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DTSTAMP:20261014T092215
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fall 2026 - Empowering Your Teaching: Tech\, Accessibility\, and AI in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Ready to enhance your courses and simplify your teaching workflow? This comprehensive workshop series equips U-M faculty with the practical tech skills needed for the modern semester. Across this track\, you will dive into interactive classroom tools (Poll Everywhere\, Ed Discussions)\, advanced grading and lab platforms (PrairieLearn\, Vocareum)\, and critical digital accessibility strategies (Grackle\, Siteimprove).Additionally\, a dedicated GenAI pathway will guide you from AI basics to advanced prompt engineering using U-M’s custom tools\, including U-M GPT\, Maizey\, and NotebookLM. Join us for individual sessions or the entire series to build a more engaging\, inclusive\, and tech-forward classroom.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149156
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DTSTAMP:20261014T092215
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Leadership in Technology: Distinguished Lecture Series  - October 22\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Securing What Comes Next: Cybersecurity Leadership in the Age of AIA fireside chat with Nikesh Arora\, Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks\nRegister today to attend the latest Leadership in Technology: Distinguished Lecture Series as we welcome Nikesh Arora\, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks\, a Fortune 500 company and global leader in AI and cybersecurity serving enterprises and governments worldwide. Arora will join Ravi Pendse\, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at U-M\, for a candid\, forward-looking conversation about cybersecurity leadership in the age of AI.Thursday\, October 22\, 2026 • 2–3 p.m. (Check-In begins: 1 p.m.)Rackham Auditorium\, University of Michigan Central Campus915 E. Washington St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109  
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152909
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Auditorium - 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20261014T092214
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RAAC Communications Virtual Networking Sessions
DESCRIPTION:The Research Administration Advisory Council (RAAC) Communications Subcommittee conducts periodic Virtual Networking Sessions\, which are geared toward anyone who works\, or is interested\, in research administration at U-M. Many of the sessions have a specific topic with guests and subject matter experts\, and some sessions are meant to serve as open networking opportunities.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129331
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DTSTAMP:20261006T103202
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T140000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Securing What Comes Next: Cybersecurity Leadership in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan’s Leadership in Technology: Distinguished Lecture Series welcomes Nikesh Arora\, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks\, a Fortune 500 company and global leader in AI and cybersecurity serving enterprises and governments worldwide. Arora will join Ravi Pendse\, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at U-M\, for a candid\, forward-looking conversation about cybersecurity leadership in the age of AI.\n\nAI is reshaping both sides of cybersecurity. It is giving adversaries powerful new ways to move faster\, operate at scale\, and target increasingly complex systems. At the same time\, AI is becoming essential to identifying threats\, strengthening defenses\, and helping security teams respond with greater speed and precision. As cyber conflict begins to move at machine speed\, how can organizations keep pace?\n\nDrawing on his leadership at Palo Alto Networks and previous senior roles at Google and SoftBank\, Arora will share his perspective on the evolving threat landscape\, emerging trends\, and AI’s rapidly expanding role in cybersecurity. The conversation will explore where cyber risks are headed\, how defenders can prepare\, and why technology alone is never the complete answer.\n\nAttend in person at Rackham Auditorium for this timely conversation about how innovation\, strategy\, and human judgment must work together to secure what comes next. \nThe program will be followed by a brief audience question-and-answer period. The event is open to U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and retirees. RSVP is required to attend. \n\nThursday\, October 22\, 2026 • 2–3 p.m. (Check-in: 1 p.m.)\nRackham Auditorium\, University of Michigan Central Campus\n915 E. Washington St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\n\nSponsored by Information and Technology Services and the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer.\n\nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/P3G9b\nEvent Website: https://its.umich.edu/events/leadership-in-technology
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153070
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,Ai Literacy,Artificial Intelligence,big data,Big Tech,Business,CAEN,Chatgpt,computer science,computers,Corporate,cyber security,Cybersecurity,Data,Data Science,databases,digital,Digital Accessibility,Digital Culture,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology,Discussion,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Ethics,Faculty,Free,Genai,Generative Ai,Graduate,In Person,information,information and technology,information law,information policy,information science,information technology,internet security,it,Its,Law,Leadership,Michigan Engineering,michigan it,Programming,Rackham,Social Justice,Social Media,social science research,Sociology,technology,technology and information,U-m Gpt,Umsi,Undergraduate,Women In Computing
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T143000
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
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DTSTAMP:20261014T043502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:When Nanoparticles Talk to Proteins: Learning the Rules of Nanoscale Recognition\n\nAbstract:\nWhether a nanoparticle becomes a therapeutic\, a diagnostic\, or a toxin is decided at the moment it contacts a biomolecule. Our group has spent years developing molecular-scale descriptions of how nanoparticles form\, what chemical identities they acquire\, and how those identities govern their behavior in various environments.  Yet predicting where and how a given contact occurs remains slow and largely empirical: experiments are costly\, atomistic simulations are computationally prohibitive\, and existing computational models are built around protein-specific features that do not transfer to engineered nanomaterials.\n\nI will first show what this molecular-scale view makes possible by examining one system in detail. Bacterial biofilms resist both antibiotics and mechanical disruption\, in part because their extracellular matrix is reinforced by amyloid fibers assembled from phenol-soluble modulin peptides. Combining simulation with experiment\, we found that graphene quantum dots form supramolecular complexes with these peptides\, docking near the peptide N-terminus\, shifting the peptide's secondary structure away from the alpha-helix\, and preventing fibrillation\, thereby dispersing mature Staphylococcus aureus biofilms without killing the individual bacteria.\n\nIdentifying such interactions one simulation at a time\, however\, does not scale. I will then describe NeCLAS\, a machine learning framework that predicts partner-specific nanoscale interactions across chemical domains. By combining a coarse-grained structural representation with features that encode the physicochemical neighborhood at multiple scales\, NeCLAS predicts protein-nanoparticle contacts more accurately than existing methods\, remains competitive with protein-specific models for protein-protein interactions\, and extends to nanoparticle self-assembly. Together\, these efforts point toward rational\, predictive design of nanomaterials for biological targets\, and our ongoing work pursues both directions: deeper mechanistic understanding of nanoparticle interactions with bacterial communities\, and broader predictive models that make such interactions findable by design.\n    \nBio:\nAngela Violi is the Dennis Assanis Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan\, where she serves as Associate Chair for Research in Mechanical Engineering. She holds appointments in Mechanical Engineering\, Chemical Engineering\, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, Applied Physics\, and the Biophysics Program. Her research sits at the intersection of nanoscience\, molecular simulation\, and biology\, using computational methods (from quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics to machine learning) to understand how molecular-scale processes determine the formation\, transformation\, and function of nanomaterials\, and what happens when those materials encounter living systems.\n\nVioli received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples \"Federico II\" in Italy. Before joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2006\, she held research appointments at the University of Utah and at a Department of Energy ASCI center for science-based simulation of accidental fires and explosions. Her early work made foundational contributions to computational nanoscience\, including multiscale models of carbonaceous nanoparticle inception and growth\, as well as studies of the health effects of combustion-generated particles. In 2019\, she led a U-M BlueSky Initiative that brought together engineering\, medicine\, microbiology\, chemistry\, and computational science to pursue nanoparticle design for health applications\, the direction that anchors her current work.\n\nHer many honors include the U-M College of Engineering Research Excellence Award\, selection as Michigan's nominee for the Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year competition\, the ASME George Westinghouse Silver Medal\, the NSF CAREER Award\, and election as a Fellow of the Combustion Institute.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153672
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Bioninterfaces,Biosciences,Biotechnology,bme,engineer,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Research,seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20261007T170020
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SUMMARY:Well-being:First Aid Kit Making Event
DESCRIPTION:Stop by Room 1174 of the LSA Building anytime between 3-7pm on Thursday\, 10/22 to customize your own first aid kit! All materials (first aid pouches\, bandages\, antiseptic wipes\, scissors\, thermometers and much more) are provided and FREE. No sign-up required\, tell your friends\, and come grab what you need for your basic first aid kit! This event is organized by the LSA Student Government Health Subcommittee in collaboration with the UofM Red Cross Club.
UID:153422-21915842@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153422
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Health,Health & Wellness,Well-being
LOCATION:LSA Building - 1174
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DTSTAMP:20260929T163522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T150000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Georgetown Law School Webinar for UM Students only
DESCRIPTION:Georgetown Law\, located in the heart of where the law is made\, offers an unparalleled education in which theory and practice uniquely intersect.  We invite you to learn more about Georgetown Law and the admissions process\, and meet a member of the Admissions team\, during a virtual information session.\n\nThis session is exclusively for University of Michigan Students. \n\nRegister to receive the Zoom link: https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/DHCNAlbwTxGgvK1rPpZcRQ#/registration
UID:153072-21915040@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153072
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CATEGORIES:Law,Law School,Law School Application Preparation,Lsa,Lsa Newnan Academic Advising Center,Pre Law,Pre-Law,Pre-professional
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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