Adoption researchers from around the world, with practice professionals and adoptive families will gather on campus Thursday and Friday, April 11 and 12, for the fifth annual New Worlds of Adoption Conference to explore the theme,“Contact between Adoptive and Birth Parents: What Works?”
The 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. conference will meet in the Student Union Ballroom and is open to all interested families, practitioners, researchers, school staff and policy makers.
More than 200 people are expected to attend the forum, which will offer workshops and lectures by more than 40 experts from across
Craig Nicolson is intrigued by the big ideas that have changed the world. As director of academic sustainability programs in the College of Natural Sciences, he wants to see students change the world. That, he says, requires them to know whose ideas have already been influential and why.
Philip Stamp of the University of British Columbia will speak on "Decoherence" at a Physics colloquium on Wednesday, March 27 at 4 p.m. in 124 Hasbrouck Laboratory.
“Body Politics 2013,” an award-winning original production by and about women of color, will be performed Friday and Saturday, March 29-30 at 8 p.m. in the Campus Center Auditorium.
The 15th annual Freedom Seder, a multicultural and interfaith celebration based on the Exodus themes of the Jewish Passover Seder, will take place on Monday, April 8 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. in the Marriott Center on the 11th floor of the Campus Center.
Lisa Saunders, associate professor of Economics, will discuss her recent work in a talk titled “Women, Men and Work in Detroit after the Exodus” on Monday, April 1 at noon in 620 Thompson.