The last day to register for the May 2023 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony is Tuesday, April 11. The ceremony will take place on Friday, May 12 and includes the formal hooding of doctoral graduates by their faculty mentors. Make sure to review the requirements for graduation. More details about the ceremony and the link to register can be found on the doctoral hooding event website.

The graduate edition of Image of Research, now in its tenth year, is an annual multidisciplinary competition celebrating the diversity and breadth of student research at UIUC. View the semifinalists in the online gallery and vote for your favorites (and help pick the winner of the People's Choice Award) here! Winners will be announced at an in-person reception on April 11. Mark your calendars and join us to see the on-site exhibit and celebrate!

All current Illinois faculty, staff, and students now have access to a new Qualtrics instance. Please use this new account to create any new surveys. College/unit licenses will not be renewed and surveys and data on college/unit licenses must be moved. Your college/unit will be in touch. Resources are available for this transition. Questions? Contact us at the email below.

April 14 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 must submit a Withdrawal Form. Students in non-standard part of term courses should refer to their graduate program for deadline information.

Have questions about registration deadlines or submitting a Late Registration or Withdrawal form? Click here for an advising appointment!

April 14 is the last day to change to the credit/no-credit grading option for a Spring semester course or to change from CR/NC to a regular grade. Adviser approval is required. Please consult with your program if you are considering CR/NC for any course because course and department restrictions may apply. Students must submit a Credit/No Credit Form to the Graduate College. Students in non-standard part of term courses should refer to their graduate program for deadlines.

Have questions about registration deadlines or submitting a Credit/No Credit form? Click here for an advising appointment!

April 14 is the last day to drop a Part of Term B course online through Self-Service.

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Students from all walks of life experience difficulties that can lead to excessive stress and other adverse effects. As a result, students’ performance (academic, social, and much more) deteriorates. Self-care becomes a necessity to overcome these hurdles and transform the student from a position of difficulty to a position of empowerment. Counseling Center staff will share some practical, hands-on exercises of self-care that can also become tools for self-empowerment. Dinner is provided.

Premiums, deductibles, co-payments and other out-of-pocket health costs all add up. For example, according to the KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey in 2018, health insurance plans’ annual deductibles increased 212% in the previous 10 years! Choosing your health insurance plan wisely can make a BIG difference in your overall costs. Learn savvy strategies in the Get Savvy Webinar, Health Insurance Dissected.

The Department of African American Studies invites applications for the Spring 2023 Pinderhughes Graduate Research Award: a $500 stipend to help defray costs for research or conference travel. Applicants from a range of disciplines will be considered, provided they work on a topic related to African American, African, or African Diaspora Studies. Applicants should send their current CV along with a 1-page, single-spaced proposal explaining their research project and budget to this address by Friday April 14, 2023. 

Do you have questions about copyright and your thesis? Check out the online resources developed by Copyright Librarian Sara Benson. In addition to copyright reference guides, she's also developed the videos "Four Copyright Tips for Graduate Students" and "Fair Use." You might also check out our blog, Grad School 101: Copyright and Your Thesis, to read answers to frequently asked questions.

Make sure to carefully consider the thesis release options, which determine the visibility of your work in IDEALS—the University’s digital repository. When you submit your thesis to the Graduate College, you will be asked to select a release option. Check out our website to learn more. Remember, no matter which release option you choose, the abstract of your thesis will be visible in IDEALS. Talk with your adviser about these release options and contact the Thesis Office with any questions.

Are you interested in exploring professorial opportunities at a liberal arts college? If so, the Emerging Scholars Program is for YOU! The Big Ten Academic Alliance, and Associated Colleges of the Midwest have an opportunity for Ph.D. students to learn first-hand about teaching at a liberal arts college through the Mellon Undergraduate and Faculty Fellows Program for a Diverse Professoriate. To apply, visit this online application. Find more details here.

Join us as we host our University of Illinois Alumni, Arpit Dwivedi ('22 MechSe, PHD) for a talk on alternative career paths, where he will share his experience on his startup journey. Arpit Dwivedi is the founder and CEO of Cache Energy, winner of the DOE, Energy Innovation Prize. Food will be provided. RSVP Here!

The Writers Workshop will review genre expectations for research statements and provide examples from a range of disciplines. We will share strategies for drafting and tailoring your own research statements. This event will be held  through Zoom. It is open to current University of Illinois affiliates (students, faculty, and staff). Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm CT on April 11, and we will send an email with the Zoom meeting invitation on the morning of the event.

This presentation will provide tips for writing concise and professional cover letters. You’ll review common structure, audience expectations, and strategies for using the cover letter to complement the resume. We encourage you to bring a current job ad and questions about your current cover-letters-in-progress! This event will be held through Zoom. Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm CT on April 12, and we will send an email with the Zoom meeting invitation on the morning of the event.

Elaine Lillian Joseph spent 2021 working on the audio description for Black Audio Film Collective’s seminal 1986 film Handsworth Songs. The project involved making the film more, and differently, accessible through audio description and creative captions. Elaine will walk us through the research, scripting and recording process, offering some insights into her practice. 

Please join us for the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) speaker series episode 8, on the topic of inclusiveness.  Dr. Kate Clancy, professor of anthropology, will speak about how to create and maintain a respectful and inclusive culture in your research lab and organization.

Have you ever had trouble with communication? Feel reluctant or that it is difficult to show love to your family? Then this book, Drawn Together, might provide an answer for you! The boy in the book also once found it impossible to communicate with his grandpa who could only speak Thai, until he took out his colored pens and… Boom! Magic happens! Join us to enjoy this warm-hearted work.

Healthy Families Health Fair is an interactive event focused on student parents. Campus and community resources focused on health will be available to provide information about their services. Resources like Public Health, Crisis Nursery, McKinley, and more will be there. This event is open to all student parents and their families. Ice Daddy's will be providing a sweet treat to all participants. 

NCSA is excited to announce Illinois Computes, a program offering computing and data storage resources, technical expertise and support services to researchers from domains across UIUC and the University of Illinois System. Illinois Computes makes access to NCSA’s computing systems, support infrastructure and interdisciplinary experience easy to acquire at little or no cost to you. Click for more info!

NCSA will host the in-person Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP workshop offered by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center next April 24. The workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using OpenMP. Register and find more information on the registration page linked in the title of the event above. The number of seats is limited.

NEXT WEEK! UIUC faculty and researchers are invited to a showcase of cutting-edge research and services offered by NCSA and discover the exciting, new campus investment in research computing. Engage with NCSA’s distinguished researchers and affiliates, explore potential collaborations and share your research interests and needs. Complimentary lunch and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Come join us!

Join NCSA Graduate Student Researcher Priyam Mazumdar for an online training session April 12 at 3 p.m. to help users to get started with deep learning projects on HAL, the hardware accelerated learning cluster at NCSA. This tutorial will demonstrate how to develop and train Transformer models, compare with Sequence models and explore how to construct and utilize a Vision Transformer. Sign up!

The Special Education Graduate Student Association, with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is hosting two Community Conversations on campus in which we will be having enriching discussions with UIUC students, faculty, and staff about strengthening the inclusion of individuals with disabilities. The goal of these events is to get as many community members from across campus as possible talking! Free food will be provided at both events, as well as opportunities to win cash prizes. Event 1: April 14th from 3-5 pm | Event 2: April 19th from 6-8 pm

We rely on our technology every day, but we don't always take the time to think about how those technologies can enable us to do our best work. The Graduate College is seeking input on the tools graduate students use to accomplish their goals. Do you have a favorite digital tool? We'd love to hear about it! Whether it's an app that helps you focus, a citation manager that saves you countless hours, or an essential piece of writing software, let us know what it is (and why you love it) at this link.

Tune in to learn about a group of women book collectors who met from 1944-2004, providing a space for legitimacy, fellowship, and education in a period where women’s access to formal education and academic institutions was limited. This is a free online presentation and all are welcome to attend; to receive the Zoom link, please pre-register at go.illinois.edu/Ozment. 

The Education Justice Project (EJP) hosts monthly Research Group meetings to discuss ongoing research that addresses any aspect of criminal justice and allied topics. This month, representatives from Northwestern Law's Children and Family Justice Center and the Cook County Public Defender will present on the current state of public defense in Illinois and a proposal to create a statewide public defender system. RSVP here.

Moms Weekend is this weekend, April 14-16! Be sure to check out the Moms Weekend Calendar for a full list of events that will be going on. 

F&S is a proud cosponsor of Boneyard Creek Community Day (BCCD) 2023 on Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to noon (rain date: April 29). The event begins at Scott Park (207 E. Springfield Avenue, Champaign) and includes lunch, music, and educational displays. Sign up now at this link. Registration deadline is April 17 at 5 p.m., but walk-up day-of volunteers will also be welcomed.

On Saturday, April 22, thousands of middle and high school students and coaches will be on campus for the 2023 State Tournament for middle and high school Science Olympiad teams. We need many helping hands to be sure that this event runs smoothly including Event Supervisors, Building Captains, and More. Sign up today.

Black Audio Film Collective’s 1986 Handsworth Songs is an experimental documentary about uprisings against racialized police violence in Thatcherite Britain. Crucially, it is also a critique of their media coverage and colonial pre-histories. Sarah Hayden will give a hybrid talk which will be followed screening of Handsworth Songs with augmented audio-description and creative captions. 

A smart and stylish film noir musical, Tony Award-winner City of Angels captures the gritty sights and sounds of Hollywood’s classic detective movies, all set to a brilliant, bluesy jazz score. Written by the composer of Sweet Charity, it is the story of a screenwriter and the film he is writing—it was a triumph at Broadway’s Virginia Theatre, built by the very same architects that built its namesake in Champaign.

The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective’s upbeat music emulates the early son montuno ensembles and embraces traditional repertoire from Puerto Rican and Cuban songbooks, and expands their sonic palette by incorporating modern jazz language. The band released a self-titled EP in 2019 on several streaming platforms and has received airplay on radio stations around the country as well as in South America.

Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble returns to Krannert Center with The Look of Love, a new production created with musical collaborator Ethan Iverson, celebrating the timeless music of iconic songwriter Burt Bacharach.

In an adaptation by doctoral candidate Vincent Carlson, the play centers on Roman general Coriolanus, who makes his name defeating an enemy army and defending Rome. The Senate nominates him as consul, but he cannot win the people's vote, so he is banished from Rome and allies with his old enemy. He comes to attack Rome, his mother persuades him not to, and his newfound ally kills him for the betrayal. One of Shakespeare’s most brutal and truthful plays, Coriolanus contains soaring language, exhilarating action, and questions for today. Contains adult content.

Please join us Wednesday, April 12th from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art (608 E Lorado Taft Dr) for "A Southwest Reconstruction: An Evening of Poetry" with the visionary Raquel Gutiérrez. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art. Please share this event widely with your circles!

This award winning film exploring the seldom-told history of Chinese immigrants living in the American South during the late 1800s to mid-1900s and presents a very personal and unique perspective on immigration, race and American identity.

Celebrate flamenco with us on our 2023 EU Day of Art! Join the Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, La Fuerza Flamenca, and special guest artist David Chiriboga for a flamenco dance workshop at 2pm on Saturday, April 15, followed by a flamenco-jazz music and dance performance at 3pm. The event will be held in the south wing of the Lincoln Square Mall, just inside the entrance by The Idea Store. 

Film screening of "Raspando coco" (31 mins, 2018) An Ecuadorian anthropologist from Ouito travels to the northernmost coastal province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador to gather stories told by Afro-Ecuadorian elders about the traditional uses of coconut in their local cuisine and medicine. Film screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Guevara.

Award-winning poet Nikky Finney will be on campus April 19 for a CultureTalk conversation with Ruth Nicole Brown, moderated by Janice Harrington. On April 20, Finney will present a poetry reading and book signing. Full event details are available at go.illinois.edu/Finney.

Judge McKenna Shizue Sabrina will discuss The Yellow Peril and the Law. From the 1800's, various state and federal court laws, court decisions, and executive orders explicitly discriminated against Asian Americans. This talk will discuss how historical anti-Asian discrimination led to some of the most atrocious legal decisions in U.S. history and how anti-Asian discrimination still affects the law.

Join us for the Spring 2023 TIER-ED Seminar "From Gesture Research to Impactful Educational Technology" with Dr. Andrew Manches, Professor of Children and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and co-director of the Digital Education Research Centre. Learn about how gestures can reveal children's learning, and how this research can be applied to the design of impactful educational products.

Join Funk ACES Library for its 5th Solving the World’s Challenges panel on Tuesday, April 11 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. During this hybrid event, three campus experts will discuss their research to improve and maintain water quality and respond to questions. Please register to receive the Zoom link or join us in-person to enter a book drawing and to enjoy the reception from 3:30-4:00 p.m. 

Join the Special Education Graduate Student Association as we host a DEI Statement Panel Discussion. A Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statement may be required for future academic job applications. Join us as we hear from faculty who have engaged in DEI in their job search or as part of their scholarship. Zoom Link

A stateless state, ruled by ‘mad-dog’ Qaddafi: this is how Libya has often been presented to the American public. When the country was bombed by NATO in 2011, and it descended into political violence run by militias, the legacy of the past has been activated to explain Libya’s present. Are there other narratives to this story? What did the Libyans think of these tectonic changes that shook their country’s future? Dr. Matteo Capasso will discuss his new book & challenge these dominant narratives, providing instead a story that links the quotidian moments of lives to global politics and economy.

Campus administrators often adopt speech policies that are opposed by students and professors and that generate criticism by political actors and the general public. What is the best approach to regulating (or not) campus speech? John Hasnas (Georgetown) will present and defend his provocative proposal to resolve decades of disputes over campus expression. Lunch for attendees.

Join Dr. Guevara for an informal conversation about navigating careers outside academic. Pilar Eguez Guevara is an Ecuadorian award-winning filmmaker, cultural anthropologist and writer. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship on community health, in 2012 she co-founded and directed Comidas que Curan, an independent food education and media company dedicated to research and promote traditional foods and knowledge through ethnographic research and film. 

When did Asians become "yellow" in the Western imagination? This talk will explore the notion of yellowness and show that the label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. Once East Asians were lumped together as members of the "Mongolian race" they began to be considered yellow.

In this keynote, renowned biologist Felicia Keesing will address commonalities among three unprecedented planetary crises — a changing climate, global biodiversity loss, and a rise in emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19 — including causes and solutions that are interlinked. Keesing, the David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics and Computing at Bard College, studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. Register >>>

Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series, April 13th from 12 -1 pm. Dr. Molly Hathaway Goldstein, Teaching Assistant Professor and Product Design Lab Director, will share her research on student-designer trade off decisions and design actions and thinking. This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives, Main Library Room 146, or you can register for the zoom link at https://go.illinois.edu/WomeninScienceApr2023

Thursday, April 13 the Writing from the Intersections research cluster will host a conversation with Professor Sarah Park Dahlen and Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, editors in chief of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, on creating platforms to publish and hold conversations about race and intersectionality. This hybrid event will be held at 3:30pm in Room 242 at the School of Information Sciences Building and on Zoom.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is an annual opportunity to further efforts to prevent and address sexual violence, center the needs and experiences of survivors, and to promote the health and wellbeing of Illinois students. Learn more and view the calendar of events at go.illinois.edu/SAAM2023

The European Union Center invites you to the 13th Annual Illinois EU Studies Conference on April 13-14 in Coble Hall 306. This year's conference theme is "Who is European? Inclusion and Exclusion Within and Without Europe." The full conference program can be found here.

Join Gies College of Business as we break ground for Steven S. Wymer Hall this Friday, April 14, at 2 pm. The ceremony will celebrate how Gies is investing in the future of learning and will honor the impact of the many donors who have helped us raise funds in support of this project. A reception will follow in the BIF atrium. Register.

Join the Slavic Reference Service for the next installment of the Meet the National Libraries series. On April 18th at 9 am US CT, representatives from the Royal Library of Belgium will discuss "KBR, the National Library of Belgium - a New Page." Come learn about the Library's collections and servies. For more information and to register, please visit this form.

Learn more about extracellular vesicles while becoming acquainted with innovative research currently happening around our campus. This workshop and poster session will provide an informal venue for exploring collaborative efforts with colleagues. Registration deadline is April 14.

More than 131 million people use prescription medication every day. Polypharmacy, or the consumption of multiple medications daily, increases a patient’s risk of experiencing adverse reactions and drug related health problems. Learn more about navigating this experience and how it impacts different groups.