Social / Informal Gathering:IOE faculty-student lunch with Assistant Professor Amelia Warden
2025-04-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Detroit) | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1650
Space is limited, so please only sign up for this event if you are sure you will be able to attend. Spots for this lunch will be filled on a first come, first served basis, and a waitlist will be formed after all spots have been filled. If you get a spot, a calendar invite will be sent to you. Please respond to the invite accordingly so we can ensure that we fill all lunch spots.

Lunch will be provided; please select your lunch option in the form. If you have any questions, please email Blake and Nolan (IOE-SLB-President@umich.edu).

Well-being:Lunchtime Yoga
2025-04-09 12:00 - 12:45 | School of Kinesiology Building - 4099
Lunchtime yoga is an opportunity to provide your body with some gentle movement, strengthening, stretching and balancing. We will use the poses (asanas) 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. This class will be held at the School of Kinesiology on the 4th floor in room 4099. This class will be held each Wednesday from March 12 through April 16.

Performance:Meghan Wysocki, carillon
2025-04-09 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Meghan Wysocki performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Exhibition:Warped Routes: 2025 MFA First Year Exhibition
2025-04-09 12:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
This annual celebration of the work of Stamps MFA in Art candidates features work by first-year students:
Michelle CieloszczykMike MartinRiver BerryMichael King, Jr.Fiona HofferZoë Dong
The 2025 MFA First Year Exhibition takes place March 28 - April 19 at the Stamps Graduate/Faculty Studios, 1919 Green Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Join us at the public exhibition reception on Friday, March 28 from 6-8pm (no RSVP required).
Viewings March 29-April 19 are available by appointment only; please contact Michael King, Jr. to arrange a visit.

Well-being:"Let's Talk": Informal, Drop-In Mental Health Counseling
2025-04-09 13:00 - 15:00 | South Quad - 1721A
Trained mental health counselors are now available for drop-in conversations at different times and locations across campus, including at Trotter, the Spectrum Center, South Quad, the International Center, and Bursley.

This informal, confidential “office hours” style can be a great fit for students unsure about formal counseling; for those with a specific, time-limited concern they’d like to talk through; or those seeking information on campus resources. Please note: this is not meant for crisis or emergency support.

"Let's Talk" will run from January 20th 2025 to April 25th 2025. There will be no drop-ins the week of Spring Break (March 3rd - 7th).

Monday: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm with Markie Silverman, Ph.D., LP, Room 2035 in Trotter Multicultural Center
Tuesday: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm with Marcella A. Beaumont, Ph.D., Room 3032 in The Spectrum Center (Michigan Union)
Wednesday: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm with Emily Malinowski, LMSW, Room 1721A in South Quad Housing
Thursday: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm with Ling Liu, Ph.D. & Chunyu Xu, M.Ed., M.S.Ed., Conference Room in the International Center
Friday: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm with Kayla Douglas, LMSW, and Emily Powers, LLMSW, Room 2329B in Bursley Housing

Workshop / Seminar:8-BIT Music Exhibit: The Workshop
2025-04-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery
MORE INFO: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/8bitmusic/
RSVP is required. RSVP HERE: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/92827

IN THE WORKSHOP, participants will learn how modern chiptune artists create music from Game Boys and the production software LSDJ, and have the opportunity to create music of their own design. This is one featured event of the larger 8-Bit Music Exhibit.

The 8-Bit Music Exhibit is a week-long exploration of the creation of the nostalgic, retro tunes many have grown up with and come to love, as well as a showcase of how such music has been reclaimed and repurposed for continued existence in the modern world.

Our goal in developing this exhibit is to highlight 8-bit/chiptune music as a unique form of digital art celebrated for its sound, cultural significance, and innovation. Throughout the lifespans of the original hardware supporting this music, artists often faced limitations due to hardware constraints. These difficulties led to early video game industry composers inventing new techniques and methods for music creation that have evolved over time and remain influential today.

THANK YOU to our co-sponsors and partners for your support in the creation of this event!
-> U-M LSA Technology Services Digital Scholarship (https://lsa.umich.edu/technology-services/services/research-tools/digital-scholarship.html)
-> U-M Digital Studies Institute (https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/)
-> U-M Arts Initiative (https://arts.umich.edu/arts-initiative)
-> Neutral Zone (https://www.neutral-zone.org/event-list/2025/4/11/free-tech-workshop-chiptune-8-bit)
-> Ann Arbor District Libraries (https://aadl.org/)
-> Ypsilanti District Libraries (https://www.ypsilibrary.org/)
-> Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor (https://www.pinballpetes.org/copy-of-east-lansing-location)
-> Video Game Music Club (VGMC) (https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/vgmc)
-> WolvSec (https://wolvsec.org/)
-> LGBTQ+ Michigan (https://websites.umich.edu/~lgbtqmichigan/#)
-> Ann Arbor Fighting Game Community at the University of Michigan (FGC) (https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/a2fgc)
