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Updated 1:30 PM November 24, 2004

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UMMA goes a Day With(out) Art Dec. 1

The Museum of Art (UMMA) will observe the 16th Annual Day With(out) Art during World AIDS Day Dec. 1 with a reading by author Mark Doty at 5 p.m.

Doty (Courtesy UMMA)

Doty has written six books of poems, including "Atlantis"—which received the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award—and "My Alexandria," which was chosen by Philip Levine for the National Poetry Series, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize, and was a National Book Award finalist.

UMMA, the Creative Writing Program, Women's Studies program and the Lloyd Hall Scholars program will sponsor Doty's appearance.

NHL, Wolverine alumni players shoot for Mott

Some of the Detroit Red Wings' best-known players—Chris Chelios, Nicklas Lidstrom, Aaron Ward, Manny Legace and Kris Draper—are returning to the ice. No, not for the NHL, but for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

From 8-11 p.m. Dec. 2, U-M's Yost Ice Arena will host an all-star line-up of former U-M and current professional hockey players, along with the U.S. National under-18 hockey team, as part of the "Pro-Am Skate for Mott" event.

They'll work to score funds for Mott Hospital's "Champions for Children" campaign to build a new children's and women's hospital.

Other pros filling out the roster include Bryan Smolinski, Sergei Samsonov, Chris Tamer, Bill Muckalt, Doug Brown, Chris Osgood, David Harlock and Brian Rolston. More players are expected to sign on before game night.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at area M-Den stores, the Ann Arbor Ice Cube and at Yost the night of the game. Tickets also are available by calling (734) 936-9134 or visiting http://www.med.umich.edu/mott.

Reframing Infectious Disease conference

The Institute for the Humanities will host the international conference "Reframing Infectious Disease" Dec. 2-4 to probe the relevance of the humanities to epidemiology, disease models and the global AIDS pandemic.

The institute has assembled panelists from the humanities, anthropology, public policy, public health, medicine, law, journalism, AIDS activism, and foundations.

Professor Howard Markel will talk at 5 p.m. Dec. 2 about his recent book, "When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics that Have Invaded America since 1900 and the Fears They Unleashed." Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health," will deliver the conference's keynote address "Emerging Disease in a World Out of Balance" at
4 p.m. Dec. 4.

All panels will take place in the Rackham Amphitheatre. A related art exhibition, "AIDS Art/South Africa: A Visual Expression of a Pandemic," from the National Gallery of Art, Cape Town, is on display in the Rackham Building's Osterman Common Room through Dec. 17.

For more information, visit http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humin/events/conferences/reframing/.

CRLT opens its house to faculty, staff Dec. 7

The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) will host an open house 3:30-5:30 p.m. Dec. 7 at its new offices in Room 1071 of Palmer Commons.

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