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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Positive Links Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Positive Links Speaker Series: The Science of Failing Well: How to Change Your Thinking to Lead (and Thrive) in an Uncertain World\nAmy C. Edmondson\nThursday\, February 26\, 2026\n3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET\nFree and open to all\, registration required\nIn-Person & Online Options Available\n\nEvent link: https://myumi.ch/8qynj\n\nPositive Links:\nThe Positive Links Speaker Series\, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations\, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics\, students\, staff\, and leaders.\n\nAbout the talk: \nThis session explores a mindset shift that supports effective action in the face of uncertainty. This shift is well captured by the short phrase\, “think like a scientist\,” offered as a deliberate contrast to thinking like a (command-and-control) manager. Classically\, managers supplied answers and plans and evaluated how well others executed on them.  In contrast\, successful leaders of scientific labs offer direction and questions that empower action and help others make sense of data. This is not about being more lenient or laissez-faire\, but rather about a new type of discipline. Their model provides an analog that leaders in any industry today can learn from. In short\, today’s leaders must abandon the discipline of control to embrace the discipline of learning. Key concepts covered include psychological safety\, intelligent failure\, and interpersonal skills for high-quality conversations. \n\nAbout Edmondson:\nAmy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School\, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society. \n\nHer 2019 book\, \"The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning\, Innovation and Growth\,\" has been translated into 15 languages. Edmondson’s latest book\, \"Right Kind of Wrong\,\" builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about\, discussing\, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and in the UK (Penguin) in September 2023\, the book is due to be translated into 24 additional languages and was selected for the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award. \n\nHost:\nMonica Worline\, Faculty Director\, Center for Positive Organizations\n\nSeries Sponsors:\nThe Center for Positive Organizations thanks the Sanger Leadership Center\, Tauber Institute for Global Operations\, and the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurship for their support of the 2025-26 Positive Links Speaker Series. \n\nSeries Promotional Partners:\nAdditionally\, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK\, the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management\, and the Organization Development and Change (ODC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.
UID:137605-21880460@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137605
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business,Center For Positive Organizations,Free,Graduate,Positive Links,Staff,Talk,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260220T145113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T160000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Understanding Eating Issues and Identifying Resources
DESCRIPTION:Join UHC-CAPS to learn more about eating issues — including common signs\, risk factors\, misconceptions\, and where to find support on and off campus.\n\nPlease Tian Yeung\, LLMSW (tiyeung@med.umich.edu) to register.
UID:145781-21897807@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145781
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,mental health
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260213T152559
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Chemical engineering and chemistry in energy systems: past\, present and path forward
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nI will discuss historical links between chemical engineering\, chemistry\, energy systems\, and environmental sustainability. I will outline the transformative potential of chemical engineering in the design of sustainable energy systems and the key limitations preventing us from taking full advantage of this potential. I will describe some promising directions\, focusing on specific avenues that we have been exploring.\nIn this context\, I will discuss our recent work on developing multifunctional catalytic materials that allow us to make chemical conversion processes more selective and efficient. I will focus on a few reactions that have dramatic environmental impact\, including solar water splitting\, upgrading shale gas component into useful chemicals and fuels\, developing alloy electrocatalysts for fuel cell applications\, and some others.\n\nBiography:\nSuljo Linic was born in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina\, where he completed his elementary and high school education. His family were forcefully displaced from Bosnia during the Bosnian war of 1990s. He moved to the USA in 1994 after being awarded a faculty scholarship from West Chester University (West Chester\, PA).  He completed his BS degree in Physics with minors in Mathematics and Chemistry at West Chester University (PA) in the spring of 1998. Suljo obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering at University of Delaware\, specializing in surface and colloidal chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis. He was a Max Planck postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Matthias Scheffler at the Fritz Haber Institute of Max Planck Society in Berlin (Germany)\, working on first principles studies of surface chemistry. He started his independent faculty career in 2004 at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he is currently Martin Lewis Perl Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering and the director of Energy Systems Engineering program. He was also a Hans Fischer Faculty Fellow from 2015 to 2019 at the Department of Chemistry at Technical University in Munich.\nSuljo’s research has been recognized through multiple awards including the Gabor A. Somorjai Award by ACS\, the Emmett Award by The North American Catalysis Society\, the ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science awarded annually by the ACS Catalysis journal and Catalysis Science and Technology Division of ACS\, the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award by American Institute of Chemical Engineers\, the ACS Unilever Award awarded by the Colloids and Surface Science Division of ACS\, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award awarded by the Dreyfus Foundation\, the DuPont Young Professor Award\, and a NSF Career Award. Suljo has presented more than 200 invited and keynote lectures\, published more than 100 peer-reviewed paper in leading journal with over 25\,000 citations. He serves as the associate editor of ACS catalysis journal.
UID:145463-21897379@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145463
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:CAEN,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Energy,Engineering,Environment,Free,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Interdisciplinary,Law,Materials Science,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,North Campus,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Research,Science,seminar,Social Sciences,Sustainability
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1303
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DTSTAMP:20260125T201944
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: Stable irrationality of cubic threefolds
DESCRIPTION:Explain Voisin’s work\, which together with the non-algebraicity of the minimal class on the intermediate Jacobian implies stable irrationality of very general cubic threefolds.
UID:144456-21895382@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20260114T105643
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:DE Seminar: Nonuniqueness of solutions to the two-dimensional Euler equations with integrable vorticity
DESCRIPTION:Yudovich established the well-posedness of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations for solutions with bounded vorticity. DiPerna and Majda proved the existence of weak solutions with vorticity in L^p ( p > 1).  A celebrated open question is whether the uniqueness result can be generalized to solutions with L^p vorticity. In this talk\, we resolve this question in negative for some p > 1. To prove nonuniqueness\, we devise a new convex integration scheme that employs non-periodic\, spatially-anisotropic perturbations\, an idea that was inspired by our recent work on the transport equation. To construct the perturbation\, we introduce a new family of building blocks based on the Lamb-Chaplygin dipole. This is a joint work with Elia Bruè and Maria Colombo.
UID:141830-21889471@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141830
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20260204T111317
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DISCO Network Presents - Content Creation and the End of Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Is social media still social? With the spread of content creation as a business\, political strategy\, and pastime across platforms\, where is the space for sociality in social media? This panel examines the role of engagement farming\, influencer culture\, misinformation\, disinformation\, and AI in reshaping social media as a creator economy. In a digital landscape where we all serve as content creators and/or unwitting sources of valuable data\, we explore whether social media is still a desirable avenue for forming and cultivating community\, engaging in organizing strategies\, or simply being social.\n\nThis event is open to the public\, and we encourage all interested faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduate students to attend. \n\nAdvance registration is recommended. Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/NrArW \n\nMeet the Panelists \n\nProfessor Crystal Abidin is a digital anthropologist and ethnographer of vernacular internet cultures\, researching influencer cultures\, attention economies\, and social media pop cultures especially in the Asia Pacific region. She has published over 250 articles/chapters\, 16 special issues\, 5 authored books\, and 4 edited books\, including Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online (2018\, Emerald Publishing)\, Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (co-authors Leaver & Highfield\, 2020\, Polity Press)\, and tumblr: Curation\, Creativity and Community (co-authors Tiidenberg & Hendry\, 2022\, Polity Press). Her newest books are TikTok and Youth Cultures (2025\, Emerald Publishing) and Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame (2025\, Polity Press). Crystal is Professor of Internet Studies\, Director of the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab\, and Founder of the TikTok Cultures Research Network at Curtin University. Reach her at wishcrys.com.\n\nBrooke Erin Duffy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University\, where she is also a member of the Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies faculty.  Her research interests include digital and social media industries\; gender\, identity\, and inequality\; and the impact of new technologies on creative work and labor. She's the author of two monographs on gender and cultural production\, including (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender\, Social Media\, and Aspirational Work (Yale University Press\, 2017)\, which draws upon research with fashion bloggers\, YouTubers\, and Instagrammers to explore the culture and politics of the digital labor. In addition\, she is co-author of the newly released book Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity\, 2021).\n\nKelechi Okafor is a British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist\, writer\, presenter\, actor\, and political commentator. She is the creator and host of the podcast Say Your Mind\, with more than 280 episodes exploring self-reclamation through an unflinching critique of society. Kelechi has written books for children\, young adults\, and adults\, often engaging themes of Black identity\, power\, surveillance\, and systemic injustice. Her work extends beyond literature and media into political commentary and social advocacy\, with a particular focus on issues affecting Black women. She is known for her sharp critiques of institutional racism and performative activism\, consistently calling for material change and accountability. In 2025\, she released her speculative novel Awakened. Her upcoming young adult novel\, Are You Still Watching?\, will be published on 10 September 2026. Through her artistic and social practice\, Kelechi continues to create transformative spaces\, challenge dominant narratives\, and amplify marginalised voices.\n\nMeet the Moderator \n\nCatherine Knight Steele is an educator\, researcher\, and award-winning author. She is the author of three books: Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press\, 2021)\, Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality\, and Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal\, a collaborative project with the DISCO Network. She directs the Black Communication and Technology lab at the University of Maryland\, where she is an Associate Professor of Communication. Her research focuses on race\, gender\, and media\, with a specific emphasis on Black culture\, discourse\, and digital communication.  Her latest project addresses critical questions about automation\, AI\, and their implications on our liberation. \n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing additional accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the RSVP form\, please email Cherice Chan at chericec@umich.edu.
UID:142215-21890215@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142215
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Communication,Communication And Media,Communication Studies,Media,Social Media
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260108T115534
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Why are there so many mushrooms?
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Complex multicellular forms have evolved only a handful of times in the histroy of life\, with multiple origins in Fungi. The greatest diversity of forms is in Agaricomycetes\, a clade of roughly 40\,000 species of gilled mushrooms\, crust and coral fungi\, polypores\, puffballs\, and others. I will present\nresearch on diversification of fruiting body forms in Agaricomycetes\, drawing on phylogenetics and comparative methods\, development\, and paleomycology. I will also discuss ongoing work on the “tiger sawgill”\, Lentinus tigrinus\, which is a semi-aquatic mushroom that displays an intraspecific polymorphism with both gilled (agaricoid) and puffball-like (secotioid) forms. Our work on L. tigrinus addresses the genetic bases and ecological context of a fungal morphological innovation.
UID:137387-21880193@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137387
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,ecosystem,eeb,Environment,environmental,evolution,evolutionary biology,seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260107T144911
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Historicizing Transness Otherwise: Asia Narratives and Decolonial Thought
DESCRIPTION:This lecture develops transtopia as an unruly concept that emboldens a continuum model of transness\, thereby activating a mode of historical inquiry that dismantles both the transphobic order of the past and the transgender presumption of the present. That is\, it challenges both the assumption that gender nonconforming figures did not exist historically and the idea that the Western category of transgender delivers the best framework for understanding their experience. To unveil and remedy some of the most salient flaws of epistemic convention in historical inquiry\, historical exemplars from the Sinophone Pacific will be analyzed and weighted in decolonial terms.\n\nHoward Chiang holds the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where he is Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies\, Director of the Center for Taiwan Studies\, and an affiliated faculty of History and Feminist Studies. He is the author of two award-winning monographs: \"After Eunuchs: Science\, Medicine\, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China\" (Columbia\, 2018) and \"Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific\" (2021). Between 2019 and 2022\, he served as the Founding Chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:141696-21889197@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141696
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,History,Humanities,International
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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