Centennial Alumni Lectures
The Centennial Lectures will showcase the diversity and quality of the intellectual legacy of the University’s graduates. Over 60 graduate programs will host a Centennial Lecture delivered by graduate alumni in October 2012.
| Program | Date and Time | Location | Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied & Interdisciplinary Mathematics | Tuesday, October 02, 2012, 4:00 PM | 1360 East Hall | Jason Kutch, Assistant Professor, Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, USC | Is math the cause of or cure for chronic pain?: New approaches to the perplexing problem of pain |
| Genetic Counseling | Tuesday, October 02, 2012, 10:30 AM | 5920 Buhl | Amy Curry Sturm, Assistant Professor, Clinical Internal Medicine, Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University | |
| Health Services Organization & Policy | Tuesday, October 02, 2012, 4:00 PM | SPH II, M1020 | Julio Frenk, Dean and Professor at Harvard School of Public Health | Higher Education in an Interdependent World: Transforming Learning in the Health Sciences |
| Health Behavior & Health Education | Tuesday, October 02, 2012, 1:30 PM | SPH I, Room 1755 | Jesus Ramirez-Valles, Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences, University of Illnois at Chicago | |
| Health Behavior & Health Education | Tuesday, October 02, 2012, 1:30 PM | SPH I, Room 1755 | Karen Glanz, George A. Weiss Univesity Professor, Professor of Epidemiology and Nursing Director, Center for Health Behavior Research, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Health Behavior & Health Education | Tuesday, October 02, 2012, 1:30 PM | SPH I, Room 1755 | Carla Stokes, Ph.D., M.P.H., Founder, Helping our Teen Girls in Real Life Situations, Inc., (HOTGIRLS) Women's and girls' empowerment advocate, teen health and behavior expert, speaker and life coach | |
| Health Behavior & Health Education | Tuesday, October 02, 2012, 1:30 PM | SPH I, Room 1755 | Brenda Henry, Ph.D., M.P.H.,, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Reflections and Legacy of HBHE Graduates |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Thursday, October 04, 2012, 4:00 PM | 1210 Chem | Nancy Moran , Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale | Genone dynamics in symbionts of insects and consequences for host ecology |
| Microbiology & Immunology | Thursday, October 04, 2012, 12:00 PM | BSRB Auditorium | Julie Pfieffer, Associate Professor of Microbiology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas | How Gut Microbes Enhance Enteric Virus Infections |
| Statistics | Friday, October 05, 2012, 11:30 AM | 411 West Hall | Roshan Joseph Vengashiyi, Associate Professor at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech | |
| Dental Hygiene | Monday, October 08, 2012, 12:00 PM | Palmer Commons Forum | Phyllis L. Beemsterboer, Associate Dean at Oregon Health Sciences University | |
| Macromolecular Science & Engineering | Friday, October 5, 2012, 3:30 PM | 1670 Beyster Building | Mohamad Shalati, Managing Director of Technology for US Polymers in St. Louis, Missouri | Controlled Molecular Structure Polymers for the Coatings Industry |
| Social Work & Social Science | Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 4:00 PM | Educational Conference Center, SSW 1st floo | Irwin Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, School of Social Work, Columbia | Wealth and Welfare States: Myth and Measurement |
| Biostatistics | Thursday, October 11, 2012, 3:30 PM | Rm. 1690, SPH I | Joel Greenhouse, Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh | On Becoming a Bayesian: Early Correspondences Between J Cornfield and LJ Savage |
| Chemistry | Thursday, October 11, 2012, 4:00 PM | 1640 Chem | Michael Stern, Senior Science Fellow and Director of Technology, Agricultural Chemistry, Monsanto | |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Thursday, October 11, 2012, 4:00 PM | 1210 Chem | Sandra Steingraber, Scholar in Residence, Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Ithaca College | From Food to Fracking -- Human Health and the Environment |
| Educational Studies | Thursday, October 11, 2012, 4:00 PM | SEB1309/1315 | Zalman Usiskin, Professor of Education at the Harris School of Public Policy at The University of Chicago | Comparison Studies of Textbooks in a Digital Age |
| Center for Southeast Asian Studies | Friday, October 12, 2012, 4:00 PM | Rackham Amphitheatre | Michael Dunne, President of Dunne & Company, a Hong Kong based investment advisory company in Asia's automotive industry | A Road Less Traveled: What Happens When You Go to Asia Straight After Graduating from the University of Michigan |
| Higher Education | Friday, October 12, 2012, 4:00 PM | Whitney Room (1309/1315) SEB | Laura Perna, Professor, Higher Education Management, University of Pennsylvania | Understanding the role of public policy in improving higher education performance: Insights from a state policy review project |
| Industrial & Operations Engineering | Friday, October 12, 2012, 3:30 PM | 1680 IOE Building, 1205 Beal Avenue | Chakor Doshi, Chairman, Walchandnagar Industries, Ltd. | Indian Industry: An Emerging Force to Reckon With |
| Linguistics | Friday, October 12, 2012, 4:10 PM | 4448 East Hall | Loraine K. Obler, Distinguished Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, City University of New York Graduate Center | |
| Pharmacology | Friday, October 12, 2012, 4:00 PM | 2736 MSII | Francis Lee, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Dept. of Psychiatry; Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology; Attending Physician, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College | Role of Neurotrophins in Neuropsychiatric Disorders |
| Applied Physics | Monday, October 15, 2012, 3:00 PM | Rackham Amphitheatre | Peter Cabauy, CEO, City Labs, Inc. | Entrepreneurial Physics |
| Astronomy | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4:00 PM | 807 Dennison | Catherine Espaillat , NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | |
| Astronomy | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4:00 PM | 807 Dennison | Matthew Walker , Hubble Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard | |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4:00 PM | 1210 Chem | Richard O. Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale | The Evolution of Beauty |
| History | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4:00 PM | 1014 Tisch Hall | Joel Beinin, Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford | Arab Workers and the Popular Uprisings of 2011 |
| Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art & Archeology | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 5:30 PM | Kelsey Museum | Lea Stirling, Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology at the University of Manitoba | On the Menu at the Graveside: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Funerary Offerings in the Cemeteries of Leptiminus |
| Political Science | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 12:00 PM | Michigan Room, Michigan League | Michael Lewis-Beck, Professor Emeritus and the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa | Panel Discussion: What to Expect in the Presidential Election |
| Political Science | Friday, October 19, 2012, 11:30 AM | Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall | Michael Lewis-Beck, Professor Emeritus and the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa | Economics and Elections Revisited |
| Women's Studies & Psychology | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4:00 PM | MI Union, Pendleton Rm | Breanne Fahs, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University | On "Liberated Sex" and Other Myths |
| American Culture | Friday, October 26, 2012, 10:00 AM | 3512 Haven Hall | Zaragosa Vargas, Kenan Distinguished Professor of History, U of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | Seeking a New Vision of America: The Early Mexican Struggle for Social Justice and Equality |
| Biomedical Engineering | Friday, October 19, 2012, 3:00 PM | Johnson Rms ABC, Lurie Engineering Ctr | William Heetderks, Director of Extramural Science programs at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at NIH | Engineering the Health Care of the 21st Century |
| Ford School of Public Policy | Friday, October 19, 2012, 4:00 PM | Michigan Room, MI League | Angel Harris , Associate Professor of Sociology and African Studies at Princeton | |
| Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology | Friday, October 19, 2012, 12:15 PM | 1640 Chem | Jerry Workman, Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research | |
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 4:00 PM | Johnson Rms ABC, Lurie Engineering Ctr | Paul L. Freedman, Co-Founder and President, Limno-Tech | Moving from Crisis to Sustainability: The Global Water Challenge |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Thursday, October 25, 2012, 4:00 PM | 1210 Chem | G. David Tilman, Regents Professor and McKnight President Chair in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota | Biodiversity: From Evolutionary Origins to System Functioning |
| Information | Thursday, October 25, 2012, 4:30 PM | Anderson ABCD MI Union, U-Club reception | Lou Rosenfeld, Founder and publisher of Rosenfeld Media and information architecture consultant | |
| Natural Resources & Environment | Thursday, October 25, 2012, 5:00 PM | 1040 Dana | William C. Sullivan, Professor, Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois | |
| Romance Languages & Literatures | Thursday, October 25, 2012, 6:30 PM | RLL Commons, 4th fl MLB | Luis Martin-Cabrera, Associate Professor of Literature at University of California/San Diego | Against the Idolatry of Economic Growth: Elements for a Cultural Critique of Environmental Destruction |
| Dance | Friday, October 26, 2012, 10:00 AM | Studio A, Dance Bldg | Janet Lilly, Professor and Head of Dance at UNC-Greensboro | |
| English Language & Literature | Friday, October 26, 2012, 1:30 PM | 3222 Angell | Deborah Geis, Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department, DePauw University | Six (Graduate) Degrees of Separation: Plays and Pathways After Ann Arbor |
| English & Education | Friday, October 26, 2012, 4:00 PM | 3222 Angell | Sarah Robbins, The Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University | Learning Legacies: Cross-Cultural Teaching Narratives in American Education |
| Human Genetics | Monday, October 29, 2012, 4:00 PM | South Lecture Hall, Med Sci II | Gretchen Darlington, Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine | Molecular Mechanisms of Extended Longevity in GH/IGF-1 Deficient Mice |
| Urban & Regional Planning | Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 6:00 PM | 2104 Art and Architecture Building | Kristina Ford, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Columbia University | |
| Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies | Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 12:00 PM | 1636 Intl Inst | Cynthia Buckley, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; senior consultant, Social Science Research Council; co-chair, US-Russia CSPP Bilateral Committee on Migration | Estimating Unregistered Migration into the Russian Federation: Insights from the United States |
| Sociology | Thursday, November 01, 2012, 4:00 PM | Annenberg Auditorium (Rm 1120), Weill Hall | Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard | An American Delusion: The Myth of Postracialism |
| Bioinformatics | Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 3:30 PM | Forum Hall, Palmer Commons | Chad Creighton, Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine | Integrated Genomic Analyses from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA0 |
| Comparative Literature | Tuesday, October 9,2012, 4:00 PM | The Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library | Luise von Flotow, Director, School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa | Translating Women: Talking about Women in Translation Studies |
| Computer Science & Engineering | Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 3:00 PM | 1109 FXB | Kunle Olukotun, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford | Making Parallelism Easy: A 25-Year Odyssey |
| Economics | Thursday, October 19, 2012, 4:00 PM | TBA | Marc Melitz, Professor of Economics at Harvard | Recent Developments in International Trade Research |
| Education & Psychology | Friday, October 5, 2012, 12N | 1322 SEB (Tribute Room) | Barbara Hofer, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Middlebury College | Epistemology as a Psychological Construct with Educational Significance: An Interdisciplinary Journey |
| Endodontics | TBD | TBD | Calvin Torneck, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Dentistry, Univ of Toronto | |
| Electrical Engineering | Thursday, October 25, 2012, 12:00 Noon | 1005 EECS | Curtis Ling, Co-Founder and CTO, MaxLinear | Founding to post-IPO: One Perspective on Technology Entrepreneurship and Fabless Design |
| Electrical Engineering: Systems | Thursday, October 11, 2012, 12:00 Noon | 1005 EECS | Cahit Akin, Co-Founder and CEO of Mushroom Networks | A Venture Capitalist/Entrepreneur Talks about Starting and Growing Technology Companies |
| Medicinal Chemistry | Thursday, October 4, 2012, 4:00 PM | 2548 CC Little Building | Victor E. Marquez, Scientist Emeritus, Chemical Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, NCI-Frederick | Conformationally Locked Nucleosides as Tools to Unlock Nature's Secrets |
| Near Eastern Studies | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 7:00 PM | Rackham Amphitheatre | April DeConick, Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University | The Ancient New Age: How Gnostic Spirituality Revolutionized Religion in Antiquity |
| Nursing | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 3:00 PM | Ford Auditorium (UMHS 2nd floor) | Joanne Disch, Clinical Professor; Chair, Population Health and Systems Cooperative Unit; Director, Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership; University of Minnesota; President, American Academy of Nursing | |
| Oral Health Sciences | Thursday, October 4, 2012, Noon | Dentistry G550 | Jacques Nor, University of Michigan School of Dentistry | |
| Oral Health Sciences | Thursday, October 11, 2012, Noon | Dentistry G550 | Hong-Jiao Ouyang, University of Michigan School of Dentistry | A novel role of ER stress signaling IRE1 alpha/XBT1s in multiple myeloma bone disease |
| Oral Health Sciences | Thursday, October 18, 2012, Noon | Dentistry G550 | Bradley Henson, Western University of Health Sciences at Pomona, CA | The role of RhoC in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma metastasis |
| Oral Health Sciences | Thursday, October 25, 2012, Noon | Dentistry G550 | Yong-Hee Chun, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio | Is ameloblastin important for enamel formation? A path to oral health sciences |
| Classical Studies | Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4:00 PM | 2175 Angell Hall | Clifford Ando, Professor of Classics, History and Law and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Ancient Religions, University of Chicago, and Research Fellow, Department of Classics and World Languages, University of South Africa | Cognition: An Inquiry into the Role of Metonymy and Analogy in Roman Political and Legal Thought |