
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 photos from recent events here.
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


2025 Farm Stop Conference
Join us for another exciting opportunity to learn about business operations and share best practices. After the great success of the inaugural Farm Stop Conference in 2024, we are proud to present the second Farm Stop Conference in March of 2025! With about one dozen farm stops now successfully up...

Great Lakes Seminar Series: Christiane Jablonowski
4840 S State Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Representing Lake-Atmosphere Interactions in NOAA’s Weather Prediction Models About the presentation The talk provides an overview of various lake-atmosphere coupling approaches that are either currently employed or envisioned for NOAA’s suite of weather prediction models across a range of temporal...

Alumni Master Chat: Recovering Surplus Food - A Key to Combating the Climate Crisis
Join fellow members of the SEAS community for an Alumni Master Chat with Robin Franz Martin (BS '99): "Recovering Surplus Food: A Key to Combating the Climate Crisis" About Robin: Robin Franz Martin began her current role as Executive Director of the Food Recovery Initiative at Joint Venture Silicon...

Max Vanatta's Dissertation Defense
Title: Heat and Power: The Evolving Provision of Industrial Heat and Thermal Generation in a Decarbonizing World Chair: Dr. Michael Craig

SEAS Leadership Speaker Series: Regina Strong
Join us to hear from these amazing leaders about their career paths and how sustainability decision making plays a role in their positions. We'll hear from the Inaugural Environmental Justice Public Advocate for the state who leads the Michigan Advisory Council on Environmental Justice, the...

Pam Wildstein's Dissertation Defense
Title: Orienting the Roles of Consumers and Communities in a More Distributed Grid Co-Chairs: Dr. Michael Craig Dr. Scott Campbell

U-M Science, Technology, and Society 25th Anniversary Conference
The U-M Science, Technology, and Society Program is excited to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a conference featuring distinguished graduate student alumni and former program directors in conversation with current faculty members. Join us to help inspire the next quarter century of U-M STS...