Common – an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and multi-Grammy award winning artist, actor, best-selling author, and activist – will be the guest speaker for The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series.

The event is sponsored by the Ross School of Business and is scheduled for Thursday, September 26 at Hill Auditorium.

For the past few years, Common has been engaged in social justice and advocacy work around mass incarceration, mental health and voting. After the success and impact of his Imagine Justice concert in 2017 and his Hope & Redemption Tour to eight different prisons, Common launched Imagine Justice as a nonprofit in 2018, dedicated to leveraging the power of art to advocate for communities around the country to fight for justice and equality and to stand united against injustice wherever it appears.

The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series presents Common

Thursday, September 26, 2019
6:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
Open to the public

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A student team from the University of Michigan was announced as the winners of the second annual Transportation Technology Tournament by the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE). The team’s presentation on a solution to reduce congestion on I-75 and I-696 in Metro Detroit was selected as the winner by a panel of private and public sector judges.

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In 2015 the University of Michigan’s President’s Office formed a committee with the goal of reducing waste. That effort led to color schemes, terminology, and signage that has become familiar to University staff, faculty, and students.

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The Office of Campus Sustainability’s mission includes identifying, supporting, and coordinating opportunities to reduce energy consumption and increase sustainable operations on campus that may go beyond what is required to meet campus goals. Ann Arbor’s sustainability framework includes a goal of responsible resource use – to produce zero waste and optimize the use and reuse of resources in our community. By working together, the city and university advance their mutual goal of a more sustainable community.