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October 12, 2009
See a complete list of Investing in Ability Week events > Investing in Abilities Week this year has grown to 13 days because of an impressive increase in events, organizers say. The sessions, which begin Oct. 19 and are designed to raise consciousness about disability issues, include an art exhibit and several creative activities, numerous…
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October 12, 2009
Bill Joy, who designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX, called the backbone of the Internet, will present the 2009 Goff Smith lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Penny and Roe Stamps Auditorium, adjacent to the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center. As chief scientist of Sun Microsystems, Joy was a key designer of Sun technologies…
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October 12, 2009
Global engagement efforts have more than doubled at several U-M schools and departments this decade, and university leaders attending the Provost’s Forum on Internationalization on Thursday offered even more ideas to promote these contacts — the theme of the ongoing Accreditation 2010 effort. Leaders of Accreditation Working Groups appointed by Provost Teresa Sullivan were on…
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October 12, 2009
Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar (above) perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 15 at Hill Auditorium. “Most people are musicians simply because they play a certain instrument; when they play that instrument, the music appears. But Ravi — to me, he is the music; it just happens to be that he plays the sitar. And it’s…
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October 12, 2009
As part of the yearlong celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), Provost Teresa Sullivan, third from right, joined ISR Director James Jackson, right, for a ceremony to mark the burial of a vacuum-sealed, stainless steel time capsule containing examples of the institute’s scientific work and day-to-day work life. The…
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October 12, 2009
Robert and Shana Parke Harrison are photographers who continue to pursue what they describe as the ever-bleakening relationship linking humans, technology and nature. The exhibit is Oct. 16-Nov. 13 at the Art & Architecture Building, Slusser Gallery. It is sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series. (Photo by Robert and Shana Parke Harrison)
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October 5, 2009
A $5 million federal grant will enable a Law School program to assess and improve the current practices of child representation across the nation. The U.S. Children’s Bureau of Health and Human Services awarded the Law School with a five-year grant to serve as the National Quality Improvement Center (QIC) on the Representation of Children…
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October 5, 2009
Several members of the U-M Jazz Band that toured Latin America and the Caribbean in 1965 will sit in on two numbers performed on that tour with Ellen Rowe’s U-M Jazz Ensemble in a performance at 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at Rackham Auditorium. (Photo courtesy U-M Jazz Band) The tour opened 15 months after the…
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October 5, 2009
At a new state-of-the art electron microscopy lab within the Life Sciences Institute, Georgios Skiniotis “quick-freezes” protein complexes inside a thin, icy shell before viewing them, to preserve their natural structure. From left, Georgios Skiniotis, a Life Sciences Institute research assistant professor; Alan Saltiel, director of LSI; Liz Barry, managing director of LSI; President Mary…
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October 5, 2009
Concert: Alisa Weilerstein, cello, 8 p.m. Thursday, Hill Auditorium. The 26-year-old American cellist is “arguably Yo-Yo Ma’s heir as sovereign of the American cello,” says New York Magazine’s Justin Davidson. “Weilerstein plays classical music, but with the depth of soul and raw emotional energy of a diehard rocker,” says the Toronto Star. Sponsored by the…
