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DTSTAMP:20260917T123032
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T113000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Teach for Democracy: Deliberative Pedagogy in Practice
DESCRIPTION:How can instructors across the disciplines support the public mission of higher education? Join us for a conversation exploring deliberative pedagogy\, a teaching approach designed to prepare and motivate students to collaborate across differences on the pressing issues facing our democracy. Drawing on cases from Deliberative Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement (2017)—co-edited by recent Promoting Democracy Teaching Series speaker Dr. Nicholas Longo—we will consider practical strategies for designing learning experiences that help students navigate complex challenges through dialogue\, deliberation\, and equitable decision-making. \n\nThis session is part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series\, co-sponsored by CRLT and Ginsberg Center with support from UM’s Democracy & Civic Empowerment Initiative.\n\nOpen to UM faculty\, graduate students/GSIs\, and post-docs. If you are UM staff with instructional responsibilities who would like to register\, please reach out to teachdemocracy@umich.edu \n\nREGISTER: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/111891
UID:149790-21907187@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149790
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Teaching,Workshop
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881347@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260917T151354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
UID:138848-21913659@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/my/payravdehqonov
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260930T181533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Reverie: The Student-led Exhibition Committee Fall 2026 Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nA reverie is a state between waking and dreaming\, a moment when the mind drifts beyond the immediate. It is a space where memory\, imagination\, desire\, and reality can overlap\, distort\, and take on new forms. In these moments\, the familiar can become strange\, and the ordinary can become something unexpected.\n\nReverie brings together student works that explore the space between what is known and what is felt. Across painting\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, animation\, and mixed media\, the artists move through imagined landscapes\, intimate encounters\, memories\, figures\, and fragments of the everyday. These works blur the boundaries between observation and imagination\, allowing emotion and perception to reshape what we recognize.\n\nRather than depicting dreams literally\, Reverie considers dreaming as a way of seeing. The works reflect moments of escape\, introspection\, fantasy\, and transformation\, where the subconscious can surface and reality becomes open to interpretation. \n\nReverie was conceived and curated by members of the Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC)\, and features work by eight SEC members at the Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition includes ten works across oil on canvas\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, digital animation\, and mixed media.
UID:150344-21909053@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150344
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261009T164533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T123000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Liftoff to Breakthrough
DESCRIPTION:Innovation often requires embracing the unknown. \n\nLaunching the James Webb telescope\, building a reusable rocket\, and creating a new way to store energy all required comfort with uncertain outcomes.\n\nThis special session of Entrepreneurship Hour (ENTR 407) will unpack how students can develop the mindset that drives innovation.\n\nJoin us for this 1-hour session to hear how Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen\, Kiko Dontchev\, and Justin Lopas are creating value and making an impact on the world around us.\n\nEvent Details: Friday\, October 16 - 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM in Stamps Auditorium (within the Walgreen Drama Center)\n\nAll are welcome to attend.
UID:153520-21915955@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153520
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Aerospace,Energy,Energy Technology,Mechanical Engineering,Renewable Energy,Space,Space Policy,Space Race,Space Science
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260922T103914
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan explores how campus and community debated the issues that tore the country apart\, how students and alums joined the fight\, and how the University’s public mission began to conflict with its elite aspirations. Based on collections at the Bentley Historical Library.\n\nDeveloped by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory and featuring the work of its student docents\, “Fill the Ranks” includes historic artifacts\, digital animations\, and interactive elements spanning two floors.\n\nOn display September 25\, 2026-July 2\, 2027 at the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, 1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109.\n\nView the exhibit during the Observatory’s open hours: Thursdays 12-5 pm\, Fridays 12-11 pm\, Saturdays 12-5 pm.\n\n“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan is supported in part by the Inclusive History Project. To learn more\, please visit inclusivehistory.umich.edu. Additional support provided by the University of Michigan’s U.S. at 250 initiative.
UID:152626-21914200@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152626
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,American History,American Politics,archives,bentley historical library,bentley library,civil rights,Civil War,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Humanities,Museum,museums,Politics,Social Sciences,Storytelling,Student Life,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
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DTSTAMP:20260911T131259
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America”
DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:152024-21912664@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20261006T155126
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Beyond Silos: An Inter-Institutional Framework for Understanding Poverty and Advancing Social Change
DESCRIPTION:Kess Ballentine is an assistant professor at Wayne State University School of Social Work and a research affiliate with Labor@Wayne\, Detroit PEER\, and the Center for Gender and Sexuality. Drawing on professional experience in child welfare\, labor organizing\, and social services\, her community-engaged research examines how labor policy and working conditions shape the well-being of low-wage workers and their families. Her work on job quality\, unionization\, and workplace policy has informed municipal policy in Detroit\, been featured in national media\, and been published in leading journals\, including Health Affairs and Social Services Review.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SW503). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions\, or you can watch the livestream on YouTube.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by U-M's Center for Innovation in Detroit.
UID:150395-21909162@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150395
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Detroit,Poverty
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840
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DTSTAMP:20261002T121009
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CGIS: GCC in Beijing\, China - 2nd Year Chinese Info Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Global Course Connections (GCCs) offer a unique opportunity to take what students learn on campus at U-M during the winter semester and apply it abroad in a fun and exciting hands-on class taught by a U-M professor during a 3-week\, off-campus field experience that takes place during the following summer.Join CGIS Advisor Ben Peipert and Professor Qian Liu to learn more about the GCC in Beijing\, China - 2nd Year Chinese program\, the application process\, and the courses.Friday\, October 16 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Online Info Session)Friday\, November 6 from 3:00 to 4:00 PM (Online Info Session)Tuesday\, November 17 from 3:30 to 4:30 PM (Online Drop-In Advising)Thursday\, December 3 from 1:00 to 2:00 PM (Online Drop-In Advising)The GCC China program is led and taught by Professor of Chinese Language\, Qian Liu.GCC Application Deadline: December 10\, 2026
UID:153130-21915126@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153130
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Abroad,China,International Education,Language,Sessions,Study Abroad
LOCATION:
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DTSTAMP:20260924T121524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906619@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260925T152821
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Emergency Powers and the Election
DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Law School Professors Sam Bagenstos\, Leah Litman\, and Julian Davis Mortenson will discuss the availability and potential use of “emergency” powers surrounding the upcoming midterm elections. Professor Barb McQuade will moderate.\n\nThis event is open to the entire University of Michigan community. Lunch will be provided.\n\nPlease RSVP at the registration link provided.
UID:152895-21914699@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152895
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Law,Politics,Pre-Law,Public Policy
LOCATION:Jeffries Hall - 1225
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DTSTAMP:20260622T092756
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T123000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Heartfulness Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly\, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being. \n\nAll U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required. \n\n*What will you learn?*\n\nThe session involves 3 simple steps:\n\nBreathing\nRelaxation\nMeditation\n\nDeep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body to a calm\, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level\, and prepares the mind for meditation. Lastly\, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself  by listening to your heart’s voice. This is the art of Heartfulness Meditation. \n\n*Why Meditate?*\n\nWhile physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape\, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically\, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony. \n\n*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708\n\n*Event Details*\n\nHeartfulness Guided Meditation \nFridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)\nJoin Via Zoom Meeting\nRegister to receive Passcode (see “Related links”\n\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.
UID:143758-21893969@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143758
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Well-being
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260914T115713
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Leadership Dialogues: Ram Krishnan (MBA ’06)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Sanger Leadership Center for the next Leadership Dialogues event\, featuring Michigan Ross alumnus Ram Krishnan (MBA ’06)\, CEO of PepsiCo North America\, in conversation with Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks\, Michigan Ross professor and author of Human Mode: Unlock Your Unique Edge and Transform Your World of Work.\n\nIn this fireside chat\, our speakers will explore the session topic\, “Inside PepsiCo: Navigating leadership through paradox.” They’ll discuss how leaders can turn seemingly contradictory ideas into an advantage—from protecting an organization’s heritage while reinventing for tomorrow to remaining humble while leading boldly.\n\nDrawing on Krishnan’s experience leading PepsiCo’s Foods and Beverages portfolio across the U.S. and Canada\, the conversation will explore how leaders navigate transformation\, growth\, and changing consumer needs. Sanchez-Burks will connect Krishnan’s experiences to his research on the distinctly human capabilities that are increasingly essential as disruptive change reshapes the workplace.\n\nRegister today for actionable\, research-backed insights on navigating the tensions that define modern leadership.\n\nPARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS:\nEvent open to all\, book giveaway open to students only\n\nSCHEDULE:\nFriday\, October 16 | 12–1 p.m.\nRobertson Auditorium\, Michigan Ross\n\nStudents: The first 30 students to attend will receive a free copy of Sanchez-Burks’ forthcoming book\, Human Mode: Unlock Your Unique Edge and Transform Your World of Work.
UID:152088-21912976@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152088
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Business,Career,Corporate,Culture,Discussion,Faculty,Free,Graduate,Graduate Students,In Person,Leadership,Networking,Professional Development,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260915T105028
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T124500
SUMMARY:Well-being:Lunchtime Yoga
DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime yoga is an opportunity to provide your body with some gentle movement\, strengthening\, stretching and balancing.  We will use the poses to reconnect with your senses\, to breathe some life back into ourselves\, find internal balance and to recover from the efforts of the work week.  The focus is on calm reconnection with ourselves rather than working out.  Please bring a mat and a water bottle. Register on our website\, see link below.
UID:138074-21913191@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138074
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,yoga
LOCATION:School of Kinesiology Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261005T140204
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar Series> Finding THOR’s Hammer: Multiomics search for the driver of microbiome function
DESCRIPTION:Microbiomes drive the health of ecosystems on Earth\, mitigating global problems as disparate as climate change and depression. Their complexity makes communities difficult to study\, preventing scientists from elucidating the ways to improve environmental and human health. To understand the molecular pathways of microbiomes\, we developed a model microbial system composed of three bacterial species originally isolated from plant roots: Pseudomonas koreensis\, Flavobacterium johnsoniae\, and Bacillus cereus. We characterized the interactions among the members and identified community-specific genes and small molecules. We found that P. koreensis and its antibiotic\, koreenceine\, influence global patterns of gene expression and secreted metabolite profiles. The broad influence of one small molecule suggests new strategies to study and manage microbiomes.\n\nBio: Dr. Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, a Vilas Research Professor\, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) where she served for three years until January 2017\, and was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University before that. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Molecular Biology and has since authored over 200 scientific research publications\, 30 editorials\, and 29 essays. She is responsible for groundbreaking studies in microbial communication and metagenomics. She is also widely recognized for her contributions to science education and diversity in science. She has authored numerous articles about classroom methods and mentoring and she is co-author of six books about teaching\, including Entering Mentoring and Scientific Teaching. She received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science\, Mathematics\, and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama in 2011\, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019\, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
UID:151232-21911130@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151232
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,Bsbsigns
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261011T202131
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T124500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:OGPS Wellness Week
DESCRIPTION:Join the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (OGPS) for our Wellness Week Series\, featuring a variety of wellness-focused activities throughout the week. Taking time to rest\, recharge\, and care for your well-being is associated with improved productivity\, reduced stress\, and better physical health\, yet many of us rarely have the opportunity to pause and simply be.Graduate students\, postbac learners\, postdoctoral scholars\, faculty\, and staff are all invited to participate in this week of wellness. Join us for a meditation practice\; enjoy snacks\, puzzles\, and visits with the Therapaws therapy dogs\; learn strategies to feel more present and confident in your academic writing\; explore ways to strengthen your financial wellness\; or discover the benefits of expressive writing through journaling.
UID:152749-21914462@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152749
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20260619T111107
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ph.D. Resume Lab
DESCRIPTION:\nIn this interactive workshop\, the Rackham embedded University Career Center Ph.D. coaching team will guide you through converting your academic CV to an industry resume. Brief best practices will be shared\, but most of the time will be spent actively working on your resume\, so bring a laptop or a few printed copies of your CV or resume. Lunch will be provided.
UID:149020-21905327@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149020
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) (East Conference Room, 4th Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261011T183152
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T133000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ph.D. Resume Lab
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive workshop\, the Rackham embedded University Career Center Ph.D. coaching team will guide you through converting your academic CV to an industry resume. Brief best practices will be shared\, but most of the time will be spent actively working on your resume\, so bring a laptop or a few printed copies of your CV or resume.Lunch will be provided. Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/110429 #UCC
UID:149040-21905347@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149040
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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DTSTAMP:20261001T152518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T235900
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:SMART CENTER Symposium
DESCRIPTION:November 10 - 11\, 2026\n\nConnect with pioneers and shape the future of single-molecule biology together. The SMBio Single-molecule\nBiology Symposium brings together scientists interested in single-molecule approaches from all over the world to\nshare their research\, connect\, and exchange ideas and experiences.\n\nJoin us at Kahn Auditorium in the Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building (109 Zina Pitcher Place).\nPlease see https://www.lumicks.com/event/symposium/smbio-2026-midwest# for the agenda.
UID:153165-21915226@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153165
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,Molecular,Research,Symposium
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DTSTAMP:20260914T101238
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T124500
SUMMARY:Film Screening:T.REX
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:136347-21908120@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136347
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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