BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210730T180002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T235959 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Summer Orientation Virtual Org Fair 2021 | TABLES ARE LIVE ON 7/30 FROM 4-6PM! DESCRIPTION:This Summer Orientation virtual fair is an opportunity for incoming students to be connected with student organizations and university departments before coming to campus this fall. Virtual tables will be live on Friday\, July 30th from 4-6pm\, but you can explore the fair and participating orgs/departments anytime before that!For more information for participants\, please visit:https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/attending-summer-orientation-fairs UID:84327-21625128@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84327 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Online CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210511T124519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Become a UROP Research Mentor DESCRIPTION:Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html\n\nUROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration\, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention\, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UID:83879-21619481@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Mentorship,Research,research data,Staff,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210430T095709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Changing Gears Application Open DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Changing Gears Program and apply at: myumi.ch/uropcg\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program. UID:83922-21616986@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T154528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:That Greece Might Still Be Free DESCRIPTION:Learn about the Greek War of Independence\, 19th century European international politics\, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence\, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq\n\nThe exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program\, William McClelland and Quinn Byington\, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor. UID:84737-21624714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210804T182828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application now open DESCRIPTION:The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program\, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research\, a liberal arts education\, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process\, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.\n\nApply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs UID:82067-21015004@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210701T145834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Garden of Earthy Delights: Ceramic Sculptures by Ann Arbor Potters Guild at Matthaei Botanical Gardens DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the synergy between nature’s beauty and complexity\, and in partnership with the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens\, artists from the Ann Arbor Potters Guild created work centered around Michigan’s natural landscapes and specifically for the Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei. Potters Guild artists created eight free-standing sculptures using the full range of traditional ceramic methods and tools\, the potter’s wheel\, press molds\, coil building\, slab construction\, and sculpting. Depictions range from naturalistic and representational\, to abstract\, as well as a whimsical nod or two to the timeless role of fantasy and myth in humankind’s communion with nature. Exhibit is free but scheduled reservations are required to visit the botanical gardens. Use this link to book your visit: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050f4aadad22a2fd0-matthaei1 UID:84388-21623696@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Outdoors LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210716T084015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Engineering Faculty & Staff Community Re-Entry Events DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce three fun and informative events for faculty and staff to celebrate the beginning of a new residential academic year! The events will allow each participant to reconnect with colleagues\, visit their department\, and complete items on the STARR Return to Campus Checklist. \n\nTIME/DATE:\nOn the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove from 11 AM - 1 PM \nRegistration will be limited to the first 250 people per event. \nSecure your spot today for one or more of the three events!\n\nTuesday\, July 13\nWednesday\, July 21\nThursday\, July 29\n \n*Note: Location and event details subject to change due to inclement weather.\n \nEach day will include lunch\, ice cream\, numerous games and activities\, raffles\, and information booths - all in an outdoor setting. Events will follow current COVID-19 UM guidelines\, and participants will be asked to show their ResponsiBLUE app at registration. \n\nDepartmental leadership and managers will be onsite to welcome you and facilitate any questions you may have regarding your return to campus. Staff and faculty are strongly encouraged to attend at least one of the re-entry events. \n\n\nBENEFITS:\n- Opportunities to explore the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building\n- Visit information booths - U-M Public Health/Culture of Testing\, ResponsiBLUE\, HR\, MHealthy\, MDining\, Planet Blue\, and more!\n- Get your MCard updated at Pierpont Commons\n- Enjoy lunch and ice cream\n- Play games and see familiar faces \n- WIN PRIZES! Dozens of daily prizes\, like restaurant gift cards and U-M Football tickets with Dean Gallimore\n \nPlease register today. Your colleagues and campus can’t wait to see you! UID:84398-21623851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84398 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:college of engineering,Culture,Faculty,Staff LOCATION:The Grove CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210701T105733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:ALUM|NUM and URAN|UM Event DESCRIPTION:Join us for this annual summer event!\nAlum|NUM (pronounced “aluminum”) stands for Alumni Networking at UMich. Chemistry department alumni connect with current graduate students\, postdoctoral scholars\, and faculty. \n\nURAN|UM (pronounced “uranium”) stands for Undergraduate Research and Networking at UMich. Undergraduates in chemistry related departments an opportunity to connect with to Faculty\, alumni\, and current graduate students at UMich. UID:84382-21623658@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84382 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Alumni,Chemistry,symposium,Undergraduate,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210813T123044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:CohnReznick Presents: Resume Writing DESCRIPTION:Join us for our CohnReznick Presents Summer Series to help youprepare for the Fall recruiting season and learn about the positions available in our Mid-Atlantic offices (Baltimore and Bethesda\, MD\, Tysons\, VA and Charlotte\, NC).\n\nA résumé (also spelled resume) is a brief document that summarizes your education\, employment history\, and experiences that are relevant to your qualifications for a particular role for whichyou are applying. The purpose of a résumé is to get an interview!\n\nInthis session\, we will provide detailed explanations\, as well step-by-step processes\, for creating an effective résumé. \n\nPlease be sure to register today to stay updated on the event!\n\nSpace is limited\, so be sure to reserve your spot by 5 PM ST / 2 PM PST the day before the event using the link provided. UID:84682-21624422@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210629T091553 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Research Symposium and Professional Development Day for Undergrads DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 29\, 1:00 pm ET\nWe would like to invite you to attend the Big Data Summer Institute's (BDSI's) CAPSTONE Event\, our concluding Research Symposium on Big Data Health and Statistics. Undergraduate students will give presentations based on the data sets they have been working on in their project groups followed by our Keynote Speaker\, Dr. Amy Herring from Duke University.\n\nFriday\, July 30\, 10:00 am ET\nJoin us for an Undergraduate Professional Development Day\, with a session led by the Princeton Review then followed by Admissions Panels with faculty and student representatives from both the Biostatistics and Statistics Departments at the University of Michigan.\n\nThere is no fee to attend these virtual events. \n\nFor more information and to register\, please visit: www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com UID:84367-21623607@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84367 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Big Data,biostatistics,Professional Development,Research,symposium,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210602T135602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T140000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:UROP Summer Virtual Office Hours DESCRIPTION:UROP Staff will be available during the summer via Zoom office hours to answer questions from those who drop in. No appointment necessary.\n\nWednesdays (1-2pm ET)\nThursdays (1-2pm ET)\nFriday (11:30am - 12:30pm ET)\nhttps://myumi.ch/1p1d3\n\nThe Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) offers several different programs throughout the academic year for University of Michigan-Ann Arbor undergraduate students to discover the world of research through collaborations with U-M researchers. Students participating in the program are called research assistants and work alongside a faculty member\, research scientist or professional practitioner on an ongoing or new research project. UID:84176-21620730@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,AEM Featured,Applications,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Office Hours,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210506T120852 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T153000 SUMMARY:Meeting:CoderSpaces (Thursdays) DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces\, Mondays – Thursdays\, during the Summer 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.\n\nThe virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty\, staff\, and students with research methodology\, statistics\, data science applications\, and computational programming for research.\n\nOur hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.\n\nCoderSpaces provide a casual\, productive\, and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.\n\nThursdays 2-3:30 p.m.\nJoin via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/99436245948)\n*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.\n\nwith Bennet Fauber (ARC)\, Bridget Hegarty (CEE)\, Erin Ware (SRC/ISR)\, Kelly Sovacool (DCMB)\n\nExpertise: automation of tasks and workflows\, Bash\, batch scripting\, data management\, Git\, GitHub\, high performance computing\, installing software on University clusters\, Linux\, math for data science\, Python\, R\, R Markdown\, R tidyverse\, SAS\, Slurm\, Snakemake\, statistical modeling UID:83931-21619158@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data Science,Information And Technology,Office Hours LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210813T123043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:PPD Summer Series: Diversity and Inclusion at PPD DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the PPD Summer Series! This summer\, we will be hosting 5 virtual events covering laboratory best practices\, diversity and inclusion\, career paths\, and professional skills. Join us for our third event\, Diversity and Inclusion at PPD.\n\nPPD is a leading global contractresearch organization providing comprehensive\, integrated drug development\, laboratory and lifecycle management services. Our clients and partners include pharmaceutical\, biotechnology\, medical device\, academic and government organizations. With offices in 47 countries and approximately 27\,000 professionals worldwide\, PPD applies innovative technologies\, therapeutic expertise and a firm commitment to quality to help clients and partners bend the cost and time curve of drug development to deliver life-changing therapies that improve health.\n\nJoin the company that is driving the future of pharmaceutical development. Explore PPD Opportunities and follow us on Facebook\, LinkedIn\, Instagram and Twitter by clicking the icons on our site.\n\nwww.ppd.com/careers UID:84676-21624416@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84676 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210813T123040 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Looking for your dream job? Come learn about recruiting! DESCRIPTION:TEKsystems is currently hiring in multiple locations across the US! \n\nHave you recently graduated but haven't found your dream job yet? Are you considering a career change and weighing new options? Recruitingcan be the best kept secret of career opportunities!\nYou don't hear kidssaying\, \"I want to be a recruiter when I grow up\,\" but staffing (the art of matching people with jobs) is a $144.5 billion dollar industry in theUS. Recruiting can be a lifelong career calling OR a stepping stone into another career path. Although hospitality\, marketing\, communications\, and sales are the most common employee backgrounds\, a great training program can prepare anyone from an English major to a social worker for a successful career in recruiting!\n\nWe're all trying to find that dream job\, but it can be hard to sift through the thousands of career paths and industries in the business world. Recruiting might be the job for you if: \n• You love building relationships and interacting with people all day \n• You have a competitive streak but still like collaborating with a team \n• You've thought about sales but would rather be a consultative matchmaker than someone just pushing a product \n• You enjoy the satisfaction of helping others \n• You'd rather see immediate reward in your weekly paycheck (base + commission) as opposed to waiting for a 5% raise at the endof the year\n\nJoin Stefanie\, Gloria\, Haylee\, and Angela from the TEKsystems hiring team for an info session about the perks and challenges of acareer in recruiting\, culture at TEKsystems\, and the Q&A that YOU want to hear! This is an informal event\, and we welcome everyone who is looking to learn more about recruiting or who is interested in a business careerat TEKsystems.\n\nOpen Opportunities @ TEK: \nTechnical Recruiter – Orlando Delivery Center (Lake Mary\, FL)\nTechnical Recruiter – Philadelphia Delivery Center (Wayne\, PA)\nTechnical Recruiter – Phoenix Delivery Center (Tempe\, AZ)\nTechnical Recruiter – Milwaukee Delivery Center (Milwaukee\, WI)\n\nInterested but can't attend? Please reach out to Stefanie (smarshal@teksystems.com) or Gloria (gmcnerney@teksystems.com) about our open jobs.\n UID:84594-21624189@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84594 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20211209T160155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T160000 SUMMARY:Other:LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours DESCRIPTION:The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions\, get help working through a problem\, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!\n\nNot sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.\n\n*Digital Scholarship*\nOur digital scholarship team specializes in humanities\, social sciences\, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:\n* Conceptualizing\, planning\, and finding resources for a digital project\n* How to version\, archive\, and preserve a project\n* Sustainability\, preservation\, accessibility\, privacy\, consent\, or grant requirements\nNew to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project\, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage\, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.\n\n*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*\n\nOur GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs\, including the following:\n* Making maps for use in a class\, grant proposal\, or publication\n* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data\n* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data\n* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map\n* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story\n* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline\n* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform\, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online\, or other geospatial software\n* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application\n\n*High Performance Computing (HPC)*\n\nOur HPC team can help with:\n* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster\n* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster\, freeing up your machines for other tasks\n* Compiling\, installing\, or configuring a wide range of computational software\n* Setting up automated workflows to save time\n* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing\n* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing\, more memory or system resources for your code\nWe regularly support Python\, R\, MATLAB\, C/C++\, Java\, Julia\, Go\, and many other applications.\n\n*Research Support Programming*\n\nOur computer programming team can help with any of the following:\n\n* Debugging\, repair\, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code\n* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project\n* Design and development of custom software to support your research\n* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.\n* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals\nWe're experienced in MATLAB\, Python\, R\, LabVIEW\, JavaScript\, MedPC\, iOS development\, and more.\n\nWho can join the office hours?\nLSA Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming\n\nWhen and where is it?\nOur virtual office hours use Zoom:\nMondays\, 2:00–3:00 P.M.\nTuesdays\, 10:00–11:00 A.M.\nThursdays\, 3:00–4:00 P.M. UID:77718-20270809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Digital Humanities,Digital Projects,Digital Scholarship,Faculty,Gis,Graduate Students,Humanities,Lsa,Office Hours,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Qualitative Social Sciences,research,Science,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210713T172032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Collaborative Science Conversations: Designing Science for Coastal and Ocean Decision Making DESCRIPTION:Collaborative science and the co-production of science involve working closely with partners at every stage - from conceptualizing a new project\, to conducting the research\, to refining tools to best meet a management need. The goal is to encourage mutually beneficial exchanges between researchers and resource managers. Essential to collaborative science is building relationships and engendering trust among the partners. NOAA’s NERRS Science Collaborative and RESTORE Science programs support collaborative science through funding and partnerships around protected and at-risk coastal and ocean areas. \n\nThis webinar\, the first jointly hosted event between the NERRS Science Collaborative and RESTORE programs\, will feature a panel discussion among three contributors to the programs\, highlighting important lessons learned and experiences on how to become effective co-producers of science. UID:84462-21624027@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84462 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T121140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T163000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Enjoy the Planetarium from Home! DESCRIPTION:A thirty-minute\, lighthearted review of the current night sky\, including constellations\, visible planets\, and other current astronomical events. Short Q&A session follows.\n\nGroups of 7 or more should consider booking a private show for the best experience. UID:82986-21623585@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82986 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Family,natural history museum,UMMA,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210813T123041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T180000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Better Together: Tech in Texas DESCRIPTION:At Better we aim to foster inclusion while championing diversity in all forms. We understand the unquestionable value of building a truly diverse workforce in order to achieve our mission of accessible homeownership. In order to do this we have to continuously hire from communities that are representative of the communities we serve. The Better Together series is designed to provide awareness of Better’s mission\, core values\, culture\, hiring opportunities and impact in all communities.\n\nIn our upcoming Better Together webinar\, we'll discuss our new Texas marketing and how we are moving closer to Better’s mission to make homeownership more accessible to all. You’ll also hear from a range of Better employees across Sales and Operations\, and learn how their work furthers that mission every day. UID:84666-21624406@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84666 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210628T155945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T193000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:DCERP Showcase DESCRIPTION:July 29th 5:30 - 7:30pm ET\nRegister at: myumi.ch/WwgoR\nVirtual Summer Showcase is the culminating event for the DCERP Fellows where students present about their projects and the insights they have gained.\n\nThrough the Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (DCERP)\, undergraduate students from the U-M spend the summer working with a wide variety of Detroit non-profits on research and creative projects led by the organizations themselves. DCERP fellows attend program meetings and form small collaborative learning groups that delve into topics of mutual interest\, such as getting to know the city\, its culture and history through a social justice lens\, community engagement\, personal growth and professional development. UID:84366-21623594@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84366 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Dcerp,Detroit,Fellowship,Free,Research,Social Impact,Social Justice,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210722T122528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T210000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Understanding Network Structures DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock \n\nThe 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual\, free and open to the public. UID:84697-21624452@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data Science,Education,Free,Lecture,Research,Science,Social Sciences,Talk,Virtual,Webcast,Webinar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T115510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210729T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Kim Richey (Rescheduled from 8/17/20) DESCRIPTION:*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws\, orders\, ordinances\, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan\, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark\, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*\n\nTonight Kim Richey revisits her classic 1999 album \"Glimmer\"! “I started off that record scared to death\,” Kim recalls of making Glimmer with producer Hugh Padgham back in 1999 in New York and London. A disastrous haircut\, unfamiliar musicians\, and oversized budgets didn't help matters. “It wasn’t the way I was used to making records.” The way Richey was used to making records was with friends in a vibed-out\, low-key setting. That's how she made her debut album with Richard Bennett\, and it's how she made her new album\, \"Long Way Back ... The Songs of Glimmer\,\" with Doug Lancio. So \"Glimmer\" was different\, and not just on the production side. Then\, as now\, the compositions that make up \"Glimmer\" were the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter's first collection of true confessionals. Prior to that she'd been a staff writer at Blue Water Music writing from a more arm's-length vantage point for her first two releases\, 1995's \"Kim Richey\" and 1997's \"Bitter Sweet.\" But \"Glimmer\" was all her. Come and experience this classic of American songwriting anew. UID:72463-18009366@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72463 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210730T180002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T235959 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Summer Orientation Virtual Org Fair 2021 | TABLES ARE LIVE ON 7/30 FROM 4-6PM! DESCRIPTION:This Summer Orientation virtual fair is an opportunity for incoming students to be connected with student organizations and university departments before coming to campus this fall. Virtual tables will be live on Friday\, July 30th from 4-6pm\, but you can explore the fair and participating orgs/departments anytime before that!For more information for participants\, please visit:https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/attending-summer-orientation-fairs UID:84327-21625129@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84327 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Online CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210511T124519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Become a UROP Research Mentor DESCRIPTION:Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html\n\nUROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration\, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention\, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UID:83879-21619482@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Mentorship,Research,research data,Staff,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210430T095709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Changing Gears Application Open DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Changing Gears Program and apply at: myumi.ch/uropcg\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program. UID:83922-21616987@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T154528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:That Greece Might Still Be Free DESCRIPTION:Learn about the Greek War of Independence\, 19th century European international politics\, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence\, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq\n\nThe exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program\, William McClelland and Quinn Byington\, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor. UID:84737-21624715@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210804T182828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application now open DESCRIPTION:The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program\, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research\, a liberal arts education\, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process\, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.\n\nApply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs UID:82067-21015005@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210707T233418 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T171500 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Karle Symposium DESCRIPTION:Annual overview of research in the Department of Chemistry\, organized and presented by graduate students\n\nRegister on the Karle Symposium website\n--------\nKeynote Speaker:\nProf. Stuart Conway\, University of Oxford\n\"Chemical Epigenetics: Chemical Approaches to Understanding the Function of Epigenetic Machinery in Disease\"\n\nPlenary Speaker:\nMehran Arbab\, PhD.\, PPG Industries\, Inc.\n\"Materials Science for Sustainability\" UID:84409-21623884@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84409 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Basic Science,Chemistry,Graduate Students,Research,Science LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210814T063031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T100000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:PetSmart's Swiss Army Knife: How FP&A Supports Our Business and Drives Profit DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in business strategy but aren’t sure which department is right for you? A career in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) may be the perfect fit! Find out how FP&A supports every department at PetSmart in driving one cohesive strategy and\, ultimately\, help us make more money! UID:84477-21624072@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210719T110210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T110000 SUMMARY:Presentation:BME Ph.D. Defense: Alyse Krausz DESCRIPTION:Diagnostic and monitoring devices based on protein biomarker measurements have the potential to inform courses of treatment in acute conditions and to help manage and prevent disease progression in chronic conditions. The importance of diagnostic and monitoring devices cannot be overstated as medicine is blind without them. However\, prevalent conditions such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) lack adequate diagnostic and monitoring tools. \n \nAssessment of TBI is typically done through neurological examination and neuroimaging techniques. While these methods can identify direct tissue damage to the brain\, they cannot assess the secondary damage stemming from the initial injury. The primary tissue damage sets off a cascade of secondary injuries\, such as neuronal cell death\, blood brain barrier breakdown\, edema\, and upregulation of inflammatory markers. Protein biomarkers have been proposed as a way of monitoring the progression of secondary TBI injury and of providing more sensitive diagnostic measures when used in conjunction with imaging and physical examination. However\, FDA authorized biomarkers\, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin c-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1)\, can currently only be measured in a hospital laboratory. Analyzing TBI biomarker data in field and pre-hospital settings would enable rapid diagnosis and delivery of care\, so we developed a glass and silicon microfluidic device for quantification of TBI protein biomarkers via bead-based immunoassay. The device consists of a single channel with a variable height profile fabricated by slowly lowering a glass wafer into hydrofluoric acid. The device can capture and separate beads with diameters ranging from 1 to 5 micrometers. We also developed bead-based quantum dot-linked immunosorbent assays (QLISAs) for GFAP\, interleukin-6 (IL-6)\, and interleukin-8 (IL-8) by conjugating appropriate antibodies to 2.8\, 4.5\, and 1 micrometer diameter beads\, respectively. We used the variable height device to passively separate a mixture of assay beads with completed immunocomplexes into distinct bands where the diameter of the beads matched the height of the channel. The fluorescent intensity of each band was used to quantify a different biomarker concentration\, resulting in a customizable brain injury barcode. By changing out the bead size and antibodies used for each immunoassay\, the variable height device can keep pace with the developing field of TBI biomarker discovery and validation or be applied to biomarkers for another condition of interest. \n \nWe also developed an assay system to monitor CKD\, which is one of the ten most common chronic conditions in adults aged 65 and older. Clinical guidelines currently recommend that the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) be measured once a year to monitor disease progression. However\, measuring the ACR at home can enable patients to self-identify the early signs of disease progression and consult their physicians\, potentially leading to improved outcomes. We designed and analytically validated inexpensive\, colorimetric assays for urinary albumin and creatinine intended to be used in a 3D-printed\, disposable microfluidic device. Discrepancies between the results from the colorimetric albumin assay and the hospital albumin assay when clinical urine samples were tested highlight the importance of incorporating analytical validation as a checkpoint in the development of microfluidic monitoring systems. \n \nOverall\, this work presents a novel method of multiplexing immunoassays in microfluidic systems that can be applied to measure protein biomarkers for TBI or another condition of interest and highlights the importance of integrating assay design with microfluidic device design to promote clinical translation.\n \nDate: Friday\, July 30\, 2021\nTime: 10:00 AM\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpdu2rrjsqH9LM0c4DZ8bs8Uj0BdggOEeE (pre-registration required)\nChair: Dr. Mark Burns UID:84644-21624348@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biomedical,biomedical engineering,bme,Michigan Engineering,Research,Science LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210814T063045 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Open Interview Hiring Event DESCRIPTION:Hiring for….\nCustomer Experience Coordinator\nRetail Backroom Coordinator \nRetail Merchandise Associate \n\nFull and Part time positions available UID:84813-21625053@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84813 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:27149 Chagrin Boulevard, Beachwood, Ohio 44122, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210629T091553 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Research Symposium and Professional Development Day for Undergrads DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 29\, 1:00 pm ET\nWe would like to invite you to attend the Big Data Summer Institute's (BDSI's) CAPSTONE Event\, our concluding Research Symposium on Big Data Health and Statistics. Undergraduate students will give presentations based on the data sets they have been working on in their project groups followed by our Keynote Speaker\, Dr. Amy Herring from Duke University.\n\nFriday\, July 30\, 10:00 am ET\nJoin us for an Undergraduate Professional Development Day\, with a session led by the Princeton Review then followed by Admissions Panels with faculty and student representatives from both the Biostatistics and Statistics Departments at the University of Michigan.\n\nThere is no fee to attend these virtual events. \n\nFor more information and to register\, please visit: www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com UID:84367-21623608@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84367 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Big Data,biostatistics,Professional Development,Research,symposium,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210602T135602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T123000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:UROP Summer Virtual Office Hours DESCRIPTION:UROP Staff will be available during the summer via Zoom office hours to answer questions from those who drop in. No appointment necessary.\n\nWednesdays (1-2pm ET)\nThursdays (1-2pm ET)\nFriday (11:30am - 12:30pm ET)\nhttps://myumi.ch/1p1d3\n\nThe Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) offers several different programs throughout the academic year for University of Michigan-Ann Arbor undergraduate students to discover the world of research through collaborations with U-M researchers. Students participating in the program are called research assistants and work alongside a faculty member\, research scientist or professional practitioner on an ongoing or new research project. UID:84176-21620741@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,AEM Featured,Applications,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Office Hours,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210330T093455 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fulbright U.S. Student Program: 2021 Application. Q&A Brown Bag Session DESCRIPTION:Do you have thoughts about your specific Fulbright U.S. Student Program goals? Join us for a lunchtime question and answer session\, where you're welcome to chat about the 2021 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Application\, as well as listen to fellow U-M students voice their questions. \n\nThis session will not be recorded.\n\nSchedules:\n04/30/2021\; 05/28/2021\; 06/25/2021\; 07/30/2021\n12:00-1:00 PM UID:83413-21375686@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83413 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fulbright,Scholarship,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210713T162747 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T130000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:The University Career Center (UCC)- We Got You Covered! DESCRIPTION:Want to get a summer internship? Be a standout medical school applicant? And develop professional skills? UCC has got you covered! We are experts in connecting students to opportunities. The University Career Center can answer your questions and much more! We can help you explore career options\, find an internship\, prepare a resume\, build interviewing skills\, and explore medical and graduate school. Take advantage of: workshops\, 1:1 career coaching\, job and internship fairs\, connections to employers and alumni.\n\nAudience: incoming first-year and transfer students\, rising second-year students\, and families & parents UID:84455-21624020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84455 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210323T131550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210730T230000 SUMMARY:Performance:(CANCELLED) Gina Chavez & Carrie Rodriguez - Rescheduled from 7/31/2020 DESCRIPTION:Tickets on sale July 24! UID:74169-18557776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/74169 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210730T180002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T181500 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Summer Orientation Virtual Org Fair 2021 | TABLES ARE LIVE ON 7/30 FROM 4-6PM! DESCRIPTION:This Summer Orientation virtual fair is an opportunity for incoming students to be connected with student organizations and university departments before coming to campus this fall. Virtual tables will be live on Friday\, July 30th from 4-6pm\, but you can explore the fair and participating orgs/departments anytime before that!For more information for participants\, please visit:https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/attending-summer-orientation-fairs UID:84327-21625130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84327 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Online CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210511T124519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Become a UROP Research Mentor DESCRIPTION:Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html\n\nUROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration\, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention\, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UID:83879-21619483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Mentorship,Research,research data,Staff,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210430T095709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Changing Gears Application Open DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Changing Gears Program and apply at: myumi.ch/uropcg\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program. UID:83922-21616988@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T154528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:That Greece Might Still Be Free DESCRIPTION:Learn about the Greek War of Independence\, 19th century European international politics\, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence\, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq\n\nThe exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program\, William McClelland and Quinn Byington\, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor. UID:84737-21624716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210804T182828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application now open DESCRIPTION:The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program\, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research\, a liberal arts education\, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process\, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.\n\nApply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs UID:82067-21015006@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210815T063045 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210731T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Open Interview Hiring Event DESCRIPTION:Hiring for….\nCustomer Experience Coordinator\nRetail Backroom Coordinator \nRetail Merchandise Associate \n\nFull and Part time positions available UID:84814-21625054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84814 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:27149 Chagrin Boulevard, Beachwood, Ohio 44122, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210511T124519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Become a UROP Research Mentor DESCRIPTION:Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html\n\nUROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration\, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention\, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UID:83879-21619484@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Mentorship,Research,research data,Staff,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210430T095709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Changing Gears Application Open DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Changing Gears Program and apply at: myumi.ch/uropcg\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program. UID:83922-21616989@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T154528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:That Greece Might Still Be Free DESCRIPTION:Learn about the Greek War of Independence\, 19th century European international politics\, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence\, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq\n\nThe exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program\, William McClelland and Quinn Byington\, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor. UID:84737-21624717@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210804T182828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application now open DESCRIPTION:The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program\, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research\, a liberal arts education\, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process\, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.\n\nApply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs UID:82067-21015007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210701T145834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Garden of Earthy Delights: Ceramic Sculptures by Ann Arbor Potters Guild at Matthaei Botanical Gardens DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the synergy between nature’s beauty and complexity\, and in partnership with the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens\, artists from the Ann Arbor Potters Guild created work centered around Michigan’s natural landscapes and specifically for the Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei. Potters Guild artists created eight free-standing sculptures using the full range of traditional ceramic methods and tools\, the potter’s wheel\, press molds\, coil building\, slab construction\, and sculpting. Depictions range from naturalistic and representational\, to abstract\, as well as a whimsical nod or two to the timeless role of fantasy and myth in humankind’s communion with nature. Exhibit is free but scheduled reservations are required to visit the botanical gardens. Use this link to book your visit: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050f4aadad22a2fd0-matthaei1 UID:84388-21623699@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Outdoors LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T130320 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210801T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Steel Wheels DESCRIPTION:*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws\, orders\, ordinances\, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan\, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark\, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*\n\nSimultaneously familiar and fresh\, the Steel Wheels bring a singular energy to every note they play and sparkling craft to each song. This potent combination\, paired with a robust tour calendar\, have made the veteran band hands-down favorites of fans and peers alike. From their base in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains\, TSW have played the most prestigious festivals\, listening rooms\, and clubs in the world\, cementing a reputation as one of the top independent bands on the scene today.\n\nWith their 2020 release\, Everyone A Song\, Vol. 1\, The Steel Wheels demonstrate the humanizing power of honest storytelling\, setting the personal experiences of their supporters to song. \n\nWhat started as a ruined touring season turned into a time of great creativity\, as the band devised a new model of writing and recording. With the 5 members isolated from each other and their listeners\, they quickly shifted from veteran touring outfit to home recording gurus. Songwriter and lead singer Trent Wagler conceived of a project entitled Distance Together\, an avenue for fans of the band to commission works and send musical greetings to their loved ones. The initiative sparked a surprisingly impactful and intimate songwriting process\, with Wagler setting the personal stories of fans to song and verse. Songs were written for individuals\, friends\, and families\, many specific to a time and place. Some have been commissioned for weddings and anniversaries\, or to commemorate a lost loved one or the completion of a life's work. \n\nIn \"My Name is Sharon\"\, Wagler was tasked with memorializing a young woman and friend of the band\, lost at the age of 35. The resulting song remembers details of Sharon's life\, in all it's profundity and mundanity\, and demonstrates the power of remembrance held in saying someone's name. \n\nAlbum ender “Family is Power” follows the matriarch of a large family\, as she looks back on her long life and the family she loves\, now spread across the country. “She’s gonna see the truth in me\, in the golden hour. Come to the table one and all\, Family is Power.” In “The Healer\,” buoyant banjo and fiddle lines drive the story of a magnetic personality who\, after a lifetime of work and service is denied the opportunity to say goodbye to colleagues in the midst of the pandemic. “Water and Sky”\, a tribute to John Prine in its simplicity and depth\, paints pictures of a dreamy Kansas landscape\, and the strong personalities who hold witness to the ebb and flow of life. \n\nThe Steel Wheels have always been fiercely independent\, releasing albums under their own label\, with recording locations varying from a Virginia cabin\, to a rural Maine studio to various home studios. Now spread across 3 states with many miles between\, The Steel Wheels have invented an entirely new way of collaborating. Fortunately two of the members\, multi-instrumentalist Jay Lapp and percussionist Kevin Garcia were already skilled audio engineers with home studios at the ready. Others\, such as fiddle player Eric Brubaker\, who had to scrounge together a few mics from the touring van and an old laptop\, learning the ropes of digital audio recording on the fly. \n\nAccording to Brubaker\, \"Process has a great deal to do with the outcome of a creative undertaking. Some of the pressure is off when you are just at home\, instead of at an expensive studio\, so you might take some risks that you wouldn’t usually. Also\, we were working at a pretty fast pace\, so you just had to trust your first instinct and not overthink it.” \n\nDuring the first few months of the pandemic and cessation of all touring\, The Steel Wheels recorded over 60 songs in their isolated studios. Some covers\, some new editions of their own songs\, and some newly penned\, the creations generally started with Wagler recording a single instrument and vocals. The tracks were emailed to Garcia\, who layered in a backbone of percussion. Next in line was usually Brian Dickel who rounded out the rhythm section with upright and electric bass parts. \n\nPart by part\, the songs were arranged and recorded\, often with little discussion as to who was providing which part\, or even what instruments should be included. The band relied on their years of musical camaraderie and intuition to imagine the whole\, adding their voices while being careful to leave room for the next in line. The process yielded some exciting new sounds\, from the neo soul vocals and punchy bass lines of “Florida Girl” to the second line swagger of Garcia’s drums on “The Man Who Holds Up the World.\" \n\nThe Steel Wheels have been a band marked by their road tested friendship and desire to build community. 2020 would have marked their 8th year as hosts and curators of their Red Wing Roots Music Festival. Always a high-water mark of the year\, the 3 day festival brings together thousands of fans and friends every July to sing and sweat together in the Virginia sun. \n\nEveryone A Song\, Vol. 1 was born out of a desire to close the distance created in the midst of the Covid-19 shutdown. “Maybe I was dreaming of being an essential worker\,” says Wagler. “It made me ask the question: what’s essential about music? It’s the connection. The understanding. The beauty and magic of melodies that transcend us with the words that say\, ‘You there\, I see you\, and you see me\, and doesn’t it feel good to not be alone in the world?’ That’s what art has to offer. Especially right now. And planting real stories right in the middle of it kind of pushed aside any other pretense or distraction about being cool or whatever.” \n\nThis project has been further documented in an accompanying podcast\, We Made You a Song. Each episode dives into the creation of a single song on the album\, serving as an in-depth audio liner note. Wagler interviews the band as well as the actual subjects of each song to give a rare glimpse into the creative process\, and what it means for someone to have their experience distilled into melody and rhyme. UID:84213-21620767@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84213 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210511T124519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Become a UROP Research Mentor DESCRIPTION:Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html\n\nUROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration\, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention\, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UID:83879-21619485@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Mentorship,Research,research data,Staff,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210430T095709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Changing Gears Application Open DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Changing Gears Program and apply at: myumi.ch/uropcg\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program. UID:83922-21616990@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T154528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:That Greece Might Still Be Free DESCRIPTION:Learn about the Greek War of Independence\, 19th century European international politics\, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence\, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq\n\nThe exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program\, William McClelland and Quinn Byington\, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor. UID:84737-21624718@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210804T182828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application now open DESCRIPTION:The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program\, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research\, a liberal arts education\, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process\, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.\n\nApply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs UID:82067-21015008@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210817T063046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP for this program. Click \"Join Event\" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/789229\n\nJust 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 Resume Lab isa great next step for you.\n\nGet real-time\, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the virtual Resume Lab. \n\nWe will discuss and educate you on…\n- Design and format\n- Writing a great bullet point\n- Targeting your resume for specific internships/jobs\n\nIf 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.\n\nNote: 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 ofU-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/789229\n\nRecent Grads: If you are an alumnus\, you will not be able to access the linkdue the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line “Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the sessionor to be set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email. UID:84728-21624499@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84728 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://umich.zoom.us/j/2745640240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210728T123440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T140000 SUMMARY:Presentation:BME PhD Defense: Emine Sumeyra Turali-Emre DESCRIPTION:Biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs) are bio-inspired inorganic nanoscale materials that replicate some biological nanostructures functionalities including self-assembly\, catalysis\, and enzyme inhibition. These functionalities are being investigated for and\, in some cases\, are being utilized in optics and electronics such as chemical sensors\, superhydrophobic coatings\, and antireflective surfaces. This thesis examines the utilization of biomimetic inorganic NPs for various problems in biomedical engineering.\n\nSpecifically\, in the first part of this thesis\, I address the problem on controversial explanations of the antibacterial and other biological activity of zinc oxide NPs that are frequently utilized in cosmetics\, textiles\, and biomedical fields. In the second part of the thesis\, I explore the self-organization of NPs into biomimetic supraparticles (SPs) for nucleic acid delivery that can be exploited as drug delivery agents.\n\nNPs have been used in the antimicrobial field for a long time\; however\, their antibacterial mechanism of action against different types of bacteria remains unclear and\, in many cases\, misinterpreted. Most of the studies on antimicrobial NPs suggest reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation\, ion release\, and membrane damage as the primary source of antibacterial activity. In Chapter 2\, we show that the mechanism of antibacterial activity for Staphylococcus aureus is remarkably more complex than generating ROS or the release of Zn2+ ions and is based on formation of biomimetic complexes of NPs with proteins. Gene expression analysis demonstrated that ZnO-NPs significantly affect carbohydrate metabolism and cell energetics\, where the uridine monophosphate (UMP) biosynthesis pathway is highly upregulated. In Chapter 3\, we explore the ZnO-NP mode of entry into S. aureus and the cell metabolism. Here\, we showed that NPs enter the cells within 5 minutes of exposure and induce minimal membrane damage. We note that cells do not depolarize until 60 min post-NPs exposure. Thereby\, we highlight that membrane damage is not the primary mechanism of action but rather a downstream effect of ZnO-NPs exposure to bacterial cells. Taken together\, causing minimal ROS production and significant changes in carbohydrate metabolism and bioenergetics along with cell entry without immediate membrane damage imply the biomimetic function of these NPs. Further investigation into the antimicrobial mechanisms of biomimetic NPs is essential for future clinical translation. \n\nOver the past few decades\, there has been considerable interest in developing nanoscale constructs as effective delivery tools for high molecular weight drugs. In chapter 4\, I explore the self-assembly of NPs into compartmentalized SPs\, which mimics the structure of a virus to deliver nucleic acid into cells. The time-dependent self-assembly mechanism reveals that these SPs are formed from nanocup intermediates. We found that this intermediate stage is essential for the utilization of SP compartments. Nucleic acid is added to the system at this stage before SP formation\, and high encapsulation is achieved. Similar to virus infections\, once cells uptake the SP\, SP disassociates in endosomes and releases the cargo.\n\nOverall\, the work presented in this thesis investigates and highlights the strong potential of biomimetic inorganic NPs use in next-generation biomedical applications. \n\nDate: Monday\, August 2\, 2021\nTIme: 1:00PM\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95043183845\nChair: Prof. Nicholas Kotov UID:84794-21624994@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84794 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biomedical,biomedical engineering,bme,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Science LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210506T120651 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T150000 SUMMARY:Meeting:CoderSpaces (Mondays) DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces\, Mondays – Thursdays\, during the Summer 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.\n\nThe virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty\, staff\, and students with research methodology\, statistics\, data science applications\, and computational programming for research.\n\nOur hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.\n\nCoderSpaces provide a casual\, productive\, and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.\n\nMondays 1:30-3 p.m.\n\nJoin via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/97155787515)\n*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.\n\nwith Andrew Hlynka (CSCAR)\, Charles Antonelli (LSA Tech)\, Jonathan Golob (Michigan Medicine)\n\nExpertise: 3D graphical applications\, C\, C++\, C#\, CMake/GNU Make\, Fortran\, Git\, high performance computing\, Java\, JavaScript\, Julia\, Matlab\, mobile app development\, MPI\, OpenMP\, parallelization\, performance analysis\, PBS\, Python\, R\, reproducible workflows (nextflow)\, shell\, Slurm\, SQL\, statistical modeling UID:83925-21619098@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arc,Data Science,Information And Technology,Office Hours LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20211209T160155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T150000 SUMMARY:Other:LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours DESCRIPTION:The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions\, get help working through a problem\, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!\n\nNot sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.\n\n*Digital Scholarship*\nOur digital scholarship team specializes in humanities\, social sciences\, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:\n* Conceptualizing\, planning\, and finding resources for a digital project\n* How to version\, archive\, and preserve a project\n* Sustainability\, preservation\, accessibility\, privacy\, consent\, or grant requirements\nNew to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project\, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage\, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.\n\n*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*\n\nOur GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs\, including the following:\n* Making maps for use in a class\, grant proposal\, or publication\n* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data\n* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data\n* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map\n* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story\n* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline\n* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform\, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online\, or other geospatial software\n* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application\n\n*High Performance Computing (HPC)*\n\nOur HPC team can help with:\n* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster\n* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster\, freeing up your machines for other tasks\n* Compiling\, installing\, or configuring a wide range of computational software\n* Setting up automated workflows to save time\n* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing\n* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing\, more memory or system resources for your code\nWe regularly support Python\, R\, MATLAB\, C/C++\, Java\, Julia\, Go\, and many other applications.\n\n*Research Support Programming*\n\nOur computer programming team can help with any of the following:\n\n* Debugging\, repair\, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code\n* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project\n* Design and development of custom software to support your research\n* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.\n* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals\nWe're experienced in MATLAB\, Python\, R\, LabVIEW\, JavaScript\, MedPC\, iOS development\, and more.\n\nWho can join the office hours?\nLSA Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming\n\nWhen and where is it?\nOur virtual office hours use Zoom:\nMondays\, 2:00–3:00 P.M.\nTuesdays\, 10:00–11:00 A.M.\nThursdays\, 3:00–4:00 P.M. UID:77718-20270716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Digital Humanities,Digital Projects,Digital Scholarship,Faculty,Gis,Graduate Students,Humanities,Lsa,Office Hours,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Qualitative Social Sciences,research,Science,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210713T163036 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T160000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Getting to Know First Year Experience DESCRIPTION:First Year Experience (FYE) is an office that creates a welcoming community for students in their transition to campus by engaging them in programs related to personal and academic growth\, navigating campus resources\, building meaningful connections with others\, and prioritizing well-being. In addition to answering any questions you have\, you will get to hear from current Michigan students and staff about opportunities to connect with FYE and what to expect in the Fall.\n\nAudience: incoming first-year and transfer students\, rising second-year students\, and families & parents UID:84456-21624021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210712T181503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210802T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Summer Carillon Concert: Keiran Cantilina DESCRIPTION:At Lurie Tower\, Keiran Cantilina (McGaffin Carillon\, Cleveland\, OH) performs the sixth of our \"7 at 7\" Monday night carillon concerts. Bring your picnic blanket to the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove on North Campus!\n\nThe annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9\, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. Concerts are free and family-friendly. The carillon is an outdoor instrument\, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan\, Washtenaw County\, Michigan state\, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.\n\nPlease fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert\, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.\n\nBIOGRAPHY:\nKeiran Cantilina hails from Stewartsville\, NJ. He graduated from the Royal Carillon School 'Jef Denyn' in Mechelen in 2019 and was a finalist in the Queen Fabiola International Carillon Competition held that same year. Cantilina was introduced to bells during his university years\, when he played Cornell University's twenty-one bell chime. In graduate school\, Cantilina studied with Dave Johnson at the House of Hope carillon in St. Paul\, MN. In 2018-2019\, he studied carillon in Belgium with Koen Van Assche with financial support from the Belgian American Education Foundation. Cantilina lives in Cleveland\, OH\, where he performs frequently on the Alexander McGaffin Carillon. UID:84272-21620837@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Culture,Free,Music,North campus,Outdoors LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210511T124519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Become a UROP Research Mentor DESCRIPTION:Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html\n\nUROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration\, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention\, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UID:83879-21619486@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Mentorship,Research,research data,Staff,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210430T095709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Changing Gears Application Open DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Changing Gears Program and apply at: myumi.ch/uropcg\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program. UID:83922-21616991@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T154528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:That Greece Might Still Be Free DESCRIPTION:Learn about the Greek War of Independence\, 19th century European international politics\, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence\, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq\n\nThe exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program\, William McClelland and Quinn Byington\, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor. UID:84737-21624719@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210804T182828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application now open DESCRIPTION:The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program\, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research\, a liberal arts education\, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process\, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.\n\nApply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs UID:82067-21015009@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T063045 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T093000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Sculptor Real Estate Networking Session with the Class of 2023. RSVP required DESCRIPTION:Sculptor Real Estate welcomes students in the graduating Classof 2023 to network virtually with members of its acquisitions team. \n\nThis event is designed to provide students with an interest in Real Estate Investing to learn about the life of an Analyst\, as well as the recruitment process for 2022 summer internships. A great opportunity for those whowere unable to attend any of our previous sessions or to ask additional questions. \n\nAbout SRE: \nSculptor Real Estate invests in both opportunistic real estate private equity and real estate credit in the U.S. and Europe. With the help of Sculptor Capital’s extensive network of relationships\, Sculptor Real Estate focuses on fundamental analysis and due diligence to identify and invest in both traditional and niche asset classes. As active investors supported by dedicated\, internal asset management professionals\, Sculptor Real Estate maintains a strong focus on monetization once an asset has achieved its business plan. UID:84793-21624992@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84793 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210716T085711 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T100000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Student Experience Panels: International Students DESCRIPTION:Interested in learning about the experience of other international students and their transition to the University of Michigan community? Come and hear from a panel of students about how they made the Michigan experience their own! UID:84457-21624357@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84457 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210701T145834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Garden of Earthy Delights: Ceramic Sculptures by Ann Arbor Potters Guild at Matthaei Botanical Gardens DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the synergy between nature’s beauty and complexity\, and in partnership with the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens\, artists from the Ann Arbor Potters Guild created work centered around Michigan’s natural landscapes and specifically for the Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei. Potters Guild artists created eight free-standing sculptures using the full range of traditional ceramic methods and tools\, the potter’s wheel\, press molds\, coil building\, slab construction\, and sculpting. Depictions range from naturalistic and representational\, to abstract\, as well as a whimsical nod or two to the timeless role of fantasy and myth in humankind’s communion with nature. Exhibit is free but scheduled reservations are required to visit the botanical gardens. Use this link to book your visit: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050f4aadad22a2fd0-matthaei1 UID:84388-21623701@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Outdoors LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20211209T160155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T110000 SUMMARY:Other:LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours DESCRIPTION:The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions\, get help working through a problem\, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!\n\nNot sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.\n\n*Digital Scholarship*\nOur digital scholarship team specializes in humanities\, social sciences\, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:\n* Conceptualizing\, planning\, and finding resources for a digital project\n* How to version\, archive\, and preserve a project\n* Sustainability\, preservation\, accessibility\, privacy\, consent\, or grant requirements\nNew to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project\, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage\, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.\n\n*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*\n\nOur GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs\, including the following:\n* Making maps for use in a class\, grant proposal\, or publication\n* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data\n* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data\n* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map\n* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story\n* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline\n* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform\, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online\, or other geospatial software\n* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application\n\n*High Performance Computing (HPC)*\n\nOur HPC team can help with:\n* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster\n* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster\, freeing up your machines for other tasks\n* Compiling\, installing\, or configuring a wide range of computational software\n* Setting up automated workflows to save time\n* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing\n* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing\, more memory or system resources for your code\nWe regularly support Python\, R\, MATLAB\, C/C++\, Java\, Julia\, Go\, and many other applications.\n\n*Research Support Programming*\n\nOur computer programming team can help with any of the following:\n\n* Debugging\, repair\, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code\n* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project\n* Design and development of custom software to support your research\n* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.\n* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals\nWe're experienced in MATLAB\, Python\, R\, LabVIEW\, JavaScript\, MedPC\, iOS development\, and more.\n\nWho can join the office hours?\nLSA Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming\n\nWhen and where is it?\nOur virtual office hours use Zoom:\nMondays\, 2:00–3:00 P.M.\nTuesdays\, 10:00–11:00 A.M.\nThursdays\, 3:00–4:00 P.M. UID:77718-20270763@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Digital Humanities,Digital Projects,Digital Scholarship,Faculty,Gis,Graduate Students,Humanities,Lsa,Office Hours,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Qualitative Social Sciences,research,Science,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210730T110905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Defense: Hydroxyproline O-Arabinosylation in Pollen Fertility DESCRIPTION:Mentor: Cora MacAlister UID:84833-21625108@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84833 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Dissertation Defense,Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210601T153404 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T110000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:UROP Changing Gears Drop In Virtual Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Changing Gears/Transfer Student Summer Director Drop-In Hours\n(Tuesdays 10am - 11am\, EDT)\nNo appointment necessary \n- join the conversation at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92736318275\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program. The 2021-2022 application will be available starting May 1\, 2021 UID:84175-21620659@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84175 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T123045 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T104500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Yelping Forward — A Path Made Clear DESCRIPTION:Stories help us understand each other\, build community\, and gain insight into the journeys people have embarked on. Yelping Forward — A Path Made Clear is an event that will feature Joel Salas’s story about his path to leadership. Through his challenges\, successes\, and professional highlights\, we will hear about Joel's journey as a person of colorin the tech industry.\n\nBiography: Joel is an engineering manager and the head of Yelp’s Compute Platform group\, which is responsible for enabling developers at Yelp to run their software products in Yelp’s infrastructure. He also co-leads ColorCoded\, Yelp’s employee resource group forengineers of color and their allies. Before Yelp\, Joel led the Platform team at NordstromRack.com in Los Angeles. Joel grew up in Chula Vista\, CAand now lives in Oakland with his partner Esther and their Goldendoodle Zoey. UID:84749-21624869@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210730T181522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T130000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Summer Research Opportunity Program Research Symposium: Day One DESCRIPTION:Join our Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) scholars as they present their research and answer questions.\nSROP at U-M strives to increase the number of diverse students with unique experiences by supporting their preparation for graduate studies. Through intensive mentorship\, active learning\, and enrichment activities\, SROP fosters a community of scholars who increase social and cultural capital and networking while mastering research skills and knowledge that advance their preparation as candidates for successful graduate study at U-M and success in future careers\, increasing representation in professional fields.\nGiven the number of students\, presentations will occur over the course of two days—Tuesday\, August 3 and Wednesday\, August 4. Sixteen scholars will share their research during three rotations beginning at 11:00 a.m.\, 11:40 a.m.\, and 12:20 p.m. Guests can join using the main Zoom link and enter into breakout rooms to hear the presentations throughout the three rotations.\nGroup One\n\nChelsea Waddell\, Post Brown vs. Board of Education Disparities Among K-12 Students in Michigan and Mississippi\nKatelyn McVay\, The Impacts of Historically Discriminatory Housing Policies\, Specifically Redlining\, in Order to Observe Present-Day Social and Environmental Injustices in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.\n\nGroup Two\n\nLaura Penabad-Pena\, Detection and Quantification of miRNA 16\,18\,21\,28\,29\,107 with Cy5-marked 8-10 nt Complimentary RNA Probes via SiMREPS Kinetic Fingerprinting\nKarina Hernandez Quijada\, Functionally Categorizing an Artemis Variant of Uncertain Significance That Is Hypothesized to Be Highly Pathogenic\, in Order to Contribute Data for Diagnosis and Treatment of Radiation Sensitive Immunodeficient Diseases\n\nGroup Three\n\nDianna Alvarado\, Academic Advising and Mental Health Among Black and Latinx University Students\nNajia Griffin\, Michigan Twin Neurogenetics Study: Genetic and Environmental Risk on Adolescent Twin Development\n\nGroup Four\n\nYareli Lopez Hernandez\, Evaluating the Connect 4 Board Game as a Viable Option as an Assessment Tool of Hand and Arm Function\nSamid Ceballos\, The Design Optimization of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis for Amputee Trials\n\nGroup Five\n\nEmily Castillo-Espinoza\, Radical Love: Forgiveness and Reconciliation After Violence\nShania Montufar\, Finding One’s Place in America: Gender\, Generations\, and Latinx Family Heritage\n\nGroup Six\n\nAlyssa Rorie\, Wastewater Remediation: Using Cerium (IV) To Oxidize Methylene Blue\nKristen Mack\, Does the Dioxane Contamination Present a Human Health Risk?\n\nGroup Seven\n\nMarcela Estrada\, Design and Simulation of a Large Scale Deployable Dome\nMichael Long\, Low Footprint Thin Film Optical Tactile Sensors\n\nGroup Eight\n\nLester Mejia Gomez\, Preliminary Findings on Adult and Child Reasoning on COVID-19 Contraction Based on Race: Biological vs. Social Explanations\nLienne Cupal\, Nescience and Judgment Perceptions in Physical vs. Sexual Assault\n\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/Nx1PK.\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time\, preferably one week\, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative. UID:84838-21625131@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84838 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Graduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T063040 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T113000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Virtual Health Advocate Information Session 8/3 DESCRIPTION:Health Advocate has been helping Americans navigate the complexity of the healthcare system for over 19 years. We offer a full range of clinical and administrative services as well as behavioral health and wellness programs supported by medical claims data science and a technology platform that uses machine learning to drive people to engage in their health and well-being. We are currently hiring fully remote employees nationwide for roles across our organization. Join us for an information session with the recruiting team followed by Q&A on August 3rd at 11:00 a.m. EST to learn more about our company and if it could be a good fit for you! UID:84665-21624405@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84665 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210727T163507 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Asian American History: Past and Present with Dr. Manan Desai DESCRIPTION:This lecture and discussion examines key moments in American history that illustrate the ways Asian Americans have been racialized in the U.S\, how they have been subject to legal and extralegal exclusion and discrimination\, as well as the ways communities have organized in resistance. Using key case studies spanning the late 19th century to the present moment\, we will consider: What lessons from the past can we use to understand our present? What role can Asian Americans continue to play in the ongoing struggle against white supremacy and social inequalities?\n\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Center for Engineering Diversity & Outreach (CEDO)\, the APID/A Staff Association and Graduate Rackham International (GRIN).\n\nThis lecture is part one of a three part series on combating anti-Asian hate\, harassment and racism throughout the 2021/2022 academic year. UID:84778-21624935@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84778 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Culture,Asia,Diversity Equity And Inclusion,Faculty,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Social Justice,Staff,Undergraduate LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210722T130354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Harnessing Big Data for Health and Social Science Research DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be pre-recorded and available two weeks before this session on the ICPSR Summer Program YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q\n\nPlease join us for this live Q&A session with the presenter on 8/3/21 at 12pm EDT at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock.\n\nThe 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual\, free and open to the public. UID:84713-21624468@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84713 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Management,Data Science,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,Free,Health,Lecture,Public Health,Research,Science,Social Sciences,Talk,Virtual,Webcast,Webinar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T123046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Virtual Job Fair: Engagement Specialists DESCRIPTION:Chat 1:1 with recruiters and watch our live presentations frombusiness leaders!\n\nVirtual Job Fair: Engagement Specialists\nAugust 3\,2021\n12:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT\n\nWho should attend?\nAnyone looking for a remote Engagement Specialist position in FL\, TX\, NV\, AZ\, and OR!\n\nAbleTo Member Engagement Specialists have a critical role in informing members of health plans of the AbleTo Behavioral Health Program\, and assistingthem in signing up for our high quality and effective care. The Sales Representative’s call and conversation with members can be the catalyst that encourages members to seek care with AbleTo to get better and stay better.\n\nWhy should you attend?\nBreak through conventional barriers and actually engage with an employer!\n\nAbout AbleTo\n\nAbleTo\, part of Optum and the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses\, leverages technology-enabled behavioral health care to connect patients with highly trained providers\, improve overall health and reduce medical costs. We bridge the gap between need and treatment while making care more accessible and affordable through telehealth available in all 50 states. \n\nWe deliver meaningful and lasting results which is why we hire outstanding talent in a variety ofbehavioral health roles and capacities. Our career opportunities enable you to help others get back on a path that leads to a happier\, healthier life. Bring along your passion and do your life’s best work.(sm) UID:84816-21625056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84816 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T123040 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T133000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Summer Virtual Event Series - Product Strategy & Alt. Investments DESCRIPTION:Summer Virtual Event Series (VES): Interested in learning moreabout Product Strategy and Alternative Investments at PIMCO? We invite you to join PIMCO and department leaders as they give an overview of the business and talk about career opportunities\, strategic priorities\, and what they look for in a candidate. Come prepared to ask questions! \n\nPIMCO’s Summer Virtual Event Series will provide you with overviews of our businesses\, the internship programs\, and helpful tips on how to be successful during the application and interview process. Join us for the Series kickoff on July 20th\, and many more sessions scheduled throughout the summer!\n\nOnce registered\, WebEx details will be sent to you the day of theevent. UID:84668-21624408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84668 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210714T141205 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T153000 SUMMARY:Meeting:CoderSpaces (Tuesdays) DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces\, Mondays – Thursdays\, during the Summer 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.\n\nThe virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty\, staff\, and students with research methodology\, statistics\, data science applications\, and computational programming for research.\n\nOur hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.\n\nCoderSpaces provide a casual\, productive\, and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.\n\nTuesdays 2-3:30 p.m.\nJoin via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/99832397131)\n*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.\n\nwith Alexander Gaenko (CSCAR)\, Chen Chen (PDHP/ISR)\, Liz Hanley (PDHP/ISR)\, Paul Schulz (PDHP/ISR)\n\nExpertise: C/C++\, CMake/GNU Make\, data management\, data visualization\, Fortran\, Git\, high performance computing\, Julia\, Mplus\, natural language processing\, parallelization\, performance analysis\, Perl\, Python\, R\, SAS\, secure computing enclaves\, shell\, SQL\, Stata\, statistical computing\, survey methods (hypothesis testing\, imputation\, modeling\, statistics\, sampling\, questionnaire design\, weighting)\, text analysis\, web applications (front-end HTML/CSS/JavaScript stack)\, web scraping UID:83963-21619222@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83963 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data Science,Information And Technology,Office Hours,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210716T081658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T160000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Honors Summer Fellow Poster Session DESCRIPTION:Please join us during our strolling reception to learn about the thesis research that our Honors Fellows have been working on.\n\nTo learn more about our fellows\, please check out the Honors Summer Fellowship website. UID:84614-21624225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:#Honors Program,In Person,Lsa Honors,symposium LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T123037 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T161500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:MTR Virtual Preview Day DESCRIPTION:Attend to learn more about MTR and how you could apply.\n\nMTRDistinctives:\n- Master of Urban Education\, tuition provided\n- Community Emphasis through housing & events\n- Teacher Training from InstructionalCoaches\n- Consistently ranked a top TN teacher preparation program\n\nPlease register by midnight the night before! UID:84563-21624158@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84563 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T123043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T164500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ford Interns Tech Talk DESCRIPTION:Ford Interns Tech Talk is your exclusive opportunity to hear from 3 of our current technology interns about their experience in driving innovation within the mobile technology space!\n\nFord Motor Company is looking for enthusiastic students who are lifelong learners\, enjoy tacklingdifficult and exciting projects\, and looking to help build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. \n\nLook forFord Internship positions to be posted around Labor Day!\n\nEvent Password: FordTough UID:84704-21624459@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84704 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T123043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:RBI Summer Speaker Series: Brand Strategies​ DESCRIPTION:Join us and listen to the CMOs of RBI’s three iconic brands to learn about their career paths and gain insight into the exciting brandstrategies behind Tim Hortons\, Burger King\, and Popeyes!​ UID:84706-21624461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84706 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210525T143825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T190000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Transfer to LSA Information Session DESCRIPTION:Join the LSA Student Recruitment Team for our weekly virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements\, transfer credit\, pre-transfer academic advising\, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits. Each session includes a Q & A featuring the Transfer Student Ambassadors. For any questions about this session\, please email us at LSATransferCenter@umich.edu.\n\nTo register\, please visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUud-qgpj0pG9WQE66qOYqKBDfO5EWaQYhu UID:84123-21620323@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T183042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210803T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Fast Enterprises Information Session DESCRIPTION:Hear what it’s like to work for FAST and why we have been recognized as a Great Place to Work® for Millennials\, Technology\, and Diversity in 2020!\n\nAttend our information session and take the first step in becoming a FASTie! A FASTie? Yes\, a FASTie.\n\nFast-ie ’faeste noun\n\n1. an energetic\, intelligent\, enthusiastic person who works at Fast Enterprises. 2. a person dedicated to modernizing government technologyto better serve the general public. 3. someone who is open to adventure and wants to experience new places around the world. 4. someone who enjoys collaboration with clients and camaraderie with teammates while solving business and technology problems.\n\nWe are an industry leader in the development and installation of software for government agencies (tax\, motor vehicle\, unemployment insurance and benefits).  Explore our many openingsthroughout the world in IT\, Tech\, Data\, and Training. UID:84579-21624174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84579 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210818T063039 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T000000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Work/Intern at Sony in Japan – International Employee Panel & Application Info Session (The University of Michigan) DESCRIPTION:Greetings from the Global Talent Acquisition Team at Sony HQ in Tokyo! We are excited to announce a variety of internship and full-time opportunities to join our Research & Development teams in Japan for the fall 2021 recruitment season. Please refer to our Global Recruitment site atwww.sony.net/SonyInfo/Careers/japan which will be updated with new position listings in mid-August.\n\nWe welcome all interested undergraduate and graduate (Master’s and PhD) students to join us in our upcoming event\, where we will outline the application process and hear directly from our international employees about working at Sony in Japan.\n\nAll our panelists are experienced engineers and computer scientists working on a variety of our R&D teams\, tackling projects involving signal processing\, networksfor gaming\, computer graphics\, PlayStation 5 hardware\, laser diodes\, deep neural network learning\, and more! Furthermore\, our panelists have studied at universities including Columbia\, Cornell\, Georgia Tech\, The University of Chicago\, USC\, and UC Santa Barbara.\n\nWe will be holding four information sessions with a variety of speakers throughout August\, so please see our event schedule and event outline below for more details and join us at your convenience. We look forward to meeting you soon!\n\nEvent Schedule:\n\nNote – If you are currently based in China and cannot access the Non-Handshake Registration URL above\, please use the links below to register for the corresponding event times:\n\nThursday\, August 5th at 21:30 – 22:30 ET\nRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K_I-QoUPQ12oBbCD341D3Q\n\nThursday\, August 19th at 21:30 – 22:30 ET\nRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7t2Bk1gNQDq0KsTz_HHKBw\n\nThursday\, August 19th at 20:30 – 21:30 PT\nRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FpKYHD9STVWsCbMeeWtQhw\n\nThursday\, August 26th at 20:30 – 21:30 PT\nRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-b_hoy-WSoKFpx6yTDHt3w\n\nEvent Outline:\n1. Introduction and Application Process (~30 minutes)\na. Sony Company Introduction\nb. Application Process Outline\nc. Tips for Writing Essays and Preparing for Interviews\n2. Introduction to Global Sony Employees (~20 minutes)\n3. Question & Answer Session (~10 minutes) UID:84597-21624192@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84597 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210511T124519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Become a UROP Research Mentor DESCRIPTION:Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html\n\nUROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration\, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention\, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UID:83879-21619487@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Mentorship,Research,research data,Staff,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210430T095709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Changing Gears Application Open DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Changing Gears Program and apply at: myumi.ch/uropcg\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program. UID:83922-21616992@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T154528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:That Greece Might Still Be Free DESCRIPTION:Learn about the Greek War of Independence\, 19th century European international politics\, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence\, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq\n\nThe exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program\, William McClelland and Quinn Byington\, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor. UID:84737-21624720@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210804T182828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application now open DESCRIPTION:The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program\, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research\, a liberal arts education\, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process\, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.\n\nApply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs UID:82067-21015010@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210819T063048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T094000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Giving & Receiving Feedback DESCRIPTION:Feedback helps contribute toward positive and necessary changes within any organization. In this session\, learn to sharpen your awareness around giving and receiving feedback that will help you grow personallyand professionally. Hear how to apply feedback\, best tailor your conversations for different communication styles\, and how to dust yourself off and try again. UID:84479-21624074@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84479 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210701T145834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Garden of Earthy Delights: Ceramic Sculptures by Ann Arbor Potters Guild at Matthaei Botanical Gardens DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the synergy between nature’s beauty and complexity\, and in partnership with the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens\, artists from the Ann Arbor Potters Guild created work centered around Michigan’s natural landscapes and specifically for the Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei. Potters Guild artists created eight free-standing sculptures using the full range of traditional ceramic methods and tools\, the potter’s wheel\, press molds\, coil building\, slab construction\, and sculpting. Depictions range from naturalistic and representational\, to abstract\, as well as a whimsical nod or two to the timeless role of fantasy and myth in humankind’s communion with nature. Exhibit is free but scheduled reservations are required to visit the botanical gardens. Use this link to book your visit: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050f4aadad22a2fd0-matthaei1 UID:84388-21623702@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Outdoors LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210802T105853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T110000 SUMMARY:Presentation:BME PhD Defense: Daniel Clough DESCRIPTION:Type 1 diabetes is caused by the autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing β-cells\, resulting in a chronic metabolic disorder typically treated with exogenous insulin. Even with the aid of advanced insulin pumps and real time feedback systems\, blood glucose levels still deviate outside of the range maintained by native islets\, which places the individual at risk for vascular complications and life-threatening hypoglycemic events. Cell replacement therapies have demonstrated the capacity to tightly control blood glucose levels. The wide adoption of cell replacement therapy is hindered by limited availability of donor islets\, and the lack of effective methods to support the long-term function of these cells within a clinically accessible site. The results presented in this thesis address these limitations: through studying maturation of human pluripotent progenitor cell (hPPC) derived β cells within a transplantable biomaterial platform\, and evaluating novel approaches to the implantation and support of these cells during their continued maturation in vivo. \n\nFirst\, I present a study that examined delivery of hPPC-derived pancreatic progenitors within microporous PLG scaffolds into the epididymal fat pad\, the murine surrogate for the clinically relevant omental pouch. Kidney capsule injection\, the site most commonly utilized to test stem cell-derived β cell function in murine models\, was the comparison condition. We observed that the microporous scaffolds supported cell engraftment\, however the levels of circulating C-peptide were lower when compared to the kidney capsule condition. The scaffolds were subsequently modified to provide sustained release of exendin-4\, which led to significantly increased C-peptide production. Image analysis revealed that exendin-4 releasing scaffolds enhanced the proportion of pancreatic progenitors that matured to monohormonal insulin producing cells.\n\nNext I present my findings from studying how hPPC-derived β cells mature and function within three transplantation sites: the i) scaffold delivery into the epididymal fat pad\, ii) scaffold delivery into the subcutaneous space\, and iii) the kidney capsule injection (control). Additionally\, we investigated the impact of blood glucose levels on maturation of the hPPC-derived β cells by transplanting mice with pre- or post-engraftment diabetes induction. Hyperglycemia was ameliorated in the cohorts of mice that received scaffolds into the epididymal fat pad\, following a period of in vivo maturation. The function of these cells was demonstrated by the reduction in blood glucose levels\, healthy increase in weight\, therapeutic levels of circulating human insulin\, and healthy responses to glucose challenge tests. The function from the epididymal fat pad was superior to the subcutaneous space and was observed to be comparable to the kidney capsule. No differences were observed in graft function between the cohorts whose grafts matured in a diabetic or non-diabetic environment\, yet several differences in gene expression were observed.\n\nMany of the current differentiation protocols culture the cells above a feeder layer in monolayer\, or in suspension within a bioreactor. Typically\, these protocols require the disruption of the cell niche during key differentiation stages or pre-transplantation handling. Biomaterial scaffolds maintain the integrity of cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix connections by providing both a space for cell niche development as well as a vehicle for transplantation into the body. Herein\, I present results from testing the developmental stage in which progenitors are seeded into the 3D niche\, and two differentiation strategies prior to seeding: monolayer and suspension culture. Maturation was characterized via gene expression analysis\, glucose stimulated insulin secretion assay\, and nondestructive microscopy utilizing a sfGFP-C-peptide cell line that reports C-peptide production and secretion. We observed that seeding clusters during the key transition phase from pancreatic progenitor to pancreatic endocrine enhanced commitment to the final beta cell fate.\n\nThis work enhances our understanding of hPPC-derived beta cell manufacturing within scaffolds\, and delivery to an extrahepatic site to achieve normoglycemic blood glucose levels.\n\nDate: Wednesday\, August 4\, 2021\nTime: 10:00 AM\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98009467275\nPassword: betacell\nChair: Dr. Lonnie Shea UID:84844-21625176@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84844 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biomedical,biomedical engineering,Biosciences,bme,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Science LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210727T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T110000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Rackham Resources and Emergency Funding DESCRIPTION:During this session you will learn about the resources available to you through Rackham such as conflict resolution services and the Rackham Emergency Fund.\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgMOW.\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time\, preferably one week\, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative. UID:84782-21624949@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84782 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210730T181523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T130000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Summer Research Opportunity Program Research Symposium: Day Two DESCRIPTION:Join our Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) scholars as they present their research and answer questions.\nSROP at U-M strives to increase the number of diverse students with unique experiences by supporting their preparation for graduate studies. Through intensive mentorship\, active learning\, and enrichment activities\, SROP fosters a community of scholars who increase social and cultural capital and networking while mastering research skills and knowledge that advance their preparation as candidates for successful graduate study at U-M and success in future careers\, increasing representation in professional fields.\nGiven the number of students\, presentations will occur over the course of two days—Tuesday\, August 3 and Wednesday\, August 4. Sixteen scholars will share their research during three rotations beginning at 11:00 a.m.\, 11:40 a.m.\, and 12:20 p.m. Guests can join using the main Zoom link and enter into breakout rooms to hear the presentations throughout the three rotations.\n\nGroup Nine\n\nDalissa Negron\, Characterizing Selective and Potent Inhibitors of Human DNA Ligase III\nAriane Tsai\, Engineering of Microenvironments for Augmented Tendon Healing\n\nGroup Ten\n\nKelotchi Figueroa-Nieves\, Theoretical Calculations in Wide Band Gap Materials for Interlayer Exciton\nIsaiah Waters\, Continuos and On-Demand Manufacturing of Improved\, Personalized Medicines\n\nGroup Eleven\n\nZulma Reyes Benitez\, Characterization of Small PAPP-A Inhibitors Blurb: Grew M14 Melanoma Cancer Cell Lines and Measured the Inhibitory Response to Previously Screened Compounds\nKailey Jerome\, The Effect of E-Cigarette Vapors on Human Cardiac Tissues\n\nGroup Twelve\n\nCaroline Lindey\, Once Ignored\, Now Incarcerated: Why China is Pursuing a Policy of Mass Detention of Ethnic Minority Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)\nMaimouna Diop\, How Colonization Has Impacted West Africans and African Americans Beauty Standards\n\nGroup Thirteen\n\nJose Gonzalez-Rivera\, Binge Drinking Behaviors Among Sexual Majority and Minority Youth\nDanielle Amezcua\, Religion and Contraceptives in Ann Arbor\n\nGroup Fourteen\n\nLindsey English\, Dietary Pesticide Exposure in Mexico City Mothers\nOmar Valdivias Soto\, How Parents in Rural Mexico Contextualize Well-Being\n\nGroup Fifteen\n\nVanessa Stubbs\, SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Predicted Influences on CD8+ T-cell Responses\nSantiago Garcia-Leco\, Understanding Decision Making During Coronavirus in Communities of Color\n\nGroup Sixteen\n\nAila Kassandra Rodriguez\, Historical Case Study of Policing\, Institutional Changes\, and Rise of Black Political Power in Chicago\nKamali Clora\, Youth Empowerment Solutions: Engaging Youth for Anti-Racism and Cultural Equity (YES-ERACE) Pilot Implementation\n\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/VPEYw.\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time\, preferably one week\, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative. UID:84839-21625132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Graduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210819T123055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Eide Bailly 360: An Inside Look at Our Culture DESCRIPTION:In order to receive the Zoom link\, you must also register by clicking the link above. Make sure you receive a confirmation email from Zoom that contains the meeting link. Email cmctaggart@eidebailly.com with questions! \n\nEide Bailly 360: An Inside Look at Our Culture\nAugust 4\, 2021 @ 12 Noon Central\, 11:00 a.m. Mountain\, 10:00 a.m. Pacific\n\nWant to learn what it’s like to work for an accounting firm that values growth\, work-life balance\, innovation and the well-being of its staff?\n\nJoinus to hear from Eide Bailly management and staff about how our culture isthe heart of our firm’s success\, and why if you want to be inspired\, you’ll fit in here. UID:84609-21624216@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210819T063109 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Inside the Manager's Mind DESCRIPTION:Ever wondered what can make you stand out as an applicant? Join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Wednesday\, August 4th at 12pm (EST) for an inside look during our interview-style webinar with CMS managers who have conducted hundreds of interviews over their careers. They will be sharing tips and advice on what can set you apart as an applicant\, what makes a successful interview\, and how to succeed during the recruitment process. \n\nSpace is limited\, register today! UID:84916-21625278@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240116T141648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T123000 SUMMARY:Well-being:North Campus Mindfulness Meditation Drop-In (Online) DESCRIPTION:Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. This is a guided mindfulness meditation drop-in session. No experience necessary. Free and open to all. \n\nEmail dmitryb@umich.edu to sign up for the mailing list. You will receive a weekly reminder with the zoom link. Also\, you can add the sessions to your Google Calendar: https://tinyurl.com/y3kbkwd6 UID:40967-21619243@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/40967 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Meditation,Mindfulness,Mindfulness\, Meditation,North campus,Stress Reduction,Virtual,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210819T063106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T133000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Virtual Information Session about Estate Tax Legal Specialist positions DESCRIPTION:We are hosting a virtual information session on our Estate TaxLegal Specialist positions with the IRS' Small Business and Self-EmployedDivision.\n\nSpeak to Legal Specialists that are working in these positions and gain a better understanding of the work\, the day-to-day\, and whatbrought them to the IRS. We will also have HR Representatives on the sessions to discuss the application process and some of the requirements.\n\nRSVP today! This session begins at 12:00 pm EST.\n\nFor additional information on our open positions send an email to SBSE.Recruitment@irs.gov with your name and inquiry and we will answer your questions.\n UID:84881-21625231@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210819T123048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:CohnReznick PYRAMID Summer Series: From Intern to CEO - The David Kessler Story\, Live with our CEO DESCRIPTION:Join CohnReznick for our Summer PYRAMID Series! This four - part series will take a deeper dive into our workforce as it relates to the topics of Change Management\, Innovation + Technology\, and Firm Culture. \n\n\n**By attending this event\, you agree to be photographed and/or filmed and give CohnReznick LLP permission to use these materials for promotional and/or marketing purposes. UID:84502-21624097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84502 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210602T135602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T140000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:UROP Summer Virtual Office Hours DESCRIPTION:UROP Staff will be available during the summer via Zoom office hours to answer questions from those who drop in. No appointment necessary.\n\nWednesdays (1-2pm ET)\nThursdays (1-2pm ET)\nFriday (11:30am - 12:30pm ET)\nhttps://myumi.ch/1p1d3\n\nThe Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) offers several different programs throughout the academic year for University of Michigan-Ann Arbor undergraduate students to discover the world of research through collaborations with U-M researchers. Students participating in the program are called research assistants and work alongside a faculty member\, research scientist or professional practitioner on an ongoing or new research project. UID:84176-21620721@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,AEM Featured,Applications,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Office Hours,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210506T120820 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T153000 SUMMARY:Meeting:CoderSpaces (Wednesdays) DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces\, Mondays – Thursdays\, during the Summer 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.\n\nThe virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty\, staff\, and students with research methodology\, statistics\, data science applications\, and computational programming for research.\n\nOur hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.\n\nCoderSpaces provide a casual\, productive\, and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.\n\nWednesdays 2-2:30 p.m.\nJoin via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/96392817699)\n*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.\n\nwith Armand Burks (ARC/UMSI)\, Jule Krüger (ISR/ARC)\, Meghan Richey (ARC)\, Shelly Johnson (ARC)\n\nExpertise: automation of tasks and workflows\, Bash\, C++\, cloud analytics\, data analysis\, management and visualization\, Git\, GNU Make\, high performance computing\, installing software on University clusters\, Java\, LaTeX\, machine learning (Tensorflow\, Keras\, convolutional neural networks)\, natural language processing\, Python\, R\, R Markdown\, web scraping (Selenium) UID:83926-21619137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arc,Data Science,Information And Technology,Office Hours,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T172653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T150000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:EEB thesis defense: Spatial chemical ecology of tropical trees within key functional groups DESCRIPTION:Sarah presents her thesis defense.\n\nCloser to the event\, please check your email for the passcode or email eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu at least two hours prior to the start.\n\nImage: Mystery Land\, landscape in Martinique by Phalafail\, Wikimedia Commons. UID:84406-21623876@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Bsbsigns,Natural Sciences,Research,science LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/92019489305 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210713T163812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T160000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Getting to Know Student Life Spaces: University Unions and the Trotter Multicultural Center DESCRIPTION:Student Life spaces offer all students the opportunity to find a home away from home on Michigan’s campus. Whether looking for campus services\, places to gather\, or programs to engage and challenge\, these spaces provide this and far more. The Trotter Multicultural Center serves as a campus facilitator\, convener\, and coordinator of intercultural engagement and inclusive leadership education initiatives for University of Michigan students. The Michigan Union\, Michigan League\, and Pierpont Commons serve the UM community. The University Unions offer programs\, services\, and spaces that are a catalyst for connection and learning and cultivate community and belonging at UM. UID:84459-21624024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210727T154121 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T183000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:UROP Summer Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:Live via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/lx3Y7 on August 4th from 3:00pm - 6:30pm ET\nLearn more about our presenters and their research at:\nhttps://courses.lsa.umich.edu/urop-symposium/\n\nThe Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program’s Annual Research Symposium is the culminating event for all students participating in UROP Programs. The event celebrates the partnerships created between students and research mentors\, and serves as a conference where students present their research project and learn about the research their fellow UROP students have worked on throughout the program. \n\nThe Symposium will showcase presentations from 5 research fellowships\n- Biomedical and Life Sciences Summer Fellowship\n- Community College Summer Fellowship Program\n- Engineering Summer Research Fellowship\n- Intel Semiconductor Research Corporation Summer Fellowship\n- Women and Gender Summer Fellowship Program\n\nLive via Zoom on August 4th from 3:00pm - 6:30pm ET UID:84255-21620819@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84255 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Engineering,Fellowship,Free,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,LGBT,Mentorship,Networking,Research,symposium,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Virtual,Women's Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210819T183057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T203000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Plante Moran Japanese Practice Audit & Tax Virtual Career Event DESCRIPTION:Classes of 2022 & 2023 - If you're looking for an internship or job in Audit or Tax where you can also exercise your bilingual skills in Japanese\, this is the event for you! \n\nThis virtual career event willgive you a sneak-peak into the world of Audit & Tax within our Japanese Business Services team at Plante Moran — our people\, our culture\, and your career potential. Join college students from across the country for aninside look at what has put Plante Moran on FORTUNE magazine's \"Top 100 Companies to Work For\" for 23 consecutive years!\n\nWhat to Expect:\nA panel discussion and open Q&A sessions with our Japanese practice audit & tax staff to discuss our culture\, our internship and full-time job opportunities\, and what it's like to work at Plante Moran. We will share a more detailed agenda prior to the event.\n\nNOTE: Sessions in this event will be conducted in both English and Japanese.\n\nQuestions? Email Rebecca.Zurek@plantemoran.com for more information. UID:84642-21624306@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210722T123747 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T210000 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Youth Policy Lab: Partnership Driven Research to Improve the Lives of Young Michiganders DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock\n\nThe 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual\, free and open to the public. UID:84714-21624469@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data Curation,Data Management,Data Science,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,Free,Research,Science,Social Sciences,Virtual,Webcast,Webinar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210723T110839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210804T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Adam Ezra Group DESCRIPTION:*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws\, orders\, ordinances\, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan\, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark\, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*\n\nAdam Ezra felt alone. It was March of 2020\, and as the COVID-19 pandemic began tightening its deadly grip across the United States\, the roots rock stalwart found himself forced off the road for the first time in years\, stuck at home with a calendar full of cancelled tour dates and no one to perform for. Concerned by the chaos unfolding around him but certain he wasn’t the only one in search of some kind of solace\, Ezra decided to pick up his guitar\, turn on his phone\, and do what he’d always done in times of worry or doubt: play a show. \n\n“I just started livestreaming from my house\,” Ezra recalls. “It was a way to connect with people\, to feel a little less lost\, a little less scared. I played and talked for about an hour\, and then at the end of the stream\, I told everybody\, ‘I’ll come back tomorrow if you come back tomorrow.’” \n\nEzra kept his promise and then some\, returning every single night after that for what he and his fans would eventually come to call The Gathering Series. Interactive and improvisatory\, the shows took shape on the fly\, drawing on daily life and frequently featuring newly written material and never performed songs from Ezra’s extensive back catalog. Through his own harrowing battle with COVID\, a move to the Mojave Desert\, a socially distanced summer tour\, and even his wedding day\, Ezra never missed a performance\, broadcasting without fail from wherever he found himself each night at 7pm Eastern. Driven by a belief that small grassroots communities have the power to impact the world\, Ezra - who has gone live daily since March 13th 2020 - has reached a cumulative audience of well over 15 million viewers worldwide\, a staggering feat for any artist that stands as a testament\, not only to his artistic endurance\, but also his ability to provide an accepting and supportive space for newcomers joining his tight-knit community of fans during a time when it’s needed more than ever. \n\n“The people who watch every night\, they’re tuning in for me\, but they’re also tuning in for each other\,” says Ezra. “They’re tuning in for comfort and compassion and connection\, but maybe also a sense of normalcy and grounding during this time that seems to be shaking the very foundations of who we’ve always thought we were. As special as The Gathering Series is\, I don’t think it could have achieved this kind of success if we didn’t have this incredible fan community around us that is inspired by engagement and activism.” \n\nWorking outside the confines of the traditional music industry\, Ezra and his band\, the Adam Ezra Group\, built that foundation through sheer grit and determination\, regularly performing hundreds of shows a year for the past two decades without any major label or mainstream radio support. Fusing folk intimacy and rock energy with soul power and pop charm\, the band first emerged from Boston in the early 2000s and quickly garnered widespread acclaim for their bold\, insightful songwriting and interactive\, euphoric performances. From hole in the wall bars and house concerts to sold-out headline shows and dates with the likes of Little Big Town\, The Wallflowers\, Gavin DeGraw\, Train\, and The Wailers\, Ezra and his bandmates treated every single gig like their last\, attracting a die-hard following that believed not just in the music\, but in their commitment to activism and social change\, as well. Charity events and fundraisers were a regular part of the group’s touring schedule\, and each year\, thousands of Adam Ezra Group fans would gather in Boston for the band’s homegrown festival\, The Ramble\, which raised money and marshaled resources to help homeless veterans find safe and dignified housing. \n\n“With the pandemic raging\, 2020 was going to be the first time in ten years that we couldn’t host a Ramble\,” says Ezra\, “so we decided to incorporate it into The Gathering Series and put on a 24-hour\, non-stop livestream. It was a crazy idea\, but by the end of it\, we had tens of thousands of people rambling with us from around the world and we’d broken our previous fundraising record\, collecting enough money to help 64 of our veteran heroes off the streets.” \n\nWhile that 24-hour livestream was undoubtedly the most taxing installment of The Gathering Series\, finding ways to broadcast a new\, unscripted hour of live music every night for a year was rarely easy. In April\, Ezra came down with COVID and found himself so weak he could barely get out of bed to perform. In May\, he and his wife traded Massachusetts for the Mojave\, setting up a temporary home base in a cabin outside Joshua Tree\, where Ezra would continue to stream daily from the desert. Over the summer\, he and the band cooked up a way to bring The Gathering Series to the real world\, performing nearly 50 safe\, socially distanced shows in parks and backyards around the country while still managing to go live every night at 7pm. \n\nApart from the emotional and physical commitment\, playing every night hasn’t been without its logistical challenges as well. “I remember one night I was in a hotel\, and the WiFi went out\,” says Ezra. “I jumped in the van and just started driving until I found service\, and then I pulled over and played the show right there on the side of the road from the driver’s seat. Turned out to be one of my favorite memories looking back on the year.” \n\nAs if over 425 shows since the pandemic started isn’t enough to keep them busy\, Ezra and his bandmates—fiddler Corinna Smith\, drummer Alex Martin\, and bassist Poche Ponce—also embarked on an ambitious new recording series in 2020. Dubbed The Album Project\, the endeavor will see the band releasing at least 19 new singles over the next few years\, trading in the traditional LP format for a steady flow of fresh material designed to keep their ever-expanding community active and engaged even beyond the pandemic. The series opened up\, fittingly enough\, with “All Right Today\,” an effervescent\, feel-good ode to putting one foot in front of the other\, to living in the moment and leaning on one another to get through our hardest times. \n\n“I wrote that song years before COVID\,” says Ezra\, “but that line\, ‘We will be all right today\,’ kept coming back to me through this whole experience. It felt like a mantra I continue to lean on right now and the right way to kick this whole thing off.” \n\nIn celebration of their 365th Gathering show\, Ezra and the band followed that release up with The Album Project’s second installment\, “Switching To Whiskey\,” which hints at old-school country and Appalachian folk as it meditates on the power of heartbreak and memory. Like much of Ezra’s catalog\, the bittersweet track is intimate and organic\, fueled by stripped-down\, acoustic instrumentation and the kind of raw\, honest vocals that cut straight to the heart of things. “Switching to Whiskey” has well over 225K streams on Spotify\, and a new music video on YouTube. \n\n“As soon as we started playing that one live\, it became one of our most-requested\,” says Ezra. “And the beauty of The Album Project is that when our fans are really connecting to something\, we can just record it and get it right out to them\, because they’re truly the engine behind everything we do.” \n\nThe third release from the project “Devil’s Kiss” released in May 2021\, and focuses on Ezra’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic\, and all of the challenges everyone has faced over the past year. \n\nWhat comes next for the Adam Ezra Group? They have started another socially distanced tour and have geared up to start a full routed tour again in June 2021. Perhaps another 24-hour livestream will be in the works? Perhaps something even crazier. The future is anyone’s guess right now\, and the only thing the Adam Ezra Group knows for sure\, is they’ll be out there making music however and whenever they can. UID:84209-21620765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84209 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR