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NMU School of Health and Human Performance Presents: The Sports Medicine Research StudentSymposium

Where: The Northern Center – Peninsula Room II
When: Monday, Dec. 12, 2022 from 7:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m.

Come and support students from the NMU Masters of Science in Athletic Training and Masters of Science in Exercise Science as they present their research at this second annual symposium!

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FROM CARIBOU TO WITCHES' BROOMS:   STRONG MULTITROPHIC INTERACTIONS PROMOTE RUST DISEASE ON THE SLATE ISLANDS

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-Purification & Characterization of an Anti-Basigin Monoclonal Antibody: Application to the Study of Human Uterine Cells & Tissues

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Panel presentation by First-Gen faculty and staff who will share some of their experiences as First-Gen students. This will be interesting, entertaining, and educational! You’ll feel less alone after you listen to the stories; presenters will also share what they learned about succeeding in college.

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Visit the Wildcat Statue at 3p for a group photo. Then at 3:30p make your way to the second floor of Hedgcock, outside the SEEC, for a feast! Join us for pizza, Wildcat cookies, and vegan and gluten-friendly treats!

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Thesis Seminar

Pelagic Larval Fish Export in the St. Marys River Rapids

Signe VanDrunen - MS Candidate - Biology

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Drop into Jamrich 1318 on Tuesdays from 1-3p, and Wednesdays from 2-4p to have a free cup of coffee, and mingle, study, or ask a question of the first-gen staff who will be there. 

This is meant to be a campus hang-out spot just for you! (We will have the same location and times through the end of the Fall ’22 semester and hope to have some informal talks on subjects you want.)

You are a first-gen student if neither of your parents has a bachelor's degree. Over 35% of NMU students are first-gen!

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The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center announces the schedule for Sonderegger 22, which will be held on Friday, November 4. This year’s symposium will be held in Northern Center Ballroom III. There will be a free lunch for attendees. In addition, at lunch the Beaumier Center will present the 2022 U.P. Folklife Awards.

This year’s theme is “Heritage Preservation and Tourism,” with nine presentations. The keynote will be delivered by Donavan Rypkema, Principal, PlaceEconomics in Washington D.C. In his address he will discuss how heritage tourism can have substantial economic benefits for local communities. But for heritage tourism to be sustainable over the long term, certain principles need to be followed. This session will discuss those principles and also share recent heritage tourism findings from US cities.

If you are not able to attend Sondregger 22 in person, you will be able to stream it live at this link, https://tinyurl.com/NMUAVStreaming.

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Thesis Seminar

Zach Farrand  MS Candidate

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Vermin Theory: Parasitic Life from Kafka's The Metamorphosis to Rawi Hage's Cockroach
Caroline Hovanec (University of Tampa)

Cockroaches, rats, pigeons, mosquitoes, and other vermin test the limits of our enchantment with animal life.  Yet modern and contemporary writers have found in these vile creatures matter for admiration, humor, and perverse sympathies.  What is it about vermin that makes them so creatively generative?  This talk will explore how literature represents and recasts vile creatures, focusing on Franz Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis and Rawi Hage's 2008 novel Cockroach.  Kafka and Hage's vermin imagery asks reader to think differently about hospitality, debt, and the redistributive potential of the parasite.