Arts & Culture
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July 11, 2016
Taubman College architect reveals Detroit’s neighborhoods at night
Detroit-based architect Catie Newell wants to capture her city’s darkness before it’s gone. Detroit’s streetlights are being replaced by thousands of LEDs in a $185 million infrastructure project. “The lights are coming back, and we’ll lose that darkness,” says Newell, assistant professor of architecture, U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and recent recipient… -
June 29, 2016
HathiTrust to help make books accessible to blind, print-disabled users
The HathiTrust Digital Library, hosted at U-M, is collaborating on a project to make more than 14 million digital books available to blind and print-disabled users.
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June 20, 2016
Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor is celebrated in UMMA exhibit
Elizabeth Taylor is the focus of the new U-M Museum of Art exhibit “Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road.” It presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Opie, called an essential figure in contemporary photography.
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June 6, 2016
Ann Arbor Summer Festival returns with 33rd Top of the Park season
For six nights each week starting June 10 and continuing through July 3, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s outdoor Top of the Park series presents free music performances ranging from folk pop, rock and jazz to rogue marching bands.
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June 2, 2016
More than 13M museum specimens moving to new U-M facility
Movers have begun hauling more than 13 million museum specimens from U-M’s zoology, paleontology and anthropology collections to a state-of-the-art collections and research facility south of campus.
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May 23, 2016
Clark to deliver Neel Lecture in Human Genetics
Andrew Clark, professor of population genetics at Cornell University, will present the 16th Annual James V. Neel Lecture in Human Genetics at 3 p.m. May 24 in Kahn Auditorium, in the Bioscience Medical Research Building.
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May 2, 2016
LPD Career Conference 2016 addresses career goals
The U-M Learning & Professional Development (LPD) fourth annual Career Conference 2016, Designing Your Life on Your Terms, offers U-M faculty and staff inspiration to take more responsibility for their career aspirations.
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April 25, 2016
Installation explores the physical properties of sound
“Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room” is a sound installation presented through May 22 at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
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April 11, 2016
Detroit museums workshop celebrates Motown culture
The ways that Detroit’s museums are shaping the city’s present and future is the focus of a University of Michigan Museum Studies Program half-day workshop.
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March 28, 2016
Pollen universe revealed in large-scale ceramic sculptures
“Hidden Worlds: The Universe of Pollen Revealed in Large-scale Ceramic Sculptures,” artist Susan Crowell’s exhibition of colorful ceramic pollen sculptures, is on display in the Matthaei Botanical Gardens conservatory.
