Events Archive
School Reform & Beyond: Events
The U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences has recently granted to the University of Michigan three years of funding to develop the SRB grades K-3 intervention, integrating evidence-based social emotional learning into a whole school reform platform. This work officially began on July 1, 2009.
A series of stock-taking meetings and design conferences have been held. This work is helping to shape an intervention which will be designed to test, and hopefully demonstrate, the interactive and synergistic effects of an educational program that combines the best curricular reforms with state of the art social-emotional learning, plus efforts that elevate school readiness, plus programs which optimize the impact of non-school contexts which have an impact on educational outcomes.
See the links below for the full proceedings of the two design conferences.
Pre-K Design Conference: December 13-14, 2007
The following files are Windows Media video files.
- Welcome/Orientation — David Featherman; Structure and Goals — Daniel Keating, Deborah Phillips, and Cybele Raver
- Integrating Literacy and Numeracy Part I — Deborah Phillips, Sharon Griffin, and John Fantuzzo
- Integrating Literacy and Numeracy Part II — Fred Morrison
- Bringing in Self-Regulation and Socio-Emotional Learning — Cybele Raver, Stephanie Jones, Karen Bierman, Mark Greenberg, and Deborah Stipek
- Clinical, Classroom, and Community-Focused Approaches to Intervention — Deborah Phillips, John Lochman, Deborah Gorman-Smith, Patrick Tolan, Sam Odom, and Susan Sheridan
- Critical Issues for Design and Implementation — Cybele Raver, Pamela Morris, Tony Raden, and Hiro Yoshikawa
- Lessons for Moving Forward — Dan Keating, Kimber Bogard, Joan Lombardi, Barbara Goodson, James Griffin, and Ken Burnley
K-3 Design Conference: July 16-17, 2007
The following files are Windows Media video files.
Report to the Spencer Foundation: August 15, 2006
After consulting with scholars and educational practitioners in a series of stock-taking meetings and discussions during 2005 and 2006, a promising set of synergistic strategies for maximizing educational outcomes for America's children were identified. These are detailed in the report submitted to the Spencer Foundation.
Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation (SMART): Events
June 11-12, 2008
A New Mobility Workshop was held in Ann Arbor and brought together scholars, industry representatives and public officials from around the world. The workshop was titled "New Mobility: The Emerging Transportation Economy." The panelists included:
- Bill Ford - Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Company
- Mary Sue Coleman - President of the University of Michigan
- Sue Cischke - Group Vice President, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, Ford Motor Company
- And leaders from Shell, Cisco Systems, Cherokee, GoLoco and Mapunity India.
February 12, 2008
Kevin Clemens, a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow and a Ford Fellow for Transportation Reporting at UM, spoke on campus in a SMART sponsored event. The title of his presentation was "Hybrid Vehicles: Sorting Through the Options."
February 11, 2008
Camilla Ween, of Transport for London, UK, and a 2007/2008 Harvard Loeb Fellow, spoke on campus in a SMART sponsored event. The title of her presentation was "Integrated Sustainable Transport Measures in London."
November 15, 2007
Augusto Mathias, a senior municipal planner in Toronto, spoke on campus in a SMART sponsored event. The title of his presentation was "Historical Evolution and Current Trends in Sustainable Urban Transportation in Salvador, Brazil."
November 13, 2007
In his November 13, 2007 Wege Lecture at the U-M, William Clay Ford, Jr., chairman of Ford Motor Company, acknowledged the role of SMART/CARSS and its new mobility industrial development model as a major influence on his thinking and Ford's strategic planning for developing sustainable transportation, especially in India, Brazil and South Africa.
See the video webstream at http://www.snre.umich.edu/node/54
October 9-10, 2007
SMART eNews - Issue No. 5
- Updates on SMART's India and South Africa Projects
- SMART / UIC Research Collaboration
- Accessibility Research Update: New Support for Comparative North American Accessibility Index
CARSS: Events
Energy and the Social Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities: May 6, 2008
A one-day workshop was held at the UM, Ann Arbor campus. It explored the course of America's energy future must draw heavily from an expanding research base in the social sciences-the human sciences, including the humanities. The workshop also examined how U-M's world class social research, coupled with its renowned assets in advanced energy and technological innovation, could define a unique niche of interdisciplinary and disciplinary leadership as the nation addresses the global challenge of finding clean, affordable, flexible, secure, safe, and sustainable solutions to the currently unsustainable reliance upon fossil fuels.
The workshop is part of a wider campus "energy initiative" promulgated by the Office of the Vice President for Research. It casts the "energy challenge" as an opportunity for innovative scholarship and learning that enriches the basic disciplines, fosters new interdisciplinary collaboration, and has agenda-setting policy impact. A working premise is that human-centric innovations born from the social sciences and humanities may be at least as important as technological innovation stemming from the natural and physical sciences in reaching sustainable energy solutions at local, national and global levels. In examining this premise, the workshop set up a broad conversation about energy across the full campus, and it anticipates the lively engagement with this theme during the 2008-9 academic year in the College of LS&A.
Sponsors of the workshop included the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute, the Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society, and the Center for Complex Systems.
Overview of CARSS: Presented to volunteers with the "Michigan Difference" campaign
October 14, 2005
View in PowerPoint (1.9M) | View as PDF (6.4M)
"Reframing the Climate Change Debate: Jobs, Trade, Security and a Revised Research Agenda"
June 2-4, 2005
Presentation by the Honorable Carl Levin, US Senate (D-Michigan)
Full text of Senator Levin's speech
Conference presentations and background materials
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