Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Introduction to Text Analysis
2025-07-30 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Detroit) | 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.

Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2025
2025-07-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative showcases the depth of artistic excellence and merit of contemporary art practices in Michigan and recognizes the creativity, rigor and innovation of artists and collaboratives working in the region, inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
In the of fall of 2024, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.
A shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Juana Williams, art curator and writer based in Detroit, Michigan; Melinda Zacher Ronayne, former director of visual arts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts; and Parisa Ghaderi, assistant professor of graphic design at Shoreline Community College and winner of the 2023 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.
Meet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2025:
Conor Fagan obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the spring of 2014. Among his many numerous awards and grants, he has been one of twelve international artists selected to participate in The 31st annual International Symposium of Contemporary Art in Baie – Saint Paul, Quebec; a year-long artist in Residence at the Roswell artist-in-Residency in Roswell, New Mexico; and a featured artist at the 2020 Spring Break Art Show, in New York, New York. He has had solo shows with My Pet Ram and Gitler & in NYC, and most recently has been featured and won an award at The 2025 Regional Show at the Dennos Museum and Cultural Center. He has works in numerous public collections including the Waterton - Global corporate collection, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in Baei St Paul. His work has been collected privately both nationally and internationally. Currently, he teaches and lives outside of Traverse City at Interlochen Arts Academy, nestled among the trees, rivers, and lakes of northern Michigan.Katie Mongoven/上秋莲 is a Chinese American fiber artist from Washington, DC, based in Detroit, MI. Her work investigates and fortifies the space between cultural dichotomies through multiple fiber processes. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan and MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, with the Surface Design Association’s Outstanding Student Award. She was a Roman J. Witt Visiting Artist at the University of Michigan, a Windgate University Fellow at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, and the 2024 Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. Other residencies attended include the California Institute of the Arts, the University of Michigan, Vermont Studio Center, and forthcoming Stove Works (TN) in 2025. Solo and group exhibitions include Central Michigan University (MI), Playground Detroit (MI), Riffe Gallery (OH), and ROY G BIV Gallery (OH). She has public and corporate commissions at the Cranbrook Art Museum, PayTile, and Cross River Bank. Her work is held in public collections at Central Michigan University, Summa Health, and MetroHealth, and in numerous private collections throughout the United States.Sara Nickleson is an artist, curator, and gallery director based in Detroit, Michigan. She held the position of Senior Director at Library Street Collective gallery from 2016 to 2022. Prior to moving to Detroit, Nickleson was the Head Curator and Director of Collections at the Design Exchange (DX) in Toronto, Canada, where she curated a number of internationally acclaimed exhibitions, including This is Not a Toy, The Politics of Fashion, and 3DXL. Nickleson has written for a number of arts publications, including exhibition catalogs (José Parlá: Polarities; This is Not a Toy; Coping Mechanisms, Sam Durant: Iconoclasm) and artist monographs (Sam Friedman, Tyrrell Winston). She has been a visiting curator and critic, and was invited by the British Council to take part in their Design Connections symposium as part of London Design Week in 2015. Exhibitions of her artwork include a solo show at Louis Buhl & Co. (Detroit) as well as a number of group presentations. Nickleson received her BFA from the University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada); a BID from the College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI); and an MFA in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
From June 26 through August 2, 2025, Fagan, Mongoven, and Nickleson will present their work in a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery, with logistical and curatorial support from the Gallery's professional staff.
2025 Envision Awardee Named
At the exhibition's opening reception on June 26, the jury reconvened to select the Envision 2025 Award recipient, awarding Sara Nickleson a $5,000 prize.
In a statement about Nickleson's work, the jury noted: “Sara Nickleson’s ambitious paintings boldly invite us to explore our relationship with the unknown. At a time when the world is deeply divided, when diverse perspectives and experiences are being weaponized by fear, Nickleson’s paintings meticulously build another world - one mark, one brush stroke at a time. Layering colors and mark-making that draw on prehistoric forms and symbols, Nickleson seeks a new futurity that acknowledges the losses, and co-existence that build on our differences and commonalities. Sara has been consistently building her visual vocabulary and we are excited to see where she will go next.”
Envision: The 2025 Michigan Artist Initiative is curated by Srimoyee Mitra with the assistance of Joe Rohrer.

Workshop / Seminar:GradPath: Professional Development for the Master’s Track
2025-07-30 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual via Zoom
This professional development workshop provides master’s students with tailored guidance on preparing for life during and after graduate school. Participants will reflect on career goals, learn how to articulate their skills for different industries, and receive tips on résumés, job searching, and leveraging Rackham and alumni resources.

Sporting Event:Stamps Gallery: AADL Summer Game
2025-07-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Stop by Stamps Gallery to enjoy the Envision: The 2025 Michigan Artist Initiative exhibition and find the code for the Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game! 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.
Please note: Stamps Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., and until 7 p.m. on Thursdays. Our exhibition is open June 26 through August 2, 2025.

Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
2025-07-30 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
2025-07-30 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.

Livestream / Virtual:CGIS: Drop-In Advising for UK Study Abroad Programs for Winter 2026
2025-07-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
This virtual Drop-In Advising is an opportunity for students to ask questions about the various study abroad programs in the UK offered by CGIS for the Winter 2026 term. You may sign up for as many of the Drop-In Sessions as you would like. Please feel free to join the Zoom meeting at any time within the allotted hour.

Presentation:Undergraduate Info Session
2025-07-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Please join to learn more about the LEAPS and Undergraduate Teacher Education program and how Marsal Education can help you reach your educational goals!

During this information session, our staff will provide an overview of what makes us a top ranked education program! The session will cover details about the application process, academic program schedule, courses, funding, and will conclude with time for questions.

Register here: https://umforms.tfaforms.net/219170

Conference / Symposium:UROP 2025 Summer Research Symposium
2025-07-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Michigan League - 2nd Floor Of the Ballroom
The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program’s Annual Research Symposia are the culminating events for all students participating in UROP Programs. The event celebrates the partnerships created between students and research mentors, and serves as a conference where students present their research project and learn about the research their fellow UROP students have worked on throughout the program.

Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Wednesday
2025-07-30 13:30 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
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)

Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Emotional Intelligence
2025-07-30 13:30 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location
Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.

Reception / Open House:Join Us at the 2025 SURE Showcase: Where Innovation Meets Inspiration!
2025-07-30 14:00 - 16:30
Please join us for the 2025 SURE Student Showcase, highlighting the innovative work of Michigan Engineering students in collaboration with esteemed faculty. Celebrate the accomplishments and partnerships that drive engineering forward. Your presence will inspire and support the next generation of engineers.

The event will begin in the Chrysler Center Lobby, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, at 2 pm with introductions and appetizers, followed by a strolling poster session. We will conclude with awards for the top three "People's Choice" posters at 4:15 pm.

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Chrysler Center Lobby & the Duderstadt Center

Film Screening:T.REX
2025-07-30 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.

Reception / Open House:Ford Library Open House
2025-07-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Gerald Ford Library - Lobby and Auditorium
Come and explore the many ways we can enhance your next event with our new A/V capabilities! Check out the spaces we have available to book for special events. Our facility is an excellent fit for corporate, collegiate, and non-profit functions.

Join us for:
- Soft drinks and nibbles from local caterers
- Tour of the venue
- A 20% off coupon good for your next rental fee

Some free parking available in our lot on a first come, first served basis. Paid parking available nearby. Details provided in the Parking Guide.
Please RSVP by July 20 to Terra at Terra.Brock@nara.gov

Exercise / Fitness:Bujinkan Budo Training Session
2025-07-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Intramural Sports Building
During the Spring/Summer 2025 semester, Bujinkan Budo Club training will be held on Wednesdays from 19:00 - 21:00 (7-9pm) at the Intramural Sports Building (IMSB) in Room MPR B. If you are interested in trying out a class, please send a message through Maize Pages or an email to michiganbujinkan@gmail.com.
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For more information, email us at michiganbujinkan@gmail.com or checkout our website, which also includes a training schedule!

Lecture / Discussion:Nitrogen as a Driver of HABs in the Great Lakes
2025-07-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Gates Lecture Hall, UM Biological Station
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) can cause fish kills, foul up nearby coastlines, and produce conditions that are dangerous to aquatic life, as well as humans. As part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station, Dr. Silvia Newell will give a free, public talk titled “Nitrogen as a Driver of HABs in the Great Lakes.”

Newell is the director of Michigan Sea Grant and a professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. She is a nutrient biogeochemist and microbial ecologist with experience working on Great Lakes issues. Newell researches the effects of excess nutrients from fertilizer and wastewater on inland and coastal waters, with a focus on harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. She has experience engaging stakeholders to develop realistic pathways for nutrient reduction. She serves on the board for a number of organizations, including the Earth Science Women’s Network, the Great Lakes Commission HABs Collaborative, the Saginaw Bay Monitoring Consortium Advisory Committee, and is the past president of the Lake Erie Area Research Network.

The U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.

Founded in 1909, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.

The Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.

The free, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.

Performance:Ketch Secor (Of Old Crow Medicine Show): Story The Crow Told Me Tour
2025-07-30 20:00 | ARK Reserved
Ketch Secor is a merry ringmaster, passionate professor, modern Beat, and unassuming virtuoso. The Story the Crow Told Me is his solo debut, tracing the journey from street busker to founding Old Crow Medicine Show, now a Grammy-winning, Opry-member band behind the double-platinum hit “Wagon Wheel.” Produced by Jody Stevens, the album features Marty Stuart, Molly Tuttle, Willie Watson, Jaren Johnston, and an ode to Nashville with help from Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Ketch will be touring in 2025 in support of the album on his The Story The Crow Told Me Tour.

Other:KidSport Summer Camp
2025-07-31 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
2025-07-31 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
2025-07-31 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
