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Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Shirin Ebadi | April 7, 2013 In-person

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | Lecture

The Center for the Study of Citizenship is honored to bring Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Shirin Ebadi to Detroit on April 7 for a free public...

McGregor Memorial Conference Center Reflecting Pool and Sculpture Gardens Reopening Ceremony | May 1, 2013 In-person

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. | Special event | McGregor Center

The Board of Governors and President Allan Gilmour request the pleasure of your presence at the reopening ceremony for the McGregor Memorial...

March 2013|May 2013

Showing 66 events for April, 2013.

Monday | April 1, 2013

The 5th Michigan China Quiz Bowl In-person

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | L'Anse Creuse High School North mainroom

"Ion Channels and GPCRs: The Age of Enlightenment" or, if you prefer: "Restoring Vision with Azobenzenes: No Joke" In-person

3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Biological Sciences Seminar In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Seminar | Biological Sciences #1167

Tuesday | April 2, 2013

Joint Tenant of the Shade: Alexander Pope and Animal Rights In-person

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lecture | Faculty/Administration Building #2339

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Optimizing Bottom-Up Approaches to Sequence and Structure Determination of Proteins In-person

3 p.m. to 4 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Wednesday | April 3, 2013

History of Negation Marking in Hmong-Mien In-person

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lecture | Faculty/Administration Building #2339

Physical Chemistry Seminar Series In-person

3 p.m. to 4 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Department A. Paul Schaap Lecture Hall

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Thursday | April 4, 2013

Confucius Cafe In-person

11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. | Lecture | 5057 Woodward #11208

A review on prophyrin macrocyclic systems - From initial biological functions to modern applications in new materials In-person

3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Vaden W. Miles Memorial Lecture: The Science of Optics; The History of Art - Professor Charles M. Falco In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Lecture

Friday | April 5, 2013

The Escalating Assault on Unions In-person

Noon to 1:30 p.m. | Lecture | Reuther Library Second Floor Conference Room

2013 Dennis Turner Memorial Lecture - Speculative Realism and Speculative Finance: Exploring the Connections In-person

1 p.m. to 2 p.m. | Lecture | 5057 Woodward Room 10203

One DNA Minor Groove - Many Possibilities: From Basics of Recognition to Therapeutics In-person

3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Nuclear Astronomy Particle Seminar - Journey to the center of a neutron star In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Seminar | Physics #312

LECTURE: Snowball Earth in Your Backyard - Science Under the Dome at the WSU Planetarium In-person

7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. | Lecture

Sunday | April 7, 2013

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Shirin Ebadi In-person

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | Lecture | Detroit Film Theater

Monday | April 8, 2013

The 5th Michigan China Quiz Bowl In-person

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | L'Anse Creuse High School North mainroom

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Tuesday | April 9, 2013

Holocaust Literature for Children: "How Much Should We Tell the Children?" In-person

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lecture | Faculty/Administration Building #2339

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Physics Colloquium - Berry Phase effect on Bloch electrons in electromagnetic fields In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Other | Physics #245

Wednesday | April 10, 2013

The Five Horses of the Western Apocalypse: The Predatory State, Conquest Christianity, Liberated Capitalism, Individualized Democracy, and Misapplied Technology In-person

Noon to 1 p.m. | Lecture | Faculty/Administration Building #2339

Ukraine/Chernobyl Day In-person

Noon to 3:30 p.m. | Special event | Manoogian Hall #91

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Sociology Student Research & Award Day In-person

4 p.m. to 6 p.m. | Special event | McGregor Center

Global Imaginaries Esther Shalev-Gerz In-person

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. | Lecture | Detroit Film Theater

Thursday | April 11, 2013

The 5th Michigan China Quiz Bowl In-person

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | L'Anse Creuse High School North mainroom

Confucius Cafe In-person

11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. | Lecture | 5057 Woodward #11208

"Layers" of Ethnic Cultures in Detroit: Creating Apps to Share Detroit's Cultural Heritage In-person

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lecture | Faculty/Administration Building #2339

Samuel M. Levin Economics Award Lecture In-person

1 p.m. to 4 p.m. | Lecture | Law School

Physics Colloquium - The Landau-Pomeranchuk Migdal effect, 1953 to Today: Cosmic Rays to Quark-Gluon Plasmas to String Theory In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Lecture | Physics #245

Friday | April 12, 2013

Biochemistry Seminar In-person

3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Nuclear-Astronomy-Particle Seminar - Light Stops, Light Staus and the 125 GeV Higgs In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Seminar | Physics #312

Saturday | April 13, 2013

The 5th Michigan China Quiz Bowl In-person

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | L'Anse Creuse High School North mainroom

Monday | April 15, 2013

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Strong Field Physics and its Applications in Chemistry In-person

3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Biological Sciences Seminar In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Seminar | Biological Sciences #1167

Tuesday | April 16, 2013

When the Kitchen was Hot, and Women were Not: Nixon Serves Up the Capitalist View of Women In-person

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lecture | Faculty/Administration Building #2339

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Unconventional spectroscopic studies of lanthanide-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions in ionic liquids In-person

3 p.m. to 4 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Wednesday | April 17, 2013

He Said/She Said: The Boundaries of Gender and Workplace Civility from "Mad Men" to "The Office In-person

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lecture | Faculty/Administration Building #2339

Roaming in the Dark: Solving the Complex Atmospheric Photochemistry of the Nitrate Radical In-person

3 p.m. to 4 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Department A. Paul Schaap Lecture Hall

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Accessing and Harnessing Metalated Intermediates toward Synthetic Utility In-person

4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Seán McLoughlin and Saeed A. Khan In-person

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | Lecture | Undergraduate Library Community Room

Thursday | April 18, 2013

Physics Graduate Research Day 2013 In-person

9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. | Other | Physics #245

Confucius Cafe In-person

11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. | Lecture | 5057 Woodward #11208

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar In-person

3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

The Water Temple of Inca-Caranqui In-person

7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. | Lecture | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan

Friday | April 19, 2013

GEMS Fourth Annual Symposium: Risk/Reward in Early Modern Europe In-person

10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. | Lecture | 5057 Woodward #10302

Multifunctional drugs as new generation therapeutic agents for treatment of neurodegeneration diseases In-person

3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Nuclear Astronomy Particle Seminar - Beyond collisionless dark matter In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Seminar | Physics #312

Saturday | April 20, 2013

4th Annual La Academia del Pueblo: Regional Undergraduate & Graduate Latino/a and Latin American Research Conference In-person

8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. | Conference | McGregor Center

Monday | April 22, 2013

Photodissociation of Heteroaromatic Molecules: The Key Role of Sigma* Orbitals In-person

3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

The biogenesis and functional diversity of plant small RNAs In-person

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Seminar | Biological Sciences #1167

Tuesday | April 23, 2013

The Visualization of Information In-person

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lecture | Faculty/Administration Building #2339

China Corner In-person

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. | Special event | 5057 Woodward #11208

Unraveling striatal dopamine dynamics In-person

3 p.m. to 4 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Wednesday | April 24, 2013

Organic Chemistry Seminar In-person

4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | Seminar | Chemistry Schaap Lecture Hall

Friday | April 26, 2013

Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City In-person

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. | Lecture | McGregor Center

Tuesday | April 30, 2013

Topology Seminar - The Grothendieck-Teichmuller group and the stable symplectic category In-person

1 p.m. to 2 p.m. | Seminar | Faculty/Administration Math Dept - Nelson Room

Wednesday | May 1, 2013

McGregor Memorial Conference Center Reflecting Pool and Sculpture Gardens Reopening Ceremony In-person

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. | Special event | McGregor Center