March 2024 Events

Thursday, March 28

Book Club Discussion - Healing GroundsVirtual (Zoom): Book Healing Grounds, with Allen WebbThe Book – Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming by Liz CarlisleIn Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors' methods of growing food-techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. While feeding their own communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycleParticipants in the Climate Change Book Club receive a 15% discount when ordering titles throughBookbug via their webpage or purchasing in the store. When ordering online, please use the coupon code CCBC23 during the checkout process. Support your local, independent bookstore!Sponsored by the WMU Climate Change Working Group and the Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition.Join on Zoom:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9471889477?pwd=V255ZHVpZVBxc1BNOTRRM1EzOXE3dz09

Friday, March 29

WMU Student Sustainability SummitThe third annual WMU Student Sustainability SummitThe Summit is taking shape and will be held in person on WMU’s campus. Stay tuned for location, time, format, and target audience. The Summit is planned and operated each year by the 2020 cohort of Lee Honors College Medallion Scholars.
Custer Speaker SeriesJoin Mitsuaki Tanabe from Nihon University in Japan as he presents "Microgravity, a Powerful Tool to Understand Combustion." This talk will focus on Tanabe's research pursuits and challenges within combustion dynamics, encompassing areas such as combustion instability, spontaneous ignition and detonation transitions prevalent in rocket combustors and automotive internal combustion engines. The event is open to the public and snacks will be provided.Learn more: Custer Speaker Series
Reading Party!Need an incentive to do some reading? Find yourself doom scrolling rather than reading for school or pleasure? Come to Zhang Legacy Collections Center and join others for two hours of quiet reading in a beautiful space on Friday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m. At 3 p.m., we can all take a break and tell a neighbor about what we are reading, or we can just keep reading and enjoying community and quiet.BYOB (bring your own book), but we will have some fun choices available to check out too.Please note that food is not allowed in the Reading Room. For this event, you can bring a beverage in a covered container.