DATES: 4-5 p.m., Jan. 27, 2009.

EVENT: Denise Gray, director of hybrid energy storage systems at General Motors Corp., will give an address as the University of Michigan College of Engineering’s keynote Martin Luther King, Jr. symposium speaker. The title of her talk is “GM Leading the Electrification of the Automobile: Engineering for the 21st Century.” Gray, a Detroit native, is responsible for advance development, design, release, and validation of battery system solutions for GM hybrid and range extender vehicles. The event is free and open to the public.

PLACE: Stamps Auditorium, adjacent to the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center, 1226 Murfin Ave., on North Campus in Ann Arbor. Map: http://uuis.umich.edu/cic/map/north/index.cfm?region=C3.

CONTACT: Mary Nehls-Frumkin, (734) 763-7305 or [email protected]