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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
MLift Presents Janae
Marie Kroc
WHAT: Listen to Janae
Marie Kroc, a world-champion
powerlifter and transgender
woman, discuss her motivation
and training regimen.
WHO: MLift
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Mason Hall, Room
3411
Robo-Sexism Colloquim
WHAT: Anthropology Prof.
Jennifer Robertson will explore
Japanese conventions around
sex and gender, as well as the
complexity of robot intelligence.
WHO: History of Art
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Tappan Hall, Room 180
Poems with Bears
WHAT: Come hear poems and
stories all about bears as spring
arrives early and bears wake
from hibernation.
WHO: One Pause Poetry
WHEN: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Argus Farm Stop
“Abandoned Families:
Social Isolation in the
21st Century”:
WHAT: Social Work Prof.
Kristin Seefeldt discusses her
book on the increase of families
with low-paying jobs and no
access to upward social mobility.
WHO: School of Public Policy
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Weill Hall, Annenberg
Auditorium
Social Area Brown Bag
WHAT: Graduate student
Qinggang Yu presents his research
on the role of orbitofrontal cortex
in cultural orienation.
WHO: Social Psychology
WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m.
WHERE: East Hall, Room 4464
How to Enjoy Kabuki
WHAT: A discussion regarding
how to enjoy the presentation,
staging, costumes and
performance of kabuki.
WHO: Center for Japanese
Studies
WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social Work,
Room 1636
Chinese Art Journey
WHAT: Danny Yung, a pioneer
of experimental performance,
talks about Chinese traditional
performing arts.
WHO: The Confucius Institute
WHEN: Noon to 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Michigan League,
Michigan Room
Folksongs in U.S. Social
Movements
WHAT: Long-time activist
Corey Dolgon, a University of
Michigan alum, presents on the
role of folksongs in U.S. social
movements .
WHO: Department of American
Culture
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Haven Hall, Room 3512
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show you’re working on this
weekend. What is it?
Me: It’s Shakespeare
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Kangaroo spotted running
Detroit streets was part of
traveling exhibit
University of Michigan alum
Michael Rubenstone will premiere
his first documentary, “On the Sly:
In Search of the Family Stone” at the
Freep Film Festival April 1 in Detroit.
The documentary follows
Rubenstone’s 12-year search for funk
legend Sly Stone, frontman of the
band Sly and the Family Stone, which
gained popularity in the 1960s. In
2010, the band was ranked 43rd on
Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The
100 Greatest Artists of All-Time” and
has been noted for its unique multi-
racial, multi-gendered make-up.
In an interview with MLive,
Rubenstone noted the relevance of
the band’s unique sound during such
a tumultuous decade.
“Particularly in their earlier
recordings — like ‘You Can Make
It If You Try,’ ‘Sing a Simple Song,’
‘Everyday People’ — they sort of
espoused this holistic paradigm,” he
said. “They were everyday people,
Black and white, male and female, all
contributing to an incredible sound
during a very, very turbulent era.”
Rubenstone graduated from the
University in 1999 with a degree in
theater. He later explained to the
Daily he began filmmaking after
moving to Los Angeles as a way to
find fulfillment in his career, while
maintaining his passion and love for
acting.
“I got into filmmaking by
accident, really,” he wrote in an email
interview. “I moved out to LA from
New York to continue my career as an
actor. I was able to get some work, but
found it very unfulfilling. This project
gave me more control of my career. I
could always work on a cut, develop
the script, seek out another interview.
That was very rewarding. I still act. I
still love it. But somehow I got my big
break as a director. Go figure. Strange
how things work sometimes, but you
have to be open to changing paths in
this business.”
Rubenstone noted how the
artist’s music has influenced him
since high school, and how he
wanted to locate Stone after the artist
disappeared from the music world.
According to Rubenstone, what began
as a few inquiries around the city
quickly transformed into more than a
decade-long project.
“When I saw the Woodstock
documentary in high school, I was
blown away by Sly’s performance,”
he said. “When I moved out to LA
to pursue my career as an actor, it
occurred to me that Sly was also
in LA, and I thought it would be
interesting to see if I could track
him down. So I picked up a camera
and started making little inquiries
around LA. That’s
essentially how it
started. Twelve
years later, I
finally got it
done.”
Rubenstone
said his film’s
director of the
Freep Film
Festival sought
out “On the Sly”
due to his affinity
for the artist, as
well as Rubenstone’s position as an
alum.
“I am honored to return to
Michigan and share this film with
some friends from college,” he said.
“Steve Byrne, the director of the
Freep Festival, sought out the film
not only because he was a Sly fan, but
also because I was a Wolverine. It’s
great that this festival pays tribute
to the fascinating history of Detroit,
Michigan, but also gives a nod to
some Alums.”
- KAELA THEUT
ON THE DAILY: FILMMAKING ON THE SLY
JULIA LAWSON/Daily
Michael Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene, speaks about “ide-
nitity cooking” at the food literacy event in Angell Hall on Tuesday.
S PE AK I N G FOO D
A research team in the
University of Michigan College
of Engineering succeeded in
creating a tarnish-proof silver
film whose properties allow
for various uses such as high-
tech screens. The team’s paper,
published last Monday, details
the film’s versatility.
As the silver film is ultra-
thin, it can be used for displays
such the touch screens on
cell phones. The film is also
transparent, which is why it
can be directly applied to solar
cells or organic LED displays
— increasing efficiencies as the
film allows more light to enter
solar cells and to leave the
LEDs.
Cheng
Zhang,
a
former
Engineering
Ph.D.
student,
currently works at the National
Institute
of
Standards
and
Technology and is the first
writer listed on the paper. Zhang
highlighted the advantages of
film, especially when used for
future flexible screens. So far, he
explained, the material indium
tin oxide is widely used for touch
screens.
However,
it
cracks
very easily when moved, which
interferes with the materials’
conductivity. Since silver films
have a much better stability,
even when moved, they are more
suitable for flexible screens.
Another material currently
used as a transparent conductor
for flexible displays is graphene.
However, the silver film shows
major
advantages
compared
to this material; namely, its
conductivity is much better than
the conductivity of graphene.
Zhang said silver films might
be a better future alternative to
ITO for economic reasons, as
prices for indium are likely to
rise in the future, whereas the
price of silver compared to that
is more likely to stay stable.
“Indium itself is a rare
element,”
Zhang
said.
“In
addition, most of the supply
of indium is in China and in
Canada, so it is not everywhere
in the world, only a few places.”
L. Jay Guo, a professor of
electrical
engineering
and
computer science, supervised
the
research
team,
and
explained there were previous
difficulties in producing ultra-
thin
silver
films.
Previous
techniques to overcome these
technical difficulties included
adding other films beneath the
silver film.
“It is known in the scientific
community that if you want
to form a silver film like this
that is thin, it is not going to
be continuous,” Guo said.
“But adding another film
would inevitably impact the
performance of the silver
film.”
Guo and his team set
out to solve the problem by
combining the silver with a
small amount of aluminum.
This allowed for them to
create an ultra-thin, seven-
nanometer
silver
film,
smooth,
transparent
and
resistant to tarnish.
Chengang
Ji,
a
Ph.D.
student
in
electrical
engineering and computer
science, was also part of the
research team. Ji pointed
out the market possibilities
of the silver film given all
its advantages compared to
currently used materials.
“We
are
trying
to
commercialize this product
because it has very good
potential
for
the
next
generation,” Ji said. “So we
are trying to a find a way
for mass production of this
silver film.”
Engineering research team leads
ultra-thin silver film breakthrough
Technology can be utilized in touchscreen technology and flexible monitors
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