MEDIA ADVISORY

DATE: 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 (doors open at 2 p.m.)

EVENT: Inauguration ceremony for University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel, who became the university’s 14th president since it was founded in 1817. Keynote speaker: Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, president emerita, Brown University.

PLACE: Hill Auditorium, 825 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor

RSVP FOR CREDENTIALS: There is no cost for entrance but tickets are required. Media interested in attending should RSVP by noon Wednesday, Sept. 3, to Laura Lessnau, llessnau@umich.edu.

MORE INFORMATION: Inauguration day activities open to the public include:
Symposia:
8:30-10 a.m., “Sustaining the Biomedical Research Enterprise”
10:30 a.m.-noon., “Privacy and Identity in a Hyperconnected Society”
Blau Auditorium, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, 701 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor

Community reception:
4 p.m. at Ingalls Mall, 881 N. University Ave.

WEB: Tickets for the 3 p.m. installation ceremony are available to the campus community and the general public through the Office of the President website: http://president.umich.edu/about/inauguration/tickets