New Events

Summer Carnival at East Quad

Get outdoors with the East Quad Diversity Peer Educator! Play outdoor games, connect with others, and enjoy free face paint!

Mandolin Carnival

with Carlo Aonzo, Don Stiernberg, Brian Oberlin, & Don Julin

Four mandolinists Don Stiernberg (Chicago), Carlo Aonzo (Italy) Brian Oberlin (Grand Rapids) and Don Julin (Traverse City) collaborate for...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

Celebrating Pride Month

We are thrilled to announce that Pride Month is being celebrated in the Hatcher Library! See selected historical artifacts from the Joseph...

KidSport Summer Camp

KidSport Summer Camps offers children ages 4-11 the opportunity to learn and play a variety of team sports, individual sports, team building...

AI for Scientists and Engineers Summer Academy

Academy Overview...

Chair Aerobics/Stretch, Strength & Balance/Zumba

Lifetime Fitness classes are offered at Briarwood Mall in the JCPenney wing every Monday-Friday from 9-10am. No experience necessary....

Debbie Thompson Exhibition

Phytopia: Accessing the Invisible

Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay and draws inspiration from the natural world, which she frequently references in her work. Her...

Melissa Jones Exhibition

Internal Architecture

Melissa Jones works across multiple mediums, consistently centering the human figure, texture, and elements of the natural world—such as...

Resistance is Fertile: Celebrating 30 Years of Cultivating Change

Resistance Is Fertile honors the founding moment of the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, while speaking to the present. The...

The People’s Bicentennial

This selection of original artifacts documents the work of the Peoples Bicentennial Commission (PBC), which challenged the official,...

Fore-Site (Phase 2): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project

From September 2025 through November 2026, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based, artist-run...

Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project

From September 2025 through August 2026, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based, artist-run...

Summer 2026 Faculty Masterclass and Student Experience Workshops

Open and Reproducible Research for the Environmental Sciences

This track is specifically designed for incoming SEAS students for the Summer 2026 onboarding workshops.

workshop seminar
Workshop / Seminar

Marianetta Porter: Breath, Fragment, Return

Curated by Juana Williams, this exhibition examines how Marianetta Porter uses everyday objects, fragments, and embodied memory to make...

Up, Up, And Away: A History of Ballooning in America

This exhibit examines the history of balloon flight in the United States from Blanchard’s first ascension to the early twentieth century....

Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory

The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research...

June 2 - July 30, 2026 T/TH Course - Sampling in Practice

Yajuan Si - Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

June 2-July 30, 2026, T/TH...

Echoes of the Past: Greektown as Seen by Sam Karres

Explore the personal sketchbooks of Sam Karres, Greek-American painter and artist, as he illustrates the daily life of residents in...

Muted Volumes: Book-Objects, Patterned Papers, and the Closed Stacks of Buhr

This exhibit in the Clark Library rotunda focuses on handmade decorative patterned papers when exploring books stored at the library's...