Careers / Jobs:Detroit Community Based Research Program Application Open
2019-01-05 00:00 - 23:00, 2019-01-06 00:00 - 23:00, 2019-01-07 00:00 - 23:00, 2019-01-08 00:00 - 23:00, 2019-01-09 00:00 - 23:00, 2019-01-10 00:00 - 23:00, 2019-01-11 00:00 - 23:00 (America/Detroit) | Undergraduate Science Building - 1190 - UROP Office
The Detroit Community Based Research Program (DCBRP) is a social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program that places students with community based organizations in full-time research positions. Students work with community organizations on projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more!
https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/students/summer-programs/community-based-research-fellowship.html

Due December 4th by 9AM

Other:February 15, 2019-Michigan in Washington Application Deadline
2019-01-05 00:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-06 00:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-07 00:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-08 00:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-09 00:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-10 00:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-11 00:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
MIW application deadline for regular admission Fall 2019 and early admission Winter 2020.

Conference / Symposium:Big Data Summer Institute - Application Opens
2019-01-05 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 20:00 | School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
The Big Data Summer Institute is a six-week interdisciplinary training and research program in biostatistics that introduces undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health — a rapidly growing field that uses quantitative analysis to help solve scientific problems and improve people’s lives. Drawing from the expertise and experience of outstanding faculty of several departments at the University of Michigan — biostatistics, statistics, and electrical engineering and computer science — the institute exposes undergraduate students to diverse experiences and techniques that distinguishes it from any other undergraduate summer program in biostatistics in the country.

The Big Data Summer Institute is hosted by the University of Michigan School of Public Health. All coursework takes place at the school, on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents FABRICations: Fiber Art
2019-01-05 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Ann L. Rebele names this body of work FABRICations as she creates almost all of her own fabrics. Using plain white untreated cotton and/or sheer silk organza fabrics, she paints, draws, dyes, and/or prints on the fabric. Rebele incorporates layers and three-dimensional effects into her fabric designs. She lives in Columbus, Ohio where she studied design at Ohio State University.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fragile Geometries: Metal Sculpture & Jewelry
2019-01-05 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Dennis Nahabetian’s metal sculptures captivate the viewer with their exquisite detail and refined beauty. Combining a masterful use of metal and textile techniques, Nahabetian carefully constructs objects that simultaneously harness light while projecting complex linear shadows. A native of Michigan, Nahabetian received his BFA from Eastern Michigan University and MFA form Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He currently lives and has his studio in Orchard Park, New York, near Buffalo. Nahabetian has work in many public and private collections and has exhibited at a variety of venues for over 25 years.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Image Vessels: Blown Glass
2019-01-05 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
Sculptor Herb Babcock creates both monumental and human-scale work using metal, glass and stone. In the early years of the American Studio Glass Movement (1974-1984) Babcock’s sculptural and painterly expression utilized the vessel format. By layering color — both mass and line — between gathers of clear, molten glass, the full compositions are viewed through the vessel as three-dimensional. Babcock is Professor Emeritus, College for Creative Studies. He was Section Chair of the Glass Department where he taught for 40 years. He lives in Ann Arbor and built a new studio near U-M north campus in 2016.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Impressions in Pastel
2019-01-05 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
Sharon Will’s commitment to painting is to capture the simple, everyday beauty around her in her native Michigan and beyond. She is passionate about painting plein air (outdoors) whenever possible, as she feels the direct observation from life is the best teacher to truly see the subtleties of light and color in nature. Working on sanded paper, her process begins with a pastel and alcohol/mineral spirits under-painting wash to establish value and color. Soft pastel is applied in layers, often in contrasting color and temperatures for vibrancy. Over her 35-year career in painting, Will has won numerous national awards. She also operates a custom framing business from her home/studio in Washington Township and teaches occasional workshops.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inspired: Art Quilts by Paradigm
2019-01-05 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Most members of Paradigm art quilt group are professional artists based in southeast Michigan who create work, teach and lecture. Although most of their artwork is textile based, members use many different techniques. The theme of this exhibit is Inspired, and the art quilts on display incorporate elements of assemblage, collage and painting. The exhibit showcases the round robin approach that guided the creation of the work: the first artist made something which inspired the work of the second artist, which inspired the work of the third artist, and so on. A brief statement about the inspiration is included with each piece.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Mystery Train: Oil on Linen
2019-01-05 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Gregg Chadwick grew up with the rails of America in his blood. His grandfather Arthur Desch stoked coal in steam engines before becoming a train engineer on the Jersey Central Line. At family gatherings in Chadwick’s grandparent’s home, his aunts and cousins played music to the rhythms of the trains outside. From Junior Parker, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, to arts writers and directors Greil Marcus and Jim Jarmusch, the enduring mythos of America and its legacy has been wrapped up in the blues notes of the song “Mystery Train”. Chadwick’s current series of paintings, Mystery Train, is steeped in the powerful echoes of those machine days.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steeped in Whimsy: Ceramic Teapots
2019-01-05 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
This exhibition features a selection of Elena Weissman’s hand-built ceramic teapots created over the last two decades. The teapots are playful interpretations of many everyday objects. In addition to ceramics and photography, Weismann works in paper arts, book making, fused glass, beads, mosaics, metalwork and painting. Her photography can be seen in several professional buildings in the Detroit metropolitan area, as well as in many personal collections. In addition to participating in art exhibits and juried art shows, she has also created commissioned works in glass mosaics as well as a number of large custom ceramic tile art installations.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Storytelling with Photo Fusion & Encaustic
2019-01-05 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Ruth Crowe graduated from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas with a degree in Art Education. She served in the US Army and was a Los Angeles Police Dept. officer and collegiate softball coach. In 2014, in her Ann Arbor backyard studio, Crowe began her current work with encaustics and image transfer processes. She creates her multi-media works by combining personal and vintage photography with wax on wood. In addition to exhibiting her work in Ann Arbor and Toledo, Ohio, Crowe also shows at the Water Street Gallery in Douglas, Michigan. In 2018, Crowe presented her work at the Ann Arbor Art Fair, the Original.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Willow Run & the Home Front During WWII
2019-01-05 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
The Yankee Air Museum dedicates itself to educating individuals about the history of US military aviation. Located at the historic Willow Run Airport, just east of Ann Arbor, where over 8,600 B-24 Liberator Bomber aircraft were produced during World War II, the Yankee Air Museum seeks to keep the history of the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ alive. The Willow Run Bomber Plant is home to ‘Rosie the Riveter,’ the iconic symbol of the thousands of women who poured into industrial factories to help the war effort during WWII. This exhibition features unique artifacts from the US home-front, the Willow Run Bomber Plant, and local WWII aviators from Ann Arbor.

Exhibition:Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
2019-01-05 08:00 - 23:45, 2019-01-06 08:00 - 23:45, 2019-01-07 08:00 - 23:45, 2019-01-08 08:00 - 23:45, 2019-01-09 08:00 - 23:45, 2019-01-10 08:00 - 23:45, 2019-01-11 08:00 - 23:45 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

Exhibition:Written Culture of Christian Egypt: Coptic Manuscripts from the University of Michigan Collection
2019-01-05 08:30 - 18:00, 2019-01-06 08:30 - 18:00, 2019-01-07 08:30 - 18:00, 2019-01-08 08:30 - 18:00, 2019-01-09 08:30 - 18:00, 2019-01-10 08:30 - 18:00, 2019-01-11 08:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
The dry climate of the Egyptian desert offers an ideal environment for the preservation of ancient artifacts. As the sands of Egypt has preserved also numerous Coptic manuscripts, the transmission of the literary heritage of Egyptian Christians can be documented quite well from its beginnings in the 4th century CE until its decline in the 12th-13th centuries CE, when it was completely superseded by Arabic. This exhibit aims to show some of the hallmarks of Coptic literature using manuscripts kept in the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Michigan Library. Topics explored include the main Coptic dialects; bilingualism in Egypt; books read by the Egyptian monks; and the works of Shenoute the Great, the most important author of Coptic literature.

This exhibit is curated by Dr. Frank Feder and Dr. Alin Suciu from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The exhibit and related programming are offered with support from the Department of Middle East Studies and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

Join us for an opening lecture and reception at 4:30 p.m. on November 12 in the Hatcher Library Gallery.

Exhibition:Beautiful Bugs
2019-01-05 10:00 - 16:30, 2019-01-06 10:00 - 16:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Beautiful Bugs, the holiday conservatory exhibit at Matthaei, features large-scale graphic representations of butterflies, moths, beetles, and other multi-legged creatures that inhabit the world’s ecosystems. Insects and bugs make up a parallel universe of nature that often goes unnoticed or under-appreciated. Along with the exhibit we're displaying works by local artists and their take on insects. This annual winter/holiday event also features seasonal flowers, decorated trees, family/youth activities, and more. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. Free admission.

Exhibition:2018 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
2019-01-05 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-06 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, a showcase of the best work produced by Stamps undergraduate students, is on view from November 30, 2018-January 6, 2019 at Stamps Gallery.

A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition provides an opportunity for the school to support students whose creative work is recognized as exceptional by invited jurors, with thousands of dollars in awards announced at the exhibition reception.

Exhibition:Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s
2019-01-05 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-06 12:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-08 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-09 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-11 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

Exhibition:Painting His Way Home
2019-01-05 11:00 - 21:00, 2019-01-06 11:00 - 21:00, 2019-01-08 11:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location - Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104)
*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

Exhibition:Paul Rand: The Designer's Task
2019-01-05 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-06 12:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-09 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-11 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - The Jan and David Brandon Family Bridge
Paul Rand's visionary conceptions of brand identity
Paul Rand was a giant of American design, whose influential career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. His visionary and pithy conceptions of corporate and non-profit brand identities—though often graphically minimal—embody the artist’s complex philosophy, interest in modernist aesthetics, and singular wit. This exhibition features posters, book covers, and packaging designs from Rand’s beginnings as a pro bono designer for arts and culture publications like Direction magazine to his decades of crafting trailblazing corporate design for companies such as IBM. Paul Rand: The Designer’s Task affords viewers the opportunity to explore the genre of graphic design within the context of the art museum and examine how Rand’s intellectual process and impact on visual culture developed over time.

Exhibition:Proof: The Ryoichi Excavations
2019-01-05 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-06 12:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-09 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-11 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions FFW 2nd Floor
A narrative of Ryoichi's archaeological work
The story of Japanese archaeologist Ryoichi and evidence of his worldwide excavations are explored by Patrick Nagatani in this series of photographs. Nagatani presents a narrative of Ryoichi’s archaeological work, supported by images of excavation sites, unearthed artifacts, and Ryoichi’s own journal pages. According to the photographs, Ryoichi discovered evidence of an automobile culture buried at sites across several continents: Stonehenge, the Grand Canyon, and a necropolis in China. This provocative and playful series compels viewers to reflect on how photographs and institutions, such as museums, shape our knowledge of the past and present.

Exhibition:Tristin Lowe: Under the Influence
2019-01-05 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-06 12:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-09 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-11 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
A serene and surreal constellation
Tristin Lowe’s Under the Influence is a serene and surreal constellation of three interconnected works: Argonaut II, an oversized reflective door that leads viewers into the installation, Lunacy, a twelve-and-half-foot-diameter facsimile of the moon, and Visither I, a blue neon-light sculpture resembling a nomadic visiting spaceship. Lunacy, the central component of the installation, is constructed of 490 square feet of white felt pieced together by hand and stretched around an inflatable sphere. The surface is branded with craters and other markers that meticulously render the moon’s topography. The installation creates a visceral feeling of time having stopped, as if the cosmos has magically been paused—a sensation that is both captivating and strange. The unlikely experience of encountering the moon at this scale deepens this bewilderment. Under the Influence is a hypnotic work with a conceptual openness that rebuffs obvious narrative or meaning. In the artist’s own words, “there’s a bit of the supernatural or otherworldly at work.”

Exhibition:Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
2019-01-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2019-01-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies

Exhibition:Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Linocuts by Meredith Stern
2019-01-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-01-06 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-01-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-01-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-01-09 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-01-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-01-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Exhibit Gallery, 660 Hatcher South
On December 10, 1948, in the aftermath of the devastation of World War II, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a roadmap to guarantee the rights of every individual everywhere. The complete Declaration is comprised of a Preamble and 30 Articles. In honor of the 60th anniversary of this document, we are exhibiting 14 Articles in the form of illustrated prints by Meredith Stern. These contemporary prints are intended both to make people aware of this rights roadmap and to show its urgent relevance in our contemporary political moment.

Meredith Stern is an artist currently based in Providence, RI, and a member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, a decentralized network of 30 artists committed to social, environmental, and political engagement. Stern created a total of 28 sets of these linocut prints in 2017, of which one is held in the Joseph A. Labadie Collection in the Special Collections Research Center.

Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Highlights of the Kelsey Museum
2019-01-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Getting ready to begin a new semester at the University of Michigan? Take a break to explore campus and visit the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology! Highlights of our collection include a replica Roman dining room from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, the mummy coffin of the priest Djehutymose, 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, and elegant Greek vases.

Saturday Sampler tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Performance:The Yellow Room Gang
2019-01-05 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Presented by The Ark

Presentation:Paul Rand: The Designer's Task
2019-01-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Art
Paul Rand was a giant of American design whose influential career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. His visionary and pithy conceptions of corporate and non-profit brand identities—though often graphically minimal—embody the artist’s complex philosophy, interest in modernist aesthetics, and singular wit. This exhibition features posters, book covers, and packaging designs from the entirety of Rand’s career. Visit Paul Rand: The Designer’s Task with an UMMA docent to explore the genre of graphic design within the context of the art museum and examine how Rand’s intellectual process and impact on visual culture developed over time.

Lead support for Paul Rand: The Designer's Task is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

Meeting:SLE Board Meeting
2019-01-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Oxford Housing - Noble Lounge
Take on leadership by joining the SLE Board! Plan activities and events and work together to take action in your community.

Performance:Hannah Baiardi
2019-01-06 19:30 | Off Campus Location

Workshop / Seminar:WISE + Software Carpentry Free Training in R, Git, and Bash
2019-01-07 09:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
WISE is excited to partner with Software Carpentry to offer a free, two-day crash course in using software to aid your research. Maximize your time and potential by learning the basics of R, Git, and Bash in one dynamic workshop. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation.

Coffee provided in the morning. Please bring your own lunch. Bring your own computer. Install software before arrival per the workshop website, but know that our team can help you with problems loading the software you’ll need for the workshop before 9am on the day the workshop begins.

The workshop spans Monday and Tuesday. Space is limited, so register to make sure you get a spot.

Contact thiede@umich.edu for more information.

Other:LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising
2019-01-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-07 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-01-08 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-08 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-01-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-09 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-01-10 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-01-10 14:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 1343
Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

Class / Instruction:Monday Painters
2019-01-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Monday Painters is a flexible art group that meets every Monday from 11-3. Members, 50 and over, are free to come and go as they please. Each week, a half-hour DVD is shown about an art subject. This group has become like family and all are welcome to join in for fun, learning, growing, and gentle critiquing.

Instructor Barb Anderson has studied art for over twenty years and prior to that taught special education. She hopes to welcome new members to Monday Painters. The study group meets Mondays from 11am-3pm, from January 7 – August 26. No classes will be held on 1/21, 3/25, 5/13, 5/27, and 6/10

Workshop / Seminar:Winter 2019 GSI Teaching Orientation
2019-01-08 08:00 - 17:45 | Michigan League
The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) has designed the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Orientation (GSITO) to help new GSIs prepare for their initial teaching experiences. It has also proven to be a valuable event for experienced GSIs and for graduate students who anticipate teaching in the future.

The event will be held on Tuesday, January 8, from 8:00a.m. - 5:45p.m. Lunch will be provided.

For more information about the event, including the agenda for the day, and to register visit: http://crlt.umich.edu/gsis/gsio

Workshop / Seminar:WISE + Software Carpentry Free Training in R, Git, and Bash
2019-01-08 09:00 - 16:00 | Undergraduate Science Building - 3230

Lecture / Discussion:What To Expect In Health Policy After The 2018 Elections
2019-01-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Dr. Ayanian has served since 2012 as the inaugural Director of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, which includes over 500 faculty from 14 U-M schools and colleges. He is also the Alice Hamilton Professor of Medicine. He previously served as Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

In this presentation, Dr. Ayanian will review the controversial history of the Affordable Care Act over the past decade (“Obamacare” and now “Trumpcare”), the role that health care issues played in the 2018 election in Michigan and the nation, and what to expect in health policy from the new Governor and legislature in Michigan and the new Congress in Washington, DC.

This is the fifth in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2018-19. A total of ten lectures will be presented covering a variety of topics.

Other:Genomics-guided discovery of peptide natural products in microbes and plants
2019-01-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - Palmer Commons- Forum Hall
Roland Kersten, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Lecture / Discussion:Seminar: Genomics-guided discovery of peptide natural products in microbes and plants
2019-01-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
One of the key steps in innovating new pharmaceutical solutions to human diseases is the discovery of new natural products. In the 20th century, natural product-based drug discovery was largely bioactivity-guided and was faced with limited source material and frequent rediscovery of bioactive lead structures. In the last two decades, whole genome sequencing revealed that fungal and microbial genomes harbor more biosynthetic pathways than characterized natural product structures. This untapped biosynthetic potential inspired gene-guided discovery of natural products – or ‘genome mining’ - by applied knowledge that certain biosynthetic genes in a genome are connected to certain natural product structures. Genome mining has led to the discovery of many new natural product classes from microbes and fungi, and synthetic biology approaches have subsequently enabled sustainable scaled production and diversification of these natural products for further drug development by source-independent expression of their biosynthetic genes in heterologous hosts.

Dr. Kersten will present how genome mining in the microbial and plant kingdoms can enable discovery of new natural product chemistry and underlying biochemistry for potential pharmacological applications. Specifically, he will discuss genome mining approaches utilizing mass spectrometry for the characterization of peptide natural products, including how they translate from compact microbial genomes to complex plant genomes and what awaits to be discovered in light of a rapidly growing resource of plant genomes in the near future.

Speaker bio:
Roland Kersten is a postdoctoral associate of Prof. Jing-Ke Weng’s lab at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT. He has a diploma in biochemistry from Free University of Berlin, Germany. He completed his PhD in 2013 from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, under joint supervision of Prof. Pieter Dorrestein (Skaggs School of Pharmacy, UCSD) and Prof. Bradley Moore (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD) focusing on mass spectrometry-guided approaches for natural product discovery from microbes. In his postdoctoral research, Roland is developing gene-guided approaches for discovery and diversification of natural products from plants.

Careers / Jobs:Private Client Associate Development informational webcast
2019-01-08 15:00 - 15:30
The Private Client Associate Development (PCAD) Summer Associate Program is a 10 week internship designed to put summer associates on the path to a fulltime role as a Private Client Advisor through the full time PCAD program. The program provides on the job training as well as business and professional development.

Join us for an informational webcast on January 8, 2019 by registering at https://bankcampuscareers.tal.net/vx/brand-5/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/2/opp/3498-Private-Client-Associate-Development-Webcast/en-GB
*This registration link will close on January 3, 2019

Lecture / Discussion:Comparative Politics Workshop
2019-01-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - Prefunction Room (5769)
TBA

Other:Dearomative Functionalization Strategies and Synthesis of Anticancer Natural Products
2019-01-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Chemistry Dow Lab
Small complex molecules are highly desired in all areas of chemistry, but they are also often difficult to access. Selective transformations of aromatic compounds could provide a more direct route to such desirable targets; however, the many challenges associated with dearomative functionalization have left these types of reactions widely underdeveloped. Our group has been developing new strategies that bridge the gap between dearomatization functionalization and alkene chemistry. In pursuit of this goal, we have developed dearomative functionalizations using small molecules – arenophiles – that enable reactions of isolated alkenes in aromatic substrates. Thus, well-established olefin reactions, such as dihydroxylation and reduction, can now be more directly applied to arenes. Additionally, arenophiles in combination with transition metal catalysis provide unique platform and enable the rapid access to a diverse range of products that are both challenging to synthesize via existing methods and complementary to those acquired through biological or chemical dearomative processes. Finally, using this methodology we have recently completed the synthesis of several complex anticancer natural products.

David Sarlah (University of Illinois)

Lecture / Discussion:The Beauty of Native Plants: Their Function in Supporting Wildlife in Urban and Suburban Landscapes
2019-01-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Local nursery owner Drew Lathin talks about ways that home gardeners can use native plants to create beautiful and ecologically restorative landscapes that support wildlife, reduce resource inputs, and create healthy outdoor living spaces. Presented by Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers.

Performance:Ordinarius
2019-01-08 20:00 | Off Campus Location
A unique vocal sextet from Brazil

Exhibition:Painting His Way Home
2019-01-09 11:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location

Other:Sp/Su Application Deadline
2019-01-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
The Semester in Detroit program accepts undergraduate students from all schools and departments at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Completion of the fall program plus one additional required course will meet the requirements for a minor in Urban Studies through the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the UM-Ann Arbor campus. Spring students are required to take 2 additional courses to complete the Urban Studies minor.

The most successful program participants typically have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA. Applicants should have a strong interest in the city of Detroit and in community-service learning.

The application deadline for sp/su is January 9th

Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | What is space weather, and why should you care?
2019-01-09 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 340
The continuous outflow of plasma from the Sun fills the heliosphere with tenuous gas of charged particles carrying the Solar magnetic field. Largely shielded by the internal geomagnetic field, only a small fraction of the protons and electrons make it to the near-Earth space - but those that do, have a strong impact on our electromagnetic and radiation environment. As the society increasingly relies on space-based assets, it has increasingly important to develop preditions of high-energy (keV to MeV) particle fluxes in the near-Earth space. This talk discusses the effects of Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun as they reach the geospace: The bright auroral displays, ground currents harmful to power networks and other infrastructure, and the radiation belt electrons in regions where the navigation and communication satellites reside. Our methodologies include satellite observations of the Sun and the fields and plasmas in near-Earth space, and large-scale numerical models to model the complex interactions between the solar wind and the geospace plasma environments.

Workshop / Seminar:Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar
2019-01-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
Talk Title: Origins of DNA Methylation Abnormalities in Cancer
Abstract: Cancer arises as a consequence of cumulative disruptions to cellular growth control with selection for those heritable changes that provide the greatest clonal advantage. These traits can be acquired and stably maintained by either genetic or epigenetic means. It is now clear that the cancer genome and epigenome influence each other in multiple ways. For example, mutation of the IDH1 gene results in the accumulation of a novel oncometabolite, 2-hydroxyglutarate, which is associated with an extensive CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) in glioblastoma and acute myeloid leukemia. As part of the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, we performed an analysis of DNA methylation alterations in more than 10,000 primary human cancer specimens spanning 33 cancer types. We found that predisposition to DNA methylation gains (hypermethylation) was linked primarily to polycomb repressive complex occupancy in precursor tissues, consistent with an epigenetic block to cellular differentiation as an early or even initiating event in carcinogenesis. On the other hand, widespread loss of DNA methylation (hypomethylation) is linked to replication-associated progressive erosion of DNA methylation at late-replicating, lamina-associated domains in the genome located at the nuclear periphery. We show that this phenomenon can be used to develop a molecular mitotic clock. Disruption of epigenomic control is pervasive in malignancy, with extensive phenotypic consequences, and should thus be considered an enabling characteristic of cancer cells, akin to genome instability and mutation.

Performance:SMTD Undergraduate Concerto Competition Finals
2019-01-09 16:00 | Hill Auditorium
Winners of the SMTD Concerto Competition will perform their competition piece with one of the School’s orchestras in an upcoming SMTD concert at Hill.

Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab
2019-01-09 17:00 - 18:00 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at: that’s ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resume formatting, learn how to build great bullet points, and get feedback on your resume.

If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'dlike to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/246751

Class / Instruction:DISPLACED CHILDREN in an UNCERTAIN WORLD
2019-01-09 18:30 - 20:00 | East Quadrangle - 1423
Hear global experts from Switzerland, Uganda, Israel, South Africa, Serbia and England report on their views and share their stories about contemporary challenges facing children. Speakers include anthropologists, historians, journalists, poets, documentary filmmakers, immigration lawyers, visual and performing artists.

JAN 9 Identity Shock: Folktale, Truth, News with Elizabeth Goodenough
JAN 14 Child Soldiering and the Post-War Imagination with Jacqueline Adongo, Dave Ngendo Tshimba, Derek Peterson and Pamela Reynolds
JAN 16 Ethnography, Fiction, and Understanding the Child with Pamela Reynolds
JAN 23 Homeless Minors, Unaccompanied Migrants: Their Stories, Drawings, Voices with Caroline Smith and Deborah Gordon-Gurfinkel
JAN 24 Enrichment Master Class in Writing Skills (4:00 – 5:30 pm) with Caroline Smith and Peggy Ellsberg
JAN 28 Kids as a Cynic Tool of War: A Rare Look from Within with Itai Anghel
JAN 30 Growing Up in Combat Zones and on Garbage Dumps with Andrew Pawuk and Jugo Kapetanovic
FEB 4 Rights of Immigrant Children and their Families with Ruby Robinson and Jason Eyster
FEB 6 Hospitalization and the Dying Child with Stephanie Warburg and Leanne Chadwick
FEB 11 Global Media and Childhood Sustainability: Ethics, Facts, Figures with Roland Schatz
FEB 13 Visual Narrations: From Journalistic Photography to Abstract Depictions with David Choberka
FEB 18 Foster Care and Orphans of War with Mark Jonathan Harris
FEB 20 The Making of “Buzkashi Boys” and “In-Justice” with Sam French
FEB 25 Victim/Persecutor with Gillian Eaton
FEB 27 Juvenile Detention, Incarceration, and “Zero Tolerance” with Heather Thompson, Janie Paul and Gil Leaf

PARTICIPATING EXPERTS
Itai Anghel, Israeli correspondent, Knight-Wallace Fellow 2018-19; Jacqueline Adongo, Makerere University, Uganda, UMAPS Fellow 2018-19; Leanne Chadwick, Animal-Assisted Therapist, Mott Children’s Hospital; David Choberka, PhD, Andrew W. Mellon Manager of Outreach, U-M Museum of Art; Gillian Eaton, Prof. U-M School of Theatre, Music and Dance; Peggy Ellsberg, Prof. Barnard College; James Perry Eyster, Attorney; Sam French, Oscar-nominated Filmmaker; Deborah Gordon-Gurfinkel, U-M Lecturer, Founder and Director, Telling It!; Mark Jonathan Harris, Prof. of Cinematic Arts, U of Southern California, Oscar-winning Writer/Director; Jugo Kapetanovic, Documentary Filmmaker; James G. Leaf, PhD, Co-Founder, Community Link Foundation; Janie Paul, Arthur F. Thurnau Prof. Emerita, U-M School of Art & Design; Andrew Pawuk, VP of Operations, International Samaritan; Derek Peterson, U-M Prof. of History and African Studies, MacArthur Fellow; Pamela Reynolds, Prof. Emerita Childhood Anthropology, Univ. of Capetown; Ruby Robinson, Managing Attorney, Michigan Immigration Center; Roland Schatz, CEO, Media Tenor International, Senior Advisor to UN Secretary General; Caroline Smith, London Caseworker, Finalist, Ted Hughes Award, The Immigration Handbook; Heather Ann Thompson, U-M Professor of History, Pulitzer Prize, Blood in the Water; Dave N. Tshimba, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda, UMAPS Fellow 2018-19; Stephanie Warburg, Founder, Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, Boston

Social / Informal Gathering:Michigan Aerospace Alumni Recpetion
2019-01-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Off Campus Location - Harbor Ballroom C - 2nd Floor Harbor Tower
If you have plans to be in the San Diego area, please join us for the Michigan Aerospace Alumni Reception at SciTech 2019 on Wednesday, January 9th at 6:30 PM. The reception will be held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel. No registration required and all are welcome!

Lecture / Discussion:Monarch Butterfly Migration
2019-01-09 18:45 - 20:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
André Green, a U-M Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, talks about how classical behavioral and physiological analyses are being combined with modern molecular, genetics and genomics tools to reveal hidden details of monarch migration biology. Presented by Wild Ones Ann Arbor.

Film Screening:CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Akira
2019-01-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-01-09 21:30 - 23:30 | Off Campus Location
Due to popular demand, the State Theater has added a second showing: 9:30 pm.

Note: There will be a panel discussion at 6:30pm, before the first screening, with Markus Nornes, Jim Pyke and Misha Mihailova.

In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader until Tetsuo's supernatural powers suddenly manifest. A final battle is fought in Tokyo Olympiad exposing the experiment's secrets. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

Careers / Jobs:Feel of Money (Student-Athletes)
2019-01-09 19:00 - 20:00 | 1114 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, United States
Grow Your Wealth with Financial Literacy Expert Eric Smith

Get Back and Get Your Money Right on the 1st day of school!

What: Financial Literacy
7:00 PM The Feel of Money Program-Why Am I so Broke?
8:15 PM Career and Summer Job Financial Readiness Program
When: Wednesday, January 9
Where: Baseball Classroom
Food: Mr. Spots
Who: Eric Smith the Financial Literacy Coach
Note: Forbes Magazine says you will never regret giving yourself the GIFT of Financial Literacy. You will be happy with the ROI (Return on Investment)!

7:00 PM:
The Feel of Money Program-Why Am I so Broke?: Walk away with a simple budgeting plan and proven positive spending habits for today and beyond. In addition, understandthe psychology of money and how it can dive our behavior and make us feel! (Open to all)

Performance:William Fitzsimmons
2019-01-09 20:00 | Off Campus Location

Careers / Jobs:Next Step Career and Summer Job Transition (Student-Athletes)
2019-01-09 20:15 - 21:15 | 1114 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, United States
Grow Your Wealth with Financial Literacy Expert Eric Smith

Get Back and Get Your Money Right on the 1st day of school!

What: Financial Literacy
7:00 PM The Feel of Money Program-Why Am I so Broke?
8:15 PM Career and Summer Job Financial Readiness Program
When: Wednesday, January 9
Where: Baseball Classroom
Food: Pizza House and Insomnia Cookies
Who: Eric Smith the Financial Literacy Coach
Note: Forbes Magazine says you will never regret giving yourself the GIFT of Financial Literacy. You will be happy with the ROI (Return on Investment)!

8:15 PM:
Career and Summer Job Financial Readiness Program - Is designed for anyone preparing for the financial elements of a career or summer job employment. Included in the program: comparing job offers from a financial perspective, understanding compensation and benefits, the reality of a paycheck, budgeting on a real salary, credit report issues, the value of defined contribution plans(401k & 403bs) and the consequence of matching, and investment tips. (Open to all: Jr/Sr focus)

Other:IPE Priority Application Deadline for Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Sweden
2019-01-10 00:00 - 23:59 | Chrysler Center - 245 Chrysler
Priority Deadline Applications for the IPE Undergraduate Research Program in Lund, Sweden are due today by midnight!

For more information and to apply: https://mcompass.umich.edu/?go=IPElund

Other IPE Summer Program Info and Deadlines: https://ipe.engin.umich.edu/ipe-summer-programs/

Other:IPE Summer Study Abroad Priority Application Deadline
2019-01-10 00:00 - 23:59 | Chrysler Center - 245 Chrysler
Applications for select IPE summer study abroad programs are due tonight at midnight!

For more information and to apply: https://ipe.engin.umich.edu/ipe-summer-programs-application-deadlines/

Lecture / Discussion:– An Update on U-M Governmental Issues in Lansing and Washington, DC
2019-01-10 01:30 - 15:30 | Off Campus Location - Ballroom
Ms.Wilbanks is U-M Vice President for Government Relations and directs the University of Michigan’s Government Relations programs at the local, state and federal levels. She will provide us with an update on the latest issues in Lansing and Washington D.C. With all the changes happening as a result of the mid-term elections this should be a very informative session, especially on topics that affect the University and Higher Education.

Meeting:Blue Ribbon Panel Open Meetings
2019-01-10 09:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location - Quad E, Fairlane Center North
The Blue Ribbon Panel will conduct open meetings on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.

Ann Arbor:
Wednesday, December 12, 3:00 – 5:00 pm, Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Friday, January 11, 10:00 am 12:00 pm, East Room, Pierpont Commons

Dearborn:
Thursday, January 10, 9:00 - 11:00 am, Quad E, Fairlane Center North

Flint:
Thursday, January 10, 3:00- 5:00 pm, French Hall, Room 111

Lecture / Discussion:RENEWED ACTIVISM FOR THE LABOR MOVEMENT: THE URGENCY OF YOUNG WORKER ENGAGEMENT
2019-01-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Maite Tapia is Assistant Professor at Michigan State University’s School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Her research centers on the organizing strategies of trade unions and community organizations in the U.S. and Europe, and on work, migration, and the concept of intersectionality. She has published her work in several academic journals and is co-editor of the 2014 Cornell University Press book, "Mobilizing Against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism".

Prof. Tapia will discuss a multi-year study on young workers and their level of involvement in the labor movements of four countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Results suggest that two key variables affect involvement level: The openness and encouragement of unions to the leadership development of young workers, and the persistence and creativity of groups of young workers in promoting their own engagement. Young workers embody labor’s potential for movement-building and for resistance to authoritarianism and populism.

This is the second of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Future of Work. How Will Your Grandchildren Make a Living? The next lecture will be January 17, 2019. The subject is: Human Thriving in the New World of Work.

Workshop / Seminar:Charting "Unknown" Metabolism with Organelle Precision
2019-01-10 11:45 - 12:45 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
MCDB Faculty Candidate
Host: JK Nandakumar

Exhibition:Art Exhibition: The Smell of Lint and Frost
2019-01-10 12:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-11 10:00 - 17:00 | East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
Elizabeth Youngblood is a Detroit-based artist trained and working in a variety of media disciplines including fiber and clay. Recent work is based on drawing/mark making, with a developing body of photographic work. Both consider themes relating to the passage of time, but in ways particular the each medium.

Youngblood earned a BFA in ceramics is from The University of Michigan, School of Art (now The Stamps School of Art & Design) and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art working with Katherine McCoy.

Since returning to Detroit after living and working in New York City, Philadelphia, and other cities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and teaching at a range of colleges and universities, Youngblood now maintains a full-time studio practice. Her art is exhibited locally and nationally, and is represented in both private and public collections.

The Opening Reception for the Artist will take place on Wednesday, January 16 from 4-6pm. Refreshments will be served, and Elizabeth will give a Q&A at approx. 4:30pm.

Lecture / Discussion:LSI Seminar Series: Justin Taraska, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
2019-01-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
Abstract:

The plasma membrane separates the cell’s interior from the outside world. The exchange of information and material across this barrier is regulated by a multitude of channels, transporters, receptors, and trafficking organelles. Mapping the structure and dynamics of the plasma membrane is key to understanding how cells function. Electron microscopy can produce high resolution images of the structure of the plasma membrane. It has been challenging, however, to identify proteins within these samples. Super-resolution localization microscopy can image specific fluorescently-labeled molecules with better than 20 nm precision. We recently developed a correlative super-resolution light and platinum replica EM method (CLEM) that couples these complementary methods to produce images where identified proteins are mapped within the dense structural context of the cell at the nanoscale. This correlative method is uniquely suited to map the nanometer-scale molecular organization of the plasma membrane and associated organelles. Using this CLEM method, we studied 19 key proteins involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Our data provide a comprehensive molecular architecture of endocytic vesicles. We discover that key endocytic proteins distribute into three distinct spatial zones: inside, outside, and at the edge of the clathrin coat in human cells. The presence and amount of many factors within these zones change during organelle maturation. We propose that the formation and curvature of single clathrin-coated vesicles is driven by the recruitment, re-organization, and loss of proteins within these three partitioned nanoscale zones during endocytosis.

Lunch will be provided to attendees.

Presentation:PSC/GFP Brown Bag
2019-01-10 12:00 - 13:00 | East Hall - 4464
Jen Frederick, Zach Schudson, Janelle Goodwill, Sara Chadwick, Ozge Savas, Esra Ascigil

Presentation:UMMA Book Club: Art, Ideas, & Politics
2019-01-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Museum of Art
The Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club is a partnership between UMMA and Literati Bookstore in connection with UMMA's exhibition Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s. Surrounded by the large-scale artworks by Sam Gilliam, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson, we will read and discuss bold and critical voices—both fiction and nonfiction—guided by Literati Bookstore's Creative Programs Manager, Gina Balibrera Amyx. Books will explore visions and critiques relevant to abstract art as well as the immense social changes of the period, and include Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (Jan 10), Art on My Mind, Visual Politics by bell hooks (March 14), Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel (May 9), Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (July 11), and How We Get Free, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Sept 12).

Gina Balibrera Amyx is the Creative Program Manager at Literati Bookstore, and a graduate of Zell MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Wandering Song, an anthology of the Central American diaspora.

The Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club will meet on the second Thursday of the month, 12-1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery. Pick and choose or come to all of them. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors: Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

Lecture / Discussion:UROP Brown Bag
2019-01-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Undergraduate Science Building - 1160 - UROP Large Conference Room
The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

Lecture / Discussion:An Update on U-M Governmental Issues in Lansing and Washington DC
2019-01-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location - Ballroom
Ms. Wilbanks is the Vice President for Government Affairs at the University of Michigan. She will provide us with insights on current issues for the University in Lansing and Washington DC and answer questions from the audience.

Workshop / Seminar:"Exploring the vulnerability of advanced signal control systems under cyber attacks using falsified vehicle trajectory data"
2019-01-10 15:00 - 16:00 | GG Brown Laboratory - 2029
Details to TBA.

Ed Huang is a Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.

Meeting:Blue Ribbon Panel Open Meetings
2019-01-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location - French Hall, Room 111

Other:Internship Lab
2019-01-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas, but you’re not sure where to get started? Wherever you’re at: that's ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to search for and find a great internship experience!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy.

**If you're not sure what you're interested in, consider making an "Exploring Major/Career Option" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting.

**If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates.

If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event, go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/240309

Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab
2019-01-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library, Main Gallery, Room 100, 913 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at: that’s ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resume formatting, learn how to build great bullet points, and get feedback on your resume.

If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'dlike to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/246753

Reception / Open House:Cookies and Cocoa METS Mixer
2019-01-10 15:30 - 17:00 | Chrysler Center - 265
Engineering transfer students are invited to warm up for the Winter Term with METS. Drop in for yummy treats and to meet other transfer students. Get connected and get info on upcoming events.

Careers / Jobs:JP Morgan Chase and Co.'s Compliance Associate Program
2019-01-10 15:55 - 23:55
We’re looking for confident leaders pursuing advanced degrees to add to our team, with the initiative to drive forward change in our Compliance Associate Program.

You will help evaluate and implement regulations which requires a deep understanding of our business. Our compliance team works globally across all lines of business to protect both client interests and shareholder value.

Visit our website to learn more and apply by January 18th, 2019.

Apply Here: https://tinyurl.com/y7dw9r45

Careers / Jobs:Career Mixer: Come Meet the Companies Who Build New York!
2019-01-10 16:00 - 20:00 | 140 East 41st Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York 10017, United States
Attention all engineers and aspiring project managers- our recruiters want to meet you!

In the NYC area for Winter Break? Looking fora career in the construction industry?

Spend your evening at Public House in NYC on Thursday, January 10th to mingle with Iovino Enterprises’ family of companies. Hosted by MLJ Contracting Corp, we will be servingappetizers and an open bar to welcome students to learn more about our organization. Whether you’re interested in becoming a Project Manager, and Cost Administrator, or Project Engineer, we have a variety of opportunities and experts in the field looking to learn more about how you can become part of our team. For more information, please see the flyer attachedto this email.

Click the link below to RSVP today:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DFBB96P

We look forward to seeing you there!

(Note: students under 21 are welcome, you will receive a wristband at the door)

Lecture / Discussion:Chair's Distinguished Lecture Series - What Can the Aerospace Field Do About Its Diversity Problem?
2019-01-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall
Ken Powell
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and DEI Faculty Liaison
Aerospace Engineering, UM

The other talks this semester will be based on research in Aerospace Sciences and Engineering. This talk is based on research in the Social Sciences - particularly Psychology, Sociology, Economics - and how it applies to education and careers in aerospace engineering.

For the past five years, I have been part of a group of Michigan professors who read this social science literature, and meet to discuss its implications on academic careers - teaching, research, service and hiring of faculty. We also give talks about why and how to improve diversity in faculty hiring to faculty throughout the university, department chairs and deans, and faculty at other universities.

In this talk, I will present some classical and recent social science research about issues that affect our ability to hire and retain a diverse and excellent faculty, particularly in STEM fields, and especially in aerospace engineering. Topics will include implicit bias, stereotype threat, accumulation of disadvantage, and some of the steps we are taking as a university to improve the composition of the faculty. I will also present data about the demographics of the aerospace field, and give you some strategies for being a part of the much-needed solution to Aerospace's diversity challenges.

About the speaker...
Professor Powell is a member and past director of the W. M. Keck Foundation Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Space Environment Modeling and the the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics. At the undergraduate level, he teaches freshman computing, compressible flow, aerodynamics and aircraft design; at the graduate level, he teaches aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics. His research interests include: algorithm development for fluid dynamics, aerodynamics and plasmadynamics; and the application of computational methods to problems in aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, fluid dynamics and space environment/space weather. His articles appear in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, among others. He is also a co-author of Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics. He has received a number of awards for his research, including a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, and a number of awards for his teaching, including the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship. He is married to Susanne Maria Krummel; they are the proud parents of Jasmine (25), Ryan (22), and Nicole (19).

Workshop / Seminar:CM Theory Seminar | Dirac Electrons on the Kagome Lattice
2019-01-10 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 335
The kagome lattice is a two-dimensional network of corner-sharing triangles known as a platform for exotic quantum magnetic states. Theoretical work has predicted that the kagome lattice may also host exotic Dirac electronic states including those with non-trivial topology. We here present our recent work in conducting, layered kagome materials in exploring these Dirac-like states, particularly in systems with magnetic order. We describe observations massive Dirac states and associated Berry curvature induced transport. We also demonstrate the detection of these states from de Haas-van Alphen oscillations and their modification in magnetic field. Finally, we discuss the promise for these materials in terms of realizing robust time-reversal-breaking topological phases.

Workshop / Seminar:Dissertation Workshop
2019-01-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Angell Hall - 3154
Please join the Nineteenth-Century Forum for a discussion of English PhD candidate Ross Martin's dissertation introduction: "American Demonology after the Ancients."

Abstract: My dissertation introduction, "American Demonology after the Ancients," follows the Demonic as a thread of interest traversing the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Herman Melville. By Demonic, I mean a primal phenomenon which manifests itself in ontological contradiction as something. (In Emerson, the something is Tragic art; in Fuller, it is Leila; in Thoreau, it is the arrowhead; in Melville, it is the whale.) The ontological paradox through which the Demonic manifests an identity—unity and variety—is not resolved. Rather, by disclosing itself (as a third estate of being) in an insurmountable contrast, the Demonic stages an upheaval in thinking whereby pure difference is affirmed. By inciting affirmation in the context of (Antebellum) Romantic American literature, this account of the Demonic entails the overturning of Platonic demonology, with its negative relation to life. I thus trace two ontological perspectives, the negative and the affirmative, and the associated ethical orientations in the register of demonism. But by reversing Platonism through demonology, American writers imperil the logics dependent upon it, including dialectics and the univocity underlying recent criticism. For these reasons, the shadow discourse that I follow inverts the status of thought and makes Emerson’s seemingly naïve proclamation in Nature (1836), that America is a place for “new thoughts,” a completely serious claim.

Key names: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Emanuel Swedenborg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Gilles Deleuze.
Key terms: demonology, affirmation, fate, and rebirth.
Key disciplinary interests: American literature, Romanticism, ecology, animal studies, comparative literature, philosophy, and classics.

To RSVP and request a copy of Ross's introduction please email Evan Radeen (eradeen@umich.edu).

Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea
2019-01-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Angell Hall - 1176
Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

Workshop / Seminar:Opportunity Hub Resume Lab
2019-01-10 16:00 - 17:30 | LSA Building - LSA 2001
Stop by the Resume Lab anytime between 4:00 and 5:30 pm to start your resume, strengthen it, or tailor it to a specific opportunity. Hub coaches will be on hand to work with you on developing a resume that best represents your accomplishments, skills, and unique strengths. As you apply to opportunities, develop your professional identity, and reflect on your experiences thus far, stop by the Resume Lab to develop next steps in your process!

Performance:SMTD Graduate Concerto Competition Finals
2019-01-10 16:00 | Hill Auditorium

Other:Ecological Design Week
2019-01-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Dana Building - 1040
Ecological Design Week

January 10: Whittemore Lecture by Dr. AdrienneGrêt-Regamey, Chair of planning and Urban Systems, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Her lecture is titled "Enabling Transformation by linking land system science and landscape design" and will take place at 5pm in the Samuel Trask Dana Building, Room 1040.

January 14: Gallery Opening, 11am-12:30 pm, Dana Building, Ford Commons

January 14: EPA Campus RainWorks Design Competition Presentation, 12:30 -1:00 pm, Dana Building, Ford Commons

January 15: Lightning Talks, 12-1pm, Dana Building 2024

January 16: Studio Open House, 11 am - 1 pm, Landscape Architecture Studios, Third Floor, Dana Building

January 16: Lunch Talk with Dr. Tan Puay Yok, 12-1 pm, Landscape Critique Room, Third Floor, Dana Building,

January 17: 5 pm Smithgroup JJR Lecture by Dr. Tan Puay Yok, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture in the School of Design and Environment of the National University of Singapore. His lecture is titled" Development of Neighborhood Landscapes with Urban Ecosystem Services and will take place at 5pm in the Samuel Trask Dana Building, Room 1040.

Lecture / Discussion:Metabolomics: Do you know what you (or your cells) are really eating?
2019-01-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Frankel Cardiovascular Center - Danto Auditorium
The Taubman Technology Talks series kicks off its 2019 season with “Metabolomics: Do you know what you (or your cells) are really eating?” featuring Taubman Institute Director Charles Burant, MD, PhD.
All are welcome January 10 from 5-6 pm at the Danto Auditorium inside the Frankel CVC for the lecture plus Q&A, followed by a reception and light refreshments. Attendance is free but if possible, please register at our Eventbrite site.
Metabolomics is the large-scale study of small molecules, commonly known as metabolites, within cells, biofluids, tissues or organisms. Examples of metabolites are glucose in the metabolism of sugars and starches, amino acids in the biosynthesis of proteins, and squalene in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Collectively, these small molecules and their interactions within a biological system are known as the metabolome. Metabolomics is now an integral part of the ‘omics analysis and can provide unique information in a broad array of biological systems.

Lecture / Discussion:LanguageMatters Lab
2019-01-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Lorch Hall - 473
The LanguageMatters initiative at U-M is interested in issues of language diversity on and around campus, linguistic discrimination, social justice, inclusivity, and equality, how different dialects and languages are treated on campus and in the classroom, and the ways in which intentional language can be used for positive social impact.

Workshop / Seminar:ELI Winter Workshop Series: Writing Effective Email
2019-01-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Weiser Hall - 110
Have you ever struggled to write important email messages? Have you ever wondered whether your email messages reflect the professional persona you wish to project? Given the importance of email in academic and professional settings, the ability to write effective e-mail messages is an essential skill. In this workshop we will focus on strategies for writing clear, effective and professional email. We will discuss the aspects of email that make it likely to be read, to be easily understood, and to generate the outcome you seek. Bring a few samples of your important email messages to analyze.

Careers / Jobs:VFA 101
2019-01-10 18:00 - 19:00
Venture For America is creating economic opportunity in American cities by mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs and equippingthem with the skills and resources they need to create jobs.

Sign up to hear an overview of VFA, including how you find your job, Training Camp, and resources to launch your business.

Other:Intermediate Lesson
2019-01-10 19:00 - 21:00 | openfloor studio
INTERMEDIATE HEAD MOVEMENT SERIES, Lesson 1Part 1 of a 4-week course that introduces the fundamental concepts for head movement. Testing is required! To prepare for the test it is recommended you take the Beginner Series and then the Advanced Beginner series before taking the test.
7:00 PM Registration7:10 PM - 9:00pm Lesson We look forward to seeing you there!

Lecture / Discussion:Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students
2019-01-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium (Basement)
The Webster Reading Series, which remembers the poetry and life of Mark Webster, presents two second-year MFA student readers (one poet and one fiction writer) from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Each reader is introduced by a fellow poet or fiction writer.

Webster Readings are free and open to the public and are hosted in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu two weeks prior to the event whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

Performance:Three Women & The Truth: M Gauthier, E Gilkyson, G Peters
2019-01-10 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Announcement:

Dear Friends,

I am so sorry I won’t be able to get on a plane today and play these shows with my wonderful 3WATT friends Gretchen Peters and Mary Gauthier. Last night at 2 a.m. I rolled over and felt a stabbing pain in my upper right torso. Things went downhill from there into full blown shingles by dawn, the kind that never erupt on the surface but stay under your skin, causing agonizing nerve pain. Yikes!

The good news is the show will go on in grand style-I know Mary and Gretchen will kill it as they always do-two of my favorite songwriters and performers in the world, both of them Grammy nominated and at the top of their game. And if that ain’t enough Austin’s biggest buzz, singer-songwriter Jaimee Harris will be on board to play her heart out as well. Barry Walsh will also be joining Mary and Gretchen on piano at the Ark in Ann Arbor and at Chicago City Winery - making for one great night of music.

I’m sure you will enjoy this show, and please know I will be back around as soon as I am able.

Thank you!

Eliza Gilkyson

Eliza Gilkyson

Twice Grammy Nominated folksinger Eliza Gilkyson has just released her 20th album, Secularia, a collection of songs old and new that reflect her ongoing search for meaningful spirituality without the constraints of traditional religious belief systems, replacing dominant ideology with a more inclusive perspective that embraces compassion, self-awareness and respect for the natural world in a culture she feels is “wavering between collapse and reinvention”. Produced by her son, Cisco Ryder, (Nocturne Diaries, Roses at the End of Time, Red Horse), with a spare urban approach, the recording features songs of grief, gratitude and wonder, a call for accountability and a true moral compass for these divisive times.

“Secularia is a series of poems and hymns, deeply spiritual songs that praise the wonder and beauty of the world, that lament its destruction, and that celebrate the joy of the mystery that lies behind its wild wonder.”

--- No Depression

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Gretchen Peters

For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville's most beloved and respected artists. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who called her "a songwriter and a poet (who) sings as beautifully as she writes” Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. In 2015, The Telegraph (UK) named her one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time.

“…songs that manage, with deft use of language, to cram a whole epic into three minutes. Astonishingly good writing.” – Pop Matters

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“With songwriting as powerful as hers, there’s no need to go looking for qualifiers. She’s a unique, intrinsically valuable musical voice. And there’s never a surplus of those.”  — Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Time

The Associated Press named Mary Gauthier as one of the best songwriters of her generation. Her songs have been recorded by dozens of artists, including Jimmy Buffett, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Bettye Lavette Mike Farris, Kathy Mattea, Bobby Bare, Amy Helm and Candi Staton, and have appeared extensively in Film and Television, most recently on Yellowstone. Her album, Filth and Fire (2002) was named Best Independent CD of the year by the New York Times, and Mary was signed to Universal Lost Highway. Her following 5 records were listed in both the LA Times and NY Times top three releases of the year. She was awarded New Artist of the year by The Americana Music Association in 2005, and her record Mercy Now was named in the top 5 records of the decade by No Depression magazine. Her most recent release, Rifles & Rosary Beads ( a collection of sons co-written with wounded veterans) was nominated for 2018’s record of the year by the Americana Music Association as well she was nominated for a Grammy in 2018 for Best Folk Recording category.

Three Women

Exhibition:"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War
2019-01-11 10:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Reading Room
This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

Meeting:Blue Ribbon Panel Open Meetings
2019-01-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Pierpont Commons - East Room

Lecture / Discussion:U-M Structure Seminar
2019-01-11 10:30 - 11:30 | Life Sciences Institute - Library
Attabey Rodriguez-Benitez, Graduate Student, Alison Narayan and Janet Smith Labs, University of Michigan

Careers / Jobs:CrowdStrike Sales Internships Virtual Info Chat
2019-01-11 11:00 - 11:45
Join CrowdStrike for a virtual talk with Tiara Lawson, Sales Internship Manager! She will be sharing information about our Sales Internship Program and how you can apply for a Summer 2019 internship.

Date:January 11th

To apply now: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oRQE8fwd&s=Handshake

About CrowdStrike:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdstrike/
http://reviews.greatplacetowork.com/crowdstrke-inc

Other:Psychology & CGIS Study Abroad Co-Advising
2019-01-11 11:00 - 12:00 | East Hall - 1343
Walk-in advising for students interested in studying abroad. Come with your questions to speak with both a Psych Advisor and CGIS Advisor in one session!

Workshop / Seminar:The Promise of Smart Materials in Earthquake Resistant Design
2019-01-11 11:00 - 12:00 | GG Brown Laboratory - 2029
Damage from recent earthquakes underscores the importance of developing new
approaches and technologies to improve the performance of structures during
earthquakes. The presentation will highlight applications of one class of smart
materials, shape memory alloys, in improving the performance of structures
subjected to earthquake loading. Shape memory alloys belong to a class of shape
memory materials which can undergo large deformations while reverting back to
their original, undeformed shape. This unique property has led to the development
of numerous applications in the biomedical, aerospace, and commercial industry. A
multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approach is taken to explore the potential use of
these systems for applications in earthquake engineering.

Reginald DesRoches is the Dean of William and Stephanie Sick of Engineering of Rice University.

Careers / Jobs:CrowdStrike Cyber Security Frontlines and Internship Opportunities - Webinar
2019-01-11 12:00 - 12:45
Join us to learn about adversaries and the types of malicious software and campaigns we go against, how we see adversaries acting; what we do with this information during and IR and for proactive purposes with a client.

During this webinar we will shares information about our summer internship opportunities in Professional Services.

Workshop / Seminar:Life After Graduate School Seminar | Building Skynet: How an ultrafast optics physicist became a robotic AI researcher
2019-01-11 12:00 - 13:00 | West Hall - 335
Tim Saucer will present a brief introduction of his path from physics graduate school to working in private industry, followed by a longer discussion of how to navigate the job search process.

Other:Max Kade Haus AY 2019-20
2019-01-11 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Live in the Max Kade German Residence in AY 2019-20!
For information on how to apply, see the website: https://lsa.umich.edu/german/undergraduate-students/max-kade-german-residence/how-to-apply.html

Performance:Live Performances: 2019 Stamps Senior Show
2019-01-11 12:17 | Off Campus Location
The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

Careers / Jobs:Kairos Power Info Session
2019-01-11 12:30 - 13:30 | Pierpont Commons - Boulevard Room (2nd floor)
Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world's transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal of dramatically improving people's quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Kairos Power will be visiting University of Michigan on Friday, January 11th and will be holding an info. session from 12:30pm – 1:30pm in the Boulevard Room, at Pierpont Commons (2nd floor) to give an overview of the company, with Richard Boukal, Director of Supply Chain and Micah Hackett, Director of Technology Development. The company is hiring for many roles across mechanical engineering, project engineering, test engineering, and quality.

Food will be provided by Fireside Cafe

Majors: All engineering majors
Positions: Full-time and Internships
Collecting Resumes?: Yes

Meeting:African Politics Reading Group
2019-01-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Haven Hall - Chair's Conference Room (6551)

Lecture / Discussion:Phondi Discussion Group
2019-01-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Lorch Hall - 473
Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology.

Meeting:Spanish 230 & 232 Open Advising
2019-01-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Weiser Hall - Suite 200
Join Intercultural Programs Advisor David Estrada for open advising for the Spanish 230 programs in Buenos Aires, Argentina; San José, Costa Rica; and Granada, Spain and Spanish 232 in Alicante, Spain. Satisfy your LSA language requirements while also exploring amazing sites and local communities in these beautiful locations!

Meeting:Literary Journalism Meeting
2019-01-11 13:30 - 15:00 | Angell Hall - 3154
Please contact amyarger@umich.edu for more details.

Well-being:Wellness Woof
2019-01-11 13:30 - 15:30 | Intramural Sports Building - Multipurpose Room A
Need to Paws and Refresh? You'll meet a pack of licensed therapy dogs from Therapaws who will help you relax, de-stress and enjoy the moment. Free to enrolled UM students and Rec Sports member with MCard.

Presentation:CCN Forum
2019-01-11 14:00 - 15:00 | East Hall - 4464
Talk Title: From Talkers to Readers: Developing a Reading Brain in Kindergarten

Abstract: A universal marker of proficient reading is print-speech neural convergence, or the integration of visual and auditory language processing in the brain. How and when does this convergence emerge? What drives the development of the print-speech network, setting the stage for successful reading acquisition in young children?

In this talk, we will examine the relationship between spoken language proficiency and the emergence of print-speech convergence in beginning readers. fMRI neuroimaging of kindergarteners (ages 5-6) demonstrates that print-speech convergence is preceded and predicted by language proficiency, which in turn predicts reading ability one year later. These findings suggest that children’s language ability is a core mechanism guiding neural plasticity for learning to read. Results extend our understanding of brain development for literacy to the earliest stages of reading, and bridge theoretical perspectives across developmental psychology, education, and neuroscience.

Bio: Rebecca is a 4th year doctoral candidate in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013 with a degree in Philosophy, Neuroscience & Psychology. While there, she conducted research on language and social cognition in bilingual preschoolers. After graduating, she taught with Teach for America, where she saw her research interest in language development and bilingualism translated to the classroom context. She now works with Dr. Ioulia Kovelman, as well as Fumiko Hoeft (NOTE: PRONOUNCED HAY-FT) at the University of Connecticut, to understand language and literacy development in linguistically diverse youth.

Presentation:Get Involved: How to Give Your Feedback on Department of Ed Title IX Regulations
2019-01-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location - Suite 3D
Join SAPAC and the Ginsberg Center for a drop-in event that will include short informational presentations by Kamaria Porter, PhD Candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, and Erin Byrnes, Lead of Democratic Engagement at the Ginsberg Center, on how to provide feedback on the Department of Education’s proposed regulations on Title IX.

Currently the Department of Education is taking public input on these regulations in what is called a “notice and comment period”. The department must respond to this input before these new regulations are finalized. This event will provide you with information about how to make your opinions heard by the Department of Education and give you the space to draft your own comments.

Light snacks will be provided

When:Friday, January 11th 2:00-5:00PM (Drop in! Short presentations starting at 2:15pm!)
Where: SAPAC Office, 330 E. Liberty Street Suite 3D

Read the proposals here

RSVP Here

Lecture / Discussion:HistLing Discussion Group
2019-01-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Lorch Hall - 403
HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit). Some meetings feature faculty or student presentations; other meetings have an announced topic for discussion and a volunteer moderator.

Meeting:Transfer Student Winter Welcome and Resource Expo
2019-01-11 14:30 - 16:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library
Come discover U-M's resources to help you excel in and out of the classroom! Meet staff members and learn more about:
• Academic Support Resources
• Library Tours & Tools for Success
• Study Abroad
• Wolverine Wellness
• And more!

Careers / Jobs:UCC @ Transfer Winter Welcome and Expo
2019-01-11 14:30 - 16:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, 913 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
The University Career Center will be joining in as a resource at ONSP and the Library's Transfer Winter Welcome and Expo.

Fair / Festival:Winter Welcome & Library Expo
2019-01-11 14:30 - 16:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library
All new and continuing transfer students are invited to the Winter Welcome & Library Expo. Come discover U-M's resources to help you excel in and out of the classroom. Meet staff members and learn more about:
• Academic Support Resources
• Library Tours & Tools for Success
• Study Abroad
• Wolverine Wellness
• And more!

Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
2019-01-11 15:00 - 16:00 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
If you are in Handshake, Click "Join event" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/246730

Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas, but you’re not sure where to get started? Wherever you’re at: that's ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to search for and find a great internship experience!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn aboutother tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy.

**If you're not sure what you're interested in, consider making an "Exploring Major/Career Option" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting.

**If you're a GraduateStudent, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/246730

Workshop / Seminar:Race in Media
2019-01-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
The Office of Student Conflict Resolution and Housing Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution are pleased to be hosting a dialogue in which we will look into the finer points of the portrayal of race in 21st-century media. Participants will have the chance to watch, discuss, and draw conclusions from several situations where racial identities intersect with conflict or illustrate broader trends from the real world. Student-led discussions will delve into the underlying themes that exist in TV shows and movies ranging from The Office to Grey's Anatomy. We hope to create constructive dialogue, as well as potential solutions, as we unravel the complex relationship between race and the media. Attendees will be treated to light refreshments and valuable conversations.

Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group
2019-01-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 473
The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

Lecture / Discussion:Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP)
2019-01-11 15:30 - 17:00 | Haven Hall - Prefunction Room (5769)

Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: The Science of Earthquake Forecasts
2019-01-11 15:30 - 16:30 | 1100 North University Building - Room 1528 -
This talk reviews new ideas about earthquakes that we’ve learned at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), and where we’re headed next.

The danger and cost of earthquakes has focused public fear and research effort in California since long before the devastating 1906 San Francisco and 1933 Long Beach events. Precise earthquake prediction, heralded as imminent in the 1970s, has faltered, maybe permanently, but nevertheless there is progress.

Hosted at USC, with 16 core institutions and more than 60 affiliated organizations, SCEC involves more than 1000 quake cognoscenti. Funding comes from the National Science Foundation, the United States Geological Survey, and special projects with foundation and corporate partners. We are uncloaking the mysteries in plate tectonics, the San Andreas fault system, and how the ground is driven to shake. SCEC investigates all aspects of earthquakes from theoretical models through detailed observations to hazard maps. We foster collaboration among the fields of science and engineering research, computer science, communication and outreach to develop integrated research products used by various stakeholders.

The central point of this intense research, and the result that most directly benefits those living in California, is the improvement of maps of earthquake danger. We find the tectonic fault lines, gauge their geological rates of motion, and model their patterns of rupture and reloading in order to resolve the earthquakes we are likely to face. By simulating, in the nation’s largest computers, the trembling for millions of those earthquakes through high-fidelity models of the rocks just under our feet, we are step-by-step wringing the uncertainty out of the nation’s earthquake hazard maps.

We are on the verge of making the hazard estimation process entirely physics-based - built on models with realistic patterns of fault slip on realistic fault surfaces, accurate models of geological structure, and with the latest models of earthquake cycles on fault systems. Some aspects of the old hazard maps are confirmed. Other aspects, particularly the strength of the reverbera¬tions in the soft Los Angeles basin and its basin brothers across the state, may have been underestimated. A few places are now assessed as safer than before, but answers are not yet final.

SCEC is allowing more apt emergency preparations and building and retrofitting laws, and in the process giving us a deeper understanding of the physics of earthquakes and the geological evolution of the Southern California natural laboratory.

Community Service:Friends of the Campus Farm Workday
2019-01-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens - Campus Farm (transportation from the Ginsberg Center or Oxford Houses)
Once a month the Sustainable Living Experience coordinates with the Friends of the Campus Farm to participate in their weekly volunteer days at the Campus Farm. Check for the online sign up in the Friends of the Campus Farm and SLE newsletters and be sure to let them know you plan on coming by Wednesday of that week.

Workshop / Seminar:How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts
2019-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 340
Abstract: New text-as-data techniques offer a great promise: the ability to discover, measure, and then utilize text-based variables for testing social science theories of interest from large collections of text. We introduce a conceptual framework for making causal inferences with text-based measures as either a treatment or outcome. We argue that nearly all text-based causal inferences depend upon a latent representation of the text and provide a set of sufficient assumptions to identify causal effects when text is used as a treatment or outcome. We provide a framework to learn the latent representation---justifying the use of popular unsupervised methods such as topic modeling or principal component analysis---and then estimate causal effects with the same sample used to learn the latent representation. But estimating the latent representation, we show, creates new risks: we may introduce an identification problem or overfit. To address this problem we introduce a split-sample framework. We apply our framework to study whether increasing the proportion of women on Congressional committees leads to more representation of women’s ideas during the legislative process and to assess how partisans respond to social media messages from President Trump.

Bio: Justin Grimmer is an associate professor of political science at Stanford University. His research examines how representation occurs in American politics using new statistical methods. His first book Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters (Cambridge University Press, 2013) shows how senators define the type of representation they provide constituents and how this affects constituents' evaluations. His second book The Impression of Influence: How Legislator Communication and Government Spending Cultivate a Personal Vote (Under Review, with Sean J. Westwood and Solomon Messing) demonstrates how legislators ensure they receive credit for government actions. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Regulation and Governance, and Poetics. During the 2013-2014 academic year he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institute.

Other:MITS Indoor Track Meet
2019-01-11 16:00 - 23:00 | Bowen Field House, Eastern Michigan University
Indoor track meet hosted by Mick's Meet Management at Eastern Michigan University.

Workshop / Seminar:Seminar Title: "Predicting RNA Structure with Physics and Sequence Comparison"
2019-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 Chemistry
Abstract: RNA structure is hierarchical. The primary structure is the sequence of nucleotides. The secondary structure is the set of canonical (AU, GC, and GU) base pairs. The tertiary structure is the three dimensional position of the atoms and the additional intramolecular contacts that mediate the fold.

The Mathews lab develops methods to predict both RNA secondary structure and tertiary structure. In this talk, I will introduce nearest neighbor parameters for estimating folding stability of secondary structures and dynamic programming algorithms that predict secondary structure. I will then talk about new work in our lab to compare sequences to model conserved secondary structures. We developed a new method, called TurboFold, which is able to rapidly refine predicted secondary structures using sequence comparison and rapidly refine sequence alignments using structure information. I will also talk about new work to model RNA folding stability using molecular mechanics and 3D models. We used umbrella sampling to estimate the unfolding free energy change differences for three stem-loop structures, and we found good agreement with experiments.

Reception / Open House:Transfer Student Welcome Reception
2019-01-11 16:30 - 18:30 | Michigan League - Vandenberg Room
All new transfer students are invited to the annual Winter Transfer Student Welcome Reception. Here's your chance to enjoy free food, meet new friends, and learn about getting connected on campus!

No RSVP required. Event is casual. Students with children are welcome to bring them to the event.

Reception / Open House:Winter Transfer Student Welcome Reception
2019-01-11 16:30 - 18:30 | Michigan League - Vandenberg Room
All new transfer students are invited to the annual Winter Transfer Student Welcome Reception. Here's your chance to enjoy free food, meet new friends, and learn about getting connected on campus!

Lecture / Discussion:Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Sonia Seeman, University of Texas-Austin
2019-01-11 17:00 | Off Campus Location - Glenn E. Watkins Lecture Hall
Abstract:

Recent theoretical explorations of music as affective labor in post-Fordist economic systems from Hardt and Negri provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between musicking and social, political and economic systems. However, these approaches are hampered by subsuming various forms of effort into a totalizing view of labor. I propose re-theorizing aesthetic affective work as distinct from generalized and flat considerations of labor, thus bringing to light changes in economic and political systems of exchanges, governance and control. Understanding musical effort as craftsmanship in relation to aesthetic affective work enable us to document the ways that changes from early to late capitalism in mediatized and mechanized forms of effort and compensation that are increasingly replacing aesthetic work with exploited forms of labor.
To illustrate the power of a theory of affective musical work, I offer two seemingly quite different case studies. An effort-centered analysis of the Bach family’s musical activities in 17th - 18th century Western Europe illuminates significant economic and social changes that in turn shaped individual musical subjectivities, as their musical output shaped society and economic treatment of musicians. The second case study examines various strategies over time of the Sesler family, a Roman professional musician kin group from 1920s – 2010s in Serres, Greece and Turkey. The purpose of these case studies is not to provide definitive insights into each of these areas, but rather to suggest a theorization of affective work based on nuancing the categories of musical effort according to local concepts and evaluations. Such theoretical considerations would be applicable to and productive for divergent musical genres, time periods and places.

Performance:John Oates
2019-01-11 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Solo music from one-half of Hall & Oates
