Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Great Lakes Seminar Series (December 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89700 89700-21665015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)

Please join us for a Great Lakes Seminar Series presentation:
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm EST
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Michael McKay – Executive Director and Professor; Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research; University of Windsor
Title: Life under ice: The rise and fall of Lake Erie’s winter algal bloom

Webinar Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1935127688355002379

About the presentation: Ice cover presents a logistical obstacle to our full understanding of function of north temperate ecosystems. Reflecting this, ecosystem models frequently underestimate, or even neglect biological parameters associated with ice cover. Despite the perceived inhospitable environment imposed by cold temperatures and ice cover during winter in Lake Erie, work over the past decade has revealed numerous examples of high biological activity with abundant phytoplankton biomass dominated by psychrophilic, filamentous diatoms. The diatoms are physiologically robust and the diatom bloom persists through early spring, eventually contributing to carbon export in Lake Erie’s central basin. During mild winters, the bloom is reduced, likely due to light limitation coincident with deep wind-aided mixing. These surveys have demonstrated that diatom assemblages possess ice nucleating abilities, a characteristic promoting ice formation and which enables the winter diatoms to maintain a favorable position in the photic zone when the lake is ice covered. Our recent efforts have focused on mechanisms of bloom decline where chytrid parasites and other pathogens are implicated. Broadening the impact of this research has been a unique partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard promoting citizen science in support of winter data collection.

About the speaker: In 2019, Mike McKay joined the University of Windsor where he serves as the Executive Director of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and Professor in the School of the Environment. Mike received undergraduate- and graduate degrees in Biology from Queen’s University at Kingston and McGill University (Montréal), respectively. Upon completion of his doctoral work, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and with the University of Delaware where he served concurrently at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY. It was during this period that Mike became active in research on aquatic nutrient cycling through his involvement with the ecosystem-scale ocean iron fertilization projects being conducted by scientific personnel from Brookhaven at that time. Mike’s research expanded to include large lakes on his arrival to Bowling Green State University where he served on the faculty for over 21 years studying the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, phytoplankton and bacterial community dynamics and more recently, winter limnology involving research coordination with icebreaking programs of Canadian- and U.S. Coast Guards.

Among Mike’s research honors, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship in 2005 where he was resident at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany) and in 2013, was named Visiting Scholar at the Large Lakes Observatory of the University of Minnesota. He is the author of over 95 peer-reviewed manuscripts, is a co-recipient of the 2019 John Martin award from ASLO and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Great Lakes Research.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:35:31 -0500 2021-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) Lecture / Discussion Seminar series flyer
LHS Collaboratory (December 7, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88230 88230-21651558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR)
University of California San Francisco

Interoperability is considered a key capability of a high-performing healthcare system and has been a top policy priority for more than a decade. Implementing interoperability is, however, a complex undertaking – requiring stakeholder coordination that tackles incentives, governance, technology, standards, and more. In this talk, Dr. Adler-Milstein will describe current approaches to interoperability and where we stand with respect to current levels of national adoption. She will then discuss the implications for Learning Health System efforts at different levels of scale.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:59:31 -0400 2021-12-07T12:30:00-05:00 2021-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual Collaboratory logo
Navigating the impacts of COVID-19 on education in Michigan (December 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89394 89394-21662566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Please join us for this panel discussion about the profound effects of COVID-19 on the state of education in Michigan. Research from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University has looked at shifts in enrollment numbers, indicators of student achievement, and qualitative effects on students and families. Eighteen months into the pandemic, what measurable effects have we seen, what are the long-term implications, and what lessons can be learned from this unique set of challenges?

Speakers:

Delsa Chapman, Michigan Department of Education Deputy Superintendent of Educator, Student, and School Support

Sarah Lenhoff, WSU Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Kevin Stange, U-M Professor of Public Policy

Katharine Strunk, MSU Professor of Education

Moderated by Ron French, Bridge Michigan Senior Writer and Associate Editor

This event is hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Education Policy Initiative, and co-sponsored by Bridge Michigan and University Research Corridor.

Visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2021/navigating-impacts-covid-19-education-michigan for more info and viewing details.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Dec 2021 10:12:55 -0500 2021-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion L-R: Chapman, Stange, Strunk, and Lenhoff
Equity & Inclusion in Accessible Survey Design (December 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86452 86452-21640720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Equity & Inclusion in Accessible Survey Design
Wednesday, December 8, noon to 1:10pm ET via Zoom (link to come)
Speaker: Scott Crawford (Founder and Chief Vision Officer, SoundRocket)

As we work to adapt research designs to make use of new technologies (web and smart devices), it is also important to consider how study design and survey design may impact those who rely on assistive technology. Sections 508 (covering use of accessible information and communication technology) and 501(addressing reasonable accommodation) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 compliance standards have been around for a long time—but the survey research industry has often taken the path providing reasonable (non-technological) accommodations for study participants. These often involve alternate modes of data collection, but rarely provide a truly equitable solution for study participation. If a web-based survey is not compliant with assistive technologies, the participant may be offered the option of completing a survey with an interviewer. Survey methodologists know well that introducing a live human interaction may change how participants respond—especially if the study involves sensitive topics. Imagine a workplace survey on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion where a sight-impaired employee is asked to answer questions about how they are treated in their workplace, but they are required to answer these questions through an interviewer, and not privately via a website. Not only is this request not equitable for the employee (fully sighted employees get to respond more privately), it can also bias the results if the participant is not honest about the struggle for fear of receiving backlash from their employer if the interviewer passed along their frustrations. In the act of being denied equitable participation, future decisions will then be made on potentially faulty results about the experience of such people.

In this presentation, I will focus on developing an equitable research design, partially through considering the overall study—not just the technology itself. But we will also share experiences in the development of a highly accessible web-based survey that is compliant with screen reading technology (screen readers, mouse input grids, voice, keyboard navigation, etc.). I will present experimental, anecdotal, and descriptive experiences with accessible web-based surveys and research designs in higher education student, faculty, and staff surveys conducted on the topic of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Our results will be directly relevant for inclusion and equity in these settings as well as some surprising unintended positive consequences of some of these design decisions. Lastly, I will also share some next steps for where the field may go in continuing to improve in these areas.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:31:55 -0500 2021-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T13:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
MIPSE Seminar | Dynamics of Low Temperature Magnetized Plasmas: Self-Organization and Anomalous Electron Transport (December 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86298 86298-21632606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Low-temperature magnetized plasmas are found in many systems, including plasma processing, space weather, and spacecraft propulsion. Two phenomena that are poorly understood in cross-electric and magnetic field plasma sources, such as magnetrons and Hall effect thrusters, are: (i) self-organized structures and (ii) anomalous electron transport across the magnetic field lines. In this talk, I will present the development of physics-based modeling, including fluid moment models and high-fidelity kinetic models, to address these processes. The fluid moment model coupled with improved boundary condition treatments is applied to low-temperature magnetized plasmas. The particle-based kinetic models are used to investigate multidimensional plasma turbulence initiated by a combination of kinetic instabilities in cross-field configurations. I will also introduce data-driven modeling using optimization and state estimation techniques applied to dynamical plasma systems.

About the Speaker:
Ken Hara is an Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Graduate Certificate in Plasma Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2015, and B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He was a Visiting Research Physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow. He is a recipient of several awards, including the Air Force Young Investigator Program Award, the Department of Energy Early Career Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:49:26 -0400 2021-12-08T15:30:00-05:00 2021-12-08T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Ken Hara
Picturing America (December 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85033 85033-21625475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

America's art tells America's story - the optimism, struggles, humor and pain. We'll explore how people from early inhabitants to today pictured the history and landscape of the country reflecting its ideas and ideals.

Images will range from realistic paintings of John Singleton Copley to modern abstractions by Jackson Pollock, from the innocent America captured by Norman Rockwell in his early work to the struggles of black Americans seen in his late paintings and those of black artists like Jacob Lawrence, and from inspiring views of unspoiled country by Thomas Cole to the lonely cities of Edward Hopper. These artists, and others whose work we'll see, help build our picture of America.

Wendy Evans was raised among the museums of London, England. She has advanced degrees from Oxford University in England and Wayne State University in Detroit, taught Art History at Wayne State University and CCS, and is a long-time volunteer at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She gives Zoom presentations on a wide variety of art subjects. More information about Wendy is on her website www.art-talks.org

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

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Class / Instruction Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:31:12 -0400 2021-12-08T15:30:00-05:00 2021-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
Cryptocurrency: Economic and Environmental Impacts and U.S. Policy (December 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88282 88282-21652025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

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

Cryptocurrency is often in the news lately, yet its effects on the U.S. economy are complicated. After a brief introduction of cryptocurrency from a technology perspective, we will explore its role as an investment and/or a currency, and its potential effects on productivity and economic growth in the U.S. and globally.

Further, we will understand why it has been used to pay ransom related to cyber-hacking, and its environmental impacts due to its use of high levels of processing power. How should financial regulation policy address cryptocurrency in the U.S. going forward?

Our speaker, Robert (Bob) Dittmar is a Professor of Finance at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, the Faculty co-Director of the Ross Fintech Initiative, and the Faculty Director of the Tozzi Finance Center.

His research focuses on empirical determinants of financial security prices, including equities, fixed income securities, and derivatives. His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Econometrics.

Professor Dittmar received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000, and previously taught at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He has taught courses at Ross in Fintech, Asset Management, Fixed Income Securities, and Options and Derivatives at the BBA, MBA, and Ph.D. level.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed shortly before the date of the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:13:27 -0400 2021-12-09T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-09T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Thursday Lectures
"Detroit in Context: Assets, History and Challenges” (December 10, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85049 85049-21625506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Living in Detroit can be complicated. It has tons of amazing assets but, also, faces many challenges. One thing is for sure, Detroit is more than the headlines and stereotypes portray it to be. This virtual tour by the Detroit Experience Factory will help provide understanding as to how Detroit’s history shaped where it is today, connect with what’s happening now, and instill inspiration to take an active role in creating the city’s future.

Highlights include:
● World Class Museums ● Parks and Public Spaces
● Entertainment Venues ● Campus Martius
● Indigenous Past and Present ● The Growth of Detroit
● Entrepreneurial Atmosphere and Grassroots Projects ● Racism in Detroit

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

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:55:30 -0400 2021-12-10T15:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar (December 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89524 89524-21663803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

In-person/Hybrid seminar co-hosted by the Center for RNA Biomedicine and the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Talk title: “Resolving the localisation and dynamics of mRNA and protein synthesis within neurons”

Keywords: mRNA dynamics, local protein synthesis, neurons, neuronal cell biology, synaptic plasticity, in vivo imaging

If you are having trouble registering, please contact Martina Jerant at mjerant@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:12:23 -0500 2021-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Paul Donlin-Asp, Ph.D.,
Discussion of High Impact Research Topics in Global Population Research (December 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85339 85339-21626252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Webinar 7: Discussion of High Impact Research Topics in Global Population Research
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: SPE Program Team

This webinar will feature investigators discussing high priority topics for new global population health research. Discussion will include the potential of CVFS being used to address these topics, as well as other global population health data resources. We will also discuss the potential of proposals to NIH for funding to launch new research on these topics. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

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

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpcO2rrz4vGdH_MismMAIU7j0yKB5qlbuc

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:38:15 -0400 2021-12-15T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-15T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Nepal mountains
How American Health Care Became So Chaotic (December 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88283 88283-21652027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

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

How did the American health care system develop its fragmented, irrational form? The answer is found in an unlikely place—the construction of the modern insurance system through collective bargaining in industry in the postwar years. The organized economic power of industrial workers had a transformative effect on the health care market and reshaped health care policy, as workers’ efforts to preserve their own health and well-being interacted with emerging deindustrialization and rising social inequality.

Our speaker, Gabriel Winant, is a historian at the University of Chicago. His first book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, was published this year by Harvard University Press.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed shortly before the date of the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:17:32 -0400 2021-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-16T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Thursday Lectures
OLLI’s Winter Open House (January 5, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90081 90081-21667714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) would like to invite you to its Winter 2022 Open House.

Learn what is going on with OLLI for the coming Winter semester and hear from our keynote speaker, Dr. Jeffrey Kullgren when he talks about Taking the Pulse of Older Adults: Insights from the National Poll on Healthy Aging.

Dr. Kullgren’s research aims to develop innovative and scalable interventions to help patients and clinicians make sound health care decisions. He will talk about the work of the University of Michigan / AARP National Poll on Healthy Aging, which helps inform the public, clinicians, and policymakers on issues central to the health and health care of older Americans by conducting periodic nationally representative surveys of US adults age 50-80.

Dr. Kullgren, MD, MS, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and a Research Scientist in the Center for Clinical Management Research at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. He holds undergraduate and medical degrees from Michigan State University and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan. He completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Associate Director of IHPI’s National Poll on Healthy Aging.

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:39:33 -0500 2022-01-05T10:00:00-05:00 2022-01-05T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Event
My Path To Michigan Speaker Series (January 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90463 90463-21671091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

UM alumnus, Andre Douglas was selected by NASA to join the 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class. He will share his story in his "My Path to Michigan" lecture for the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering department.

He reports for duty in January 2022. The Virginia native earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a master’s degree in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and a doctorate in systems engineering from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Douglas served in the U.S. Coast Guard as a naval architect, salvage engineer, damage control assistant, and officer of the deck. Upon selection, Douglas was a senior professional staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL) working on maritime robotics, planetary defense, and space exploration missions. Douglas holds a professional engineering license in the state of Virginia and is a champion of youth mentoring and development through FIRST robotics competitions and Junior Achievement mentoring programs.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:25:52 -0500 2022-01-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-07T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Astronaut Candidate Andre Douglas
Smith Lecture: Isotope Evidence of High Pressure Subduction Metasomatism in Continental Ultrahigh-pressure Rocks (January 7, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89100 89100-21660477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 7, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Mica- and garnet-rich selvages are often developed around eclogitized mafic blocks within felsic gneiss in HP to UHP metamorphic terranes. The development of these metasomatic features ranges from readily identified reaction zones between the eclogite and host gneiss to shear zones where the spatial relationships between eclogite blocks and host gneiss are completely obscured. Block-selvage relationships within the Luliang Shan HP/UHP belt (North Qaidam, China) and the Tso Morari UHP terrane (NW Himalaya, India) approximate end members of the selvage preservation process. Here we apply whole-rock and incompatible trace element compositions coupled with B and O isotopic data in white mica to constrain the relationship of metasomatism vs. deformation during selvage formation. Within the Luliang Shan, extensive fluid flow formed thick, compositionally hybridized phengite- and garnet-bearing selvages between eclogite (SiO2 ~ 50%) and quartzofeldspathic gneiss (SiO2 ~ 80%). The Luliang Shan HP selvages have intermediate SiO2 and range from 5-10 m in thickness as “halos” around spheroidal eclogite blocks. Volatile enrichment at near-UHP conditions in the selvage is indicated by enrichment of Li, Cs, Ba, Ar, and δ18O and very light δ11B values in phengite. The retrograde muscovite from the host gneiss is low in Li, Cs, Rb, and Sr but possess remarkably high B concentrations (up to 3000 ppm) and positive δ11B values that are best explained by interaction with fluids devolatilized from accreted sediments within cooler regions of the subduction zone. Alternatively, the Tso Morari UHP terrane features boudinaged discoids of eclogite encased within highly strained quartzofeldspathic gneiss. Whole rock major element sampling performed normal to the foliation reveal consistently high SiO2 (78-80%). Highly variable degrees of metasomatic recrystallization occur within the phengite-rich rocks spatially associated with eclogite. Preliminary analyses of the selvage rocks exhibit heterogeneous degrees of enrichment in Li, Be, B, and Ba and yield δ11B values of -4 to -6‰ typical of undevolatilized oceanic and continental crust suggesting that fluid-mediated metasomatic reaction between eclogite and gneiss at Tso Morari is sheared out into lenses that are incorporated into, and heterogeneously distributed throughout, the host gneiss.

Those wishing to attend remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98984587392

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:15:17 -0500 2022-01-07T15:30:00-05:00 2022-01-07T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Child Health Data in the CVFS (January 12, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85340 85340-21626253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Webinar 8: Child Health Data in the CVFS
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Emily Treleaven

This webinar will give an overview of previous data collections of child health measures, child health outcomes among the CVFS sample, and compare child health indicators in the CVFS sample to the broader population of Nepal using Demographic and Health Survey data. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

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

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqd-uprzIvHtapbdIOc1dQtiZmplrODd9k

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:42:30 -0400 2022-01-12T14:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Smith Lecture: Genesis and Evolution of the El Laco Iron Oxide-Apatite Deposit in the Chilean Altiplano (January 14, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89101 89101-21660479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 14, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The genesis of iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposits, which have been historically a major source of iron for our society, has remained elusive for more than half a century, with proposed genetic models that span the spectrum from purely igneous to purely hydrothermal processes. Much of this long-standing debate has been centered in the Plio-Pleistocene El Laco deposit in the Chilean Altiplano, which is the youngest and one of the best preserved example of this mineralization type on Earth. Its massive magnetite orebodies emplaced on the flanks of an andesitic stratovolcano host more than a gigaton of iron and have attracted significant attention because of their uniquely preserved volcanic-like features which bear a striking resemblance to basaltic lava flows. Therefore, the El Laco deposit is considered as a key location to understand the processes that form IOA systems in volcanic settings.
In this talk I will present the results of a comprehensive study that combined fieldwork with a multi-instrumental microanalytical approach for geochemical and microtextural characterization of ore and volcanic rock samples, which allowed dissecting the El Laco system from its roots to the surface. In particular, I will show how microtextures and chemical composition of magnetite and associated silicate minerals can help us to better understand the processes involved in the formation and evolution of this enigmatic deposit. The results that will be shown support a genetic model that explains the formation of the El Laco deposit by a combination of magmatic and hydrothermal processes operating during the evolution of a volcanic system.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:05:31 -0500 2022-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 2022-01-14T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Advancing Climate Justice & Environmental Health: people-centered approaches to transformational research (January 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90764 90764-21673518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

REGISTRATION REQUIRED
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa4rv9J3SZehApoPqRPIVw
A life-long learner and advocate, Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome founded Empowering a Green Environment and Economy, LLC, a strategic consulting firm, with the mission of transforming communities through the development of people-centered solutions. She serves a diverse set of clients with forward-thinking and intersectional approaches to tackle issues such as climate change, public health, environmental injustice, and advancing racial equity.

Dr. White-Newsome ha has multi-sector experience having worked in environmental philanthropy, state government, non-profit, grassroots, academia and private industry. Most notably, she created and implemented the transformational Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS) Initiative at the Kresge Foundation as a Senior Program Officer; she was the first Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice’s federal policy office in Washington, DC; and, her doctoral research illuminated the impact of climate change & extreme heat on the low-income, elderly in Detroit, and is still referenced to drive public health interventions.

A native of Detroit, Jalonne earned a Ph.D. in environmental health sciences from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Southern Methodist University, a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Northwestern University, and her certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University.

Jalonne serves on multiple national and local academic, non-profit and for-profit Boards. She is a Lecturer at The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, a lifetime member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the proud mom of Arielle and Jeannelyn.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:24:08 -0500 2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-18T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Jan 18 Advancing Climate Justice & Environmental Health
LHS Collaboratory (January 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89940 89940-21666535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This presentation will explore how Big Data Science and Informatics research can overcome deficiencies within the electronic health record and optimize real world data collection. We will discuss examples of how standardized nomenclature integrated into clinical workflow can enable statistical AI methods to advance clinical decision support and improve outcome models. Our successes in radiation oncology come from single multi-institutional, multi-national and multi-professional society collaboration.

Presenters:
Charles Mayo, PhD
Professor
Director of Radiation Oncology Informatics and Analytics
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan Medical School

Michelle Mierzwa, MD
Associate Professor
Associate Chair of Clinical Research
Co-Chair of Head and Neck Clinical Trials
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan Medical School

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:56:37 -0500 2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
Afghanistan Series. A Conversation with Sonita Alizadeh & Cara Cruickshank (January 18, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89959 89959-21666789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The third and final installment of the Afghanistan Series focuses on women in Afghanistan.

Join us on Tuesday, Jan 18th from 3-4pm ET for a Q&A with Sonita Alizadeh and Cara Cruickshank. Sonita will answer audience questions and speak about her advocacy for women’s rights and ending child marriage. Cara will talk about her advocacy for Sonita’s activism and for women in Afghanistan. RSVP: http://bit.ly/SonitaAndCara

Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan rapper and activist who has been vocal against forced marriages. Alizadeh first gained attention when she released Brides for Sale, a video in which she raps about daughters being sold into marriage by their families.

Cara Cruickshank’s work is centered on social ecology, with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion. She is curator and host of artistic, cultural salons and social justice panels through her production company Cafe de la Culture. She is also writer, director, and producer of poetic theater and independent film. Cara’s work has been received by audiences and institutions in France, Turkey, Brazil and throughout the United States. Cara has worked as a Broadway actor and singer, youth arts mentor, educational designer, and residency teaching artist. A core theme of her work is the convergence of women’s stories, multi-media arts and rewilding.


Make sure to catch a free screening of the film *Sonita* before this event. The film is available now on-demand, but views are limited to 60 views total - catch it while you can! Below is more information on the free screening:

*Sonita* the Film by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami:
*SONITA* tells the inspiring story of Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, who dreams of becoming a big-name rapper. This documentary is a two-time Sundance Film Festival award winner.

Watch Now: http://bit.ly/WatchSONITA
PW: sonita56342


This event is free and open to everyone. This event is a part of the Afghanistan Series, brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; Arab and Muslim American Studies; American Culture; Center for South Asian Studies; Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum; Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department Communication & Media; Women's and Gender Studies; and Middle East Studies. This event was made possible thanks to Women Make Movies.



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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:33:01 -0500 2022-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2022-01-18T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion A Conversation with Sonita Alizadeh & Cara Cruickshank
Food Gatherers Community Kitchen: A Recipe for Success Without Any Recipes! (January 19, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90082 90082-21667715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In the food service world, a well trained staff, tried and true recipes and inventory management are essential and non-negotiable. In the Food Gatherers Community Kitchen, our speaker, Scott Roubeck and his small team put out high quality, fresh, nutritious meals 364 days of the year without recipes, all prepared by volunteers and using rescued food that is delivered just two hours before the volunteers arrive to prepare each meal.

Scott will talk about what it takes to feed our neighbors in need, how it gets accomplished and all of the many initiatives that go into making the Community Kitchen shine.

Scott Roubeck is the Food Gatherers Community Kitchen Manager. Scott began volunteering at Food Gatherers in December of 2006 and joined the staff in January of 2008. Scott oversees the day-to-day operations of the Community Kitchen and also runs the Food Conversion Program and the Community Kitchen Job Training Program. Scott has been in the food and hospitality industry for 43 years.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:45:04 -0500 2022-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
Smith Lecture: Illuminating the Mechanisms Underlying Great Transformations in Early Mammalian Evolution (January 21, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89102 89102-21660480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 21, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Mesozoic–Cenozoic transition was an extremely turbulent interval defined by one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth’s history—the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction—and was associated with rising mountain ranges, waxing and waning seas, and fluctuating climates. Mammalian evolution during this interval was similarly dynamic—once-dominant ‘archaic’ lineages went extinct, while new groups arose and diversified. Indeed, many of the biological traits that facilitated the mammalian rise to prominence in modern-day ecosystems trace their roots back to the Mesozoic–Cenozoic transition. In this talk, I will outline key features of my research program, which aims to elucidate the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of these great transformations in early mammalian evolution. The intrinsic perspective focuses on the role that changes in behavior, life history, masticatory systems, and locomotion played in promoting or inhibiting the diversification of major mammalian groups. The extrinsic perspective focuses on the role that mountain uplift, and associated changes to river systems and climate, played in the diversification of mammals across the K–Pg boundary. This two-pronged approach is grounded in paleontological and geological fieldwork, the study of museum specimens, and is fundamentally collaborative, involving diverse analytical techniques and colleagues spanning the fields of paleontology, geology, and evolutionary biology. Ultimately, my goal is to use this integrative and interdisciplinary research program to illuminate the mechanisms underlying patterns of biodiversity in deep time.

If you wish to attend remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98984587392

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:16:02 -0500 2022-01-21T15:30:00-05:00 2022-01-21T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
New Deal policy and the racialization of homeownership (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90734 90734-21673479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

New Deal policy and the racialization of homeownership
by Jacob William Faber, New York University

Bio:
Jacob William Faber is an Associate Professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and holds a joint appointment in NYU's Sociology Department. His research and teaching focuses on spatial inequality. He leverages observational and experimental methods to study the mechanisms responsible for sorting individuals across space and how the distribution of people by race and class interacts with political, social, and ecological systems to create and sustain economic disparities. While there is a rich literature exploring the geography of opportunity, there remain many unsettled questions about the causes of segregation and its effects on the residents of urban ghettos, wealthy suburbs, and the diverse set of places in between.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:38:39 -0500 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Art and Religion in the Cyclades (January 25, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90084 90084-21667717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

With small picturesque ports, lively tavernas, and blue-domed churches clustered alongside white sandy beaches, the Cyclades are many people’s idyllic vision of Greece. In “Art and Religion in the Cyclades,” we will join Dr. Chris Adamson, a classical archaeologist and educator, as he explores the islands long and rich history through the religious art produced there over the last five millennia.

The lecture will examine the iconic minimalist figures of prehistoric “Cycladic Culture,” known to have influenced modern artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore; we will look more closely at some familiar (and less familiar) masterpieces of Classical Greece produced in the islands, including Venus de Milo; and we will navigate the development of Greek Christian art in the islands through to the modern period.

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:30:05 -0500 2022-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
CVFS COVID-19 2021 Pilot (January 26, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85341 85341-21626254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Webinar 9: CVFS COVID-19 2021 Pilot
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Sabrina Hermosilla

This webinar will review the methods and primary findings from the COVID-19 CVFS Pilot Study implemented in the first quarter of 2021. This study explored the physical, social, and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19 prevention measures within households of the CVFS. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

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

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcuCgpz8jGtNqH0O03W4w1QbQmBQAS1ph

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:47:13 -0400 2022-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 2022-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
MIPSE Seminar | A Cocktail of Active Ingredients - Benefits and Challenges for Plasma Medicine (January 26, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90464 90464-21671090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Low-temperature plasmas in or in contact with air produce a variety of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) – some being the same molecules that the human body generates for signaling or antimicrobial effects. Plasma treatment of eukaryotic cells can therefore cause similar effects as an innate immune system oxidative burst. Plasma exposure can mimic an immune response to tissue damage which could initiate a natural healing response. Utilizing plasma-generated RONS for plasma-aided wound healing or plasma oncology is a promising alternative to conventional treatments. Yet, the mechanisms of action and the delivery of RONS to the target are currently still under investigation. In this talk we will explore the cocktail of active ingredients produced by plasmas; the generation and transport of the reactive species O and OH from the gas phase through a liquid to a biological sample and investigate the role that the biological sample plays as part of the reaction pathway. Using the model biological sample cysteine, the results indicate that OH/H2O2-dominated chemistry is similar to that found in redox biology, whereas modifications caused by O-dominated chemistry differ significantly. Atomic oxygen is unknown in nature whereas OH and H2O2 are well known and produced by organisms. The cocktail of RONS and variety plasma sources make it difficult generalize the impact of plasma on cells. However, the tunability of plasma and the ability to tailor RONS to desired outcomes provides a promising tool for the healing of wounds and new strategies in cancer treatment.

About the Speaker:
Katharina Stapelmann is an assistant professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, in 2013, where she continued as postdoc (2014) and assistant professor of electrical engineering (2015-2017) before she joined NC State in 2017. Stapelmann’s research interests lie in the experimental investigation of generation and transport of reactive species for life science applications, e.g., plasma medicine and plasma agriculture. The focus of her research program is on plasma device development, plasma diagnostics, and the interaction of plasmas with biological substrates and systems. Stapelmann is Mercator Fellow (DFG), speaker of the board of trustees of the German national center of plasma medicine and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Journal Plasma Processes and Polymers. In 2021 she was identified as “Emerging Leader” by the IOP Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:24:21 -0500 2022-01-26T15:30:00-05:00 2022-01-26T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Katharina Stapelmann
Virtual FAST Lecture | Preliminary Interpretations of Settlement in Prehistoric Kosova: Results of the RAPID-K Survey (2018–2021) (January 27, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91091 91091-21676647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

FAST, or the Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays, is usually hosted in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. However, for the time being, FAST will be streamed live via Zoom, the link for which can be found below.

Our speakers this month are Dr. Mike Galaty, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; Erina Baci, doctoral candidate in Anthropology; and Zhani Gjyshja, doctoral student in Anthropology. Their presentation is entitled "Preliminary Interpretations of Settlement in Prehistoric Kosova: Results of the RAPID-K Survey (2018-2021)"

Virtual Attendance Location:
Zoom Meeting ID: 997 2075 4806
No passcode needed

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:18:27 -0500 2022-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Prehistoric Kosova
“The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice” by Dr. Scott Ellsworth (January 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90088 90088-21667721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The story of the Tulsa Massacre (1821) has become a symbol of what has been erased in the telling of American history. Scott Ellsworth, a native of Tulsa, stumbled upon an article about the “race riot” as a 12-year old when a librarian was demonstrating a new technology—microfilm. He turned to that subject for his undergraduate history thesis at Reed College in Oregon and then the book “Death in a Promised Land” (1992). His book was considered the first-ever comprehensive history of the horrific 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

With “The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice”, Professor Ellsworth returns to the subject of Tulsa. Described as “riveting and essential,” The Ground Breaking not only recounts the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre, it also unearths the lost history of how the massacre was covered up and the courageous individuals who fought to keep the story alive. Most importantly, it recounts the ongoing archaeological search for the unmarked graves of the victims of the massacre and of the fight to win restitution for the survivors and their families.

Both a forgotten chronicle from the nation’s past and a story ripped from today’s headlines, The Ground Breaking is a page-turning reflection on how we, as Americans, must wrestle with the parts of our history that have been buried for far too long. The New York Times described The Ground Breaking as “A skillful narrative of excavating the truth about the Tulsa race massacre. . .Candid and self-aware. . . Part of what makes this book so riveting is Ellsworth’s skillful narration, his impeccable sense for when to reveal a piece of information and when to hold something back.” The book was long-listed for the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal from the American Library Association and recently was named as one of the Best Books of 2021 by Publishers Weekly.

Dr. Scott Ellsworth is a faculty member in the University of Michigan’s Department of Afro-American and African Studies. He teaches courses on African American history, Southern literature, race and sports, and crime and justice in contemporary U.S. society. Trained as a historian, he received his BA from Reed College and his MA and PhD from Duke University.

Formerly a historian with the Smithsonian Institution, he has written about American history for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on National Public Radio, the TODAY Show, PBS’s The American Experience, the History Channel, the BBC, and in both film and broadcast documentaries. His book, “The Secret Game”, won a 2016 PEN Book Award, and was named by the Chicago Tribune as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year.

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:22:53 -0500 2022-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
What to Expect in Pandemic Year Three: A Business and Economic Perspective (January 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90190 90190-21668634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Since the pandemic emerged in early 2020, the global economy and the way we do business has fundamentally changed. We have seen huge disruptions to supply chains around the world, vast disparities in health outcomes among different populations, work and education models shifted to remote and hybrid environments, and the highest levels of inflation in recent times. As we enter the third year of the pandemic, join University of Michigan experts Gabe Ehrlich, Samantha Keppler, Sarah Miller, and Nirupama Rao to hear about what we can expect from business and the economy in 2022. They will dive into topics related to education, healthcare, supply chain, and employment and inflation issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:20:13 -0500 2022-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion What to Expect in Pandemic Year Three: A Business and Economic Perspective
Smith Lecture: To See the Forest for the Leaves: Evolution of Tropical Rainforests in Deep Time (January 28, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89103 89103-21660481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Living tropical rainforests are hotspots of biodiversity and are key components of global hydrology and climate. These ecological functions are highly dependent on tree composition, canopy structure, and a high complexity of biotic and abiotic interactions that affect forest function. How has tropical rainforest composition and function changed through geologic time?

Leaf fossils reflect deep evolutionary relations that interplay with environmental and growth conditions, and can be used to identify the natural affinities of plants, and assess both biotic interactions and assessment of forest ecology. In this talk I will explore the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene leaf fossil record from the northern Andes of Colombia and use an interdisciplinary approach to study the evolution of tropical forests in response to two major events in Earth’s history: the ecological catastrophe at the end-Cretaceous and the global warming events of the Paleocene-Eocene transition. I combine observational and experimental approaches on plant function with the fossil record to unveil changes in forest composition, structure, biotic interactions and forest paleobiology. This approach is key to understanding the effects of past global warming events and other abiotic perturbations on tropical rainforest function, and a means to predict the response of modern ecosystems to ongoing and future climate projections.


If you wish to attend remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98984587392

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:19:52 -0500 2022-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 2022-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
The Scars of Life Course Trauma on the Immune System (January 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90732 90732-21673478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Scars of Life Course Trauma on the Immune System
by Grace Noppert

Monday, January 31
12-1:10 pm ET via Zoom

Abstract:
We are currently observing an unprecedented rise in childhood trauma from COVID-19—specifically related to the loss and disruption of caregiving. Yet, we know little about the impact or persistence of early life trauma on later life immune function. Using nationally representative data on older adults from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, we examined the association between experiencing parental death or parental separation before the age of 16 years and four markers of immune function in late life: high sensitive C-reactive Protein (CRP), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor (sTNFR), and immune response to cytomegalovirus (CMV) measured by the level of Immunoglobulin G (IgG). We also examined racial and ethnic differences in these associations. We found that racialized minority individuals were more likely to experience parental death/separation in early life compared to non-Hispanic Whites and had poorer immune function in later life. We also found consistent associations between parental death or separation and poor immune function in later life measured by both CMV and IL-6 across all race/ethnic subgroups. This presentation will discuss the growing body of evidence that early life trauma becomes embedded in the architecture of the immune system with consequences for health throughout the life course.

Bio:
Dr. Noppert's work lies at the intersection of biology, sociology, and epidemiology. Her work seeks to explain how social processes become biologically embedded with implications for health across the life course. She began her work as an infectious disease epidemiologist examining health disparities in tuberculosis (TB) in the U.S. Since then, her work has focused on uncovering the social underpinning of a range of infectious diseases, both established (e.g., TB) and emergent (e.g., SARS-CoV-2). Her current work focuses on sociobiological exposures such as persistent viral infections (e.g., CMV, HSV-1, etc.) and how they intersect with the immune system. Understanding the link between social factors, infections, and immune function may hold clues to explaining and disrupting persistent health inequities across the life course.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:39:42 -0500 2022-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Smith Lecture: Exceptional Preservation of Tropical Marine Invertebrates and the Emergence of Novel Forms (February 4, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89104 89104-21660482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 4, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Extraordinary fossils transform our understanding of evolutionary history, particularly when they fill major gaps in space and time. Unfortunately, the origins and phylogenetic relationships of several groups are often obscure because (i) early fossils tend to be rare and/or poorly preserved, (ii) few early-splitting branches have left living descendants, (iii) intermediate forms are scarce, and (iv) there is a considerable collection bias towards fossil-rich deposits in modern mid-to-high latitudes. Such biases affect the ways that major spatio-temporal, phylogenetic, and evolutionary questions are addressed. Can we predict the occurrence of evolutionary novelties based on phylogenetic relationships? Do similar forms correlate with similar function, biology, and ecology? What role have mega-diverse areas, like the tropics, played in the emergence of different groups through time?

In this talk I will present new fossils and fossil-rich localities with exceptional preservation of marine invertebrates from the Cretaceous of the Neotropics. These tropical Konservat-Lagerstätten give us access to larval, juvenile, and adult organisms, preserving in great detail soft to lightly-biomineralized tissues such as guts, muscles, sexual organs, antennae, mouthparts, gills, eyes, and neural tissues. Such features—seldom preserved in the fossil record—are crucial to assess the phylogenetic relationships across extinct and extant groups, and to investigate the evolution of key traits leading to the emergence of novel forms. My results, the product of active fieldwork, paired with museum collection-based work and laboratory studies, challenge the paradigm of a high-latitude origin for several taxa, bridge the gaps between their predicted molecular divergences and the fossil record, and highlight the role of ecology and development in the evolution of convergent and novel forms, through the lens of exceptional preservation in past and present tropical settings.


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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:46:57 -0500 2022-02-04T15:30:00-05:00 2022-02-04T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Long-term Air Pollution and Incident Dementia in U.S. (February 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91240 91240-21677512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

REGISTRATION REQUIRED
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d_LFab2xTmmTjHuJsfZLmg

Liuhua Shi, ScD, is Assistant Professor of Environmental Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Dr. Shi's research focuses on employing massive datasets, including satellite-retrieved high resolution exposures and health data, to investigate how climate change and air pollution influence seniors' health.

More specifically, her research is focused on:
1. application of remote sensing in environmental exposure modeling (e.g., predicting high-resolution PM2.5, ozone, NO2, and temperature);
2. estimating the health consequences of exposure to air pollution and climate change;
3. estimating the link between climate change and air quality, and the mediated health impacts;
4. estimating the joint and independent health effects of air pollutant mixtures;
5. statistical modeling, e.g., causal modeling and big data approach.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:12:34 -0500 2022-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Air pollution and dementia
Engineering for social good? Understanding and challenging barriers to socially-informed engineering practice (February 9, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90977 90977-21675119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Engineering training has long been characterized by the primacy of technical considerations. In recent years, there have been increasing calls for engineers to better account for social and contextual dimensions of their work, in addition to the technical, in order to adequately address the complex challenges of our modern society. However, the field has been slow to change. In this seminar, I will present findings from a study that explores how a narrowly technical focus of engineering work may be perpetuated through day-to-day engineering training and practice. Findings from this study also highlight how emphasized forms of engineering practice (mis)align with engineers’ personal values and interests and I will discuss the potential implications of this (mis)alignment for how engineers view the field and their place within it. In addition, I will discuss several current collaborative research efforts that relate to this work: one focused on characterizing curricular messaging in two engineering departments and the implications of this messaging for students’ sense of fit and career intentions in their fields and another focused on understanding the adoption and impacts of a toolkit aimed at providing students with the skills to identify and address socially engaged aspects of engineering work.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:52:29 -0500 2022-02-09T10:30:00-05:00 2022-02-09T11:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Erika Mosyjowski
Brian M. Wells and Hani Zainulbhai - Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement (February 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90980 90980-21675125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Brian M. Wells is a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen where he works on a variety of quantitative projects to evaluate, improve, and expand Nielsen panels. Previously he served as the Data Quality and Survey Methodology Manager for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) where he evaluated the need for and implemented a new data collection methodology. Brian received his PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan.

Hani Zainulbhai is a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen and a 2018 MPSM graduate. At Nielsen, she has been involved in developing alternative recruitment methods for the TV audience measurement panel.

Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement

Dimensions of out-of-home (OOH) media measurement rely on human input and cannot be fully captured through passive data collection via smart devices or portable meters. To better understand OOH TV consumption, we designed a web-based diary survey to capture the various components of OOH TV consumption while trying to minimize recall bias, especially for brief, unanticipated viewings. The study consisted of two parts: a Recruitment phase and a Diary phase. During the Recruitment phase, selected panelists from a nationally representative sample completed a short survey and were asked to participate in the 7-day diary. Those who agreed were enrolled in the Diary and were asked to complete a once-daily diary, logging all their OOH activity and TV consumption. The surveys were conducted over four weeks from mid-October to mid-November 2021, with each week having an independent and representative sample covering a different 7-day period. This presentation will provide an overview of the methodology and process used to administer the Recruitment and Diary surveys, including sample design, recruitment procedures, web-based diary survey design, and participation and response rates for each survey. In addition, we will discuss the results of a questionnaire experiment exploring differences between the concepts of attention to and engagement with media. A random half-sample was assigned questions about either “attention” or “engagement” to each program viewed. Within each half-sample, we also randomly assigned each respondent to an ascending or a descending response order condition to observe if there is any primacy effect due to collection in a self-administered mode. Preliminary results show differences in the distributions for attention and engagement implying some differentiation in how respondents perceive these two measures. In addition, the direction of the response order seems to alter the response distribution for attention but not for engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:44:56 -0500 2022-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Brian M. Wells and Hani Zainulbhai - Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement
Studying Women’s Employment in Chitwan: Seasonal Work History Calendars (February 9, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85342 85342-21626255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Webinar 10: Studying Women’s Employment in Chitwan: Seasonal Work History Calendars
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Sarah Brauner-Otto

This webinar will describe the process of developing the seasonal work history calendars used to study women’s employment in the CVFS and will provide some illustrations of how to analyze these data alone and in combination with other CVFS components. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

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

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpd-yhqDssGdJq-kASxS6dz-vJ3YTBhr1Q

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:51:52 -0400 2022-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Exposure to Violence and Subsequent Weapons Use in Two Urban High-Risk Communities (February 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91744 91744-21682698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series
Exposure to Violence and Subsequent Weapons Use in Two Urban High-Risk Communities
Thursday, Feb. 10, noon ET via Zoom

Speakers: Eric F. Dubow (Adjunct Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics; Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University) and L. R. Huesmann (Amos N Tversky Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies and Psychology, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Media, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, College of LSA and Research Professor Emeritus, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research)

Researchers Dubow and Huesmann report preliminary results of data that they have collected over the last 13 years from youth and young adults in two diverse, urban, high-crime communities (Flint, MI, and Jersey City, NJ). Their findings have shown that early exposure to weapons violence (whether in the family, neighborhood, or through engaging with violent media) significantly correlates at modest levels with weapon carrying, weapon use or threats-to-use, arrests for weapons use, and criminally violent acts 10 years later. Violence exposure was significantly linked to beliefs about the acceptability of behaving aggressively. They argue that youth who observe more violence with weapons, whether in the family, among peers, in the neighborhood, or through the media or video games become infected from the exposure with a social-cognitive-emotional disease (evidenced particularly by normative beliefs approving of gun violence) that increases their own risk of behaving violently with weapons later in life.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:38:02 -0500 2022-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Brazil at a Crossroads: Environmental and Food Politics Under the Bolsonaro Regime. Agroecology as Resistance: Visualizing Rural-urban Networks in a Time of Erasure (February 10, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91833 91833-21683223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the School for Environment and Sustainability, and the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative present:

Brazil at a Crossroads: Environmental and Food Politics Under the Bolsonaro Regime

When Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist, was elected as Brazil's president in 2018, people began wondering about the consequences of that election for the environment, food systems, and trade, among many other social and ecological issues. In this lecture series, Hannah Wittman, Gustavo Oliveira, and Susanna Hecht will explore the impacts of the Bolsonaro regime on food security and agroecology, on the conservation of the Amazon forest, and on international trade with China, as well as bright spots of resistance and innovation towards sustainability.

Dr. Hannah Wittman | Agroecology as Resistance: Visualizing rural-urban networks in a time of erasure

Agroecological transitions in Brazil are challenged by inequitable access to land, contested politics about how to “feed the world while cooling the planet” and high levels of uncertainty on how to adapt to changing markets, consumer dietary preferences, and climate change. Using examples from participatory research on digital agroecological certification in Brazil, I examine the potential of a new grassroots science that aims to make diverse, equitable, and sustainable agroecological landscapes legible, to support both political recognition of agroecology and solidarity networks between rural and urban communities.

Upcoming Speakers:

Thursday, March 10, 2022 | 4:00 PM (EST)
Dr. Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira

Thursday, March 31, 2022 | 4:00 PM (EST)
Dr. Susanna Hecht

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:56:35 -0500 2022-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Brazil at a Crossroads: Environmental and Food Politics Under the Bolsonaro Regime. Agroecology as Resistance: Visualizing Rural-urban Networks in a Time of Erasure
CSEAS Lecture Series. Music and Incitement to Violence: Anti-Muslim Hate Music in Burma/Myanmar (February 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91619 91619-21681038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This lecture will highlight a corpus of Burmese language anti-Muslim hate songs archived on Youtube.com. Burma/Myanmar is the site of recent genocidal violence perpetrated against Muslims, and these songs are part of the hate speech campaign which undergirds this violence. Using the definition of incitement articulated by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, I will argue that the lyrics of these songs constitute incitement to violence. Further, the comments written by YouTube listeners provide evidence that the songs provoke additional dehumanizing speech. The songs and their creators are therefore complicit in the recent violent persecution of Muslims in Myanmar.

About the speaker:
Heather MacLachlan (Ph.D. Cornell University 2009) is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Interim Director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Dayton. Professor MacLachlan is the author of two scholarly books and numerous articles focusing on musicians among Burmese populations and on LGBTQ musical advocacy in the United States. She serves as a volunteer Guardian ad Litem for the Montgomery County juvenile court in Dayton, Ohio.

Free and open to the public; register at https://myumi.ch/AwWb4

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:03:15 -0500 2022-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group: What's Interesting about Albanian? (February 11, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92042 92042-21686402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week, Brian Joseph of The Ohio State University will present "What's Interesting about Albanian?" The meeting will be held on Zoom.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:39:16 -0500 2022-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture - Társilo Girona, University of Alaska Fairbanks (February 11, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89105 89105-21686885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Identifying the observables that warn of volcanic unrest and eruptions is one of the greatest challenges in natural hazard management. An important observable is the release of heat through volcano surfaces, which represents a major energy source at quiescent volcanoes.  However, many questions remain open: Is there a direct correlation between surface heat emissions and the subsurface processes preceding volcanic eruptions? To what extent are volcanic eruptions preceded by an enhancement of the surface heat emissions? In this talk, I will address these questions using different volcanoes as case studies, including Nyiragongo (Congo) and Cumbre Vieja (La Palma, Spain), two of the most socially impactful volcanoes in 2021.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Feb 2022 12:24:36 -0500 2022-02-11T15:30:00-05:00 2022-02-11T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
IISS Lecture Series. The Spatial Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya’s Rejection of God’s Incorporeality (February 15, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90575 90575-21671706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The IISS is pleased to announce a new lecture with Professor Jon Hoover. In his lecture, Prof. Hoover will discuss the theological views of well-known and controversial Muslim thinker Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328).

Abstract:

Ibn Taymiyya’s (d. 728/1328) well known Hamawiyya fatwa, a refutation of Ash‘ari interpretations of God’s attributes, led to accusations of corporealism (tajsim) in 1298 and then his trials and imprisonment under the Mamluk authorities in 1306. The Ash‘arism of the time denied the plain sense of texts indicating anthropomorphic features of God like sitting on the Throne, and then either ceased thinking about them (tafwid) or reinterpreted them metaphorically (ta’wil). In his Hamawiyya fatwa, Ibn Taymiyya criticizes this Ash‘ari hermeneutic for stripping God of his attributes, and he identifies the Ta’sis al-taqdis of Ash‘ari theologian Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1210) as a prominent book expounding erroneous reinterpretations. Ibn Taymiyya adds that he has proofs from both reason and scripture for his views but that a fatwa is not the place to present them. Ibn Taymiyya eventually provides his proofs from reason in his massive Bayan talbis al-Jahmiyya written in 1306 or 1307. In Bayan Ibn Taymiyya refutes al-Razi’s arguments in Ta’sis al-Taqdis that God is not corporeal or spatially extended, as well as al-Razi’s reinterpretations of anthropomorphic texts in the Qur’an and the Sunna. This paper will examine Ibn Taymiyya’s key rational arguments against al-Razi in Bayan and explore how Ibn Taymiyya reconceptualizes God’s spatial relation to the world by drawing on Ibn Rushd’s Aristotelian notion of place as the inner surface of the containing body. This will show that Ibn Taymiyya envisions God as a very large indivisible and spatially extended being surrounding the universe.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:12:24 -0500 2022-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion The Spatial Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya’s Rejection of God’s Incorporeality
MIPSE Seminar | Fundamental Tests with Antihydrogen Atoms (February 16, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90465 90465-21671092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Motivated by the baryogenesis problem (the scarcity of antimatter in the University), CERN's ALPHA collaboration has been studying the properties of antihydrogen atoms. Since first trapping antiatoms in 2010, we have learned to routinely trap over 1000 antiatoms simultaneously, and keep the antiatoms trapped for many tens of thousands of seconds. We have been able to measure the 1S-2S and hyperfine bandwidths to the 10kHz level, which, on some scales, exceeds the accuracy of the best CPT tests. We have been able to laser cool the antiatoms, which should lead to better spectral measurement, and we have also measured the antihydrogen charge to 0.7ppb. We are constructing a new apparatus designed to measure the antimatter g to 1%, which will be a test of the weak equivalence principle. Antihydrogen is created by mixing positron and antiproton single species plasmas. The plasmas must be very cold (~10K) and, for single species plasmas, dense (~108 cm-3). Arguably, the most difficult problems in these experiments stem from achieving these parameters as all the other issues, though complex, can be solved with standard techniques of atomic and laser physics. This talk will describe some of these plasma issues and some of our physics results.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Joel Fajans is a Professor of Physics at U.C. Berkeley. He received his PhD in experimental plasma physics under George Bekefi at MIT studying free electron lasers before assuming a post-doc at the University of California at San Diego with John Malmberg and Tom O'Neil on nonneutral plasmas. Since then, his career has concentrated on basic plasma physics and nonlinear dynamics experiments, most recently aimed towards the creation and trapping of antihydrogen. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the APS 2011 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:29:12 -0500 2022-02-16T15:30:00-05:00 2022-02-16T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Joel Fajans
Oral Health for All: Opportunities for Improvement and Understanding (February 17, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91753 91753-21683050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Dr. Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque is the deputy director of National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health. An accomplished clinician, researcher, and leader, Dr. Webster-Cyriaque had previously served as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina (UNC) schools of dentistry and medicine for more than two decades.

As a tenured full professor at UNC, Dr. Webster-Cyriaque also served as the attending on clinical service at the UNC Hospital’s dental clinic. While there, she led research into a potential etiologic agent for salivary gland disease in patients living with HIV, assessed the oral microbiome and its implications for cancer-causing viruses, and studied the impact of the oral microbiome and oral health on HIV outcomes.

In addition to her research, Dr. Webster-Cyriaque has held leadership roles as the chair/vice chair of the Oral HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, as research director at the National Dental Association Foundation, as director of postdoctoral CTSA training, along with multiple roles within the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research and the International Association for Dental Research. Since 2004, she has led the UNC Malawi project and provided assistance in founding Malawi’s first dental school in 2019. Dr. Webster-Cyriaque earned her PhD in microbiology/immunology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1998, her DDS from SUNY Buffalo in 1992, and her BA in biology and interdisciplinary social science from SUNY Buffalo in 1988.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:51:49 -0500 2022-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque, DDS, PhD
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88145 88145-21650722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Thursday, February 17, 2022
4:00-5:00 p.m. ET
Free and open to the public, registration required: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/management-as-a-calling/

Positive Links:

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

About the talk:

Business leaders have tremendous power to influence our society, how it operates, whether it is fair, and the extent to which it impacts the environment. And yet, we do not recognize or call out the responsibility that comes with that power. This session is meant to challenge future business leaders to think differently about their career, its purpose, and its value as a calling or vocation, one that is in service to society. Its message is for current and prospective business students, business leaders thinking anew about the role of business in society, and the business educators that train all these people.

We face great challenges as a society today, from environmental problems like climate change and habitat destruction, to social problems like income inequality, unemployment, lack of a living wage, and poor access to affordable health care and education. Solutions to these challenges must come from the market (as comprised of corporations, the government, and nongovernmental organizations, as well as the many stakeholders in market transaction, such as the consumers, suppliers, buyers, insurance companies, and banks), the most powerful institution on earth, and from business, which is the most powerful entity within it.

Though government is an important and vital arbiter of the market, business is the force that transcends national boundaries, possessing resources that exceed those of many nations. Business is responsible for producing the buildings that we live and work in, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the forms of mobility we employ, and the energy that propels us. This does not mean that only business can generate solutions or that there is no role for government, but with its unmatched powers of ideation, production, and distribution, business is positioned to bring the change we need at the scale we need it. Without business, the solutions will remain elusive. Indeed, if there are no solutions coming from the market, there will be no solutions. And without visionary and service-oriented leaders, business will never even try to find them.

About Hoffman:

Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability. Professor Hoffman's research uses organizational behavior models and theories to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations.

He has published over 100 articles/book chapters, as well as 18 books, which have been translated into five languages. In this work, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political, and managerial issues, including: the evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues; the corporate responses that have emerged as a result of those pressures, particularly around the issue of climate change; the interconnected networks among non-governmental organizations and corporations and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems; the social and psychological barriers to these change processes; and the underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome. He also writes about the role of academic scholars in public and political discourse.

Among his list of honors, he has been awarded the Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award (2016), American Chemical Society National Award (2016), Strategic Organization Best Essay Award (2016), Organization & Environment Best Paper Award (2014), Maggie Award (2013), JMI Breaking the Frame Award (2012), Connecticut Book Award (2011), Aldo Leopold Fellowship (2011), Aspen Environmental Fellowship (2011 and 2009), Manos Page Prize (2009), Aspen Institute Rising Star Award (2003), Rachel Carson Book Prize (2001), and Klegerman Award (1995).

His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Scientific American, Time, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Atlantic, and National Public Radio. He has served on numerous research committees for the National Academies of Science, the Johnson Foundation, the Climate Group, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and the Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to academics, Andy worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (Region 1), Metcalf & Eddy Environmental Consultants, T&T Construction & Design, and the Amoco Corporation. Andy serves on advisory boards for ecoAmerica, Next Era Renewable Energy Trust, SustainAbility, the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, the Center for Environmental Innovation, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Host:

Sara Soderstrom, Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Program in the Environment

Series Sponsors:

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

Series Promotional Partners:

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:36:07 -0500 2022-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Andy Hoffman
SynSem Discussion Group (February 18, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92530 92530-21692022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

All meetings will be virtual this semester. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:49:20 -0500 2022-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Canceled: Smith Lecture - William Frank, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (February 18, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89107 89107-21660485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Slow, aseismic slip (such as slow slip and surface creep) is now recognized as the glue at tectonic plate boundaries that holds the earthquake cycle together. Since the first observations of surface creep along the San Andreas plate boundary more than 50 years ago, advances in geophysical instrumentation and innovative observational approaches have revealed that faulting at major plate boundaries covers a broad spectrum of slip modes, from fast earthquake ruptures to intermittent slow slip.

Today, the continuous GPS record and satellite imagery reveal the jerky, intermittent nature of aseismic slip. The pattern that is emerging suggests that slow slip at plate boundaries and surface creep on major transform faults is not a steady, continuous process as once thought, but is rather a complex spatiotemporal cluster of interacting aseismic transients. I will present observations of aseismic slip rate variations from seconds to decades. These results suggest that slow slip is much more similar to earthquake slip than previously acknowledged, with strong implications on our understanding of the dynamics of active faults.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:05:37 -0500 2022-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2022-02-18T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Hardship and Hard Work: Son Preference Attitudes among Highly Educated Urban Chinese Women (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90731 90731-21677132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Hardship and Hard Work: Son Preference Attitudes among Highly Educated Urban Chinese Women
by Yun Zhou
Monday, February 21
12-1:10 pm ET via Zoom

Abstract:
Extensive research on son preference in China has predominantly focused on rural and rural-to-urban migrant populations. Son preference attitudes among other demographic groups have received little attention. Drawing on 70 in-depth interviews with highly educated urban Chinese women, I examine whether son preference attitudes persist among this previously under-explored group—and if yes, why. I discover a lasting preference for sons among women who otherwise support gender egalitarianism. I elucidate two distinct logics—the gendered hardship and hard work—that underpin this seeming paradox: Invoking their own experiences of gender inequality, these women articulate their son preference as a desire to shield their children from gendered hardship. They view raising daughters amidst pervasive gender discrimination as emotionally taxing hard work. I illustrate the nuanced reasoning—beyond the devaluation of girls—that underlies highly educated urban Chinese women’s son preference attitudes. I further demonstrate that despite the nuance, such reasoning ultimately does not disrupt entrenched patriarchal familial expectations that favour boys over girls and holds behavioural implications for second-birth outcomes.

Bio:
Yun Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Trained as a social demographer, Zhou’s research examines social inequality and state-market-family relations through the lens of gender, marriage, and reproduction. Intersecting the studies of population and politics, Zhou's current project investigates the demographic, political, and gendered consequences of China's recent ending of the one-child policy. Zhou received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2017. She completed her postdoctoral training (2017-2019) as a Postdoctoral Research Associate of Population Studies at the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:40:14 -0500 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Activities & Experiences of the Climate Hazards, Housing, & Health (CHHH) Community-Academic Partnership (February 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92173 92173-21687628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration Required https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_di5aDB3VTAa8U8sLrsOJtA

Zachary Rowe (Friends of Parkside, Detroit) and Carina Gronlund (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan) will discuss issues of climate and health in Detroit.

Moderated by Marie O’Neill (School of Public Health, University of Michigan).

Recordings of the webinar series are posted to the M-LEEaD YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2MD-2fqFHTU3ODB8BHEDTg.

Organized by the Community Engagement Core and Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:39:50 -0500 2022-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-22T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion R&R: Residents and Researchers Tuesday Talks at 12 on environment, health, and community
20th Peter M. Wege Lecture (February 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90437 90437-21670814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Join us for an engaging conversation about climate action and social justice with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. A marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native, Johnson is the co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for costal cities, as well as co-creator of the Spotify/Gimlet podcast, 'How to Save a Planet,' which focuses on climate solutions. The event will be moderated by SEAS assistant professor Sara Hughes and will include a live Q&A with students.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:28:07 -0500 2022-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Shiyu Zhang - The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation - MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series (February 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87867 87867-21647194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Shiyu Zhang

Shiyu Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Before arriving at Michigan, she received master's degrees in immigration study, sociology and data science, and a bachelor's degree in psychology. Shiyu's dissertation focuses on the effect of adaptive survey design on estimates. She is also interested in collecting and using neighborhood features as auxiliary variables.

The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation

Adaptive survey design refers to using targeted procedures to recruit different sampled cases. This technique strives to reduce bias and variance of survey estimates by trying to recruit a larger and more balanced set of respondents. However, it is not well understood how adaptive design can improve data and survey estimates beyond the well-established post-survey adjustment. This paper reports the results of an experiment that evaluated the additional effect of adaptive design to post-survey adjustments. The experiment was conducted in the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study in 2021. We evaluated the adaptive design in five outcomes: 1) response rates, 2) demographic composition of respondents, 3) bias and variance of key survey estimates, 4) changes in coefficients of regression model results, and 5) costs. The most significant benefit of the adaptive design was its ability to generate more efficient survey estimates with smaller variances and smaller design effects.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:46:40 -0500 2022-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Shiyu Zhang - The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation - MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
IISS Lecture Series. State, Community or Scholars: Where Does the Authority of Islamic Law Come From? (February 23, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91830 91830-21683219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) is pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Knut Vikør (University of Bergen). Professor Vikør's field of specialization is the history of Islam. His research interests include North and West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with a special focus on central Sahara, the history of Sufi brotherhoods, in particular the Sanusiyya, and the history of Islamic law. In all these fields, he explores the social impact and relevance of Islamic practice.

Selected publications:

*Between God and the Sultan: A History of Islamic Law* (London: Oxford University Press, 2005);

*Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge. Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Sanusi and his Brotherhood* (London/Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1995);

*The Maghreb since 1800: A Short History* (London: Hurst & Company, 2012);

*The Oasis of Salt. The History of Kawar, a Saharan Centre of Salt Production* (Bergen/London: University of Bergen, 1999)


Abstract

It was from the earliest times established that the formulation of Islamic legal rules was the work of the religious scholars since the Shari’a was God’s law, and “diversity of opinion is one of God’s blessings". But it was the state’s task to ensure the law was implemented, and for this purpose, the law must have a reasonably fixed and stable form. Thus, a selection of “preferred” or authoritative opinions came to be favored at each moment in time and place. With the establishment of the modern nation-states, the authority of law fell fully to the modern state. These two ways of authorizing practicable legal rules have come to be known as “canonization” for the pre-modern period, and “codification” for the laws established by state authority. In this seminar, we will look at the various methods of establishing authority for the rules that were to be practiced, and ask what continuities there may or not be between the two terms “canonization” and “codification”.

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsdeirqDsoE9N8yUjRpq3p9O24vuWGUSyK

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Feb 2022 13:55:38 -0500 2022-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion IISS Lecture Series. State, Community or Scholars: Where Does the Authority of Islamic Law Come From?
New CVFS Data on the Transition to Adulthood: Web Panel on Sensitive Topics and Hair-based Cortisol to Measure Stress (February 23, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85343 85343-21626256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Webinar 11:New CVFS Data on the Transition to Adulthood: Web Panel on Sensitive Topics and Hair-based Cortisol to Measure Stress
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenters: William Axinn, Dirgha Ghimire, Heather Gatny, Sabrina Hermosilla

During the 2021-2022 year CVFS is launching two innovative approaches to measurement of key experiences in the transition to adulthood. First, with support from an NICHD R01 to study the consequences of parental mental disorders on their children’s transitions to adulthood, CVFS is launching a new web-based panel survey of potentially sensitive topics, including sex, contraception, sexual assault, alcohol use, and substance use. Second, with support from an NICHD R21 CVFS will launch a large-scale collection and analysis of young adult respondent’s hair samples to measure biological indicators of chronic psychological stress.

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

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAofuGsrD8vGNaAKLUxm-Be3aVG90WSOgS1

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:56:09 -0400 2022-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Weekly Seminar for DCMB / CCMB (February 23, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92060 92060-21686457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

In the Peixoto lab we use genomic approaches to understand gene expression and its epigenetic regulation in response to learning and sleep deprivation, and its alteration in autism spectrum disorders. This requires combining behavioral paradigms in mice, molecular biology and the analysis of high-throughput data in the brain in vivo. It also requires using the right data analysis tools to be able to capture the effect of learning or sleep in the context of an ever-active brain. In this talk we will discuss the effects of learning on chromatin accessibility and the effects of sleep loss in gene expression, with an emphasis on how data analysis influences our ability to detect novel and reproducible biology.

Short bio:

Lucia Peixoto received her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the Universidad de la Republica in her native Uruguay in 2002. She subsequently earned her Ph.D. at The University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. David S. Roos, using genomic and computational biology approaches to understand host-pathogen interactions. She completed her postdoctoral training in Neuroscience with Dr. Ted Abel at The University of Pennsylvania in 2015. During her fellowship, she was also a trainee at the Training Program in Neurodevelopmental disabilities at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As a trainee at CHOP, she completed a clinical internship at the Center for Autism Research under the supervision of Dr. Robert Schultz. She became an Assistant Professor at Washington State University in 2015 and has since been recognized with a K01 Early Career Faculty award from NIH/NINDS and a pilot award from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. She is also a member of the board of directors of the International Society of computational biology (ISCB) and cochair the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee of ISCB. Her lab uses behavior, electrophysiology, molecular biology and genomic approaches to understand how sleep and learning modulate transcription and how this may be altered in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:54:44 -0500 2022-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Workshop / Seminar
LHS Collaboratory (February 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90079 90079-21667713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

The session will describe the landscape history, current status, and future of federated health data networks that are used to support a Learning Health System. Dr. Brown will describe the creation, infrastructure, operation, and uses of several networks from the perspective of a network coordinating center. Dr. Harris will describe insights from participating in multiple networks as a network partner, including infrastructure, governance, and operational lessons learned.

Presenters:
Jeffrey Brown, PhD
Dr. Brown is the inventor of PopMedNet, an open-source software platform that facilitates creation and operation of distributed health data networks.

Marcelline Harris, Ph.D., RN, FACMI
Associate Professor Emerita
Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership
University of Michigan School of Nursing

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 29 Jan 2022 11:26:41 -0500 2022-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality (February 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91307 91307-21677932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series
The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality
Thursday, February 24 at 12pm ET via Zoom

Speaker: Erin Cech, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center

“Follow your passion” is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. In this talk, Cech will discuss her research on this ubiquitous cultural narrative that she call the “passion principle.” The passion principle is rooted in tensions between postindustrial capitalism and cultural norms of self-expression and is compelling to college-educated career aspirants and workers because passion is presumed to motivate the hard work required for success while providing opportunities for meaning and self-expression. Although passion-seeking seems like a promising option for individuals hoping to avoid drudgery in their labor force participation, she argues that the passion principle has a dark side: it reinforces socio-economic disadvantages and occupational segregation among career aspirants and workers in the aggregate and helps reproduce an exploited, overworked white-collar labor force. These findings have implications for cultural notions of “good work” popular in higher education and the US workforce and raises broader questions about what it means when becoming a dedicated labor force participant feels like an act of self-fulfillment.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:45:30 -0500 2022-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence — CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (February 24, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91474 91474-21679946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Recent years have seen astounding growth in the deployment of AI systems in critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, criminal justice, healthcare, hiring, housing, human resource management, law enforcement, and public safety, where decisions taken by AI agents directly impact human lives. Consequently, there is an increasing concern if these decisions can be trusted to be correct, reliable, fair, and safe, especially under adversarial attacks. How then can we deliver on the promise of the benefits of AI but address these scenarios that have life-critical consequences for people and society? In short, how can we achieve trustworthy AI?

Under the umbrella of trustworthy computing, there is a long-established framework employing formal methods and verification techniques for ensuring trust properties like reliability, security, and privacy of traditional software and hardware systems. Just as for trustworthy computing, formal verification could be an effective approach for building trust in AI-based systems. However, the set of properties needs to be extended beyond reliability, security, and privacy to include fairness, robustness, probabilistic accuracy under uncertainty, and other properties yet to be identified and defined. Further, there is a need for new property specifications and verification techniques to handle new kinds of artifacts, e.g., data distributions, probabilistic programs, and machine learning-based models that may learn and adapt automatically over time. This talk will pose a new research agenda, from a formal methods perspective, for us to increase trust in AI systems.
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About the speaker: Dr. Wing joined Columbia in 2017 as the inaugural Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute. Prior to Columbia, Dr. Wing was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research, served on the faculty and as department head in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, and served as Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Wing’s research contributions have been in the areas of trustworthy AI, security and privacy, specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering. Her 2006 seminal essay, titled "Computational Thinking,’’ is credited with helping to establish the centrality of computer science to problem-solving in fields where previously it had not been embraced and thereby influencing K-12 and university curricula worldwide.

She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Wing received distinguished service awards from the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computing Research Association and an honorary doctorate degree from Linköping University, Sweden. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in computer science, all from MIT.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 25 Jan 2022 11:21:26 -0500 2022-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Jeannette Wing. It features the presentation title 'Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence' and Professor Wing's headshot.
The African-American Presence in Science (February 24, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92405 92405-21690855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) welcomes all Michigan Engineering faculty, students, and staff to attend a seminar in honor of Black History Month. An abstract will be provided shortly.

Bio

Ronald E. Mickens is the Distinguished Fuller E. Callaway Professor in the Department of Physics at Clark Atlanta University, a historically Black university.

His research focused on nonlinear dynamics and mathematical modeling, including applications of these tools to modeling the dynamics of disease. He has also contributed to the history of black scientists, and served as historian of the National Society of Black Physicists.

Professor Mickens is a Fellow of APS, and a charter Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists. He received the Edward Bouchet Award in 2008, which recognizes a distinguished minority physicist who has made significant contributions to physics research and the advancement of underrepresented minority scientists. He is the author of Edward Bouchet: The First African American Doctorate, as well as biographies of black women in science.

In 2018, Mickens received the Blackwell-Tapia Prize, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, which “recognizes a mathematician who has served as a role model for mathematical scientists and students from underrepresented minority groups or has contributed in other significant ways to addressing the problem of underrepresentation of minorities in mathematics.”

Dr. Mickens received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining Clark Atlanta University, he was a professor of physics at Fisk University (1970-81).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:09:54 -0500 2022-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (February 25, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92044 92044-21686403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week's presenter will be Martha Ratliff.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:44:30 -0500 2022-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-25T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS). The Consumption of Power: Kütahya Wares and Authority in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (March 1, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91501 91501-21680106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The consumption of coffee in the early modern period is often fixed to the image of the seditious and raucous coffeehouse or with the ritual of offering a guest hospitality. The material accompaniments of coffee consumption, however, frequently go understudied. This talk concentrates on Early Modern Greece and Cyprus to understand better the material role of coffee consumption on the Greek and Cypriot landscape through the presence of Kütahya wares from central Anatolia. The narrative that emerges emphasizes a material role in status display, arguing that Kütahya wares form an archaeological marker of a rural, non-urban authority in a landscape and time period often under analyzed by archaeology.

Justin Anthony Mann is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia and currently a junior fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University). Mann has participated in a range of international archaeological projects in Greece, where he is currently a survey leader for the Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project. In addition, he has worked extensively with cultural resource management firms in the American Great Plains region. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship (Fulbright Greece 2019–2020) for his dissertation research on Byzantine monastic landscapes, and he has also held the University of Virginia’s Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship and Kapp Family Fellowship. His research interests include Byzantine monasticism, landscape archaeology, human geography, and the archaeology of commodities in Byzantine and Ottoman periods.

Free and open to the public; register at
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-2rqj4jHdbMb-9_8MFQMPzJJEEcse9J

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:05:37 -0500 2022-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 2022-03-01T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion The Consumption of Power: Kütahya Wares and Authority in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Flash Talk | Cities, Crops, and Chemistry (March 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92172 92172-21687619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Intensification of agricultural production to support demographic growth has always been seen as a necessary correlate to the emergence of the first cities. A new substantial archaeobotanical dataset from three early urban settlements in Central Italy—Rome, Gabii, and Tarquinia—allows the investigation of crop production and farming practices during the transitional period between the 8th and the 6th centuries BCE. This research uses a multi-proxy approach that integrates archaeobotanical data with carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses (∆13C and δ15N) on charred cereal grains to reconstruct crop husbandry regimes.

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:54:04 -0500 2022-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-04T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Vials containing charred remains of staple crops from Rome, Tarquinia, and Gabii.
IISS Lecture Series. Palimpsests of Themselves Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia (March 8, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92131 92131-21687044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) is pleased to announce a book workshop with Professor Asad Q. Ahmed on his new groundbreaking monograph "Palimpsests of Themselves Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (University of California Press, 2022).

Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional settings of the vast commentarial response it elicited, and develops a theory of the philosophical commentary that is internal to the tradition. These approaches to the commentarial text complicate presuppositions upon which questions of Islam’s intellectual decline are erected. As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world.

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcu2rqzMtGdfi9eFQHGUAG26OTtA4Mg7n

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:41:44 -0500 2022-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Palimpsests of Themselves Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
Museum Studies Visiting Scholar: What’s the Object of this Museum?  Everyday Resistance at the National Public Housing Museum (March 8, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92828 92828-21697173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join the Museum Studies Program as they present a lecture by visiting scholar, Lisa Yun Lee (Director, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago)  

Worker cooperatives to build a solidarity economy, contemporary art that grapples with history and unleashes radical imaginations about our collective futures, everyday objects and labels written by public housing residents, cultural work that contributes to more just public policies and reparations, collective joy and civic love.  Learn about the work of the National Public Housing Museum and how a cultural institution contributes to the ongoing struggle for housing as a human right.  

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:16:39 -0500 2022-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 2022-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
2022 ICPJ Latin America Caucus Speaker Series. Current Realities in El Salvador (March 8, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90195 90195-21668662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (ICPJ) Latin America Caucus (LAC), U-M Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Wayne State University Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies & Huron Valley DSA, presents the 2022 Speaker Series.

Danielle Mackey, a member of The New Yorker‘s editorial staff, based in New York, lived mostly in El Salvador from 2008 until 2021 and was a freelance investigative, long-form reporter. Her work has appeared online in *The New Yorker*, *The New Republic*, and *The Atlantic*, among others. She still writes and speaks as an independent journalist.

Her ongoing projects include a series of investigations into narco-activity and corruption in Honduras, with Contracorriente, supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University’s Center for Mexico and Central America, and the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística. Another project involves policing, gangs, and non-carceral and tertiary responses to violence in Central America and in U.S. foreign policy. She has conducted years of reporting on this, funded by grants from various journalism foundations.

Upcoming Speakers:

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 | 07:00 PM (EST)
Todd Miller: Borders, Homeland Security & Bridges

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 | 07:00 PM (EST)
Mary Anne Perrone: The Struggle for Environmental, Racial & Human Rights in Honduras

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:58:59 -0500 2022-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion 2022 ICPJ Latin America Caucus Speaker Series
From rage to reconciliation: Stories from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (March 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91245 91245-21677517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The Parents Circle-Families Forum (PCFF) is a grassroots organization of Palestinian and Israeli families who have lost immediate family members due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The PCFF operates under the principle that a process of reconciliation is a prerequisite for achieving a sustained peace. Two PCFF members—an Israeli and a Palestinian—will join us to tell their personal stories of bereavement and explain their choice to engage in dialogue instead of revenge.

Laila Alsheikh lives in Bethlehem in the West Bank. In 2002, her 6 months old son, Qussay, became ill and Israeli soldiers prevented Layla from taking him to the hospital for more than five hours. Qussay soon died from the lack of timely treatment. Layla joined the Parents Circle in 2016. Following her son’s death, she never thought of revenge, but rather has devoted her time and energy to ensuring a better, more peaceful future for her children.

Yigal Elhanan is Israeli. When he was 4 years old, his sister, Smadar, was killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Yigal is a member and activist in the Parents Circle – Families Forum. His father, Rami Elhanan, previously served as the Israeli Co-Director of the organization.

After hearing from the Parents Circle members, John Ciorciari (Ford School Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the International Policy Center and Weiser Diplomacy Center) will moderate a discussion between the presenters with some audience questions that came in through registration.

The bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict has taken a heavy toll from each and every one of the PCFF members. It is through this pain that they have chosen to exchange their feelings of rage and revenge, helplessness, despair and the void, with activities of hope for reconciliation. Join us to hear their stories, and learn from their path from revenge to reconciliation.

For more info and viewing details visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/rage-reconciliation-stories-israeli-palestinian-conflict

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:57:49 -0500 2022-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion
Ipek Bilgen and Amelia Burke-Garcia - The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences (March 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91859 91859-21683564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences
Ipek Bilgen and Amelia Burke-Garcia

One of the major benefits of social media ad-based survey recruitment is the use of various types of data to target ads to users of these platforms. To target users of social media, researchers can use the basic demographic and geographic that social media platforms currently provide, or they can use enhanced data that can be embedded within the social media platforms supplied by third party providers based on external data sources, e.g., historical purchase data. We will examine whether and how much this enhanced data can impact ad based social media recruitment capabilities to reach niche and hard-to-reach audiences.

To investigate the targeting efficiency, quality, and cost differences among these two approaches that can be used to target audiences within social media platforms, NORC piloted a strategic initiative research study in 2020. A web survey was constructed using existing items from national surveys on individual’s health and online habits, as well as new items related to life changes during the pandemic. Two main audience groups that are generally hard to recruit through probability-based studies were targeted – young adults, ages 18-24, and people with low education (defined as anyone who has completed high school as the highest level of education or lower). Five sets of tailored ads with unique URLs that linked to a web-based survey were designed and launched via Facebook and Instagram. Two sets used basic targeting to recruit the sample and the other three used the enhanced targeting. This brown bag will present the design of the study, our approach to the ads and targeting, and what we learned through our examination of the differences between the samples obtained from basic and advanced targeting on the dimensions of recruited sample composition, survey estimates, and recruitment costs.

Dr. Ipek Bilgen is a Senior Research Methodologist in the Methodology and Quantitative Social Sciences (MQSS) Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Bilgen is AmeriSpeak Panel’s lead research methodologist. She also directs web and emerging technologies strategic initiative at NORC. She has over a decade of experience in applied survey methods and received both her Ph.D. and M.S. from the Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM) Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Bilgen has published and co-authored articles in Journal of Official Statistics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Survey Practice, Social Currents, Social Science Computer Review, Field Methods, SAGE Research Methods, and Quality and Quantity on issues related to interviewing methodology, web surveys, internet sampling and recruitment approaches, cognition and communication, and measurement error in surveys. Her current research investigates panel recruitment and retention, total survey error sources in probability-based online panels, the use of web and emerging technologies in surveys, and questionnaire design and survey implementation issues. Her research also examines studies related to the use of auxiliary data for improved efficiency in surveys that use address-based sampling (ABS) and active survey recruitment through social media and search engines.

Bilgen is currently serving as Associate Editor of Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ). In the past, she has served as an elected member of American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)’s Executive Council as Membership and Chapter Relations Chair. She has also served on Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR)’s Executive Council as President, Vice President, Conference Chair, and Secretary Treasurer.

Dr. Amelia Burke-Garcia is a seasoned health communications professional with nearly 20 years of experience in health communication program planning, implementation and evaluation, with specific expertise in developing and evaluating digital and social media communication and research. At NORC, she leads the organization's Digital Strategy and Outreach Program Area, where she designs, develops, and implements new digital and mobile data collection methodologies and communication solutions. Most recently, she acted as director for the award-winning How Right Now/Que Hacer Ahora campaign, which is aimed at increasing people’s ability to cope and be resilient amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. She currently leads two grants focused on exploring vaccine hesitancy amongst communities of color which build on her earlier work exploring messages and motivations of vaccine hesitant or refusing social media influencers (findings from which were published in Vaccine in 2020). Over the course of her career, Dr. Burke-Garcia has spearheaded some of the most innovative communication programs and studies on a variety of health topics including designing a targeted social media intervention with mommy bloggers to help social media users lower their risk for breast cancer and leveraging MeetUp groups and the Waze mobile application to move people to action around flu vaccination and HIV testing, respectively. She is the author of the book entitled, Influencing Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Online Influencers and has been named to VeryWellHealth.com’s list of 10 Modern Female Innovators Shaking Up Health Care. She holds a PhD in Communication from George Mason University, a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University, and a joint honours Bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies and Humanistic Studies from McGill University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:19:11 -0500 2022-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences
Physiological Sensing to Indicate Driver Takeover Abilities — CCAT Research Review (March 9, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92203 92203-21688056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The emerging level 3 autonomous vehicle (L3AV) can perform all aspects of the driving task and allow for complete disengagement of drivers (e.g., sit back and relax) under certain driving scenarios including immediate response (e.g., emergency braking). However, this still requires the driver to be prepared for takeover within a few seconds of warning. Being able to measure and predict the takeover performance (TOP) ahead of time and issue adequate warnings is critical to ensure driver comfort, trust, and safety in the system and acceptance of the technology.

A necessary undertaking in this process is to develop a robust approach to understand the drivers’ capabilities to take over the vehicle safely and promptly in L3 AV under different driving and disengagement scenarios. In this project, we propose an integrated treatment of the drivers’ TOP measured through multimodal physiological features and driving environment data in L3 AVs. We will present the results of data collected from 20 drivers. The drivers were presented with different secondary tasks and driving scenarios in a simulator and their physiological responses were collected using different sensing devices such as electroencephalogram (EEG), galvanic skin response (GSR), and heart rate (HR). The presentation will highlight the relationship between the driver's physiological state such as level of engagement with the secondary task and their TOP.

More about this research: https://myumi.ch/Axbod

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:47:19 -0500 2022-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Research Review with Carol Menassa, Vineet Kamat, Da Li, and Julian Brinkley. It features the presentation title 'Can Physiological Sensing Indicate Driver Takeover Abilities in Lvl 3 Automation?' and a test subject using a driving simulator.
Potential and Pitfalls of Polygenic Scores For Social Demographic Research (March 9, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85344 85344-21626257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Webinar 12: Potential and Pitfalls of Polygenic Scores For Social Demographic Research
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Colter Mitchell

This webinar will provide an overview of the methodology around the construction of polygenic scores and their applications in demographic research. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

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

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqde2tpzovGt21ffMiK7ndNIVGOovGaCqi

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:01:18 -0400 2022-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
MIPSE Seminar | Z-pinch Research at UC San Diego (March 9, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90466 90466-21671093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The Z-pinch is one of the most well-studied methods for high energy density plasma generation. Z-pinches have been used for applications such as thermonuclear fusion and as intense x-ray sources. The High Energy Density Physics Group at UC San Diego has an extensive experimental and modeling program across a variety of Z-pinch devices. The focus in this presentation is on gas puff Z-pinches and Dense Plasma Focus (DPF). These devices are highly susceptible to the Magneto Rayleigh-Taylor Instability during the implosion which can disrupt the plasma column. Experiments were conducted on the CESZAR linear transformer driver (LTD) with ~500 kA, 160 ns current pulses in a gas puff configuration. The effect of varying gas species was studied using metrics like instability amplitude and energy coupling. We demonstrate that low-impedance LTDs can implode a variety of gas puff loads with an energy coupling efficiency of ~10%. 2-D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of Ne-liner, deuterium-target gas-puff loads show that the tradeoff between stability and yield can be reduced by density profile tailoring – adding a second liner. Work on DPFs has focused on a 4.4 kJ, 280 kA DPF at UCSD and the 2 MJ, 2-3 MA Gemini DPF at the Nevada Test Site. Experiments on the UCSD DPF have shown a significant effect of insulator surface conditioning on x-ray production. The Gemini experiments focused on rare gas additions to deuterium. MHD simulations of the Gemini DPF provide evidence of an increasing fusion yield and tighter current sheaths with increased dopant concentration.

About the Speaker:
Farhat Beg is a Professor of Engineering Physics at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London. His expertise is in the field of laser plasma interaction, pulsed power-driven X- and Z-pinches, and neutron sources. He has published over 250 papers in refereed journals, including Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics and Physical Review Letters, with total citations exceeding 9000 and with an H-index of 50, according to the ISI Web of Knowledge. He is the fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has been a winner of the Department of Junior Faculty Award (2005) and IEEE Early Career Award (2008). This year he received IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award. He has served as the Chair of the High-Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) in 2009/10 and in 2017/2019 and NIF/Jupiter User group in 2017/2019.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:40:04 -0500 2022-03-09T15:30:00-05:00 2022-03-09T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Farhat Beg
Democracy: What it takes (March 9, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92673 92673-21694332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

In-person attendance at this event is limited to current University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff. All attendees will be required to complete the ResponsiBlue screening before entering the building, and masks are required. Registration is required to attend.
https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/molly-ball-democracy-crisis

The event will also be available virtually for those outside of the University, or University members who choose not to attend in-person. The link to join will be provided on registration.
https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/molly-ball-democracy-crisis

The 2020 election, conducted in the shadow of an unprecedented pandemic and a president determined to sabotage the vote, laid bare how fragile America's democratic institutions are. What did we learn from the weaknesses 2020 exposed? What efforts are underway to sabotage—and protect—the next national election? And how can we strengthen democracy going forward?
A prominent voice on U.S. politics, Molly Ball serves as national political correspondent for Time and is a frequent television and radio commentator. She is the author of Pelosi, the first biography written with the House Speaker’s cooperation. Join us to hear from TIME National Political Correspondent Molly Ball in conversation with longtime political writer Craig Gilbert to kick off the Spring 2022 Democracy in Crisis series.

For bios and more information visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/molly-ball-democracy-crisis

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Co-sponsored by Democracy & Debate, Wallace House, Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:02:42 -0500 2022-03-09T16:30:00-05:00 2022-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Molly Ball
UMAPS Research Colloquium Series (March 10, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92875 92875-21697627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

The African Studies Center is happy to invite you to participate in the first installment of the Winter 2022 UMAPS Research Colloquium Series. This colloquium series features presentations by members of the Winter 2022 cohort of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars program.
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Firminus Mugumya, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Uganda
*School Retention in Uganda: Community Capitals and University-Community Engagement*

Despite the roll-out of universal primary and secondary education in Uganda, alarming rates of school drop-out continue to undermine the country’s human capital and social development goals. The rate of primary school completion has remained poor at 61 percent while that of lower secondary school lags behind at 37.8 percent; girls are affected more than the boys. Conventional interventions to keep children in school by government and non-governmental agencies have failed to address the bottlenecks to total school enrolment and retention. This is mainly because they fail to build and sustain grassroots level engagements that harness community capitals. The community capitals framework postulates that all communities have assets which if effectively harnessed will contribute to addressing barriers to their social development and regenerating more capital or assets. This mixed methods research examined opportunities for building supportive and sustained engagement between the Makerere University social work faculty, community members and agencies in the context of social work labs to promote learning, teaching and research. It also aimed at building capacity for communities to build onto their existing capitals and sustainably address bottlenecks to school retention. Preliminary findings show that community members can ably articulate causes of the high school drop-out, identify community assets and resources that could be deployed to address this problem. However, they lacked effective organisation to achieve this goal. We also found that social work field placements provide timely opportunities for promoting lasting social work faculty-community engagement built around the community capitals framework.

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Justus Twesigye, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Uganda
*Reducing Youth Unemployment in Uganda: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Social Work*

A central goal of social work is to create opportunities and career pathways for graduates to serve humanity. Social work practice is informed by a broad knowledge, and skill base as well as progressive values which are emphasized in its global agenda. As an applied social science, social work addresses social problems by working collaboratively with a range of clients that include individuals, groups, communities and organizations. Moreover, social workers may find employment in conventional and non-conventional jobs across a wide range of life domains. Despite this huge potential, a large number of youthful social workers in Uganda remain either unemployed or underemployed. This raises serious concerns regarding how experts of problem-solving for other people cannot help themselves. One of the promising approaches to solving this rampant youth unemployment among social workers is social entrepreneurship. As a non-conventional field of social work practice, social entrepreneurship requires an integration of primary social work philosophies and models with business principles, acumen and innovation. This paper explores the role of social entrepreneurship with the aim to document modalities, opportunities, and challenges for reducing unemployment among youthful social workers in Uganda. A qualitative study was conducted of eight social workers running social enterprises in Uganda’s capital city, Kampala. Preliminary findings show that social workers could create dignified and impactful employment based on social entrepreneurship. However, they require relevant support such as training tailored for this nascent field of practice.

Register to watch via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ka-7PgfoQlyy7_MwfK1JDw

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Presentation Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:18:28 -0500 2022-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Presentation Weiser Hall
Data Science in Health Disparities Research Symposium (March 11, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91976 91976-21684826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 9:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Additional speakers on the topics of:

How data science can be used to understand racial health disparities

How data science with biased data exacerbates health disparities

Lunch and discussion sessions following the talks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:37:38 -0500 2022-03-11T09:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Workshop / Seminar
Fourth Annual Likert Workshop - Intersections between Cross-Cultural Survey Research and Cross-Cultural Psychology (March 11, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92407 92407-21691038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Fourth Annual Likert Workshop
Intersections between Cross-Cultural Survey Research and Cross-Cultural Psychology

ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED (Free Virtual Workshop)

 11:00-11:10 - Welcome. Fred Conrad, Director, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan.

 11:10-11:30 - Introduction. Tim Johnson, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, Senior Fellow, Center of Excellence in Survey Research, NORC.

 11:30-12:00 - Moving a cross-national general survey from face-to-face to self-completion data collection: a discussion of the cross-national and cross-cultural challenges. Rory Fitzgerald, Director, European Social Survey, City, University of London, U.K.

 12:00-12:10 - Break

 12:10-12:40 - Assessing measurement invariance: Can we make a dead-end road into a highway? Jan Cieciuch, Professor, Psychology, Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland, URPP Social Networks, University of Zurich, Switzerland Eldad Davidov, Professor, Sociology, University of Cologne, Germany, Sociology and URPP Social Networks, University of Zurich, Switzerland Peter Schmidt, Professor Emeritus, ZEU, University of Giessen, Germany, Psychosomatics, University of Mainz, Germany Daniel Seddig, Professor, Sociology, University of Passau, Germany, University of Cologne, Germany.

 12:40-1:10 - Culture, language and measurement of health. Sunghee Lee, Research Associate Professor, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan.

 1:10-1:20 - Break

 1:20-1:50 - Voicing politics: How language shapes public opinion. Efrén O. Pérez, Professor, Political Science and Psychology, Director, Race, Ethnicity, Politics & Society (REPS) Lab, UCLA.

 1:50-2:20 - What may this mean? How cultural mindsets influence conversational inferences. Daphna Oyserman, Dean’s Professor, Psychology, University of Southern California, Norbert Schwarz, Provost Professor, Psychology and Marketing, University of Southern California.

 2:20-2:30 - Closing Discussion, Q&A.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:54:13 -0500 2022-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Fourth Annual Likert Workshop
HistLing Discussion Group (March 11, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92046 92046-21686404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week's presenter will be Linguistics graduate student Moira Saltzman.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:48:38 -0500 2022-03-11T14:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
150 Years of Detroit Music: A Virtual Tour (March 11, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90086 90086-21667719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Fully immerse yourself in Detroit’s musical past and present with this virtual tour that will cover everything from big band to Motown and jazz to techno.

Jeanette Pierce, founder of the Detroit Experience Factory and the City Institute, will introduce us to the people and places that influenced and inspired artists and entire genres and sub-genres of music that are heard and enjoyed across the globe. If you haven’t listened to all of these genres, consider this a fantastic opportunity to introduce yourself to a new side of Detroit that you may not have known about.

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:09:10 -0500 2022-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Dorr Lecture - Katharine Huntington, University of Washington (March 11, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89115 89115-21660520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Tsangpo Gorge region of the eastern Himalaya-Tibet is an exceptionally dynamic landscape, where the Yarlung-Siang-Brahmaputra River cuts through the high Himalaya in a zone of extremely localized rapid erosion and rock uplift. It has been argued that this area represents some of the best evidence for a localized positive feedback between erosion and deformation on Earth. We investigate this hypothesis by using detrital geochronology and thermochronology of modern river sediments and Cenozoic foreland basin deposits to establish the relative timing of river capture and the onset of rapid erosion/exhumation. Results rule out Pliocene river capture or Quaternary climate change as triggers for rapid exhumation, and instead point to a tectonic driver for extreme rock uplift rates. Quaternary megafloods (≥106 m3/s) sourced from valley blocking glaciers may have played an important role in eroding rapidly uplifted rock, and in the geomorphic evolution of the Gorge and Tibetan plateau margin. We investigate the sedimentary record and hydraulics of outburst floods through the Gorge, with implications for erosion and deposition in the largest source-to-sink sedimentary system on Earth. In the high-elevation source region, hydraulic flood simulations, field observations, and flood sediment provenance studies suggest (1) great potential for megaflood erosion in the Gorge, and (2) a lasting impact of megaflood deposits on the morphology and both river and hillslope processes in mountain landscapes. Previous studies show that megafloods have significantly altered landscapes in the sedimentary transfer zone between the headwaters and deepwater Bengal Fan and deposited material >2000 km offshore. Our ongoing work seeks to integrate geologic and human perspectives on flooding, landscape change, and sedimentation throughout this system, including Indigenous knowledge. Taken together, our findings show the profound legacy of episodic, large magnitude floods on mountain valley processes and on the transmission and preservation of tectonic and climatic signals in the sedimentary record.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:23:26 -0500 2022-03-11T15:30:00-05:00 2022-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Colloquium: Lessons learned while searching for syntax in the brain (March 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93118 93118-21700880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

ABSTRACT

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:55:09 -0500 2022-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Jon Brennan
MCDB Connell Lecture > Thomas C. Südhof, M.D. (March 14, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90404 90404-21670709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Thomas C. Südhof is a Nobel-prize winning biochemist at Stanford University.

The Südhof laboratory studies how synapses form in the brain and how their properties are specified, which together organize neural circuits. Moreover, the Südhof laboratory examines how synapses become dysfunctional in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders to pave the way for better therapies.

Dr. Südhof has had a remarkably productive career studying the molecular mechanisms controlling synaptic transmission and synaptogenesis. He is perhaps best known for his work identifying the core molecular machinery controlling the fusion of synaptic vesicles with the plasma membrane, including the calcium sensor synaptotagmin. His group also discovered neurexins and neuroligins, which are important cell-surface proteins controlling the specificity synapse formation.

In recent years, his group and collaborators have explored the molecular basis of several human diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and autism.

Dr. Südhof has been an HHMI Investigator since 1986 and is the recipient of many awards recognizing his fundamental contributions to neuroscience and cell/molecular biology--among them, induction into the National Academy of Sciences (2002), the Kavli Prize (2010), the Albert Lasker Award (2013) as well as the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology.

After Dr. Südhof’s seminar there will be a reception in the West Atrium of the Biological Sciences Building under the life-size model of a pterosaur (Quetzalcoatlus northropi, the largest known flying animal to ever live on earth).

Please join us on March 14 for what will no doubt be a fascinating talk and an opportunity to meet with Dr. Südhof and members of the U-M science community.


Connell Lecture
This special event is possible through an endowment from Priscilla Connell's family as a memorial to her career as a nature photographer.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:12:33 -0500 2022-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T16:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Portrait of Thomas Südhof
31st Annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom (March 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93306 93306-21702497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Faculty Senate

Dima Khalidi, founder and director of Palestine Legal, will deliver the 31st Annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

Abstract

Amid a nationwide push to curtail the teaching of institutional racism and the dark sides of US history, we can learn important lessons from another subject on which campus communities have long experienced attacks on free speech and academic freedom: Palestine. In what can only be characterized as a “Palestine Exception to free speech,” academics, students, and others who speak out for Palestinian rights are routinely falsely accused, investigated, surveilled, harassed, and sometimes suffer severe consequences to their reputations and careers. Right-wing efforts to dictate what academics can and can’t say, teach, or write are proliferating. Is this a “new McCarthyism”? What is at stake? What can we learn from Palestinians and their allies whose histories, narratives, and experiences are constantly denied, erased, and criminalized, even in academia? How can we ensure that universities can be bastions of academic freedom, and not enforcers of corporate, lobbyist, and governmental litmus tests?

Palmer Commons, Forum Hall
100 Washtenaw Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI

via Zoom Webinar

via Livestream

Visit https:facultysenate.umich.edu for details.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:39:42 -0500 2022-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Black and white aerial photograph of the University of Michigan campus with black blob hovering over. Text in blob reads: "A New McCarthyism? Academic Freedom and Palestine"
Integrating intersectionality into Environmental Health Sciences (March 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92997 92997-21698985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

*Registered required.

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Mar 2022 09:34:10 -0500 2022-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Integrating intersectionality into Environmental Health Sciences
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88148 88148-21650724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Tuesday, March 15, 2022
4:00-5:00 p.m. ET
Free and open to the public, registration required: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/the-power-of-flexing-growing-into-your-best-self/

Positive Links:

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

About the talk:

One of the best things you can say about someone is that they continued to grow, develop, change, improve, and evolve throughout their life. Indeed, personal growth is crucial if you want to become like that role model you most admire, have more influence as a leader, create better relationships with those joining you on a task, and ultimately, to bring positive change into our troubled world.

In September, I achieved a lifelong goal of publishing a book, The Power of Flexing, that summarizes decades of research and teaching on this very topic. This talk brings that book alive by sharing some of the stories of people who have put growth prominently on their agenda, suggesting key practices that facilitate growth for anyone anywhere, and highlighting what companies can do to enable the growth journeys of their employees.

About Ashford:

Susan (Sue) Ashford is the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor in the Management and Organizations group at Michigan Ross. She served previously on the faculty of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and received her MS and PhD degrees from Northwestern University.

Sue’s passion is using her teaching and research work to help people to be maximally effective in their work lives, with an emphasis on self-leadership, proactivity, change from below, and leadership and its development. She teaches across several programs at Ross, in the Leading Women Executives program of the Corporate Leadership Center, and for various companies. Sue recently published a book that lives out her passion entitled The Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth (Harper Collins Business, 2021).

Sue is an award-winning scholar, having published papers in the fields’ best journals in the areas of leadership development and leader effectiveness, middle management voice and issue selling, job insecurity, and individual proactivity (e.g., self-management and feedback seeking). Her research has been summarized as advice for managers in the Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Business Review blog, New York Magazine, and The Conversation. Sue is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and was awarded the prestigious Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management by that Association in 2017.

Host:

Dave M. Mayer, Center for Positive Organizations Research Director; John H. Mitchell Professor of Business Ethics; Chair of Management and Organizations Area

Series Sponsors:

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

Series Promotional Partners:

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:34:00 -0500 2022-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Sue Ashford
How Invalid and Mischievous Survey Responses Bias Estimates of LGBQ-heterosexual Youth Risk Disparities (March 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92659 92659-21694330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Inclusive Research Matters
How Invalid and Mischievous Survey Responses Bias Estimates of LGBQ-heterosexual Youth Risk Disparities
March 16, 2022, noon ET via Zoom

Speaker: Joseph Cimpian, Associate Professor of Economics and Education Policy at NYU Steinhardt

Abstract: Survey respondents don’t always take surveys as seriously as researchers would like. Sometimes, they provide intentionally untrue, extreme responses. Other times, they skip items or fill in random patterns. We might be tempted to think this just introduces some random error into the estimates, but these responses can have undue effects on estimates of the wellbeing and risk of minoritized populations, such as racially and sexually minoritized youth. Over the past decade, and with a focus on youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning (LGBQ), a variety of data-validity screening techniques have been employed in attempts to scrub datasets of “mischievous responders,” youths who systematically provide extreme and untrue responses to outcome items and who tend to falsely report being LGBQ. In this talk, I discuss how mischievous responders—and invalid responses, more generally—can perpetuate narratives of heightened risk, rather than those of greater resilience in the face of obstacles, for LGBQ youth. The talk will review several recent and ongoing studies using pre-registration and replication to test how invalid data affect LGBQ-heterosexual disparities on a wide range of outcomes. Key findings include: (1) potentially invalid responders inflate some (but not all) LGBQ–heterosexual disparities; (2) this is true more among boys than girls; (3) low-incidence outcomes (e.g., heroin use) are particularly susceptible to bias; and (4) the method for detection and mitigation affects the estimates. Yet, these methods do not solve all data validity concerns, and their limitations are discussed. While the empirical focus of this talk is on LGBQ youth, the issues and methods discussed are relevant to research on other minoritized groups and youth generally, and speak to survey development, methodology, and the robustness and transparency of research.

Biography: Joseph Cimpian, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics and Education Policy at NYU Steinhardt and associated faculty at NYU Wagner. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Stanford University. His research focuses on the use and development of novel and rigorous methods to study equity and policy, particularly concerning language minorities, gender, and sexual minorities. One line of his research examines how “mischievous responders”—youth who provide extreme and untrue responses—can bias estimates of majority-minority group disparities. Some of his other work examines how beliefs about gender and math ability contribute to gender gaps in STEM. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Cimpian was an Associate Professor and College of Education Distinguished Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, the AERA Grants Board, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute of Education Sciences. His research has been published in some of the top journals in education, psychology, health, and policy, and has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and Brookings, among other outlets. He presented his work on English learner reclassification policies at a U.S. Congressional briefing and for the Council of Chief State School Officers. At NYU, he teaches intermediate and advanced graduate courses on causal inference. He is currently an Editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and is on the editorial boards of several other education and psychology journals.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:57:41 -0500 2022-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Detroit in Flux: Architecture & Urbanism in the Motor City (March 16, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90083 90083-21667716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We consider new buildings and developments that are revolutionizing Detroit and its neighborhoods, from Bedrock’s ultra-contemporary City Modern residential complex north of Comerica Park to a rash of new projects in Corktown in anticipation of Ford’s arrival at the train station, to The Belt, an uber-hip, revitalized alleyway crowded with art, restaurants, and bars – a nice example of innovative urbanism.

Our speaker, Michael H. Hodges, longtime Detroit News fine-arts writer, just retired after 30 years with the paper. He is the author of two books – “Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit” and “Michigan’s Historic Railroad Stations”, both from Wayne State University Press. His work has also appeared in Salon, the New York Times, Village Voice, Spy, and The Nation. Hodges grew up on a dairy farm in Rochester Hills and lives in Ann Arbor.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:30:57 -0500 2022-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
“The Salivary Glands: Robust Sites for Infection and Transmission of SARS-CoV-2” (March 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92751 92751-21695193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

BIOGRAPHY
Born: August 3rd, 1981, Defiance, Ohio, United States of America

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS
Diplomate, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology – American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
Dental License(s) – Unrestricted Dental License, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, DS039850
DEA Registration – US Department of Justice
CPR Certification – American Red Cross

HONORS, AWARDS, & NOTEWORTHY INVITED TALKS.
2021 American College of Rheumatology Convergence, Invited Speaker, “Epigenetics of Sjogren’s Syndrome.” November 2021. >600 Attendees/Views.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:08:51 -0500 2022-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Blake Warner, DDS, PhD, MPH Assistant Clinical Investigator Chief of the Salivary Disorders Unit and the Sjogren’s Syndrome Clinic NIH National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Black Islam in the Americas Series. *Two Gods* Filmmaker Q&A with Zeshawn Ali & Aman Ali (March 17, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92937 92937-21698123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Join us on March 17th at 2:00 pm ET for a Q&A with *Two Gods* filmmakers Zeshawn Ali and Aman Ali. This conversation will be moderated by local Detroit filmmaker and GISC Fellow Razi Jafri. RSVP: http://bit.ly/GISCTwoGods

Zeshawn and Aman will discuss their film *Two Gods*, the challenges and rewards of Black Muslim filmmaking, and answer audience questions.

Director of *TWO GODS*: Zeshawn Ali was born and raised in Ohio and is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He is a member of Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and Meerkat Media, and is currently based in New York. His first feature documentary film *Two Gods* received support from ITVS, Sundance Institute, and the Ford Foundation. It played at film festivals across North America including Hot Docs, Full Frame, BlackStar, DOCNYC and Camden Film Festivals, and won the award for best documentary feature at New Orleans Film Festival. The film premiered on national broadcast as a part of the PBS program *Independent Lens* in 2021 and was named a NY Times Critics Pick and was nominated for a Cinema Eye Spotlight Award.

Producer of *TWO GODS*: Aman Ali is an award-winning storyteller in New York City. He has made appearances on dozens of media outlets including the *New York Times*, *CNN*, *Buzzfeed*, *NBC News*, and *HBO*, to tell stories about the Muslim American community. Aman is also one of the creators of “30 Mosques in 30 Days,” a 25,000 mile road trip he took to all 50 States in the U.S. with the mission of telling profound stories about Muslims in America.

Moderator: Razi Jafri is a second-year MFA candidate at the Stamps School of Art + Design and a Detroit-based documentary photographer, filmmaker, and producer whose work focuses on race, religion, immigration, human rights, and politics. His recent documentary *HAMTRAMCK, USA*, premiered at SXSW and was broadcast on the PBS program America ReFramed. Razi is currently working on the multimedia exhibit project HALAL METROPOLIS, about Muslim visibility in southeast Michigan, and *LOYALTY*, a documentary film that explores what life is like for three Muslim chaplains in the US military.

Make sure to catch a free screening of *Two Gods* before the event at http://watch.eventive.org/gisctwogods

Shot in a striking black-and-white, *TWO GODS* explores the juxtaposition of grief and the rituals of death with the vibrancy and potential of adolescence. The documentary turns an empathetic lens on Muslim American stories, ultimately crafting a moving portrait of both the intimate moments and the complexities of the everyday Muslim American experience.

This Black Islam in the Americas Series is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center, and cosponsored by American Culture, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the African Studies Center, the LSA Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the International Institute all at the University of Michigan. This series is also brought to you by The Maydan at the George Mason University’s Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, and the Muslim Studies Program at the Michigan State University. The film screening was made possible thanks to Good Docs.

This series will explore the history of Black Islam and the experiences of Black Muslim communities in the Americas, including North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Make sure to check out the third installment of the series:

On March 29th at 1:00 PM ET, GISC will host Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Dr. Rasul Miller for a lecture on Black Islam in the Americas. http://bit.ly/BlackIslamLect



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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:48:20 -0400 2022-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Black Islam in the Americas Series. *Two Gods* Filmmaker Q&A with Zeshawn Ali & Aman Ali
The McCarthy Era Red Scare in Michigan: Its Meaning, Then and Now (March 17, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92871 92871-21697525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

In 1952, David Maraniss’s father, a U-M alumnus, was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. David wrote about his family’s experiences in his book – many of which centered around U-M – in his book, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, and will discuss how this period of heightened ideological tension still reverberates today, especially given our own era of increasing political engagement and polarization.

Hosted by Gary Krenz.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:23:07 -0500 2022-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Event poster with title and image of speaker.
“The Women of Copper Country” (March 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90089 90089-21667722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Since 2007, the Great Michigan Read, Michigan Humanities’ signature program, has bridged communities across the state with Michigan based fiction and non-fiction titles that spark conversation and understanding of diverse perspectives.

“The Women of the Copper Country” by Maria Doria Russell is a fictionalized history of the 1913 copper miners’ strike in Calumet in the Upper Peninsula. Following the story of 25 year old strike leader, Anna “Big Annie” Klobuchar Clemenc, Russell draws attention to the women and the immigrants who risked their lives to fight unregulated capitalist exploitation. Widely praised for meticulous research, fine prose, and the compelling narrative drive of her stories, Mary Doria Russell is the award-winning author of seven bestselling novels, including the science fiction classics “The Sparrow and Children of God”; the World War II thriller, “A Thread of Grace”; and a political romance set in 1921 Cairo called “Dreamers of the Day”.

Mary Doria Russell was born in the Chicago suburbs to a military family. She received her BA in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign; her MA in Social Anthropology at Northeastern University, Boston; and her PhD in Biological Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Mary lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

The activities surrounding this event will begin with a discussion of Mary Doria Russell’s novel on Friday March 18, 2022 at 10:00am facilitated by the students and faculty of EMU’s Honors College. Following the event will be a panel discussion focusing on the themes raised by the novel - feminism, union organization, immigrant’s rights, and the history of the Peninsula Community in which the novel is set.

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:26:55 -0500 2022-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
CSEAS Lecture Series. Pedagogies of Transfemininity in the Spanish Colonial Philippines 1589-1864 (March 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91621 91621-21681040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In this talk, Jaya Jacobo narrates and describes the simultaneous disavowal and affirmation of transfemininity in the Spanish colonial Philippines within the apparatus of colonial cisheteropatriarchy by looking at narratives which mark out the emergence of the transfeminine in Catholic religious discourse and its catechetical project of conversion.

In particular, Jacobo reads the instrumentalization of transfeminine divinity against the establishment of imperial priesthood in chronicles written by Spanish friars as they document the evangelization of the islands. What emerges in these chronicles is the pedagogical value of the transfeminine priest/trans priestess as a recalcitrant body gaining the ideal subjectivity of a “rectified heathen.” To triangulate the discursive formation of the transfeminine as an aberrant body rectifying its own inclinations as well as resisting the force of interdictions, Jacobo turns to lexicons and grammars through the colonial centuries, ending with an analysis of the figuration of cisgenderhood and the concomitant recession of trans possibility in the didactics of a significant Tagalog novel of manners in the late nineteenth century.

Jaya Jacobo is Assistant Professor of Gender, Equality and Diversity at the Institute of Education of Coventry University, United Kingdom. She was previously Postdoctoral Fellow of the Philippine Work Package of the GlobaLGRACE Genders and Cultures of Equality Programme at the University of the Philippines, which enabled her to work alongside travesti and transsexual women artists, academics and activists in Brazil. She is a founding co-editor of *Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art* and a member of the board of trustees of the Society of Trans Women of the Philippines.

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/9P63y

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:25:39 -0500 2022-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture - Brian Arbic, University of Michigan (March 18, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89116 89116-21660521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Tidal dissipation in Earth's oceans and solid body cause the distance to the Moon and the length of day to increase over time. Tides also change the eccentricity and tilt of the lunar orbit, and Earth's obliquity (the tilt between the equator plane and the ecliptic plane of our orbit around the Sun).  In this work, we attempt to calculate the evolution of the Earth-Moon system over the whole of Earth's history using sophisticated ocean tide and orbit models.  Over long time scales, the rate at which tidal energy is being dissipated is affected by the geometrical configuration of the continents, the length of day, and mean sea level, which is affected by plate tectonic forces and the presence or absence of large ice caps. The faster rotating Earth of the past was less efficient at dissipating energy and the present placement of the continents enhances some tides due to resonances.  In addition, tidal dissipation in the Moon slows the orbit evolution by absorbing energy from the orbit and there was a time in the distant past when the Moon's tidal dissipation was large. The evolution of the Earth-Moon system is complex and uncertain, but it can be addressed with advanced models.  At the end of the talk, we will briefly discuss related work on the potential implications of the Earth's rotation rate for the history of oxygen on Earth.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Feb 2022 12:23:42 -0500 2022-03-18T15:30:00-04:00 2022-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
LHS Collaboratory (March 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90095 90095-21667763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1: PCORNet and the PaTH subnetwork

Kathleen McTigue, MD, MPH, MS

In this talk, Kathleen McTigue describes the vision of PCORNet, its organization, and its value to the field of clinical research. PCORNet is divided into regional subnetworks one of which is PaTH. The organization of PaTH along with its priories will be discussed.

Presentation 2: UM’s site within PCORNet/PaTH

David Williams, PhD

The University of Michigan is an institutional member of PaTH/PCORNet.
In this talk, David Williams describes the organization and processes of the UM site within PCORNet/PaTH, studies in which UM participates, and resources for UM investigators interested in participating in PCORNet studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:38:45 -0500 2022-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
Operationalizing the exposome through chemical surveillance & bioeffect monitoring with high-resolution mass spectrometry (March 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93450 93450-21704620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration required https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wum4p_pdRMKIixVZJAlicg

Douglas Walker is assistant professor in the Dept of Environmental Medicine & Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai. Dr. Walker's research is focused on using untargeted metabolomics to measure environmental exposures, and how exposures lead to biological changes that cause diseases. During his postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University, he acted as Director of Exposome Research for the Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory and was a member of the HERCULES Exposome Research Center. Through application of high-resolution mass spectrometry platforms, Dr. Walker has shown it is possible to provide measures of 10,000-100,000 chemical signals in a cost-effective manner using a single human blood sample, providing a key advance for nutritional assessment, precision medicine and exposome research. At Mount Sinai, his research will be focus on continued development and application of advanced analytical strategies for measuring the occurrence, distribution and magnitude of previously unidentified environmental exposures and assist in delineating the mechanisms underlying environment-related diseases in humans.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:21:33 -0400 2022-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Dr. Douglas Walker (Mt. Sinai) presents the M-LEEaD Environmental Research Seminar
Egalitarian Beliefs & Activity Spaces in Nepal (March 23, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85345 85345-21626258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Webinar 13: Egalitarian Beliefs & Activity Spaces in Nepal
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Anna E. Shetler

This webinar will present a study of how individual egalitarian beliefs about caste and gender correlate with shared activity spaces in the Chitwan Valley. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

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

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpfuGhpjIoHdan3NMZVs3FUbqyCfTWduUH

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:05:28 -0400 2022-03-23T14:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
MIPSE Seminar | Plasma Irregularities in the Earth’s Ionosphere and Plasmasphere (March 23, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90467 90467-21671094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Plasma irregularities in the ionosphere and plasmasphere can adversely affect space-based communication and navigation systems. Even with research for over 50 years to understand the generation mechanism(s) of these irregularities, uncertainties remain. Plasma irregularities often occur in the post-sunset, ionosphere equatorial F region broadening in altitude over tens of kilometers due to formation of ‘electron clouds with scale sizes of 30 meters’ – equatorial spread F (ESF). Subsequent observational data find ESF to be a complex phenomenon that involves a wide range of spatial and temporal scales: from 10s km to 10s cm and from 10s min to 10s msec producing large-scale electron density ‘bubbles’ or ‘plumes’ that develop in nighttime equatorial ionosphere. We will use the first-principles whole atmosphere models WACCM-X and HIAMCM coupled to the ionosphere/plasmasphere model SAMI3 to investigate the onset and evolution of equatorial spread F on a global scale. The earth’s plasmasphere is a cold, relatively dense plasma on closed magnetic field lines extending from ~ 1000 km to several earth radii. Although this region has often been considered to be quiescent, observations suggest that it is often times structured with plasma ducts. The underlying mechanism(s) to generate these ducts is unclear. Again, we will use WACCM-X and HIAMCM coupled SAMI3 to investigate the development of plasmasphere ducts and longitudinal corrugations in the plasmasphere density.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Joseph Huba is a Vice President at Syntek Technologies. Dr. Huba was at the Naval Research Laboratory as a NRC/NRL post-doc (1975 - 1977), contractor (1977 - 1981), and federal employee (1981 - 2018). He was Head of the Space Plasma Physics Section of the Beam Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory (1995-2018) and Head of the Geophysical and Plasma Dynamics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory from 1983 until 1989. His current research interests include the study of ionospheric and magnetospheric processes and modeling the earth’s ionosphere/plasmasphere system. He has performed numerous linear and nonlinear studies of a wide variety of plasma instabilities (most notably the lower-hybrid-drift instability). He has written a 3D Hall MHD code (VooDoo) based upon a novel algorithm that he developed to study 2D and 3D Hall magnetic reconnection physics. He has developed (with Dr. G. Joyce) the NRL ionosphere/plasmasphere models SAMI2 and SAMI3 and promoted the SAMI2 Open Source Project. Dr. Huba has over 240 publications in refereed journals in these areas.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:41:11 -0500 2022-03-23T15:30:00-04:00 2022-03-23T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Joseph Huba
2022 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture: "A Space Physics Launch Pad" (March 24, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93585 93585-21706187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

This semi-formal talk will describe aspects of my multi-facetted career path in research, education and innovation, starting at the Space Physics Research Lab (SPRL) of the University of Michigan in the late 1970’s – and working with Nelson Spencer and other amazing leaders - to now leading a flagship university system as president of the University of Illinois. An abiding interest and focus throughout has been on expanding the role of public education and interdisciplinary research in understanding and improving the human condition on a finite planet. Stops along the way (post Michigan) have included NASA, NSF, NCAR, AGU, Colorado, New York, and Illinois.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Mar 2022 08:59:30 -0400 2022-03-24T15:30:00-04:00 2022-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Professor Timothy L. Killeen, President of the University of Illinois System
Grilk Annual Memorial Lecture - Winter 2022 (March 25, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93442 93442-21704613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Please join us for the Winter 2022 Grilk Annual Memorial Lecture.

This year, our guest speaker is Dr. Venkat Mani, Professor of German & World Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Drawing on his current book project on refugees and the global novel, in this lecture Mani asks how would our understanding of categories of national, world, or minor literatures change if unsettlement, rather than settlement, became the keyword for framing our study of literature? The lecture will underscore the significance of a global comparative literary and historical framework in the twenty-first century to undo structures of disciplinary ethno-nationalism.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:17:10 -0400 2022-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster containing lecture details
HistLing Discussion Group (March 25, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92047 92047-21686406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week's presenter will be Anthony Struthers-Young.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:51:45 -0500 2022-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture - W. Ashley Griffith, The Ohio State University (March 25, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89117 89117-21660522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Exhumed fault zones offer insights into near-field earthquake processes in unparalleled spatial resolution. Unfortunately, differentiating seismic slip from slow or aseismic slip based on evidence preserved in the rock record is not trivial. Until a few years ago, pseudotachylyte (solidified frictional melt) was broadly considered the only reliable indicator of past earthquake rupture, because frictional heat production can only achieve melting temperatures during rapid slip. Significant progress in fault rock studies over the past two decades has revealed a range of reaction products which can be used to detect frictional heating at peak temperatures less than the melt temperature of the rock. We have also learned that, in addition to on-fault products of rapid slip, transient perturbations in the stress state adjacent to the fault are capable of producing fault damage zone structures diagnostic of earthquake rupture. In this talk I will discuss the process of coseismic fracture and fragmentation of rocks to form pulverized fault damage zone rocks. Pulverized rocks have several peculiar features that make them unique fingerprints of past earthquake rupture. We have devised several new experimental rock mechanics techniques to simulate complex, impulsive loading histories expected near earthquake rupture tips, and we are using them to place constraints on the stress and strain rate fields associated with coseismic rock fragmentation and the potential energy sink that this process represents for earthquake ruptures. Our ongoing work is focused on using fragmented and pulverized rocks to determine past earthquake rupture directivity, to better understand how fault damage zones evolve, and to develop metrics for determine the maximum credible earthquake magnitude (Mmax) possible on active faults by studying damage zone structure.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:30:17 -0500 2022-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2022-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Black Islam in the Americas Series. Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Dr. Rasul Miller's lecture on Black Islam in the Americas (March 29, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93019 93019-21699120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

On March 29th at 1:00 PM ET, Join GISC as we host Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Dr. Rasul Miller for a lecture on Black Islam in the Americas, with a focus on the United States. RSVP: http://bit.ly/BlackIslamLect

Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar, artist, activist, and author of *Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States* (2016). She is an associate professor of American Culture and Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Princeton University, is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and completed the Islamic Studies diploma program of the Institute at Abu Nour University (Damascus).

In her most recent work, Umi’s Archive, Dr. Abdul Khabeer examines the intersections of official history and the untold stories of Black women and Black Muslims through the lens of her mother’s life. Umi means mother in Arabic, and Dr. Abdul Khabeer examines her mother’s photographic and literary archives, and so the digital exhibition series is Umi's Archive. The project sees everyday Black women as people who know things we all need to know. Dr. Rasul Miller's work looks into Black Muslim communities in the Atlantic world, Black radicalism and its impact on social and cultural movements in the twentieth-century U.S., Black internationalism, and West African intellectual history.

Dr. Miller's current book project, *Black Muslim Cosmopolitanism: The Global Character of New York City's Black Muslim Movements*, examines the Black internationalist origins of early twentieth-century Black Sunni Muslim congregations in and around New York City, and the cultural and political orientations that characterized subsequent communities of Black Muslims in the U.S. who built robust, transnational networks as they actively engaged traditions and communities of Muslims on the African continent.

This event is a part of the three-part Black Islam In the Americas Series. This series will explore the history of Black Islam and the experiences of Black Muslim communities in the Americas, including North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

This Black Islam in the Americas Series is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center, and cosponsored by American Culture, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the African Studies Center, the LSA Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the International Institute all at the University of Michigan. This series is also brought to you by The Maydan at the George Mason University’s Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, and the Muslim Studies Program at the Michigan State University. The film screening was made possible thanks to Good Docs.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:48:57 -0400 2022-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-29T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Black Islam in the Americas Series. Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Dr. Rasul Miller's lecture on Black Islam in the Americas
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar presents Rehan Akbani, PhD (Associate Professor, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center) (March 30, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93933 93933-21711327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

The TP53 tumor suppressor gene is frequently mutated in human cancers. We illustrate the “omics” landscape of the TP53 pathway across five data platforms in 10,225 patient samples from 33 cancers reported by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). More than 91% of TP53-mutant cancers exhibit second allele loss by mutation, chromosomal deletion, or copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity. TP53 mutations are associated with enhanced chromosomal instability, including increased amplification of oncogenes and deep deletion of tumor suppressor genes. Tumors with TP53 mutations differ from their non-mutated counterparts in RNA, miRNA, and protein expression patterns, with mutant TP53 tumors displaying enhanced expression of cell cycle progression genes and proteins. A mutant TP53 RNA expression signature shows significant correlation with reduced survival in 11 cancer types. Pathway activity scores were computed for all the samples using mRNA expression levels of ten TP53 pathway member genes. Gynecologic cancers show high activity of the pathway. The pathway is correlated with immune infiltration and EMT, and anti-correlated with RTK and RAS/MAPK pathways. In particular, a strong correlation with immune infiltration is observed in breast cancer. ATAC-seq data also show high chromatin accessibility of the pathway genes in breast cancer. Thus, the TP53 pathway has profound effects on tumor cell genomic structure, expression, and clinical outlook depending on tumor type.

Short Bio
Dr. Rehan Akbani is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, in the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He has worked at MD Anderson since 2009. He has played many leadership roles in major enterprises, including as PI on TCGA’s MD Anderson Genome Data Analysis Center (GDAC) grant. Within the TCGA consortium, he led four of TCGA’s analysis working groups and he’s been a co-author on each one of TCGA’s 33 marker papers and 27 pan-cancer papers since 2009. His primary contributions have been leading the analysis of proteomics data, and batch effects and quality control of omics data. He won the AACR “Team Science Award” in 2020 for his work in TCGA. He was conferred the “Highly Cited Researchers 2019” award by Web of Science for co-authoring the most highly cited papers in the past decade. He has over 87,700 citations and an h-index of 78 on Google Scholar. In 2014, he won the “Test of Time” award from the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) for publishing the most highly cited paper in ECML a decade ago. Currently, Dr. Akbani is the Co-Director of MD Anderson’s proteomics core and Co-Director of the metabolomics core, where he’s led the development of software pipelines for normalizing raw data and generating customer reports semi-automatically. He’s also contributed proteomics data analysis for projects including the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) and the MD Anderson Cell Line Project (MCLP).

Host: Veera Baladandayuthapani, Ph.D.
https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:32:18 -0400 2022-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Rehan Akbani, PhD (Associate Professor, University of TX MD Anderson Cancer Center)
“Bioengineered Synthetic Hydrogels for Regenerative Medicine" (March 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92752 92752-21695194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Andrés J. García is the Executive Director of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and Regents’ Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. García’s research program integrates innovative engineering, materials science, and cell biology concepts and technologies to create cell-instructive biomaterials for regenerative medicine and generate new knowledge in mechanobiology. This cross-disciplinary effort has resulted in new biomaterial platforms that elicit targeted cellular responses and tissue repair in various biomedical applications, innovative technologies to study and exploit cell adhesive interactions, and new mechanistic insights into the interplay of mechanics and cell biology.

In addition, his research has generated intellectual property and licensing agreements with start-up and multi-national companies. He is a co-founder of 3 start-up companies (CellectCell, CorAmi Therapeutics, iTolerance). He has received several distinctions, including the NSF CAREER Award, Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biomaterials, Georgia Tech’s Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award, the Clemson Award for Basic Science from the Society for Biomaterials, the International Award from the European Society for Biomaterials, and Georgia Tech’s Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award.

He is an elected Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (by the International Union of Societies of Biomaterials Science and Engineering), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He served as President for the Society for Biomaterials in 2018-2019. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Inventors.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:06:32 -0400 2022-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Andrés J. García, Ph.D.
Aiton Lecture: “Civil War and Radical Reaction: the Confederate States of America and Mexico’s Second Empire” (March 31, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93323 93323-21702629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

In the 1850s and 1860s, North America was transformed by war, political crises and constitutional overhaul. We will explore two radical political experiments that meant to deal with the era’s chaos: the Confederate States of America and Mexico’s Second Empire.

Erika Pani (PhD, El Colegio de México, 1998) is research professor at El Colegio de México. Her research and teaching focus is on nineteenth century politics, Mexico’s Second Empire, Conservatism and citizenship. She has published the Historia minima de los Estados Unidos de América (2016).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:58:45 -0400 2022-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion French battle-field painter Jean Adolphe Beaucé depicts the 1865 meeting between Maximilian and the Kickapoo embassy which had traveled to Mexico City.
2022 Ferrando Lecture: Self-Interest and the Post-Individual (March 31, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92612 92612-21693689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Program in Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Join us at 7:30pm on March 31st in the Palmer Commons Forum Hall for the 2022 Ferrando Lecture given by Yancey Strickler:
"Self-Interest and the Post-Individual"

Self-interest and the post-individual

Our definition of “self” has changed considerably in the past two decades. We are no longer defined as merely physical or even spiritual beings — we contain multitudes of selves — physical, tribal, digital, virtual, spiritual — that coexist inside us. This is producing a new human experience: the post-individual. The post-individual is a state of being in which liberated individuals carry multiple, overlapping, group-based identities that are extensions of their self, that define who they are, that are more theoretical in nature, and that fill the space previous generations reserved for relationships with others. The post-individual isn't the end of the individual, it's a new hero's journey brought on by technology and the threat of global catastrophe. Join the writer and entrepreneur Yancey Strickler, founder of Kickstarter, Bentoism, The Creative Independent, and Metalabel, and the author of "This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World" as he explores the sweeping changes around and inside all of us.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:53:20 -0400 2022-03-31T19:30:00-04:00 2022-03-31T21:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Program in Philosophy, Politics & Economics Lecture / Discussion Yancey Strickler
CSEAS Lecture Series. Racial Capitalism and Interspecies Empire in Colonial Myanmar (April 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91620 91620-21681039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Under British rule in Myanmar, colonized people’s relationships with animals changed. Increasingly, animals were commoditized. Some creatures, such as elephants and oxen, became vital resources for the colony’s globally-important rice and teak industries. At the same time as these shifts were occurring, Burmese conceptions of human difference were undergoing significant changes themselves. Notions of race became more prominent in politics and culture, especially during the interwar years. These processes—the commoditization of animals and the racialization of human difference—were not only coincident with one another, they were connected. In this talk I will uncover some of these connections and their wider import for the history of modern imperialism in Southeast Asia.

Jonathan Saha is an Associate Professor of South Asian History. He serves as faculty with the Department of History at the University of Durham.

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/7e3n6

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Feb 2022 15:43:59 -0500 2022-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion
Flash Talk | Moqimu’s Cultural Commitments: Constructing Identity on the Romano-Syrian Border (April 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92647 92647-21693928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

At the edges of ancient empires, unique visual traditions often transcended political boundaries and engaged multiple audiences. The mosaic portrait of Moqimu and his family is one of the most enigmatic images known from Late Antiquity. Discovered near the Roman border town of Edessa, the mosaic’s guilloche border asserts a Roman pedigree. Yet, the long tunics and pantaloons of Moqimu and his sons have been identified as the costume of Rome’s Parthian enemies. Scholars of the mid-twentieth century viewed this mosaic as an example of Parthian art in a Roman artform. Nicola Barham, however, argues that the mosaic is an example of art from a community bordering on diverse cultural worlds, including Roman, Parthian, and ancient Middle Eastern. It reflects how the elite of this community navigated those cultural commitments.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:50:20 -0400 2022-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Funerary mosaic of the family of Moqimu with names written in Syriac. 3rd century CE, found in Edessa.
Smith Lecture - Yingwei Fei, Carnegie Institution for Science (April 1, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89118 89118-21660524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Increasingly detailed models of Earth’s interior demand more accurate measurements of density, sound velocity, and melting temperature of earth materials at relevant conditions, whereas the fast-past discovery of super-Earths challenges experimentalists to expand the pressure-temperature range to probe material properties under extreme conditions. A combination of static and dynamic compression data allows us not only to improve the accuracy of data but also to expand pressures over terapascal. Here I present new measurements of density, melting, and sound velocity of iron alloys and mantle silicate by static and dynamic compression methods. The results will be discussed in the content of our current understanding of the composition of the Earth’s core and the internal structure of super-Earths.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:33:38 -0500 2022-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2022-04-01T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Anne Applebaum, “Democracy in Crisis: The Twilight of Democracy” (April 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92678 92678-21694337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

All in-person attendees will be required to complete the ResponsiBlue screening before entering the building, and to adhere to the University of Michigan mask policy throughout the event. Registration is required to attend.
https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/anne-applebaum-democracy-crisis-twilight-democracy

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Pulitzer Prize winning historian, journalist and commentator on geo-politics, Anne Applebaum examines the challenges and opportunities of global political and economic change through the lenses of world history and the contemporary political landscape. Anne Applebaum delivers the keynote lecture of the Spring 2022 Democracy in Crisis series, in conversation with Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr.

For bios and more information visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/anne-applebaum-democracy-crisis-twilight-democracy

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Co-sponsored by Democracy & Debate, Wallace House, Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:37:33 -0400 2022-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Anne Applebaum
Health Professions Education Day 2022 (April 5, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90786 90786-21673925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Health Professions Education Day is an annual event that brings together faculty, students, and staff from the 10 health science schools across the University of Michigan’s three campuses to share best practices for interprofessional education and collaborative care.

Many of our educators work collaboratively through the U-M Center for Interprofessional Education (C-IPE) to develop and teach novel courses and collaborative care opportunities focused on interprofessional health education.

This annual event aims to spark interprofessional collaboration, networking, and inspiration for future research and practice for educational efforts across the health professions schools at the University of Michigan.

Abstracts are currently being accepted until 11:59 PM ET on Tuesday, February 1, 2022. Registration is open now.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:48:24 -0500 2022-04-05T08:30:00-04:00 2022-04-05T12:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Learning Health Sciences Conference / Symposium Health Professions Education Day
Environmental Injustice in the Southend of Dearborn (April 5, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93452 93452-21704623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration required https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YhR24FAcQUm3sDY3FZmfwg

The next in the R&R series of talks featuring residents and researchers discussing the environment, health and community is "Environmental Injustice in the Southend of Dearborn".

Panelists include Samra'a Luqman, and environmental activist in the Southend of Dearborn and Zeina Reda, a University of Michigan student. Moderated by Natalie Sampson, Associate Professor of Health and Human Services, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:53:19 -0400 2022-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-05T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion R&R: Residents and Researchers Tuesday Talks at 12 on environment, health, and community
GISC Event. Islamic Chaplaincy in North America & Mantle of Mercy Book Launch (April 5, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94041 94041-21719401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

On April 5th, 2022, at 1:00 PM ET, GISC will be hosting an event dedicated to Islamic Chaplaincy in North America as well as a book launch for the newly released essay collection *Mantle of Mercy: Islamic Chaplaincy in North America* (Templeton Press, 2022), RSVP: http://bit.ly/ICNARSVP.

Join us as editors Chaplain Sondos Kholaki, Muslim Chaplain & Co-editor; Chaplain Muhammad Ali, Muslim Chaplain at Bucknell University & Co-editor; Dr. Matthew Schumann; Chaplain at Felicity Foundation; Sister Jaye Starr, Aspiring Healthcare Chaplain & Co-editor; Imam Kamau Ayubbi, Muslim Chaplain at Michigan Medicine discuss their experiences as Muslim chaplains. This conversation will be moderated by Dr. Nancy Khalil, Professor of American Culture.

Muhammad Ali began his early education at the American Institute of Quranic Studies. He holds a BA in psychology, an MA in Islamic education, and a graduate of Bayan Islamic Graduate School with an MDiv in Islamic Chaplaincy. He is a chaplain in federal prison, the Muslim Chaplain at Bucknell University, and also serves the Geisinger Medical Center. He lives in Central Pennsylvania with his wife and four children.

Chaplain Sondos Kholaki serves as a volunteer community and police chaplain and a hospital staff chaplain in Southern California. She is board-certified by the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). Sondos earned a Master of Divinity degree in Islamic Chaplaincy at the Claremont School of Theology/Bayan Islamic Graduate School as the recipient of the Fathi Osman Academic Excellence award and a Bachelor's degree in English and creative writing from UCLA, where she received the prestigious Regents Scholar award. Sondos completed five units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and is the author of the award-winning book, *Musings of a Muslim Chaplain* (2020) and a co-editor of the anthology, *Mantle of Mercy: Islamic Chaplaincy in North America* (2022).

Sister Jaye Starr is an aspiring healthcare chaplain, board member with the Association of Muslim Chaplains, and member of the Ethics Committee at Michigan Medicine. A graduate of Hartford International University's Islamic Chaplaincy Program with three units of Clinical Pastoral Education, Jaye also studied with the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics and as a Luce Fellow at Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia). She is a white convert to Islam living in Michigan with her husband, a fellow chaplain, and their two small children. Jaye loves gardening and finds geeking out over Islamic studies and bioethics strangely rejuvenating.

Imam Kamau Ayubbi grew up in Los Angeles, California. He received his Bachelor's Degree From San Francisco State University in Visual Arts in 1998. During undergrad, Kamau also enjoyed an internship in Holistic Health studies. He received his religious and spiritual education and training under the Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA) and was appointed as an Imam in 2002. Imam Ayubbi received his Clinical Pastoral Education (chaplaincy training) at Beaumont CPE Center in Royal Oak, MI. Before serving at the University of Michigan Hospital and Health Systems, Imam Ayubbi worked as a staff chaplain in Adult Palliative Care and the Cardiac Progressive Care Unit at Beaumont Royal Oak from 2010 to 2015. He provides care throughout the hospital for Muslim patients and psychiatric spiritual care in the Adult Inpatient, Partial Program, and Adolescent Psychiatric Programs. He loves sharing principles and practices of peace and meditation for all ages.

Dr. Matthew Schumann is the Felicity Foundation Chaplain at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He became Muslim in 2009, and his journey since has taken him to Morocco, Qatar, Canada, Utah, and now Michigan. He has studied Islam and the Quran intensively since 2016 as a student of Imam Fode Drame. He also earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2020. Dr. Matthew's goal is to support his students' development into Absolute Citizens: those who are immersed in the remembrance of God, have beautiful character, and find happiness in service to humanity. Dr. Matthew resides in Ypsilanti, Michigan, with his wife and two children.

Dr. Nancy A. Khalil is currently an Assistant Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan. She completed her PhD in anthropology at Harvard University and her postdoctoral fellowship at Yale's Center on Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Dr. Khalil's recent large research project studies the politics of American Islam through in-depth research on Islamic higher education institutes and religious clerics, or imams, in the US. Dr. Khalil has worked with a number of non-profit organizations; notably, she was one of four female founders of the Boston-based Muslim Justice League, and she currently serves on the Board for Pillars Fund. Prior to her academic career, she worked in higher education and student development, including serving as Muslim Chaplain at Wellesley College for several years.
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This event is cosponsored by Michigan Medicine - Office of Research, the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Comparative Literature, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of American Culture, the Institute of the Humanities, Middle Eastern Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Women & Gender Studies Department, and Arab and Muslim American Studies. This event is also cosponsored by the Mantle of Mercy publisher, Templeton Press.

From April 4th to the 8th, enjoy 50% off + free shipping with promo-code MERCY2022 when you order the newly released Mantle of Mercy from the Templeton Press website: https://templetonpress.org/books/mantle-of-mercy. Customers can enter the code at checkout. It must be entered in all caps and without spaces.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:39:49 -0400 2022-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Islamic Chaplaincy in North America & Mantle of Mercy Book Launch
The Architecture of Urbanity (April 5, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92615 92615-21693692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Date: April 5, 2022 - 6:00pm
Address: 700 E. University Ave., Ann Arbor
Location: Blau Colloquium, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Taubman College's Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture in conjunction with the Weiser Center for Real Estate presents The Architecture of Urbanity with Vishaan Chakrabarti.

Architect, Urban Planner, and social advocate Vishaan Chakrabarti is this year's Dinkeloo Memorial Lecturer. Vishaan lectures internationally, was the planner for Manhattan, Principal at SHoP Architects, and the former Director of Columbia University's Real Estate Program. Vishaan will explore large scale development in the urban context, through his founding of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, PAU and experience as master planner for Michigan Central Station in Detroit and Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Factory.

Location: Blau Colloquium, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, 700 E. University Ave., Ann Arbor

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:50:12 -0500 2022-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-05T19:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2022 Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture with Vishaan Chakrabarti
Giving Rare Populations a Voice in Public Opinion Research: Pew Research Center’s Strategies for Surveying Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Other Populations (April 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92209 92209-21688189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Inclusive Research Matters
Giving Rare Populations a Voice in Public Opinion Research: Pew Research Center’s Strategies for Surveying Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Other Populations
April 6, 2022, noon ET via Zoom

Speaker: Courtney Kennedy, Director of Survey Research at Pew Research Center

Abstract:

A typical public opinion survey cannot provide reliable insights into the attitudes and experiences of relatively small and diverse religious groups, such as adults identifying as Jewish or Muslim. Not only are the sample sizes too small, but adults who speak languages such as Russian, Arabic, or Farsi (and not English) are excluded from interviewing. This presentation discusses how Pew Research Center has sought to address this research gap by fielding large, multilingual probability-based surveys of special populations. Examples include the Center’s 2017 Survey of Muslim Americans and the 2020 Survey of Jewish Americans. These studies present numerous challenges in sampling, recruitment, crafting appropriate questions, and weighting. The presentation will also discuss the Center’s methods for studying racial and ethnic populations with the goal of reporting on diversity within these populations, as opposed to treated them as monolithic groups.

Bio:

Courtney Kennedy is director of survey research at Pew Research Center. Her team is responsible for the design of the Center’s U.S. surveys and maintenance of the American Trends Panel. Kennedy conducts experimental research to improve the accuracy of public opinion polls. Her research focuses on nonresponse, weighting, modes of administration and sampling frames. Her work has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology and the Journal of Official Statistics. She has served as a co-author on five American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) task force reports, including chairing the committee that evaluated polling in the 2016 presidential election. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, Kennedy served as vice president of the advanced methods group at Abt SRBI, where she was responsible for designing complex surveys and assessing data quality. She has served as a statistical consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau’s decennial census and panels convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Kennedy has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, both in survey methodology. She received bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan in statistics and political science. Kennedy has served as AAPOR standards chair and conference chair.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:21:45 -0500 2022-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
2022 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter (April 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84834 84834-21635102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Featuring an in-person lecture: 4th Floor Rackham Amphitheatre
or
Youtube remote link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLKoAgfHNs

Abstract:
The understanding of strongly-correlated quantum matter has challenged physicists for decades. The discovery three years ago of correlated phases and superconductivity in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene led to the emergence of a new materials platform to investigate strongly correlated physics, namely moiré quantum matter. These systems exhibit a plethora of quantum phases, such as correlated insulators, superconductivity, magnetism, Chern insulators, and more. In this talk, Professor Jarillo-Herrero will review some of the recent advances in the field, focusing on the newest generation of moiré quantum systems, where correlated physics, superconductivity, and other fascinating phases can be studied with unprecedented tunability. He will end the talk with an outlook of some exciting directions in this emerging field.

Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero from MIT studies novel condensed-matter systems and is especially well-known for his pioneering work with twisted bilayer graphene.

He has received the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics and the 2020 Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics, among many other honors.

The usual pandemic-related caveats apply, but we are currently anticipating an in-person lecture and a remote feed as well.

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Presentation Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:53:50 -0400 2022-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Presentation Photo of Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Arnold Sameroff Lecture in Developmental Theory: Relationships and the Regulation of Stress in Human Development (April 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90135 90135-21668042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Professor Gunnar will cover research exploring the regulation of stress physiology by relationship partners during human development. Beginning in infancy with the formation of attachment relationships the presence and availability of the attachment figure provides a powerful buffer of the mammalian stress system. This is observed in rodents, non-human primates and children. This lecture will consider how relationships buffer stress (or not) during childhood and the role that puberty may play in the shift in stress buffering from parental attachment figures to peers and later romantic relationship partners. Professor Gunnar will also consider how early neglect and deprivation may alter the course of the social regulation of stress physiology and the role this may play in the vulnerability and resilience of individuals to stressful life events.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:29:00 -0400 2022-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Megan Gunnar
2022 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Reception (April 6, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84754 84754-21624874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Annual Hopwood Awards Ceremony includes the 2022 Hopwood Lecture by Jia Tolentino. Following the ceremony, Black Stone Bookstore will sell copies of Tolentino's essay collection, Trick Mirror and Jia will sign books. Free and open to the public. This event will also be live-streamed. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters.

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Ceremony / Service Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:40:59 -0400 2022-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Jia Tolentino wearing a black top and jeans. Photo credit: Elena Mudd.
Native Americans of the Upper Great Lakes: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on Land and Schooling Among the Anishinaabek (April 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93434 93434-21704490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series:
"Native Americans of the Upper Great Lakes: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on Land and Schooling Among the Anishinaabek"
Thursday, April 7, noon ET via Zoom

Presenters:
-Arland Thornton, Department of Sociology, Institute for Social Research, and Native American Studies, the University of Michigan
-Eric Hemenway, Anishanaabe/Odawa. Director of Archives and Records, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Harbor Springs, Michigan.
-Linda Young-DeMarco, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
-Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Odawa member of Wiikemkoong First Nation Unceded Territory, Ontario, Canada. Lecturer in American Culture and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan.
-Lindsey Willow Smith, Citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, University of Michigan Class of 2022, History and Museum Studies B.A.

Abstract:
In this presentation a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Archive and Records Department discuss the land and schooling of the Anishinaabek—the Three Fires of the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi. Of particular focus is the spread of Euro-American schooling among the Anishinaabek from the early 1800s through 1950. We trace the establishment of schools in the early 1800s and the growth of literacy and school attainment from the 1850s through 1940. In addition to considering schooling levels and trends of the Anishinaabek at the national level, we examine state differences, and focus on one particular group, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, who today live in Waganakising—the Land of the Crooked Tree—located in the northwest portion of the lower peninsula of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:21:53 -0400 2022-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
IISS Lecture Series. From Last Emperor to Last Prophet: The Emergence of the Doctrine of the Finality of Prophecy (April 7, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92380 92380-21690688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) is pleased to announce a lecture with Professor David Stephan Powers "From Last Emperor to Last Prophet: The Emergence of the Doctrine of the Finality of Prophecy". In his lecture Professor Powers will examine the intriguing interaction between the Qur'an, its interpretations, and some widespread Christian theological narratives of late antiquity.

Abstract:

The Islamic doctrine of the finality of prophecy is supported by a single verse in the Qur’an, v. 40 of Sūrat al-Aḥzab: “Muḥammad was not the father of any of your men but the Messenger of God and the Seal of Prophets (khātam al-nabiyyīn).” Islamic tradition teaches that this verse was revealed ca. 5 AH/626-27 CE in connection with a domestic crisis that is described in verse 37 of the same Sūra: After falling in love with the wife of his adopted son -- a man identified only as Zayd -- Muḥammad terminated the adoptive relationship so that, after Zayd had divorced his wife, he might marry her. Once Zayd had ceased to be Muḥammad’s son, Muḥammad was no longer the “father” of any “man” in the Muslim community and thus might become the “seal of prophets.” In my lecture, I will challenge the contention that this key theological doctrine was the product of a domestic crisis involving Muḥammad, his adoptive son, and the latter’s wife. Rather than focusing on a specific historical event – a domestic crisis in Medina in 5 AH – I propose to shift the scholarly gaze to the larger geo-political context. On the eve of the rise of Islam, Christian theologians were circulating a narrative that predicted the appearance of the Last Emperor, a king who would establish a divinely inspired imperium, the last earthly kingdom prior to the Second Coming of Christ and the End Time. I shall argue that this widespread Christian theological doctrine, known as the Last Emperor Legend, served as a model for what would become the Islamic doctrine of the finality of prophecy.

Register at: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tceutpzIoGtM9p-MUTk4_IVb7adZgoE5C

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:15:07 -0500 2022-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-07T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion From Last Emperor to Last Prophet: The Emergence of the Doctrine of the Finality of Prophecy
CSEAS Lecture Series. Magnetic Female Power in East Javanese Cross-Gender Dance Performance (April 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91623 91623-21681042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Christina Sunardi is an associate professor in the Ethnomusicology program in the School of Music at the University of Washington, where she has been teaching since 2008. Her interests include performance, identity, spirituality and ethnography in Indonesia. Her work focuses in particular on the articulation of gender through music, dance, and theater in the cultural region of east Java.

Her publications include articles in Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, Asian Music, and Ethnomusicology, as well as reviews in the *Journal of Folklore Research Reviews*, *American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences*, and Indonesia. Professor Sunardi has been studying and performing Javanese arts since 1997 in Indonesia and the United States, earning her Ph.D. in music from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Her book about the negotiation of gender and tradition through dance and music in east Java was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2015. In addition to her academic work, she enjoys playing gamelan music with the Seattle-based ensemble Gamelan Pacifica and performing as an independent dancer.

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/z1w3G

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:25:51 -0400 2022-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (April 8, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92048 92048-21686408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week's presenter will be Ben Fortson.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:54:23 -0500 2022-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture - Bronwen Konecky, Washington University in St. Louis (April 8, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89119 89119-21660525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Recent global syntheses of paleoclimate proxy data from the Common Era (the past ~2,000 years) have provided important context for how global temperature varied prior to, and after, the industrial revolution. Synthesizing hydroclimate paleodata, however, has remained an ongoing challenge due to the complexity of the global water cycle as well as the complexity of hydro-sensitive paleoclimate proxies. This presentation shares a new effort to evaluate changes in the global water cycle during the Common Era through proxies that track the stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopic composition of environmental waters (e.g., precipitation, lake water, seawater). More than 600 records were compiled from globally distributed, diverse geologic archives such as speleothems, corals, lake and marine sediments, ice cores, and tree rings. We use this compilation and an isotope-enabled climate model to investigate regional to global scale variations in the water cycle during the Common Era, particularly during the last millennium. We then explore applications to regional climate features, including the Pacific Walker Circulation and regional responses to volcanic eruptions. We leverage both modern and paleo data in order to provide unique perspectives on how the water cycle behaves as the planet warms and cools.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:12:06 -0400 2022-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2022-04-08T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93055 93055-21700218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The 5th annual CCAT Global Symposium returns this year on April 12th and 13th! The conference will be hosted at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, MI with both in-person and virtual registration options available to attendees. The two-day, two-track event will continue discussions on cybersecurity, infrastructure, shared mobility, and more.

The 2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is sponsored by Michigan Engineering, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, and WSP. Women in Autonomy serves as our conference partner.

For complete details and hotel room blocks, please visit the Symposium page on the CCAT website: https://ccat.umtri.umich.edu/symposium/

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:14:47 -0500 2022-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Decorative Image for the 2022 CCAT Global Symposium. It features a 3-D animated city with several forms of transportation and text that reads '2022 Global Symposium' with the CCAT logo in the bottom right.
Leadership Dialogues: Mary Barra (April 12, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93004 93004-21698991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 4:15pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

What does it take to inspire over 150,000 employees at a 100+-year-old company to lean into an all-electric future?

Mary Barra, General Motors Chair and CEO, joins Professor Lindy Greer to talk about leadership through radical change and her plans to have GM launch 30 new global electric vehicles by 2025. Barra will describe her leadership journey and the leader behaviors and practices that she views as most critical in helping her move her company toward this bold future. Professor Greer, an expert on how to lead adaptive teams and organizations, will explore how insights on leadership scholarship relate to Barra’s vision and practice of leadership. Join us for an engaging talk from leaders in both industry and research.

Leadership Dialogues: Mary Barra
Tuesday, April 12, 4:15–5:15 PM
followed by a 30-minute catered reception
Robertson Auditorium at Michigan Ross
Open to the entire community

RSVP requested, see link

About the Dialogues
The Leadership Dialogues speaker series, powered by the Sanger Leadership Center at Michigan Ross, is a fireside chat-style event featuring accomplished industry, political, and non-profit leaders discussing the latest ideas in organizational research and ongoing practice with U-M faculty. Speakers share advice on topics including how to develop leadership skills, lead purpose-driven organizations, and manage crises. All dialogues are free and open to the entire U-M community.

Questions? Contact us at rossleaders@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:44:15 -0500 2022-04-12T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-12T17:45:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Sanger Leadership Center Lecture / Discussion Mary Barra April 12 at Michigan
2022 ICPJ Latin America Caucus Speaker Series. Borders, Homeland Security & Bridges (April 12, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90199 90199-21668663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (ICPJ) Latin America Caucus (LAC), U-M Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Wayne State University Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies & Huron Valley DSA, presents the 2022 Speaker Series.

Todd Miller writes a weekly post for *The Border Chronicle*. He has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, but also has spent many years living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico. His work has appeared in the *New York Times*, *TomDispatch*, *The Nation*, *San Francisco Chronicle*, *In These Times*, *Guernica*, and *Al Jazeera English*, among other places.

Miller has authored four books: *Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders *(City Lights, 2021), *Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World* (Verso, 2019), *Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security* (City Lights, 2017), and *Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security* (City Lights, 2014). Todd is a contributing editor on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas and its column “Border Wars”.

Upcoming Speakers:

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 | 07:00 PM (EST)
Mary Anne Perrone: The Struggle for Environmental, Racial & Human Rights in Honduras

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:55:10 -0500 2022-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 2022-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion 2022 ICPJ Latin America Caucus Speaker Series
2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93055 93055-21700219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The 5th annual CCAT Global Symposium returns this year on April 12th and 13th! The conference will be hosted at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, MI with both in-person and virtual registration options available to attendees. The two-day, two-track event will continue discussions on cybersecurity, infrastructure, shared mobility, and more.

The 2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is sponsored by Michigan Engineering, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, and WSP. Women in Autonomy serves as our conference partner.

For complete details and hotel room blocks, please visit the Symposium page on the CCAT website: https://ccat.umtri.umich.edu/symposium/

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:14:47 -0500 2022-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Decorative Image for the 2022 CCAT Global Symposium. It features a 3-D animated city with several forms of transportation and text that reads '2022 Global Symposium' with the CCAT logo in the bottom right.
2022 Captain R. & Florence Peachman Lecture (April 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61855 61855-21727750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

4 PM 1050 Ford Robotics Bldg with Reception to follow in lobby

Karen A. Flack is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She received a bachelor’s degree from Rice University, a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. Professor Flack teaches courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and design. Her research focuses on turbulent boundary layer physics with a concentration on rough wall boundary layers and frictional drag prediction. Recent work also includes performance characteristics of tidal turbines in unsteady flow conditions. She is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Experiments in Fluids and Flow Turbulence and Combustion. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has received the following: an ASME award for best paper in the Journal of Fluids Engineering, a Pi Tau Sigma teaching award, the Naval Academy Research award and United States government meritorious service medals.

Significant progress has been made towards the understanding of rough-wall boundary layers and the subsequent drag penalty. Continued progress is promising since a larger range of parameter space can now be investigated experimentally and numerically. Recent advances in rapid prototyping techniques enables the generation of systematic variations of roughness scales and computationally efficient simulations with creative surface mapping techniques allows for experiments and computations to investigate similar complex roughness. While a universal drag prediction correlation is still elusive and may not be possible, predictive correlations for classes of surface roughness pertinent to engineering applications seem achievable. Three surface parameters based solely on surface statistics are showing promise in predictive correlations for a range of studies. These include a measure of surface elevation a slope parameter and the skewness of the surface elevation probability density function. Other candidate parameters that may be useful in a predictive correlation or a surface filter are the streamwise and spanwise correlation lengths. The challenges to represent this wide range of surface conditions and potential scales to characterize engineering roughness including biofouling in predictive correlations will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:14:09 -0400 2022-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Karen A. Flack Headshot
2022 Kelbaugh Lecture: David Brown (April 14, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93856 93856-21709056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 11:30am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Taubman College presents the Inaugural Kelbaugh Lecture featuring David Brown, Chicago-based designer, researcher, and educator, and artistic director of the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

What is the potential of The Available City, Chicago’s 15,000 city-owned vacant lots as a collective space system, an urban design, and a future we can have today? How can a community-oriented approach shift perspectives in how cities are built and vacant urban spaces are transformed? Deeply rooted in a framework for collaboration and community-led design, Brown asks us to consider the collective impact that space can have in cities today.

Brown’s work investigates non-hierarchical, flexible, and variable approaches to urban design within The Available City, an ongoing speculation on the potential of Chicago’s city-owned vacant land. Iterations of the speculative design have been exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012), the Chicago Cultural Center’s Expo 72 (2013), the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015), and received a grant from the Graham Foundation in 2011. As an implementation of the project, he is currently working with organizations in North Lawndale to develop two collective spaces.

Brown’s essays and drawings presenting the transformative impact The Available City can have on Chicago’s South and West Sides are found in CENTER 18: Music in Architecture—Architecture in Music, the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, volume 2, and Flat Out 4. Those essays advance his study of design and structures in jazz that facilitate improvisation, which he initiated in the book Noise Orders (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).

Brown has lectured on his work at Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies and the Politecnico di Milano and has taught at Florida A&M University and Rice University. He is currently a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Master of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley.

The inaugural Kelbaugh Lecture, generously funded through an endowed fund given by Douglas Kelbaugh and Katherine Nolan.

Courtesy of Chicago Architecture Biennial / Nathan Keay, 2020
© Chicago Architecture Biennial / Nathan Keay, 2020

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:21:37 -0400 2022-04-14T11:30:00-04:00 2022-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2022 Kelbaugh Lecture: David Brown
Cellular Mechanisms of Lip and Primary Palate Fusion (April 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94366 94366-21735840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

A. Personal Statement

Highlighted publications:

Lewis A.E., Kuwahara A., Franzosi J., Bush, J.O.* (2022) Tracheal separation is driven by NKX2-1-mediated repression of Efnb2 and regulation of endodermal cell sorting. Cell Reports, 38(11):110510

Kindberg A.A., Srivastava, V., Muncie, J.M., Weaver V.M., Gartner, Z.J. and Bush, J.O.* (2021). EPH/EPHRIN regulates cellular organization by actomyosin contractility effects on cell contacts Journal of Cell Biology 220 (6): e202005216 PMCID: PMC8025214

Kuwahara, A., Lewis, A., Coombes, C., Leung, F.S., Percharde M., Bush J.O.* (2020) Delineating the early transcriptional specification of the mammalian trachea and esophagus. eLife, 9:e55526 PMCID: PMC7282815

Niethamer, T. K., Teng, T., Franco, M., Du, Y. X., Percival, C. J., Bush, J.O.* (2020). Aberrant cell segregation in the craniofacial primordium and the emergence of facial dysmorphology in craniofrontonasal syndrome. PLoS Genet. 16, e1008300.

Highlighted projects:
R35 DE031926-01 (PI: Bush) 4/1/2022-3/31/2030
NIH/NIDCR
Signaling control and cellular basis of craniofacial morphogenesis and congenital disease

R01 DE023337 (PI: Bush) 7/9/2013-3/31/2022
NIH/NIDCR
Mechanisms of Eph/Ephrin signaling in craniofacial morphogenesis and craniofrontonasal syndrome

R01DE028753 (PI: Selleri) 4/1/2019-3/31/2024
NIH/NIDCR
Phenotype-driven approach to understanding the function of craniofacial regulators using IMPC-generated mouse strains

UG3DE028872 (PI: Klein) 7/1/2019-6/30/2024
NIH/NIDCR
“Enamel atlas: systems-level amelogenesis tools at multiple scales”

B. Positions, Scientific Appointments and Honors
Positions and Employment:
2019-present Vice Chair, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology
2021-present Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology and Program in Craniofacial Biology, University of California at San Francisco
2017-2021 Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology and Program in Craniofacial
Biology, University of California at San Francisco
2011-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology and Program in
Craniofacial Biology, University of California at San Francisco
2005-2011 Postdoctoral research at FHCRC/MSSM
Advisor: Dr. Philippe Soriano
1999-2005 Graduate and postdoctoral research at University of Rochester
Advisor: Dr. Rulang Jiang

Awards and Honors:
2021 Marylou Buyse Distinguished Scientist in Craniofacial Research award from the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology
2019 F1000 Faculty member for Developmental Biology
2019 David W. Smith workshop on malformations and morphogenesis keynote
2014 American Association of Anatomists Young Faculty Travel Award
2010-present F1000/F1000Prime has featured and highly ranked five of our publications
2010 NIH pathway to independence award from NIH/NIDCR K99/R00 (DE020855)
2006-2008 Ruth L Kirschstein NRSA Individual Fellowship from NIH/NIDCR F32 (DE17506)
2005 Basil Bibby award from the AADR
2004 Michael G. Buonocore award from the AADR

Other Experience and Professional Memberships
2021-2025 Member NIH Skeletal Biology Development and Disease (SBDD)
2021 Cold Spring Harbor Labs Mouse Engineering Course lecturer and workshop leader
2021 American Association of Anatomists Program Committee
2020 Ad hoc reviewer NIH/NIDCR SEP ZDE1 Endogenous Regeneration of Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Tissue
2020 Ad hoc reviewer NIH CSR ZRG1 Fellowships: Cell Biology, Developmental Biology and Bioengineering
2020 Ad hoc reviewer Czech Science Foundation
2019 Ad hoc reviewer for NIH Skeletal Biology Development and Disease (SBDD)
2017 Ad hoc reviewer for NIH on Microphysiological Systems (MPS) for Disease Modeling and Efficacy Testing (UG3/UH3) “Tissue Chips and Disease Modeling”
2017-present International Association for Dental Research
2017 Guest Editor, Developmental Biology, special issue on signaling in development
2014 Ad hoc reviewer for NIH on SEP ZRG1 MOSS-D (02), “Bone, Cartilage and Tendon”
2013, 2014 Invited peer reviewer for UK MRC
2012 Ad hoc reviewer for NIH on Council ZES1, “Environmental influences on stem cells in development, health and disease”
2012 Organizer, session chair, Society of Craniofacial Genetics Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2012-present Member, Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Development
2010-present Member, American Association of Anatomists
2000-present Member, Society for Developmental Biology
Ad hoc Reviewer for Development, Developmental Biology, Developmental Dynamics, Journal of Dental Research, Genesis, Immunobiology, Journal of Cell Biology, Science, PLOS Genetics, Immunobiology, PLOS One, Developmental Cell, PLOS Biology, Human Molecular Genetics, JOVE

C. Contributions to Science
1. Identified Eph/ephrin cellular mechanisms in morphogenesis
We have made major contributions to understanding EPH/EPHRIN signaling mechanisms in development in multiple contexts including the craniofacial, neural and neural crest systems. The EPHs compose the largest family of receptor tyrosine kinases in the vertebrate genome constituting one quarter of the total number. Though extensively studied in the nervous system, the signaling mechanisms utilized by this family in other contexts are complex and modestly understood, particularly in vivo. We have learned that a large number of these molecules exhibit distinct expression patterns in the developing craniofacial region. In a novel “conditional-rescue” approach we discovered that EPHRIN-B2 is required in the vascular endothelium for normal NCC development. EPH/EPHRIN signaling is widely known to regulate cellular organization, but the signaling mechanisms by which it does so are unclear. By studying a series of targeted and signaling mutations in EPHRIN-B1 and its receptors EPHB2 and EPHB3 in mice, we determined that EPH/EPHRIN cell segregation involves unidirectional forward signaling from EPHRIN-B1 and relies on kinase activity of the receptors. By live cell imaging we also observe that this unidirectional signaling results in changes in cortical actomyosin accumulation and leading us to interrogate the biophysical basis for EPH/EPHRIN cell segregation. We recently discovered that EPH/EPHRIN signaling modulates the strength of cell-cell contacts by regulating cell interfacial tension through increased heterotypic cortical actomyosin contractility. The minimization of heterotypic interfacial tension also informs how EPH/EPHRIN signaling regulates tissue shape changes relevant to Contributions number 2 and 4. Current efforts in this area focus on how EPH/EPHRIN signaling regulates mesenchymal cell polarity and cell position, forming the basis for part of “Focus one” of this proposal.

Agrawal, P., Wang, M., Kim, S., Lewis, A.E., Bush, J.O.* (2014) The embryonic expression of EphA receptor genes in mice supports their candidacy for involvement in cleft lip and palate. Developmental Dynamics, 243 (11): 1470-6. PMCID: PMC4404412
Lewis, A.E., Hwa, J., Wang, R., Soriano P., Bush, J.O.* (2015) Neural crest defects in ephrin-B2 mutant mice are non-autonomous and originate from defects in the vasculature. Developmental Biology, 406(2): 186-95. PMCID: PMC4639416
O’Neill, A.O., Kindberg, A.A., Niethamer, T.K. Larson, A.R., Ho, H.H., Greenberg, M.E., Bush, J.O.* (2016) Unidirectional Eph/ephrin signaling creates a cortical actomyosin differential to drive cell segregation. Journal of Cell Biology, 215 (2): 217 PMCID: PMC5984648
Kindberg A.A., Srivastava, V., Muncie, J.M., Weaver V.M., Gartner, Z.J. and Bush, J.O.* (2021). EPH/EPHRIN regulates cellular organization by actomyosin contractility effects on cell contacts Journal of Cell Biology 220 (6): e202005216 PMCID: PMC8025214

2. Delineated Eph/ephrin signaling mechanisms underlying craniofrontonasal syndrome
We have focused on the role of EPH/EPHRIN signaling in craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS), an X-linked condition caused by mutations in EFNB1 characterized by hypertelorism, craniosynostosis, cleft lip and palate, agenesis of the corpus callosum, and particularly increased severity in female patients. By generating a series of signaling mutations in three different gene targeted mouse lines, we were able to determine the relevant modes of signaling for different EPHRIN-B1 phenotypes. We found that reverse signaling by a PDZ-dependent mechanism is critical for axon guidance, whereas it is dispensible for skeletal and craniofacial development. This work showed that different aspects of craniofrontonasal syndrome are caused by loss of function of distinct molecular EPHRIN-B1 signaling functions. Further, by integrating mouse genetics, phosphoproteomic and transcriptomic approaches we have investigated downstream signaling pathways utilized by EPHRIN-B1 in craniofacial development and disease. In this context, we were the first to show that EPH receptor expression is regulated by endocytosis in vivo, and that EPHRIN-B1 controls cell proliferation by the Ras/MAPK signaling pathway. We have also generated an hiPSC model for CFNS, which to our knowledge is the first hiPSC model of a congenital craniofacial syndrome, and used to it ask key questions about the cellular etiology underlying this perplexing disease. Recently, we coupled geometric morphometric techniques with temporal and spatial manipulation of EPHRIN-B1 signaling to elucidate how Efnb1 mutations result in stereotyped dysmorphology in CFNS. Current efforts in this area focus on delineating the proximal signal transduction mechanisms employed by EPH/EPHRIN-B1 signaling in craniofacial morphogenesis using CRISPR/CAS9 based methods.

Bush, J. O. and Soriano, P. (2010). Ephrin-B1 forward signaling regulates craniofacial morphogenesis by controlling cell proliferation across Eph-ephrin boundaries. Genes Dev. 24, 2048-60. PMCID: PMC2939368
Niethamer, T.K., Larson, A.R., O’Neill A.K., Bershteyn, M., Hsiao, E.C., Klein, O.D., Pomerantz, J.H., Bush J.O.* (2017) EPHRIN-B1 mosaicism drives cell segregation in craniofrontonasal syndrome hiPSC-derived neuroepithelial cells. Stem Cell Reports, 8(3): 529-537. PMCID: PMC5355632
Niethamer, T. K. and Bush, J. O.* (2019). Getting direction(s): The Eph/ephrin signaling system in cell positioning. Dev. Biol. 447, 42–57.
Niethamer, T. K., Teng, T., Franco, M., Du, Y. X., Percival, C. J., Bush, J. O. (2020). Aberrant cell segregation in the craniofacial primordium and the emergence of facial dysmorphology in craniofrontonasal syndrome. PLoS Genet. 16, e1008300.

3. Developed live imaging approaches to discover cellular mechanisms of craniofacial tissue fusions
Though tissue fusion is a critical final step of lip and palate development, we currently lack cellular resolution understanding of how these tissue fusion events occur, and how they are controlled. We have been examining the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which tissue fusion occurs by combining live imaging of mouse morphogenesis with mouse genetic and physical perturbations. We developed the first successful application of confocal live imaging technology to secondary palate development, and it has allowed us to make new discoveries on the cellular mechanisms at play. Our results indicate that tissue fusion proceeds by a progression of dynamic cell behaviors beginning with convergence of two independent epithelia and concomitant to orthogonal displacement of the resultant shared epithelium. Further, we have found that epithelial cell extrusion, in which cells are squeezed out of an epithelium, is a novel contributor to the removal of the midline epithelial seam (MES). A nearly completed manuscript presents a new live imaging approach to understanding secondary palate fusion, and demonstrates a unique and novel form of collective epithelial migration that is crucial for this process. Most recently, we have also established live imaging approaches for the study of upper lip/primary palate fusion, which we are using to study roles for actomyosin contractility and cell adhesion in this process.

Bush J.O.*, Jiang R.* (2012) Palatogenesis: morphogenetic and molecular mechanisms of secondary palate development. Development. 139(2):231-43. PMCID: PMC3243091
Kim, S., Lewis A.E., Singh V., Ma, X., Adelstein, R., Bush, J.O.,* (2015) Convergence and extrusion are required for normal fusion of the mammalian secondary palate. PLOS Biology, 13(4) PMCID: 4388528
Kim S., Prochazka, J., Bush J.O.*, (2017) Live imaging of Mouse Secondary Palate Fusion. JoVE. July 2017 (125) PMCID: In process

4. Improved mouse genetics tools for the study of craniofacial and neural crest development and disease
In the course of our studies, we discovered that the Wnt1-Cre mouse line exhibits developmental phenotypes attributable to elevated and ectopic activation of Wnt signaling. This is a standard and widely used reagent in the fields of craniofacial development and neural crest stem cell biology and our careful analysis of this reagent has already had broad-reaching effects causing labs to re-examine previously published work. To provide a reagent that is devoid of these complications, we generated a Wnt1-Cre2 transgenic mouse line that exhibits the same pattern of activity as Wnt1-Cre but does not cause ectopic activation of Wnt signaling or developmental phenotypes. Over the past five years, I have also served as the faculty advisor for the UCSF mouse inventory database, which facilitates the sharing of genetically modified mouse lines. Most recently, my lab has successfully adopted the iGONAD electroporation method for rapid generation of new mouse lines which we are employing to generate new mouse models for the study of congenital disease.

Lewis, A., Vasudevan, H., O’Neill, A., Soriano, P., Bush, J.O.* (2013) The widely used Wnt1-Cre transgene causes developmental phenotypes by ectopic activation of Wnt signaling. Developmental Biology, 379(2):229-34. PMCID: PMC3804302
Wall, E., Scoles, J., Joo, A., Klein, O., Quinonez, C., Bush, J. O., Martin, G. R. and Laird, D. J. (2020). The UCSF Mouse Inventory Database Application, an Open-Source Web App for Sharing Mutant Mice within a Research Community. G3 (Bethesda).

5. Understanding how cell fate and morphogenesis are coupled in the developing foregut
Based initially on phenotypes that we discovered in an Efnb2 mutant mouse line that we generated, we have now established a robust research focus on understanding the specification and morphogenesis of the trachea and esophagus. Classical developmental biology experiments hypothesize that two transcription factors, NKX2.1 and SOX2 act as master regulators of these fates, but this remains untested at the transcriptome level and their targets were unknown. we combine state-of-the-art transcriptomic experiments in embryonic tissues with functional mouse genetic experiments to expose the fundamental process of fate specification of the trachea and esophagus. We performed single cell RNA sequencing in mice to establish a transcriptome-wide understanding of the early steps of trachea and esophagus development and used these data, combined with RNA-sequencing of mutants and embryonic ChIP-seq to interrogate the transcriptome-wide function of NKX2.1 in tracheal and esophageal development. The results of these experiments provide a new understanding of how the trachea and esophagus are initially specified at the genome-wide level. Our studies also reveal that NKX2.1 directly represses Efnb2 to regulate the site of tracheoesophageal separation. These discoveries may be impactful to the study of tracheal, lung, and esophageal developmental biology and related structural anomalies in humans, as well as for the fields of embryonic stem cell biology and for lung and esophageal cancer for which these are keystone transcriptional pathways.

Kuwahara, A., Lewis, A., Coombes, C., Leung, F.S., Percharde M., Bush J.O.* (2020) Delineating the early transcriptional specification of the mammalian trachea and esophagus. eLife, 9:e55526 PMCID: PMC7282815
Lewis A.E., Kuwahara A., Franzosi J., Bush, J.O.* (2022) Tracheal separation is driven by NKX2-1-mediated repression of Efnb2 and regulation of endodermal cell sorting. Cell Reports, 38(11):110510

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Apr 2022 10:39:07 -0400 2022-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Jeffrey Bush Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology and Program in Craniofacial Biology
Hybrid FAST Lecture | Encrusted in Ancestors: Formal Reflections on the Funerary Reliefs of Palmyra (April 14, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94378 94378-21736323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Our speaker is Assistant Curator and Assistant Professor of History of Art Dr. Nicola Barham. Her research combines close visual analysis and the study of material contexts and textual sources to reconstruct, and subsequently analyze, the visual culture of the ancient Roman world. Dr. Barham's work considers marginalized ethnic groups whose works (particularly funerary reliefs and mosaics) have been sidelined in accounts of ancient Roman art.

In this FAST Lecture, entitled "Encrusted in Ancestors: Formal Reflections on the Funerary Reliefs of Palmyra," Dr. Barham analyzes the aesthetic strategies of the iconic funerary reliefs of Palmyra, taking the portrait of a Palmyrene woman in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology as her starting point. She interrogates the visual effects mediated by the status of these works as relief and illustrates that when Palmyrene portraits are viewed individually (as is so common today), their intended dynamic interactions are dramatically elided. Dr. Barham's lecture reinserts these portraits into an original tomb context to reconstruct the powerful visual effects they were designed to create when operating together as an ensemble.

Palmyrene funerary sculptures emerge as participating in both the Graeco-Roman and the Parthian visual traditions, but as ultimately achieving a highly distinctive and localized visual impact. Like the dead whom they commemorate and, indeed, like the medium of relief itself, these objects occupy an in-between status, at once concealing and revealing, affectively engaging and emotionally withdrawn, stridently individual and defined by group dynamics. The visual strategies of these reliefs are unique to the Syrian desert oasis of Palmyra.

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FAST (Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays) lectures are monthly events where students and staff in M-U's Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) share their latest research and report on ongoing excavations.

In keeping with other FAST lectures this year, there will be no food or drink provided. We hope to return to the provision of plentiful food and drink in the fall.

Physical Attendance Location:
Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall)

Virtual Attendance Location:
Zoom Meeting ID: 975 2194 0803
No passcode needed

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:10:10 -0400 2022-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-14T19:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual bust of a Palmyrene woman
CSEAS Lecture Series. From Informal to Digital Spaces: How to Shape the Lived Experience of Networked Transformations in Southeast Asia? (April 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91624 91624-21681043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Urban planners have had a contested yet tangible impact on the public realm through the design and regulation of public spaces. What role can planners play now that issues of inclusivity, sociability, and access to opportunities are increasingly mediated by online platforms? How to plan for just outcomes in intangible digital spaces as well as physical public spaces? In this talk, Huê-Tâm Jamme connects the dots between planning, informality, and the digital realm. Within a theoretical framework inspired by Lefebvre’s production of space, Sen and Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, and Castells’ spaces of flows and spaces of places, she elaborates on two empirical studies that look at i) productive frictions between transportation networks and informal street vendors in Vietnam; and ii) gender equity in the gig economy in Thailand and Cambodia. Common to these projects is a mixed-method approach that reveals the lived experience of socio-spatial and technological transformations.

Huê-Tâm Jamme is an assistant professor at the Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. Through her research and teaching, she promotes a de-centered perspective on planning. She focuses in particular on new mobilities, the platform economy, and their impacts on existing urbanisms. She graduated from SciencesPo Rennes in 2010; worked as a consultant in urban development in Asia for six years; and received a PhD in urban planning from the University of Southern California in 2020.

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/WJ2AA

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Apr 2022 09:37:56 -0400 2022-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion
Van der Voo Lecture - Arlo B. Weil, Bryn Mawr College (April 15, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89120 89120-21660526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Laramide is a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional deformation that developed far inboard of the North American Cordillera plate margin during the later Cretaceous to Paleogene and is characterized by a network of basement-cored arches and intervening basins. The Laramide developed in thick lithospheric mantle, Precambrian basement with pre-existing fabrics, and thin sedimentary cover. Laramide arches are bound by reverse faults that propagate into folded cover rocks and flatten into a lower crustal detachment or merge into diffuse lower crustal shortening and buckling. Layer-parallel-shortening preceded large-scale fault propagation and folding, with development of minor faults and subtle grain-scale fabrics. Arches define regional NW-SE to NNW-SSE trends, but individual arches are curved and vary in trend from N-E to E-W. Regional Laramide shortening was oriented overall WSW-ENE, similar to relative motion between North America and Farallon plates, but was locally refracted along curved and obliquely trending arches. Ages and lithologies of synorogenic basin strata, and thermochron data from basement record protracted arch uplift, exhumation, and cooling, with deformation onset starting at ca. 80 Ma in the southern CO Plateau, then younging to ca. 60 Ma into northern WY and central MT, consistent with migration of a flat-slab segment. Basement-cored arches in SW MT, however, do not fit this pattern with deformation and inboard migration of igneous activity starting at ca. 80 Ma, possibly related to a slab window. Cessation of contractional deformation began at ca. 50 Ma in WY, followed by a southward migration to extension and an igneous flare-up, interpreted as rollback and removal of Farallon slab.

A model will be presented that combines development of a broad flat-slab related to subduction of an oceanic plateau and formation of a slab window, with stress transfer from flat slab to thick North American mantle lithosphere due to increased basal traction, end loading along a deep keel, and enhanced asthenosphere flow along slab margins. Diffuse mantle lithosphere and lower crustal shortening resulted in upward stress transfer, leading to focused mid- to upper crustal faulting influenced by pre-existing weaknesses, fault propagation, and linkage to form major arches and cover folds.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:17:31 -0500 2022-04-15T15:30:00-04:00 2022-04-15T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
The Promise of Inclusivity in Biosocial Research - Lessons from Population-based Studies (April 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92210 92210-21688190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Inclusive Research Matters Series
The Promise of Inclusivity in Biosocial Research - Lessons from Population-based Studies
April 18, 2022, noon ET via Zoom

Speakers:
- Jessica Faul, Research Associate Professor, SRC, Institute for Social Research
- Colter Mitchell, Research Associate Professor, SRC, Institute for Social Research

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:42:54 -0500 2022-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) Seventh Annual Distinguished Lecture. Afghanistan's Bleak Future Under the Taliban Rule (April 18, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93868 93868-21709202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required if you intend to participate virtually. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email.

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

An Afghan journalist's perspective on the war, democracy, the United States withdrawal and return of the Taliban to power. Jawad Sukhanyar will discuss issues like human rights, absence of press freedom and democratic institutions. How are the Taliban ruling the country? Trying to introduce their variant of Islam called Taliban-ism, resorting to religious nationalism and more.

Jawad Sukhanyar worked as a journalist for major news agencies in Afghanistan, where he reported for *The New York Times* for eight years. He was also a freelance journalist and wrote analytical pieces for various outlets, including the *Eurasia Review*. In early 2020 he served as a media adviser in the office of the first vice president of Afghanistan. Jawad came to the university in September 2018 as a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow, studying issues related to women's rights in Afghanistan. With the support of Wallace House, he returned to Ann Arbor last October after fleeing the Taliban with his family. He is now a journalist-in-residence with the Donia Human Rights Center and the International Institute studying the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Afghan peace process, and the fate of press freedom. He's examining how the U.S. mission in Afghanistan ended in chaos and humiliation, what could have been done differently and how the Afghan peace process led to a dead-end after the Taliban took over the country and formed an interim government. The consequences of U.S. departure have been dire, resulting in the mass starvation of millions of Afghans inside the country, women being denied their rights to education, and press freedom crumbling. Next fall, Jawad will join the Department of Communications as the Marsh Visiting Professor.

DISC Global Islam programming and co-sponsored events are made possible through the generous financial support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:41:40 -0400 2022-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Afghanistan's Bleak Future Under the Taliban Rule
LHS Collaboratory (April 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93101 93101-21700618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1:
Medical AI - Three Common Myths on the Path from Code to Clinic
Alan Karthikesalingam, MD, PhD
Research Lead, Google Health UK at Google

In this talk, Alan Karthikesalingam will discuss lessons learned in Google's experiences of taking medical AI systems from early research to clinical implementation.

Presentation 2:
Medical AI - Raising the Bar on Evidence Standards
Xiao Liu, MBChB, PhD(link is external)
Ophthalmologist and Clinical Researcher
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust University of Birmingham, UK

In this talk, Xiao Liu will discuss existing and new clinical evidence standards as applied to medical AI systems. Her talk will focus on recently published standards to ensure transparency and reproducibility of clinical evidence underpinning medical AI systems, including reporting guidelines such as SPIRIT-AI and CONSORT-AI.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:04:28 -0500 2022-04-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-04-19T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
Student-Made Video Games Virtual Showcase (April 19, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93647 93647-21707515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience 20+ new student-made video games at the EECS 494 + EMU Games Virtual Showcase! Interact with the developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Visit https://494showcase.com Friday evening (the 10th) to participate!

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Exhibition Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:55:40 -0400 2022-04-19T19:00:00-04:00 2022-04-19T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition EECS 494 UMich GameDev Showcase
Adolescent Health in the CVFS (April 20, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85346 85346-21626259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Webinar 14: Adolescent Health in the CVFS
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Sabrina Hermosilla

This webinar will explore findings related to adolescent health within the CVFS and briefly discuss future lines of inquiry related to the study of individuals during this important life stage. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

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

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsd-ytrzosHdGcEK5nvNZdYJ0jOd4fSiFb

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:10:44 -0400 2022-04-20T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-20T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
IISS Lecture Series. “State formation of Islam,” a particular type of religious policy? (April 27, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94465 94465-21740311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Scholars have long discussed how such countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran intervene strongly in their domestic religious issues. Although power relations between different political and religious actors are complex, it is – from the perspective of these national states – a task to politically govern religion and religious actors. By contrast, ‘secular’ counties prefer to think of religious policy in terms of political regulation of a non-political sphere in society: Direct intervention in religious affairs is viewed critically, but regulative political means (including prohibitive legal action) are very common. However, in some cases, religious policy moves beyond regulation towards strong intervention which might be called “formation”.

The presentation discusses this kind of religious policy drawing on examples from countries with historically Muslim majorities. We ask whether this religious policy is a particular type of policy that is employed beyond the regulative policies and whether this religious policy is limited to semi-authoritarian political systems or particular religions.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:37:22 -0400 2022-04-27T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-27T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion “State formation of Islam,” a particular type of religious policy?
Flash Talk | Portraits and Patrons: The Women of the Villa of the Mysteries in Their Social Context (May 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92663 92663-21694156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The identity of the people in the fresco from Room 5 of the Villa of the Mysteries has remained a mystery to us. Are they images of people who really lived? Are they generic? Does the figure of the matron depict the owner of the villa? Join Kelsey Museum curator emerita Elaine Gazda as she discusses her recently published analysis of these figures and the role of the fresco itself as a memorial and heirloom.

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

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95262537929
Meeting ID: 952 6253 7929
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:15:03 -0400 2022-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-05-06T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual matron depicted in the mural in the Villa of the Mysteries
2022 ICPJ Latin America Caucus Speaker Series. The Struggle for Environmental, Racial & Human Rights in Honduras (May 10, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90201 90201-21668667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (ICPJ) Latin America Caucus (LAC), U-M Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Wayne State University Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies & Huron Valley DSA, presents the 2022 Speaker Series.

Mary Anne Perrone is an educator, an activist, and a spiritual guide. For over 30 years her area of focus has been on human rights in Latin America. She has worked in the U.S. to raise consciousness about the U.S.’s role in human rights violations in Latin America and the need for substantive change in our foreign policy. In the last two decades, this work has taken her on multiple human rights delegations to several Latin American countries, connecting with and accompanying courageous people working in their own countries to defend those whose human rights are highly threatened. She has been part of the Latin America Caucus of Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (ICPJ) in Ann Arbor for decades.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:57:04 -0500 2022-05-10T19:00:00-04:00 2022-05-10T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion 2022 ICPJ Latin America Caucus Speaker Series
2022 MaryFran Sowers Memorial Symposium (Day 1, May 12) (May 12, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92998 92998-21698986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 12, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

*featuring the career of Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, (Professor Emerita of Epidemiology, Global Public Health, and Obstetrics & Gynecology)*

**REGISTER TODAY** (In-person and virtual attendance options available)

http://midlifescience.umich.edu/Event_Sowers2022.php

Keynote speaker Dr. Fugate Woods is Professor Emerita, University of Washington School of Nursing, and Co-Director, de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging.

**May 12 (Thursday)1:30-4:30 pm**
Welcome: SPH Dean Dubois Bowman
Keynote address: Nancy Fugate Woods "Women's Lives, Women's Health Across the Lifespan"

Michael Elliott, PhD: "What Makes a Good Collaboration? An Exemplary Example in My Work with Professor Sioban Harlow"

Kristin Dunkle, PhD: "From Prevalence to Effective Prevention: Evolution of Epidemiological Research on Gender-based Violence"

Alexis Reeves, PhD: "Addressing Racially Diverse Trajectories of Health in Women - Methodological Challenges and Implications"

Reception: Organized by Epidemiology Dept.

Registration required. Please see webpage for more information and registration.
http://midlifescience.umich.edu/SOWERS2022

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 06 May 2022 14:02:54 -0400 2022-05-12T13:30:00-04:00 2022-05-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Conference / Symposium MaryFran Sowers Memorial Symposium featuring the career of Siobán Harlow
Moccasins and Microphones: Modern Native Storytelling through Performance Poetry (May 13, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90087 90087-21667720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 13, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This is an initial collaboration between the Archaeological Legacy Institute and OLLI Out of Town. Modern Native Storytelling through Performance Poetry explores the fascinating world of a dynamic team of indigenous youth writers from the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) in New Mexico. Led by teacher and poet Timothy P. McLaughlin, the SFIS Spoken Word Program empowers its student members to create and perform original poems centered in Native philosophies.

Over an eight-year history, the exquisite artistry of this ever-evolving team has been highly recognized through numerous awards, a bevy of media appearances including in The New York Times and on The PBS News Hour, and performance tours throughout the United States and to the Baltic nations in Eastern Europe. This documentary film journeys with the SFIS Spoken Word Team as the core group (including several graduating twelfth graders) prepares and presents a theater production of their finest poems woven with traditional and contemporary song and dance. The young SFIS poets will enchant your heart and enliven your spirit as they continue the ancient tradition of Native storytelling through the powerful new medium of performance poetry.

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:14:39 -0500 2022-05-13T15:00:00-04:00 2022-05-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Effects of the Pandemic on Trauma and Abuse within Families and Communities (May 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94935 94935-21786943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Medicine

This talk, which serves as the 14th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy, aims to focus attention on the impact of the pandemic on trauma and abuse in children and older adults.

The event will take place via Zoom. Registration is free, but required, at chear.org/meister-lecture

Keynote Speaker:
Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN
President, The John A. Hartford Foundation

Panelists:
Debra Chopp, JD
Associate Dean for Experiential Education
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Pediatric Advocacy Clinic

Todd I. Herrenkohl, PhD, MSW
Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of
Children and Families
School of Social Work

Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ
Chief Health Officer
Professor of Medicine, Michigan Medicine
Infectious Disease

Sponsored by the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center within the Department of Pediatrics - and the CHEAR Faculty Executive Representatives, a collaborative of the Schools of Business, Dentistry, Education, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, Public Policy, & Social Work

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 May 2022 12:10:19 -0400 2022-05-17T16:00:00-04:00 2022-05-17T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Medicine Lecture / Discussion Terry Fulmer, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN
To treat and when to treat? The role of sequential decision making and mobile technologies in health disorder research (May 19, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94939 94939-21786533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 19, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series
"To treat and when to treat? The role of sequential decision making and mobile technologies in health disorder research"
Walter Dempsey (Research Assistant Professor, Data Science for Dynamic Intervention Decision-making Center (d3c))
Thursday, May 19 at noon ET
Zoom link to come

Abstract:
The development of smartphone and wearable sensors has led to an unprecedented opportunity to leverage these technologies to facilitate healthy behavior change. Push notifications delivered at the right time may have a huge impact; however, too many notifications may irritate and even exacerbate the situation. A critical question we face is "How do we design treatment plans that leverage mobile technologies for individuals struggling with a variety of health disorders?" In this presentation, Walter Dempsey will discuss these types of treatment designs, known as just-in-time adaptive interventions, which are protocolized by a sequence of decision rules that specify whether and how to intervene depending on the person’s changing needs. He will discuss recent work by the Data Science for Dynamic Intervention Decision-making Center (d3c) in experimental designs and associated data analytic tools to answer questions about adaptive interventions and directions of future research.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 May 2022 14:06:01 -0400 2022-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2022-05-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Seminar: Design Principles of Ships for Icy Waters (May 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95188 95188-21788743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Abstract: An overview of design principles of ships for ice waters and cold climate environments. What does this mean for various topics like ship types in ice, hull shapes, propulsion/machinery, wheelhouse design, and icing. The idea is to compare the difference between open water and ice conditions design principles.

Bio: Pentti Kujala is a professor of marine technology (safety) at the Aalto University, School of Engineering, since 2006. He has been the head of the Marine Technology research group and since May 2017 he has been also Vice Dean of Research for the School of Engineering. He has about 40 years of research experience related to the design of marine structures and ships for open water and for ice. He is chairing a new center of Excellence for Arctic shipping and operations (CEPOLAR) funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation 2013-2022. He has been working before e.g. at Lloyd´s Register of Shipping in London, VTT in Finland and Aker Yards in Finland. He got the degree of doctor of technology in Naval Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology in 1994. Main research interests have been devoted to the risk analysis of marine operations both in open water and in ice and the development of innovative structural solutions for various types of ships.

Zoom Meeting ID: 930 9217 3389
Passcode: 841085

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 May 2022 14:14:02 -0400 2022-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Professor Pentti Kujala
IGDA Ann Arbor : Dr. Stephen Mallory (LTU / Terminal Reality / IGDA Detroit) (May 26, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95246 95246-21789060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 26, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

==Industry Lecture==
Dr. Stephen Mallory (LTU / Terminal Reality / IGDA Detroit)

Step into the world of game design and game pedagogy as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes LTU Game Program Director, IGDA Detroit Chair, and former Terminal Reality designer Dr. Stephen Mallory!

IN-PERSON : Ann Arbor SPARK Central (parking directions below)
VIRTUAL (Discord) : https://discord.gg/V9xHntm
VIRTUAL (Twitch.tv) : https://www.twitch.tv/igda_annarbor

==Community Showcase ~ SIGN UP ==
https://forms.gle/qRsMBzx121Xz3ef2A
Have a project you're working on? Looking for feedback, teammates, or advice? Don't be a stranger! Register via the above form and prepare your 5-minute demo / pitch (with 5 minutes of Q&A).

==Parking==

Republic Parking : 324 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Library Lane Parking : 319 S 5th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Streetside parking / meter parking free after 6pm EST.

==In-Person Requirements==

You must have been vaccinated, and will need to attest to this fact before entering.

== Resources ==
MI Game Studios Database : https://michigangamestudios.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/IGDA2_Official
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IGDA-Ann-Arbor-143150996287453/
Discord : https://discord.gg/V9xHntm

==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 May 2022 12:29:42 -0400 2022-05-26T19:00:00-04:00 2022-05-26T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Lecture / Discussion Dr. Stephen Mallory joins IGDA Ann Arbor
7th Annual Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD Lecture (June 3, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95013 95013-21788268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

Talk Title: Biomedical Data Science: The Hope, Hype, and Promise

Abstract: Data science was introduced as a “new” profession in the early 1960s, yet the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was not established until 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) traces its roots to at least the 1950s, with its first application as an expert system in medicine in the early 1970s. Yet, the NIH Working Group on AI was not established until 2018 as well, with their first report issued in 2019. This is not to say that these topics have been neglected over the past half-century, but it begs the question of why have they only now come to the forefront of biomedicine? We have seen multiple AI booms and busts, each of which has caused massive hype, dream crushing failures, and notable advancements (some more flashy than others) along the way. This talk is not intended to be a history lesson, but it will provide some context for how we got to where we are and what this says about where biomedical research and healthcare seems to be heading. I will further provide insight into how various innovations in computation, policy, and industry have pushed the field forward and where recently established programs to expand AI activities, such as AIM-AHEAD and Bridge2AI, may push the biomedical research community over the next decade. To ground this presentation, I will provide examples of how AI and data science more generally have driven activities at the All of Us Research Program and the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center.

Short Bio: Bradley Malin is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He founded and co-directs the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center, as well as the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe), the latter of which is an NIH Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research. Since 2007, he has chaired the Committee on Access, Privacy, and Security (CAPS) for the NIH-sponsored All of Us Research Program and, in 2021, he became one of the founding PIs of the NIH Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). He serves on various governmental advisory bodies, including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Medicine (CDC). He was honored as a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) . He received a B.S. in Biological Sciences, M.S. in Machine Learning, M.Phil. in Public Policy and Management, and Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 May 2022 12:03:12 -0400 2022-06-03T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bradley Malin, PhD
7th Annual Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD Lecture (June 3, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95013 95013-21789263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

Talk Title: Biomedical Data Science: The Hope, Hype, and Promise

Abstract: Data science was introduced as a “new” profession in the early 1960s, yet the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was not established until 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) traces its roots to at least the 1950s, with its first application as an expert system in medicine in the early 1970s. Yet, the NIH Working Group on AI was not established until 2018 as well, with their first report issued in 2019. This is not to say that these topics have been neglected over the past half-century, but it begs the question of why have they only now come to the forefront of biomedicine? We have seen multiple AI booms and busts, each of which has caused massive hype, dream crushing failures, and notable advancements (some more flashy than others) along the way. This talk is not intended to be a history lesson, but it will provide some context for how we got to where we are and what this says about where biomedical research and healthcare seems to be heading. I will further provide insight into how various innovations in computation, policy, and industry have pushed the field forward and where recently established programs to expand AI activities, such as AIM-AHEAD and Bridge2AI, may push the biomedical research community over the next decade. To ground this presentation, I will provide examples of how AI and data science more generally have driven activities at the All of Us Research Program and the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center.

Short Bio: Bradley Malin is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He founded and co-directs the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center, as well as the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe), the latter of which is an NIH Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research. Since 2007, he has chaired the Committee on Access, Privacy, and Security (CAPS) for the NIH-sponsored All of Us Research Program and, in 2021, he became one of the founding PIs of the NIH Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). He serves on various governmental advisory bodies, including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Medicine (CDC). He was honored as a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) . He received a B.S. in Biological Sciences, M.S. in Machine Learning, M.Phil. in Public Policy and Management, and Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 May 2022 12:03:12 -0400 2022-06-03T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bradley Malin, PhD
Roland “Red” Hiss Lecture and Medical Education Scholars Program Research Symposium (June 7, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94775 94775-21766997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Please join us on June 7, 2022, from 2:30-5:00pm for the Department of Learning Health Sciences’ Annual Roland “Red” Hiss Event. This event honors the life and work of Dr. Red Hiss and celebrates the accomplishments of Scholars in the Medical Education Scholars Program.

2:30-3:30: MESP Research Symposium
3:30-5:00: Hiss Lecture

The 2022 Roland “Red” Hiss Lecture will be given by Louito Edje, MD, MHPE, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

Dr. Edje is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, where she was President of the medical school student body. She began her path to medicine at age 16 when she pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology at Michigan State University. In 2012, Dr. Edje was selected as the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians’ Family Physician of The Year. She is currently the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she oversees the education of over 700 residents and fellows. Dr. Edje holds dual appointments as a professor in the Department of Medical Education and the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is also a board-certified family physician practicing at UC Health and is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Edje was recently elected to the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Medical Education. She is actively speaking globally on viruses, variants and vaccine hesitancy via multiple media platforms as a Moderna trial participant.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 May 2022 09:51:30 -0400 2022-06-07T14:30:00-04:00 2022-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Research Symposium, June 7th
Modeling Autonomous Vehicle's Lane Change Decision-Making in Weaving Sections of Freeway Ramps (June 16, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95251 95251-21789065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

To date, no systems can recommend when lane changes should be engaged in weaving sections of limited length to ensure that traffic stays safely and smoothly separated. In this presentation, Dr. Lin will describe the naturalistic driving data mining and modeling for the driver’s lane change decision-making in freeway weaving sections. The models were further tested in automated driving with computer simulation and demonstrated in the environment of augmented reality at Mcity. This study could provide valuable insights for developing AV lane change features.

More about this research: https://myumi.ch/j26wj

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About the speakers:
Dr. Brian Lin earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Dr. Lin has 11 years of experience in automotive human factors research at UMTRI after his Ph.D. His current research is focused on mining naturalistic driving data using statistical and machine-learning methods, driver-assist-system evaluation, driver performance and behavior assessment, and driver distraction and workload mitigation. His most recent work includes human driver’s lane-change maneuvers, drivers’ decisions at intersections, and passengers’ motion discomfort in moving vehicles. Dr. Lin has much experience in conducting experiments to evaluate advanced automotive systems, including auto-braking, lane departure, driver-state monitoring, electronic head units, car-following and curve-assist systems on L2 automation, and lane-change and intersection assist on L3 automation on public roads, test tracks, or simulation. He is familiar with the methods to investigate driver distraction, workload, and human-machine interaction with in-vehicle technologies and safety features. He serves as a peer reviewer for Applied Ergonomics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Transportation Research Part F, and Transportation Research Record.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 May 2022 12:57:30 -0400 2022-06-16T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Promotional Image for the CCAT Research Review with Brian Lin. It features Brian's headshot and a photo of highway traffic.
LHS Collaboratory (June 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95245 95245-21789057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"Restructuring health systems for learning: Building equity into the Learning Health System"
Learn more about ELSI-LHS (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Learning Health Systems). The session will be moderated by, Jody E. Platt, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences.

Speaker:
Lauren A. Taylor, PhD, MDiv, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Population Health
Division of Medical Ethics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 May 2022 00:20:49 -0400 2022-06-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Dept. of Neurology Grand Rounds Presented by Dr. Joanna Mattis (July 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96097 96097-21791923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: Michigan Neuroscience Institute

Plan to attend this Wednesday’s Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Joanna Mattis, MNI Affiliate Faculty and Assistant Professor of Neurology.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:06:09 -0400 2022-07-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Michigan Neuroscience Institute Lecture / Discussion
Certifiable Autonomous Systems Through Online Verification — CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (July 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95889 95889-21791378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Engineers and computer scientists are currently developing autonomous systems whose entire set of behaviors in future, untested situations is unknown. For instance, how can a designer foresee all situations that an autonomous vehicle will face? Keeping in mind that many autonomous systems are safety-critical or operation-critical, it is irresponsible to deploy such systems without testing all possible situations---this, however, seems impossible since even the most important possible situations are often unmanageably many. This presentation proposes a paradigm shift that will make it possible to guarantee safety in unforeseeable situations (under mild model assumptions): Instead of verifying the correctness of a system before deployment, we propose online verification, a new verification paradigm where a system continuously checks the correctness of its next action by itself in its current environment (and only in it) in a just-in-time manner. The usefulness of this method will be demonstrated primarily for autonomous driving and robotics.

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About the speaker: Matthias Althoff received a diploma in Mechatronics and Information Technology from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2005. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing./Univ. Tokio Martin Buss in 2010. From 2010 - 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, with a joint appointment in electrical engineering and the Robotics Institute. He joined the Computer Science Department at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, in 2012 as Assistant Professor for Automation Systems. Since 2013 Matthias Althoff is a Professor in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich.

His research interests include the design and analysis of cyber-physical systems, formal verification of continuous and hybrid systems, reachability analysis, planning algorithms, and robust and fault-tolerant control. The main applications of his research are automated vehicles, robotics, and power systems.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:30:53 -0400 2022-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Matthias Althoff. It features the presentation title 'Certifiable Autonomous Systems Through Online Verification', Professor Althoff's headshot, and an image of an Autonomous Vehicle.
ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit (August 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96324 96324-21792269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for the two day ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit on Tuesday, August 9, and Wednesday, August 10, Noon–5 p.m. each day. This hybrid event will be at 1010 Weiser Hall and open to all U-M staff and faculty. Explore new and existing educational technology tools available at U-M and take advantage of this opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues from across the university. Lunch, swag, and sessions will be provided for in-person attendees and online participants will join via Kaltura’s new Events Platform site, which we are piloting for this summit.

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Please register separately for each day of the summit you would like to attend. In-person attendees need to register by end of the day, August 4, to ensure they will receive lunch on the day of the event.

Tuesday, August 9 MiVideo Summit Registration
- https://mivideo.events.kaltura.com/register
Wednesday, August 10 Canvas/Instructional Technology Summit Registration
- https://teachingandlearning.events.kaltura.com/register

Visit the ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit website for more information and an agenda summary. We will be offering lunch and light refreshments. We ask that you register for each day’s event so we can get an accurate count of the food order.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:53:51 -0400 2022-08-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-09T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit Banner
ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit (August 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96324 96324-21792270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for the two day ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit on Tuesday, August 9, and Wednesday, August 10, Noon–5 p.m. each day. This hybrid event will be at 1010 Weiser Hall and open to all U-M staff and faculty. Explore new and existing educational technology tools available at U-M and take advantage of this opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues from across the university. Lunch, swag, and sessions will be provided for in-person attendees and online participants will join via Kaltura’s new Events Platform site, which we are piloting for this summit.

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Please register separately for each day of the summit you would like to attend. In-person attendees need to register by end of the day, August 4, to ensure they will receive lunch on the day of the event.

Tuesday, August 9 MiVideo Summit Registration
- https://mivideo.events.kaltura.com/register
Wednesday, August 10 Canvas/Instructional Technology Summit Registration
- https://teachingandlearning.events.kaltura.com/register

Visit the ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit website for more information and an agenda summary. We will be offering lunch and light refreshments. We ask that you register for each day’s event so we can get an accurate count of the food order.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:53:51 -0400 2022-08-10T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium ITS Teaching & Learning 2022 Summit Banner
Traffic Signal Control via Decentralized Decomposition Approaches (August 24, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96271 96271-21792217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Traffic congestion is a global pressing issue that can be mitigated via effective traffic signal control schemes. In this presentation, based on a cell transmission model, the team from the University of Michigan coordinated the control of traffic signals at multiple intersections to maximize vehicle throughput on corridors or road networks under uncertain traffic demand and vehicle turning. They formulated a two-stage, stochastic mixed-integer linear program using finite samples of the uncertain parameter, and combined Benders decomposition with the alternating direction method of multipliers to develop spatially-temporally distributed algorithms for optimizing the problem. They then tested instances of traffic signal control on corridors and grid networks, based on synthetic and real-world traffic data. The results show that

1. considering traffic uncertainty can significantly improve the signal control quality and
2. decentralized decomposition approaches can quickly find high-quality signal plans for multiple intersections in complex road networks, and fully utilize the computation and communication technologies in smart-transportation infrastructures.
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About the speaker: Siqian Shen is an Associate Professor and Richard Wilson Faculty Scholar in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. She also serves as the Associate Director at the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE). She obtained a B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2007 and Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2011. Her theoretical research interests are in integer programming, stochastic/robust optimization, and network optimization. Applications include optimization and risk analysis of energy, healthcare, cloud computing, and transportation systems. She is a recipient of the IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Faculty Award, and Department of Energy (DoE) Early Career Award.

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Presentation Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:31:10 -0400 2022-08-24T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-24T14:00:00-04:00 Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image for the CCAT Research Review with Dr. Siqian Shen. It includes a picture of a traffic control light, the presentation title "Traffic Signal Control Via Decentralized Decomposition Approaches", and a headshot of the Professor.
CSEAS Lecture Series. Living with the Mekong: Archaeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures (September 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97503 97503-21794655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Mekong River is Southeast Asia’s longest drainage system, and more than 60 million people today rely on the Mekong River to support farming, fishing, and other livelihoods. Watering the region’s rice bowl and serving as a biodiversity hotspot, the Mekong is also a contested space whose existence is now threatened by both human and natural forces. A complex web of international agreements and a fully-functioning multi-country Mekong River Commission have not prevented the construction of six hydroelectric dams in China, with more than ten major dams in the planning stage for Laos and Cambodia, and dozens more on its tributaries. These dams, and increasingly unpredictable rainfall, have already impacted Mekong River communities downstream, and the future promises to be even more bleak. What was life like before the dams? How did the Mekong River ecology shape the everyday life of its communities in the premodern world? What were some unexpected consequences of these practices, and how did communities and the state manage these problems? Archaeological research in Cambodia offers insights on major turning points in how Khmers managed the art of living with their Mekong River: the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian worlds.

Dr. Miriam Stark (BA, U Michigan, MA & Ph.D., University of Arizona) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Director of the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She has worked in Cambodia since 1996 and her last decade of publications examine urbanization, ceramic production and distribution, and power relations in premodern Cambodia. Stark’s archaeological research program integrates research with capacity-building in collaboration with Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and its various units, involving nearly 100 students, interns, and archaeological professionals since launching her first field-based project in the country. She is currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist, Honorary Research Associate with the University of Sydney, editorial board member for 13 journals, and a member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (US Department of State).

Register at http://myumi.ch/48Pnn

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:43:53 -0400 2022-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Miriam Stark (BA, U Michigan, MA & Ph.D., University of Arizona) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Director of the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies
41st Thomas Francis Jr. Memorial Lecture (September 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97560 97560-21794714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 10:00am
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Epidemiology

'Respiratory Vaccines in Pandemic Times'

- Expert Panel (10AM)
- Student Speaker Competition (1:40)
- Keynote Lecture (3pm)
- Reception honoring Dr. Monto's career following the lecture

Francis Lecturer: (Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, MBE, FMEDSci)
Panelists: (Scott Hensley, PhD; Arnold Monto, MD; Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, IDSA, FACP)

To RSVP for any of the events visit:
https://sph.umich.edu/epid/thomas_francis_memorial_lecture.html

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and the Michigan Center for Respiratory Virus Research and Response

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:53:38 -0400 2022-09-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Epidemiology Conference / Symposium Lecture and Symposium Flyer
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
CSEAS Lecture Series. Welfare Politics in Cambodia: An Examination of the National Ageing Policy 2017-2030 (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97506 97506-21794659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This talk explores the Cambodian government’s approach to maintain peace and stability in Cambodia through an examination of the Cambodian National Ageing Policy (NAP) 2017-2030. The NAP made an important case study as it is one of the forefront social welfare policies that the Cambodian government implemented along with the National Social Protection Policy Framework (NSPPF) 2016-2025 following a
contested election in 2013. The tracing of the country’s political development in the post-conflict period (1990-present) helps inform the analysis on the Cambodian government’s policy choice toward the vulnerable population such as the old age. The implementation of the NAP can be viewed as a positive step toward creating an inclusive society where no one is left behind. However, I argue that the NAP should be seen first as an apparatus development strategy to reaffirm the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) ruling legitimacy and popularity by proving the ability of an authoritarian ruler to care for the population. Using empirical data collected from my field research attest to my argument on how the Cambodian government incorporates ageing policy as an instrument to strengthen its ruling power, thus, the stability of the regime. By critically assessing the ageing policy’s implementing progress and impact outcomes, this study uncovers the differences between how this social welfare policy serves and benefits the Cambodian government and the ageing population.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/5W2NA

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:44:11 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Soksamphoas Im, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies
Flash Talk | An Example of Mobility: The Epigraphic Record of Migration from Hadrumetum to Lambaesis (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96630 96630-21792956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The work of Jean-Marie Lassère in Roman North Africa has provided a foundation for understanding where and when people were moving across the region in the 1st–3rd centuries CE using several hundred epigraphic examples. In this talk, I closely examine one case of four inscriptions from Lambaesis where people claimed to be from Hadrumetum and integrate them into an understanding of the road system of the area to demonstrate not just where people were moving, but how they were moving across the landscape. This one case study sets the foundation for a wider study of the epigraphic record and the road system across Roman North Africa that fits into more modern trends of mobility and migration studies.

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:43:17 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual aerial view of Lambaesis
Smith Lecture - Collin Ward, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (September 9, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96043 96043-21791864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Photochemical oxidation (photo-oxidation) of crude oil spilled at sea has been studied for over half a century. However, prior to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, photo-oxidation was widely considered a secondary weathering process that impacted a small fraction of spilled oil. Accordingly, photo-oxidation was not included in oil spill fate and trajectory models and response operations. In this talk, I’ll describe several key findings related to the rates, pathways, controls, and impacts of crude oil photo-oxidation in the aftermath of the DWH spill. These findings have collectively changed the perspective of photochemical weathering in the oil spill sciences, leading to its inclusion in oil spill models and increased consideration during response operations. I’ll also share my perspective on the many reasons why it took a devastating environmental disaster to make such progress. Finally, I’ll discuss the role sunlight may play during future oil spills, including spills in colder, high-latitude waters where risks are increasing as a consequence of global climate change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:36:49 -0400 2022-09-09T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
MIPSE Seminar | Turbulence and Transport Research Beyond the Burning Plasma Era (September 14, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97908 97908-21795308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The prospect of near-term fusion electricity opens new doors for university-based plasma physics research. Even after the grand societal challenge of putting fusion on the grid is achieved, research addressing grand intellectual challenges in plasma transport will remain vibrant. University groups will engage with sponsors and collaborators including not only governments and national labs around the world, but also private companies and utilities. In this talk I present side-by-side examples of recent research results on turbulence and transport measurements, as well as predictive simulation and modeling, carried out by researchers at MIT in support of both the nascent fusion industry and the established fission industry. I will share my perspective, as an academic department head, on the future of fusion research in universities as we move through and beyond the era of burning plasmas.

About the Speaker:
Anne E. White is the head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT and MIT School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering. She received her PhD in experimental plasma physics in 2008 from UCLA and was a DOE Fusion Energy Sciences ORISE post-doctoral fellow before becoming an assistant professor at MIT in 2009. White performs fusion energy research at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at MIT and in involved in research collaborations at tokamaks in the US and around the world. Prof. White is active in the fusion community, is a member of American Physical Society and American Nuclear Society, and has served on the executive committees and program committees of many workshops and conferences. She currently serves on the US DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC). She has won numerous awards for her research, teaching and service to MIT and to the fusion community, and is an APS Fellow.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for information about in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2223.php.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:13:50 -0400 2022-09-14T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-14T14:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Anne White
Positive Links Speaker Series (September 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97755 97755-21795057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Quinetta Roberson
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information

Event Link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/what-inclusive-leaders-do-differently/

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

About the Event:
As workplaces have become increasingly disconnected, individuals have a stronger need for a sense of connection and community. They want to work in environments in which they can be their authentic selves and are valued for their contributions. Leaders are expected to build these types of environments, but to do so in a moment when their plates are already full.

This talk will explore the how of inclusive leadership. Based on her body of research and advisory work with organizations, Quinetta will offer strategies for developing an inclusive mindset and practicing leadership behaviors for creating more inclusive work environments. By incorporating inclusive leadership into daily activities and interactions, we can foster workplaces in which everyone feels enabled to be their best selves.

About Roberson:
Quinetta M. Roberson, PhD is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Management and Psychology at Michigan State University. Prior to her current position, she was an Endowed Chair at Villanova University and a tenured professor at Cornell University. She has been a visiting scholar at universities on six continents and has more than 20 years of global experience in teaching courses, facilitating workshops, and advising organizations on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Roberson has published over 40 scholarly journal articles and book chapters, edited a Handbook of Diversity in the Workplace (2013), and is a two-time TEDx speaker. Her research and consulting work focus on developing organizational capability and enhancing effectiveness through diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is informed by her work experiences, having worked as a financial analyst and small business consultant prior to obtaining her doctorate. She earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Maryland and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Finance.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Positive Organizations; Associate Dean for Engaged Learning & Professional Development, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2022-23 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Aug 2022 15:57:46 -0400 2022-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Quinetta Roberson
Using Annoto with Video Content (September 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98158 98158-21795658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

Canvas Workshop

Workshop Agenda: * Background * Product Overview * In-Video discussion widget * Insights Dashboard * Kaltura & Canvas Support * Product Demonstration * Hands-on experience * Customer Use Cases * Value proposition and Key Impacts * Q&A

- Annoto is available as free trial tool for Fall 2022.
- Annoto provides in-video discussion tools in Canvas and is used within MiVideo/Kaltura.
Watch a two-minute video demo of Annoto. [https://youtu.be/1T9EZi7KJcc]
- Annoto enables your course participants to add time-based annotations as an overlay to any video content, turning passive video watching into an active and collaborative learning experience, while providing you actionable insights on the students and the video content delivered.
- Annoto covers all your different use cases when using video content and is used for student assignments, skills development, collaborative learning, guided watching, peer review, and many more.

Level: Beginner
Trainer: Gili Cohen

The ITS Teaching Online Technique Training Workshops are available to help you prepare for teaching online, in person, hybrid, or HyFlex.

Find detailed training information on this and additional workshops, including on-demand recordings, on the ITS Training website: https://its.umich.edu/training/canvas

Join all ITS training sessions in this series via the following Zoom URL for all workshops: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96810579762

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:46:11 -0400 2022-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Using Annoto with Video Content
Smith Lecture - Kiefer Forsch, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (September 16, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98387 98387-21796590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The crust’s fourth most abundant element, iron, barely sticks around in the surface ocean. Yet even small pulses of this essential micronutrient support blooms of phytoplankton and vibrant food webs and fisheries. Where does this iron come from, what happens to it once deposited in the ocean, and what are the consequences for the biogeochemical cycles of macronutrients (N, P, Si) and carbon? In this talk, I explore the sources, sinks, and cycling of iron in disparate productive coastal regions of the ocean. I will discuss research where I have examined the effects of insufficient iron supply on diatom communities within zones of upwelling. I will then pivot to discuss ongoing and future research exploring potential signatures of iron transformation by microbes overcoming challenges of ocean anemia and speculate on what this means for glacial weathering inputs to high latitudes.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:30:21 -0400 2022-09-16T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Trevor Noah Engineering-Only Fireside Chat (September 16, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98949 98949-21797388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Engineering Honors & Engagement Programs

Join Trevor Noah for a Michigan Engineering-only private conversation where he'll discuss his book Born a Crime. This event is free for Michigan Engineering students, faculty, and staff only—but you must register in advance to participate.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:04:20 -0400 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T18:30:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Engineering Honors & Engagement Programs Lecture / Discussion Trevor Noah on a blue background
CPOD Seminar Talk: Brian Capell, MD, PhD, (UPenn) Chromatin at the nexus of epithelial development, differentiation, and cancer (September 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98510 98510-21796732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design with UM-Skin Biology and Disease Resource based Center presents:

Brian Capell, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Chromatin at the nexus of epithelial development, differentiation, and cancer
In-Person: BSRB ABC Seminar Rooms
Zoom Meeting Option ID: 932 944 30678

Faculty Host: Rajesh Rao, MD
Leonard G. Miller Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:52:11 -0400 2022-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Capell
DCMB Weekly Seminar (September 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98815 98815-21797218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
The intersect between the life sciences (cells, tissues, organs) and engineered materials (polymers, biomacromolecules, semiconductors) is crucial for a wide range of medical and biotechnological applications. Hence, the precise control of biotic/abiotic interfaces has been one of the main obstacles of past decades. The Lahann Lab designs polymers for a range of different medical applications. In particular, we have developed a class of protein nanoparticles for targeting of glioblastoma. In addition, I will summarize our efforts related to sheet-like 3D organoid systems and will address recent advances with morphologically designed interfaces.

Research Interests:
Designer surfaces, advanced polymers, biomimetic materials, microfluidic devices, engineered microenvironments, nano-scale self-assembly.

Joerg Lahann’s research is broadly related to surface engineering with strong ties to biomedical engineering and nanotechnology. His research on reversibly switching surfaces was featured in an article in Science (J. Lahann, et al., A Reversibly Switching Surface, January 17, 2003, 299, 371-374.) These “smart surfaces” can reversibly switch properties in response to an external stimulus. To demonstrate these findings, a surface design was developed that can be changed from water-attracting to water-repelling with the application of a weak electric field. Designed as a switch, single-layered molecular-level machines are aligned on a surface using self-assembly and then are flipped between defined microscopic states. This type of surface design may offer a new paradigm for interfacial engineering as it amplifies reversible conformational transitions at a molecular level to macroscopic changes in surface properties without altering the chemical identity of the surface.

Joerg has also developed a novel class of polymers with potential for biomimetic and spatially directed surface engineering. This “reactive coating” technology uses chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization to deposit a wide range of chemical signatures on various substrate materials. Its simplicity in providing chemically reactive groups and its applicability to three-dimensional geometries (e.g., for microfluidics) enables the exact tailoring of surface properties and the preparation of biologically relevant microenvironments. Reactive coatings are compatible with soft lithographic processes, allowing for patterning of proteins, DNA, cytokines, and mammalian cells.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:36:52 -0400 2022-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion (Protein pattern deposited on a polymer surface, artistic rendering, credit: Bahar Dadfar)
LHS Collaboratory (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96027 96027-21791723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory Kickoff Poster Session Showcasing LHS Work at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:55:57 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
Postdoc Appreciation Week – Special Presentations (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98318 98318-21796492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Felicia Miranda, DDS, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Orthodontics
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Mentor: Lucia Cevidanes

Amanda Rodriguez, DDS, MS
Research Fellow & PiMA Program Assistant Director
Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Mentors: Drs. Hsun-Liang Chan, DDS, MS and
Oliver Kripfgans, PhD

Hiroki Ueharu, Ph.D.
Department of Biologic & Materials Sciences and Prosthodontics, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Mentor: Dr. Yuji Mishina

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Presentation Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:20:48 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation Postdoc Appreciation Week – Special Presentations
American Democracy in Peril (September 22, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96650 96650-21793013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Featuring Hon. J. Michael Luttig with introduction by Professor Richard Friedman

Join in person in Jeffries Hall 1225 or via Zoom webinar at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93360607078

Hon. J. Michael Luttig served for nearly fifteen years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Among other positions, he has also served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel and as General Counsel to The Boeing Company. The open letter circulated by Vice President Pence on January 6, 2021, quoted Judge Luttig’s assertion that “[t]he only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the Electoral College votes as they have been cast,” and not “to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain votes or otherwise.” On June 16, 2022, Judge Luttig testified before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, to the effect that President Trump and his allies had “instigated” a war on democracy. He was also one of the authors of LOST NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election, issued in July 2022.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:21:24 -0400 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture - Eileen Evans, CSU Northridge (September 23, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98900 98900-21797328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America is capable of producing magnitude ~9 earthquakes, likely often accompanied by tsunamis. An outstanding question in this region, as in most subduction zones, is the degree and spatial extent of strain accumulation, which will eventually release as an earthquake, on the subduction megathrust. Geodetic observations, including those from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including the Global Positioning System (GPS), may be used to image the strain actively accumulating on a fault before an earthquake ultimately occurs. Technology combining GNSS and underwater acoustic ranging (GNSS-A) is now capable of making centimeter-level horizontal geodetic observations on the seafloor. GNSS-A enables previously inaccessible observations to better image seismogenic portions of the Cascadia subduction zone. Because seafloor geodetic instruments, and the time and logistics associated with observations, can be cost-prohibitive, it is important to identify where deploying seafloor geodetic instruments will provide information that cannot be obtained through a similar investment in onshore geodetic networks. Here we leverage the concept of information entropy to 1) quantify the relative information provided by expanding GNSS observation networks offshore Oregon and Washington and 2) identify optimal locations for a network of seafloor geodetic instruments. The information gained by new observations, and their optimal locations, depends on the expected uncertainties on the seafloor velocity observations, modeling assumptions, and the modeling objectives.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:11:51 -0400 2022-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
PBBs in Michigan: Empowering an Exposed Community (September 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98897 98897-21797325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Featuring Bonnie Havlicek, RN (Co-Chair PBB Advisory Board) and Michele Marcus, PhD, MPH (Professor, Departments of Epidemiology, Environmental Health & Pediatrics, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Emory University). Moderated by Amy Schulz, PhD (M-LEEaD CEC Core Leader, UM SPH).

Registration required for Zoom webinar https://bit.ly/3Le7hby

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:26:51 -0400 2022-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Residents & Researchers Tuesday Talks
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
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (September 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration - Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (September 29, 2022 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98793 98793-21797190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:15pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

On September 29, 2022, the University of Michigan Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB) will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a symposium and in-person gathering.

The event will be introduced by James Woolliscroft, M.D., Lyle C. Roll Professor of Medicine, and former dean of the Medical School. Department faculty members will present about their research, and two distinguished alumni –Erin Shellman, Ph.D., Head of Data at Gingko Bioworks, and Dan Rhodes, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO at Strata Oncology – will talk about their respective careers.

At 4:00 p.m., Holden Thorp, Ph.D., editor-in-chief, Science Family of Journals will give the 8th Annual G. Omenn Lecture: "Data Science and Medicine in the Age of Open Data, Open Code, and Open Access: From Protein Structure Prediction to COVID Origins"

A poster session will close the afternoon. For more information and registration, visit our website.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:17:20 -0400 2022-09-29T13:15:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion DCMB 10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration
Using Traffic Signals to Decongest Cities May Be Simpler Than We Thought (September 29, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97794 97794-21795141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

This presentation focuses on two well-known means of re-timing ordinary traffic signals to mitigate city-street traffic congestion. The first entails synchronizing green times on 4-way (i.e., all-directional) street grids. The second involves re-timing the signals that reside along cordon lines, to meter vehicle inflows during the morning rush. We show that, in both cases, simple strategies can perform remarkably well. The lecture will offer next steps toward real-world implementation.

To synchronize green times, Professor Cassidy's team use common phase durations for all signals on a grid, rather than optimize each signal’s timing plan to suit local conditions. This simple idea enables them to exploit features of perfectly orthogonal grids to synchronize all signals on the grid in two orthogonal (e.g., northbound, and westbound) travel directions. As a result, drivers headed toward clustered workplaces in the morning rush, and away from those workplaces in the evening, can enjoy exceptionally good signal progression over their entire trips, even when their paths entail two directions. One synchronization mode is used for undersaturated conditions when queues dissipate during green times; another is used when conditions become oversaturated with long residual queues; and the team's strategy toggles promptly between these two synchronization modes, as measurable conditions on the grid change over time. Simulations of numerous scenarios indicate that our simple, adaptive strategy dramatically outperforms other synchronization schemes, including complicated ones and those viewed as gold standards. Importantly, the presentation also shows that their strategy can be easily modified to perform well on irregular, real-world street grids.

As regards cordon metering, they fill a gaping hole in the literature by providing logical and easy-to-follow rules on how exactly to place cordons around clustered workplaces. Simulations show that the simple rules hold for varying congestion levels and regional configurations, and that following the rules can be impactful, especially when cities become severely congested.

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About the speaker: Michael Cassidy is the Robert Horonjeff Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a doctorate in Civil Engineering (majoring in Transportation Engineering) from Berkeley; served for nearly 4 years as an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1994. He is currently an associate editor of the journal Transportation Research Part B. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory; a former Director of the University Transportation Center for federal region 9; and a Vice Chair in Berkeley’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. His research interests focus on transportation planning and management, particularly in the areas of highway traffic, public mass transit and multi-modal systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:53 -0400 2022-09-29T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T14:30:00-04:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Michael Cassidy. It features the presentation title 'Using Traffic Signals to Decongest Cities May Be Simpler Than We Thought', Professor Cassidy's headshot, and an aerial photograph of an intersection.
Smith Lecture - Athena Eyster, University of Wisconsin-Madison (September 30, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99105 99105-21797580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Oxygen is crucial for life on Earth today, with oxygen’s first major rise ~2.4-2.0 billion years ago during the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) argued to have been a turning point for planetary habitability. Furthermore, the subsequent trajectories of atmospheric and marine oxygen after this initial rise are critical for clarifying linkages between oxygenation and the evolution of complex life. Importantly, massive iron formations have long been recognized as uniquely sensitive to marine oxygen levels and so form critical archives of early Earth’s oceans. Yet their relationship to marine oxygenation is complicated by uncertainties in the triggers for deposition, which are particularly striking when examining massive iron deposits after the GOE. To help address these issues, I present new geologic and geochronologic results from the Ironwood Iron Formation and Emperor Volcanics near Lake Superior. Synthesis of these new regional constraints with a revised compilation of existing data creates a global perspective that allows critical assessment of the marine conditions that trigger post-GOE massive iron deposition and the factors influencing the trajectory of marine oxygen.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:07:47 -0400 2022-09-30T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-30T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
2022 Frank E. Richart/Richard Woods Distinguished Lecture (October 3, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99066 99066-21797518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 3, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Prof. Lisa Alvarez-Cohen will be the lecturer for CEE’s 2022 Richart/Woods Distinguished Lecture on Monday, October 3. The event will be held in the LEC Johnson Rooms from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., followed by a reception in Masco Commons.

Prof. Alvarez-Cohen is the Vice Provost for Academic Planning and the Fred and Claire Sauer Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley. Faculty and Postdocs should remind students they are welcomed to attend the lecture and reception.

Biology of emerging contaminants - do they really eventually emerge?

ABSTRACT
Societal demand for new products promotes the production and release of new chemicals. Additionally, population growth and climate change has produced increased demand on water resources, resulting in greater reliance on direct and indirect water reuse. Advances in analytical chemistry enables us to detect environmental contaminants with increasing sensitivity, allowing us to discover new families of emerging contaminants that threaten our water resources. Understanding the biotransformation potential of emerging contaminants has been a challenge that’s been greatly assisted recently by means of molecular tools. This talk will describe lessons-learned and research aimed at discovering the biodegradation potential and pathways for a variety of important “emerging contaminants," including MTBE, I,4-dioxane, NDMA, PBDEs and aqueous film forming foams (AFFF).

SPEAKER BIO
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen is the Vice Provost for Academic Planning, the Fred and Claire Sauer Professor of Environmental Engineering, and the past-Chair of the Faculty Senate at UC Berkeley. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Harvard University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and Science from Stanford University.

Her research areas include biotransformation and fate of environmental water contaminants, environmental microbiology and ecology, bioremediation, biological wastewater nutrient removal, and application of molecular and isotopic techniques for studying environmental microbial communities. She has coauthored the textbook Environmental Engineering Science. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She has won a number of awards including the China 1,000 Talents National Award, the ASCE Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award, the W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence, and the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:14:04 -0400 2022-10-03T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-03T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecture / Discussion Prof. Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Filipino Subjunctive: A Transpacific Counterhistory of Filipinization (October 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97508 97508-21794663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

After wars of counterinsurgency are waged on the colonial front, they march into the colonized self. Few places exemplify this more than the Philippines, the United States’ first overseas colony, a plentiful source of American migrant labor, and the site of one of America’s most brutal but unacknowledged 20th-century genocidal campaigns. Direct American occupation had supposedly come to an end under the aegis of Filipinization: the systematic appropriation of native leadership into American colonial occupation and counterinsurgency. But, I argue, that Filipinization also informed the everyday conduct and political imaginations of those outside of structures of power, namely, migrant workers across the Pacific.

In this talk, I suggest that American counterinsurgency did not end after direct colonial rule but informed how people across the Pacific imagined how the future citizens of a soon-to-be independent Philippine nation might behave. This provisional subject—what I am calling the Filipino subjunctive emerges from these transnational imaginaries, in and out of the purview of elite projects of state formation. Through the creative labors of everyday life, these thinkers asked: What would it look like to be Filipino, subjects of a nation yet to come? And who would pay the price for such a national community to come into existence?

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Adrian De Leon is an award-winning writer and public historian in Los Angeles. He is an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a host for *PBS Digital Studios* and the Center for Asian American Media. His first academic book, *Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America* (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press), retells the longue durée of U.S. empire and early Philippine migration through the native peoples of Northern Luzon. He is at work on two scholarly projects: *The Philippines for Filipinos: A Conditional History of a Commonwealth* (under contract, University of Washington Press), which follows non-elite migrant nationalisms in the shadow of American counterinsurgency; and A*fter Homeland: A Return in Four Movements*, a short book on return migrations and the contemporary articulation of “homelands” in the Philippines and around the world. His academic and creative work has been featured in venues such as *Los Angeles Times*, N*ational Geographic*, *VICE*, *Rolling Stone*, and *ABC Nightline*.


Register at: http://myumi.ch/Z6ERZ

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Oct 2022 10:20:38 -0400 2022-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Adrian de Leon, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
The Interplay of Maternal Diet with Environmental Exposures in Pregnancy (October 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99286 99286-21797811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Registration required https://bit.ly/3Lzeh39

Rita Strakovsky, PhD, RD is an Assistant Professor of Maternal Nutrition and Toxicology in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University.

Dr. Strakovsky's research focuses on various modifiable lifestyle and environmental factors that can be targeted to protect maternal and child health.

She has worked extensively in rodent pregnancy models to study the effects of maternal diet or exposure to environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on the epigenetic regulation of energy metabolism in offspring. Driven by findings from these studies, my current research in human populations uses molecular epidemiology and biostatistics techniques to address several questions related to the health of mom and her developing fetus during pregnancy:
* Does exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in pregnancy impact maternal hormone levels and how does that impact fetal development via dysregulation of fetal fatty acid supply? (supported by K99/R00 award from NIEHS).
* Does exposure to phthalates in pregnancy impact maternal long-term cardiometabolic health, and does hormonal disruption mediate this relationship? (supported by R01 award from NIEHS).
* Do mixtures of dietary micronutrients impact length of gestation, and does diet quality or exposure to environmental chemicals modify this relationship? (supported by Administrative Supplement from NIH Office of Dietary Supplements).
* How does maternal obesity and adiposity impact biomarkers of reproductive endpoints in newborns, and does this differ in male vs. female babies? (supported by R03 award from NICHD).
* Is perinatal obesity associated with maternal mitochondrial epigenetic disruption and is that related to newborn weight or gestational age at birth? (supported by pilot grant from Michigan Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes cohort (ECHO))

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:17:41 -0400 2022-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-04T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Oct 4 Interplay of Maternal Diet with Environmental Exposures in Pregnancy (Rita Strakovsky)
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods (October 5, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98386 98386-21796589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 5, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods.

Shiyu Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Before arriving at Michigan, she received master's degrees in immigration study, sociology and data science, and a bachelor's degree in psychology. Shiyu's dissertation focuses on the effect of adaptive survey design on estimates. She is also interested in collecting and using neighborhood features as auxiliary variables.

An important methodological challenge in studying neighborhood effects is how to geographically define “neighborhoods” and create contextual features to characterize the areas. In quantitative research that uses survey data, contextual features are commonly defined by census geographies like census tracts and block groups. However, the literature has called for expanding the definition of neighborhoods beyond census boundaries and exploring contextual features in geographic areas more relevant to the studied individuals.
In this research, we compare social and built environment features of neighborhoods based on three geographic definitions (i.e., census tracts, residential buffers, and respondent-informed neighborhoods). We evaluate how the alternatively defined measures influence the detected associations between contextual features and health outcomes. Our findings suggest that the neighborhood definition matters. Therefore, other than simply offering linkages to census boundaries based on participants’ geocoded location, surveys may enrich the data and support further research by producing and releasing case-specific contextual features.

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS). Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:43:15 -0400 2022-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods.
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 5, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99751 99751-21798643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Accurately predicting the onset of disease is a major challenge in clinical medicine because the genesis of diseases is generally a complex and dynamic process. Wearable sensor technologies provide an unprecedented opportunity to collect physiological data at orders of magnitude higher high time-resolution than conventional clinical practice. This provides unprecedented opportunities for investigating the dynamics of disease processes and may usher in a new era of real-time, personalized medicine. We have proposed the potential of real-time, continuously measured physiological data as a non-invasive, “digital biomarker” approach for detecting the earliest stages in transition to a disease state. In this talk, I will describe an example of our interdisciplinary team’s work on this topic that uses the early detection and possible prediction of febrile (i.e., fever-associated) adverse events in cancer events as an important application.

Clinical Interests
Prostate Cancer, General Oncology, Biomarkers in Oncology
Research Interests
• Biology of circulating, extracellular nucleic acids and translational applications
• Developing next generation approaches for early detection and monitoring of cancer
• Bioinformatics and computational biology, high-throughput sequencing
• New technologies to enable cancer detection and monitoring

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:21:48 -0400 2022-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Muneesh Tewari, MD, PhD
Deciphering mechanisms of organismal phosphate regulation (October 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98813 98813-21797217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Biology, September 2007-June 2014
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Honors Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology, September 2002-June 2006
POSITIONS AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2021-Present Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
2022-Present Faculty Member, Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Michigan
2019-2021 Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2017-2019 Research Fellow, Endocrine Unit, Lab of Dr. Michael Mannstadt, MGH, Boston, MA
2015-2017 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lab of Dr. Erin O’Shea,

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2007-2014 Graduate Research Fellow, Department of Biology, Lab of Dr. Laurie Boyer, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2006 Research Assistant, Department of Orthobiology, Lab of Dr. Mary Murphy,

National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

2005-2006 Undergraduate Research Fellow, Department of Genome Sciences, Lab of Dr. Leo Pallanck,

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2003-2005 Undergraduate Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Lab of Dr. Brian Kennedy,

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
2021 University of Michigan Biological Sciences Scholar, Ann Arbor, MI
2019 Most Outstanding Poster, Bisphosphonates 50th Anniversary Meeting
2018 Endocrine Fellows Foundation Forum Travel Grant, Fellows Forum on Metabolic Bone Disease
2018 AIMM-ASBMR John Haddad Young Investigator Fellow
2017 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Young Investigator Travel Grant Award,
2019 MIT Vertex Scholar, Cambridge, MA
2007 MIT Presidential Scholar
2006 University of Washington Herschel and Caryl Roman Undergraduate Science Scholar
2006 University of Washington Mary Gates Research Scholar
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Current
NIH/NIAMS K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award,
K99 period: August 2019-Sept 2021, R00 period: Feb 2022-Jan 2025
Title: Deciphering mechanisms of nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates, R00 funding: $249,000/year for 3 years

Previous
2018-2019 NIH T32 Training Grant Trainee, 2018-2019, Endocrinology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
2017 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
Bondeson, D.P., Paolella, B.R., Asfaw, A., Rothberg, M., Skipper, T., Mesa, G., Gonzalez, A., Surface, L.E., Ito, K.,
Kazachkova, M., Colgan, W.N., Warren, A., Dempster, J., Krill-Burger, J., Ericsson, M., Tang, A., Fung, I., Chambers,
E.S., Abdusamad, M., Dumont, N., Doench, J.G., Piccioni, F., Root, D.R., Boehm, J., Hahn, W.C, Mannstadt, M.,
McFarland, J.M., Vazquez, F., Golub, T.R., (2022) Phosphate dysregulation via the XPR1:KIDINS220 protein
complex is a therapeutic vulnerability in ovarian cancer., Nature Cancer, 6:681-695

Surface,L.E., Burrow, D.T., Li, J., Park, J., Kumar, S., Lyu, C., Song, N., Yu, Z., Rajagopal, A., Bae, Y., Lee, B.H.,
Mumm, S., Gu, C., Baker, J.C., Mohseni, M., Sum, M., Huskey, M., Duan, S., Bijanki, V.N., Civitelli, R., Gardner,
M.J., McAndrew, C.M., Ricci, W.M., Gurnett, C.A., Diemer, K., Wan, F., Costantino, C.L., Shannon, K.M., Raje, N.,
Dodson, T.B., Haber, D.A., Carette, J.E., Varadarajan, M., Brummelkamp, T.R., Birsoy, K., Sabatini, D.M., Haller, G.,
Peterson, T.R., (2020) ATRAID regulates the action of nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates on bone. Science
Translational Medicine, 12:544, eaav9166
Yu, Z., Surface, L.E., Park, C.Y., Horlbeck, M.A., Wyant, G.A., Abu-Remaileh, M., Peterson, T.R., Sabatini, D.M.,
Weissman, J.S., O’Shea, E.K., (2018) Identification of a transporter complex responsible for the cytosolic entry of
nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates. Elife 7:e36620
Surface, L.E.*, Fields, P.F*, Subramanian, V., Behmer, R., Udeshi, N., Peach, S.E., Carr, S.A., Jaffe, J.D., Boyer, L.A.
(2016) H2A.Z.1 monoubiquitylation antagonizes BRD2 to maintain poised chromatin in ESCs. Cell Reports, 14, 1142-
1155. *equal contribution
Subramanian, V., Mazumder, A., Surface, L.E., Butty, V.L., Fields, P.A., Alwan, A., Torrey, L., Thai, K.K., Levine,
S.S., Bathe, M., Boyer, L.A. (2013) H2A.Z acidic patch couples chromatin dynamics to regulation of gene expression
programs during ESC differentiation. PLoS Genetics, 9, e1003725
Klattenhoff, C*., Sheuermann, J.C.*, Surface, L.E., Bradley, R.K., Fields, P., Steinhauser, M.L., Ding, H., Butty, V.L.,

Torrey, L., Haas S., Abo, R., Tabebordbar, M., Lee, R.T., Burge, C.B., Boyer, L.A. (2013) Braveheart, a long non-
coding RNA required for cardiovascular lineage commitment. Cell 152, 1-14. *equal contribution

Surface, L.E.*, Thornton, S.R.*, Boyer, L.A. (2010) Polycomb group proteins set the stage for early lineage
commitment. Cell Stem Cell 7, 288-298. *equal contribution
Lockshon, D., Surface L.E., Kerr, E.O., Kaeberlein, M., Kennedy, B.K. (2007). The sensitivity of yeast mutants to
oleic acid implicates the peroxisome and other processes in membrane function. Genetics 175, 77-91.
SERVICE & OUTREACH EXPERIENCE
Member, American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Early Stage Investigator Committee, 2022-Present
Member, Oral Health Sciences PhD Program Committee University of Michigan, 2022-Present
Abstract Reviewer, American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Annual Meeting, 2020-Present
Workshop Committee Member, Center for Skeletal Research, 2019-2021
-Plan instructional workshops for the Boston-area skeletal research community.
Grant Reviewer, Seeding Labs (Non-profit science development organization), Boston, MA, 2016-Present
-Review grant applications for instrument access grants provided to laboratories in developing countries
-Contributed to data analysis of existing grants
Mentor, Science Club for Girls, Roxbury, MA, 2015-2019
-Led middle school girls from diverse backgrounds in weekly science clubs on Saturdays to engage them with
science and technology
Postdoc Liason Committee, Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2015-2017
-Served on a committee that advocates for issues relevant for postdocs and beyond. Advocated for the
department to consider a preprint server policy, and bringing in a more diverse set of scientists for talks.
Science Fair Judge, Quincy High School, Quincy, MA, 2010-2021
-Judged the science fair of a diverse high school near Boston, and spoke with attendees about my own career
path through science.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:20:30 -0400 2022-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Lauren Surface, PhD
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (October 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
Van Vlack Lectureship: "Materials Design and Discovery" (October 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99840 99840-21798785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Materials Science and Engineering

Materials Science & Engineering is hosting its 2022 Van Vlack Lectureship with speaker Susan Sinnottt, a materials computational expert. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Abstract:
A driving force for research is the discovery and design of new materials to improve existing technologies or enable new applications. Material modeling methods are now widely applied in pursuit of this objective. This presentation will review the evolution of some common material modeling methods and their integration with cutting-edge experimental techniques. Illustrative applications will be discussed within the context of layered or two-dimensional materials and porous aromatic framework materials. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the future outlook of materials modeling within the context of material design and discovery.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:34:19 -0400 2022-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Materials Science and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Prof. Susan Sinnott, 2022 Van Vlack Lecturer
[CANCELED] Flash Talk (October 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97213 97213-21794144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us as we speak with Kelsey Museum Curator Janet Richards and Conservator, Suzanne Davis from the field in Abydos, an ancient Egyptian royal cemetery site.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:23:13 -0400 2022-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Abydos Excavation Site
In Deep Water: The Role of Municipal Debt in Environmental Crises and Racial Disparities (October 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97569 97569-21794761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, October 7 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Dr. Louise Seamster is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa, and a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She studies race and economic inequality, particularly in cities, and writes about racial politics and urban development, emergency financial management, debt, and the myth of racial progress. One line of her research examines racial disparities in debt and debt markets, including “predatory inclusion” in student debt, and the different meaning of debt for black and white families. She has published in Contexts, Sociological Theory, Du Bois Review, Social Currents, Environment, and Planning A: Society and Space, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

The talks, which are free and open to the public, will also be livestreamed on YouTube. U-M students can participate in the series as a one-credit course - look for it as SWK 503 section 001.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:19:29 -0400 2022-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Linguistics Colloquium (October 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96064 96064-21797563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Ashwini Deo is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin. She will present, "Coordinated on the context: Discourse salience, exclusivity, mirativity, precisification, and intensification in Marathi"

ABSTRACT
Several Indo-Aryan languages, including Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, and Marathi contain a discourse clitic whose uses overlap with those of English particles like exclusives only/just, intensifiers really/totally, precisifiers right/exactly/absolutely, anaphoric indeed/that very, and scalar additive even without corresponding perfectly to any of them. In this talk, I offer an analysis of the varied and seemingly disparate uses of this particle, focusing on the Marathi variant -ts. I claim that =ts conventionally signals that interlocutors are in mutual agreement that the proposition denoted by the prejacent is uniquely salient among alternatives in the current question. That is, =ts conveys that the proposition expressed by the prejacent offers a schelling point (or focal point) for the interlocutors to coordinate on. Most effects associated with =ts are shown to arise as a consequence of pragmatic reasoning about the position of the prejacent with respect to the contextually given ordering on the current question. In addition to offering a unified analysis for Marathi =ts and its functional cognates in Indo-Aryan, this new perspective can open the door to a better understanding of why exclusivity, mirativity, precisification, and intensification might cluster together in languages. In closing, I consider the implications of =ts’s meaning for a crosslinguistic picture of the lexicalization of some discourse-managing functions.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:40:19 -0400 2022-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Ashwini Deo
Charles Correa International Lecture: Christian Benimana, "The architecture of Health." (October 11, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99180 99180-21797670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 11:30am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The architecture of Health.

Design of places, products, and systems, make visible the invisibility of contagions, and of relationships, that affect our, individual, community, and planetary health. Good architecture practice must/need to activate the change necessary for architecture and design processes to extend beyond aesthetics and include consideration of the invisible; values, philosophies, histories, politics, labor, legislation, energy, desire, and agency, to respond to climate change and other structures of injustice.

Architecture and Health are inseparable, from the direct design of hospitals and places for healing to the strategic design of infrastructures and city planning, architecture affects the physical and mental health of individuals and communities [2]. There is a disconnection from expectation to delivery because the design of healthy environments is often obstructed by deep-rooted bias and structural problems embedded in the practices and methods of architecture that continue to be propagated in the architectural curriculum.

How can architecture practice support the rethinking of the conditioning of health in design?
What is the role of architectural research and education in challenging how society and practice understand the environment, planetary ecology, community, and individual health?


Christian Benimana joined MASS Design Group as a Global Health Corps Design Fellow in 2010. Today, Christian works as one of the firm's Senior Principals and Managing Directors and is Director of the African Design Centre, a field-based apprenticeship that is set to empower leaders who will design a more equitable, just, and sustainable world. At MASS, he serves as an operational and administrative leader, while also spearheading design/build projects, large and small, and development initiatives. Christian’s significant portfolio includes the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture, the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and African Leadership University in Rwanda as well as the Regional Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and e-Health and Nyarugenge District Hospital.

He has extensive knowledge of the architectural industry in Rwanda, and East Africa at large and served as the Secretary-General of the East Africa Institute of Architects. Christian was recognized as one of the 2017 Quartz Africa Innovators and has been named among 10 architects and designers that are championing Afrofuturism. He has authored articles and book chapters including Re-Thinking the Future of African Cities in The African Perspective Magazine and Creating Design Leaders: The African Design Centre in Public Interest Design Education Guidebook. Before joining MASS, he worked with LongiLat Architecture and Research in Shanghai assisting with the Porsche Center in Shanghai and the Netherlands Pavilion at the 2010 International Expo. Christian holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) of Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and his goal is to develop the next generation of African designers with socially-focused design principles.

The Charles Correa International Lecture Fund was established in 2016 in honor and memory of renowned Indian architect and activist Charles Correa (B.Arch.’53). The fund endows an annual lecture at Taubman College by an international practitioner engaged with global architecture to promote the expansion of cultural understanding through design.

This lecture will be presented in person at the Art & Architecture Building and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_slANdM0AQF6jL0c56oTk5g

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:49:07 -0400 2022-10-11T11:30:00-04:00 2022-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2022 Charles Correa International Lecture
Charles Correa International Lecture: Christian Benimana, "The architecture of Health." (October 11, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99180 99180-21798766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The architecture of Health.

Design of places, products, and systems, make visible the invisibility of contagions, and of relationships, that affect our, individual, community, and planetary health. Good architecture practice must/need to activate the change necessary for architecture and design processes to extend beyond aesthetics and include consideration of the invisible; values, philosophies, histories, politics, labor, legislation, energy, desire, and agency, to respond to climate change and other structures of injustice.

Architecture and Health are inseparable, from the direct design of hospitals and places for healing to the strategic design of infrastructures and city planning, architecture affects the physical and mental health of individuals and communities [2]. There is a disconnection from expectation to delivery because the design of healthy environments is often obstructed by deep-rooted bias and structural problems embedded in the practices and methods of architecture that continue to be propagated in the architectural curriculum.

How can architecture practice support the rethinking of the conditioning of health in design?
What is the role of architectural research and education in challenging how society and practice understand the environment, planetary ecology, community, and individual health?


Christian Benimana joined MASS Design Group as a Global Health Corps Design Fellow in 2010. Today, Christian works as one of the firm's Senior Principals and Managing Directors and is Director of the African Design Centre, a field-based apprenticeship that is set to empower leaders who will design a more equitable, just, and sustainable world. At MASS, he serves as an operational and administrative leader, while also spearheading design/build projects, large and small, and development initiatives. Christian’s significant portfolio includes the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture, the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and African Leadership University in Rwanda as well as the Regional Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and e-Health and Nyarugenge District Hospital.

He has extensive knowledge of the architectural industry in Rwanda, and East Africa at large and served as the Secretary-General of the East Africa Institute of Architects. Christian was recognized as one of the 2017 Quartz Africa Innovators and has been named among 10 architects and designers that are championing Afrofuturism. He has authored articles and book chapters including Re-Thinking the Future of African Cities in The African Perspective Magazine and Creating Design Leaders: The African Design Centre in Public Interest Design Education Guidebook. Before joining MASS, he worked with LongiLat Architecture and Research in Shanghai assisting with the Porsche Center in Shanghai and the Netherlands Pavilion at the 2010 International Expo. Christian holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) of Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and his goal is to develop the next generation of African designers with socially-focused design principles.

The Charles Correa International Lecture Fund was established in 2016 in honor and memory of renowned Indian architect and activist Charles Correa (B.Arch.’53). The fund endows an annual lecture at Taubman College by an international practitioner engaged with global architecture to promote the expansion of cultural understanding through design.

This lecture will be presented in person at the Art & Architecture Building and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_slANdM0AQF6jL0c56oTk5g

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:49:07 -0400 2022-10-11T11:30:00-04:00 2022-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2022 Charles Correa International Lecture
Water and Public Health: Inequity and Affordability (October 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99252 99252-21797776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

With Monica-Lewis Patrick (We the People of Detroit), Mary Grant (Food & Water Watch) and Dr. Marcela González Rivas (University of Pittsburgh). Amy Schulz (M-LEEaD CEC Core Leader, UM SPH) will moderate.

Zoom webinar registration required
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kLh0_GGQmWFdM3I0DhG6Q&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1664288912093677&usg=AOvVaw0B81Oj7JvacmxDJP94mbxI

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:48:30 -0400 2022-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Residents & Researchers Tuesday Talks
EMERSE Meeting Series (October 11, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98192 98192-21795695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speaker:
Mark Beno, MSM
Executive Director, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology,
School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

The Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE) was installed at University Hospitals of Cleveland (UH) in 2021 by the Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology (CICB), a collaboration between Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and UH.  At present, EMERSE contains indexed medical notes from 2018 through present for over 1.7 million UH patients.  This presentation will discuss the strategies we employed to successfully install EMERSE, the lessons-learned in rolling out EMERSE to research and operational teams, some research success stories since EMERSE adoption, and the additional tools we have developed as add-ons to the EMERSE application that we use internally for tracking EMERSE metrics and plan to share with the broader EMERSE community.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:35:08 -0400 2022-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion EMERSE logo
CPOD Seminar Talk: Alex Hughes, PhD (UPenn)"Interpreting geometric rules of early kidney formation for synthetic morphogenesis" (October 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98601 98601-21796958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 4:00 pm
Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design presents:

Alex Hughes, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

Seminar entitled: "Interpreting geometric rules of early kidney formation for synthetic morphogenesis"

In-Person: BSRB ABC Seminar Rooms
Zoom Meeting Option ID: 932 944 30678

Faculty Host: Claudia Loebel, MD PhD, Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:04:22 -0400 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Hughes
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Evaluating Pre-Election Polling Estimates using a New Measure of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias (October 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98434 98434-21796653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 12, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm

Brady T. West is a Research Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science in 2011. Before that, he received an MA in Applied Statistics from the U-M Statistics Department in 2002, being recognized as an Outstanding First-year Applied Masters student, and a BS in Statistics with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the U-M Statistics Department in 2001. His current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, selection bias in surveys, responsive/adaptive survey design, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures (Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Third Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2022), and he is a co-author of a second book entitled Applied Survey Data Analysis (with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund), the second edition of which was published by CRC Press in June 2017. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022.

Among the numerous explanations that have been offered for recent errors in pre-election polls, selection bias due to non-ignorable partisan nonresponse bias, where the probability of responding to a poll is a function of the candidate preference that a poll is attempting to measure (even after conditioning on other relevant covariates used for weighting adjustments), has received relatively less focus in the academic literature. Under this type of selection mechanism, estimates of candidate preferences based on individual or aggregated polls may be subject to significant bias, even after standard weighting adjustments. Until recently, methods for measuring and adjusting for this type of non-ignorable selection bias have been unavailable. Fortunately, recent developments in the methodological literature have provided political researchers with easy-to-use measures of non-ignorable selection bias. In this study, we apply a new measure that has been developed specifically for estimated proportions to this challenging problem. We analyze data from 18 different pre-election polls: nine different telephone polls conducted in eight different states prior to the U.S. Presidential election in 2020, and nine different pre-election polls conducted either online or via telephone in Great Britain prior to the 2015 General Election. We rigorously evaluate the ability of this new measure to detect and adjust for selection bias in estimates of the proportion of likely voters that will vote for a specific candidate, using official outcomes from each election as benchmarks and alternative data sources for estimating key characteristics of the likely voter populations in each context.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:50:22 -0400 2022-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Evaluating Pre-Election Polling Estimates using a New Measure of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias
Department Colloquium | Graduate Student Showcase (October 12, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99908 99908-21798868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Nora Sherman (U-M Physics)

A Multi-Messenger Search for H0 Using Optical Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Events

Measurements of the Hubble Constant (H0) – a parameter that helps illustrate the expanding behavior of the universe – differ vastly, particularly between those using early- versus late-universe data. To help relieve this tension, the Dark Energy Survey Gravitational Wave group (DESGW) seeks to perform a standard siren measurement of H0 by identifying electromagnetic counterparts to compact binary mergers. Together with the GW data from detections by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaboration (LVK), this information allows us to make an H0 measurement independent of traditional methods. In this talk, I will detail DESGW’s pursuit of this measurement, including our tools for observation and analysis, recent key results, ongoing studies critical to the project, and our preparation for the next LVK observing run.

Torben Purz (U-M Physics)

Imaging of Dynamic Exciton Interactions and Coupling in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are regarded as a possible material platform for quantum information science, photovoltaics, and related device applications. However, many experimental results on TMDs are only realized at specific spots on the sample, presenting a challenge to the scalability of these applications. Here, we demonstrate multi-dimensional coherent imaging spectroscopy on TMD monolayer and heterostructure samples. This technique enables us to shed light on the spatial dynamics of various material parameters—including dephasing, inhomogeneity, and strain, as well as coherent exciton coupling and charge transfer. We demonstrate that dephasing and inhomogeneity are very sensitive to residual strain in state-of-the-art TMD monolayer samples. At the same time, the coherent coupling strength and charge transfer remain robust across large areas of the heterostructure sample. Our findings strengthen the case for heterostructure TMDs as a next-generation material platform for device applications and introduce a powerful tool in multi-dimensional coherent imaging spectroscopy for material characterization.

Aidan Herderschee (U-M Physics)

The Space of Supersymmetric Theories

I will review how causality non-trivially bounds the space of quantum field theories, focusing in particular on maximally supersymmetric theories in four dimensions. I will then discuss some geometric properties of this space and how to efficiently calculate bounds using linear programming. Finally, I will use some results from string theory to motivate novel conjectures.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:23:50 -0400 2022-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Information Session Webinar- Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) (October 12, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98336 98336-21796508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Wednesday, October 12, 2002
3:00 - 4:00pm
Registration is required.

Please join us October 12, 2022 to learn about the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. The speaker will be Dr. Brady West.

Advance registration is required, https://bit.ly/3d3upwR

The Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) offers graduate degrees that combine ideas and techniques for producing and analyzing data about humans and our society. Joint us to launch your career in this exciting and rewarding field in which scientists interpret the world through data.

The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:38:06 -0400 2022-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Presentation MPSDS Informational Session Webinar
MIPSE Seminar | Extreme Plasma Astrophysics (October 12, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97910 97910-21795309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Exotic relativistic astrophysical objects like neutron stars and black holes are surrounded by plasmas with extreme physical conditions that are very different from those in more familiar, traditional heliospheric and laboratory plasma environments. The rich, non-traditional physics of these extreme astrophysical plasmas features special and general relativity, pair-plasma composition, strong interaction of the plasma with high-energy photons, and, in the most extreme cases, QED processes like pair production. Understanding how these “exotic” effects modify fundamental collective plasma processes — waves, instabilities, magnetic reconnection, shocks, turbulence — is the scope of Extreme Plasma Astrophysics. I will review the recent impressive progress in exploring this exciting new frontier of modern physics, motivated by spectacular astrophysical discoveries and enabled by recent computational advances like the development of novel kinetic plasma codes incorporating radiation and pair-creation effects, in combination with vigorous, theoretical efforts. Examples will include new breakthroughs in our understanding of radiative magnetic reconnection and turbulence, with applications to accreting black holes and neutron star magnetospheres. I will also outline the future directions of this burgeoning field, including prospects for laboratory studies.

About the Speaker:
Dmitri Uzdensky is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He received his undergraduate degree in 1993 at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and his PhD in 1998 at Princeton University’s Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics. After postdoctoral appointments at the University of Chicago (1998-2001) and at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara (2001-2004), he returned to Princeton as an Associate Research Scholar (2004-2009) and then joined the Physics faculty at the University of Colorado in 2009. Prof. Uzdensky’s research interests lie mostly in theoretical plasma astrophysics, with a focus on collective plasma processes, such as magnetic reconnection, in extreme relativistic plasmas around black holes and neutron stars.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for information about in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2223.php.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:51:09 -0400 2022-10-12T15:30:00-04:00 2022-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Dmitri Uzdensky
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99377 99377-21797973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Our current understanding of how genes are regulated is akin to solving a jigsaw puzzle. Many factors governing gene expression have been identified, and researchers have collected a wide variety of related datasets. However, how these "parts" are pieced together to function as a whole remains unclear. In this talk, I will discuss our research to develop and apply state-of-the-art machine learning methods to genomics datasets to attempt to put together the pieces from the data. I will cover our work using deep learning architecture that captures the data's underlying structure to integrate datasets and connect them to gene expression via the prediction task. We also interpret the prediction results and tie them back to contributing factors to develop potential hypotheses related to gene regulation. I will then move from bulk data to the single-cell data domain and discuss methods to perform unsupervised integration of different types of single-cell experiments. This talk aims to highlight our research direction's potential to reveal the important gene regulatory mechanisms in characterizing cell types and diseases from the collected data.

Bio:

Ritambhara Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department and a faculty member of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology at Brown University. Her research lab works at the intersection of machine learning and biology. Prior to joining Brown, Singh was a post-doctoral researcher in the Noble Lab at the University of Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Virginia with Dr. Yanjun Qi as her advisor. Her research has involved developing machine learning algorithms for the analysis of biological data as well as applying deep learning models to novel biological and biomedical applications. She recently received the NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award for developing deep learning methods to integrate and model genomics datasets. URL: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/rsingh47

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:32:07 -0400 2022-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Ritambhara Singh, Asst. Professor (Brown University)
Glucose metabolism in bone biology and diabetic osteopenia (October 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98788 98788-21797183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

I have been studying skeletal development and homeostasis for over 25 years. I am interested in understanding the molecular and metabolic regulation of skeletal cell types both in the embryo and in adults under normal or pathological conditions. The work has led to new insights into the metabolic features of chondrocytes, osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Studies of Hh, Wnt, Bmp and Notch signaling have uncovered metabolic reprogramming as a common link for developmental signals to regulate the fate and activity of skeletal cells. In a separate line of work, we have sought to elucidate the molecular identify and regulation of mesenchymal stem and progenitor cells in bone. This pursuit has led to the discovery of Gli1+ mesenchymal progenitors as the main source for osteoblasts in growing bones (Shi et al., 2017, Nat Commun., PMC
5725597). More recently, we have demonstrated a critical role for the Gli1+ progenitors in mediating the bone
anabolic role of teriparatide, the main bone anabolic therapy for osteoporosis (Shi et al, 2021, Cell Rep, in
press). The current proposal extends our work on mesenchymal progenitors and builds on the discovery of a
potential adipo-osteoprogenitor in the adult bone marrow. Completion of the proposed study is expected to
uncover the role of the newly discovered progenitors in bone homeostasis, skeletal aging and diabetic
osteopenia.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:48:26 -0400 2022-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Fanxin Long, PhD William W. Smith Endowed Chair in Pediatric Genomic Research The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Professor of Orthopedic Surgery University of Pennsylvania
OHS Seminar Series Schedule (October 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98131 98131-21795618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022 - Stay tuned for more updates!

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Presentation Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:16:28 -0400 2022-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Office of Research School of Dentistry Presentation OHS Seminar Series Schedule Fall 2022
IISS Lecture Series. *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (October 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100129 100129-21799245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Aliyah Khan's book on Islam in the Caribbean, *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (Rutgers University Press 2020), is the first scholarly monograph focusing on the literature and culture of enslaved African Muslims and indentured South Asian Indian Muslims in the Americas. Professor Khan’s work appears in publications including *GLQ*, the *Caribbean Review of Gender Studies,* *Caribbean Quarterly,* the *Journal of West Indian Literature*, *Pree: Caribbean Writing,* and *Guernica*. Her interviews on the Caribbean and U.S. Islam, and on Muslim films, art, literature, and music have appeared on and in *National Public Radio,* the *Washington Post*, *Religion News*, American Muslim Today, The Polis Project, the Black Agenda Report, *Sapelo Square*, and Chicago’s *Radio Islam*, among other venues.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:01:30 -0400 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:15:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion IISS Lecture Series. *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean*