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SUMMARY:Well-being:Michigan Recreation Expo & Well-Being Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Recreation & Well-Being Festival is a chance for students to learn more about what Michigan Recreation has to offer—from fitness to competition to adventure… and everything in between. All our units will be represented\, and students will have the chance to chat with them in person. This is a great opportunity to enjoy an afternoon of meeting new friends\, have fun\, find community and enjoy snacks and giveaways. The event will take place at the new Hadley Family Recreation & Well-Being Center from 3-6pm on Friday\, September 4th. See you there!
UID:148535-21904414@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148535
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Festival,Free,Games,recreation,Welcome2026,Well-being
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DTSTAMP:20260810T124116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260904T150000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Film,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20260812T103351
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260904T150000
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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
UID:138091-21881923@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Climate Change,Discussion,Food,food and the environment,Free,Free Food,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Social,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Talk,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe
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DTSTAMP:20260824T125846
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260904T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Working Alongside Increasingly Capable AI
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This will be a very informal talk! We'll start with a high-level overview of how modern LLM systems like Codex and ChatGPT work -- sequence models\, transformers\, pre-training\, post-training\, and agentic tool-use harnesses which let today's models take actions\, write code\, and otherwise interact with their environments.\n\nThen I'll share some of my personal perspective working at an AI lab alongside increasingly-capable AI systems. I'm not a mathematician (anymore!)\, but I work in a highly-technical domain\, and hopefully some of the things I say will resonate or be interesting for you in your own work.\n\nContact:  Karen Smith
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148872
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1324
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DTSTAMP:20260824T122716
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260904T153000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Broc Kokesh
DESCRIPTION:Death assemblages—the skeletal remains of organisms preserved in modern sediments—provide a unique window into ecological and environmental change across timescales that often exceed direct observation. Long used by paleontologists to investigate taphonomic processes\, these subfossil accumulations are increasingly recognized as ecological archives with applications to contemporary conservation and environmental management. In this seminar\, I explore how death assemblages from benthic shellfish can be used to address questions spanning paleoecology\, community ecology\, and conservation biology. Drawing on collaborations with public biomonitoring programs\, I show how the dead record can help evaluate whether skeletal remains faithfully capture community structure\, identify responses to biological invasions and other anthropogenic stressors\, and reveal how environmental conditions influence patterns of skeletal accumulation and preservation. I also discuss emerging work on feedbacks between shell-rich sediments and living communities\, highlighting how taphonomic processes can actively shape ecological habitats rather than merely record them. Together\, these examples illustrate how death assemblages serve not only as records of the past\, but also as powerful tools for understanding and managing environmental change in the present and future.
UID:150792-21910200@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150792
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - Room 1528
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