BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T142358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:'Redefining the Crown' Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:\"Artist’s statement: For centuries\, hair has been critical to how human beings understand racial categories\, gender designations\, and class status. For Black women in particular\, hair has and continues to be tied to ethnic identity and a history of self-determination\, social justice\, and survival. Thus\, chemotherapy-induced hair loss is a devastating event for Black patients who are also more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer subtypes necessitating chemotherapy\, carrying a 40% increased risk of dying from breast cancer.\n\nRedefining the ‘crown’: Approaching chemotherapy-induced alopecia among Black patients with breast cancer” started as a manuscript published in the scientific journal Cancer. But the work could not stop there. “Redefining the Crown” then metamorphosed into a photo essay project aimed at exploring the breast cancer journeys of six Black women and their experiences with hair loss due to chemotherapy. Though the project centers the experience of Black women\, we also acknowledge that breast cancer and chemotherapy-induced alopecia impact individuals of all genders. While the goal is to illuminate the unique stories of Black women who are affected uncommonly by this common disease\, the project is also a call to action regarding the disproportionate breast cancer-related mortality facing Black communities.\n\nIn this portraiture series\, photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks. This exhibition examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy and how their sense of cultural pride and personal identity have been redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThese survivors have redefined their own crowns. More profound than the new hairstyles they don after hair loss are the invisible crowns that they choose to wear each day: gratitude\, faith\, and resilience. What do their words mean to you? Do they empower you to act?\n\nArtist’s name: Versha Pleasant\nWork Title: Image 2\nDate of creation: September 2024\nArtist’s statement: Photo by Tafari Stevenson-Howard\" UID:146980-21900134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Michigan Union - 1st Floor - Opera Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T120209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145014-21896394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T120239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145015-21896451@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T120305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145016-21896515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T143409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T235900 SUMMARY:Other:Civic Learning Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:U-M’s inaugural Civic Learning Week highlights the many ways campus partners support the development of the civic knowledge\, skills and attitudes we all need to be fully engaged members of our communities\, on and off campus.\n\nWhy Civic Learning Matters: \nCommunities thrive when people participate\, from local and state governance to interactions with friends or family. Democracy thrives when people have the opportunity to have both careers and lives of purpose. Civic learning strengthens student readiness\, supports positive community impact\, and aligns with U-M’s institutional priorities around Democracy & Civic Empowerment.\n\nCo-sponsored by Student Life and Democracy & Civic Empowerment. UID:145408-21897258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145408 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Faculty And Staff,Students LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T060240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T235959 SUMMARY:Other:FULL SEMESTER SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION:This is a schedule of all our events happening this semester. Please follow the instagram or email iazamora@umich.edu to get on the email list for more information.  UID:145222-21896848@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T163718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future. UID:143388-21893020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T115746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist) DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Opening: March 12\, 2026\nExhibit Dates: March 12-30\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\nSet within Kafafian's speculative future world Azadistan—a place of magic and spirits beyond a digital collapse\, Հմայարան / Hmayaran is an immersive shrine housing a series of soft-sculptural artifacts reimagining objects Armenians have traditionally crafted for spiritual power and protection.\n \n Kafafian's focus in this exhibition is on the marks Armenians carve into stone\, clay and wood to imbue meaning\, memory and magic into their lived environments\, particularly as part of folk traditions outside of the realms of church and state.\n \n Channeled from the collective Armenian diasporic imaginary\, Kafafian's Portal Fire series depicts a narrative story that emerges from the materials as they are brought into relationship through weaving\, dyeing\, embellishment and thread. In this story world hybrid cultural practices and alternative spiritual modes develop from embodied traditions in response to the changing physical and cultural landscape of Southwest Asia in a future where technological catastrophe has severed global communications and erased digital archives. The multi-ethnic society of Azadistan takes shape through installations\, objects\, texts and performances manifesting the multiplicity of Aremenian-ness through the dimensions of a complicated past and its potential for a vibrant\, evolving futurity.\n\nCosponsor: Institute for the Humanities UID:143403-21893077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T141911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial DESCRIPTION:The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit\, America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial.\n\nThe exhibit explores how President Ford joined Americans across the country in commemorating the Bicentennial. Highlighting some of the nationwide celebrations in 1976 and public gifts given to President Ford\, the exhibit asks visitors to reflect on our own Semiquincentennial commemorations.\n\nThe exhibit\, located in the Library's lobby\, will be free to visitors and will be available until December 3\, 2026. UID:145837-21897886@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Bicentennial,American History,Bicentennial,History,President Gerald Ford LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250619T124319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Other:2026 Graduate English Welcome Week DESCRIPTION:Welcome Week events for 2026 MFA and PhD Admitted Students UID:136159-21877975@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136159 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - Robert Hayden Room (3222) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T144541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T100000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch\, Strength & Balance/Zumba DESCRIPTION: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. UID:145904-21898027@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145904 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T171335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Wayward Images DESCRIPTION:March 9-April 3\, 2026\n--\nThe public is cordially invited to an artist's reception on Wednesday\, March 27th at 4:30 pm in the RC Art Gallery.\n--\n\nPublic Workshop: On March 19th from 1 to 3pm\, join exhibiting artist Stamps School of Art & Design Assistant Professor Angela Chen for a collaborative bookmaking workshop! Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School 課後\, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen’s After School brings together collage\, sculpture\, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as 補習班 (buxiban) in Chinese\, after schools are referred to colloquially as “cram schools” and by scholars as “shadow education.” Operating simultaneously as spaces of community\, care\, and control\, these schools can be demanding and factory-like\; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents\, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult\, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School\, a buxiban and her parents’ business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley\, CA\, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students\, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink’s vast archive of photographs\, workbooks\, objects\, and advertisements\, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism\, segregation\, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner’s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics\, drawing from lived experience\, archives\, American history\, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom\, alternative and 19th-century printing processes\, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10)\, geometric abstraction\, assemblage\, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation\, the discursive enterprise\, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past\, present\, and future\, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver’s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage—one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture\, hymn\, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don’t require an escape. She addresses the sonic\, linguistic\, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing\, downloading\, and transferring archives. UID:146709-21899517@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art Workshop,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T130452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Freddy to Quentin: The On-Set Still Photography of Joyce Rudolph DESCRIPTION:Joyce Rudolph has photographed some iconic actors and characters in her role as still photographer for the movies. This sampling of images from her papers\, which are housed as part of the Special Collections Research Center's Mavericks & Makers collection\, include the first images of Freddy Krueger in \"A Nightmare on Elm Street\,\" Arnold Schwenegger in \"The Terminator\,\" legends Jack Nicholson\, Diane Keaton\, Sean Penn\, and Robert DeNiro\, as well as directors such as Quentin Tarantino\, Martin Scorsese\, and her husband\, Alan Rudolph. UID:146264-21898749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146264 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T165341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lynn Galbreath Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lynn Galbreath\, a Detroit based artist who grew up in Argentina\, is a former recipient of the Creative Artists’ Grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and the Michigan Individual Artist Grant from Michigan Council For The Arts. Galbreath’s work has been showcased locally\, nationally and internationally in over 20 solo/two person and over 100 group exhibitions.\n\nGalbreath has an M.F.A. from the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art\, Art History\, & Design\, Wayne State University\, Detroit\, MI\; and a B.F.A. with Permanent K-12 Certification from The Gwen Frostic School of Art\, Western MI University\, Kalamazoo\, MI. Galbreath has chaperoned eleven intensive\, immersive art experiences to Italy\, Spain\, France\, Belgium\, England\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, Austria\, and the Czech Republic. Lynn is a retired Adjunct Associate Professor of Studio Art from Oakland University\, where she has been on the faculty of the Department of Art & Art History since 2000. Lynn has also instructed studio art and design at the College For Creative Studies\, University of Detroit Mercy — School of Architecture\, Macomb Community College\, Wayne State University\, and Bloomfield University School. Her work can be seen in the collections of Oakland University\, Wayne State University\, Detroit Receiving Hospital\, Children’s Hospital of Michigan\, Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital and numerous private collections.\n\nThis exhibition consists of works from a variety of series created by Galbreath over the years: Telegraph\, Storyboard\, and Working Hard for a Living. Each series represents a unique exploration of themes\, techniques\, and social commentaries that reflect Galbreath’s artistic journey and concerns for the world.\n\nTelegraph explores the aesthetic visual weights and balances between harmony and content\, diving deep into how visual elements can convey messages and emotions. This series invites viewers to reflect on the way art communicates through its formal qualities\, as well as its narrative possibilities. The careful interplay of shapes\, colors\, and textures in these works prompts an examination of the viewer's perception and emotional response. By utilizing abstract forms\, Galbreath encourages an engagement that goes beyond mere observation\, seeking to provoke thought about how aesthetic choices influence understanding and meaning.\n\nOn the other hand\, Storyboard is a series of image-driven installation paintings that vary greatly in size\, showcasing Galbreath’s versatility and creative ingenuity. The titles of the works draw inspiration from the years spent creating visuals for TV commercials and public service announcements\, illustrating how commercial art often intertwines with societal messages. This series emphasizes the profound impact visual narratives have on consumer culture and public perception\, underscoring the artist's belief in the potency of imagery to shape narratives. The installations weave a complex fabric of storytelling that challenges viewers to reconsider their relationship with media and the messages they consume daily.\n\nWorking Hard for a Living pays tribute to our sustainable and unsustainable resources\, shedding light on the individuals who toil diligently within these economic frameworks. This series highlights the hard-working suppliers of essential products\, including Farm Market Managers\, Fishmongers\, and Beach Vendors. By portraying these self-employed individuals\, often operating within informal economies\, Galbreath draws attention to the unique challenges they face. These individuals frequently contend with low\, inconsistent incomes\, long hours\, and sometimes exploitative conditions\, fostering a sense of solidarity with those who labor under such circumstances.\n\nFurthermore\, the series invites viewers to confront the broader societal structures that contribute to these inequities. Galbreath's work serves not only as a tribute but also as a call to action to consider how our consumer habits and economic policies affect the livelihoods of others. The layered narratives present in this series open a dialogue about the value we place on labor and the often unseen struggles that support our day-to-day lives. Through these explorations\, Galbreath establishes a multifaceted narrative that intertwines art with activism\, compelling audiences to engage both aesthetically and ethically with the realities depicted in the exhibition. UID:142773-21891476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T105136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16. UID:142417-21890884@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Metamorphosis: Clay in Flux DESCRIPTION:\n\nMetamorphosis: Clay in Flux is an exhibition celebrating the creative potential of student ceramics\, designed to correspond with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Detroit\, and the surrounding ceramics events in Southeast Michigan.\n\nThis exhibition is organized and juried by members of the Stamps Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC) and will be on display in the Art & Architecture Building’s Street Gallery from March 11- 25\, 2026. The exhibition will open with a reception on Wednesday\, March 11 from 4:30-6 p.m. \n\nSEC Jurors\n\nElan Povirk (project lead)\nAlexis Albert\nRachel Deveyra\n\nExhibiting Artists\n\nZoe Dvorin\nLilly Fredericks\nMaría E. García-Murguía\nMikayla Holcomb\nVirginia Holland\nMagdalyn Hubbard\nMira Hughes\nAudrey Jarrett\nEry Millican\nIsabella Possin\nMo Pofahl\nNatalie Radabaugh\nNik Roy\nMihika Shukla\nAbigail Watters UID:146483-21899174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146483 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T163232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Terence Swafford Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This exhibition showcases a decade of artist Terry Swafford’s work in Detroit\, marking the culmination of years spent composing scenes from the untamed edges of urban communities. These paintings serve as a visual record of Detroit’s transformation\, capturing humanity’s impact on the environment alongside nature’s persistent efforts to reclaim these spaces. As the city continues to change\, many of these depicted scenes are vanishing\, no longer visible in the landscape today. The significance of this documentation goes beyond mere nostalgia\; it invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic interplay between urban development and ecological restoration\, prompting a deeper understanding of how cities evolve while retaining traces of their history.\n\nSwafford’s paintings are created on location and in one session. The natural conditions\, including light\, shadow\, and atmosphere\, change dramatically from hour to hour and day to day\, forcing the artist to respond quickly and decisively. This approach\, born of a direct engagement with the subject and the fleeting nature of the scene\, along with his wet-on-wet technique\, keeps the work fresh and immediate. By immersing himself in the environment\, Swafford captures the diverse textures and vibrant colors that characterize Detroit’s landscape\, imbuing his work with a sense of urgency and spontaneity. Each brushstroke conveys a commitment not only to visual accuracy but also to emotional resonance\, as he strives to encapsulate the spirit of a place that is both loved and contested.\n\nIn addition to these works\, the artist constantly sketches ideas both for paintings and for designing projects in his business. These sketches serve as visual language\, helping him clarify and refine his concepts before bringing them to life. They become a means to communicate ideas to clients and his crew and become an extension of his voice—an academic exercise rooted in artistic practice that fosters collaboration and innovation. The act of sketching also reflects his evolving relationship with the city\, as each drawing encapsulates fleeting moments of inspiration drawn directly from his surroundings. This duality of function—creating art for exhibition and conceptualizing designs for projects—demonstrates Swafford’s versatility and adaptability as an artist.\n\nSwafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design\, and while at RISD\, he was part of the European Honors Program. His education not only honed his technical skills but also broadened his artistic perspective through exposure to varied artistic traditions. He has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Chicago\, Kansas City\, and New York State. Each exhibition serves as a testament to his commitment to his craft and his ability to engage diverse audiences\, offering them an opportunity to explore the complex narratives woven into each landscape. UID:142768-21891389@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T085640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Evolution of Campus\, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. This exhibit highlights the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution. \n\nThis exhibit was originally part of a larger exhibit displayed from July 2017 to January 2018 to commemorate U-M's bicentennial. UID:138431-21890649@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138431 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250926T162032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Giving and Receiving Feedback: Learning in Action Lab DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:139956-21886413@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139956 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication,Intergroup Dialogue LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260206T110245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T115000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Estimation in linear models with clustered data (joint work with Mikkel Solvsten and Baiyun Jing) DESCRIPTION:We study linear regression models with clustered data\, high-dimensional controls\, and a complicated structure of exclusion restrictions. We propose a correctly centered internal IV estimator that accommodates a variety of exclusion restrictions and permits within-cluster dependence. The estimator has a simple leave-out interpretation and remains computationally tractable. We derive a central limit theorem for its quadratic form and propose a robust variance estimator. We also develop inference methods that remain valid under weak identification. Our framework extends classical dynamic panel methods to more general clustered settings. An empirical application of a large-scale fiscal intervention in rural Kenya with spatial interference illustrates the approach. UID:143681-21893640@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143681 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Econometrics,Economics,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T143317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Critical Conversations DESCRIPTION:Aida Levy-Hussen\, Chair\nParticipants: Noor Al-Samarrai\, Alyse Campbell\, Maya Day\, Emma Erlbacher\, Jennifer Nessel\, Asa Zhang\n\nRSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeW2XrzbB2peOPVyFXtzm7A58xDctlwC6BwFCphZipjqKRjjQ/viewform\n\n“Baghdad: Dwellings\, Poetry and Oral History”\nNoor Al-Samarrai is the author of EL CERRITO (Inside the Castle\, 2018)2. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at U-M\, where she is currently a postgraduate Zell Fellow in poetry\, researching and writing her second collection of documentary poetry tracing the emotional cartography of mid-20th century Baghdad.\n\n“Narratives of Collaboration: Exploring Community-Driven Approaches to First-Year Writing Course Design”\nAlyse Campbell is a PhD Candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education whose current research focuses on community-engaged writing classrooms and first-year writing pedagogy: specifically on the collaborative processes between instructors and community partners. She is a former high school English teacher and received her M.A. in Teaching as well as her B.A. in English and Communication.\n\n“Reading Through Mitákuye Oyásʼiŋ: Agonistic Relations in the circulation of Layli Long Soldier’s Quilts”\nMaya Day is a 6th year English PhD Candidate and the James A. Winn Graduate Fellow at the Institute of the Humanities. Her project\, \"Leaking Poems\" studies poets who escape the pressures of mainstream recognition and instead form counterpublics through unconventional circulation practices of their poems.\n\nTitle Forthcoming\nEmma Erlbacher is a poet from Iowa. Her poetry centers the erotic\, queerness\, family\, the natural world\, and mental health.\n\n\"The Cage: A Novel\" \nJennifer Nessel is a fiction writer at the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers Program. Their writing has been supported by GrubStreet and has appeared in The Southern Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. \n\n“Translation Un/Bound: Transnational Ideologies and Orientalist Forms in Modernist Poetry\, 1895-1955”\nAsa Zhang is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in English and a Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. Her work traces the shifting relations between form\, ideology\, and aesthetic practice in English poetry from the late Victorian era through late modernism\, particularly under transnational and global conditions of production and reception. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly\, English Language Notes\, Feminist Review\, and other venues. UID:143751-21893739@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,English Language And Literature,Graduate Students LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251216T092634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Filing Taxes for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:As part of our Financial Education Series\, this virtual event is designed to help demystify tax filing for graduate students—an area that isn’t always as straightforward as we might hope.\n\nEd Jennings\, tax director at the University of Michigan\, will walk participants through how to prepare for the upcoming tax season. This session is geared toward domestic students.\n\nAttendees will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the presentation.\n\nThose who register will receive a copy of the slides and access to the recording. Please note that the recording may take a few weeks to process. UID:142788-21891533@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142788 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260115T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 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:138032-21881308@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T110621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Positive Links Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:Positive Links Speaker Series: The INSPIRE Advantage: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others\nAdam Galinsky\nThursday\, March 12\, 2026\n11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET\nFree and open to all\, registration required to obtain login information\nOnline\n\nEvent link: https://myumi.ch/794QQ\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:\nSocial psychologist and leadership expert Adam Galinsky has spent three decades building a method for determining when we are inspiring versus infuriating\, and where each of us—presidents\, CEOs\, coaches\, teachers\, parents—currently land on that spectrum. In this talk\, Galinsky will unpack the science of inspiration and show how inspiring and infuriating leaders represent a universal continuum that is rooted in the very architecture of the human brain. In his research\, Galinsky has identified the three universal features in inspiring others. Because these three universal factors can be learned and developed\, Galinsky has proven that inspiring leaders aren’t just born—instead\, we can inspire or infuriate in any given moment through our behavior\, words\, or presence. Galinsky will reveal how all of us\, regardless of status or circumstance\, can be more inspiring more often. \n\nAbout Galinsky:\nAdam Galinsky is the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. A world-renowned expert in leadership and negotiation\, he authored the recently released \"INSPIRE: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others\" and co-authored the bestselling book\, Friend & Foe. His books are based in over 300 scientific articles and chapters he has co-authored. His TED Talk\, \"How to Speak Up for Yourself\,\" has over 7.7 million views\, highlighting his impact on influence and inspiration. Professor Galinsky has served as a damages expert in a dozen trials involving reputational damage\, including Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News and Bacon v. Nygard. His expert reports and testimony have generated more than $1 billion in verdicts and settlements. He is an Executive and Associate Producer on six award-winning documentaries\, including two (Horns and Halos (2003) and Battle for Brooklyn (2011)) that were short-listed (final 15) for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards. He received his PhD from Princeton University and his BA from Harvard University.\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:137604-21880457@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Center For Positive Organizations,Free,Graduate,Positive Links,Staff,Talk,Undergraduate LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T145929 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Learning from Quantum Experiments via Structured Signal Processing DESCRIPTION:In-Person: West Hall 411\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98748463202?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nThe pursuit of quantum advantage in solving large-scale computational problems is often seen as a shining treasure. Achieving this goal\, however\, requires the accurate realization of smaller-scale quantum gates and control operations. Understanding and characterizing modular gate and control errors is therefore essential for building reliable quantum applications. Earlier work has typically pursued either universal algorithms with theoretical guarantees or black-box engineering approaches with no guarantees. Yet\, problem-specific structures offer opportunities for efficient and robust system characterization at the intersection of theory and practice. In this talk\, I will present how structured signal transformation and processing can be used to exploit such structures. I will first introduce a gate characterization method that is both resource-efficient and robust against complex experimental errors\, drawing parallels to parameter estimation in classical statistics. I will then generalize this idea to functional signals and present a novel non-parametric estimation paradigm.\n\nBio:\nYulong Dong is an Assistant Professor in ECE\, with a courtesy appointment in Mathematics\, at the University of Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2023. Before joining UMich\, he worked as a research intern at Google Quantum AI\, then as a research scientist at ByteDance AI Lab in California\, and subsequently at the University of Washington. His research focuses on numerical analysis\, optimization\, and quantum computing\, with particular emphasis on quantum algorithms for scientific computing and high-precision quantum learning and sensing. His work not only provides rigorous theoretical results but also maintains close connections to practical applications. More broadly\, his research aims to bridge quantum computing with applied mathematics and information theory by addressing challenging problems in quantum algorithms and sensing from numerical-analysis and information-theoretic perspectives. UID:142259-21890279@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142259 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Chemistry,Computer Science And Engineering,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering And Computer Science,Physics,Quantum,Quantum Computing,Quantum Science LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T153242 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Weekly coffee chat hosted by INFORMS & HFES DESCRIPTION:Come join us in the IOE Commons for some coffee and networking! UID:138834-21896903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate Students,Hfes,Human Factors And Ergonomics Society,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite, Room 1700 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260113T140057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Millie Sullivan\, University of Delaware DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:\nNucleic acid cargoes offer unmatched diversity in gene regulatory potential and therapeutics\, and understanding of nucleic acid functionality continues to expand rapidly and dramatically through seminal discoveries including RNA interference approaches and gene editing technologies. In nature\, the basis for gene regulation is ultimately encoded by the exquisite specificity with which cells are able to control both the location and accessibility of nucleic acid constructs to govern their activation states. My research program seeks to understand and control gene activation using synthetic constructs through nature-inspired approaches to control and quantify cell binding interactions and stability in polymer and peptide nanocarriers. The basis of our approaches is the design of stimuli-responsive polymers and peptides whose interactions with nucleic acids and cells can be controlled dynamically by specific intracellular or external triggers. We exploit our ability to control nucleic acid binding/release and cellular processing to gain new mechanistic insights over nucleic acid delivery\, leading to design advances including histone-inspired DNA targeting\, light-responsive gene silencing\, and collagen turnover-stimulated gene expression. This talk will highlight ways we have used nature-inspired peptides and responsive polymers to control gene transfer in regenerative medicine. UID:143389-21892978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143389 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:chemical engineering,Chemistry LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - B10 Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T113333 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:ECRC - Engineering Full-Time and Internship Career Day DESCRIPTION:The Full-Time and Internship Career Day will be held on Thursday\, March 12 from 11:30 AM-3:00 PM. This event is intended to help employers connect with students studying programs offered through the College of Engineering\, as well as LSA Computer Science and Data Science\, for full-time\, internship and co-op employment opportunities. \n\nInteractions with employers will be on a first come first served basis on the day of the event.\n\nAdditional event details are available in Career Forge and Career Fair Plus. You can access Career Fair Plus via a web browser or the app (Google Play or Apple App Store). Be sure to search for “University of Michigan Engineering”.\n\nInteractive booth maps will be available through the CF+ app. UID:143188-21892403@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143188 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260209T110129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Katz-Newcomb Lecture | The socioecological psychology of curiosity: Specialization and its discontent. DESCRIPTION:Division of labor (specialization) is widely considered a cornerstone of modern productivity\, yet its potential psychological costs are not well understood. We examined whether division of labor reduces curiosity–the motivation to explore and learn new things. Across four experiments (N = 821)\, participants who work\, or are expected to work\, in divided labor settings showed lower curiosity than those who work in undivided settings. Analyses of three large cross-sectional datasets and one longitudinal panel (N = 320\,119) showed that similar patterns generalized across countries\, industries\, economic contexts\, and personality profiles. Together\, these findings suggest that\, as work becomes more divided\, people’s motivation to explore and learn new things may diminish.\n\nAbout the speaker: Shigehiro Oishi is the Marshall Field IV Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on culture\, social ecology (e.g.\, residential mobility\, walkability\, income inequality)\, and well-being (e.g.\, happiness\, meaning in life\, psychological richness). He is an author of Life in Three Dimensions (Doubleday/Penguin-Random house) and 「幸せを科学する」”Doing The Science of Happiness” Shinyosha\, Tokyo\, Japan. He won the 2017 Society of Experimental Social Psychology Career Trajectory Award\, the 2018 Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology\, and the 2021 Outstanding Achievement Award for Advancing Cultural Psychology. He is a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. UID:143893-21894225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143893 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Departmental LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T135449 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Startup Career Fair DESCRIPTION:Ready to launch your career in the exciting world of startups?\n\nThe U-M Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered Entrepreneurship present The Startup Career Fair: your chance to connect with innovative companies\, explore career opportunities\, and take the first step towards an inspiring career journey.\n\nJoin us for sessions on both the central and north campuses. Details below:\n\nNorth Campus Session:\nThursday\, March 12\, 2026\n11:30 AM - 3 PM\nFirst floor Duderstadt Center\n\nCentral Campus Session:\nFriday\, March 13\, 2026\n11 AM - 4 PM\nRoss Steward Lobby\n\nStudents register here: https://myumi.ch/W6Wbr\nQuestions? Contact mpowered-directors@umich.edu UID:145867-21897970@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145867 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Career Fair,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneur Services,Entrepreneurship,Founder,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate School,Graduate Students,In Person,In-person,Michigan Engineering,Mpowered,Networking,North campus,Startups,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T144336 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Accessibility Specialist Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Spend a few minutes to an hour with the Disability Equity Office Accessibility Specialists to ask any questions related to reasonable accommodations\, the interactive process\, general accessibility at U-M\, and more! Registration is not required for this event and break-out rooms will be available for those who wish to ask their questions privately.\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 99281497508 UID:145395-21897234@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145395 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Disability,Discussion,Inclusion,Office Hours LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T140158 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Conversations with an Elected Official - Sheriff DESCRIPTION:Come and join us for another iteration of Conversations with an Elected Official - Sheriff where we will be talking about what this elected office does\, how the official got into local politics\, and answer questions direct from constituents like you! Hosted in the Ginsberg Center Commons on March 12th from 12pm-1pm. We will be talking with Washtenaw County Sheriff Alyshia M. Dyer. Be on the lookout for additional events throughout the year featuring other local elected officials!\n\nCivic Learning Week seeks to unite our communities and highlight the importance of civic knowledge\, skills\, and dispositions that provide the foundation for informed and engaged communities. UID:145407-21897260@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145407 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Civic Learning Week 26,Community Engagement,Community Organzing,Washtenaw County LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260106T104826 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar by Matt Hodgman DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nMachine learning is becoming increasingly relevant and accessible in every field. But what does the machine actually learn? The demand for explainable machine learning has never been higher--especially in sensitive fields like healthcare. An explainable machine learning algorithm can describe the learned relationships between input data and output predictions\, as well as describe the reasons for single specific prediction. The list of truly explainable machine learning algorithms is short and often limited by poor predictive performance at complex tasks. We have developed a novel fuzzy neural network that exhibits both high explainability and accuracy in a variety of applications from classifying disease outcomes to regressing drug doses. This algorithm can use both domain-expert knowledge and complex data to converge on complex solutions. We present how this algorithm works for new users\, the depth of explainability it offers\, and highlight its performance in various applications.\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:143262-21892597@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143262 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Basic Science,Bioinformatics,Biology,Biosciences,Life Science,Research,Virtual LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - Room 4B700 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260111T114956 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gender and Sexuality Workshop DESCRIPTION:- January 15: Gracia Dodds and Mack Brumbaugh\n- February 12: Tey Meadow\n- February 26: Bailey Otter\n- March 12: Abby Smith\; Xavier Fields\n- March 24: Elizabeth Armstrong and Hannah Tessler\; lightning talks\n- April 9: Johanna Oh\n- April 16: Maya Glenn UID:143662-21893616@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Student LOCATION:LSA Building - 4147 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260129T123620 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: Ted Lawrence DESCRIPTION:About the presentation: Over 25% of the world’s surface fresh water is found in the seven African Great Lakes. These basins are of vital importance to hundreds of millions of people\, providing drinking water\, protein\, jobs\, and transportation\, and further supporting the Gross Domestic Product of each of the ten riparian countries. The lakes are the most species-rich freshwater systems on the planet\, harboring over a thousand fish species\, and hundreds of other aquatic and terrestrial species. The importance of these lakes is undermined\, however\, by myriad anthropogenic stressors\, including climate change\, overuse\, gas and oil exploration\, habitat loss and degradation\, agricultural runoff\, industrial and urban pollution\, invasive species\, and a host of other issues. The lack of attention to the health of these lakes is a modern-day tragedy\, with a dearth of research barely enough to provide information to make good policy and management decisions. The AGL are all multijurisdictional in nature\, suffering from tragedy-of-the-commons-type issues. Recognizing that no one organization or institution can address the challenges that our global freshwater resources face\, recent efforts by African\, North American\, and European experts are proactively seeking to build partnerships that leverage the combined skills\, assets\, technologies and resources of public\, private and nonprofit entities to deliver sustainable instruction and research. The major goal is to positively influence policy and management of freshwater resources in East Africa through sound science. The process is a long-term collaborative process by which the scientific\, academic\, policy and management\, and other interested community interact through a structured process to prioritize research and thus\, harness the resources and knowledge to conduct research that results in useful\, harmonized data\, and ideas to influence positive change. The full process\, described in this talk\, is to ensure that the ecological structure of the African Great Lakes\, and those who depend on them are preserved and enhanced.\n\nAbout the speaker: Dr. Ted Lawrence is the Executive Director of the African Center for Aquatic Research and Education (ACARE)—leading work to ensure scientists from North America and African collaborate and share knowledge to protect freshwater Great Lakes around the world.\n\nHe has been living\, working\, and researching in Africa for over 20 years. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan\, researching governance and management of large\, multi-jurisdictional freshwater resources\, specifically on Lake Victoria\, East Africa and conducted comparative analysis of management approaches between African and North American lake systems.\n\nBased on his background and research\, Ted and his colleagues formed ACARE\, a highly collaborative organization whose goals are to positively affect policy and management on Africa’s Great Lakes by executing a long-term network of freshwater experts to strengthen science in Africa. He also spent 15 years as the Communications and Policy Specialist at the bi-national Canadian-U.S. Great Lakes Fishery Commission where many of the building blocks for successful collaboration are used to inform the processes on the African Great Lakes. UID:144775-21895836@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144775 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:community,Environment,Environmental Policy,Public Policy,Research,seminar,Water LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T092912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T140000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Grub @ the (Idea)Hub DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) for Grub at the (Idea)Hub for free food\, networking\, and to learn about the resources available to student organizations. Whether you are a member of a student organization\, leading an organization\, interested in joining a group\, or forming a new organization - this event is for you! Come and go as you are able and free food will be available while supplies last. UID:143067-21892316@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Student Organizations LOCATION:Michigan Union - IdeaHub (2nd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260401T103514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Learn to Meditate in 3 days DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nMeditation 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nEvent Details\n*When: Every month for 3 days (attending all 3 sessions is recommended)*\n\nThe session is Remote over Zoom and upon registration you will have the Zoom MeetingId and Passcode\nSee Related Links for registration\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by Information Technology and Services (ITS) Teaching & Learning\, and is provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.\n\nJoin the MCommunity group for email updates – Meditation for wellness UID:128708-21890323@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128708 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual,Well-being LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T153643 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:PDF Accessibility & Manual Remediation in Adobe Acrobat (Part 2) DESCRIPTION:Learn about the PDF format and essential techniques for creating accessible PDFs in this two-part workshop series. Registration for both parts (in order) is recommended to gain a holistic understanding of PDF accessibility and remediation. \n\nRegister for PDF Accessibility & Manual Remediation in Adobe Acrobat (Part 1) by March 5\, 2026 (https://events.umich.edu/event/145676).\n\nPart 2 dives into intermediate and advanced techniques for tagging PDF elements (including manually modifying tag types\, nesting\, and properties)\, setting accurate reading order\, and adding document metadata. You will get an introduction to the two technical accessibility standards for PDFs (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and PDF Universal Accessibility) and their differences. You will also learn how to review and repair accessibility issues using built-in tools (Accessibility Checker and Pre-Flight) and a third-party tool (PDF Accessibility Checker\, or PAC). You will leave with an understanding of what is required for a robust and reliable PDF remediation workflow.\n\nAttendees will gain access to curated resources and tutorials for mastering advanced PDF accessibility techniques.\n\nPlease note: Attendees should already be familiar with the core concepts of digital accessibility prior to attending this workshop (e.g.\, color contrast\, font selection\, and proper use of document formatting tools like headings\, lists\, etc.). This workshop focuses on teaching manual remediation techniques that build on prior understanding of basic digital accessibility concepts.\n\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar\, please email the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu. UID:145678-21897671@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145678 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,Accessibility,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Inclusion,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T105653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Practice Makes Progress DESCRIPTION:The studio habits of artists offer unexpected parallels to the work of public policy. In this interactive conversation\, Center for Racial Justice Visiting Fellow Holly Bass will share her process for her upcoming UMMA exhibition which explores the 250th anniversary of America\, and asks\, \"What truths\, if any\, do we as Americans collectively hold?\" The talk will also explore ways we can practice aligning our actions with our values to implement policy more effectively.\n\nAn informal art activity will take place in the Great Hall during the reception for those who would like to participate.\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by the Initiative for Democracy and Civic Empowerment and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). \n\nLunch from Jerusalem Garden provided.\n\nAbout the speaker\nHolly Bass is an award-winning\, socially-engaged artist working across multiple disciplines including dance\, theater\, visual art and writing. She has collaborated with governmental agencies\, cultural institutions\, nonprofit organizations and academic communities to create innovative artistic experiences that foster connection among groups of strangers. Her artwork can be found in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She was a founding member of DC WritersCorps which sent her into schools\, community centers and women's shelters to teach poetry workshops. She continues to travel the country and the world\, using the arts to build community and transform the social culture of classrooms\, workplaces and public spaces. UID:146223-21898675@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Center For Racial Justice,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Performance Art LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1230 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T101438 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Revolutionary Paine: Andy Murphy Student-Curated Class Exhibit Common Sense DESCRIPTION:Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The first edition was published on January 10\, 1776\, with an initial print run of just 1\,000 copies\; but within weeks demand soared. The students of Andy Murphy’s POLISCI 495 course co-curated the exhibition “Revolutionary Paine” to document the whirlwind caused by its publication. On view at the Clements January 16-May 8\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:143999-21894447@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Americana,Exhibit,Exhibition,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Reading Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:144519-21895450@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144519 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260216T114332 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:UK Scholarships: Virtual Info Session DESCRIPTION:ONSF supports several UK scholarships and fellowships that pay for 2-4 years of fully-funded graduate study and are recognized as some of the most prestigious awards an undergraduate or recent alum can receive. If you're interested in applying or have questions\, please join this information session! It will go over the basics of applying\, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions after. Some of the scholarships covered during this session include the Rhodes Scholarship\, the Marshall Scholarship\, and the Churchill Scholarship. UID:145536-21897485@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145536 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fellowships,Fellowships & Grants,Onsf,Scholarship,Scholarships,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260401T160240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research institution. A century later\, it was an abandoned building with an uncertain future. From cornerstone to keystone\, from the first director to the people who saved it from destruction\, explore the life of a historic observatory 170 years in the making.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is being developed by student docents at the Detroit Observatory. Presented by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, part of the Bentley Historical Library.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is now on display at the Detroit Observatory (1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109). View the exhibit during the Observatory's open hours:\nThursdays\, 12-5 pm\nFridays\, 12-5 pm UID:138950-21884306@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138950 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Museum,museums,Science,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T181718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T124500 SUMMARY:Performance:Division Street Pipes DESCRIPTION:Join us for a 30-minute organ recital performed by Oliver Steissberg\, master's degree student in sacred music.\n\nDivision Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public\, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening. \n\nThe series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. The Winter 2026 concert series begins on January 15 and it will continue weekly through April 16 (with the exception of April 2). UID:143787-21894012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143787 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T152411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T134500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Outlook for Consumers in Today's Economy DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hsu is director of the monthly Surveys of Consumers\, tracking leading economic indicators including consumer sentiment and expectations. Her research is primarily in the fields of household finance\, labor economics\, public economics\, and survey methods\, with a current focus on financial sophistication and cognition\, and consumer experiences with debt. She is an appointed member of the American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics (AEAStat) and associate chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (AEA CSWEP). She also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Academic Advisory Council. Previously\, she served as a Principal Economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors\, where her policy portfolio included the Survey of Consumer of Finances and the consumption forecast\, as well as a visiting professor at the Department of Economics\, Howard University. She completed her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan and her AB in economics and international relations at Brown University. UID:142334-21890536@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Retirees LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T122106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ACUM Presents: Advocacy Belonging and Community in 2026 DESCRIPTION:Please join the ABCA Committee in-person or virtually to discuss global\, national\, and local matters currently impacting advisors and students. Snacks will be provided for the in-person participants!The Advising Council at the University of Michigan\, or ACUM\, brings together those who advise to best serve our students through the sharing of information\, ideas\, and best practices across U-M. We welcome your involvement in our committees and future events.R2: Create rapport and build academic advising relationships UID:145252-21896928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Weiser Room 255 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T121635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:144520-21895451@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144520 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T132523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Bounding HSL Numbers: A Measure of the Nilpotency of Frobenius DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This thesis provides upper bounds for a certain singularity invariant\, in the case where the underlying ring is in one of a few well-known classes of rings. The Hartshorne-Speiser-Lyubeznik number or HSL number of a Noetherian local (or graded) ring is a measure of the nilpotency of Frobenius on local cohomology with support at the (homogeneous) maximal ideal. It is known that the HSL number of such a ring is finite\, but it is not known in general how to compute the HSL number for any given ring. In this thesis we present computable upper bounds for the HSL numbers of semigroup rings\, toric face rings\, and quotients of polynomial rings by monomial ideals\, and compute the exact HSL number of monomial hypersurfaces. We also relate the HSL number of a ring to the HSL number of its reduction\, provide Macaulay2 code to compute HSL numbers of quotients of polynomial rings\, and discuss the application of our results to bounding Frobenius test exponents. UID:145996-21898240@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145996 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:Angell Hall - Auditorium B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260212T131626 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Classroom Activities for Engaging with Politics\, Policy\, & Social Issues DESCRIPTION:Across the disciplines\, we can help our students to build skills for civic and democratic engagement that will serve them throughout their careers and lives. This role can be challenging\, however\, particularly in politically polarized times. Our goal for this in-person\, interactive workshop is to strengthen instructors’ toolkits for incorporating civic skills-building in the classroom and discipline. We’ll explore specific classroom activities for class sessions discussing policy\, politics\, and social issues\, such as deliberative dialogue discussions and conversation cafes. We’ll focus on how to select and design activities well-suited for the specific skills we are seeking to foster during a class period. \n\nOpen to faculty\, staff\, admin\, GSIs\, and post-docs. \nThis session is offered as part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series\, co-sponsored by CRLT and Ginsberg Center.\n\nRegistration: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/105958 UID:144742-21895800@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Learning Week 26,Community Engagement,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Politics,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Social Impact,Staff LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T132432 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE 899: Sjaan Koppel DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines older driver safety through a behavioural science lens\, challenging the assumption that chronological age alone defines driving risk. Drawing on longitudinal\, naturalistic driving evidence\, it highlights the roles of functional capacity\, task demands\, and self-regulation in shaping real-world driving behaviour. The findings have important implications for assessment\, licensing policy\, and supporting safe mobility in an ageing population. UID:144572-21895502@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144572 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:899 Seminar Series,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T152427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Leveraging the Power of Diversity to Improve Academia and Society DESCRIPTION:Dr. Page’s research focuses on the function of diversity in complex social systems\, the potential for collective intelligence\, and the design of institutions for meeting the challenges of a complex world. In 2025\, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2011 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of more than one hundred research papers in a variety of fields including: game theory\, economics\, political theory\, formal political science\, sociology\, psychology\, philosophy\, physics\, public health\, geography\, computer science\, and management. His fifth book\, The Model Thinker\, was published by Basic Books in November 2018\, and has been an Amazon Best Seller in more than ten categories and is being translated into five languages. His first book\, The Difference\, was recently released as a Princeton Classic. His UMRA presentation will focus on the complex challenges we face as a nation and globally and how meeting those challenges requires collective intelligence. He will describe how collective intelligence depends upon diversity\, selection\, and adaptive interactions. UID:142335-21890537@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142335 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260111T114049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Culture\, History and Politics (CHiP) DESCRIPTION:- January 15: Cho Han\n- January 22: Marni Morse\n- January 29: Jiyeon Lee\n- February 5: Tess Hamilton\n- February 12: Álvaro Cabrera\n- February 19: Jarron Long\n- February 26: Xianni Zhang\n- March 12: Sarah Farr and Christian Castro-Martinez\n- March 19: Danyelle Reynolds\n- March 26: Vanessa Jiménez-Read\n- April 2: Abigail Skalka and Julieta Goldenberg\n- April 9: Eric Freeburg\n- April 16: TBD UID:143661-21893607@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143661 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Student LOCATION:LSA Building - 4147 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T103427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Real Analysis Reading Group DESCRIPTION:The Student Real Analysis Reading Group facilitated by Siwei Wang will meet every Thursday from 2:30–4:30 PM in East Hall 5822 from Thursday\, January 15 - April 16\, 2026. UID:143702-21893679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143702 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 5822 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260219T101007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Engineering immunotherapies for autoimmunity and cancer\n\nAbstract:\nEffective delivery of drugs to direct immune responses requires an understanding of biological barriers\, physicochemical properties of drug molecules\, formulation and transport in vivo. Designing molecular structures that persist at the administration site or that promote drainage to regional lymphatic networks may enhance immune responses while sparing immune-related adverse events. Here\, drug transport and local elimination mechanisms will be overviewed. Then\, examples of molecular designs to direct drug delivery will be presented. Autoimmune therapies were designed by our lab to promote the drainage of autoantigens to secondary lymphoid organs to treat autoimmune diseases. Specifically\, the size and solubility of these molecular constructs were tuned to promote access to the lymphatic compartment and induce immune tolerance in mouse models of type 1 diabetes. Our lab has also recently explored the design of immunostimulants that persist in tumor tissue after intratumoral/perilesional injection. Intratumoral immunotherapy is proposed to work synergistically with checkpoint inhibitors making a nonresponsive ‘cold’ tumor ‘hot’ by recruiting and activating tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. This approach can suffer from systemic immune-related adverse reactions\, however\, if enough immunostimulant escapes the site of administration. Data on the use of electrostatic mechanisms to promote tumor retention will be presented. These examples underscore the need for rational design of drug molecules or formulations based upon the route of delivery and biological barriers encountered. \n\nBio:\nCory Berkland is the Mark and Becky Levin Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at Washington University in Saint Louis. Previously\, he was the Solon E. Summerfield Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Kansas. He received MS and PhD degrees from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University in Ames. His lab studies pharmaceuticals and materials with an emphasis on molecular design and transport in the human body. He is a co-founder of Orbis Biosciences (acquired by Adare Pharmaceuticals)\, Savara Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SVRA)\, Bond Biosciences\, Kinimmune\, Axioforce\, and other start-ups. He has served as a board member\, executive\, and fundraiser for these companies. UID:145728-21897738@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145728 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Bioninterfaces,Biosciences,Biotechnology,bme,engineer,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,seminar LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260113T140003 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Mad Hatter Tea DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 12\, 2026\, from 3:00-5:00pm in the Hopwood Room (1176 AH) for the third annual celebration of the world's most famous literary tea party. Compete for prizes in an Alice in Wonderland costume contest and trivia quiz or simply enjoy tea\, coffee\, and confections in good company. UID:143844-21894117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143844 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Books,celebration,Children's Literature,Department Of English Language And Literature,fiction,Games,Graduate Students,Hopwood Program,literary arts,Undergraduate Students,World Literature LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250805T113918 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea DESCRIPTION:Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and refreshments in a beautiful\, book-filled space. Check out a book from the Hopwood library or engage with other readers and writers. All are welcome. UID:136054-21877792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136054 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Books,Creative Writing,English Language And Literature,Food,Free,Graduate Students,Hopwood Program,Literary Arts,Literature,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1176 (Hopwood Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T144746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Paying for Law School: Financial Aid in the Wake of Federal Loan Changes DESCRIPTION:Considering law school\, but need a master financial plan? Wondering how the recent changes to Federal Loan caps may impact the costs of your legal education? Join Sophia Sim\, George Washington Law’s Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid\, for a discussion about how to finance your legal education with a focus on minimizing your debt. Students of all levels are encouraged to attend. \n\nAttendees will be entered into a raffle to win a 7 Sage LSAT prep course! UID:145328-21897083@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145328 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Advising,Law,Newnan Academic Advising,Newnan Lsa Academic Advising Center,Newnan Lsa Pre-law,Pre Law LOCATION:Angell Hall - G-243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T142052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Paying for Law School: Financial Aid in the Wake of Federal Loan Changes DESCRIPTION:Considering law school\, but need a master financial plan? Wondering how the recent changes to Federal Loan caps may impact the costs of your legal education? Join Sophia Sim\, George Washington Law’s Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid\, for a discussion about how to finance your legal education with a focus on minimizing your debt. Students of all levels are encouraged to attend.Attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a 7 Sage LSAT prep course! UID:145338-21897136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145338 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Angell Hall G-243 (LSA Newnan Academic Advising Center downstairs conference room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T160621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PPE Lecture Series: Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College\, Columbia University) DESCRIPTION:Title:\n\"The Interpretation of Signals\"\n\nAbstract: \nWe live in a sea of signals. Words and phrases\, emoticons and emojis\, pronouns in bios\, tattoos and piercings\, skin color and eye shape\, flags and insignia\, diplomas and certificates\, standardized test scores\, and prices in markets — these are all carriers of information demanding attention and interpretation. We attach meanings to these messages\, and they shape our actions in ways large and small. This lecture is motivated by the conviction that something useful can be said about economic and social life if one examines signals — despite their bewildering variety and complexity — from a unified perspective\, with a focus on statistical inference and strategic incentives.\n\nRajiv Sethi is a Professor of Economics at Barnard College\, Columbia University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a 2025-26 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Rajiv was a 2020-21 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute\, and a 2008-09 Richard B. Fisher Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Professor Sethi has served on the editorial boards of several journals\, including the American Economic Review\, and is a founding associate editor of Collective Intelligence.\n\n His current research deals with information and beliefs.\n\nIn collaboration with Brendan O’Flaherty\, he has examined the manner in which stereotypes affect interactions among strangers\, especially in relation to crime and the criminal justice system. These include interactions between victims and offenders\, officers and suspects\, prosecutors and witnesses\, and judges and defendants. Their book\, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes\, Crime\, and the Pursuit of Justice was published by Harvard University Press in 2019.\n\nWith Muhamet Yildiz\, he has explored communication among individuals who consider each other to have valuable information\, but also believe that others are biased to different degrees in the manner in which they process information. In deciding where to seek information\, therefore\, people face a trade-off between sources that are well-informed (in the sense of having precise information about the world) and those that are well-understood (in the sense of having transparent biases). In previous work they have examined public disagreement and private information flows\, and in current work are exploring the implications of correlated biases within social groups.\n\nRajiv is a contributor to CORE (Curriculum Open-Access Resources for Economics)\, an initiative aimed at the production of high-quality resources for the teaching of economics\, distributed free of charge worldwide under a Creative Commons license. UID:138635-21883526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Philosophy,Politics,Ppe LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T094828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Sequential Decision Making with Offline Data and under Partial Observability DESCRIPTION:What Makes Partially Observable Decision Making Tractable?\n\nAbstract: \nReal-world sequential decision-making problems - such as those in healthcare\, recommendation\, and language model alignment - are complicated by latent variables that influence the data but are never directly observed. The most general framework for such settings\, the partially observable MDP\, is statistically intractable. What structure makes learning tractable despite the latent variables?\n\nThis work identifies a common structural pattern across four distinct settings: the latent variable's influence is confined to one part of the data-generating process\, and within that part it acts through a low-dimensional or low-complexity channel. We study this pattern in mixtures of MDPs\, confounded offline policy evaluation\, RLHF with partially observed reward states\, and linear latent contextual bandits. In each case\, we establish impossibility results showing what fails without the right assumptions\, then develop algorithms that exploit the structure through spectral subspace recovery\, decoupled estimation\, and optimism calibrated to the latent channel's complexity. The resulting regret bounds\, sample complexity bounds\, and structural characterizations scale with the dimension of the latent channel rather than the ambient problem\, and are matched by minimax lower bounds in key settings. We validate our methods on both synthetic and real-world data. UID:146014-21898272@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:School of Education - 2328 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T085718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Igniting Microrobotics: Combustion-Driven Actuation at Small Scales DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThe field of microrobotics is experiencing a “Cambrian Explosion” before our very eyes. Applications for these diminutive devices span several disciplines\, including healthcare\, environmental monitoring\, exploration\, and industrial inspection. However\, scaling laws fundamentally constrain the design of microrobotic systems\, particularly in how they store energy\, deliver power\, and perform mechanical work. As robots shrink\, conventional actuators struggle to generate meaningful forces. The limited energy density of microbatteries leaves many platforms tethered to external energy sources.\n\nIn this talk\, I will present a new class of combustion-driven microactuators that leverage the high energy density of chemical fuels to produce rapid\, high-power mechanical motion at millimeter scales. I will show how these actuators enable microrobots that jump far beyond their body length (2 orders of magnitude)\, perform aerial maneuvers\, traverse challenging terrain\, and drive mechanical transmissions that convert linear actuation into rotary motion. Together\, these results point toward a new class of highly energetic\, untethered microrobotic systems capable of operating where conventional actuation and power technologies fail.\n\nBiography:\nCameron Aubin is an Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Michigan\, where he leads the Zoetic Robotics Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University (2014) and his M.S (2020) and Ph.D. (2023) in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. His interdisciplinary team develops energy-material systems that blur the line between power\, structure\, actuation\, and control\, enabling more enduring\, adaptable\, and autonomous machines. Dr. Aubin’s research interests include soft and biologically inspired robots\, microrobots\, chemical and combustion-powered systems\, batteries\, and advanced materials and manufacturing. His work has been published in several reputable journals\, including Nature and Science\, and has been featured in popular media outlets\, including CNN\, PBS\, BBC\, Wired\, and Veritasium. Recent honors include a Best Paper Award in Benchmarking and Reproducibility and a Best Student Paper Finalist Award (as PI) at IEEE RoboSoft 2025. UID:145465-21897380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145465 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 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T152056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:InSPIRE DESCRIPTION:STPP Alumni Chat with Tyler Hoard - Register Here!Date and Time: Mar 12\, 2026\, 3:30-4:30 pm EDTLocation: Weill Hall\, Room 3240The Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program is excited to welcome STPP Alumnus and Associate Physical Scientist at the RAND Corporation\, Tyler Hoard (PhD/STPP '24)\, for afternoon snacks and conversation. Tyler will share his academic path and current work experience\, where he delivers high-impact policy research and analysis across national security\, biosecurity\, space policy\, and emerging technology portfolios within multiple research divisions and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).Speaker Bio:Tyler Hoard is an associate physical scientist at the RAND Corporation with interests spanning biosecurity\, space policy\, and emerging technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of Michigan\, where he also earned a graduate certificate in Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy. At RAND\, his research portfolio includes projects on biotechnology\, AI\, synthetic biology\, food security\, and the commercial space industry. UID:145971-21898195@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145971 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Weill Hall, Room 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T154141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:Joseph’s Title: Tracing Black Hole Winds Across Cosmic Time with Broad Absorption Line Quasars\n\nAbstract: Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can launch powerful winds that inject large amounts of energy and mass into their host galaxies\, potentially regulating galaxy evolution. One of the clearest observational signatures of these winds appears in broad absorption line (BAL) quasars\, whose spectra show deep\, blueshifted absorption features tracing gas traveling at tens of thousands of kilometers per second. Despite decades of study\, the physical properties of BAL winds have remained poorly understood due to the complexity of their spectra. In this talk\, I will present an overview of my research using BAL quasars to map the physical properties of SMBH winds\, enabled by SimBAL\, a spectral synthesis software that made possible the first systematic analysis of BAL quasar spectra and provided robust constraints on outflow properties for large samples of quasars. I will also discuss new discoveries of high-redshift BAL quasars from surveys such as DESI and future studies with JWST and 4MOST that will expand our understanding of SMBH outflows across cosmic time.\n\n\nCody’s Title: How Galactic Winds Influence Cosmic Ecosystems\n\nAbstract: A central insight of modern galaxy formation is that galaxies are not isolated systems\, but dynamic reservoirs of gas and stars that continuously exchange matter and energy with their surroundings. Galactic winds—driven by stellar and AGN feedback—can expel hundreds of solar masses of gas\, dust\, and metals to distances of tens of kiloparsecs\, reshaping the structure and thermodynamics of the circumgalactic and intergalactic media. These winds regulate star formation\, curb black hole growth\, and may play a critical role in enabling the escape of ionizing radiation that reionized the Universe during the Epoch of Reionization. In this talk\, I will discuss how the physical properties of galactic winds—including mass outflow rates—are inferred from spectral line diagnostics\, the current state of the art in radiative transfer modeling and interpretation\, and key systematic uncertainties that remain. I will then explore how winds influence the escape of ionizing photons by altering the multiphase structure of the interstellar medium. Finally\, I will outline future directions for this work and describe how next-generation facilities such as the Extremely Large Telescopes will transform absorption line studies of galactic winds. UID:146353-21898947@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146353 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260125T202636 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: The Mumford construction DESCRIPTION:Discuss the Mumford construction. UID:144457-21895383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144457 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T122938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A New World of Authoritarian Welfare? DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Dan Slater\, Director\, U-M Center for Emerging Democracies\n\nDemocracy and social welfare have long been seen as mutually reinforcing\, but the connection is anything but universal or automatic. With illiberal and autocratic leaders around the world offering more generous welfare policies to consolidate their power\, do we need to rethink the relationships between democracy\, authoritarianism\, and welfare? Experts on Europe\, Latin America\, the Middle East\, the former Soviet Union\, and Asia tackle this topic from different world-regions and multiple analytical perspectives.\n\n*Cosponsored by the Open Society Foundations and the Central European University (CEU) Democracy Institute*.\n\nAtten in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/8qVGq.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at emergingdemocracies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:144144-21894723@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144144 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Authoritarianism,democracy LOCATION:North Quad - Room 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T094937 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Differential Equations Seminar: Einstein-Perfect Fluid Initial Data in General Relativity DESCRIPTION:Fluids are a standard matter source for gravitation\, going back to the early days of general relativity. Nevertheless\, constructing initial data for this family of matter models is surprisingly nuanced. In this talk we describe a novel approach to building Einstein-fluid initial data based on a recently established phase-space technique for constructing non-vacuum initial data sets. Compared to prior approaches to working with fluids\, the input parameters allow for more direct specification of physical quantities\, such as the number of particles in any given region. UID:143107-21892132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Differential Equations Seminar - Department Of Mathematics,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Temperate forest resilience in a changing world: linking ecological mechanism to management solutions DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Climate change and invasion by nonnative plant species are changing the composition and function of temperate forest ecosystems. This talk will discuss how we can measure resiliency in temperate forests to these two interacting global change factors and how management of these systems might shape their future. UID:137388-21880194@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,ecosystem,Ecosystems,eeb,Environment,environmental,evolution,evolutionary biology,Workshop LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260205T145330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Once Were Warriors: Colonial Mimesis\, Martial Masculinity\, and Imperial Nostalgia in Amazigh Morocco DESCRIPTION:Amazigh cultural-political activism in North Africa is premised on a rhetoric of resistance for territorial autonomy against imperial invaders from the Roman empire through the Islamic conquest and the French protectorate to contemporary Arab nationalist regimes. Yet\, filtering through this dominant discourse are subaltern scripts that register nostalgia for particular pasts when\, even under colonial tutelage\, Amazigh groups felt recognized and effectively acted as self-determining agents of their own history making. In this paper\, I draw on my research in southeastern Morocco to explore how Amazigh activists narrate the colonial past and memorialize martial masculine resistance and collaboration within it.\n\nPaul A. Silverstein is professor of anthropology at Reed College. He is author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics\, Race\, Nation (Indiana\, 2004) and Postcolonial France: Race\, Islam\, and the Future of the Republic (Pluto\, 2018)\, and co-editor of Bourdieu in Algeria (Nebraska\, 2009)\, among other publications. He has done extensive ethnographic and archival research on Amazigh cultural politics in southeastern Morocco. His translation of Moha Layid’s The Sacrifice of Black Cows—a Moroccan novel set during the nationalist uprising against French colonialism— was recently published by the MLA. He chairs the MERIP Board of Directors.\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:142518-21891067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142518 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Global,History,Interdisciplinary,International,Multicultural LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T160050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Indigenous Studies Lecture Series with Gladys Tzul Tzul (Maya K’iché) DESCRIPTION:LECTURE\n March 12\, 4–5:30 PM\n Design and Transformation in Communal Politics\n \n WORKSHOP\n March 13\, 11:30 AM–1 PM\n The Design of a Celebratory World (conversation in Spanish)\n RSVP is required to attend. Reading materials will be emailed before the workshop. Register: https://myumi.ch/Pk4Jq\n\nGladys Tzul Tzul is a writer and essayist from the Paquí community of Totonicapán\, Guatemala. With a PhD in Sociology\, she is currently a visiting professor at FLACSO Ecuador. She is the author of two books\, *Gobierno comunal indígena y estado guatemalteco: Algunas claves para comprender su tensa relación* and *Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimeq'ena*\, as well as several articles translated into English\, French\, and German. In recognition of her work\, she received the 2018 Voltaire Prize from the University of Potsdam\, Germany. The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) also awarded her first place in 2017 for social science research in Central America. Her advocacy work includes serving as an expert witness in the investigation of Berta Cáceres's assassination in Honduras and coordinating the inquiry into the October 4 Massacre\, when the Guatemalan army violently suppressed an uprising of the 48 Indigenous communities of Totonicapán.\n\nCo-Sponsors for this event include the Program in Native American Studies\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the International Institute. UID:146356-21898950@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146356 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Center For Latin American And Caribbean Studies,Central America,Latin America,Lecture,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4th Floor Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260330T172619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T171500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LSA Transfer Information Session DESCRIPTION:Join the LSA Transfer Recruitment Team for our virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements\, transfer credit\, pre-transfer academic advising\, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits.\n\nRegistration is required. Register using link to the right UID:141040-21891678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141040 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T005019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RTG NT: Rational multiplicative cocycles and p-adic theta functions DESCRIPTION:2.1-2.2 of Darmon-Vonk UID:145486-21897401@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145486 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Number Theory LOCATION:East Hall - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260212T151005 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T171500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Steering spin–valley polarizations through phonons and photons DESCRIPTION:Control of spin and valley polarizations opens opportunities for spintronic and quantum information applications. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer an appealing platform to harness such polarizations. TMDs host excitons in valley-shaped regions of their band structure\, featuring well-defined carrier spins and obeying chiral optical selection rules. However\, the technological potential of excitons in TMDs is impeded by rapid spin–valley relaxation.\n\nI will present our theoretical/computational efforts to address and enhance spin–valley polarizations in TMDs through strong coupling to photons. Recognizing that chiral light is a manifestation of photonic spin\, I will show such strong coupling to allow for efficient spin transduction through the formation of \"chiral polaritons\". I will furthermore show how a breaking of chiral symmetry in optical cavities allows valley–spin relaxation to be suppressed in embedded TMDs.\n\nI will also discuss our efforts to unravel how spin–valley relaxation in TMDs is driven by lattice phonons. Towards this goal\, my group has advanced nonadiabatic methodologies that allow delocalized phonon modes and topological effects to be incorporated within a mixed quantum–classical framework. Results for TMDs indicate this approach to enable the modeling of solid-state phonon-driven processes at realistic dimensionalities. UID:138400-21882903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138400 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Physical Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260209T110237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Katz-Newcomb Interview & Reception | Permission to Flourish: Well-Being for High Performers DESCRIPTION:Beginning at 4:30pm\, join us for a reception with light food and soft drinks. Afterwards\, beginning at 5:45pm\, Michigan Medicine Chief Well-Being Officer Elizabeth Harry\, M.D. will hold a special fireside chat with Shigehiro Oishi\, Ph.D. of the University of Chicago. This conversation will focus on what it takes for high performing professionals to flourish in terms of well-being both personally and professionally. This conversation will be recorded and shared later as a podcast. UID:145143-21896718@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Departmental LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T162055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Campus of the Future Student Idea Showcase DESCRIPTION:The Campus of the Future Student Idea Showcase will offer opportunities for students and student-teams to explore questions and provide insight into the student experience within the Campus of the Future framework\, culminating in presenting to University leadership -- including President Grasso & Provost McCauley -- at a COTF Showcase at the end of Winter 2026. The Showcase will highlight a student-led vision for a campus of the future. All finalists selected to present will receive a monetary award for each team member.  Learn more at https://futureoflearning.umich.edu/programs/campus-of-the-future-/ UID:143214-21893550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143214 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:UMSI Central, 777 N. University Avenue (Above Panera) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T123850 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T183000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:The Price of Milk Documentary Screening DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of episode 4 of the documentary series \"The Price of Milk: The Kids Are Not Alright\,\" (https://www.priceofmilk.com/) followed by a panel discussion with Oatly Global VP of Sustainability Erin Augustine and Food Studies scholar Margot Finn. \n\n\"The Price of Milk\" begins with an exploration of the “Got Milk?” advertising campaign that launched in the 1990s and moves outward to explore dairy as agriculture and as industry\, government initiatives like the Dairy Checkoff program\, changing American food preferences\, and growing concerns about pollution and climate change.\n\nA pop-up exhibit will be on display throughout the event\, featuring historical dairy advertisements from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive.\n\nBrought to you by the library's Special Collections Research Center and the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative. UID:145371-21897201@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145371 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Sustainability LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T121839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:Presented by Professor Edward Watts\, the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of History at UC San Diego\, received his BA in Classics from Brown University in 1997 and his PhD in History from Yale University in 2002. His research centers on the intellectual\, political\, and religious history of the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. He is the author of seven books and the editor of five more\, including The Final Pagan Generation (UC Press\, 2015)\, Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher\, (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny (Basic Books\, 2018)\, and The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press\, 2021). His most recent book\, The Romans: A 2000 Year History (Basic Books\, 2025)\, traces the history of the Roman state from the 8th century BC through 1204 AD. His work has also been featured in Time\, Vox\, Smithsonian\, the Economist\, the Wall Street Journal\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, British Museum Magazine\, and the New York Times. Before coming to UCSD in 2012\, Professor Watts taught for ten years at Indiana University. He teaches courses on Byzantine History\, Roman History\, Late Antique Christianity\, Roman numismatics\, and the history of the Medieval Mediterranean. \n\nThe Roman citizen body lived an almost inconceivably long life. Between the 8th century BC and the 15thcentury AD\, nearly 100 generations of Romans superintended a political legacy they had inherited from their ancestors and handed down to their children. Nearly every element of Roman life changed during those two millennia. The state expanded from a hilltop settlement into a massive empire. Its center moved from Italy to Constantinople. Its dominant language changed from Latin to Greek. Its weaponry evolved from iron swords and bronze spears to Greek fire and gunpowder. It incorporated countless new gods before ultimately becoming Christian. And yet the thread linking the Roman present to its past never snapped. For all of their history\, Romans used this past to help understand their world and determine the contours of its future. Tradition served as a governor on the pace of necessary change.\n\nThis Thomas Spencer Jerome lecture series introduces the idea of Roman interchronological history to explain how Romans found and maintained this balance between innovation and tradition. Interchronological history recognizes that Roman scholastic\, social\, familial\, and religious traditions created situations in which Romans in the present spoke the words and felt the feelings of figures from the real or imagined past. These ancient situations encouraged people to connect personally and emotionally with figures from the past and made it natural to see in the past a set of frameworks that allowed one to both understand the present and imagine possible futures that might result from it. \n\nThese lectures explain how Roman educational\, family\, religious\, and literary culture produced this way of interpreting the present and imagining the future through deep engagement with the past. They will then show how an interchronological approach to Roman history expands our understanding of everything from the political power of Roman women to the nature of Iconoclasm and the surprising durability of the Roman bond market. By their conclusion\, the lectures will point to new ways to answer questions about the Roman past and suggest non-Roman contexts in which this historical method can also be applied.\n \nProfessor Watts will present four lectures and one seminar between March 9 and 19\, 2026: \n\n• What is Interchronological Roman History? Monday\, March 9\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League\nThis lecture reconstructs an interchronological historical method based on how Romans were educated and socialized to connect with the words\, experiences\, and feelings of people in their shared past in a fashion that ensured their reactions in the moment and plans for the future remained connected to the traditions of the past.\n\n• Interchronological History and the Political Power of Roman Women\, Thursday\, March 12\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League\nUsing an interchronological approach\, this lecture shows how literature\, public commemorations\, and monuments encouraged Romans of both genders to recognize the political power of Roman women by speaking the words of female political exemplars\, feeling their emotions\, and understanding the circumstances surrounding their political interventions. \n\n• Classical Studies Graduate Student Seminar: Containerization and the Creation of Interchronological Spaces in Imperial Rome\, Friday\, March 13\, 12:00 pm \nThis seminar will look at how the creators and sponsors of a series of monuments in Rome curated space to generate an experience that joined the present in which the monument was unveiled with elements of the past to define a transition to a promised future. Using the theory of artistic containerization\, we will see how each space was designed to showcase elements of the Roman past in a way that channeled specific themes important to both the present identity of the monument’s sponsor and a future they were promising to deliver.\n\n• An Interchronological Approach to Roman Religion and Political History Monday\, March 16\, 5\;30 pm\, Vandenberg Room\, Michigan League\nThis lecture explains how an interchronological history of Roman religion and politics can help us understand why this basic understanding of the role of the divine in shaping the tangible realities of Roman life persisted as Roman religion evolved from the practices of a small pagan city state into those of a large Christian empire.\n\n• The Failures of Justin II and the Case for Interchronological Roman Macroeconomic History\, Thursday\, March 19\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League \nThis uses an interchronological comparative framework to reconstruct the institutional history of Roman finance and macroeconomics in order to explain how the sixth century emperor Justin II inadvertently crippled Rome's nearly 800-year-old financial system. UID:145427-21897337@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145427 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Rome,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Free,History,Interdisciplinary,Lecture LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T111629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Business+Tech's 2026 AI Workshops with PwC Partner Preet Takkar DESCRIPTION:Learning AI isn’t optional\, it’s essential. Business+Tech’s facilitators started from scratch using ingenuity and determination to master AI. If they can\, then so can you. \n\nThree independent workshops. Attend one\, attend two\, or attend them all.\n________________________________________________\nWorkshop Title and Description:\n\nMaking Agentic AI Operational\, Scalable and Differentiating\nAI is rapidly shifting from experimentation to execution across sales\, finance\, product\, customer support and corporate functions. In this workshop\, we’ll examine how leading organizations are operationalizing AI within real workflows- from analysis\, decision support\, and execution- to drive measurable impact. I’ll share practical frameworks and real world examples from enterprise transformation work at PwC\, along with what this means for early-career professionals entering these environments. The goal is to help students understand not just how to use AI tools\, but how to think about AI as a capability that drives competitive advantage.\n\nGrab a friend and register by March 12th. \n\n**Visit our registration page to learn about the other two workshops. UID:145870-21897973@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Business,Graduate Students,technology,Transfer Students,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260217T130237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Floating Through Midterms at Couzens DESCRIPTION:Take a study break with the Couzens Diversity Peer Educator and Multicultural Lounge Community Assistants\, and enjoy an ice cream float! UID:145628-21897606@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145628 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free Food,housing,Social LOCATION:Couzens Hall - CAMEO Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T181518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Shaka Senghor DESCRIPTION:\n\nShaka Senghor is an inspirational speaker\, entrepreneur\, and author of the bestselling books How To Be Free\, Writing My Wrongs\, and Letters to the Sons of Society. A sought-after resilience expert and recognized \"Soul Igniter\" in Oprah’s inaugural SuperSoul 100\, Senghor captivates and transforms audiences worldwide with his extraordinary journey from incarceration to influence. Through raw authenticity and profound insight\, he shares not only his story but also the resilience practices that fueled his own remarkable transformation\, showing that reinvention is not just possible—it is within everyone’s reach.\n\nIn How To Be Free\, Senghor offers a roadmap for breaking free from the self-doubt\, past narratives\, and fear of failure he calls \"Hidden Prisons.\" Drawing from lessons he learned during his 19 years in prison—including seven in solitary—he reveals the mindset and daily practices that transformed his life and can help anyone build their own foundation of freedom. Through journaling\, meditation\, mindfulness\, and creative expression\, he shows how to turn vision into action and step into full potential\, from deepening relationships to achieving career success.\n\nListening to How To Be Free\, audiences learn to transform setbacks into comebacks\, discover sustainable joy\, cultivate composure under pressure\, turn vulnerability into strength\, break cycles of grief and shame\, protect their energy while supporting others\, and create a personal blueprint to true freedom. Senghor provides both inspiration and practical steps\, making real change feel possible\, proving that freedom starts now.\n\nWith support from the Prison Creative Arts Project. \n\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:142732-21891310@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142732 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260202T012801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Poster Design Workshop DESCRIPTION:Learn how to design a scientific poster with the Undergraduate Research Symposium! UID:144898-21896114@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144898 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Conference,Design,Poster,Research,Research Symposium,Symposium,Undergraduate,Workshop,Writing LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T110726 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading and Q&A with Craig Santos Perez DESCRIPTION:Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public. Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nDr. Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru from Guam. He is the co-editor of nine anthologies and the author of seven books of poetry and the academic monograph\, *Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity\, Aesthetics\, and Decolonization.* He has received the National Book Award for Poetry\, American Book Award\, Pen Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary Prize\, Hawaiʻi Literary Arts Council Award\, Nautilus Book Award\, and the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from the Associated Writing Programs.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:146125-21898422@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,book discussion,book event,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Free,Graduate,Lecture,literary,Literary Arts,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Rackham,Talk,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T090442 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CAS 2026 Annual Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Distinguished Lecture. Threading the Tapestry for a Future Armenia DESCRIPTION:For the 2026 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Distinguished Lecture\, artist Levon Kafafian\, with visual culture scholar Marie-Aude Baronian will host a salon-style discussion on the foci and output of Kafafian’s practice through the metaphor of weaving as world-building. The conversation will revolve around the central place of textiles in Kafafian’s work and the possibilities inherent in communicating through textile media. Threads of discussion will examine how they navigate Armenian-ness through materiality and what emerges when invoking Armenian material culture traditions and iconographies into a distinctly darorinagvadz (queered) artistic production. Threading the Tapestry for a Future Armenia reflects upon the possibility of making an Armenian future through creative practice.\n \n Webinar ID\n 981 9783 9327\n https://umich.zoom.us/j/98197839327\n\nCosponsors: National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)\, Institute for the Humanities\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- armenianstudies@umich.edu UID:143415-21893108@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143415 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Armenian Studies,Discussion,Lecture,Visual Arts LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T120203 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Challenge your thinking and explore truth at this week’s big question—plus pizza—this Thursday. DESCRIPTION: \nHi Friends\,\nWe’d love for you to join us for the next Ratio Christi meeting on Thursday\, March 12th\, from 6:00–7:00 PM!\nOur current series\, Challenge Your Thinking and Explore Truth\, features this week’s big question:: \"Does the God of the Bible in the Old Testament command genocide\, making Him appear unjust or evil?\"\nWe’ll be meeting at the Study Center (611 1/2 E. William St.\, Ann Arbor). It’s a safe and welcoming space to explore questions of religion and faith\, where all perspectives are valued in building thoughtful conversation.\nEveryone is welcome—plus\, there will be pizza while it lasts! 🍕\nIf you are interested in learning more about us\, you can join the Ratio Christi Maize page for updates and discussions: Ratio Christi Maize page. We're also active on Instagram: Ratio Christi Instagram page\nWe are excited to see you all soon and please feel free to reach out with any questions!\n\nSincerely\,\nRatio Christi Team 😊\n UID:145928-21898107@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:MCSC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260217T125018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Craft Night at Helen Newberry DESCRIPTION:Join the Newberry Diversity Peer Educator and Multicultural Lounge Community Assistants for a craft night! Create pipe cleaner flowers and make handwritten letters for you or someone you are thankful for! UID:145624-21897603@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145624 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Crafts,housing,Social LOCATION:Newberry Residence - Audre Lorde Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T120031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Crafting Meeting: Climate Quilting DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join us every Thursday from 6:00-7:00p for our crafting meeting! This semester we will be focusing on the Climate Change Quilt Project\, where we will be working as a club to make quilts to contribute to the larger movement that you can learn more about at climatechangequilt.com! All skills are welcome\, and even if you have never quilted before or are an expert\, there is a way that you can contribute and strengthen your quilitng skills! If you have more questions\, please DM us on Instagram or email vipsclub-admin@umich.edu \nTime: 6:00-7:00 pm\nLocation: North Campus Duderstadt Design Lab 1\nNonprofit Website: vipsfund.org\nInstagram: @vipsfund\nClimate Quilt Project Website: https://climatechangequilt.com/about\nLearn more about the Climate Quilt Project here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G_4l70H80wGlS1SZ-_H82wm_ArathcOH/view?usp=sharing UID:143045-21891978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143045 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Design Lab 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260302T164656 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8\n\nAttend a workshop to decorate the dragon body with garlands and glitter\, bells and bottlecaps\, sequins and sparkle! Events will be held on March 12\, 17\, 19 from 6 - 9 PM at the Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center).\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cstep@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:146100-21898388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146100 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,ArtsEngine,Asia,china,Chinese Studies,Community LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center), Ann Arbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T172102 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dinners with CSG DESCRIPTION:Join the Central Student Government for Dinner on March 12th from 6 PM to 7 PM in the North-East Room of Pierpont Commons as we discuss ways to bridge the divide between North and Central Campuses. Students will enjoy dinner provided by CSG and discuss their experiences with both North and Central campuses with CSG leaders\, and discuss what works and what could be changed or improved upon to bridge the gap between the two. Students who are unable to attend but have ideas about how to bridge the gap between North and Central campuses are encouraged to submit questions to us via email (csgfrontoffice@umich.edu). Registration is required to attend. UID:145660-21897645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145660 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:North-East Room, Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T114040 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:SARA: Art Exhibit Opening with Speakers\, Food\, K'ampa\, and Music DESCRIPTION:The gallery exhibition\, created by Anto\, centers on SARA\, the Quechua word for corn\, exploring its cultural\, social\, and culinary significance in Andean Peruvian life. Rooted in tradition\, cosmovision\, and lived experience\, the work reflects on heritage\, identity\, and ancestral connection through a visual narrative that honors food as memory and community. The opening event at the third floor Rooting for Change Café at Palmer Commons\, will take place on Thursday\, March 12 at 6pm. It is presented in collaboration with the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program\, photographer Erick Diaz\, the Beta Upsilon Chapter of Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity\, and Arriba Perú. The event will feature corn-based dishes\, a video piece from the gallery\, live music\, art\, and a K'ampa corn husking activity\, creating an immersive experience that brings Andean Peruvian life and the broader life of the Andes into focus through food\, art\, and music\, inviting celebration\, reflection\, and learning together. UID:145933-21898140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145933 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,food,sustainability LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Windows Lounge (3rd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260129T131209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Of Pardons and Presidents: Biography of Benton L. Becker Legal Counsel to the President DESCRIPTION:Highlighted by his experiences in San Clemente\, California in September 1974 negotiating the pardon of President Nixon\, Benton L. Becker is remembered in this thorough and heartwarming biography by his son\, Dr. Brian C. Becker. Following historical records and personal accounts\, Of Pardons and Presidents examines the life of Benton Becker\, against the backdrop of the social and political history of Washington\, DC. UID:144250-21895024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144250 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Author Talk,History,Richard Nixon LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T093505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Tacos n' Trivia: Women in the Humanities DESCRIPTION:Which American author and philosopher wrote \"Woman in the Nineteenth Century\"? What prestigious prize did U-M History Professor Heather Ann Thompson win in 2017? Which Detroit native was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?\n\nCelebrate Women's History Month and join us for an evening of themed humanities trivia and delicious food! Come with a team of 4-5\, or join a team when you arrive. Space is limited and pre-registration is required for food ordering purposes. Prizes will be awarded to the winning team! UID:143976-21894360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Humanities,Sessions,Social And Cultural Event,Women History,Womens History Month LOCATION:Suite 1022, 202 S. Thayer Street CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T142152 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T213000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:AA&PI Heritage Month Opening Ceremony & Art Fair DESCRIPTION:Join us for our two-part AA&PI Heritage Month Opening hosted by TMC/MESA! We will start with the opening which includes a Keynote Speaker and dinner. This year's keynote is rapper and content creator Jason Chu\, a prominent voice in the national Asian American scene. His music has been heard in movies\, TV shows\, and video games including Valorant\, Warrior\, American Born Chinese\, Joy Ride\, and more. Registration is required for this portion of the event. The second part will be an Art Fair highlighting Student Art/Artists that center their work around AA&PI communities. UID:145827-21897858@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145827 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Aa&pi Heritage Month,Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month,Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Union, Rogel Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T181051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Vibrance Dance Annual Showcase DESCRIPTION:No description is provided. \nPlease visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/6312/6313 for more detail. UID:144591-21895531@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144591 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,Mutotix LOCATION:GA - Mendelssohn CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T120026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Virtual Transfer Student Panel DESCRIPTION:Join a panel of LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors to learn more about the transfer student experience. The Ambassadors will be chatting about the academic transition to U-M\, how to get involved on campus\, housing\, all the amazing programs and support for transfer students\, and any other questions that you have. Join us even if you don't have specific questions.\n\nPlease register with link at the right. After you register you will receive the Zoom login. UID:141224-21895089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141224 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:transfer,Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T180210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 SUMMARY:Other:WiDS Intro Meeting DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first WiDS meeting of the semester! \nWe'll be covering:\n- Introductions & community building\n- Fall 2026 board positions & the application process\n- Plans & events for the semester ahead\nCome ready to meet fellow data enthusiasts\, learn how to get more involved\, and help shape what WiDS looks like this year! UID:146436-21899085@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146436 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Online CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251217T181634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Symphony Band DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Symphony Band performance. UID:142872-21891752@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142872 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T181629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:[Cancelled] Caleb Frailey\, violin DESCRIPTION:This performance has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. UID:145544-21897507@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260209T181637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:BFA Directing First Year Showcase DESCRIPTION:The Freshman Directing Showcase is back! See what the first year directors and actors are up to!\nBack for the first time in three years\, this event is produced by first year performance majors from the Department of Theatre & Drama. \n\nEach member of the '29 BFA directing cohort will present a 10-15 minute performance piece (90 minutes total) featuring first year actors. This event will feature work directed by Khwahish Choudhary\, Noor Choudhury\, Kourtlyn Eaddy\, Elby Schader\, and Adèle Vincent. UID:145286-21897007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145286 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Newman Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251211T114319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Appalachian Roadshow DESCRIPTION:Ambassadors of Appalachian culture\n\nAppalachian Road Show is a visionary acoustic ensemble\, bringing new-generation interpretations of traditional Americana\, bluegrass and folk songs\, as well as offering innovative original music\, all presented with a common thread tied directly to the heart of the Appalachian regions of the United States. Grammy-nominated banjoist Barry Abernathy joins forces with Grammy-winning fiddler Jim VanCleve\, fresh off of his recent stint touring with multi-platinum country artist Josh Turner\, as well as esteemed vocalist and mandolinist Darrell Webb\, who has recorded and toured with Dolly Parton and Rhonda Vincent\, among many others. The group also includes 26-year-old “old soul” guitarist Zeb Snyder\, whose fierce and versatile playing recalls Doc Watson and Norman Blake as readily as it does Duane Allman and Stevie Ray Vaughn. UID:142465-21890984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142465 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260302T144330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T220000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Community Iftar at Mosher-Jordan DESCRIPTION:Join the Stockwell and Mosher-Jordan Diversity Peer Educators at their community Iftar to share a meal\, connect with others\, and enjoy an evening of community as they celebrate Ramadan! UID:146094-21898358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146094 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,community gathering,Free Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall - Cesar Chavez Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T192055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MADS Faculty Director AMA DESCRIPTION:Join MADS Faculty Director Christopher Brooks for an “Ask Me Anything” session all about the MADS program UID:146262-21898737@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146262 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T121637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Symphony Band DESCRIPTION:Song and dance takes center stage as the Symphony Band presents a whirlwind concert of diverse grooves. Jazz influences permeate several pieces of the program\, including Leonard Bernstein's famous *Prelude\, Fugue\, and Riffs* for jazz band\, piano and clarinet soloist. Originally written for Benny Goodman\, this performance features faculty members Daniel Gilbert and Ellen Rowe\, who has also arranged a special version of *My Funny Valentine* for this concert. The brilliant young American composer Jessie Montgomery will also be on hand for the consortium premiere of her *Coincident Dances*\, co-commissioned by the University of Michigan Symphony Band through the support of the H. Robert Reynolds Commissioning Fund. \n \nJason Fettig\, conductor\nKristina LaMarca\, student conductor\nEllen Rowe\, piano \nDaniel Gilbert\, clarinet \n\nPROGRAM\n*Solitary Dancer*\, Warren Benson \n*j'ai 'ete au Bal*\, Donald Grantham \n*My Funny Valentine*\, Rogers and Hart / arr. Ellen Rowe \n*Prelude\, Fugue\, and Riffs*\, Leonard Bernstein\n*Coincident Dances*\, Jessie Montgomery \n*Dance Suite* (1923)\, Béla Bartók/ trans. R. Mark Rogers UID:135448-21876840@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135448 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T142358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:'Redefining the Crown' Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:\"Artist’s statement: For centuries\, hair has been critical to how human beings understand racial categories\, gender designations\, and class status. For Black women in particular\, hair has and continues to be tied to ethnic identity and a history of self-determination\, social justice\, and survival. Thus\, chemotherapy-induced hair loss is a devastating event for Black patients who are also more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer subtypes necessitating chemotherapy\, carrying a 40% increased risk of dying from breast cancer.\n\nRedefining the ‘crown’: Approaching chemotherapy-induced alopecia among Black patients with breast cancer” started as a manuscript published in the scientific journal Cancer. But the work could not stop there. “Redefining the Crown” then metamorphosed into a photo essay project aimed at exploring the breast cancer journeys of six Black women and their experiences with hair loss due to chemotherapy. Though the project centers the experience of Black women\, we also acknowledge that breast cancer and chemotherapy-induced alopecia impact individuals of all genders. While the goal is to illuminate the unique stories of Black women who are affected uncommonly by this common disease\, the project is also a call to action regarding the disproportionate breast cancer-related mortality facing Black communities.\n\nIn this portraiture series\, photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks. This exhibition examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy and how their sense of cultural pride and personal identity have been redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThese survivors have redefined their own crowns. More profound than the new hairstyles they don after hair loss are the invisible crowns that they choose to wear each day: gratitude\, faith\, and resilience. What do their words mean to you? Do they empower you to act?\n\nArtist’s name: Versha Pleasant\nWork Title: Image 2\nDate of creation: September 2024\nArtist’s statement: Photo by Tafari Stevenson-Howard\" UID:146980-21900135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Michigan Union - 1st Floor - Opera Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T120209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145014-21896395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T120239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145015-21896452@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T120305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145016-21896516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T143409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T235900 SUMMARY:Other:Civic Learning Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:U-M’s inaugural Civic Learning Week highlights the many ways campus partners support the development of the civic knowledge\, skills and attitudes we all need to be fully engaged members of our communities\, on and off campus.\n\nWhy Civic Learning Matters: \nCommunities thrive when people participate\, from local and state governance to interactions with friends or family. Democracy thrives when people have the opportunity to have both careers and lives of purpose. Civic learning strengthens student readiness\, supports positive community impact\, and aligns with U-M’s institutional priorities around Democracy & Civic Empowerment.\n\nCo-sponsored by Student Life and Democracy & Civic Empowerment. UID:145408-21897259@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145408 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Faculty And Staff,Students LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T060240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T235959 SUMMARY:Other:FULL SEMESTER SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION:This is a schedule of all our events happening this semester. Please follow the instagram or email iazamora@umich.edu to get on the email list for more information.  UID:145222-21896849@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T163718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future. UID:143388-21893021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T115746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist) DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Opening: March 12\, 2026\nExhibit Dates: March 12-30\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\nSet within Kafafian's speculative future world Azadistan—a place of magic and spirits beyond a digital collapse\, Հմայարան / Hmayaran is an immersive shrine housing a series of soft-sculptural artifacts reimagining objects Armenians have traditionally crafted for spiritual power and protection.\n \n Kafafian's focus in this exhibition is on the marks Armenians carve into stone\, clay and wood to imbue meaning\, memory and magic into their lived environments\, particularly as part of folk traditions outside of the realms of church and state.\n \n Channeled from the collective Armenian diasporic imaginary\, Kafafian's Portal Fire series depicts a narrative story that emerges from the materials as they are brought into relationship through weaving\, dyeing\, embellishment and thread. In this story world hybrid cultural practices and alternative spiritual modes develop from embodied traditions in response to the changing physical and cultural landscape of Southwest Asia in a future where technological catastrophe has severed global communications and erased digital archives. The multi-ethnic society of Azadistan takes shape through installations\, objects\, texts and performances manifesting the multiplicity of Aremenian-ness through the dimensions of a complicated past and its potential for a vibrant\, evolving futurity.\n\nCosponsor: Institute for the Humanities UID:143403-21893078@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250926T163836 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Leadership and Culture: Strategies to Prevent Workplace Issues DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:139960-21886423@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139960 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication,Culture,Intergroup Dialogue,Leadership LOCATION:Off Campus Location - West Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T060056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Monumental 7's DESCRIPTION:The Wolverines will be traveling to the Boston area to compete in the Monumental 7's tournament. UID:143776-21893997@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143776 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Veterans Memorial Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T141911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial DESCRIPTION:The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit\, America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial.\n\nThe exhibit explores how President Ford joined Americans across the country in commemorating the Bicentennial. Highlighting some of the nationwide celebrations in 1976 and public gifts given to President Ford\, the exhibit asks visitors to reflect on our own Semiquincentennial commemorations.\n\nThe exhibit\, located in the Library's lobby\, will be free to visitors and will be available until December 3\, 2026. UID:145837-21897887@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Bicentennial,American History,Bicentennial,History,President Gerald Ford LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250619T124319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Other:2026 Graduate English Welcome Week DESCRIPTION:Welcome Week events for 2026 MFA and PhD Admitted Students UID:136159-21877976@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136159 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - Robert Hayden Room (3222) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T144541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T100000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch\, Strength & Balance/Zumba DESCRIPTION: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. UID:145904-21898028@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145904 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T171335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Wayward Images DESCRIPTION:March 9-April 3\, 2026\n--\nThe public is cordially invited to an artist's reception on Wednesday\, March 27th at 4:30 pm in the RC Art Gallery.\n--\n\nPublic Workshop: On March 19th from 1 to 3pm\, join exhibiting artist Stamps School of Art & Design Assistant Professor Angela Chen for a collaborative bookmaking workshop! Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School 課後\, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen’s After School brings together collage\, sculpture\, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as 補習班 (buxiban) in Chinese\, after schools are referred to colloquially as “cram schools” and by scholars as “shadow education.” Operating simultaneously as spaces of community\, care\, and control\, these schools can be demanding and factory-like\; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents\, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult\, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School\, a buxiban and her parents’ business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley\, CA\, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students\, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink’s vast archive of photographs\, workbooks\, objects\, and advertisements\, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism\, segregation\, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner’s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics\, drawing from lived experience\, archives\, American history\, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom\, alternative and 19th-century printing processes\, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10)\, geometric abstraction\, assemblage\, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation\, the discursive enterprise\, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past\, present\, and future\, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver’s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage—one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture\, hymn\, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don’t require an escape. She addresses the sonic\, linguistic\, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing\, downloading\, and transferring archives. UID:146709-21899518@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art Workshop,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T130452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Freddy to Quentin: The On-Set Still Photography of Joyce Rudolph DESCRIPTION:Joyce Rudolph has photographed some iconic actors and characters in her role as still photographer for the movies. This sampling of images from her papers\, which are housed as part of the Special Collections Research Center's Mavericks & Makers collection\, include the first images of Freddy Krueger in \"A Nightmare on Elm Street\,\" Arnold Schwenegger in \"The Terminator\,\" legends Jack Nicholson\, Diane Keaton\, Sean Penn\, and Robert DeNiro\, as well as directors such as Quentin Tarantino\, Martin Scorsese\, and her husband\, Alan Rudolph. UID:146264-21898750@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146264 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T165341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lynn Galbreath Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lynn Galbreath\, a Detroit based artist who grew up in Argentina\, is a former recipient of the Creative Artists’ Grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and the Michigan Individual Artist Grant from Michigan Council For The Arts. Galbreath’s work has been showcased locally\, nationally and internationally in over 20 solo/two person and over 100 group exhibitions.\n\nGalbreath has an M.F.A. from the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art\, Art History\, & Design\, Wayne State University\, Detroit\, MI\; and a B.F.A. with Permanent K-12 Certification from The Gwen Frostic School of Art\, Western MI University\, Kalamazoo\, MI. Galbreath has chaperoned eleven intensive\, immersive art experiences to Italy\, Spain\, France\, Belgium\, England\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, Austria\, and the Czech Republic. Lynn is a retired Adjunct Associate Professor of Studio Art from Oakland University\, where she has been on the faculty of the Department of Art & Art History since 2000. Lynn has also instructed studio art and design at the College For Creative Studies\, University of Detroit Mercy — School of Architecture\, Macomb Community College\, Wayne State University\, and Bloomfield University School. Her work can be seen in the collections of Oakland University\, Wayne State University\, Detroit Receiving Hospital\, Children’s Hospital of Michigan\, Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital and numerous private collections.\n\nThis exhibition consists of works from a variety of series created by Galbreath over the years: Telegraph\, Storyboard\, and Working Hard for a Living. Each series represents a unique exploration of themes\, techniques\, and social commentaries that reflect Galbreath’s artistic journey and concerns for the world.\n\nTelegraph explores the aesthetic visual weights and balances between harmony and content\, diving deep into how visual elements can convey messages and emotions. This series invites viewers to reflect on the way art communicates through its formal qualities\, as well as its narrative possibilities. The careful interplay of shapes\, colors\, and textures in these works prompts an examination of the viewer's perception and emotional response. By utilizing abstract forms\, Galbreath encourages an engagement that goes beyond mere observation\, seeking to provoke thought about how aesthetic choices influence understanding and meaning.\n\nOn the other hand\, Storyboard is a series of image-driven installation paintings that vary greatly in size\, showcasing Galbreath’s versatility and creative ingenuity. The titles of the works draw inspiration from the years spent creating visuals for TV commercials and public service announcements\, illustrating how commercial art often intertwines with societal messages. This series emphasizes the profound impact visual narratives have on consumer culture and public perception\, underscoring the artist's belief in the potency of imagery to shape narratives. The installations weave a complex fabric of storytelling that challenges viewers to reconsider their relationship with media and the messages they consume daily.\n\nWorking Hard for a Living pays tribute to our sustainable and unsustainable resources\, shedding light on the individuals who toil diligently within these economic frameworks. This series highlights the hard-working suppliers of essential products\, including Farm Market Managers\, Fishmongers\, and Beach Vendors. By portraying these self-employed individuals\, often operating within informal economies\, Galbreath draws attention to the unique challenges they face. These individuals frequently contend with low\, inconsistent incomes\, long hours\, and sometimes exploitative conditions\, fostering a sense of solidarity with those who labor under such circumstances.\n\nFurthermore\, the series invites viewers to confront the broader societal structures that contribute to these inequities. Galbreath's work serves not only as a tribute but also as a call to action to consider how our consumer habits and economic policies affect the livelihoods of others. The layered narratives present in this series open a dialogue about the value we place on labor and the often unseen struggles that support our day-to-day lives. Through these explorations\, Galbreath establishes a multifaceted narrative that intertwines art with activism\, compelling audiences to engage both aesthetically and ethically with the realities depicted in the exhibition. UID:142773-21891477@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T105136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16. UID:142417-21890885@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Metamorphosis: Clay in Flux DESCRIPTION:\n\nMetamorphosis: Clay in Flux is an exhibition celebrating the creative potential of student ceramics\, designed to correspond with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Detroit\, and the surrounding ceramics events in Southeast Michigan.\n\nThis exhibition is organized and juried by members of the Stamps Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC) and will be on display in the Art & Architecture Building’s Street Gallery from March 11- 25\, 2026. The exhibition will open with a reception on Wednesday\, March 11 from 4:30-6 p.m. \n\nSEC Jurors\n\nElan Povirk (project lead)\nAlexis Albert\nRachel Deveyra\n\nExhibiting Artists\n\nZoe Dvorin\nLilly Fredericks\nMaría E. García-Murguía\nMikayla Holcomb\nVirginia Holland\nMagdalyn Hubbard\nMira Hughes\nAudrey Jarrett\nEry Millican\nIsabella Possin\nMo Pofahl\nNatalie Radabaugh\nNik Roy\nMihika Shukla\nAbigail Watters UID:146483-21899175@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146483 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T151201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Pollination Event: Health at a Distance DESCRIPTION:How do medical professionals deliver healthcare from a distance? Whether the distances are geographic\, temporal\, cultural\, socioeconomic or atmospheric\, digital technologies and interdisciplinary collaboration can reimagine the future of healthcare. Bold Challenges invites faculty researchers to explore the complex challenges of transcending distance barriers for patient care\, behavioral health and community health.\n\nDesigned to spark novel ideas and scientific collaborations\, Bold Challenges’ Pollination events convene faculty from across campuses to share their work and uncover potential new interdisciplinary research directions. In anticipation of federal funding interest around health at a distance\, this interactive Pollination event will enable researchers from diverse disciplines to share ideas\, gauge research synergies and lay the groundwork for competitive research projects with applications in areas such as rural and urban health\, space medicine\, health education and health accessibility. Possible areas of interest may include remote monitoring\, home testing\, digital communication\, predictive analytics\, healthcare in war zones and/or disaster zones\, military applications and emergency medicine.\n\nBold Challenges also presents opportunities for seed funding to catalyze innovative\, high-impact projects. These opportunities range from $10\,000 (Pollination Awards\, available only to event participants) to $75\,000 (Boost program) to $50\,000-$125\,000 (Accelerate)\; each of these opportunities includes staff support for project management and strategic planning.\n\nEvent Highlights:\nExternal funding landscape in health at a distance research areas.\nOpportunities to combine strengths for transformative research.\nSeeding interdisciplinary teams for health at a distance research.\nSeed funding opportunities to jumpstart collaborative projects\; for Pollination awards\, event participation is required in order to be eligible. \nThe event will be held in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League on Friday\, March 13\, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. This is an in-person event with no hybrid option available. Light breakfast and boxed lunches will be provided.\n\nPlease register by February 27.\n \nIf you have any questions about this form or event details\, please reach out to Kathryn Hendrickson at kathendr@umich.edu. UID:145269-21896964@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145269 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Funding,Research LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T163232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Terence Swafford Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This exhibition showcases a decade of artist Terry Swafford’s work in Detroit\, marking the culmination of years spent composing scenes from the untamed edges of urban communities. These paintings serve as a visual record of Detroit’s transformation\, capturing humanity’s impact on the environment alongside nature’s persistent efforts to reclaim these spaces. As the city continues to change\, many of these depicted scenes are vanishing\, no longer visible in the landscape today. The significance of this documentation goes beyond mere nostalgia\; it invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic interplay between urban development and ecological restoration\, prompting a deeper understanding of how cities evolve while retaining traces of their history.\n\nSwafford’s paintings are created on location and in one session. The natural conditions\, including light\, shadow\, and atmosphere\, change dramatically from hour to hour and day to day\, forcing the artist to respond quickly and decisively. This approach\, born of a direct engagement with the subject and the fleeting nature of the scene\, along with his wet-on-wet technique\, keeps the work fresh and immediate. By immersing himself in the environment\, Swafford captures the diverse textures and vibrant colors that characterize Detroit’s landscape\, imbuing his work with a sense of urgency and spontaneity. Each brushstroke conveys a commitment not only to visual accuracy but also to emotional resonance\, as he strives to encapsulate the spirit of a place that is both loved and contested.\n\nIn addition to these works\, the artist constantly sketches ideas both for paintings and for designing projects in his business. These sketches serve as visual language\, helping him clarify and refine his concepts before bringing them to life. They become a means to communicate ideas to clients and his crew and become an extension of his voice—an academic exercise rooted in artistic practice that fosters collaboration and innovation. The act of sketching also reflects his evolving relationship with the city\, as each drawing encapsulates fleeting moments of inspiration drawn directly from his surroundings. This duality of function—creating art for exhibition and conceptualizing designs for projects—demonstrates Swafford’s versatility and adaptability as an artist.\n\nSwafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design\, and while at RISD\, he was part of the European Honors Program. His education not only honed his technical skills but also broadened his artistic perspective through exposure to varied artistic traditions. He has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Chicago\, Kansas City\, and New York State. Each exhibition serves as a testament to his commitment to his craft and his ability to engage diverse audiences\, offering them an opportunity to explore the complex narratives woven into each landscape. UID:142768-21891390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T085640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Evolution of Campus\, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. This exhibit highlights the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution. \n\nThis exhibit was originally part of a larger exhibit displayed from July 2017 to January 2018 to commemorate U-M's bicentennial. UID:138431-21890650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138431 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T101828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture: \"Elements of Ecopoetry\" by Dr. Craig Santos Perez DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (Michigan Union\, Anderson ABCDE). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nDr. Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru from Guam. He is the co-editor of nine anthologies and the author of seven books of poetry and the academic monograph\, *Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity\, Aesthetics\, and Decolonization*. He has received the National Book Award for Poetry\, American Book Award\, Pen Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary Prize\, Hawaiʻi Literary Arts Council Award\, Nautilus Book Award\, and the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from the Associated Writing Programs.\n\nRegarding his craft lecture\, titled \"Elements of Ecopoetry\,\" Dr. Craig Santos Perez says\, \"This lecture will highlight craft elements of writing poetry about nature\, ecology\, environmental justice\, climate change\, and animals. I will share examples from my book\, Habitat Threshold\, to engage with such topics as sensory description\, personal narratives\, local/global connections\, incorporating data\, communicating science\, and creating ecologically-inspired forms.\"\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on every floor of the Union. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:136977-21879388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136977 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,Craft Lecture,Ecopoetry,English Department,Graduate,Literary,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Poetry,zell visiting writers series LOCATION:Michigan Union - Anderson ABCDE CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T093408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:Hola! ¿Cómo estás?\n\n-Practice your Spanish-speaking skills with peers & instructors in a relaxed environment. All language levels and students are welcome to join the conversation.\n\n-Come & go as you please\, stay as little or as long as you would like!\n\n-Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, & baked goods.\n\nThe RLL Commons is located in the center hallway of the 4th floor of the Modern Languages Building.\n\nFor more information contact Julie Harrell at (harrelju@umich.edu). UID:143170-21892366@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Central America,Coffee,Community,Community Engagement,Culture,Engaged Learning,Europe,European,Food,Free,Games,Intercultural,International,Language,Languages,Latin America,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spain,Spanish,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4314 MLB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260219T150451 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Maggie Makar\, Assistant Professor\, Computer Science and Engineering\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Machine learning models are often deployed in settings where typical assumptions fail: agents strategically manipulate inputs\, distributions shift\, and sequential decisions are prohibitively high-dimensional. I argue that causal structure provides a principled way to address these challenges. By viewing causal assumptions as structural constraints that restrict the space of plausible data-generating processes\, we can leverage them to obtain more robust and efficient estimators.\nFirst\, I will show how causal reasoning can be used to detect strategic misreporting and gaming in predictive models. The key insight is that\, unlike genuine behavioral adaptation\, misreporting does not causally influence downstream variables. By leveraging this asymmetry\, we obtain identification strategies that distinguish manipulation from legitimate change.\nSecond\, I will demonstrate how exploiting causal structure in reinforcement learning can reduce effective dimensionality and improve statistical efficiency. Structural assumptions induce conditional independencies that constrain the data-generating process\, enabling more stable estimation and sharper sample complexity guarantees.\nFinally\, I will introduce minimally orthogonal causal inference. While classical orthogonalization removes first-order sensitivity to nuisance estimation\, we show that weaker\, targeted orthogonality conditions are often sufficient for valid inference. This perspective leads to simpler estimators and improved finite-sample behavior without sacrificing asymptotic guarantees. UID:145746-21897773@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T150743 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UM Structure Seminar: Structural and functional characterization of bacterial and mammalian protein-only RNase P DESCRIPTION:Postdoctorial Fellow\nKoutmos Lab UID:145679-21897691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145679 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Structural Biology LOCATION:Life Sciences Institute - LSI Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250821T100218 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Write with ME! DESCRIPTION:Working on an abstract? Polishing up your resume? Writing a paper or dissertation?\n\nJoin us for our new Mechanical Engineering Department writing group\, “Write with ME!”\n\nAll ME undergrads\, grads\, postdocs\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to join us for any of their writing needs.\n\nCommunity & support\nConnect with peers\, share your writing\, exchange feedback\, and brainstorm solutions to writing challenges.\n\nAccountability & consistency\nSharpen your writing skills and develop positive\, consistent writing routines. Learn from other members of the ME department!\n\nFood & flexibility\nNo need to attend every week! Drop in at any time\, and leave at any time. Light snacks\, coffee\, and tea will be available.\n\nWeekly on Fridays\, starting September 12\n2636 G.G.B\n10 am – 12 pm UID:137880-21880972@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137880 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Graduate Students,Mechanical Engineering,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Staff,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260115T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 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:138032-21881309@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260328T063145 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here:https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1916090Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!! Get real-time\, personalized support by checking out the in person Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who hasdesigned this experience to provide you strategies\, tools\, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships. Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\,the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy. **If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Exploring Major/Career Option\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting. Recent Grads: If you are an alumni\, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line“Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or tobe set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email.#UCC UID:145700-21897711@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T160152 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T163000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Queer & Trans Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:The Queer and Trans Research Symposium is a half-day academic conference focusing on queer and trans student research and queer and trans student researchers at the University of Michigan.\n\nThe symposium will feature the work of U-M graduate and professional students\, and will also include undergraduate researchers.\n\nFULL SYMPOSIUM DETAILS\nhttps://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/qt-research-symposium\n\nSPONSORS\nSpectrum Center\nLife-Changing Education\nStudent Life Research\nCenter for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education\nFLOURISH (School of Social Work)\nGinsberg Center\nRackham Graduate School\nThe Program on Intergroup Relations\nUniversity Library\n\nMORE SPECTRUM CENTER EVENTS\nhttps://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/events UID:136286-21878395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136286 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Learning Week 26,LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,Professional Development,Queer Trans Indigenous People of Color-QTIPOC,Rackham,Research LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Assembly Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T135449 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Startup Career Fair DESCRIPTION:Ready to launch your career in the exciting world of startups?\n\nThe U-M Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered Entrepreneurship present The Startup Career Fair: your chance to connect with innovative companies\, explore career opportunities\, and take the first step towards an inspiring career journey.\n\nJoin us for sessions on both the central and north campuses. Details below:\n\nNorth Campus Session:\nThursday\, March 12\, 2026\n11:30 AM - 3 PM\nFirst floor Duderstadt Center\n\nCentral Campus Session:\nFriday\, March 13\, 2026\n11 AM - 4 PM\nRoss Steward Lobby\n\nStudents register here: https://myumi.ch/W6Wbr\nQuestions? Contact mpowered-directors@umich.edu UID:145867-21897971@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145867 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Career Fair,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneur Services,Entrepreneurship,Founder,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate School,Graduate Students,In Person,In-person,Michigan Engineering,Mpowered,Networking,North campus,Startups,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Steward Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T110338 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:STEM Launchpad: Opening Paths for the Next Generation of STEM Leaders DESCRIPTION:Faculty Forum on Outreach & Engagement Series \nWhen: March 13\, 11:00 am -1:00 pm (Lunch available)\nWhere: Michigan Union\, Kuenzel Room\n\nResearch laboratories are not only the engines of scientific discovery but also the training grounds for the next generation of STEM leaders. Learn how the Aspirnaut Summer Internship\, D-RISE and BioMed Focus programs use innovative approaches to provide a foundation for future success in science\, and how you can get involved. \nLunch will be offered starting at 11:00 a.m.\; opening remarks will begin at 11:30.\n\nFeaturing Roger Cone\, Ph.D.\, Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute\; Angela Dillard\, Ph.D.\, Interim Vice Provost for Access and Opportunity and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education\; Nicolai Lehnert\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics and coordinator of D-RISE\; and Yatrik Shah\, Ph.D.\, Horace W. Davenport Collegiate Professor of Physiology\, Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology\, and faculty advisor for BioMed Focus. UID:145869-21897972@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145869 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Center For Educational Outreach,Community,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,Faculty,Food,Free,Leadership,Professional Development,Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T111745 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T122000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Jenna Birch DESCRIPTION:Ready to unlock new perspectives on storytelling\, branding\, and startup culture? \n\nMeet Jenna Birch\, founder of SISU\, a creative communications consultancy empowering startups and venture capital firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace. Jenna’s journey spans building communities for leading VC marketing minds\, shaping narratives at top Silicon Valley firms\, and helping big ideas get the recognition they deserve.\n\nJenna will share how communications and content strategy fuel entrepreneurial success—whether you’re launching a new app\, building a brand\, or connecting people to game-changing solutions. With roots in journalism and experience with high-profile startups and VCs\, Jenna’s authentic advice will help you sharpen your own voice and make a real impact.\n\nAt EHour\, expect behind-the-scenes stories\, practical lessons on building your story\, and actionable steps for any student (no matter your major) to turn creative thinking into entrepreneurial skills. You'll leave inspired to tell your own story\, connect with campus innovators\, and see how brand-building brings ventures to life.\n\nEntrepreneurship Hour is open to everyone. Bring your questions\, your creativity\, and your friends. Don’t miss this chance to hear from Jenna and join a supportive student entrepreneurial community!\n\nFriday\, March 13\n11:30 AM – 12:30 PM\nStamps Auditorium\, North Campus UID:145309-21897033@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145309 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneur Services,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate School,Graduate Students,In Person,In-person,Innovation,Michigan Engineering,Networking,North campus,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T160050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Indigenous Studies Lecture Series with Gladys Tzul Tzul (Maya K’iché) DESCRIPTION:LECTURE\n March 12\, 4–5:30 PM\n Design and Transformation in Communal Politics\n \n WORKSHOP\n March 13\, 11:30 AM–1 PM\n The Design of a Celebratory World (conversation in Spanish)\n RSVP is required to attend. Reading materials will be emailed before the workshop. Register: https://myumi.ch/Pk4Jq\n\nGladys Tzul Tzul is a writer and essayist from the Paquí community of Totonicapán\, Guatemala. With a PhD in Sociology\, she is currently a visiting professor at FLACSO Ecuador. She is the author of two books\, *Gobierno comunal indígena y estado guatemalteco: Algunas claves para comprender su tensa relación* and *Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimeq'ena*\, as well as several articles translated into English\, French\, and German. In recognition of her work\, she received the 2018 Voltaire Prize from the University of Potsdam\, Germany. The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) also awarded her first place in 2017 for social science research in Central America. Her advocacy work includes serving as an expert witness in the investigation of Berta Cáceres's assassination in Honduras and coordinating the inquiry into the October 4 Massacre\, when the Guatemalan army violently suppressed an uprising of the 48 Indigenous communities of Totonicapán.\n\nCo-Sponsors for this event include the Program in Native American Studies\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the International Institute. UID:146356-21898951@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146356 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Center For Latin American And Caribbean Studies,Central America,Latin America,Lecture,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4th Floor Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260130T135650 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:American Institutions Group DESCRIPTION:The American Institutions Group (AIG) is a Rackham interdisciplinary workshop for faculty and graduate students that meets twice a month to discuss recent and forthcoming research on American political institutions (e.g. Congress\, the presidency\, state legislatures and executives\, the courts\, and the bureaucracy). Our key goals are to offer new and varied perspectives for graduate students to harness in their own dissertation work on American political institutions\; encourage conversations that breed new research ideas\; and spur innovative collaborations among our participants. AIG participants are scholars in political science\, public health\, social work\, public policy\, and economics interested in examinations of American political institutions from the perspective of these disciplines.\n\nFaculty Coordinators: Charles R. Shipan\, Christian Fong\n\nGraduate Coordinators: Karla Magaña & Carlos Galina UID:117445-21896043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117445 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Department Of Political Science,Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Pre-Function Room 5769 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T104122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Transpolitics of Postcolonial Orders DESCRIPTION:Colonial power does not simply disappear at independence. It mutates\, reappearing through contemporary institutions\, political discourses\, and racial hierarchies\, complicating any clean break between colonial and postcolonial eras. Ann Laura Stoler’s concept of duress captures this ongoing condition: colonial power persists as a lived\, material\, and affective force\, embedded in social life even when presumed to be over.\n\nRacialized and minoritized communities actively confront and reshape these postcolonial conditions. In France\, for example\, immigrant communities and descendants of colonial subjects engage in memory-work\, cultural production\, and political mobilization to challenge assimilationist ideologies\, securitized Islamophobia\, and exclusionary myths of national universalism. These interventions contest dominant narratives of belonging and insist on political futures that reckon with imperial histories rather than disavow them.\n\nJoin us for a panel that examines how postcolonial orders are inhabited\, contested\, and reimagined across diverse contexts.\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:142519-21891068@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142519 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,History,Humanities LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T093432 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T123000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Heartfulness Meditation DESCRIPTION:Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly\, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being. \n\nAll U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required. \n\n*What will you learn?*\n\nThe guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation\, rejuvenation\, and meditation.\n\nRelaxation brings your body to a calm\, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level\, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions\, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly\, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice. \n\n*Why Meditate?*\n\nWhile physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape\, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically\, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony. \n\n*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708\n\n*Event Details*\n\nHeartfulness Guided Meditation \nFridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)\nJoin Via Zoom Meeting\nRegister to receive Passcode (see “Related links”\n\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org. UID:143758-21893938@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T124220 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:IOE Community Event DESCRIPTION:Join fellow members of the IOE community for some delicious treats in the Community Suite! UID:142667-21891278@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite (IOE 1700) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T110427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kreativwerkstatt DESCRIPTION:Chat in German and express yourself creatively. Crafting\, coloring\, painting\, drawing\, knitting\, sewing\, crochet\, embroidery\, origami? You will combine speaking German\, any level welcome\, beginners included\, and creatively expressing yourself. You are encouraged to bring your own materials or (ongoing) projects\, but we will also provide some materials and prompts each week. Contact Laura Okkema (lokkema@umich.edu) or Iris Zapf-Garcia (iriszaga@umich.edu.) with questions. UID:144358-21895210@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144358 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Germany LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3117 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Legacies: Contemporary Art Dialogues with Clay DESCRIPTION:\n\nOn the occasion of the 2026 NCECA conference in Detroit\, Stamps Gallery presents an exhibition of new and recent work by diverse intergenerational artists working in clay locally and nationally. Collectively\, these works preserve and evolve age-old artistic traditions from weaving\, mark-making\, and pottery as contemporary forms of resistance and resilience\; recovery and regeneration that draw on diasporic and ancestral knowledge of world-building and translation.\n\nFeaturing work by Maya Davis\, Adebunmi Gbadebo\, Nicole Marroquin\, Marie Woo\, and Hedy Yang. Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.\n\nDDD Project Space\, 2857 East Grand Blvd Suite 104\, Detroit MI\n\nExhibition Dates and Hours: March 13 – 28\, 2026\n\nFri.\, March 13 and 20: 12—6 p.m.\nSat.\, March 14 and 21: 12—5 p.m.\nTue—Wed\, March 24—25: 11 a.m.—5 p.m.\nThu.\, March 26: 12—7 p.m.\nFri.\, March 27: 12—9 p.m.\nSat.\, March 28: 12—5 p.m.\n\nExhibition Reception: Fri.\, March 27\, 5:30 — 9 p.m. UID:145539-21897491@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145539 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T120328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:LSA Internship Scholarship Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Do you have questions about the LSA Internship Scholarship? Drop in during our virtual office hours! Whether you need help with your application or have any other questions\, we’re here to help. Pop into our Zoom session at a time that works for you. These drop-in style office hours are designed for students who have questions regarding the LSA Internship Scholarship Application or internship eligibility requirements.\n\nClick the link in the side bar for your timeslot today! Be sure to toggle to 1/9/2026.\nThe final deadline for the scholarship is April 15!\n\nCan't make it? Check out our other dates below: \nJanuary 23rd\nFebruary 6th\nFebruary 27th\nMarch 13th\nMarch 27th\nApril 10th UID:142414-21897462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Internship,Lsa Opportunity Hub LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260325T105613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:LSA Internship Scholarship Workshop DESCRIPTION:Are you an LSA student currently looking for ways to fund your summer internship? Join us for an in-person workshop centered around the LSA Internship Scholarship. During this workshop\, we will walk through the application process for both the scholarship and the ALA course\, review the application requirements\, and offer an opportunity for you to ask any lingering questions you have about the scholarship process.\n\nThe final deadline for the scholarship is April 15th!\n\nWe will be hosting additional sessions on:\nMarch 25th\, from 12-1 pm\, In Person UID:142413-21890809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142413 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Internship,Lsa Opportunity Hub LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260206T091926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> Synthetic Circuits\, Natural Questions DESCRIPTION:How do bacterial cells process information and use signals to direct development and resist antibiotics? In this talk\, I'll describe how my lab is building modular cell-based signaling pathways that enable us to probe the activity and rewire the function of natural ones. Our current work has uncovered compartment-specific signaling cascades\, and developing synthetic receptors has let us reprogram how cells respond to their environment for biosensor development. I'll also discuss how we navigate the design-discovery loop and leverage evolutionary diversity to develop tools that address challenges in both technology and fundamental science. Collectively\, our work demonstrates how engineering-driven approaches can yield practical biotechnologies and\, in the process\, deepen our understanding of natural biological systems.\n\nHost: Lyle Simmons UID:144928-21896160@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Bsbsigns,seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260130T085451 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:NERS Colloquium: The Most Brilliant Human Mind DESCRIPTION:Screening of the documentary film\, \"The Most Brilliant Human Mind.\"\n\nSynopsis\nJohn von Neumann\, one of the most incredible Hungarian-born scientists of all time\, was named Man of the Century by the Financial Times in 1999.\n\nAmong other scientific works\, Neumann pioneered game theory and\, along with Alan Turing and Claude Shannon\, was one of the conceptual inventors of the stored-program digital computer. In late 1943 Neumann began to work on the Manhattan Project at the invitation of J. Robert Oppenheimer\, and helped to design the first atomic bomb.\n\nThis biography showcases the famous mathematician's work and legacy from the perspective of his daughter and colleagues. It is based on artefacts and documents from scientific history collections and on the personal memories of Marina von Neumann Whitman\, Neumann's daughter.\n\nThe film's production team has been filming all around the world\, from Budapest to Los Alamos and Princeton\, with the participation of several Hungarian and American scientists.\n\nThe NERS Colloquia Series invites leading researchers\, industry experts\, and thought leaders from across the nuclear engineering and radiological sciences community to share their insights with students\, faculty\, and guests. Covering a wide range of topics—from cutting-edge research and emerging technologies to policy\, education\, and professional development—the weekly talks offer an opportunity to explore current issues and innovations shaping the future of the field. UID:142959-21891857@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142959 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T101438 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Revolutionary Paine: Andy Murphy Student-Curated Class Exhibit Common Sense DESCRIPTION:Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The first edition was published on January 10\, 1776\, with an initial print run of just 1\,000 copies\; but within weeks demand soared. The students of Andy Murphy’s POLISCI 495 course co-curated the exhibition “Revolutionary Paine” to document the whirlwind caused by its publication. On view at the Clements January 16-May 8\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:143999-21894448@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Americana,Exhibit,Exhibition,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Reading Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T141321 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Sabrina Nobrega Carneiro - Dissertation Defense DESCRIPTION:Please join Sabrina Nobrega Carneiro for their dissertation defense titled \"Exploring Applications of Aminocyclopropenium Ions in Organic Synthesis\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, March 13th\n*Time:* 12:00 PM\n*Where:* Rackham Earl Lewis Room\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 680 693 1484\nPasscode: SNC UID:145949-21898171@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145949 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T010000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Sea Monsters DESCRIPTION:The film follows a curious and adventurous Dolichorhynchops – familiarly known as a ‘dolly’ – as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history. Along the way\, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs\, giant turtles\, enormous fish\, fierce sharks\, and the most dangerous sea monster of all– the mosasaur. UID:136442-21897056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136442 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Science LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T163723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Shapiro Design Day DESCRIPTION:Learn how a vinyl cutter and printing press work firsthand! Student-created designs are available for you to design a pencil case. Use the tools with staff guidance and take home your very own creation! UID:145999-21898249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Design Lab PIE Space, 1st floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121735 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:144521-21895452@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T112053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:U-M Library Shapiro Design Day 2026 DESCRIPTION:Learn how a vinyl cutter and printing press work firsthand! Student-created designs are available for you to design a pencil case. Use the tools with staff guidance and take home your very own creation! UID:145965-21898186@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145965 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:1st Floor PIE Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T121209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:UM Basketball Watch Party DESCRIPTION:Cheer on our Wolverines in the Big 10 Men's Basketball Tournament! Watch the game with free swag\, tasty snacks\, and good company. UID:146457-21899133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146457 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basketball,Cci,Food,Free,Watch Party LOCATION:Michigan Union - Courtyard CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260401T160240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research institution. A century later\, it was an abandoned building with an uncertain future. From cornerstone to keystone\, from the first director to the people who saved it from destruction\, explore the life of a historic observatory 170 years in the making.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is being developed by student docents at the Detroit Observatory. Presented by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, part of the Bentley Historical Library.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is now on display at the Detroit Observatory (1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109). View the exhibit during the Observatory's open hours:\nThursdays\, 12-5 pm\nFridays\, 12-5 pm UID:138950-21884339@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138950 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Museum,museums,Science,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260212T131745 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:What Kind of Changemaker Are You? Pathways to Civic Engagement and Community Change DESCRIPTION:Are you passionate about social justice\, advocacy\, or service and trying to determine your next steps at UM or beyond? Interested in pursuing a career that allows you to enact positive social change? Join us for our Learning in Community workshop focused on “Pathways.” \n\n“The Pathways to Civic Engagement and Community Change” is a framework that describes a range of possibilities by which you can exercise your own power to create a better world\, including direct service\, community organizing\, policy-making\, community-engaged research\, social entrepreneurialism\, and philanthropy. These pathways intersect and overlap\, demonstrating the interdependent nature of working toward the common good. At the end of this workshop you’ll be better able to assess what kinds of opportunities are the best match with your personality\, talents\, and passions. Whether you are considering what extracurriculars to get involved with\, or making choices about graduate school and careers\, the Pathways workshop can help guide you the next steps in your social justice journey. \n\nFor students who are:\n\nBeginning to explore ways to engage with communities\n\nMaking decisions about what classes to take\n\nTrying to choose extracurricular activities \n\nInterested in pursuing a career in community engagement or social impact\n\nhttps://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/102937 UID:142774-21891520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning Week 26,Community Service,Free,Graduate Professional Student Life,Politics,Social Impact,Student Affairs,Training LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T103107 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Community Action Faculty Panel DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be an academic and an activist? Join the Faculty Senate Committee for Fairness\, Equity\, and Inclusion for a moderated panel on the topic of “Community Action.” This event is specifically for faculty across all three campuses. Panel members will speak to their areas of expertise related to community action\, what community action can look like for faculty members who want to engage in social change work\, and action steps faculty can take to promote justice. After the panel presentation\, we will take questions from the audience. Food will be provided.\n\nModerator:\nStephanie Vidaillet Gelderloos\, (she/her) Lecturer IV in English\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nFinn Bell\, (he/him)\, Assistant Professor of Health and Human Services\n\nDan Birchok\, (he/him)\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\n\nM. Candace Christensen\, (they/them)\, Associate Professor of Social Work\n\nTerri Friedline\, (she/her)\, Professor of Social Work\n\nLisa M. Lapeyrouse\, (she/her)\, Associate Professor of Health Science and Administration\, and Research Director for the Inclusive History Project at the Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice\n\nNatalie Sampson\, (she/her)\, Professor of Health and Human Services\, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity UID:145747-21897774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145747 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:academic freedom,Activism,Faculty,Faculty Governance LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T122052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Community Action Faculty Panel DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be an academic and an activist? Join the Faculty Senate Committee for Fairness\, Equity\, and Inclusion for a moderated panel on the topic of “Community Action.” This event is specifically for faculty across all three campuses. Panel members will speak to their areas of expertise related to community action\, what community action can look like for faculty members who want to engage in social change work\, and action steps faculty can take to promote justice. After the panel presentation\, we will take questions from the audience. Food will be provided. Moderator:\nStephanie Vidaillet Gelderloos\, (she/her) Lecturer IV in EnglishSpeakers:Finn Bell\, (he/him)\, Assistant Professor of Health and Human ServicesDan Birchok\, (he/him)\, Associate Professor of AnthropologyM. Candace Christensen\, (they/them)\, Associate Professor of Social WorkTerri Friedline\, (she/her)\, Professor of Social WorkLisa M. Lapeyrouse\, (she/her)\, Associate Professor of Health Science and Administration\, and Research Director for the Inclusive History Project at the Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to PracticeNatalie Sampson\, (she/her)\, Professor of Health and Human Services\, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity UID:145836-21897867@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145836 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T122052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Community Action Faculty Panel DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be an academic and an activist? Join the Faculty Senate Committee for Fairness\, Equity\, and Inclusion for a moderated panel on the topic of “Community Action.” This event is specifically for faculty across all three campuses. Panel members will speak to their areas of expertise related to community action\, what community action can look like for faculty members who want to engage in social change work\, and action steps faculty can take to promote justice. After the panel presentation\, we will take questions from the audience. Food will be provided. Moderator:\nStephanie Vidaillet Gelderloos\, (she/her) Lecturer IV in EnglishSpeakers:Finn Bell\, (he/him)\, Assistant Professor of Health and Human ServicesDan Birchok\, (he/him)\, Associate Professor of AnthropologyM. Candace Christensen\, (they/them)\, Associate Professor of Social WorkTerri Friedline\, (she/her)\, Professor of Social WorkLisa M. Lapeyrouse\, (she/her)\, Associate Professor of Health Science and Administration\, and Research Director for the Inclusive History Project at the Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to PracticeNatalie Sampson\, (she/her)\, Professor of Health and Human Services\, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity UID:145836-21897868@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145836 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260204T111402 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:LSA Opportunity Hub Pop-Up Coaching DESCRIPTION:Pop Up Coaching at the LSA Opportunity Hub presents a low stakes opportunity for students to stop by our office\, grab some popcorn\, and engage in a brief 10-15 minute career coaching conversation with one of our career coaches\, in addition to learning about our other services and offerings! \n\nPop Up Coaching is held on select Fridays during the Fall and Winter semesters in the LSA Building from 1-3 PM-- No appointment necessary! UID:136450-21894804@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136450 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Early Career Exploration,Lsa Opportunity Hub,Studentcaregiversweek2025,Studentcaregiversweek25,Undergraduate LOCATION:LSA Building - Opportunity Hub suite CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260328T123143 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1915099Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you. Get real-time\, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab. We will discuss and educate you on…- Design and format- Writing a great bullet point- Targeting your resume for specific internships/jobs If you're a Graduate Student or Recent Grad\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates. Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on theHappening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students.#UCC UID:145648-21897632@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T134500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you. UID:141325-21897076@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T112516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Type theory seminar: Universes DESCRIPTION:This is a learning seminar on dependent type theory\, following Egbert Rijke's book \"Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory.\" This talk will cover chapter 6 of Rijke's book\, on universes. UID:145362-21897190@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145362 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Adam Lenhart & Sarah Penrose\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Adam Lenhart & Sarah Penrose perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:144522-21895453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144522 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T132416 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Digital Accessibility Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Got questions about digital accessibility\, Title II compliance\, or how to make digital content accessible? \n\n-Come to virtual drop-in office hours!\n-Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month\n-1:30 - 3:00pm \n-Zoom Meeting ID 935 9909 5960\n-Digital accessibility experts available to help you\n\nOpen to everyone from all U-M campuses (Ann Arbor\, Dearborn\, Flint\, Michigan Medicine).\n\nCan’t make it to Office Hours but have a question? Contact us (https://accessibility.umich.edu/contact-services)!\n\nIf you need accommodations to participate in office hours\, let us know by emailing ADAcoordinator@umich.edu. UID:132601-21888911@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Communication,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Faculty,Graduate Students,Office Hours,Staff,Undergraduate Students,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260121T122547 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Incentives and the Social Fabric of Organizations DESCRIPTION:When do incentives work\, and when and why do they backfire? How do incentives interact with the social context of organizations in which the incentives are used? This talk presents evidence from a series of field experiments\, and it draws on relational incentives theory to reconcile seemingly divergent findings. In the first experiment\, social recognition incentives had positive and enduring effects on volunteer retention at Wikipedia. In contrast\, a second field experiment in healthcare reveals how social recognition incentives backfired\, undermining physicians’ well-being at work. A third study\, conducted in the same healthcare setting\, shows that a form of participation incentive—a co-creation initiative with physicians—enhanced physician motivation and organizational citizenship behaviors. This research program dissects the reciprocal influences of incentives and social relationships to study how they jointly shape motivation\, behavior\, and well-being\, with implications for designing more effective incentive systems. UID:144251-21895031@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144251 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Capitalism,Career,Collective Behavior,Discussion,Free,Health,Health & Wellness,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Org Studies,Org. Studies,Organizational Studies,Presentation,Professional Development,Research,Science,seminar,Social Science,Social Sciences,Sociology,Speaker,Talk LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260130T135221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences DESCRIPTION:The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research projects that use the comparative method to study the causes and effects of social\, political and economic processes. We specifically welcome presenters\, discussants\, and participants from other social science fields to share their work with us. We have participants from Economics\, the Ford School of Public Policy\, the Law School\, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, Mathematics\, Political Science\, the Ross School of Business\, Sociology\, Statistics\, and the Center for Emerging Democracies\, and others. In other words: All are welcome. UID:112863-21896032@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/112863 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Department Of Political Science,Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Pre-Function Room 5769 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T172214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Frequency Fridays: 3D Modeling with Blender DESCRIPTION:Today's topic: 3D modeling with Blender.\n\nFrequency Fridays is a weekly media workshop series\, every Friday from 2-3pm in the Design Lab PIE Space on the first floor of Shapiro. Workshops will feature instruction in music production\, video editing\, sound design\, motion graphics\, and more. All skill levels welcome.\n\nIf you have questions about Frequency Fridays\, please reach out to alvin hill\, the library's Media Production Specialist\, at munk@umich.edu. UID:145478-21897393@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145478 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Design Lab PIE Space, 1st floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T144500 SUMMARY:Film Screening:T.REX DESCRIPTION:With stunning CGI visuals and the latest research from leading paleontologists\, the film offers audiences a fresh perspective on the GOAT (Greatest Of All Tyrants): Tyrannosaurus rex. Anchored by the true story of the young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime when they spotted a large fossilized leg bone on a walk on public lands in North Dakota\, T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig\, with cutting edge computer graphics that bring the iconic T. rex to life—from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill\, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator. UID:136347-21897101@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260304T151939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Frobenius Identities in Combinatorics (Combinatorics seminar) DESCRIPTION:Several recent proofs of unimodality theorems in combinatorics rely on unexpected identities satisfied by the volume map on combinatorially defined algebras over fields of characteristic p. The proof of unimodality for the h-vector of simplicial spheres by Papadakis–Petrotou and for the h^*-vector of IDP and Gorenstein lattice polytopes by Adiprasito–Papadakis–Petrotou both fit into this framework. In this talk\, we reinterpret the volume map from the perspective of commutative algebra and explain the origin of these identities. This viewpoint yields short proofs and suggests new research directions. This is joint work with Adiprasito\, Oba\, Papadakis\, and Petrotou. UID:142070-21889967@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142070 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T160245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Origin of Metals in Galaxy Clusters - Characterizing the Early Enrichment Population DESCRIPTION:Metals (anything heavier than Helium) are made by stars\, but when and where those stars existed in the Universe is an outstanding problem. X-ray observations show that the hot\, X-ray emitting gas surrounding galaxy clusters\, the intracluster medium (ICM)\, has a nearly universal metallicity of ZICM ≈ 0.4Z⊙. This metallicity is largely independent of stellar fraction\, M∗/Mgas\, and exceeds what is expected from present-day stellar populations under standard initial mass functions (IMFs). This discrepancy is known as the missing metal conundrum. Many theories have been posed to explain this mismatch\, but fault has been found to each when compared with observations. The primary remaining theory yet to be disproved is the existence of an Early Enrichment Population (EEP) - a predominantly high-mass stellar population at z ∼ 10 − 6 that enriched the ICM while leaving a minimal surviving population. In this dissertation\, I develop and test a quantitative framework for the EEP by combining detailed X-ray measurements\, chemical evolution models\, and constraints from supernovae and galaxy luminosity functions. I do this through a homogeneous study of 26 galaxy groups and clusters using archival XMM-Newton data\, measuring radial metallicity profiles and the deriving the relation between ZICM and M∗/Mgas. With this I show that an additional metal component\, ZEEP is required even when updated yields\, remnants\, and non closed-box behavior in groups are taken into account when deriving the contribution from the visible stellar populations\, Z∗. I then construct theoretical models for the EEP\, exploring a range of IMFs and using Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) rates to identify IMFs that reproduce both the required metal yield and present-day observables. I further constrain the low-mass end of the EEP IMF by requiring that the residual light from long-lived EEP stars not exceed the observed luminosity of dwarf elliptical galaxies that dominate the low-luminosity component of cluster luminosity functions. Together\, these results provide the first observationally anchored\, testable constraints on the EEP and its IMF\, and establish concrete predictions for high-redshift supernovae and dwarf galaxy light that can be probed with current and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope. UID:145963-21898183@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145963 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T144850 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Sensitivity limits from the geometry of nonequilibirum response DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Many biophysical processes can be accurately modeled as a system stochastically exploring a discrete and connected network of possible states. Probability distributions over this space are not only subject to the system's intrinsic noisy dynamics\, but may also be influenced by externally imposed perturbations. While results such as the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem allow for a precise understanding of how such perturbations may affect observable quantities on the system\, these only properly function at equilibrium. Here\, we explore the case of perturbations on nonequilibrium stochastic systems and derive a new response formula based on the Matrix-Tree Theorem approach. In particular\, we derive the tightest possible linear bounds to sensitivity in arbitrary observables based on only the topology of the state network. These bounds stem from achetypical primitive models we call \"uniquely constructable sets\" that dictate the system properties under extreme conditions. As an exploratory example\, we investigate a model of a macromolecule with three ligand binding sites to showcase how the uniquely constructable sets can be used to find all possible variations that are capable of maximizing the sensitivity of the number of bound sites relative to the external ligand concentration.\n\nContact: AIM Seminar Organizers UID:141900-21889615@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141900 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T133125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnose bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding.\n\nEvery Wednesday from 4-6pm and Friday from 3-5:30pm in the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) SIGN UP HERE: https://tr.ee/Lp9kLnnfP9\n \nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \n\nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\n\nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer at any skill level for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu or sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QVMuOatF-toPc_ky9QIAeeD0ob-ndBGA4uUFm9EAZ0g/edit?usp=sharing UID:146268-21898807@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Biking,Climate Change,Community Service,Cycling,Education,Environment,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,planet blue,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T145046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Department Colloquium: Dilip Ninan (Tufts) DESCRIPTION:Title: The Puzzle of Known Violation\n\nAbstract: \nSuppose it is true that I should sell all my possessions and give the money to the poor. Then it would seem to follow that I should sell all my possessions. This piece of reasoning is underwritten by a principle known as Inheritance: if p entails q\, then \"should p\" entails \"should q\". But Åqvist (1967) pointed out some apparent counterexamples to Inheritance: \"Max should have known he was breaking a rule\" does not entail \"Max should have been breaking a rule\" even though \"Max knew he was breaking a rule\" entails \"Max was breaking a rule\". I argue that Åqvist's observation is an instance of something more general: for many p and q where p entails and presupposes q\, \"should p\" does not entail \"should q\". I sketch a semantics that accommodates this fact while still preserving the truth of many instances of Inheritance. Finally\, I show that our discussion has consequences for a rather different debate in philosophy\, as it seems to undermine a recent argument against the knowledge account of assertion.\n\n\nResearch/Areas of Interest\nPhilosophy of Language\, Metaphysics\, Philosophy of Mind\n\nEducation\nPhD in Philosophy\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, Cambridge\, United States\, 2008\nMSc in Economic and Social History\, University of Oxford\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\, 2002\nBPhil in Philosophy\, University of Oxford\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\, 2001\nBA in Philosophy\, University of Western Ontario\, London\, Canada\, 1999\n\nBiography\nDilip Ninan received his Ph.D. from MIT\, B.Phil. from Oxford University\, and B.A. from the University of Western Ontario. Before coming to Tufts\, he spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.\n\nHis research interests include the philosophy of language\, formal semantics\, metaphysics\, and the philosophy of mind. He has worked on the representation of de se and de re attitudes\, the nature of personal identity over time\, and on foundational questions in semantics.\n\nWhen not philosophizing\, he enjoys reading\, running\, cooking\, and skiing. UID:138653-21883532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138653 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Philosophy LOCATION:Angell Hall - tbd CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T154500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you. UID:141325-21897080@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T130006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “Working the Loops: Co-Constructing Painful Bodies and Categories in Thailand” DESCRIPTION:“In the U.S.\, patients and practitioners usually imagine that pain is a thing\, that one’s approach to it may change how one copes with it\, but not the pain itself. This is connected to medicine’s insistence on a ‘view from nowhere\,’ perceiving nature without changing it. Meanwhile\, STS scholars have long taught us about looping effects between categories and the world. In this talk\, I present ethnography on painful bodies in Thailand\, where the idea of looping between category and reality is part of everyday cosmology. I share about: doctors who worry that giving ‘chronic pain’ a diagnostic code will bring it into being\; monks who suspect that pain equals fear-of-death\, leading them to induce near-death experiences\; anesthesiologists with evidence that poor Thai patients need less anesthesia during surgery (because lifelong pain-as-necessity crafts brains with low-pain neurotransmitter profiles?)\; and patients who dream that pain is a reincarnated being and awake with different pain. Through this ontological adventure\, I ask whether STS might benefit not just from ethically identifying co-constructionism as a sociohistorical force\, but also from examining times and places where people work co-constructionism to their advantage as a matter of course.”\n\nScott Stonington is a medical and cultural anthropologist\, and an internal medicine physician. His research broadly addresses the globalization of biomedical ethics and expertise. His first project in this area focused on decision-making at the end of life in Thailand\, where individuals face a complex combination of ethical frameworks generated by high-tech medical care\, human-rights politics\, and the metaphysical demands of dying. Dr. Stonington spent two years accompanying Thai elders at their deathbeds\, documenting their children’s attempts to pay back their “debt of life” via intensive medical care\, as well as the ensuing “spirit ambulance\,” a rush to get patients on life-support home at the last possible moment to orchestrate the final breath in a spiritually advantageous place. Dr. Stonington’s second project in this area focuses on global debates over the use of opiates for pain management. He spent a year accompanying patients in severe pain in Northern Thailand as they navigated their suffering within a fraught ethical environment\, from Thailand’s brutal drug war\, to its Buddhist-based value for pain as a spiritual path\, to a broader global ambivalence about how best to treat pain. Dr. Stonington’s secondary research agenda addresses medical epistemology in the U.S.\, specifically how health practitioners decide what constitutes true and/or useful knowledge and how this affects patients. This work grows out of his ongoing practice as an Internal Medicine physician\, both in the hospital and in primary care. UID:146333-21898905@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146333 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Health,Health & Wellness,Medicine LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T005000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Algebraic Geometry: Calabi-Yau varieties\, essential skeleta\, and Berkovich spaces DESCRIPTION:Associated to a Calabi--Yau (e.g. abelian varieties\, K3 surfaces)\, one can associate an essential skeleton\, which lives in the Berkovich analytification of the Calabi--Yau. This skeleton originates from mirror symmetry and captures geometrical and topological information of the Calabi--Yau. For example\, it is related to the birational geometry of the Calabi--Yau\, and in some situations the Calabi--Yau admits a Lagrangian fibration over this skeleton. \nWe will only assume knowledge of the definition of Calabi--Yaus and will introduce by examples. UID:145808-21897840@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145808 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 2866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891111@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Climate Change,Discussion,Food,food and the environment,Free,Free Food,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Social,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260328T123133 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UCC Clothes Closet Drop-In with the International Center DESCRIPTION:This event will be photographed/recorded: Images may be used for the University Career Center (UCC) promotions materials (posters\, websites\, flyers\, etc.) If you do not want your image used pleaseconnect with a UCC staff member at the student checkout table.Need a professional outfit for interviews\, internships\, or new job?Drop in to the University Career Center’s (UCC) Clothes Closet for a special event in partnership with the International Center. This event is open to all students (Last drop-in at 3:45pm! No appointment needed—just come by! This event is capped at 45 attendees\, so pleaseplan accordingly.)Spend 10–15 minutes browsing our selection of FREE business professional and business casual clothing. You can select up to 3 items per semester to upgrade your wardrobe\, feel confident\,and look your best.How does the drop-in work?Arrive anytime between 3:00 and 3:45pm.Pick out items to suit your style and needs.Meet new friends\, get tips on dressing for success\, and connect with International Center staff and UCC Career Team in a relaxed atmosphere.Whether you’re prepping for recruitment\, job interview\, or just want to boost your professional style\, everyone is welcome! Come as you are\, and leave ready to shine.This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to this webpage:  https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1908070/share_preview  We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via thelink below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Cierra Sutherland at cierrasu@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA  #UCC UID:145149-21896734@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145149 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:515 East Jefferson Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T120149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145013-21896345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260202T103348 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Marina Suarez DESCRIPTION:The Early Cretaceous is an important time of transition in Earth History. During this time significant variability in the carbon cycle likely affected the trajectory of the climate system and the evolution of life. Records\, especially continental\, of the Early Cretaceous are still poorly constrained. Even the base of what is considered the Cretaceous System is not clearly defined. To this end multiple investigations are ongoing to improve our understanding of the timing of Early Cretaceous continental rock records and to provide more quantitative paleoclimate records during this important time. Here I summarize the results to date of efforts to improve Early Cretaceous chronostratigraphic constraint of rock records as well as climate records for this time\; especially of the Western margin of the Western Interior Basin and northwestern China). Our efforts so far indicate that many of the Early Cretaceous units we investigate are only partially contemporaneous and for some locations extend deeper into the Cretaceous than previously expected. Climate parameters are consistent with the prevailing interpretations of the Cretaceous as a greenhouse climate\, but variation in these records show instances of cooler than expected temperatures during some times. UID:144909-21896133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144909 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260203T120819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Tours:A Guided Tour of the U-M Clements Library DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about the history of the Clements Library\, its programs\, and collections. Highlights include Benjamin West's iconic painting \"Death of General Wolfe\,\" a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Thomas Gage's papers\, and the current exhibit\, “Revolutionary Paine.”\n\nArrive at our North Entrance to check-in for your tour. This entrance is accessible and an elevator is available to move between floors.\n\nWe want to ensure full participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote that\, please let us know. UID:144972-21896217@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144972 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american history,Americana,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,In Person,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T212716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:QuantUM Technical Speaker Event with Professor Kira DESCRIPTION:Join us at our first speaker event of the semester! We will be hosting EECS professor Dr. Mack Kira in West Hall 340! Come learn about Professor Kira's cutting edge research at the University\, and seize the opportunity to ask any burning questions you may have. There will be catered food!! See you all there! UID:146445-21899097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146445 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Computer Engineering,Computer Science,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Quantum Science,Research,Talk LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T181528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260221T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Women's Tennis vs Nebraska DESCRIPTION:Women's Tennis vs Nebraska UID:145791-21897819@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145791 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Tennis LOCATION:Varsity Tennis Bldg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T100402 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Ink and Impact at South Quad DESCRIPTION:Observe Women’s History Month with the South Quad Diversity Peer Educators by writing letters of encouragement for local women’s shelters. UID:145823-21897852@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,Michigan Housing,Social Impact,Social Wellness LOCATION:South Quad - Ambatana - The Afro American Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T140100 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kaffeestunde im Max Kade Haus DESCRIPTION:Kaffeestunde is a weekly opportunity to mingle and unwind \"auf Deutsch\". It is a place to connect with other Max Kade residents\, chat informally in German and participate in activities prepared by facilitators. The Kaffeestunde is open to the wider German-speaking community at UofM.\n\nKaffeestunde meets weekly on Fridays from 5-6pm in the Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ) UID:138768-21883843@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German,Max Kade LOCATION:North Quad - Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T102140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Magnet Making at Stockwell DESCRIPTION:Join the Stockwell Diversity Peer Educator and Multicultural Community Lounge Assistants to design your own magnet over hot chocolate or tea! UID:145824-21897854@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145824 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community,Community Building,Community Engagement,community gathering,Crafts,free LOCATION:Stockwell Hall - Rosa Parks Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T162053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OAMI Pride Night 2026 DESCRIPTION: UID:145184-21896774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145184 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:OAMI Office, Student Activities Building, Third floor, 3009 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T162554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Queer & Trans Networking Social DESCRIPTION:Connect with students\, staff\, and faculty across campus in this networking social following the Queer & Trans Research Symposium.\n\nGraduate and professional students\, faculty\, staff\, and alumnx of all genders and sexualities (18+) are welcome to attend! Refreshments and food will be provided as well as fun music and community.\n\nIf you are interested in attending please fill out the RSVP form (coming soon) so we know you'll be there.\n\nMORE ABOUT THE QUEER & TRANS RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM\nhttps://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/qt-research-symposium\n\nMORE SPECTRUM CENTER EVENTS\nhttps://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/events UID:145080-21896632@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145080 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,Queer Trans Indigenous People of Color-QTIPOC,Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T120208 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Star Wars Game Nights DESCRIPTION:Come join some fellow Star Wars fans as we play Star Wars themed board games\, card games\, video games\, or dive into the lore of the franchise through debates! UID:146317-21898873@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146317 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T181630 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jiyeon Lee\, piano DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Jiyeon Lee performs a final master's degree recital\, featuring works by J.S. Bach\, L.v. Beethoven\, and S. Rachmaninoff. UID:145545-21897508@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T172126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Documentary Screening of After Uvalde: Guns\, Grief & Texas Politics DESCRIPTION:This event will feature a screening of the documentary After Uvalde: Guns\, Grief\, and Texas Politics\, followed by a facilitated discussion connecting the film’s themes to the work of Amnesty International. The documentary examines the social\, political\, and emotional consequences of the Uvalde school shooting\, highlighting issues of gun violence\, government accountability\, and the protection of human rights. Amnesty International recognizes gun violence as a human rights issue\, particularly in relation to the right to life\, security\, and freedom from violence. Through this event\, participants will explore how advocacy organizations like Amnesty International address gun violence through research\, policy recommendations\, and global activism\, aligning with the Global Scholars Program’s mission to promote global awareness\, social responsibility\, and civic engagement. UID:144744-21895801@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144744 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Edward Said Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260304T085115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Ann Arbor to Space! DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library will be joining the Detroit Observatory the evening of March 13. Stop by their pop-up exhibit to see early astronomy photography and education materials\, documentation on how telescopes were manufactured\, and commentary from the Apollo 11 moon mission! UID:146161-21898607@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146161 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,Education,educational,Exhibition,Family,free,history,Museum,museums,observing,Science,Telescope Observation,telescope viewing,Telescopes LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T095159 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Iftar at Markley DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join the Markley Diversity Peer Educators in breaking fast. Come for a night of food\, reflection\, and connection! UID:145819-21897849@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145819 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community,Community Engagement,community gathering,Holiday LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall - Angela Davis Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T120204 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Paint & Sip - General Body Meeting Event DESCRIPTION:Come join the Willie Hobbs Moore Chapter of the National Society of Black Physicists a general body meeting PAINT & SIP. We will chat about our chapter and elections UID:146214-21898664@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146214 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:West Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T172126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T191500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Paint & Sip - National Society of Black Physicists DESCRIPTION:Come join the Willie Hobbs Moore Chapter of the National Society of Black Physicists a general body meeting PAINT & SIP. We will chat about our chapter events and elections UID:146329-21898901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146329 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:West Hall 267B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T113614 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Yotonix: Across the Yotoverse DESCRIPTION:We hope your spider senses are tingling~ Yotonix is BACK this year for it's tenth anniversary with a super thrilling punch... Join us at Mendelssohn for an evening of animated flow arts and glowsticking from Photonix\, and some action-packed Chinese yo-yo from Revolution!\n\nTickets are $5 pre-sale sold online and at Haven/Mason Hall tables (10 AM - 5 PM) from 3/9 - 3/13 or $7 at the door. We will also be on the Passport to the Arts\, redeemable at MUTO and at the door for a free ticket! UID:146015-21898273@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Music,Mutotix,UAC,Visual Arts LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T180048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T210000 SUMMARY:Other:Family Time DESCRIPTION:Once a month all together at 1001 Green Rd at 6:30pm with dinner. Jan. 9\, Feb. 6 & Mar. 13 UID:143439-21893172@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143439 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:The Local Church in Ann Arbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T135103 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Friday Night AI DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful tool used in an increasing number of applications\, including efforts to improve how we use and conserve energy\, from optimizing heating and cooling systems in buildings to coordinating smart grids\, forecasting demand\, and identifying new opportunities for efficiency across industries. At the same time\, training and deploying large AI models requires vast computational resources and significant amounts of electricity\, raising concerns about carbon emissions and other air pollution\, water consumption\, and the long-term energy footprint of AI itself. How can we harness AI’s benefits while avoiding the escalating costs of running increasingly large systems? What role can smaller models\, hardware advances\, and new design practices play in making AI more sustainable? Join us for a conversation with experts in AI & systems and energy and environmental law as we explore how to balance innovation with environmental responsibility. With interactive activities by graduate students Snehal Prabhudesai and Yara El-Tawil\n\nPanelists: Mosharaf Chowdhury\, Alexandra Klass\nModerator: Rada Mihalcea\n\nRada Mihalcea is the Janice M. Jenkins Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in natural language processing\, with a focus on multimodal processing and computational social sciences. She is an ACM Fellow\, a AAAI Fellow\, and served as ACL President (2018-2022 Vice/Past). She is the recipient of a Sarah Goddard Power award (2019) for her contributions to diversity in science\, and the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009).\n\nMosharaf Chowdhury is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where he leads the SymbioticLab. His research focuses on making AI/ML workloads more efficient\, with a particular emphasis on reducing their energy consumption through the ML Energy Initiative. Major open-source projects from his team include Infiniswap\, the first scalable memory disaggregation solution\; FedScale\, a planetary-scale AI/ML platform\; TPP\, a tiered memory manager integrated into the Linux kernel (v5.18+)\; and Zeus\, the first energy-optimal generative AI stack. Previously\, Mosharaf invented the concept of coflows and was one of the original creators of Apache Spark. He has received numerous individual honors\, including fellowships and paper awards from NSDI\, OSDI\, ATC\, and MICRO.\n\nAlexandra B. Klass is the James G. Degnan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan\nLaw School. She teaches and writes primarily in the areas of energy law\, environmental law\, and natural resources law. In 2022 and 2023\, she served in the Biden-Harris administration as Deputy General Counsel for Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Demonstrations at the U.S. Department of Energy. Professor Klass’s recent scholarly work\, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals\, addresses regulatory and permitting challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric transmission grid\, siting and eminent domain issues surrounding interstate electric transmission lines and oil and gas pipelines\, and applications of the public trust doctrine to modern environmental law challenges. Before joining the Michigan Law faculty in 2022\, Professor Klass was a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School\, where she was a member of the faculty from 2006 to 2022. She has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School\, Harvard Law School\, Uppsala University (Sweden)\, and the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law. Prior to her academic career\, Professor Klass was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis\, where she specialized in environmental law and land use litigation. For more details on Professor Klass’s background and publications\, please see https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/alexandra-klass . UID:142593-21891201@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142593 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ai In Science And Engineering,Artificial Intelligence,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Computer Engineering,Computer Science,computing,Deep Learning,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Family,Free,In Person,Machine Learning,Michigan Ai Lab,Michigan Engineering,Technology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T180217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T213000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:🎲 Game Night Invitation 🎉 DESCRIPTION: \n🎲 Game Night Invitation 🎉\nCome take a break from your busy week and join us for a fun evening of food\, friendship\, and games with friends from the U-M community!\n📅 Date: Friday\, March 13🍽 Dinner: 6:30 PM (while it lasts)🎮 Game Night: 7:30 – 9:30 PM📍 Location: 1717 Broadway Street\, Ann Arbor\, 🚶‍♂️Only a 10-minute walk from North Campus\nBring a friend and enjoy great conversations\, delicious food\, and exciting games in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere.\n✨ Everyone is welcome — we’d love to see you there! UID:146497-21899197@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:AACRC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T181529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260221T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Women's Gymnastics vs #1 Oklahoma\, Eastern Michigan DESCRIPTION:Women's Gymnastics vs #1 Oklahoma\, Eastern Michigan UID:145792-21897820@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145792 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Gymnastics LOCATION:Crisler Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T161832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Mark Webster Reading Series DESCRIPTION:The Mark Webster Reading Series showcases work by second-year MFA students in the Helen Zell Writers' Program. Held on Friday evenings\, Webster Readings present one poet and one fiction writer\, each introduced by a fellow writer also in the graduating cohort. As the culminating event for students of the program\, Webster Readings are hosted in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art and held in Helmut Stern Auditorium. An opportunity to hear from emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting\, these readings are free and open to the public. The Mark Webster Reading Series remembers the poetry and life of Mark Webster. Webster's work is available in the Hopwood Room.\nLogin at: https://tinyurl.com/Websters25-26\n\n7-8:00pm\, Friday\, March 13: Webster Reading featuring Micah Muhammad\, introduced by Desireé Dallagiacomo & Jennifer Nessel\, introduced by Renée Flory UID:144979-21896234@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144979 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Creative Writing,Department Of English Language And Literature,English Language And Literature,Graduate,Literary Arts,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T180155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T220000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Masquerade: School of Social Work Graduate School Gala DESCRIPTION:\nDate and Time: Friday\, March 13\, from 7 - 10 pm ET\nLocation: Michigan League Ballroom\, 911 N University Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104\nTickets: $20\, available soon!\n UID:145490-21897405@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145490 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260206T104642 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T220000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Mega Shabbat at the Big House DESCRIPTION:Michigan Hillel is thrilled to celebrate 100 years of Jewish life on campus with you! Celebrate at the Big House for Mega Shabbat on Friday\, March 13th! Join hundreds of your peers to mark this incredible milestone\, and enjoy Shabbat dinner at the biggest event of the century\, generously sponsored by Nancy & James Grosfeld\, Regent Emeritus Ronald Weiser\, and the William Davidson Foundation. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. UID:145159-21896744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145159 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community,Community Engagement,Education,Food,In Person,jewish community,Leadership,Meal,Michigan Hillel,Religious,Student Org LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260302T113013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Yotonix: Across the Yotoverse DESCRIPTION:We hope your spider senses are tingling~ Yotonix is BACK this year for it's tenth anniversary with a super thrilling punch... Join us at Mendelssohn for an evening of animated flow arts and glowsticking from Photonix\, and some action-packed Chinese yo-yo from Revolution! UID:145844-21897947@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145844 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:GA - Mendelssohn CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T102636 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Iftar at The Connector DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join the West Quad Diversity Peer Educators in breaking fast! Come for a night of food\, connection\, and reflection. UID:145825-21897856@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145825 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,community gathering,Free Food,Holiday,Inclusion LOCATION:The Connector - Room 1520 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250806T115900 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker DESCRIPTION:The Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker offers some of the world’s most gifted young musicians the opportunity to perfect their skills while studying\, rehearsing\, and regularly performing with the orchestra. Founded in 1972 by conductor Herbert von Karajan\, the Akademie serves as the training ground for the next generation of musicians in the Berliner Philharmoniker and other orchestras around the world.\n\nThis concert\, part of a weeklong residency that will include campus engagement and learning activities\, will feature Akademie scholars alongside two Karajan-Akademie mentors who are principal members of the Berliner Philharmoniker in an evening of mixed chamber music repertoire. UID:137174-21879845@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137174 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical,classical music,European,UMS,university musical society LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T132131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Dar Williams DESCRIPTION:New music!\n\n“It’s a highway\, filled with deep\, exotic colors and beautiful delicate things as well as the perils that come from moving so fast\,” says Dar Williams\, describing modern life. On her 13th album\, Hummingbird Highway\, out September 12 on Righteous Babe Records\, Williams celebrates the colors she glimpses from her vantage as a touring musician. “I was a kid from the suburbs who listened when her hippie teachers said to get out in the world\,” Williams muses. Hummingbird Highway is the latest chapter in a richly unfolding story. Drawing on her experience as a playwright\, Williams populates her latest album with nuanced characters that come alive in the space of a few minutes. UID:138923-21884246@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138923 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250814T181657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fawn DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor of Dance Charli Brissey directs and performs in this hour-long show created through interrelated experiments in dance\, writing\, video\, and sound. The choreography includes the design of an original surround sound score which will be experienced “in the round” by audience members\, as well as lighting by Design and Production faculty Jess Fialko.\n\nWhile the word “fawn” is most commonly used to refer to a baby deer\, another meaning of the word describes a trauma response in which someone tries to appease a threat and/or ensure survival through flattery or cringing. The word “fawn” is also commonly confused with “faun\,” a human-animal deity and the protagonist of Nijinsky’s famously controversial ballet “Afternoon of a Faun.” This performance weaves these various etymological and mythological lineages of “fawn” and “faun” into an inherently queer dreamscape that asks questions about grief\, survival\, desire\, power\, and vulnerability in a precarious ecosystem. The performance blends methods and practices from both autofiction and science fiction\, weaving the artists’ lived experiences with speculative experiments in how to hold immense contradictions and overwhelming emotional states in one body.\n\nAge Recommendation: 12+\nTickets Required (free and donation)\n\nhttps://www.charliisananimal.com/\n\n*This performance is made possible through generous support from the University of Michigan Arts Research: Incubation and Acceleration Grant (ARIA)\, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)\, the Research\, Catalyst\, and Innovation Program (RCI)\, and the Department of Dance.* UID:137591-21880430@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137591 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Faculty,Free,Interdisciplinary,LGBT,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T151444 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T230000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Lucky UMix DESCRIPTION:Join CCI at Lucky UMix this St. Patrick’s season! 🍀 Join us at the Michigan Union for a night packed with great food\, a festive mocktail bar\, karaoke\, crafts\, and tons of fun activities. Hunt for hidden gold coins in our Union-wide scavenger hunt and redeem them for prizes like Smiskis and LEGO sets. With inflatables\, balloon and caricature artists\, and more surprises\, it’s a night you won’t want to miss! UID:146237-21898691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146237 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cci,Food,Free,Fun,Prizes,St Patrick's Day LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T145313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Next Fall DESCRIPTION:A performance of a play written by Geoffrey Nauffts put on by the RC Players.\n\nNext Fall is a play written by Geoffrey Nauffts. The play is about two gay men in a committed relationship with a twist\, with one\, Luke\, being devoutly religious and the other\, Adam\, an atheist. The play revolves around their five-year relationship and how they make it work despite their differences.\n\n8pm\, March 13th and 14th in the Keene Theater in East Quadrangle. UID:145945-21898165@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145945 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts Initiative,Comedy,Drama,Inclusion,LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,live performance,performance,Storytelling,Theater,theatre,Visual Arts LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260216T121644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nicholas Oclassen\, jazz trombone DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate student Nicholas Oclassen performs a recital. UID:145546-21897509@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145546 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Stearns Building - Cady Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260401T155400 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T230000 SUMMARY:Tours:Telescope Observing DESCRIPTION:Join us to observe the night sky with the 1857 Fitz telescope and our collection of modern instruments.\n\nLocated on Central Campus next to Alice Lloyd Hall and Couzens Hall. Free admission\; no registration required.\n\nThe Observatory will be open for exploration even if the weather does not permit telescope observing. We strive to always have interesting things for you to do!\n\nLast visitors admitted 30 minutes prior to closing. UID:143097-21892078@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143097 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,Education,educational,Family,free,Museum,museums,observing,Science,Telescope Observation,telescope viewing,Telescopes LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T142358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:'Redefining the Crown' Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:\"Artist’s statement: For centuries\, hair has been critical to how human beings understand racial categories\, gender designations\, and class status. For Black women in particular\, hair has and continues to be tied to ethnic identity and a history of self-determination\, social justice\, and survival. Thus\, chemotherapy-induced hair loss is a devastating event for Black patients who are also more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer subtypes necessitating chemotherapy\, carrying a 40% increased risk of dying from breast cancer.\n\nRedefining the ‘crown’: Approaching chemotherapy-induced alopecia among Black patients with breast cancer” started as a manuscript published in the scientific journal Cancer. But the work could not stop there. “Redefining the Crown” then metamorphosed into a photo essay project aimed at exploring the breast cancer journeys of six Black women and their experiences with hair loss due to chemotherapy. Though the project centers the experience of Black women\, we also acknowledge that breast cancer and chemotherapy-induced alopecia impact individuals of all genders. While the goal is to illuminate the unique stories of Black women who are affected uncommonly by this common disease\, the project is also a call to action regarding the disproportionate breast cancer-related mortality facing Black communities.\n\nIn this portraiture series\, photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks. This exhibition examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy and how their sense of cultural pride and personal identity have been redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThese survivors have redefined their own crowns. More profound than the new hairstyles they don after hair loss are the invisible crowns that they choose to wear each day: gratitude\, faith\, and resilience. What do their words mean to you? Do they empower you to act?\n\nArtist’s name: Versha Pleasant\nWork Title: Image 2\nDate of creation: September 2024\nArtist’s statement: Photo by Tafari Stevenson-Howard\" UID:146980-21900136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Michigan Union - 1st Floor - Opera Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T120149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145013-21896346@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T120209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145014-21896396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T120239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145015-21896453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T120305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145016-21896517@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T060240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:FULL SEMESTER SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION:This is a schedule of all our events happening this semester. Please follow the instagram or email iazamora@umich.edu to get on the email list for more information.  UID:145222-21896850@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T060056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Monumental 7's DESCRIPTION:The Wolverines will be traveling to the Boston area to compete in the Monumental 7's tournament. UID:143776-21893998@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143776 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Veterans Memorial Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T163718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future. UID:143388-21893022@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T115746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist) DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Opening: March 12\, 2026\nExhibit Dates: March 12-30\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\nSet within Kafafian's speculative future world Azadistan—a place of magic and spirits beyond a digital collapse\, Հմայարան / Hmayaran is an immersive shrine housing a series of soft-sculptural artifacts reimagining objects Armenians have traditionally crafted for spiritual power and protection.\n \n Kafafian's focus in this exhibition is on the marks Armenians carve into stone\, clay and wood to imbue meaning\, memory and magic into their lived environments\, particularly as part of folk traditions outside of the realms of church and state.\n \n Channeled from the collective Armenian diasporic imaginary\, Kafafian's Portal Fire series depicts a narrative story that emerges from the materials as they are brought into relationship through weaving\, dyeing\, embellishment and thread. In this story world hybrid cultural practices and alternative spiritual modes develop from embodied traditions in response to the changing physical and cultural landscape of Southwest Asia in a future where technological catastrophe has severed global communications and erased digital archives. The multi-ethnic society of Azadistan takes shape through installations\, objects\, texts and performances manifesting the multiplicity of Aremenian-ness through the dimensions of a complicated past and its potential for a vibrant\, evolving futurity.\n\nCosponsor: Institute for the Humanities UID:143403-21893079@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T171335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Wayward Images DESCRIPTION:March 9-April 3\, 2026\n--\nThe public is cordially invited to an artist's reception on Wednesday\, March 27th at 4:30 pm in the RC Art Gallery.\n--\n\nPublic Workshop: On March 19th from 1 to 3pm\, join exhibiting artist Stamps School of Art & Design Assistant Professor Angela Chen for a collaborative bookmaking workshop! Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School 課後\, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen’s After School brings together collage\, sculpture\, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as 補習班 (buxiban) in Chinese\, after schools are referred to colloquially as “cram schools” and by scholars as “shadow education.” Operating simultaneously as spaces of community\, care\, and control\, these schools can be demanding and factory-like\; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents\, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult\, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School\, a buxiban and her parents’ business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley\, CA\, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students\, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink’s vast archive of photographs\, workbooks\, objects\, and advertisements\, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism\, segregation\, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner’s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics\, drawing from lived experience\, archives\, American history\, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom\, alternative and 19th-century printing processes\, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10)\, geometric abstraction\, assemblage\, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation\, the discursive enterprise\, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past\, present\, and future\, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver’s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage—one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture\, hymn\, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don’t require an escape. She addresses the sonic\, linguistic\, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing\, downloading\, and transferring archives. UID:146709-21899519@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art Workshop,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T105136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16. UID:142417-21890886@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T085640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Evolution of Campus\, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. This exhibit highlights the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution. \n\nThis exhibit was originally part of a larger exhibit displayed from July 2017 to January 2018 to commemorate U-M's bicentennial. UID:138431-21890651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138431 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T175258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T140000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Community Health and Engagement at The Ypsilanti Farmers Market – Health Screenings & Medication Safety DESCRIPTION:U-M College of Pharmacy Community Health and Engagement\nFrom hosting flu vaccine clinics to administering safe medication disposal events\, our students actively participate in community service.\n\nEvent Information:\nVolunteers will be discussing: Health Screenings & Medication Safety\n\nConnect with College of Pharmacy Students at Our Wellness Event!\nEmpowering your health starts with knowledge and the College of Pharmacy students are here to help! Stop by our interactive booth to explore:\n\nCancer Screenings: Learn about the importance of early detection\, recommended screenings\, and how you can take charge of your health.\nBirth Control Options & Education: Get clear\, up-to-date information on the different birth control methods available\, along with expert guidance to help you make informed choices.\n\nStop by and build your confidence with answers and resources for every stage of life. Friendly\, approachable students are ready to chat\, share materials\, and empower you with the tools to make healthy decisions.\nYour health is our priority\, let’s make wellness accessible\, together! UID:144052-21894591@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144052 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Service,Education,Free,Health & Wellness,Medicine,Pharmacy,Public Health,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Ypsilanti Farmers Market CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T060126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T190000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Great Lakes Conference Championships DESCRIPTION:Our postseason begins with the Great Lakes Conference Championships!  This event allows us to qualify for Nationals! UID:144823-21895981@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Hillsdale College CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260406T083208 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T160000 SUMMARY:Tours:Saturday Open House Featuring Astronomer Dean Regas DESCRIPTION:Join us 10 am-11 pm and tour the 172-year-old Observatory\, view our exhibits\, and participate in hands-on astronomy activities. And if weather permits\, view the sun with our solar telescope and the night sky with historic and modern telescopes. Telescope observing is weather permitting\, but we always strive to have fun things to do!\n\nFamilies welcome\, admission is always free\, and registration is not required.\n\nAs an added bonus\, Dean Regas will be joining us for two family-friendly space talks at 2 pm and 4 pm. Dean is an author\, podcast host\, and traveling astronomer who is known for bringing the cosmos to the public.\n\nBio: Dean Regas is a renowned public speaker\, author\, educator\, national popularizer of astronomy\, and an expert in observational astronomy. He served as the astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory from 2000-2023 and was the astronomer in residence at the Grand Canyon in 2021. He is the author of seven books including “All About Orion\,” “100 Things to See in the Night Sky” and “How to Teach Grown-Ups About Pluto.” From 2010-2019 he was the co-host of the PBS program Star Gazers\, and he has contributed to Astronomy Magazine\, Sky and Telescope Magazine\, Farmer's Almanac\, USAToday\, Science Friday and Here & Now. He is also the host of a popular astronomy podcast \"Looking Up with Dean Regas.\" UID:143099-21892091@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143099 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,Education,educational,Family,free,history,Museum,museums,observing,Science,Telescope Observation,telescope viewing,Telescopes,tour,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T142035 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T113000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Saturday Morning Physics | Magnets and Amplitudes: A Glimpse into the Quantum Realm DESCRIPTION:Aaron Chan\, \"Extreme Magnetic Fields: How and Why\"\nLaboratory experimental apparatus can produce magnetic fields up to 100T—about 30 times stronger than hospital MRI machines and 10\,000 times larger than a regular fridge magnet. In this talk\, I will discuss the cutting-edge technology used by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory to produce such powerful magnetic fields and the interesting physical phenomena probed in such extreme environments. \n\nJustin Berman\, \"Bootstrapping High-Energy Theories from Low-Energy Clues\"\nA key goal of particle physics theories is to predict how particles scatter off one another. However\, experimentally probing these interactions at very high energies is extremely difficult. In this talk\, I explain how fundamental principles of physics let us “bootstrap” low-energy data into predictions about high-energy particles\, independent of the underlying theory. By using this bootstrap technique\, I show that we can find upper and lower limits on the masses of particles in an approximation of the real world\, which predict the existence and properties of a massive particle that has not yet been observed.\n\nWe celebrate the Van Loo Family Student Presentations this Saturday!\n\nLecture and Q&A\, live-streamed on: https://myumi.ch/5kVRx UID:144048-21894588@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144048 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applied Physics,College Of Engineering,Complex Systems,Faculty,Family,Free,Graduate And Professional Students,Graduate Students,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Mathematics,Michigan Engineering,Physics,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Quantum,Quantum Computing,Quantum Science,Smoke-free LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 170 & 182 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T115004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T140000 SUMMARY:Other:Family Day | Children and Play in the Ancient World DESCRIPTION:Join us for our biannual Family Day as we learn about children and play in the ancient world! \n\nExplore what it was like to grow up in the ancient Mediterranean. \n\nCreate your own yarn bracelet. \n\nDiscover the kinds of toys children played with in the past—and make your own! \n\nThe Kelsey Museum and Family Day are free and open to the public. Engaging\, hands-on activities take place in Newberry Hall. Docent guides\, scavenger hunts\, and storytime sessions are available in the museum galleries from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. For more information\, visit lsa.umich.edu/kelsey or email kelsey.ed@umich.edu.\n\nIf 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:145522-21897466@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145522 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Egypt,Ancient Greece,Ancient Middle East,Ancient Rome,Archaeology,Children,Family,Free,History,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260115T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T190000 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:138032-21881310@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T153056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Stay in the Blue St Patrick's Day bagel outreach DESCRIPTION:If you are planning to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year\, then you might like to grab a bagel as part of your plans! Beyond The Diag\, Wolverine Wellness\, DPSS and Center for Campus Involvement will be on The Diag 11:00am-1:00pm\, and are offering bagels\, fun and lots of information about how to stay safe while you celebrate. UID:146271-21898821@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146271 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:beyond the diag,st patricks day,stay in the blue,Well-being,Wolverine Wellness LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T094536 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Creating the Future of Medicine for 175 Years DESCRIPTION:As the Medical School celebrates the anniversary of its opening in the fall of 1850\, and Michigan Medicine marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the \"Old Main\" University Hospital that served as its flagship from 1925 to 1986\, a free museum exhibit explores 175 years of medical education\, research and clinical care. \n\nOpen to the public at the Museum on Main Street operated by the Washtenaw County Historical Society\, the exhibit includes artifacts\, photos and facts about how U-M's medical community grew from humble beginnings on the Diag to become one of the nation's largest and most respected academic medical centers. It also asks visitors to ponder their own attitudes and experiences\, and to submit memories and photos of their time working\, studying\, volunteering or receiving care at U-M's medical campus and beyond. There are also activities for young visitors.\n\nThe museum is open to the public every Saturday and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.\n\nFull details about the exhibit\, including parking instructions and how to book a free private group tour on a weekday\, are available at http://michmed.org/museum\n\nThe museum has an accessible entrance at the rear of the building. UID:139428-21885500@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139428 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Life Science,Medicine,Museum,Nursing LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Legacies: Contemporary Art Dialogues with Clay DESCRIPTION:\n\nOn the occasion of the 2026 NCECA conference in Detroit\, Stamps Gallery presents an exhibition of new and recent work by diverse intergenerational artists working in clay locally and nationally. Collectively\, these works preserve and evolve age-old artistic traditions from weaving\, mark-making\, and pottery as contemporary forms of resistance and resilience\; recovery and regeneration that draw on diasporic and ancestral knowledge of world-building and translation.\n\nFeaturing work by Maya Davis\, Adebunmi Gbadebo\, Nicole Marroquin\, Marie Woo\, and Hedy Yang. Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.\n\nDDD Project Space\, 2857 East Grand Blvd Suite 104\, Detroit MI\n\nExhibition Dates and Hours: March 13 – 28\, 2026\n\nFri.\, March 13 and 20: 12—6 p.m.\nSat.\, March 14 and 21: 12—5 p.m.\nTue—Wed\, March 24—25: 11 a.m.—5 p.m.\nThu.\, March 26: 12—7 p.m.\nFri.\, March 27: 12—9 p.m.\nSat.\, March 28: 12—5 p.m.\n\nExhibition Reception: Fri.\, March 27\, 5:30 — 9 p.m. UID:145539-21897492@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145539 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Sea Monsters DESCRIPTION:The film follows a curious and adventurous Dolichorhynchops – familiarly known as a ‘dolly’ – as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history. Along the way\, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs\, giant turtles\, enormous fish\, fierce sharks\, and the most dangerous sea monster of all– the mosasaur. UID:136442-21897060@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136442 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Science LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T120101 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T143000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Beginner Friendly Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Training DESCRIPTION:Our weekly beginner-friendly sessions are designed for students who are new to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or looking for a structured\, low-pressure environment to build strong fundamentals.\nEach session focuses on core movements\, positional awareness\, and high-percentage techniques used in real sparring\, with an emphasis on safety\, clarity\, and progressive learning. Instruction is step-by-step\, with plenty of time for drilling\, questions\, and guided practice.\nNo prior martial arts experience is required. These classes are ideal if you are:\n• Trying BJJ for the first time\n• Looking to improve fundamentals before live sparring\n• Returning after time away from training\n• Interested in grappling for fitness\, confidence\, or competition\nTraining partners are supportive\, instruction is detailed\, and the pace is intentionally beginner-friendly while still preparing you for more advanced classes over time.\nCome learn how to move efficiently\, control positions\, and build confidence on the mats - one class at a time. UID:144473-21895400@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144473 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T181637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Performing Arts Technology Showcase 2026 DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the PAT Showcase 2026 for a day of fixed & interactive media displays and a live concert! \n\nSchedule:\nFixed & interactive media displays @ Brehm Technology Suite\, 1:00 - 5:00 pm\nLive concert @ Hankinson Hall\, 6:00 pm\n\nPAT Showcase is brought to you by students\, staff\, and community friends of the Department of Performing Arts Technology (PAT). Open to the public and family-friendly. Catering will be provided during the break. UID:146485-21899185@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Media,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Brehm Technology Suite CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T134500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you. UID:141325-21897085@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T144500 SUMMARY:Film Screening:T.REX DESCRIPTION:With stunning CGI visuals and the latest research from leading paleontologists\, the film offers audiences a fresh perspective on the GOAT (Greatest Of All Tyrants): Tyrannosaurus rex. Anchored by the true story of the young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime when they spotted a large fossilized leg bone on a walk on public lands in North Dakota\, T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig\, with cutting edge computer graphics that bring the iconic T. rex to life—from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill\, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator. UID:136347-21897106@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T120149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Visit Matthaei Botanical Gardens with the ADHD Student Group DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, March 14th\, 2pm\nWhere: Matthaei Botanical Gardens\, 1800 N Dixboro Rd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48105\nWhat: Explore the indoor gardens and outdoor trails (weather permitting) at Matthaei Botanical Gardens with the ADHD Student Group! RSVP with the following form to ensure everyone has a ride: https://forms.gle/f27cn4qiiWwYa7SL9 UID:146203-21898651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146203 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260217T114107 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Board Games and Brownies at West Quad DESCRIPTION:Join the West Quad Diversity Peer Educators and Multicultural Lounge Community Assistants for board games\, brownies\, and endless fun! UID:145594-21897571@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145594 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Games,housing,Social LOCATION:West Quadrangle - Asubuhi Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T174523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CREES Co-sponsored Event. TedXUofM 2026 DESCRIPTION:This year’s TEDxUofM features two CREES-affiliated speakers!\n \n First-year student in the Masters in Regional Studies - Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies specialization Baktygul Chynybaeva is an award-winning journalist from Central Asia with over twenty years of experience reporting on human rights and social justice. Her reporting has contributed to major legislative and policy changes in Kyrgyzstan\, including the criminalization of bride-kidnapping\, expanded recognition of domestic violence\, free pediatric cancer treatment\, and the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A 2024–2025 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan\, her current research examines the legacy of Soviet-era political repression and its influence on historical memory in Central Asia.\n \n CREES alumna Klementina Sula (MA Public Policy 2011) focuses on helping people clarify and act on their life’s purpose. She teaches networking at the University of Michigan and works as a legacy advisor and chief learning officer to individuals and families\, guiding them in building meaningful connections and long-term impact.\n \n Both speakers will present at TEDxUofM on Saturday\, March 14\, from 3–6 pm\, at the Power Center for Performing Arts. See the full line-up of speakers and purchase tickets at tedxuofm.com. UID:144271-21895085@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144271 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:central asia,europe LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T181638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Diego Patiño\, double bass DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate student Diego Patiño performs a final senior recital. UID:145548-21897511@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Stearns Building - Cady Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T181625 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Natalie Feldpausch\, chamber oboe DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Natalie Feldpausch\, oboe\, performs in a chamber music recital. UID:145547-21897510@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145547 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T154500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you. UID:141325-21897089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250724T140433 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:TEDxUofM 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 14th for a captivating evening at TEDxUofM 2026\, hosted at the Power Center for the Performing Arts\, featuring TED Talks\, performances\, and hands-on activities!\n\nTickets are discounted for U-M students\, faculty\, and staff. Buy now: https://www.universe.com/events/tedxuofm-2026-tickets-WYV1S6 UID:136649-21878934@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136649 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,conference,Discussion,Education,Faculty,Family,Graduate Students,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Storytelling,Student Org,symposium,Undergraduate LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T142100 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:TEDxUofM 2026: Radiance DESCRIPTION: UID:146431-21899080@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146431 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251110T145627 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T170000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Judo Training DESCRIPTION:Judo Team Training at the Michigan League\nKoessler Room\, 3rd Floor. Before showing up\, please email hazoum@umich.edu. We want to be prepared for new members. UID:138019-21881197@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138019 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Athletics - Wrestling,Fitness,In Person,Leadership,Rec Sports LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T181522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Ice Hockey vs Penn State DESCRIPTION:Ice Hockey vs Penn State UID:146498-21899198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146498 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Ice Hockey LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T091401 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:Allison Park\, clarinet DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate student Allison Park performs a final senior recital\, in collaboration with Kathryn Goodson\, Arturo Fernandez\, and Tim Kulawiak. The program includes music by Béla Kovács\, Camille Saint-Saëns\, Takashi Yoshimatsu\, Joseph Horovitz\, and Felix Mendelssohn. UID:145549-21897512@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T181651 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Performing Arts Technology Showcase Concert DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the PAT Showcase 2026 for a day of fixed & interactive media displays and a live concert! \n\nSchedule:\nFixed & interactive media displays @ Brehm Technology Suite\, 1:00 - 5:00 pm\nLive concert @ Hankinson Hall\, 6:00 pm\n\nPAT Showcase is brought to you by students\, staff\, and community friends of the Department of Performing Arts Technology (PAT). Open to the public and family-friendly. Catering will be provided during the break. UID:146486-21899186@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146486 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Media,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T101822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:BeauSoleil DESCRIPTION:Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!\n\nFor the past 50 years\, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members\, and created and driven by bandleader Michael Doucet’s spellbinding fiddle playing and soulful vocals\, BeauSoleil is notorious for bringing even the most staid audience to its feet. BeauSoleil’s distinctive sound derives from the distilled spirits of New Orleans jazz\, blues rock\, folk\, swamp pop\, Zydeco\, country and bluegrass\, captivating listeners from the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans\, to Carnegie Hall\, then all the way across the pond to Richard Thompson’s Meltdown Festival in England.\n\nTheir most recent album was titled “From Bamako to Carencro\,” alluding the cultural and migratory connection between Bamako\, in Mali\, West Africa\, and Louisiana (symbolized in name by the Lafayette\, LA suburb of Carencro)\, a connection that draws a sonic bloodline back to BeauSoleil’s roots. Since becoming the first Cajun band to win a GRAMMY with “L’amour Ou La Folie” (their Traditional Folk Album – 1998) and then a second Grammy in 2010\, “Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival”\, BeauSoleil has garnered many accolades\, including twelve GRAMMY nominations. They are regular guests on Garrison Keillor’s NPR show A Prairie Home Companion\, where Keillor has dubbed them as “the best Cajun band in the world\,” and their music is so integral to the Cajun culture that they have been featured on the New Orleans–based hit HBO program “Treme”. Critics unanimously agree that it is “bon temps\, every time they play\,” (New York Times). UID:139092-21884899@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139092 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250814T181658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fawn DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor of Dance Charli Brissey directs and performs in this hour-long show created through interrelated experiments in dance\, writing\, video\, and sound. The choreography includes the design of an original surround sound score which will be experienced “in the round” by audience members\, as well as lighting by Design and Production faculty Jess Fialko.\n\nWhile the word “fawn” is most commonly used to refer to a baby deer\, another meaning of the word describes a trauma response in which someone tries to appease a threat and/or ensure survival through flattery or cringing. The word “fawn” is also commonly confused with “faun\,” a human-animal deity and the protagonist of Nijinsky’s famously controversial ballet “Afternoon of a Faun.” This performance weaves these various etymological and mythological lineages of “fawn” and “faun” into an inherently queer dreamscape that asks questions about grief\, survival\, desire\, power\, and vulnerability in a precarious ecosystem. The performance blends methods and practices from both autofiction and science fiction\, weaving the artists’ lived experiences with speculative experiments in how to hold immense contradictions and overwhelming emotional states in one body.\n\nAge Recommendation: 12+\nTickets Required (free and donation)\n\nhttps://www.charliisananimal.com/\n\n*This performance is made possible through generous support from the University of Michigan Arts Research: Incubation and Acceleration Grant (ARIA)\, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)\, the Research\, Catalyst\, and Innovation Program (RCI)\, and the Department of Dance.* UID:137592-21880431@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Faculty,Free,Interdisciplinary,LGBT,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T181635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Kevin Payne\, jazz percussion DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate student Kevin Payne performs a final senior recital. UID:145550-21897513@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Stearns Building - Cady Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T145313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Next Fall DESCRIPTION:A performance of a play written by Geoffrey Nauffts put on by the RC Players.\n\nNext Fall is a play written by Geoffrey Nauffts. The play is about two gay men in a committed relationship with a twist\, with one\, Luke\, being devoutly religious and the other\, Adam\, an atheist. The play revolves around their five-year relationship and how they make it work despite their differences.\n\n8pm\, March 13th and 14th in the Keene Theater in East Quadrangle. UID:145945-21898166@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145945 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts Initiative,Comedy,Drama,Inclusion,LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,live performance,performance,Storytelling,Theater,theatre,Visual Arts LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T142358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:'Redefining the Crown' Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:\"Artist’s statement: For centuries\, hair has been critical to how human beings understand racial categories\, gender designations\, and class status. For Black women in particular\, hair has and continues to be tied to ethnic identity and a history of self-determination\, social justice\, and survival. Thus\, chemotherapy-induced hair loss is a devastating event for Black patients who are also more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer subtypes necessitating chemotherapy\, carrying a 40% increased risk of dying from breast cancer.\n\nRedefining the ‘crown’: Approaching chemotherapy-induced alopecia among Black patients with breast cancer” started as a manuscript published in the scientific journal Cancer. But the work could not stop there. “Redefining the Crown” then metamorphosed into a photo essay project aimed at exploring the breast cancer journeys of six Black women and their experiences with hair loss due to chemotherapy. Though the project centers the experience of Black women\, we also acknowledge that breast cancer and chemotherapy-induced alopecia impact individuals of all genders. While the goal is to illuminate the unique stories of Black women who are affected uncommonly by this common disease\, the project is also a call to action regarding the disproportionate breast cancer-related mortality facing Black communities.\n\nIn this portraiture series\, photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks. This exhibition examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy and how their sense of cultural pride and personal identity have been redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThese survivors have redefined their own crowns. More profound than the new hairstyles they don after hair loss are the invisible crowns that they choose to wear each day: gratitude\, faith\, and resilience. What do their words mean to you? Do they empower you to act?\n\nArtist’s name: Versha Pleasant\nWork Title: Image 2\nDate of creation: September 2024\nArtist’s statement: Photo by Tafari Stevenson-Howard\" UID:146980-21900137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Michigan Union - 1st Floor - Opera Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T120149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145013-21896347@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T120209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145014-21896397@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T120239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145015-21896454@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T120305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145016-21896518@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T060240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T235959 SUMMARY:Other:FULL SEMESTER SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION:This is a schedule of all our events happening this semester. Please follow the instagram or email iazamora@umich.edu to get on the email list for more information.  UID:145222-21896851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T060056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T210000 SUMMARY:Other:Monumental 7's DESCRIPTION:The Wolverines will be traveling to the Boston area to compete in the Monumental 7's tournament. UID:143776-21893999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143776 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Veterans Memorial Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T163718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future. UID:143388-21893023@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T115746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist) DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Opening: March 12\, 2026\nExhibit Dates: March 12-30\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\nSet within Kafafian's speculative future world Azadistan—a place of magic and spirits beyond a digital collapse\, Հմայարան / Hmayaran is an immersive shrine housing a series of soft-sculptural artifacts reimagining objects Armenians have traditionally crafted for spiritual power and protection.\n \n Kafafian's focus in this exhibition is on the marks Armenians carve into stone\, clay and wood to imbue meaning\, memory and magic into their lived environments\, particularly as part of folk traditions outside of the realms of church and state.\n \n Channeled from the collective Armenian diasporic imaginary\, Kafafian's Portal Fire series depicts a narrative story that emerges from the materials as they are brought into relationship through weaving\, dyeing\, embellishment and thread. In this story world hybrid cultural practices and alternative spiritual modes develop from embodied traditions in response to the changing physical and cultural landscape of Southwest Asia in a future where technological catastrophe has severed global communications and erased digital archives. The multi-ethnic society of Azadistan takes shape through installations\, objects\, texts and performances manifesting the multiplicity of Aremenian-ness through the dimensions of a complicated past and its potential for a vibrant\, evolving futurity.\n\nCosponsor: Institute for the Humanities UID:143403-21893080@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T171335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Wayward Images DESCRIPTION:March 9-April 3\, 2026\n--\nThe public is cordially invited to an artist's reception on Wednesday\, March 27th at 4:30 pm in the RC Art Gallery.\n--\n\nPublic Workshop: On March 19th from 1 to 3pm\, join exhibiting artist Stamps School of Art & Design Assistant Professor Angela Chen for a collaborative bookmaking workshop! Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School 課後\, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen’s After School brings together collage\, sculpture\, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as 補習班 (buxiban) in Chinese\, after schools are referred to colloquially as “cram schools” and by scholars as “shadow education.” Operating simultaneously as spaces of community\, care\, and control\, these schools can be demanding and factory-like\; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents\, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult\, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School\, a buxiban and her parents’ business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley\, CA\, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students\, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink’s vast archive of photographs\, workbooks\, objects\, and advertisements\, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism\, segregation\, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner’s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics\, drawing from lived experience\, archives\, American history\, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom\, alternative and 19th-century printing processes\, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10)\, geometric abstraction\, assemblage\, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation\, the discursive enterprise\, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past\, present\, and future\, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver’s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage—one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture\, hymn\, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don’t require an escape. She addresses the sonic\, linguistic\, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing\, downloading\, and transferring archives. UID:146709-21899520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art Workshop,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T105136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16. UID:142417-21890887@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T085640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Evolution of Campus\, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. This exhibit highlights the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution. \n\nThis exhibit was originally part of a larger exhibit displayed from July 2017 to January 2018 to commemorate U-M's bicentennial. UID:138431-21890652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138431 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251216T111224 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED & First Aid DESCRIPTION:This is a blended learning course. Participants will be emailed a link a few days prior to your in person class to complete your online portion from home. The online portion of this class will take approximately 2 hours. The in person portion of your class will be held at the School of Kinesiology Building on Sunday\, March 15\, for review and skills testing. UID:142796-21891604@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cpr Class,Health & Wellness LOCATION:School of Kinesiology Building - 4600 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T153637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T133000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Beginner Orienteering at the Arb DESCRIPTION:Put your navigation skills to use by joining the Michigan Sustainability Community for an afternoon of orienteering at the Arb. \n\nOrienteering is a fast-paced sport where participants navigate through terrain using specialized compass and maps. This group activity builds navigational and strategic thinking skillsets in a fun\, problem-solving environment. Join students from Michigan Sustainability Community for an introduction orienteering event\, navigating the trails at Nichols Arboretum.\n\nMeet at the Geddes entrance to the Arb\, at approximately 1827 Geddes Ave. This entrance has a gate and is walking distance to Oxford Residence Hall.\n\nPlease complete the registration form if interested. UID:146000-21898251@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146000 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Games,Navigation,Orienteering LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T094536 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Creating the Future of Medicine for 175 Years DESCRIPTION:As the Medical School celebrates the anniversary of its opening in the fall of 1850\, and Michigan Medicine marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the \"Old Main\" University Hospital that served as its flagship from 1925 to 1986\, a free museum exhibit explores 175 years of medical education\, research and clinical care. \n\nOpen to the public at the Museum on Main Street operated by the Washtenaw County Historical Society\, the exhibit includes artifacts\, photos and facts about how U-M's medical community grew from humble beginnings on the Diag to become one of the nation's largest and most respected academic medical centers. It also asks visitors to ponder their own attitudes and experiences\, and to submit memories and photos of their time working\, studying\, volunteering or receiving care at U-M's medical campus and beyond. There are also activities for young visitors.\n\nThe museum is open to the public every Saturday and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.\n\nFull details about the exhibit\, including parking instructions and how to book a free private group tour on a weekday\, are available at http://michmed.org/museum\n\nThe museum has an accessible entrance at the rear of the building. UID:139428-21885532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139428 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Life Science,Medicine,Museum,Nursing LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T111958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T150000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Scientist Spotlight & Young Scientists’ Expo DESCRIPTION:Feed your curiosity! Visit with University of Michigan scientists and participate in engaging\, hands-on activities to learn about their cutting-edge research. These researchers are part of the U-M Museum of Natural History’s Science Communication Fellows\, bringing scientists and the public face-to-face.\n\nThis Spotlight will also feature science projects from Forsythe Middle School students and demonstrations by the Forsythe robotics team.\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nSuitable for upper elementary through adult visitors.\n\nMade possible with help from the National Science Foundation. UID:145306-21897031@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145306 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Family,Free,Museum,natural history museum,Science LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Sea Monsters DESCRIPTION:The film follows a curious and adventurous Dolichorhynchops – familiarly known as a ‘dolly’ – as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history. Along the way\, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs\, giant turtles\, enormous fish\, fierce sharks\, and the most dangerous sea monster of all– the mosasaur. UID:136442-21897065@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136442 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Science LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260222T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Women's Tennis vs Iowa DESCRIPTION:Women's Tennis vs Iowa UID:145797-21897829@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145797 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Tennis LOCATION:Varsity Tennis Bldg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T181639 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T133000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jake Nowell\, French horn DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate student Jake Nowell performs a final senior recital. UID:145551-21897514@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145551 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T131159 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ann Arbor Art + Feminism 2026 DESCRIPTION:Listen to a panel of University of Michigan faculty members talk about creating a feminist\, inclusive\, and more equitable internet\, then participate in a Wikipedia and Wikidata Edit-a-thon. We'll provide a hands-on workshop for beginners\, reference materials\, and lunch from Jerusalem Garden.\n\nWhat would a truly feminist internet look like? Artists and activists who identify as women\, non-binary\, trans\, queer\, Black\, Indigenous\, or people of color only make up a fraction of contributors and content subjects in Wikimedia. As generative AI plays a larger role on the internet\, it is more important than ever to diversify the content. Join us to learn how you can take action to address this imbalance by editing Wikipedia and Wikidata! \n\nThis is the first time Ann Arbor Art + Feminism will incorporate Wikidata as well as Wikipedia. Wikidata can be described as Wikipedia’s structured data counterpart\, designed as an open platform that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata ensures that all Wikimedia projects — like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons — can get their information from the same place. As a freely available information resource\, it also can be used to standardize and enrich other open databases and software. \n\nThis event is in partnership with Ann Arbor District Library\, the U-M Library\, and LSA Technology Services. UID:145942-21898161@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145942 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Wikipedia LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 4th Floor Program Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T162231 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Art in the Arb: Make a Mini Glade DESCRIPTION:Take home a mini glade! Come join us at Nichols Arboretum and make a model forest with dried herbaceous plants. Bring a dried bouquet from your own garden or play with natural materials we provide. \n\nJoin Arb Caretaker Jenna in an interactive workshop exploring landscape architecture\, design\, and imagined futures. Starting with a sketch walk\, participants will look at winter’s leftover plant material and sketch the architecture they see. They will then use these sketches to design the shape and texture of a mini-forest. Using foraged dried blooms and grasses from last summer\, the group will create a mini-forest glued onto foam board. \n\nNo prior art experience is required\; all levels are welcome. All materials are provided. Bring your curiosity and love for the outdoors!\n\nArtist Bio:\nJenna James is a second-year landscape architecture student and Arboretum caretaker. She has been creating art since she was a teenager and uses these skills to communicate ideas and site analysis in her studies at the School of Environment and Sustainability. Her multi-media practice and appreciation of the genius of botany's unique textures and structural characteristics inspired this workshop that encourages others to create out of what is often tossed away. \n\nLocation:\nThis session takes place at the entrance to Nichols Arboretum located at 1610 Washington Heights. Upon entering the Arb\, look for the James D. Reader Center\, a large white farmhouse. Follow the ramp or stairs to the main entrance with the green door.\n\nRegistration required: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/16054 UID:145840-21897941@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145840 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Arts Initiative,Botany,Ecology,Landscape Architecture,Outdoors LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T134500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you. UID:141325-21897093@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T120143 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T153000 SUMMARY:Other:Weekly Reset - Central Campus DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the ADHD Student Group's Weekly Reset! This weekly event combines peer support with weekly planning\, and gives students a chance to begin working towards their goals. Each session will start with a group discussion on the challenges members have faced\, accomplishments the members have made\, and any tools / resources members would like to share. Then members will have an opportunity to plan for the upcoming week. Last\, members will have an opportunity to begin working towards their goals and form accountability partners. \nThis event will be every Sunday with meetup options on Central Campus and on Zoom. Times are:\nMason Hall room 2437: Sundays 1:30pm - 3:30pm\nZoom: Sundays 4:30pm - 6:30pm UID:145226-21896890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145226 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T121649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T150000 SUMMARY:Performance:[Cancelled] Maitri White\, voice DESCRIPTION:This performance has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. UID:146239-21898702@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146239 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T120110 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T150000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Beginner Friendly Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Training DESCRIPTION:Our weekly beginner-friendly sessions are designed for students who are new to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or looking for a structured\, low-pressure environment to build strong fundamentals.\nEach session focuses on core movements\, positional awareness\, and high-percentage techniques used in real sparring\, with an emphasis on safety\, clarity\, and progressive learning. Instruction is step-by-step\, with plenty of time for drilling\, questions\, and guided practice.\nNo prior martial arts experience is required. These classes are ideal if you are:\n\n\nTrying BJJ for the first time\n\n\nLooking to improve fundamentals before live sparring\n\n\nReturning after time away from training\n\n\nInterested in grappling for fitness\, confidence\, or competition\n\n\nTraining partners are supportive\, instruction is detailed\, and the pace is intentionally beginner-friendly while still preparing you for more advanced classes over time.\nCome learn how to move efficiently\, control positions\, and build confidence on the mats—one class at a time. UID:144487-21895414@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144487 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ann Arbor BJJ CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T120041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Crafting Meeting DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join us every Sunday from 2:00-4:00p for our weekly crafting meeting! All skills are welcome with plenty of teachers and projects for knitting and crocheting each week. If you have more questions\, please DM us on Instagram or email vipsclub-admin@umich.edu \nTime: 2:00-4:00 pm\nLocation: Central Campus\, Michigan League (check GCal for specific room)\nVIPs Club GCal: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y183OWUyMmFkNTQ2NDk4NDdmNWZiN2U1NmE4ZDMwNjIzMWUwYTE4MWUyYjY0YTQyNjZkYjIzNzdlMTRlODhlYzczQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20\nVIPs Club Instagram: @vipsclubumich\nNonprofit Website: vipsfund.org\nNonprofit Instagram: @vipsfund UID:143238-21892539@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, Room 4 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T181737 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T150000 SUMMARY:Tours:Exhibition Tour: Zina Saro-Wiwa: Table Manners Season I DESCRIPTION:Dive deeper into UMMA’s collection of African art with this tour starting with *Table Manners: Season 1*\, by Nigerian artist Zina Saro-Wiwa.  In this installation\, eight videos portray individuals from the Niger Delta eating meals tied to the region’s cultural and natural landscapes. The intimate dining experiences challenge our assumptions about identity\, culture\, and power. Our tour will then move to *We Write to You About Africa*. Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists—the exhibition directly addresses the complex histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North\, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.\n\nFree and open to the public\, registration required. UID:145146-21896731@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145146 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260216T100345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T150000 SUMMARY:Tours:Sunday Drop-In Tour | Women in the Ancient World DESCRIPTION:In this tour\, we will look at artifacts from the ancient world that include images of women—from goddesses to mythological figures to people who really lived. Along the way\, we will explore what depictions of women reveal about the ancient Middle East\, Cyprus\, Etruria\, Egypt\, Greece\, and Rome.\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:145523-21897467@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145523 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Egypt,Ancient Greece,Ancient Middle East,Ancient Rome,Archaeology,Culture,Free,History,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T144500 SUMMARY:Film Screening:T.REX DESCRIPTION:With stunning CGI visuals and the latest research from leading paleontologists\, the film offers audiences a fresh perspective on the GOAT (Greatest Of All Tyrants): Tyrannosaurus rex. Anchored by the true story of the young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime when they spotted a large fossilized leg bone on a walk on public lands in North Dakota\, T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig\, with cutting edge computer graphics that bring the iconic T. rex to life—from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill\, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator. UID:136347-21897110@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T094417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T154500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you. UID:141325-21897097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate LOCATION:Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T181644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T180000 SUMMARY:Performance:Telegraph Quartet DESCRIPTION:Known for their technical prowess and appreciation for the history behind the music\, the Telegraph Quartet brings fluid synchronicity and refined artistry to a program that showcases the work of two contemporary American composers\, Kenji Bunch (b. 1973) and George Rochberg (1918 – 2005). \n\nThe ensemble will perform Kenji Bunch’s String Quartet No. 5\, *Music for a Shared Space*\, and George Rochberg’s String Quartet No. 3. Bunch’s fifth string quartet encrypts beautiful lines from the second movement of W.A. Mozart’s divertimenti\, which pulse throughout the work\, culminating in a joyous\, rocking final anthem. Rochberg’s String Quartet No. 3 was born of profound loss and a longing for meaning. Rochberg breaks from strict modernism and rebuilds his musical world using memory\, woven into something newly vulnerable. The resulting quartet feels like a raw confession of grief and slow recovery of beauty.\n\nOf these two works\, the Telegraph Quartet says:\n\n“Despite being written 50 years apart\, both the Rochberg and the Bunch share a kinship as art that finds its voice and power by embodying the styles of others as their own. Rochberg's String Quartet No. 3 marked a turning point for this composer\, who released himself from only composing in a dissonant\, academically acceptable 20th-century style. Instead\, he allowed himself what was then the heresy of speaking fluently in the musical language of past composers like Mahler and late Beethoven\, juxtaposing those with his former thorny modernist dialect. Similarly\, Kenji Bunch's *Music for a Shared Space* accomplishes something very similar\; between Afro-funk grooves and rhythm and blues versions of Mozart divertimenti\, we find Bunch moving fluently from one popular style to the next and sweetly mixing that music with those of the past\, continuing this opening of styles\, cultural and chronological\, that Rochberg dared to break open during his time.”\n\n\nABOUT TELEGRAPH QUARTET\nErin Chin & Joseph Maile\, violins\nPei-Ling Lin\, viola\nJeremiah Shaw\, cello\n\nThe TELEGRAPH QUARTET formed in 2013 with an equal passion for standard and contemporary chamber music repertoire. Described by the *San Francisco Chronicle* as “…an incredibly valuable addition to the cultural landscape” and “powerfully adept… with a combination of brilliance and subtlety\,” the Telegraph Quartet was awarded the prestigious 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The quartet is currently the quartet-in-residence at the University of Michigan.\n\nThe quartet has performed in New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre\, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s *Chamber Masters Series*\, and at festivals including the Chautauqua Institute\, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival\, and the Emilia Romagna Festival. They have collaborated with pianists Leon Fleisher and Simone Dinnerstein\; cellists Norman Fischer and Bonnie Hampton\; violinist Ian Swensen\; and the St. Lawrence Quartet and Henschel Quartett. A fervent champion of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire\, the Telegraph Quartet has premiered works by Osvaldo Golijov\, John Harbison\, Robert Sirota\, and Richard Festinger.\n\nIn 2023\, the Telegraph Quartet released *20th Century Vantage Points: Divergent Paths*\, the first in a trilogy of recordings on Azica Records exploring the string quartets of the first half of the 20th century – an era of music that the group has felt especially called to perform since its formation. *Divergent Paths*features two works that (to the best of the quartet’s knowledge) have never been recorded on the same album before: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major and Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet no. 1 in D minor\, op. 7. The quartet’s new album\, *20th Century Vantage Points: Edge of the Storm* is out now on Azica Records.\n\nwww.telegraphquartet.com UID:143249-21892550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T181648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Michigan Youth Symphonic Band / Philharmonia Orchestra / Symphony Orchestra Spring Performance DESCRIPTION:Join us for the spring performance of the Michigan Youth Symphonic Band\, the Michigan Youth Philharmonia Orchestra\, and the Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra. These ensembles are part of the Michigan Youth Ensembles (MYE) program\, which brings together exceptional high school students for weekly rehearsals at SMTD. MYE Students\, who are selected by audition\, have the opportunity to engage in a stimulating environment\, while learning from U-M conductors\, applied faculty\, and graduate students.\n\nMichigan Youth Symphonic Band (MYSB)\nCourtney Snyder\, conductor\n\nMichigan Youth Philharmonia Orchestra (MYPO)\nMichael Hopkins\, conductor\n\nMichigan Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO)\nJayce Ogren\, conductor\n\nPROGRAM (MYSB)\n*Love and Nature*\, Gala Flagello\n*Chorale and Alleluia*\, Howard Hanson\n*Angels in Architecture*\, Frank Ticheli\n*Mothership*\, Mason Bates \n\nPROGRAM (MYPO)\n*Acropolis (City of Bows)*\, Michael Hopkins\n*Fugue* (from \"L'estro Armonico\")\, A. Vivaldi & J.S. Bach / arr. Bob Lipton\n*Contemplation*\, Elena Roussanova Lucas\n*A Little Stream (Xiao He Tang Shui)*\, arr. Albert Wang\nSymphony No. 9 in C - *Allegro Molto*\, F.J. Haydn\, arr. Sandra Dackow \n\nPROGRAM (MYSO)\nPrelude from Concerto Gross #1\, Ernest Bloch\n*Dream Elegy*\, Jonathan Bailey Holland\nViolin Concerto No. 1 - 1st movement\, Max Bruch\nSymphony No. 1\, Gustav Mahler UID:135449-21876841@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T180000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Club Meeting - Wolverines on Wheels (WoW) DESCRIPTION:Join us for our weekly club meeting to discuss campus bike infrastructure and education initiatives! Here\, we plan our group rides\, pop-ups\, grant applications\, and open the floor to ANY ideas related to improving the safety and accessibility of biking on the A2 campus. \nAll campus members are welcome to join our meetings which are led by our programming chairs. \nAll Winter 2026 Semester meetings are to take place in the Sophia B Jones 1st Floor Union room with the exception of academic calendar breaks. UID:142606-21891214@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Sophia B Jones Room - 1st Floor Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T181636 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T180000 SUMMARY:Performance:Felix Guggenheim\, violin DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate student Felix Guggenheim performs a junior recital. UID:145553-21897516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145553 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250814T181659 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fawn DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor of Dance Charli Brissey directs and performs in this hour-long show created through interrelated experiments in dance\, writing\, video\, and sound. The choreography includes the design of an original surround sound score which will be experienced “in the round” by audience members\, as well as lighting by Design and Production faculty Jess Fialko.\n\nWhile the word “fawn” is most commonly used to refer to a baby deer\, another meaning of the word describes a trauma response in which someone tries to appease a threat and/or ensure survival through flattery or cringing. The word “fawn” is also commonly confused with “faun\,” a human-animal deity and the protagonist of Nijinsky’s famously controversial ballet “Afternoon of a Faun.” This performance weaves these various etymological and mythological lineages of “fawn” and “faun” into an inherently queer dreamscape that asks questions about grief\, survival\, desire\, power\, and vulnerability in a precarious ecosystem. The performance blends methods and practices from both autofiction and science fiction\, weaving the artists’ lived experiences with speculative experiments in how to hold immense contradictions and overwhelming emotional states in one body.\n\nAge Recommendation: 12+\nTickets Required (free and donation)\n\nhttps://www.charliisananimal.com/\n\n*This performance is made possible through generous support from the University of Michigan Arts Research: Incubation and Acceleration Grant (ARIA)\, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)\, the Research\, Catalyst\, and Innovation Program (RCI)\, and the Department of Dance.* UID:137593-21880432@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137593 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Faculty,Free,LGBT,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T204245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T200000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Gadites Meeting DESCRIPTION:Matthew 5:6 KJV\nBlessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.\n\nLet's pray and come with hunger and thirst\, because the Lord is prepared to feed us again today💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾. UID:144605-21895551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Religious,Undergraduate LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1405 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260219T133210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Mini Terrarium Making at Bursley DESCRIPTION:Join the Bursley Diversity Peer Educators in celebrating the start of spring with mini terrarium making! Enjoy free food and fun connection. UID:145744-21897768@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145744 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bursley,Community Engagement,Crafts,Free,Nature,Social LOCATION:Bursley Hall - Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T095830 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Holi Celebration at Markley DESCRIPTION:Join the Markley Diversity Peer Educators and Resident Advisors for free henna and crafts in celebration of Holi! UID:145821-21897851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145821 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,community gathering,Crafts,Culture,Holiday LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall - Arati Sharangpani Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T181645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T203000 SUMMARY:Performance:John Ellis\, piano DESCRIPTION:Professor of Piano John Ellis will perform a recital including *Ma plus belle histoire d'amour* by Monique Serf/arr. Michel Block\, *Novelette* no. 1 by Poulenc\, *Ballade* no. 4 in F minor\, Op. 52 by Chopin\, *Prélude\, Choral et Fugue* by Franck\, and *Fantasy* in C\, Op. 17 by Schumann.\n\nFACULTY BIO\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/profiles/john-ellis/ UID:140066-21886573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T181641 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Alan Cook\, flute DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Alan Cook performs a recital. UID:145554-21897517@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145554 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260121T132015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore DESCRIPTION:An electroacoustic soundscape\n\nJulianna Barwich and Mary Lattimore are longtime friends\, tourmates\, and two of contemporary ambient and experimental music's most celebrated composers. Synthesizing their respective crafts within the walls of Philharmonie de Paris after being given access to the extraordinary instrument collection of the Musée de la Musique in partnership with the French label InFiné\, their new single\, “Perpetual Adoration\,” blends historical harps\, celestial synths\, and Barwick’s singular voice into an immersive electroacoustic soundscape of memory\, spirituality\, and timeless resonance. It is the first piece of new music from the duo since “Canyon Lights\,” a single released as part of 2021’s Adult Swim compilation\, Digitalis.\n\nTogether in improvised dialogue\, voice and instrument — Lattimore selecting an Érard double movement harp (France\, 1873) and Barwick behind a Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5 analog synthesizer (USA\, circa 1975) — the duo channels an immense volume of emotion drawn from a visit to Basilica of Sacré Cœur de Montmartre. On a rainy night\, they saw a sign outside the cathedral labeled \"ADORATION PERPÉTUELLE\" and entered the reverberant space where a nun was singing above organ drones during Sunday Mass. They carried the powerful scene with them into a session. The resulting performance honors both the moment and the history within their instruments: the gilded\, ornate Érard harp\, the first modern pedal harp\, remains open for innovation\, still carrying the simplest\, universally beautiful tone of human fingers on strings. The PROPHET-5 has shaped several decades of exploratory music\, and Barwick continues this legacy. Her skyward synth and vocal lines ascend alongside Lattimore's tender harp strums\, creating a meditation on the restorative power of shared experience. UID:140566-21887354@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140566 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260216T121651 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Michael Baker\, chamber euphonium DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Michael Baker\, euphonium\, performs in a chamber music recital. UID:145555-21897518@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145555 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T142358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:'Redefining the Crown' Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:\"Artist’s statement: For centuries\, hair has been critical to how human beings understand racial categories\, gender designations\, and class status. For Black women in particular\, hair has and continues to be tied to ethnic identity and a history of self-determination\, social justice\, and survival. Thus\, chemotherapy-induced hair loss is a devastating event for Black patients who are also more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer subtypes necessitating chemotherapy\, carrying a 40% increased risk of dying from breast cancer.\n\nRedefining the ‘crown’: Approaching chemotherapy-induced alopecia among Black patients with breast cancer” started as a manuscript published in the scientific journal Cancer. But the work could not stop there. “Redefining the Crown” then metamorphosed into a photo essay project aimed at exploring the breast cancer journeys of six Black women and their experiences with hair loss due to chemotherapy. Though the project centers the experience of Black women\, we also acknowledge that breast cancer and chemotherapy-induced alopecia impact individuals of all genders. While the goal is to illuminate the unique stories of Black women who are affected uncommonly by this common disease\, the project is also a call to action regarding the disproportionate breast cancer-related mortality facing Black communities.\n\nIn this portraiture series\, photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks. This exhibition examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy and how their sense of cultural pride and personal identity have been redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThese survivors have redefined their own crowns. More profound than the new hairstyles they don after hair loss are the invisible crowns that they choose to wear each day: gratitude\, faith\, and resilience. What do their words mean to you? Do they empower you to act?\n\nArtist’s name: Versha Pleasant\nWork Title: Image 2\nDate of creation: September 2024\nArtist’s statement: Photo by Tafari Stevenson-Howard\" UID:146980-21900138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Michigan Union - 1st Floor - Opera Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T120149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145013-21896348@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T120209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145014-21896398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T120239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145015-21896455@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T120305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145016-21896519@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T060240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T235959 SUMMARY:Other:FULL SEMESTER SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION:This is a schedule of all our events happening this semester. Please follow the instagram or email iazamora@umich.edu to get on the email list for more information.  UID:145222-21896852@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260129T154951 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T235900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Poetry & Poetics Workshop DESCRIPTION:We are excited to welcome Professor Nikki Skillman to present a lecture this spring! Nikki Skillman is an Associate Professor in the English department at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of \"The Lyric in the Age of the Brain\" (Harvard UP\, 2016)\, which was awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Prize by Harvard University Press for an outstanding first book across the arts and sciences.\n\nThe Poetry & Poetics Workshop is excited to announce a semester of several events that build toward our Zine Initiative. Throughout the semester\, we aim to make a collaborative zine\, culminating with an event where we learn how to construct it together.\n\nRegister on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/14954 UID:144799-21895952@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144799 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature,Poetry LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T163718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future. UID:143388-21893024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T115746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist) DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Opening: March 12\, 2026\nExhibit Dates: March 12-30\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\nSet within Kafafian's speculative future world Azadistan—a place of magic and spirits beyond a digital collapse\, Հմայարան / Hmayaran is an immersive shrine housing a series of soft-sculptural artifacts reimagining objects Armenians have traditionally crafted for spiritual power and protection.\n \n Kafafian's focus in this exhibition is on the marks Armenians carve into stone\, clay and wood to imbue meaning\, memory and magic into their lived environments\, particularly as part of folk traditions outside of the realms of church and state.\n \n Channeled from the collective Armenian diasporic imaginary\, Kafafian's Portal Fire series depicts a narrative story that emerges from the materials as they are brought into relationship through weaving\, dyeing\, embellishment and thread. In this story world hybrid cultural practices and alternative spiritual modes develop from embodied traditions in response to the changing physical and cultural landscape of Southwest Asia in a future where technological catastrophe has severed global communications and erased digital archives. The multi-ethnic society of Azadistan takes shape through installations\, objects\, texts and performances manifesting the multiplicity of Aremenian-ness through the dimensions of a complicated past and its potential for a vibrant\, evolving futurity.\n\nCosponsor: Institute for the Humanities UID:143403-21893081@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T141911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial DESCRIPTION:The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit\, America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial.\n\nThe exhibit explores how President Ford joined Americans across the country in commemorating the Bicentennial. Highlighting some of the nationwide celebrations in 1976 and public gifts given to President Ford\, the exhibit asks visitors to reflect on our own Semiquincentennial commemorations.\n\nThe exhibit\, located in the Library's lobby\, will be free to visitors and will be available until December 3\, 2026. UID:145837-21897890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Bicentennial,American History,Bicentennial,History,President Gerald Ford LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T144541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T100000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch\, Strength & Balance/Zumba DESCRIPTION: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. UID:145904-21898031@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145904 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T171335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Wayward Images DESCRIPTION:March 9-April 3\, 2026\n--\nThe public is cordially invited to an artist's reception on Wednesday\, March 27th at 4:30 pm in the RC Art Gallery.\n--\n\nPublic Workshop: On March 19th from 1 to 3pm\, join exhibiting artist Stamps School of Art & Design Assistant Professor Angela Chen for a collaborative bookmaking workshop! Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School 課後\, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen’s After School brings together collage\, sculpture\, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as 補習班 (buxiban) in Chinese\, after schools are referred to colloquially as “cram schools” and by scholars as “shadow education.” Operating simultaneously as spaces of community\, care\, and control\, these schools can be demanding and factory-like\; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents\, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult\, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School\, a buxiban and her parents’ business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley\, CA\, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students\, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink’s vast archive of photographs\, workbooks\, objects\, and advertisements\, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism\, segregation\, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner’s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics\, drawing from lived experience\, archives\, American history\, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom\, alternative and 19th-century printing processes\, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10)\, geometric abstraction\, assemblage\, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation\, the discursive enterprise\, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past\, present\, and future\, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver’s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage—one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture\, hymn\, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don’t require an escape. She addresses the sonic\, linguistic\, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing\, downloading\, and transferring archives. UID:146709-21899521@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art Workshop,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T130452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Freddy to Quentin: The On-Set Still Photography of Joyce Rudolph DESCRIPTION:Joyce Rudolph has photographed some iconic actors and characters in her role as still photographer for the movies. This sampling of images from her papers\, which are housed as part of the Special Collections Research Center's Mavericks & Makers collection\, include the first images of Freddy Krueger in \"A Nightmare on Elm Street\,\" Arnold Schwenegger in \"The Terminator\,\" legends Jack Nicholson\, Diane Keaton\, Sean Penn\, and Robert DeNiro\, as well as directors such as Quentin Tarantino\, Martin Scorsese\, and her husband\, Alan Rudolph. UID:146264-21898753@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146264 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T165341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lynn Galbreath Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lynn Galbreath\, a Detroit based artist who grew up in Argentina\, is a former recipient of the Creative Artists’ Grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and the Michigan Individual Artist Grant from Michigan Council For The Arts. Galbreath’s work has been showcased locally\, nationally and internationally in over 20 solo/two person and over 100 group exhibitions.\n\nGalbreath has an M.F.A. from the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art\, Art History\, & Design\, Wayne State University\, Detroit\, MI\; and a B.F.A. with Permanent K-12 Certification from The Gwen Frostic School of Art\, Western MI University\, Kalamazoo\, MI. Galbreath has chaperoned eleven intensive\, immersive art experiences to Italy\, Spain\, France\, Belgium\, England\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, Austria\, and the Czech Republic. Lynn is a retired Adjunct Associate Professor of Studio Art from Oakland University\, where she has been on the faculty of the Department of Art & Art History since 2000. Lynn has also instructed studio art and design at the College For Creative Studies\, University of Detroit Mercy — School of Architecture\, Macomb Community College\, Wayne State University\, and Bloomfield University School. Her work can be seen in the collections of Oakland University\, Wayne State University\, Detroit Receiving Hospital\, Children’s Hospital of Michigan\, Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital and numerous private collections.\n\nThis exhibition consists of works from a variety of series created by Galbreath over the years: Telegraph\, Storyboard\, and Working Hard for a Living. Each series represents a unique exploration of themes\, techniques\, and social commentaries that reflect Galbreath’s artistic journey and concerns for the world.\n\nTelegraph explores the aesthetic visual weights and balances between harmony and content\, diving deep into how visual elements can convey messages and emotions. This series invites viewers to reflect on the way art communicates through its formal qualities\, as well as its narrative possibilities. The careful interplay of shapes\, colors\, and textures in these works prompts an examination of the viewer's perception and emotional response. By utilizing abstract forms\, Galbreath encourages an engagement that goes beyond mere observation\, seeking to provoke thought about how aesthetic choices influence understanding and meaning.\n\nOn the other hand\, Storyboard is a series of image-driven installation paintings that vary greatly in size\, showcasing Galbreath’s versatility and creative ingenuity. The titles of the works draw inspiration from the years spent creating visuals for TV commercials and public service announcements\, illustrating how commercial art often intertwines with societal messages. This series emphasizes the profound impact visual narratives have on consumer culture and public perception\, underscoring the artist's belief in the potency of imagery to shape narratives. The installations weave a complex fabric of storytelling that challenges viewers to reconsider their relationship with media and the messages they consume daily.\n\nWorking Hard for a Living pays tribute to our sustainable and unsustainable resources\, shedding light on the individuals who toil diligently within these economic frameworks. This series highlights the hard-working suppliers of essential products\, including Farm Market Managers\, Fishmongers\, and Beach Vendors. By portraying these self-employed individuals\, often operating within informal economies\, Galbreath draws attention to the unique challenges they face. These individuals frequently contend with low\, inconsistent incomes\, long hours\, and sometimes exploitative conditions\, fostering a sense of solidarity with those who labor under such circumstances.\n\nFurthermore\, the series invites viewers to confront the broader societal structures that contribute to these inequities. Galbreath's work serves not only as a tribute but also as a call to action to consider how our consumer habits and economic policies affect the livelihoods of others. The layered narratives present in this series open a dialogue about the value we place on labor and the often unseen struggles that support our day-to-day lives. Through these explorations\, Galbreath establishes a multifaceted narrative that intertwines art with activism\, compelling audiences to engage both aesthetically and ethically with the realities depicted in the exhibition. UID:142773-21891480@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T105136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16. UID:142417-21890888@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Metamorphosis: Clay in Flux DESCRIPTION:\n\nMetamorphosis: Clay in Flux is an exhibition celebrating the creative potential of student ceramics\, designed to correspond with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Detroit\, and the surrounding ceramics events in Southeast Michigan.\n\nThis exhibition is organized and juried by members of the Stamps Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC) and will be on display in the Art & Architecture Building’s Street Gallery from March 11- 25\, 2026. The exhibition will open with a reception on Wednesday\, March 11 from 4:30-6 p.m. \n\nSEC Jurors\n\nElan Povirk (project lead)\nAlexis Albert\nRachel Deveyra\n\nExhibiting Artists\n\nZoe Dvorin\nLilly Fredericks\nMaría E. García-Murguía\nMikayla Holcomb\nVirginia Holland\nMagdalyn Hubbard\nMira Hughes\nAudrey Jarrett\nEry Millican\nIsabella Possin\nMo Pofahl\nNatalie Radabaugh\nNik Roy\nMihika Shukla\nAbigail Watters UID:146483-21899176@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146483 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260325T103344 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T101500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Online Information Session for Admitted Transfer Students DESCRIPTION:Join the Transfer Student Center staff to learn more about:\n\n • How to understand your transfer credit and how transfer credit will count towards degree requirements.\n • Orientation and registration: Registering for your first semester of classes.\n • Connecting with the department you plan to major in.\n • Understanding your housing options\n • Any other questions you may have.\n\nRegistration is required. Register with link at the right. UID:142813-21891705@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142813 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T163232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Terence Swafford Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This exhibition showcases a decade of artist Terry Swafford’s work in Detroit\, marking the culmination of years spent composing scenes from the untamed edges of urban communities. These paintings serve as a visual record of Detroit’s transformation\, capturing humanity’s impact on the environment alongside nature’s persistent efforts to reclaim these spaces. As the city continues to change\, many of these depicted scenes are vanishing\, no longer visible in the landscape today. The significance of this documentation goes beyond mere nostalgia\; it invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic interplay between urban development and ecological restoration\, prompting a deeper understanding of how cities evolve while retaining traces of their history.\n\nSwafford’s paintings are created on location and in one session. The natural conditions\, including light\, shadow\, and atmosphere\, change dramatically from hour to hour and day to day\, forcing the artist to respond quickly and decisively. This approach\, born of a direct engagement with the subject and the fleeting nature of the scene\, along with his wet-on-wet technique\, keeps the work fresh and immediate. By immersing himself in the environment\, Swafford captures the diverse textures and vibrant colors that characterize Detroit’s landscape\, imbuing his work with a sense of urgency and spontaneity. Each brushstroke conveys a commitment not only to visual accuracy but also to emotional resonance\, as he strives to encapsulate the spirit of a place that is both loved and contested.\n\nIn addition to these works\, the artist constantly sketches ideas both for paintings and for designing projects in his business. These sketches serve as visual language\, helping him clarify and refine his concepts before bringing them to life. They become a means to communicate ideas to clients and his crew and become an extension of his voice—an academic exercise rooted in artistic practice that fosters collaboration and innovation. The act of sketching also reflects his evolving relationship with the city\, as each drawing encapsulates fleeting moments of inspiration drawn directly from his surroundings. This duality of function—creating art for exhibition and conceptualizing designs for projects—demonstrates Swafford’s versatility and adaptability as an artist.\n\nSwafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design\, and while at RISD\, he was part of the European Honors Program. His education not only honed his technical skills but also broadened his artistic perspective through exposure to varied artistic traditions. He has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Chicago\, Kansas City\, and New York State. Each exhibition serves as a testament to his commitment to his craft and his ability to engage diverse audiences\, offering them an opportunity to explore the complex narratives woven into each landscape. UID:142768-21891393@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T092052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Study Days | March Magic DESCRIPTION:Hello College of Engineering Students!This is a come-and-go casual shared working space like a library or office (you can work on homework\, writing\, research reading\, anything!) for only engineering graduate students to build community. Join us on March 16th from 9 AM - 11:30 AM in the Lurie Engineering Center (LEC) Johnson Rooms. There will be free snacks and swag!Please come by and join us! RSVP is not necessary but is encouraged to give us an approximate number of folks to expect!With care\,Jordan Peyton UID:144502-21895430@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144502 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Lurie Engineering Center | Johnson Rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260331T063134 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1915064Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you. Get real-time\, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab.We will discuss and educate you on…- Design andformat- Writing a great bullet point- Targeting your resumefor specific internships/jobs If you're a Graduate Studentor Recent Grad\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates. Note:This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students.#UCC UID:145614-21897593@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T202426 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:ASC Winter 2026 UMAPS Research Colloquium Series: Materials\, Resources\, and the Just Energy Transition in Africa DESCRIPTION:This series features the Winter 2026 University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics and to share their research with the larger U-M community.\n\nMonday\, March 16 | Materials\, Resources\, and the Just Energy Transition in Africa\n\nYetunde Ajayeoba (Nigeria) | “Energy band modulations in Molybdenum Disulfide/Zinc Sulfide-based van der Waals heterostructure for enhanced flexible optoelectronic applications”\n\nBahati Kayaga (Tanzania) | “Gender and Energy Access in Rural Tanzania”\n\nJanet Munakamwe (South Africa) | “Unlocking the Potential of Artisanal & Small-scale Mining (ASM) in the Just Energy Transition: Rethinking a Unified Pan-African Regulatory Framework”\n\nPlease register to attend: https://forms.gle/89CYfCjPpTrJAyGEA UID:145711-21897722@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145711 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African Studies,African Studies Center,Colloquium LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T125113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T140000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Friezes and geometry DESCRIPTION:Abstract: A fundamental problem in distance geometry aims to recover a finite tuple of points\, viewed up to oriented isometry\, from a small collection of input measurements. This thesis explores approaches to this problem based on the use of frieze patterns\, numerical arrays whose entries satisfy certain local algebraic relations.\n\nThe thesis consists of two main parts. The first part focuses on quadratic 3-term relations that underlie Coxeter-Conway frieze patterns. It surveys and extends existing work interpreting the values appearing in these relations as geometric measurement data\, and establishes direct connections between several geometric contexts in which these relations arise.\n\nThe aim of the second part of the thesis is to exhibit the broader applicability of frieze patterns as a tool in distance geometry. We identify measurement data that determines a finite configuration of points on a two-dimensional sphere in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Extending the work of Fomin and Setiabrata\, we introduce spherical Heronian and Cayley-Menger frieze patterns that organize this measurement data. Like classical Coxeter-Conway frieze patterns\, these new frieze patterns exhibit glide symmetry and a form of the Laurent phenomenon. UID:145589-21897561@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145589 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:School of Education - 2340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251218T084741 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Making Durable Environmental Progress DESCRIPTION:Nancy Stoner\, senior attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center\; former president of the Potomac Riverkeeper Network\; as former Acting Assistant Administrator for Water at the EPA\n\nBased on her decades of experience working to protect the environment\, especially clean water\, Stoner will discuss how to make environmental progress that lasts and that is less vulnerable to governmental transition flip flops and political divisiveness. UID:142886-21891765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142886 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Discussion,Energy,Environment,Faculty,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Law,Politics,Pre-Law,Public Health,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Sustainability LOCATION:Jeffries Hall - 1020 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260127T111906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T125000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Readiness: Preparing State Early Childhood Systems for a Brighter Future DESCRIPTION:Elliot Regenstein will discuss how state early childhood systems really work – how state governments oversee publicly funded programs\, how community capacity supports state work\, how advocates and philanthropists try to exercise influence\, and how data is used to shape policy.\n\nElliot Regenstein\, Law '99\, is a Chicago-based partner at Foresight Law + Policy. Elliot has extensive experience in state-level policy and advocacy\, with an emphasis on early learning. Much of his work focuses on decision-making in state education and early education systems: who is responsible for which decisions\, what information they have to support those decisions\, and what incentives are acting on key stakeholders. UID:144615-21895574@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Education Policy LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T144152 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T140000 SUMMARY:Well-being:ResNavs #SoYF Plant a Shamrock DESCRIPTION:It's time for the luck 'o the Irish\, so stop by and plant a shamrock for your very own lucky charm. Here's some trivia: the word Shamrock is derived from the Irish seamróg\, meaning “young clover\,\" and is thought to ward off evil spirits\, either through the Christian lens of the holy trinity or by Druids believing carrying a three-leaf Shamrock would enable them to escape bad luck. It's also from the Druids that the lore of the leprechaun\, a mischievous elf who plays tricks on humans\, began. \n\nShamrocks\, while their stems are seemingly delicate\, are a pretty hardy plant. Requiring indirect sunlight and good drainage\, they'll thrive outdoors in Michigan summers. (We have some personal experience with growing them\, but we used this website for reference: https://www.planetnatural.com/shamrock-plant/.) Also\, don't confuse them: Shamrocks have three leaves\, while clover has four.\n\nThe odds of finding a four-leaf Shamrock are 1:10\,000\, so why not plant your own\, instead? Caring and nurturing nature is a good for your overall wellbeing\, whether or not you're feeling lucky!\n\nThe #SoYF series (Smile on Your Face) are wellbeing breaks designed to introduce students to the eight facets of the Wolverine Wellness wheel\; for more on the U-M Wellbeing Collective\, visit the website on the right under Links. UID:144137-21894715@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144137 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,St Patrick's Day,Well-being LOCATION:Michigan Union - First Floor Information Desk CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T101438 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Revolutionary Paine: Andy Murphy Student-Curated Class Exhibit Common Sense DESCRIPTION:Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The first edition was published on January 10\, 1776\, with an initial print run of just 1\,000 copies\; but within weeks demand soared. The students of Andy Murphy’s POLISCI 495 course co-curated the exhibition “Revolutionary Paine” to document the whirlwind caused by its publication. On view at the Clements January 16-May 8\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:143999-21894451@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Americana,Exhibit,Exhibition,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Reading Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T153344 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Siteimprove Training + Live Q&A DESCRIPTION:Building on our previous Siteimprove training sessions\, please join us for a focused 90 minutes to put Siteimprove to work - checking\, improving\, and monitoring the accessibility of your sites.\n\nSession Format\n- 45 minutes of live virtual training led by Siteimprove\n- 45 minutes of live hands-on Q&A with U-M accessibility staff\n\nOptions for Participating\n- Join virtually via Zoom\n- Attend in person in a shared viewing space\n- Both sessions are identical\; attend whichever date works best for you\n- Both sessions will be recorded then shared on the Siteimprove Service Page\n\nDates\n- Monday March 16 from 12 to 1:30 PM EST\nUse this Zoom Registration Link for both Zoom and in-person registrations: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/f6uOJrRQRomk3yWz0-JXnQ#/registration\nIn-person location: ISR 6050\, 426 Thompson St\n\n- Monday March 23 from 12 to 1:30 PM EST\nUse this Zoom Registration Link for both Zoom and in-person registrations: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/TvUKBv62TUatr9V5K2nmSg#/registration\nIn-person location: Hatcher Library\, room TBD\n\nWho should attend: Admins\, support staff\, developers\, and content editors who want to use Siteimprove to improve their sites. \n- CMSes: Siteimprove works with any CMS - WordPress\, Drupal\, AEM\, etc.\n- LSA\, Engineering\, ISR\, Michigan Medicine\, Law\, Nursing\, and UM-Dearborn\n\nWhile ITS manages Siteimprove across all of U-M\, your units have their own Siteimprove signup processes which should be followed.\n\nYou're still welcome to attend!\n\nPlease share this invitation with others who may benefit. Thanks!\n\nMikhail Zolikoff (he/him)\nDigital Accessibility Services Manager Lead\nInformation Technology Services (ITS)\nUniversity of Michigan UID:146428-21899076@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146428 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:access,accessibility,Digital Accessibility,digital technology,Disability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:144523-21895454@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144523 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T164923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T134500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CommUNITY Seminar with Sylvia Hurtado \"Strategies for Expanding Participation in STEM Research Training\" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hurtado has two decades of NIH and NSF-sponsored research on a variety of campus practices to enhance participation in STEM research training at the undergraduate and graduate level. The projects move from student experiences toward understanding faculty as campus change agents\, and extending practices for organizational learning and institutional transformation. She will provide key features of recent published studies that focus on building long term change and extending program interventions to embed them in the culture and structure of the institution. Results are based on mixed methods designs that underscore the value of mentoring\, and leadership support for turning faculty-driven initiatives toward adoption as campus daily work. Implications for investment at the federal\, state\, and institutional level to train the next generation of diverse and innovative researchers are discussed. UID:139514-21885679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139514 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemical Education,Chemistry LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T121641 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T135000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Carillon Lesson\, open to public observation DESCRIPTION:In place of a regular recital\, the public is welcome to visit and observe as students take a lesson on the carillon led by Prof. Tiffany Ng.\n\nThe Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon is an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:144524-21895455@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144524 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260202T163744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T163000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Arline Geronimus Book Talk\, “Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society” DESCRIPTION:Stream a book talk with Dr. Arline Geronimus talk about her renowned work around \"weathering\". UID:144948-21896180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144948 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Public Health LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T121343 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HEP-Astro Seminar | Axion Dark Matter Searches: ADMX and BREAD DESCRIPTION:In the early 1980s\, axions and WIMPs were identified as promising dark matter candidates. The last forty years have seen a spectacularly successful experimental program attempting to discover the WIMPs\, with sensitivity that has by now improved by many orders of magnitude compared to the earliest results. The parallel program to search for axions has made less progress and has reached the necessary sensitivity only over a very limited mass range. However\, progress has recently accelerated\, with the invention of many new axion detection techniques that may eventually provide a definitive answer to the question of whether the dark matter is made of axions. I will review some of these new developments with emphasis on Fermilab’s program\, including ADMX-G2 and Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD). UID:146456-21899134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251208T140436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T151600 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Seminar Series on Social Connection: Rosie Shrout DESCRIPTION:Rosie Shrout\nUniversity of British Columbia\nBridging Relationship Science and Psychoneuroimmunology: \nHow Partners Shape Each Other’s Health and Longevity\nMarch 16\, 2026\n\nABOUT THE SERIES\n\nThe Winter 2026 RCGD Seminar Series: The Ties that Bond: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Connection\n\nThis seminar series brings together senior and early-career scholars to explore fundamental questions about how we connect\, protect\, and care. Talks will highlight lifespan and comparative approaches to understanding social connection\, physiological implications of social and race-related stressors\, and diverse conceptualizations of what it means to belong—from romantic and parent–child relationships to group and societal dynamics to technology-mediated interactions.\n\nRobin Edelstein\, Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and an affiliate of the Research Center for Group Dynamics\, has organized this series. She will introduce the series at this kick-off event that doubles as a faculty meeting.\n\nJoin us on Mondays to learn about the biological\, social\, and developmental pathways that shape human connection.\n\nThese events are held Mondays from 3:30 to 5.\nIn person: ISR Thompson 1430\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Robin Edelstein\nAs permissions allow\, seminars are later posted to our YouTube playlist. UID:142480-21891001@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142480 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Medicine,Psychology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260130T163153 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Appreciative Interviewing: Featuring the Ginsberg Center DESCRIPTION:Participants develop and practice skills to effectively build rapport with\, interview\, and collect stories or information from communities.\n\nFor intermediate and advanced students who are working on projects with large communication\, rapport\, and/or interviewing elements. Students at this level may be: establishing relationships with community members while working with community partner organizations\, conducting qualitative research or assisting with a research project\, collecting stories or interviews from community partners and/or community members.\n\nThis workshop is open to all master's students\, Ph.D. students\, and postdoctoral scholars at the University of Michigan. Any questions\, please reach out to rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu. UID:144870-21896068@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:West Conference Room, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T143232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technopolitical Futures DESCRIPTION:A digital world in relentless movement---from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing---has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley \"big tech\" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on long-term field research in the Pacific Rim\, Common Circuits explores a transnational network of hacker spaces and projects that stand as potent\, but often invisible\, alternatives to the dominant tech industry. In what ways have hackers challenged corporate projects of digital development? How do hacker-activist collectives prefigure alternative technological futures through community projects? In this talk\, I will address these questions through the analysis of the hard challenges of collaborative\, autonomous community-making through technical objects conceived by hackers as convivial\, shared technologies.\n\nLuis Felipe R. Murillo is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His work is dedicated to the anthropological study of the \"commons\" in science and technology with a focus on the intersections between moral economies\, political cultures\, and infrastructures of computing. UID:144689-21895694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144689 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Science LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T091341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Center Panel | Human Rights and LGBTQ Love: Art and Fiction as Resistance DESCRIPTION:Speaker and Panelists: Hala Al-Karib\, Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Fellow\, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)\; Dr. Frieda Ekotto\, University of Michigan Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Comparative Literature\; B.Caroline Kouassiaman\, Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest\; Jude Dibia\, Nigerian Novelist.\n\nThis interdisciplinary panel will discuss ongoing efforts around the continent of Africa to defend and advocate for LGBTQ+ people and their rights. Speakers will address the role of art and fiction as a tool to celebrate love and resist harmful attitudes and actions towards LGBTQ+ communities. This panel will include speakers from Sudan\, Nigeria\, Côte d'Ivoire\, and Cameroon. This event is free and open to the public and is in-person only.\n \n Co-sponsored by: the African Studies Center\, the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)\, the Spectrum Center\, and the Women's and Gender Studies Department.\n \n Chair:\n \n Hala Al-Karib\, Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Fellow\, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)\n \n Al-Karib has dedicated her life to the cause of human rights in Africa. Her work is focused on women's rights\, social justice\, and equal citizenship in the Horn of Africa and Eastern Africa (particularly Sudan and South Sudan). Her expertise spans advocacy\, conflict resolution\, research\, capacity building\, policy engagement\, and feminist organizing\, making her a leading voice in fighting for legal reforms and amplifying women’s voices in revolutions and post-war transitions.\n \n Panelists:\n \n B. Caroline Kouassiaman\, Executive Director\, Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest\n \n Caroline (pronouns: she/her) is the Executive Director of Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO)\, an activist-led fund dedicated to strengthening and supporting a West African movement for gender diversity and sexual rights. She joined ISDAO in February 2019. She is a queer\, bilingual (English/French) African feminist of Ivorian and African-American heritage\, and currently calls Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana home(s).\n \n Caroline has 23+ years of diverse professional experiences in philanthropy\, human rights activism\, social justice and education\, and has been in the field of feminist and human rights centered-philanthropy since 2011\, both as a staff member in leading philanthropic organizations\, and as a strategic advisor in other innovative grantmaking initiatives\, including VOICE program\, the ACTIF Fund\, and the Numun Fund. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College (USA)\, a Master of Public Administration degree and a master’s in international relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University (USA).\n \n Caroline sees herself as a builder\, a connector and a perpetual question-asker.\n \n Frieda Ekotto\, Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Comparative Literature\, and Francophone Studies\n\n As an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora\, Dr. Frieda Ekotto concentrates on contemporary issues of law\, race and LGBTQIA2S+ issues. Her primary research to date has focused on how law serves to repress and mask the pain of disenfranchised subjects\; her intention in this work is to trace what cannot be said in order to address and expose suffering from a variety of angles and cultural intersections and reassess the position and agency of the dispossessed.\n \n Dr. Ekotto is the author of multiple books\, and numerous book chapters as well as many articles in prestigious literary journals. She is currently working on LGBTQIA2S+ issues\, with an emphasis on Sub-Sahara African cultures within Africa as well as in Europe and the Americas. In addition to her academic work\, she is also a creative writer.\n \n Dr. Ekotto received the Nicolàs Guillèn Prize for Philosophical Literature in 2014 and in 2015 she was awarded the Benezet Award for excellence in her field. In 2016\, she was awarded the John H. D’Arms Faculty for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. In 2018\, she was awarded an Honorary Degree at Colorado College. She has produced two documentaries\, Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion with My Sisters (2017) and Zurura Zurura: A Smile Blooms (2021) as part of the ongoing research on Vibrancy of Silence: Images and Cultural Production of Sub-Saharan African Women. She is the president of the Modern Languages Association (2023-2024) and served as chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies from 2014-2018\, among other leadership roles.\n \n Jude Dibia\, Nigerian Novelist\n\n Jude Dibia is a Nigerian novelist\, short story writer\, and editor whose work is known for its fearless engagement with sexuality\, identity\, class\, and power in contemporary African society. He is the author of Walking with Shadows\, Unbridled\, and Blackbird\, and the co-editor of Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria’s Queer Men Speak. His writing has been widely recognised for opening space for marginalised voices within African literature.\n \n A recipient of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Prose\, Sweden's Natur och Kultur Priz and a finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature\, Dibia has also contributed fiction and essays to numerous international anthologies. Now based in Sweden\, he works across writing\, editing\, and cultural advocacy\, bridging African and global literary conversations while mentoring emerging writers and supporting freedom-of-expression initiatives.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:145582-21897551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145582 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african and afroamerican studies,Lgbtq,women studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T140900 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate Info Session DESCRIPTION:Curious about applying an entrepreneurial mindset to your next step? Join the Center for Entrepreneurship’s Graduate Certificate Learn More virtual info session to see how this flexible credential can add entrepreneurial capability to your discipline and help you stand out.\n\nWhen: March 16\, 2026\, 4-5pm\nWhere: Zoom (link will be sent after registration)\n\nWe’ll cover:\n• What the certificate offers you\n• How you can fit it into your degree plan\, no matter your major\n• Q&A - Ask us Anything\n\nCome with your questions\, leave with inspiration + actionable next steps to build your entrepreneurial toolkit. UID:146422-21899064@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146422 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneur Services,Entrepreneurship,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Startup,Startups,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Welcome to Michigan LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T102957 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Extreme Superposition: Rogue Waves of Infinite Order\, Universality\, and Anomalous Temporal Decay DESCRIPTION:Focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation serves as a universal model for the amplitude of a wave packet in a general one-dimensional weakly-nonlinear and strongly-dispersive setting that includes water waves and nonlinear optics as special cases. Rogue waves of infinite order are a novel family of solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation that emerge universally in a particular asymptotic regime involving a large-amplitude and near-field limit of a broad class of solutions of the same equation. In this talk\, we will present several recent results on the emergence of these special solutions along with their interesting asymptotic and exact properties. Notably\, these solutions exhibit anomalously slow temporal decay and are connected to the third Painlevé equation. Finally\, we will extend the emergence of rogue waves of infinite order to the first several flows of the AKNS hierarchy—allowing for arbitrarily many simultaneous flows—and report on recent work regarding their space-time asymptotic behavior under a general flow from the hierarchy. UID:143125-21892183@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Seminar LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260307T202415 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GLNT: Igusa stacks and the cohomology of Shimura varieties DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Igusa stacks are $p$-adic geometric objects\, recently introduced by Mingjia Zhang\, that roughly parametrize ways to $p$-adically uniformize (global) Shimura varieties by local Shimura varieties. In joint work with Patrick Daniels\, Pol van Hoften\, and Mingjia Zhang\, we construct Igusa stacks for all abelian type Shimura data and apply them to the study of $\ell$-adic cohomology of Shimura varieties. I will discuss the geometric ingredients that go into the construction as well as how it naturally fits into Fargues--Scholze's framework of categorical local Langlands UID:143321-21892900@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143321 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T100800 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T172000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance Seminar: Monday\, March 16 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:145438-21897351@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145438 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Public Finance,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T095920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The six vertex model and symmetric polynomials DESCRIPTION:Lattice models from statistical mechanics have become increasingly ubiquitous in algebraic combinatorics. In this talk\, we will discuss the six vertex model and see relations with combinatorial objects like Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns and alternating sign matrices. We will also introduce the Yang-Baxter equation and use it to prove Tokuyama's theorem and build a connection with Schur polynomials. UID:146608-21899346@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260217T114940 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Bracelet Making at Baits II DESCRIPTION:Join the Multicultural Lounge Community Assistants for a bracelet-making event! Design your own custom bracelets\, snack on some tasty treats\, and vibe with your peers in a fun\, creative space. UID:145596-21897573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145596 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Crafts,housing,Social LOCATION:Baits House II - Grace Lee Boggs Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T121839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:Presented by Professor Edward Watts\, the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of History at UC San Diego\, received his BA in Classics from Brown University in 1997 and his PhD in History from Yale University in 2002. His research centers on the intellectual\, political\, and religious history of the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. He is the author of seven books and the editor of five more\, including The Final Pagan Generation (UC Press\, 2015)\, Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher\, (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny (Basic Books\, 2018)\, and The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press\, 2021). His most recent book\, The Romans: A 2000 Year History (Basic Books\, 2025)\, traces the history of the Roman state from the 8th century BC through 1204 AD. His work has also been featured in Time\, Vox\, Smithsonian\, the Economist\, the Wall Street Journal\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, British Museum Magazine\, and the New York Times. Before coming to UCSD in 2012\, Professor Watts taught for ten years at Indiana University. He teaches courses on Byzantine History\, Roman History\, Late Antique Christianity\, Roman numismatics\, and the history of the Medieval Mediterranean. \n\nThe Roman citizen body lived an almost inconceivably long life. Between the 8th century BC and the 15thcentury AD\, nearly 100 generations of Romans superintended a political legacy they had inherited from their ancestors and handed down to their children. Nearly every element of Roman life changed during those two millennia. The state expanded from a hilltop settlement into a massive empire. Its center moved from Italy to Constantinople. Its dominant language changed from Latin to Greek. Its weaponry evolved from iron swords and bronze spears to Greek fire and gunpowder. It incorporated countless new gods before ultimately becoming Christian. And yet the thread linking the Roman present to its past never snapped. For all of their history\, Romans used this past to help understand their world and determine the contours of its future. Tradition served as a governor on the pace of necessary change.\n\nThis Thomas Spencer Jerome lecture series introduces the idea of Roman interchronological history to explain how Romans found and maintained this balance between innovation and tradition. Interchronological history recognizes that Roman scholastic\, social\, familial\, and religious traditions created situations in which Romans in the present spoke the words and felt the feelings of figures from the real or imagined past. These ancient situations encouraged people to connect personally and emotionally with figures from the past and made it natural to see in the past a set of frameworks that allowed one to both understand the present and imagine possible futures that might result from it. \n\nThese lectures explain how Roman educational\, family\, religious\, and literary culture produced this way of interpreting the present and imagining the future through deep engagement with the past. They will then show how an interchronological approach to Roman history expands our understanding of everything from the political power of Roman women to the nature of Iconoclasm and the surprising durability of the Roman bond market. By their conclusion\, the lectures will point to new ways to answer questions about the Roman past and suggest non-Roman contexts in which this historical method can also be applied.\n \nProfessor Watts will present four lectures and one seminar between March 9 and 19\, 2026: \n\n• What is Interchronological Roman History? Monday\, March 9\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League\nThis lecture reconstructs an interchronological historical method based on how Romans were educated and socialized to connect with the words\, experiences\, and feelings of people in their shared past in a fashion that ensured their reactions in the moment and plans for the future remained connected to the traditions of the past.\n\n• Interchronological History and the Political Power of Roman Women\, Thursday\, March 12\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League\nUsing an interchronological approach\, this lecture shows how literature\, public commemorations\, and monuments encouraged Romans of both genders to recognize the political power of Roman women by speaking the words of female political exemplars\, feeling their emotions\, and understanding the circumstances surrounding their political interventions. \n\n• Classical Studies Graduate Student Seminar: Containerization and the Creation of Interchronological Spaces in Imperial Rome\, Friday\, March 13\, 12:00 pm \nThis seminar will look at how the creators and sponsors of a series of monuments in Rome curated space to generate an experience that joined the present in which the monument was unveiled with elements of the past to define a transition to a promised future. Using the theory of artistic containerization\, we will see how each space was designed to showcase elements of the Roman past in a way that channeled specific themes important to both the present identity of the monument’s sponsor and a future they were promising to deliver.\n\n• An Interchronological Approach to Roman Religion and Political History Monday\, March 16\, 5\;30 pm\, Vandenberg Room\, Michigan League\nThis lecture explains how an interchronological history of Roman religion and politics can help us understand why this basic understanding of the role of the divine in shaping the tangible realities of Roman life persisted as Roman religion evolved from the practices of a small pagan city state into those of a large Christian empire.\n\n• The Failures of Justin II and the Case for Interchronological Roman Macroeconomic History\, Thursday\, March 19\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League \nThis uses an interchronological comparative framework to reconstruct the institutional history of Roman finance and macroeconomics in order to explain how the sixth century emperor Justin II inadvertently crippled Rome's nearly 800-year-old financial system. UID:145427-21897338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145427 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Rome,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Free,History,Interdisciplinary,Lecture LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T093318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T190000 SUMMARY:Meeting:March BIndx Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Black Industrial Engineers (BIndx\, pronounced BIND-ex) group is composed of IOE students and faculty who come together informally for meaningful conversations and fellowship to promote learning\, mentoring\, and networking. The BIndx program was initiated to promote a learning space where students feel comfortable engaging with faculty. BIndx meetings occur as informal monthly discussions to help form relationships between faculty and minoritized students. BIndx hosts a diverse group of guest speakers throughout the semester with a specific focus to facilitate conversations\, build connections\, and empower self-reflection. UID:142662-21891273@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T181740 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T183000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Migration as Imagination — with Writer and Journalist Ismail Einashe DESCRIPTION:Join Ismail Einashe\, award-winning British-Somali writer and 2025/26 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow\, for a deeply personal presentation exploring how art can reclaim the humanity of migrants and their stories\, too often lost in the headlines of global displacement.\n\nDrawing on his decade of reporting on migration\, alongside artists including Mona Hatoum\, Arshile Gorky\, Tania Bruguera\, and his recent book *Strangers* by Tate Publishing—as well as his own journey from Somalia to Britain—Einashe will recontextualize the migrant experience as an act of imagination\, showing how art has the ability to challenge our dominant cultural narratives and bring us closer to the struggles and humanity of people we too easily categorize as ‘strangers’.\n\nFree and open to the public. Registration required UID:145600-21897576@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145600 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:penny stamps speaker series,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T172050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T191500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:School of Public Health DESCRIPTION: UID:144110-21894677@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144110 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T172051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T191500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CANCELLED- Visual Arts & Publication Orgs Gathering DESCRIPTION:The Arts Initiative invites members of Visual Arts and Publications student orgs to discuss your various orgs' needs and wants at Michigan\, and to share your thoughts with fellow org members and the Arts Initiative. We want to learn about what we can do to help your orgs here at Michigan! We'll also have some snacks\, giveaways\, and prizes. This is part of a series of gatherings we're planning with groups across shared artistic practices-- we're excited to learn from the Visual Arts and Publications orgs!Please RSVP to let us know you're coming! UID:145766-21897793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145766 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Union, room TBD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T120910 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T210000 SUMMARY:Other:March Brazilian Zouk Dance Lessons DESCRIPTION:Hi zoukinis! Join us for Brazilian Zouk Dance Lessons!\nNot sure what Zouk is? Zouk is a Brazilian social partner dance known for its fun-loving and playful style\, often involving close embrace\, body rolls\, and hair whips. Check out our page for example videos! \n6 pm-Beginner Lesson\n7 pm-Practica\n8 pm-Improver Lesson\nAll of our lessons are open level and require no experience\, feel free to drop in and meet our fun-loving and welcoming community. See you soon! UID:146369-21898963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146369 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T121646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Lingjia Zhang\, piano DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Lingjia Zhang performs a final master's degree recital. UID:145847-21897950@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145847 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T181642 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:[Rescheduled] Shuaizhi Wang\, piano DESCRIPTION:This dissertation recital has been rescheduled for Monday\, March 23. UID:145848-21897951@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145848 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T142358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:'Redefining the Crown' Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:\"Artist’s statement: For centuries\, hair has been critical to how human beings understand racial categories\, gender designations\, and class status. For Black women in particular\, hair has and continues to be tied to ethnic identity and a history of self-determination\, social justice\, and survival. Thus\, chemotherapy-induced hair loss is a devastating event for Black patients who are also more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer subtypes necessitating chemotherapy\, carrying a 40% increased risk of dying from breast cancer.\n\nRedefining the ‘crown’: Approaching chemotherapy-induced alopecia among Black patients with breast cancer” started as a manuscript published in the scientific journal Cancer. But the work could not stop there. “Redefining the Crown” then metamorphosed into a photo essay project aimed at exploring the breast cancer journeys of six Black women and their experiences with hair loss due to chemotherapy. Though the project centers the experience of Black women\, we also acknowledge that breast cancer and chemotherapy-induced alopecia impact individuals of all genders. While the goal is to illuminate the unique stories of Black women who are affected uncommonly by this common disease\, the project is also a call to action regarding the disproportionate breast cancer-related mortality facing Black communities.\n\nIn this portraiture series\, photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks. This exhibition examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy and how their sense of cultural pride and personal identity have been redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThese survivors have redefined their own crowns. More profound than the new hairstyles they don after hair loss are the invisible crowns that they choose to wear each day: gratitude\, faith\, and resilience. What do their words mean to you? Do they empower you to act?\n\nArtist’s name: Versha Pleasant\nWork Title: Image 2\nDate of creation: September 2024\nArtist’s statement: Photo by Tafari Stevenson-Howard\" UID:146980-21900139@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Michigan Union - 1st Floor - Opera Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T120149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145013-21896349@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T120209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145014-21896399@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T120239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145015-21896456@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T120305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145016-21896520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T060240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T235959 SUMMARY:Other:FULL SEMESTER SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION:This is a schedule of all our events happening this semester. Please follow the instagram or email iazamora@umich.edu to get on the email list for more information.  UID:145222-21896853@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T163718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future. UID:143388-21893025@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T115746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist) DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Opening: March 12\, 2026\nExhibit Dates: March 12-30\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\nSet within Kafafian's speculative future world Azadistan—a place of magic and spirits beyond a digital collapse\, Հմայարան / Hmayaran is an immersive shrine housing a series of soft-sculptural artifacts reimagining objects Armenians have traditionally crafted for spiritual power and protection.\n \n Kafafian's focus in this exhibition is on the marks Armenians carve into stone\, clay and wood to imbue meaning\, memory and magic into their lived environments\, particularly as part of folk traditions outside of the realms of church and state.\n \n Channeled from the collective Armenian diasporic imaginary\, Kafafian's Portal Fire series depicts a narrative story that emerges from the materials as they are brought into relationship through weaving\, dyeing\, embellishment and thread. In this story world hybrid cultural practices and alternative spiritual modes develop from embodied traditions in response to the changing physical and cultural landscape of Southwest Asia in a future where technological catastrophe has severed global communications and erased digital archives. The multi-ethnic society of Azadistan takes shape through installations\, objects\, texts and performances manifesting the multiplicity of Aremenian-ness through the dimensions of a complicated past and its potential for a vibrant\, evolving futurity.\n\nCosponsor: Institute for the Humanities UID:143403-21893082@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T090647 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T140000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Innovation Summit: AI & the Future of Learning DESCRIPTION:*Note: The event is currently at capacity and no longer accepting registrations.*\n\nAs part of the University of Michigan Life-Changing Education theme year and Campus of the Future event series\, the AI & the Future of Learning Summit will bring together the brightest minds in education and the latest advanced technologies\, including artificial intelligence tools\, that are reshaping our academic landscape. \n\nThe summit\, hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation\, explores the campus of the future through a deliberate arc: first examining how AI is reshaping industries and work\, then reimagining the learner experience\, exploring the innovation infrastructure required to scale change\, and finally asking what responsibility and opportunity mean for universities in an AI-capable world.\n\nThe day will feature thought-provoking conversations\, presentations\, and panel discussions\, asking the audience to engage with big ideas facing higher education today. \n\nThose registered to attend or on the waitlist can find event information\, including the full agenda and speaker information\, on the official registration page. \n\nWhether you are discovering new tools\, experimenting with AI in your teaching or work\, or contributing to the broader conversation about technology and education\, the AI & the Future of Learning Summit offers a space to engage\, connect\, and move ideas forward.\n\n____\n\nOur Speakers\n\nAnant Agarwal\n*Chief Academic Officer\, 2U/edX*\n\nMJ Bishop\n*Founder\, MJ Bishop Consulting\, LLC*\n\nKevin Connell\n*GTM for Education\, OpenAI*\n\nJames DeVaney\n*Founding Executive Director and Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation\, Center for Academic Innovation*\n\nBhushan Heda\n*Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer\, Emeritus*\n\nKemi Jona\n*Vice Provost for Online Education and Digital Innovation\, University of Virginia*\n\nJohn Katzman\n*Chief Executive Officer\, Noodle*\n\nStephanie Khurana\n*Chief Executive Officer\, Axim Collaborative*\n\nCarissa Little\n*Associate Dean\, Stanford University School of Engineering*\n\nMargo Martinez\n*Vice President and General Manager of Education\, Salesforce*\n\nJenny Maxwell\n*General Manager of Superhuman for Education\, Superhuman*\n\nQuentin McAndrew\n*Global Academic Strategist\, Coursera*\n\nChris Parrish\n*Co-Founder and President\, Podium*\n\nDeborah Quazzo\n*Managing Partner\, GSV Ventures*\n\nDavid Rhew\, MD\n*Global Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Healthcare\, Health\, and Life Sciences\, Microsoft*\n\nValerie Singer\n*General Manager of AWS Global Education\, Amazon/AWS*\n\nTigran Sloyan\n*Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder\, CodeSignal*\n\nClaire Zau\n*Partner and AI Lead\, GSV Ventures* UID:143467-21893237@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143467 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Academic Innovation,Academic Technology At Michigan,Artificial Intelligence,Education,Higher Education,Information and Technology LOCATION:Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T141911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial DESCRIPTION:The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit\, America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial.\n\nThe exhibit explores how President Ford joined Americans across the country in commemorating the Bicentennial. Highlighting some of the nationwide celebrations in 1976 and public gifts given to President Ford\, the exhibit asks visitors to reflect on our own Semiquincentennial commemorations.\n\nThe exhibit\, located in the Library's lobby\, will be free to visitors and will be available until December 3\, 2026. UID:145837-21897891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Bicentennial,American History,Bicentennial,History,President Gerald Ford LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T144541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T100000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch\, Strength & Balance/Zumba DESCRIPTION: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. UID:145904-21898032@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145904 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T171335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Wayward Images DESCRIPTION:March 9-April 3\, 2026\n--\nThe public is cordially invited to an artist's reception on Wednesday\, March 27th at 4:30 pm in the RC Art Gallery.\n--\n\nPublic Workshop: On March 19th from 1 to 3pm\, join exhibiting artist Stamps School of Art & Design Assistant Professor Angela Chen for a collaborative bookmaking workshop! Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School 課後\, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen’s After School brings together collage\, sculpture\, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as 補習班 (buxiban) in Chinese\, after schools are referred to colloquially as “cram schools” and by scholars as “shadow education.” Operating simultaneously as spaces of community\, care\, and control\, these schools can be demanding and factory-like\; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents\, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult\, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School\, a buxiban and her parents’ business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley\, CA\, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students\, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink’s vast archive of photographs\, workbooks\, objects\, and advertisements\, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism\, segregation\, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner’s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics\, drawing from lived experience\, archives\, American history\, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom\, alternative and 19th-century printing processes\, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10)\, geometric abstraction\, assemblage\, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation\, the discursive enterprise\, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past\, present\, and future\, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver’s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage—one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture\, hymn\, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don’t require an escape. She addresses the sonic\, linguistic\, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing\, downloading\, and transferring archives. UID:146709-21899522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art Workshop,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T130452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Freddy to Quentin: The On-Set Still Photography of Joyce Rudolph DESCRIPTION:Joyce Rudolph has photographed some iconic actors and characters in her role as still photographer for the movies. This sampling of images from her papers\, which are housed as part of the Special Collections Research Center's Mavericks & Makers collection\, include the first images of Freddy Krueger in \"A Nightmare on Elm Street\,\" Arnold Schwenegger in \"The Terminator\,\" legends Jack Nicholson\, Diane Keaton\, Sean Penn\, and Robert DeNiro\, as well as directors such as Quentin Tarantino\, Martin Scorsese\, and her husband\, Alan Rudolph. UID:146264-21898754@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146264 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T154541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T163000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention Research Day DESCRIPTION:Interested in learning more about firearm injury prevention research happening at the University of Michigan? Join us on March 17\, 2026 to meet with faculty\, students and staff engaged in this field of work. Our leading experts will be available throughout the day to answer questions and chat with those interested in preventing firearm-related harms. Registration is required. UID:145337-21897135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145337 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,Community Safety,Community Service,Community Violence,Firearm,Free,Graduate Students,health,health behavior,health care policy,Healthcare,Injury Prevention,Interdisciplinary,Medicine,Mental Health,Multidisciplinary,Networking,Nursing,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Safe Storage,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Affairs,Student Org,Suicide Prevention,Undergraduate LOCATION:Palmer Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T165341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lynn Galbreath Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lynn Galbreath\, a Detroit based artist who grew up in Argentina\, is a former recipient of the Creative Artists’ Grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and the Michigan Individual Artist Grant from Michigan Council For The Arts. Galbreath’s work has been showcased locally\, nationally and internationally in over 20 solo/two person and over 100 group exhibitions.\n\nGalbreath has an M.F.A. from the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art\, Art History\, & Design\, Wayne State University\, Detroit\, MI\; and a B.F.A. with Permanent K-12 Certification from The Gwen Frostic School of Art\, Western MI University\, Kalamazoo\, MI. Galbreath has chaperoned eleven intensive\, immersive art experiences to Italy\, Spain\, France\, Belgium\, England\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, Austria\, and the Czech Republic. Lynn is a retired Adjunct Associate Professor of Studio Art from Oakland University\, where she has been on the faculty of the Department of Art & Art History since 2000. Lynn has also instructed studio art and design at the College For Creative Studies\, University of Detroit Mercy — School of Architecture\, Macomb Community College\, Wayne State University\, and Bloomfield University School. Her work can be seen in the collections of Oakland University\, Wayne State University\, Detroit Receiving Hospital\, Children’s Hospital of Michigan\, Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital and numerous private collections.\n\nThis exhibition consists of works from a variety of series created by Galbreath over the years: Telegraph\, Storyboard\, and Working Hard for a Living. Each series represents a unique exploration of themes\, techniques\, and social commentaries that reflect Galbreath’s artistic journey and concerns for the world.\n\nTelegraph explores the aesthetic visual weights and balances between harmony and content\, diving deep into how visual elements can convey messages and emotions. This series invites viewers to reflect on the way art communicates through its formal qualities\, as well as its narrative possibilities. The careful interplay of shapes\, colors\, and textures in these works prompts an examination of the viewer's perception and emotional response. By utilizing abstract forms\, Galbreath encourages an engagement that goes beyond mere observation\, seeking to provoke thought about how aesthetic choices influence understanding and meaning.\n\nOn the other hand\, Storyboard is a series of image-driven installation paintings that vary greatly in size\, showcasing Galbreath’s versatility and creative ingenuity. The titles of the works draw inspiration from the years spent creating visuals for TV commercials and public service announcements\, illustrating how commercial art often intertwines with societal messages. This series emphasizes the profound impact visual narratives have on consumer culture and public perception\, underscoring the artist's belief in the potency of imagery to shape narratives. The installations weave a complex fabric of storytelling that challenges viewers to reconsider their relationship with media and the messages they consume daily.\n\nWorking Hard for a Living pays tribute to our sustainable and unsustainable resources\, shedding light on the individuals who toil diligently within these economic frameworks. This series highlights the hard-working suppliers of essential products\, including Farm Market Managers\, Fishmongers\, and Beach Vendors. By portraying these self-employed individuals\, often operating within informal economies\, Galbreath draws attention to the unique challenges they face. These individuals frequently contend with low\, inconsistent incomes\, long hours\, and sometimes exploitative conditions\, fostering a sense of solidarity with those who labor under such circumstances.\n\nFurthermore\, the series invites viewers to confront the broader societal structures that contribute to these inequities. Galbreath's work serves not only as a tribute but also as a call to action to consider how our consumer habits and economic policies affect the livelihoods of others. The layered narratives present in this series open a dialogue about the value we place on labor and the often unseen struggles that support our day-to-day lives. Through these explorations\, Galbreath establishes a multifaceted narrative that intertwines art with activism\, compelling audiences to engage both aesthetically and ethically with the realities depicted in the exhibition. UID:142773-21891481@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T105136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16. UID:142417-21890889@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Metamorphosis: Clay in Flux DESCRIPTION:\n\nMetamorphosis: Clay in Flux is an exhibition celebrating the creative potential of student ceramics\, designed to correspond with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Detroit\, and the surrounding ceramics events in Southeast Michigan.\n\nThis exhibition is organized and juried by members of the Stamps Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC) and will be on display in the Art & Architecture Building’s Street Gallery from March 11- 25\, 2026. The exhibition will open with a reception on Wednesday\, March 11 from 4:30-6 p.m. \n\nSEC Jurors\n\nElan Povirk (project lead)\nAlexis Albert\nRachel Deveyra\n\nExhibiting Artists\n\nZoe Dvorin\nLilly Fredericks\nMaría E. García-Murguía\nMikayla Holcomb\nVirginia Holland\nMagdalyn Hubbard\nMira Hughes\nAudrey Jarrett\nEry Millican\nIsabella Possin\nMo Pofahl\nNatalie Radabaugh\nNik Roy\nMihika Shukla\nAbigail Watters UID:146483-21899177@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146483 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T163232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Terence Swafford Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This exhibition showcases a decade of artist Terry Swafford’s work in Detroit\, marking the culmination of years spent composing scenes from the untamed edges of urban communities. These paintings serve as a visual record of Detroit’s transformation\, capturing humanity’s impact on the environment alongside nature’s persistent efforts to reclaim these spaces. As the city continues to change\, many of these depicted scenes are vanishing\, no longer visible in the landscape today. The significance of this documentation goes beyond mere nostalgia\; it invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic interplay between urban development and ecological restoration\, prompting a deeper understanding of how cities evolve while retaining traces of their history.\n\nSwafford’s paintings are created on location and in one session. The natural conditions\, including light\, shadow\, and atmosphere\, change dramatically from hour to hour and day to day\, forcing the artist to respond quickly and decisively. This approach\, born of a direct engagement with the subject and the fleeting nature of the scene\, along with his wet-on-wet technique\, keeps the work fresh and immediate. By immersing himself in the environment\, Swafford captures the diverse textures and vibrant colors that characterize Detroit’s landscape\, imbuing his work with a sense of urgency and spontaneity. Each brushstroke conveys a commitment not only to visual accuracy but also to emotional resonance\, as he strives to encapsulate the spirit of a place that is both loved and contested.\n\nIn addition to these works\, the artist constantly sketches ideas both for paintings and for designing projects in his business. These sketches serve as visual language\, helping him clarify and refine his concepts before bringing them to life. They become a means to communicate ideas to clients and his crew and become an extension of his voice—an academic exercise rooted in artistic practice that fosters collaboration and innovation. The act of sketching also reflects his evolving relationship with the city\, as each drawing encapsulates fleeting moments of inspiration drawn directly from his surroundings. This duality of function—creating art for exhibition and conceptualizing designs for projects—demonstrates Swafford’s versatility and adaptability as an artist.\n\nSwafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design\, and while at RISD\, he was part of the European Honors Program. His education not only honed his technical skills but also broadened his artistic perspective through exposure to varied artistic traditions. He has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Chicago\, Kansas City\, and New York State. Each exhibition serves as a testament to his commitment to his craft and his ability to engage diverse audiences\, offering them an opportunity to explore the complex narratives woven into each landscape. UID:142768-21891394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260304T114528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Learning Theory in the AI for Science Era: From Classical Foundations to Operator Learning DESCRIPTION:Operator learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm in scientific computing\, with applications including surrogate modeling of partial differential equations and data-driven simulation of complex experimental systems\, even in the absence of explicit governing equations. In this talk\, I will discuss operator learning through the lens of statistical learning theory and identify several new learning-theoretic phenomena that arise in this setting. I will then focus on the role of data collection protocols and show that transitioning from passive (i.i.d sampling) to active data collection can fundamentally change which operator classes are learnable. Moreover\, even for operator classes learnable under both protocols\, active data collection can significantly improve sample efficiency\, sometimes yielding exponential gains over passive approaches. I will conclude by highlighting open problems and exciting future directions in active data collection and\, more broadly\, in operator learning. UID:146169-21898615@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146169 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260108T095119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T110000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:German Lecturer\, Mary Gell (magell@umich.edu)\, brings German chocolate to snack on and games to play (e.g. Tabu)\, all while chatting in German. UID:143465-21893225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143465 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Games,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Germany,Humanities,Language LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T095507 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Inequality or Incompetence? Urban Fiscal Crisis and the Spatial Politics of Blame” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Mo Torres\, Junior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Mo will present\, “Inequality or Incompetence? Urban Fiscal Crisis and the Spatial Politics of Blame.”\n\nAbstract: “The United States is no stranger to urban fiscal crisis. In the 1970s\, cities from New York City and Philadelphia to Cleveland and St. Louis\, on the brink of crisis or bankruptcy or worse\, shocked the world\, revealing the precarious position of cities in the U.S. political economy. But why did cities face such severe economic challenges? Why did the problem in the 1970s suddenly seem so widespread? And what\, or who\, was to blame?\n\nAs early as 1972\, two explanations for urban fiscal crisis were in circulation. Was the culprit inequality\, as rapidly growing suburbs hoarded property taxes\, withholding crucial resources from central city governments and their residents? Was it incompetence\, poor management\, lack of technical expertise\, or outright corruption by elected municipal leaders? While not mutually exclusive\, by the end of the 1970s only the latter story survived. The result was policy prescriptions to correct mismanagement at the local level\, leaving underlying structural inequalities at the metropolitan level unaddressed.\n\nFocusing on Michigan\, this paper builds on the sociology of blame to show how policy elites came to narrate cities as undeserving places run by incompetent\, corrupt leaders beholden to special interests like civil rights groups and labor unions. The result amounts to refusal: neglecting to solve a problem by ultimately ignoring its fundamental causes.” UID:146598-21899335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146598 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Inequality,Political Economy,Social Sciences,Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T123833 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Invariants of Plabic Links DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Plabic graphs were introduced by Postnikov in order to study a stratification of the totally nonnegative Grassmannian. To each plabic graph\, one can associate a quiver\, which is a directed graph that encodes a cluster algebra\, as well as a link. In this thesis\, we study invariants of these links\, called plabic links\, and their connections to the plabic graphs' quivers. \n\nWe focus primarily on forest quivers\, which are quivers whose underlying graphs are forests. We define the HOMFLY polynomial of a forest quiver and show that it agrees with the HOMFLY polynomial of any plabic link coming from a connected plabic graph whose quiver is that forest quiver. We define this polynomial recursively and also prove a closed formula for it. We will also comment on a way to extend the definition of part of this polynomial to some other acyclic quivers. Finally\, we discuss the Khovanov-Rozansky homology of certain plabic links associated to forest quivers and describe how to recursively compute it for a subset of these links. UID:146129-21898423@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:Off Campus Location - B860G CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260113T103435 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Social Theory Workshop DESCRIPTION:- January 20: Jonathan Schoots\n- February 3: Jun Zhou\n- March 17: Kristina M. Fullerton Rico\n- April 7: Mary Shi UID:143800-21894048@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143800 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Student LOCATION:LSA Building - 4147 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T153056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Stay in the Blue St Patrick's Day bagel outreach DESCRIPTION:If you are planning to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year\, then you might like to grab a bagel as part of your plans! Beyond The Diag\, Wolverine Wellness\, DPSS and Center for Campus Involvement will be on The Diag 11:00am-1:00pm\, and are offering bagels\, fun and lots of information about how to stay safe while you celebrate. UID:146271-21898822@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146271 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:beyond the diag,st patricks day,stay in the blue,Well-being,Wolverine Wellness LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T102054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:U-M Advising: Student Success and Advising Technology (SS&AT) Update Event DESCRIPTION:Join leaders of the U-M Student Success and Advising Technology team for updates on the LSA Advising File transition project. Learn about current progress\, next steps\, and how to get involved!  This hybrid event is co-sponsored by the ACUM Technology Committee.  UID:145185-21896775@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145185 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T150059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How to Model Science as a Complex System DESCRIPTION:Tracing the historical dynamics of science can reveal how scientific knowledge emerges and evolves over time. Because scientific knowledge is embedded in increasingly complex systems\, comprising shifting relationships among people\, the organisms and matter they study\, technology\, data\, publications\, and the concepts they utilize\, scholars are looking beyond traditional historiographical methods towards quantitative and computational tools. Big data\, network analysis\, and machine learning enhance the scale and speed of analysis\, but these methods often ignore or erase the critical roles that context (like time period\, geography\, and discipline) and different types of data (like image and audio data) play in the development of new knowledge. In this talk\, I present context- and data-sensitive computational methods that extend efforts to model the evolution of science as a complex system. These methods reveal when new knowledge emerges and how the features of old scientific information constrain features of new scientific knowledge. UID:144941-21896174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Agent Based Modelling,Complex Systems,Complex Systems Minor,Complex Systems Modelling,Complexity,Information,Science,seminar LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 747 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T112055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T124000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:WISE & Shine DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in becoming a peditrician or passionate about public health? Join us for a networking brunch with local physician\, Rachel Nash\, MD\, CLS\, MPH\, FAAP. Dr. Nash is a board-certified pediatrician based in Livonia\, Michigan. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Integrative Physiology and Psychology before completing a Master’s Degree in Public Health\, blending clinical expertise with a strong foundation in population health. Dr. Nash completed her pediatric residency at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus\, Ohio\, where she further developed her commitment to comprehensive\, evidence-based care for children and adolescents.\nDr. Nash’s professional interests extend beyond the clinic and she is excited to meet with students considering medical school/graduate school or careers in public health. Her educational and scholarly work focuses on trainee advocacy\, injury prevention\, adolescent transitions of care\, health equity\, and addressing the social determinants of health. Through both her clinical practice and academic pursuits\, Dr. Nash is passionate about creating systems of care that support all children and families\, ensuring healthier futures for the communities she serves. UID:145872-21897974@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145872 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:3236 Undergraduate Science Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T085729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T125000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Zoning: Externalities or Misallocation? DESCRIPTION:-- UID:143297-21892652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143297 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Macroeconomics,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T112056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CommuniTEA w/ CAPS DESCRIPTION:Weekly gathering for students\, staff\, and faculty to build community with the Trotter Team and discuss the week’s events. Organizations and units are encouraged to collaborate and offer light refreshments or share tea practices that center their cultural practices. Come join us for good conversation\, food and fun! UID:143867-21894141@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143867 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T153550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series- Within-lineage evolution across time scales: Reconciling the recent and the fossil record DESCRIPTION:Description: Connecting generational processes (microevolution) to the larger-scale patterns of phenotypic diversification (macroevolution) remains a fundamental challenge in evolutionary biology. Phenotypic time series\, defined as sequences of measurements drawn from multiple organisms in the same lineage over time\, offer a direct window into this problem. Time series from the fossil record typically span tens to hundreds of thousands of years or more\, documenting historical patterns of evolutionary change in a single species over durations far beyond what we can observe in the present. This makes fossil trait series a uniquely valuable data source for addressing fundamental questions about how evolution operates across time scales. I will present analyses of large compilations of phenotypic time series from both living populations and the fossil record\, with the goal of assessing whether evolutionary processes are continuous across generations to millions of years\, or whether something changes as we move between scales. UID:146429-21899078@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146429 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Bsbsigns,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,eeb LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260113T153452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Hustle\, Learn\, Repeat: Building Entrepreneurial Muscle for Today’s Economy DESCRIPTION:The modern career landscape is constantly changing\, and success depends on taking initiative and learning by doing. Join Rishi Narayan\, ‘03\, MSE’05\, serial entrepreneur\, angel investor\, and co-founder of Underground Printing\, as he shares his side hustle framework\, a hands-on approach to turning ideas into action. In this session\, you’ll learn how side projects can help you build real-world skills\, test ideas quickly\, and develop resilience\, adaptability\, and a proactive mindset while exploring opportunities beyond traditional employment.\n\nTogether\, we’ll learn how to:\n\nTreat side projects as low-risk experiments to develop entrepreneurial skills.\nBuild resilience\, adaptability\, and confidence in uncertain situations.\nGain practical experience through freelancing\, volunteering\, or other nontraditional projects.\nEstablish habits for continuous learning and proactive career growth. UID:143858-21894130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Entrepreneurship,Free,Livestream,Virtual,Alumni,Career,Economics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121739 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jessi Grieser\, carillon DESCRIPTION:LSA faculty member Jessi Grieser performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:144525-21895456@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T112056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Leadership Certificate Info Sessions 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join University of Michigan Leadership Certificate program staff and student representatives for an info session and Q&A prior to submitting your application! We will offer both an in-person session (snacks provided) and a virtual session. Personal pre-advising appointments are also available by contacting LeadershipCertificate@umich.edu.Attending an info session or pre-advising appointment is highly recommended to support your application to the program.*The Leadership Certificate is open to UM-Ann Arbor undergraduates with an anticipated graduation term of Winter 2027 or later. UID:144796-21895949@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Located across from the elevator bay. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Legacies: Contemporary Art Dialogues with Clay DESCRIPTION:\n\nOn the occasion of the 2026 NCECA conference in Detroit\, Stamps Gallery presents an exhibition of new and recent work by diverse intergenerational artists working in clay locally and nationally. Collectively\, these works preserve and evolve age-old artistic traditions from weaving\, mark-making\, and pottery as contemporary forms of resistance and resilience\; recovery and regeneration that draw on diasporic and ancestral knowledge of world-building and translation.\n\nFeaturing work by Maya Davis\, Adebunmi Gbadebo\, Nicole Marroquin\, Marie Woo\, and Hedy Yang. Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.\n\nDDD Project Space\, 2857 East Grand Blvd Suite 104\, Detroit MI\n\nExhibition Dates and Hours: March 13 – 28\, 2026\n\nFri.\, March 13 and 20: 12—6 p.m.\nSat.\, March 14 and 21: 12—5 p.m.\nTue—Wed\, March 24—25: 11 a.m.—5 p.m.\nThu.\, March 26: 12—7 p.m.\nFri.\, March 27: 12—9 p.m.\nSat.\, March 28: 12—5 p.m.\n\nExhibition Reception: Fri.\, March 27\, 5:30 — 9 p.m. UID:145539-21897493@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145539 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260109T125900 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Globalizing Chinese Theatre: Chinese Dramatists and Transnational Media Ecologies DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/mRz1N\n\nDr. Zhao’s new project investigates the transnational engagements of Chinese dramatists\, actors\, and intellectuals with world theatre from the 1910s to the 1930s and illustrates how they significantly shaped the global perceptions of Chinese theatre. Through case studies of Chinese dramatists working in the United States\, France\, and Britain\, this talk will present how they articulated their own visions of Chinese theatre\, establishing it not as an exotic spectacle but as a site of theoretical experimentation and aesthetic authority. By re-centering Chinese agency within transnational theatre networks\, their work reframed Chinese theatre as a constitutive rather than derivative force in global theatre history and laid the groundwork for the forms and debates that continue to shape Chinese theatre today.\n \n Sophia Tingting Zhao (Ph.D.\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Stanford University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech\, where she also serves as director of the Chinese program. Her research focuses on Chinese theatre and performance\, performance historiography\, and the intersections of literature\, gender\, urban space\, media\, and global modernity\, with particular emphasis on transnational Chinese theatre. She is the co-author of three scholarly books on Chinese theatre\, including two scholarly editions of traditional poetry on Chinese Kun opera and a scholarly edition of a sixteenth-century dramatic text.\n \n Her forthcoming monograph\, “Globalizing Chinese Theatre”《面向世界的中国戏剧》 (Fudan University Press\, 2026)\, examines how Chinese dramatists\, performers\, and intellectuals engaged transnationally with world theatre and reshaped global narratives of Chinese theatre between 1911 and 1949. She is also the author of Mei Lanfang and Gender Studies 《梅兰芳与女性文化研究》(Beijing Publishing House\, 2026)\, the first book-length gender analysis of female impersonation and theatrical stardom in twentieth-century Chinese theatre. Her article “Wang Guowei’s Weltanschauung: Chinese Theatre in the Age of Globalization” won the 2019 Wang Guowei Award for Academic Paper on Drama. Her scholarship on Mei Lanfang has also been recognized as Top-Ten Papers at the 1st\, 2nd\, and 7th Mei Lanfang Research Young Scholars Forums. Additional honors include the Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Asian Performance. UID:143619-21893527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,China,chinese,Performance,Theater LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251216T105703 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T124500 SUMMARY:Well-being:Lunchtime Yoga DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime yoga is an opportunity to provide your body with some gentle movement\, strengthening\, stretching and balancing. We will use the poses to reconnect with your senses\, to breathe some life back into ourselves\, find internal balance and to recover from the efforts of the work week. The focus is on calm reconnection with ourselves rather than working out. Please bring a mat and a water bottle. UID:138074-21891594@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138074 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,yoga LOCATION:School of Kinesiology Building - 2080 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T101438 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Revolutionary Paine: Andy Murphy Student-Curated Class Exhibit Common Sense DESCRIPTION:Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The first edition was published on January 10\, 1776\, with an initial print run of just 1\,000 copies\; but within weeks demand soared. The students of Andy Murphy’s POLISCI 495 course co-curated the exhibition “Revolutionary Paine” to document the whirlwind caused by its publication. On view at the Clements January 16-May 8\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:143999-21894452@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Americana,Exhibit,Exhibition,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Reading Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260209T181640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Stearns Collection Lunchtime Concert Series DESCRIPTION:Join us for this month's free lunchtime concert at NCRC. In celebration of St. Patrick's Day\, local musicians offer a set of traditional Irish dance tunes for the season including jigs\, reels\, polkas\, and more! In addition\, members of the SMTD Baroque Orchestra will perform on historical instruments. \n\nFeatured performers:\nMarty Somberg\, fiddle\; Hannah Harris\, fiddle\; Alberto “Bear\" Whitmer\, guitar\; John Driscoll\, flute\; Tristan Pruss\, Irish *uilleann* pipes\, tin whistle\, and *bodhrán*\; Evan Chambers\, fiddle\n\nFeel free to bring your lunch or buy it in the NCRC cafe. Paid visitor parking is available across the street with the AMP parking app. UID:145287-21897008@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145287 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Culture,Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260219T164648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Interactive Process: Determining Reasonable Workplace Accommodations DESCRIPTION:This workshop will provide an overview of the Interactive Process and how Accessibility Specialists can facilitate effective\, collaborative conversations with employees and units to navigate reasonable workplace accommodations. Presenters will discuss how accommodation reasonableness is determined and how accommodations can support employees in performing their essential job functions.\n\nThe session will also include a role-play scenario\, giving attendees a practical look at the questions asked and materials reviewed throughout the process.\n\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar\, please email the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu. UID:145756-21897783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145756 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Communication,Disability,Discussion,Inclusion,Virtual,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T094546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IBL Lunch DESCRIPTION:Come talk about teaching with IBL\, interactive\, and other active teaching methods over lunch. Bring teaching anecdotes\, thoughts\, and your appetite. Lunch will be provided. UID:138237-21882656@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138237 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 2075 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260206T192256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T140000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Undergraduate Town Hall DESCRIPTION:This semester\, we will be doing our yearly IOE Undergraduate Town Hall. Food will be provided. This is your chance to ask and give input to the IOE Department about anything related to curriculum\, opportunities\, and more. UID:145206-21896801@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145206 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - G690 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T143641 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T140000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Faculty Student Lunch Event: Viswanath Nagarajan DESCRIPTION:Please fill out the form below if you would like to attend the faculty-student lunch with Prof. Viswanath Nagarajan on Tuesday\, March 17th from 1:00 - 2:00pm! Space is limited\, so please only sign up for this event if you are sure you will be able to attend. Spots for this lunch will be filled on a first come\, first served basis\, and a waitlist will be formed after all spots have been filled. UID:146234-21898688@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146234 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T091103 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T142000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Natural Language Equilibrium II DESCRIPTION:“Natural Language Equilibrium I” studies the effect of a commonly understood language on signaling game equilibria under the convention that off-path statements are interpreted as true unless they can be seen as a rational attempt to deceive. With this convention it was shown that\, generically\, only stable equilibrium outcomes of the setting with language can arise. Here\, we strengthen the convention by also requiring that any statement must be interpreted as true according to its literal meaning unless doing so would make it profitable to use the statement deceptively. This strengthening refines equilibria even in pure communication games. UID:143377-21892965@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143377 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar,Theory LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260109T094127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T142000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Political Economy Workshop DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, 1-2:20pm\, Eldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall (unless a different time and location have been specified)\n\nFaculty Coordinators: Hoyt Bleakley\, Edgar Franco-Vivanco\, Mark Dincecco\, Iain Osgood\n\nGraduate Student Coordinators: Jun Fang and Pedro Luz de Castro UID:112502-21893399@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/112502 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Department Of Political Science,Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Eldersveld, Room 5670 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T090929 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T143000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Ryan Van Daele - Dissertation Defense DESCRIPTION:Please join Ryan Van Daele for their dissertation defense titled \"Chloride Mediation for Ethanol Oxidation with Particle and Electrochemical Catalysts\".\n\n*Date:* Tuesday\, March 17th\n*Time:* 1:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 97256923783\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97256923783 UID:146388-21898982@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121740 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Adam Lenhart\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Adam Lenhart performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:144526-21895457@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144526 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260209T105248 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T153000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Fast Summation for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n\nGeophysical fluid dynamics is the study of fluids on the sphere in which the Coriolis force plays an important role\, and is of great interest and importance\, both theoretically and practically\, as the foundation of modern weather and climate modeling. Many problems in geophysical fluid dynamics can be formulated in a way to take advantage of convolutions and fast summation techniques\, which are methods for approximating integral transforms quickly.\n\nThe thesis starts by presenting a Cubed Sphere Fast Multipole Method (CSFMM) that is suitable for $O(N)$ fast summation on the sphere\, adapting techniques from the Barycentric Lagrange Tree Code and the Barycentric Lagrange Dual Tree Traversal Fast Multipole Method for use for problems with spherical geometry\, and showing a number of speed up and error results\, demonstrating that the CSFMM is both fast and accurate for a variety of different problems. This technique is then applied to three different problems.\n\nThe first problem is that of computing Self Attraction and Loading in ocean models\, an important term encompassing physical effects relating to the gravitation of water and the elastic deformation of the Earth. The computation of Self Attraction and Loading has been challenging in the past\, mainly being computed using a scalar approximation or using spherical harmonics. This thesis demonstrates a new technique for computing the Self Attraction and Loading by deriving a new integral kernel for the problem\, before then discussing the implementation of this convolution and CSFMM in the Modular Ocean Model.\n\nThe next problem is that of solving the Barotropic Vorticity Equation with a Lagrangian Particle Method. This equation describes the conservation of potential vorticity for a two dimensional incompressible inviscid fluid on a rotating sphere. The fluid velocity can be related to the vorticity through a Biot-Savart law\, and when discretized using a Lagrangian particle Method\, the dynamics naturally admit a formulation as a $N$-body problem\, to which we apply the CSFMM. The accuracy and speed of this technique is tested\, before using the method to explore a variety of problems.\n\nLastly\, the previous solver is extended to work for the Shallow Water Equations\, an equation set which in addition to vorticity effects\, also allows for fluid divergence. For this problem\, the Biot-Savart law is more complicated\, incorporating both vorticity and divergence. This solver is then tested on a range of test cases to check for accuracy. Additionally\, this solver is designed for portability\, including with graphical processing units\, allowing for significant speedups. UID:145244-21896922@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145244 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:School of Education - 2228 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251202T115505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants! DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES). UID:138848-21890491@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/91565104584 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260304T103205 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Hyesun Chung DESCRIPTION:Join us for Hyseun's doctoral defense.\n\nTitle: From Dyads to Teams: Modeling Multi-Referent Multi-Level Trust in Human-AI Teams\nChair: X. Jessie Yang\nLearn more: https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/chung-hyesun/ UID:146162-21898608@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146162 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T142056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Built for Abundance: Black Digital Communities and the Art of Imagining Otherwise DESCRIPTION: UID:146350-21898942@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146350 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Hybrid - Leinweber 4320 (Dow Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260302T101306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China DESCRIPTION:This paper studies how ideas emphasizing individual moral agency shape political behavior under autocracy by tracing the rise of Wang Yangming’s School of Mind in late imperial China. Using a new dataset of over 24\,000 historical texts from 1000 to 1900\, we measure regional exposure with two indicators: the frequency of core concepts and the count of associated authors. We also introduce a semantic similarity measure that compares local texts to Wang Yangming’s writings. A difference-in-differences design exploiting the staggered introduction of public lectures shows that exposure rises after a prefecture’s first lecture\, with effects that persist in subsequent cohorts. Prefectures with higher exposure were more likely to produce reformist leaders in the Donglin Movement (1604–1627). Under the Qing (1644–1911)\, public lecturing was curtailed and the intellectual agenda shifted\, so the lecture channel that helped seed Yangming learning in the Ming largely disappears from the record. Using contemporary survey data from 2010\, we nevertheless find that detectable traces remain: residents in historically exposed prefectures express stronger support for the right to discuss public affairs and for limiting government involvement in private affairs. Together\, the results link Yangming learning to reformist mobilization among elites and to long-run variation in attitudes toward political voice and the appropriate scope of government. UID:143569-21893396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143569 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Development,Economics,History,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T142055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Lucky Bingo DESCRIPTION:Feeling lucky? Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a classic favorite! Join us for Lucky Bingo on March 17 from 2:30–3:30 PM in THSL 2955.\nPlay a few rounds\, eat some snacks\, and try your luck at winning fun prizes. UID:145951-21898173@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145951 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:THSL 2955 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T080142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bertini Theorems DESCRIPTION:Let X ⊆ ℙ^n be a smooth variety over an algebraically closed field. Bertini's theorem states that for a general hyperplane H ⊆ ℙ^n\, the intersection X ∩ H is also smooth. In general\, a \"Bertini theorem\" is a result like this\, which states that some type of singularity is preserved under taking intersections with a general hyperplane\, such as reduced\, normal\, Cohen-Macaulay\, Gorenstein\, and more. \n\nWe interpret these theorems in the language of commutative algebra (graded rings). Additionally\, we discuss Bertini theorems for local rings and Bertini theorems for classes of singularities arising in the minimal model program. UID:146628-21899366@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146628 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T092923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Portrayals of Engineering and Technical Roles in an Engineering Workforce Development Program: An Embedded Qualitative Case Study DESCRIPTION:Abstract: U.S. competitiveness in advanced manufacturing depends not only on engineers\, but on an interdependent engineering and technical workforce that includes engineering technologists and technicians. Yet\, how federally funded engineering workforce development (EWD) programs define\, differentiate\, and communicate the value of engineering and technical roles remains underexamined. Positioned within engineering education research that examines pathways\, professional formation\, and the education–workforce interface\, this study investigates how a national\, federally supported EWD initiative constructs and portrays engineering and technical occupational roles through its public-facing program materials and leader narratives. Drawing on qualitative document analysis and semi-structured interviews within an embedded qualitative case study of a national EWD initiative\, the study applies a sociocultural value-systems lens to examine how patterned beliefs about knowledge\, skill\, and expertise are enacted at the programmatic and organizational level. Findings reveal consistent distinctions in how roles are framed across dimensions of work\, worker\, and occupation\, with implications for engineering pathways\, learner identity formation\, and program alignment across educational and workforce contexts. By foregrounding the often-overlooked roles of technologists and technicians\, this work contributes new empirical insight to engineering education scholarship and extends EER conversations beyond degree-centric models to include federally supported workforce pathways relevant to contemporary manufacturing practice.\n\nBiography: Winifred Opoku is a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She is an embedded researcher with the NSF-funded HAMMER Engineering Research Center\, where her work engages questions of engineering workforce development\, advanced manufacturing\, and cross-sector collaboration. Winifred is also a member of the Beliefs in Engineering Research Group\, contributing to scholarship that examines how beliefs\, values\, and cultural assumptions shape engineering education and practice. Her broader research interests sit at the intersection of engineering education\, workforce development\, and innovation systems\, with a focus on how educational and workforce institutions construct pathways and roles across the engineering and technical workforce. Prior to graduate study\, Winifred trained and worked as an HVAC/MEP design engineer\, an experience that continues to inform her research perspective. Outside of research\, she enjoys graphic design and creative projects that blend technical thinking with visual storytelling. UID:145974-21898201@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145974 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,Michigan Engineering,Research,Stem LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Presentation Room 1180 and Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260121T102237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Water@Michigan Coffee Talk DESCRIPTION:The Huron River watershed in Southeast Michigan is home to nearly 100 dams that alter the chemical\, physical\, and biological processes of its main stem and tributaries. These structures often harm wildlife\, impose high maintenance costs\, and in some cases\, pose safety risks to downstream communities. This panel will highlight recent initiatives led by the Huron River Watershed Council and its partners to restore the river’s natural flow through the removal of aging and obsolete dams and improved flow management strategies. Panelists will explore the ecological impacts of dams\, discuss the status of dams within the Huron\, share updates on a dam removal project in Ypsilanti\, and introduce a budding initiative leveraging real-time data and communication to foster more collaborative dam management along the Huron’s main stem. \n\nAbout the Speakers: \nDaniel Brown\, Climate Resilience Strategist\, Huron River Watershed Council\nDaniel has worked to address the effects of climate change across North America. He helps develop strategies that preserve land for waterway protection\, reduce planet-warming emissions\, and improve climate resilience. He also works on efforts to restore the main river corridor through dam removal\, leads HRWC’s efforts to address PFAS contamination\, and coordinates the Huron River Water Trail. He enjoys empowering conservation based on sound science and getting people to enjoy Michigan’s natural resources. Daniel joined HRWC in 2018 and lives in the Horseshoe Creekshed.\n\nAndrea Paine\, Program Manager\, Huron River Watershed Council \nAndrea coordinates HRWC’s stormwater management\, fee-for-service stormwater services\, and community engagement work. She also supports local policy and other watershed planning and management projects. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in environmental policy and planning from the University of Michigan. She joined HRWC in 2018\, lives in the Allens Creekshed\, and is originally from Manistee\, MI.\n\nBranko Kerkez\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Department Chair for Research\, Civil and Environmental Engineering\nBranko Kerkez is an Arthur F. Thurnau associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at U-M. His research interests include water\, data\, and sensors. Branko is driven by the desire to both rationalize water management decisions\, and put tools into the hands of community members to allow them to contribute to those decisions. The National Academy of Engineering recognized his work in smart water systems in 2018 as a Gilbreth Lecturer. Branko’s Digital Water Lab is untangling the role of tech in water…one sensor at a time! He earned his PhD in 2012 from the University of California\, Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering.\n\nAbout Coffee Talks: Coffee Talks provide a monthly opportunity for U-M faculty\, staff\, and students interested in water\, and water-interested people in southeast Michigan to connect with colleagues\, learn about pressing and/or emerging water-related issues\, and meet new partners. This academic year\, we are excited to explore the intersection of water + energy and what this nexus means to U-M researchers\, institutes\, and external partners. Coffee Talks are in-person convenings designed to build connections as part of the U-M Water Center's mission and programs\; we are not recording sessions at this time.\n\nYou can register for this session here: https://graham.umich.edu/wateratmichigan/coffee-talks UID:143331-21892918@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143331 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:adaptation,biodiversity,Biology,Construction,Rivers,Water LOCATION:Michigan Union - Koessler CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T181521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T190000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Baseball vs Toledo DESCRIPTION:Baseball vs Toledo UID:145969-21898193@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145969 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Baseball LOCATION:Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T091106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Tailoring Rydberg interactions for expanding quantum capabilities DESCRIPTION:Rydberg atoms provide a uniquely versatile platform for engineering strong\, tunable interactions in otherwise weakly interacting neutral-atom systems. They couple strongly to each other and to external fields. The former enables controllable atom-atom\, atom-photon and even photon-photon interactions\, while the latter promises exceptionally sensitive and broadband microwave (MW) and radio frequency (RF) sensing capabilities. Typically\, the Rydberg-Rydberg interactions are leveraged as a blockade mechanism. In contrast\, we explore the antiblockade regime in atom arrays\, where interactions facilitate rather than suppress excitation. I will present our numerical studies demonstrating directional quantum information and entanglement transfer [1]\, as well as robust avalanche amplification for weak signal detection [2]. For atom-field coupling\, I will present our experimental work expanding MW sensing capabilities with cold atomic ensembles. First\, we demonstrate 3D field characterization via multi-parameter extraction\, which holds potential as a testbed for machine-learning-enhanced measurement protocols and has broad implications for information extraction from complex measurements. Second\, we address the intersection of atom-atom and atom-field interactions by investigating the role of nonlinear atomic interactions in probing external fields [3]. Together\, these studies show how tailoring Rydberg interactions expands the accessible measurement and dynamical capabilities of cold-atom platforms.\n \nReferences:\n[1] Yupeng Wang\, Junjie Wang\, Aishik Panja\, Xinghan Wang\, Qi-Yu Liang\, “Directional Transport in Rydberg Atom Arrays via Kinetic Constraints and Temporal Modulation”\, Phys. Rev. Research 7\, L022035 (2025)\n[2] Xinghan Wang\, Yupeng Wang\, Qi-Yu Liang\, “Robust Rydberg facilitation via rapid adiabatic passage”\, Phys. Rev. Research 8\, 013154 (2026)\n[3] Xinghan Wang\, Yupeng Wang\, Aishik Panja\, Qi-Yu Liang\, \"Nonlinear optical spectra from Rydberg-mediated photon photon interactions\"\, arXiv:2602.11563 (2026) UID:146387-21898981@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146387 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260217T204301 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: Accelerating Earth system simulation DESCRIPTION:Providing high-quality “actionable information” for strategic risk analysis is amongst the primary goals of the U.S. Dept. of Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). The simulation speed required to generate high-quality localized predictions at seasonal-to-decadal time scales is very high. In this talk we highlight some algorithmic design decisions that combine new research with classical numerical methods to enable E3SM’s ultra-high resolution configuration to achieve exascale performance and win the inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for Climate in 2023. \n\nOur design strategies tailor mathematical methods to both the unique features of the application space and to the heterogeneous computing architectures of exascale supercomputers. Ultimately\, these efforts doubled the speed of the most computationally demanding component of E3SM\, its atmosphere model. We will also discuss new and ongoing research associated with opportunities afforded by these performance gains. UID:145352-21897161@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145352 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260212T143243 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T171500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Design of 3d Metal Complexes for Cooperative Catalysis & Mechanistic Insight DESCRIPTION:Over the past 4 decades\, transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling and olefin functionalization reactions have transformed the discovery and manufacture of pharmaceuticals\, agrochemicals\, pigments\, and materials. However\, responsible sourcing of preferred precious metal catalysts (like Pd\, Rh\, or Ir) has become increasingly challenging with ongoing geopolitical conflict and inconsistent labor practices. This limited availability thus hinders the sustainability and economic viability of these processes. Despite the clear impetus to pursue reaction development with more terrestrially abundant elements\, first-row (3d) transition metals are not typically suitable as direct substitutes for their precious metal congeners. Nonetheless\, there is growing interest in exploring the unique reactivity of earth-abundant and relatively inexpensive 3d metals to generate novel products and/or take advantage of substrate combinations that remain difficult to access with established methods. However\, compared with the detailed understanding of the fundamental reactivity of precious metals informed by decades of mechanistic elucidation\, the identity\, speciation\, and controlling features of 3d metal catalysts remain poorly defined in many cases\, thus limiting their development. Here\, I will describe my team’s progress using well-defined nickel and copper precatalysts to tease apart the structural features and mechanistic steps necessary for achieving high activity and chemoselectivity in cross coupling and olefin functionalization reactions. Our work relies on a synergy between mechanistic study of and precatalyst design for homogeneous catalysis\, taking advantage of cooperative design principles informed by heterogeneous and biological catalysis. These insights are translated into the design of novel catalyst structures and synthetic transformations with enhanced efficiency. UID:138412-21882917@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138412 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T125252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T180000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Illuminate and Inspire: Black Alum Panel & Networking Mixer DESCRIPTION:Illuminate and Inspire: Black Alum Panel & Networking Mixer \n\n \n\nPlease join us on March 17th\, 2026 from 4 to 6pm on campus at the Trotter Multicultural Center for an inspiring evening with an opportunity to hear from multiple Black Alums! This conversation will highlight the Alums’ time at U-M\, their journeys to the careers they are in today\, and the challenges they’ve overcome. \n\n \n\nThe evening will give students interested in various industries the opportunity to ask questions\, gain insight\, and build meaningful connections. \n\n \n\nFood will be provided. \n\nBusiness attire is not required\, so please come as you are.\n\nThis event is open to all LSA students and is proudly sponsored by the LSA Opportunity Hub and the Black Student Union.\n\nRSVP now to reserve your spot! Dinner will be served. \n\n \n\nAlum Bios: \n\nJasmine Brooks\nJasmine Brooks is the founder of JMB Advising and a Detroit-based educator with over a decade of experience in student advising and school leadership. A University of Michigan alum\, she began supporting student success during her undergraduate years and has continued this work since 2010.\nHer career spans roles as a classroom teacher\, Assistant Principal\, and Dean of Students where she has consistently focused on improving college access\, matriculation\, and graduation outcomes.\nJasmine currently serves as Senior Director of Graduate 313 at the Detroit College Access Network\, where she leads initiatives to expand postsecondary credential attainment through the development of community-based support hubs across Detroit.\n\n\n\nJade Harris \nJade Harris is a compliance and audit ethics professional currently serving as Program and Process Compliance Lead at Stellantis. She leads large-scale audits\, develops risk and compliance frameworks\, and has identified significant cost recovery through data analysis and process improvement.\n\nJade holds an MBA from Wayne State University\, where she worked as a Program Coordinator developing STEM leadership programs and managing large-scale program budgets. Jade got her Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology\, Cognition\, and Neuroscience from the University of Michigan\, with additional executive education from the Ross School of Business.\n\nTerrence Quinn\nTerrence G Quinn is an estate planning attorney in Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and the founder and president of The TGQ Law Firm. Mr. Quinn graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002 and spent the next six years practicing in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group for a major Michigan firm.\n\nIn 2008\,Terrence founded his own firm where he assists Michigan clients with legal assistance to help them find comfort in what lies ahead. Specifically\, the firm provides legal assistance to clients with main focuses in estate planning\, probate law\, and elder law.\n\nMiles Jackson\nMiles is the Director of Development for Angel City Sports with over 15 years of experience in sport\, health equity\, and community development. Throughout his career\, he has partnered with Nike and EA Sports to raise over $2M for community infrastructure for his company Cuba Skate. \n\nMiles was a former varsity men's soccer player at UM and a dual MBA graduate (USC Marshall/HSG)\, combining his athletic discipline with strategic business acumen. Driven by his lived experience with diabetes and his tenure as a Board Member for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)\, Miles specializes in using storytelling to build high-impact partnerships and drive social change. \n\nTanisha Hemphill\n\nTanisha Hemphill is a product leader at Ulta Beauty\, with experience building global consumer products at companies like Apple\, Expedia Group\, and Google-acquired Motorola Mobility. She has led large-scale loyalty and growth initiatives used by millions of customers worldwide and is passionate about helping people navigate careers in tech and leadership. Tanisha is also the former Chicago Chapter Lead of the University of Michigan Black Alumni Association\, where she focused on mentorship\, community building\, and supporting the next generation of leaders. UID:145375-21897205@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145375 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,All Majors Welcome,Alum Connections,Alumni,Black Student Union,Career,Early Career Exploration,Lsa Opportunity Hub,Networking LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Multipurpose Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260401T123127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here:https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1916095Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!! Get real-time\, personalized support by checking out the in person Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who hasdesigned this experience to provide you strategies\, tools\, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships. Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\,the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy. **If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Exploring Major/Career Option\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting. Recent Grads: If you are an alumni\, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line“Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or tobe set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email.#UCC UID:145701-21897712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145701 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260216T115057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T200000 SUMMARY:Auditions:Shakespeare in the Arb: Auditions for Love's Labor's Lost DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare in the Arb is a collaboration between the University of Michigan's Nichols Arboretum and Residential College. Since 2001\, university and community members have provided audiences with a magical night of Elizabethan theater in an inspiring natural setting. We are looking for actors and musicians to join this beloved Ann Arbor tradition for our 2026 season!\n\nPerformances are every weekend in June in Nichols Arboretum. Rehearsals are every Monday\, Wednesday\, and Friday beginning April 27th.\nAll roles are available! \n\nAuditions will be in East Quad on the following dates:\n\n March 17th (4-8PM)\n March 19th (5-9PM)\n March 20th (4-8PM)\n\nActors will be expected to memorize a monologue from a given selection (available in the link below). Musicians will submit a short self tape in place of in-person auditions. Anyone is welcome to do both!\n\nCallbacks will be on March 21st from 12-4PM in the Keene Theater. \n\nFor more information\, and to sign up for an audition slot\, go to bit.ly/sita2026.\n\nEmail Ari Richardson at arijrich@umich.edu with any questions. UID:145538-21897486@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145538 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:artists,arts,arts at michigan,Audition,Auditions,Free,Theater,theatre,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T103819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Case for Hope in Dystopian Times DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Privacy@Michigan event with Albert Fox Cahn. In this session\, we won’t just examine the ways that novel technologies are driving inequality\, eroding autonomy\, and undermining the rule of law\; we’ll also look at the glimmers of hope piercing the darkness of this moment. Albert will highlight litigation\, legislation\, and grassroots organizing campaigns that are pushing back every day on the growth of Orwellian technologies. See how a new generation of dystopian storytellers are highlighting the once-invisible harms of government surveillance. Learn how groups defending undocumented immigrants\, abortion care\, and the bedrock principles of the rule of law are fighting and winning in local communities across the United States. And see the strategies that can be deployed in your local communities in the months and years ahead.\n\nThis event will take place on March 17 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Vandenberg Room on the 2nd floor of the Michigan League. If you are unable to attend\, the event will be livestreamed. Event information and access to the livestream can be found on the events webpage: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/privacy/albert-fox-cahn UID:146091-21898356@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,All Majors Welcome,Artificial Intelligence,Big Tech,cyber security,Cybersecurity,Digital Scholarship,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology,Discussion,Free,Genai,General Public,Generative Ai,government,In Person,information,information and technology,information law,information policy,information science,information studies,information technology,internet security,it,Its,Law,michigan it,Politics,Pre Law,Pre-Law,privacy,public health law,Social Impact,social influence,Social Justice,social science research,Social Sciences,Talk,Umsi LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T135950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Future of Health AI DESCRIPTION:Join industry and startup leaders as they break down how AI is transforming healthcare now and where it’s headed next. Note: This event is for U-M students\, faculty\, and staff.\n\nMarch 17\, 2026\n4PM - 6PM\n​Ross School of Business\n701 Tappan Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\, USA\nRobertson Auditorium\n\nRSVP here: https://myumi.ch/y1EmP\n\nEvent Schedule\n\n​4:00 PM\nArrival and Networking\n\n​4:30–6:00 PM\n​Welcome and Introduction\n\n​Perspectives on the Future of Health AI\nJim Mault\, MD\nFounder & Chairman\, BioIntelliSense\n​David Rhew\, MD\nChief Medical Officer\, Microsoft\n\n​Spotlight on U-M Health AI Startups\n\n​Fireside Conversation and Audience Q&A\n\n​6:00–6:30 PM\nNetworking Reception\n\n​This event is hosted by: \n​Pinkert Healthcare Accelerator (Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurship)\n​Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund (Center for Entrepreneurship + Fast Forward Medical Innovation)\n\n​UM Partner Groups:\n​AI & Digital Health Innovation + e-HAIL\n​Michigan Medicine\n​Innovation Partnerships\n​Dept of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics UID:146126-21898419@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146126 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Biomedical Engineering,Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneur Services,Entrepreneurship,Founder,Free,Genai,Generative Ai,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate School,Graduate Students,In Person,In-person,Lecture,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Zell Lurie Institute For Entrepreneurial Studies,Zell Lurie Institute For Entrepreneurship,Zli LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T141036 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Something in the Woods Loves You Book Club DESCRIPTION:Jarod Anderson is coming to the University of Michigan in March of 2026 to talk about his book\, Something in the Woods Loves You!\n\nProgram in the Environment (PitE) is hosting weekly book clubs to talk about each section of the book. We will provide a free e-book or hard copy of the book\, but you can also listen to the audiobook on Spotify Premium. Feel free to come to one\, some\, or all of our cozy conversations to enjoy hot chocolate and cookies! RSVP to reserve a copy of the book at the link in \"Related Links\".\n\nFebruary 10th - \"Winter\"\nFebruary 24th - \"Spring\"\nMarch 10th - \"Summer\"\nMarch 17th - \"Fall\" UID:144396-21895287@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144396 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,Books,climate,Climate Change,conservation,ecology,Environment,environmental,Environmental Humanities,food,Free,In Person,literary,Literature,nature,Pite,Planet Blue,Social Sciences,sustainability LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 1520 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T162053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Hasidic Women in the Media DESCRIPTION:In a compelling lecture performance\, author Jessica Roda presents themes from her groundbreaking book *For Women and Girls Only*\, joined by actress\, writer\, and producer Malky Goldman—the book’s remarkable protagonist. The event offers a nuanced exploration of the representation of Hasidic female identity in media\, on screen\, and on stage. Goldman\, who was raised in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem\, shares her deeply personal journey navigating the arts from within and beyond the boundaries of her Hasidic upbringing. Through dialogue\, multimedia\, and live performance\, the evening exposes the tensions between tradition and self-expression\, visibility and erasure\, community expectations and artistic freedom. Roda contextualizes Goldman’s story within broader questions of gender\, religion\, and representation\, challenging reductive portrayals of Hasidic women in mainstream media. Goldman’s voice—grounded\, creative\, and courageous—offers a powerful counter-narrative\, reclaiming agency and complexity for Hasidic female identities on public stages. The performance invites audiences to reconsider assumptions and listen to stories often silenced or misunderstood. UID:142482-21891003@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142482 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T101504 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:Hasidic Women in the Media DESCRIPTION:In a compelling lecture performance\, author Jessica Roda presents themes from her groundbreaking book \"For Women and Girls Only\"\, joined by actress\, writer\, and producer Malky Goldman—the book’s remarkable protagonist. The event offers a nuanced exploration of the representation of Hasidic female identity in media\, on screen\, and on stage. Goldman\, who was raised in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem\, shares her deeply personal journey navigating the arts from within and beyond the boundaries of her Hasidic upbringing. Through dialogue\, multimedia\, and live performance\, the evening exposes the tensions between tradition and self-expression\, visibility and erasure\, community expectations and artistic freedom. Roda contextualizes Goldman’s story within broader questions of gender\, religion\, and representation\, challenging reductive portrayals of Hasidic women in mainstream media. Goldman’s voice—grounded\, creative\, and courageous—offers a powerful counter-narrative\, reclaiming agency and complexity for Hasidic female identities on public stages. The performance invites audiences to reconsider assumptions and listen to stories often silenced or misunderstood. UID:142487-21891009@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142487 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,History,Humanities,Jewish Studies,Media,Social Sciences,Storytelling LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T095602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T183000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Virtual Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Group for Adults DESCRIPTION:Are you looking to gain better control of your thoughts and emotions? Our Psychological Clinic invites adults 18 and older to participate in our weekly Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group sessions\, held virtually for your convenience. Learn practical skills for managing anxiety\, depression\, and challenging situations with the support of experienced clinicians and peers.\n\nWhy Choose DBT Group Therapy?\nGroup sessions offer unique benefits\, including opportunities to learn new techniques\, share experiences\, and build supportive connections. You’ll develop practical skills in mindfulness\, emotion regulation\, interpersonal effectiveness\, and distress tolerance—essential tools for managing strong emotions and handling stress. Research shows that connecting with peers in a supportive group environment encourages real-world growth\, accountability\, and lasting change.\n\nProgram Details:\n- Who: Adults 18+ interested in building coping skills\, managing emotions\, and improving relationships.\n- When: Tuesdays from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. (via Zoom).\n- Structure: The program runs in ongoing 4-month cycles\, each focusing on a different theme.\n- Flexible Start: New participants can join at the first Tuesday session of any month.\n- Cost: $45 per session (insurance may help cover costs). UID:139870-21886246@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:anxiety,Depression,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Health & Wellness,mental health,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260302T161613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T190000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Mindful Movement: Workshop for Adults DESCRIPTION:Are you feeling out of balance or overwhelmed by the pace of everyday life? Looking for practical skills to help you reconnect with yourself\, manage stress\, and find emotional balance? The Mary A. Rackham Institute (MARI)’s Psychological Clinic invites you to our 5-week Mindful Movement Workshop for Adults designed to help you build mind-body awareness and handle life’s challenges with greater presence.\n\nWhat You’ll Learn in Mindful Movement:\n+ Develop mind-body connection through mindful movement practices\n+ Practice mindfulness\, breathing exercises\, and gentle movement\n+ Gain tools for managing difficult emotions and staying present every day\n\nWhy Choose a Group Approach?\nGroup workshops offer a unique space to build calm and presence alongside others seeking similar skills. You’ll share strategies\, learn together\, and provide support as you build healthy\, sustainable habits—progress you can truly feel in both body and mind.\n\nPrefer a one-on-one experience? We also offer short-term individual Mindful Movement therapy tailored to your personal goals.\n\nWorkshop Details:\n- Who: Adults 18+ interested in improving mindfulness skills (whether you’re new to it or already practicing)\, or anyone seeking greater presence and emotional balance\n- When: Wednesdays\, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.\, for five weeks\n- Dates: March 17\, 2026 – April 14\, 2026\n- Where: In-person at our offices at 210 S. 5th Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI. UID:146097-21898365@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146097 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:anxiety,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Group Therapy,Life Balance,managing anxiety,mental health,Mindfulness,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260322T094645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:30th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons DESCRIPTION:Prison Creative Arts Project's Annual Exhibition is the largest and longest-running art show of its kind in the U.S. Now in its 30th anniversary\, this exhibition features over 800 original works by 600+ artists currently incarcerated in Michigan. The artwork featured in the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the power of art under the most difficult of circumstances – incarceration\, isolation\, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all\, both in the free world and behind the walls. \n\nGallery Opening and Celebration: March 17\, 2026\, 6-9pm\n\nGallery Hours following Opening Night:\nSun–Mon: 12pm–6pm\nTues–Sat: 10am–7pm\n\nGallery Closes: 5pm\, March 31\n\nDuderstadt Center Gallery\n2281 Bonisteel Blvd\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48109\n\nPresented with support from Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, Bank of Ann Arbor\, Eckhart Tolle Foundation\, Arts Initiative\, The Carceral State Project\, Center for World Performance Studies\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of Sociology\, Institute for the Humanities\, Residential College\, School of Social Work. UID:145409-21897261@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145409 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,North Campus,Social Justice,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T170334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T210000 SUMMARY:Presentation:30th Annual Exhibition Opening Reception and Celebration DESCRIPTION:Join us for opening night of the 30th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons!\n\n6:00 PM: Exhibit opens and artwork sales begin in Duderstadt Gallery. Enjoy light refreshments in the Chesebrough Lobby.\n7:00 PM: Celebration program in Chesebrough Auditorium.\n8:30 PM: Line closes for artwork sales.\n9:00 PM: Gallery closes.\n\nDuderstadt Center Gallery\n2281 Bonisteel Blvd\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48109\n\nPresented with support from Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, Bank of Ann Arbor\, Eckhart Tolle Foundation\, Arts Initiative\, The Carceral State Project\, Center for World Performance Studies\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of Sociology\, Institute for the Humanities\, Residential College\, School of Social Work. UID:145412-21897286@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145412 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Social Justice,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T091841 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8\n\nAttend a workshop to decorate the dragon body with garlands and glitter\, bells and bottlecaps\, sequins and sparkle! Events will be held on March 12\, 17\, 19 from 6 - 9 PM at the Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center).\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cstep@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:146122-21898410@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146122 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,ArtsEngine,Asia,china,Chinese Studies,Community LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center). Ann Arbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251114T154427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T190000 SUMMARY:Meeting:LSA Virtual Q&A for Prospective High School Students DESCRIPTION:LSA Recruitment is hosting an hour-long virtual LSA Q&A session where prospective high school students can ask LSA and Michigan Learning Community (MLC) student ambassadors common questions about being an LSA student at Michigan. Common questions include but are not limited to majors/minors\, LSA programs\, MLCs\, campus resources\, living in Ann Arbor\, studying abroad\, etc. The session is intended for first-year student applicants and their guests. If you are interested\, sign up for a session below. Note that sessions are scheduled for the Eastern Time Zone.\n\nRegister Here: https://myumi.ch/rAMgG UID:117080-21897211@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117080 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:free,Prospective Student,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T181652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Chamber Music & Dance with a View DESCRIPTION:Enjoy LIVE collaborative performances by U-M SMTD faculty & students in an intimate setting. Join us in the Dance Building's Perry Kasper Granoff Studio.\n\nThe event runs 6:30 - 7:15pm. \n\nFree parking is available. Seating is limited. UID:146409-21899049@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146409 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,Faculty,Free,Interdisciplinary,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Dance Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251219T182308 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T195000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Food Literacy for All DESCRIPTION:Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course at the University of Michigan supported by the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative\, Program in the Environment\, School for Environment & Sustainability\, and our Michigan-based community partners. \n\nFrom January to April 2026\, Food Literacy for All features dynamic guest speakers each Tuesday evening (6:30-7:50 PM) to address the challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. This year\, we will hear talks on changemaker chefs\, seed rematriation\, student food movements\, soil science and politics\, city urban agriculture directors\, labor practices in the meatpacking industry\, and much more. The course is primarily virtual and livestreamed as Zoom Webinars. \n\nRegister for free as a community member on our website. As a registrant\, you can attend the sessions that interest you/fit your schedule.\n\nRather participate for course credit in the Winter 2026 semester? Enroll in the 2-credit\, primarily virtual class as an undergraduate (ENVIRON 444) or receive graduate-level credit (EAS 444). UID:142266-21890294@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142266 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Advocacy,agriculture,Climate Change,Environment,environmental justice,food,Interdisciplinary,social justice,sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T081048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T203000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mosaics and Memory DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for the Humanities for Mosaics and Memory\, a creative workshop that invites students to explore the history and significance of mosaics in Islamic visual culture through art\, conversation\, and community. The evening will begin with a short talk by Professor Christiane Gruber\, offering insight into how mosaics have been used to convey meaning\, beauty\, and spirituality across Islamic history.\nFollowing the talk\, participants will take part in a hands-on workshop\, crafting their own faux paper mosaics inspired by these traditions. The event will include a shared Iftar meal\, providing space to relax\, reflect\, and connect with fellow students. No prior art experience is necessary—just curiosity and an appetite for learning (and dinner). UID:145386-21897224@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145386 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arts For All,History,Sessions,Social And Cultural Event,Undergrad,Visual Arts,Workshop LOCATION:Suite 1111, 202 S. Thayer Street CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T121705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Violin Studio Evening of Encores DESCRIPTION:Back by popular demand! \n\nEncores offer a chance to delight\, surprise\, and dazzle our audiences – sometimes playful and intimate\, other times bold and virtuosic. In this off-campus performance at the beautiful Temple Beth Emeth\, nineteen violinists from the studio of Danielle Belen join with pianists Naki Kripfgans and Bogum Park in a fast-paced evening of short works from the repertoire. UID:143735-21893725@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143735 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251222T120122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:II Cineforum DESCRIPTION:II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus Film Screening Series\n\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!\nFilm in Italian with English subtitles\n\nLocated in North Quad Space 2435\n\nTuesday\, February 10 @7pm\, Ladri di biciclette\, Vittorio De Sica\, 1948.\n\nFilm synopsis: Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made\, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves\, directed by Vittorio De Sica\, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome\, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle\, which he needs for work\, is stolen. With his young son in tow\, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight\, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity\, social rectitude\, and brutal honesty.\n\nTuesday\, March 17 @7pm\, La strada\, Federico Fellini\, 1954. \n\nFilm synopsis: There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband\, the legendary Federico Fellini\, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada\, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampanò (Anthony Quinn)\, a brutal strongman in a traveling circus. When Zampanò encounters an old rival in highwire artist the Fool (Richard Basehart)\, his fury is provoked to its breaking point. With La Strada\, Fellini left behind the familiar signposts of Italian neorealism for a poetic fable of love and cruelty\, evoking brilliant performances and winning the hearts of audiences and critics worldwide.\n\nTuesday\, April 7 @7pm\, Il bell'Antonio\, Mauro Bolognini\, 1960. \n\nFilm synopsis: In the lush city of Catania\, Sicily\, Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) is regarded as the ultimate lover of women\, a title he holds dear. Yet not long after marrying the beautiful Barbara (Claudia Cardinale)\, Antonio’s new obligations begin to weigh on him\, and soon he is faltering in the bedroom. In short order\, his impotence is the talk of the town\, and Antonio is a laughingstock. As he tries to repair the damage to his marriage\, Barbara considers her options for leaving. UID:142270-21890310@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142270 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:film,film screening,Free,italian LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260217T121959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:March Madness Watch Party at Mosher Jordan DESCRIPTION:Kick off March Madness with the Mosher Jordan Multicultural Lounge Community Assistants! Watch the first game of March Madness and enjoy free snacks and refreshments! UID:145597-21897580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145597 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Housing,Social,Sports,Watchparty LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall - Nikki Giovanni Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T144045 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T220000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Shamrock Showdown DESCRIPTION:Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with nonstop fun and fresh activities! Dive into arcade classics and friendly competitions. Snap memorable moments at our photo booth and try out exciting new games—all in a safe and welcoming space. Enjoy tasty snacks and connect with fellow Wolverines! Hosted by CCI\, Beyond the Diag\, Wolverine Wellness\, and DPSS\, this event promises games\, good vibes\, and surprises at every turn. UID:146235-21898689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146235 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:beyond the diag,Cci,Food,Free,Fun,St Patricks Day,Wolverine Wellness LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T093908 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T205000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sober Skate DESCRIPTION:Join the Collegiate Recovery Program (CRP) for a fun night of ice skating in a supportive\, substance-free space + free food and beverages! Open to all students. UID:146236-21898690@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146236 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Collegiate Recovery Program,Community,Fitness,Food,free,Free Food,Fun,Health & Wellness,St Patrick's Day,Student Life,Well-being,Wellness LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T143816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sporcle Trivia North Campus DESCRIPTION:Got luck? See if you do! Come celebrate St. Patricks Day with CCI and compete in Sporcle Trivia! We will have prizes and food! UID:146331-21898902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146331 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cci,Food,Free,Fun,St Patrick's Day,Trivia LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251217T181636 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Concert Band DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Concert Band performance. UID:142873-21891753@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T181643 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Concert Band DESCRIPTION:Courtney Snyder\, conductor\nJohn Mange\, student conductor (Reed)\nRachel Zephir\, student conductor (Pierson)\n\nPROGRAM\n*Easy Tiger*\, Griffin Candey\n*Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner*\, Alfred Reed\n*We Are Made of Star Stuff*\, Brooke Pierson\n*Flourishes and Meditations on a Renaissance Theme*\, Michael Gandolfi\nSecond Suite in F\, Gustav Holst UID:135450-21876842@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135450 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T142358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:'Redefining the Crown' Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:\"Artist’s statement: For centuries\, hair has been critical to how human beings understand racial categories\, gender designations\, and class status. For Black women in particular\, hair has and continues to be tied to ethnic identity and a history of self-determination\, social justice\, and survival. Thus\, chemotherapy-induced hair loss is a devastating event for Black patients who are also more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer subtypes necessitating chemotherapy\, carrying a 40% increased risk of dying from breast cancer.\n\nRedefining the ‘crown’: Approaching chemotherapy-induced alopecia among Black patients with breast cancer” started as a manuscript published in the scientific journal Cancer. But the work could not stop there. “Redefining the Crown” then metamorphosed into a photo essay project aimed at exploring the breast cancer journeys of six Black women and their experiences with hair loss due to chemotherapy. Though the project centers the experience of Black women\, we also acknowledge that breast cancer and chemotherapy-induced alopecia impact individuals of all genders. While the goal is to illuminate the unique stories of Black women who are affected uncommonly by this common disease\, the project is also a call to action regarding the disproportionate breast cancer-related mortality facing Black communities.\n\nIn this portraiture series\, photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks. This exhibition examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy and how their sense of cultural pride and personal identity have been redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThese survivors have redefined their own crowns. More profound than the new hairstyles they don after hair loss are the invisible crowns that they choose to wear each day: gratitude\, faith\, and resilience. What do their words mean to you? Do they empower you to act?\n\nArtist’s name: Versha Pleasant\nWork Title: Image 2\nDate of creation: September 2024\nArtist’s statement: Photo by Tafari Stevenson-Howard\" UID:146980-21900140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Michigan Union - 1st Floor - Opera Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T120149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145013-21896350@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260227T120209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145014-21896400@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T120239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145015-21896457@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T120305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145016-21896521@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T060240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T235959 SUMMARY:Other:FULL SEMESTER SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION:This is a schedule of all our events happening this semester. Please follow the instagram or email iazamora@umich.edu to get on the email list for more information.  UID:145222-21896854@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T180046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T235959 SUMMARY:Other:University of Michigan Women's Ice Hockey @ ACHA Nationals DESCRIPTION:Nattys UID:143444-21893181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143444 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Centene Community Ice Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T163718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future. UID:143388-21893026@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T115746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist) DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Opening: March 12\, 2026\nExhibit Dates: March 12-30\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\nSet within Kafafian's speculative future world Azadistan—a place of magic and spirits beyond a digital collapse\, Հմայարան / Hmayaran is an immersive shrine housing a series of soft-sculptural artifacts reimagining objects Armenians have traditionally crafted for spiritual power and protection.\n \n Kafafian's focus in this exhibition is on the marks Armenians carve into stone\, clay and wood to imbue meaning\, memory and magic into their lived environments\, particularly as part of folk traditions outside of the realms of church and state.\n \n Channeled from the collective Armenian diasporic imaginary\, Kafafian's Portal Fire series depicts a narrative story that emerges from the materials as they are brought into relationship through weaving\, dyeing\, embellishment and thread. In this story world hybrid cultural practices and alternative spiritual modes develop from embodied traditions in response to the changing physical and cultural landscape of Southwest Asia in a future where technological catastrophe has severed global communications and erased digital archives. The multi-ethnic society of Azadistan takes shape through installations\, objects\, texts and performances manifesting the multiplicity of Aremenian-ness through the dimensions of a complicated past and its potential for a vibrant\, evolving futurity.\n\nCosponsor: Institute for the Humanities UID:143403-21893083@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T141911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial DESCRIPTION:The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit\, America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial.\n\nThe exhibit explores how President Ford joined Americans across the country in commemorating the Bicentennial. Highlighting some of the nationwide celebrations in 1976 and public gifts given to President Ford\, the exhibit asks visitors to reflect on our own Semiquincentennial commemorations.\n\nThe exhibit\, located in the Library's lobby\, will be free to visitors and will be available until December 3\, 2026. UID:145837-21897892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Bicentennial,American History,Bicentennial,History,President Gerald Ford LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260116T091950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Career Cafe featuring Sandia National Labs DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Career Cafe to speak with representatives from Sandia National Labs who will networking with candidates for future opportunities.\n\nThe Career Cafe provides students with an opportunity to connect with employers for networking and/or recruitment purposes in a casual setting. The Career Cafe is open to students across all majors and degree levels within the College of Engineering. Students participate on a drop in basis and may use this opportunity to explore different career paths\, learn about various employment opportunities\, and when appropriate\, present themselves as a candidate for open positions.\n\nAbout Sandia\n- Sandia National Labs is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation. We are a world-class team of scientists\, engineers\, technologists\, post docs\, and professionals all focused on cutting-edge technology\, ranging from homeland defense\, global security\, biotechnology\, and environmental preservation to computer security\, and nuclear defense. We are looking for people like you who share our dedication to Sandia's mission-serving the nation. Sandia offers many challenges and rewarding career opportunities for engineers\, scientists\, computer specialists\, technologists\, professionals and students throughout our mission areas of defense\, nonproliferation\, energy\, and homeland security.\n\nStudent pre-registration is not needed for this event. You can find more information in Career Fair Plus (CF+)\n\nThis is a College of Engineering event. UID:143996-21894384@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143996 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Second Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T144541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T100000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch\, Strength & Balance/Zumba DESCRIPTION: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. UID:145904-21898033@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145904 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T171335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Wayward Images DESCRIPTION:March 9-April 3\, 2026\n--\nThe public is cordially invited to an artist's reception on Wednesday\, March 27th at 4:30 pm in the RC Art Gallery.\n--\n\nPublic Workshop: On March 19th from 1 to 3pm\, join exhibiting artist Stamps School of Art & Design Assistant Professor Angela Chen for a collaborative bookmaking workshop! Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School 課後\, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen’s After School brings together collage\, sculpture\, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as 補習班 (buxiban) in Chinese\, after schools are referred to colloquially as “cram schools” and by scholars as “shadow education.” Operating simultaneously as spaces of community\, care\, and control\, these schools can be demanding and factory-like\; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents\, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult\, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School\, a buxiban and her parents’ business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley\, CA\, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students\, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink’s vast archive of photographs\, workbooks\, objects\, and advertisements\, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism\, segregation\, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner’s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics\, drawing from lived experience\, archives\, American history\, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom\, alternative and 19th-century printing processes\, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10)\, geometric abstraction\, assemblage\, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation\, the discursive enterprise\, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past\, present\, and future\, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver’s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage—one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture\, hymn\, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don’t require an escape. She addresses the sonic\, linguistic\, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing\, downloading\, and transferring archives. UID:146709-21899523@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art Workshop,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251219T115228 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Faculty On-Campus Work Retreats DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS FACULTY EXCLUSIVE!\n\nSign up for a two-hour work session\, followed by a hot lunch with colleagues. The Faculty On-Campus Work Retreats offer a quiet space to work with other scholars and artists\, and an opportunity for you to prioritize your research and creative work by committing to one or two work sessions before teaching\, service\, and email take over the semester. Lunch\, after the work session\, is a chance to share interests and work with other colleagues\, to learn about each others’ research\, to grow professional and social networks\, and to experience the University as a collective.\n\nThe Work Retreats are open to all ~7\,600 members of the Faculty Senate\, including tenure-track professors\, lecturers\, research faculty\, clinical faculty\, librarians\, archivists\, and curators. The series was developed by the Faculty Senate Office\, is supported by the Office of the Provost\, and is co-sponsored by Librarian Mary Lawrence.\n\nThe retreats officially run from 10-1 (10-12 for quiet work time and 12-1 for lunch). Faculty are also invited to arrive at 9am to get in an extra hour of work (and enjoy coffee\, tea\, and breakfast snacks). You’re welcome to arrive early\, any time after 9 am. UID:136839-21891913@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Networking LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T130452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Freddy to Quentin: The On-Set Still Photography of Joyce Rudolph DESCRIPTION:Joyce Rudolph has photographed some iconic actors and characters in her role as still photographer for the movies. This sampling of images from her papers\, which are housed as part of the Special Collections Research Center's Mavericks & Makers collection\, include the first images of Freddy Krueger in \"A Nightmare on Elm Street\,\" Arnold Schwenegger in \"The Terminator\,\" legends Jack Nicholson\, Diane Keaton\, Sean Penn\, and Robert DeNiro\, as well as directors such as Quentin Tarantino\, Martin Scorsese\, and her husband\, Alan Rudolph. UID:146264-21898755@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146264 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T165341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lynn Galbreath Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lynn Galbreath\, a Detroit based artist who grew up in Argentina\, is a former recipient of the Creative Artists’ Grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and the Michigan Individual Artist Grant from Michigan Council For The Arts. Galbreath’s work has been showcased locally\, nationally and internationally in over 20 solo/two person and over 100 group exhibitions.\n\nGalbreath has an M.F.A. from the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art\, Art History\, & Design\, Wayne State University\, Detroit\, MI\; and a B.F.A. with Permanent K-12 Certification from The Gwen Frostic School of Art\, Western MI University\, Kalamazoo\, MI. Galbreath has chaperoned eleven intensive\, immersive art experiences to Italy\, Spain\, France\, Belgium\, England\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, Austria\, and the Czech Republic. Lynn is a retired Adjunct Associate Professor of Studio Art from Oakland University\, where she has been on the faculty of the Department of Art & Art History since 2000. Lynn has also instructed studio art and design at the College For Creative Studies\, University of Detroit Mercy — School of Architecture\, Macomb Community College\, Wayne State University\, and Bloomfield University School. Her work can be seen in the collections of Oakland University\, Wayne State University\, Detroit Receiving Hospital\, Children’s Hospital of Michigan\, Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital and numerous private collections.\n\nThis exhibition consists of works from a variety of series created by Galbreath over the years: Telegraph\, Storyboard\, and Working Hard for a Living. Each series represents a unique exploration of themes\, techniques\, and social commentaries that reflect Galbreath’s artistic journey and concerns for the world.\n\nTelegraph explores the aesthetic visual weights and balances between harmony and content\, diving deep into how visual elements can convey messages and emotions. This series invites viewers to reflect on the way art communicates through its formal qualities\, as well as its narrative possibilities. The careful interplay of shapes\, colors\, and textures in these works prompts an examination of the viewer's perception and emotional response. By utilizing abstract forms\, Galbreath encourages an engagement that goes beyond mere observation\, seeking to provoke thought about how aesthetic choices influence understanding and meaning.\n\nOn the other hand\, Storyboard is a series of image-driven installation paintings that vary greatly in size\, showcasing Galbreath’s versatility and creative ingenuity. The titles of the works draw inspiration from the years spent creating visuals for TV commercials and public service announcements\, illustrating how commercial art often intertwines with societal messages. This series emphasizes the profound impact visual narratives have on consumer culture and public perception\, underscoring the artist's belief in the potency of imagery to shape narratives. The installations weave a complex fabric of storytelling that challenges viewers to reconsider their relationship with media and the messages they consume daily.\n\nWorking Hard for a Living pays tribute to our sustainable and unsustainable resources\, shedding light on the individuals who toil diligently within these economic frameworks. This series highlights the hard-working suppliers of essential products\, including Farm Market Managers\, Fishmongers\, and Beach Vendors. By portraying these self-employed individuals\, often operating within informal economies\, Galbreath draws attention to the unique challenges they face. These individuals frequently contend with low\, inconsistent incomes\, long hours\, and sometimes exploitative conditions\, fostering a sense of solidarity with those who labor under such circumstances.\n\nFurthermore\, the series invites viewers to confront the broader societal structures that contribute to these inequities. Galbreath's work serves not only as a tribute but also as a call to action to consider how our consumer habits and economic policies affect the livelihoods of others. The layered narratives present in this series open a dialogue about the value we place on labor and the often unseen struggles that support our day-to-day lives. Through these explorations\, Galbreath establishes a multifaceted narrative that intertwines art with activism\, compelling audiences to engage both aesthetically and ethically with the realities depicted in the exhibition. UID:142773-21891482@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251212T105136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16. UID:142417-21890890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Metamorphosis: Clay in Flux DESCRIPTION:\n\nMetamorphosis: Clay in Flux is an exhibition celebrating the creative potential of student ceramics\, designed to correspond with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Detroit\, and the surrounding ceramics events in Southeast Michigan.\n\nThis exhibition is organized and juried by members of the Stamps Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC) and will be on display in the Art & Architecture Building’s Street Gallery from March 11- 25\, 2026. The exhibition will open with a reception on Wednesday\, March 11 from 4:30-6 p.m. \n\nSEC Jurors\n\nElan Povirk (project lead)\nAlexis Albert\nRachel Deveyra\n\nExhibiting Artists\n\nZoe Dvorin\nLilly Fredericks\nMaría E. García-Murguía\nMikayla Holcomb\nVirginia Holland\nMagdalyn Hubbard\nMira Hughes\nAudrey Jarrett\nEry Millican\nIsabella Possin\nMo Pofahl\nNatalie Radabaugh\nNik Roy\nMihika Shukla\nAbigail Watters UID:146483-21899178@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146483 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251215T163232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Terence Swafford Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This exhibition showcases a decade of artist Terry Swafford’s work in Detroit\, marking the culmination of years spent composing scenes from the untamed edges of urban communities. These paintings serve as a visual record of Detroit’s transformation\, capturing humanity’s impact on the environment alongside nature’s persistent efforts to reclaim these spaces. As the city continues to change\, many of these depicted scenes are vanishing\, no longer visible in the landscape today. The significance of this documentation goes beyond mere nostalgia\; it invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic interplay between urban development and ecological restoration\, prompting a deeper understanding of how cities evolve while retaining traces of their history.\n\nSwafford’s paintings are created on location and in one session. The natural conditions\, including light\, shadow\, and atmosphere\, change dramatically from hour to hour and day to day\, forcing the artist to respond quickly and decisively. This approach\, born of a direct engagement with the subject and the fleeting nature of the scene\, along with his wet-on-wet technique\, keeps the work fresh and immediate. By immersing himself in the environment\, Swafford captures the diverse textures and vibrant colors that characterize Detroit’s landscape\, imbuing his work with a sense of urgency and spontaneity. Each brushstroke conveys a commitment not only to visual accuracy but also to emotional resonance\, as he strives to encapsulate the spirit of a place that is both loved and contested.\n\nIn addition to these works\, the artist constantly sketches ideas both for paintings and for designing projects in his business. These sketches serve as visual language\, helping him clarify and refine his concepts before bringing them to life. They become a means to communicate ideas to clients and his crew and become an extension of his voice—an academic exercise rooted in artistic practice that fosters collaboration and innovation. The act of sketching also reflects his evolving relationship with the city\, as each drawing encapsulates fleeting moments of inspiration drawn directly from his surroundings. This duality of function—creating art for exhibition and conceptualizing designs for projects—demonstrates Swafford’s versatility and adaptability as an artist.\n\nSwafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design\, and while at RISD\, he was part of the European Honors Program. His education not only honed his technical skills but also broadened his artistic perspective through exposure to varied artistic traditions. He has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Chicago\, Kansas City\, and New York State. Each exhibition serves as a testament to his commitment to his craft and his ability to engage diverse audiences\, offering them an opportunity to explore the complex narratives woven into each landscape. UID:142768-21891395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251118T163345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Welcome Wednesday DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday mornings throughout the fall and winter semesters\, the Alumni Association hosts Welcome Wednesdays for U-M students\, providing free coffee\, tea\, hot chocolate\, and a breakfast snack.\n\nLocated at the Alumni Center\, students can stop by from 9 a.m. to noon during the dates listed. Just make sure you bring your MCard!\n\n*Free refreshments are made possible by Alumni Association members and their membership dues. UID:136300-21889795@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136300 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Breakfast,Food,Free,free food,In Person,Networking,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Alumni Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260322T094645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:30th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons DESCRIPTION:Prison Creative Arts Project's Annual Exhibition is the largest and longest-running art show of its kind in the U.S. Now in its 30th anniversary\, this exhibition features over 800 original works by 600+ artists currently incarcerated in Michigan. The artwork featured in the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the power of art under the most difficult of circumstances – incarceration\, isolation\, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all\, both in the free world and behind the walls. \n\nGallery Opening and Celebration: March 17\, 2026\, 6-9pm\n\nGallery Hours following Opening Night:\nSun–Mon: 12pm–6pm\nTues–Sat: 10am–7pm\n\nGallery Closes: 5pm\, March 31\n\nDuderstadt Center Gallery\n2281 Bonisteel Blvd\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48109\n\nPresented with support from Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, Bank of Ann Arbor\, Eckhart Tolle Foundation\, Arts Initiative\, The Carceral State Project\, Center for World Performance Studies\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of Sociology\, Institute for the Humanities\, Residential College\, School of Social Work. UID:145409-21897272@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145409 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,North Campus,Social Justice,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T092052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GBD UMSI Morning Session DESCRIPTION: UID:146721-21899551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250627T142841 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Leadership at U-M DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:136263-21878335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T200407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T233000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Doo Won Han DESCRIPTION:Join us for Doo Won Han's PhD defense titled\, \"Towards Trustworthy Human-Autonomy Interaction: Understanding Human Behavior in Interaction with Automated Vehicles.\"\nChair: X. Jessie Yang\nLearn more: https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/han-doowon/\nZoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93016437635 UID:146383-21898978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146383 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T102059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026 Major/Minor Expo DESCRIPTION: UID:146473-21899152@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146473 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260202T110601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T150000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:2026 Major/Minor Expo DESCRIPTION:The Major/Minor Expo\, held every March\, is a great way to learn about academic opportunities at U-M! During this event\, you can talk with advisors\, faculty\, and students in the 70+ majors and 100+ minors LSA has to offer\, as well as many non-LSA academic programs. You can also gather information about opportunities for research on campus\, internships\, study abroad\, professional development\, and experiential learning. UID:144912-21896136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144912 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Advising,All Majors Welcome,Majors,Newnan,Newnan Lsa Academic Advising Center,Transfer Students,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Michigan Union - 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260115T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 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:138032-21881311@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251219T144605 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Negotiation Basics for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:Negotiation is something that many people feel unprepared for\, especially during the job search process. We'll talk through the steps involved in salary negotiation\, as well as negotiation tips that can be utilized in other contexts. Bring your questions\, as there will be plenty of time for questions and answers. This event is intended to be interactive\, and therefore a recording will not be available. Brought to you by the University Career Center\, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School. UID:142947-21891839@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142947 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T063111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Negotiation Basics for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:Negotiation is something that many people feel unprepared for\, especially during the job search process. We'll talk through the steps involved in salary negotiation\, as well as negotiation tips that can beutilized in other contexts. Bring your questions\, as there will be plenty of time for questions and answers. This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available. Brought to you by theUniversity Career Center\, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to this link: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1896868 We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements in this form\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Cierra Sutherland at cierrasu@umich.edu. To ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives\, we kindly request that you inform us as soon as possible.#UCC UID:144311-21895145@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144311 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T160752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Information Session for Invited Students DESCRIPTION:Discover what membership in the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi can do for you. Drop by the Michigan Union Pond Room on Wednesday\, March 18th\, anytime between 11 am and 1 pm. Presentations start every 30 minutes\, and you can chat with chapter leaders to get your questions answered. Registration is required—check your invitation letter for details! UID:146430-21899079@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Honor Society,Honors,Information Session LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T102059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T131500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Program in Survey and Data Science DESCRIPTION: UID:146588-21899318@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146588 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T093903 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu. UID:139740-21894087@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Aerospace Engineering,Chemical Engineering,Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,College Of Engineering,Computation,Computational Medicine,Computational Modeling,Computational Science,Computational Social Science,Data Science,Engineering,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Health Behavior & Health Equity,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Machine Learning,Materials Science,Micde,Phd Seminar,Political Science,Prospective Graduate Students,Public Health,Research,Science,Scientific Computing,Sessions LOCATION:Room 4425, Green Court Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121741 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Adam Lenhart\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Adam Lenhart performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:144527-21895458@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144527 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T102059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CMW: Navigating Different Types of Relationships DESCRIPTION:Campus Mind Works Wellness GroupCollege has a lot of different relationships - friends\, advisors\, professors\, peers\, family. Join our wellness group on Navigating Different Types of Relationships to learn some tips for balancing relationships\, hear from other students and get some free lunch!March 18 | 12:00 - 1:00 E.T. | Chrysler Center\, Room 265 | Register: campusmindworks.org\n UID:143308-21892888@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143308 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Legacies: Contemporary Art Dialogues with Clay DESCRIPTION:\n\nOn the occasion of the 2026 NCECA conference in Detroit\, Stamps Gallery presents an exhibition of new and recent work by diverse intergenerational artists working in clay locally and nationally. Collectively\, these works preserve and evolve age-old artistic traditions from weaving\, mark-making\, and pottery as contemporary forms of resistance and resilience\; recovery and regeneration that draw on diasporic and ancestral knowledge of world-building and translation.\n\nFeaturing work by Maya Davis\, Adebunmi Gbadebo\, Nicole Marroquin\, Marie Woo\, and Hedy Yang. Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.\n\nDDD Project Space\, 2857 East Grand Blvd Suite 104\, Detroit MI\n\nExhibition Dates and Hours: March 13 – 28\, 2026\n\nFri.\, March 13 and 20: 12—6 p.m.\nSat.\, March 14 and 21: 12—5 p.m.\nTue—Wed\, March 24—25: 11 a.m.—5 p.m.\nThu.\, March 26: 12—7 p.m.\nFri.\, March 27: 12—9 p.m.\nSat.\, March 28: 12—5 p.m.\n\nExhibition Reception: Fri.\, March 27\, 5:30 — 9 p.m. UID:145539-21897494@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145539 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260108T120322 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Navigating Different Types of Relationships DESCRIPTION:College has a lot of different relationships - friends\, advisors\, professors\, peers\, family. Join our wellness group on Navigating Different Types of Relationships to learn some tips for balancing relationships\, hear from other students and get some free lunch! This FREE in-person educational wellness group is for students only and will include an interactive presentation facilitated by staff from the Eisenberg Family Depression Center and is a collaborative service with U-M Engineering's C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center.\n\nRegistration is not required for in-person wellness groups\, but is recommended so there is enough lunch for all attendees. You can register using the link. Learn more at campusmindworks.org UID:143482-21893255@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143482 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Campus Mind Works,Food,Free,Free Food,Graduate and Professional Students,Health & Wellness,In Person,mental health,north campus,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Wellness,Workshop LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T063122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1915074Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you. Get real-time\, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab.We will discuss and educate you on…- Design andformat- Writing a great bullet point- Targeting your resumefor specific internships/jobs If you're a Graduate Studentor Recent Grad\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates. Note:This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students.#UCC UID:145617-21897596@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145617 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T101438 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Revolutionary Paine: Andy Murphy Student-Curated Class Exhibit Common Sense DESCRIPTION:Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The first edition was published on January 10\, 1776\, with an initial print run of just 1\,000 copies\; but within weeks demand soared. The students of Andy Murphy’s POLISCI 495 course co-curated the exhibition “Revolutionary Paine” to document the whirlwind caused by its publication. On view at the Clements January 16-May 8\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:143999-21894453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Americana,Exhibit,Exhibition,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Reading Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260323T100405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T140000 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. UID:142310-21890461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142310 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250926T163221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Communication Styles in the Workplace: Learning in Action Lab DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:139958-21886419@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139958 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication,Intergroup Dialogue,Self Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T154829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar | Comments on the gravitational path integral approach to cosmology DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will discuss various aspects of the gravitational path integral (GPI) approach to cosmology. First\, I will revisit the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal taking into account the norms of states computed using the GPI\, and explain how this dramatically alters the predictions of the proposal. I will then propose an alternative prescription\, which relates cosmological initial conditions to asymptotically AdS boundary conditions. Preliminary results show this approach predicts a long inflationary period ending in a metastable de Sitter universe (modulo some technical issues I will discuss). Finally\, if time allows\, I will comment on recent results that the Hilbert space of closed universes is one-dimensional\, and discuss the role of an ingredient common to all proposed resolutions of this issue: ensemble averaging. UID:144821-21895979@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144821 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Brown Bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T123124 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here:https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1916117Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!! Get real-time\, personalized support by checking out the in person Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who hasdesigned this experience to provide you strategies\, tools\, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships. Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\,the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy. **If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Exploring Major/Career Option\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting. Recent Grads: If you are an alumni\, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line“Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or tobe set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email.#UCC UID:145705-21897716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145705 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121742 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Eva Albalghiti\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Eva Albalghiti performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:144528-21895459@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144528 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T132056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GBD UMSI Afternoon Session DESCRIPTION: UID:146722-21899552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260204T161239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Strengthening Your Professional Network (Growing Your Community) Workshop DESCRIPTION:You may have heard people encourage you to “network.” Though\, what does it mean to network\, and how do you build your professional community? In this workshop\, we will discuss how to tap into networks you already have\, explore introducing yourself professionally\, and strategize ways to create long lasting authentic connections.\n\n \n\nYou should attend this session if you are:\n\nAn undergraduate U-M LSA student\n\nInterested in learning more about networking and exploring networking strategies\n\nInterested in maintaining connections made with professionals\n\n \n\nWhat you’ll gain by attending:\n\nLearn the overarching purpose and goals of networking\n\nDiscuss your concerns around networking and strategize how to address them\n\nIdentify what networks you already have access to and who you want to connect with\n\nBrainstorm effective introductory messages to grow your network\n\n \n\nRSVP now to reserve your spot for this hybrid workshop! The link to join this hybrid workshop will be emailed to you after you RSVP.\n\nThe LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences for all students. This hybrid event allows students to join in-person at Lorch Hall room 142 or virtually via Zoom. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair-accessible building\, including wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor\, places to sit or stand during the event\, and accessible parking options nearby on Tappan Ave and the Hill St parking garage. Ramps and a powered door are located at the East entrance (towards the School of Education). We will be using microphones for all speakers and participant questions and automated closed captions (although imperfect) will be generated through google slides which also include alt text for screen readers. To request additional accommodations\, please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu. UID:145081-21896633@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Lsa Opportunity Hub,Networking,Workshop LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 142 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T103853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Learning seminar in algebraic combinatorics: The Fundamental Theorem of Finite Semidistributive Lattices DESCRIPTION:Last time\, we saw that the lattice of torsion classes is completely semidistributive. Motivated in part by this fact\, Reading–Speyer–Thomas proved a fundamental theorem of finite semidistributive lattices. We'll give the necessary definitions to state the theorem\, give some examples\, and explain the connection to torsion classes. Time permitting\, we will also describe canonical join representations and the canonical join complex of a finite semidistributive lattice. UID:146675-21899445@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146675 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T091303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Number Theory: Counting points on hyperelliptic curves over finite fields DESCRIPTION:I will explain elementary methods for computing the zeta function of an arithmetic scheme over a finite field\, focusing on the case of hyperelliptic curves. It turns out that the number of points on such curves over a finite field can be packaged into traces of certain explicit matrices (called Hasse-Witt matrices) constructed from some coefficients of suitable powers of the defining polynomial. A highlight of this approach is that it is entirely elementary\, in the sense that no cohomology is involved. I will also discuss efficient algorithms for computation and their complexity. UID:146639-21899375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T101849 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Understanding Sorting in Modern Housing Markets DESCRIPTION:This paper explores how the changing role of sorting by race in driving neighborhood change. Building on prior research focused on localized incumbent responses to localized changes in the racial composition of nearby neighbors\, we explore how such micro-level sorting behavior may inform understanding of broader neighborhood transitions and heterogeneity across cities. Evidence suggests that local context\, density\, and housing-market conditions generate important heterogeneity across place. UID:143690-21893652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143690 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Labor,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T194106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:An introduction to braid groups DESCRIPTION:We'll define (pure) braid groups in 3 different ways: as the fundamental group of configuration spaces\, as mapping class groups of the punctured disk\, and algebraically via generators and relations. To do this we'll develop some background on configuration spaces\, including two \"forgetful\" maps. We'll also define the integral Burau representation\, a map which relates braid groups\, mapping class groups\, and symplectic groups\, and whose properties remain an active area of research. UID:146604-21899342@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251202T115505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants! DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES). UID:138848-21890504@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T114809 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Math Grad Show and Tell Seminar DESCRIPTION:In Pointless Topology - known by serious people as Pointfree Topology - a change of perspective to regular point-set topology is done\, shifting the focus from the points in the space to its collection of open sets.\n\nIn the first part of the talk\, we will motivate this new point of view\, describe what it means to \"focus on open sets\" and investigate in what situations we are able to recover points back from the information in the collection of open sets.\n\nIn the second part of the talk\, we will see a counterexample by johnstone\, originally published in a paper that this talk is named after. In the process\, we will introduce Scott (the topology)\, and learn how to tell a sober topology apart from one that's seeing double! UID:146647-21899398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146647 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T103302 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T151000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T161000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:NEW DATE: MIPSE Seminar | Magnetic Confinement Fusion: The Path to the Spherical Tokamak and NSTX-U DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nNuclear fusion research has been ongoing since the 1950’s. Following the development of atomic weapons\, scientists have been searching for methods to achieve controlled and sustained nuclear fusion for clean and abundant energy production. Magnetic fields quickly became a viable option for confining the high-temperature\, high-density plasmas needed. Many magnetic confinement schemes were developed (magnetic mirrors\, stellarator\, tokamak\, spherical tokamak). Each design has had various degrees of success\, and each has its own drawbacks. With the invention of the stellarator in 1953\, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been a pioneer in fusion research. Researchers have produced computational and experimental contributions to fusion research\, culminating in the 2026 construction and operation of the National Spherical Tokamak Experiment – Upgrade (NSTX-U). This talk will introduce nuclear fusion\, discuss why we need a confinement scheme\, introduce the basic principles of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF)\, and provide an overview of the popular confinement schemes. The talk will focus on tokamaks and the potential advantages of the spherical tokamak\, examine upcoming experiments on NSTX-U\, projected to be the world’s most powerful spherical tokamak\, and conclude with open questions in MCF.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Phillip Bonofiglo is a Staff Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). He received his B.S. in physics from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor where he was introduced to plasma physics research through high energy density physics experiments. Phil then received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison where his career in magnetic confinement fusion began. After obtaining his Ph.D.\, Phil joined PPPL as a postdoc where he specialized in the confinement and transport of energetic particles\, often combining numerical simulations and experimental measurements. His research career has since spanned almost every magnetic confinement fusion concept including reversed-field configurations\, stellarators\, tokamaks\, and spherical tokamaks. He participated in the recent DT-campaign on the Joint European Torus (JET)\, examining DT-alpha confinement\, and has upcoming experiments on the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak – Upgrade (MAST-U) and National Spherical Tokamak Experiment – Upgrade (NSTX-U) devices.\n\nThis seminar is free and open to the public. It will be conducted in person and on Zoom\, please check MIPSE website for details: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2526.php UID:143082-21892027@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143082 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Physics,Plasma,seminar,Talk LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260217T153622 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T165000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Seminar -- Prym-Brill-Noether Theory for Covers of Elliptic Curves DESCRIPTION:Brill-Noether theory is the study of algebraic curves and their maps to projective space. A series of results in the 80's describe the Brill-Noether theory of sufficiently general curves. More recently\, many researchers have become interested in the Brill-Noether theory of special curves -- if a curve admits one unusual map to projective space\, what does that imply about the existence and behavior of other such maps? We will begin with a gentle introduction to this field of study\, and then survey some of the recent results on special curves. We will conclude with recent results on etale double covers of curves -- a subject known as Prym-Brill-Noether theory -- and a surprising relation to the combinatorics of Coxeter groups. UID:142762-21891345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260202T113313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Learning to Lead: MMOL for Master's Students DESCRIPTION:Do you want to better understand your personal leadership style? Are you ready to lead collaborative research projects more effectively? This workshop utilizes the Michigan Model of Leadership (MMOL) to help you recognize your unique strengths and approach. You will explore various leadership styles and reflect on the challenges of collaborating across differences. We will also create a personalized leadership development plan for your future.\n\nThis workshop is tailored exclusively for master’s students at the University of Michigan. If you have any questions\, please reach out to rackhampdeworkshop@umich.edu. UID:144915-21896144@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144915 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:East Conference Room, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T123210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:2026 Education Job Fair - 2026 Education Job Fair DESCRIPTION:March 18\, 2026 / 4pm-7pm / Virtual FormatConnect with 50+ schools coming to see you!How it worksOrganizations create:- 1:1 sessions and/or Group Sessions (informal visits with organizations)- 1:1 sessions are 10 minutes long- Group sessions are 30 minutes long with up to 50 participantsStudents:- Register & reserve (schedule) 1:1 meetings and/or group sessions  March 9th(9am) - March 18th (6:30pm)   Before the Fair:Register for the Fair- Complete your Handshake Profile (under your initials in upper right corner)- Set your Profile to \"Community\" in \"Settings & Privacy\" (under your initials in upper right corner)- In \"Events\" select \"2026 Education Job Fair\"- Register for the Fair (select blue \"register button\" in upper right corner)Sign-up for Sessions  March 9th (9am) - March 18th (6:30pm)- In \"Events\" select \"2026 Education Job Fair\"- Review participating organizations in \"Available Sessions\"- Click the organization(s) you are interested in to reserve 1:1 or group sessions- For Group Sessions: select \"confirm\" to sign up- For 1:1 Sessions: select a time that works for you and then \"confirm\" to sign up (red dots indicate sessions that conflict with sessions you have already scheduled)Day of the Fair- Login to Handshake and navigate to the Education Job Fair- Click on the \"Your Sessions\" tab- Click on \"Launch Video\" to join the session. You can join up to 5 minutes early.- Questions? Visit the UCC Help RoomVirtual Fair Resources From Handshake- Video: Locating and Registering for Virtual Fairs- Article: Guide to Attending a Virtual Fair#UCC UID:141846-21889521@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141846 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T181526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Baseball vs Michigan State DESCRIPTION:Baseball vs Michigan State UID:146012-21898269@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146012 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Baseball LOCATION:Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260204T130217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bid-Ask Martingale Optimal Transport DESCRIPTION:Martingale Optimal Transport (MOT) provides a framework for robust pricing and hedging of illiquid derivatives. Classically\, MOT enforces exact calibration of model marginals to mid-prices of vanilla options\, ignoring the uncertainty of bid-ask spreads and thus underestimating model risk. To address this\, we introduce Bid-Ask Martingale Optimal Transport (BAMOT)\, where model marginals are constrained by distinct bid and ask distributions via convex order. We establish strong duality and prove convergence to the MOT limit as spreads vanish\, quantifying the rate using the novel \"bid-ask distance\". We support our findings with examples\, and finally discuss avenues for future research.\n\nJoint work with Bryan Liang (Bloomberg)\, Marcel Nutz (Columbia)\, and Shunan Sheng (Columbia). UID:145064-21896609@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145064 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T120136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 4-6p and Fridays from 3:30-5p.\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \nhttps://calendly.com/wolverinesonwheels-admin-umich/30min  UID:145004-21896266@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145004 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt Fabrication Underground CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T133125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bike Repair Hours DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnose bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding.\n\nEvery Wednesday from 4-6pm and Friday from 3-5:30pm in the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) SIGN UP HERE: https://tr.ee/Lp9kLnnfP9\n \nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \n\nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\n\nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer at any skill level for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu or sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QVMuOatF-toPc_ky9QIAeeD0ob-ndBGA4uUFm9EAZ0g/edit?usp=sharing UID:146268-21898802@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Biking,Climate Change,Community Service,Cycling,Education,Environment,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,planet blue,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T145140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CCMB/DCMB Weekly Seminar Series featuring Li-San Wang\, PhD (Associate Dean for Computing\, Perelman School of Medicine) DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nLarge-scale human genetics has transformed Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research. Through coordinated efforts such as the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) and the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP)\, dozens of reproducible risk loci have been identified across diverse populations. ADSP is now generating whole-genome sequence data at unprecedented scale\, with an eventual goal of 150\,000 genomes integrated with harmonized clinical and functional datasets. As data generation accelerates\, interpretation of genetic discoveries has become the central bottleneck.\n\nIn this seminar\, I will present computational frameworks developed within ADSP to bridge the gap between association and mechanism. These include multi-ancestry meta-analysis and fine-mapping approaches that leverage linkage disequilibrium differences to refine credible sets\; integration of rare and structural variants within joint-calling pipelines\; and colocalization strategies incorporating eQTL and other quantitative trait locus datasets to prioritize target genes. I will also discuss regulatory annotation tools such as INFERNO and BTS that integrate large collections of functional genomic tracks for context-specific variant interpretation\, along with the informatics infrastructure developed within the NIA Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease Data Storage Site to support genome production\, quality control\, phenotype harmonization\, and scalable coordination across more than 50\,000 whole genomes. Together\, these efforts illustrate how statistical genetics\, functional genomics\, and production-scale bioinformatics infrastructure can be integrated to advance mechanistic understanding of complex neurodegenerative disease. \n\nThe CCMB Seminar Series (Sponsored by DCMB) is held at Medical Science Unit I - 4B700\, each Wednesday\, at 4:00 pm EST\, on bioinformatics-related topics. Each seminar is presented by an invited guest speaker. These seminars are live-streamed on Zoom. UID:143694-21893657@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Bioinformatics,Biology,biomedical research,Research LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 4B700 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T123116 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Michigan Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign Info Session on Campaign Opportunities DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Democratic Party's Coordinated Campaign is looking to fill 100+ positions for the upcoming 2026 midterm elections!If you are interested in opportunities to work on a campaign for the Michigan Democratic Party\, please attend this information session where theirstaff will share more about upcoming job opportunities such as the field organizer role and campus fellows program.This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to thiswebpage:  https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1908077/share_preview  We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via the link below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficient time for arranging your requestedaccommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Cierra Sutherland at cierrasu@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA  #UCC UID:145150-21896735@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145150 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Student Activities Building, Maize and Blue Auditorium, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T105250 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Publishing (Student Success Workshops) DESCRIPTION:Join us and the Editorial Coordinator at Michigan Publishing Services\, Dr. Marisa Mercurio\, to learn about undergraduate publishing. We will cover things such as reasons for publishing\, the publishing process\, and publishing opportunities at UM. \nRegister here: https://myumi.ch/Z2qVj UID:141971-21889702@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141971 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Workshop,Writing LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 1160 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T213916 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student AIM Seminar: From the Topology of Natural Images to Topological CNNs DESCRIPTION:What kinds of hidden shapes lie in natural images\, and what can they tell us about how neural networks learn? It turns out small patches of natural images are not arranged randomly\, but around unexpected geometric structures such as circles and the Klein bottle. Later works found closely related topological organization in the learned spatial filters of convolutional neural networks (CNN). This leads to a new kind of architecture\, called the Topological CNN\, that builds this topology into the architecture of the neural network. TCNN outperforming the traditional CNN in various tasks suggests that learning can be strengthened by exploiting the topology and latent structure of data itself. UID:146612-21899351@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146612 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T152102 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Student Success Workshops: Winter 2026 DESCRIPTION:Designed to help with frequently requested topics by students across disciplines\, these workshops aim to provide support and guidance as you navigate your academic and professional growth at the University of Michigan. Differing from UROP’s ongoing Skill-Building Workshops\, the Student Success Workshops focus on improving overall student success\, rather than specific research project skills. Workshops are open to any undergraduate student at UM.  UID:141327-21888586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141327 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T093733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Tropical Precarity DESCRIPTION:Please join us for two events with leading queer alternative Puerto Rican rock performers Eduardo Alegría (Superaquello\, Alegría Rampante)\, Gisela Rosario Ramos (Macha Colón y Los Okapi)\, and Fofé Abreu (Circo\, Fofé y Los Fetiches). We will be screening music videos on Wednesday and talking about rock in PR on Thursday. For more information\, please contact Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes at lawrlafo@umich.edu.\n\nMarch 18th & 19th\, 2026\n4:00-6:00pm\n3512 Haven Hall\n\nFree and open to the public\, we hope to see you there! UID:146449-21899123@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Department Of American Culture,Film,Free,Latina/o Studies LOCATION:Haven Hall - 3512 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260324T085405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Unpacking the News with U-M Faculty Experts DESCRIPTION:Each session offers a space to pause\, sort out what’s happening\, and engage in thoughtful\, civil discussion with peers. Bring your questions\, your curiosity\, and your perspective—no preparation required.\n\nJosh Pasek is Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science\, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies\, Institute for Social Research\, and Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan. UID:143802-21896970@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Culture,Education,Free,In Person,Media,Politics,Social Impact,Talk,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Parker Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T162050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026 MCSP Next Steps Info Fair DESCRIPTION: UID:146474-21899153@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T133245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Can We Speak Our Minds\, Change Our Minds AND be Civil?: Building Bridges Across the Political Divide with the Civility Project DESCRIPTION:Americans are at their best when they can talk with another\, disagree\, even argue\, but agree to keep the dialogue going. Unfortunately\, too many people today feel like they can't do that\, and they have to avoid even speaking to people with whom they disagree. The Civility Project aims changing that. Co-founders of the Project\, journalists Nolan Finley and Stephen Henderson\, explain how to create an environment of respectful exchange. \n\nThey will also discuss their book\, The Civility Book\, which aims to be \"A Guide to Building Bridges Across the Political Divide.\" (Books will be available for purchase.)\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by: Talking Maize & Blue\, Wallace House Center for Journalists\, Access and Opportunity\, Life-Changing Education\n\nA reception will follow the discussion.\n\nThe How to Speak your Mind / How to Change Your Mind Speaker Series:\n\nThis speaker series is designed to encourage the campus community to think – and talk with one another – about what it means to develop an informed opinion and stand your ground when challenged\; and about changing your mind in light of new evidence\, different perspectives\, and serious reflection. Open inquiry and the thoughtful exchange of ideas can expand what you know (and how you know it)\, change your mind when warranted\, and help cultivate the courage of your convictions when necessary.\n\nSpeaker bios:\n\nNolan Finley began his newspaper career as a copy boy at The Detroit News while a senior in college. After a brief stint with the Jackson Citizen Patriot\, he returned to The News as a reporter\, covering the administration of Mayor Coleman A. Young. He's been the newspaper's City Editor\, Business Editor\, Politics Editor and Deputy Managing Editor. In 2000\, he was named Editorial Page Editor\, where he directs the expression of the newspaper's editorial position on various national and local issues and writes a column in the Sunday newspaper. His columns have appeared in the newspaper ever since. As he wrote in his introductory column\, Nolan is a product of The News and the Detroit community. He graduated from both Schoolcraft College and Wayne State University and in 2012 was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. He is co-host of One Detroit on Detroit Public Television.\n\nStephen Henderson is an American journalist who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and the 2014 National Association of Black Journalists Journalist of the Year Award while writing for the Detroit Free Press. A native of Detroit\, Stephen is a graduate of the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and the University of Michigan. Since 2015\, he has been the host of \"Detroit Today\" on WDET. In 2020\, he founded BridgeDetroit\, where he serves as Executive Editor. He has worked for the Baltimore Sun\, the Chicago Tribune\, the Lexington Herald-Leader and Knight Ridder. Henderson is co-host of One Detroit and host of American Black Journal on Detroit Public Television.\n\nNolan and Stephen have been longtime friends\, despite their different perspectives on pretty much everything. The one thing they agree on is the importance of their friendship—which includes a healthy dose of disagreement and mutual respect. UID:145630-21897609@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145630 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Access,Analytics,Conversations,Conversations Across Differences,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Domestic Policy,Ford School,Ford School Of Public Policy,Free,Gerald R Ford School Of Public Policy,Life-changing Education,Management,Non-profit,Open Inquiry,Public Management,Public Policy,Wallace House LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium (1120) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T111415 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:GILE Pop Music Appreciation Night at East Quad DESCRIPTION:Join the Gender Inclusive Living Experience Diversity Peer Educator to listen to an iconic pop playlist while enjoying a sweet treat! UID:145976-21898203@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,free,Free Food,Music LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Abeng Mulitcultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T120222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T183000 SUMMARY:Other:Scientific Computing Student Club General Meeting DESCRIPTION:Meeting Details:\nPhysical Location: DC 3358\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/my/bkhardy\nTime: 5:00-6:30 PM\nMeeting Agenda:\n- Club Announcements\n- Dinner: TBD UID:146611-21899350@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146611 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:DC 3358 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T110419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p and Rooting for Change Cafe (3rd Floor Palmer Commons) every other Wednesday from 5-6p UID:138091-21891121@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Climate Change,Discussion,Food,food and the environment,Free,Free Food,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Social,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Window's Lounge (3rd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T123140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UCC Clothes Closet Drop-In with the Black Business Undergraduate Society DESCRIPTION:You will need to scan your MCard for access to the SAB from 5-6pm! Need an outfit for interviews\, internships\, or a new job? Drop in to the University Career Center’s (UCC) Clothes Closet for a special event in partnership with the Black Business Undergraduate Society (BBUS). This event is open to all students.(Last drop-in at 5:45pm! No appointment needed—just come by!) Spend 10–15 minutes browsing our selection of FREE business professional and business casual clothing. You can select up to 3 items per semester to upgrade your wardrobe\, feel confident\, and look your best.How does the drop-in work? Arrive anytime between 5:00 and 5:45pm. Pick out items to suityour style and needs. Meet new friends\, get tips on dressing for success\, and connect with BBUS members and the UCC Career Team in a relaxed atmosphere.Whether you’re prepping for recruitment\, job interview\, or just want to boost your professional style\, everyone is welcome! Come as you are\, and leave ready to shine.You will need to scan your MCard for access to the SAB from 5-6pm!   This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as onthe Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to this webpage: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1927397/share_preview We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via the link below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Cierra Sutherland at cierrasu@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA #UCC UID:146491-21899191@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146491 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, University Career Center office, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T150226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T183000 SUMMARY:Other:Wonder Walk: Beaver Tales and Co-Existence DESCRIPTION:Big teeth\, webbed feet\, swimming silently through the stream—who might we encounter on our next Wonder Walk?\nJoin us to explore how our local history is intertwined with beavers\, and how rebuilding relationships with nature can shape our future. We’ll begin with a short\, grounding presentation\, then head out at dusk to walk the trails and witness the changes Matthaei has experienced since the return of this beloved keystone species. Together\, let's slow down\, listen\, and deepen our connection to nature.\n\nMatthaei Botanical Gardens is hosting free guided nature walks on select Wednesdays and Sundays. These walks are FREE\, open to the public\, and no registration is required. Wonder Walks are designed for all ages to inspire curiosity and learning from each other through activities that model curiosity and honor nature. If we have a sizeable mixed-age group\, we may separate into two sets to offer the same content at different levels of engagement. UID:145333-21897133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145333 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Nature,Nature Rx,Outdoors,Sustainability,Well-being LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T112102 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Business+Tech's 2026 AI Workshops: Applied AI Strategy Mini-Case Competition DESCRIPTION:Learning AI isn’t optional\, it’s essential. Business+Tech’s facilitators started from scratch using ingenuity and determination to master AI. If they can\, then so can you. \n\nThree independent workshops. Attend one\, attend two\, or attend them all.\n________________________________________________\nWorkshop Title and Description:\nThis hands-on workshop challenges participants to tackle a real executive level decision facing modern AI companies: whether to build\, buy\, or hybridize their AI infrastructure as demand scales. Working in small teams\, students will analyze GPU demand growth\, cost structures\, and operational risks to develop a practical infrastructure strategy over a 24 month horizon.\n\nDesigned as a fast paced case sprint with a competitive element\, the workshop mirrors how real technology and operations leaders make infrastructure decisions under uncertainty. Participants will gain exposure to AI infrastructure economics\, strategic trade offs\, and executive level communication in a realistic\, collaborative environment.\n\nGrab a friend and register by March 17th. \n\n**Visit our registration page to learn about other workshops in the series. UID:145871-21897993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145871 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Business,Graduate Students,technology,Transfer Students,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T172049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Equity in Action: Faculty Celebration DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening honoring the exceptional contributions of faculty across the academic pathway for faculty groups\, such as LSA Collegiate Fellowship Program\, LSA LEAD\, University Diversity & Social Transformation Professorship (UDSTP)\, Presidential Postdocs\, ARC\, and Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-Pact).\nThis event celebrates scholars who exemplify excellence in creating a more equitable and inclusive society while strengthening connections across career stages and disciplines.\nWe intend to inspire reflection on the power of diversity-centered scholarship\, leadership\, mentorship\, and collaborations in building a more inclusive academic community. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with colleagues\, share experiences\, and explore collaborations that span generations and amplify impact.\nEvent Details:Date: Wednesday\, March 18\, 2026Time: 5:30 -7:30 pmLocation: The Graduate Hotel\, The Regency Ballroom\, 615 E Huron St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104\nLet’s come together to honor milestones\, celebrate achievements\, and cultivate relationships that sustain our shared mission of advancing diversity\, equity\, and inclusion. We look forward to celebrating with you!\nParking OptionsThayer Street Parking Structure216 S. Thayer Street\nFletcher Street Parking Structure508 Thompson Street\n UID:144946-21896178@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144946 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:The Graduate - The Regency Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T142240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Jews & Other Minorities in the 20th-Century Middle East DESCRIPTION:Lior Sternfeld is an assistant professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in the histories of the Jewish people and other minorities of the region. In this lecture\, Sternfeld focuses on how the study of minorities\, especially Jewish communities\, to better understand the histories of Middle Eastern societies in the transformative period of the twentieth century. UID:145997-21898248@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145997 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Jewish Studies,Middle East Studies,Social Sciences LOCATION:North Quad - 2255 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T100943 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Papier Mache Extravaganza DESCRIPTION:Join the United Asian American Organizations (UAAO) and the U-M Seed Library to co-create the next generation of seed distribution systems on campus! Generously sponsored by LSA Sustainability\, these workshops will center on principles of creative re-use to hand-craft and paint papier-maché plastic capsule receptacles for future seed library vending machines. Light fare will be served\, and registration is limited to 18 participants per session. No previous experience required. UID:144105-21894669@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144105 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arts For All,Creative Reuse,planet blue,Sustainability LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 5004 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260224T084128 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Preparing a Strong CEW+ Scholarship Application DESCRIPTION:RSVP for the Zoom link here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/i0nIuiQ3QgObvuSr_nktWA#/registration\n\nLearn more about our scholarship funding on our website: cew.umich.edu/funding/cew-scholarships\n\nScholarship applicants are invited to learn more about the CEW+ Scholarship application and the review and selection process. This virtual workshop will answer questions about eligibility\, application elements that can most impact the review process\, and what to expect regarding timing and ongoing communication with applicants. Attendees will have a chance to review selection criteria and comments from past application cycles. Bring your questions! There will be ample time for Q&A at the end of the workshop. UID:145659-21897643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145659 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Funding,Scholarship,Scholarships LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T112226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Science Café: Urban Planning\, Ancient Ruins DESCRIPTION:Tucked away on the western coast of Turkey overlooking the Aegean Sea\, lies the ruins of an ancient city steeped in history. The city of Notion\, which was inhabited from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD\, is mentioned by such notable ancient authors as Aristotle\, Livy\, and Pausanias\, among others. \n\nFor over 20 years\, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan has been involved in the study of Notion. But what happens when an ancient site needs modern amenities—like research facilities\, housing for visiting scholars\, and public-facing interpretation? Cue an unlikely collaboration between an archaeologist and an architect.\n\nThis month Dr. Chris Ratté\, Director of the Notion Archaeological Project\, will be discussing his research as well as the relationships the archaeological team has formed with the surrounding communities. Kathy Velikov\, Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, will share how Taubman is contributing to building ethical\, culturally competent\, sustainable\, and climate resilient infrastructure at Notion that supports the archaeological mission.\n\nHors d’oeuvres will be served at 5:30 p.m.\, and the program begins at 6:00 p.m.\n\nSeating is limited—come early.\n\nUMMNH would like to thank Conor O’Neill’s for 15+ years of support for our Science Cafés. UID:145311-21897034@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145311 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Museum,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T172049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Speaking of Seeds... DESCRIPTION:Intermittent weekly workshops featuring dialogue sessions related to seed literacy\, including opportunities to co-create elements emergent seed library technology on Ann Arbor's campus. UID:144169-21894786@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144169 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:1100 North University Ave (North University Building) Floor 5 (LSA lab swap shop) rm. 5004 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T160109 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Spencer Lecture Featuring Climate Science DESCRIPTION:Join the University of Michigan Department of Climate and Space for a special presentation from Leading Climate Scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe! Everyone is welcome to attend the seminar and reception\, as the University of Michigan welcomes this distinguished scientist. \n\nOn Wednesday\, March 18\, 2026\, the U-M Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering will present the 2026 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture featuring Dr. Katharine Hayhoe\, Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy. The Spencer Lecture will be held at 5:30pm in the Leinweber Computer Science and Information Building\, Room 1355\, with a reception to follow.\n\nAbout the Lecturer:\nDr. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist from Canada. She is a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and an Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law at the Texas Tech University Department of Political Science. In 2021\, Hayhoe joined the Nature Conservancy as Chief Scientist.\n\nAmong her accomplishments\, she has been named:\n\"100 Most Influential People\"\, Time Magazine (2014) \n“United Nations Champion of the Earth”\, Science and Innovation Category (2019)\n\"100 Leading Global Thinkers\"\, Foreign Policy Magazine (2014\, 2019) \n\"50 World's Greatest Leaders”\, Fortune Magazine (2017)\n\nAbout the Nelson W. Spencer Lecture:\nNelson W. Spencer became the director of the U-M Space Physics Research Laboratory in 1948 and remained its guiding force until 1960. During his tenure\, SPRL established itself as a prominent leader in the exploration of the Earth's upper atmosphere. Dr. Spencer believed in the importance of including science goals in all space flight missions\, and was a pioneer in America’s space science program. Each year\, a special guest speaker is invited to the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department to present a lecture in Dr. Spencer's honor.\n\nRSVP: https://forms.gle/czFU58HqhuR42RFb9\n\nEvent Location:\nLeinweber Computer Science and Information Building\n2200 Hayward Street\nAnn Arbor\, Michigan\n48109 UID:143922-21894275@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Climate Change,Environment,Natural Sciences,Reception,Science,Social Impact,Sustainability LOCATION:Leinweber LCSIB - 1355 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T132037 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Adult/Infant CPR & First Aid Clinical DESCRIPTION:Black Maternal Equity Collective is hosting our first CPR & First Aid Clinical on Wednesday at 6pm! Learn from JNS Health Solutions and practice life-saving aid for FREE! 🫀\n\n✨Interested in getting certified? Pay $45 to receive official certification from an instructor. 💙\n\nSIGN UP IS REQUIRED! Scan the QR Code or visit the link to register! 🩺\n\nBlack Maternal Equity Collective's mission is to advocate for Black birthing people through public health\, outreach\, policy work\, doula/midwifery labor support\, and service. There are no requirements -- we welcome anyone who is interested in maternal equity and protecting the lives of black birth givers and children! UID:146601-21899338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,Community,Community Engagement,Medicine,Public Health,Student Org,Trotter Multicultural Center,Well-being LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T134744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Blanket-Making and Meditation DESCRIPTION:Join us to make tie blankets for children in need and practice self-care through meditation!\n\nsign up here: https://forms.gle/v1qTVWQwHRue9FF38 UID:146602-21899339@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Child Welfare,Community Service,Crafts,Meditation,Mental Health,Well-being,Wellness LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1804 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250827T123154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Deutschtisch im Max Kade Haus DESCRIPTION:Deutschtisch is a weekly event in the North Quad dining hall for Max Kade residents and visitors from outside of Max Kade Haus to speak German during a meal. UID:138182-21882549@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138182 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures,Max Kade LOCATION:North Quad - Dining Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T120218 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 SUMMARY:Community Service:General Board Meeting - Blanket-Making and Meditation Collab with Heartfulness Meditation DESCRIPTION:Join us to make blankets for children in need and practice self-care! UID:146552-21899263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146552 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:School of Social Work Room 1804 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T142236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T193000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Lorax Movie Night DESCRIPTION:Come to enjoy a free and relaxing screening of The Lorax Movie with free food from local businesses in Ann Arbor!\n\nRSVP in the form attached\, and we hope to see you there! \n\n📅 Wednesday\, March 18th\n⏰ 6:00–7:30 PM\n📍 LSA Building\, Room 1040 UID:146696-21899490@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146696 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Food,Movie LOCATION:LSA Building - 1040 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T172050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OS 2026 Career Showcase DESCRIPTION:Wondering how Organizational Studies prepares you for real-world careers? Want to hear from alumni working in finance\, law\, consulting\, diplomacy\, and more? Join us for an interactive Career Showcase! Students from all majors and intended majors are welcome.Hear how the major shaped alumni career pathsAsk questions and get adviceNetwork with professionals in small-group conversations\n UID:145631-21897610@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145631 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:10th floor, Weiser Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T102044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T210000 SUMMARY:Other:QMSS Community Hours: Winter 2026 DESCRIPTION:QMSS Community Hours are open to all students as a place to build community\, work\, study\, and get help & support from QMSS Peer Mentors and GSIs.\n\nQMSS Community Hours are designed to be a casual\, supportive\, weekly community-building and open study hours event for students in the QMSS Community (i.e.\, students previously or currently enrolled in any QMSS courses\, declared QMSS minors\, and student friends of the QMSS program). QMSS Community Hours are a supplement to traditional office hours during which students can come to chat with QMSS Peer Mentors\, make friends in the QMSS program\, and work independently or in groups on problem sets\, projects\, and/or exam studying.\n\nDuring Community Hours\, 1-2 GSIs from each QMSS 201 and QMSS 301 course will be present for at least 1 hour for potential student questions\, and there will be plenty of open space to work on your own or with friends without a GSI if that's what you prefer. QMSS Peer Mentors will always be present for the entire event to chat about navigating the QMSS minor\, finding\, applying for\, and getting offers for summer internships that utilize QMSS skills\, life as a student at the University of Michigan\, or anything else they've been thinking about lately and seeking additional support or resources for!\n\nOpen to all students! Light snacks will be provided & soft coffee house-style background music will be played during the events.\n\nThe image alt-text of the Winter 2026 QMSS Community Hours schedule is as follows:\n- Wednesday\, January 14 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Tuesday\, January 20 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Wednesday\, January 28 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Tuesday\, February 3 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Wednesday\, February 11 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Tuesday\, February 17 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Wednesday\, February 25 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Tuesday\, March 10 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Wednesday\, March 18 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Tuesday\, March 24 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Wednesday\, April 1 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Tuesday\, April 7 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Wednesday\, April 15 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm\n- Tuesday\, April 21 | QMSS 201 GSIs: 6-8pm | QMSS 301 GSIs: 6-8pm UID:144192-21894870@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144192 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Minors,Networking,Office Hours,Quantitative Methods,Social,Social Sciences,Transfer Students,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T180020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T213000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Beginner Lesson and Social Dance DESCRIPTION:Swing Ann Arbor hosts a beginner drop-in lesson and social dance every Wednesday! No partner or experience needed. You do not need to be a student of the University of Michigan to attend. Just bring yourself and some comfy shoes!\n \n WHEN:Join us Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30pm for a free beginner drop-in lesson\, followed by a social dance from 7:30-9:30pm!\n \n WHERE:Michigan League\, Vandenberg Room throughout Fall 2025911 N University Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI\n \n COST:Admission to beginner drop-in lesson: FREE!\nAdmission to social dance: $5 or FREE if you take the beginner drop-in lesson\n \n LIVE MUSIC WEDNESDAYS:Each last week of the month we are hosting live music during our social dances! Check out our separate event listing for full details.\n \n VOLUNTEER:Help us run the front desk! You get free admission and $5 in Swing Ann Arbor credit! Email swingannarbor@gmail.com to help out.\n \n Photo Credit: Samantha Kunz Photography UID:142685-21891296@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142685 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, Vandenberg Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T180208 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Discover Your Inner CEO with Naimish Patel! DESCRIPTION:Bhakti Club is hosting world-renowned speaker\, spiritual leader\, and Ross alum Naimish Patel\, Chairman and Founder of Seva Dental\, on March 18th\, 6:30-8pm\, at East Quad 1512! He will be speaking on how to practically combine material and spiritual success. There will also be a Q&A session and free dinner provided afterwards\, so don't miss it! RSVP here for food! UID:146528-21899239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146528 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T182049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MSPH 3rd Annual Community Iftar DESCRIPTION:Breaking Bread\, Building Community📍Wednesday March 18 @ 6:30 PM | Cornely Room 1680 & Classroom 1690\, School of Public Health I Join us for the School of Public Health's 3rd Annual Community Iftar — a gathering rooted in the tradition of breaking bread together and building the community bonds that sustain us. Every shared meal is an act of solidarity\, and this Ramadan\, we come together across faiths\, backgrounds\, and experiences not just to share a meal\, but to affirm our collective strength\, care for one another\, and find hope and resilience in the face of today's challenges.This year's Iftar explores questions of identity\, community\, migration\, and unity at a moment when so many are feeling the weight of uncertainty. As our communities face threats to healthcare access\, attacks on minority and women's health\, and the very real fears surrounding immigration enforcement and shifting federal policies\, the need to lean into one another has never been more urgent. Yet it is precisely in these moments that our diversity becomes our greatest strength — our differences not as divides\, but as sources of richness\, solidarity\, and collective power.We invite you all to join us in exploring what it means to show up for one another\, to hold space across difference\, and to find hope not despite the challenges we face\, but through the communities we build together — because in times like these\, coming together is one of the most powerful things we can do.In the spirit of Ramadan and with the end of the semester coming around\, Muslim Students of Public Health is happy to share a space for our school community to get together! Thus\, this is open to all students\, staff\, and faculty to attend. Please feel free to bring your family and loved ones with you. There will be free food\, some chai\, anda good time! :-)  UID:146523-21899233@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146523 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Cornely Room 1680 & Classroom 1690, School of Public Health I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T131926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T203000 SUMMARY:Other:Artwork Sales by Phone: 30th Annual Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Can't make it to the exhibition in person? Schedule a cashier appointment at https://myumi.ch/DJ6M50 to purchase artwork by phone.\n\nA cashier will call you at your appointment time to process credit card payment. Please have the log numbers and titles of artwork you would like to purchase ready. PCAP cannot guarantee the availability of artwork before your appointment. The cashier will verify artwork availability before processing the sale. A U.S. mailing address is required for all purchases. UID:146345-21898929@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146345 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Social Justice,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T182050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T203000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IGR/DMUM 3/22/26 (CommonGround) DESCRIPTION: UID:146772-21899603@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146772 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260226T164259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Questioning Everything\, Finding Faith: A Professor's Story of Doubt\, Belief\, and the Risks of Conversion. DESCRIPTION:If you found a truth that promised to change your life\, would you have the courage to follow it? In this Veritas Forum event at Michigan\, hear from historian and journalist Molly Worthen (UNC-Chapel Hill) as she discusses the most radical pivot of her life: becoming a Christian after years of religious skepticism.\n\nModerated by professor Thad Polk\, you’ll hear Molly’s story of journeying from doubt to faith followed by substantial audience question and response time. Bring your curious—or skeptical—questions about faith\, conversion\, and the purpose of life. UID:146004-21898258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146004 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Religious LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260301T121208 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T220000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Southeast Asia Business Conference (SEABC) 2026 DESCRIPTION:Southeast Asia stands strong as one of the most exciting\, fast-changing\, and dynamic regions in today’s global economy\, powered by a new generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders\, alongside rapid digital transformation\, expanding consumer markets\, and increasing capital inflows.\n\n​Join us at the Michigan Ross Southeast Asia Business Conference (SEABC) 2026 to gain firsthand insights from leaders across corporate\, finance\, and venture and investment ecosystems! ​We welcome participants from across the Ross community and the broader global network!\n\nConference Schedule:\n​📅 Date: Wed\, March 18\, 2026\n⏰ Time: 07:00 - 10:00PM (ET)\n🌏 Format: Virtual\n\n​Program & Speakers:\n​Fireside Chat:\n - Simon Kahn (MBA ’98): VP Marketing of Google Asia Pacific\n​➡️ Dive into conversations on leadership\, regional growth\, and how to navigate complex global markets across APAC!\n\n​Panel Session 1: Growing Business Opportunities in Southeast Asia\n - Eric Luchangco (MBA ’96): EVP\, CFO & CSO\, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI)\n - Eddy Tamboto (MBA ’99): Managing Director\, Gunung Sewu Group\n - Bhavna Laroya Anand (MBA ’03): Managing Director\, PT Akraya International\n​➡️ Unpack corporate growth strategies\, capital deployment decisions\, and forces driving sector transformation and long-term value creation across Southeast Asia!\n\n​Panel Session 2: Startup & Innovation in Southeast Asia\n- Choon-Peng Ng (MBA ’04): Co-founder & CEO\, ImmunoScape\n - Pailin “Pie” Vichakul (MBA ’14): CIO\, SCB 10X\n - Jane Sajeekarn Prescott (MBA ’16): Managing Director\, AddVentures (SCG)\n - Melvyn Yeo (BBA ’00): Founder & Managing Partner\, TRIREC\n​➡️ Discover what’s next in venture capital\, corporate innovation\, biotech\, and the new generation of entrepreneurs building the future!\n\n​Registration & Ticketing\n​- Michigan Ross SEABA Members: Free\n - University of Michigan Students & Alumni: $10\n - General Audience: $15\n\n​Payment Options:\n - Zelle: 734-465-4948 (Ryanda Murdani)\n - Venmo: @Ryanda-Murdani\n - Please include in payment description:SEABC 2026_Your Full Name\n\n​Proudly hosted by the Southeast Asia Business Association (SEABA)\, Michigan Ross School of Business. UID:146075-21898340@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146075 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/9538888114 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T180225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Star Wars Mandalorian Season 3 Watch Party DESCRIPTION:Come join some fellow Star Wars fans as we rewatch The Mandalorian Season 3 in preparation for the new movie coming out in May!\nSnacks provided: rebellions are built on food. UID:146679-21899455@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146679 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260205T155914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:USCG Auxiliary University Program Meeting DESCRIPTION:The US Coast Guard Auxiliary University Program at UM is looking for new members! \n\nThe US Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed volunteer component of the Coast Guard. The Auxiliary University Program (AUP) offers leadership and public service opportunities to Michigan students interested in making a difference through volunteer work. In the AUP\, you will have the chance to support Coast Guard missions while simultaneously participating in hands-on work and training of your choice. \n\nYou can explore a variety of opportunities\, including boating\, search and rescue\, marine safety\, disaster response\, environmental education\, environmental protection\, and more. AUP students have the unique opportunity to participate in an internship with the Coast Guard at stations around the country and on vessels that travel the globe.\n\nInterested? We meet Wednesdays from 7 PM to 8 PM\, in North Quad Room 2135. A virtual Zoom option will also be available! UID:145144-21896724@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145144 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Service,Environment,Food,Free,Games,Graduate Students,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Internship,Leadership,Michigan Engineering,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,Outdoors,Professional Development,Social Impact,Student Org,Training,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Virtual,Volunteer LOCATION:North Quad - 2135 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T120026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Virtual Transfer Student Panel DESCRIPTION:Join a panel of LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors to learn more about the transfer student experience. The Ambassadors will be chatting about the academic transition to U-M\, how to get involved on campus\, housing\, all the amazing programs and support for transfer students\, and any other questions that you have. Join us even if you don't have specific questions.\n\nPlease register with link at the right. After you register you will receive the Zoom login. UID:141224-21895090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141224 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:transfer,Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T181649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T203000 SUMMARY:Performance:Oliver Steissberg\, organ DESCRIPTION:Master's degree student Oliver Steissberg performs a recital. UID:145849-21897952@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145849 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260302T171010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Omari Booker: Resident Curator Talk DESCRIPTION:Omari Booker\, Resident Curator for the 30th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons\, will discuss his art practice and his experience on the curation team. The philosophy that undergirds Omari's work is FREEDOM THROUGH ART and he aspires to create work that communicates to his audience their unique and intrinsic ability to be free. See his work at omaribooker.com.\n\nPresented with support from Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, Bank of Ann Arbor\, Eckhart Tolle Foundation\, Arts Initiative\, The Carceral State Project\, Center for World Performance Studies\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of Sociology\, Institute for the Humanities\, Residential College\, School of Social Work. UID:146102-21898391@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146102 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,North Campus,Social Justice,Visual Arts LOCATION:Chrysler Center - Chesebrough Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T181649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Horszowski Trio DESCRIPTION:As part of a residency hosted by the Department of Chamber Music\, the Horszowski Trio performs a guest recital. The trio will present a program featuring works by Mozart\, Wuorinen\, Bernstein and Ravel. The ensemble members are:\nJesse Mills\, violin\nOle Akahosi\, cello\nRieko Aizawa\, piano\n\nGiving performances that are “lithe\, persuasive” (*The New York Times*)\, “eloquent and enthralling” (*The Boston Globe*)\, and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” (*The New Yorker*)\, the HORSZOWSKI TRIO has quickly become a vital force in the international chamber music world. Since their debut performance in New York City in 2011\, they have toured extensively throughout North America\, Europe\, the Far East\, and India\, traversing the extensive oeuvre of traditional piano trio repertoire and introducing audiences to new music that they have commissioned and premiered.\n\nIn 2023\, the “Horszowski Trio Prize” was created at the Fischoff National Competition to award the piano chamber groups in both Senior and Junior divisions every year. UID:146009-21898265@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146009 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260320T181534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Women's Basketball vs Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:Women's Basketball vs Holy Cross UID:146620-21899358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Basketball LOCATION:Crisler Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260325T181521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Baseball vs Toledo DESCRIPTION:Baseball vs Toledo UID:146621-21899359@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Baseball LOCATION:Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260331T121522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Baseball vs Oregon DESCRIPTION:Baseball vs Oregon UID:146499-21899199@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146499 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Baseball LOCATION:Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260405T181518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Men's Lacrosse vs Rutgers DESCRIPTION:Men's Lacrosse vs Rutgers UID:146500-21899200@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics LOCATION:U-M Lacrosse Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T121518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Baseball vs Central Michigan DESCRIPTION:Baseball vs Central Michigan UID:146597-21899334@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146597 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Baseball LOCATION:Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T132052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:SOUTH QUAD / FLETCHER 2025-2026 DESCRIPTION: UID:135683-21899208@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135683 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:South Quad Game Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T121519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Softball vs Ohio State DESCRIPTION:Softball vs Ohio State UID:146606-21899344@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Softball LOCATION:Alumni Field CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T181524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Water Polo vs CWPA Championship DESCRIPTION:Water Polo vs CWPA Championship UID:146605-21899343@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics LOCATION:Donald B. Canham Natatorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T132057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260411T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:MUNGER GRADUATE RESIDENCES 2025-2026 DESCRIPTION:Join the Munger Community by attending events hosted by our Resident Advisors (RAs)! Feel free to select and attend as many events as you would like! UID:135673-21899419@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135673 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Start at Munger Lobby → loop through Nichols Arboretum trails → finish back in 8th‐floor Fellows Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260405T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260411T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Softball vs Ohio State DESCRIPTION:Softball vs Ohio State UID:146623-21899361@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146623 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Softball LOCATION:Alumni Field CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T121520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260411T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Women's Tennis vs Maryland DESCRIPTION:Women's Tennis vs Maryland UID:146622-21899360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146622 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Tennis LOCATION:Varsity Tennis Bldg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T121519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260315T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Rowing vs Texas DESCRIPTION:Rowing vs Texas UID:146607-21899345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Rowing LOCATION:Michigan Boathouse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T132052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:SOUTH QUAD / FLETCHER 2025-2026 DESCRIPTION: UID:135683-21899209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135683 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Meet at the Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T132052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T100000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:SOUTH QUAD / FLETCHER 2025-2026 DESCRIPTION: UID:135683-21899202@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135683 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Ambatana Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T144440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Big Ticket Presents...Indigo De Souza DESCRIPTION:Big Ticket Productions is proud to present Indigo De Souza! Celebrate the end of the semester with music from the indie rock artist at the Power Center on Tuesday\, April 21st. Known for their genre-blending sound and raw performances\, Indigo De Souza brings an energy that’s both intense and unforgettable.\n\nThe show is open to all\, not just students! Join us for a night of live music and a perfect send-off to the semester!\n\nBe sure to follow us @bigticketumich on Instagram and TikTok for more information and keep up with all things Big Ticket! UID:146667-21899432@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:GA - Power Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T111532 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260616T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Bob Schneider DESCRIPTION:“one of the best kept secrets in rock and roll” –Goldmine Magazine\n\nAustin\, Texas-based singer-songwriter and former frontman of Joe Rockhead\, The Ugly Americans and The Scabs\, Bob Schneider is one of the most-celebrated musicians in the live music capital. Combining diverse styles\, Schneider’s music spans genres\, blending elements of folk\, rock\, rap\, funk\, bluegrass\, reggae and country with the more traditional singer/songwriter aesthetic. In short\, FRUNK.\n\nSchneider has won more than 59 Austin Music Awards including Best Album\, Best Songwriter\, Best Musician\, and Best Male Vocals making him the most decorated artist in Austin’s storied music history.\n\nSchneider’s fan base reaches far beyond the city limits of Austin. He started gaining national recognition with his major-label debut for Universal Records\, Lonelyland. A fiercely-independent artist\, Schneider opted to start his own label\, Shockorama Records\, which has afforded him the freedom to make the music his fans love\, on his own terms.\n\nSchneider’s live performances\, both solo and with the band\, are legendary. A two-time performer on his hometown’s famed Austin City Limits television show\, he still does his weekly residency at The Saxon Pub\, as he has for over 20 years. All told\, he plays over 150 shows a year all over America and he doesn’t plan on slowing down anytime soon. UID:146716-21899546@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260401T155715 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260618T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:North Mississippi Allstars DESCRIPTION:Raw\, roots-driven rock & roll\n\nNMA was started by brother Luther and Cody Dickinson in 1996 as a loose collective of musicians from their North Mississippi home inspired by their father Jim Dickinson as well as neighbors and musical elders of their community\; RL Burnside\, Junior Kimbrough\, Otha Turner and Fred McDowell.\n\nLuther’s first national tour was the RL Burnside Ass Pocket of Whiskey tour in 1997\, selling out shows in the US and Canada. “Kenny Brown hired me to tour with RL and Cedric and showed me the ropes. That experience blew my mind. Cody and I have been on the road ever since.”\n\nNMA began touring in 1998 and over the years the touring lineup has included Cedric\, Duwayne and Garry Burnside\, Chris Chew\, Berry Oakley Jr\, Oteil Burbruidgem  and currently Joey Williams of the Blind Boys of Alabama and Ray Ray Hollowman\, guitar player for Eminem and Nee-O. \n\nSince their debut album in 2000 and hitting the never ending road\, they have shared the stage with countless legends\; Phil Lesh\, Mavis Staples\, Robert Plant\, John Hiatt\, the Allman Brothers\, The Black Crowes\, Buddy Guy\, Snoop Dogg\, and Jon Spencer to name a few\, while earning multiple grammy nominations for their experimental albums of what they like to call Modern Mississippi Music. UID:146718-21899548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T094532 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260711T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The James Hunter Six DESCRIPTION:New music!\n\nThe James Hunter Six returns with their first album on Easy Eye Sound\, delivering another dose of timeless rhythm & soul. British singer\, songwriter and GRAMMY-nominated James Hunter has been a legendary fixture in the scene for over three decades with his gritty voice and sharp songwriting earning him acclaim around the world. This new record features a rare duet with longtime collaborator Van Morrison (‘Ain’t That A Trip’)\, marking a full-circle moment for the artist hailed by MOJO magazine as “The United Kingdom’s Greatest Soul Singer.”\n\nHunter and his six-piece band have toured the world for decades from tiny clubs to large festivals\, with Hunter also sharing the stage to support legends including Mavis Staples\, Aretha Franklin\, BB King\, Etta James\, Bonnie Raitt\, and Van Morrison. Whether belting out up-tempo R&B or crafting candle-lit ballads\, James Hunter is a must-see artist who effortlessly draws from the depths of his musical well\, leaving audiences captivated and craving more. \n\nSet for release January 16th\, ‘Off The Fence’ is a landmark album for James Hunter himself for a number of different reasons. In many ways it represents his past\, his present and his future. The new album is the perfect amalgam of everything that is great about James Hunter’s songwriting\, delivery and outlook. It also marks a fresh start. His first release on Dan Auerbach’s (The Black Keys) Easy Eye Sound label\, 2026 is going to be a big year for Hunter\, striking the world with music that matters. Get ready to ride with The James Hunter Six. UID:146713-21899543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146713 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T111210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260807T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Moonmill DESCRIPTION:Ethereal folk pop stories\n\nMoonmill is a folk pop duo based in Brooklyn\, NY. Nine years after meeting in high school choir class in Ann Arbor\, Mary Collins and Kaye Hamada accidentally moved two blocks away from each other in Brooklyn and realized that the songwriting partners they’d been looking for had been one text away all along. One song led to another\, and Moonmill came to be! Through sophisticated guitar lines and rich\, crystal clear vocal harmonies\, Moonmill blends classic Simon & Garfunkel-esque folk sensibilities with contemporary singer/songwriter confessional lyricism and ethereal pop production elements\, creating songs that feel like entire worlds listeners can escape to. UID:146714-21899544@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260401T160318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260810T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The High Kings DESCRIPTION:“A Folk Juggernaut” –The New York Times \n\nAs global ambassadors of Irish heritage and storytelling\, The High Kings have consistently brought the timeless tradition of folk music to audiences worldwide\, earning them chart-topping success and widespread acclaim. With their signature blend of classic tradition and modern edge\, The Rocky Road Tour promises to be a vibrant showcase of Irish culture\, energy\, and musicality. \n\nFollowing a record-breaking 2024 – including a sold-out world tour\, a feature on Disney’s critically acclaimed Only Murders in The Building\, and over 5 million weekly streams – the band are showing no signs of slowing down. Their momentum continued in 2025 with a string of sold-out U.S. tour dates.\n\nBut it was their inclusion on the soundtrack of Sinners\, starring Michael B. Jordan and directed by Ryan Coogler\, that marked a defining moment in their global recognition. The film’s soundtrack\, already topping international streaming charts\, was curated by Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer Ludwig Göransson\, a long-time admirer of The High Kings’ distinctive vocal blend and musicianship. After attending their sold-out show at The Troubadour in Los Angeles earlier this year\, Göransson selected two tracks—“The Rocky Road to Dublin” and “Go Lassie Go”—to feature prominently in the film’s score.\n\nThe Rocky Road Tour 2026 will build on this global success\, offering audiences a high-energy live show that reinforces The High Kings’ place at the forefront of Irish folk. With a renewed focus on storytelling\, musicianship\, and connection\, the tour reflects the group’s ongoing commitment to honouring Ireland’s folk legacy while pushing creative boundaries. UID:146719-21899549@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T111810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261006T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Bad Plus Farewell Tour DESCRIPTION:Powerful\, groove-oriented jazz-rock fusion\n\nThe Bad Plus are the ultimate originals. A democratic unit with a clear vision and a refusal to conform to convention. For the past two decades they have played with spirit and adventure\, made their own rules and done so with a bold sense of creativity and intent. Avoiding easy categorization\, The Bad Plus has won critical acclaim and a legion of fans worldwide with their unique sound and flair for live performance.\n\nThe Bad Plus continues to push boundaries as founding members Reid Anderson (bass) and Dave King (drums) embark on a new piano-less incarnation of the band with Ben Monder (guitar) and Chris Speed (tenor saxophone) – instigating a new wave of excitement and anticipation within the band that is re-energizing their sound and inspiration. The Bad Plus have constantly searched to bridge genres and techniques while exploring the infinite possibilities of exceptional musicians working in perfect sync. UID:146717-21899547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T112026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261018T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Emily Slomovits & Friends DESCRIPTION:Emily Slomovits began playing violin at the age of seven\, and has been joining her father and uncle (the duo Gemini) on stage since she was eight years old. She studied classical violin for more than ten years\, adding jazz and folk fiddle styles to her repertoire along the way. In her early teens she began singing and playing guitar and has since then been performing solo\, with Gemini\, and in groups ranging from classical string quartets to folk and country bands. You may also have seen her play with the Encore Theater\, Performance Network\, and productions of Shakespeare in the Arb. UID:146715-21899545@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR