All Sessions

Setting Group Values and Navigating Group Dynamics for Study Abroad Group is a workshop facilitated by the Office of Student Conflict Resolution (OSCR). We will talk about how to set group values, norms, and expectations for your study abroad group. We will go over the values of restorative practices and how you can use circle processes to set your group up for success. We will review how to use restorative questions to navigate conflict that arises in your group and when harm occurs.

Today's topics will include Spheres on Earth and Interactions Between Spheres on Earth. Please arrive on time around 11AM!

Estabrook Elementary is having us fill out an online volunteer form. The link to the form can be found here: https://app.informedk12.com/link_campaigns/ycs-volunteer-release-form?token=J5kcUqmg12wpECLCo9Nif1kt

This program is designed to help participants identify their workplace needs for professional success, develop a communication plan for those needs, and identify the right time, place, and manner to convey those needs. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their needs and collaborate with each other to develop their individual communication plans.

The "Engaged Mentoring" series is for faculty mentors of research trainees at any stage of training. This program is an evidence-based, interactive approach designed to elevate mentoring skills for engaging in productive, culturally responsive research mentoring relationships. The program aims to accelerate the process of becoming an effective research mentor by providing mentors with an intellectual framework, an opportunity to experiment with various methods, and a forum in which to solve mentoring dilemmas with the help of their peers. By the end of the program, mentors will have articulated their style and philosophy of mentoring and have a toolbox of strategies for approaching difficult mentoring situations. These skills will support the success of both mentors and mentees, and it is responsive to the NIGMS guidelines regarding the preparation of mentors involved in training grants.


The OGPS Engaged Mentoring Series, focuses on the five themes below. To learn more about the five themes, visit our Canvas Site:

1. Establishing Effective Mentoring/Mentee Relationships

2. Aligning Expectations Using Mentoring Plans

3. Managing Mental Health in the Mentoring Relationship

4. Approaching Difficult Conversations

5. Managing Tension and Conflict

The 5 themes are presented in two different formats:
Option A: Two half-day Workshop series. Each session is 4hrs, and you must attend both sessions in order to receive a certificate of completion from OGPS.
Option B: 1-day Retreat. The session is 8hrs, and you must attend the entire session to receive a certificate of completion from OGPS.

We will continue to populate this site with more program offering dates throughout the year.

Join CGIS Internship Manager Rachel Reuter to learn more about CGIS's international internship programs available for Spring/Summer 2027. These 8-week, unpaid international internship programs offer opportunities across a wide range of locations, academic interests, and career fields, and students can earn up to 6 academic credits.
In this session, students will learn more about each internship program, including locations, the application process, potential placements, academic requirements, eligibility requirements, and other key details.
CGIS: Summer International Internships with IES AbroadCGIS: Summer International Internships with CIEECGIS: Summer International Internships with Sage CorpsCGIS: Summer International Internships with OmprakashDATES:
Thursday, October 22, 12:00pm - 1:00pm (Info Session)Thursday, December 10, 12:00pm - 1:00pm (Info Session)Friday, January 15, 4:00pm - 5:00pm (Info Session)Friday, January 29, 12:00pm - 2:00pm (Drop-in Group Advising)

Join us for a virtual student panel featuring current Master of Science in Information (MSI) and Master of Health Informatics (MHI) students from the University of Michigan School of Information. This interactive session is a great opportunity to hear firsthand about student experiences, academic life, and insights into the UMSI community. Whether your considering applying or simply want to learn more, come with your questions and connect with our panelists!

Our goal at WISE is to see students succeed in pursuit of their STEM degrees and careers. One of the biggest ways to positively impact student success is through community! Join us for dinner, crafts, and a chance to make new friends, expand you U-M network, and build STEM community, hosted by our student mentors.
(Choose the event below that best suits your schedule! We run the same event two nights in a row to give more students the opportunity to participate.)



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

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).

Have questions about UMSI graduate programs or the admissions process? Drop into this informal virtual Q&A to connect with a member of the UMSI admissions team and get the information you need.
Students who attend a live session will receive an application fee waiver following the event.

Unlike our Explore and Apply sessions, this event does not include a formal presentation. Instead, the time is dedicated to answering your questions about program options, curriculum, the student experience, application requirements and materials, deadlines, or anything else related to UMSI.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore UMSI, preparing your application, or deciding on your next steps, you’re welcome to join at any point during the session and ask questions.

1 session on January 9, 2026

In Person: This program is offered yearly for U-M Student Life staff free of charge. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a terrific tool for helping people change behavior. It's especially helpful for medical staff (lifestyle changes and medication adherence), therapists/counselors for behavior change to support mental health, faculty (a way to communicate with students about classwork), and academic, leadership, and wellness coaches. Its use is being expanded to Student Life advisers, supervisors, and more. Learn basic, foundational skills for MI, including spirit (Compassion, Acceptance, Partnership, Evocation), OARS (open questions, affirmations, reflections, summaries), identifying and responding to change talk, and a brief overview of discord (if time permits). There will be plenty of practice in "real plays" (you get to work on your own behavior changes that you are ambivalent about--so bring a couple of behaviors you would like to change). While you won't be an expert at MI when you are done, you will be able to start the practice, move forward in your skills, and know how to improve. Please only register if you can attend all of the training dates, as each day builds on prior sessions. All Fridays, all in person, 9 am to 2:30 pm with a 30 minutes lunch break (bring your own lunch or order in).

* Friday, January 8, 9-2:30, location University Health Service (UHS), Meeting Rooms 1&2

* Friday, January 15, 9-2:30, UHS, Meeting Rooms 1&2

* Friday, January 22, 9-2:30,UHS, Meeting Rooms 1&2

* Friday, January 29, 9-2:30,UHS, Meeting Rooms 1&2

** For non-Student Life staff there is a $300 charge for the 20 hours of training. Student Life staff, please note that there may be a $25 charge to your department if there is no cancellation at least three days before the training begins or if you no-show on the first day.**

Build foundational knowledge on navigating ethical use of AI in research through interactive, case-based learning and peer discussion.
Course Goals:
Identify and analyze ethical impact of their own research contextsApply responsible data practices to research design and implementationIntegrate ethical considerations into grant proposals and research protocolsEvaluate AI systems as informed citizens and consumersEngage productively with diverse stakeholders about AI ethicsThis training workshop will take place in-person over two days at the MIDAS postdoctoral research space on North Campus.
All participants will receive a digital badge for completion.

Rackham program staff and faculty are invited to attend the Rackham Merit Fellowship (RMF) Information Session with the PACE team. During this virtual meeting we will discuss the goals of the RMF program, how to assess eligibility and evaluate for the RMF criteria, review the award process including the new application for RMF allocations, and answer any questions you have about the administration of the fellowship. Whether or not you attend the information session, we encourage you to visit our website or contact the PACE team ([email protected] or 734-615-5670) with any questions. Zoom meeting details will be provided after registration.

You are invited to join your fellow UMSI students, staff, and faculty for a night of ice skating at Yost Ice Arena. This will be a FREE event - including free ice skate rentals. Come join us for a night of fun on the ice! Families welcome!

Waiver
Please print, sign, and bring the participation waiver. One waiver must be signed per person. We will have some extra copies at the event for those who need it.
Parking and Transportation
Personal vehicles can be parked anywhere near the arena in the parking lot. Parking is free during the event. Please see the parking and entrance map for details.
For those looking to use the University's free busing, we recommend taking either the Commuter North or Commuter South routes and getting off at the Intramural Sports Building on Hoover Ave. It is a short walk southeast from there.
Skates and On-Ice Policy
Skates are free and available for use during the event. The skates run true to regular shoe size and should only be worn on either the rubberized areas or the ice (especially not the metal stands). No food or beverage is allowed on the ice.

Sarah Ropp, dialogue director, SNF Paideia Program (University of Pennsylvania)

We are excited to announce the Non- and Post-Traditional Student Community Group (NPTCG) Winter 2027 Kickoff Event happening on Friday, January 14, 2027, from 6-8 PM, in the LSA Multipurpose Room (LSA 1040)!
This special, kid-friendly event is designed to create a welcoming and supportive space for non-traditional students (those 24-years or older; returning to education after a significant break; part-time students; those balancing education with other significant life responsibilities such as being a parent/guardian/caretaker; nontraditional completion of high school education; military veteran; or was in the foster-care system 13-years old or older, experiencing home insecurity or family structure) and post-traditional students (those who might have started their academic journey later in life) while they pursue their education at U-M.
If you identity with any one of these identities, this event is a great chance to:
Enjoy free food and swag 🎉
Meet and connect with fellow non- and post-traditional students
Learn about the NPTCG and resources available to support your journey at U-M
Join in on fun activities that celebrate our unique community
Whether you are a current NPTCG member or if this is your first semester at LSA and looking for a community to call your own, we are here for you. So, no matter your path to U-M, we want to build a space that supports your success and offers you a place to belong. You are also welcome to bring guests to this event, such as partners, kids, or family members! We hope you’ll join us for a night of fun and connection!

Come join us for our in-person OS Application Workshop! Current OS students will offer guidance, tips, and resources on best tying yourself, your interests, and OS together in your application materials. You’ll also have the opportunity to meet with current students to get individualized feedback on your resume and essay.
Space is limited, so sign up asap to guarantee your spot!

Important note: attendance at this event will NOT guarantee admission into the OS program. This is a casual event designed to offer you helpful guidance and feedback on your application materials and answer any questions you might have.

The theme of the 37th Annual Health Sciences MLK Lecture builds on King’s vision by examining the intersections of food justice, housing justice, and public health. The health sciences are well positioned to address these issues because we bring together expertise in clinical care, research, education, policy, and community engagement. Health professionals can identify and respond to the immediate health consequences of food and housing insecurity—but treating those consequences is not enough. Lasting progress requires addressing the systems that produce unequal conditions in the first place.

The U-M School of Public Health is excited to lead this year’s planning as we recognize the especially important role for our field in our ability to look beyond individual treatment to population health, prevention, and structural change. Housing and food insecurity cut across the five domains of the social determinants of health identified in Healthy People 2030: economic stability; education access and quality; health care access and quality; neighborhood and built environment; and social and community context. Public health can reveal how these conditions are distributed, document their health effects, elevate community knowledge, evaluate interventions, and advance policies that make healthy choices genuinely accessible to everyone.

King’s words thus offer both a warning and a call to action. The contemporary challenge is not merely to help individuals navigate unjust systems, but to transform the policies and institutions that determine who has access to safe housing, nourishing food, and the conditions needed to thrive. For the health sciences—and for public health in particular—this means treating food and housing justice not as issues adjacent to health, but as central to the work of achieving health equity.

IPE will host a study abroad funding information session where students can find out how to fund programs abroad using Financial Aid or other funding options.

This is a zoom training that covers the fundamentals of Business Objects and the steps to navigate in Business Objects to perform basic, intermediate and advanced tasks in BO. Please bring your own laptop and power adapter to in-person training.
Please Note: There is a minimum of 10 registrations for each class (you can find the number of seats available out of 40). If the minimum number of seats is not reached we will email you in advance.

This track manages the '26-27 First-Gen Student Community Events.

Museum of Art

Join us in the Assembly Hall at Rackham Graduate School for an evening of powerful storytelling. Rackham graduate students will take the stage and tell stories that weave together their lived experience, scholarly work, and reflections on this year’s MLK Symposium theme.

2027 MLK Symposium Theme:
Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free: Diverse Moments for Collective Liberation

Event Agenda
12:30 p.m. – Doors Open & Reception
1:00 p.m. – Program Begins
We hope you’ll join us for this meaningful evening of stories, dialogue, and connection.

This track manages the '26-27 International Student Community Events.

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.

Through Empowering Blue, Organizational Excellence aspires to empower the U-M community to take action by sharing ideas and best practices to make their work better and easier. Join us for one-hour sessions designed to help you and your team succeed. Our sessions are free and open to the U-M campus community.

Description:
Explore how generative AI can support a rigorous, advanced approach to pre-registration. This session will demonstrate how researchers can use AI to develop analysis code and create simulated datasets before collecting real-world data—helping them clarify assumptions, test analytical workflows, identify potential problems, and strengthen research transparency and reproducibility.

Rebecca Wollenberg, LSA Judaic Studies

This track manages the '26-27 Caregiver Craft Nights.

Who built
the digital economy, and whose labor has been overlooked in the stories we tell
about its development? The Inattention Economy challenges familiar
narratives of technological innovation by tracing the often uncredited and
unpaid contributions of women of color across three pivotal moments in
computing: the microchip era of the 1960s and ’70s, the rise of social media in
the 2000s, and the emergence of AI-fueled virtual reality in the 2020s. Through
the stories of Navajo women who manufactured early semiconductor circuits,
Vietnamese American internet pioneer Tila Tequila, and Black virtual reality
creators, the book examines how gendered and racialized labor has shaped the
technologies and platforms embedded in everyday life. In doing so, it offers a
counterhistory of Silicon Valley that calls for both recognition and material
compensation for the labor that has made the digital economy possible.

The DSI Reading Room is a conversation series featuring new books by Digital
Studies Institute faculty and guest authors. Through public discussions, we
explore emerging scholarship and the ideas shaping technology, culture, media,
and society.


Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the
Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is
the lead Principal Investigator of the DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation,
Collaboration, and Optimism) Network. Nakamura is also the founding Director of
the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and has been
writing about digital media, race, and gender since 1994. She has written books
and articles on digital bodies, race, and gender in online environments, on
toxicity in video game culture, and the many reasons that Internet research
needs ethnic and gender studies. She is the author of The Inattention
Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet (University of Minnesota
Press, 2026), Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
(University of Minnesota Press, 2007), and Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and
Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002).






We strive to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be
a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.

CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate,
please email Eric Mancini at [email protected]. Please note that
some accommodations must be arranged in advance, and we encourage you to
contact us as soon as possible.

The graduate school offers a series of meetings designed to orient faculty members who have recently taken on the role of chairing a department/program or directing the graduate program in their department/program. These sessions, hosted by Rackham associate deans, focus on various aspects of your role. We provide opportunities to discuss and learn how you can partner with Rackham and what Rackham resources you can rely on while carrying out the work of your role.

Meagan Mitchell, School of Social Work

We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART captioning services will be provided for the panel conversation. If you anticipate needing additional accommodations to participate, please email Cherice Chan at [email protected].

The 2027 EEI Days events culminate in a symposium on May 18 in the Bob and Betty Beyster Building (BBB), featuring a full day consisting of a keynote presentation, a panel discussion, and concurrent sessions brimming with fresh ideas and methodologies. Session proposals are selected from among University of Michigan faculty, staff, and GSI speakers.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, in the aftermath of Israel’s establishment in 1948 and the Palestinian Nakba, hundreds of thousands of Jews from across the Middle East and North Africa restarted their lives in the Jewish state. Among this coalescing demographic, later known as Mizrahim (lit. Easterners) and soon to become the country’s majority, were some of the most celebrated musicians of the Arab world––and still others who were in the midst of launching their Arabic-language careers. Over a period of more than two decades, these veteran and up-and-coming artists released hundreds of commercial recordings, capturing a soundtrack of communal and individual triumphs and tragedies, quotidian difficulties, and disorienting new realities. In demonstrating the centrality of music to history, the deep connections between language and identity, and continuities before and after the ruptures of 1948, this talk challenges the notion that Arabophone Jews became muted upon their arrival in Israel and disconnected from their countries and cultures of origin. In listening for this particular past through a self-fashioned archive of vinyl records, it affords an opportunity to appraise the origins, meaning, and impact of a vast musical repertoire hitherto unstudied.

Focus: Using AI to critically assess outputs, check reasoning, and strengthen trust in findings.
Description:
This session would focus on using AI as a tool for review rather than solely for generation. Participants would practice checking results for plausibility, identifying possible errors or overclaims, and building habits for validation and reproducibility. This is especially important for avoiding misplaced confidence in AI-assisted work.
Possible hands-on activities:
Ask AI to critique an interpretation of findingsCross-check whether a result matches the stated method or assumptionsGenerate a validation checklist for an analysis workflowIdentify possible sources of bias, confounding, or errorReview examples of flawed outputs and discuss how to catch them

Focus: Using AI to communicate research clearly to different audiences.
Description:
This session would explore how AI can help researchers translate technical work into accessible and audience-appropriate communication. Participants would practice adapting the same core findings for different settings, such as collaborators, community partners, students, leadership, or public-facing summaries.
Possible hands-on activities:
Turn a technical summary into plain-language prose
Draft a short abstract, presentation blurb, or project update
Reframe the same findings for academic vs. non-academic audiences
Generate slide outlines or talking points from key results
Create a first draft of documentation, FAQs, or knowledge-transfer notes

Sarah Imhoff (she/her) is the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. She writes about religion and the body with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, disability, and American religion, as well as maintaining a research specialty in religion and law. She is author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017) and The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Duke University Press, 2022). She is the founding co-editor of the journal American Religion.