All Sessions

The Department of Women's & Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) are pleased to invite you to join us for an evening with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, a private reception following this year’s Vivian R. Shaw Lecture.

The reception will feature hors d’oeuvres and drinks and offer an opportunity to continue the conversation with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers following her lecture. Guests will also have the chance to connect with colleagues and friends from across the University of Michigan and celebrate this special Vivian R. Shaw Lecture together.

We would be delighted to have you with us for this special evening.

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

Sign up for a two-hour work session, with a hot lunch with colleagues! The Faculty On-Campus Work Retreats provide 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.
There are both morning and afternoon sessions available. Morning sessions also offer the option of coming early to enjoy an extended three-hour session. Breakfast snacks, coffee, and tea will be provided.
During the lunch provided at each work session, there will be 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.
The Work Retreats are open to all ~7,800 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. The event page is here.

Please note the following:
Before you sign-up, please make sure you have secured your supervisor's approval for attendance.
Register for only ONE session.In this training, you will learn to:
Use the Shared Hiring Philosophy as a guide to creating an inclusive search experience and process framework that supports equitable candidate selection from preparation to onboarding Conduct behavior-based interviewing Create a team-oriented approach to an effective and positive candidate experienceThrough demonstration and hands-on practice, this course will serve as a guide to help you through the experience of being part of a search committee team.
If you need an accommodation for this training, please email the facilitators at StudentLifeSearchTraining@umich.edu at least 2 weeks before the date of your training. Search Training is offered monthly, so we encourage you to sign up for a future date if we can't meet your need.

InSPIRE brings together graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the University of Michigan to engage with the intersection of science, technology, and public policy.

Please join the American Culture Consortium Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop for our Welcome Session on Thursday Sept.
24, 2026 from 10:00 am – 11:30 am in Angel Hall, room 3241. We will discuss this year’s ACC workshop, meet fellow graduate students,
and partake in Panera coffee and pastries.


For the 2026-27 year, the ACC
workshop theme is Wisdom and Discernment in Research, centering Christopher
J. Pexa's Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhota Oyate, which
explores how the Dakhota [Dakota/Lakota/Nakota Sioux] people and culture have
been (mis)translated into the English language and US cultural meanings.
Pexa "rewrites" those translations by analyzing Dakota literature published
since the Dakota War of 1862 through an interpretive method guided by thióšpaye ethics.


Pexa’s literary and historical analysis inspires questions of
how "knowing" and "truths" in US research are communicated, translated, and
influenced by ideas of wisdom and discernment. Specific questions we might discuss are: How does culture influence what it means to be discerning and wise? How does research influence what it means to be discerning and wise?
How is discernment determined, and what constitutes wise discernment in US
culture and other, non-US cultures within the US academy? How does our own
research reflect our personal ideas of discernment and wisdom?

Sign up here for one of our info sessions about grad student arts research opportunities

This one hour workshop led by Professor Allen Liu will discuss preparation for the Fall 2026 RFEs, including recommendations for structuring your presentation and how faculty assess the exam. We will also be joined by current PhD candidates who have taken the exam.

Join the Center for Campus Involvement for Advisor Connections, a monthly meeting for the advisors of recognzied student organizatons at The University of Michigan. If you have any questions or accomodation needs, please reach out to uminvolvement@umich.edu.

Bring your questions about doctoral internships!
During this informal, conversational session, Rackham and University Career Center staff will answer your questions about doing an internship as a doctoral student.
Topics we will cover include:

How to talk to your advisor about making an internship a part of your graduate trainingAnswering questions about Rackham’s Doctoral Intern Fellowship ProgramStrategies for looking for internshipsThe benefits of doing an internship as a doctoral studentHow to make the most of an internship experienceTips for writing cover letters and resumes for internshipsOther questions you have about doctoral internships


The session will also include a panel of past Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellows to answer questions and talk about their experiences.

Ready to enhance your courses and simplify your teaching workflow? This comprehensive workshop series equips U-M faculty with the practical tech skills needed for the modern semester. Across this track, you will dive into interactive classroom tools (Poll Everywhere, Ed Discussions), advanced grading and lab platforms (PrairieLearn, Vocareum), and critical digital accessibility strategies (Grackle, Siteimprove).
Additionally, a dedicated GenAI pathway will guide you from AI basics to advanced prompt engineering using U-M’s custom tools, including U-M GPT, Maizey, and NotebookLM. Join us for individual sessions or the entire series to build a more engaging, inclusive, and tech-forward classroom.

Join us for the first meeting of the Topics in Classical Intersectionalities RIW.

Graduate Spiritual Wellness GroupGraduate school asks a lot of you!

Between coursework, research, teaching, internships, and everything else life brings, it can be difficult to find time to simply pause and reconnect with yourself.
The Graduate Spiritual Wellness Group is a welcoming community created specifically for graduate and professional students to explore meaning, purpose, and well-being alongside peers who understand the unique graduate student experience.

Through guided conversations, reflection, mindfulness practices, and shared community, you'll have space to slow down, build authentic connections, and develop practices that support you throughout your academic journey and beyond.
You don't need to identify with a particular religion or spiritual tradition to participate. Whether you're religious, spiritual, secular, questioning, or simply looking for a place to belong, you are welcome here.
Join us to:
Connect with other graduate students in a supportive community.
Reflect on purpose, identity, and what grounds you.
Learn practical wellness and mindfulness practices.
Take a meaningful pause from the demands of graduate life.
Invest in your personal and spiritual well-being.


Come as you are. Leave feeling more grounded, connected, and supported.

Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.

The Faculty Senate Office invites you to meet the 2026 candidates for the U-M Board of Regents. Candidates will present their qualifications, articulate their vision for the University, and respond to questions. The election of members to the Board of Regents significantly impacts the governance of the University. The Regent Candidate Forum promotes civic engagement, informed decision-making, and transparency, and encourages elected Regents to be representative of and responsive to the needs of the community they serve. This event is open to all U-M faculty, staff, and students.
Participating Candidates
Paul Brown (Incumbent, Democrat)Lena Epstein (Republican)Kyle Maas (U.S. Taxpayer’s Party)Amir Makled (Democrat)Michael Schostak (Republican)Moderator
Professor Kentaro Toyama, W K Kellogg Professor of Community Information and Faculty Senate Chair
Format
Each candidate will be permitted an opening statement. Professor Toyama will then ask questions submitted in advance by members of the Faculty Senate's Senate Assembly and standing Senate Assembly committees.
Livestream: https://umich.edu/watch/

Students are welcome to join this casual fireside chat with Jon DeGaynor, President and Chief Executive Officer of Methode Electronics and U-M ME alumni. Lars Ullrich, Senior Vice President, Global Automotive Business, and Karen Keegans, Chief Human Resources Officer from Methode Electronics will join Mr. DeGaynor for a Q+A following his fireside chat. Resumes will be collected during the event.
Event Timeline:
5:00-5:30pm: Fireside Talk with Mr. DeGaynor
5:30-6:00pm: Q+A with Methode Staff
Food and drinks will be provided and students are encouraged to come with questions about career paths, job applications, and life after graduation.

Spiritual Wellness Group – Undergraduate Students
Looking for a space to slow down, connect with others, and explore what gives your life meaning? Join the RSSL Spiritual Wellness Group, an eight-week experience designed for undergraduate students who want to grow in purpose, belonging, and community.
Beginning Thursday, September 24, 2026, the group meets weekly from 5:30–7:00 PM in The Connector.
Each session explores a different aspect of spirituality and well-being through meaningful conversation, reflection, interactive activities, and connections with fellow students.
Whether you identify with a religious tradition, are spiritual but not religious, are secular, or are simply curious, all students are welcome.
Registration is limited to ensure a meaningful, small-group experience, so reserve your spot early.

WISE and Shine offers an informal opportunity to ask questions, hear about life in industry, and explore the unconventional places a degree in can take you while enjoying an early dinner. STEM equity for everyone needs everyone! WISE programming is open to all students regardless of sex, gender, or gender identity.
Alicia is the Vice President of Legal Strategy at an AI chip startup called Tenstorrent -- a company proudly pushing the boundaries of what it means to be "open" by developing open source software, open standards, and hardware that gives customers control. Prior to Tenstorrent, Alicia worked for a company named Altera (which was acquired by Intel), then Intel. Alicia started her career at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP, litigating some of the largest patent cases in the world for on all sorts of technology (combustion engines, cell phones, knee implants, cryptography, semiconductor fabrication, and paint dispensing machines, to name a few).

Alicia is a proud double Wolverine, holding Mechanical Engineering and Law degrees from the University of Michigan. She's also married to a Wolverine, whom she met on the University of Michigan Solar Car team. She has two kids, two cats, eight chickens, and (roughly) 40K backyard bees.

If you are interested in AI, the path from STEM to law school, life in San Francisco, or sharing your yard with forty thousand bees, then please come join us for an evening with this fascinating and dynamic alum!

Men of Color Leading & Investing in Community (M-CLIC) presents: "The CLIC-N-CUTZ" Barbershop Series Kickoff!
Topic: “Becoming the Man You’re Meant to Be!”
Featuring Special Guest: Mr. Anthony “Coach Ant ” Johnson, President and Founder, Empower Youth Development League (EYDL)

The “CLIC-N-CUTZ” Barbershop Series returns! Join us for an interactive workshop led by special guest Anthony “Coach Ant” Johnson. In an authentic and supportive setting, participants will explore identity, purpose, accountability, relationships, and life’s pressures. Through honest conversation and practical exercises, they will gain tools for intentional decision-making and create a personalized 30-day growth plan.
About M-CLIC: Men of Color Leading & Investing in Community (M-CLIC) is a university-wide mentorship initiative open to participants of all races and genders who want to build community and strengthen support for men of color at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor.
Event Highlight: The “CLIC-N-CUTZ” Barbershop Series is M-CLIC’s signature workshop—a welcoming, informative barbershop experience that combines community, conversation, and connection. In addition to free haircuts from licensed local barbers and food, participants engage in timely conversations about critical issues affecting men of color and work together to identify practical solutions to today’s challenges and stressors.
M-CLIC - Conversation. Connection. Community. Culture.
For more information, visit our website at https://oami.umich.edu/m-clic/ or by email Greg Thomas at MCLIC-info@umich.edu

The Poetry & Poetics Workshop is 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), Kelly Wenzka (kwenzka@umich.edu), or Ally Bergman (abergm@umich.edu).

Each Fall and Winter term, ELI presents free interactive workshops focusing on specific English writing and speaking skills U-M students need to succeed in their academic and professional careers. ELI workshops are open to all U-M students.

In order to access the Art & Architecture Shop, users must complete BOTH Orientation AND Woodshop Basics Proficiency Training. The Woodshop Basics Proficiency Training session covers the five most commonly used machines: miter saw, band saw, drill press, sanders, and scroll saw.

Access: The Shop is available to students, staff, and faculty from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning for work on class projects and research only. Potential users from other academic disciplines must be receiving credit for a class taught by a faculty member from the Art or Architecture schools.

Learn more on the A&A Shop site here.

Registration for the Research Administrators' Network (RAN) meetings, which are held three times per year, hosted by the RAAC Communications Subcommittee.

You're invited to the 2026 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars Symposium! This symposium features interdisciplinary feminist scholarship from the 2026 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars fellows. The Community of Scholars is a two-month summer fellowship and the only feminist dissertation-writing workshop at the University of Michigan. It supports graduate students enrolled in any Rackham program on the Ann Arbor campus who are conducting scholarly or creative work related to women, gender, or sexuality.
Community of Scholars participates in a weekly seminar throughout May and June. Faculty in the Women’s & Gender Studies Department facilitate these sessions, which emphasize peer review and cross-disciplinary exchange. Facilitators offer mentorship, individualized feedback, and guidance on writing from a feminist perspective.
The fellows reconvene for the annual Community of Scholars Symposium to share the product of their summer’s work with each other and a broader audience.

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.

What is a well-designed life? How do you find a career where you can thrive? Inspired by Stanford’s Designing Your Life curriculum, this interactive, four-week, in-person series will teach master’s students principles for designing a fulfilling career. Participants must commit to attending all four sessions. The series includes brief homework assignments, in-class discussions, and out-of-class application activities. Space is limited; participation will be capped at 30. This workshop is designed for master’s students. All sessions will take place in the Rackham Building.
Lunch will be provided.
Registration closes at 9:00 a.m. on September 1.


Please note that your registration status will be marked as pending until all the steps, displayed below, are completed.
Registration steps:
Thoroughly check the dates to ensure you are available for each session in this workshop series. There are a total of four sessions in this series, and participants are required to attend all four sessions.
All sessions will be selected automatically when you register. Please do not deselect any sessions.
Once you have submitted your registration, you will receive a registration confirmation message via email. At this time, your registration status will be set as "PENDING."
Once your registration is confirmed by Rackham, your status will change to “REGISTERED”.
If you have any questions about this process, please contact Kirsten Elling (kelling@umich.edu) or Maggie Gardner (maggieev@umich.edu).

Join us for a casual lunch and welcome presentation, followed by FAQ’s from fellow transfer students. Hosted by BME Student Services.

Weekly meetings for the presentation and discussion of comparative politics research.

This event is designed for Sophomore students who joined The Ross School of Business in Fall 2026 as transfer students, and who are looking for support with their BBA academic planning. During this workshop Ross Academic Advisors and Ross Academic Peer Advisors (RAPAs) will give a brief presentation on BBA requirements followed by a working session where students can plan out their schedules through Senior Year. Students will get the most out of this experience by completing the "Ross Academic Advising: Transfer Student Personal Development Plan (PDP) Workshop" Canvas site first.

Grad students, postdocs, and undergrads all come together with a common interest of building a STEM community. Join us in the WISE space for snacks, new friends, professional development lead by our student mentors, and time for connections in small groups! All are welcome.

STEM equity for everyone needs everyone! WISE programming is open to all students regardless of sex, gender, or gender identity.

The Arts Initiative is university-wide, and we believe the arts are for everyone. One of our goals is to make creative experiences accessible across all three University of Michigan campuses and beyond by connecting students, faculty, staff, and community members through meaningful artistic opportunities.
Throughout the year, we support hundreds of free or low-cost events, workshops, performances, exhibitions, artist talks, creative wellness programs, and public art experiences. Whether someone has been making art their entire life or is trying something creative for the very first time, there's a place for them here.
We believe that creativity helps us build community, explore new ideas, reduce stress, and connect with one another in meaningful ways. There's no expectation to be an artist when attending our workshops —just come as you are, stay curious, and enjoy the process.