe our efforts to rediscover some of the species lost to this pathogen in Brazil.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 04 Oct 2022 08:55:36 -0400 2022-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Frog being studied by the lab. Photo credit: Kelly Zamudio
The Fall 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000" (October 7, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98982 98982-21797424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Gayle S. Rubin

"The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000"

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

September 16, 2022 | Leather: the Emergence of a Subculture

October 7, 2022 | A Short History of Perversion

November 7, 2022 | Sex and the City: Urban Geographies of Sexual Space

December 2, 2022 | The Future of the Queer City

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

"Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Gayle Rubin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco."

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:37:20 -0400 2022-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Professor Gayle S. Rubin
Rough Magic: Performing Shakespeare with Gaming Technology (October 10, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97099 97099-21793916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This talk contrasts the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2016 motion capture production of "The Tempest" with the significantly lower budget productions of scenes from the play produced by users of the videogame "Play the Knave". This comparison enables a discussion of the ethics and power relations involved in the human-computer interface.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Oct 2022 13:43:51 -0400 2022-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T18:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Hodgdon Lecture
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid: Artificial reefs to promote primary production in tropical seagrass ecosystems - a simulation study using individual-based modelling (October 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97017 97017-21793694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Abstract
Tropical seagrass ecosystems are among the most productive ecosystems worldwide, yielding tremendous services for coastal communities. Yet, they are among the most impaired from anthropogenic stressors. Understanding factors controlling primary production is fundamental for the protection, management, and restoration of these ecosystems. Artificial reefs are a widely used marine management tool, creating biogeochemical hotspots via aggregating fish that fuel local primary production. However, testing whether increased local production affects primary production at ecosystem scale remains empirically challenging. Thus, we implemented a spatially explicit individual-based simulation model to test how aggregating fish on artificial reefs affect seagrass primary production at various scales.

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for password at least two hours prior to the event.

Image credit: Allgeier Lab

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:56:32 -0400 2022-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Artificial reef built with cement cinder blocks with many fish and abundant seagrass growing around the reef
EEB Thursday Seminar: CANCELLED (October 13, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96695 96695-21793093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you next week!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:44:10 -0400 2022-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar
Colloquium Series Seminar (October 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98385 98385-21796588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Speaker(s): Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University)

I will discuss an adaptation of Gromov's ideal-valued measures to symplectic topology. It leads to a unified viewpoint at three "big fiber theorems": the Centerpoint Theorem in combinatorial geometry, the Maximal Fiber Inequality in topology, and the Non-displaceable Fiber Theorem in symplectic topology, and yields applications to symplectic rigidity. Joint work with Adi Dickstein, Yaniv Ganor, and Frol Zapolsky.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:08:34 -0400 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Deepening Diversity: A DEI of Public Health Consequence (October 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98757 98757-21797148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Although people of color suffering under interlocking systems of oppression — such as impoverished and working-class residents of disinvested urban or rural communities — bear the largest population health burdens in the United States, the magnitude of racialized health inequity is often greatest among college graduates. Whether predominantly white universities are simply failing to address the greater structurally-rooted health needs of students of color or are — however inadvertently — contributing to them, new holistic DEI efforts have an urgent role to play toward promoting health equity.

ABOUT DR. GERONIMUS
Arline T. Geronimus is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and research professor in the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research, where she also is the founding director of the Public Health Demography training program. She is affiliated with the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, Dr. Geronimus received her undergraduate degree in political theory from Princeton University, her doctorate in behavioral sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health, and did post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Geronimus originated an analytic framework, "weathering" that posits that the health of African Americans is subject to early health deterioration as a consequence of social exclusion; much of her scholarly work is related to developing and testing this structurally-rooted biopsychosocial framework. Her general research interests include structural and cultural influences on population variation in family structure and age-at-first birth; the effects of poverty, institutionalized discrimination, and aspects of residential areas on health; the collective strategies marginalized communities employ to mitigate, resist, or undo the harmful effects of poverty and structural racism on their health; the trade-offs these strategies reflect; and the perturbations public policies sometimes cause in these autonomous protections. Dr. Geronimus is developing a general approach to disrupting weathering in affected populations, Jedi Public Health, that applies social psychological understandings of the impact of contingencies of social identity, environmental cues, and stereotype threat on physiological stress process activation among social identity groups. Dr. Geronimus has worked with the US Civil Rights Commission, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Aspen Institute's Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives to revitalize American cities.

ABOUT THE AWARD
The James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship recognizes a senior faculty member at the University of Michigan who has made important contributions to understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, scholarship and creative endeavors, who has an outstanding record as an educator in teaching and mentoring, and whose work has focused on issues of importance to underrepresented communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:00:22 -0400 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:30:00-04:00 National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Lecture thumbnail
2022 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Finding Cosmic Inflation (October 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96471 96471-21792563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

This event is hybrid and, therefore, live-streamed. The lecture will be available at 4:00 pm on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=galZmVFEcm0.

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) gives a photographic image of the Universe when it was still an “infant,” and its detailed measurements have given us a wealth of information, such as the composition and history of the Universe. The CMB research told us a remarkable story: the structure we see in our Universe, such as galaxies, stars, planets, and eventually ourselves, originated from tiny quantum fluctuations in the period of early Universe called “cosmic inflation.” But is this picture true? In this lecture, I will review the physics of CMB and key results from recent experiments and discuss future prospects for the quest to find out about our origins.

Learn more about Professor Komatsu and the Ta-You Wu event here: https://lsa.umich.edu/physics/news-events/special-lectures/ta-you-wu-lecture.html

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:39:43 -0400 2022-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Eiichiro Komatsu
Mind and Soul: Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Black Community (October 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99744 99744-21798636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Structural inequities across social institutions such as education, healthcare, and the workforce, for example, have impacted the mental health of Black communities. This event will feature a conversation among experts who will discuss mental health challenges among Black communities across the lifespan, including intersections of spirituality and gender.

Tabbye Chavous, vice provost for equity & inclusion and chief diversity officer, will provide framing remarks. The panel conversation will be moderated by Elizabeth R. Cole, director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID).

This event is sponsored by the NCID’s Anti-Racism Collaborative.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:28:39 -0400 2022-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Title of event
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Using genetic data at multiple scales to understand constraints on viral adaptation (October 20, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96696 96696-21793094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
RNA viruses have exceptionally high mutation rates, on the order of one new mutation per replication cycle. These mutation rates are frequently invoked to explain the ability of these viruses to rapidly adapt to new or changing environmental conditions, such as changes in host immunity profiles for endemic viruses such as influenza and changes in host species in the case of spillover viruses. Here, I will instead focus on the evolutionary constraints to viral adaptation that are brought about by high mutation rates in the context of spatial within-host viral compartmentalization, transmission bottlenecks between infectors and infectees, and genetic linkage across viral genomes. I will also discuss means of population-level viral adaptation that are accessible in the context of these constraints. The empirical examples I will draw on will include influenza viruses and SARS-CoV-2.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:40:04 -0400 2022-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Research image from lab.
DISCO Network Lecture Series | Racial Replication: Michelle N. Huang in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and Huan He (October 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97625 97625-21794842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Asiatic interchangeability is made, not born. In her talk, Michelle N. Huang discusses how dystopian clone narratives challenge notions of individual racialized identity at both the genetic and generic levels. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman’s concept of racial fungibility, Huang will examine Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl (2002) to trace how Asian American interchangeability is produced through reproductive control as well as an economy of character. In rearticulating, rather than rejecting, notions of shared subjectivity, hivemind, and fellow feeling, Asiatic clones ask for experimental alternatives to the ethnic bildungsroman and demonstrate the novel form itself to be a racialized technology of identity.

Michelle N. Huang is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She has research and teaching interests in contemporary Asian American literature, posthumanism, and feminist science studies. Her current project, Molecular Race, examines posthumanist aesthetics in post-1965 Asian American literature to trace racial representation and epistemology at nonhuman, minute scales. Molecular Race argues that a rapprochement with scientific discourse is necessary to fully grasp how the formal and aesthetic qualities of Asian American literature unsettle sedimented structures of racial formation.

Michelle’s work appears in American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, and Post 45: Contemporaries, among other venues. Her film essay, INHUMAN FIGURES: Robots, Clones, and Aliens can be viewed online at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center website.

Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of several books on race, gender, and the Internet. She is the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and the Lead P.I. for the DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration and Optimism) Network (disconetwork.org).

Huan He is a Curriculum Development Fellow at the DISCO Network Michigan Hub and holds a PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. Most broadly, his research engages Asian/American literature and culture, histories of media and technology, visual culture, digital game studies, and poetics. His book project, currently titled, “The Racial Interface,” explores the racial associations linking Asian/Americans and information technology in the digital era. Drawing from literature, art, and archival sources, this project reveals how myths of racial and technological progress converge in the shadow of U.S. liberal capitalism. He foregrounds minoritarian writers and artists who challenge the dominant technological imaginaries shaping the digital present. He is also interested in the relationship between race, gaming, cheating, and scams and pursuing a second project on these topics. His scholarly writing has been published in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies and Media-N and is forthcoming in an anthology on Asian/American game studies. In Fall 2023, he will start as an Assistant Professor of English (Asian American and Asian Diasporic Literature) at Vanderbilt University.

We want to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space. Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://bit.ly/3CcvgFL

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://bit.ly/3R2S3bG

We will have automated captions. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please contact the DISCO Network at disconetwork@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:31:47 -0400 2022-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion A purple background with a black disco ball. White retro lettering reads, "DISCO Network Lecture Series. Michelle N. Huang in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and Huan He. Thursday, October 20, 2022. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm ET." Below that are six white stars surrounded by a black border. Below that are 3 circular headshots of the speakers. Michelle N. Huang has shoulder length brown hair and is wearing a white shirt, a thin tie tied into a bow, and a black blazer. She is standing in front of a bookcase with books of varying sizes, shapes, and colors. Lisa Nakamura has short reddish hair and is wearing a blue-grey top. Her background is a blurred image of trees. Huan He has short black hair. He is wearing a black shirt with a gold necklace. He is in front of a dark grey background. Below that is a black text box with white words that read, "This event will be presented in a hybrid format. In person attendance is limited. Attendees will be registered for in person attendance on a first come first served basis."
Family Day: The Buzz on Sweet Foods (October 23, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100380 100380-21799683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 23, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Get your taste buds ready for some science! Join museum staff and University of Michigan researchers to discover how sugar and the senses affect our brains through a variety of hands-on experiments and activities.

While you are there, also check the exhibit on cyanobacteria with the Vecchiarelli Lab.

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Other Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:20:31 -0400 2022-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2022-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Other Cartoon of a bee buzzing around a cupcake
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid: Recombination and the evolution of sex chromosomes in Rumex hastatulus (October 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97019 97019-21793697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Abstract
Sex chromosomes typically evolve through the gradual reduction of recombination between chromosome pairs that have acquired a sex-determining region. Many plants have "younger" sex chromosomes than amniotes, and therefore offer valuable insight into this process. Heartwing sorrel (Rumex hastatulus) has a polymorphic sex chromosome karyotype resulting from a chromosome fusion. This natural variation allows direct comparison of a sex chromosome and its autosomal homologue. We use a recent genome assembly and genetic map to explore how recombination evolved in this species and how that challenges standard models of sex chromosome evolution.

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page). Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for password at least two hours prior to the event.

Image credit: Spencer Barrett

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:24:29 -0400 2022-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Rumex hastaulus size dimorphism by Spencer Barrett
EEB dissertation defense: Emergent spatial heterogeneity structures the assembly and functioning of ecological communities: an agroecological perspective (October 25, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100267 100267-21799544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Zach defends his dissertation

Image credit: Zachary Hajian-Forooshani.
Image shows a "good" fungus, L.lecanii (the white one), which is parasitizing the coffee leaf rust (orange), a "bad" fungus on a coffee leaf.

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Presentation Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:11:46 -0400 2022-10-25T16:30:00-04:00 2022-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation Coffee leaf rust attacked by fungal mycoparasites
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Genomics to improve management of imperiled wildlife (October 27, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96697 96697-21793095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
Anthropogenic land and other resource use is a major force shaping the abundance, distribution, and evolution of species. It often disrupts historically contiguous habitats, resulting in patchier and smaller fragments which can limit dispersal and gene flow. Populations experiencing such conditions can face elevated risks for inbreeding depression and diminished adaptive capacity. Wildlife managers use various and often multifaceted approaches including habitat restoration, translocations, breeding programs, and demographic monitoring to mitigate extinction risk for species with small, fragmented populations. I will focus on how genomics can be used to gain deeper understanding of the demographic outcomes of these practices and the value of looking under the hood in this way for assessing population fitness using federally Threatened Florida Scrub-Jays as an example. Secondly, I will discuss the prospect of using biclustering algorithms for identifying loci that may contribute to genetic load and the potential of applying this approach to enhance the recovery of the federally Endangered Poweshiek skipperling.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Oct 2022 08:48:56 -0400 2022-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Florida Scrub-Jay
Academic & Community Collaborations (October 27, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100241 100241-21799381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Universities have a long and storied history of collaboration with community organizations and organizers. Yet these collaborations are not without their challenges, as wealthy, predominantly white universities must address issues of power, privilege, and competing priorities for these collaborations to succeed. While decades of research and experience have illustrated some best practices in academic-community collaborations, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing politicalization of research, growing public support of advocacy movements like Black Lives Matter, and the increasing reliance on social media have forced community organizers to engage in new and creative efforts to support their communities. How can universities best evolve to collaborate with and support community organizations amid these new challenges?

On October 27, join Dr. William Lopez for a discussion with Gladys Godinez, Cecia Alvarado, and Karina Perez, three Latina organizers and creatives with decades of experience advocating with and for Latino communities. Together, they will share their experiences on academic collaborations, describing what they’ve done, when it’s worked well, when it’s gone wrong, and what academics can do to best support the communities with whom they collaborate.

Co-Sponsored by the NCID's Anti-Racism Collaborative, Poverty Solutions, the Department of American Culture, the Latina/o Studies Program, and the Carceral State Project.

Facilitator:
-William D. Lopez, Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Senior Advisor at Policy Solutions at the University of Michigan

Panelists:
-Gladys Godinez, Co-Founder and Co-Director of United by Culture Media
-Cecia Alvarado, Executive Director of Somos Votantes
-Karina Perez, Executive Director of Centro Hispano Comunitario de Nebraska

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:04:49 -0400 2022-10-27T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Headshots and event title
Saturday Morning Physics | From Nobel Prize Research to the Breakthrough Technologies Transforming our Lives (October 29, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99186 99186-21797679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 29, 2022 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

New developments in technology have revolutionized the way we live, from smartphones and devices to the internet, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, clean energy, big data, and much more. These inventions have one thing in common: they originate from key discoveries in physics made decades earlier in research driven by curiosity. In this lecture, I will invite you to share your ranking of the most important technological developments of the new millennium, and I will explain which Nobel prize in physics made each of these innovations possible, how we continue to explore these physics questions today, and how current research may transform our lives in the future. To conclude, I will share my pick of the most important recent technology breakthrough and track its origin to the historical debate about the foundation of quantum physics: Einstein vs. the Copenhagen interpretation of whether or not God plays dice.

Lecture and Q&A, live-streamed on: TBA

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:46:15 -0400 2022-10-29T10:30:00-04:00 2022-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Illustration of novel quantum states with exotic topological structures
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar / student evalution - Hybrid: Seasonal shifts in a montane meadow ecosystem above and belowground with climate change (November 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97020 97020-21793698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Abstract
Climate change is impacting temperature and moisture conditions across the seasons in montane meadows, from accelerating snowmelt date early in the growing season to greater drying of the soil in the later part of the growing season. Though there are distinct impacts throughout a growing season, we know little about how climate change will impact ecosystem function, such as productivity and nutrient cycling, beyond when these processes are typically measured during peak seasonal productivity. Additionally, a growing body of work acknowledges the linkage between plants and soil and shows that an impact on one has cascading effects on the other either bottom-up or top-down. During the seminar, I will discuss how climate change, through abiotic and biotic effects, is impacting plant and soil conditions at a fine-scale resolution throughout the growing season.

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page). Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for passcode at least two hours prior to the event.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:45:58 -0400 2022-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Montane meadow scene
EEB student evaluation seminar: Under pressure: virulence evolution in a natural multihost-multiparasite system (November 2, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98433 98433-21796650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Teresa presents her preliminary seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:08:00 -0400 2022-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Boat on a lake with a magnified circle showing Daphnia infected with parasites
EEB Thursday Seminar - VIRTUAL: (Re)building the coral tree of life: *through ocean exploration, museum specimens* and *genomic discovery* (November 3, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96698 96698-21793096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
Corals and their relatives are some of the most ecologically important metazoans on earth, from shallow waters to the deep sea. With ocean conditions changing at rates faster than previously recognized, we must determine the factors that shape coral diversity across depth, space, and time. And because the drivers of marine diversity are poorly known in the largest environment on earth—the deep sea—I often focus my questions on processes that generate deep-sea coral diversity. Therefore, with collaborators across the world, I am combining genomic approaches with museum specimens and ocean exploration to rebuild the coral tree of life and answer fundamental questions regarding coral diversity.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Nov 2022 07:45:32 -0400 2022-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Coral being studied by the lab. Image credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration Program
Saturday Morning Physics | The Heart of Darkness (November 5, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99198 99198-21797694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 5, 2022 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In 2017, humanity, for the first time, peered into true darkness. Black holes are objects defined by their immense gravitational fields, so large that not even light can escape. In this talk, I will take you on the journey undertaken by a worldwide collaboration to image a black hole for the first time and tell you about the discoveries awaiting the coming generations.

This talk will be live in ROOMS 170 & 182 Weiser Hall. You can also watch the talk/Q&A, live, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpMfqdRwMkU

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:25:33 -0400 2022-11-05T10:30:00-04:00 2022-11-05T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. (EHT Collaboration)
The Fall 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000" (November 7, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99608 99608-21798395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Gayle S. Rubin

"The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000"

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

September 16, 2022 | Leather: the Emergence of a Subculture

October 7, 2022 | A Short History of Perversion

November 7, 2022 | Sex and the City: Urban Geographies of Sexual Space

December 2, 2022 | The Future of the Queer City

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

"Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Gayle Rubin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:55:29 -0400 2022-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Professor Gayle S. Rubin
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid: Leaf, tree and stand responses to nutrient supplementation in Eucalyptus nitens (November 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97021 97021-21793699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Abstract
Maximizing the growth and productivity of commercial plantations is critical for meeting global demands for wood and paper products, without resorting to unsustainable harvesting of native forests or increasing the plantation estate at the expense of other primary production systems. Because Eualyptus plantations are often established on nutrient-poor soils in Australia, optimizing fertilizer use is an important management tool for maximizing in these systems. To improve site-specific fertilizer regimes, a more detailed mechanistic understanding of the productivity response to nutrient supplementation under varied abiotic conditions is needed. Here, I present a conceptual framework explaining the interplay between nutrition, leaf area dynamics, physiological processes and growth, based on the results of three large-scale field fertilizer experiments in E. nitens plantations in Tasmania, Australia. I present several lines of evidence that large applications of nitrogen exacerbates water stress and hence reduces productivity in warm and dry conditions.

Image: 180 degree view of a forest canopy

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page). Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for password at least two hours prior to the event.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:58:51 -0400 2022-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar 180 degree view of a forest canopy
EEB Thursday Seminar - CANCELLED (November 10, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96699 96699-21800449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you next week!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:56:37 -0400 2022-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar
Saturday Morning Physics | Battery Management System: Engineering a Guardian Angel for Lithium-Ion Batteries (November 12, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99199 99199-21797696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 12, 2022 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

From the Rosetta-Philae spacecraft landing three billion miles away from Earth to the daily commute of an electric vehicle, the battery management system (BMS) has been critical for protecting the pack, minimizing aging, accounting for cell-to-cell variability, and monitoring battery degradation in real-time from field data. Accurate predictions of degradation and lifetime of lithium-ion batteries are essential for reliability, safety, and key to cost-effectiveness and life-cycle emissions. The ultimate BMS task is the detection of the onset of venting, the prediction of imminent thermal runaway, which helps manage the risk of explosions and fires from failing batteries.

This talk will be live in ROOMS 170 & 182 Weiser Hall. You can also watch the talk/Q&A, live, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0l5TJk-LE

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:30:10 -0400 2022-11-12T10:30:00-05:00 2022-11-12T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion The challenge and opportunity of battery lifetime prediction
EEB Tuesday Lunch/Student Evaluation Seminar - Hybrid: Keep it cool: exploring the diversification and adaptation of cold-tolerant floras (November 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97022 97022-21793700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Abstract
Since the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum, the Earth has substantially cooled, exposing flowering plants to new ecological opportunities that they can adapt to. Cold-tolerant angiosperms possess fascinating adaptations and trait innovations that enable them to survive under extreme climates. Montane angiosperms, a special subset of cold-tolerant plants, are well-known for their independent instances of rapid radiation. During this talk, I will discuss my proposed dissertation research, a global analysis of the correlation of montane distribution and speciation rates across major orders of flowering plants including a phylogenetic simulation comparing the macroevolutionary effects of differing turnover rates. Also, with available transcriptome data, I will examine the effect of whole genome duplications and gene duplications on the cold adaptations of alpine-arctic lineages in Caryophyllaceae.

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page). Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for password at least two hours prior to the event.

Image credit: Keyi Feng

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:21:25 -0500 2022-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Mountain in Alaska
Distinguished University Professorships Lecture Series (November 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100187 100187-21799321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Ruthven Administration Building
Organized By: University and Development Events

Sponsored by the President, Provost and Rackham Dean’s Office, this event features three Distinguished University Professors speaking on their professional and scholarly experiences. Each concise lecture will be followed by a brief Q & A.

Program:
“Singularities” by Karen Smith (William Fulton Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts)

“Life and Taxes” by Joel Slemrod (David Bradford Distinguished University Professor of Economics, Department of Economics; Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy,Stephen M. Ross School of Business)

“Managing Microbiomes in Urban Water Systems” by Lutgarde Raskin (Vernon L. Snoeyink Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, Altarum/ERIM Russell O'Neal Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,College of Engineering)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:15:02 -0500 2022-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Administration Building University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion DUP Event Information
Science Café: Mapping ocean biodiversity hotspots (November 16, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101196 101196-21800929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Paleontology

Please join the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History and longtime host Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub for another Science Café!

We will discuss how Matt uses old fossil fishes to answer new questions about biodiversity hotspots in ancient oceans. Hernán will help us consider how this research can shed light on the biodiversity changes we see today.

Hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 p.m. The program begins at 6:00 p.m.
Seating is limited—come early.

Made possible by the National Science Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:16:43 -0500 2022-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 2022-11-16T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Paleontology Lecture / Discussion Science Café at Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub
EEB Thursday Seminar - Virtual: Climate adaptation in marine foundation species (November 17, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96700 96700-21793098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be held virtually on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
As climate change threatens global biodiversity, it has become increasingly clear that evolutionary processes will play an important role in species persistence through the next century. My lab uses genomic tools, paired with ecological experiments and large-scale climate data to understand the genomic mechanisms underlying adaptation to different climate regimes, with the ultimate goal of integrating evolution into predictive frameworks. In this talk, I will discuss past and ongoing work addressing patterns and predictions for climate adaptation in marine foundation species.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:52:21 -0400 2022-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Ahya Raro. Photo Credit: Rachael Bay.
A discussion on the Stepping uP Against Racism and Xenophobia (SPARX) Project (November 18, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101204 101204-21800938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

As Nelson Mandela stated, “no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin;” yet, racism and xenophobia perpetuates in individuals and systems. How are racism and xenophobia learned, and how can they be unlearned, in childhood and adolescence? How can we effectively disrupt the effects of racism and xenophobia on children and adolescents? Many schools and policymakers attempt to address racism and xenophobia. Yet, they often rely on anecdotal suggestions instead of scientifically-informed best practices and intervention approaches.

The Stepping uP Against Racism and Xenophobia (SPARX) Project involves a collaborative of scholars and community members who are committed to promoting antiracist and antixenophobic competencies in children. Dr. Deborah Rivas-Drake, 2022 Research and Community Impact Fellow, will moderate a panel discussion focusing on how to develop and maintain university-partnerships that center community members’ voices, concerns, and priorities. Panelists include Drs. Andrew Grant-Thomas, Laura-Ann Jacobs, and Gabriela Livas Stein, who will share their experiences communicating and connecting anti-racist and anti-xenophobic research to practice with parents, caregivers, and educators.

Moderator: Dr. Deborah Rivas-Drake, Stephanie J. Rowley Collegiate Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan

Panelists:

Dr. Andrew Grant-Thomas, Co-Founder and Co-Director of EmbraceRace

Dr. Laura-Ann Jacobs, Anti-Racism Collaborative and SPARX Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan

Dr. Gabriela Livas Stein, Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:38:40 -0500 2022-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Title of event and speaker headshots
EEB dissertation defense: From urban to agroecosystems: effects of land use on pollinators and ecosystem services (November 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97023 97023-21793701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Chatura defends her dissertation during our weekly lunch seminar series, which features internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page). Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for password at least two hours prior to the event.

Image: Chatura Vaidya

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:46:31 -0500 2022-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar bumblebee on a purple flower next to the road
Farrand Memorial Lecture (December 1, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101199 101199-21800931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Museum Paleontology

A public reception will precede the lecture in the museum atrium and lobby beginning at 6:00 p.m. The museum is located in the Biological Sciences Building (address above).

Join Daniel C. Fisher, Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, U-M Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Curator, U-M Museum of Paleontology, for the 22nd annual William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture, presented by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.

Focusing on the life of the Buesching mastodon, represented by the large cast skeleton displayed in the atrium of the U-M Museum of Natural History, On the Trail of an Ice Age Mastodon will reveal the story of one male’s struggles and victories, from adolescence to the mating-season battle that ultimately claimed his life.

Paleontologists seeking to understand the lives of extinct animals often make do with scant clues gleaned from an animal’s skeleton, from its circumstances of preservation, and from its time of death. Reconstructing lost ecosystems is always a challenge, but sometimes we get lucky. At its best, the fossil record provides clear snapshots, or even motion sequences from the past, such as footprints showing how an animal moved. On a larger scale, we can now read records of growth and behavior archived in the mineralized layers of mastodon tusks, allowing us to follow a single animal for years, across entire landscapes. For the first time, we identify seasonal migratory behavior that may have been key to meeting the challenges of reproduction near the end of the Ice Age.

This event will be live-streamed.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:49:23 -0500 2022-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T21:00:00-05:00 Museum Paleontology Lecture / Discussion On the Trail of an Ice Age Mastodon
The Fall 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000" (December 2, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99610 99610-21798396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Gayle S. Rubin

"The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000"

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

September 16, 2022 | Leather: the Emergence of a Subculture

October 7, 2022 | A Short History of Perversion

November 7, 2022 | Sex and the City: Urban Geographies of Sexual Space

December 2, 2022 | The Future of the Queer City

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

"Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Gayle Rubin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:57:43 -0400 2022-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Professor Gayle S. Rubin
EEB student evaluation seminar: Ecological controls of marine fish speciation rates (December 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101784 101784-21802347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mathaeus presents their preliminary seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:56:21 -0500 2022-12-07T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event poster
EEB Thursday Seminar - CANCELLED (December 8, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96701 96701-21801468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you next semester!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Nov 2022 07:07:54 -0500 2022-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Saturday Morning Physics | Fluid Instabilities: Stars, Bars, and Fusion (December 10, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99201 99201-21797698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 10, 2022 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Fluids are constantly mixing in our everyday lives. Some examples are oil and vinegar or coffee and cream. While we often don't think too much about how these fluids mix, they can have profound consequences in material ejecta in the Universe, fusion energy, and at your local pub. This talk will give a fundamental description of fluid mixing, discuss examples found in nature and engineering, and describe the effects mixing can have.

This talk will be live in ROOMS 170 & 182 Weiser Hall. You can also watch the talk/Q&A, live, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLXmkQUwlg

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:08:19 -0400 2022-12-10T10:30:00-05:00 2022-12-10T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Figure Credit: Adrianna Angulo
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (January 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21806190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

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Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (January 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21806191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

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Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid - "Defense evolution across the wild grape genus Vitis" (January 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97025 97025-21793703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series features internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom.

Zoom Link
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98638167446
contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for the password

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:45:28 -0500 2023-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Seminar Flyer
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: All-female salamanders: the genomic, evolutionary, and ecological consequences of strange vertebrate reproduction (January 12, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96703 96703-21793102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
All-female salamanders in the genus *Ambystoma* are the oldest unisexual vertebrates, composed of a single mitochondrial lineage and multiple nuclear genomes introgressed from other salamander species. The unique characteristics of this system provide interesting perspectives on the maintenance of sex and polyploidy. Our work combines genomics, physiological, and ecological approaches to understand how all-female salamanders have co-existed with related sexual species, how their numerous nuclear genomes have moved between lineages, and how the interactions between their mitochondrial and nuclear genomes influence their basic physiology.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:12:11 -0400 2023-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Ambystoma salamander. Photo Credit: Zac Herr (ZTH Photography)
Special Saturday Morning Physics | NASA Astronaut and Physicist Josh Cassada Live from the International Space Station (January 14, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102681 102681-21804977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 14, 2023 10:30am
Location: Central Campus Classroom Building
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Josh Cassada will answer questions live from the International Space Station, and commentary will be provided by ​former NASA engineer John Foster, U-M Applied Physics Alumnus and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and Professor of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering.

Click this URL to send us a question for Josh: https://myumi.ch/Ek1Xr
Please submit your question by 1/11/23. Those in attendance may have the opportunity to read their question during the event.

Discover more about Josh Cassada and this event: http://www.saturdaymorningphysics.org

Event will also be available via live stream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/34tEqQyB1Mk

Only this SMP event will be located in a different venue: 1420 Central Campus Classroom Bldg., 1225 Geddes, Ann Arbor, MI

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:28:04 -0500 2023-01-14T10:30:00-05:00 2023-01-14T11:30:00-05:00 Central Campus Classroom Building Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Josh Cassada on assignment.
Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium (January 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101994 101994-21803149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Speaker: Steven Kahn
Professor of Mathematics, Wayne State University (WSU)
Co-Founder, WSU Math Corps
Director, WSU Center for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics

Title: Math Corps: Social Justice Through Loving and Believing in Kids--and a few Equations

Abstract: For over 30 years, the Wayne State University Math Corps—through summer camp and Saturday programs—has been working to provide Detroit’s children with the kinds of educational and lifetime opportunities that all children should have. Over the past several years, the Math Corps at U(M) has been doing the same, serving children from Ypsilanti. Rooted in social justice and based on a philosophy of “loving and believing in kids”, the Math Corps has achieved dramatic results and garnered national recognition and widespread acclaim. This talk will examine some of the principles and practices that drive the program, and that have been the most responsible for its success. Specific examples to be highlighted include: the “kids teaching kids” model of teaching and learning, the dedication to building a community that is centered, above all, around kindness, the belief in the importance of humor in all of our daily lives (“Three mathematicians walk into a bar...”), and most importantly, the absolutely unwavering vision that the kids in the Math Corps are all leaders in the fight for a better and more just world.

This event is in-person and online.
Zoom: Meeting ID: 913 4525 9193 Passcode: greatness

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:20:24 -0500 2023-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Steve Kahn
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Transforming the study of food web architecture in an age of global change (January 19, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96704 96704-21793103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
From individual growth and survival to the ecological trajectories of populations to the social and culture fabric of society, food plays a pivotal role in shaping life on Earth. As climate continues rapidly changing and more complex human-environment interactions emerge, it has become even more important to understand how these relationships shape the ecological processes that maintain the structure and function of ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. In this talk, I will explore a series of interconnected case studies on food web dynamics in coral reef socio-environmental systems, which hold some of the highest biodiversity in the world, provide food for ~1B people, and support >$375B in global goods and services. I plan to show how taking a molecular approach to food web ecology can shed light on some fundamental questions in ecology while providing scientific support to address current and emerging ocean challenges. Through this process, I want to highlight the need and value to think about ecology in a decolonized context that centers the voices, experiences, and ways of Indigenous communities who steward >80% of coral reefs globally.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:25:59 -0400 2023-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Photo Credit: Modified from image by Dr. Mark Priest.
The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" (January 20, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99611 99611-21798398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Michael Lempert

"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale"

Lecture Series Abstract:

What trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely, "microscopically"? These lectures explore the political, epistemological, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the "small" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the "interpersonal" relate to the "institutional," "micropolitics" to "mass" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

January 20, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World

February 10, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation

March 17, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction

April 14, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

Michael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize), coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press, 2012), and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of "liberal listening," funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:03:28 -0400 2023-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid - New approaches for modeling variation in rates of trait evolution (January 24, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97027 97027-21793705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Abstract: Rates of trait evolution vary markedly across the tree of life, from the accelerated evolution apparent in adaptive radiations to the remarkable evolutionary stasis exhibited by so-called "living fossils". Identifying and understanding the causes and consequences of such "rate heterogeneity" has critical implications for robustly testing evolutionary hypotheses and, more generally, elucidating how and why levels of phenotypic diversity vary across space, time, and taxa. For my dissertation, I am developing novel phylogenetic comparative methods for inferring variation in rates of continuous trait evolution. These methods will fill key gaps in the comparative biologist's toolkit and provide researchers with more power and flexibility in exploring and dissecting rate heterogeneity across the tree of life.

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:55:33 -0500 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion event details image
Michigan in Washington Info Session (January 25, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103179 103179-21806521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Come learn more and ask questions about Michigan in Washington.

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Meeting Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:20:13 -0500 2023-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
EEB Thursday Seminar - Virtual Wagner Lecture: Harnessing the power of big data and artificial intelligence to understand and protect biodiversity (January 26, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96705 96705-21793104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
In this talk I will summarise collaborative efforts from my research group to unveil the patterns and processes underlying the outstanding biodiversity found today in the world’s tropical regions, with a focus on the American tropics and additional examples from Africa and Madagascar. By comparing the current distribution and evolutionary history of multiple organism groups, we have been able to identify common effects of historical events (such as mountain uplift, climate change and river shifts) on biodiversity. To our aid we use molecular and spatial information from field collected specimens and natural history collections, develop new computational tools and review fossil evidence. I will then discuss how the information we are gaining from the past may help predict the future and identify priorities for conservation in a time of escalating biodiversity loss due to the expansion of agriculture, climate change, invasive species and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:10:26 -0400 2023-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Photo Credit: Johan Wingborg, University of Gothenburg
Faculty Symposium on Anti-Racism Research and Scholarship at U-M (January 30, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101823 101823-21802389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 30, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the Anti-Racism Collaborative at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (ARC/NCID), and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) invite faculty and postdoctoral fellows to a two-day, in-person symposium exploring anti-racism research and scholarship at the University of Michigan (U-M).

In March 2021, a campus wide focus on anti-racism research and scholarship was galvanized through the development of the Anti-Racism Collaborative (ARC) at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) — as part of the provost’s anti-racism initiatives — and the launch of the two-year Anti-Racism Grants program by the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) in partnership with NCID.. The complementary and shared goals between these two efforts include fostering innovative and interdisciplinary research that promotes racial justice and racial equity, supporting a community of anti-racism scholars, and amplifying the anti-racism research expertise among U-M faculty and researchers.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE FACULTY SYMPOSIUM?
The Faculty Symposium on Anti-Racism Research & Scholarship at U-M is a convening of faculty and postdoctoral fellows who seek to challenge systemic racism through their research and scholarship, want to be in community with faculty addressing systemic racism from intersectional perspectives or other disciplinary fields of study, and/or want to engage in dialogue around institutional supports for faculty who engage in anti-racism research and scholarship.

For more information, visit the event webpage or contact anti-racism-symposium@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 03 Jan 2023 10:36:41 -0500 2023-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 2023-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League National Center for Institutional Diversity Conference / Symposium Event title
Faculty Symposium on Anti-Racism Research and Scholarship at U-M (January 31, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101823 101823-21802390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the Anti-Racism Collaborative at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (ARC/NCID), and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) invite faculty and postdoctoral fellows to a two-day, in-person symposium exploring anti-racism research and scholarship at the University of Michigan (U-M).

In March 2021, a campus wide focus on anti-racism research and scholarship was galvanized through the development of the Anti-Racism Collaborative (ARC) at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) — as part of the provost’s anti-racism initiatives — and the launch of the two-year Anti-Racism Grants program by the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) in partnership with NCID.. The complementary and shared goals between these two efforts include fostering innovative and interdisciplinary research that promotes racial justice and racial equity, supporting a community of anti-racism scholars, and amplifying the anti-racism research expertise among U-M faculty and researchers.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE FACULTY SYMPOSIUM?
The Faculty Symposium on Anti-Racism Research & Scholarship at U-M is a convening of faculty and postdoctoral fellows who seek to challenge systemic racism through their research and scholarship, want to be in community with faculty addressing systemic racism from intersectional perspectives or other disciplinary fields of study, and/or want to engage in dialogue around institutional supports for faculty who engage in anti-racism research and scholarship.

For more information, visit the event webpage or contact anti-racism-symposium@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 03 Jan 2023 10:36:41 -0500 2023-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League National Center for Institutional Diversity Conference / Symposium Event title
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid (January 31, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97028 97028-21793706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

This week, in lieu of our typical seminar, we will be hosting a graduate student lunch during our seminar time with speaker Dr. Carl Bergstrom, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Washington. Dr. Bergstrom will be presenting a public seminar on "The crisis of human collective decision-making in a social media world" at 4-5 pm in Rackham.

Note that this lunch event is for grad students and postdocs only.

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:21:04 -0500 2023-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Dr. Carl Bergstrom
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid (February 7, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97029 97029-21793707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:12:07 -0500 2023-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Artistic reconstruction of Coccocephalus wildi showing its brain. Made by the paleoartist Márcio L. Castro
2023 Helmut W. Baer Lecture | The Insidious Neutrinos, Entropy, and Gravitational Collapse (February 8, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103833 103833-21807980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

This will be a hybrid event. Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lufAjs_V5Ys

The Insidious Neutrinos, Entropy, and Gravitational Collapse: what we learn about neutrinos, beyond standard model physics, and the creation of the elements, from the collapse of massive stars

The weakest forces of nature team up to engineer the demise of massive stars, compact objects, and maybe the odd causal horizon volume in the very early universe.

Stars make a Faustian bargain with gravitation and the weak interaction: Energy generation and, hence, promise of a longer life, in exchange for changing composition and the seemingly innocent loss of a little entropy through neutrino emission. It is a good deal for lower-mass stars like the sun. But the price proves to be too high for stars with masses in excess of ~ 8 solar masses, where the neutrino emission-induced loss of entropy and the nonlinear nature of gravitation combine with the weak interaction and exotic nuclear physics to cause collapse of the cores of these stars to neutron stars or black holes. Stars with masses in excess of ~ 100 solar masses likewise are vulnerable to instability because so much of their pressure support comes from radiation.

In fact, the nonlinear nature of gravitation means that self-gravitating systems get into trouble whenever their pressure support involves particles moving near light speed. Such objects are, in the words of my late research mentor, “Trembling on the verge of instability.”

That means that very subtle influences, from known, standard model weak interaction processes, but perhaps also from new, beyond-standard-model physics, can figure in the evolution of these objects. Collapse to neutron stars or black holes is the inevitable outcome, but clues about how these murders were committed may be found in nucleosynthesis (especially of the heaviest nuclei) and in the spectrum of remnant masses.

We will discuss how frontier issues in elementary particle physics, especially those involving the mysterious and ghostlike neutrinos, could figure prominently in what happens in these gravitational collapse events and their aftermath.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:48:27 -0500 2023-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar George M. Fuller, Distinguished Professor of Physics
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Disentangling soil food web dynamics in the era of global change (February 9, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96706 96706-21793105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
Soils contain the most diverse community of organisms in terrestrial ecosystems, with essential roles in nutrient cycling and food-web dynamics. Human-induced disturbances remain a significant threat to the structure and functioning of soil food webs, yet our understanding of how they respond to environmental change is limited. I present two examples (i.e., plant invasion and resource subsidies) of how environmental change can influence soil food web dynamics. First, I show how garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)—a widespread North American plant invader—affects soil food webs by altering fungal composition and biomass. In a second example, I show how aquatic insect subsidies can affect subarctic food webs by adding novel resources, resulting in increased microbial activity, litter decomposition, and plant biomass. Together these two examples illustrate that soil food webs are highly sensitive to resource changes in the environment, leading to shifts in ecosystem processes and plant community dynamics.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:25:34 -0400 2023-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Dr. McCary working in the field.
#BlackLivesMatter Arts in the Performing Arts (February 10, 2023 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104604 104604-21809721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Initially a hashtag, but now a global movement, #BlackLivesMatter emerged as a response to the 2013 acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murder. With the mission to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes, the global network is expansive, affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folx, as well as Black peoples' humanity. But, what is the role of the arts in advancing #BlackLivesMatter? That is the central question this webinar will explore by engaging artists from dance, music, theatre, and visual art.

Moderator:
Antonio C. Cuyler, Professor of Music in Entrepreneurship & Leadership in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan

Panelists:
Lawrence M. Jackson, Associate Professor in the School of Dance at George Mason University

Alysia Lee, President of the Baltimore Children & Youth Fund; Founder and Artistic Director of Sister Cities Girlchoir; and Choral Composer

Joshua Rashaad McFadden, Assistant Professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Ayvaunn Penn, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Texas Christian University

Joel Thompson, Composer, Pianist, Conductor, and Educator

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:17:30 -0500 2023-02-10T12:30:00-05:00 2023-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Title of event and speaker headshots
The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" (February 10, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99613 99613-21798400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Michael Lempert

"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale"

Lecture Series Abstract:

What trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely, "microscopically"? These lectures explore the political, epistemological, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the "small" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the "interpersonal" relate to the "institutional," "micropolitics" to "mass" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

January 20, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World

February 10, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation

March 17, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction

April 14, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

Michael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize), coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press, 2012), and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of "liberal listening," funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:50:17 -0500 2023-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Saturday Morning Physics | The Transition to Renewable Energy: Truths and Consequences (February 11, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104529 104529-21809563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 11, 2023 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

This is an in-person lecture. You may also watch a live stream on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OplDYUtTRto

There is growing support for the transition from a global energy infrastructure dependent on coal, natural gas, and oil to one entirely reliant on a combination of battery electric vehicles, photovoltaic solar, wind turbines, and grid-scale battery storage. Manufacturing and deploying these renewable energy resources requires dozens of natural resources, including copper, lithium, nickel, tellurium, cobalt, indium, tin, chromium, and many, many others. Where do these resources come from? Is there enough? Will they be available on the timescale we need? What are the economic constraints on their availability? What are the environmental permitting constraints on the timeframe for production and delivery to market? What are the political constraints on their availability? Please join me for a presentation where I answer these questions and more.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:24:01 -0500 2023-02-11T10:30:00-05:00 2023-02-11T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid (February 14, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97030 97030-21793708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:28:37 -0500 2023-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
EEB student evaluation seminar: Evolution Evolving: Mechanistic Origins of Evolvability (February 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101403 101403-21801307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bhaskar presents their preliminary seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:28:30 -0500 2023-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event flier
Michigan in Washington Information Session (February 15, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103236 103236-21806522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Join us to ask questions and learn more about MIW!

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Meeting Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:58:11 -0500 2023-02-15T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Linking ecology and epidemiology to understand pathogen evolution (February 16, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96707 96707-21793106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
Pathogen evolution presents a continuously moving target for modern medicine. Biomedical interventions like vaccines and targeted drugs are cornerstones of modern life and medicine. In isolation, however, these costly and reactive approaches aimed at eradicating bacteria concomitantly select for more virulent and resistant variants and ultimately, ease their spread. Interventions that are informed by evolution and ecology have the potential to confront the largest sources of preventable death in the US and will play a key role in the future of personalized medicine.

Metabolic adaptations precede and facilitate pathogen evolution by offsetting the fitness costs of energetically expensive traits like virulence, transmission, and drug resistance. Despite understanding the basic molecular mechanisms governing metabolic-specific adaptations to various drugs, we remain far from accurately predicting their effects on pathogen evolution to tailor metabolic-based therapeutics. My research seeks to close this gap by developing and empirically testing multi-scale mathematical models to understand how metabolic adaptations influence the fitness landscape and evolutionary trajectory of pathogens.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:41:02 -0500 2023-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Graphic of pathogen evolution.
EEB student evaluation seminar: A forgotten link: The role of intransitivity and disturbance in the structuring of vine communities (February 17, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103623 103623-21807568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Simone presents their preliminary seminar.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:18:08 -0500 2023-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion event details image
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (February 17, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104070 104070-21808362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series

"The Petro-State Masquerade:
Oil and Sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago"

By Ryan Cecil Jobson
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Chicago

In-person and virtual
3:00 - 4:30 PM
West Hall, Room 411
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

“The Petro-State Masquerade” considers how postcolonial political futures in the Caribbean nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago came to be staked to the market futures of oil, natural gas, and their petrochemical derivatives.

Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Jobson theorizes how the tenuous relationship between oil and political power—enshrined in the hyphenated form of the petro-state—is represented by postcolonial state officials as a Carnivalesque “masquerade of permanence” through the perpetual expansion of fossil fuel ventures. At the same time, low oil and gas prices, diminishing reserves, and renewable energy innovations threaten the viability of the Trinbagonian energy sector. In turn, Jobson examines the turn to offshore exploration in the deepwater sector beginning in 1998.

Characterized by protracted production cycles, deepwater ventures feature prohibitive costs and a comparatively low probability of success. After several deepwater ventures failed to yield substantive commercial quantities of oil or gas, the unfulfilled potential of a lucrative offshore geology is invoked to mitigate uncertainty and secure the long-term viability of the Trinbagonian energy sector. In their masquerade, state officials depict fossil fuels as inexhaustible resources waiting to be unearthed by multinational capital and novel extractive technologies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:49:50 -0500 2023-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T16:30:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid - Developing frameworks for correlated character evolution in phylogenetic comparative modelling (February 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97031 97031-21793709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series features internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and live-streaming on Zoom.

Virtual Access: Please email eebsemaccess@umich.edu two hours prior to the event for the passcode.

TALK TITLE:
Developing frameworks for correlated character evolution in phylogenetic comparative modelling

PREVIEW:
The astounding diversity of life is the result of billions of years of evolution. And while the results of evolutionary change are evident in the world around us, the underlying processes that generated them are yet to be fully revealed. Hypotheses about how these processes play out over millions of years are often tested with phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs). PCMs combine present-day observations with knowledge of how species are related to one another to test hypotheses of unobserved evolutionary change. However, major methodological gaps exist both in terms of outstanding problems within current models and limitations to the types of datasets that are even analyzable. In this talk I will outline some of the challenges facing models of correlated character evolution and discuss some possible solutions. I will end the talk by discussing the potential for Artificial Intelligence to help understand the evolution of highly complex characters.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Feb 2023 14:10:35 -0500 2023-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event poster
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Mechanisms of behavioral evolution: lessons from poison frogs (February 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96709 96709-21793108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
Research in our lab asks how nervous systems can be both strikingly flexible and remarkably robust, and how these phenomena simultaneously give rise to widespread similarities and incredible diversity in behavior. We use integrative approaches to address these questions across levels of biological organization and timescales, using charismatic frogs as a model system. The talk will provide a conceptual framework as well as data-driven background for ongoing projects in the lab, exploring mechanisms of inter- and intra-specific variation in parental behavior and juvenile aggression in poison frogs.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:49:37 -0500 2023-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Poison frogs being studied by the lab.
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (February 27, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21805124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

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Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2023-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-01T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 2, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 2, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
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Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-02T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-06T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB student evaluation seminar: Face It: The Structure and Development of Cognition in Polistes fuscatus (March 6, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104448 104448-21809066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jaunita presents their preliminary seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:02:38 -0500 2023-03-06T14:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T15:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar wasp
EEB student evaluation seminar: "Spatiotemporal dynamics of geographic range in seasonally migratory birds" (March 6, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104449 104449-21809068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Matthew presents his preliminary seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:56:46 -0500 2023-03-06T15:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Handbook of Birds of the World
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 7, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
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Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 8, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 9, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 11, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2023-03-11T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Family Friendly Saturday Morning Physics | Physics Goes BOOM: Energy in Action! (March 11, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104884 104884-21810395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2023 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In-Person Event: Lecture and Q&A, live-streamed on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88YB3rowW4

Energy takes many forms: electrical, chemical, heat, sound, light… With selections from the famous University of Michigan Warren M. Smith Demolab and audience participation, we will explore how energy changes form to impact our lives every day.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:29:31 -0500 2023-03-11T10:30:00-05:00 2023-03-11T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Warren M. Smith Demolab
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 12, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-12T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-12T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
"Maasai Remix" Screening and Discussion (March 12, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105545 105545-21812092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the Department of Anthropology proudly present:

MAASAI REMIX
Sunday, March 12, 2023; 7 p.m.

Free admission; doors open at 6 p.m.

Following the screening, hear from the filmmakers, Kelly Askew (Chair, U-M Anthropology) and Ron Mulvihill. They will be joined by Queenae Taylor Mulvihill and two of the Maasai personalities featured in the film: Evalyne Mkulati Leng’arwa and Eliah Parpulis Madukuli.


ABOUT THE FILM:
"Maasai Remix" follows three Maasai individuals who—in the United Nations, a Tanzanian village, an American university—confront challenges and bring hope to their community by drawing strength from local traditions, modifying them when necessary, and melding them with new resources. Adam Ole Mwarabu advocates for Maasai pastoralists rights to land in international political spheres. Evalyne Mkulati pursues a college education in the USA, having convinced her father to return 12 cows to a man contracted to marry her. Frank Ole Kaipai, the village chairman, faces opposition as he promotes secondary school education and tries to save the village forest. Sharing a goal of Maasai self-determination in an ever-changing world, Adam, Evalyne and Frank innovate while maintaining an abiding respect and love for their culture.

ABOUT THE DIRECTORS:
The award-winning team of filmmaker Ron Mulvihill and anthropologist Kelly Askew has produced several films on Tanzania, exploring topics from Zanzibar orchestral music to contemporary Maasai lifeways: "Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar’s Nadi Ikhwan Safaa" (Buda Musique, 2012); and "Orkiteng Loorbaak: Rite of Elders" (2017).

Ron Mulvihill’s feature film "Maangamizi: The Ancient One" won the 2004 Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Film and was Tanzania’s official selection at the 74th Academy Awards. His film "The Marriage of Mariamu" won Best Short Film, the OAU Award, and the Journalists and Critics Award at FESPACO, Africa’s leading film festival (1985).

Kelly Askew, an anthropologist with over 30 years of experience in Tanzania and Kenya and chair of the U-M Department of Anthropology, has worked on several documentary films, including "The Chairman and the Lions" (Documentary Educational Resources, 2012), and a Hollywood feature, "The Ghost and the Darkness" (Paramount Pictures, 1996).

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Film Screening Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:29:36 -0500 2023-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2023-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Anthropology Film Screening Poster for Maasai Remix showing two people in silhouette against a red and yellow stylized landscape
Michigan in Washington Deadline Extended (March 13, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105878 105878-21813190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW deadline for Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 has been extended until March 13th.

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Other Tue, 07 Mar 2023 13:43:58 -0500 2023-03-13T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan in Washington Program Other
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-13T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Connell Memorial Lecture> Ribosome collisions as a signaling hub to impact cell fate (March 13, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104914 104914-21810438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Rachel Green began her scientific career majoring in chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. Her doctoral work was performed at Harvard in the laboratory of Jack Szostak where she studied RNA enzymes and developed methodologies for evolving RNAs in vitro. She came to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1998 following post-doctoral work in Harry Noller’s lab at University of California Santa Cruz where she began her work on ribosomes. Her laboratory is interested in deciphering the molecular mechanisms that are at the heart of protein synthesis and its regulation across biology. Most recently, her work has focused on ribosome-mediated quality control systems that are triggered on difficult-to-translate mRNA sequences deriving from genetic or environmental insults. She has found that such translational distress leads not only to mRNA-specific QC events, but also to the activation of cell-wide signaling and transcriptional responses, mediated by factors that specifically bind to colliding ribosomes. Her laboratory uses both biochemical, genetic, proteomic and genomic approaches to get at these questions in bacterial and eukaryotic systems.

She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a HHMI Investigator.

Lecture is made possible by a gift from her family in memory of Priscilla Connell, a renowned nature photography.

Host: Morgan DeSantis

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:09:49 -0500 2023-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar portrait of Rachel Green in lab
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-14T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid - "Region-wide climate-driven grassland community shifts in a biodiversity hotspot" (March 14, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97033 97033-21793711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom.

Abstract:
Ecological communities have been shifting rapidly under recent climate change with alarming consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem services, yet the generality and causality of such shifts have to be demonstrated. We focus on grasslands in the California Floristic Province, a global biodiversity hotspot spanning 300,000 km2, where considerable climate warming and drying have occurred. We compiled long-term grassland community composition data from 12 observational sites and a warming experiment, estimated hundreds of species’ climate niches from millions of occurrence records, and analyzed changes in community composition and species gain and loss in reference to their climate distributions. We show that these grassland communities experienced significant shifts toward species tolerant of warmer and drier conditions, at a pace similar to climate warming and drying. The consistent observational and experimental evidence establish grassland community shift as a predictable fingerprint of climate change.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:46:00 -0500 2023-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event details image
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB student evaluation seminar: Exploring the role of assembly processes in shaping dominant tree communities in the Amazon rainforest (March 15, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104218 104218-21808662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Raquel presents her preliminary seminar.

This event is hybrid.
Email eebsemaccess@umich.edu for access to this seminar at least two hours prior to event start.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:29:46 -0500 2023-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event details image
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Ecological responses in a warmer and drier future: *from individuals to community to ecosystem level functions* (March 16, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96710 96710-21793109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
Understanding the role of climatic gradients shaping species interactions and system-level structure and function has been the thrust of ecological studies. We are exploring how experimental warming and drought shapes the structure and function of montane meadows and temperate prairies. By tracking individual abundance and functional traits across plant communities, alongside ecosystem carbon dynamics, we address how climatic change influences prairies
and meadows across levels of biological organization. We find that while individuals and communities are shifting under climatic change, ecosystem functions lag behind.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:54:29 -0500 2023-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Photo credit William Farrell
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-17T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" (March 17, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104036 104036-21808304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Michael Lempert

"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale"

Lecture Series Abstract:

What trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely, "microscopically"? These lectures explore the political, epistemological, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the "small" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the "interpersonal" relate to the "institutional," "micropolitics" to "mass" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

January 20, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World

February 10, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation

March 17, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction

April 14, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

Michael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize), coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press, 2012), and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of "liberal listening," funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:32:06 -0500 2023-03-17T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rappaport Lecture: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" promo image
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-18T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Saturday Morning Physics | UN/EARTH - Science and Art from a Mile Underground (March 18, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105049 105049-21810645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2023 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Livestreamed Lecture and Q&A on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US-YWgcU1UQ

Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—one mile underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with University of Michigan Professor Bjoern Penning, LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology, and engineering. In 2019 Gina Gibson became the first artist in residence at SURF. In this special presentation, Bjoern Penning will introduce the LUX-Zeplin experiment, and Gina Gibson will describe her creations that celebrate research deep below the earth’s surface discovering beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:40:55 -0400 2023-03-18T10:30:00-04:00 2023-03-18T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Diversity Scholars in Social Media (March 21, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106131 106131-21813791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Scholars are navigating changing spaces embedded in a system that can be slow and resistant to an evolving digital world. They are receiving competing messages about how and when to develop a digital brand and engage on social media. This session will explore how scholars, particularly those conducting diversity or anti-racism scholarship, are leveraging social media to foster scholarly communities, disseminate their research and scholarship for social change, and connect with public audiences. Panelists will also discuss how they have navigated resistance from colleagues in academia, trolling and bullying on social media, and reporting their social media engagement in the tenure, promotion, and faculty review process.

Moderator
Edmund Graham, Associate Director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity

Confirmed Panelists
Laila McCloud, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Grand Valley State University

Aireale Rodgers, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the HEAL Project

Antar Tichavakunda, Assistant Professor of Race and Higher Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:55:34 -0400 2023-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Public Scholarship Series
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 22, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
We Are Not Powerless (March 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105547 105547-21812107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

We find ourselves living in another year of ever-intensifying anti-LGBTQIA2+ violence. But, as Audre Lorde said to the 1989 graduates of Oberlin College, “... I do have hope. To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair—despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless.”

Highlighting some of this powerful resistance, this event builds on the Spark series, "Living an LGBTQIA2+ Life: Enacting Health Justice for a Flourishing Future." The panel will discuss some of the many ways that LGBTQIA2+ people:

leverage the strengths of their identities and communities to center their mental health and wellbeing;
thrive within their interpersonal relationships and family lives; and,
experience immense joy, pleasure and delight.

We hope this event will spark something in you, some curiosity to start new conversations with those around you about how to better support and resource LGBTQIA2+ people during this time of global trauma from war, climate disasters, food apartheid, a pandemic, and anti-Black, anti-LGBTQIA+, and xenophobic legislation. Ultimately, we hope you leave ready to work with us to chart a path toward a new, flourishing future.

Start now by registering to attend this event, and then continue the conversation through June with The Sexploration Project team as they convene community members, advocates, providers, and scholars for a series of follow-up roundtable discussions.

Confirmed Speakers:
- David B. Green Jr., Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Los Angeles
- Shannon D. Snapp, Associate Professor of Psychology at California State University, Monterey Bay
- Sean Kramer, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
- Michelle D Vaughan, Licensed Psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at Wright State University
- Catherine Schaefer, Graduate Student at the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health at the University of Minnesota

- The Sexploration Project team (moderators), Andrés Cordero, Jr., B. Ethan Coston, Deandra Escañuela, and Natalie Malone (tentative)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:51:42 -0500 2023-03-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Title of event and description
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: #Findthatlizard: ecology, science outreach, and supporting underrepresented groups in herpetology and natural resources (March 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96711 96711-21793110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
In this presentation I'll discuss 1) the biological responses of riparian species facing climate change, 2) the barriers preventing Black women from entering natural resource careers, and 3) alternative educational approaches that could encourage Black girls to pursue careers in natural resources. First, I investigated the impact of stream drying on riparian lizards in southeastern Arizona. Although this study did not detect aquatic invertebrates as significant prey items for our study species, it is likely they are benefiting at least indirectly from stream water. Second, we examined barriers experienced by Black women and found three primary types of barriers they face are structural, socioeconomic, and cultural. Finally, I developed: Black (girls) Outside Leadership Development (BOLD). We found that it's crucial to provide middle school aged Black girls with experiences to learn about natural resources careers and the resources to pursue these careers when they are ready.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Mar 2023 08:15:44 -0500 2023-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Dr. McGee holding virgatus
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 24, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (March 24, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105612 105612-21812268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia series

"Mind the Gap: Human origins and other poorly known events of the Late Miocene of Africa"
By James Rossie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University

In-Person: 4PM, 411 West Hall
Virtually: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

Rossie will talk about his field research at Lake Turkana, and occasionally with the Baringo Paleontological Research Project, aimed at improving our knowledge of ape and human evolution between 14 and 6 million years ago.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Raised in the North Country of New York, James Rossie took an interest in human evolution in college, went to the Koobi Fora Field School in 1995, and then to graduate school at Yale where he was trained by Andrew Hill. While there he met many excellent people, including John Kingston and Laura MacLatchy. After a 3 year post-doc at the Carnegie Museum, Rossie joined the faculty at Stony Brook in 2005. He likes to summer at Lake Baringo and Lake Turkana.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:10:07 -0400 2023-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 25, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-25T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Saturday Morning Physics | Van Loo Family Endowment Saturday Morning Physics Student Presentations (March 25, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105050 105050-21810646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2023 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Livestreamed Lecture and Q&A Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wWN2jeMIyo

Graduate student presentations by two U-M PhD candidates: Blake Hipsley (Physics) and Larissa Markwardt (Astronomy).

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Presentation Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:48:38 -0400 2023-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 2023-03-25T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Presentation Weiser Hall
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 26, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-26T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid - The role of dominant species, herbivores, and climate in shaping plant communities (March 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97034 97034-21793712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series features internal speakers in ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and live-streaming on Zoom.

This event is hybrid.
Email eebsemaccess@umich.edu for access to this seminar two hours prior to this event.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:06:17 -0400 2023-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 29, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Characterizing past communities to build future ones: *lessons from Caribbean conservation paleobiology * (March 30, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96712 96712-21793111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
The Caribbean is one of the most well-studied biodiversity hotspots, but the diversity of today’s Caribbean is only a fraction of what once existed there, as natural and anthropogenic processes have contributed to extinction and extirpation across multiple taxonomic groups. Given this long-term history of environmental perturbations and human impacts, paleobiology is well-suited to inform ongoing conservation needs in the Caribbean, which continues to be impacted by habitat degradation, species introductions, and other global change phenomena. I show how fossil, archaeological, and ecological data elucidate patterns of biodiversity loss and resilience, with direct implications for conservation management. While conservation paleobiology has significant potential in the Caribbean, it also faces major challenges in implementation, in part due to colonial histories and practices of parachute science. I summarize how this colonial legacy perpetuates knowledge and resource gaps, and outline ways in which we can move toward an equitable conservation paleobiology in the Caribbean and elsewhere.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:33:02 -0400 2023-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Individuals working in a square plot. Photo Credit: Melissa Kemp
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (March 31, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
18th Annual Early Career Scientists Symposium (March 31, 2023 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104175 104175-21808557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 9:30am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Michigan invites you to attend the 18th Annual Early Career Scientists Symposium (ECSS). This year, we are excited to announce the theme “Global Change and its Consequences for Green Life.” Green life (i.e. plants, algae, microbes) form the basis of productivity in most ecosystems. Understanding how environmental change can impact the ecology and evolution of green life on earth is critical to the future of most communities, ecosystems, and human societies.
The theme includes, but is not limited to:
1. Direct and indirect impacts of environmental change on green life survival, reproduction, and distribution
2. How green life can buffer the impact of global change
3. Evolutionary responses of green life to environmental change/stress
4. Green life functional traits and their environmental correlates
5. Agroecology

The 2023 ECSS will be held on the 31st of March 2023 at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Garden in Ann Arbor, MI. Six early career scientists will be selected to present their work, and two keynote speakers will be featured. The symposium will also have an afternoon poster session with featured lightning talks and ample time for networking during coffee breaks.

For the chosen talks, we consider early career scientists as senior graduate students (who stand to receive their Ph.D. within two years), postdoctoral researchers, faculty or staff scientists within their first or second year, and researchers at equivalent career stages who are not affiliated with an academic institution.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:19:11 -0400 2023-03-31T09:30:00-04:00 2023-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium event details image
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-01T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Saturday Morning Physics | Quantum Tools to Explore the Universe…and Help Life on Earth (April 1, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105052 105052-21810648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2023 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Livestreamed Lecture and Q&A Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osqz65p5hK8

Scientists exploit the special properties of quantum physics to advance the state-of-the-art in measurement and imaging. These "quantum tools" can be used to probe the nature, history, and fate of the Universe–and can also be applied to down-to-Earth problems, ranging from health to security to navigation. I will describe some examples that have emerged from my laboratory and others over the last couple of decades.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:00:56 -0400 2023-04-01T10:30:00-04:00 2023-04-01T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 2, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-02T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB student evaluation seminar: Uncovering the drivers of tree diversification in lowland and montane Neotropical forests (April 3, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104301 104301-21808805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Diana presents their preliminary seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:02:35 -0400 2023-04-03T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar field photo
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (April 3, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103488 103488-21807340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is proud to present

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia series

"Historical and contemporary anthropogenic effects on mammal communities"
Lydia Beaudrot, Rice University

This event will be presented both in-person and virtually.
Attend on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

Lydia Beaudrot is an Assistant Professor of Biosciences and a faculty member in the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University. Her research group uses observational data and statistical modeling to address research questions at the interface of ecological theory and conservation biology, focusing particularly on tropical forest mammal communities. Beaudrot earned her PhD in Ecology from the University of California, Davis. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoc at Conservation International for the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM). Beaudrot was then a member of the Michigan Society of Fellows in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan for three years before joining the faculty at Rice.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:25:13 -0400 2023-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
Anti-Racism Graduate Research Showcase (April 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105941 105941-21813291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Please join us for an opportunity to meet selected grantees of the 2022 Anti-Racism Graduate Research Grants. Sponsored by Rackham Graduate School, Center for Racial Justice (CRJ), and the Anti-Racism Collaborative at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), the grant program supports engagement in research projects focused on racism, racial equity, and racial justice while advancing graduate student progress toward degree.

In the second year of this program, over $122,000 was awarded to 27 students from across the 19 schools and colleges for their research projects. In this virtual event, attendees will engage with graduate student grantees about their research in moderated breakout sessions. Click here to view all the 2022 grantees' project abstracts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:38:19 -0500 2023-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion title of event and speaker headshots
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Hybrid (April 4, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97035 97035-21793713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly lunch seminar series featuring internal speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:34:37 -0500 2023-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
MCAIM Colloquium: Packings, Tilings and Assemblies of Shapes (April 5, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102603 102603-21804306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: MCAIM Colloquium - Department of Mathematics

Abstract: Packings and tilings of shapes have been of interest to mathematicians, physicists, and puzzlers for millenia. Certain shapes can pack densely to tile space in 2D or 3D. Others cannot tile space, and thus the arrangements that allow them to pack most densely (but with packing fraction necessarily less than one) are of interest for fundamental as well as practical reasons. At lower packing fractions than those that produce densest packings, statistical thermodynamics permits the ordering of many shapes into periodic and aperiodic structures by self-assembly. For some shapes, these ordered assemblies are structurally identical to the shape's (putative) densest packing, but more interesting, and possibly more common, is when the assemblies and densest packings are different. Here we discuss the packing, tiling and self-assembly of polyhedra and polygons, including the curious case of the tetrahedron, where the simplest 3D shape assembles into one of the most complex ordered structures - a quasicrystal.

Event will take place in-person in 4448 East Hall and online via Zoom.

Zoom Webinar Link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98734707290

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:36:42 -0400 2023-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall MCAIM Colloquium - Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan Chemical Engineering
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid Hubbell Lecture: Macroevolution to microbiomes: piecing together the puzzle to understand the evolution of the ants (April 6, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96714 96714-21793112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
To fully understand the macroevolutionary factors that have promoted the diversification and persistence of biological diversity varied tools and disciplines must be integrated. By combining data from several fields including molecular phylogenetics/phylogenomics, comparative genomics, biogeographic range reconstruction, stable isotope analyses, and microbial community sequencing to study the evolutionary history of the insects, we are beginning to understand the drivers of speciation and the interconnectedness of life. Comparative phylogenetic analysis reveals the interconnectedness of ants and plants and that ants diversified after the rise of the angiosperms. While studies combining stable isotope analysis to infer the trophic ecology of the ants and next-generation sequencing of gut-associated bacteria of ants highlight the importance of this microbiome association in the evolution of herbivory. Microbial contributions to ants are not limited to diet enrichment and we find evidence for their role in cuticle formation. These multiple lines of evidence are illuminating a more complete picture of ant evolution and providing novel insights into the role that symbiosis plays to promote biological diversity.

Contact eebsemaccess@umich.edu for Zoom password at least 2 hours prior to event.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:48:17 -0400 2023-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Cephalotes atratus
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 7, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (April 7, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105609 105609-21812263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is proud to present
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series

"Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin"
Bettina Stoetzer, associate professor of anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This lecture will be given virtually starting at 3PM.
Join the webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

ABOUT THE LECTURE
In this talk, Bettina Stoetzer will present materials from her book "Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin." "Ruderal City" traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal—originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks—to theorize Berlin as a “ruderal city.”

Stoetzer explores sites in and around Berlin that have figured in German national imaginaries—gardens, forests, parks, and rubble fields—to show how racial, class, and gender inequalities shape contestations over today’s uses and knowledges of urban nature. Drawing on fieldwork with gardeners, botanists, migrant workers, refugees, public officials, and nature enthusiasts while charting human and more-than-human worlds, Stoetzer offers a wide-ranging ethnographic portrait of Berlin’s postwar ecologies that reveals emergent futures in the margins of European cities. Brimming with stories that break down divides between environmental perspectives and the study of migration and racial politics, Berlin’s ruderal worlds help us rethink the space of nature and culture and the categories through which we make sense of urban life in inhospitable times.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bettina Stoetzer is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the intersections of ecology, globalization, and social justice in the US and Germany. Bettina received her M.A. in Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies from the University of Goettingen and completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2011. Before coming to MIT, she was a Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. Bettina’s book, "Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Life in Berlin" (Duke University Press, December 2022), draws on fieldwork with immigrant and refugee communities, as well as ecologists, nature enthusiasts and other Berlin residents to illustrate how human-environment relations have become a key register through which urban citizenship is articulated in contemporary Europe. The ethnographic research and writing for this project has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the ACLS/Mellon Foundation, and a UC Chancellor’s fellowship. Bettina is also the author of a book on feminism and anti-racism, titled "InDifferenzen: Feministische Theorie in der Antirassistischen Kritik" (InDifferences: Feminist Theory in Antiracist Criticism, argument, 2004), and she co-edited "Shock and Awe: War on Words" together with Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer Gonzalez, and Anna Tsing (New Pacific Press, 2004). Bettina is currently working on a new project on wildlife mobility, climate change, and nationalism in the US and Germany. At MIT, Bettina teaches classes on urban life and ethnography, race and migration, environmental justice, gender, science and technology, and the politics of nature in Germany.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:58:12 -0400 2023-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 8, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 8, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-08T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 9, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 9, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-09T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (April 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105542 105542-21812090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

Thanks for your interest in judging a session https://myumi.ch/ovPb9.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:50:23 -0500 2023-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-10T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
In the Face of Resistance: Advancing Equity in Higher Education (April 10, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106879 106879-21814960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Over the years, the institutional policies, practices, and discourses surrounding affirmative action have changed drastically, and with the impending Supreme Court decision, there is renewed attention to this issue that continues to have a significant impact on how institutions of higher education work to forward diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) on their campuses. In the wake of an impending Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, no matter the legal ramifications of this decision, institutions must be prepared to continue to lead for DEI in higher education in the face of resistance – whether legal or socio-political. This webinar will feature leaders and scholars who have experienced state-level affirmative action bans on how they responded and lessons learned as they lead for DEI.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:12:48 -0400 2023-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion In the Face of Resistance
EEB Special Seminar - On the history, selective effects, and detection of archaic introgression (April 11, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97036 97036-21793714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The discovery of Denisovans is one of the most exciting findings in human evolution in the past decade. The striking similarity between sequences of the high-altitude adaptation gene EPAS1 in modern Tibetans and Denisovans suggested adaptive introgression. However, the time and geographic ranges where the adaptive introgression happened remain unknown. This talk consists of three studies that are related to archaic adaptive introgression. First, I show that modern Tibetans experienced two pulses of Denisovan introgression, among which a group more alike the Denisovans from the Altai mountains introduced the adaptive EPAS1 haplotype, and the positive selection on EPAS1 did not start until well-after the Last Glacial Maximum. Second, resolving the timeline of Denisovan adaptive introgression spurred an opportunity to reexamine Tibetan population history, which remains perplexing after decades of work. By leveraging genetic and archaeological evidence, I show that there are two possible models for the population history on Tibetan Plateau. Lastly, I introduce MaLAdapt – a machine learning method for detecting genome-wide adaptive introgression, which reveals novel knowledge of how genomic variants from archaic humans facilitated modern human adaptations in worldwide populations.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:19:55 -0400 2023-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Tibetan plateau
PROFESSOR SARA BLAIR, THE PATRICIA S. YAEGER COLLEGIATE PROFESSORSHIP IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, INAUGURAL LECTURE (April 11, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103667 103667-21807626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

In an era of digital life and nonstop photo-sharing, the modes of “portrait” and “landscape” are increasingly naturalized as orientations to the worlds we encounter. Yet both have long, complex histories as visual genres that continue, mostly unremarked, to shape our habits of seeing. Reconsidering those histories has been an important project for U.S. photographers who seek to use the camera as a resource for anti-racist imaging, potentially transforming the role of photography itself in representing and reproducing power, difference, and the right to look. This talk, drawn from a project on prehistories of digital imaging, focuses on mid-20th-century photographer Gordon Parks and a recently rediscovered body of his work made in the Jim Crow South. Shooting in the square format, at the intersection of portrait and landscape orientations and genres, Parks draws on their effects both to center lived Black life and to disrupt assumptions about what it means to see and to know race in America.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:57:15 -0400 2023-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Kirby Mills, EEB Ph.D Student (April 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106234 106234-21813955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Kirby Mills, EEB Student
"Apex predators in the Anthropocene: African large carnivore ecology at the human-wildlife interface"

Kirby presents their dissertation defense.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:40:20 -0400 2023-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T11:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event poster
EEB Thursday Seminar - Hybrid: Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population (April 13, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96715 96715-21793113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This seminar will be in-person and livestreaming on Zoom (link this page).

Abstract:
The fundamental goal of the field of population genetics is to understand the evolutionary processes that govern allele frequency change. However, the actual mechanisms causing these changes - variation in individual survival, reproductive success, and movement - are often difficult to directly measure in natural populations. Fully understanding these processes requires the population pedigree, the set of relationships among all individuals in the population through time. Here, we elucidate the relative roles of different evolutionary processes in shaping patterns of genetic variation through time using a 25-year genomic, phenotypic, and pedigree dataset in the Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens). Using gene dropping simulations, we estimated individual long-term genetic contributions and show how they are linked to measures of individual fitness and predictions of allele frequency change. Our approach allows us to quantify the expected genetic contribution of recent immigrants and identify large allele frequency shifts due to gene flow or selection. We modeled the relative roles of different evolutionary processes in shaping patterns of genetic variation genome-wide. Finally, we modified existing selection component analysis frameworks to test for selection acting on specific life-cycle stages. We identified a number of loci that clearly exhibited male gametic selection, sexual selection, and viability selection. By combining pedigree-based models with fine-scale dissection of selection components, this work provides a one of the most complete characterizations of the roles of selection, gene flow, and drift in governing allele frequency dynamics in a natural population to date.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:26:16 -0500 2023-04-13T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Image provided by the Chen Lab
K-Stability Learning Seminar (April 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106479 106479-21814333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Schubert Seminar - Department of Mathematics

Speaker(s): Rahul Pandharipande (ETH Zürich)

Abstract: In these lectures, I will discuss results, conjectures, and counterexamples related to the cohomology and algebraic cycle theory of three fundamental moduli spaces in algebraic geometry: the moduli of curves, the moduli of K3 surfaces, and the moduli of abelian varieties. The lectures will emphasize various beautiful connections between these spaces. The goal will be to present an up-to-date view of the structure of the tautological classes without assuming any previous knowledge of the study of these moduli spaces.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:53:21 -0400 2023-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Schubert Seminar - Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Rahul Pandharipande, ETH Zürich
The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" (April 14, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104039 104039-21808305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Michael Lempert

"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale"

Lecture Series Abstract:

What trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely, "microscopically"? These lectures explore the political, epistemological, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the "small" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the "interpersonal" relate to the "institutional," "micropolitics" to "mass" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

January 20, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World

February 10, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation

March 17, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction

April 14, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

Michael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize), coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press, 2012), and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of "liberal listening," funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:39:04 -0500 2023-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rappaport Lecture: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" promo image
Saturday Morning Physics | The History of the Mystery of Spin: In Celebration of Homer A. Neal (April 15, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105053 105053-21810649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Livestreamed Lecture and Q&A Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFBfqvr9ZYw

Join us for a special lecture to learn about the key contributions of Homer A. Neal and Michigan physicists to the discovery and elucidation of spin physics in the quantum world. This lecture celebrates the Homer A. Neal Physics Research Laboratory.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:17:40 -0400 2023-04-15T10:30:00-04:00 2023-04-15T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Thesis Defense: Long-Distance Migration as a Driver of Sensory Plasticity and Evolution in Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) (April 17, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104968 104968-21810515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Thesis Defense - Darene Assadia, EEB master's student

Darene Assadia defends their thesis.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:49:37 -0400 2023-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event poster
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (April 17, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105607 105607-21812261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia series

"A Behavioral Ecology View on the Gender-Health Paradox"
By Siobhán M. Mattison, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, University of New Mexico

In-Person: 3PM, 411 West Hall
Virtual: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

Why is it that women outlive men yet experience higher morbidity along the way? Public health perspectives have provided important insights on the various factors contributing to the so-called gender-health paradox, but lack a unifying underlying framework to tie different predictors together. In this talk, I describe how behavioral ecology can help to unite disparate findings and explain if and when these trends might be reversed. "Gender reversals" in health among matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo of China illustrate how underlying variation in socio-ecologies impacts gender differences in health, with important implications for interventions designed to mitigate disparities.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Siobhán M. Mattison is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of New Mexico and a rotator at the National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on explaining health and welfare in light of variation in human kinship and social structure norms. She conducts fieldwork with the Mosuo (Na) of Southwest China and among the Melanesian Ni-Vanuatu. She received her doctoral degree in biocultural anthropology from the University of Washington and trained as a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology and demography at Stanford University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:08:50 -0400 2023-04-17T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T16:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
EEB student evaluation seminar: Diana Carolina Vergara-Florez, EEB Ph.D. Student (April 19, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104966 104966-21810513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB student evaluation seminar: Diana Carolina Vergara-Florez, EEB Ph.D. Student
Microbes in the Shells: Unraveling eco-evolutionary processes between venomous molluscs and their microbiome

Diana presents their preliminary seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:59:52 -0400 2023-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event details image
PROFESSOR HELMUT PUFF, THE ELIZABETH L. EISENSTEIN COLLEGIATE PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY AND GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, INAUGURAL LECTURE (April 19, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103674 103674-21807631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Waiting is one temporal modality among others that makes time experiential. Waiting portions out the flow of time as waiters anticipate what is to come. Yet is there a history of waiting? This talk proposes to anchor such a history in the spaces where people waited, especially the early modern antechamber. By doing so, it draws attention to the significance of waiting and letting others wait when studying society and culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:28:55 -0400 2023-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Emily Laub, U-M EEB Graduate Student (April 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105940 105940-21813301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Emily Laub, U-M EEB Graduate Student
"Social group formation and cooperation in Paper wasps"

Emily Laub presents their dissertation defense.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:55:31 -0400 2023-04-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-20T11:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event details image
EEB student evaluation seminar: Samuel Stratton, EEB Ph.D. Student (April 20, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105207 105207-21811378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB student evaluation seminar: Samuel Stratton, EEB Ph.D. Student
"Built different: how development determines seasonal migratory and non-migratory forms in the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)"

Samuel Stratton presents their preliminary seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:35:42 -0400 2023-04-20T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-20T14:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
EEB Thesis Defense - Libby O'Brien, EEB Master's Student (April 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107669 107669-21816345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Thesis Defense - Libby O'Brien, EEB Master's Student
"Long-term leaf and root litter input manipulations influence Q. rubra seedling growth in a mesocosm experiment"

Libby defends their thesis.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:28:26 -0400 2023-04-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-21T11:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event details image
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Héctor Figueroa, Ph.D. Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (April 25, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106862 106862-21814943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Héctor Figueroa, Ph.D. Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
"Tracing the evolutionary origins of alpine plant lineages"

Héctor presents his dissertation defense.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:20:31 -0400 2023-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-25T14:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Undergraduate Awards Ceremony (April 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107437 107437-21816027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

This event celebrates students with exceptional achievements in math. The speaker will be Assistant Professor Linh Truong. It will be live streamed via YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX1TEGrBNGg). A reception will follow the ceremony at 5:30pm.

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Other Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:08:52 -0400 2023-04-27T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-27T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Other Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Awards Ceremony
PROFESSOR NURIA CALVET, THE HELEN DODSON PRINCE COLLEGIATE PROFESSORSHIP IN ASTRONOMY, INAUGURAL LECTURE (May 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103676 103676-21807634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Many things have changed since I got my degree - eons ago. Advances in instrumentation and techniques have revolutionized the field of star and planet formation and evolution. I have been fortunate enough to participate in some of these developments as I will describe in my talk. I will also mention some of my experiences in being a female astronomer and how things have changed over these many years. And I will be happy to talk about my time at the University of Michigan, especially for having had the opportunity to see so many students under my watch grow and become stars.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:37:31 -0400 2023-05-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-05-03T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Kayla Hale, EEB Ph.D. Student (May 4, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106238 106238-21813959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 4, 2023 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Kayle Hale, EEB Ph.D. Student
"Tangled dynamics of trophic and mutualistic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems."

Kayla Hale presents their dissertation defense.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 May 2023 09:33:11 -0400 2023-05-04T10:00:00-04:00 2023-05-04T11:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Whitewashing Anime Adaptations: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution (May 4, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107695 107695-21816376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 4, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

In David Oh’s presentation “Whitewashing Anime Remakes: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution,” he makes a theoretical argument for “whitewashing” as an erasure of difference that centers and makes visible White subjectivity. Specifically, he argues that because of contemporary racial politics, Asian and Asian Americans are vulnerable to filmic erasure. He argues that whitewashing is among many strategies of White supremacy and that whitewashing operates by extending whiteness’s boundaries. For the talk, he focuses on his chapter on anime adaptations, including Dragonball Evolution and Ghost in the Shell to describe the ways Asianness is distorted and minimized in order to subjectify the White hero.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 May 2023 10:30:05 -0400 2023-05-04T13:00:00-04:00 2023-05-04T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Whitewashing Anime Adaptations
PROFESSOR NILS WALTER, THE FRANCIS S. COLLINS COLLEGIATE PROFESSORSHIP IN CHEMISTRY, BIOPHYSICS AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, INAUGURAL LECTURE (May 8, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103679 103679-21807635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 8, 2023 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Billions of safely given mRNA vaccine doses have saved millions of lives worldwide and proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that a transformative era of RNA Therapeutics is upon us, with great promise for overcoming virtually all diseases within this century through personalized medicines. Yet RNA can do so much more! Since the human genome project was completed, we know that at least 75% of our 3 billion DNA base pairs are transcribed into RNA, with the vast majority not coding for proteins but rather for “non-coding” RNAs (ncRNAs). Many of these ncRNAs remain uncharacterized in terms of their structure and function, spawning discussions of whether they are functional or not (and what “biological function” even is!). These applications and discoveries suggest that so far we have underestimated the far-reaching “RNA World” in our body, which may well also have spawned life on earth.
After an introduction to the power and benefits of these “new” and “old” RNA Worlds, this seminar will highlight some of the foundational work by the Walter lab, in which we use modern single molecule fluorescence microscopy to dissect and control the nanometer-sized RNA-protein assemblies that govern life, and particularly gene expression. Specifically, single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) allows us to measure distances at the 2-8 nm scale, whereas complementary super-resolution localization techniques measure distances in the 10 nm and longer range where biology occurs. Embracing the power of these technical advances, we have combined single-molecule, biochemical and computational simulation approaches to show that a bacterial riboswitch – controlled by a metabolite ligand – manipulates the speed of the much larger bacterial RNA polymerase. We posit that many more examples of such intimate coupling between RNA folding and gene expression remain to be discovered, leading to opportunities to identify new Achilles’ heels of the many pathogens that threaten human health. In addition, we are developing tools to observe single RNA nanomachines in action within their natural habitats inside living cells, leading to discoveries that may guide the development of novel cancer-fighting approaches.


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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:43:39 -0400 2023-05-08T16:00:00-04:00 2023-05-08T17:00:00-04:00 LSA Building The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
Thinking Beyond Stereotypes in Asian American Media (May 9, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107806 107806-21817061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Public discussions of Asian American media representation are often overdetermined by narratives of the racial injury of Hollywood stereotypes, or what Black feminist Patricia Hill Collins called “controlling images.” But how have Asian American communities, performers, artists, and thinkers challenged and refigured those controlling images for their own purposes?

This panel brings together the authors of four new books in Asian American media and cultural studies to examine historical, ethnographic, feminist, transpacific, and queer of color approaches to this question. Beyond simply contributing to knowledge “about” Asian American subjects, each book shows us how Asian Americanist critique expands the possibilities of traditional disciplinary fields.

Sponsors: National Center for Institutional Diversity; Anti-Racism Collaborative; Diversity Scholars Network; University of Michigan Library; Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program; Department of Film, Television, and Media

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 May 2023 10:32:51 -0400 2023-05-09T14:00:00-04:00 2023-05-09T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Thinking Beyond Stereotypes graphic
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: (May 12, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106579 106579-21814491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 12, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Teresa presents their dissertation defense.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:36:09 -0400 2023-05-12T13:00:00-04:00 2023-05-12T14:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
EEB thesis defense: (May 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106239 106239-21813960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cheyenne presents their thesis defense.

Please check your email or contact eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for the passcode at least two hours prior to the event.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:56:03 -0400 2023-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2023-05-15T11:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Thesis Defense - Alice Hill, Master’s Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (May 25, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107384 107384-21815935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 25, 2023 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Thesis Defense - Alice Hill, Master’s Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
"Comparing measures of sociality in white-faced capuchins: redundancy and sensitivity to sampling"

Alice Hill defends their thesis.

Email eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for access to this seminar virtually.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 May 2023 14:46:54 -0400 2023-05-25T10:00:00-04:00 2023-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event details image
“The Nature Conservancy: Leveraging Science for Impactful Conservation” (May 31, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108060 108060-21818896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

As part of the 2023 Summer Lecture Series, Doug Pearsall, senior conservation scientist at The Nature Conservancy, will speak at the University of Michigan Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake. Pearsall coordinates research and monitoring projects in Michigan and the Great Lakes for the global nonprofit organization, focused on addressing threats to the state’s wetlands, fisheries, forests and freshwater, such as plastic pollution, climate change and invasive species.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 May 2023 16:41:13 -0400 2023-05-31T19:00:00-04:00 2023-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Doug Pearsall
Pettingill Lecture in Natural History (June 14, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107932 107932-21818434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

As part of the 2023 Summer Lecture Series, Vanessa Ezenwa, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow, will give the Pettingill Lecture in Natural History at the U-M Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake. Ezenwa studies the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animal populations, such as deer, gazelle and buffalo. Her lab work explores interesting questions such as whether group living and migration increase or decrease the negative effects of parasites in the wild.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 May 2023 16:42:30 -0400 2023-06-14T19:00:00-04:00 2023-06-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Vanessa Ezenwa, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Meagan Simons, Ph.D. Student (June 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107998 107998-21818779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Meagan Simons, Ph.D. Student
"Cognition in little minds: Exploring complex behaviors in simple neural systems"
Meagan Simons presents their dissertation defense.

Email eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for the zoom link.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:24:46 -0400 2023-06-15T10:00:00-04:00 2023-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event details image
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Nia Johnson, EEB Ph.D. Student (June 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107768 107768-21816463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Nia Johnson, EEB Ph.D. Student
"Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant-Herbivore Interactions and Plant Defense in Modern Agricultural Landscapes"
Nia Johnson presents their dissertation defense.

Email eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for access to this seminar virtually.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:22:56 -0400 2023-06-16T10:00:00-04:00 2023-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar event details image
“Artist in the Wilderness: Field Work and Art Making" (June 21, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107944 107944-21818591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Leslie Sobel, a mixed media environmental artist from Ann Arbor, is an artist in residence in June at the U-M Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake. She connects climate, water and data through art. Her lecture as part of the 2023 Summer Lecture Series is titled, “Artist in the Wilderness: Field Work and Art Making.”

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 May 2023 16:42:58 -0400 2023-06-21T19:00:00-04:00 2023-06-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Leslie Sobel, Environmental Artist
Space Weather, Aurora Borealis and Photographing the Northern Lights (June 22, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108088 108088-21818927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 22, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

As part of the 2023 Summer Lecture Series, Ross Ellet, a meteorologist at the ABC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio, and a space weather expert, will discuss geomagnetic storms, aurora borealis and how to best photograph the Northern Lights, even if you only have an iPhone, at the University of Michigan Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake. Ellet produces a weekly segment called “Spacing Out” that focuses on night sky highlights and publishes a weekly Great Lakes aurora forecast each Thursday. An aurora chaser, Ross has traveled to the arctic of Alaska and a variety of locations in northern Michigan, southern Canada and northern Manitoba to photograph the Northern Lights.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 May 2023 16:43:32 -0400 2023-06-22T19:00:00-04:00 2023-06-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Northern Lights in Manitoba. Courtesy: Ross Ellet