Alumni

Prof. Mingyan Liu from the University of Michigan will be the guest speaker at the CIS Seminar on Thursday, December 1. Prof. Liu’s presentation will be “Online Learning in Dynamic Spectrum Access: Restless Bandits, Equilibrium, and Social Optimality”. And, Dr. Gregory Ducette from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science will be the guest speaker at the Natural Sciences Colloquium on Friday, December 2. Dr. Ducette’s presentation will be “Sentinel & Sensors for Marine Algal Toxins-A Tale of Right Whales & Underwater Robots”. See more of Prof. Liu’s work or Dr. Ducette’s work in the Scopus database. To read papers, click on "View at publisher" or "Article Linker.” Note that full text of all papers may not be available.

Did you miss the Spanish Film Series last night? Maybe you attended, but didn’t get enough Spanish films to satisfy your craving. Maybe you just want to brush up on your Spanish. You might be interested in checking out Spanish language movies from the library.

Library hours during Thanksgiving will be:

Wednesday, November 23 – 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 24 – CLOSED
Friday, November 25 – 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Regular Fall hours resume on Saturday, November 26.

For Library, LRC, and Computer Lab hours, see library.umd.umich.edu/Us/hours.php

The Clothesline Project Is again on display in the stairwell of the library between the first and second floors. The UM-Dearborn portion of the project - on display from November 17th to 30th - includes T-shirts from Professor Lora Lempert’s Family Violence class and are created as a personal tribute to a woman who has been victimized by violence. More information about The Clothesline Project can be found at www.clotheslineproject.org/. As a Fullbright Scholar, Professor Lempert introduced The Clothesline Project to South Africa. See information about that at www.cies.org/stories/s_llempert.htm.

Dr. Melanie Sanford from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan will be the guest speaker at the Department of Natural Sciences Colloquium on Friday, November 18. Her presentation will be “Mechanically Driven Development of New Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalization Reactions”. See more of Dr. Sanford's work in the Scopus database. To read papers, click on "View at publisher" or "Article Linker.” Note that full text of all papers may not be available.

Are you going to The Fall Sky - Public Observing Session at the SLRC Observatory on Tuesday, November 15? How about checking out one of our astronomy handbooks to take along as a reference? We have many available to check out.

Join us as auto historian Joseph P. Cabadas delves into the archive of The Henry Ford in Dearborn. He will offer a look into the history of the design and production process that led to the 1940 Ford. Some of the rare photos and illustrations (from the archive and from photographers around the country) that marvelously illustrate the iconic automobile in his book will be on display.

Joseph P. Cabadas will be selling and signing his new book
‘40 Ford: Evolution * Design * Racing * Hot Rodding

Author of :
‘40 Ford: Evolution * Design * Racing * Hot Rodding
River Rouge: Ford’s Industrial Colossus
The American Auto Factory

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
2nd floor of the Mardigian Library
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served

On November 8, Dr. Paul Spickard from the University of California Santa Barbara will be presenting "War on Terror, War on Immigrants: Race, Religion, and Membership in America since September 11, 2011" as part of CASL's Fall semester series of events commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

The Mardigian Library has several books in our collection by Dr. Spickard.