The Alumni Associations lifelong learning program is proud to present : Michigan as a Microcosm of the Nation: the Breakdown in Politics Today. Featuring Michigan Radio NPR Affiliate Senior Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry

The seminar was led by Dr. James Geiger, who introduced exciting pediatric technologies emerging from the U-M, and Dr. Gail Annich, who discussed how Extracorporeal Life Support (the use of mechanical devices to substitute for vital organs such as heart and lungs) has changed the lives of patients and medical professionals.

Pause for a moment to receive highly focused, content-rich career advice during these 45-minute sessions, you can quickly get the answers to your career questions. Facilitated by award winning, lecturer, author and career expert Elizabeth Freedman.

Featured Speaker: Jonathan Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost and Dean of Faculties, Emeritus at Columbia University

Jonathan Cole, in his work The Great American University (2009), offers insightful and provocative observations about the changes in research universities over the past 100 years. On April 5, Cole engaged the audience with the challenging issue of whether graduate education will survive as we know it into the twenty-first century.

This event was part of a series that celebrates the Rackham Centennial. For more information about the Centennial, go to www.rackham.umich.edu.

Pause for a moment to receive highly focused, content-rich career advice during these 45-minute sessions, you can quickly get the answers to your career questions. Facilitated by award winning, lecturer, author and career expert Elizabeth Freedman.

Pause for a moment to receive highly focused, content-rich career advice during these 45-minute sessions, you can quickly get the answers to your career questions. Facilitated by award winning, lecturer, author and career expert Elizabeth Freedman.

Can our evolutionary history help explain today’s eating disorders? Are eating disorders uniquely a modern concern? How much of an impact do media images have in sparking changes in eating habits? David Rosen, M.D., U-M Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and Professor of Psychiatry, will discuss the origins and history of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Dr. Rosen will also consider recent trends in the incidence of eating disorders, new developments in treatment, and whether eating disorders can be prevented. A public reception will follow the talk.

Explore the nutritional and social roots of the current obesity epidemic, and learn about the goals of the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity. Why do we see more and more obesity in children and those living in poverty? What can we do about it? Can technology help? Join Dr. Joyce Lee, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology and Health Services Research, and Dr. Susan Woolford, Medical Director at the Pediatric Comprehensive Weight Management Center at C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital as we discuss these problems and their implications for public health policy. Sponsored by U-M Center for Human Growth and Development.

As a University of Michigan Alumnus, you are among the Leaders and Best! But your success as a leader isn’t just about guiding others toward a common goal, being committed to a vision, or being a great employee. To be a great leader, you need to have balance in all domains of your life — In this webinar UM Alumnus, Stew Friedman

U-M biomedical engineer Dr. Scott Hollister discusses a revolutionary tissue engineering technique and its implication for the future of reconstructive medicine. He provides an overview of his current research, applying this technique to recreate a functioning jaw. He also shares preliminary results of this work and explores its application to other areas of orthopedic surgery, spine surgery and organ transplantation.