RC News

Peter Turnley, Internationally Acclaimed Photojournalist and 1977 UM Residential College Alumnus gives presentation in recognition of the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War

RC Student, Michael Rubyan, Debuts Film on Stem Cell Research, Life Is For The Living, 12 March 2008

LIFE IS FOR THE LIVING
A Documentary Film
With an introduction by CBS 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace
Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
The Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
View the trailer and learn more at  www.lifeisfortheliving.org

STEM CELL RESEARCH
The People, The Politics, The Science, The Hope
Co-Sponsored By:
The University Activities Center & The U of M Center for Stem Cell Biology

ABOUT THE FILM…
The stories of five American families living with the painful realities of Juvenile Diabetes, Parkinson’s, and Spinal Cord Injury set against the national debate over embryonic stem cell research. As the debate continues in Washington and across the country, three generations reveal their challenges, their frustration with the President’s policy, and the hope that more funding for embryonic stem cell research will lead to new treatments and cures to relieve their suffering and save their lives.
Life is for the Living also explores the science behind stem cell research and the political debate taking place across the nation. The film includes an introduction by CBS 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace and interviews with the nation's leading scientific researchers, political leaders, and advocates including Former Attorney General Janet Reno, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, US Senator Carl Levin, Dr. Sean Morrison, Director of the UM Center for Stem Cell Biology and Dr. David T. Scadden, Co-Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

 

World Renowned Filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon in Residence
at the RC, 16 March - 21 March 2008

The Residential College in collaboration with Ars Poetica Chamber Orchestra and its Music Director, Anatoli Cheiniouk, present French Filmmaker, Bruno Monsaingeon for a weeklong residency from 16 to 21 March 2008. M. Monsaingeon - introduced to the Residential College and School of Music by Anatoli Cheiniouk - will give classes at the film, music and language departments. Ars Poetica Chamber Orchestra and Deirdre Golden, MD, Co-Founder and President of the Board of Ars Poetica, have the honor to fund the residency, which will bring new awareness to the unique programs at the Residential College.

Bruno Monsaingeon is a violinist, film director and writer, whose films about some of the greatest musicians of our day - among them, Nadia Boulanger, Glenn Gould, Yehudi Menuhin, Dietrich Fishcher- Dieskau, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Victoria Postnikova, Michael Tilson Thomas, Piotr Anderszewski - have been acclaimed throughout the world. M. Monsaingeon is the recipient of many international awards, including, an Honorary Doctorate from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2007.

Bruno Monsaingeon's meetings with students and classes at the Residential College and the School of Music will include: a master class on chamber music (viewing the film Strings Attached), a creative musicianship class on songwriting and composition, and a translations seminar in the foreign language program, and showing the film Nadia Boulanger.

The following events with M. Monsaingeon will be free and open to the public:

Sunday March 16, 3pm
Screening of Richter: The Enigma
The Michigan Theater

Tuesday March 18, 8pm
Screening of Glenn Gould: Hereafter
Residential College Auditorium

Wednesday March 19, 7pm
Conversation with the Artist
126 East Quad Residential College

Thursday March 20, 7pm
Face to Face: Photojournalist Peter Turnley and Filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon
126 East Quad Residential College

— Posted 4 March 2008

 

German Theatre trip blogs from Munich

The RC German program (which includes intensive, immersive classes, focused seminars, and German theatre) is blogging throughout its 6th annual trip to Munich. Filled with an intensive theatre itinerary (15 plays in 9 days!), the group is also seeing the sights and practicing their language skills. Many students are traveling with support from the Brown Fund.

Some of the plays and places the party will (par?)take in:

• Brecht's Im Dickicht der Städte
• Eine Odyssee
• Familie Schroffenstein at the Kammerspiele
• The Residenz Theater
• Delicious food at the Augustiner Keller

More information:
RC German Theater with Janet Hegman Shier
RC Intensive German

— Matt Hampel ('10), 28 Feb 2008

 

RC raises over $500,000 in new endowment to support student engagement

The RC was honored to receive a gift of $100,000 by founding faculty member, Donald Brown and his wife, June, in September 2007 to support RC student engagement from Detroit to Dakar. Because the founding gift will provide scholarship assistance to RC students eligible for financial aid, it qualified for a special UM matching fund that immediately doubled its impact. Thanks to the generous giving by dozens of RC alumni, faculty and friends since the 40th Anniversary, the new endowment fund exceeded the half-million mark just before the new year. As a result, the RC will now be able to provide nearly $25,000 annually to support student study and practice through trips abroad, alternative spring breaks, community service experiences, and field-based independent study projects. [28 Jan 08]