Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch, Strength & Balance/Zumba
2025-08-06 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
Lifetime Fitness classes are offered at Briarwood Mall in the JCPenney wing every Monday-Friday from 9-10am. No experience necessary. Classes are specifically designed for older adults, however, everyone is welcome. LTF classes are free, but please consider making a $2/person per class donation as our classes are supported strictly through donations. No registration is necessary, simply attend when it fits your schedule.

Exhibition:Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Linocuts by Meredith Stern
2025-08-06 09:00 - 16:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor
Fifteen linocuts, each representing an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, show artist Meredith Stern's interpretation of these articles.

Originally drafted in 1948 by representatives from across the globe, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights outlines 30 rights that the United Nations General Assembly asserts should be protected worldwide. This declaration has been translated into 500 languages.

In 2017, the Joseph A. Labadie Collection acquired one of only 28 printed sets of Stern's linocuts. To see the complete set of 30 linocuts, request this item from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection (https://myumi.ch/4mJJd) for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center.

View the exhibit Monday-Friday, 9am-4:30pm.

Exhibition:Beyond Survival
2025-08-06 10:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery
Join us for Beyond Survival, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th.

The pieces span nearly 30 years, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.

"Through drawings, paintings, and sculptures made with simple materials, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family, joy and beauty, connections to nature, flights of the imagination, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions."

Presentation:Jennalise Ellis - Dissertation Defense
2025-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
Please join Jennalise Ellis for their dissertation defense titled "Bivalent and Allosteric Inhibitors of Abl and Src Kinase".

*Date:* Wednesday, August 6, 2025
*Time:* 10:00 a.m.
*Where:* Room 1640, Chemistry Building

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/6737455421
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Introduction to Text Analysis
2025-08-06 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Introduction to Text Analysis
July 21-24, 2025
10:00am-11:30am EDT (M-Th)
Live Online via Zoom

In this two-week course, students will learn a variety of natural language processing methods for analyzing and extracting meaning from text data. The course will start with an introduction to text data, including text preprocessing and exploratory methods. The topics that follow will include machine learning models used for topic modeling, clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, and word embeddings. Students will also be introduced to web scraping. Considerations to both long and short texts of various subject matter. Class examples will be demonstrated primarily in R. This course assumes a bachelors-level background in Statistics or related field and knowledge of R or Python; no prior knowledge of text analysis is assumed.

Robyn Ferg is a senior statistician at Westat. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research focused on developing methods for extracting insights from social media data. She has taught graduate and short courses at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (University of Maryland) and given talks on text analysis at the Census Bureau, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and several national and international conferences. She has published original research on this topic in several peer reviewed journals. She has a PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan.

The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .

The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

Presentation:Vaidehi Shastri - Dissertation Defense
2025-08-06 11:30 - 13:30 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
Please join Vaidehi Shastri for their dissertation defense titled "Synthetic and thermodynamic insights for designing degradable polymers".

*Date:* Wednesday, August 6, 2025
*Time:* 11:30 a.m.
*Where:* Room 1706, Chemistry Building

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97507691301

Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
2025-08-06 12:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental, political, economic, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters, documents, newspapers, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.

Among the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition, April 18, 1775; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence; letters by Silas Deane, John Hancock, and Rachel Revere; and much more.

Open weekdays from 12-4 pm.

Well-being:Learn to Meditate in 3 days
2025-08-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation, rejuvenation, and inner connect in just three session.

Meditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration, heightened awareness, and presence in the moment, allowing a shift from thinking to feeling. Meditation also leads to a deeper state of relaxation, regulating the stress response and promoting numerous health benefits.

The session will be guided by a trainer via Zoom meeting for all 3 days from noon to 1 p.m. All U-M students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join at no cost. No prior experience with meditation is required.

Event Details
*When: Every month for 3 days (attending all 3 sessions is recommended)*

The session is Remote over Zoom and upon registration you will have the Zoom MeetingId and Passcode
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This wellness program is coordinated by Information Technology and Services (ITS) Teaching & Learning, and is provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.

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