All Sessions

LSA Newnan Pre-Health Advising comes to YOU! Stop by to meet with a Pre-Health Advisor on a first-come, first-served basis. While registration is available, it is not required. We are looking forward to talking with you!

An interdisciplinary research group focused on the role of critical theory in the academy today and the question of how we study culture in our current political climate.

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.**

Join us for Soul Food Sundays, an uplifting program inspired by the rich African American tradition of Sunday dinners at the home of the family matriarch. These cherished gatherings have long been a cornerstone of Black culture—a time to reconnect, recharge, strategize, laugh, and share love over a table laden with delicious, soul-nourishing food.

This week, the BHM Committee and the Trotter Multicultural Center invites the community to come together not just for a meal, but for meaningful conversation. Alongside our feast, there will be a Community Conversation exploring themes of care and sustainability within our community—how we support one another, nurture collective well-being, and honor traditions that have sustained us through generations.

Whether you’re seeking good food, good company, or thoughtful discussion, Soul Food Sundays welcomes all to celebrate legacy, culture, and the power of coming together.

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 February 23rd 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

This session is part of the 2025-2026 Generative AI tutorial series hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data & AI in Society (MIDAS)
About: This session focuses on the use of generative AI tools/agents to produce visualizations. We will go over the use of different tools for automating the construction of descriptive, analytical, and communicative visualizations. The session will cover prompting approaches for construction, ideation, and evaluation. The topics will be largely practical, with a touch of theory to help you understand how to judge the quality of visualizations and guide the tools toward better results.

Join SMTD Student Success at tabling events in each of the primary SMTD Buildings! Learn more about Student Organization Funding opportunities, upcoming events, and share with us ideas or thoughts about student events you would like to participate in at SMTD! Warm up with a cup of hot chocolate and grab a yummy cookie.

Join the Eileen Lappin Weiser Center for the Learning Sciences to hear from Dr. Rebecca Quintana and Annie Zhou about their project working on AI-Generated Instructor Avatars.
This is an informal, works in progress conversation. Light snacks and beverages will be provided. Attendees are invited to bring their lunch!

The Student Success Initiative (SSI) coming out of the Office for the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education seeks to create data-informed change that promotes the holistic success of students at the University of Michigan. Recognizing the importance that advising and coaching play in students’ academic journeys, one focus of the SSI is to enhance advising and coaching at U-M for both students and advisors and coaches, such as through the implementation of training on a validation approach to advising and coaching (with training planned to begin in Sp/Su 2026). To support these efforts, we—Dr. Solaire Finkenstaedt-Quinn (Assessment and Evaluation Specialist for the SSI) and Natalie Drobny and Gray Strain (Evaluation Advising Fellows)—are working to understand the current advising landscape at U-M and how it shifts over time as validation training is implemented. During this CES, we will begin by presenting our findings from a survey that characterizes U-M advisors’ and coaches’ knowledge and use of approaches that align with validation theory and the mission and framework developed by the Academic Advising & Coaching Team. To close off the session, we hope to engage advisors and coaches in a conversation about how our findings can be used to inform changes in advising and coaching at U-M.

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.

Please sign up here to attend Center for Campus Involvement's New Organization Orientation. This session is required for any student who wishes to start a new organization.

Join us for a vibrant celebration at Making a Dollar out of Fifteen Cents, a gala dedicated to honoring the enduring legacy of creative expression and groundbreaking innovation born from resilience. Throughout history, Black culture has exemplified the remarkable ability to create abundance from scarcity—transforming obstacles into opportunities and “spinning gold from mere fibers.”

This event pays homage to the ingenuity, endurance, and pioneering spirit that continue to redefine and uplift the Black experience. Through powerful and inspiring storytelling, we shine a spotlight on the visionaries who have shaped history and those who are charting new paths today.

CSG's Black Caucus proudly hosts an evening in coordination with the Black History Month Committee, featuring recognition of outstanding student organizations and awards for student leaders who embody innovation and student leadership rooted in resilience. Please join us for an unforgettable evening filled with thought-provoking reflection and elegance as we gather together to celebrate the creativity and brilliance that flourishes throughout time.

Maize and Blue Civics are interactive discussion forums of panelists who are professionals/advocates in a particular policy-related area. There will be a dedicated Q&A session. Free dinner provided! This event's topic will be the U.S. Immigration System. Read about our featured panelists below!
Jessica Lefort, J.D.: Director of the Immigrant Justice Lab at the University of Michigan, and a clinical Assistant Professor at the Michigan Law School.
Becky Monroe, J.D.: Senior Director on the Education and Civil Rights Team at the National Center for Youth Law.
Amr Brown: Junior studying Public Policy, and Chairman of the Conflict-Affected and Refugee Education Scholarship taskforce in the Central Student Government.
Jailyn Suarez: Junior studying Political Science and History, and Student Coordinator for the Immigrant Justice Initiative.

The Arts Initiative invites members of Theatre 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 really hoping to learn from the Theatre orgs!

Please RSVP to let us know you're coming!

World events and turbulence in our personal lives can impact our work experience. This session will provide LSA staff with the opportunity to reflect on their mental health and wellbeing and the role of communication and community on our teams. We will explore how we are doing collectively and work environments that support the whole worker. We will also consider how best practices can vary on remote and hybrid teams.

In this session, participants will:
Reflect on their own mental health and wellbeing and the ways in which that can impact the work experienceExplore the concept of a community of careReflect on the benefits of building a community of care in the workplaceIdentify strategies to build a community of care for in-person, hybrid, and remote teams

Participants will benefit by:
Raising self-awareness and initiating new actionsEnhancing their professional and personal effectiveness on and off the jobPositively influencing personal and organizational decisionsCreating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience: This workshop is limited to LSA employees only, which includes staff, faculty, and graduate and undergraduate student employees. External to LSA University employees may be considered if space is allowed. If you are outside LSA, your registration may be removed without warning to accommodate LSA employees. Thank you for understanding.

For questions or requests for accommodations, please contact Jessica Custer (jccuster@umich.edu) as soon as possible. Accommodation requests are generally easy to provide, but may require some time to accomplish, so advance notice is appreciated.

Community event in recognition of Engineers Week 2026Open to current U-M College of Engineering students, staff, and facultyStop by the table in the Connector Hallway in the Duderstadt Center for treats and swag (while supplies last)

We're excited to have you attend our February session for ILI! In this session, you'll learn more about cultural competencies and practice some activities to learn how to best engage your diverse teams.

The session will occur on Tuesday, February 24th from 11:30am-1:00pm in the Leinweber room 2280.

Please RSVP for this session by Tuesday, February 17th.

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!

Want a chance to meet and chat with the Rackham Deans? Come join us at Lunch with the Deans series! The Rackham Student Government will be hosting two Lunch with the Deans events at the following dates and locations:
Central Campus (In-person only): Tuesday, February 24 at 12-1pm, Rackham Building, 4th Floor, Assembly HallNorth Campus (In-person only): Tuesday, March 24 at 12:30-1:30pm, Lurie Engineering Center (LEC), 3rd Floor, Johnson Rooms ABCStudents can provide their thoughts and ask questions. Students who are unable to attend, but have questions for the Deans are encouraged to submit questions to us via email (rsg-exec@umich.edu) or in the RSVP. RSVP is highly recommended.

This instructor-led, hands-on training session covers the process of preparing and submitting proposals using the eResearch Proposal Management (eRPM) system, including Grants.gov to create and edit a Proposal Approval Form (PAF).

This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a variety of career trajectories. We will cover approaches to networking, transferable skills, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate careers, and there will be plenty of time for your questions. This event is intended to be interactive, and therefore a recording will not be available.
This workshop is designed for master's students, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance. Brought to you by the University Career Center, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School.

Calling all stressed SMTD students to join our wellness group series to learn about the impacts of stress, strategies to cope, and enjoy a free lunch! Each session we will focus on different stress management techniques and provide a safe space for students to share their stressors. Students are welcome to attend one wellness group or all four. While it is targeted for SMTD students, any students are welcome to attend.

These mental health education and support groups are a service of the U-M Eisenberg Family Depression Center, in partnership with the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s Wellness Program.

Registration is not required for in-person wellness groups, but is recommended so there is enough lunch for all attendees.

Join us for a peaceful watercolor drop-in session on Tuesday February 24th from 1:30-3:30pm in the OGPS Lounge. All supplies, snacks, and optional tutorials will be provided, just bring yourself!

Looking to find a bit of peace during these long winter days? Come hang out and spend some time reflecting and connecting with nature.

Dr. Joseph Rizzo will lead a relaxed, open-ended activity geared at engaging with the stillness and restorative aspects of winter. While exploring the relationship between the natural rhythm of the season and our own internal patterns of self-reflection.

This event will take place indoors at the Reader Center and is open to all SPH students. We hope to see you there!

Join MiSciWriters for in-person and virtual workshops designed to develop science communication skills!

No science communication or editing experience required.
We are always welcoming new editors, translators, and/or illustrators. If you'd like to join MiSciWriters, fill out our membership form here.

Jewish Journalism in Dark Times

Panelists: Naomi Brenner (Ohio State University), Gilad Halpern, and Matthew Handelman (2025–2026 Frankel Institute Fellows)
Moderator: Shachar Pinsker (Co-Head Fellow)

Join us for a roundtable discussion exploring the transformation of Jewish journalism during the interwar years (1918–1939) and World War II, an era of profound upheaval. Panelists will analyze how Jewish newspapers and journals became vital platforms for political, literary, and cultural engagement. The discussion will highlight dramatic shifts in journalistic practices, including evolving editorial strategies, reporting methods, and technological innovations in format and distribution and the transnational and transcultural elements that come to the fore during that time. Panelists will also examine the economic pressures and opportunities that shaped the Jewish press, and consider the influence and role of Jews as journalists within the broader media landscape.

Gilad Halpern, journalist and media historian, draws on recent doctoral research on The Palestine Post amid imperial decline and rising nationalism, bridging professional and scholarly perspectives. Naomi Brenner explores entertainment fiction in the Hebrew and Yiddish press, focusing on the aesthetics and politics of the roman-feuilleton as a transnational literary form.
Matthew Handelman investigates the cultural politics of German Jewish intellectuals and the primacy of culture in political discourse from the Weimar Republic onward.

Central to the conversation is the role of Jewish periodicals as spaces for cultural expression, literary experimentation, and political debate. These publications not only documented Jewish life, but actively shaped identities, fostered transnational dialogue, and provided forums for writers, artists, and intellectuals grappling with questions of survival and belonging. This roundtable offers timely insights into journalism during a time of crisis, illuminating enduring questions about Jews and media.

Workshops for students to learn/with student orgs!
The Arts Initiative's Learn/With workshops are designed to give students a chance to explore an artform or skill that's new to them by learning with their peers in one of U-M's many student arts orgs. Take a chance and see if it's your new thing!

Join Women in Science and Engineering(WISE) for a cozy night-in with card making and a resume workshop! Create and send handmade cards to loved ones, then participate in a focused resume workshop with practical tips, information, and one-on-one help. Relax, connect with other students, and eat tasty Condado's tacos :).

Do you want to play a game? Are you interested in entrepreneurship or business? We are excited to host Professor Jerry Davis of the Ross School of Business at LEAPS to lead us in a simulation game he designed to help new or prospective entrepreneurs. We hosted Professor Davis last year, and everyone who participated enjoyed the experience immensely.
We're asking you to register for this event so we can figure out where it should be located - in one of our MC classrooms or in the LEAPS Living Room.

Check out the local arts scene and meet new people!
Art Meetups are student-led excursions to explore the arts on campus and in Ann Arbor - all while giving you a chance to meet your peers who share similar interests! From local artist markets to performances to hands on artmaking, Art Meetups have something for all interests.

Sign 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.
The 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.

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!

This series will guide participants through essential steps of career exploration: self-assessment, researching career options, and networking. You will gain valuable insights into your strengths, values, priorities, and aspirations, and learn actionable strategies for career discovery. By blending guidance, hands-on assessments, practical frameworks, and networking skill-building, this series supports you in making informed decisions and finding career paths that fit your interests. Through this series, you’ll develop the clarity, confidence, and connectivity needed to navigate your career exploration process and pursue fulfilling opportunities

Learning Objectives
By the end of this series, you will be able to:
Identify and articulate your unique strengths and talents through the CliftonStrengths assessment, and apply them to your professional journey.
Define your “Career Compass” by clarifying your values, skills, life needs, and mission, using these as guideposts for career exploration and evaluation.
Discover and utilize effective resources for researching career fields, analyze job descriptions for fit, and develop strategies to organize and assess your current skills.
Build and maintain professional relationships using best networking practices, conduct impactful informational interviews, and create a compelling professional brand.

Campus Mind Works Wellness Group
Are you stuck procrastinating? Join our Avoiding Avoidance wellness group to learn tips to be more productive, hear from other students and get some free lunch!
February 25 | 12:00 - 1:00 E.T. | Chrysler Center, Room 265 | Register: campusmindworks.org

This track is for Instructional Support & Professional Learning activities within the Marsal Family School of Education.

Are you a current UMSI BSI student interested in earning your master’s degree faster?
The Accelerated Master’s Degree Program (AMDP) allows eligible BSI students to earn a UMSI master’s degree in just one additional year after completing their bachelor's degree.

Join one of our virtual AMDP Information Sessions to learn how you can continue your education at UMSI and deepen your expertise in the information field—quickly and efficiently.

Each session includes:



An introduction to the AMDP and an overview of the curriculum


Information about the application process, deadlines, and requirements


Live Q&A with a member of the UMSI admissions team



Whether you’re starting to explore your options or preparing to apply this year, these sessions are designed to help you determine if AMDP is the right next step for you.

This workshop series brings a renewed focus to cultivating inclusive environments across campus. Participants will explore personal and collective experiences, learn best practices and strategies to foster belonging, and strengthen their ability to serve and support a diverse student population. Workshop offerings are open to Student Life staff and campus colleagues; attendance is voluntary. All workshops are free to Student Life Professional Staff Members.

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”.

The Research Software Engineering Team in U-M’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) supports researchers in developing effective, sustainable software. We’re excited to offer two workshops for graduate students and PIs to strengthen their programming capabilities.
1. Introduction to Git and Collaborative Programming is designed for graduate student researchers and principal investigators (PIs) who work with code in their research. Participants will learn the basics of Git for version control and collaboration, enabling them to efficiently manage code, track changes, and work with colleagues on research projects.
2. Software Packaging for Researchers introduces graduate students and PIs to the fundamentals of organizing and distributing research code as reusable, shareable packages. Participants will learn practical techniques for making their software portable, reproducible, and easy for collaborators—and the broader research community—to use and cite. Note: Introduction to Git and Programming is not a prerequisite for this workshop.


While NOT required, ARC offers Introduction to Linux Command Line, which we recommend in addition to our own workshops.
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Faculty today should be prepared to manage engagements with
potentially aggressive reporters. Are you unsure about whether to respond
quickly to a charged media request with a deadline today? Do you know
what you should do to manage your reputation and position as an expert in your
field? Do you know what not to do when a reporter contacts you
for a story? This workshop is designed to support faculty members as they
navigate interactions with the media—especially when confronted with
challenging contacts.
The Michigan News team
offers interactive workshops and training, for individuals and groups, that
prepare faculty for a variety of media engagement scenarios. Michigan News is
part of the Office of the Vice President for Communications, and its staff
includes former reporters from new agencies such as The Associated Press, the
Detroit Free Press, Crain's Business, Rocky Mountain News, Folha de São Paulo,
Atlanta Journal Constitution, Telemundo, WXYZ-TV and more.








At the request of SACUA's Protections for Faculty Working
Group, Michigan News will provide training to help reduce worry and empower
faculty to interact with potentially aggressive journalists. This event is part
of the working group's efforts to support faculty facing external threats and
harassment. Michigan News will share, step by step, what to do when faculty
receive a reporter's email or call, and will provide resources and
opportunities for further media training.

Want to fulfill some BCN/Psych requirements in Argentina? Join IFSA representative, Javier Rodriguez, and CGIS advisor, Juliana Mesa, to learn more about the CGIS Psychology and Humanities in Buenos Aires program and how to apply.
The CGIS Psychology and Humanities in Buenos Aires offers a unique opportunity to take BCN/Psych elective/cognate courses taught in English while you get to explore a city known for its powerful cultural scene, passion for tango, and fondness for late nights. In addition, you will get to experience cultural events and activities such as visiting local markets, attending operas, theater, and symphony performances.
No Spanish language prerequisite!
Check out this CGIS Alumni Ambassador blog to learn about Sarah Cortez de la Cruz' experience on this program.
Fun Fact: Argentina is the country with the most psychologists per capita in the world. In Buenos Aires, mental health is typically discussed amongst family, friends and peers without much stigma compared to many other cities.

Please join us for the International Wellness Fair on February 25 from 4:30-6:00PM! The event is in the Student Activities Building Lobby, and it is open to all students, scholars, faculty and staff.
The Wellness Fair will feature several departments and student organizations who will be tabling! Prizes, crafting and other activities will be available for attendees.
Please let us know you're coming by filling out the RSVP form below! This will help us ensure we have enough food at the event.