Year after year, the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) is pleased to offer our community and the public an impressive lineup of the leaders and best in environment and sustainability. Students, faculty, and interested partners get to hear from and interact with household names and rising stars who will usher in the next wave of brilliant innovations in sustainability.

Some of our greatest past visiting luminaries include His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, former UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, writer/activist Bill McKibben, and award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer Jimmy Chin. View the photo gallery for pictures from these special events.

Upcoming SEAS Events

Just about every day (and sometimes several times a day) there are exciting, insightful, and important events at SEAS and across the U-M campus. Take advantage of these extensive (and usually free) opportunities to explore your options, expand your horizons, network, and learn about other disciplines.

Upcoming SEAS Events

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Photo of Tao Zhang

Clarence Roy-SmithGroup JJR Lecture Featuring: Tao Zhang (MS/MLA '08)

Palmer Commons, Forum Hall, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor
| Thursday October 19, 2023 | 5:00 pm

About the Event This event is FREE event and open to the public. Although you may have a ticket, it does not guarantee you a seat. We will be seating ticket holders first and recommend you are in your seat 10 minutes before the start of the event. We will start to let in general public seating 10...
Chasten Buttigieg

Out Week keynote: Fireside chat with Chasten Buttigieg

Ross School of Business, Robertson Auditorium
701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
| Friday September 29, 2023 | 11:00 am

The Ford School is proud to support a student-led initiative concluding this year’s Out Week, hosted by Out For Business: a fireside chat with Chasten Buttigieg - author, teacher, education enthusiast, LGBTQ+ rights advocate, and husband of Secretary of Transportation and previous presidential...

Seed Stories Flyer

‘Seed Stories’ viewing and conversation with Filmmakers

1040 Dana Building
| Thursday October 5, 2023 | 5:30 pm

In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of the Eastern Ghats in Odisha, eastern India, a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his team are conserving over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice in-situ, the world’s largest project of its kind. Odisha’s Eastern Ghats...

NSS October Engagement Event

National Sustainability Society Inaugural Event - Collaborative strategies for education, workforce development, innovation, and implementation

The Matthaei Botanical Gardens
| Friday October 6, 2023 | 9:00 am

This event is free, but registration is required and space is limited. This event marks the inaugural open event of the National Sustainability Society, a new, cross-sectoral professional society aimed at taking on the sustainability challenge across sectors. The NSS is a forum to institutionalize...

Rising Tide

Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project

First Presbyterian Church
1432 Washtenaw Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
| Sunday October 8, 2023 | 4:00 pm

The Crossroads Project is science storytelling, exploring our changing world through performance art — diverse artists weaving together music, imagery, and the spoken word… connecting us to the wonder of our world and examining our place within it. The Crossroads Project: Rising Tide has given...

Gunn Profile

Great Lakes Seminar Series: Grant Gunn (Bottom Roughness of Freshwater Ice: Impacts on Remote Sensing Observations, and Implications for Underwater Oil Releases)

GLERL
4840 S State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
| Thursday October 12, 2023 | 10:00 am

About the presentation: The ice underside in freshwater lakes of various sizes has been observed to be appreciably rough as a function of flow oscillations and pressure ridging in large open lakes, and variability in snow depth modifying the conductive heat flux (i.e. freezing rates) of the lake. In...

alumni expert coffee chats

Expert Coffee Chat: The Latest in Energy Policy with Allison Clements

Zoom
| Thursday October 12, 2023 | 4:00 pm

Join fellow SEAS alumni for a virtual expert coffee chat on the latest in energy policy, led by Allison Clements (BS '98) on Oct. 12 at 4pm (EST). Allison is currently one of four commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. She joined FERC in December 2020 following a range of public...

AAPI Climate Social

AAPI Climate Justice Convening

Los Angeles, CA
| Wednesday October 18, 2023 | 9:00 am

AAPI Victory Alliance, a national nonprofit organization that builds community and civic power in AAPI communities, is bringing together AAPI community leaders, experts and allies to address climate justice and equity, with an emphasis on the NHPI lens. Together, we can ensure the concerns of the...