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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T110000
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SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000)
DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu.
UID:144249-21894978@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Detroit,Faculty,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Health Professions,History,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Lifelong Learning,Literature,Medicine,Networking,Nursing,Personal Development,pharmacy,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Pre-Law,Professional Development,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Sociology,Staff,Storytelling,Sustainability,Teaching,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260115T181512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 2): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-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 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 2 Curatorial Statement\n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Sally Clegg (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Kim Karlsrud (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtists Sally Clegg and Kim Karlsrud wrap the Division Street pillars in highly site-specific ornament unearthed from the overlooked margins of Ann Arbor. On the Courtyard pillar\, Karlsrud scales up photographs of objects found in liminal spaces surrounding campus buildings on Green Road\, which the artist has encrusted in road salt. On the entryway pillar\, Clegg zooms in on tiny fragments of found material from UMich’s famous “rock” to celebrate nearly seven decades of student art and activism. Both artists uplift aggregate of local human activity to reveal tiny worlds of found form. \n\nSally Clegg: Sentimentary Rock\nSentimentary Rock is a composition of paint slag collected from the UMich rock monument at the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street. This colorful composite material has been accumulating at the base of the iconic limestone boulder since the mid 1950’s\, when students began a tradition of painting it in acts of protest\, creativity\, and ritual\, sometimes multiple times per week. Akin to byproducts of industry such as “Fordite” (collectable chunks of automotive overspray sometimes called ‘Detroit agate’)\, Sentimentary Rock includes thousands of layers\, each dripped from a palimpsestic public proclamation. When processed\, sculpted\, sealed\, assembled\, and macro-photographed\, the result is this enlarged array of tiny gems\, intended to celebrate the indissoluble student voice. \n\nKim Karlsrud: What Amasses\nWhat Amasses is an assemblage of everyday found objects collected within the Miller Creek watershed\, an urbanized drainage system that encompasses much of the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus. Selected objects were immersed in a road salt solution\, allowing delicate crystalline formations to emerge. Road salt is a common material input into these hydrological networks during the winter months and exists in multiple states of refinement\, expression\, coherence\, and fragmentation. Each object was then arranged\, photographed\, and enlarged to recontextualize these materials in ways that invite deeper reflections on how infrastructure and human agency blur notions of the natural and the artificial. \nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nSally Clegg \nSally Clegg is an artist and educator from Pelham\, Massachusetts. Her studio practice is rooted in sculpture and expanded printmaking\, stemming from a fascination with human efforts to make meaning from our relationships to objects. Clegg integrates history\, popular culture\, literature and philosophy as material for artmaking\, leveraging personal anecdote and humor to reveal the complexity\, absurdity\, and theoretical richness at play in our connections to things and to ourselves. \n\nClegg holds an MFA in Art from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design\, and a BA in Art & English from Goucher College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally\, and her work can be found in permanent collections at Yale University\, The New York Public Library\, and elsewhere. Her artwork and writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal\, BOMB Magazine\, Sculpture Magazine\, and Hyperallergic. She is a lecturer in Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\n\nKim Karlsrud \nKim Karlsrud is the co-founder of Commonstudio\, a collaborative creative practice that develops socio-ecological and spatial interventions\, installations\, and initiatives working with and within urban landscapes. Her work explores the space between art and design\, and is grounded in the concept of the “commons\,” that which is shared\, as well as that which is ordinary\, banal\, and commonplace.\n\nKarlsrud completed her undergraduate degree in Product Design from Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Visiting Professor in the College of Design at the University of Oregon\, teaching across Art and Landscape Architecture departments. She jointly received the 2014-15 Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture\, was a 2017 resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is the 2025-26 Fuller Fieldscape Fellow. Website / Instagram
UID:138032-21881276@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260111T142811
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T123000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:LSA@Play: Makers Series - Mug Painting & Hot Cocoa Bombs
DESCRIPTION:Stop by this Makers Series event to paint your own ceramic mug\, perfect for sipping and showing off your creativity! Then\, build your very own hot cocoa bomb. Bring your friends and your best mug design ideas!\n\nThe LSA@Play Makers Series offers regular crafting events for students to practice mindfulness\, relax\, and unleash their creativity!\n__________\nFor LSA undergrads only. Join us for LSA@Play\, a vibrant series of events designed to welcome and support LSA students! Gatherings and activities offer an opportunity for students to prioritize well-being\, inclusivity\, and community. Plus\, get free food and LSA swag! Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details\, subscribe to receive text/email updates\, and check for additional events being added soon! Events are first-come\, first-served\, and while supplies last. One swag item per student\, and you must be present with an MCard to receive it.\n\nThe University of Michigan College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please email lsaatplay@umich.edu if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet the requested accommodations.
UID:143663-21893620@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143663
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Well-being
LOCATION:LSA Building - 1040 Multipurpose Room
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DTSTAMP:20251219T103931
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T110000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Modeling Biology on a Quantum Computer:  Deciphering the Mechanism of ATP Hydrolysis Using Quantum Hardware
DESCRIPTION:In-person: West Hall 411\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91050980639?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nThe ability to model biochemical reaction dynamics on quantum hardware would open the door\nto the virtually exact description of enzymatic catalysis\, accelerating the discovery of novel\ntherapeutics. However\, noisy hardware\, the costs of computing gradients\, and the number of\nqubits and gates required to simulate large systems present major challenges to realizing the\npotential of dynamical simulations using quantum hardware. In this talk\, I will discuss our recent\nefforts to model ATP hydrolysis\, a paradigmatic and clinically-important biochemical reaction\,\nusing quantum hardware. Key to our modeling is employing transfer learning to learn\napproximate force fields based on abundant data and then correcting those force fields using\ndata from quantum hardware. Using this technique and new embedding and downfolding\nmethods\, I will show how we can gain novel mechanistic insights into a variety of hydrolysis-\nrelated reactions and how these techniques can be adapted to other problems in biochemistry.\nThroughout this talk\, I will underscore the opportunities and challenges associated with using\nquantum hardware and how these can be addressed via the fruitful marriage of quantum\ncomputation and machine learning.\n\nBio:\nDr. Brenda Rubenstein is currently the Krieble Professor of Chemistry at Brown University. She\nwas named to Popular Science magazine’s 2021 Brilliant 10 list of the top early career scientists\nand C&amp\;EN’s 2019 Talented 12 list of early career chemists\, and has received a number of\nresearch and teaching honors including the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award\, a Cottrell\nTeacher Scholar Award\, and a Sloan Research Fellowship. While the focus of her work is on\ndeveloping new electronic structure methods\, she is also deeply engaged in rethinking\ncomputing architectures and computational biophysics. Prior to arriving at Brown\, she was a\nLawrence Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She\nreceived her Sc.B.s in Chemical Physics and Applied Mathematics at Brown University\, her\nM.Phil. in Computational Chemistry while a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge\,\nand her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at Columbia University.
UID:142254-21890275@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142254
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Computer Science And Engineering,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering And Computer Science,Materials Science,Physics,Quantum,Quantum Computing,Quantum Science
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260108T115149
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Scott Banta\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:B10 Auditorium \n\nBiotechnology for Critical Materials Production\n\nScott Banta\nProfessor and Chair of Chemical Engineering\nColumbia University\, New York\, NY\n\nScott Banta Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University.  He received his B.S.E. degree from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County\, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University.  He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Shriners and Massachusetts General Hospitals and Harvard Medical School.  He began his faculty career in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University in 2004 and his research has focused on the engineering of proteins and peptides for various applications in areas including biocatalysis\, bioelectrocatalysis\, biomaterials\, gene and drug delivery\, biosensing\, and bioenergy. His group is also developing new biotechnology platforms for energy harvesting and conversion as well as metal and mineral processing.\n\n\nThe global transition towards electrification will require tremendous growth in the production of critical materials\, and biotechnology is providing new solutions to this grand challenge.  Metal oxidizing bacteria are critically important for the hydrometallurgical processing of copper\, gold\, and other sulfidic ores.  Approximately 20% of the world’s copper production involves microbial oxidation of minerals in the world’s largest bioreactors. We have pioneered the development of genetic tools for the engineering and application of the iron and sulfur oxidizing chemolithoautotrophic acidophile\, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. We gained new insights into their unique physiology and engineered them for new traits including accelerated growth\, enhanced bioleaching\, salt tolerance\, and critical material reclamation.  In addition to cells\, we are also invested in using biomolecular engineering to improve critical metal binding and separation.  We have recently developed new proteins for rare earth element and other critical material bioseparations under acidic conditions.  Throughout the talk I will highlight the substantial challenges and opportunities that come with the development of biotechnology solutions in this space.
UID:143373-21892962@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143373
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - B10 Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20251219T112423
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T124500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Lung-Brain Crosstalk and Beyond: Neural Circuits of Interoception in Physiology and Disease
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Candidate Seminar
UID:142974-21891868@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142974
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,Bsbsigns,Faculty Candidate,Neuroscience
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20251117T162550
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T123000
SUMMARY:Presentation:CGIS: Summer 2026 International Internships with Omprakash Info Sessions (December 2025 & January 2026)
DESCRIPTION:The U-M Global Social Impact Internships Program with Omprakash helps students earn academic credit while pursuing independent social impact internships in Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.\n\nInternship fields include health\, engineering\, education\, human rights\, sustainability\, and gender-based advocacy.\n\nAlongside your internship\, you will engage in critical dialogue and reflection about the complexities of striving for justice while crossing differences of culture and power\, and you will create a series of digital storytelling posts that document your experiences through lenses informed by our course themes.\n\nInfo Session Dates and Times:\n\nWednesday\, December 3\, 2025 from 10:00-10:30 AM ET\nThursday\, January 15\, 2026 from 12:00-12:30 PM ET\nWednesday\, January 28\, 2026 from 11:00-11:30 AM ET\n\nPlease register via Calendly: https://calendly.com/omprakash-org/u-m-global-social-impact-internships-info-session\n\nInfo session Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82074105905\n\nFor more information and questions about Omprakash internships\, please see: https://www.omprakash.org/joinedge/michigan-social-impact-internships\n\nYou can also contact the Omprakash staff for more information and to ask questions:\n\nEthan Goldbach: Director of EdGE Programs (ethan@omprakash.org)\nWilly Oppenheim: Executive Director (willy@omprakash.org)
UID:141957-21889681@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141957
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Abroad,Africa,All Majors Welcome,Asia,Career,Central America,Free,global engagement,global opportunities,India,Information Session,international,International Education,Internship,internships,Latin America,Social Impact,South America,Southeast Asia,Travel
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260105T124744
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar by Yang Li
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nGene expression evolution relies on regulatory mutations. Past studies suggested that optimizing gene expression by positive selection on cis-regulatory mutations is relatively easy because the corresponding adaptive landscapes are quite smooth. To what extent gene expression can be optimized via trans-regulatory mutations is\, however\, unknown. Analyzing the transcriptomes and proteomes of 16 yeast strains carrying all combinations of four auxotrophic mutations\, we respectively construct 5\,923 and 446 adaptive landscapes of mRNA and protein expressions where neighboring genotypes differ by a trans-regulatory mutation. We find that mRNA expression is less optimizable by trans-regulatory mutations than by cis-regulatory mutations due to a lower fraction of open adaptive paths via trans- than cis-changes\, which may partially explain why trans-regulatory changes are rarer than cis-regulatory changes in gene expression evolution. Interestingly\, the adaptive landscapes of protein expressions are substantially less rugged and thereby more navigable than those of mRNA expressions due to post-transcriptional buffering effects\, suggesting that\, for protein-coding genes\, the evolvability of gene expression is even higher than the current estimate from adaptive landscapes of mRNA expressions. This high evolvability may have contributed to the prominence of gene expression changes as a mechanism of evolutionary adaptation.\n\n\nAbout the DCMB Tools & Technology Seminar Series\n\nThe DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Series is held in Medical Science Building 1 (MS1)\, Room 4B700\, each Thursday at 12pm EST. Each seminar highlights a computational tool\, technology\, or methodology that is under development or in current use and is of special interest to DCMB and University researchers. Presenters are U-M researchers and students.\n\nThese seminars are live-streamed and recorded and made available for future viewing via the DCMB YouTube Channel
UID:143179-21892395@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143179
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Bioinformatics,Biology,Biosciences,Life Science
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - Room 4B700
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