Graduate Student Reception

Friday, February 9, 5:30 pm
UMMA Off/Site, 1301 S. University, Ann Arbor

UMMA welcomes each division of the Rackham graduate student community to Off/Site with evenings of music in the gallery. These receptions continue a perennially popular tradition of inviting students to mingle, nosh, and enjoy the visual arts. Cosponsored by UM Rackham School of Graduate Studies.

Just wanna dance? Come out to the Michigan Union on February 9th for a dance party. Enjoy big band music, bumper cars, a movie and as always, FREE FOOD! See you there!

Friday Night, February 9th
Art/Night for Graduate Students in the Humanities and Arts

Come and join your fellow Humanities and Arts graduate students for this
special evening featuring the new exhibition Embracing Eatonville.
Don't miss this free opportunity to mingle with other graduate students
in the humanities and arts, explore UMMA Off/Site, and delve into the
wonders of the Museum Shop! Hor d'oeuvres and refreshments will be
served.

Founded in 1886, Eatonville, Florida, is the oldest black incorporated
town in the United States and was home to the celebrated Harlem
Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. This exhibition looks at the
spirit and character of Eatonville through the lens of contemporary
photographers Dawoud Bey, Lonnie Graham, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah
Willis, each of whom have created a new body of work for this
exhibition.

Sponsored by Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan Museum of
Art, and University of Michigan Credit Union.

For more information, contact Amy Eaton (aeaton@umich.edu or 763-6689)
or Jocelin Shalom (jshalom@umich.edu or 615-9815)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8

Undergraduate Leadership Workshop
Climate Change: The Science, Responses, And Research Opportunities
Roberta Johnson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Exhibit Museum Series: Wild Weather, Changing Climate
Sponsored by the LSA Citizenship Theme Year, LSA Undergraduate
Education, and the Exhibit Museum of Natural History
Time: 5:00-8:00 PM
Location: Exhibit Museum of Natural History, Room 2009
Pizza dinner provided. Free, but please pre-register at (734) 764-0478

We are ready to roll out our 1st MPRI Volunteer Training session this Thursday, 2/8/07 from 6:30 - 8:30pm at Catholic Social Services (located at 4925 Packard Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48108).

This training will be the only session required to become a Volunteer Driver and will serve as Part I of a 2 part training for Mentors. It is also open to anyone seeking information about MPRI volunteer opportunities.

The training will explain our Volunteer Driver program and requirements. It will include testimonies by a volunteer who has provided transportation, and a MPRI participant who experienced the difference between taking a bus home and getting picked up by a MPRI Volunteer Driver. There will also be opportunities to discuss and practice responses to potential challenges and opportunities.

Refreshments will be served. Please e-mail your RSVP by 3pm on Thursday so we can have a count for supplies and food. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this to anyone who may be interested in joining the MPRI team. Thanks for your help! We hope to see you there!

Mary King
Community Coordinator
Washtenaw MPRI
(734) 327-9717

Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (SOLE) will be in Angell Hall from 10 to 4, tabling to publicize for their coalition meeting next Monday. F-Word will be there too with white ribbons, candy, and condoms for their non-violence campaign.

Join Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (SOLE) for their discussion forum "Employment and Labor Policy: Public or Private?" in Room 2816 SSWB.

Dinner provided.

The Women's Forum Proudly Presents:

***Hedwig and the Angry Inch***

Wednesday, January 7 @ 8:30 p.m.Hussey Room in the Michigan League
Free admission, refreshments
Free gift to first 30 people in the door

Join the Women's Forum as we celebrate all the characters out there willing
to defy and defeat their gender roles with the first installment of our
Gender Bender Film Series: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Get to the door right
at 8:30 p.m. and you'll even get a free gift!

Rock on!

Talk Title:"The peopling of South American inferred from genetic
variation" by Dr. Cecil Lewis

Room: 242 West Hall

Time: 12:00 till 1pm, on Wednesday (Feb 7th)

We will have drinks and food for everyone. So join us over lunch to
learn a bit about the Andes and how modern DNA techniques can inform us
about the past and present.

Citizenship Potluck

Location: Ginsberg Center

February 6, from 5:30 -- 7:00





The Ginsberg Center will be sponsoring a citizenship meal bringing
together people of diverse backgrounds and from different student groups to
break bread and discuss the civic values we hold most important, and ways
that we as citizens can and do empower ourselves.


Please join us for the one of these events, February 6, from 5:30 -- 7:00.
We would love to have 2 or 3 members of your student group come and be part
of the discussion. Food will be provided.

To register for this potluck, or more information:

contact Dave at hoohouse@umich.edu.