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DTSTAMP:20261010T172112
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T100000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Markley (2026-2027) (Housing)
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UID:150757-21914950@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150757
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Community Center
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DTSTAMP:20260914T165019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T100000
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SUMMARY:Well-being:Pictured Rocks Fall Break
DESCRIPTION:Pictured Rocks Fall Break is a five-day expedition from October 16–20\, 2026.  to one of Michigan's most breathtaking landscapes during the peak of fall color.\n\nThroughout the long weekend\, you'll hike through colorful autumn forests\, discover hidden coves\, and take in sweeping views from cliffs rising nearly 200 feet above the crystal-clear waters of Lake Superior. Register by October 6\, 2026 to secure your spot! Cost: $755\n\nThis expedition offers two ways to experience Pictured Rocks. Approximately 8–10 participants will backpack a section of the lakeshore trail\, carrying everything needed for several days in the backcountry while camping at remote sites. \n\nThe remaining participants will establish a comfortable tent basecamp\, explore the region through day hikes and scenic destinations\, and support the backpacking team with transportation and logistics. \n\nThe program takes place October 16–20\, 2026. Participants will spend four nights tent camping throughout Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore before returning to the Adventure Leadership Resource Center located on Central Campus during the evening on Tuesday\, October 20.\nThe program includes transportation\, meals during the expedition\, campsite reservations\, all group camping equipment\, and the opportunity to borrow personal camping gear — including a backpack\, sleeping bag\, sleeping pad\, and headlamp — at no additional cost. Personal clothing and toiletries are not included.
UID:152142-21913135@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152142
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Wellness,Well-being,recreation,Outdoors,outdoor adventures,Nature,Leadership,Community,Adventure Leadership
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260911T120120
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T103000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Saturday Morning Physics | Dark Matter\, Dark Energy\, and Einstein’s Cosmological Constant
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Lecture: Join us in Weiser Hall in person (Rooms 170 and 182) or stream live: https://myumi.ch/G7qzp\n\nDark energy is the leading candidate for the mechanism driving the acceleration of the universe's expansion. Bharat Ratra will describe the astronomical data that persuades cosmologists that dark matter and the as-yet-undetected dark energy are by far the main components of the universe at present. He will review how observations have led to the development of a quantitative \"standard\" model of cosmology that describes the evolution of the universe from the structureless epoch of inflation to the complex structure seen today. In this non-technical talk\, he will also discuss the basic physics and the history of the ideas underlying this model.
UID:150452-21909468@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150452
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Physics,Undergraduate Students,Undergrad Physics Events,Staff,Graduate Students,Free,Faculty,Astronomy
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 170 & 182
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T170000
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:138033-21881348@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:20261010T120331
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T110000
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SUMMARY:Other:MBW Pre-Bus Brunch Social
DESCRIPTION:Come and mingle with your fellow MBW members before heading over to the Bus for the Umich vs. Penn State game! Breakfast will be served. Excited to see you all there!
UID:153424-21915844@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153424
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:The Yard
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DTSTAMP:20260930T181533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T110000
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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:150344-21909054@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:20260916T131820
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261017T120000
SUMMARY:Tours:Saturday Sampler Tour | Egypt 101
DESCRIPTION:Experience the history of ancient Egypt in this engaging introductory gallery tour. Through works of art and everyday objects\, we’ll explore how Egyptians understood identity\, power\, religion\, daily life\, and the afterlife. Along the way\, we’ll look closely at hieroglyphs\, symbols\, materials\, and artistic conventions while considering what these objects reveal\, what questions they leave unanswered\, and why ancient Egyptian artifacts continue to fascinate audiences thousands of years later.\n\nThis event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:152299-21913500@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152299
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Mythology,Religion,Tour,Ancient Egypt,Archaeology,Art,Culture,egypt,Museum,History
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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