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April 10, 2024

Research, Innovation, and Creative Scholarship Celebration Week: The Power of Photovoice for Advancing Health, Gender, and Racial Equity: Reflections and Findings from Two Photovoice Studies

Photovoice is an innovative research method combining participatory photography and narratives of research participants. Dr. Shannon McMorrow will offer an overview of Photovoice, which she’s centered in her research over the past 12 years, including recent Fulbright research in Uganda.

Date: Wednesday, Apr. 10
Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Lee Honors College, Room 1014

Communicating about Conservation

A collaborative event showcasing conservation infographics created by students.

Students are in classes with Sharon Gill, PhD (WMU Biological Sciences), and Nick Kuder, MFA (WMU GwenFrostic School of Design). Topics will include a variety of conservation subjects and how they are affected by climate change.

Date: Wednesday, Apr. 10
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: WMU Richmond Center for Visual Arts

The Future of Contemporary Chinese Art

Join us for Light Center for Chinese Studies guest lecture presented by Dr. Vivian Li, the Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Topic: The Future of Contemporary Chinese Art

Presenters: Dr. Vivian Li

Time: 3:30PM - 5PM, Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Date: Wednesday, Apr. 10
Time: 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: 2730 Sangren Hall

Research, Innovation, and Creative Scholarship Celebration Week: BFA Dance Majors Presentations

This presentation is the culminating capstone project of the BFA curriculum. The projects reflect each student’s artistic interests as a practicing dance artist with a focus on expanding their range of experience, demonstrate the student’s development in choreography and/or performance, and reflect the student’s current career goals. The dance and its production are the culmination of the student’s studies in dance technique, theory, and aesthetics.

Date: Wednesday, Apr. 10
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Dalton Center, 3rd Floor, Studio B

April 11, 2024

Photo of speaker with title of talk: Looking Through a Policy Window with Tinted Glasses: Agenda-Setting Dynamics in U.S. AI Policy

Agenda-Setting Dynamics in U.S. AI Policy

Daniel S. Schiff will present the talk “Looking Through a Policy Window with Tinted Glasses: Agenda-Setting Dynamics in U.S. AI Policy” as part of the WMU Ethics Center's Spring 2024 lecture series. Dr.

Date: Thursday, Apr. 11
Time: 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 2209 Student Center

Research, Innovation, and Creative Scholarship Celebration Week: BFA Dance Majors Presentations

This presentation is the culminating capstone project of the BFA curriculum. The projects reflect each student’s artistic interests as a practicing dance artist with a focus on expanding their range of experience, demonstrate the student’s development in choreography and/or performance, and reflect the student’s current career goals. The dance and its production are the culmination of the student’s studies in dance technique, theory, and aesthetics.

Date: Thursday, Apr. 11
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Dalton Center, 3rd Floor, Studio B

April 12, 2024

Research, Innovation, and Creative Scholarship Celebration Week: Retractions: On The Rise, But Not Enough

In 2000, there were about 40 retractions from the scholarly literature. In 2023, there were more than 10,000. That is a dramatic increase, even accounting for the growing number of papers published per year. In this talk, I will explore the reasons for the increase, why it is good news, and why the real number should be even higher — including in the social and behavioral sciences.

Date: Friday, Apr. 12
Time: 10:00am

Long-Distance Transmission & the Spatial Redistribution of Pollution Concentrations

We examine how the electricity transmission system redistributes environmental impacts across space. We exploit electricity system congestion episodes to explore the changes on ambient concentrations of criteria pollutants in four electricity markets in eastern United States.
Date: Friday, Apr. 12
Time: 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 1215 Wood Hall

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