The last day to register for the December 2022 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony is Wednesday, November 9. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, December 10 and includes the formal hooding of doctoral graduates by their faculty mentors. Make sure to review the requirements for graduation. More details and the link to register can be found on the doctoral hooding event website.

Daylight saving time will end at 2:00 AM on Sunday, November 6. Remember to adjust your clocks!

November 11 is the last day to drop a Part of Term B course online through Self-Service.

November 11 is the last day to drop a semester course or withdraw from ALL semester courses without a grade of W. To drop a course, students must submit a Late Registration Form to the Graduate College. To withdraw from the term, students need to complete a Withdrawal/Cancellation Form and obtain their department's signature. International students must obtain a signature from ISSS. Students are encouraged to discuss these decisions with their adviser and/or program. Students enrolled in non-standard part of term courses should refer to their graduate program for deadline information.

November 11 is the last day to change a course to the credit/no-credit grading option for a semester course or to change from the credit/no-credit grading option to a regular grade. Adviser approval is required. Please consult with your program if you are considering this grading option for any course because course and department restrictions may apply. Students need to submit a Credit/No Credit Form to the Graduate College to complete the process. Students enrolled in non-standard part of term courses should refer to their graduate program for deadline information.

Funk ACES Library has partnered with McKinley Health Center’s Nutrition Peers to bring you smart snacks and promote eating "all colors of the rainbow". Bring your iCard to check-out a cookbook, grab a snack, or both! Visit our online calendar to learn more about this and other events.

Graduate Student Workshop: "Writing Effective Fellowship Proposals" (2-4 pm) will be led by Dana Johnson, Assistant Director of External Fellowships at the Graduate College, and "Tips for Applying for Fellowships" (4:00-4:30 pm) will be led by Charles Fogelman, Teaching Assistant Professor (LAS Global Studies) and Beatriz Carvalho, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

The ability to craft an effective funding proposal can reap a lifetime of rewards. As a graduate student, now is the time to hone your grantwriting proficiency. In this workshop, designed for students in the humanities and social sciences, you will learn how to identify funding opportunities, strategize the components of an effective proposal, and think like a grantwriter. There is no registration required for this in-person workshop.

Many funding agencies require a personal statement in addition to an applicant’s research proposal. Why?! What on earth are you supposed to talk about? If these questions have induced writer’s block, this workshop is for you. We will assess the range of personal statement prompts you may encounter and distill their shared essence. Participants will learn the qualities of a compelling statement and practice writing techniques to arrive at a complete first draft. There is no registration required for this in-person workshop.

Taking care of yourself is an important part of working on your thesis. There are several campus resources that offer support both online and in-person. The McKinley Health Center website has tips for stress management, nutrition, and wellness, and you can set up an individual appointment to speak with someone. The Counseling Center also offers individual appointments as well as group counseling and workshops.

With the end of the semester and the thesis deposit deadlines rapidly approaching, it is important to remember to set aside time to take care of yourself. Take a walk, set up a coffee date with friends, or think of some other ways that you can take a break from working and relax. Taking some time away from work allows your mind to rest, and when you revisit your projects, you can do so with added strength. You can learn about one graduate student’s tips for incorporating wellness into her routine in our blog.

The Writers Workshop will review audience expectations for the traditional intro-methods-results-and-discussion (IMRad) genre common in the sciences and social sciences. The presentation will provide writing strategies for each section and recommendations for achieving cohesion across the document. This event will be held through Zoom. Please visit our calendar to register by 11:59pm CT on November 9.

Accomplish your writing goals by joining the Writers Workshop for sustained writing in the company of your colleagues from across the disciplines! Our writing group aims to provide community and accountability. Each session begins with a short conversation about goals and ends with a wrap-up of accomplishments. Our Fall semester writing groups are held Mondays and Fridays from 9 a.m. - noon CT. Join us in-person in the Siebel Center for Design or online. Please visit our calendar to register in advance.

Join the Doctoral Research Support Program for this installment of Writing in the Disciplines, a series that connects doctoral students with faculty, journal editors, and publishers to discuss writing styles and skills in specific disciplines. This event is open to all current doctoral students. Please fill out our Google Form to register for the event. 

Help us understand how you use the library! If you are a graduate student or faculty member, please fill out this survey. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes.

Last week of Savvy Researcher workshops for the fall semester! Join us for sessions: Fine-tuning Your Research with Scopus!, Introduction to Scalar: Visualizing Your Argument, Using Multimedia in Your Research, Finding Government Data and Statistics, and Introduction to Tableau Public. New workshops coming in the spring!

The Champaign County Regional Planning Commission is spreading the word to educate the community about a  federal- and state-funded utility assistance program in Champaign County called LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program). To learn more about LIHEAP, see www.ccrpc.org/liheap.

The Community-Academic Scholars Program benefits researchers in any discipline with community-academic research collaborations by matching them with undergraduate research assistants. If you conduct community-engaged research in partnership with a community organization that addresses issues related to health, poverty, or social inequity, please submit your project proposal by Jan. 8, 2023, 11:59 PM CST.

The Policy and Research Legislative Fellows Program, run by the Center for Social and Behavioral Science and supported by the Office of the Chancellor-Public Engagement, matches graduate students with state legislators representing Champaign-Urbana or a neighboring district to collaborate on a policy research project. The application for the summer 2023 and 2023-24 academic term is now open until December 31.

The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center (formerly the LGBT Resource Center) is excited to introduce our newest Queer Campus Council (QCC) group: The NetworQ.  The networQ is designed to build community for our Queer Graduate student population here at the UIUC.  We invite all Queer Graduate Students to sign-up for the NetworQ listserve for more information and how you can get involved!  

Illini are you Vote Ready?  No Classes on Tuesday, November 8th! It's a day off so GO VOTE! Make a plan to vote by taking the pledge at https://allintovote.org/take-the-pledge/  You can vote on campus now and on election day.  Check out voting resources at https://ssib.illinois.edu/illinivote/ and  https://www.ballotready.org . If you have not registered to vote in Illinois, you can register at our early voting sites.  #IlliniVote

It's the time of the year for the Annual Thanksgiving Drive!  The Office of Civic Life in support of the Big Give & Eastern Illinois Food Bank will be collecting donations to support over 1000 families in Champaign-Urbana.  Donations will be collected thru November 14th.  Please register your participation here. Opportunities to volunteer are also available. 

The Medium explores the effect of media and emerging technologies on our perceptions, our psyches, and our personal lives. Based on the writings of Marshall McLuhan, The Medium explores the effect of media and emerging technologies on our perceptions, our psyches, and our personal lives. The Medium was originally devised by SITI Company in 1993 in Toga-mura, Japan, and premiered in New York City at New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. In an age where everyone carries a computer in their pocket, The Medium is perhaps even more resonant now than it was in 1993.

Dance for People with Parkinson's has returned to an in-person setting! Experience the fellowship of communal dance with professionally trained dance instructors Laura Chiaramonte (Dance at Illinois) and Kate Insolia. If you or a loved one is living with Parkinson’s, join us to explore gentle movement in a safe and welcoming virtual environment. No dance experience is needed! Set to uplifting, familiar music, this class lasts approximately 70 minutes and may assist with the preservation and improvement of balance, flexibility, and strength. Please dress comfortably for this full-body workshop.

Stage 5 in Krannert Center's Lobby is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and enjoy great music from 5pm to 7pm at Krannert Uncorked.

Bookended by Romantic masterpieces from Rimsky-Korsakov and Dvořák, this program celebrates the great American composer, George Walker. The evening begins with Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Capriccio Espagnol,” with its virtuoso cadenzas for solo instruments and sparklingly brilliant Spanish themes. In honor of George Walker’s centennial celebration, pianist Rochelle Sennet will then join Sinfonia da Camera for a performance of Walker’s “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.” The evening concludes with Dvorák’s acclaimed “Symphony No. 7,” which many critics and historians contend is his best.

The Philippines is an archipelago in Southeast Asia, comprising over 7600 islands. With 120 spoken languages, Filipinos are mainly of Malay descent, but with diverse culture and Spanish and American influences in name, culture and food.  Filipinos take pride in their beautiful beaches, powerful and beautiful volcanoes and mountains, hospitality, and resiliency. Come explore this country with us!

Join the International and Area Studies Library for our second International Cooking Show of the semester! For this installment of the show, Sandra Juanita Gutierrez will be making tamales! The recipe (and a recorded version of the show) will be shared with all registrants after the event so that you can cook along with Sandra and try the dish out for yourself. Register here!

Recycle your waste as we cheer on the Fighting Illini! The Division of Intercollegiate Athletics; the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment; Facilities & Services; and Coca-Cola are teaming up for the basketball game in honor of America Recycles Day on Nov. 15! The event is part of Coca-Cola's "Don't Waste" campaign to encourage recycling and highlight university zero waste goals.

Preparing for a class or conference presentation? Want to brush up on your visual aid skills? Unsure how to build an effective slide deck? Join us for a workshop on building effective visual aids! This workshop will focus on skills related to managing and structuring information and presenting it visually in a clear, compelling way. Register here!

Join other military-connected students, staff, and community members as we pay tribute to our servicemembers on Veteran's Day.  In collaboration with ROTC, we will host Retired Colonel Deborah Read. Col. Read has strong ties to the University of Illinois as a pioneer for women in the ROTC program, and was one of the first women at the Illinois to take ROTC curriculum.

Multilingualism is a feature in political contexts around the world, including multilingual states and international organizations. Increasingly, consequential political decisions are negotiated between politicians who do not share a common native language. Join the Department of Political Science, European Union Center, and Center for Global Studies for this lecture by Nils Ringe (Professor of Political Science, UW-Madison) on how the European Union illustrates the way politicians’ reliance on shared foreign languages and translation services affects politics and policy-making.

IDEA Lab celebrates Entrepreneurship Month on Nov 10th. Marissa Siero, Director of Experiential Learning at Gies College of Business, will share her personal recipe for intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs alike. Following the keynote, join us for a reception in the IDEA Lab, learn about our services and discover the campus ecosystem supporting innovation. Light snacks & refreshments will be available.

Recent experiences working with an entrepreneur in Zambia on installation of complex technology for soymilk production demonstrate that inattentiveness or insensitivity to societal context can undermine a user's ability to achieve their objectives. This presentation will review the contextual engineering analysis used to overcome a businesswoman's obstacles to start-up and operation of a soy product facility.

Join us on Zoom this Thursday at 3 p.m. to hear from Nicholas Carlini, a research scientist at Google Brain, on “Underspecified Foundation Models Considered Harmful.” C3.ai DTI's Digital Transformation Science Colloquium series features weekly talks from top scientists from academia and industry. Register here!

Diet culture is all around us, telling us we are not healthy enough, not active enough, not small enough to be accepted in society. At the same time, nutrition science is constantly evolving, and members of the public need consensus! Unpack diet culture myths that keep us in the dieting cycle and learn how to free ourselves! Presenter: Breanna Metras, Ph.D. student and RDN

Join IHSI for a virtual panel discussion with program officials from the National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD). Moderated by School of Social Work Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research Liliane Windsor, officials will discuss the mission of the NIMHD, an overview of their approach to health disparities research, current research priorities and funding opportunities, and how to best secure funding with NIMHD. A Q&A will follow the presentations.

Russia's war on Ukraine has roiled international politics, creating new alignments and commitments. Please join the EU Center for a guided conversation about Ukraine-EU relations with noted Ukrainian political analyst Volodymyr Dubovyk, associate professor of international relations at Mechnikov National University in Odesa. The discussion will cover politics, economics, social ties, and historical perspective.

Please join us as we hear from Tracy Dace, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DREAAM, for Keep Hope Alive! We can Prevent Violence in Champaign County. Paid for, in part, by SCPF.  Free lunch provided.

How do we create digital cultural heritage resources in conversation with communities? Join us for a discussion of doing history in a digital age and working with community partners as they preserve their own stories. Two recommended readings will frame our conversation about how to promote equity, access, and inclusion through digital archives. We’ll also discuss strategies used by activists and community organizers to overcome these challenges. Anyone interested in public history, community archives, collecting, or research is encouraged to join us!

Dr. Yu (Frank) Yang, Associate Professor from the University of Nevada, Reno, will discuss the reuse of reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation and modeled senarios of trace organic compounds. His and his team's efforts will hopefully shed light on uncovering the chemical nature of complex organic matter critical for the biogeochemical cycles of carbon and water reuse.

Dr. Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change, will present on the role for carbon capture & storage (CCS) in a portfolio of mitigation options. Using examples from the MIT Economic Projection & Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, he will examine long-term scenarios to explore factors influencing CCS deployment. 

Aadeel Akhtar, CEO and Founder of PSYONIC, will give this Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture in person and on Zoom. Attendance is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.