Graduate Student Appreciation Day: Dinner
04-03-2008, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
East Lounge and West Study Hall, 2nd floor

Pre-registration is required

The Alumni Association would like to remind you that MOVE ON 2008 happens tomorrow, Thursday, April 3 between 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Alumni Center (200 Fletcher St.)



Stop by anytime between 5 and 8 to learn about all of the great programs the Alumni Association has specifically for new graduates/young alumni. We’ll even throw in a free tee-shirt (if you’re one of the first 300 students through the doors) and free food including chicken fingers, chili, milkshakes and root beer floats for all who attend. Not to mention music, photo ops, etc.

Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Antarctic Glacial Ice

Time:
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location:
Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Bld.

Type:
Lecture/Discussion

Professor Sam Mukasa, chair of the U-M Department of Geological Sciences, will discuss the lessons learned from climate records in Antarctica and elsewhere, making the point that to understand what is happening to the Earth today—including whether humans are to blame for some of the recent changes— one must first understand the climate changes of the past. Time permitting, he will also discuss potential solutions to Earth's current climate predicaments. Reception follows.

DATE: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
TIME: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
ROOM: 1670 CSE

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science and Engineering Division
CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SEMINAR
Dr. Alfred Spector
Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives
Google Research
Alfred Spector will discuss his perspective on research at Google.

THAT WAS THEN; THIS IS NOW: 21ST-CENTURY RACIAL POLITICS

Howard Winant
University of California, Santa Barbara
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

3512 Haven Hall, 4:00-5:30pm



Presented by the Black Humanities Collective
Sponsored by Arts of Citizenship, The Center for Afroamerican and
African Studies, Department of Sociology, and The Program in American
Culture


During the decades following WWII racial politics entered a crisis in
the US (and around the world
as well). Population shifts, political upheaval, and cultural
mobilization displaced the old racial
regime. The racial state has had to abandon overt white supremacy and
accept democratic
reforms. But these reforms, while certainly signi?cant, have not
overturned the deep structural
racism that shapes US society. In fact, by demobilizing a lot of
race-based opposition, the political
shifts of the late 20th century have in many ways REINFORCED the
central pillars of the structural
racism edi?ce.

Today new cracks are appearing in this structure's facade, and indeed
in its foundations as well.
How should we think about racial politics and racial identity in the
21st century? What is our
concept of racism in the "post-civil rights" era?

In this talk Howard Winant will present a brief overview of these
themes, followed by informal
dialogue and discussion on these and related issues.

HOWARD WINANT is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center
for New Racial Studies at
the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The
New Politics of Race:
Globalism, Difference, Justice; The World is a Ghetto: Race and
Democracy Since World War II;
Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons; and Racial
Formation in the United States: From
the 1960s to the 1990s (co-author, Michael Omi).

Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, please contact Paul Farber [pmfarber@umich.edu].

King Corn Film Screening

The Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and Slow Food Huron Valley
invite you to join us for a viewing of King Corn, a provocative
feature film about our agricultural system and its impacts on the
environment, the economy, and human health. Community discussion
will follow the screening.

Wednesday, April 2 @ 5:30pm
1040 Dana Building

Local snacks provided!!!
KING CORN
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of
corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In
King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on
the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes
from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified
seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and
grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized
grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their
pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling
questions about how we eat - and how we farm.

April 2, 2008
12-1:30 PM or 5-6:30 PM
SPH I Auditorium, 109 S. Observatory
Sponsored by School of Public Health
Contact Information: Erin Rothney, 615-5782, rothney@umich.edu
Cost: No charge; a discussion session and a light meal will follow each noon and evening session

Join us for this final segment of "In Sickness and in Wealth", a seven-part PBS series that challenges fundamental beliefs about what makes Americans healthy - or sick - and offers new remedies for an ailing society. Segment 7 is entitled "Not Just a Paycheck" and will be shown twice, 12-1:30 PM and 5-6:30 PM. Discussion and a light meal will follow the noon and evening showing. Sponsored by the School of Public Health: Asian American Public Health Student Association, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health, Detroit Urban Research Center, Environmental Health Student Association, Health Behavior and Health Education Student Association, Office of Academic Affairs Diversity Initiative, Office of the Dean, Office of Public Health Practice, Outbreak, Public Health Students of African Descent, Public Health Student Assembly.

Please join us at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday in Angell Hall, Room 3154, for
the Michigan Comix Collective's inaugural event (!) Robert Bell, a
graduate student in American Cultures, and Josh Lambert, a graduate
student in English Language and Literature, will be sharing some work
in progress. Refreshments will be provided.

DATE: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
TIME: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
ROOM: 1670 CSE

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science and Engineering Division
CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SEMINAR
Dr. Alfred Spector
Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives
Google Research
Alfred Spector will discuss his perspective on research at Google.

Please join us for our April 1 fMRI Speaker presentation:

"Tuning and Training Attention and Working Memory"

Amishi P. Jha
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
3:30-5:00 p.m.

East Hall, Room 4448, 4th Floor
Colloquium Room

Light refreshments will be served