BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T133256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Friday Night AI DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Prof. Florian Schaubb\, Prof.Roya Ensafi\nModerator: Prof. Rada Mihalcea\nInteractive Activities: Yara El-Tawil\, Snehal Prabhudesai\nOrganizer: Michigan AI Lab\, in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library\nWhen: June 6\, 6:30pm – 7:30pm\nWhere: AADL Ann Arbor downtown\,1st Floor Lobby (343 S 5th Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104)\n\nAs artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in our daily lives—from personalized recommendations to censorship and surveillance—questions about privacy have taken on new significance. What happens to the data we generate? Who has access\, and how is it being used? While AI offers powerful tools for everything from fraud detection to healthcare\, it also raises complex ethical and legal concerns around personal freedom\, consent\, and control over our digital identities. Join us for a conversation with experts in AI\, digital rights\, and censorship as we explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the boundaries of privacy. We’ll discuss where protections are falling short\, what policies are evolving\, and how we can build systems that balance innovation with personal agency.\nWith interactive activities developed by graduate students Yara El-Tawil & Snehal Prabhudesai.\n\nAbout the speakers:\n\nFlorian Schaub is an associate professor of Information and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His interdisciplinary research combines privacy\, human-computer interaction\, emerging technologies\, and public policy. He studies people’s privacy decision making and behavior\, investigates technology-related privacy implications\, and develops human-centric privacy solutions that help people better manage their privacy in technology contexts.. His research has been honored with the 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies\, and with best paper awards at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI)\, the USENIX Security Symposium\, and the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). Dr. Schaub is a DARPA Young Faculty Award recipient. His research has directly impacted industry practice and public policy\, including the rulemaking process for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Dr. Schaub and his work are frequently featured in national and international news media.\n\nRoya Ensafi is an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan\, where her research focuses on Internet security and privacy\, with the goal of creating techniques and systems to better protect users online. She is particularly passionate about online censorship\, geo-discrimination\, surveillance\, and related threats to Internet freedom. Prof. Ensafi is the founder of Censored Planet\, a global censorship observatory. She has studied Russia’s throttling of Twitter\, HTTPS interception in Kazakhstan\, and China’s Great Cannon attack\, among many other instances of network interference. She is a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship\, NSF CAREER\, Google Faculty Research Award\, multiple IRTF Applied Networking Research Prizes\, and the Consumer Reports Digital Lab fellowship. Her work has been cited in popular publications such as The New York Times\, Newsweek\, Business Insider\, Wired\, and Ars Technica.\n\nModerator: Rada Mihalcea is the Janice M. Jenkins Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in natural language processing\, with a focus on multimodal processing and computational social sciences. She is an ACM Fellow\, a AAAI Fellow\, and served as ACL President (2018-2022 Vice/Past). She is the recipient of a Sarah Goddard Power award (2019) for her contributions to diversity in science\, and the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009). UID:135140-21876355@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 4th Floor Meeting Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250623T154053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250626T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250626T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations. UID:135976-21877597@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251022T100406 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T183000 SUMMARY:Other:FreeStore by Planet Blue Student Leaders DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a sustainable shopping experience at the Planet Blue Student Leader’s FreeStore. This monthly event is your chance to find new-to-you clothing and household goods while reducing consumer waste and encouraging reuse. Help us build a more sustainable campus community. Everything is free!\n\n\n\nJoin us on the first floor of the Michigan Union every first Wednesday of the month! UID:136782-21879108@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136782 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Sophia B. Jones CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250812T125735 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Friday Night AI DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Prof. Jonathan Brennan\, Hrithik Ravi\nModerator: Prof. Rada Mihalcea\nInteractive Activities: Yara El-Tawil\, Snehal Prabhudesai\nOrganizer: Michigan AI Lab\, in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library\nWhen: September 5\, 2025\, 6:30pm – 7:30pm\nWhere: AADL Ann Arbor downtown\,1st Floor Lobby (343 S 5th Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104)\n\nAI is increasingly embedded into our daily lives\, influencing the way we think\, learn\, and interact with the world. But as we rely on algorithms to help us write\, navigate\, and even make decisions\, several fundamental questions arise: Is AI shaping our habits\, our skills\, and our sense of self? Are we enhancing human capabilities\, or do we end up outsourcing them? Join us for a conversation with experts in AI\, psychology\, and ethics as we explore how AI may be quietly reshaping our cognition\, relationships\, and daily lives. We’ll ask where the line lies between assistance and overreliance\, and what it means to remain human in a machine-augmented world. With interactive activities developed by graduate students Snehal Prabhudesai and Yara El-Tawil.\n\nAbout the speakers:\n\nJonathan R. Brennan is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at the Univeristy of Michigan where he directs the Computational Neurolinguistics Laboratory. His research focuses on how the human brain creates and makes sense of language\, drawing on theories and methods from linguistics\, neuroscience\, and computer science. This research is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. He recieved his PhD in 2010 from New York University and completed post-doctoral training at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He received the Early Career Award from the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in 2019 and is the author\, in 2022\, of \"Language and the Brain: A slim guide to Neurolinguistics.\n\nHrithik Ravi is an AI researcher currently working with Prof. Rada Mihalcea and Prof. Ambuj Tewari to explain why AIs can't solve basic planning and reasoning tasks. He completed his BSE in Computer Science and MS in Machine Learning\, both at the University of Michigan. His previous research mathematically proved how AI generalizes on inputs it didn't see during training\, and was published at a prestigious international AI conference. He aims to start a PhD next year\, and conduct deep research to develop a better\, rigorous understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations. You can follow him on Twitter (@r1pster7).\n\nModerator: Rada Mihalcea is the Janice M. Jenkins Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in natural language processing\, with a focus on multimodal processing and computational social sciences. She is an ACM Fellow\, a AAAI Fellow\, and served as ACL President (2018-2022 Vice/Past). She is the recipient of a Sarah Goddard Power award (2019) for her contributions to diversity in science\, and the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009). UID:137319-21880138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137319 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 1st Floor Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250821T170759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Perot Jain TechLab Info Session DESCRIPTION:What If You Said Yes to Innovation?\n\nThe Perot Jain TechLab (PJTL) Series is a set of immersive programs designed for ambitious students who want to push the boundaries of what’s possible in technology and entrepreneurship.\n\nPJTL gives students the opportunity to:\nWork on projects in connected and autonomous vehicles\, transportation electrification\, climate change technologies\, healthtech\, and air & space\nCollaborate directly with innovative startup companies and industry experts\nDevelop entrepreneurial skills that prepare you for your career and future ventures\n\nDuring this information session\, you’ll connect with PJTL program staff\, learn about the application process\, and gain a deeper understanding of how the program can help you grow as an innovator and entrepreneur. Lunch is provided.\n\nTuesday\, September 10\n12:00–1:00 PM\nDuderstadt 3358\nLunch provided\n\nRSVP now: https://myumi.ch/NrdjE UID:137908-21881095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 3358 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250827T093620 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statements of Value vs. Statements of Action: Exploring Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Race in 2020 DESCRIPTION:Drawing on a content analysis of statements from Fortune 500 companies\, US News and World Report’s top 100 universities\, and Forbes’ top 100 nonprofits\, this project captures and analyzes organizational responses to COVID and issues of racial inequality in the US. Both issues were central in US life in 2020. We explore two questions: How did organizations talk about COVID and race-related issues in 2020? Relatedly\, was there any variation in the presence and content of organizational statements about these two issues? Based on their statements\, COVID pushed organizations to produce tangible responses grounded in actions aimed at reducing the impact of the pandemic\, while race-related issues generated condemnations of racism attached to abstract reflections on the implication of racial inequality or calls for further discussion of the issue. As ubiquitous as both issues were in the US\, any talk of a “national conversation” around these topics misleadingly obscures important variation in how organizations talked about these concurrent social issues. Across organizational type\, the contrast in how companies talked about both issues suggests that robust organizational engagement with broader social issues can happen\, but organizations are selective in choosing which issues garner deep\, action-oriented engagement. UID:138230-21882635@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138230 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T172619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T124500 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:CommuniTea with CASC Director & Professor Abigail Eiler DESCRIPTION:Join us for CommuniTea with CASC Director and Professor Abigail Eiler!\nTake a mid-day break to connect with fellow students and enjoy conversation over Jimmy John’s sandwiches\, coffee\, and tea. This casual gathering will be held from 12:00–12:45 p.m. - we hope to see you there! UID:138831-21883987@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138831 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - B770 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250812T175204 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Constitution and the Second Trump Administration's Assault on Immigrants' Rights DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture commemorating Constitution Day. Lee Gelernt\, Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project\, will speak on \"The Constitution and the Second Trump Administration's Assault on Immigrants' Rights.\" Mr. Gelernt\, drawing on his three decades of experience doing civil rights work at the ACLU\, will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the Trump II policies and the ongoing high-profile litigation around immigrants’ rights. There will be particular focus on the Trump Administration’s unprecedented – and in his view unconstitutional – use of the Alien Enemies Act. UID:137426-21880229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137426 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T104222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T220000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Constitution Day | What's at Stake Series: DESCRIPTION:In honor of Constitution Day on September 17\, join U-M faculty experts for a discussion on some of the Constitution’s most important features: executive orders\, separation of powers and control over elections\, due process and habeas corpus\, the rule of law—its meaning\, importance\, and challenges.\n\nEven if you think you know the Constitution\, this event will give you new insights. Come with your curiosity\, questions\, and concerns.\n\nFree pizza + free pocket Constitutions (limited supply)! UID:139043-21884677@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250827T082353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Countering Gender Apartheid with International Law: A Strategic Convening DESCRIPTION:This conference will focus on strategies for the codification and application of the emerging international legal concept of gender apartheid.\n\nThe gender apartheid framework is about developing a more effective response to the situation of Afghan women and girls under draconian Taliban rule\, as well as other situations of de jure subjugation of women\, such as in Iran.\n\nRegistration is required for virtual attendance. To register\, visit: https://tinyurl.com/bdze45ae.\n\nFor a complete schedule\, please visit https://tinyurl.com/4bw9atzb. UID:138227-21882631@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138227 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Jeffries Hall - 1225 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T111245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GIEU Info Sessions for Sp/Su 2026 DESCRIPTION:These Info Sessions will discuss details about the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program for Sp/Su 2026. It will cover info about the program structure including the pre-departure requirements\, academic component\, and local site information. UID:139060-21884701@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139060 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881924@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T194954 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Art & Social Change DESCRIPTION:On September 20 & 21 guest artists will be holding an Art & Social Change Weekend Workshop\, rooted in a somatic\, improvisational practice called “InterPlay.” InterPlay is an active and creative approach to unlocking the wisdom of the body. You don't need to consider yourself “creative” to participate. Through InterPlay’s simple\, incremental forms\, you'll tap into the power of storytelling\, dance and song to engage in profound community dialogue through art. Registration begins now!\n\nOn Monday\, September 22 at 5pm\, workshop participants will hold Community Witnessing Night\, a performance event open for all on campus. We welcome you to join to witness each other in story\, sound and movement. Not your typical \"performance\,\" we invite authentic and spontaneous sharing\, empowering performers and audiences to explore social change through embodied knowledge and collective discovery. Refreshments will be served. UID:139383-21885362@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139383 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:social impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T142724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T160000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Pre-Climate Week UM Branded Clothing Drive DESCRIPTION:Come to 1520 Dana Bldg (SEAS + PitE Student Center) and drop off your unwanted/gently used UM branded clothing that you no longer need. Drop offs will take place the week of Sept 22nd - 26th! There will be a large bin for you to drop your gently used clothing in for our upcoming Climate Week Clothing Swap - details on that to come shortly. UID:139073-21884876@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 1520 Dana Bldg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T142724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T160000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Pre-Climate Week UM Branded Clothing Drive DESCRIPTION:Come to 1520 Dana Bldg (SEAS + PitE Student Center) and drop off your unwanted/gently used UM branded clothing that you no longer need. Drop offs will take place the week of Sept 22nd - 26th! There will be a large bin for you to drop your gently used clothing in for our upcoming Climate Week Clothing Swap - details on that to come shortly. UID:139073-21884877@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 1520 Dana Bldg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T142724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T160000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Pre-Climate Week UM Branded Clothing Drive DESCRIPTION:Come to 1520 Dana Bldg (SEAS + PitE Student Center) and drop off your unwanted/gently used UM branded clothing that you no longer need. Drop offs will take place the week of Sept 22nd - 26th! There will be a large bin for you to drop your gently used clothing in for our upcoming Climate Week Clothing Swap - details on that to come shortly. UID:139073-21884878@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 1520 Dana Bldg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T100046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T140000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:So Cool So Just DESCRIPTION:Join the Ginsberg Center and Community Action and Social Change Minor at the School of Social Work for So Cool So Just on September 24 from 12 - 2 PM. A vibrant resource fair bringing together student organizations\, community partners\, and campus units committed to community engagement and social change. Explore opportunities to get involved\, volunteer\, or simply learn what’s happening across campus and beyond. It’s your chance to connect with groups making a real impact. UID:137499-21880345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137499 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250910T135745 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T190000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Dinner for Democracy: LGBTQ+ DESCRIPTION:Note: this is an in-person event on the Ann Arbor campus.\nDinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about\, hosted by the student organization\, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free dinner is provided! Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss their thoughts\, information about how their vote in local offices can affect the issue\, and additional resources they can use to learn more. UID:139183-21885016@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T142724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T160000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Pre-Climate Week UM Branded Clothing Drive DESCRIPTION:Come to 1520 Dana Bldg (SEAS + PitE Student Center) and drop off your unwanted/gently used UM branded clothing that you no longer need. Drop offs will take place the week of Sept 22nd - 26th! There will be a large bin for you to drop your gently used clothing in for our upcoming Climate Week Clothing Swap - details on that to come shortly. UID:139073-21884879@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 1520 Dana Bldg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T154147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interfaith Photovoice: Discovering Human Connection Through the Lens DESCRIPTION:What if a set of photos could completely transform how you understand your purpose\, the experiences of others\, and the value of humanity? With over 5 billion pictures taken globally every day\, Photovoice uses this powerful medium to foster deeper connections and understanding between participants. In this 90-minute interactive session\, you’ll use photographs to reflect\, share your story\, and engage in meaningful dialogue with others. Whether you're looking to explore your own journey or connect with diverse perspectives\, this innovative experience is designed for everyone. No photography skills are needed—just bring your curiosity and an open mind! Come capture more than just a moment—discover the stories behind the images!\n\nThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute is hosting its first Photovoice dinner for students on Thursday\, September 25th\, at 6pm in Pierpont Commons. The theme of the September 25th dinner is \"hope\,\" and we especially invite those involved with campus religious and spiritual groups to attend. A facilitator will guide your table through the process of sharing\, asking questions\, and understanding everyone's experiences. Students can RSVP for the September 25th dinner using the pre-registration link listed. \n\nIn preparation for the dinner\, please choose three of your own photographs (or take three new photographs) that you would be willing to share with others in response to the following prompt: \"Hope can be felt\, longed for\, aspired to\, practiced. What does hope look like for you now?\"\n\nAdditional student dinners will be held on the fourth Thursday of each month at rotating locations. The theme of each dialogue will be different\, but the meal will always be vegetarian. Receive more information about future monthly topics by filling out the interest form included. UID:139211-21885090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139211 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - East room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T142724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T160000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Pre-Climate Week UM Branded Clothing Drive DESCRIPTION:Come to 1520 Dana Bldg (SEAS + PitE Student Center) and drop off your unwanted/gently used UM branded clothing that you no longer need. Drop offs will take place the week of Sept 22nd - 26th! There will be a large bin for you to drop your gently used clothing in for our upcoming Climate Week Clothing Swap - details on that to come shortly. UID:139073-21884880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 1520 Dana Bldg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T130523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Effect of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer on Families and Children’s Development through Age 4: Findings from the Baby’s First Years Study DESCRIPTION:The Effect of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer on Families and Children’s Development through Age 4: Findings from the Baby’s First Years Study\nKatherine Magnuson\, Director\, Institute for Research on Poverty\; Professor\, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Social Work\nFriday\, September 26\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138510-21883148@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138510 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T111245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GIEU Info Sessions for Sp/Su 2026 DESCRIPTION:These Info Sessions will discuss details about the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program for Sp/Su 2026. It will cover info about the program structure including the pre-departure requirements\, academic component\, and local site information. UID:139060-21884702@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139060 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881925@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T234524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T170000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Cultivate & Connect - Interfaith Gardening Volunteering Event DESCRIPTION:Join Michigan Interfaith in Action for “Cultivate & Connect\,\" an opportunity for students of diverse religious and secular beliefs to come together and garden at the Zen Buddhist Temple of Ann Arbor.\n\nPlease join us for an afternoon of volunteering and connection at the Zen Buddhist Temple of Ann Arbor! On September 27th from 3-5pm\, we will be volunteering in the garden\, so wear shoes and clothes that can get dirty. Those of all religious\, spiritual\, and secular identities are welcome. Ice cream will also be provided after. RSVP here: https://forms.gle/M95REohDrwpsfcQR6 UID:138703-21883639@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138703 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T132327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Intersections to Action: Creating Equitable Climate Solutions Together DESCRIPTION:From Intersections to Action: Creating Equitable Climate Solutions Together\nWawa Gatheru | Founder and Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalist\nMonday\, September 29\, 10:30 a.m. at the Michigan Union in the Pendleton Room (2nd Floor)\nPlease RSVP for this talk: https://forms.gle/59U25HpR7GT2P5k66\n\nWawa Gatheru delves into the interconnectedness of climate and social justice\, unpacking how systemic failures across education\, housing\, and labor perpetuate poverty and environmental risk. Drawing upon the energy and vision of youth activism\, she urges the climate leaders of tomorrow to pursue intersectional\, systems-level approaches. Her message\, rooted in the values of justice and solidarity\, reflects U-M Climate Week’s momentum-building message: “Together for Tomorrow.”\n\nThis event is a part of U-M Climate Week 2025: Together for Tomorrow\, cosponsored by the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Office of Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action.\n\n#UMCW25\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together. UID:138512-21883154@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138512 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250806T143853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Fall 2025 Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:What is Michigan in Washington?\nMIW gives 20–25 students from any major the chance to spend a semester in Washington\, D.C.\, blending coursework (12-13 credits) with an internship tailored to their interests. While in D.C.\, you’ll:\nWork four days a week at your internship.\n\nAttend evening and Friday morning classes to deepen your academic and professional understanding.\n\nExplore the vibrant city of Washington\, D.C.\, on weekends!\n\nAs part of the program\, you’ll take a professional development course the semester before heading to D.C. You do not need to register for this course in advance. This class provides tools for:\n\nFinding and securing internships related to your interests.\n\nCrafting standout resumes and cover letters.\n\nBuilding confidence for networking and interviews.\n\nInternship Opportunities\nYou can choose internships based on your passions and career goals. Here’s just a sample of what past students have pursued:\n\nSPH: Alliance for Health Policy\, National Sleep Foundation\, Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security\, American Hearth Association\n\nSociology: National Women's Law Center\, Center for American Progress\, DC Public Schools\n\nRoss: GAO\, International Franchise Association\, Community Wealth Ventures\, House Committees\, CFPB\n\nFord: White House Hispanic Initiative\, Forbes Tate\, Brookings\, Partnership for Public Service\n\nEngineering: Department of Education\, DHHS\, Capitol Hill\n\nPolitical Science: House Judiciary Committee\, Department of Justice\, Capitol Hill\; Women’s Congressional Policy Institute\, Wilson Center\n\nPsychology: Children’s Defense Fund\, Atlantic Council\, American Psychological Association\n\nEnvironmental Science (PitE): Environment America\, Environmental Law Institute\, Environmental Protection Agency\n\nCommunications & Media: CNN\, C-SPAN\, ABC News\, DNC\, FCC\, CBS News\n\nEconomics: Federal Trade Commission\, Brookings Institute\, Treasury Department\n\nPICS: U.S. Trade Representative\, USGLC\, Truman Center\, National Defense University\, Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, \n\nWhether you’re majoring in Women and Gender Studies\, Afro-American and African Studies\, Anthropology\, or any other field\, there’s an internship for you in D.C.!\n\nWho Should Apply?\nIf you’re a 3rd or 4th-year undergraduate ready to learn outside a traditional classroom\, MIW could be perfect for you. We’re looking for motivated students eager to explore the real-world applications of their academic skills while immersing themselves in the dynamic culture of Washington\, D.C.\n\nFunding Opportunities\nEvery admitted student receives a $1\,500 scholarship. Additional funding is available based on financial need—no separate scholarship application is required!\n\nFunding is available for this living and learning program. Every student admitted to Michigan in Washington receives a $1500 scholarship. Funding above this amount is based on financial need. UID:137143-21879810@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21885920@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Palmer Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251022T100406 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T183000 SUMMARY:Other:FreeStore by Planet Blue Student Leaders DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a sustainable shopping experience at the Planet Blue Student Leader’s FreeStore. This monthly event is your chance to find new-to-you clothing and household goods while reducing consumer waste and encouraging reuse. Help us build a more sustainable campus community. Everything is free!\n\n\n\nJoin us on the first floor of the Michigan Union every first Wednesday of the month! UID:136782-21879109@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136782 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Sophia B. Jones CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879788@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250818T003129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:What Kind of Changemaker Are You? Pathways to Civic Engagement and Community Change DESCRIPTION:Are you passionate about social justice\, advocacy\, or service and trying to determine your next steps at UM or beyond? Interested in pursuing a career that allows you to enact positive social change? Join us for our Learning in Community workshop focused on “Pathways.” \n\n“The Pathways to Civic Engagement and Community Change” is a framework that describes a range of possibilities by which you can exercise your own power to create a better world\, including direct service\, community organizing\, policy-making\, community-engaged research\, social entrepreneurialism\, and philanthropy. These pathways intersect and overlap\, demonstrating the interdependent nature of working toward the common good. At the end of this workshop you’ll be better able to assess what kinds of opportunities are the best match with your personality\, talents\, and passions. Whether you are considering what extracurriculars to get involved with\, or making choices about graduate school and careers\, the Pathways workshop can help guide you the next steps in your social justice journey. \n\nFor students who are:\n\nBeginning to explore ways to engage with communities\n\nMaking decisions about what classes to take\n\nTrying to choose extracurricular activities \n\nInterested in pursuing a career in community engagement or social impact UID:137699-21880579@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881926@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879791@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879790@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T210520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T071500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T204500 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Maternity at Work: Bosses\, Babies\, & Benefits DESCRIPTION:Join BMEC for Maternity at Work! 💙 We will talk about the relationship between maternity and employment\, how to maintain a work-life balance\, and ways your employer can serve YOU!\n\nBlack Maternal Equity Collective's mission is to advocate for Black birthing people through public health\, outreach\, policy work\, doula/midwifery labor support\, and service. There are no requirements -- we welcome anyone who is interested in maternal equity and protecting the lives of black birth givers and children! UID:140300-21886894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140300 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Trotter Large Meeting Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251008T154601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Teaching the Past to Change What's Next: Marsal Education and LSA History DESCRIPTION:Join Marsal Education and LSA History in-person to learn more about what a social studies teacher certification can do for you and how you can make an impact on the lives of others.\n\nRSVP here https://umforms.tfaforms.net/219253 UID:140457-21887174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140457 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879794@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250527T152221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T160000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:CGIS Study Abroad Fair DESCRIPTION:Curious about studying abroad as an undergraduate at U-M? Come explore everything the Center for Global and Intercultural Study has to offer and find the best program for you! No matter who you are\, where you come from\, or what you’re studying\, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.\n\nGet your questions answered! Come chat with: \n- CGIS Program Advisors\n- Recent U-M study abroad students\n- Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarships Office\n- Newnan Academic Advisors\n- Other on-campus offices\n\nWith over 120 CGIS programs in 40+ countries ranging from a few weeks to an academic year\, there are many options to choose from.If you want to learn more about how to satisfy your major/minor requirements abroad\, how to afford study abroad\, how to travel with other U-M students on a faculty-led trip\, or want to know what to expect\, be sure to add this event to your calendar and drop by!\n\nCGIS is part of the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts (LSA)\, but all U-M undergraduates are welcome to apply to our programs. UID:134969-21875891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134969 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T103434 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Detroit’s Rapid Rehousing Program Designed by Youth\, For Youth: A Panel on Meaningful Youth Engagement DESCRIPTION:Detroit’s Rapid Rehousing Program Designed by Youth\, For Youth: A Panel on Meaningful Youth Engagement\nCourtney Smith\, Founder and CEO of Detroit Phoenix Center\nCaylene Rudd & Bobbi Simmons\, Detroit Phoenix Center Youth Action Board members\nFriday\, October 10\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nThe Detroit Phoenix Center provides critical resources\, wraparound support\, and a safe\, nurturing environment to youth. They partner with young people to break the generational cycle of homelessness and poverty.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138513-21883153@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138513 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T111245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GIEU Info Sessions for Sp/Su 2026 DESCRIPTION:These Info Sessions will discuss details about the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program for Sp/Su 2026. It will cover info about the program structure including the pre-departure requirements\, academic component\, and local site information. UID:139060-21884703@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139060 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881927@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250822T095313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251015T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251015T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (ELP) Info Session DESCRIPTION:The Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (ELP) is designed for a select cohort of students and combines experiential learning with mentorship. The goal is to help develop an entrepreneurial mindset and shape your skills needed to become a leader. The ELP curriculum is intense and hands-on\, giving students the tools to launch their own businesses during or after college. ELP offers students the chance to embark on an immersive US treks\, providing them with valuable real-world experiences in entrepreneurship.\n\nThis is your opportunity to ask ELP staff and instructors anything and everything! During this information session\, you'll meet ELP program staff who will deeper dive into program specifics. You'll have the opportunity to have a greater understanding of how ELP can help you with your entrepreneurial career goals.\n\nRSVP Now: https://myumi.ch/JPNj7\nWednesday\, October 15 from 12:00-1:00pm in Duderstadt 1180\nLunch provided\n\n\nQuestions? Contact Crista Deneau\, Entrepreneurial Practice Program Manager\, at cldeneau@umich.edu. UID:137996-21881109@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137996 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250929T103806 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Land\, Language\, and People: Arab and Jewish Imagination in the Late Ottoman Empire DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between Professors Mostafa Hussein and Eric Covey (Grand Valley State University)\, facilitated by Frankel Center's Interim Director for 2025-26\, Deborah Dash Moore. Their discussion will be followed by a dessert reception. Virtual attendance option available for Ann Arbor audience. \n\nDrawing from his upcoming book\, \"Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine\"\, Dr. Hussein will explore how Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine utilized Arabo-Islamic culture. In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948\, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures while navigating their evolving identities as settler colonists. Hebrew Orientalism challenges the conventional view that Hebrew thinkers were dismissive of Arabo-Islamic culture\, revealing how they both adopted and adapted elements of it that enhanced their aims.\n\nFrom Dr. Hussein: I am a historian specializing in modern Israel-Palestine and the neighboring Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East (19th-21st centuries)\, with a focus on the subfield of Jewish-Arab/Muslim studies. Trained in Judaic and Near Eastern Studies\, I employ intellectual history\, cultural history\, and literary analysis to examine the multifaceted relations—religious\, cultural\, intellectual\, and social—between Jews and Arabs/Muslims from medieval to modern times. A central aim of my research is to illuminate how Arab and Jewish scholars in the modern Middle East have reappropriated and repurposed their communities’ shared histories and interwoven legacies. Engaging with these historical interactions provides a rich context for understanding the enduring influence of tradition\, history\, and language on contemporary concerns in the region. My scholarship thus spans multiple fields and disciplines\, reflecting its interdisciplinary and comparative nature. UID:137084-21879527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137084 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T133748 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The High Cost of Mass Deportation DESCRIPTION:The High Cost of Mass Deportation\nWilliam D. Lopez\, Clinical Associate Professor\, University of Michigan School of Public Health\nFriday\, October 17\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nIn this talk\, William D. Lopez will discuss his latest book\, \"Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance\,\" and the research behind it. The book chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids—and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.\n\nAcross the United States\, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) upends small towns and rural communities by staging dramatic raids and rounding up hundreds of people in a single day. These worksite raids fracture families\, devastate local economies\, and spread fear and trauma that lingers for years. Yet in the wake of these devastating raids\, immigrant communities exhibit resistance\, resilience\, creativity\, and an extraordinary determination to rebuild.\n\nIn this powerful follow-up to his best-seller \"Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid\,\" Lopez brings us into the heart of communities targeted by large-scale ICE enforcement under the Trump administration. These are places where immigrant workers\, many of whom have lived in the United States for decades\, are suddenly torn from their families and livelihoods. Based on extensive fieldwork\, this book highlights the voices of those who have endured these raids: the teachers left to comfort traumatized children\, the faith leaders who opened their doors to families in crisis\, the organizers who mobilized relief efforts overnight\, and the workers and their families who fought for their right to remain.\n\nAs raids continue to increase across the country\, this book is an urgent and deeply human portrait of what these raids leave behind—and the fierce\, often unexpected ways communities come together across class\, race\, and immigration status in their aftermath.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138514-21883155@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138514 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250930T101110 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Should Hate Speech be Regulated on Social Media? DESCRIPTION:Part of the Samantha Woll Dialogues\, Raoul Wallenberg Institute Managing Director Miriam Mora will moderate an exchange with Roy Austin (former vice-president of civil rights and deputy general counsel for Meta) and Paul Resnick (Professor of Information\, University of Michigan) about the tensions between free expression and digital harm\, and the ways that social media platforms\, policymakers\, and communities are navigating this evolving landscape. UID:137001-21879400@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137001 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250818T004515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Welcome to Washtenaw County: Time to Get to Work! DESCRIPTION:This workshop is an introduction to Washtenaw County community engagement for U-M students. Do you want to help make your community a better place\, but you’re not sure how? Do you envision your college career including volunteering\, organizing\, philanthropy\, service projects or other community change work? Join the Ginsberg Center for a workshop to help you understand the communities beyond U-M’s campus and the different steps you can take to become a true change-maker. Whether you’re a townie or a newcomer to Michigan\, this workshop can help you look at your community from a new angle. \n\nFor students who are:\n\nNew to the University of Michigan\n\nInterested in making a difference as a college student\n\nExploring ways to engage with communities UID:137700-21880581@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251007T160949 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T190000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Dinner for Democracy: Food Insecurity DESCRIPTION:Note: this is an in-person event on the Ann Arbor campus.\n\nDinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about\, hosted by the student organization\, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). This event is in collaboration with Central Student Government (CSG). Free food at in-person events!\n\nParticipants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss their thoughts\, information about how their vote in local offices can affect the issue\, and additional resources they can use to learn more. UID:140398-21887034@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140398 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1230 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T083317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interfaith Photovoice: Discovering Human Connection Through the Lens DESCRIPTION:What if a set of photos could completely transform how you understand your purpose\, the experiences of others\, and the value of humanity? With over 5 billion pictures taken globally every day\, Photovoice uses this powerful medium to foster deeper connections and understanding between participants. In this 90-minute interactive session\, you’ll use photographs to reflect\, share your story\, and engage in meaningful dialogue with others. Whether you're looking to explore your own journey or connect with diverse perspectives\, this innovative experience is designed for everyone. No photography skills are needed—just bring your curiosity and an open mind! Come capture more than just a moment—discover the stories behind the images!\n\nThe theme for February is \"transformation.\" The Lunar New Year\, Lent\, Ramadan\, and the turn into spring all touch on this theme. Snap 3-5 photos that relate to the theme of transformation for you\, and be prepared to share and talk about them with others during this event. \n\nWe strongly encourage you to print the photos or bring them in a slidedeck on your laptop. UID:139184-21885018@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139184 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Mason Hall - 1401 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250930T110826 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T122000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Shyanne Telfer DESCRIPTION:Get ready to rethink what innovation really looks like in the real world! Shyanne Telfer is the VP of Product at Throne Labs\, the company breaking barriers\, headlines\, and stigmas by redesigning America’s public bathrooms with smart tech and human-first design. Their mission? Accessibility\, dignity\, and cleaner\, safer solutions for everyone.\n\nShe’s led the charge from early prototype to nationwide impact\, supercharging growth by over 19\,000%\, scaling across multiple states\, earning a Technical.ly Product of the Year nomination\, and inspiring massive buzz in national media. Her playbook? Data-driven strategy\, design thinking\, radical inclusivity\, and putting users (and communities) first.\n\nCurious about how tech and entrepreneurship can actually solve problems we all face? Want to see how design\, operations\, and culture come together for social impact and real business growth? You’ll hear honest startup stories\, innovation wins (and setbacks!)\, and get behind-the-scenes glimpses at a mission-driven company that’s turning a “public restroom crisis” into a social and business opportunity.\n\nAll students\, all majors\, and every experience level are invited. This is for problem-solvers\, product nerds\, aspiring founders\, and anyone ready to create positive change.\n\nFriday\, October 24 | 11:30 AM | Stamps Auditorium\, North Campus UID:140061-21886557@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140061 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T111245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GIEU Info Sessions for Sp/Su 2026 DESCRIPTION:These Info Sessions will discuss details about the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program for Sp/Su 2026. It will cover info about the program structure including the pre-departure requirements\, academic component\, and local site information. UID:139060-21884704@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139060 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881929@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21885922@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250930T175016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T190000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize and Blue Civics: Gun Violence Prevention DESCRIPTION:Maize and Blue Civics are interactive discussion forums of panelists who are professionals/advocates in a particular policy-related area. There will be a dedicated Q&A session. Dinner will be provided! This event's topic will be gun violence prevention. Read about our featured panelists below.\n\nApril Zeoli\, PhD\, MPH: Director of Policy Core at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. Dr. Zeoli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management Policy at the School of Public Health. \n\nCynthia Ewell Foster\, PhD: Director of Community Engagement Core at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. Dr. Foster is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry.\n\nJustin Heinze\, PhD: Director of the School Safety Section and co-director of the Research and Scholarship Core at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. Dr. Heinze is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity at the School of Public Health.\n\nMalinda Brunk: Senior at the Ford School of Public Policy with a focus on national security against domestic terrorism. Malinda is a survivor of the Michigan State University shooting.\n\nJosephine Stoffan: Junior at the Ross School of Business studying marketing with a focus on branding\, storytelling\, and creative strategy. Josie is a survivor of the Oxford High School shooting. \n\nJoshua Crook: Senior at the Ford School of Public Policy with a focus on economics and development. Josh is a research assistant at the National Center for School Safety. UID:140090-21886604@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140090 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251028T103000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T180000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Master of Arts in Social Impact Leadership Info-Session DESCRIPTION:Join the School of Social Work to learn about the brand new Master of Arts in Social Impact Leadership Info-Session on Wednesday\, Oct. 29th from 5-6 pm! The info-session will be in room 1840 in the School of Social Work\, and food will be provided! \n\nGain practical skills for leadership in social impact setting. Learn in a program rooted in social justice values. Small cohorts and student-focused advising. NO GRE or GMAT required. UID:141225-21888419@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141225 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:social impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251022T234426 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T210000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Auxiliary University Program Boat Sim Meeting DESCRIPTION:The USCG Auxiliary University Program will be trying out a boat simulator used for Auxiliary operations during the usual Wednesday 7pm meeting time until approximately 9pm. UID:141043-21888011@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T135634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lessons from the Water Warrior on Community Coalition Building for Water Justice DESCRIPTION:Lessons from the Water Warrior on Community Coalition Building for Water Justice\nMonica Lewis-Patrick\, Founder and CEO of We The People of Detroit\nFriday\, October 31\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nAs a community-based grassroots organization\, WPD aims to inform\, educate\, and empower Detroit residents on imperative issues surrounding civil rights\, land\, water\, education\, and the democratic process. In collaboration with community activists\, academics\, researchers\, and designers\, the WPD Community Research Collective (CRC) utilizes research in order to serve the sustainability of the Detroit community. The WPD CRC uses data to visually show the socio-economic consequences of austerity policies in Detroit\, which have worked toward the dismantling of Black and Brown Detroit neighborhoods. By presenting a critical counter narrative\, WPD CRC uses knowledge as a tool to empower Detroit citizens as they fight for an equitable and beloved community. WPD CRC's most recent project addresses the public health crisis in Detroit as a result of unsafe and inaccessible water services.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138517-21883157@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138517 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881930@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251023T192507 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251103T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Peril & Promise: A Conversation on College Leadership DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to lead with integrity in a time of change?\nHow can institutions honor their histories while meeting the demands of today’s students?\nWhat wisdom can we draw from leaders who have navigated the highest levels of higher education?\n\nOn Monday\, November 3\, 2025\, the Trotter Multicultural Center\, in partnership with the Central Student Government and the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID)\, will host Peril & Promise: A Conversation on College Leadership in Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan. This of a kind event will bring together two esteemed leaders in higher education:\n\nDr. Ruth J. Simmons\, president emerita of Smith College\, Brown University\, and Prairie View A&M University\, and a nationally respected voice on equity\, access\, and institutional change.\n\nDr. Beverly Daniel Tatum\, president emerita of Spelman College\, psychologist\, and best-selling author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?\n\nThis public conversation—moderated by Dr. Earl Lewis—will explore the promise and challenges of leadership in complex times\, with particular attention to the role of student activism\, institutional memory\, and courageous decision-making. Both speakers bring firsthand experience navigating public discourse\, student advocacy\, and the responsibilities of institutional leadership across public and private contexts.\n\n\n*In an effort to enhance public safety\, the Division of Public Safety & Security has implemented a strict prohibited items list for this event.\nWeapons - Firearms\, Simulated Firearms\, Dirks\, Daggers\, Ice picks\, knives\, sticks\, poles\, clubs\, pipes (wood\, plastic\, or metal)\, bottles or jars- hard plastic/metal/glass (Nalgene®\, bike water bottles\, etc.)\nTasers / Stun Guns\nAerosols (pepper / OC spray\, hairspray\, etc)\nBalls or other projectiles\nHard or Frozen Fruit / Vegetables\nNoise Making Devices\nSkateboards / Scooters / Bicycles\nMasks (intended to conceal identity\nSupports for banners/signs\nAnimals (other than service / guide animals)\nBaseball bats\nHard-sided coolers\nLaser Pointers\nBalloons\nUmbrellas\nMonopods / tripods\nIllegal Drugs\nAny other items determined to be potential safety hazards\n** All people and belongings entering this event are subject to search UID:138283-21882714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138283 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251022T100406 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T183000 SUMMARY:Other:FreeStore by Planet Blue Student Leaders DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a sustainable shopping experience at the Planet Blue Student Leader’s FreeStore. This monthly event is your chance to find new-to-you clothing and household goods while reducing consumer waste and encouraging reuse. Help us build a more sustainable campus community. Everything is free!\n\n\n\nJoin us on the first floor of the Michigan Union every first Wednesday of the month! UID:136782-21879110@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136782 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Sophia B. Jones CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251017T113953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T220000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:An Army of Women Movie Screening DESCRIPTION:We would love for members of your organization to join University Students Against Rape and STARS on Wednesday\, November 5th from 7-9:30pm for a screening of An Army of Women - A documentary about sexual violence survivors taking on the DA office and police department of the city of Austin\, Texas for not prosecuting their perpetrators. Immediately following the movie\, we will have a panel discussion with Attorneys Kimberly Kuhn and Lauren Kuhn and Activist Brianna Michelle. \n\n\nThe movie will start at 7 pm in the Rackham Amphitheater and a panel will follow in the conference room starting about 8:30 pm - refreshments will be provided.\n\nTickets are free. After the movie\, we will hold a discussion session where refreshments will be provided. Due to the limited seating we are asking attendees to pre-register at: https://tbtnannarbor.org/an-army-of-women-screening/ UID:140812-21887682@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140812 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T140226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Employing Gen Z: Summer Youth Employment as a Path to Economic Mobility and More Inclusive Workplaces DESCRIPTION:Employing Gen Z: Summer Youth Employment as a Path to Economic Mobility and More Inclusive Workplaces\nPanel with Kathleen Clancey\, SummerWorks Program Manager\nFriday\, November 7\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nSummerWorks is a summer youth employment program designed to strengthen the community and develop talent by leveraging local resources and networks to provide career opportunities and mentorship to young adults. \n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138519-21883160@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138519 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250818T003129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:What Kind of Changemaker Are You? Pathways to Civic Engagement and Community Change DESCRIPTION:Are you passionate about social justice\, advocacy\, or service and trying to determine your next steps at UM or beyond? Interested in pursuing a career that allows you to enact positive social change? Join us for our Learning in Community workshop focused on “Pathways.” \n\n“The Pathways to Civic Engagement and Community Change” is a framework that describes a range of possibilities by which you can exercise your own power to create a better world\, including direct service\, community organizing\, policy-making\, community-engaged research\, social entrepreneurialism\, and philanthropy. These pathways intersect and overlap\, demonstrating the interdependent nature of working toward the common good. At the end of this workshop you’ll be better able to assess what kinds of opportunities are the best match with your personality\, talents\, and passions. Whether you are considering what extracurriculars to get involved with\, or making choices about graduate school and careers\, the Pathways workshop can help guide you the next steps in your social justice journey. \n\nFor students who are:\n\nBeginning to explore ways to engage with communities\n\nMaking decisions about what classes to take\n\nTrying to choose extracurricular activities \n\nInterested in pursuing a career in community engagement or social impact UID:137699-21880580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251030T150527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Roadblocks to Organizational Change: Managing Knowing and the Production of Ignorance in Organizations DESCRIPTION:Raising awareness and closing information gaps are seen as critical for organizational change. However\, this process is far from straightforward. Research on denial and ignorance has begun to highlight the tactics and everyday practices that enable distancing\, ignoring\, and evasion\, uncovering the ways fields\, organizations\, and individuals continually – and often creatively – arrive at not-knowing. Despite being pervasive and socially consequential\, ignorance is understudied. Leveraging in-depth interviews and observations of participants in a women’s leadership development program at a large non-profit organization over a three-year period\, we outline a new theoretical approach for understanding how not-knowing is produced and sustained. In this talk\, we share insights into ‘managing knowing\,’ or how relevant but unwelcome\, uncomfortable\, or problematic information is not attended to\, actively ignored\, and kept out of mind. Through the framework of ‘managing knowing\,’ we illuminate a hard-to-see barrier that can prevent organizational members from seeing and responding to difficult issues and stymies organizational change. UID:139864-21886182@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139864 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881931@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251030T154554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T220000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Translate-a-thon DESCRIPTION:Our annual hybrid marathon welcomes translators to come together and translate for the community. We kick off this year's event with an alumni panel of four professionals who have gone on to use their language skills in exciting ways. This is a must-attend event for anyone studying languages\, interested in translation/interpretation\, or planning a career with an international focus. Come be inspired by the possibilities that await when you make languages your superpower!\n\nKeynote Panel From Ann Arbor to the World: The Power of Language in Action [Zoom] is Friday November 7 at 3:00 p.m.\, after which our marathon begins at 5:00 p.m. Join us in person\, or online! \n\nRegistration for the marathon is requested: myumi.ch/Rme1g\n\n\n\n\nYou can find more information\, including a project gallery\, and link to register\, from the LRC website UID:141344-21888660@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141344 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:North Quad - 1500 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251030T154554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251108T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251108T220000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Translate-a-thon DESCRIPTION:Our annual hybrid marathon welcomes translators to come together and translate for the community. We kick off this year's event with an alumni panel of four professionals who have gone on to use their language skills in exciting ways. This is a must-attend event for anyone studying languages\, interested in translation/interpretation\, or planning a career with an international focus. Come be inspired by the possibilities that await when you make languages your superpower!\n\nKeynote Panel From Ann Arbor to the World: The Power of Language in Action [Zoom] is Friday November 7 at 3:00 p.m.\, after which our marathon begins at 5:00 p.m. Join us in person\, or online! \n\nRegistration for the marathon is requested: myumi.ch/Rme1g\n\n\n\n\nYou can find more information\, including a project gallery\, and link to register\, from the LRC website UID:141344-21888661@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141344 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:North Quad - 1500 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251104T120822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251108T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251108T184500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Traditional Chinese Instruments Workshop hosted by Qingyun Chinese Music Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Curious about Chinese music but never played an instrument before? Join the Qingyun Chinese Music Ensemble for a free\, beginner-friendly\, hands-on workshop where you can explore traditional instruments like the dizi\, hulusi\, ruan\, erhu\, suona\, and guzheng. Led by Qingyun’s members\, the session offers a welcoming space to experience the sound and culture of Chinese music up close—no prior experience needed\, just bring your curiosity and enthusiasm! The workshop will take place on Saturday\, November 8 and November 15 from 5:45 to 6:45 PM at East Quad\, Room B424. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/ybiZz4KhJey3Xjfg9 UID:141403-21888769@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - B424 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21885923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T102625 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Disability and the Return of Eugenics and the Poor Law DESCRIPTION:Throughout the 20th Century and the first quarter of the 21st\, U.S. disability policy increasingly pursued the goals of equality\, inclusion\, integration\, and empowerment for people with disabilities. Moving away from the eugenic principles that dominated the first part of this period\, policy increasingly treated disability as something to be accommodated rather than eliminated\, and disabled people as folks who should be supported to live full lives in the community. \n\nBut recent events -- punitive responses to mental illness and homelessness at the state and federal levels\, the dramatic retrenchment of Medicaid and other support programs during the past few months\, and others -- threaten to return us to the world of the Eugenics Era and the English Poor Laws before that\, in which disability is treated as a drain on society and those with disabilities are to be highly regulated. \n\nThis lecture will elaborate on these points.\n\nSince 2018\, Hal and Carol Kohn and the Kohn Charitable Trust have committed a total of $17 million to the Ford School to establish the Kohn Collaborative for Social Policy\, a hub that will catalyze interdisciplinary research and policy impact to promote social equity and inclusion for all U.S. residents. The collaborative consists of three pillars: Kohn Professors\, Kohn Scholars\, and policy impact. The Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy is one of five Kohn professorships\, specifically to support research that contributes to policies advancing the rights of disabled individuals in the United States. It was named in honor of Hal’s twin sister\, born with Down syndrome\, who passed away in 2016.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\n\nSamuel Bagenstos is the Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy. at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.\n\nFrom June 2022 to December 2024\, he served as General Counsel to the Department of Health and Human Services. He played a key role in advancing and implementing policies across the Department\, including pursuing several initiatives on abortion and reproductive rights\; crafting and defending the first-ever Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program\; drafting and issuing major rules on civil rights\, health privacy\, Medicare and Medicaid\, drug advertising\, the regulation of \"lab-developed\" medical tests and of food safety\, the treatment of unaccompanied migrant children in HHS care\, the treatment of LGBT kids in the foster care system\, and many other issues\; advancing marijuana rescheduling\; advising and defending the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco enforcement program\; and working with the Department of Justice on litigation involving HHS\, including significant abortion rights\, free speech\, and tobacco regulation cases in the Supreme Court.\n\nFrom Inauguration Day 2021 to June 2022\, he served as General Counsel to the Office of Management and Budget. There\, he worked on President Biden's Day One executive orders\; helped respond to COVID\, including implementing several crucial aid programs\; responded to regulations adopted by the prior administration just before the inauguration and helped advance the new administration's regulations on labor\, health\, the environment\, and much else\; helped craft and implement the American Rescue Plan\, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law\, and what became the Inflation Reduction Act\; and assisted in developing two annual budgets\, along with advising the entire Executive Branch on issues of appropriations law and administrative law.\n\nIn an earlier stint on leave from the University\, from 2009 to 2011\, Bagenstos was an appointee in the US Department of Justice\, where he served as the principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights\, the number two official in the Civil Rights Division. There\, he helped promulgate the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations—the first comprehensive update of those regulations since they were first issued in 1991—and led the reinvigoration of the Civil Rights Division’s enforcement of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C.\, which guarantees people with disabilities the right to live and receive services in the most integrated setting appropriate. He led the negotiations of significant Olmstead settlements with the states of Delaware and Georgia\, which guarantee appropriate\, community-based services to thousands of people with disabilities. He also personally argued major cases in federal district courts and courts of appeals.\n\nAs an academic\, Bagenstos has published articles in journals such as the Yale Law Journal\, the Stanford Law Review\, the Columbia Law Review\, the California Law Review\, the Virginia Law Review\, the Cornell Law Review\, the Georgetown Law Journal\, and many others. He also has published two books: Law and the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement (Yale University Press\, 2009) and Disability Rights Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press\, originally published in 2010 but now working on the fourth edition)\, and he has written articles for nonacademic audiences in publications such as Democracy: A Journal of Ideas\, The American Prospect\, The Washington Monthly\, Slate\, and The New Republic.\n\nBagenstos is actively involved in public and community affairs\, both in Ann Arbor and statewide. Pursuant to an appointment by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\, he served as chair of the Michigan Employment Relations Commission\, the state agency that enforces the rights of public employees to unionize and collectively bargain. Pursuant to an appointment by Mayor Christopher Taylor\, he served as a member of the Ann Arbor Housing Commission. He has also been a frequent cooperating attorney with the ACLU of Michigan. UID:138801-21883939@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138801 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:social impact LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (1110) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251017T114912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Should Religion Play a Role in the Law? DESCRIPTION:Part of the Samantha Woll Dialogues\, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute will host an exchange between Terrence McDonald\, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan\, author of The Impossibility of Religious Freedom\, and Benjamin Berger\, author of Law’s Religion\, on how legal systems engage with religious beliefs and practices in pluralistic societies and how recent supreme court decisions and executive actions affect the relationship between church and state. UID:137002-21879401@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137002 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Union Pendleton Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251024T111239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Women’s Liberation at the University of Michigan\, 1968-72 Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion on the rise of feminist activism at U-M and in Ann Arbor from 1968–1972. Pioneering activists Gayle Rubin\, Rayna Rapp\, Ellen Meeropol\, Beth Schneider\, and Joanne Parrent will reflect on the development of feminist consciousness and the central role of Jewish and other identities in shaping the movement. The conversation will be moderated by Karla Goldman and is part of IHP’s project site Outsiders\, Insiders\, Radicals\, and Reformers: A History of Jews at the University of Michigan.\n\nIn coordination with the project site and two Fall IHP courses—on Jews in U-M history (taught by Deborah Dash Moore) and women in U-M history (taught by Gayle Rubin)—the panel will explore the emergence of feminist consciousness\, the activism it sparked in Ann Arbor and on campus\, and why Jewish students and faculty were so deeply involved in these efforts.\n\nSchedule\nPanel Discussion and Q&A: 6–8 p.m.\nReception with light fare: 8–9 p.m.\n\n\nThis is the second event in IHP’s Insiders and Outsiders series\, following a March program featuring food writers (and U-M alums) Joan Nathan and Ruth Reichl with Zingerman’s co-founder Ari Weinzweig.\n\nThis event is co-presented by the U-M Inclusive History Project and the Jewish Communal Leadership Program. It is co-sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies’ David W. Belin Lecture Fund. The Belin Lecture Fund is named after David W. Belin\, a businessman\, public servant\, and leader within the American Jewish community. UID:141088-21888119@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141088 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC, Room 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251027T215436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Documentary\, Dinner\, and Dialogue DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Fremont\, USA followed by meaningful conversation and community connection.\n\n📅 Thursday\, November 13th\n🕕 6:00 PM\n📍 School of Social Work\, B798\n🍽️ Dinner provided!\n\nThis is an amazing opportunity to engage in interfaith dialogue\, build understanding\, and share a meal together. We hope you'll join us! UID:141215-21888402@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141215 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - B798 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251017T181034 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Book Reading re: Chandler Davis DESCRIPTION:Editors John Cheney-Lippold\, Gary D. Krenz\, and Melanie S. Tanielian join contributor Ellen Schrecker in a conversation about the new book \"In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom.\"\n\nThe essays collected in this book honor H. Chandler Davis (1926-2022)\, a University of Michigan faculty member who became a symbol of principled dissent when suspended and fired in 1954 for refusing to testify about his political affiliations to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Invoking academic freedom and First Amendment protection\, Davis was convicted of contempt of Congress. He served six months in prison before moving to Canada\, where he established himself as a brilliant mathematician\, prolific writer\, and ardent and much beloved advocate for justice.\n\nAt a time when a new McCarthyism has come roaring back to threaten free inquiry everywhere\, the 12 contributors to this book argue against censorship\, the suppression of protest\, the policed and surveilled campus\, the self-silencing of “institutional neutrality\,” and other enemies of academic freedom. Also included in this volume is posthumously published work by Davis and by his late wife\, the historian Natalie Zemon Davis\, which reflects on the importance of facing\, and not accepting\, authoritarian threats.\n\nInspired by Chandler Davis’ courage\, integrity\, and devotion to the struggle against oppression\, injustice\, and the persecution of speech\, these essays offer crucial insights into the importance of defending intellectual independence\, institutional autonomy\, and the right to free expression. UID:140790-21887631@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140790 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T162002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers DESCRIPTION:The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers\nJosh Cowen\, Professor of Education Policy\, Michigan State University College of Education\nFriday\, November 14\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138520-21883162@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138520 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251027T162621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - LGBTQ+ in the Military Panel DESCRIPTION:Since 1778 when Lieutenant Gotthold Frederick Enslin became the 1st servicemember dismissed from the military for homosexuality\, persons who are Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, or Transgender have faced discrimination in the military. Since the repeal of \"Don't Ask\, Don't Tell\" LGBTQ+ service members have been allowed to serve openly in the US military and federal benefits have been extended to cover their dependents. Come hear veterans talk about their service\, sacrifice and discrimination they faced while serving their country. UID:45835-21832245@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45835 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Kalamazoo Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T111245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GIEU Info Sessions for Sp/Su 2026 DESCRIPTION:These Info Sessions will discuss details about the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program for Sp/Su 2026. It will cover info about the program structure including the pre-departure requirements\, academic component\, and local site information. UID:139060-21884705@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139060 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881932@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251104T120822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251115T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251115T184500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Traditional Chinese Instruments Workshop hosted by Qingyun Chinese Music Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Curious about Chinese music but never played an instrument before? Join the Qingyun Chinese Music Ensemble for a free\, beginner-friendly\, hands-on workshop where you can explore traditional instruments like the dizi\, hulusi\, ruan\, erhu\, suona\, and guzheng. Led by Qingyun’s members\, the session offers a welcoming space to experience the sound and culture of Chinese music up close—no prior experience needed\, just bring your curiosity and enthusiasm! The workshop will take place on Saturday\, November 8 and November 15 from 5:45 to 6:45 PM at East Quad\, Room B424. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/ybiZz4KhJey3Xjfg9 UID:141403-21888770@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - B424 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251030T134339 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CGIS: Summer 2026 International Internships with Omprakash Info Session DESCRIPTION:The U-M Global Social Impact Internships Program with Omprakash helps students earn academic credit while pursuing independent social impact internships in Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America. \n\nInternship fields include health\, engineering\, education\, human rights\, sustainability\, and gender-based advocacy. \n\nAlongside your internship\, you will engage in critical dialogue and reflection about the complexities of striving for justice while crossing differences of culture and power\, and you will create a series of digital storytelling posts that document your experiences through lenses informed by our course themes. \n\nInfo Session Date and Time\n\nTuesday\, November 18\, 2025\n5:00 to 5:30 PM ET\n\nPlease register via Sessions@Michigan\n\nFor more information and questions about Omprakash internships\, please contact:\n\nEthan Goldbach: Director of EdGE Programs (ethan@omprakash.org)\nWilly Oppenheim: Executive Director (willy@omprakash.org) UID:141227-21888421@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141227 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T104722 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T124500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Aspects of the Housing Crisis through the lens of Abundance DESCRIPTION:A core argument in Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is that the U.S. Housing crisis is driven by policy choices that prioritize wealth preservation over access. Cities used to be engines of upward mobility\, but are now exclusionary because of costs. The panel will look at zoning\, environmental\, and construction regulation\, systemic factors\, and NIMBY-ism\, among other factors. Darienne Driver Hudson\, President and CEO of United Way for Southeastern Michigan\, give insight based on its annual ALICE report.\n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\nRoshana Mehdipanah is Associate Professor\, Health Behavior & Health Equity in the School of Public Health. Her research focuses on urban health including urban renewal\, gentrification and their impacts on health inequities. She is particularly interested in examining the health impacts of housing policies. She specializes in innovative research methods including realist evaluations and concept mapping to develop conceptual frameworks linking complex interventions to health. Mehdipanah is the co-lead for the Public Health IDEAS for Creating Healthy and Equitable Cities and the Director of the Housing Solutions For Health Equity initiative.\n\nNoah Kazis is an assistant professor of law at Michigan Law. His research focuses on land use\, housing\, and local government law. He studies legal and policy mechanisms to make cities and suburbs more affordable\, equitable\, and integrated\, as well as the internal institutional structures of local governments.\n\nDarienne Driver Hudson is a nonprofit executive and life-long educator serving as President and CEO of United Way for Southeastern Michigan\, located in Detroit and serving Macomb\, Oakland\, Washtenaw and Wayne Counties. Before joining United Way in July 2018\, she spent four years as superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools. She began her career as an elementary school teacher in Detroit Public Schools\, a point of personal pride. Hudson co-chairs the Mayor’s Workforce Development Board\, and she serves on the boards of the Detroit Children’s Fund\, the Detroit Public Schools Foundation\, Connect313\, United Way Worldwide\, and recently completed her term on the Board of Overseers for Harvard University. UID:138807-21883942@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138807 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:social impact LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (1110) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251111T125155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How State Context Shapes the Long Arm of Childhood DESCRIPTION:What is the role of state contextual factors in shaping the well-documented relationship between childhood SES and health in later life? Join the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as they host\, Emily Dore\, postdoctoral research fellow at the Social Policies for Health Equity Research (SPHERE) Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Please RSVP by November 14 to receive lunch. \n\nAbstract: \"Research has repeatedly shown that individual-level measures of childhood socioeconomic status (SES)\, such as parental income and education\, are associated with health in later life. Less explored is the role of state contextual factors in shaping this relationship between childhood SES and adult health. Illuminating structural and political determinants of health along the life span can improve interventions by broadening their reach to the population level\, complimenting interventions that concentrate on individual behavioral changes. In this presentation\, Dr. Dore will present findings from two projects that explore these questions using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The first investigates how the relationship between childhood SES and health in adulthood varies across states\, and which state contexts may be driving observed differences. The second examines a specific policy intervention\, welfare reform in the mid-1990s\, to understand how exposure to different types of welfare programming in childhood shapes health years later.\" UID:141761-21889334@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1450 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251115T174140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lecture and Workshop with Victoria Saramago DESCRIPTION:Lecture: November 19th\, 4pm - 6pm\; Against the Current: Electricity\, \nEnvironment\, and Culture in Brazil\n\nWorkshop: November 20th\, 11:30am - 1pm\; Electroshock and Hydropower: \nWriting the Great Acceleration in Brazil’s Military Dictatorship\n\nLocation: Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314) \n\nThis talk discusses how electricity is deeply intertwined with cultural production and formative of the narratives that have come to define the Anthropocene in the Great Acceleration in Brazil. \n\nLecture presented by Isabella Vergara (LSA Collegiate Fellow)\, Moderated by Ana Guimarães (Graduate Student)\nWorkshop presented by RLL Graduate Students: Ana Guimarães\, María Beusterien Pereira\, Daniel López\, Fernando Pliego\, and Alejandro Mendoza. \n\nVictoria Saramago is an associate professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literatures and cultures with a focus on Brazilian studies\, the environmental humanities\, the energy humanities\, the Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene\, fiction theory\, mimesis\, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and the environment.\nhttps://rll.uchicago.edu/victoria-saramago UID:141532-21888979@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141532 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4314 MLB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251117T152031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Does Rural America Have a Future? Pathways to Renewal DESCRIPTION:Over the last century\, there has been a significant re-centering of the U.S. population as cities and suburbs continue to grow and small towns die\, and family farms are consolidated into agribusinesses. How do we make sense of the changes that are taking place in rural America economically\, culturally\, politically\, and spiritually? Is a future flourishing of rural life and culture in America possible\, and if so\, what role might Christianity play in bringing that about?\n\nWednesday\, November 19\, 2025\n5:30 PM Reception / 6:00 PM Program\nMichigan Christian Study Center\n611 East William Street. Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104 UID:141955-21889678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141955 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251115T174140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lecture and Workshop with Victoria Saramago DESCRIPTION:Lecture: November 19th\, 4pm - 6pm\; Against the Current: Electricity\, \nEnvironment\, and Culture in Brazil\n\nWorkshop: November 20th\, 11:30am - 1pm\; Electroshock and Hydropower: \nWriting the Great Acceleration in Brazil’s Military Dictatorship\n\nLocation: Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314) \n\nThis talk discusses how electricity is deeply intertwined with cultural production and formative of the narratives that have come to define the Anthropocene in the Great Acceleration in Brazil. \n\nLecture presented by Isabella Vergara (LSA Collegiate Fellow)\, Moderated by Ana Guimarães (Graduate Student)\nWorkshop presented by RLL Graduate Students: Ana Guimarães\, María Beusterien Pereira\, Daniel López\, Fernando Pliego\, and Alejandro Mendoza. \n\nVictoria Saramago is an associate professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literatures and cultures with a focus on Brazilian studies\, the environmental humanities\, the energy humanities\, the Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene\, fiction theory\, mimesis\, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and the environment.\nhttps://rll.uchicago.edu/victoria-saramago UID:141532-21888980@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141532 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4314 MLB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T083317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interfaith Photovoice: Discovering Human Connection Through the Lens DESCRIPTION:What if a set of photos could completely transform how you understand your purpose\, the experiences of others\, and the value of humanity? With over 5 billion pictures taken globally every day\, Photovoice uses this powerful medium to foster deeper connections and understanding between participants. In this 90-minute interactive session\, you’ll use photographs to reflect\, share your story\, and engage in meaningful dialogue with others. Whether you're looking to explore your own journey or connect with diverse perspectives\, this innovative experience is designed for everyone. No photography skills are needed—just bring your curiosity and an open mind! Come capture more than just a moment—discover the stories behind the images!\n\nThe theme for February is \"transformation.\" The Lunar New Year\, Lent\, Ramadan\, and the turn into spring all touch on this theme. Snap 3-5 photos that relate to the theme of transformation for you\, and be prepared to share and talk about them with others during this event. \n\nWe strongly encourage you to print the photos or bring them in a slidedeck on your laptop. UID:139184-21885019@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139184 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Mason Hall - 1401 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251118T121220 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T190000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize and Blue Civics: The State of Higher Education DESCRIPTION:Maize and Blue Civics are interactive discussion forums of panelists who are professionals/advocates in a particular policy-related area. There will be a dedicated Q&A session. Catered dinner provided! This event's topic will be the state of higher education. Read about our featured panelists below!\n\nKatherine Michelmore\, PhD: Associate Professor of Public Policy and core faculty of the Education Policy Initiative at the Ford School. Her research examines the intersection of education policy and economic demography.\n\nBecky Monroe\, J.D.: A Senior Director on the Education Team at the National Center for Youth Law. She has over 20 years of experience as a civil rights lawyer\, including 8 years as an Obama appointee working on civil rights with the U.S. Department of Justice and the White House Domestic Policy Council. \n\nJeremy Wright-Kim\, PhD: Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. His research focuses on the impact of public policy in addressing/perpetuating inequities in higher education.\n\nEric Veal Jr.: Senior studying Education and Political Science. Eric serves as the U-M Student Body President.\n\nAlyssa Tisch: Junior studying Political Science and Communications\, and a News Editor for the Michigan Daily\n\nQuinn Sacalis: Sophomore studying History with a minor in Advancing Equity through Education Policy. Quinn is a member of Central Student Government. UID:141979-21889727@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141979 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T111245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GIEU Info Sessions for Sp/Su 2026 DESCRIPTION:These Info Sessions will discuss details about the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program for Sp/Su 2026. It will cover info about the program structure including the pre-departure requirements\, academic component\, and local site information. UID:139060-21884706@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139060 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881933@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251117T092657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Woven Horizons!: Exploring the American Terrain DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special night filled with fun as we “travel” across the national parks and learn more about ecological activism! In this special collaboration between VIPs Club and Sierra Club\, this launch party for VIPs' Fall 2025 collection focuses on national park preservation\, native stewardship\, and how you can help support your local environments. This event is free to attend but a suggested donation source is listed below! RSVP Now: https://forms.gle/V1Ux8DbCD5sGUVNf9\n\n💸Venmo: vipsfund\n📅 Date: Friday\, November 21st \n⏰ Duration: 7:00pm - 9:00 pm \n📍 Location: Michigan League Michigan Room \nCheck-in starts at 7! UID:141938-21889656@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141938 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251124T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251124T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21885924@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251114T181650 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T191500 SUMMARY:Performance:Tolling for 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott DESCRIPTION:Towers around the world toll bells to mark the 70th anniversary of Mrs. Rosa L. Parks’ courageous action at the exact moment of her arrest. \n\nhttps://syldi.org/faithaction UID:141905-21889620@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141905 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251117T162550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T103000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CGIS: Summer 2026 International Internships with Omprakash Info Sessions (December 2025 & January 2026) DESCRIPTION:The U-M Global Social Impact Internships Program with Omprakash helps students earn academic credit while pursuing independent social impact internships in Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.\n\nInternship fields include health\, engineering\, education\, human rights\, sustainability\, and gender-based advocacy.\n\nAlongside your internship\, you will engage in critical dialogue and reflection about the complexities of striving for justice while crossing differences of culture and power\, and you will create a series of digital storytelling posts that document your experiences through lenses informed by our course themes.\n\nInfo Session Dates and Times:\n\nWednesday\, December 3\, 2025 from 10:00-10:30 AM ET\nThursday\, January 15\, 2026 from 12:00-12:30 PM ET\nWednesday\, January 28\, 2026 from 11:00-11:30 AM ET\n\nPlease register via Calendly: https://calendly.com/omprakash-org/u-m-global-social-impact-internships-info-session\n\nInfo session Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82074105905\n\nFor more information and questions about Omprakash internships\, please see: https://www.omprakash.org/joinedge/michigan-social-impact-internships\n\nYou can also contact the Omprakash staff for more information and to ask questions:\n\nEthan Goldbach: Director of EdGE Programs (ethan@omprakash.org)\nWilly Oppenheim: Executive Director (willy@omprakash.org) UID:141957-21889680@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141957 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251022T100406 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T183000 SUMMARY:Other:FreeStore by Planet Blue Student Leaders DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a sustainable shopping experience at the Planet Blue Student Leader’s FreeStore. This monthly event is your chance to find new-to-you clothing and household goods while reducing consumer waste and encouraging reuse. Help us build a more sustainable campus community. Everything is free!\n\n\n\nJoin us on the first floor of the Michigan Union every first Wednesday of the month! UID:136782-21879112@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136782 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Sophia B. Jones CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T111245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GIEU Info Sessions for Sp/Su 2026 DESCRIPTION:These Info Sessions will discuss details about the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program for Sp/Su 2026. It will cover info about the program structure including the pre-departure requirements\, academic component\, and local site information. UID:139060-21884707@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139060 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21881935@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251208T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251208T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21885925@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251118T150935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251211T130000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:The Reactor Around the Corner: Understanding Advanced Nuclear Energy Futures DESCRIPTION:Governments\, industries\, and publics have shown increasing interest in advanced nuclear energy technologies as central to solving the world’s energy and climate crisis. However\, the potential expansion of the global nuclear industry introduces—and in some cases reinforces—problems that technological solutions alone will not be able to fix. Our new research shows that the widespread adoption of advanced nuclear reactors is likely to entrench global disparities\, privilege markets over the public good\, overlook local and Indigenous knowledge\, intensify environmental injustices\, and abandon promises of local development and empowerment. Building on these insights\, we provide policy guidance to maximize the potential benefits and minimize the likely harms of adopting these new nuclear energy technologies.\n\nJoin us for a live conversation with the authors—Nora Lewis\, Txai Sibley\, Nicholas Stubblefield\, Michael Redmond\, Molly Kleinman\, Shobita Parthasarathy\, and Denia Djokić—to discuss research findings\, as well as policy recommendations for the governance of SMRs and the uranium supply chain. UID:141989-21889785@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141989 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260106T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260106T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894887@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260107T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260107T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894888@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260108T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260108T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894889@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260109T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260109T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260112T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894893@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260112T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894895@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894977@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T103831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T170000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Unpacking the News DESCRIPTION:Each session offers a space to pause\, sort out what’s happening\, and engage in thoughtful\, civil discussion with peers. Bring your questions\, your curiosity\, and your perspective—no preparation required.\n\nJosh Pasek is Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science\, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies\, Institute for Social Research\, and Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan UID:143802-21894053@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894896@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251117T162550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T123000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CGIS: Summer 2026 International Internships with Omprakash Info Sessions (December 2025 & January 2026) DESCRIPTION:The U-M Global Social Impact Internships Program with Omprakash helps students earn academic credit while pursuing independent social impact internships in Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.\n\nInternship fields include health\, engineering\, education\, human rights\, sustainability\, and gender-based advocacy.\n\nAlongside your internship\, you will engage in critical dialogue and reflection about the complexities of striving for justice while crossing differences of culture and power\, and you will create a series of digital storytelling posts that document your experiences through lenses informed by our course themes.\n\nInfo Session Dates and Times:\n\nWednesday\, December 3\, 2025 from 10:00-10:30 AM ET\nThursday\, January 15\, 2026 from 12:00-12:30 PM ET\nWednesday\, January 28\, 2026 from 11:00-11:30 AM ET\n\nPlease register via Calendly: https://calendly.com/omprakash-org/u-m-global-social-impact-internships-info-session\n\nInfo session Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82074105905\n\nFor more information and questions about Omprakash internships\, please see: https://www.omprakash.org/joinedge/michigan-social-impact-internships\n\nYou can also contact the Omprakash staff for more information and to ask questions:\n\nEthan Goldbach: Director of EdGE Programs (ethan@omprakash.org)\nWilly Oppenheim: Executive Director (willy@omprakash.org) UID:141957-21889681@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141957 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260106T121624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dr. Keneth Bamuturaki Fulbright Scholar Guest Talk DESCRIPTION:The Department of Theatre & Drama presents a special guest event featuring Fulbright Scholar Keneth Bamuturaki. Join us in Studio 2 at the Walgreen Drama Center (1435-WDC).\n\nDr. Keneth Bamuturaki is a Ugandan theatre scholar and practitioner trained at Makerere University (BA\, MA) and the University of Exeter (PhD). His research focuses on the applied nature of theatre as a tool for social change\, with key studies investigating the role of theatre in Ugandan society\, participatory theatre for political empowerment\, and theatre for development. \n\nCurrently\, he serves as Head of the Department of Performing Arts at Kyambogo University\, where he has overseen curriculum development\, academic leadership\, and faculty research initiatives. UID:143269-21892609@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143269 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894897@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T165909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop for students that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.\n\nhttps://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/19663 UID:142752-21891336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891103@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251210T113622 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260118T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260118T235900 SUMMARY:Meeting:APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 18TH: Up to $30\,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $30\,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant office hours\, email\, or check out our webpage to learn more!\n\nLINK TO APPLY: https://forms.gle/k7ChrFbqbjkAnNjt8 UID:117733-21891124@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260119T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260119T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894900@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251211T131515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260119T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260119T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:40th Annual MLK Memorial Keynote Lecture DESCRIPTION:This year's MLK Memorial Keynote Lecture will feature two distinguished speakers: Donzaleigh Abernathy\, acclaimed actress\, author\, civil rights activist\, and goddaughter of Dr. King\; and Derrick Johnson\, 19th president and CEO of the NAACP\, a leading force in advancing civil rights nationally.\n\nDonzaleigh Abernathy brings firsthand experience as an eyewitness and participant in major civil rights moments\, including the Freedom Rides\, the March on Washington\, and the Selma to Montgomery March. Derrick Johnson’s transformational leadership of the NAACP represents a steadfast dedication to change\, advocacy\, and justice for all.\n\nThe keynote event is coordinated by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives and co-sponsored by the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Michigan Engineering.\n\nThe 2026 symposium theme\, \"Unbowed and Unbroken – The Enduring Struggle for Justice\,” draws from Dr. King’s legacy of perseverance and hope\, highlighting the courage to face injustice and the commitment to lasting change. \n\nFor more information\, visit mlk.umich.edu UID:142578-21891188@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142578 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260119T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260119T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895055@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894983@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251222T160148 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T125000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Exposure Assessment to Community Intervention: Advancing Metabolic Health in Informal E-Waste Settings DESCRIPTION:Registration required https://myumi.ch/9p7bd\n\nDr. Sylvia Akpene Takyi is a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Health and Equity\, University of Michigan. She has over a decade of experience in environmental epidemiology\, community-engaged research\, and public health interventions\, with a focus on vulnerable populations\, including women and children exposed to environmental hazards. Dr. Takyi leads research on the health impacts of informal e-waste recycling\, environmental exposures\, and metabolic health outcomes\, and has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications. UID:143072-21892017@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T103831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T170000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Unpacking the News DESCRIPTION:Each session offers a space to pause\, sort out what’s happening\, and engage in thoughtful\, civil discussion with peers. Bring your questions\, your curiosity\, and your perspective—no preparation required.\n\nJosh Pasek is Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science\, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies\, Institute for Social Research\, and Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan UID:143802-21894054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Window's Lounge (3rd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T083317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interfaith Photovoice: Discovering Human Connection Through the Lens DESCRIPTION:What if a set of photos could completely transform how you understand your purpose\, the experiences of others\, and the value of humanity? With over 5 billion pictures taken globally every day\, Photovoice uses this powerful medium to foster deeper connections and understanding between participants. In this 90-minute interactive session\, you’ll use photographs to reflect\, share your story\, and engage in meaningful dialogue with others. Whether you're looking to explore your own journey or connect with diverse perspectives\, this innovative experience is designed for everyone. No photography skills are needed—just bring your curiosity and an open mind! Come capture more than just a moment—discover the stories behind the images!\n\nThe theme for February is \"transformation.\" The Lunar New Year\, Lent\, Ramadan\, and the turn into spring all touch on this theme. Snap 3-5 photos that relate to the theme of transformation for you\, and be prepared to share and talk about them with others during this event. \n\nWe strongly encourage you to print the photos or bring them in a slidedeck on your laptop. UID:139184-21885020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139184 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894986@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891104@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260111T215402 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260124T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260124T153000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Thrift Pop-Up! DESCRIPTION:Come to a thrift pop-up event hosted by Alpha Phi Omega! At this event you can either buy clothes between $1-$5 or bring your own clothes to swap!\nWe will be at the Sophia B. Jones Room in the Union from 12:30-3:30! UID:143676-21893632@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143676 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Sophia B Jones Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894907@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894989@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260127T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260127T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894908@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T135406 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260127T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260127T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How to Move from October 7 and the War in Gaza to Peacemaking? DESCRIPTION:Part of the Samantha Woll Dialogues\, Raoul Wallenberg Institute Director Jeffrey Veidlinger will moderate an exchange between Shai Feldman (Chair on Israeli Politics and Society at Brandeis University) and Khalil Shikaki (director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah\, Palestine) as they explore the feasibility and potential outcomes of moving from October 7 to peacemaking. UID:137003-21879402@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137003 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T165909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260127T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260127T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop for students that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.\n\nhttps://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/19663 UID:142752-21891337@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894909@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251117T162550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T113000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CGIS: Summer 2026 International Internships with Omprakash Info Sessions (December 2025 & January 2026) DESCRIPTION:The U-M Global Social Impact Internships Program with Omprakash helps students earn academic credit while pursuing independent social impact internships in Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.\n\nInternship fields include health\, engineering\, education\, human rights\, sustainability\, and gender-based advocacy.\n\nAlongside your internship\, you will engage in critical dialogue and reflection about the complexities of striving for justice while crossing differences of culture and power\, and you will create a series of digital storytelling posts that document your experiences through lenses informed by our course themes.\n\nInfo Session Dates and Times:\n\nWednesday\, December 3\, 2025 from 10:00-10:30 AM ET\nThursday\, January 15\, 2026 from 12:00-12:30 PM ET\nWednesday\, January 28\, 2026 from 11:00-11:30 AM ET\n\nPlease register via Calendly: https://calendly.com/omprakash-org/u-m-global-social-impact-internships-info-session\n\nInfo session Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82074105905\n\nFor more information and questions about Omprakash internships\, please see: https://www.omprakash.org/joinedge/michigan-social-impact-internships\n\nYou can also contact the Omprakash staff for more information and to ask questions:\n\nEthan Goldbach: Director of EdGE Programs (ethan@omprakash.org)\nWilly Oppenheim: Executive Director (willy@omprakash.org) UID:141957-21889682@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141957 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894991@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260116T163249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Privacy for Populations at Risk: Supporting Journalists Facing Attacks in the Digital Age DESCRIPTION:Celebrating International Data Privacy Day!\n\nElodie Vialle\, an international journalist and human rights activist\, will discuss how journalists—particularly women journalists and journalists from marginalized communities—are increasingly targeted in online spaces\, from coordinated harassment to surveillance and AI-amplified attacks. Drawing on real-world cases\, the session will explore practical responses to mitigate harm while safeguarding journalistic work and freedom of expression.\n\nLynette Clemetson\, Charles R. Eisendrath Director of Wallace House\, will facilitate Q&A time after the keynote presentation.\n\nJoin us on Zoom on the day of the event: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97875254127\n\nAdd this event to your Google calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/MmtxZHR1aW5raGw4bGZkOWg0N3E5NGNoamYgdW1pY2guZWR1X2ZkczI0Z2V2cGE0MnY5NTc2bG5wZTJjbWxrQGc UID:143915-21894254@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143915 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T103831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T170000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Unpacking the News DESCRIPTION:Each session offers a space to pause\, sort out what’s happening\, and engage in thoughtful\, civil discussion with peers. Bring your questions\, your curiosity\, and your perspective—no preparation required.\n\nJosh Pasek is Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science\, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies\, Institute for Social Research\, and Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan UID:143802-21894055@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894910@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894992@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260106T181631 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Participatory Storytelling & Theater Workshop DESCRIPTION:The Center for World Performance Studies welcomes guest artists Ova Saopeng and Stephanie “Soultree” Camba from TeAda Productions\, the Los Angeles-based nomadic theater rooted in the stories of immigrants\, refugees and indigenous peoples for a week-long residency.\n\nAt this workshop\, come play in a safe and fun environment and discover the untapped capability of your voice\, body and imagination. Through theater and storytelling techniques the TeAda Methodology instills mindfulness\, builds teamwork\, and explores cultural connections. TeAda approaches this process by honoring each person individually as a community collectively. This workshop will fine tune your listening\, observational and performance skills. Participants will be encouraged to engage\, move and share. No experience necessary!\n\nWorkshop Location: Walgreen Drama Center\, Studio 2 (1435-WDC)\n\nWorkshop participants are invited to join TeAda Co-Artistic Director\, Ova Saopeng\, and Stephanie “Soultree” Camba\, Diaspora Programs and Operations Director\, for conversation and pizza following the open workshop. \n\nPizza & Dialogue with TeAda Artists at 5:30 pm / Location: Dance Building\, Conference Room\n\n*If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies at cwps.information@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.* UID:143341-21892930@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143341 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260106T181632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Informal Showing: TeAda Productions Residency DESCRIPTION:The Center for World Performance Studies welcomes guest artists Ova Saopeng and Stephanie “Soultree” Camba from TeAda Productions\, the Los Angeles-based nomadic theater rooted in the stories of immigrants\, refugees and indigenous peoples for a week-long residency.\n\nThis informal showing will feature TeAda artists sharing their work alongside students exploring ideas created at the open workshops. Additionally\, there will be space for audience/artist dialogue and discussion. Free and open to the public.\n\n*If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies at cwps.information@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.* UID:143342-21892931@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143342 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894911@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891105@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894914@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894996@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894915@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894997@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260116T164924 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exploring Digital Privacy from a Child’s Perspective DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Privacy@Michigan Event.\n\nConversations about children’s digital privacy are frequent\, and with good reason: ad revenue to tech companies from child viewers topped 11 billion dollars in 2023. These conversations include policymakers\, educators\, researchers\, and parents\, but children themselves are rarely included. The purpose of this talk will therefore be to explore what we know about children’s own perspectives on their digital privacy\, particularly in the age of artificial intelligence. We’ll cover what they notice\, care about\, and understand as it relates to online privacy and data security\, and what researchers can explore next to continue child-centered conversations about how best to keep children safe online.\n\nDr. Lauren N. Girouard is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Michigan and Harvard University\, where she works with Drs. Susan Gelman\, Ying Xu\, and Jenny Radesky on projects examining children’s beliefs about AI chatbots and how those beliefs translate into digital literacy in home and classroom environments. She graduated with her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Louisville in May 2024. Her work broadly examines how 4- to 17-year-old children think about\, trust\, and learn from emerging technologies and AI. \n\nAdd this event to your Google calendar.\nhttps://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/MnRpdnA0Z3JpYzRhMWM2Y241NXMwNmdzYzYgdW1pY2guZWR1X2ZkczI0Z2V2cGE0MnY5NTc2bG5wZTJjbWxrQGc UID:144046-21894585@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144046 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T113437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Why Do Monuments Matter? DESCRIPTION:Part of the Samantha Woll Dialogues\, Raoul Wallenberg Institute Director Jeffrey Veidlinger will moderate an exchange between Erin Thompson (author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments) and Anoush Tamar Suni (sociocultural anthropologist and Raoul Wallenberg Institute Fellow)\, examining the provocative and\, at times\, controversial\, role monuments play in the history and memory of a nation. UID:137004-21879403@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137004 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894916@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894998@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T103831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T170000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Unpacking the News DESCRIPTION:Each session offers a space to pause\, sort out what’s happening\, and engage in thoughtful\, civil discussion with peers. Bring your questions\, your curiosity\, and your perspective—no preparation required.\n\nJosh Pasek is Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science\, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies\, Institute for Social Research\, and Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan UID:143802-21894056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Room 4 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251022T100406 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T183000 SUMMARY:Other:FreeStore by Planet Blue Student Leaders DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a sustainable shopping experience at the Planet Blue Student Leader’s FreeStore. This monthly event is your chance to find new-to-you clothing and household goods while reducing consumer waste and encouraging reuse. Help us build a more sustainable campus community. Everything is free!\n\n\n\nJoin us on the first floor of the Michigan Union every first Wednesday of the month! UID:136782-21879114@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136782 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Sophia B. Jones CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891118@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Window's Lounge (3rd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T161809 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T183000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Erb Fellows Programs Informational Session DESCRIPTION:Applications are now open for the Erb Fellows program\, a two-year program for juniors and seniors who want to drive positive change through business\, policy\, and sustainability.\n\nApplicants must be current sophomores majoring or minoring in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business or Program in the Environment (PitE).\n\nWant to learn more about the Erb Undergraduate Fellows Program? \n\nJoin us for a virtual informational session to learn all about the Erb Undergraduate Fellows Program. We'll cover program details and application questions\, and leave time for Q&A. \n\nUpcoming Information Sessions:\n\nWednesday\, February 4\, 2026\, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/wmAihuc4QaKjlVBb-5_V7g.\n\nIn the meantime you can apply for our program here: https://erb.umich.edu/education/undergraduate-program/admissions/\n\nApplication Deadline: Monday\, February 23\, 2026\, at 11:59 PM EST. UID:142795-21891601@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142795 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260202T173810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T184500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Wynton Marsalis in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Join Ford School Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes and Wynton Marsalis in a public conversation reflecting on America at 250\, the role of music in our culture and society\, and the ways that artists help shape our future. Register at ums.org/wynton250 for email reminders.\n\nPresented in partnership with the Ford School of Public Policy.\n\nIn October 2022\, UMS hosted an intensive weeklong residency with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra that included two concerts\, a School Day Performance\, multiple residency activities on and off campus\, and a halftime performance at the Michigan football game. While a February residency precludes an appearance on the 50-yard line\, UMS is thrilled that Wynton and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will return for another distinctive UMS residency this year featuring multiple performances and this talk.\n\nThis event will be livestreamed. UID:142457-21890990@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142457 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260121T192709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:USCG Auxiliary University Program Interest Meeting DESCRIPTION:Interested in learning skills in boating\, pollution response & radio? Looking for volunteer opportunities? Join the Auxiliary University Program at UM! We will be having a mass meeting on Wed. 2/4\, from 7-8pm in 2135 NQ! UID:144289-21895124@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144289 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:North Quad - 2135 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894917@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T142054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:18th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy DESCRIPTION:Ahead of her February 8 performance\, GRAMMY Award–winning violinist and director of the Edinburgh International Festival Nicola Benedetti will deliver this year’s keynote lecture at the 18th annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy.\n\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR)—within the Department of Pediatrics. Each year\, CHEAR hosts the Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy that highlights speakers from a variety of disciplines to explore important child health topics.\n\nPanelists\nStefan Dohr\, principal horn\, Berliner Philharmoniker \nKatrina Stroud\, master's student in violin performance\, School of Music\, Theatre & Dance\nRenata Rangel\, STMD alumna (percussion)\, and faculty member at Merit School of Music in Chicago UID:142478-21890999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142478 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894918@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895000@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891106@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894921@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895003@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T165909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop for students that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.\n\nhttps://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/19663 UID:142752-21891338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894922@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895004@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T042751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T130000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Woll Family Speaker Series Presents: Dr. Rick Hodes as guest speaker DESCRIPTION:Medicine wrestles with a persistent question: What does it mean to care for the vulnerable when resources are scarce and suffering is relentless? In an era when global health is often reduced to short-term interventions and metrics\, the deeper moral demands of accompaniment can fade from view. Dr. Rick Hodes challenges this narrowing of vision. In his upcoming talk for the Woll Family Speaker Series\, he invites us to consider medicine not as a transaction\, but as a sustained moral commitment.\nDrawing on more than three decades of work in Ethiopia\, Dr. Hodes will share stories of children with complex cardiac and spinal conditions and of a physician who chose to stay. He explores the ethical tensions of caring for patients whose needs far exceed available resources\, and asks what obligations endure when the usual boundaries of training\, geography\, and time fall away.\nDr. Hodes is an internist who has lived and worked in Ethiopia since the mid-1980s. His work brings children to the United States for life-saving care while strengthening local medical capacity. We are honored to welcome Dr. Hodes to the Woll Family Speaker Series for a conversation that will challenge\, inspire\, and reframe how we think about moral responsibility in medicine.\n\nWe are grateful to co-sponsor this talk with Global Reach. UID:145296-21897018@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145296 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location - n/a CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895005@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T145349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T130000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Leadership Extravaganza!! DESCRIPTION:Leadership Extravaganza!!\nHosted by the Barger Leadership Institute\n\nCalling All Student Leaders: Are you looking for your next campus experience?\n\nThe Ultimate Tabling Event: Get ready to be part of Leadership Extravaganza to discover campus opportunities and connect with dozens of organizations! Whether you're looking for internships\, travel\, grants\, leadership\, or volunteering opportunities\, you’ll be connecting with the best\, most engaged groups on campus.\n\nNetwork with like-minded leaders: We like connecting with people. The Leadership Extravaganza will bring together leaders from all corners of campus for an opportunity to connect\, collaborate\, and build partnerships to amplify your experience on campus.\n\nPlus\, we’re FUN: Come learn about campus opportunities and stick around for the coffee cart and cupcake treats\, selfie opportunities with BLI mascot Bargie Beaver\, and of course\, free swag! \n\nAudience: All undergrads at U-M\nHow to Participate: Registration is appreciated\, but not required\nQuestions: BLIOutreach@umich.edu\n\nWho Will Be There?\n-Barger Leadership Institute\n-Center for Global and Intercultural Study\n-Center for Positive Organizations\n-Center for the Education of Women+ (CEW+)\n-Donia Human Rights Center\n-English Language Institute (ELI)\n-Ginsberg Center\n-Language Resource Center\n-LSA Opportunity Hub\n-LSA Honors Program\n-LSA Newnan Advising Center\n-LSA Scholarships\n-LSA Student Government\n-M-Lead\n-Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships (ONSF)\n-Organizational Studies\n-Planet Blue\n-Program on Intergroup Relations\n-Science Learning Center\n-U-M Army ROTC \n-Wallenberg Institute UID:144266-21895066@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144266 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:LSA Building - LSA Multipurpose Room (1040) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251218T084318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Overcoming The Economic and Legal Barriers to Local Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects DESCRIPTION:David Adelman\, Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law\, will present his paper entitled\, \"Overcoming the Economic and Legal Barriers to Local Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects.\" UID:142884-21891764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Jeffries Hall - 1020 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260108T161340 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T170000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:2026 CEW+ Inspire Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: cew.umich.edu/events/the-2026-cew-inspire-awards-ceremony\n\nPlease join us for the 2026 CEW+ Inspire Awards\, honoring the legacies of three important women in university history: Carol Hollenshead\, Sarah Goddard Power\, and Rhetaugh G. Dumas. These awards\, previously separated\, are now combined and called the CEW+ Inspire Awards. Recipients of the awards will embody the spirit and courage\, tenacity\, and innovation of these esteemed leaders.\n\n2026 Award Recipients:\n\n- Michelle Bellino\, Associate Professor\, U-M Marsal Family School of Education\, Carol Hollenshead Award\n- Vanessa K. Dalton\, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology\, Director of the Program on Women’s Health Care Effectiveness Research\, and co-Director of the Gynecology Division\, U-M Medical School\, Sarah Goddard Power Award\n- Shanna K. Kattari\, PhD\, MEd\, CSE\, Associate Professor\, U-M School of Social Work\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, and director of the [Sexuality|Relationships|Gender] Research Collective\, Sarah Goddard Power Award\n- Ellen Rowe\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation and the Earl V. Moore Professor of Music\, U-M School of Music\, Theatre and Dance\, Rhetaugh G. Dumas Award UID:143516-21893321@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143516 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T103831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T170000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Unpacking the News DESCRIPTION:Each session offers a space to pause\, sort out what’s happening\, and engage in thoughtful\, civil discussion with peers. Bring your questions\, your curiosity\, and your perspective—no preparation required.\n\nJosh Pasek is Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science\, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies\, Institute for Social Research\, and Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan UID:143802-21894057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Room 4 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260205T155914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:USCG Auxiliary University Program Meeting DESCRIPTION:The US Coast Guard Auxiliary University Program at UM is looking for new members! \n\nThe US Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed volunteer component of the Coast Guard. The Auxiliary University Program (AUP) offers leadership and public service opportunities to Michigan students interested in making a difference through volunteer work. In the AUP\, you will have the chance to support Coast Guard missions while simultaneously participating in hands-on work and training of your choice. \n\nYou can explore a variety of opportunities\, including boating\, search and rescue\, marine safety\, disaster response\, environmental education\, environmental protection\, and more. AUP students have the unique opportunity to participate in an internship with the Coast Guard at stations around the country and on vessels that travel the globe.\n\nInterested? We meet Wednesdays from 7 PM to 8 PM\, in North Quad Room 2135. A virtual Zoom option will also be available! UID:145144-21896719@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145144 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:North Quad - 2135 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894924@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260206T102757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pluralism Playdeck Night with MIIA DESCRIPTION:Building community and solidarity begins by learning how to talk to one’s neighbor\, which drives our mission at Michigan Interfaith in Action. In light of this\, we invite you to join Michigan Interfaith in Action for dinner as we play the Pluralism Playdeck together!\n\nThe Pluralism Playdeck\, developed by Professor Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg\, is “a scaffolded conversation game designed to teach university students\, adult learners\, and community members the soft skills needed to engage in compassionate and honest conversations about hot button social issues across ideological and demographic differences.”\n\nWe hope that you will join us on Thursday for some free food and great conversation!\n\n📅Thursday\, February 12th\n⏰7-9 PM\n📍SSW B760 UID:145158-21896743@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145158 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - B760 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260125T161253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T203000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Stretch Your Connections DESCRIPTION:Join USAR (the organization that runs Take Back the Night Ann Arbor) for an evening of trauma-informed yoga followed by a brief conversation about healthy relationships. This event is free and open to the public\, however\, donations to SafeHouse are encouraged. Please bring your own yoga mat or towel. Everyone is invited. Bring friends\, partners\, coworkers\, or anyone else in your lives! This event will take place on February 12th from 7-8:30PM in the Vandenburg room of the League. UID:144443-21895362@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144443 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenburg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T132939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamping and Stomping: community inspired relief prints DESCRIPTION:Currently based in Ann Arbor\, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker born in Lima\, Peru. Paloma attended art college in Mexico\, where she came face to face with printmaking during her first year at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas (College of Arts) in Xalapa\, Veracruz. She became fascinated with the possibilities that printmaking offers\, as well as its importance in popular resistance throughout history. In 1997\, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology with an International Student Scholarship.\n-- \n\nAmongst the subjects that interest her are human migration\, social in-visibility\, and the intrinsic relation of humans to the universe as well as our dislocated relationship to it. She currently explores the vicissitudes of minorities and their stories in order to create a better understanding of their issues. By offering portraits of minorities and their stories\, Nunez-Regueiro’s goal is to create supportive communities for those who need to feel rooted in their geographical space and their present time. \n\nNúñez-Regueiro work is closely related to her experiences of living abroad — the impermanence\, the precarious construction of one's present and even less of one’s future. It is about the rootlessness of those of us who move from place to place. She is an incessantly positive artist and she profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions\, and the bettering of ourselves and our communities. UID:144223-21894925@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260128T103157 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:RossAbilities Conference DESCRIPTION:Workers with disabilities are among the fastest growing employment demographics in the United States. Business Leaders for Diverse Abilities (BLDA) at the Ross School of Business aims to bring awareness and improve accessibility in the world of business. Join us on February 13th for the 2nd Annual RossAbilities Conference\, presented virtually! \n\nRossAbilities is a groundbreaking conference sponsored by the MBA club\, BLDA\, and is dedicated to exploring the intersection of accessibility and business. Our mission is to bring together leaders\, innovators\, and entrepreneurs to discuss how accessibility is not just a compliance issue\, but a powerful driver of innovation\, market growth\, and a more inclusive future of work. This year’s keynote speaker is Sara Minkara\, U.S. Special Advisor on International Disability Rights during the Biden Administration. We'll also have speakers representing Parasports to talk about emerging trends in sport\, learn from entrepreneurs and innovators across accessibility featured applications and businesses\, and learn about how Google is leading the way to create more accessible experiences for all! \n\nRegistration is open now on Luma. Here is the link to register: https://luma.com/scfihp7h UID:144679-21895681@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144679 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T112703 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T122000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Brad Baum DESCRIPTION:This week’s Entrepreneurship Hour (EHour) guest is Brad Baum\, co-founder of the Founder's Mental Health Pledge. \n\nBrad will share his candid insights on maintaining mental health and achieving balance as an entrepreneur.\n\nIn addition to influencing the national conversation about mental health\, Brad is the co-founder/CEO of a health tech company helping patients who suffer from chronic pain.\n\nBring your questions\, curiosity\, and friends to learn how an entrepreneurial mindset is key to sparking change.\n\nFriday\, February 13\n11:30 AM – 12:20 PM\nStamps Auditorium (within the Walgreen Drama Center on North Campus)\n\n---\n*Entrepreneurship Hour is a weekly speaker series/class open to all (every class level\, major\, enrolled or otherwise).\n\nEvery Friday\, a pioneering entrepreneur gets vulnerable - sharing actionable insights in a candid\, inspiring\, and provocative conversation about their journey.* UID:145304-21897030@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145304 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T103007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:AI as Self-Discovery: How Large Language Models Reveal the Essence of the Human Mind\, and Why It Matters DESCRIPTION:Most discussions of artificial intelligence center on its instrumental role—how it will transform industries and economies. But it may do something even more radical: reveal who we are. As artificial minds become more capable\, they will expose the deep principles underlying human thought—how reasoning\, agency\, and creativity actually work. AI thus offers not just a technological revolution but a humanistic one. This new self-understanding\, I argue\, will force us to rethink core ideas about mind\, agency\, and the basis of praise and blame. UID:141750-21889311@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141750 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891107@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895059@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895010@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260204T154819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T124500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Financial Oversight: The Board’s Role DESCRIPTION:Open to the Public\n\nThe Nonprofit Lightning Talks is a 2025-26 series\, brought to you by the University of Michigan Golub Capital Nonprofit Board Fellows Program. This series is open to everyone and aims to equip our community with concrete examples and actionable tools within each of the content areas of nonprofit governance covered in the series.\n\nIn this session…\nWhat is the role of the board in financial oversight? How does an organization diversify its funds? What financial policies should a board have in place? Join Vance Jackson\, Jr to discuss these questions and more\, with concrete examples and straightforward takeaways.\n----------------------------\n\nVance K. Jackson\, Jr.\, MSW ’06\, is founder and CEO of NEXX Consulting Group\, LLC\, a multifaceted consultancy renowned for its bespoke solutions that span across community\, government and business. Previously\, Jackson served in the city of Detroit’s mayor’s office as a Social Impact Fund Development Officer. In this role\, he was part of a five-member fund development team that raised more than $1 billion in public\, private\, philanthropic and corporate investment. Jackson has been fortunate to serve as an executive board member for several national nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Jackson holds a bachelor’s degree and Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan\, and currently serves as a member of the U-M School of Social Work Alumni Board. UID:145077-21896629@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145077 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Jeff T. Blau Hall - Blau Colloquium CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR