On Sunday night, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Ann Arbor and Washtenaw Climate Reality hosted an event titled “Climate Change Negotiation and Policy at Home and Abroad” with University of Michigan alum Tim Arvan at the Ann Arbor District Library’s Westgate branch. Arvan attended the United Nations COP24 Climate Change Convention in Katowice, Poland as a Climate Blue student delegate. 

On Wednesday evening, a group of nearly 30 graduate students in STEM fields gathered at the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library for the first of several workshops this week on compassion in human interaction and argumentation, hosted by the University’s Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy student organization. At the event, “Facts Aren’t Enough,” Lilly Ellis, a doctoral fellow at Eastern Michigan University, presented the group with methods to conduct conversations with people who fundamentally disagree with or “do not trust” science.

Google announced Monday it would be expanding its offices in Detroit and Ann Arbor, offering an undetermined but “significant” amount of new positions in sales and technical support in addition to over 600 employees already working at the Michigan offices. The company said it plans to spend $17 million on the expansion.

At the 73rd Annual Tony Awards on Sunday night, Celia Keenan-Bolger, a graduate of the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance, won the Tony award for best featured actress in a play. Keenan-Bolger was recognized on account of her performance as Scout Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Aaron Sorkin’s 2018 adaptation of the 1960 novel by Harper Lee.