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Join us for a workshop led by Karen Kruger, the writer and director of Letters From Brno. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, October 8, 2024, at 5 p.m. in Room 136 of Whitman Hall.

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Join us for a special screening of an award-winning documentary that powerfully captures a heart-wrenching story of parental love and unimaginable sacrifice during the Holocaust. The screening will take place at 5 p.m. on Monday, October 7, 2024, in the Mead Auditorium of the Science Building and will be followed by a panel discussion.

The next day, on Wednesday, October 8, 2024, writer and director Karen Kruger will lead a workshop at 5 p.m. in Room 136 of Whitman Hall.

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What happens to your waste after you throw it in your garbage bin at home, and why does it matter? Ali O'Neal will be teaching us about how our daily habits surrounding waste disposal have a huge impact on climate change and our local environment. Attendees are invited to join this interactive presentation to learn about the environmental and social impacts of both composting and recycling and will walk away with tangible steps to lessen their personal environmental footprint. 

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Boozhoo, 

Please join the Center for Native American Studies for our Open House on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Whitman 112. We will have light refreshments and games. Come learn more about the garden that was planted over the summer, meet new CNAS faculty and staff, and hear about current course offerings and upcoming events. 

For more information, email cnas@nmu.edu

Miigwech, 
The Center for Native American Studies 

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The School of Clinical Sciences and Nursing present "Open Lab Day" 2024!!

This is a great opportunity to explore the nursing and clinical sciences labs.  There will be hands-on activities, prize drawings, giveaways and much more.  If you are interested in a healthcare career, you don't want to miss this event.

Register here for fun activities, free food, giveaways and more!

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This workshop is designed for faculty, graduate students, and staff who want to know more about how copyright shapes teaching and research, and how open licenses, such as those provided by Creative Commons, can support the sharing of ideas and information. 

Emera Bridger Wilson (Librarian) and Tom Gillespie (Senior Instructional Technologist) will introduce the benefits and limitations of all rights reserved copyright, how open licensing works within copyright, and facilitate activities to teach participants how to select the correct Creative Commons licenses for their teaching and research.

This event is made possible through a SISU Innovation Funding.

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The Honorable Judge Robert Allen Edgar (Al Edgar) is NMU's guest Constitution Day lecturer. His lecture is entitled, "The Supreme Court Unhinged: A Retired Federal Judge's Perspective on the Constitution and the Supreme Court." Born in Munising, Michigan, he grew up in the UP. He earned his law degree from Duke University. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee by Ronald Reagan in 1985. He served as Chief Judge of the Eastern District from 1998 to 2005,

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Open educational resources are not limited to text and images. In this session, we will explore options for creating multimedia and interactive practice exercises that can also be shared as OER. We will look at examples including interactive videos, drag and drop sorting exercises, branching scenarios, and more. We have tools to create these exercises without the need for coding. Participants should bring their laptop computers.

This event is made possible through SISU Innovation Funding.

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In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of LibreTexts, including how to search the library and adopt materials. Participants will also have the opportunity to curate, customize, create, and edit materials specific to their courses. No prior experience is necessary. Participants should bring their laptop computers.

LibreTexts is the largest centralized open education project and platform online. LibreTexts is adaptable and user-friendly for educators, while being easily accessible and interactive for students. On this platform, you can adopt, customize, and share textbooks, adaptive homework, and ancillary materials for a variety of subjects (chemistry, biology, business, humanities, K-12 education, math, statistics, social sciences, etc.). 

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Deciphering Monoterpene Indole and Oxindole Alkaloids Biosynthesis In Mitragyna Species

Presented via Zoom by Dr. Satya Swathi Nadakuduti

Dr. Satya Swathi Nadakuduti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Horticulture at the University of Florida. Dr. Nadakuduti received her Ph.D. in Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology from Michigan State University. 

Her lab is interested in studying plants' specialized metabolism to understand the chemical diversity and identify compounds that have pharmaceutical value, and their potential for health benefits and applications in agriculture. Her research program integrates multi-disciplinary approaches such as biochemistry, genomics, gene discovery, and functional characterization to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the biosynthesis of these compounds. Her group is also interested in targeted genome modifications using gene-editing technology such as CRISPR/Cas9 for agriculture crop improvement, as a functional genomics tool and to understand genome-wide off-target effects caused by gene-editing reagents. Her group is interested in micropropagation and implementing gene editing in medicinally relevant plant species.