The
Michigan
Fashion
Media Summit held its annual
conference on Thursday via Zoom
webinar. MFMS had rescheduled
their original in-person event as a
result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The student-run group was
set to host more than 650 people
at the Ross School of Business
featuring 16 speakers on March
20. Thursday afternoon’s webinar
hosted Caroline Gogolak, vice
president of retail at SoulCycle
and co-founder of Carbon38, and
Tenley Zinke, vice president of
marketing and communications
at Fendi Americas. Amy Tara
Koch, an author, journalist and
U-M alum, moderated the event.
Gogolak said her interest in
fashion was spurred from a class
she took at Parsons School of
Design. After working at Morgan
Stanley
and
Goldman
Sachs,
she co-founded the company
Carbon38, a luxury activewear
lifestyle brand. Gogolak joined
SoulCycle in 2017 after falling in
love with the brand.
“I thought that retail, although
it was a somewhat small business
at that point, had an opportunity
to grow,” Gogolak said. “It also
enabled me to really continue
to just operate and learn more
in a retail business and also
learn about brick and mortar
since most of my business, most
of my background had been in
e-commerce. SoulCycle has just
under 100 locations, so I knew I
would quickly learn that side.”
Gogolak
oversees
merchandising,
planning,
allocation, product development,
supply chain and e-commerce
at SoulCycle. She described how
she is adapting to the current
COVID-19 climate.
LSA freshman Ishi Shukla
felt lucky to have had her
Biology 173 lab section earlier
than others. Her group had
finished the wet lab portion of
an assignment to examine their
own fecal matter before other
sections later that day.
So
when
the
University
of Michigan announced the
suspension of in-person classes
on
March
11,
Shukla
and
her classmates had the data
they needed to complete the
assignment. Others did not.
“For other lab sections of
(Bio 173), it was definitely more
tricky,” Shukla said. “Honestly,
shout out to all the professors
who have had to put in all this
extra time to get classes in this
type of virtual mode because
they only had two days to do it.
It’s pretty impressive.”
As a result of transitioning
classes to online platforms, lab
courses have been faced with
the challenge of administering
the physical components of
their curricula virtually. In
an email to The Michigan
Daily, Tim McKay, physics,
astronomy
and
education
professor and LSA associate
dean
for
undergraduate
education, explained how the
University is adjusting to these
changes.
According to McKay, there
are a variety of approaches
among lab courses. The most
common
is
for
graduate
students
to
perform
labs
through video presentations
and then for students to analyze
the
data
produced.
McKay
gave Ginger Shultz, assistant
professor of chemistry, as an
example: With less than a week
to move her Chemistry 211
course online, Shultz and three
graduate
students
recorded
four weeks of experiments in
one day for her 771 students.
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ANN ARBOR
University of Michigan students
enrolled in Public Policy 456/756
hosted candidates for Wards 1, 2 and
3 of Ann Arbor City Council in an
online forum Thursday afternoon.
Students asked candidates about
transportation, affordable housing
and climate change.
Anne Bannister, D-Ward 1, is
running to keep her current seat
on City Council and is challenged
by Lisa Disch, a professor in the
political science and women’s
City Council hopefuls
convene in online forum
Candidates
talk housing,
environment
Event hosts SoulCycle, Fendi execs
Michigan Fashion Media Summit features leaders of famous brands virtually
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Business, was held via Zoom Thursday.
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