Senior-Year Interconnected Comps Seminar: Info Session
Thursday, April 28
noon-1:00 p.m.
Sayles 251
Lunch offered for the first 15 attendees
Interested in doing a team interdisciplinary or real-world research project your senior year? We have a new way you can connect your comps (topic or methods) to a larger context or problem and work with a team of students from other majors. You can do this in the Interconnected Comps Seminar (IDSC 398) for 3-6 credits, spread over your senior year. Come to the Info Session to hear about this year’s student seminar projects (below) and find other students who are like-minded in wanting to expand their senior work beyond disciplinary boundaries!
Geography & Myth in Classical Antiquity
Liza Davis & Robbie Emmet
The Promise & Threat of Copper Sulfide Mining Near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness: How Sense of Place Shapes Opinions & Perceptions of Recent Mining Proposals
Camila de la Vega, Madeleine Lewis, Claire Su, & Jessica Zhou
Also, see two attached documents: a flyer on this year’s student presentations and another with more details/FAQs on this seminar experience. Contacts: Stacy Beckwith (Middle Eastern Languages) & Trish Ferrett (Chemistry).
Seminar Announcement
The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Friday, April 29, 2016
3:30 p.m.
Boliou 104
Christopher Miller
Professor of Biochemistry
Brandeis University
A Weird Ion Channel for a Weird Ion: Fluoride Resistance in Microbes
Fluoride ion is a universal environmental xenobiotic that inhibits enzymes in two crucial pathways: energy metabolism and nucleic acid synthesis. Micoorganisms, which are directly exposed to aqueous F- ion, have evolved membrane proteins to specifically export the ion and maintain low cytoplasmic levels. One of these is the “Fluc” family of F- ion channels, which assemble in an unusual molecular architecture to export this unusual anion. The molecular properties of Flucs will be discussed, showing an example of crystallographic results that were first misleading, then surprising.
Lunch with Seminar Speaker – Thursday, April 28
Lunch with this week’s seminar speaker will be Thursday, 12:00-1:00 p.m., in the LDC. Meet in the hallway outside Mudd 169. If you are off board, the department will cover your lunch.
University of Michigan PIBS (Program in Biomedical Sciences) Preview
The University of Michigan Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS) invites you to explore graduate training at U-M through their Fall Preview Event October 5-7, 2016. You should consider applying if you’re interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in the biomedical sciences and are applying for entry to graduate school in Summer/Fall 2017 (Summer/Fall 2018 will also be considered). Students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, low-income family backgrounds, first-generation U.S. citizens, and first-generation college students are especially encouraged to apply.
What are the benefits of attending?
- an all-expense-paid visit to preview graduate training and the research enterprise at the University of Michigan
- activities and workshops on applying and attending graduate school at U-M
- one-on-one and group interactions with faculty from 14 PhD programs
- tours of research labs and campus
- social activities with current graduate students and opportunities to explore the beautifully, culturally diverse city of Ann Arbor
For more information, visit https://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/education/phd-programs/pibs-preview. All application materials are due by Friday, May 27, 2016.