All Sessions

Hello students!

Please sign up for the Menlo Innovations facility tour taking place on Thursday, February 12th at 9 a.m. Only 20 slots available --waitlist available. Menlo Innovations is a local tour and will count as one of your four required facility tours for those of you who were unable to attend during Fall 2025. If you already attended last year's Menlo tour, you should not sign up again for this tour.
The tour will start promptly at 9 a.m. and the agenda is as follows:


9am - 10am - General Menlo Tour10am - 10:30am - High-Tech Anthropology Tour10:30am - 11:30am - Pancake Observation Activity

We will all meet up at 8:50 a.m. at 339 E. Liberty St to start the tour promptly at 9.
If you sign up and are unable to attend, you must cancel your registration as the system will pull from the waitlist to let others in.
Cheers!
Claudia

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.

Join us for the Unlocking the Hidden Curriculum Series, aimed to help you gain the knowledge and skills needed for academic and professional success during your PhD studies.

We invite you to join us for the sessions that best suit your needs. Each session will be held virtually via Zoom.

Commons and Undercommons: Featured Faculty Projects Lunch and Learn sessions are typically held once per month and offer the opportunity for faculty to give short talks on recent projects. They may discuss works in progress or recently completed projects, along with their intended next steps. These sessions are an opportunity to learn more about the work of Stamps colleagues. Lunch will be provided.

Bonding and networking event for four council executive board members and FSL staff

The Graduate Society of Women Engineers hosts events to help female graduate engineers thrive socially, academically, and professionally. For more information, visit our website and enter your email address to start receiving GradSWE's weekly event announcements.

Event Information

The Bridging Intergenerational Social Justice Wisdom Panel is a great chance for students to learn more about career possibilities within social justice fields. We will have amazing IGR alumnx panelists share their stories and experiences on how social justice has been applicable to them throughout their career paths, and a mix and mingle session for students and alumnx to connect more directly.

IPE is hosting a Study Abroad Alumni Connection Event on Thursday, February 12 from 5:00-6:00pm in Dude 3336.
Come hear past participants discuss their experience on the study abroad programLearn about the program details, inclusions, and highlightsMeet other students who are applying for your program

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.

Blind Date Book Swap is a cozy, Valentine’s Day-inspired community gathering and interactive workshop. Students are invited to bring their favorite or most meaningful book to swap with someone else. Attendees will wrap their book with our provided materials and attach a handwritten note with what they love about the book and the reason for their selection. Themed treats, drinks, and extra books will be provided!

Join the ACUM Training Committee for guided conversations and networking with other advisors from all stages of their careers. Find mentorship and community, regardless of whether you have been an advisor for 1 year, 10 years, or more.
This will be a hybrid event with an in-person and virtual offering. When registering, you will be able to select what way you would like to attend.
Please note that this event will happen partially during the lunch hour, we will not be providing lunch but encoruage you to bring yours if you would like to. Snacks will be provided.

In this interactive workshop, the Rackham embedded University Career Center Ph.D. coaching team will guide you through converting your academic CV to an industry resume.

Brief best practices will be shared, but most of the time will be spent actively working on your resume, so bring a laptop or a few printed copies of your CV or resume.

Lunch will be provided.

Join us for a lunchtime conversation with Taneshia Nash Laird, a "civic innovator and cultural strategist whose work sits at the intersection of capital, culture, and community." She'll discuss her career and impact across a broad range of disciplines, especially focused on how emerging leaders of color can influence cultural networks and policies through their work. This event is open to all individuals of any race/ethnicity, and will focus on leadership and cultural policy through the lens of BIPOC experiences. Lunch provided!"

You’re invited to a Valentine’s Book Swap & Get-Together on the 10th floor of Weiser Hall!

Friday, February 13
12:00–2:00 PM
Weiser Hall, 10th Floor

To participate in the book swap, please bring at least one book to give away. In exchange, you’ll get to take home a new-to-you book. Any genre is welcome—just bring something you’d happily recommend to a colleague.

We’ll also have Insomnia Cookies, Valentine’s-themed crafting, and time to connect with others in the building.

Please note: This event is open only to individuals who work in Weiser Hall.

We hope you can stop by—and don’t forget to bring a book!

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”.

For students interested in design thinking, visual composition, working collaboratively, critical thinking and analysis, and gaining skills with tools and techniques relevant to a wide range of material processes, the Stamps School offers an eighteen-credit minor in studio art and design. It is required that all interested students attend an info session as the first step of the process. If you have questions, please email stamps-minor-advising@umich.edu.

We want you to have all the information you need to make informed decisions about your education and your future.

MADS Admissions & Recruitment coordinator Meryl Baker leads an application tips webinar with a live Q&A. Attendees will hear about the MADS program, the skills-based admission process, what's required as part of the application, and how the assessment process works. Please join us to get your questions answered, and benefit from the curiosity of like-minded peers!

Strike up some fun and join us for an afternoon of bowling and pizza! Transportation from the LSA Building and all fees will be covered. Limited spots, registration is required.

For LSA undergrads only

The Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) offers 120+ programs in over 45 countries across the world. These programs range from 3 weeks to a full academic year, including study abroad, study + research programs, and internships abroad.

In collaboration with the Spectrum Center, join CGIS for a 1-hour virtual panel discussion featuring LGBTQIA2S+ alumnx who have participated in CGIS programs in the past year. Alumnx will speak about preparations they made before going abroad, resources used to navigate their identities, and the positives and challenges of their abroad experiences.

This panel discussion is designed to provide context for students who may be studying abroad through CGIS in future terms, all while navigating new policies and evolving regulations regarding international travel. Prospective CGIS students will have an opportunity to ask panelists questions about their recent abroad experiences. Please note that legal advice will not be provided in this session. This event is open to all U-M students and alumnx.

In the spirit of the African American cultural tradition of
Sunday dinner at the home of the family matriarch, it is a time for the Trotter
community to come together and break bread, listen to music, dance, and
converse.

Building your network is something you can be doing proactively throughout graduate school. Additionally, learning from what others have done in their career is a great way to explore areas of interest. Join us to learn how to navigate and develop the basics of your own LinkedIn profile. We will introduce ways to build connections and learn more about opportunities through informational interviews by using LinkedIn and UCAN (University Career Alumni Network). If you do not yet have a LinkedIn account, please create a free account before the session at linkedin.com.

Please bring a laptop, if possible. This session will be interactive.
Food will be provided to those who have registered.

Please join us for an online information session about the University of Michigan's graduate programs in Mechanical Engineering (ME).

Presented by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, we invite you to the Medical School's MLK Leadership Seminar Series to honor the life, legacy, and leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The theme for this year's series is "Leadership for Democracy and Justice," a vital pillar of this year’s campus symposium theme: "Unbowed and Unbroken: The Enduring Struggle for Justice." (https://oami.umich.edu/mlk-symposium/)
Running for six sessions from the MLK holiday through the end of Black History Month, this series bridges the gap between leadership scholarship and the urgent understandings required to navigate our modern political landscape.
Participants will gain the essential tools and theoretical foundations needed to challenge the status quo and lead with purpose in today's society.
Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your influence into a powerful force for democratic progress and social equity—register today to help solve the equation for a more just world.

Sign up here to chat with a WISE Mentor about anything!
https://calendly.com/vial-umich/30min

In this fast-paced, ever-changing, increasingly globalized world, we need to be able to understand how to work effectively with many different types of people to reach our goals. In this workshop, we will focus on cultural intelligence (or CQ, as it is often called) to assess your own cultural values and behavioral preferences while understanding where others may be coming from. Participants will have the opportunity to practice how to navigate cultural misunderstandings that may occur within your research or a major project team and develop plans for how to continue building your cultural intelligence.


This workshop is open to all master’s and Ph.D. students and postdocs at the University of Michigan. If you have any questions, please reach out to rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu.

Roni Henig's recent book, On Revival: Hebrew Literature between Life and Death (UPenn Press, 2024), is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: “Hebrew revival,” or the idea that Hebrew—a largely unspoken language before the twentieth century—was revitalized as part of a broader national “revival” which ultimately led to the establishment of the Israeli nation-state. This story of language revival has been commemorated in Israeli popular memory and in Jewish historiography as a triumphant transformation narrative that marks the success of the Zionist revolution. But a closer look at the work of early twentieth-century Hebrew writers reveals different sentiments. The book explores the loaded, figurative discourse of revival in modern Hebrew literature. Rather than embracing “revival” as a neutral, descriptive term, Henig takes a critical approach, employing close readings of canonical texts to analyze the primary tropes used to articulate this aesthetic and political project of “reviving” Hebrew. The event is a workshop-style discussion of the book with the author. A brief introduction will be circulated ahead of the event.

This workshop is for clinicians in training who seek to enhance their skills in providing weight-inclusive health and mental health care. No experience is needed - please come to as many or as few sessions are you are able. Looking forward to having you as part of the conversation!

We encourage every student interested in or contemplating an undergraduate degree at the School of Information to attend an information session. You will receive an engaging and comprehensive overview of the program, as well as guidance for the application process. Sessions are hosted on different days and times to accommodate as many students as possible, and you only need to attend one session before you apply.
These information sessions are for (Students whose 1st Semester at U of M was Fall 2025) University of Michigan Freshmen.

Each semester, ELI presents a series of free interactive, participatory workshops focusing on specific English writing and speaking skills that graduate and undergraduate students need to succeed in their academic and professional careers. Workshops are facilitated by ELI Lecturer Meredith Bricker.
Sign up here for any of the six Winter 2026 workshops listed below.

These are grab-and-go style events designed to celebrate our international students' cultural holidays! Stop by to grab some food and learn more about these cultural celebrations!

An effective personal statement lives at the heart of your medical or professional health school application. Your personal statement allows you to tell your story to an admissions committee and share who you are and why you make a wonderful addition to a medical or health professions program. This workshop focuses on how you can get started writing a winning statement. You will learn how to focus on the passions, values, relationships, community service, clinical work, and other life experiences which led to your interest in health care. This workshop is designed to get you writing and reflecting on the story you want to tell on your application. Come to the workshop ready for getting started on an early draft.

Conference posters are for more than just communicating your research. While a good poster will help you tell a succinct story about your project, a great poster will serve as a platform for engaging in meaningful discussion with your audience and building your network.
This session will cover:

Best practices for organizing a conference posterDesign aesthetics to improve poster accessibilityHow to engage an audience during a poster presentation