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We’ve combed through all of calendars across all of the schools at U-M to find all of the events that an impact-focused student like you might want to attend.


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ESG Reporting Frameworks, with Professor Lindsey GalloThis workshop examines the challenges and opportunities of mandatory ESG reporting, comparing the SEC's climate proposal with international regulations like the CSRD and IFRS S1 and S2.
November 14, 2025
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Ross School of Business – Blau Hall – B1560
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Lessons from the Water Warrior on Community Coalition Building for Water JusticeMonica Lewis-Patrick | Founder and CEO of We The People of Detroit
October 31, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
School of Social Work Building – 1840 (ECC)
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Employing Gen Z: Summer Youth Employment as a Path to Economic Mobility and More Inclusive WorkplacesPanel with Kathleen Clancey | SummerWorks Program Manager
November 7, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
School of Social Work Building – 1840 (ECC)
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The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School VouchersJosh Cowen | Professor of Education Policy, Michigan State University College of Education
November 14, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
School of Social Work Building – 1840 (ECC)
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Shin Godzilla ScreeningJoin us for the launch of Democracy on Screen — a film series presented as part of the Ford School’s Resilient Democracies initiative.
November 13, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Weill Hall (Ford School) – Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
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Vladimir Kara-Murza | 2025 Wallenberg Medal and LectureVladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian politician and human rights advocate, will deliver the 2025 Wallenberg Lecture at the University of Michigan, sharing his experiences as an opposition leader, including his imprisonment and poisoning attempts.
November 4, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Rackham Auditorium Rackham Graduate School 915 E Washington St Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Disability and the Return of Eugenics and the Poor LawJoin us to discuss recent events that threaten to return us to the world of the Eugenics Era and the English Poor Laws before that.
November 10, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1110 Weill Hall
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Aspects of the Housing Crisis through the lens of AbundanceThis panel will look at how the U.S. housing crisis has been driven by policy choices that prioritize wealth preservation over access.
November 19, 2025
11:45 am - 12:45 am
Weill Hall (Ford School) – Betty Ford Clasroom (1110)
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Hiring to Displace: How Employers Use Legal Status to Reshape Workplace PowerThis event explores how legal status is used as a managerial tool to control the workforce, a process called orchestrated racialized displacement. The speaker will explain how specific organizational practices create a vulnerable workforce of Latino immigrant laborers, with significant and disproportionate impacts on Black and U.S.-born workers.
October 31, 2025
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
R1210, Ross School of Business
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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cohort Replacement and the Waves of Fertility Decline in ChinaJoin Dr. Yong Cai as he discusses China's fertility decline through three distinct waves shaped by cultural shifts, challenging the idea that policy was the sole driver. He'll offer predictions for the future and highlight the social challenges disproportionately affecting disadvantaged groups.
November 4, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Weiser Hall – 10th Floor
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Disability Awareness and Inclusionone sentence This session will provide best practices for creating and maintaining inclusive work and learning environments by raising disability awareness, dispelling ableist myths, and discussing how to increase accessibility in university settings.
November 4, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual
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Spoon Theory ExperienceThis interactive board game workshop uses "Spoon Theory" to help participants understand the impact of disabilities on daily energy, offering practical ways to build a more inclusive workplace.
November 6, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Administrative Services Building
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IES Energy Seminar Series – The Social Impacts of Energo-WasteA new paper by Sisty Basil and Kelly Askew explores the social impacts and community responses to "energo-waste"—the physical and environmental detritus left behind by failed or outmoded energy projects in rural Tanzania.
November 4, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Chrysler Center -133
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Assess Your ImpactSue Ann Savas offers real-world insights on theory of change and measuring your impact, including strategies for balancing impact with revenue.
November 10, 2025
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Tauber Colloquium (6th floor), Ross School of Business
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Trust-Based PhilanthropyJoin Tanya Upthegrove Gregory to learn about the Ruth Mott Foundation's experiences and perspectives.
January 13, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Tauber Colloquium (6th floor), Ross School of Business
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Financial Oversight: The Board’s RoleJoin Vance Jackson, Jr for a talk on financial oversight, diversification, financial policies and more.
February 13, 2026
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Room TBA, at Ross
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Pronouns 101In this 2-hour workshop on the basics of pronouns and their usage, participants will have the chance to practice using different sets of pronouns and work on bystander intervention skills.
November 11, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Virtual
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U-M College of Pharmacy Sponsored NMDP Bone Marrow Registry DriveThe College of Pharmacy be hosting a NMDP Bone Marrow Drive to help increase the number of potential donors on the registry.
October 31, 2025
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Pharmacy College - U-M College of Pharmacy Lobby
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Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: “Memoria” as Resistance: Comparative Human Rights Education in Chile and ArgentinaJoin us to learn about how Chile transitioned to a thriving democracy from a previous dictatorship from Chilean activist and Manager of Archives at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile, Juan Carlos Vega Briones and the former Executive Director of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory of Argentina, Mayki Gorosito.
November 7, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Weiser Hall – 1010
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Close to Home: A Conversation on the Experiences of Migrant FarmworkersJoin us to discuss the complex and challenging experiences faced by migrant farmworkers today, as well as their heightened precarity due to the policies of the current administration, through the lens of academic research, public health, visual storytelling, and legal advocacy.
November 10, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
202 S. Thayer – Osterman Common Room, #1022
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Pursuing Pharmacoequity: A Prescription for HealthPharmacoequity is defined as “ensuring all individuals, regardless of race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or availability of resources, have access to the highest-quality medications required to manage their health needs. Join us to learn more about this concept and its applications.
November 13, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Palmer Commons – Great Lakes Room
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Zero Waste Stadium Volunteer OpportunityThe Office of Campus Sustainability is seeking Registered Student Organizations to volunteer at home football games this fall. By staffing waste bins, your group can help educate fans and minimize contamination. Commit 15 volunteers for a 5-hour shift and receive a $500 stipend, plus meal vouchers for participants.
November 29, 2025
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Michigan Stadium - Gate 9
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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in ChinaJoin us to discuss how the Chinese state absorbed foreign liberal norms to strengthen health institutions and reinforce authoritarian control from 1978 to 2018.
November 18, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Weiser Hall – 10th Floor
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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Acknowledgment and Moral Accountability within Japanese Activist SpacesThis talk focuses on contemporary left-wing Japanese activists and examines how they deal with in-group mistreatment and ideological disputes among allies
November 20, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Weiser Hall – 10th Floor
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Undoing Racism WorkgroupUndoing Racism is a community collective of students, staff, and faculty in the School of Social Work dedicated to fighting white supremacy at individual, school, and structural levels.
November 18, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Online
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Diverse Abilities Insights Join members of the Business Leaders for Diverse Abilities for an open, admissions-free conversation about the Ross experience.
November 6, 2025
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Online
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A2 Data Dive: Campaign Finance Transparency in MichiganRegister for the annual A2 Data Dive! This one-day event invites students, data enthusiasts, and community members to work side-by-side and analyze real-world data for meaningful impact, no matter your experience level.
November 8, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Leinweber Computer Science and Information Building, 2200 Hayward St, 1st Floor, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
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Peril & Promise: A Conversation on College LeadershipThis public conversation—moderated by Dr. Earl Lewis—will explore the promise and challenges of leadership in complex times, with particular attention to the role of student activism, institutional memory, and courageous decision-making.
November 3, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Rackham Auditorium Rackham Graduate School 915 E Washington St Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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The Environmental Lawyer’s Role in Complex Site Cleanup ProjectsLawyer Sara Peterson of Parkway Law will discuss her role in cleanup and redevelopment of large or complex contaminated sites. Lunch provided.
November 5, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jeffries Hall – 1020
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Building Real Utopias: The Theory and Practice of Healthcare System TransformationJoin us to learn about the history of the Learning Health System, a model aimed at transforming healthcare delivery, and a critical consideration of the model’s potential for healthcare systems transformation.
November 14, 2025
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
R1210, Ross School of Business
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Ezra Klein and the Abundance debateJoin us for the Ford School's first school-wide read: Abundance. The authors argue that the greatest constraints facing the U.S. are not a lack of ideas or resources. They critique a political culture defined by scarcity thinking, regulatory overcomplexity, and incrementalism.
October 31, 2025
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Weill Hall – 1210
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Defining Structural and Systemic Racism: Conceptualizations, Measurement, and Policy ImplicationsThe presentation highlights emerging ideas that sharpen how scholars and practitioners might define, study, and respond to racial inequities. The goal is not just to revisit old debates, but to spark a forward-looking conversation about how definitions shape research design, intervention, and social change.
November 6, 2025
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Weill Hall (Ford School) – 3240 (3rd floor seminar room)
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Immigration, Belonging, and the Role of Public HealthJoin us to reflect on our “public health why” in the context of immigration justice and belonging through hands-on zine-making.
November 12, 2025
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower – SPH I room 1680
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Symposium on AI, Data Centers and the Climate Change ChallengeThis event will bring together university leadership, scholars, community members and students to critically examine the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), data center infrastructure, sustainability and climate change.
October 30, 2025
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Michigan League – Ballroom (2nd Floor)
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Overcoming Obstacles: A Panel on Juvenile Justice & EducationJoin us at the UM Detroit Center on Wednesday, October 29 from 5pm to 7pm for a panel discussion on juvenile justice and education in Michigan featuring practitioners, academics, and community activists to confront obstacles and explore solutions.
October 29, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
3663 Woodward Avenue, Suite 150, Detroit, MI 48201
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Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation, AI, carbon neutrality, transportation, ANYTHING!--come chat with us, share your passion(s) and interests, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan!
October 31, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe
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Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation, AI, carbon neutrality, transportation, ANYTHING!--come chat with us, share your passion(s) and interests, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan!
November 7, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe
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Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation, AI, carbon neutrality, transportation, ANYTHING!--come chat with us, share your passion(s) and interests, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan!
November 10, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Rooting for Change Cafe, 3rd Floor Palmer Commons
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Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation, AI, carbon neutrality, transportation, ANYTHING!--come chat with us, share your passion(s) and interests, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan!
November 24, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Rooting for Change Cafe, 3rd Floor Palmer Commons
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Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation, AI, carbon neutrality, transportation, ANYTHING!--come chat with us, share your passion(s) and interests, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan!
November 14, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe
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Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation, AI, carbon neutrality, transportation, ANYTHING!--come chat with us, share your passion(s) and interests, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan!
November 21, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe
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Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation, AI, carbon neutrality, transportation, ANYTHING!--come chat with us, share your passion(s) and interests, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan!
December 5, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe
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Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation, AI, carbon neutrality, transportation, ANYTHING!--come chat with us, share your passion(s) and interests, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan!
December 8, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Rooting for Change Cafe, 3rd Floor Palmer Commons
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ASC Symposium: African Women Film Festival 2025This year’s festival centers on the theme “Voices of Resilience: The Power of Storytelling in African Cinema,” exploring how women filmmakers are redefining narratives and bringing new energy to the film industry.
November 5, 2025
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Michigan League - Vandenberg, Henderson, and Hussey
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ASC Symposium: African Women Film Festival 2025This year’s festival centers on the theme “Voices of Resilience: The Power of Storytelling in African Cinema,” exploring how women filmmakers are redefining narratives and bringing new energy to the film industry.
November 6, 2025
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Michigan League - Vandenberg, Henderson, and Hussey
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ASC Symposium: African Women Film Festival 2025This year’s festival centers on the theme “Voices of Resilience: The Power of Storytelling in African Cinema,” exploring how women filmmakers are redefining narratives and bringing new energy to the film industry.
November 7, 2025
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Michigan League - Vandenberg, Henderson, and Hussey
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An Army of Women Movie ScreeningJoin us for a screening of An Army of Women - A documentary about sexual violence survivors taking on the DA office and police department of the city of Austin, Texas for not prosecuting their perpetrators.
November 5, 2025
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) – Rackham Amphitheater (on the fourth floor of the Rackham Building), UM-Ann Arbor
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Finding a Fair Approach to Clean Energy SitingIn this webinar, CATF and the Center for Empowering Communities will explore a new policy model for siting and permitting clean energy projects.
November 20, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
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Women’s Liberation at the University of Michigan, 1968-72Join us for a conversation with pioneering activists Gayle Rubin, Rayna Rapp, Ellen Meeropol, Beth Schneider, and Joanne Parrent as part of the IHP Project, "Outsiders, Insiders, Radicals, and Reformers: A History of Jews at the University of Michigan".
November 12, 2025
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
School of Social Work Building – 1840 (ECC)
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Dominance Analysis of Developmental Assets: Pathways Linking Discrimination and Depression Among young Black Sexual Minority MalesSuicidal behaviors among young Black sexual minority males aged 14 to 17 represent a critical but understudied public health concern. Join us to discuss developmental assets most strongly associated with mental health outcomes and how we can mitigate suicidal behaviors in this vulnerable population.
November 13, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Virtual
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Black Angels Book DiscussionsJoin us to explore The Black Angels: The Untold Story of Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios—a powerful account of Black nurses who transformed health care during the tuberculosis pandemic.
November 17, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
426 N. Ingalls St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Undoing Racism WorkgroupUndoing Racism is a community collective of students, staff, and faculty in the School of Social Work dedicated to fighting white supremacy at individual, school, and structural levels.
December 2, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Online
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Climate CaféJoin the Planet Blue Ambassador program and LSA Sustainability for a Climate Café, a space where community members come together to share their emotions and thoughts about the environment and climate change.
November 5, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Nichols Arboretum - Reader Center
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U-M Farm StandJoin the U-M Sustainable Food Program (SL Sustainability) and the Campus Farm (Matthaei Botanical Gardens) every Thursday from 12-3pm to get produce grown by students for students.
October 30, 2025
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
1100 North University Building
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U-M Farm StandJoin the U-M Sustainable Food Program (SL Sustainability) and the Campus Farm (Matthaei Botanical Gardens) every Thursday from 12-3pm to get produce grown by students for students.
November 6, 2025
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
1100 North University Building
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U-M Farm StandJoin the U-M Sustainable Food Program (SL Sustainability) and the Campus Farm (Matthaei Botanical Gardens) every Thursday from 12-3pm to get produce grown by students for students.
November 13, 2025
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
1100 North University Building
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Minority Stress, Relationship Processes, and Intervention Development for LGBTQ+ Couples and FamiliesIntimate relationships play a critical role in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan. However, LGBTQ+ couples and families face unique stressors rooted in stigma, discrimination, and systemic inequities. We will discuss the
December 1, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
1430 ISR-Thompson
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The State of Climate Change and Climate Action, Local to GlobalHear Professor Jonathan Overpeck, Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan (SEAS), discuss the state of climate change and climate action in the present political environment.
November 20, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown, Lower Level Program Room
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