Sporting Event:ACHA Nationals
2015-03-08 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-09 00:00 (America/Detroit) | York, PA
YEHAW LAST GAMES OF SEASON LET'S KICK BUTT

Class / Instruction:ISS Workshops
2015-03-08 00:00 - 23:00, 2015-03-09 00:00 - 23:00, 2015-03-10 00:00 - 23:00, 2015-03-11 00:00 - 23:00, 2015-03-12 00:00 - 23:00, 2015-03-13 00:00 - 23:00, 2015-03-14 00:00 - 23:00 | Modern Languages Building
We are partnering with ISS to bring you workshops on After Effects, Filmmaking Basics, Final Cut Pro X and iMovie! Here are the dates for the following workshops:

After Effects: April 6, 2015

Filmmaking Basics: February 23, 2015 and March 25, 2015

Final Cut Pro X: March 11, 2015 and April 1, 2015

iMovie: March 10, 2015 and April 7, 2015 All are welcome to sign-up for any workshop, but register soon because there is limited seating!

Register online here at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/iss/services/trainingsandworkshops

Other:ISS Workshops
2015-03-08 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-09 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-10 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-11 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-12 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-13 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-14 00:00 - 23:59 | Modern Languages Building
We are partnering with ISS to bring you workshops on After Effects, Filmmaking Basics, Final Cut Pro X and iMovie! Here are the dates for the following workshops:After Effects: April 6, 2015Filmmaking Basics: February 23, 2015 and March 25, 2015Final Cut Pro X: March 11, 2015 and April 1, 2015iMovie: March 10, 2015 and April 7, 2015 All are welcome to sign-up for any workshop, but register soon because there is limited seating!Register online here at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/iss/services/trainingsandworkshops

Sporting Event:Mendleblatt Team Race and Spring Training Trip
2015-03-08 00:00 | St. Petersberg, FL
Team race in USF followed by our training trip in St. Petersberg, FL!

Sporting Event:Spring Break Training Trip
2015-03-08 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-09 00:00 | Gainesville, GA
Spring Break Training Trip

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Chasing the Cherubim: Snowflake Paper Cuttings
2015-03-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-14 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
This year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations highlights work from his two collections, “Chasing the Cherubim” and “Fiery Furnace”. Cherubim, the higher order of angels, are guardians representing divine authority in human life. Clark explores themes of changing human experience and consciousness and the evolution of authority though images of these winged beings and other manifestations. A former U-M physician, Clark, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Civil War Soldiers
2015-03-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-14 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Shayne Davidson is an experienced genealogist who received an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her exhibition consists of 17 life-sized colored pencil portraits based on rare, identified photos of a group of African-American men who served together for the Union in the 25th United States Colored Troops, Company G. The portraits incorporate portions of the men’s military records in the artwork, and a mini-biography of the soldier, written by the artist, accompanies each portrait. Davidson also studied painting and drawing at Cooper Union in New York City and received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Life Line: Scratchboard Etchings
2015-03-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-14 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
While Chicagoan Lisa S. Goesling has spent her life creating art, she discovered scratchboards (boards made of clay and India ink) while undergoing a cancer diagnosis in 2006. The idea that adversity teaches us to turn the negative into a positive is a great analogy for transforming these black boards into thriving works of art. Her past careers in graphic design and art direction continue to influence her art by incorporating the fundamentals of design, such as composition, pattern, texture, contrast, line, etc. Using nature as her muse, Goesling scratches fine lines into a layer of ink until meticulous images appear in the clay.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Splendor: Wildlife & Floral Photography
2015-03-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-14 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
Ann Arbor artists Dick and Sue Rigterink use digital photography to share the joy and splendor of nature. By stopping fast motion, their photographs capture the moment and the personalities, whether a bird in flight or song, or a chipmunk jumping for a flower. They focus attention on the diversity, habitats, behavior, and beauty of local, recognizable wildlife to evoke memories in viewers. Dick has a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Michigan State and a Master’s from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Sue has a Bachelor’s from Michigan State in Mathematics. Their wildlife photographs have been published in Audubon Magazine and National Wildlife Federation.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Playground Valentine: Art Jewelry & Objects
2015-03-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-14 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Amber D. Harrison is a Michigan based studio artist practicing contemporary art jewelry and object making. She works as a fabricator hand cutting and forming each piece while exploring the implementation of play. Her goal is to transfer her own memories into a whimsical and wearable world, evoking the recollections or imaginations of others. She recently exhibited in the 2014 Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, one of the top craft shows in the United States. Harrison earned her BFA from the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Storytelling Whimsical Sculpture
2015-03-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-14 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
Story greatly influences the clay sculptures of Leanne Schnepp. By combining animal and human forms and characteristics, she tells stories of connection and transformation. Humans, coyotes, frogs, and birds interact and “converse,” and mischievous children become monsters and tumble about. There is a sense of play and whimsy in the work and the opportunity for viewers to use their imagination. Schnepp earned her BFA at Michigan State University and has worked as an artist and teacher for the past 20 years. She currently lives and works in East Lansing.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Stunningly Ordinary: Oil Painting
2015-03-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 20:00, 2015-03-14 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
Michigan based artist Amy Fell finds great beauty, charm, and even mystery in the everyday articles that surround us. Fell uses a variety of techniques — including dramatic lighting, large scale presentation, detailed rendering and bold color — to celebrate the objects that provide comfort and support in our day-to-day lives. Fell studies oil painting at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center as well as regularly attending workshops of nationally acclaimed artists. She exhibits her work in juried shows and is very active in the arts community in the Detroit metropolitan area.

Exhibition:"Now or Never": Collecting, Documenting, and Photographing the Aftermath of World War I in the Middle East
2015-03-08 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-09 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-10 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-11 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-12 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-13 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-14 08:30 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
World War I was far from over in the Middle East when the Germany officially surrendered to the Entente forces on 11 November 1918. As the European colonial powers sought to divide up the territory of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire, the forces of Turkish nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal fought a war of independence claiming victory and announcing the establishment of a Turkish Republic on 29 October 1923. It was in the context of continued conflict that University of Michigan Professor of Archaeology Francis Willey Kelsey (1858-1927) traveled to the Near East. Accompanied by his wife Isabelle (Mary) Badger Kelsey (1867-1944), his fifteen-year old son Easton Trowbridge Kelsey (b. 1904) and University of Michigan staff photographer George Robert Swain (1866-1947), Kelsey visited a region of the world that not only had experienced four-years of destructive war and devastating famine, but also was the site of genocide.

The initial mission was to collect ancient manuscripts that were destined to disappear in the post war chaos. To initiate the mission, Prof. Kelsey wrote an urgent letter to Miss Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Library on October 3, 1918. He solicited her support for an immediate expedition into the aftermath of war for “unless peace comes soon enough to save the remnants” of Greek and Armenian society, who have “been practically exterminated in certain large regions of Asia Minor” no record of these Christian communities would remain. It was “now or never” he writes that ancient and medieval manuscripts may be purchased from “unappreciative hands” for a token price. It was now or never that Greek, Syriac, Persian and Armenian manuscripts could be easily picked up and the “possession of these, and their proper preservation, will be a gain to science of inestimable value.” Little did Kelsey know that his travels to the Near East would also become a moment of witnessing. Kelsey’s diaries and Swain’s photographs on exhibit leave an important historical record that links them personally and the University of Michigan to one of the largest humanitarian efforts in history.

Organizers: Kathryn Babayan, associate professor of history and Near Eastern studies, U-M; and Melanie Tanielian, assistant professor of history, U-M.

Exhibition:Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience
2015-03-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2015-03-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2015-03-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2015-03-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2015-03-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2015-03-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2015-03-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Ruthven Museums Building
Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from the BioArtography project of the U-M Center for Organogenesis (www.BioArtography.com) in support of the Museum of Natural History's winter term programming on brain science. The public is invited to an exhibition opening reception on Friday, February 6 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm.

Exhibition:Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
2015-03-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-14 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life Sciences Institute and Medical School, to curate an exhibition from the Museum’s collection of three-dimensional objects.
As a scientist, Skiniotis creates three-dimensional models of cellular components by combining their magnified shadows or projections viewed from different perspectives. This type of study inevitably raises questions regarding the cognition of the objects around us—how, in the absence of perspective, are we to read elements like color, contrast variation, and depth of field in the dark outlines of objects? How do we make the cognitive connection between a two-dimensional shadow and the three-dimensional object that casts it? How many two-dimensional projections are needed for us to understand what we are looking at, and at what level of detail?
This exhibition poses such questions by juxtaposing three-dimensional objects from the Museum’s collection with two-dimensional projections created by Skiniotis using a similar process with which he creates models of cellular components. The presentation aims to provide a glimpse of the impressions of the selected works from varied directions through interplay with their own projections and our minds.
The UMMA Flip Your Field series asks noted University of Michigan faculty members to consider artwork outside their field of specialization in order to guest curate an exhibition using works from UMMA's renowned collection. The UMMA Flip Your Field series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Exhibition:Guido van der Werve: Nummer veertien, home
2015-03-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 12:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-14 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Nummer veertien, home, Dutch artist Guido van der Werve’s 54-minute film, weaves together three stories of journeys away from home: the death of Frédéric Chopin in Paris and his sister’s quest to bring the composer’s heart back to his native Poland for burial; Van der Werve’s own quest to retrace, in reverse, the route of Chopin’s heart in a three-week, thousand-mile trek of biking, running, and swimming; and the story of Alexander the Great, a traveling warrior who is one of Van der Werve’s personal heroes.

The film explores themes that are common in Van der Werve’s work: extreme physical and mental endurance, man’s struggle with the intensity of nature, the interplay of history and geography, the power of melancholy, and the solitary traveler. The artist’s signature sensibility—simultaneously surreal and deadpan—is accentuated in the film by the full orchestra that accompanies him on every stage of his journey. Van der Werve spent a year composing the film’s score, a classical requiem for forty voices and twenty strings, and the film’s structure mirrors that of the requiem: three movements of four acts apiece, with each act introduced by title shots to reinforce this organizational system. The tripartite framework underscores the three legs of Van der Werve’s personal triathlon and the three odysseys that intersect and inform one another throughout the film.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

Exhibition:Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
2015-03-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-14 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s based on how important paper and the written word are to civilization—including how easily writings and, consequently knowledge, can be lost. This exhibition, consisting of 19 photographs from UMMA’s collection, was inspired by the presence of the Frank Gehry chair made of cardboard in UMMA’s Design Gallery, and of and the need to address how artists from different cultures (present-day America and communist Czechoslovakia) view a commodity as common as paper.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for European Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Exhibition:HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
2015-03-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-14 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men and male identity as its subject matter. This exhibition features works from their vast holdings in photography. Guest curator Mario Codognato examines the lives of men in contemporary Western societies—with all their contradictions—through themes of competition and solidarity, confrontation with identity, and diverse explorations of the body and sexuality (as both sign and experience). Together, these thematic groups form a fictional, somewhat idealized, tale in 13 chapters, inviting viewers to reflect upon their own stories as well.

Drawing upon the Hergott Shepard collection as well as select works gifted by the collectors to the Hammer Museum at UCLA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the exhibition will include more than 60 works by some of the most important names in late 20th and early 21st century art, including Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Gilbert and George, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Herb Ritts, Thomas Ruff, Andres Serrano, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the University of Michigan Health System. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion, and Academic Affairs, Department of the History of Art, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Institute for the Humanities, and Residential College, and the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.

Exhibition:Medicinal Plants and Gardens: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum
2015-03-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 11:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-14 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
This exhibition celebrates the upcoming 2015 opening of the new Medicinal Garden at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens. The earliest botanical garden at the University was a pharmaceutical garden established in 1897 just off the Diag, at the heart of Central Campus. The new garden, developed in partnership with the College of Pharmacy and Medical School faculty, will continue that legacy, aiming to explore the botanical origins of historical and current medicines, and to promote a better understanding of the profound relationship between plants and human health.
Preceding the garden’s opening, this exhibition at UMMA will feature rarely seen archival plant specimens, deposited by pharmaceutical companies at the University Herbarium, along with newer herbarium specimens that reveal the captivating forms of these medicinal plants. These dried and pressed plant specimens will be accompanied by the presentation of the few remaining historic images of the original pharmaceutical garden, as well as a drawing of the layout of new garden at Matthaei, which is uniquely organized according to the systems of the human body that these medicinal plants are used to treat.
This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, co-organized by and presented at UMMA and designed to showcase the renowned and diverse collections at the University of Michigan. The U-M Collections Collaborations series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Exhibition:Charting the Wolverine
2015-03-08 13:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-09 08:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 19:00, 2015-03-14 10:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - 2nd Floor, Clark Library
This exhibit explores the intersection of maps and art. Artist Elaine Wilson weaves the two together seamlessly in her project “Charting the Wolverine,” a series of her illustrations and paintings following the train route from Ann Arbor to Chicago. Wilson’s finished project is displayed in whole, supported by a small array of her sketchbooks, preliminary drawings and maps from U-M collections.

Exhibition:Death Dogs
2015-03-08 13:00 - 16:00, 2015-03-10 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-03-11 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-03-12 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-03-13 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-03-14 13:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Upjohn Gallery
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology presents Death Dogs exhibition from February 6 - May 3, 2015.

Exhibition:Guided Tour: Engaging with Art
2015-03-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Museum of Art
UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique.

Exhibition:Now or Never: Collecting, Documenting and Photographing the Aftermath of World War I in the Middle East
2015-03-08 13:00 - 19:00, 2015-03-09 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-10 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-11 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-12 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-13 08:30 - 19:00, 2015-03-14 10:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Diaries written by U-M professor of archaeology Francis Willey Kelsey (1858–1927) and photographs taken by U-M staff photographer George Robert Swain (1866–1947) are a historical record that links them—and the University of Michigan—to one of the largest preservation efforts in history. Kelsey wrote, “unless peace comes soon enough to save the remnants” of Greek and Armenian society, who have “been practically exterminated in certain large regions of Asia Minor,” no record of these Christian communities would remain.

Kelsey and Swain initially traveled to the Near East to collect ancient manuscripts that were destined to disappear in the post World War I chaos, as the war was far from over in the Middle East when Germany officially surrendered to the Entente forces on November 11, 1918. Two Armenian manuscripts that were purchased as a consequence of the expedition are on display.

Lecture and opening reception will take place at 4 p.m. on January 14 in the Hatcher Library Gallery, adjacent to the exhibit.

Exhibit materials are courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library and U-M Library Special Collections.

Presentation:Dinosaur Tour!
2015-03-08 14:00 - 14:30, 2015-03-14 14:00 - 14:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
Free docent-led tours of the dinosaur exhibits every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. for the first 15 people to sign up. Sign up at the host table in the Rotunda lobby. First come, first served (sorry, reservations are not possible). Tours last approximately 30 minutes. Sponsored by U-M Credit Union.

Lecture / Discussion:HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
2015-03-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Art
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men and male identity as its subject matter. The exhibition features more than 60 works by some of the most important names in late 20th and early 21st century art. The images are gathered into sections that examine the lives of men in contemporary Western societies—with all their contradictions—through themes of competition and solidarity, confrontation with identity, and diverse explorations of the body and sexuality (as both sign and experience). Join docents as they explore these themes.

Presentation:Planetarium: Sunstruck
2015-03-08 14:30 - 15:15, 2015-03-14 14:30 - 15:15 | Ruthven Museums Building
Our Sun produces the energy that makes life on Earth possible. How does it do this? What is the Sun comprised of and how does it affect the Earth in other ways? Solar storms are a threat to our very existence, and the eventual death of the Sun will mean the end of our planet. How is this similar to the lives and deaths of stars throughout our galaxy?

Presentation:Hands-On Demos: Bug Brains and Neurobiology
2015-03-08 15:00 - 15:30, 2015-03-14 11:00 - 11:30, 2015-03-14 15:00 - 15:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
Have you heard about the cool neurobiology research at the U-M? Join us to learn bug brain science and witness neuroscience in action! Start by exploring a neuron and learn how billions of them work together to help your brain communicate with your body. Discover how they send signals via electricity and then witness this first-hand by “bioamplifying” nerve impulses from cockroaches.

Hands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.

Hands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.

Performance:Nora Jane Struthers
2015-03-08 19:30 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
In the words of Claire Lynch, Nora Jane Struthers "infuses bright, fresh lyrics into this traditional genre with sheer intelligence. Musically, she take unconventional twists and turns, while 'holding you to the road' with commanding charm." This Brooklyn-to-Nashville transplant has taken Music City by storm with original songs that are by turns breezy and deadly serious. Nora Jane's albums have attracted A-list instrumentalists, and NPR Music raves: "Fans of Dixie Chicks, Alison Krauss and Dolly Parton, take notice: Nora Jane Struthers embodies everything you could want in an Americana singer-songwriter.” Her sound is a bit bluegrass, a bit old-time, and a bit Americana, and she's putting all these together in whole new ways! Nora Jane comes to Michigan with a brand-new release, "Wake."

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Life: Watercolor
2015-03-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1.
LeAnne Mawby Sowa is a west Michigan artist who paints with an appreciation of history and love of the Great Lakes. Her lighthouses and lake scenes are reminiscent of summer vacation times exploring the state’s wonders. Sowa’s colors are vibrant, and she also brings to life the historic beauty of barns and other places far from the shoreline. Her artistic education is through self exploration, workshops and a few college classes, including Hertfordshire College in Ware, England.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
2015-03-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
The Dinnerware Museum, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware from all over the world along with fine art referencing dinnerware created from ceramic, metal, glass, paper, plastic and more. This exhibition highlights portions of eight memorable place settings of American tableware dating from the 1930s to the present, including sets designed by the leading 20th century designers Eva Zeisel, Russel Wright, Glidden Parker, and Don Schreckengost as well as new dinnerware by contemporary artist Julia Galloway in 2014.

Exhibition:Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
2015-03-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 08:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 08:00 - 17:00 | Lane Hall - Gallery space on first floor
Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary, or a set of predetermined preferences and predilections. This exhibition--the first of its kind--both celebrates and interrogates the visual aspects of the re- imaging of gender.

Re-imaging Gender features the work of 15 promising artists who take on one of the most important challenges facing contemporary art: how to render the modern spectrum of gender, going beyond the simple male/female binary to include a wide variety of identities and sexualities.

The Re-imaging artists, MFA students enrolled at Michigan and CIC universities (Big 10, plus Chicago), responded to an IRWG-issued Call for Art. The result is an exhibition of 17 works in a variety of media, including photography, paint, lithograph, mixed media, and video, which reflect new understandings of gender.

The exhibit will be displayed at the Lane Hall Gallery, a space shared by IRWG and the U-M Department of Women’s Studies, from January 15 - June 26, 2015.

Exhibition:The Artistry of M. Saffell Gardner
2015-03-09 08:30 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 08:30 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 08:30 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 08:30 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 08:30 - 17:00, 2015-03-14 08:30 - 17:00 | Detroit Center - Monts Hall
Experience the acclaimed works of artist M. Saffell Gardner at the University of Michigan Detroit Center, February 19 – March 20, 2015 with the exhibition “The Artistry of M. Saffell Gardner.” Located in Lester P. Monts Hall, “Artistry” features an extensive collection of Gardner’s paintings and creative works.

About the Artist: M. Saffell Gardner is a master painter, mixed media artist, art historian and educator. A graduate of Wayne State University holding a BFA and MFA in painting, Gardner's artistic talents have transcended a career spanning more than five decades. As recently as 2014, Gardner's work appeared at the 9338 Campau Gallery and 2014 ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids. In 2013, he was invited to participate in “The Venice Biennale 2013." In 2000, he was selected as the Chivas Regal Artist in Residence at the Charles H. Wright Museum. A commissioned painting entitled “Door of No Return” is currently in the museum’s permanent collection. Gardner has also co-curated “Vision in a Cornfield” for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Gardner’s work can also be found in the permanent collections of multiple healthcare systems including: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Henry Ford Hospital, Total Healthcare and the Detroit Medical Center. His work is also on display at several Detroit Public Schools including Cass Technical High School, Renaissance High School, Southeastern High School and the Detroit School of Arts. In addition, to his work the metro Detroit area, Gardner has also exhibited throughout the United States, Jamaica, Brazil, Ghana and Africa.

Exhibition:Nicholas Delbanco: A Literary Life
2015-03-09 10:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 10:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 10:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 10:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Hatcher South, Special Collections
This exhibit, drawn from the papers of teacher and author Nicholas Delbanco, Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature and Director of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards Program at U-M, spans decades and continents and illustrates the extensive range of Delbanco's life and work.

Open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Exhibition:Uncanny Valley
2015-03-09 10:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-10 10:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-11 10:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-12 10:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 10:00 - 17:00 | East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker
(collaboratively working under the name Future Retrieval)

The objects presented merge the strengths of our studio practice – a dark vein backed by a historical current. Ornament and detail collide with a fascination of taxidermy and natural order. Each object contains a history, reaching back and highlighting ideals of time and labor.
Three-dimensional scans and photographs have been rapid prototyped, processed in the studio, and molded into porcelain mimicking the world of European decorative arts. Inspired also by German animal sculptures and cut silhouettes, we are using digital translation to both highlight and transform these details that fascinate us. The interest in new technologies and industrial methods is that each piece is handmade, but maintains the record of a computer driven interpretation. Our intention is to make art objects that reference design and are held together by craft.

Bio
Future Retrieval

Guy Michael Davis was born in 1978 and raised in Bartlesville, OK. Katie Parker was born in 1980 in Jonesboro Arkansas, and grew up in Plano, Texas. They both attended the Kansas City Art Institute from 1999-2003 and received BFA degrees in ceramics.
Katie went straight to graduate school at The Ohio State University from 2003-2005, Guy followed suit three years later from 2006-2008. Both Katie and Guy received MFA degrees in ceramics.
Currently, Katie is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati, running the ceramics department. Guy works for multiple designers across the country, and is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. For several years, they have also been collaborating together, making objects that combine new technology, porcelain, and good craft. The objects merge the strengths of their individual studio practice – a dark vein backed by a historical current. They have exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent shows in New York City, Jingdezhen China, Cardiff Wales, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Tempe Arizona. This summer they were both artists in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE.

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: Preparing for Your Medical School Interviews
2015-03-09 11:00 - 12:00 | The Career Center
Join the Career Center to learn how to best prepare for your upcoming medical school interviews.

Other:Fun, Food & Friendships: International Student Lunch Discussion
2015-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Michigan Union - CAPS Annex, 3rd floor
The International Student Lunch Discussion group is a space for students to have informal discussions covering a variety of topics such as: adjusting to U of M, cultural adjustment, making friends, relationships, and managing academic stress. No appointment needed! Free lunch to be provided, but feel free to bring your lunch if you prefer.

Exhibition:Future Cycles
2015-03-09 12:00 - 18:00, 2015-03-10 12:00 - 18:00, 2015-03-11 12:00 - 18:00, 2015-03-12 12:00 - 18:00, 2015-03-13 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
Check out the Future Cycles on display. They're hybrid vehicles that combine the weather protection, carrying capacity and visibility of a car with the low energy usage of a bicycle to create a vehicle that is half car, half bicycle.

Built by Cameron Van Dyke, a graduate student at the University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design, Future Cycles were created as part of his master's thesis. They recently appeared at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

Join us for a reception in the Duderstadt Gallery on March 13, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Exercise / Fitness:Group-X: Core Yoga
2015-03-09 12:00 - 12:50 | Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - Squash Court C
Core yoga is a dynamic, Vinyasa- based class that focuses on utilizing and strengthening the core, linking breath to movement. Be prepared to work all aspects of your core, sweat, and find strength and power from within.

Presentation:The Regenstrief Institute Reloaded
2015-03-09 12:00 | Off Campus Location
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. Dr. JT Finnell, a Regenstrief Scientist, will cover the past, present, and how they are thinking about the future moving forward. He will discuss the emerging role of leveraging data to make informed clinical decisions and the future of clinical informatics education.

The Regenstrief Institute is an internationally respected informatics and healthcare research organization, recognized for its role in improving quality of care, increasing efficiency of healthcare delivery, preventing medical errors and enhancing patient safety. Regenstrief has a rich 30+ year history, and is now in the "reloaded" phase.

Social / Informal Gathering:Change Our World
2015-03-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us March 16th-19th for the "Change Our World" event featuring an array of inspirational activities.

The schedule includes:

Monday, March 16th Event keynote kickoff featuring Hannah Brencher, founder of More Love Letters. Doors open at 6:30 pm, talk starts at 7 pm in the Michigan League Ballroom

Tuesday, March 17th Lunch and Learn from 12-1:30pm in the Kuenzel Room of the Union *Food Provided*

Wednesday, March 18th Hidden Leaders and Best - a TED Talk style event featuring amazing UM students and student organizations who are helping to change our world! Doors open at 6:30pm, talks begin at 7pm in the Rogel Ballroom of the Union. *Food Provided*

Thursday, March 19th Pledge for Change and Touching Strangers Project Exhibition from 11am-3pm in the Willis Ward Lounge of the Union. Join us to make your pledge for making a positive difference in our world, and check out an awesome photo project that brought together perfect strangers on our campus who left each other with more understanding!

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: Strengthening Your Med School Application: Postbaccs And Other Gap Year Options
2015-03-09 14:00 - 15:00 | The Career Center

Lecture / Discussion:RCGD Seminar Series: BioSocial Methods- Stephen Suomi
2015-03-09 15:30 - 17:00 | Institute For Social Research - 1430
Stephen Suomi, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Comparative Behavioral Genetics

Workshop / Seminar:Social, Behavioral, Experimental Economics Seminar (SBEE)
2015-03-09 15:30 - 17:00 | North Quad - Ehrlicher Room
Speaker: Steve Burks, University of Minnesota

Lecture / Discussion:The Biopolitical Imagination
2015-03-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Tisch Hall - 1014
Commercial surrogacy and egg freezing parties. Police DNA databases and resurgent claims about race as biology. Early-pregnancy fetal gene tests and “precision gene editing.” New biotech products and practices are bringing us face to face with unprecedented personal and societal decisions, and never-before-considered political and ethical dilemmas. Public attention to the challenges posed by human genetics and assisted reproductive technologies is typically episodic and disconnected. Only a few public interest organizations have programs addressing them. And public policies are thin at best, especially in the US. Yet in this talk, we’ll look at signs that a new biopolitics is emerging.

Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) speaks and writes widely on the politics of human biotechnology, focusing on their social justice and public interest implications. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law and Policy Review, Democracy, Contraception, New Scientist, RH Reality Check and many others.

Exercise / Fitness:Group-X: Hard Core
2015-03-09 16:30 - 17:20 | North Campus Recreation Building - Ct. 240
Train and strength the entire core! You will build those 6-Pack muscles as well as work the obliques, back muscles, muscular slings used in functional movement, as well as the hips and glutes to develop a stronger & healthier core.

Well-being:Group-X: Pilates
2015-03-09 17:00 - 17:50 | Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - 2275
Pilates focuses on building core strength, toning while lengthening muscles, increasing flexibility and improving your posture. This mat Pilates class will incorporate proper Pilates lateral breathing into the exercises to assure the entire body is engaged and being utilized throughout the workout.

Performance:Guest Recital: Caen Thomason-Redus, flute and Cole Burger, piano
2015-03-09 17:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Okpebholo- Harvard Square; Mumford- An Evolving Romance; Still- “Dark Horsemen,” “Summerland,” and “Radiant Pinnacle” from Three Visions; Bonds- “Troubled Water” from Spiritual Suite; Coleridge-Taylor- “Cavatina,” “Barcarolle,” and “Contemplation” from Suite for Violin and Piano, op. 3; Thomason-Redus- Amazing Grace Variations; León- Alma; Still- Here’s One, Mother and Child, Quit dat’ Fool’nish

Social / Informal Gathering:MUG Mondays
2015-03-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Michigan Union - Ground Floor
Check out everything that the Michigan Union Underground has to offer and have some fun while you're at it! There will be food, crafts, games, and more each week in the Michigan MUG! With free takeaways, coupons, food, and even prizes, this is something that you don't want to miss! Come to the Michigan MUG each Monday from 5-6:30pm to see what is happening this week!

Exercise / Fitness:Tabata
2015-03-09 17:30 - 18:20 | North Campus Recreation Building - Ct. 240
Tabata is the most results driven forms of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). In this class you will push yourself to your limits by completing various drills at specific work rest ratios.

Exercise / Fitness:Group-X: Metabolic Circut
2015-03-09 18:15 - 19:05 | Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - RB Ct 11
Do you want an intense workout? A workout where you have the support and encouragement of others to reach your peak performance? Don’t want to worry about being the person going in the opposite direction as everyone else in class? Then this class is for you! Metabolic Circuit will put you through strength and cardio drills that will push you to your limit.

Other:Living with Two Natures
2015-03-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Pierpont Fireside Cafe (Look for sign on table)
Did you know that we have two natures: our nature and God's nature? How do we understand these natures? What does God expect from us? How does God help us to balance these two natures? This will be an awesome discussion! You won't want to miss it!

Other:The Righteous Experience
2015-03-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Michigan League: Room D
The Righteous Experience is an engagement hosted by The Righteous Movement and Pastor Matthew Jones. Our goal is to create an interactive learning opportunity for students to receive biblically based lessons on how Christian principles greatly enhance the life of a college student. Because we are not traditional with our approach, each event includes interactive games, student performances, a live band, a DJ, and limitless opportunities for peer interaction.

Exercise / Fitness:Group-X: Bollywood
2015-03-09 19:30 - 20:20 | Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - Squash Court C
A new dancing style -Bollywood dancing! It is currently the most popular and a very trendy style. It comes from Indian cinema where songs and dance form an integral part of a film! Come join us for this fun-filled, calorie - burning, "filmy" experience! Each class is a party!

Exercise / Fitness:Zumba
2015-03-09 19:30 - 20:20 | North Campus Recreation Building - Ct. 240
Ditch the workout and join the party! This Latin-inspired, dance-fitness class incorporates Latin and international music and dance moves, creating a dynamic, exciting, exhilarating and effective workout. This class – known as a “fitness party” – combines fast and slow rhythms of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggae-ton, hip-hop, pop, mambo, rumba, flamenco, calypso and salsa-ton to help tone and sculpt the body with easy to follow dance moves! No dance experience required.

Performance:Faculty Recital: Ed Parmentier, harpsichord and Aaron Berofsky, violin
2015-03-09 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Program features music by Corelli, Bach, and Leclair.

Community Service:U-M "Heart Heroes" T-shirt Sale
2015-03-10 00:00 - 12:00, 2015-03-11 00:00 - 12:00, 2015-03-12 00:00 - 12:00, 2015-03-13 00:00 - 12:00, 2015-03-14 00:00 - 12:00 | University Hospitals - Online Sale
Spring is still a few weeks away … but the U-M Heart Heroes t-shirts are here right now! They’re great for caregivers, patients, their family and friends, and all U-M supporters! Order your limited edition t-shirt today through March 23. Your purchase will help support the U-M Washtenaw County American Heart Walk/5K Run, which takes place Saturday morning, May 9, 2015. One hundred percent of the proceeds go directly to the Heart Walk sponsored by the American Heart Association (AHA).

The t-shirts were introduced in February in celebration of Heart Month, raising more than $2,000 for the AHA. Our goal is to raise a total of $10,000 through this special offer to you. These premium, limited edition t-shirts are a distressed “heathered” blue, with a distinct vintage look. They’re a 60/40 blend and tend not to shrink after repeated washings.

Ordering is easy - visit http://umhealth.me/UMHeartHeroes link to order by credit card and the shirt will be shipped directly to you. Thanks for your support!

Lecture / Discussion:EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE CROSSES TRADITIONAL MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW--
2015-03-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
— IS THE INTERSECTION SAFE?

The legal standard of care — that benchmark against which a physician’s care is measured in the courtroom for medical malpractice claims — is defined as “what a reasonable prudent practitioner would have done under the same or similar circumstances.” The speaker will describe the dilemma, the counter-productive impact of current medical malpractice laws and how they chill efforts to deliver the latest and best medical care, and some possible ways of solving the problem. Prior to coming to U of M, Dr. Boothman was a trial lawyer in Michigan and Ohio for 22 years defending doctors, professional groups and a variety of health systems.

Please check our web site for additional monthly lectures on the second Tuesday in the Distinguished Lecture Series.

http://www.olli-umich.org/programs_activities/lectures/Osher_Dist_Lec_Series.pdf

Community Service:U-M "Heart Heroes" T-shirt Sale
2015-03-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location - http://umhealth.me/UMHeartHeroes

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: Help! What is an MMI?
2015-03-10 11:00 - 12:00 | The Career Center
Join the Career Center for a discussion on Multiple Mini Interviews: what they are, which schools use them, and what they consist of.

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar Series
2015-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
Dr. Marta Filizola, Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will be giving a seminar titled :"Addressing Current Challenges in GPCR Drug Discovery with Modern Computational Methods." This seminar will occur on Tuesday, March 10th at 12:00pm in North Lecture Hall, MS II.

Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series
2015-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
A lecture by Shui Yan Tang, Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor in Public Administration, University of Southern California

This lecture will highlight several key characteristics of the Chinese governance system that are in potential conflict with sound principles for formulating and enforcing rules. The consequences of such conflicts are illustrated by examples in environmental regulation and compliance.

Lecture / Discussion:My Brothers Dialogue Series
2015-03-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Michigan Union - Central Student Government Chambers
My Brothers Dialogue Series

Join us for discussions that address the unique needs and experiences of men of color at the University of Michigan in a safe, open space. All sessions include free lunch and are open to students, faculty, and staff.

Our Mission:

My Brothers seeks to empower men of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, and health and wellness that affect them in an open atmosphere. The program welcomes all University of Michigan men of color, undergraduate and graduate, faculty and staff. Series takes place in the Central Student Government Chambers, 3rd Floor Michigan Union Series.

Upcoming Dates:

January 13th
February 10th
March 10th
April 17th

Lecture / Discussion:My Brothers Dialogue Series
2015-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Michigan Union - Central Student Government Chambers
Don't cry! Don't do that, only girls do that. Be strong, you're a man! Don't cry, you're a boy and boys are suppose to be tough! Be a man!

My Brothers is excited to bring to you Men In Motion, a look into topics around perspectives of male masculinity and forms of expression, specifically for men of color. This session will have guest speaker Kyle Abraham, a celebrated choreographer and founder of Abraham.In.Motion.

Kyle Abraham will bring his vast experience and personal narratives of the connectivity of identity, dance, and how, as a man of color, he has expressed himself through his work to My Brothers.

Free food will be provided.

When: Tuesday March 10th, 12PM

Where: CSG Chambers, 3rd Floor of the Michigan Union

Join us for discussions that address the unique needs and experiences of men of color at the University of Michigan in a safe, open space. All sessions include free lunch and are open to students, faculty, and staff.

Our Mission:

My Brothers seeks to empower men of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, and health and wellness that affect them in an open atmosphere. The program welcomes all University of Michigan men of color, undergraduate and graduate, faculty and staff. Series takes place in the Central Student Government Chambers, 3rd Floor Michigan Union Series.

Lecture / Discussion:Transforming the Food System: A Conversation with Two Leaders
2015-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Michigan Union - Anderson Room
Jahi Chappell and Danielle Nierenberg are internationally known leaders in sustainable food systems

Workshop / Seminar:Embracing Change and Ambiguity: Building Your Resilience and Success
2015-03-10 13:00 - 17:00 | Administrative Services Building - HRD
Every day, we increasingly work with greater uncertainty, ambiguity and change. The most successful people deal with these elements by building their resilience to make the most of these experiences. This course will provide you with a better understanding and methods to grow your resilience while decreasing the negative impacts that accompany change.

You will learn to:

Identify the various stages people go through when dealing with change
Determine your current level of resilience to change and find ways to be more flexible and adaptable
Leverage different tools to best deal with change
Assess your work environment and develop ways to be more prepared for upcoming changes
Use the best ways to manage change with resourcefulness

You will benefit by:

Increased understanding of your own resilience
Better understanding and ability to positively respond to the uncertainty and ambiguity that change brings
Understanding where to put your focus and energy when dealing with change
Leaving with an action plan that outlines your steps to effectively plan for upcoming changes

Audience:

Anyone who wishes they could deal with change differently and more proactively

Schedule Selection(s) Competencies: BI CO DO AC

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
2015-03-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Off Campus Location

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: Planning For Your Medical School Written Presentation: Personal Statement and Activities Descriptions
2015-03-10 13:00 - 14:00 | The Career Center
Come learn the basic of the written portion of your medical school application. We will cover planning for your personal statement as well as how to fill out the description of "activities" in the application.

Lecture / Discussion:The World Health Organization: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
2015-03-10 13:30 - 15:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
In this participatory powerpoint presentation, Dr. Els Nieuwenhuijsen covers three key topics related to the International Classification of Functioning (ICF), which is the World Health Organization (WHO) framework for measuring health and disability at both individual and population levels.

1. The background of the ICF: brief history, paradigm shift from the medical model, to the social model, to the bio-psycho-social model, and rationale.
2. The ICF concepts of health, functioning and disability: the main domains of functioning (body/structure, activities and participation level) and the interaction between these domains with environmental and personal factors. She will briefly cover the ICF codes.
3. The utility of the ICF, ICF core sets, use of terms recommended by the WHO, and strategic areas.

Nieuwenhuijsen is adjunct faculty in the U-M Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a volunteer pilot test coordinator of the Unitarian Universalist Association Accessibility and Inclusion Ministry (AIM) Certificate Program at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor.

Workshop / Seminar:CBSSM Seminar featuring Leigh Turner, PhD (March 10th
2015-03-10 15:00 - 16:00 | North Campus Research Complex - Building 16, B001E
Announcing our next CBSSM seminar for Tuesday, March 10th. (Please note the different date and location):

U.S. Clinics Marketing Unlicensed and Unproven “Stem Cell” Interventions: Ethical Concerns and Regulatory Challenges

Leigh Turner, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics, School of Public Health, and College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota

Tuesday, March 10, 2015
3:00-4:00 pm

Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine
University of Michigan
2800 Plymouth Road
NCRC, Building 16, B001E
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800

Abstract: Clinics advertising “stem cell” interventions are proliferating across the U.S. These businesses market putative “stem cell therapies” for ALS, MS, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injuries, muscular dystrophy, and many other diseases and injuries. Physicians at such clinics typically claim that they are engaged in the practice of medicine. They deny that they are promoting and administering biological drugs that are supposed to go through regulatory review and receive approval from the FDA before entering the marketplace. In many cases, available evidence suggests that this “practice of medicine” rationale is incorrect. Rather, by advertising unproven and unlicensed biological drugs, U.S. clinics appear to violate regulatory standards, ethical norms, and guidelines for the responsible conduct of research. It is understandable that patients are drawn to such businesses by powerful rhetorical claims, dramatic testimonials, and persuasive company websites. However, the advertisement, manufacture, and administration of unproven and unlicensed stem cell interventions generates many ethical, legal, and scientific concerns.

Refreshments will be provided!

You can find the complete list of CBSSM seminars on the CBSSM website.

Lecture / Discussion:Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe
2015-03-10 16:00 - 17:30 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
Speaker: Jean Boutier, Chair of Comparative History of the European Aristocracy from the 16th to the 18th Century, EHESS

In the 1550s a new kind of educational institution designed specifically for the nobility emerged in several European countries, mainly noble academies or academies for the nobility. Although universities and colleges have been the object of numerous studies and overviews at the European scale (particularly the University model), noble academies have elicited only monographs of a very local kind or at best a few preliminary enquiries on a national scale. Yet, this educational model, with some variations that would require further precision, imposed itself in the principal Western European countries and took root both in Northern and Central Europe. Its establishment, though less massive than the colleges, was nonetheless very dense (several dozen are known and inventoried). This paper, based on a methodical inventory and a solid cartographical geography of the circulations they allowed, will show how the model of the “cortegiano/courtier,” forged in Italy, was constructed thanks partly to the educational activities of these noble academies. Organized around the equestrian arts and fencing, this educational model with a social and professional purpose was one of the principal actors in the modernization of the nobilities (from initiation in modern languages, military mathematics, and “political sciences” to body discipline through dance and music). Noble academies were thus one of the sites of production of a new, increasingly and resolutely transnational aristocratic culture, which they helped diffuse, especially by accepting foreign nobles. In this framework, Boutier will analyze the presence of nobles from Central and Eastern Europe in these academies from the second half of the 16th century.

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar Series
2015-03-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Medical Science Unit I - 3330
Dr. James Shorter, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor pf Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania will be giving a seminar titled; "Potentiated protein disaggregases to combat neurodegeneration." He will present this seminar at 4:00 pm in 3330 MS I on Tuesday, March 10th.

Lecture / Discussion:Henry Russel Lecture & Reception
2015-03-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre & Assembly Hall
This year's lecture will be presented by Professor Homer A. Neal, Samuel A. Goudsmit Distinguished University Professor of Physics. He will be discussing "Beyond Sputnik: Challenges Facing America's National Science Policies."

Workshop / Seminar:Moving from Career Success to Retirement Success
2015-03-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Center for the Education of Women
For those anticipating retirement in the next 24 months, this six-session group on preparing for a satisfying retirement will combine exploration of relevant topics with creative expression and supportive discussion. The focus of this group will be on the transition of retirement and the challenges that come with it -- from questions like "How will I define myself?" to “How will I establish priorities and spend my time?”

This series will help you plan for the non-financial aspects of retirement, such as redefining who are you, exploring new interests and opportunities, and maintaining social connections. You will also learn about what researchers find makes for a fulfilling retirement.

Dates: March 10, March 24, April 7, April 21, May 5, May 19

Performance:String Showcase
2015-03-10 16:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
A monthly performance series featuring the finest among our outstanding SMTD string students. Soloists and chamber music groups will be selected by the faculty to perform on this prestigious event.

Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to iMovie
2015-03-10 17:30 - 18:30 | Modern Languages Building - 2001-B, ISS Media Center Mac Classroom
In this introductory hands-on workshop, you will learn how to edit video with the latest version of iMovie. This workshop will also cover how best to transfer your work between computers. No editing experience is necessary. This workshop is open to everyone. iMovie software only available on MacOS.

This free workshop is presented by the University Library, in conjunction with the Teaching and Technology Collaborative, and is open to faculty, instructors, staff, and students of the University of Michigan. Registration is required. Please visit the links below to register.

Lecture / Discussion:U.S.-Russia Relations since the Ukraine Crisis
2015-03-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
David Kostelancik, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service of the United States, is the State Department Advisor to the Helsinki Commission. From July 2012 until August 2014, he served as Director of the Office of Russian Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. In that capacity, he oversaw political, economic and bilateral issues with the Russian Federation. Prior to that assignment, he served as Director of the Office of Europe and Asia in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, coordinating law enforcement, criminal justice and counternarcotics related assistance provided by the U.S. Government throughout Europe, Central, South and East Asia. He served as Deputy and Acting Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 2008 until 2010. He also served in Moscow earlier in his career as the Special Assistant to then Ambassador Thomas Pickering. Other overseas postings include the U.S. Mission to the OSCE as Deputy Political Counselor (Vienna, Austria), the U.S. Mission to NATO (Brussels, Belgium), the U.S. Embassy Tirana, Albania and the U.S. Embassy Ankara, Turkey. He has held other assignments in Washington, including as Deputy Director of the Office of North Central Europe in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.

Sponsors: Eastern Michigan University’s Department of Political Science, International Affairs Program; CREES.

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: UROP: Introduction to Networking
2015-03-10 18:00 - 19:00
This is a closed session for the students in UROP.

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: UROP: Introduction to Networking (Linglu)
2015-03-10 18:00 - 19:00

Film Screening:Ancient Rome in Silent Cinema - Maria Wyke University College London (2015 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series)
2015-03-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location
Cinema has been fascinated with the ancient world and with Roman history in particular ever since it emerged as a new technology more than one hundred years ago. Within a few months of the first public shows of moving images held in 1896, Nero was brought onto the screen trying out poisons on his slaves, and hundreds more films were made thereafter. The vast majority remain largely forgotten although they still survive in archives across the world. Yet the persistence of ancient Rome in early cinema compels us to ask: why did so modern a medium have so strong an interest in antiquity right from its start? What did ancient Rome do for cinema? And what did cinema do for ancient Rome?

Performance:Global Harmonies: A Concert of American, Chinese and European Orchestral Music
2015-03-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Hill Auditorium
Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro, Overture
LIU Yuan - Taiwan Folk Song Suite 《台湾民谣组曲》
FANG Kejie - Reba Dance 《热巴舞曲》
Franz Schubert - Symphony No.8 in B Minor (unfinished), D. 759
Samuel Barber - Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Op.23a

Film Screening:Threshold: Whispers of Fukushima
2015-03-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Museum of Art
This film tells the story of several individuals who chose to stay in Fukushima, Japan following the horrible earthquake that took place in the spring of 2011. In the wake of this disaster, many used music and performance to express themselves. Having lost almost everything, their commitment to music has been key to their endurance and evolution in their changed world. From their inspiring sounds and stories, they show us the importance of finding and nurturing our own happiness.

The film is directed by artist, photographer, and filmmaker Toko Shiiki, with score by U-M Associate Professor of Music and Composition, Erik Santos. Work began on the film in the spring of 2013, and the film premieres at UMMA in time to commemorate the four-year anniversary of the earthquake.

This program is co-sponsored by UMMA and the U-M Center for Japanese Studies.

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: Introduction to the Career Center
2015-03-10 19:30 - 20:30
This is a closed program to members of Distinguished.

Performance:Marshall Crenshaw & The Bottle Rockets
2015-03-10 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Over the course of a career that's spanned three decades, 13 albums and hundreds of songs, Marshall Crenshaw's musical output has maintained a consistent fidelity to the qualities of melody, craftsmanship and passion. His efforts have been rewarded with the devotion of a broad and remarkably loyal fan base. His debut album, Marshall Crenshaw, was acclaimed as a pop masterpiece upon its release in 1982 and established him as a first-rate songwriter, singer and guitarist. It was named to Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Albums of the 1980s list. The record spawned the Top 40 single “Someday, Someway.” In addition to this, Crenshaw is both a Grammy nominated and a Golden Globe nominated artist. Recently, he has been releasing a series of 10” EPs composed of new songs penned by Crenshaw, covers of some of his favorite songs, and reworks of Crenshaw’s much-loved classics. Marshall can be heard on the newly released Boardwalk Empire soundtrack.

Marshall comes to town with the St. Louis alt-country band The Bottle Rockets, who will play a set of their own and then join Marshall as his backing band.

Performance:Senior Recital: Kellen Degnan, cello
2015-03-10 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Debussy - Sonate pour Violoncelle et Piano; Poulenc - Sonate pour Violoncelle et Piano; Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du Temps.

Other:Welcome Wednesdays
2015-03-11 08:00 - 12:00 | Alumni Center
Every week the Alumni Association hosts Welcome Wednesdays (WW) from 8 a.m. to noon at the Alumni Center (200 Fletcher St., next to the Michigan League).

U-M students, come enjoy a variety of free delicious bagel flavors along with coffee, tea, and hot chocolate help you kick start your Wednesday morning. Relax in the comfy chairs, live CNN, WiFi and student atmosphere at Welcome Wednesday. You can also learn more about Alumni Association student programs, and pick up free blue books! Be sure to bring your UMID card (or number).

Student Organizations can participate by featuring their group at an information table. If your student organization is interested in hosting a table at Welcome Wednesdays please complete the Student Organization Participation Request Form.

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: Career Co-Advising with Psychology
2015-03-11 09:00 - 10:30 | East Hall
Schedule an appointment to meet with a Career Advisor and Psychology Concentration Advisor at the same time! To schedule an appointment, click here

WEBSITE: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/undergraduate/advising/facultycareercentercoadvising

ROOM: Psychology Undergraduate Office

Workshop / Seminar:HIPAA Requirements and Waivers of Authorization
2015-03-11 10:00 - 11:00 | University Hospitals - Dining Room A/B
This course will review the basic principles of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Omnibus Rule as they apply to human subjects’ research. This will include the requirements necessary to secure a Waiver of HIPAA authorization from the IRB and comparison of Waivers of HIPAA Authorization and Waivers of Informed Consent.

This free workshop is offered by the Institutional Review Board, in conjunction with the Teaching and Technology Collaborative, and is open to faculty, instructors, and staff of the University of Michigan. Registration is required. Please visit the links below to register.

Workshop / Seminar:Writing Effective Procedures Documents—Putting Actions Into Words
2015-03-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Administrative Services Building - HRD
With an expert as your guide, enter the unique world of procedure based writing. Learn the techniques needed to meet and overcome all of the challenges of putting actions into easy to follow documentation.

You will learn to:

Describe what procedural communication is and how it differs from other forms of documentation
Interview people and turn their words into step-by-step procedures
Find and document key information when using subject matter experts as a source of knowledge for procedures
Use effective edit, review and publishing techniques to create concise procedures
Prepare and execute a review cycle to ensure that your documents remain current

You will benefit by:

Understanding how to apply style guides, proper voice and sentence structure to written procedures
Developing strategies for assembling information in a clear and concise manner
Gaining the ability to author, edit and publish effective procedures

Audience:
Anyone needing to document procedural based activities in their workplace

Schedule Selection(s) Competencies: AM BI CO QS

Lecture / Discussion:Why Japanese Expatriates Sued for their Right to Vote
2015-03-11 11:50 - 12:50 | South Hall - 1225
Tokyo Law Professor and Counsel for Plaintiffs, Yoshimasa Furuta

Introduced by Law School Dean, Mark West.

Sushi will be served.

Dean Mark West hosts University of Tokyo law professor and partner at the Japanese Big Four law firm, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Yoshimasa Furuta. Professor Furuta was counsel for the plaintiffs in the landmark “Overseas Voters Case,” a Japanese Supreme Court decision striking down as unconstitutional a law withholding voting rights from Japanese citizens living abroad. This was only the 7th time in Japanese Supreme Court history where a statute was found unconstitutional, and it was also the first decision that ordered the Japanese government to pay damages.

This talk will provide a behind-the-scenes perspective of this historic Japanese Supreme Court decision.

Questions may be directed to Eddie Mears and Julie Siegel of the Asia Law Society (asialawboard@umich.edu).

Workshop / Seminar:Depression on College Campuses Conference
2015-03-11 12:00 - 18:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Recent research indicates that more than half of college students report “above average” or “tremendous” stress levels, and 30 percent say that stress has a negative impact on their academic performance. While there will always be some level of stress, competition, and pressure in a college student’s life, must success always be equated with stress? And ultimately, is it possible for a university to promote a culture of academic rigor and excellence, while simultaneously encouraging positive student mental health?

Join us for the 13th Annual Depression on College Campuses Conference to explore these questions, and learn about new research findings and model programs which demonstrate how a focus on managing the climate of stress on campus – and helping students to cope more effectively with the inevitable bouts of stress that will occur – can improve overall student wellness and allow students to achieve their full potential.

The conference will feature a choice of intensive three-hour workshops in addition to keynote presentations, panel discussions, and concurrent sessions.

Online registration is now open. Applications have been made to provide Continuing Education credits for social workers and certified counselors. Please check back in early January for confirmation of the number of credit that will be provided.

Registration is FREE for all students from any campus. Registration fee for non-students is $135 before February 6th, and $150 after February 6th.

Cancellation and refund policy

If you would like to receive additional conference updates via e-mail, please click on “Sign up for event reminders.”

For more information, contact Trish Meyer at 734-763-7495 or meyerpa@umich.edu.

We hope to see you in March!

Lecture / Discussion:Kunqu Singing and Composition: Theory and Practice
2015-03-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Michigan League - Koessler Room
(Details to be announced)

Workshop / Seminar:Gossip Stoppers: Creating a Positive Workplace
2015-03-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Administrative Services Building - HRD
Do you feel your workplace is full of negativity and gossip? Do you find the rumor “du jour” hard to resist? Would you like your office to be more productive and less destructive? This course provides ways to eliminate gossip and negativity to create a more positive work environment.

You will learn to:

Identify the major causes of negativity impacting your organization
Set the standards for your office that eliminate or reduce the negativity
Establish a common language about gossip and negativity in your area

You will benefit by:

Learning non-threatening techniques to address gossip
Eliminating contagious negative attitudes
Improving productivity and job satisfaction

Audience:

Anyone interested in developing a more positive work environment

Schedule Selection(s) Competencies: AM BI CO DO LA

Exhibition:Under the Influence: Youth Artists in the D
2015-03-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
Highlighting student created art from the Detroit School of Arts (DSA), “Young Artists in the D” is a visual exhibition influenced by the works of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Under the guidance of DSA teacher and designer Sheryl Heading, students will showcase their talents through various artistic mediums.

Open to the general public, an opening reception for this exhibition is scheduled for Saturday, April 25 from 1-3 p.m. and includes complimentary admission, parking and light refreshments.

The exhibit may be accessed 9 a.m. – 9 p.m., Monday-Thursday, and 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays.

“Young Arts in the D” is one of fifty-two community events in Metro-Detroit held to complement the exhibit, “Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit,” running from March 15 – July 12 at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Lecture / Discussion:Ancient Rome in Silent Cinema - Maria Wyke University College London (2015 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series)
2015-03-11 16:00 - 17:30 | East Quadrangle - Keene Theater

Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series
2015-03-11 16:00 - 18:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
Speaker: Sahie Kang, Dean of School of Resident Education in the Directorate of Continuing Education

Assessment is a critical component of curriculum design. Yet, educators often put the priority on the curriculum first, and then set the assessment standards after the main elements of curriculum are established. However, in order to reach the clear learning outcomes at the end of a course, setting standards for the assessment should lead any curriculum development. This is what “Backward Design” has been emphasizing for the last decade.

Backward Design is a process that focuses on assessment first and instructional activities last. It shifts teacher perspectives. Traditional curriculum design often begins with really interesting materials or activities we want to teach or are required to cover. We then design a curriculum, often on the go and then decide on some type of assessment at the end. Backward Design forces teachers to look at the big picture with the end goals in mind. In backward planning teachers set the vision or the essential understanding of their curriculum or unit, decide how students will provide evidence of their learning, and finally design instructional activities to help students learn what is needed to be successful.

Sahie Kang is currently the Dean of School of Resident Education in the Directorate of Continuing Education. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Florida. She has worked in the field of Language and Linguistics for over 30 years and has been at DLI for 22 years. Prior to the current position, she served as Dean in two different schools at the Presidio: Asian School II (2007-2009) and Middle East School II (2002-2007). She has performed various missions at DLI including Teaching Korean, Curriculum and Test Development, Program Management as a Korean Department Chairperson, OPI Master Tester, Project Manager of Advanced North Korean Dialect Materials Development, DLPT and Curriculum Reviewer and Language Resource Expert for DLPT5 Standard Setting. While being a member of the Korean faculty, she was recognized as an Instructor of the Year in Asian School II in 1993. Dr. Kang has received several official commendations and awards for her work at DLI and received a National Order of Cultural Merit from the Korean government in 2010. She has also taught Linguistics and Korean in different universities in Korea and the US before working at DLI.

With her research interests in socio-linguistics and language and culture education, she has given numerous presentations and published articles dealing with them. To name a few, she authored “The Effect of Study Abroad Program on Socio Linguistic Acquisition,” in Studies in Korean Linguistics and Language Pedagogy 2013; co-authored, with Y. Cho et al., National Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century, in 2010; co-authored, with J. Shannon, “Implementing and Assessing Portfolio Projects,” in TESOL 2008 PAIS (Program Administration Interest Section); co-authored, with P. Boylan, “Syllabus Design for the Less Commonly Taught Languages,” in Korean Language in America 1996.

Lecture / Discussion:New Stories of Old Times: Restoring Detroit's Early History, One Image at a Time
2015-03-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, Room 100
There are many nineteenth-century images of Detroit’s earlier history that were painted on canvases now hanging on the walls of local libraries, or carved into stone on buildings now destroyed or abandoned. The creators of these images sought to capture the past life of the city as truthfully and faithfully as possible, basing their work on published histories and memoirs of the time. Their work was part of a movement in the nineteenth-century to use local history in the construction of a marvelous origin story of Detroit. Today, it is apparent that these romanticized works of art are inaccurate depictions of an earlier era, and merely remind us how little we know of Detroit’s early history. Despite this realization, however, these problematic representations are still the dominant motif for learning the history of the City, and they masque a much more complex and provocative past.
How can we now turn these images inside-out and use them to guide us to fresh insights that better reflect Detroit’s early status as a central political, economic, and cultural meeting ground for European and indigenous communities? Karen Marrero will explore these questions by considering two works of art created in the 19th century to depict two moments viewed as pivotal in Detroit’s history.

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: How Do I Find an Internship?
2015-03-11 17:00 - 18:00 | The Career Center
Not sure what you are up to this summer? Join The Career Center to learn the techniques for a successful internship search!

Workshop / Seminar:Final Cut Pro X
2015-03-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Modern Languages Building - 2001-B, ISS Media Center Mac Classroom
In this introductory hands-on workshop, you will learn how to:

- Edit video with Final Cut Pro X
- Import and organize your footage
- Use editing tools for added precision
- Export footage to sharable formats
- Transfer your work between computers

No prior experience with Final Cut is necessary. If you are new to video editing, we strongly suggest that you attend one of our iMovie workshops prior to attending this workshop.

This free workshop is offered by the University Library, in conjunction with the Teaching and Technology Collaborative, and is open to faculty, instructors, staff, and students of the University of Michigan. Registration is required. Please visit the links below to register.

Other:Benefit Dinner
2015-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Psych Atrium in East Hall
Join us in the East Hall Psych atrium for our annual Benefit Dinner. $5 for all you can eat food from your favorite food around Ann Arbor. All proceeds go towards Camp Kesem Michigan as we strive to provide free camp for 180 children affected by a parent's cancer.

Workshop / Seminar:Creating Professional-Looking Conference Posters
2015-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - 206 (Faculty Exploratory)
In this workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to create high quality, eye-catching conference or presentation posters. Participants will learn techniques for organizing materials, adding text, images and charts, as well as best practices for printing posters.

This free workshop is presented by the University Library, in conjunction with the Teaching and Technology Collaborative, and is open to faculty, instructors, staff, and students of the University of Michigan. Registration is required. Please visit the links below to register.

Exhibition:Research Through Making Presentation and Exhibition Opening
2015-03-11 18:00 - 21:00, 2015-03-12 10:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents...Research Through Making.

Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.

Created by Dean Monica Ponce de Leon in 2009, Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts from across the University of Michigan campus. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.

Presentation of projects will start at 6:00pm with welcome remarks made by Dean Monica Ponce de Leon, with a reception to follow. Liberty Research Annex is located at 305 W. Liberty in downtown Ann Arbor.

2015 Research Through Making Installations:

Drop Kick Push Pull
Sean Vance - Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Siyang Ziui Chen - Artist/Designer
Rebecca Hasson - Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology

ELECTROFROST
Meredith Miller - Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Anya Sirota - Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Patrick Beaucé - Associate Professor, École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy
Jean Louis Farges - Principal, Akoaki

RoboPinch
Karl Daubmann - Associate Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Social Sensory Surfaces
Sean Ahlquist - Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Dr. David Chesney - Lecturer IV, College of Engineering
Sile O'Modhrain - Associate Professor, School of Music, Theatre & Dance , School of Information

Texture Tectonics
Ellie Abrons - Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Adam Fure - Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

About University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning:"

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice, advancing global engagement, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report), Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Urban Planning, Master of Urban Design, and PhD programs.

Workshop / Seminar:Global Village Square Series
2015-03-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Off Campus Location - Community Room (1st floor)
The Global Village Square (GVS) series is designed to promote awareness of and appreciation for cultural diversity. It provides informal and interactive events that nurture a global learning community for U.S. and international students. GVS is co-sponsored by the International Center and the Ecumenical Center and International Residence (ECIR).

Performance:Michigan Opera Theatre Presents: An Overture to Frida
2015-03-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Museum of Art
The Michigan Opera Theatre launches the first MOT Ann Arbor Opera Club, and you're invited to attend! Come enjoy this intimate highlights concert from the new MOT production of the opera Frida (music by Robert Xavier Rodriguez, book by Hilary Blecher, and lyrics by Migdalia Cruz). Catalina Cuervo as Frida Kahlo, brings the opera to life in concert form at UMMA.

At age 18 Frida was badly injured in a traffic accident, which necessitated many medical procedures. Her recovery in isolation, as well as a lifetime in physical pain, profoundly influenced her paintings--some of the most compelling of the 20th century.

The opera celebrates Kahlo’s vivacious spirit, talent, sexuality, and fragility, with splashes of music as colorful as her artwork. UMMA Senior Curator for Western Art, Carole McNamara, will kick off the evening with remarks on Kahlo's life and importance as an artist.

This program is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Reception to follow.

For more information about the full production performances scheduled for the Macomb Center, the Berman Theatre, and the DIA, please contact the Michigan Opera Theatre.

Performance:Tannahill Weavers
2015-03-11 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Named for Scottish poet Robert Tannahill, the Tannahill Weavers create music that is steeped in history yet brings the Scottish musical tradition forward into the present day. With innovative arrangements blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms, the group embraces the rollicking, even brawling qualities of Lowland Anglo-Scots tunes but never loses sight of the almost mystical Highland Celtic core. "The penetrating sound of the Highland bagpipes is a thread of ancient memory running through it all," say the Tannahill Weavers, widely acclaimed as Scotland's finest traditional band. The band's diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fiery instrumentals, topical songs, and original ballads. These versatile musicians have received worldwide accolades consistently over the years for exuberant performances and outstanding recording efforts that seemingly can't get better, yet continue to do just that.

Workshop / Seminar:Agile Project Management for Everyone
2015-03-12 08:30 - 16:30 | Administrative Services Building - HRD
How do you keep your project from falling short in delivering client (internal or external) needs on time, and within budget? How do you adjust when client needs are often changing? Megan Torrance has adapted the software industry’s “agile” approach for her company’s projects. They call it LLAMA (Lot Like Agile Methods Approach). In this session you will be immersed in the LLAMA methodology.

You will learn to:

Articulate the “agile” approach for project management to your work team and clients
Apply the principles of story mapping to build your project approach
Use agile methods for planning, estimating and running your projects
Utilize approaches to best work with your stakeholders to deliver what is needed, when it is needed—even if that changes throughout the project life cycle

You will benefit by:

Experience increased flexibility in your approach to project management
Knowing exactly which types of projects to apply this approach for best results
Having an improved ability to centralize information, track hours and resources more easily, and define clear/measurable job tasks

Audience:

Anyone interested in using new approaches to project management

Schedule Selection(s) Competencies: AM BI CO CS LA AC

Workshop / Seminar:Peer Leadership: Getting Results Without Authority
2015-03-12 08:30 - 12:00 | Administrative Services Building - HRD
No matter what your organizational level, everyone is a leader. This class will help you identify your innate leadership skills and show you how you can use them to be more successful and effective in your daily work life.

You will learn to:

Build confidence in your leadership competencies
Recognize how your personality and leadership styles are similar to or different from styles used by others
Influence decisions made by others when you are not “officially” in charge
Use these improved leadership strategies and techniques in your various roles
Build upon skills and knowledge needed to be an effective leader

You will benefit by:

Developing core leadership skills that transcend your job position or role
Creating a comprehensive plan of action for furthering your development as a leader

Audience:

Anyone interested in developing their leadership abilities

Schedule Selection(s) Competencies: BI CO DO

Exhibition:The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America
2015-03-12 09:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-13 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Note: The Gallery is open M-F 9am-5pm.

The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America is an exhibit and series of programs imagined by visiting artist Shani Peters and sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the Institute for the Humanities (IH). The project will feature a video installation in the IH gallery, an interactive portrait exhibition in GalleryDAAS, and a video screening of the award winning film, Chameleon Street. The screenings will be held at the Institute of the Humanities and at the Charles Wright Museum in Detroit, MI.

About the project:

The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America is a series of projects by artist Shani Peters that will examine the socially acceptable yet complicated concept of Black pride and success. Crowns, symbolic of kings and queens, and conferred on any number of Black popular culture figures from James Brown to Biggie, are also symbols for systems of inequitably distributed resources and injustice. This multi-part project—which includes two exhibitions, a film screening, and a panel discussion—asks the question: what does it mean to acknowledge the need for these forms of pride and success while recognizing their problems? It further complicates the question with a consideration of the similar celebration and pride that comes from attaining degrees of higher education which offer obvious opportunities, yet can alienate students of African descent from their origins. The artist asks, how do Black people register these complicated elements in ways that allow them to move progressively through western power structures towards futures that reflect their right to dignity and self-determination? Sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the Institute for the Humanities.

Lecture / Discussion:SECURITY & PRIVACY ISSUES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
2015-03-12 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Our daily activity is increasingly surveilled, by the NSA, Facebook, Amazon, and, well, every retailer whether we purchase online or in traditional stores. Most (and soon, all) people in the US have a high-definition video camera in their pocket, connected to the Internet (we call them smart phones) so we never know when our images or conversation will be published. But technology advance also provides new tools to protect our privacy. Will information technology lead us to a world with more privacy, or no privacy?

Dr. Mackie-Mason is well known for his pioneering research on the economics of the Internet and digital information. He consults for technology corporations, the National Science Foundation and other government agencies, and testifies on antitrust conduct in technology industries.

Please check the OLLI web site for additional lectures in the 6-week series, “Computers, the Internet, and Big Data: Benefits and Dangers”, Thursdays, February 19-April 2:

http://www.olli-umich.org/programs_activities/lectures/4th_Lecture_Series.pdf

Lecture / Discussion:Nourish YourSELF
2015-03-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Michigan Union - Central Student Government Chambers
Join us for discussions that address the unique needs and experiences of women of color at the University of Michigan in a safe, open space. All sessions include free lunch and are open to students, faculty, and staff.

Our Mission: Nourish YourSELF seeks to empower women of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, health and wellness in an open, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all self-identified women of color at the University of Michigan including undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff.

All session are held from 11:30 AM to 1 PM in the Central Student Government Chambers (3rd floor of the Michigan Union)

Session dates:

January 15th

February 12th

March 12th

April 9th

Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series
2015-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
Speaker: Yukishige Ishibashi, MD, Director, Ishibashi Clinic; Director, Japanese Primary Care Association

Medical efforts immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami concentrated on management of acute illnesses and traumas. However, victims’ needs quickly evolved from emergency care to management of long-term health issues that were complicated by limited supplies and medicines, lack of previous health records, and a shortage of doctors comfortable managing chronic illnesses. Based on his experience leading the Japan Primary Care Association’s response to the disaster, Dr. Yukishige Ishibashi will speak about lessons learned, especially the value of multidisciplinary collaboration for disaster victims and the implications for disaster preparedness. Specifically, he will emphasize continuity, permanency, and respect for the local people and their culture, as well as rights to health care and
differential impacts on vulnerable populations.

Please note that the speaker will give the same talk as part of the U-M Department of Family Medicine's Grand Rounds on March 11 (Wed.) from 8:40 to 9:40 am at Ford Auditorium, Floor 2, University Hospital, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor.

Yukishige Ishibashi, MD is a practicing family physician, national leader in organized family medicine, and community faculty member for multiple institutions in Japan. After the Great East Japan Earthquake in March, 2011, he led the Japan Primary Care Association relief response. He has authored numerous primary care articles and books.

This event is cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the University of Michigan Human Rights Initiative, the University of Michigan International Institute, the University of Michigan Medical School Global REACH, and the University of Michigan Health System Japanese Family Health Program.

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: One-on-one Consultations with University of Detroit School of Law
2015-03-12 12:00 - 16:00 | The Career Center
Shamaila Khan, Admission Counselor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law will be available to meet individually with prospective and admitted students on Thursday, March 12, 2015 from 12:00pm-4:00pm in the Career Center. Please send an e-mail to Ms. Barbara Stockwell-Buslepp at buslepba@udmercy.edu">buslepba@udmercy.edu" target="_blank">buslepba@udmercy.edu> to reserve YOUR appointment. Walk-ins will be accommodated as/if the schedule allows.

Performance:Gifts of Art presents Irish & Original Songs by Kitty Donohoe & Suzanne Camino
2015-03-12 12:10 - 13:00 | University Hospitals
Award winning singer/songwriter Kitty Donohoe is based out of Ann Arbor, but her reputation extends far beyond. She is a nationally known, Emmy-winning songwriter with a strong, clear and evocative voice and a vast repertoire of original songs and familiar tunes. With several acclaimed CDs to her credit, Donohoe’s music spans the oceans expressing both a love of music and language. While playing guitar and cittern, she sings songs with her three-octave voice that draw upon her Irish heritage and her northern US roots. Suzanne Camino is an outstanding accordionist, and together they will perform Irish music in honor of St. Patrick's Day.

Lecture / Discussion:A-maize-ing Alumnae of the University of Michigan
2015-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location - Main Ballroom
Ms Nenadic has been awarded three Endowment for Humanities Grants and taught in the Saline Schools for 30 years.

Social / Informal Gathering:Story Hour
2015-03-12 16:30 - 17:30 | Pierpont Commons - Barnes and Noble
Bring your children to Story Hour for a book reading with free snacks and crafts at the North Campus Barnes and Noble on Thursday, March 12 and Thursday April 9th from 4:30-5:30 pm.

Social / Informal Gathering:Sweetland Minor in Writing Info Session and Showcase
2015-03-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Michigan Union - Pond Room
The Minor in Writing Info Session offers a chance for undergraduates in any major at the University of Michigan to learn more about Sweetland's Minor in Writing. Talk to students currently in the Minor in Writing program and get a feel for the type of work produced in the Gateway and Capstone courses. Pizza, Block M cookies, and refreshments provided.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Campus Involvement

Deadline to apply to the Minor is noon, Monday, March 23rd.

Reception / Open House:Sweetland Minor in Writing Info Session/Showcase
2015-03-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Michigan Union - Pond room
Stop by for the opportunity to see work from current Minor in Writing Students and talk with them about their experiences in the minor on Thursday, March 12th from 5-6:30pm in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union! There will be information about how to apply, staff from Sweetland to answer any questions and FREE pizza and cookies!

Reception / Open House:Sweetland Minor in Writing Info Session/Showcase
2015-03-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Pond Room of the Michigan Union

Reception / Open House:The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America
2015-03-12 17:00 - 19:30 | 202 S. Thayer
The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America is an exhibit and series of programs imagined by visiting artist Shani Peters and sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the Institute for the Humanities (IH). The project will feature a video installation in the IH gallery, an interactive portrait exhibition in GalleryDAAS, and a video screening of the award winning film, Chameleon Street. The screenings will be held at the Institute of the Humanities and at the Charles Wright Museum in Detroit, MI.

About the project:

The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America is a series of projects by artist Shani Peters that will examine the socially acceptable yet complicated concept of Black pride and success. Crowns, symbolic of kings and queens, and conferred on any number of Black popular culture figures from James Brown to Biggie, are also symbols for systems of inequitably distributed resources and injustice. This multi-part project—which includes two exhibitions, a film screening, and a panel discussion—asks the question: what does it mean to acknowledge the need for these forms of pride and success while recognizing their problems? It further complicates the question with a consideration of the similar celebration and pride that comes from attaining degrees of higher education which offer obvious opportunities, yet can alienate students of African descent from their origins. The artist asks, how do Black people register these complicated elements in ways that allow them to move progressively through western power structures towards futures that reflect their right to dignity and self-determination? Sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the Institute for the Humanities.

Performance:Norton Juster Lamstein Lecture in Children's Literature
2015-03-12 17:10 - 18:10 | Museum of Art
Meet beloved author, Norton Juster! Best known for his classic children’s book, The Phantom Tollbooth, Mr. Juster will be available for a lively Q&A program, following a showing of the fascinating documentary, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH: BEYOND EXPECATIONS. The film explores the creation, creators and lasting impact of one of the most universally beloved children’s books of our time. Mr. Juster will shed further light on the creative process and themes in the novel.

Reviews of The Phantom Tollbooth have appeared in many national publications including The New Yorker, which hailed the book as “a classic,” and The New York Times, which said “Norton Juster’s amazing fantasy has something wonderful for anybody old enough to relish the allegorical wisdom of Alice in Wonderland and the pointed whimsy of The Wizard of Oz.” The Phantom Tollbooth has currently sold close to four million copies since its publication almost 50 years ago.

Born in June of 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, Norton Juster was an architect and planner, and is professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College. In addition to The Phantom Tollbooth, he has also penned a number of other highly acclaimed children’s books including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film, and the recent The Hello, Goodbye Window, illustrated by Chris Raschka, which was awarded a Caldecott Medal. The musical adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth, which was first introduced 15 years ago, continues to be performed in schools and theaters nationwide, and was recently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, touring the country for eight months.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from UM alumna Helen Zell(’64). For more information, please see www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp.

Other:Norton Juster: Lamstein Lecture in Children's Literature
2015-03-12 17:10 - 18:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Norton Juster is perhaps best known for his children’s classic, The Phantom Tollbooth. Reviews of the book have appeared in many national publications including The New Yorker, which hailed the book as “a classic”‘ and The New York Times, which said “Norton Juster’s amazing fantasy has something wonderful for anybody old enough to relish the allegorical wisdom of Alice in Wonderland and the pointed whimsy of The Wizard of Oz.” The Phantom Tollbooth has currently sold close to four million copies since its publication almost 50 years ago.

Born in June of 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, Norton Juster was an architect and planner, and is professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College. In addition to The Phantom Tollbooth, he has also penned a number of other highly acclaimed children’s books, including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film, and the recent The Hello, Goodbye Window, illustrated by Chris Raschka, which was awarded a Caldecott Medal. The musical adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth, which was first introduced 15 years ago, continues to be performed in schools and theaters nationwide, and was recently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, touring the country for eight months.

Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Casey Reas
2015-03-12 17:10 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location
Casey Reas writes software to explore conditional systems as art. Using emergent networks and layered instructions, he has created a unique area of visual experience that builds upon concrete art, conceptual art, experimental animation, and drawing. In 2001, with Ben Fry, he initiated Processing, an open source programming language and environment created for visual artists. While dynamic, generative software remains his core medium, work in variable media including prints, objects, installations, and performances materialize from his visual systems. Reas has exhibited, screened, and performed his work internationally in galleries and museums around the world including the Whitney, bitforms gallery, Ars Electronica and Transmediale.

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: MBTI Communication Style Workshop
2015-03-12 17:30 - 19:00
This is a closed group MBTI activity for Newnan's Consulting Advisory Board

Lecture / Discussion:Mapping Detroit: Panel Discussion and Book Launch
2015-03-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Art & Architecture Auditorium
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Mapping Detroit.

One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristics—and most pressing dilemmas—is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors Taubman College's urban planning professor June Manning Thomas and Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) architecture professor Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how Detroit moved from frontier fort to thriving industrial metropolis to today’s high-vacancy city. With contributors ranging from a map archivist and a historian to architects, urban designers, and urban planners, Mapping Detroit brings a unique perspective to the historical causes, contemporary effects, and potential future of Detroit’s transformed landscape.

To show how Detroit arrived in its present condition, contributors in part 1, Evolving Detroit: Past to Present, trace the city’s beginnings as an agricultural, military, and trade outpost and map both its depopulation and attempts at redevelopment. In part 2, Portions of the City, contributors delve into particular land-related systems and neighborhood characteristics that encouraged modern social and economic changes. Part 2 continues by offering case studies of two city neighborhoods—the Brightmoor area and Southwest Detroit—that are struggling to adapt to changing landscapes. In part 3, Understanding Contemporary Space and Potential, contributors consider both the city’s ecological assets and its sociological fragmentation to add dimension to the current understanding of its emptiness. The volume’s epilogue offers a synopsis of the major points of the 2012 Detroit Future City report, a strategic blueprint for future land use.

Mapping Detroit explores not only what happens when a large city loses its main industrial purpose and a major portion of its population but also what future might result from such upheaval. Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit’s history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.

Book launch and panel discussion: March 12, 2015
Panel time: 6-7:30 p.m., with reception to follow in first floor Street gallery
Book will be available for sale following the panel

Join Professors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering, along with chapter authors, who include architecture, urban design and urban planning faculty, to discuss issues raised in the book, followed by a panel discussion and question and answer session.

Participating panelists include:
María Arquero de Alarcón, Taubman College assistant professor of architecture and urban planning and design
Henco Bekkering (co-editor), Delft University of Technology professor emeritus of urban design at the School of Architecture
Robert Fishman, Taubman College professor in architecture and urban planning
Lars Graebner, Taubman College assistant professor of practice in architecture
Joe Grengs, Taubman College associate professor of urban planning
June Thomas (co-editor), Ph.D., FAICP, Taubman College centennial professor of urban planning

For more about the book's editors:
June Manning Thomas, Ph.D., FAICP, is Centennial Professor in the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. She is the author of several books including Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 2013) and co-editor with Margaret Dewar of The City after Abandonment. She is also the president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2013-2015.
Henco Bekkering has been a practitioner in urban design and planning in the Netherlands for more than thirty years and is a professor emeritus of urban design at the School of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. He has been a visiting professor at Taubman College, University of Michigan, and at the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

Contributors Include:
Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Henco Bekkering, Yanjia Liu, June Manning Thomas, Robert Fishman, Joe Grengs, Maria Arquero de Alarcon, Larissa Larsen, Margaret Dewar, Robert Linn (MUP '11), Lars Graebner, Toni L. Griffin

About the book (available March 2015): http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/mapping-detroit

Event generously Co-sponsored by Wayne State University Press

Other:NCWA National Championships
2015-03-12 18:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-13 00:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-14 00:00 - 17:00 | Austin, Texas
National Championships in Austin, Texas

Lecture / Discussion:25th Belin Lecture: The Jewish Romance with the Modern City: Loving, Leaving, and Reforming
2015-03-12 18:30 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
Reception to be held prior to lecture at 6:30 PM, Lecture to begin at 7:00 PM

25th Annual Belin Lecture in American Jewish Public Affairs

In modern times, Jews emerged as the consummate urban dwellers. Urbanism imprinted itself upon Jewish political, cultural, economic, and spiritual life, just as Jews imprinted themselves on city space. What happened, then, to cities and to Jews, when Jews joined the droves of Americans who left urban space after World War II? Drawing from her extensive research on Detroit, Lila Corwin Berman suggests that contrary to the history of white flight, the story of Jewish migration away from cities is not one of urban disinvestment. As Jews moved away from cities, they remained invested, even if ambivalently, in urban life. American Jews’ enduring urbanism reflected their historical entanglement with modern urban formation. In recent years, Jews have returned to city spaces once considered inhospitable to Jewish life, helping to set in motion new political and economic structures that are remaking urban life as we know it.

Meeting:Christian Challenge Meeting
2015-03-12 19:00 - 21:30 | Michigan League
Weekly meeting in which we spend time in worship, Bible study, fellowship and having fun.

Other:Play and the brain
2015-03-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Chambers Room
We will be exploring what is happening when we play, why we should do it, and then applying it! Cranium, Uno, Scattegories and more, join us for food and fun! In the Chambers room in the Michigan Union.

Performance:Chatham County Line
2015-03-12 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
The Yep Roc label's Chatham County Line is a Raleigh, North Carolina quartet that mixes traditional, gather-round-the-microphone bluegrass with a love for the tradition-extending acoustic music of John Hartford and The Band. They're creating some of the freshest original songs in bluegrass music right now, and multi-instrumentalist John Teer can play just about anything with strings. Chatham County Line broke through in 2010 with their album, "Wildwood," which earned raves like this one from the All Music Guide: "Not many bands bring together bluegrass' past and present the way Chatham County Line do, and fewer still can do it this well." They come to Michigan with a new release, "Tightrope."

Meeting:National Pan-Hellenic Council Meeting
2015-03-12 20:00 - 21:00 | Michigan Union - 2015B
Meeting of NPHC Exec board and chapter reps.

Performance:RC Players presents Edward Albee's "The Goat; or Who is Sylvia?"
2015-03-12 20:30 - 22:30, 2015-03-13 20:00 - 22:00, 2015-03-14 20:00 - 22:00 | East Quadrangle - Keene Theater
Residential College Players is an independent theater group of students who direct, stage, and often write their own productions.

Sporting Event:John Jackson Team Race
2015-03-13 09:00 - 23:59, 2015-03-14 00:00 - 23:59 | Georgetown University
Team Race in Georgetown

Workshop / Seminar:When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough:
2015-03-13 09:00 - 12:00 | Administrative Services Building - HRD
We all want to excel at our jobs, but obsessing on perfectionism will sap your energy and actually lower your productivity. In this session, you will acquire tools and strategies to confront and combat perfectionism as well as gain an understanding of the motivation behind perfectionist behavior.

You will learn to:

Identify the various signs and symptoms of perfectionism and how they impact your work life
Intervene and redirect behaviors that tend to get in the way of positive and productive interactions
Flex your behavior style, anticipating the behaviors of others who struggle with perfectionism for more positive, win-win interactions
Find ways to comfortably express your wants and needs more assertively
Use strategies to interrupt the thinking that causes perfectionism
Set goals of reasonable excellence

You will benefit by:

Increasing your overall productivity;
Recognizing how anger, worry and perfectionism are intertwined
Increasing your overall self-esteem and self-worth
Accepting imperfection, criticism and negative feedback

Audience:

Anyone who feels that the obsession for perfectionism is lowering their productivity

Note: Participants will receive a copy of the book: When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism by Martin Antony, PhD and Richard Swenson, MD

Schedule Selection(s) Competencies: BI CO DO

Conference / Symposium:The Luminous Mind
2015-03-13 09:30 - 17:00 | Angell Hall - 3222
This symposium is in memory of Patsy Yaeger, Henry Simmons Fireze Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies, who passed away July 25th, 2014. There will be three session, with three speakers each. Speakers will include present and past graduate students, colleagues, and invited professors from other universities. This event is open to the public.

Presented in collaboration with the Department of English Language and Literature.

Workshop / Seminar:$tart $mart Salary Negotiation
2015-03-13 10:00 - 13:30 | Lane Hall - Lane Hall Seminar Room 2239
The $tart $mart Negotiation Workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully negotiate a professional salary and benefit package.

Learn what the gender wage gap means to you
Find out what your salary & benefits should be
Practice salary negotiation skill-building exercises

This program is co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor branch of the American Association of University Women, the Center for the Education of Women, and the Women’s Studies Department.

Careers / Jobs:Career Fair Day: Quicken Loans Immersion
2015-03-13 10:00 - 15:00 | Ann Arbor
Quicken Loans Immersion
Event Day: Quicken Loans Immersion
Event Type: Career Fair
Attendee Type: Student

Careers / Jobs:Career Fair Day: Shinola Immersion
2015-03-13 10:00 - 15:00 | Detroit Metro Area
Shinola Immersion
Event Day: Shinola Immersion
Event Type: Career Fair
Attendee Type: Student

Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series
2015-03-13 10:00 - 11:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
Speaker: Vinay Gidwani, Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota

Vinay Gidwani navigates an uneven ideoscape consisting of Marxist geography, neoclassical economics, agrarian studies, and environmental science to arrive at his present home in Geography and the Institute of Global Studies. Close engagement with disparate intellectual traditions, which often disagree on issues of epistemology and politics, has been a source of creative tension. Gidwani’s approach to theory and praxis reflects this. Although he studies issues of work, poverty, livelihoods, and agroecological change within the Indian context, his scholarship is defined by research problematics rather than by regional affiliation. He draws liberally on Africanist, Latin American, and Southeast Asian scholarship for insights.

Workshop / Seminar:Fulbright Information Session
2015-03-13 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1644
A Fulbright Program Advisor will discuss the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the U-M campus application process. All U-M students, alumni, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend. Laptops are welcome and encouraged.

Lecture / Discussion:War versus Holy War: The Literature of a Sumatran Jihad
2015-03-13 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
Speaker: James Siegel, Cornell University

In 1873 Dutch forces invaded the Sultanate of Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra. This set off fierce opposition that some historians claim lasted until the Japanese drove out the Dutch. Most historians however say that the war was over by 1914. By that date the sultan had been deposed and died, his heir was banished, the local chiefs who had taken over the war had been killed or put down, the religious scholars who succeeded them were killed or put down. The end of organized opposition did not end the holy war, however. Individuals continued to attack infidels. The transmission of the holy war no longer depended on its leadership since there was none. In its place was an ‘epic’ of the war, blamed by the Dutch for the continuing attacks against them. The lecture will examine the formal characteristics of this long verse to show how it sustained a further 25 years of lethal aggression by those defeated in war as we understand it.

Exercise / Fitness:Feel Good Friday: Fitness & Nutritional Workshop
2015-03-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center
Don't miss out on this week's Feel Good Friday*! We will be having a Fitness & Nutritional Workshop lead by Porshia Thomas from Body Allure Fitness!Come enjoy our free smoothie bar and enter our 4-Week Fitness Challenge! Porshia will also conduct proper exercise demonstrations, fitness assessments, and a nutritional food presentation. *Feel Good Fridays are a weekly occurrence at Trotter Multicultural Center. FGF are a part of our Health and Wellness initiative as we try to create an informative space for the university community. Not only do we provide free food and engaging activities, but we generate a welcoming social environment.

Meeting:Martha Cook Board of Governors
2015-03-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Martha Cook Residence - Conference Room
Monthly meeting at Martha Cook Building

Careers / Jobs:Workshop: Emerging Wolverines: First-year Student Group
2015-03-13 14:00 - 15:00 | The Career Center
Emerging Wolverines is an interactive 4 week long group experience for first year students who want to:

* Learn about themselves in a small group environment
* Explore career and campus opportunities, using MBTI (personality assessment tool) theory
* Gain clarity about your present and future goals

To participate, apply online here! (Deadline 1/26)

WEBSITE: www.careercenter.umich.edu

Lecture / Discussion:Ancient Rome in Silent Cinema - Maria Wyke University College London (2015 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series)
2015-03-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Angell Hall - Aud D

Lecture / Discussion:Vain Labor (?): Things, Strings, and the Human Condition in the Art of Giovanni Baleison
2015-03-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Tappan Hall - 180
Achim Timmermann is associate professor of history of art the the University of Michigan. His scholarly interests include Gothic architecture, the visual culture of the eucharist, and the representation of Christian-Jewish relationships in medieval art. Current research focuses on late medieval didactic and moralizing imagery, and the role of public images and monuments in the performance of late medieval civic rituals (including the punishment of criminals). He is currently working on two book projects: Representation and Redemption:The Public Monument in the Later Middle Ages and Gothique Tropique:Architecture in Colonial Spain and Portugal, c. 1450-1550.

Meeting:Biological Software Weekly Meeting
2015-03-13 17:00 - 21:00 | Undergraduate Science Building - 4163
If you're interested in participating in a competition, learning computer programming, and/or creating genetic research software tools, come join us at our weekly meetings in the USB.

Presentation:Dedication & Unveiling Ceremony of the Michigan Flag Flown on Orion EFT-1
2015-03-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
On December 5th, 2014, NASA and Lockheed Martin flew the first test flight of the next generation human deep space exploration spacecraft. Aboard Orion’s EFT-1 and United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy was a customized University of Michigan flag put on by Alumnus, Corey Brooker.

At 5PM on March 13th, Mr. Brooker will share the background of Orion and its mission, EFT-1’s mission, and what it means to have Michigan’s Engineers on this project. An open Q&A session will follow his presentation.

Please join CoE, Aero Dept, faculty, students and alumni as we unveil the flag inside FXB.

A reception will take place directly following Mr. Brooker's presentation in the Boeing Lecture Hall.

Attendees must RSVP at engin.umich.edu/aero by Monday, March 2nd, 2015.

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About the presenter
Corey G. Brooker, Orion MPCV Systems and Launch Vehicle Integration
Civil Space Line of Business – Human Spaceflight
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (1/1996 to 11/2003 and 7/2007 to Current)

Corey Brooker is currently supporting the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) within the Civil Space (CS) Line of Business. As a member of the Systems Analysis and Launch Vehicle Integration team, Corey leads the Technical Integration between MPCV and Space Launch System in addition to the Delta IV Heavy for the Exploration Flight Test-1. He also serves a horizontal integrator between Systems Analysis and Orion’s Integrated Product Teams (IPTs). Corey served on the proposal team tasked with leading the technical proposal effort for an alternate test booster and helps to manage the launch vehicle integration efforts that have delivered results to the NASA Customer.
During the past 7+ years on Project Orion he has been tasked with leading the charge on some of Orion’s top risks working as the Technical Lead for Orion on the Ares I First Stage Thrust Oscillation issue. He also been assigned the lead on vibroacoustics issues (Liftoff and Launch Abort) for Orion. He has also lead the effort and developed the process for mitigating Orion environments at the component level by establishing a Environments Definition Working Group forum. Both of these tasks have provided Corey the mechanism for shaping Orion’s future.

Prior to Orion, Corey spent 12 years in the launch vehicle business. The first 8 years were with Lockheed Martin, taking the Atlas V rocket from concept to recurring as a Loads & Dynamics Engineer. Prior to his departure from Lockheed Martin he completed his LM21 Green Belt training reducing the Atlas Load Cycle time from 8 months to 2 months. Corey spent approximately 4 years working for QinitiQ North America (formerly Analex Corporation) supporting the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), doing independent validation and verification as the lead Loads & Dynamics Engineer on Delta IV launch vehicles, reviewer of Atlas V missions and Day of Launch support.
Outside of his career experiences, Corey is currently a board member of the University of Michigan’s Aerospace Department, and co-Chair of the Colorado Leadership Campaign Council. The past Chair of the College of Engineering Alumni Board at the University of Michigan. He has also volunteered his services for the past 9 years as a youth soccer coach.

Corey holds a Bachelor’s (1994) and Master’s Degree (1995) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Reception / Open House:Future Cycles Reception
2015-03-13 17:00 - 20:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
Join us for a reception to celebrate the Future Cycles on display. They're hybrid vehicles that combine the weather protection, carrying capacity and visibility of a car with the low energy usage of a bicycle to create a vehicle that is half car, half bicycle.

Built by Cameron Van Dyke, a graduate student at the University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design, Future Cycles were created as part of his master's thesis. They recently appeared at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

Exhibition:MFA Thesis Show Openings at Stamps School of Art & Design
2015-03-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Slusser Gallery, Work Gallery, Duderstadt Center Gallery
Sculptures, a honey tasting, and a "bee sleeping" house. A mysterious blue desk in a dark room with a key and address on top. Gigantic feathered arrows hanging in mid-air. Hybrid vehicles created from bicycles. And models, drawings, and videos share the design-process of a playground created by 1st graders. These are just tastes of what awaits you at the Stamps School of Art & Design 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition -- the culmination of three years of interdisciplinary artwork and research.

Opening Receptions are on Friday March 13th from 5-7pm.

Conference / Symposium:Urban Development Now
2015-03-13 17:00 - 19:45, 2015-03-14 08:30 - 13:30 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Presents Urban Development Now.

The 2nd Annual Urban Development Now symposium explores the relationship between urban development and capital, and the twin roles of innovative design and innovative finance in transforming urban neighborhoods into thriving communities. Architectural and urban design serve private development and the public good; innovative financing models sync the capital markets with private and public demand not only for individual signature buildings but also for public infrastructure and transport. What is the appropriate level of public investment in private development? What are the most critical infrastructure needs occurring alongside mega-urban developments? How do resources flow from profitable development to partially subsidized development such as affordable housing, public space and cultural institutions? Leaders in real estate and finance will discuss their current development projects in Miami Beach and the Miami Design District, Olympic Park in London, Roosevelt Island and other boroughs in New York. Keynote lectures by Jeanne Gang and Craig Robins will frame two panel discussions and presentations on 1) Capitalizing on Space - focused on long-term imagination in conceptualizing urban precincts, and 2) Leveraging Typology and Mixed-Use - focused on linking singular developments to existing urban fabrics.

SCHEDULE

Friday, March 13, 2015
University of Michigan Museum of Art

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Reception

6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Jeanne Gang, Founder / Principal, Studio Gang Architects
Helmut Stern Auditorium

Saturday, March 14, 2015
University of Michigan Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium

8:30 am REGISTRATION / LIGHT BREAKFAST (Forum)

9:00 am OPENING REMARKS: Taubman College Dean Monica Ponce de Leon

9:05 am INTRODUCTION: Taubman College Associate Dean Milton S. F. Curry

9:15 am KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Craig Robins, CEO / President, Dacra; Principal, Design Miami

10:00am CAPITALIZING ON SPACE
MODERATOR: Mitch McEwen, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Margaret Anadu, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Urban Investment Group
Kathryn Firth, Chief of Design, London Legacy Development Corp./Olympic Park
Craig Robins, CEO, Dacra; Principal, Design Miami

11:40 am LEVERAGING TYPOLOGY AND MIXED-USE
MODERATOR: McLain Clutter, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Arianna Sacks Rosenberg, Project Manager, The Hudson Companies Inc. New York
Carlos Rosso, President, Condominium Development Division, The Related Group

1:30 pm NETWORKING LUNCH Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice, advancing global engagement, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report), Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Urban Planning, Master of Urban Design, and PhD programs.

Performance:Masters Recital: Francisco Bedoy, tenor
2015-03-13 17:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
PROGRAM: Handel - Selections from Semele; Lalo - Puisqui’ici bas toute âme; L’aube naît; Dieu qui sourit; Brahms - Am Sonntag; Sonntag; Botschaft; O liebliche Wangen; Guastavino - Cuatro canciones Argentinas; Soutullo - Bella enamorada from El último romántico.

Film Screening:Fourth Annual Sankofa Film Series
2015-03-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Detroit Center
The University of Michigan Detroit Center is proud to present the fourth annual Sankofa Film Series, beginning Friday, February 20 at 6 p.m.

Best known for its inspirational and thought-provoking documentaries, the 2015 Sankofa Film Series will showcase six extraordinary films featuring Alice Walker, Raz Baaba Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou.

All films begin at 6 p.m. (end times vary) and include complimentary admission, parking and light refreshments for all guests. Following each screening, a guest speaker will lead a brief discussion on the selected documentary.

For more information about this event, please contact the Detroit Center: (313) 593-3584 or detroitcenter@umich.edu

SANKOFA FILM SERIES SCHEDULE

Friday, February 20, 2015
Films:
- Alice Walker: A Stitch in Time
- Alice Walker: Everyday Use
Time: 6-8:30 p.m.
Guest Speaker(s): Textile Artist, Carole Harris and Quilters Hilda Vest, Pat Millender

Friday, March 13, 2015
Film: Raz Baaba Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts: Portraits of a Revolutionary Artist
Time: 6-9 p.m.

Friday, April 24, 2015
Films:
- Langston Hughes: His Life and Times
- Langston Hughes: Salvation
Time: 6-8:30 p.m.
Guest Speaker(s): Writer, Abba Elethea (James W. Thompson)

Friday, May 15, 2015
Film: Maya Angelou: Creativity with Bill Moyers
Time: 6-8:30 p.m.

ABOUT
Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet. Born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker worked as a teacher, lecturer and social worker throughout her career. She took part in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, which inspired her first collection of poetry, “Once,” which was published in 1968. Walker also won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, "The Color Purple.”

Raz Baaba Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts is one of America’s most inspirational revolutionary artists and activists. A Detroit native born in 1941, he was a prominent force in the Black Labor Movement of the 1960s. Pitts, a founding member and former President of the Michigan chapter of the National Conference of Artists, has been voted Metro Times Artist of the Year. He has also been an Artist in Residence for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form known as "jazz poetry." He was also a pioneer in the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s. He published his first poem in 1921, and his first book of poetry, “The Weary Blues,” in 1926. He went on to write numerous works of poetry, plays and books, including his first published novel, “Not Without Laughter,” in 1929. Outside of his literary work, Hughes also wrote a popular column for the Chicago Defender.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an author, poet and civil rights activist. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Angelou is best known for her 1969 memoir, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'" the first non-fiction best seller by an African-American woman. In 1971, she published "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die," a collection of poetry that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 1993, she recited one of her most famous poems, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's first inauguration. Angelou received several honors throughout her life, including two NAACP Image Awards for outstanding literary work. As an activist, Angelou was viewed as a respected spokesperson for African American and women's rights.

Lecture / Discussion:LECTURE: JEANNE GANG
2015-03-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Jeanne Gang.

Visionary architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago-based collective of architects, designers, and thinkers whose projects confront pressing contemporary issues. Driven by curiosity, intelligence, and radical creativity, Jeanne has produced some of today’s most innovative and award-winning architecture. The transformative potential of her work is exemplified by such recent projects as the Aqua Tower (named the 2009 Emporis Skyscraper of the Year), Northerly Island framework plan, Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, and Columbia College Chicago’s Media Production Center.

Jeanne seeks to answer questions that lie locally (site, culture, people) and resound globally (density, climate, sustainability) through her architecture. Her designs are rooted in both architectural form and idea-driven content to make a compelling whole, and she often arrives at design solutions through investigations and collaborations across disciplines.

Jeanne’s work has been honored and exhibited widely, most notably at the International Venice Biennale, MoMA, the National Building Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. A distinguished graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she has taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and IIT, where her studios have focused on cities, ecologies, materials, and technologies. Reveal, her first volume on Studio Gang’s work and working process, was released in 2011 from Princeton Architectural Press.

Jeanne Gang’s lecture will serve as the kick off for the 2nd Annual Urban Development Now Symposium, which will focus on the changing economic and development landscape of cities, and the distinct role of the capital markets in realizing large-scale urban projects.

Refreshments will be served in the UMMA Forum from 5:30 until 6pm.

Please note: Gang’s lecture will serve as the kick off for the 2nd Annual Urban Development Now Symposium, which will focus on the changing economic and development landscape of cities, and the distinct role of the capital markets in realizing large-scale urban projects. 5:00 pm reception at the UMMA Forum. The symposium will continue on Saturday, March 14 with panel conversations and a networking lunch.

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice, advancing global engagement, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report), Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Urban Planning, Master of Urban Design, and PhD programs.

Lecture / Discussion:Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture
2015-03-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
Speaker: Taner Akcam, Kaloosdian/Mugar Professor of History, Clark University

When Michael Hagopian made his first classic acclaimed documentary on the Armenian genocide in 1975, which won him two Emmys, he called it, “the forgotten Genocide.” Decades have passed since then and hundreds of publications in a variety of languages have been printed on the subject. Far from a “forgotten Genocide,” today the Armenian genocide holds an important place within the field of Genocide studies.

This talk will address the problems that are endemic to the field of Armenian genocide studies. What challenges do we face? How can we continue to develop an academically rigorous field amidst a toxic and politicized environment resulting from a policy of denial by the Turkish state? Akcam will delineate the different stages that Armenian genocide studies has traversed as he evaluates the state of field today.

The Dr. Berj Haidostian Annual Distinguished lectureship was established by the family of the late Dr. Berj Haidostian, a prominent and devoted physician in Michigan; the annual lecturer is selected jointly by the Armenian studies faculty and the Haidostian family from among internationally recognized experts on Armenia and Armenians. The Haidostian family has a long and continuing relationship with the University and the Armenian Studies Program.

Film Screening:M-Flicks presents: The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay - Part 1
2015-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Natural Science Auditorium
M-Flicks will be providing a free screening of The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay - Part 1 this Friday, March 13 at 7:00 pm in the Natural Science Auditorium.

Fair / Festival:Sister Africa
2015-03-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Michigan Theater
Sister Africa will be the 17th annual culture show of the African Student Association. The show will be an exhibition of cultures from all over Africa. From songs in different African languages to the performance of traditional dances through the use of masquerades, the show will be a celebration of Africa’s diversity, beauty and its influence on the rest of the world. The goal of Sister Africa is to use art to show Africa’s impact on cultures from around the world. We hope that people leave the show with more of an understanding and appreciation for Africa and a renewed hope for unification of its descendants from around the world. Foxy P, a Nigerian comedian and YouTube star, will host the show. This year, several fashion designers from all over the United States of America are allowing Sister Africa’s models to showcase their work. In addition, we will be having dance and musical performances from not only African entertainers but also from those inspired by the African culture like Latin@(s), Caribbean and many more. Any student at the University of Michigan will be able to participate and also attend the event.

Social / Informal Gathering:Sister Africa
2015-03-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Off Campus Location

Performance:Mustard's Retreat
2015-03-13 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
From their start at an open mike at the Ark in the summer of 1974, this award-winning duo consisting of David Tamulevich and Michael Hough has become a perennial favorite, not only here in southeastern Michigan but all over the folk singer-songwriter circuit. Their songwriting and recordings have received consistently high praise, and their live performances even more so. Their songs are touching, humorous, insightful, and intelligent, and their music is always revealing something new‑lately they've become a key presence in the consistently high-quality local songwriting collective the Yellow Room Gang. Mustard's Retreat recently toured with Peter Yarrow and released a new album, "A Good Place to Be." They've celebrated their 40th anniversary as a duo, and they're still creating music anew!

Performance:Symphony Band
2015-03-13 20:00 | Hill Auditorium
Pre-concert conversation with William Bolcom, Carter Pann, and Michael Haithcock at 7:15PM in the Lower Lobby.

Michael Haithcock, conductor; Eric LaPrade, graduate conductor; Joseph Gascho, harpsichord.

Famous works serve as source material for the inventive composers represented as they re-state and re-harmonize music of previous eras. From the Renaissance dances of Gervaise to timeless themes of Bach, Brahms, and Chopin, familiar music is heard through this eclectic program. Charles Ives’s 1891 setting of a tune well known “on both sides of the pond” perfectly captures the creativity inherent in the use of these musical quotations.

PROGRAM: Poulenc- Suite Francaise, Joseph Gascho, harpsichord; Maslanka- Traveler, Eric LaPrade, conductor; Bolcom- Circus Overture (premiere performance-band version); Pann- Symphony: My Brother’s Brain; Ives- Variations on America

Social / Informal Gathering:UMix Presents: March Mayhem
2015-03-13 22:00 - 2015-03-14 02:00 | Michigan Union
UMix is back with March Mayhem on Friday, March 13 from 10pm to 2am in the Michigan Union! Play in our Basketball Sports arena, compete on the Basketball Challenge Bungee Run, and face off in the Basketball shootout challenge. We will show The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, and we'll have our Tailgate Buffet with hotdogs, hamburgers, chips and cookies at 10:30pm AND at Midnight!

Social / Informal Gathering:Winter UMix Dates 2015
2015-03-13 22:00 - 2015-03-14 02:00 | Michigan Union
UMix, Michigan's Premier Friday Night program, is 10pm - 2am in the Michigan Union with our Free Midnight buffet and plenty of activities! Please check the Center for Campus Involvement website for up to date information at

Community Service:Brunch Break!
2015-03-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Join CCI for Brunch Break, a morning of engaging service opportunities and delicious food! On Saturday March 14 from 9am - Noon, we'll be at Pierpont Commons and Palmer Commons with free brunch AND various opportunities for students to engage in an on-site service project. Come learn about different ways you can give back to your community! Service opportunities include:

Making Fleece Blankets for Motts Children's Hospital
Decorating brown bags for Kid's Food Basket
Writing a letter to a person serving in the armed forces for Letters for Troops
And more!

See you there!

Other:Brunch Break!
2015-03-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Pierpont Commons
Join CCI for Brunch Break, a morning of engaging service opportunities and delicious food! On Saturday March 14 from 9am - Noon, we'll be at Pierpont Commons and Palmer Commons with free brunch AND various opportunities for students to engage in an on-site service project. Come learn about different ways you can give back to your community! Service opportunities include:Making Fleece Blankets for Motts Children's HospitalDecorating brown bags for Kid's Food BasketWriting a letter to a person serving in the armed forces for Letters for TroopsAnd more!See you there!

Workshop / Seminar:Teaching about Genocide: Approaches and Challenges
2015-03-14 09:00 - 18:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room
In recent years the study of "comparative genocide" has developed into its own field of inquiry. Rather than evaluating various genocides to determine which one was the worse or judge the degree of horrors based on a pornography of pain, comparative genocide studies examines modern genocides through larger themes such as modernity, memory, representations, denial, and reconciliation to study and delineate common conditions that lead to genocide.

While there are a number of organizations, such as Facing History Within Ourselves and the "Genocide Education Project," their teaching, curriculums, and resources available to educators are mainly geared toward high school students. Facing History only recently has begun to reach out to college level educators. Post-high school education projects in their methodologies of teaching "comparative genocide" often adhere to archetypical framing (i.e., teaching one genocide in detail and then bringing in cases to compare). The Genocide and Human Rights University Program of the Zoryan Institute in Toronto, for example, teaches the Armenian case in its details and then invites comparatives of other cases after students have mastered the history of the Armenian case.

The recent shift in the study of genocide explores massacres, mass atrocities, ethnic cleansing together with humanitarian interventions and human rights studies. This is a welcome development, but also presents us with a number of problems, from the selection of materials for such course, the framing, the student’s emotive responses, and most importantly how to teach thematically without losing historical depth and specificity.

This one-day workshop will invite an interdisciplinary conversation as to methodologies of teaching genocide to address various difficulties that scholars encounter in teaching beyond the paradigmatic or archetype frame.

Organizer: Melanie Tanielian, assistant professor of history, U-M

Sporting Event:Michigan Madness Compeition
2015-03-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Ypsilanti, MI
At Eastern Michigan University on Saturday, March 14th.

Conference / Symposium:Digital Humanities and the Futures of Japanese Studies
2015-03-14 10:30 - 16:10 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery
The digitization of primary materials and the enhancement of newly digitized modes of communication have, in important ways, shrunk the scholarly world making readily accessible objects of study and forms of collaboration formerly hampered by distance of archives and the difficulties of long-distance collaborative enterprise. At the same time, the new field of Digital Humanities (DH) has often failed to live up to what seems to be its seemingly inherent promise of global reach. As many in the DH community have pointed out, the field remains dominated by work within the Anglo-American geographies and linguistic fields.

The goal of this symposium and workshop is to help to fulfill its global promise by creating an intellectual space for a series of dialogues between scholars, librarians, and archivists about how DH can be done by, and what DH means for, scholars working in area studies disciplines and, in turn, how this new field can shape the futures of Japanese studies in the twenty-first century.

No registration is required to attend this event, but lunch will be served only to those who register by Friday, March 6.

Recreational / Games:SWEET XIX: A Super Smash Bros. Melee Tournament
2015-03-14 11:00 - 23:00 | Michigan Union
A full day of Melee, can't get better than that! Open to players of all ages, skill levels, and backgrounds.Please join the Facebook event for more information:https://www.facebook.com/events/1419370088360106

Workshop / Seminar:Financial Freedom
2015-03-14 11:30 - 14:00 | Palmer Commons: Forum Hall
The RISE Program is presenting a Financial Freedom event that will be available for all University of Michigan students to attend. This event will teach students the importance of having financial literacy. In order to ensure that students are receiving the proper knowledge we are inviting guest speaker David Jones, who specializes in finances, to show our students how to save, manage and invest their money. We believe finance issues are very common among college students who struggle with finding ways to manage their finances and comfortably enjoy the excitement of college. During this event students will receive notes and tips on how to become financially stable.

Sporting Event:University of Michigan Saline Tournament
2015-03-14 12:00 - 23:59 | Saline High School
Saline High school

Presentation:Planetarium: Expanded View
2015-03-14 12:30 - 13:15 | Ruthven Museums Building
This look at telescopes shows us the wide variety of devices that are used by astronomers to explore various aspects of deep space. Includes a brief star talk.

Other:Grand Valley State Match
2015-03-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Mitchell Field
Match vs. GVSU

Film Screening:Korean Cinema NOW
2015-03-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
My Brilliant Life (Dugeun Dugeun Nae Insaeng; lit. "My Palpitating Life") is a 2014 South Korean drama film starring Kang Dong-won, Song Hye-kyo and Jo Sung-mok. It is co-written and directed by E J-yong based on the 2011 novel My Palpitating Life by Kim Aeran

Immature and clumsy Dae-soo and beautiful but foul-mouthed Mi-ra were both seventeen-year-old teenagers when Mi-ra became pregnant. Their son Ah-reum was born, but he was diagnosed with the extremely rare genetic disorder progeria, which makes its recipient age prematurely and rapidly. Years later, Ah-reum is now seventeen himself, but his body is that of an eighty-year-old man. Sensing that he doesn't have much time left, Ah-reum writes a story about how his young parents fell in love and how he came to be, hoping to give it as a gift to them on his eighteenth birthday.

2014 | 117 Minutes | E J-yong

Performance:Senior Recital: Paul Brumfield, tenor
2015-03-14 14:00 | Off Campus Location
PROGRAM: Schubert - Selections from Schwanengesang, Lieder nach Heinrich Heine; Britten - Look thru the port from Billy Budd; Ives - The side show & Two little flowers; Niles - The gambler’s wife (By-Low); Gambler, don’t you lose your place & I wonder as I wander; Tosti - Malinconia; Poulenc - Voyage à Paris; Fauré - Le secret & Adieu; Offenbach - Allez jeunes filles from La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein.

Sporting Event:Run this campus circuit edition
2015-03-14 15:00 - 16:30 | Trotter multicultural center- first floor lounge
Come engage in our first fitness event which will be a circuit edition held indoors. Come network and then workout in a team oriented environment. It's free, just pay us in sweat!

Performance:Student Recital: Emily Clarkson, harp
2015-03-14 15:00 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
PROGRAM: Loeillet - Toccata; Parish-Alvars - Serenade, op. 83; Hindemith - Sonata for Harp; Mozart - Concerto in C Major for Flute and Harp; Salzedo - Scintillation.

Ceremony / Service:White Moon Holiday
2015-03-14 16:00 - 19:00 | Michigan Union
Come and explore Mongolian Culture.We will celebrate Mongolian Traditional Holiday-White Moon with traditional music, dance, games and more

Performance:First Dissertation Recital: Caroline Steiger, horn
2015-03-14 17:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditoirum
PROGRAM: Bassett - Sonata for Horn and Piano; Carter - Retracing II; Schmitt - Lied et Scherzo, op. 54; Saint-Saëns - Romance in E Major, op. 67; Berkeley - Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Piano, op. 90.

Performance:Senior Recital: Clifton K. Chan, clarinet
2015-03-14 17:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Arnold - Sonatina for Clarinet & Pianoforte, op. 29; Harvey - Selections From Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin; von Weber - Grand duo concertant in E-flat Major, op. 48; Brahms - Trio in A Minor, op. 114.

Performance:Senior Recital: Grace Elizabeth Jackson, soprano
2015-03-14 17:30 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
PROGRAM: Britten - Dear Harp of My Country; Last Rose of Summer; Bartók - Four Hungarian Folk Song Settings; Traditional - San Shi Li Pu; Eckstine - I Want to Talk About You; Carmichael - Skylark; Levant - Blame it on My Youth; Taylor - Something In the Way She Moves.

Film Screening:Movie Screening - The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies
2015-03-14 18:30 - 21:30 | Angell Hall - Auditorium B
Join us for a special screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies on Saturday, March 14th in Angell Hall, Auditorium B! Popcorn and snacks will be served. Film begins at 7:00pm and doors open at 6:30pm.

Performance:Fred Eaglesmith
2015-03-14 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Fred Eaglesmith is Ontario's roots-country original! There are other songwriters who populate their creations with small-time crooks, small-town loners, and working-class heroes. But Fred Eaglesmith's songs stand out for their edge of desperation and their raucous yet bemused humor—and for the incredible energy and on-the-edge quality of his live shows. Circulating on tour from his Ontario farm, Fred harks back to an earlier era of roots music with his raw, driving country soul. Best of all, Fred's 20th album, "Tambourine," draws on the spirit of pure 1960s rock and roll. He comes to town with his band The Traveling Steam Show, which has lately jelled as a unit to a degree reminiscent of his great band of yore, the Flying Squirrels.

Performance:Masters Recital: Brendan Ige, tuba
2015-03-14 20:00 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
PROGRAM: Poulenc - Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon; Ustwolskaja - Composition #1 "Dona Nobis Pacem"; Stevens - Moondance; Hartley - Double Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Tuba, and wind octet; Paton - Concerto for Solo Tuba and Saxophone Quartet; Future Islands - Spirit.

Performance:Masters Recital: Mallory Bray, violin
2015-03-14 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Leclair - Sonata no. 3 in D Major, op. 9; Bach - Partita no. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006; Poulenc - Sonata for Violin and Piano; Sarasate - “Spanish Dance" no. 3, Romanza Andaluza.

Performance:Senior Recital: Dylan Hunter Chee Greene, percussion
2015-03-14 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Rehearsal Hall
PROGRAM: Xenakis - Rebonds A; Lang - String of Pearls; Neal - What Hath II; The Willo Collective - "Alright, alright, this is familiar now.; Reich - Mallet Quartet.
