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Rackham Student Government (RSG) is proud to present the following events for Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week (GPSAW) 2026! Register now to enjoy FREE Zumba, games, and food!
Monday (4/13) – RSG x RELATE 3MT Final Round & Awards* [ROOM CHANGES!]Tuesday (4/14) – RSG Stress Less Zumba (class by Michigan Recreation)Thursday (4/16) – RSG Board Game & Snacks*Thursday (4/16) – RSG Stress Less Zumba (class by Michigan Recreation)Friday (4/17) – RSG Fortune Fragels* ("Fried Bagel")* Event includes free food.
Some events require registration for a specific time slot to ensure we stay within room capacity.

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Sign up for Zund Training at Taubman College. Taubman College students only.

This is a monthly in-person event designed to provide
insights, advice, and knowledge to you as an emerging academic. Each
event features a faculty member discussing topics pertinent to starting
an academic career focusing on research. You will get to hear from
faculty about their career trajectories and how they navigated their
transition from trainee to faculty member. You will also have an
opportunity to network with the faculty member as well as other
trainees.
Aims and Objectives:
To provide a platform where trainees can learn from faculty experiences and knowledge.To address and discuss pertinent issues and topics relevant to the biomedical/medical field and life sciences.To foster networking and community-building opportunities among trainees and faculty.To
promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement, equipping
trainees with the necessary skills and information for the faculty
profession needed to transition into academia.

The Raise the Bar Workshop is a community check in around alcohol and substance use culture and its impact on the experiences of sexual assault. RTB aims to reduce harm and foster a culture of safety and accountability social and community-driven organizations on campus by equipping members with the tools to intervene, support peers, and model positive social norms. It also supports the broader university goal of creating safer, more inclusive communities.

The Raise the Bar 2.0 workshop will strategically focus on the following knowledge, skills, and attitude changes for participants:
Knowledge:
Increased knowledge of the impacts and influence of alcohol and substances in rape culture.
Increased understanding of how alcohol and substances are used as date rape drugs
Behavioral and Culture Change:
Actions to take to create drinking cultures where we are less assaultagenic
Useful social norms around safety and wellbeing linking to their organizational platforms
Exploration of group’s norms around alcohol and substance use and how these contribute or detract from the social, physical and emotional health of group members
Skill Attainment
Bystander intervention skills in substance use settings specific to the group or organization’s culture
Clear strategies to address inappropriate behavior. Linking the behaviors to an acronym.
Learning how to identify perpetrator behaviors
Implementing Bystander Intervention skills

The University Career Center (UCC) is proud to present Wolverines at Work, a series of workshops and events designed to help you launch into life post-Michigan — tailored to wherever you are in your career journey. Whether you’ve secured a job or are still actively searching, we’ve got you covered:


If you've accepted an offer and are preparing for your first role, check out:
The Real Cost of a Job - (Sponsored by Financial Education) - Understand your paycheck, benefits, and cost of livingOperation Graduation - (Sponsored by CSG) - Graduation gown rentalsFrom Offer to Impact - Strategies for success in your first year on the jobIf you're on the hunt for a job, join us for:
Strategic Resume and Cover Letter Lab - Work with a coach to tailor your application materialsBeyond the 'Go Blue' - Connect with alumni and tap into the power of the U-M network Fast Track to Job Offers - Learn an effective strategy to accelerate your job searchFor everyone:
Clothes Closet Pop-Up @ the Diag - Free business casual and business professional attireCap and Gown Drop-Ins - Take a cap and gown picture in our photo booth — solo or with friends!

The goal of the Pathology Research Seminar Series is to educate attendees about new developments in the research of mechanisms of diseases. After completing this activity participants will be able to engage and pursue new experimental methods and arenas of investigation and incorporate knowledge into pathological diagnostic algorithms.

Reflect cultural heritage in a fun and unique way by painting while sipping and partaking in cultural drinks and snacks from around the world! A light lunch will also be served.
Event is open to all.

The School of Social Work's Flourish Office is hosting De-Stress Fest. A week full of events open to all students, staff, and faculty to help you make it through the final weeks for the semester!

A Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop focused on the nexus of exhibition, collection, curation, display, and representation within museums and museum-adjacent spaces. The group’s name, rummage, evokes both a materiality and an intellectual practice characteristic of museum studies more broadly. On the one hand, rummaging has a tactile quality. It gestures to the human role in how objects are placed and misplaced, organized and disorganized, thrown into juxtaposition, and often randomly re-discovered anew by individuals negotiating various value systems associated with objects. It evokes an image of coming to objects of the past with new eyes and curiosity. On the other hand, rummaging could also be used to describe an intellectual approach. In posing questions about the how and why certain narratives come to be exhibited and interpreted, we root around historical understandings of heritage and the power dynamics that lead certain narratives to become dominant. This process is guided by curiosity, a drive to understand, and a skepticism of ordering systems.
Founded in Fall 2023, this RIW takes the attics, closets, and cabinets of exhibition history as a starting point to engage questions relating to those spaces aligned with — or challenging — the International Council of Museums’ broad definition of a museum as an institution “in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage”.

Everybody's favorite wolverine is trapped... and only you can save them! Work together with your friends to solve clues and Free The Wolverine in this low-stakes adventure. Those new to escape rooms are welcome and encouraged to try it out!

Please register on Sessions @ Michigan to select a 30-minute time slot. Walk-ins will be accepted if space allows.

The Biostatistics Department is happy to present Journey Lectures, which are light-hearted, non-technical talks by distinguished Biostatistics faculty describing their career paths.

Join us on Friday, April 17 to learn about the journey taken to Michigan Biostatistics by Tim Johnson, PhD.

Discover how Tim's journey in biostatistics began in California, where he studied mathematics at UC Riverside, worked as a software engineer, and later earned his PhD in Biostatistics at UCLA. Learn how those early years — spanning mathematics, computing, and collaborative research in radiological sciences and biomathematics — helped shape a career devoted to Bayesian methods, statistical image analysis, spatial modeling, and biomedical data science. Hear how that path eventually brought him to Michigan Biostatistics, where his work has continued to bridge statistical innovation, interdisciplinary research, and a deep commitment to mentoring and academic leadership.

The lecture will begin at 2:00 pm in 1690 SPH I.

Refreshments will be served from 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm in the adjoining 1680 SPH I prior to the start of the presentation.

Please arrive early enough to help yourself to refreshments and to find your seat.

Engendering Respectful Communities (ERC) is a one session workshop that engages graduate students in meaningful dialogue about various forms of sexual misconduct they may encounter in both professional and social spaces, and provides resources for intervention or support in such circumstances.
The primary goal of the workshop is to address complexities experienced by graduate students as they engage in bystander intervention, so that participants gain an increase in awareness of barriers to action and familiarity with strategic planning to overcome them. The workshop also introduces participants to on-campus resources and provides knowledge on how sexual misconduct can unfold in graduate-specific settings.
The ERC workshop uses small-group circles intended to promote active reflection and space to build community. The procedure of circles is introduced at the beginning of the workshop in order to help participants get used to the process, which they do through a circle for introductions and value-sharing for the workshop space. These circles depict various, realistic scenarios related to sexual misconduct within the graduate community. The circle process allows circle members to process the monologues, reflect on complexities with identity and power dynamics within them, name potential barriers to intervention, and think of various ways in which they might respond if faced with similar situations. The circles provide a way to foster collective building of ideas, where participants learn from one another and all input is equally valued. Participants are encouraged to share but can always pass if desired, creating an environment where participation is open but not forced. Due to the participatory nature of the workshop, if you are to arrive more than 20 minutes late, we will ask you to re-register for another workshop session.
If you have any questions about or concerns with taking this workshop, or are in need of an exemption, please contact jhippe@umich.edu or fill out this form. We know some students come to campus having already experienced harm. If you have circumstances that make completing this course challenging, please reach out to the GROPWE team. SAPAC GROWE provides exemptions to the ERC workshop (where requirements are set in place) on a case by case basis. The Program Manager will communicate with students requesting exemptions via email and/or meet with students via zoom meetings to discuss their need for exemptions and provide any relevant and necessary resources.

Come help us during normal operating hours; as well as, unload our weekly Food Gatherers deliveries and stock our shelves!
If you are outside the U-M community, please reach out to maize.blue.cupboard@umich.edu to sign up.

Global Wolverines is an event series for students traveling abroad during the summer. The aim of the events is to provide students with a foundation essential for having successful international experiences.

Hi all!


We're excited to announce that the final RGFP meeting of this semester will feature an external speaker. Professor Rowan Bell (University of Guelph) will give a talk titled "Making Good Tea: Gossip as Practical Social Wisdom" on Friday, April 17, from 3:00–5:00 PM in Angel Hall 2271. The abstract for the talk is available here.



If you'd like to attend via Zoom, the link is here. We hope to see many of you there!




Best,
Yixuan & Valerie

Celebrate the 2026 Bouchet Graduate Honor Society inductees! Join us for remarks from Dean Solomon and Three-Minute Thesis presentations from our new class of inductees. This event is hybrid. Refreshments will be served.

Programming efforts of all Theme Communities and Events.

All Conversation Circles facilitators and participants are invited! Hang out with your Circle, meet other circles, and celebrate the arrival of spring in Michigan!

Come with your circle, or on your own, and you're welcome to bring one guest.
This is a casual, drop-in style event, so come when you can, and stay as long as you like.
Our theme is “Spring in Michigan,” and we’ll provide light breakfast snacks and drinks.

We'll also have a raflle for ELI prizes, and lots of table games and bean bag toss.


We hope you can join us!

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!

The American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid blended learning course will help prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants as well as prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of first aid emergencies. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a certificate for CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid valid for two years.

This is a blended learning course that requires roughly 4 hours of online work prior to the first day of the course.

**There is no fee for current Michigan Recreation employees. The fee for community members, faculty, staff, or students who are not employed by the Michigan Recreation Dept. is $90. You can use the link here to complete payment.**

Interested in learning a new dance? Learn the basic steps of Brazilian Zouk, then try them out after at the social dance. No experience necessary!
Already have the basic zouk moves down? We will also have an Open Level lesson, so feel free to check that lesson out as well!
7:00 - 8:00 PM: Beginner and Open Level Lessons
8:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Dance Social

Join the Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships for our semester kick-off sessions. Come learn about the Truman Scholarship, STEM award opportunities, and more!

The Poetry & Poetics Workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop committed to providing a forum in which faculty and graduate students can exchange works-in-progress and explore recent work in the fields of poetry and poetics. For more information, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please contact Renee Wehrle (rewehrle@umich.edu) or Kelly Wenzka (kwenzka@umich.edu.).

The Forum for Research in Medieval Studies (FoRMS), first formed as a
Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop (RIW) in Fall 2010, serves as a structure
for the Medieval Lunch series and a reading group for graduate students. In its geographical, historical, and disciplinary scope, FoRMS aims to
provide an important forum for graduate students and faculty to discuss their
work as contributions to the broad field of “medieval studies.” At FoRMS
sponsored lunches throughout the semester, graduate students can present their
ongoing research and receive feedback from other members of the FoRMS
community. FoRMS also sponsors interdisciplinary reading groups and other
social events, which are organized on a more ad-hoc basis.

This workshop series helps graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows build the professional skills needed to succeed in
today’s competitive job market. With a focus on biomedical and life
sciences, and biomedical engineering, you will gain the strategies and
confidence to pursue careers in academia, industry, or beyond. Through
interactive sessions that blend presentations with hands-on activities,
you will practice proven approaches to job applications, networking,
interviewing, and career planning, so you can stand out to employers and
take the next step with confidence.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this series, you will be able to:
Craft strong application materials that showcase your research expertise and transferable skills using the W.H.O. method.Build connections and network effectively with a strong elevator pitch and an optimized LinkedIn profile (Headline-About-Experience format).Succeed in interviews by applying the S.T.A.R. method and approach salary negotiations confidently.Design a strategic job search with S.M.A.R.T. goals and plan long-term career growth through an Individual Development Plan.

Leadership program for Club Officers!

The Political Ecology Workshop (PEW) is an interdisciplinary space for scholars at all career stages with interests in political ecology and related critical approaches to the study of environment-society interactions. PEW brings together a range of divisions across campus, including Anthropology, History, Environment and Sustainability, Political Science, Sociology, and all Area Studies departments and programs. We have founded a collaborative, multidisciplinary community with a shared investment questioning how environments and societies are co-produced and the ways in which power and inequality impact the dynamics and understandings of this co-production. We have run PEW as an RIW for two years and all the workshops have been possible from our committed participants from diverse fields. This year, we intend to develop our membership further by inviting scholars from broader fields and promoting PEW on listservs across campus.

PEW supports graduate student development, including for earlier-stage students seeking interdisciplinary conversations as they develop environment-society research projects and later-stage students seeking to incorporate political ecology into their work. PEW emphasizes dedicated time for graduate students to receive feedback on their work and facilitates faculty-student mentorship. It allows students to access a range of critical environmental studies perspectives they might not have encountered through coursework or departmental activities, and to grow from the feedback and insight of faculty and peers who share this commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and professional development.