Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch, Strength & Balance/Zumba
2025-07-29 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-30 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
Lifetime Fitness classes are offered at Briarwood Mall in the JCPenney wing every Monday-Friday from 9-10am. No experience necessary. Classes are specifically designed for older adults, however, everyone is welcome. LTF classes are free, but please consider making a $2/person per class donation as our classes are supported strictly through donations. No registration is necessary, simply attend when it fits your schedule.

Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Tuesdays
2025-07-29 09:30 - 11:00
Are you grappling with a piece of code, trying to compute on a cluster, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.

All members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces to get research support and connect with others.

Tuesdays, 9:30-11 a.m. ET, via Zoom (Meeting ID:94181215786)
Wednesdays, 1:30-3 p.m. ET, via Zoom (Meeting ID: 98659357324)

Exhibition:Beyond Survival
2025-07-29 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-07-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery
Join us for Beyond Survival, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th.

The pieces span nearly 30 years, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.

"Through drawings, paintings, and sculptures made with simple materials, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family, joy and beauty, connections to nature, flights of the imagination, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions."

Workshop / Seminar:Practice Behavior-Based Interviewing Using Virtual Reality
2025-07-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-29 13:00 - 15:00
Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.

Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Introduction to Text Analysis
2025-07-29 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Introduction to Text Analysis
July 21-24, 2025
10:00am-11:30am EDT (M-Th)
Live Online via Zoom

In this two-week course, students will learn a variety of natural language processing methods for analyzing and extracting meaning from text data. The course will start with an introduction to text data, including text preprocessing and exploratory methods. The topics that follow will include machine learning models used for topic modeling, clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, and word embeddings. Students will also be introduced to web scraping. Considerations to both long and short texts of various subject matter. Class examples will be demonstrated primarily in R. This course assumes a bachelors-level background in Statistics or related field and knowledge of R or Python; no prior knowledge of text analysis is assumed.

Robyn Ferg is a senior statistician at Westat. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research focused on developing methods for extracting insights from social media data. She has taught graduate and short courses at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (University of Maryland) and given talks on text analysis at the Census Bureau, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and several national and international conferences. She has published original research on this topic in several peer reviewed journals. She has a PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan.

The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .

The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

Workshop / Seminar:Time to Thrive: Mastering Time Management in Graduate School
2025-07-29 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual via Zoom
Sometimes, procrastination is a lot more complicated than people think. Explore reasons behind procrastination and the underlying thoughts and beliefs associated with this common behavior. Identify your own reasons for putting off tasks, learn and practice tools to create realistic goals, manage time better, and reduce procrastination to increase productivity.

Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
2025-07-29 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history.

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives.

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.”

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.

Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
2025-07-29 12:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental, political, economic, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters, documents, newspapers, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.

Among the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition, April 18, 1775; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence; letters by Silas Deane, John Hancock, and Rachel Revere; and much more.

Open weekdays from 12-4 pm.

Workshop / Seminar:Coffee Chats for Graduate Students: Art of the Resume Bullet Point
2025-07-29 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual via Zoom
Hosted by Rackham’s embedded University Career Center career counselors, the topic for this session is resumes. In particular, what are some strategies for writing the all-important bullet point? In an interactive discussion with examples and opportunities to workshop your own resume, we will work on framing your experiences as effectively as possible.

This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available.

Other:Study Abroad Drop-in Advising Sessions: CGIS: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) - Winter 2026
2025-07-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Come join us to learn more about University Study in Spain at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (UC3M)

Join CGIS Advisor, Cierra Murphy, alongside 2 staff members from the provider, CEA CAPA, to ask questions about Winter 2026, the application process and timeline, academics, finances and other important considerations.

These sessions are designed for students to ask questions. There will be no presentation.

Register on Sessions at Michigan: https://myumi.ch/15g2R

Film Screening:T.REX
2025-07-29 14:00 - 14:30 | Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
With stunning CGI visuals and the latest research from leading paleontologists, the film offers audiences a fresh perspective on the GOAT (Greatest Of All Tyrants): Tyrannosaurus rex. Anchored by the true story of the young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime when they spotted a large fossilized leg bone on a walk on public lands in North Dakota, T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig, with cutting edge computer graphics that bring the iconic T. rex to life—from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator.

Performance:Sonny Landreth in a Rare Solo Appearance
2025-07-29 20:00 | ARK Reserved
“Sonny Landreth is probably the most underestimated musician on the planet, and also probably one of the most advanced.” –Eric Clapton

New frontiers fit nicely atop the boundary-breaking career of singer-songwriter and slide guitar icon Sonny Landreth. From performing live with Buddy Guy and John Hiatt in theaters and arenas around the United States, to post-New Orleans Jazz Fest jamming on bayou rhythms with Oteil Burbridge and Johnny Vidacovich, to recording and playing live with ukulele phenom Jake Shimabukuro at The Blue Note in Hawaii, it’s been a noteworthy couple of years for the two-time Grammy nominee. And those are just his side projects.

“One of the things I love about collaborations with other artists is the element of surprise,” Landreth says of his continually expanding musical horizons. “When the chemistry is there, it’s always inspiring to find new twists and turns that up the game creatively.”

Landreth tours regularly in a duo with fellow slide guitar ace Cindy Cashdollar as well as with his own electric and acoustic trio. From every edition of Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival to Wintergrass to Camp Cripple Creek for Jim Weider’s The Weight Band and beyond, Landreth and his musical partners are always reaching for the unexpected and unexplored. He’s twice graced the cover of Guitar Player magazine, and he’s featured on the lead track of Shemekia Copeland’s Grammy-nominated album Done Come Too Far.

Stretching in different directions, Landreth says, “gives you a broader perspective – and I think that impacts every aspect of making music. I know it’s helped to make our shows more memorable and more fun for everyone onstage and in the audience too.”

Other:KidSport Summer Camp
2025-07-30 08:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
KidSport Summer Camps offers children ages 4-11 the opportunity to learn and play a variety of team sports, individual sports, team building games, and other physical education activities in a non-competitive and fun sports environment. All children will have time in the pool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and each afternoon, Monday through Friday, to work on water comfort. skills and safety. KidSport Inclusive is for all kids who do not require a high degree of personalized support to participate in large group activities. For more information and to register, visit our website listed below.

Recreational / Games:Michigan League: AADL Summer Game
2025-07-30 08:00 - 22:00 | Michigan League
Another location for the AADL Summer Game is the Michigan League, home to cool study spaces, Maizie's Kitchen & Market, water-bottle refill stations, Campus Information Desk (Main Floor), and historic displays (see Floor 3). It's also the primary office space for the Resource Navigator team, a group of students who help undergrads & grads find the spaces, places, and people they need on the Ann Arbor campus.

*Stop by and find the code for the Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game; (1) first location by the Main Floor Lobby, on the bulletin board near the Info Desk; (2) second location right inside the South Entrance doors near the accessibility door panel! (This is the entrance for the Mendelssohn Theater. nearest Rackham.)* Participants enrolled in the Summer Game can redeem those codes for points, badges, and prizes awarded by the AADL. For Summer Game information and registration, visit play.aadl.org.

Know before you go, especially over holiday weekends and during Art Fair! Check the League's building hours at uunions.umich.edu/league/ or use the Related Links on this page.

Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color
2025-07-30 09:00 - 20:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor)
We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript, practical color manuals of the industrial age, contemporary artists’ and children’s books, and more from our vast holdings.

Rainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects, but they are really just distorted images of the sun, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And, like colors, they are about relationships: of one color next to another, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride, appearing all over each June.

Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:
Sunday, 2-8pm
Monday-Thursday, 9am-8pm
Friday, 9am-4pm
Saturday, 11am-5pm

Exhibition:Carlo Vitale Exhibition
2025-07-30 09:00 - 17:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - NCRC Galleries
Carlo Vitale is a distinguished Michigan-based artist whose vibrant contributions to the Detroit art scene have flourished since the 1970s. A native of Detroit, Vitale's work is celebrated as part of the second generation of the Cass Corridor Art Movement, Detroit’s first avante garde. His art draws inspiration from the sweeping vistas of farmland seen from above, the intricate patterns of quilt-making, the dynamic energy of cityscapes, and the rich tapestry of daily life. Vitale eloquently characterizes his mesmerizing oil paintings and prints as “kinetic, metaphysical abstractions,” inviting viewers to engage with the depth and vitality of his creative vision.

Vitale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit. His work can be found in many collections including The Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York, The Detroit Institute of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Wayne State University Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art and corporate, hospital, and private collections throughout the country.

Social / Informal Gathering:Donuts with Dawn
2025-07-30 10:00 - 11:30 | Michigan Union - Spectrum Center (3020)
Join us as we welcome Spectrum Center's new associate director, Dawn Espy.

Learn more about Dawn: https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/article/dawn-espy-joins-spectrum-center-associate-director

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